Hello, youre watching afternoon live im simon mccoy. Today at 2. State of disunion as Donald Trump Tells america how well his presidency is going Speaker Nancy Pelosi makes her feelings clear. Today at 5pm, the governments Cobra Emergency Committee is meeting now to discuss the coronavirus as chinese authorities step up their efforts to contain jobs are birmingham, incomes are the disease that has so far killed almost 500 people. Soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence is sick passengers are taken off cruise ships as hong kong imposes surging and our country is thriving. A mandatory 14 day quarantine china takes further steps to control the spread on arrivals from Mainland China. Of the coronavirus as the death toll nears 500 while 10 people well be talking to a pandemic on a cruise ship test positive expert about what more is needed and hundreds of other to contain the coronavirus. Passengers are quarantined. The other main stories on bbc news at 5pm all we have b
This is bbc news the headlines at six. Calls for more support for the uks travel and Tourism Sector after the government imposes tougher restrictions on arrivals to keep out new strains of coronavirus. A further 1,295 people have died in the uk according to the latest covid figures. But the number of new infections has dropped to its lowest level so far this year. The worlds biggest Vaccination Programme gets underway in india. The country hopes to inoculate three hundred Million People byjuly, with priority being given to frontline healthcare workers. Senior Police Officers in the uk says their investigations have been compromised after hundreds of thousands of arrest records were deleted from the Police National computer. President Electjoe Biden sets out plans to speed up immunisations in the United States
promising to vaccinate 100 Million People within his first 100 days in office. And frustration for many australians unable to return home because of the pandemic as some of the w
Hello, youre watching afternoon live, im simon mccoy. Today at 2. Released days after serving half his sentence and under surveillance, as questions are asked about why a terrorist was free to stab victims in london. The government says it will act. The anomaly we need to clear up is the process by which some people are still coming out under automatic Early Release without any kind of scrutiny or parole system. Borisjohnson says the uk wont bind itself to eu rules in order to get a trade deal by the end of the year. Built in just eight days a 1000 bed hospital opens in wuhan for coronavirus patitents as one of the passengers who landed in the uk from wuhan is taken ill and escorted to hospital. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport. Everyone is still talking about the super bowl and how the Kansas City Chiefs produced such an outrageous comeback to the biggest prize in the sport for the first time. And we have news of wind . Yes, you can see the choppy seas and we have some sever
Lets talk about david copperfield. Hello, good morning this is ok, fine, so, this is a new adaptation by armando iannucci, brea kfast. Which is kind of notable for two hello, good morning this is breakfast. Here is a summary of the reasons, one, for playing up the comedic elements and for finding main stories today from bbc news. 56 the kind the modernists, surreal, absurdist comedic elements in the source. People are now known to have died and also for its brilliantly inclusive colourblind ensemble cast. From coronavirus as the foreign at the centre of it all, office urges British Nationals in we have dev patel as copperfield, who recounts his story from a stage. The worst affected areas to leave. Some people have complained that we see him at the very they have been trapped in a lockdown beginning of the film, he comes on stage and he says im after chinese authorities imposed travel restrictions on a number of going to recount my life story. And then he turns around and walks cities.
This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Irans president rouhani blames israel for the assassination of a Top Nuclear Scientist, saying his country wont be deterred from its nuclear ambitions. A warning that hospitals in england could become overwhelmed with coronavirus cases, if mps dont back new restrictions. A worrying weekend for 13,000 workers at some of the uks biggest retail names. The group that owns top shop, Dorothy Perkins and miss selfridge is on the brink of collapse. The eus chief brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, and his uk counterpart are to resume face to face talks in an attempt to agree a post brexit trade deal. A surprise discovery a rare plant reappears, more than a century since its last confirmed sighting in the british isles. And coming up, as argentinians mark the third day of National Mourning for diego maradona, well be speaking to a football historian about the legacy of one of the greatest players of all time.