Fighting with local forces in the Tigray Region appears to be spreading into neighbouring areas. A ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the uk is expected to be brought foward to 2030, a decade earlier than originally planned. And diwali with a difference the festival of lights is celebrated in a socially distanced way by hundreds of millions of people around the world. Everybody, in their mind, they are scared about coronavirus, but at the same time, they are kind of adjusting to the new normal. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. Here in the uk, downing street sources suggest yesterdays sudden departure of the Prime Ministers chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, came about after relations between the two men went off a cliff edge. Borisjohnson is now said to want to move on, following a week of turmoil in the Prime Ministers top team. It comes as trade talks with th
Hello and welcome to bbc news for viewers in the uk and around the world. In britain, the labour party is calling on the government to bring forward legislation that would impose financial and criminal penalties for social Media Companies that fail to remove anti vaccination content ahead of the expected roll out of a jab against the coronavirus. Under the plan, social media platforms would have to create filters to prevent such content from being published, and to remove anti vaccine messages if they do appear. Katherine da costa has more. With hopes rising of an effective Coronavirus Vaccine being rolled out by the end of the year, labour is calling for the government to fast track emergency legislation to stamp out what it calls Dangerous Anti vax content online. The party claims dedicated groups with hundreds of thousands of online followers are still spreading disinformation, which it says poses a real threat to the take up of the vaccine. Labour says it would back legislation whi
Prime time tv shows has died at the age of 88. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. In the uk, the labour party is calling on the government to bring forward legislation that would impose financial and criminal penalties for social Media Companies that fail to remove anti vaccination content ahead of the expected roll out of a jab against the coronavirus. Under the plan, social media platforms would have to create filters to prevent such content from being published, and to remove anti vaccine messages if they do appear. Katherine da costa has more. With hopes rising of an effective Coronavirus Vaccine being rolled out by the end of the year, labour is calling for the government to fast track emergency legislation to stamp out what it calls Dangerous Anti vax content online. The party claims dedicated groups with hundreds of thousands of online followers are still spreading di
Has uncovered upsetting evidence of babies being stolen from homeless mothers and sold on the black market forjust 400 dollars. Theres more good news in the search for a covid vaccine. Another one has emerged, which appears to be even more effective than the first. Its after Clinical Trials by the us Company Moderna. Interim results from its phase 3 trial show the vaccine is 9a. 5 effective at stopping infections. The trial is still going on and involves more than 30,000 people. 42 of them from high risk groups such as elderly and black, asian and ethnic minority adults. That was not the case in the trials of the Pfizer Biontech jab that announced positive results last week. The data on how safe the vaccine is hasnt been released yet. But early indications are promising, according to this infectious Infectious Disease expert. We know that a lot of people, myself included, are really very interested in the safety results. I think the preliminary results from moderna are very promising.
Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. In britain, the labour party is calling on the government to bring forward legislation that would impose financial and criminal penalties for social Media Companies that fail to remove anti vaccination content ahead of the expected roll out of a jab against the coronavirus. Under the plan, social media platforms would have to create filters to prevent such content from being published, and to remove anti vaccine messages if they do appear. Katherine da costa has more. With hopes rising of an effective Coronavirus Vaccine being rolled out by the end of the year, labour is calling for the government to fast track emergency legislation to stamp out what it calls Dangerous Anti vax content online. The party claims dedicated groups with hundreds of thousands of online followers are still spreading disinformation, which it says poses a real threa