we begin with news of the death of pele widely regarded as the greatest male footballer ever to play what he described as the beautiful game . he passed away in hospital in sao paulo, surrounded by his family, at the age of 82, having suffered from cancer. during his career he became the first, and so far only, player to win three world cups and scored over a thousand goals. he spent almost all of his club career playing in his native brazil after the government declared him a national treasure, and blocked moves overseas but was also a key part in the short lived north american soccer league playing for the new york cosmos. during his life, he was also a charity fundraiser, a campaigner and a politician. joe wilson reports on the life of a true sporting great. the greatest, it s opinion, but pele led, others stand on his shoulders. well over 1,000 goals, a career of over 20 years, three times a world cup winner. brazilian football, synonymous with flair and succes
surge across the country. and she gave the world dangerously high heels and went we hear tributes to the designer vivienne westwood, who has died in london. a woman of colour was wearing it on the runways so also diversity, gender bending, all of that made vivienne westwood so important to me. everyone to bbc news. a very warm welcome to bbc news. we begin with news of the death of pele, widely regarded as the greatest person ever to play what he himself described as the beautiful game . he passed away in hospital in sao paulo, surrounded by his family at the age of 82, having suffered from cancer. during his career he became the first and so far only player to win three world cups, and scored over 1,000 goals. he spent almost all of his club career playing in his native brazil after the government declared him a national treasure and blocked moves overseas, but was also a key part in the short lived north american soccer league, playing for the new york cosmos. durin
in their latest announcements in the conservative leadership race. with more countries fighting wildfires, the us special envoy for climatejohn kerry tells the bbc that president biden is considering whether to announce a climate emergency. we are moving forward, but we re not making enough progress and we are not moving forward fast enough. good afternoon. the port of dover says work has been continuing around the clock to help holidaymakers and lorries get across the channel, after they faced lengthy waits over the past two days. queues at the port are expected to be reduced to about an hour this afternoon. the port s chief executive, doug bannister, has thanked travellers and residents of dover for their understanding during what he described as a challenging period . but people using eurotunnel to travel to france have been warned to expect long delays at folkestone. simonjones reports. the not so great getaway continues. in folkestone, holiday makers have been struggl
its violence to respond to that bombshell harry and meghan interview. we re live with details this hour. thanks for joining us. well, the u.s. house of representatives is set to hold a final vote on president joe biden s massive covid relief package just hours from now. the house is expected to pass the updated bill with the senate s revisions. the stimulus package is huge, not only in price tag at $1.9 trillion, but also in its expected impact. democrats from progressives to moderates are united in their support. this is the most significant legislation for working people that has been passed in decades. tremendous piece of legislation that going to create an awful lot of employment across this country. republicans, too, are united in their opposition. socialist wish list. this is a left of lenin, neosocialist wish list. this is a left wing giveaway. it is a left wing social agenda. no republicans so far are getting behind the bill, should it pass, americans wa
that s worried neighbouring countries, including japan, south korea and india, who ve imposed covid checks on arrivals from china. the us has followed suit, saying a lack of adequate and transparent data from china was partly behind its decision to require a negative covid test. italy is the only european country to impose checks, including a post arrival pcr test, which will allow genomic surveillance of potential new covid threats. the outbreak in china is being driven by several omicron sub variants including bf.7 which has already been circulating in the uk. the latest covid estimates for the uk earlier this month were that around one in 45 people had the virus. that probably means a million people a week are getting infected, so there is plenty of covid about. but most of the uk population is very well protected from severe illness