It is about 2 30am. Time now for wednesday in parliament. Hello, and welcome to wednesday in parliament, as labour tells the Prime Minister to get a grip. This has been a wasted summer. The government should spend preparing for the autumn and winter, instead they lurched from crisis to crisis, you turn to u turn. Borisjohnson says his government has turned the tide. Despite the negativity and the constant sniping from the opposition, we are seeing a country that is not only going back to school, but going back to work. And on the Education Committee, a conservative mp is left holding the baby. Sorry, thank you. I would like to understand what did quual do once they had seen what happened in scotland 7 but first, Prime Ministers questions, the first commons clash between borisjohnson and sir keir starmer since july. The labour leader focused his early questions on the chaos over the grades for students unable to take exams due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Prime Minister sidestepped
Despite a surging number of coronavirus cases in the United States, donald trump has used his Independence Day speech to attack those he accuses of seeking to erase americas history. Now on bbc news, foreign correspondents look at events in the uk through outsiders eyes and at how the issues of the week are being tackled around the world in dateline london. Hello, welcome to dateline london. Im carrie gracie. This week beijings Birthday Gift to hong kong. National security legislation that dramatically shrinks the space for political expression. Joe bidens bid for votes what does the challenger promise to do different . And build, build, build borisjohnson relaunches his premiership. My guests on socially distanced screens, north American Writer and broadcaster, jeffrey kofman, british political commentator, steve richards, and here in the studio observing the two metre rule, the bbcs diplomatic correspondent, james landale. Welcome to all three of you. Now, last year, hong kong was co
The un warns the coronavirus pandemic could almost double the number of people suffering from acute hunger. More details on president trumps plan to temporarily halt immigration into the United States he says restrictions will last for at least 60 days. And for many of us in lockdown, exercising outdoors offers a chance to clear the cobwebs, but well be asking, how safe is it . Hello. Also today, were going to talk to British Companies who say they can help with sourcing and distributing ppe thats coming up in 15 minutes. But first, an raf plane carrying personal protective equipment for nhs workers has arrived in the uk. The shipment from turkey, including 400,000 surgical gowns, arrived in the early hours of the morning. It had orginally been due to arrive on sunday but suffered a series of delays. Meanwhile, the British Government is facing more questions over the confusion overjoining an eu scheme to bulk buy potentially life saving medical equipment. Ministers have insisted it did
Hello and welcome to this bbc news special. In around half an hours time, well be bringing you the governments daily news briefing on coronavirus, which will be led by the foreign secretary, dominic raab. But first, as news on the pandemic continues to dominate, that baby announcement this morning from downing street that caught everyone by surprise. The Prime Ministers fiance, Carrie Symonds and their baby boy are said to be doing very well, and mrjohnson has thanked nhs workers involved in the birth. The Prime Minister is back at work in downing street, and is expected to take a short amount of paternity leave later in the year. Hes spoken to the labour leader, keir starmer, about the coronavirus pandemic, and was congratulated on the birth at pmqs. Heres dominic raab and keir starmer expressing the well wishes of both political parties. The pm and his and his fiancee Carrie Symonds have announced the birth of a healthy baby boy this morning. Both mother and baby are doing well and i
To donald trump today, and hell hold a phone conversation with the queen later this week. But downing street says the Prime Minister still hasnt formally returned to work. Mps have approved a motion to enable new arrangements for questions by video link, and strict new social distancing rules, with up to 50 members allowed in the chamber at any one time. And the brand new Nightingale Hospital in harrogate is being opened today by nhs fundraiser captain tom moore by videolink. Good afternoon. Shocking figures today show that look in the week up to easter, deaths in england and wales hit a 20 year high, with 8,000 more people dying than would be regarded as normal at this time of year. Thats according for National Statistics. Thats according to the office for National Statistics. The latest figures released by the department of health and social care show that across the uk a further 828 people have died from the virus taking the total number of deaths to over 17,000. Figures from the of