To try to boost peoples job prospects. Who do you think would win out of a lion, a hippopotamus and a rhino . Sir David Attenborough takes questions from the children he says hold the hope for the future in their hands. And coming up this hour. The water saving toilets wasting billions of litres every week. More than a Million People around the world are now known to have died with coronavirus since the start of the pandemic. The United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres called it an agonising milestone and a mind numbing figure. Johns Hopkins University has recorded over 1. 1 million lives have been lost to coronavirus. The us has the worlds highest death toll with about 205,000 fatalities, followed by brazil on 1a1,700 and india with 95,500 deaths. And the total number of deaths from covid 19 in the uk is 42,001, according to department of health figures. 2 Million People in large parts of north east england are facing a legal ban from tomorrow on people mixing with other hou
World from spectacular blockbusters to hidden arthouse gems. That is in review 2019, the year in film, with me, mark kermode. Good afternoon. The queen will acknowledge 2019 has been a bumpy year in her annual christmas message this afternoon. This morning her majesty attended church at sandringham. But the duke of edinburgh was not in attendance. He left hospital yesterday in time to spend christmas at home. Charlotte gallagher reports from sandringham. It has been a hugely turbulent year for the royals and i think that was reflected by the fact Prince Andrew didnt go to the main Church Service today. There have been some real highs, like the birth of rg, and a lot of people here today queued from the early hours of the morning. A great deal of affection still for the royals with a lot of the british public. The queen arrives for the Christmas Day service accompanied by her daughter in law, the duchess of cornwall. This service is a tradition by the royal family and for some of the we
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A Record Number of migrants crossing the Channel Border force picked up 86 people yesterday. Record numbers of stores disappeared from britains high streets in the first half of this year, according to a report from a leading accounting firm. Coming up, a warning from car insurers on Driverless Cars they say theyll cause more accidents without proper regulation. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Im annita mcveigh. Scotlands highest civil court has ruled that borisjohnsons suspension of parliament is unlawful. In the last hour a panel of three judges at the court of session found in favour of a Cross Party Group of politicians who were challenging the Prime Ministers move. A five week suspension of parliament began in the early hours of tuesday. No order has been given by the court to cancel it and there will be a full hearing at the Supreme Court next tuesday. The government says its disappointed by the decision. In a summary of theirfindings, the court of session judges said
In the september 11th attacks 18 years ago today. The duke remained calm under pressure and sealed a huge trade deal, raising an estimated £50,000 for various charities. Time for a look at the weather, heres ben rich. The remnants of Hurricane Dorian has brought some outbreaks of rain and blustery wind. Most of us having a mixture of sunshine and showers. Quite a deep area of low pressure passing to the north of the british isles. Tomorrow we have the remnants of another Tropical Storm. But back to this afternoon and a weather front still bringing patchy rain into the south. Elsewhere that mixture of sunny spells and showers gusts of up to 50 miles an hour possible in exposed spots in the north. During this evening and tonight the wind will ease a little and it will stay breezy with some clear spells. For wales and the south west and turning a bit drizzly and for Northern Ireland and the west of scotland, that next weather maker will be approaching by the end of the night. So the remn