This is bbc news. Im shaun ley. The headlines at 11pm the bbc has learned the High Speed Rail link, hs2 will be given the go ahead by the government, linking london to birmingham, manchester and leeds, with drastically cutjourney times. Today we have our confirmation that we will build the railway that will close the north south divide and bring our country together again. But opponents are angry at the cost, the damage to the environment, and the disruption to residents near the route. The front of your very eyes, you can see sort of treasured landscape disappearing. Taxpayers money would be far better spent on local, regional transport projects. Four more cases of coronavirus are confirmed in the uk,one of them at a gp practice in brighton,
which has now been closed. A man is convicted of planning terror strikes on key london sites just over a year after being cleared of a sword attack outside buckingham palace. Clearing up yet again people across Northern England are frustrated and
Although it brightens up their will be showers around, regularly across eastern areas. Traders is another band of rain moving. As one could bring localised flooding with snow melts combined with every rain gcioss melts combined with every rain across southern scotland. The weather has been very wet over recent days. That could tip us over into having some flooding issues. The weather front weakens as it reaches eastern england. Last weekend we set a new transatlantic record for subsonic flights with ba flight 112 record for subsonic flights with ba flight 112 taking five hours to cfoss flight 112 taking five hours to cross the atlantic. It was an incredible record, but it is under threat friday and saturday because we are going to get an incredibly strong jet stream moving across the atlantic. The peak winds in this piece, up to 275 mph. That will not only propel planes very quickly gcioss only propel planes very quickly across the atlantic, it will gouge ata across the atlantic, it w
Chartered to fly any remaining britons who want to leave wuhan amid the coronavirus outbreak. More than a0 people are arrested as police crack down on courier fraud, with thousands of vicitms in the last two years. And in sport, liverpools youngsters beat shrewsbury to reach the fa cup fifth round. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. In dramatic scenes in the us congress overnight, President Trump has set out his case for another four years in office, and hailed what he called the Great American comeback. Republicans chanted in support at the annual state of the union address. But the democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi was seen ripping up her copy of the speech. The economy was at the core of the president s speech. He cited deregulation, tax cuts and new trade agreements as his recipe for prosperity. He also highlight his success on immigration saying that the wall along the south border continued to be built. He also highlighted how his policies had helped minority groups. It w
Hello, youre watching afternoon live, im simon mccoy. Today at 2. Released days after serving half his sentence and under surveillance, as questions are asked about why a terrorist was free to stab victims in london. The government says it will act. The anomaly we need to clear up is the process by which some people are still coming out under automatic Early Release without any kind of scrutiny or parole system. Borisjohnson says the uk wont bind itself to eu rules in order to get a trade deal by the end of the year. Built in just eight days a 1000 bed hospital opens in wuhan for coronavirus patitents as one of the passengers who landed in the uk from wuhan is taken ill and escorted to hospital. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport. Everyone is still talking about the super bowl and how the Kansas City Chiefs produced such an outrageous comeback to the biggest prize in the sport for the first time. And we have news of wind . Yes, you can see the choppy seas and we have some sever
Of garment factory workers. More british nationals are being flown back to the uk from wuhan, the centre of the outbreak of the new strain of coronavirus. They are travelling on a french flight which will arrive at lunchtime. The bbc understands there are 11 britons on the plane, it comes as the first confirmed death from the new coronavirus has been reported outside china in the phillipines. The victim was a 44 year old chinese man from wuhan who was visiting the philippines. The disease has now killed more than 300 people. Simonjones reports. The checks that have become part of daily life in areas of china continue to try to stop the rapid spread of the virus. But now, for the first time, a Death Outside of the country, in the philippines. People there had already started queueing to buy facemasks even before news of the fatality emerged. The World Health Organization says he was a 44 year old man from wuhan, who was visiting the philippines. He appears to have been infected before a