Second spike of covid i9 this winter. And watford have sacked their manager Nigel Pearson with just two games to go in the premier league season. As the club fights to avoid relegation. Hello and welcome to bbc world news. Chinas ambassador to the uk has denied reports that beijing is carrying out a programme of forced sterilisation of uighur women in the Western Region of the country xinjiang. He acknowledged that there may be some cases. He was interviewed on the Andrew Marr Show this morning and wish own testimony from a women who had suffered forced sterilisation. Foreign secretary said he was deeply troubled by what he said were chinas egregious human rights abuses of the uighur population. Here are some of those interviews. There is no socalled pervasive, massive forced sterilisation among uighur people in china. It is totally against. The government is strongly opposed to this kind of practice. I cannot rule out single cases for any country. These are single cases stop there is
As fears grow of a Mental Health crisis amongst health workers. Lewis hamilton makes history as he breaks the record for the most formula 1 wins ever the british driver took the title from Michael Schumacher at the grand prix in portugal. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. We start with some breaking news. Hampshire police are dealing with an ongoing incident on board a vessel, south of the isle of wight. The reporting in the last few minutes is that a ship, an oil tanker, the nave andromeda, has reported an alert, it issued a mayday around 9am this morning. It had been due to dock in southampton at10 30am, it had been due to dock in southampton at 10 30am, it left lagos in nigeria on the 6th of october and obviously as an oil tanker it had quite a long journey, but something seems to have happened in the last hours of its Journey Towards southampton. A coastguard helicopter can be seen circling the ship by a website, which tracks the movements of ships around the world. Hampshire
And the moment a music teacher with dementia hears his composition played by an orchestra for the first time. Good morning from Arundel Castle in west sussex, where it is a chilly start to the day. We will be talking to dupont through the course of this morning. The focus for this week will be windy at times, wet at times, but by the end of the week it will also be quite mild. More details in about ten minutes. Its monday the 26th of october. Our top story. A Navy Special Forces unit has stormed an oil tanker off the isle of wight after a suspected hijacking. Seven stowaways thought to be nigerian nationals have been detained after they were reported to have threatened the crew. Andy moore has the latest. Late last night, and the tanker andromeda was back under the control of its crew after what the ministry of defence called a suspected hijacking. 16 members of the special boat squadron, based at nearby poole, were landed on the ship as night fell. Defence secretary ben wallace said.
Its not going to be a bad day today many of us. Tomorrow however, it is going to be more cloudy with rain around. The weekend is a split and todayis around. The weekend is a split and today is the better day. We can see a window of whether at the moment. Clear skies but mist and fog in good morning. Welcome to breakfast places. These low pressure here with with Naga Munchetty and charlie stayt. Its rain bearing cloud is heading in our headlines today our direction so all of the cloud closing in on victory you can see here will be bleak joe biden tells america that he is on his way will be in place across the uk to the white house. Tomorrow. This same area of low pressure is also scooping up some mild airfrom the the numbers tell us its clear, tell pressure is also scooping up some mild air from the southern climes. Low pressure is put in the air us the numbers tell us its clear, tell usa the numbers tell us its clear, tell us a clear and convincing story are northwards and you can see
Uighurs this is bbc news the headlines at 8pm. China denies an accusation by foreign secretary dominic raab that its carrying out human rights abuses against its uighur minority. Can i ask you why people are kneeling, blindfolded and shaven and being led to trains in modern china . Why . What is going on there . I do not know where you get this video tape. It is deeply, deeply troubling. And the reports on the human aspect of it, from forced sterilisation to re education camps, are reminiscent of something we have not seen for a long, long time. President trump has defended his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, telling fox news that the us
has the lowest mortality rate in the world. Police and Public Health officials are investigating a mosque in blackburn after 250 people attended a funeral there on monday. Its since emerged that the imam has tested positive for coronavirus. The United Arab Emirates prepares to launch a mission to mars making it the first arab nation to do so. Alo