Steelers titans postponed. Is your nfl sunday in danger of being canceled and the virus hits home. 300 one day 500 the next. The real estate boom in americas suburbs. Good evening for tens of thousands, crisis hit tonight, debilitating life, furlough day for 30,000 workers at united and american airlines. For the area carriers, movies and hotel chains, restaurant and entertainment groups, momandpop stores, the reality is stark tonight after six months of hanging on, government release nowhere in sight, too many businesses can hang on no longer and theyve decided their employees have to go furloughs at marriott, uber, and more, on top of what we heard from disney this week. Last week Labor Department reports close to 800,000 lost their job, and since covid, 60 Million People have filed for Unemployment Insurance 60 million thats not just a number those are our friends and neighbors trying to pay the bills in the rolling crisis. Theyre the victims. Ask the government for help. All right,
Sex pic scandal. Bbc bosses brace for backlash calls mount for a ukraine style visa scheme for a ukraine style visa scheme for palestinians. For palestinians. 60 organisations are now calling on the home secretary to set up a special route. But should britain open its arms . Now weve had a special visa route for ukrainians. Weve had a special visa route for people from hong kong. Weve even had special routes from people from afghanistan. But the question is, should yet another route now be set up for people fleeing from gaza . Yes. From gaza . Yes. So dozens of organisations are essentially hoping to ramp up the pressure on the home secretary. Specifically, theyre all signing a letter. Theyre sending it to the home secretary saying we need a ukraine style visa scheme for palestinians trapped in gaza. Now theyre talking about a type of special route visa so that palestinians can be reunited with family or extended family who may be in the United Kingdom. The details are still a little v
Embassy to the us says more than 1000 of its citizens have been killed in the violence. Well, killed in the violence. Well, the attacks come in response to an unprecedented barrage of israeli airstrikes on gaza , israeli airstrikes on gaza, forcing nearly 200,000 people to flee the territory. Israel is flee the territory. Israel is continuing as well to bomb the enclave. These pictures from a short time ago from the port city of gaza on the coastline , city of gaza on the coastline, apartment blocks, schools and even a United Nations building. Among those hit by hundreds of attacks today. And the united naļ¬ons attacks today. And the United Nations warning the Israeli Government that its siege of gazais government that its siege of gaza is illegal under international law. But adding the abduction of hostages by hamas is forbidden. And israeli hamas is forbidden. And Israeli Soldiers have been clearing the kfar aza kibbutz. Thats one of the hardest hit areas of hamas attacks. Troops ha
Like rwanda. Hs2. The Prime Minister is going to effectively say in his speech today, its not going to happen. That link from london to manchester. The mayor of Greater Manchester, andy burnham, says cancelling it will tell the people north of england people in the north of england theyre class citizens theyre second class citizens when transport theyre second class citizens when belief transport theyre second class citizens when belief in transport theyre second class citizens when belief in some ort theyre second class citizens when belief in some ways that beggars belief in some ways that they are about to do this, to pull that plug here in manchester would show complete contempt for the people of this city, region and of the north of england as a whole. More strikes today is the first ever joint strike action by rail workers and the train drivers. Junior doctors and hospital consultants are all taking industrial action. This morning and changing the status quo. And changing the sta
And how do lib dems claw back the south west that went so heavily for brexit . Hello, good evening. Just two years ago this month, David Camerons Conservative Manifesto was promising a brighter, more secure future. An irony presumably not lost on the former pm politically or personally. But now its theresa mays turn. What will she chose to promise the nation . Brexit determined her reign, brexit has dominated it so far. But what about all the other stuff that decides how we vote . Spending plans, schools, foreign aid and defence. What will she set out to achieve and what may trip her up in the quest for more control . Our Political Editor nick watt has been having a look, and is with me now. Nick, lets just focus on the aid budget. What are you hearing . There is something of a battle going on at senior levels of the Conservative Party. The 0. 7 pledge of Gross National income that should be spent on overseas aid. There are seniorfigures who are saying that should be rolled in with a 3