Were quite rightly asking us to make that effort. If you want to get in touch with me about any of those stories or anything else on todays programme tweet me Annita Mcveigh or use the bbcyourquestions. Uk doctors leaders warn hospitals will be overwhelmed with Covid Patients unless tough new restrictions are imposed after lockdown ends in england, amid reports of rules easing to allow families to get together over christmas. None of us want to see a situation over christmas where youve got the mixing of generations of people, grandparents mixing with grandchildren, and then finding that some of the most vulnerable in our society end up becoming infected. And coming up this hour the toll of the coronavirus pandemic. The uk sees its highest levels of loneliness this autumn as a result of the disease. 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. Plans for a green Industrial Revolution
Hes not wanting that. You know ive got to check out that hug, utilizing nfls replay technology. Lets see. All right, hes walking in. There you go. Now the frenchnow, the french president goes with the open hands. I just want to touch hands. Keep it at this distance. Kerry says [ bleep ] that come on baby. Bring it in. Oh, were bros. Now the french president is saying, ive had enough. No. All right. Im done. Im done. Hollande tries to get out. Watch kerry says i tell you what, though i am never letting you go. Wow. Hes got a friend. You guys yesterday did not seem especially moved by that. Willie, they were just sort of staring at it. Were talking about moment in diplomacy. James taylor singing quoufyouve got a friend. But they did not have a friend. Its kind of like hey, oh, here lean back into me and fall to the floor listen i didnt catch you but heres j. T. Wow. Not a bad tradeoff though. Right . I dont know. Good of us to send him over there, though. Everybody loves j. T. Just a lit
Resuming in the long term. And going behind closed doors at Edinburgh Zoo, we meet the animals and the keepers looking after them during lockdown. Good evening. The number of people known to have died with coronavirus in hospital passed 20,000 today, a sombre milestone. It means britain has become the fifth country in the world to register that number of deaths from the illness. In the last 2a hours, 813 people are reported to have died, mostly in hospitals, across the uk. It brings the total uk death toll to 20,319 people but that figure doesnt include deaths in care homes or the community in england and Northern Ireland. At the daily Government Press conference, the home secretary, priti patel, described the deaths as tragic, but admitted the country isnt out of the woods yet in its fight against coronavirus. Heres our health correspondent, lauren moss. It is a devastating milestone no one wanted to reach. In less than two months, more than 20,000 people have died with covid 19. Thes
Start with you first on this on your thoughts on the story . Its hugely worrying. The article suggests that there is both the kind of deep nationalism that is emerging out of this. One of xenophobia. In part at a defensive thing. The sort of criticism thats been launched at china around the kind of inception of the virus, the hushing up of the scale of it. And not allowing others to prepare in time. Its almost a defensive reaction against that. As well is the fact that its too, if you justify the very draconian measure notjust the Chinese Government almost governments having to take. On a form of nationalism is a way in which the government is trying to kind of ensure the population is ok or willing to sort of, suck it up. How much ability in it, i dont know. I do think there is something in moments of fear and worry where people do turn on themselves. Nationalism, xenophobia him, is always a by product of times of uncertainty, times of anxiety and worry. The real tragedy, dont think i
Im appalled and sickened that people should lose their lives in this way. If there are lessons that we need to learn about how we handle such cases, how we handle the events leading up to such cases, then we will learn those lessons. Spain ends its coronavirus lockdown and is once again welcoming visitors from elsewhere in europe. President trump stages a Comeback Campaign rally in tulsa in oklahoma, his first in months, but fails to fill the arena. 20 arrests after rioting in the german city of stuttgart following a Police Operation on drug dealers. A dramatic Solar Eclipse stretching from west africa to south asia and taiwan. This is the view from hong kong. 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. Police here in the uk say theyre treating the stabbing to death of three people in a park in reading yesterday evening as a terror incident. Three other people were injured. A 25 yea