Universities write to the uk education secretary calling for more money to help with the cost of taking in extra students following a government u turn on a level grades. And coming up this hour, the three victorian forts originally built to defend england against the french going up for sale. Hello and welcome. If you re watching in the uk or around the world 7 and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. The number of people being randomly tested in the community to track the prevalence of covid 19 is to be incased up in england. From october, 150,000 people will be tested every fortnight as part of the office for National Statistics programme which is separate from the Mass Testing Programme of people who have symptoms. The figure is up from the 28,000 in england who are currently sent a home testing kit. Testing will also be expanded in scotland, wales and northern ireland. The health secretary, matt hancock, says the expansion of testing in the
Is a good way to prove you havent disappeared. Thats right, joe biden appeared on snapchats daily political show yesterday they were only able to tell it was joe biden from the thumbprint the fbi has seized the cell phone of republican senator richard burr as part of an investigation into whether he used information from a coronavirus intelligence briefing to sell stocks. Its also incriminating that right after the meeting, he signed up for netflix and hulu so, he knew something was coming according to a new report, amazon founder jeff bezos could become the worlds first trillionaire by 2026 so, i guess it wont be long before amazon stops selling pitchforks and torches in a new interview, President Trump claimed that his critics would like to keep the country closed during the coronavirus pandemic to damage him politically. I mean, if anyone wants to damage you, they dont have to keep the country closed. They just have to keep your mic open and, those are my thoughts about that can som
Believes this meeting was quote very unusual and its paying close attention and said it would keep working to stop provocative acts from its soil including sending propaganda leaflets over the border which pyongyang said is behind its reasons that recent actions come in. We saw the report from the north and we are reviewing it in a close serious way we will monitor the situation our government stance remains the 2 koreas should edge here to the Bilateral Agreement apart from this we stressed again and will continue to sternly respond to actions such as sending anti north leaflets which creates tensions between the south and north and threatens the safety of people in the border area more on the story with our correspondent rob mcbride in salt. We know that there does tend to be a patent to these kinds of things we do see an escalation and then a sudden deescalation and often it is north korea that is pulling the strings maybe the North Koreans have calculated that this particular escal
A Chilling Effect now joshua wang a well known young democracy activist has said that hes going to be resigning from the Political Party help to set up he believes hell be a target of this new security law and he says hes leaving the party in order to practice his own beliefs privately also another member of the same party nathan law whos also announced his resignation and a smaller prodemocracy party called the Hong Kong National front has also announced it disbanding so you can see the effect already that the law is starting to have tanya chan as a legislator and convener of the prodemocracy camp in hong kong she believes the territorys autonomy is under threat. By passing this law i would say this is like. A test that the vacant of one country 2 systems. Back in the ninetys the Chinese Government had promised not only to how come people but to the world that hong kong were implement one country 2 systems that means we can keep our own judiciary the legislature as well as the own adm
Troops now discounters in the wake of several such attacks 6 to be precise which have occurred throughout the month subsequently dozens of arms could have his bonafide risk arrived in the green green zone and the lead siege to one of the buildings belonging to the Counterterrorism Service demanding the release of the detainees claim that they were arrested illegally without an arrest warrant at the end of this case is in fact an official base belonging to Iraqi Security forces because of course at least on paper the tide has blown is part of the Iraqi Security apparatus now negotiations are ongoing at the moment between the leadership of the Popular Mobilization forces which includes the tiredness below and the Prime Ministers Office and the Iraqi Security forces and whether or not these detainees will be released now of course if they are released this would be rather embarrassing to the new government because the raid was carried out at the Prime Ministers orders the Prime Minister w