The dispute continued at the United Nations and in international courts for many years and this agreement was reached following two years of negotiations. Andrew harding has the details. A scattering of tiny islands deep in the Indian Ocean. British, for now, but after todays agreement, not for much longer. The Chagos Islands are all uninhabited, save for one, an important one, diego garcia. It is home to a big and secretive american military base. Today, britain agreed to hand the whole archipelago over to mauritius, but crucially, The Americans will remain in place. This is a very, very important agreement between our countries. Crucially protects the national security interests of the united kingdom and our allies and has been reached in full agreement with the united states retaining the crucial base on diego garcia. Also closes down a potential route for migrants. But some have warned that china could exploit the deal to extend its influence. It is over half a century since the in
Vaccine the u. S. Drugmaker, mud dharna, says its vaccine has a success rate of nearly 95 . And a country without a leader, peru plunged into political crisis after the interim president steps down, but peruvians are celebrating in the streets. And flying drones near airports can cause danger as well as travel chaos. German researchers say they successfully used rain threat radar technologies to identify drone troublemakers. Im brent goff. To our viewers on pbs, in the United States and all of you around the world, welcome. We start here in germany and the wrangling over more or less lockdown. German chancellor Angela Merkel had been expected to announce tougher restrictions to the partial lockdown, known as lockdown light, but that did not happen today. Speaking after a meeting with the country 16 states, she says the state leaders objected to introducing stricter measures at this stage and that they would meet to discuss further measures next week. The restrictions imposed had not ha
Being out of school is having on children and parents. Three Premier League defeats in a row forjose mourinho and spurs. They lose at home to chelsea, who continue their good start under new boss thomas tuchel. Today, snow only really Northern Scotland but over the next few days we are going to see is no more widely and all of us will feel the bitter chill of an easterly wind seeing snow more widely. Its friday, february 5th. Our top story. From the 15th Of February uk residents returning from Coronavirus Hotspots abroad will have to quarantine in hotels for ten nights. Theres been mounting pressure for ministers to set out details of the scheme, which was first announced last week. The government has been accused of being too slow to act. Simonjones reports. A new destination for new arrivals from the most high risk countries. British nationals returning home from more than 30 covid hot spots will have to check into designated hotels at their own expense for ten days. It is to try to
Worrying scenes in the last hour or so this was a lot fuller than than it is now a lot of the protesters a lot of who were supporting various different opposition groups that its a very peacefully gathering here showing some sort of unity. Basically left because a group of rival opposition supporters from maine who support the new Prime Minister a man that was voted in by an emergency parliamentary session. Last week who was freed from jail by those protesters a group of them came into the square they were both tools projectiles thrown. Scuffles the statue behind me that you can see there were indeed gunshots. And as i say a lot of people here are very nervous and have left the square now the supporters of the Prime Minister most of them have gone back to where they are protesting around the Prime Ministers office but there is a great sense of factionalism here in tension this evening and as you say the president has called this state of emergency concern what he says about possible co
Hes been cleared to resume campaigning and while the white house insisted saturdays event wasnt a Campaign Rally it sure seemed like one attacking his opponent former Vice President joe biden multiple times Sleepy Joe Biden has betrayed black and latino americans if you think you can run this country youre wrong track was addressing black and latino conservatives who are part of a movement known as blacks it or black accept the movement believes the Democratic Party has betrayed communities of color and is encouraging them to vote republican if the left gains power theyll launch a nationwide crusade against the Law Enforcement and theyve already done that. Trump is playing on voter fears of the sometimes violent unrest that gripped several u. S. Cities for months this past summer following protests over the death of george floyd a black man killed while in police custody. Hopes his law and order message will help him win over white suburban voters in addition to minority communities hu