hello, welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. britain and rwanda have signed a new treaty aimed at getting the uk government s flagship asylum policy operational following a series of legal challenges. the planned policy first announced back enable 2022 would see some asylum seekers sent to rwanda to claim asylum they are. the plan has hit legal setbacks and was blocked in its previous form by the supreme court. after signing the agreement during a visit, the home secretary james cleverley said he believed the new treaty addressed all the concerns raised by the sabine court. the treaty that will sign today builds on thatjoint work. it takes the positive professional attitude that you and your government display, and allies it with the work that the uk is doing to ensure that we break the business model of those evil people smuggling gangs. live now to our west africa correspondent mayeni jones who s in kigali. a united front between
Chief is waking up at home for the First Time Since last week at risk of spreading both the coronavirus and bad information. And today, doing at least one of those things. Down playing the danger from the disease he himself is fighting. Comparing it to the flu, and despite his access to world class care available to almost no other meamerican, telling people live your lives. Dont let it dominate you. Dont be afraid of it. Overnight at the white house work space, a deep disinfection by custodians wearing protection suits with the number of infections in the west wing rise and the questions intensifying about how the white house is handling the outbreak. Its rejecting cdc help and new guidelines from the agency about how covid travels as Public Health experts brace for a scary spike in cases. Im Hallie Jackson along with our team. Wee joined by two medical experts, one served for the coordinator of emerging pandemic threats in the obama administration, and a field epidemiologist at the u
Forget hollywood, if you want to see real stars go to yorkshire. Two National Parks in the north of england have been designated dark sky reserves. The Prime Minister is heading to brussels for dinner with the European Commission president ursula von der leyen. Ahead of leaving, borisjohnson said no british pm could accept the current eu terms but says there is still a deal to be done. Major disagreements remain between the two sides on fishing rights, business competition rules or the so called level Playing Field and how a deal will be policed or any future disputes resolved. And time is running out to reach an agreement. The uk will stop following eu trading rules on the 31st december deal or no deal. Our Political Correspondent nick eardley reports. Can you get this over the line, Prime Minister . For the Prime Minister, who was the face of the brexit campaign, decision time is coming. Will borisjohnson sign up to a trade deal or are the two sides too far apart . Tonight in brussel
Disturbing incidents of verbal abuse and quote sexual discrimination and, she makes this trump bling claim about the culture in washington. People shrug off members on capitol hill. The same abuse i suffered at congressman conyers hands was awful but i wont say its unique. Trish just a short time ago house members brand new effort to make antiharassment training mandatory on capitol hill. A move some say is long overdue. Minnesota senator al franken is apologizing again for his bad behavior now that four women are accusing him of sexual misconduct. He is not denying the allegations. We have a whole lot to unravel tonight. Were going to begin with Kristin Fisher in washington. Well, trish, senator franken is expected to speak publicly about these allegations for the very first time on sunday. You know, so far he has been walking this very fine line of apologizing without actually admitting to the things that these women are accusing him of. Two more women came forward this week. They cl
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