A number of hostages in a popular cafe. Bureau,our Bloomberg Paul allen is covering events for us. What more do we know . There have been a few developments since last we spoke. The police have pushed their street,ack to hunter the block our building is on. You can see the high shot taken out of the window of our building. Building, you can see, is not a cafe. The cafe it self is about a further 100 meters up the road to the left. This is right across the street from the reserve bank of australia and directly across the plaza from channel 7, which has also been evacuated. Hourer development at this is the number of people inside the building. We have been saying it is believed to be up to 20. We have since spoken to the ceo of lindt australia and he said there were 10 working at the time and could be up to 30 customers. There could be up to 40, but that has not been confirmed by the police or any other agency. We have seen pictures of people with their hands up against the window. Two
Britains most famous tennis family talk lockdown, keeping in touch and becoming team mates in a new tournament judy, morning. You are on mute. Yes, you are, can we keep it that way an unsettled start to the week and turning warmer or hotter depending on where you. Details later in the programme. Its monday 27th july. Our top story officials in the balearic and Canary Islands are trying to negotiate an exemption to new rules forcing british tourists coming from spain to self isolate for two weeks on their return to the uk. They say infection rates on the islands are low. Meanwhile, the travel industry is warning that these new quarantine requirements could leave some firms unable to survive. We can now get more from andy moore, who is at Gatwick Airport. Morning andy, whats the latest . Good morning. When these were established two a number of countries, people thought the doors on travel had been opened just a little but now it has been slammed shut. In normal time, when the Foreign Of
A look at the days top news and headlines. Opinion, its ridiculous the corruption and dishonesty with the witch hunt, the president has watched this process play out but he also wants to see it come to an end as he stated many times. We look forward to that happening. Dana i understand why she would want to answer it that way, last week we found out that muellers team is looking at the president s tweets to see if there was a pattern of obstruction. This is just his opinion, just fighting back, its not obstruction. Amazing when you have the white house under siege like this one, much as with the Nixon White House or the Clinton White house, the way in which the team there comes to reflect the attitude, the language, the perspective of the boss. And you can hear it there, and the loaded words and the hard language. This is a white house under siege and this is an administration that is ready to fight, fight, fight. The problem for trump is the same as it is with, you know, all of that s
This is bbc news. Welcome if youre watching here in the uk or around the globe. Im maryam moshiri. Our top stories spain orders residents to stay at home unless they are purchasing essentials or going to work. The Prime Ministers white is among a surge in coronavirus cases. white is among a surge in coronavirus cases. Wife. France ramps up its response. Cafe s, restaurants, cinemas and nightclubs and all non essential businesses have closed. Away from europe, the philippines ramps up containment efforts has cases there pass 100. Metro manila on lockdown. Travel restrictions are now in place on some 13 Million People in this city, as the philippines government attem pts the philippines government atte m pts to the philippines government attempts to slow the spread of covid 19. Attempts to slow the spread of covid19. We look at the impact of coronavirus on religious practice around the world. Hello and welcome to bbc news. European countries are continuing to take extraordinary steps to
Intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge live for us in washington. Gretchen, at this hour, theresthere theres again wine confusions. A well known isislinked twitter account, posted this simm imagine, the countdown clock with just a few seconds left. Jordans information minister saying today that they will swap this woman, a failed suicide bomber who was part of a 2005 attack on three hotels in their capital, killing 60 people in exchange for the jordanian pilot who was captured on december 24 after his plane was shot down. And there have been street demonstrations in that country to show the pressure the jordanian government is under to secure his release. Jordan said they would squap the suicide bomber but of course after getting a proof of life that the pilot is alive and in good health. Is there a chance that the japanese hostage has already been killed . An authority told fox news that isis is playing chess not checkers. But in the past the military intelligence tells fox new