Hello and welcome. The National Party convention in us politics is generally a boisterous, rousing affair never more so than in a president ial election year, as the partys nominees are confirmed. For donald trump it would be a vital platform in his bid to win a second term in the white house. But with a spike in coronavirus cases in florida, where the convention was due to take place next month, he has called the whole thing off. Mr trump said he would give a speech ahead of us elections as planned, but in a different form. The bbcs north america correspondent david willis reports. President trump had wanted nothing more than to accept his pa rtys nothing more than to accept his partys nomination in front of a packed arena stop the coronavirus has now put paid to thatis coronavirus has now put paid to that is that has to so many other aspects of american life. So the delegates are going to north carolina, and they will be doing the nomination. And were going to do some other things wi
Its back to school for scotlands pupils, as the first minister announces everyone will be back in the classroom by mid august. The number of Rape Convictions in england and wales falls to a record low. And lift off and looking for life on mars nasa launches a rover to bring back rock samples from the red planet. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. People in the uk with coronavirus symptoms will now have to self isolate for ten days rather than just a week as ministers attempt to prevent a new spike in infections. The extension comes into force immediately and brings us into line with World Health Organisation guidance. It comes as new figures show that england had the highest level of excess deaths in europe between the end of february and mid june. Excess deaths are the number of all people who die above the average recorded in previous years, and are seen by many experts as the most reliable measure of the impact of the pandemic. Health secretary matt hancock has warned that new
Good evening. Lets bring you more on one of our main stories that tougher restrictions have been imposed in bolton in Greater Manchester after a sharp rise in coronavirus cases there the town now has the uks highest infection rate. Restaurants, pubs and cafes have been told they can only do takeaways from today and they must close by 10pm. The rise in cases across the country is being largely driven by a big increase in cases among 18 to 30 year olds. It comes amid a continuing rise in new cases and a jump the latest government figures show there were 2,460 new confirmed coronavirus cases reported across Great Britain in the latest 24 hour period. That means the average number of new cases reported per day in the past week was 2,199. 32 deaths were also reported of people whod died within 28 days of a positive covid 19 test. That means on average, in the past week, 12 deaths were announced every day. That takes the total number of deaths so far across the uk to 41,586. Our Health Edito
Opposition colleagues say they saw ms kolesnikova tear the document into tiny pieces as she was being escorted across the border. Hello and welcome to bbc news. The entire Senior Police leadership for the city of rochester in new york state has resigned, in the aftermath she is now in detention again. Of the death of a black man in police custody. Now on bbc news, click. Rochesters police chief and other senior commanders have been under intense scrutiny since news of the death of daniel prude became public last week, sparking protests. Lets speak to our north america correspondent peter bowes. Can you help us with the background here . Yes. This happened back in march when daniel prude was known to have Mental Health issues. He was arrested by police, he was naked in the street at the time. During the course of the arrest the police used what is known as a spit hood, a device, a hood put over a suspects head to protect Police Officers from the saliva of a suspect. This was put into pl
Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. We start with breaking news on coronavirus. From monday, only six people will be allowed to meet socially at any one time in england, either indoors or outside. Currently, gatherings of up to 30 are allowed. The new law comes against the background of rising coronavirus cases across the uk, with more than 8,000 registered since sunday. 0ur Political Correspondent, nick eardley is at westminster. This nick eardley is at westminster. Is quite a significar the this is quite a significant move was the government. It is re imposing restrictions that were lifted back in may. Yes, that is right but that really significant because it will apply to all of england. The last few weeks we have seen targeted local measures being enough by the government but this is a blanket approach seemed to everybody that from monday the maximum group you will be able to meet up in socially indoors or outdoors is sick. It would apply to workplace