Bollywood actor irrfan khan, who starred in Slumdog Millionaire and life of pi, has died at the age of 53. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. Im victoria derbyshire. The Coronavirus Testing Programme is being expanded by the government. It will include all care home staff and residents, and anyone over 65. The government says the 100,000 target set by the Health Secretary is due to be met by tomorrow. Downing street is this morning still declining to say whether Boris Johnson will appear at Prime Ministers questions in the commons this lunchtime following his return to work. A recession on an extraordinary scale is predicted by spains Prime Minister following the outbreak. Over 58,000 us citizens have now died from covid 19. Thats more than the number of americans killed in the vietnam war. Almost 18,000 more people could die from cancer over the next year in england because of the impact of covid 19, according to researchers. Well have more on all those stories shortly. 0urfirst re
Marriage. Even republican support has grown to 39 in the past couple of years. New tonight at 6 00, an article in the Student Newspaper questioning the relevancy of black History Month sparked a rally today at san jose state. The rally ended up at the famous black power statue on campus. It was originally planned as a march to celebrate black History Month. Then an article came out in the spartan daily titled black History Month is redundant. Students told us they were offended by the article. A lot of people try to argue racism isnt prominent in todays society. But it is because a lot of people feel a certain way about us being here and black history being taught. The fact its not relevant. So just with that, it angered a lot of us. We felt like are we redundant . Do people think our culture is redundant . Are we fighting still for relevancy in today, 2013 . In addition to the campus at san jose state, the article was discussed passionately on twitter, too. For an update on a developi
Taking their guns and patrol car. Neither officer was wearing body armor at the time of the incident. However, body armor would not have helped. Reporter goulet later returned to the scene in the unmarked patrol car. Thats when the gun fight began and goulet was killed. Leaders in santa cruz say they are still at a loss. Theres no playbook for this. Weve never been through this. We dont have guidelines. We dont know what the next steps are. Reporter after the gun fight, police say they discovered goulet was carrying a passport and plain ticket to new mexico. A memorial for the officer also be held march 7 at 11 00 a. M. Here in santa cruz. We should mention for the past 48 hours, a Sheriffs Office and california Highway Patrol have been patrolling the streets some time to give the officers time to grieve. Officer also be back on patrol tomorrow morning beginning at 7 00 a. M. Im damian trujillo, nbc bay area news. Today, Pope Benedict xvi made history when he left his position, abdicat
With more is chief local inker bret baier. I noticed that you tweeted early on when this story broke about 15 minutes later that comey was a known notetaker writing detailed member memos. This may be the tip of an iceberg. Id like free to talk about that and also were going to take over questions. My question is the post, citing Anonymous Sources it says that attorney general Jeff Sessions and john earl attorney rosenstein said they had seen the memo but if they had written a memo that trump said originally was the reason for the firing of jim call me. I was wondering if you had been able to track any of that down between a 6 009 00 which is not a lot of time. First of all, good evening, good to be with you. Heres what we know. And its important, in these environments, to deal in facts. What we know to be a fact from fbi sources and sources of department of justice is that comey, the former fbi director met with trump february 14th, the day after Michael Flynn was fired. After that mee
With more is chief local inker bret baier. I noticed that you tweeted early on when this story broke about 15 minutes later that comey was a known notetaker writing detailed member memos. This may be the tip of an iceberg. Id like free to talk about that and also were going to take over questions. My question is the post, citing Anonymous Sources it says that attorney general Jeff Sessions and john earl attorney rosenstein said they had seen the memo but if they had written a memo that trump said originally was the reason for the firing of jim call me. I was wondering if you had been able to track any of that down between a 6 009 00 which is not a lot of time. First of all, good evening, good to be with you. Heres what we know. And its important, in these environments, to deal in facts. What we know to be a fact from fbi sources and sources of department of justice is that comey, the former fbi director met with trump february 14th, the day after Michael Flynn was fired. After that mee