This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Plans for a huge increase in covid testing in britain. Operation moonshot aims to do ten million daily tests by early next year. The idea is to have a test which would be carried out at the location, a bit like a pregnancy test that provides a very quick result, and that would completely revolutionise things. Senior uk ministers will hold emergency talks with eu officials later over the governments plan to override parts of the brexit Withdrawal Agreement. Thousands of migrants desperately seek shelter after a camp on the greek island of lesbos was destroyed by fire. Three people die as wildfires continue to rage in california, which is in the middle of a 20 year mega drought. Wildlife populations are plummeting across the world according to a stark new report from the World Wide Fund for nature. Hello and welcome if you re the world, and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and ac
Some have watched from countries like denmark and italy. Skip little pony, skip, skip, skip. Dancing in your living room though can bring its own challenges 0h we just want to share a little bit of fun, share a little bit of enjoyment and hopefully break up their day and change what could be a really negative, stressful time in their isolation into a little bit of fun. Social distancing, it seems, doesnt have to mean children miss out on fun. Jo black, bbc news. Now its time for a look at the weather, with louise lear. Well, if you are thinking of spending a little time in your garden or going out for a quick walk through the weekend i can offer you Something Like this, a dryer, settled story for many others across the country. We have seen this nuisance where the front thats been
with us all week. Thats going to drift away and High Pressure will build as it moves off into the near continent. However, it comes with a price. It will keep things quite quiet but it will start to drag east
Lets talk about david copperfield. Hello, good morning this is ok, fine, so, this is a new adaptation by armando iannucci, brea kfast. Which is kind of notable for two hello, good morning this is breakfast. Here is a summary of the reasons, one, for playing up the comedic elements and for finding main stories today from bbc news. 56 the kind the modernists, surreal, absurdist comedic elements in the source. People are now known to have died and also for its brilliantly inclusive colourblind ensemble cast. From coronavirus as the foreign at the centre of it all, office urges British Nationals in we have dev patel as copperfield, who recounts his story from a stage. The worst affected areas to leave. Some people have complained that we see him at the very they have been trapped in a lockdown beginning of the film, he comes on stage and he says im after chinese authorities imposed travel restrictions on a number of going to recount my life story. And then he turns around and walks cities.
This is bbc news, the headlines President Trump has claimed cases of coronavirus in american hot spots are dropping and that more states will be in a position to reopen. He claimed the us has flattened the curve of infections, but there is concern about a second, even more serious, wave of infections in the autumn, combined with seasonal flu. American fatalities have doubled in a week, exceeding a6,000. The World Health Organization has warned of a worrying upward trend in coronavirus cases in africa, latin america and Eastern Europe. It said most of the epidemics in western europe now appeared to be stable other countries were now seeing a surge. Here in the uk the chief medical adviser professor chris whitty has said the policy of social distancing will be needed until the end of the year. He said the chance of a highly effective vaccine being found within the next year was incredibly small. Now on bbc news wednesday in parliament. Hello there and welcome to wednesday in parliament a
And a third of the food produced in the world for human consumption is lost or wasted. But it is possible for food to be intensively produced working with nature and thats whats happening here, in wiltshire. Its a really good Hunting Ground for birds of prey. David butlers farm isnt organic, but its still a haven for wildlife. The grey partridge, here filmed in a different location, if we have poor air quality, if we have poor water quality, then were not going to have high yields of crops and were not going to have healthy animals, were not going to have healthy food, and that directly then feeds through to people. Humans are managing nature for their own benefit, whether its for grazing animals orfor building on, and its having a dramatic impact all over the world. And Scientists Say we can see this now by the pandemic were living through. Research suggests the emergence of covid 19 could be linked to bats. Were fairly confident that the driving forces that have led to the spread of