england fans are already gathering at wembley. there ll be 40,000 spectators at the game. in other news, self isolation for school pupils because of covid could be scrapped next term, replaced by daily testing. new research shows that higher grade facemasks can be up to 100% effective in preventing coronavirus infections. how only a tiny fraction of the authors taught in english literature lessons are from ethnic minority backgrounds. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. there are just three hours to go until one of the biggest games in world football england germany. at stake, a place in the euro 2020 quarter finals. fans are already gathering at wembley. there ll be 40,000 of them there for the match. england haven t beaten germany in a knockout game in a major tournament since the world cup final in 1966, and manager gareth southgate is calling on his team to make history today. natalie pirks reports. make your own history has been a mantra of gareth southgate s for t
and the long running bbc medical drama, holby city is ending after 23 years, with the final series to air in march 2022. the man put in charge of the government s plans to help schoolchildren in england recover from the effects of the covid lockdown has resigned. in a letter announcing his decision to step down, sir kevan collins severely criticised the level of support that the government has said it will provide. it s proposed spending £11; billion to help children catch up on missed edcuation. but sir kevan said that was not enough, writing: the support announced by government so far does not come close to meeting the scale of the challenge , and adding that a half hearted approach risks failing hundreds of thousands of pupils he went on: the package falls far short of what is needed. it is too narrow, too small and will be delivered too slowly , and said that it betrays an undervaluation of the importance of education for individuals and society. let s talk to our
tonight, so turning right here and not as cold a night as a recent nights, many of us seeing temperatures up around seven or 10 celsius. on monday, rain to start the day across north and western areas, sunny the day across north and western areas, sunny for the day across north and western areas, sunny for a the day across north and western areas, sunny for a time in western scotland, the rain pushing south across england and wales, but as it does so the weather fronts bringing the array will weaken, so not much of that rain across southern counties. temperatures 8 10 , but with sunshine coming out in the afternoon across northern scotland, colder air is on the way and colder airwill colder air is on the way and colder air will spread into eastern areas on tuesday. that is your weather. hello this is bbc news. the headlines. the foreign secretary says the government is listening to conservative mps who re unhappy with the latest coronavirus restrictions for england. having
claiming the drug does produce an antibody response. made to rising tensions between washington and beijing china. cut its holdings of u.s. debt we look into the significance. for me day in los angeles 4 pm and. 10 here in moscow this saturday september the 5th welcome to our to international. a group of russian doctors say they have offered to settle a joint commission with the german parts over the. the russian national medical chamber has addressed the german medical chamber a similar organization that unites german doctors with the request to create a joint commission to find out whether novell me was poisoned or not if it turns out he was poisoned then will initiate a criminal case today russia does not have such evidence the request of the russian doctors comes as international pressure continues against russia where they allege nerve agent poisoning of the prominent opposition figure alexina found the remains in a coma in berlin after falling severely ill on a flight i