Flags are lowered over Downing Street and borisjohnson describes captain sir tom as a National Inspiration, and a beacon of hope for the world. The uk variant of coronavirus has mutated again the Health Secretary says hes seen cases of concern in bristol and liverpool. Meanwhile, 80,000 people in england are tested to stop the spread of the Virus Variant from south africa. Scotland is to introduce Travel Quarantines for overseas arrivals and plans are put in place to open scottish schools later this month. Travel disruption in parts of the north of england and scotland as heavy snow brings chaos. Good afternoon. In the last hour, its been announced that captain sir tom moore has died. Captain tom, who was 100 years old, and had raised almost £33 million for the nhs, was taken to hospital earlier this week, with coronavirus. The army veteran, originally from keighley in West Yorkshire, came to prominence by walking 100 laps of his garden in bedfordshire, during the First National lockd
Ross knocking joe biden and the democrats im joined by my guest Richard Goodstein an old bridge he is a democratic strategist and a former adviser to bill and Hillary Clinton and in new york im joined by how when she was in city she is in american journalist with r. T. Her writings are collected at how one of destroy dot com or across Something Else in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it let me go to you 1st. You have to tell me youre really super excited about joe biden is your nominee right coming really ok because your party got. Peter i am super excited when i look at the polls and i see that the American People have come to their senses i guess you know im not Donald Trumps biggest fan and when i see. Notwithstanding the fact that there is this usual rally around the flag it gracing a president during a time of crisis and thats happening in every other country on the planet and virtually every state in the United States dollar tax rates we
Afternoon live, im simon mccoy. Could host to much of the events for today at 4. The 19 year old british woman convicted of lying about being raped birminghams Commonwealth Games. I will explain later. And darren with in cyprus is allowed to fly back to the uk after receiving a 4 month the weather. A lot of interest in suspended sentence. The foreign secretary welcomes the news. We will be following up on the the weather. A lot of interest in the weather. A lot of interest in issues in relation to the case. The weather in the uk. Not least because his so mild but it is also i spoke to the Cypriot Foreign windy in some parts of the uk. We minister about that. Will look at that later. Scores of people are killed thanks darren. In a stampede, as iranians flock also coming up. To the funeral of qasem suleimani, killed by the us. Joker leads the way in this years bafta film nominations but theres criticism of the lack a teenager admits killing of diversity with only white newlywed pc Andrew
He is one of a halfdozen Trump Associates charged in the Robert Mueller russia investigation. All six of either pleaded guilty or have been found guilty at a jury trial. On capitol hill, the standoff continues over how and when to conduct President Trump Senate Impeachment trial. Nancy pelosi must decide when or whether to send the impeachment charges to the senate. Monday, john bolton said that he would testify if he is subpoenaed. That would complicate Mitch Mcconnells plans for a swift proceeding with no witnesses. In spain, the socialist leader Pedro Sanchez won a narrow victory in parliament. Todays vote and nine months of political gridlock. Spain will get its First Coalition government since the 1930s. The Prime Minister has a mandate to reverse some of the policies that helped spain emerged from the economic crisis six years ago. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im mark cr
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