Facing a new threat and invasion of giant killer hornets. Its good to have you with us tonight new numbers are making plain the terrible toll of the pandemic in the u. K. The countrys National Statistics office now says more than 32000 people have died of covert 19 britain now has the highest death toll in europe surpassing hard hit italy globally only the United States has seen more people succumb to the virus. During the governments daily Coronavirus Briefing britains new death toll joy one official lost phone difficult guys. And what you see is that deaths in the u. K. Is still continuing to climb and is. Higher than we would wish i think is all i can say internationally while the Prime Ministers deputy was eager to point out that figures couldnt be compared at this stage there are different ways of counting deaths as we know weve had that debate in this country we now published data that includes all deaths in all settings and not all countries do that so im not sure that the Inter