The eus chief negotiator tells the European Parliament time is running out to reach a brexit trade agreement. And, after bugs, glitches, and crashes, one of the years biggest video games cyberpunk 2077 is pulled from both the playstation and microsoft store. Roughly one in every 100 people in england, scotland and wales had coronvirus last week with the number of cases now rising significantly. Thats the warning from the office for National Statistics as the virus begins to spread faster again. The Prime Minister says hes hoping to avoid a Third National lockdown in england. But borisjohnson said rates of infection had increased very much over recent weeks. The labour leader, sir keir starmer, has called for the government to change the arrangements over christmas amid concerns about the effect of relaxing restrictions for the festive period. The uks r number or reproduction rate of coronavirus is on the rise again. Last week, it was thought to be between 0. 9 and 1. 0. It is now estim
Britains olympic skateboarders as money for sports like rowing and swimming takes a dive. Six. Five. Four of us. By myself, so one. And how many will be around your christmas table next week . We ask if people are changing their plans. Coming up in sport on bbc news, callum smith towers over Saul Canelo Alvarez as the two fighters go head to head at their weigh in ahead of their world title bout in texas this weekend. Good evening. Hospitals across the south east of england have begun cancelling non urgent operations, with some struggling to cope with double the number of Covid Patients than they had in the spring. It comes as government sources confirmed tonight that there is concern about the new variant of covid 19, amid fears it could be making the virus more infectious and harder to contain. Today, the Prime Minister said he was hoping to avoid a Third National lockdown in england, but acknowledged that rates of infection had increased very much over recent weeks. New data suggest
On the National Health service. And more than 300 schoolboys freed from their kidnapping ordeal in nigeria have been reunited with their families. The us Vice President , mike pence, has become the first seniorfigure in the Trump Administration to get a Coronavirus Vaccine, which he called a medical miracle. And he did so in a very public way, in front of cameras at the white house along with his wife and the us surgeon general. The move comes as officials are mounting campaigns to quash scepticism about the record Fast Development of the vaccine. Mr pence said he wanted to assure the American People that while theyd cut red tape, theyd cut no corners. History will record that this week was the beginning of the end of the coronavirus pandemic. But with cases rising across the country, with hospitalisations rising across the country, we have a ways to go. And i want to assure the American People that were going to continue to make sure that our Health Care Providers have all the support
The us Vice President , mike pence, has become the first senior figure in the Trump Administration to get a Coronavirus Vaccine, which he called a medical miracle. And he did so in a very public way, in front of cameras at the white house, along with his wife and the us surgeon general. The move comes as officials are mounting campaigns to quash scepticism about the record Fast Development of the vaccine. Mr pence said he wanted to assure the American People that while theyd cut red tape, theyd cut no corners. History will record that this week was the beginning of the end of the coronavirus pandemic. But with cases rising across the country, with hospitalisations rising across the country, we have a ways to go. And i want to assure the American People that were going to continue to make sure that our Health Care Providers have all the support and resources they need to meet this moment. But vigilance and the vaccine is our way through, and Building Confidence in the vaccine is what br
The mounting pressures on mr trump, and well to asia for the reaction there. In other news, the uk records its highest daily death toll since the pandemic began. A Major Incident is declared in london as hospitals struggle to cope. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. In the last few minutes twitter has said it is permanently suspending Donald Trumps account. In a statement, it said that it took the decision after what it called a close review of recent tweets from mr trump. Twitter said there was a risk of further incitement to violence if they allowed him to continue to use their platform. Lets get more from our correspondent david willis in los angeles. David. This has been breaking in the last few minutes, in the last half hour or so. Just bring us up to date with what on earth going on. Welcome i have to say, if you go to his twitter account, you will now see just a bland twitter account, you will now seejust a bland message twitter account, you will now