Corbyn has been suspended from the labour party. It follows his response to a damning report into how complaints of anti semitism were handled during his time as leader. The equality and Human Rights Commission found the party was responsible for unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination. Sir keir starmer described it as a day of shame Foreign Labour and said the recommendations would be implemented in full recommendations would be implemented in full for labour. In the last few minutes, Jeremy Corbyn tweeted this. You will strongly contest the political intervention to suspend him from the party. I have made it absolutely clear, those who deny there has been an anti semitism problem in the party are wrong. I will continue to support a zero tolerance approach to all forms of racism. A dramatic day for the labour party. Jonathan blake has the latest. Well, we will actually bring in one of our Political Correspondent at westminster who can join us now. Helen, as i was saying, so joi
They should have kept us locked down. The chancellor prepares to set out the british governments Spending Plans for the coming year. The Spending Review will give a boost to the health service, but expect a sting in the tail for Public Sector workers in england and private pensions. France gets a partial reprieve from its strict coronavirus lockdown, as president macron announces his country has passed the peak of the second wave. Britains spending watchdog says ppe stockpiles in england were inadequate for the covid pandemic, with a surge in price costing the taxpayer around £10 billion. Its late but its sincere. Us president Electjoe Biden says the Trump Administration is cooperating across the board with the transition of power. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world, and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. The duchess of sussex has revealed she had a miscarriage injuly. Meghan markle said that prince harry was wi
This program is live captioned by red bee media. This is the Business Briefing. Im Samantha Simmonds the sell off continues. Asian shares fall sharply after the dow racks up its biggest points loss on record. Plus out of office. Is coronavirus forcing the worlds biggest ever experiment in working from home . And here are those market numbers. Those sharp losses continuing in asia after us shares lost more than 4 on thursday. Its shaping up to be the worst week on the markets since the financial crisis more than a decade ago. We start with those markets because the sell off on wall street has gathered pace as fears grow about the economic damage from the coronavirus outbreak. And the selling has continued in asia well update you on that in a moment. It has been the worst day on wall street for almost a decade. The Dow Jones Industrial average lost more than 1,100 points its biggest points drop on record. All major us indices lost more than 4 . Investors were particularly spooked by a wa
Eight Million People face the highest covid restrictions more than 50 mps write to Boris Johnson over the north south divide having put their areas into lockdown the mps want to know how he plans to get them out of it we are asking people to give up huge civil liberties, businesses to close, people to live on two thirds of their normal wages. I dont think its unreasonable to say that the other side of that coin should be show us the way out. We want to build back better across the north of england. Well be getting the latest as warrington becomes the latest area to go into tier 3. Also this lunchtime. Think catching coronavirus once means you cant catch it again . The latest Research Suggests you may need to think again as the president ial Election Campaign enters its final days the focus turns to the key swing states set to determine who wins the race
and a special report from syria, where the pandemic threatens to decimate a population whove already suffered more than enough. The pe
The un warns the coronavirus pandemic could almost double the number of people suffering from acute hunger. More details on president trumps plan to temporarily halt immigration into the United States he says restrictions will last for at least 60 days. And for many of us in lockdown, exercising outdoors offers a chance to clear the cobwebs, but well be asking, how safe is it . Hello. Also today, were going to talk to British Companies who say they can help with sourcing and distributing ppe thats coming up in 15 minutes. But first, an raf plane carrying personal protective equipment for nhs workers has arrived in the uk. The shipment from turkey, including 400,000 surgical gowns, arrived in the early hours of the morning. It had orginally been due to arrive on sunday but suffered a series of delays. Meanwhile, the British Government is facing more questions over the confusion overjoining an eu scheme to bulk buy potentially life saving medical equipment. Ministers have insisted it did