To try to boost peoples job prospects. Who do you think would win out of a lion, a hippopotamus and a rhino . Sir David Attenborough takes questions from the children he says hold the hope for the future in their hands. And coming up this hour. The water saving toilets wasting billions of litres every week. More than a Million People around the world are now known to have died with coronavirus since the start of the pandemic. The United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres called it an agonising milestone and a mind numbing figure. Johns Hopkins University has recorded over 1. 1 million lives have been lost to coronavirus. The us has the worlds highest death toll with about 205,000 fatalities, followed by brazil on 1a1,700 and india with 95,500 deaths. And the total number of deaths from covid 19 in the uk is 42,001, according to department of health figures. 2 Million People in large parts of north east england are facing a legal ban from tomorrow on people mixing with other hou
Departure from the European Union on the slst ofjanuary. Also on the programme. The one year countdown to an eu uk trade deal both sides have already sounded their warnings. Will the eu turn to protectionism . Plus, how this airplane passenger made an 88 year olds dream come true thanks to a heart warming act of generosity. Hello and welcome im katty kay in washington and James Reynolds is in london. We dont know, the day after, exactly what impact the impeachment of President Trump will have on the election next year. It could help him or it could hurt him. We do know one thing though impeachment is doing nothing to bring the country together. In the hours since mr trump became the third american president to face the sanction of impeachment, the anger, on both sides has only increased. Republicans today are denouncing what they call a sham, toxic, embarassing process. By contrast, democrats say that the president and Top Republicans have gone rogue. Mr trump himself is back in the wh
Substance of this vote is about. We will then move on, after that, to possibly an even more challenging vote for the government, which is on the timetabling. How much time do mps get to scrutinise this very important piece of legislation . So, thats the picture for you, and thats the picture for you, and thats what were expecting in the next half hour or so. Our chief Political Correspondent vicki young is inside the houses of parliament, in the central lobby, very close to the chamber of the house of commons, where the voting is happening. Vicki, talk us through this first vote. A bill going through parliament has various stages, the first one where it is debated is this one, mps have been talking about it all day. There is a vote and it has to get through the vote in order to progress to the next stage, which will be where mps look in detail at what the bill is about, and at that point they could perhaps try to make some changes. If this we re try to make some changes. If this were t
Towns. Also on the programme. General motors faces its biggest labour dispute in more than a decade, two men who helped Rudy Giuliani as a strike by 50,000 workers invesigate joe who helped Rudy Giuliani invesigatejoe biden who helped Rudy Giuliani enters its fourth week. Invesigate joe biden in who helped Rudy Giuliani invesigatejoe biden in ukraine are arrested for violating plus, why living campaignfinance are arrested for violating a cashless life means you are one dead battery away Campaign Finance rules. From being thousands and the sheet of blank paper of pounds out of pocket. That won a japanese student top marks for her homework. Why . We will reveal all. The irish premier leo varadkar hello and welcome im Christian Fraser is sounding pretty in london, Michelle Fleury upbeat tonight that a brexit deal is in washington. Can be done, and maybe ahead of Boris Johnsons meeting with the irish premier even by next week. But then he has been leo varadkar this afternoon, saying its di
Borisjohnson has reassured conservative mps that he will commit to a brexit negotation at the next election, but will leave with no deal if no compromise can be found. And the internet goes into meltdown as super sleuth Coleen Rooney outs fellow wag rebekah vardy, who she accuses of leaking stories to the tabloid press. Hello and welcome im Michelle Fleury in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. It is the norm these days, that Major International announcements come on twitter. Today was no different, the turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced to the world that his country was going to war in Northern Syria to neutralise the kurdish threat. Our mission, he said, is to prevent the creation of a terror corridor across our southern border and to bring peace to the area. The kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces or sdf had been braced for it for months, but they had been on heightened alert since the weekend when President Trump decided to withdraw us troops. In the United