Krul ending for spurs. Theyre out of the fa cup, as keeper tim krul keeps his cool to send norwich into the quarter finals. We start with the news that italian officials have taken the decision that all sport in the country will be played behind closed doors until the fourth april due to the spread of the coronavirus. That includes the Six Nations Rugby Union International against england, in rome, on the 14th march. Rugby chiefs will meet on thursday to discuss the possibility of postponing the game completely. Italys match away to ireland this weekend has already been called off. Italy is the worst hit european country with over 3,000 cases of coronavirus and over 100 deaths. Serie a matches will also be played behind closed doors
while theres still no news about re arranging the italian cup semi finals betweenjuventus and ac milan, and napoli versus inter milan. They were due to take place this week but inters president told the bbc that Public Health is far more important. Iam not
Good morning. Welcome to breakfast, with Louise Minchin and dan walker. Our headlines today the go ahead to keep on building the High Speed Rail line hs2 the Prime Minister will give his backing to the entire route linking london to birmingham, manchester and leeds. And im live in leeds at the end of the line. Journey times will be cut here by almost an hour. But with surrounding services on their knees, ill be asking, is hs2 the best use of
public money to close the north south divide . The search is on to trace patients treated at a brighton gp surgery where a staff member has tested positive for coronavirus. There seems no end in sight to the divisions in the scotland rugby camp. The stand off between coach Gregor Townsend and his player finn russell continues. Good morning today. Another cold and windy day across scotland, Northern Ireland and Northern England. There isa ireland and Northern England. There is a risk of ice. Coming south we still have some showers around but then we
Youre watching bbc news at 9 with me, annita mcveigh. The headlines the airline jet2 says it wont fly home a group of british tourists confined to a hotel in tenerife until next month, unless they have tested negative for coronavirus. Yes, we would be leaving on the 10th of march, they would be flying us home. However, i have asked for their guarantee with regards to our safety since we have remained in isolation and there will be other passengers in the plane who will only have gone into the Hotel Grounds but will not have been following the protocols. Stock markets across the globe are suffering their worst week since the Global Financial crisis of 2008 as fears over the impact of the coronavirus continue to grip investors. As concern mounts over violent escalations on the turkey syria border,
turkish Officials Say the country is lifting border controls to allow refugees to try to travel to the eu. The competition and markets authority says its found troubling evidence of home owners
Hello, im ros atkins, this is outside source. The articles of impeachment against President Trump are being been sent to the senate. President trumps trial there next week will be only the third of a us president in history. He will be held accountable. He has been held accountable. He has been impeached and impeached forever. They can never erase that. Meanwhile at the white house, President Trump was signing a partial trade deal with china. He said it will mean fair and reciprocal trade but it does nothing to remove the huge tariffs the countries have on each others goods. Scientists from three global agencies have given another Climate Change warning confirming that the past decade
was the warmest on record. And the half sister of the duchess of sussex says their father Thomas Markle, will testify in her court case if hes asked to. Meghan is suing a british newspaper for publishing a letter she wrote to her father. Another crucial step towards Donald Trumps impeachment trial. The us
Tonight at ten, the worst recession in more than three centuries as the uk counts the cost of fighting the pandemic. The chancellor tells mps that the uk is having to take on record borrowing, the highest ever in peacetime. Our Health Emergency is not yet over. And our economic emergency has only just begun. In its response to this pandemic the conservative government has wasted and mismanaged public finances on an industrial scale. And unemployment is set to rise to two and a half million next year, we speak to young people in the north west of england. And well have more on the controversial decision to scale back the uks spending on foreign aid. Also tonight. Going at them again. Brilliant run by Maradona Diego maradona, world cup winner and, for many the best footballer in history, has died at the age of 60. The duchess of sussex talks of the unbearable grief she felt, when she suffered a miscarriage earlier this year. And the first black coach to head british athletics talks about