As a month long lockdown begins today in england, well be answering your questions on it. You can tweet me Annita Mcveigh or by posting with the hashtag bbcyourquestions. The bank of england says it will inject an extra £150 billion into the economy to help with the pandemic and Interest Rates remain unchanged. The chancellor, rishi sunak, is expected to give details later of how furlogh will work if more parts of the uk go into a wider lockdown. Sainsburys announces it is cutting 3,500 jobs. The cuts will mainly come at argos with more than 400 stores due to close in the next few years. Warnings from doctors and Fire Services about the dangers posed by fireworks, as many prepare to celebrate bonfire night at home this year. Good morning. The result of the us election remains in the balance, as votes continue to be counted in key Battle Ground states. Joe biden is inching closer to victory after claiming michigan overnight, with reports suggesting he will take more key states today. B
We begin in ukraine where the kiev government has just ratified the association of agreement that promises to bring closer ties to the european union. But the historic occasion has been somewhat overshadowed by the decision to succumb to pressure from moscow and delay applying a free trade deal between ukraine and eu until 2016. Lets take a listen to what the ukrainian president had to say. The first 100 ukrainians who died in february, 872 who died in the east, died not only for ukraine, but for a place in europe. Since the second world war, no other nation has faced such a high price for the right to be european. Tell me please who will bear close the door of europe to ukraine . For more on the story, i am joined here in the studio by a ukrainian expert. How significant is this pact . It is very significant for the ukrainian european union. You can see, the deal was ratified simultaneously, and Ukrainian Parliament and the European Parliament in strasbourg. This marks the completion
Im Alisyn Camerota live in brussels. This is where the public has come out to celebrate the memorial for the victims of yesterdays terrorist attacks. Chris and michaela will have more in a few minutes. Belgian authorities identifying the two suicide bombers who detonated the two powerful explosives inside the hall at the airport. A massive manhunt is under way for a third suspect. The suspect to the right of this picture in the lighter jacket. His bomb they believe failed to detonate. The u. S. State department is warning of nearterm attacks throughout europe. They are set to observe a moment of silence one hour from now. Senior International Correspondent nima joins me with the latest. Great to have you here. What have we learned about these brothers . They are believed to not only have been involved with the attack on the airport. It was their dna found in that apartment that triggered all of this last week. They were found along with a cache of weapons. They eluded capture. Let me w
Coordinated brussels bombings at the airport and the subway. Something authorities have kept very closely to themselves. Belgium media reporting that this man in the hat and the light colored jacket at the airport before those bombings is, in fact, abrini, captured a short time ago, along with osama krayem, accused of having a quote unquote operational role in the brussels attacks. Lots of pieces to throw at you. Well have it all together and understand it as we go to brussels. Cnn journalist kelly morgan is standing by with more. Lets begin with the significance of this abrini arrest. What do we know about him . Its extraordinary, big fish for the belgian authorities to have this man in custody. We know that he grew up in this area, in brussels, in the neighborhood where paris suspect whos also captured, salah abdesl abdeslam, also grew up, these men, longterm friends. Were starting to piece it together. The attacks between brussels and paris and the role that these two men played in
He was charged along with three other suspects currently in custody. That includes osama krayem, who Authorities Say was at the maalbeek subway station during that attack. Lets go straight to brussels. Bill neely has been following the developments. Bill, what can you tell us . A sharp contrast to 24 hours ago where the prosecutors statement was saying they werent sure yet if he was the man in the white hat. Today they are confirming it is in fact Mohamed Abrini. Reporter yes, the mystery has been solved, the mystery that in a sense has kept brussels and the authorities here on edge, because they didnt know who the man in the hat was. He clearly escaped. You remember two days ago they released new video, new images of the man in the hat. People here were worried that he would be connected to another attack. The city of course has been braced for that for weeks now. So within the last hour, the Belgian Prosecutors Office confirming, number one, that Mohamed Abrini is the man in the hat,