Youre watching bbc newsroom live its11am and these are the main stories this morning. A major blow for plans for a third runway at heathrow the court of appeal rules it unlawful as a result of the uks climate commitments. Two more people in the uk test positive for coronavirus bringing the total number of cases here to 15. With more than a0 countries now infected with coronavirus, saudi arabia stops pilgrims from entering the country over fears about the spread of the virus President Trump tries to calm fears in the us, telling his country the risk remains very low. Hes put Vice President mike pence in charge of the american response. Theres a dramatic surge in the number of cases in italy more than 400 people
are now infected. And 1,000 tourists remain quarantined at a hotel in tenerife 160 of them british. The government sets out its demands for the post brexit trade deal with the eu threatening to walk away in months unless it gets what it wants. Warnings of another ten days of floo
It is it is positive for the virus. A quarter of the worlds population is now living under some form of lockdown. More than three billion people in almost 70 countries and territories have been asked to stay home. There are now more than 450,000 recorded cases of the virus globally, but we know testing is not readily available in many places so that number is likely to be much higher. Lets look at the situation around the world. Spain has now recorded more coronavirus deaths than china. 738 people have died in the past day, taking the total death toll to more than 3a00. Close to 50,000 people have fallen ill. More than 2,500 of them are in a serious or critical state. Damian grammaticas reports from madrid. On a dark day for spain, a sobering site, van after van carrying bodies of virus victims. This is madrids biggest ice rink. Its been requisitioned to hold the dead, they need it, there are so many now. Arriving at spanish hospitals are more and more cases, infections here leaping ev
Would still have to go work. The Prime Minister has also thanked the people working in Front Line Services during the coronavirus pandemic. Lets listen to what he said. I want to thank everyone whos been following the clear rules that we set out on monday, and i want to thank everyone in the nhs, the front line of the fight against coronavirus, and of course, all our public services. 0ur teachers and our school staff, the transport workers, Police Officers, everyone whos keeping this country going. But i also want to offer a special thank you to everyone who has now volunteered to help the nhs. When we launched the appeal last night, we hoped to get 250,000 volunteers over a few days, but i can tell you that in just 2a hours, 405,000 people have responded to the call. They will be driving medicines from pharmacies to patients, theyll be bringing patients home from hospital, very importantly, theyll be making regular phone calls to check on and support people who are staying on their ow
What goes up must come down by the end of the week. This is how today shapes up. A few showers in eastern and southern parts of scotland. One or two and southern parts of scotland. One ortwo in and southern parts of scotland. One or two in the midlands and east anglia, largely dry elsewhere. Chilly for some north sea coast, up to 19 degrees in cardiff. Down south a bit more clout and the wind is strengthening all the while. This evening the wind could cause one or two problems in south wales and the west of england. Dartmoor and cornwall could see 55 mph. Very heavy rain in devon and cornwall and into the Channel Islands and the south west of wales. Further north, any daytime showers with fade and it will be dry. In scotland temperatures will dip down to freezing or attached below. Tomorrow we start off the day with this band of cloud and rain in the south with brisk winds. But with this frontal system running into high pressure, which is dominant in the north, the rain does not make m
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