scotland we are looking at clear skies and a frosty start. in southern scotland, england and wales, a cloudy start with rain, but brightening up later from the west. i will have the details throughout the programme. it s tuesday the 5th of december. the home secretary james cleverly is on his way to rwanda this morning. he s due to sign a new deal which he hopes will mean that the uk government will then be able to send some be able to send some asylum seekers to the the east african country. the visit comes just hours after mr cleverly announced a series of measures to reduce the levels of legal migration into the uk. our political correspondent peter saull has the details. immigration has long been a tricky issue for the government. successive conservative prime ministers have promised and failed to bring the numbers down. the new plan a ban on foreign care of workers bringing family members with them. an increase in the minimum salary for skilled workers of almost 50% to
coming up, liverpool have to avoid defeat against an austrian side to guarantee getting out of the group stages of the europa league. they are top of their group ahead of the match at anfield. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the former health secretary matt hancock has told the covid inquiry that with the benefit of hindsight the uk should have locked down much sooner at the start of the pandemic. he said many, many lives could have been saved if the first lockdown had began three weeks earlier on the 2nd of march 2020. mr hancock also dismissed allegations from other colleagues that he had lied to them, and described what he called a toxic culture in government. 0ur political editor chris mason reports. one of the biggest names of the pandemic. the health secretary for england, matt hancock. the man in the middle on the television many nights, and the man who resigned for breaking the very rules he d helped draw up. today, his moment of accountabilit
campaigning in wales today, but his efforts to promote the conservative s welsh manifesto were overshadowed by questions about tory insiders allegedly gambling on the date of the election. the prime minister insisted multiple independent investigations were under way and that any tories found to have broken betting rules would be booted out of the party. lets take a listen: there are full investigations that are currently happening. it s right that those investigations are allowed to proceed. they are independent. they are necessarily confidential, as you will appreciate. there s also a criminal investigation, and these are potentially criminal matters and the police are conducting those. you ll be aware of that. and because of that, i hope you can appreciate there s not much more i can add. what i can tell you is, as i said, if anyone is found to have broken the rules, they should not only face the full consequences of the law, i will ensure that they are booted out of t
To her suicide. How leading former athletes could be written out of the record books as part of a new anti doping strategy. And the story of the surfer rescued after 30 hours adrift in the irish sea. And coming up in sportsday on bbc news. It was an all Madrid Champions League Semifinal Tonight and a familiar face who gave real the lead in the first leg against atletico at the bernabeau. Good evening. The deepening tensions between the Prime Minister and the president of the European Commission ahead of the brexit negotiations have been laid bare. Theresa may has warned Jean Claude Juncker that she will prove to be a Bloody Difficult Woman during the brexit talks. It follows reports that mrjuncker had accused her of being deluded about the brexit process. Mrs may, campaigning in the South West Of England today, told our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg that she always knew the brexit negotiations would be challenging. Who wouldnt like a day by the cornish coast . Who could be coming t
The yorkshire batsman says he feels privileged, humbled, and very excited. And who would have thought bell ringing was a dangerous hobby . Well, sadly one man at Worcester Cathedral knows first hand. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. A bbc investigation has exposed widespread drug abuse and Security Failings at one of britains biggest prisons. An undercover reporter from the bbcs Panorama Team spent two months working as a Prison Officer at a privately run prison in northumberland. He found inmates threatening staff and even a hole in a prison security fence. The Ministry Ofjustice says its looking into the allegations. Heres our special correspondent ed thomas. Undercover in one of our biggestjails. Bbc panorama filmed the drugs feeding addiction inside. And the staff pushed to their limits. Hmp northumberland is a private jail run by the French Company sodexo and home to more than 1,300 inmates. And for two months, bbc panoramas joe fenton. On his first day, 2. 5 kilograms of spi