Good morning. Welcome to breakfast with Louise Minchin and dan walker. Our headlines today the terrifying moment thousands of people took refuge on the shore in australia to escape bushfires engulfing their town. We were bracing for the worst, because it was black. Like, it should have been daylight but it was black like midnight. And we could hear the fire roaring. The uk government says its seriously concerned about a fair trial for the british woman convicted in cyprus of lying about a rape claim. The minimum wage for over 25s is to rise by 51 pence an hour. It means a pay rise for three million workers, and comes into force in april. Footballs law makers claim the use of the video asistant referee is being used too forensically as calls grow for changes in the use of technology. Wake up to the menopause 2019 was the year this programme broke the taboo and talked about the menopause. Well look back at the difference our coverage made for thousands of women. Good morning. Today we ar
This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Tensions rise over both hong kong and the Telecoms Firm huawei. China ambassador london says if the uk wa nts to ambassador london says if the uk wants to make china a hostile country that will have to bear the consequences. The uk foreign secretary hits back. The real issue here is one of trust. Whether china can be trusted to live up to its International Obligations, and its international responsibilities. Dominic raab also names police in will be able to search homes without a warrant under chinas new security law. It will help keep afloat galleries, theatres, Jeffrey Epsteins longtime confidante Ghislaine Maxwell is moved to new york to face charges she recruited girls for him to abuse. India now has the third highest number of coronavirus cases in the world and theres no signs of slowing. And the great Ennio Morricone one of hollywoods most iconic composers dies at the age of 91. We hear a wonde
This is bbc news, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Allowed out to exercise for the first time in seven weeks, but spaniards get strict time slots for an hour outdoors. The first time that i ride with my bike this morning. It was incredible, really incredible. Here, the Prime Minister reveals he was so sick after catching coronavirus that the government prepared a statement announcing his death. Another blow to British Business as rolls royce says it may have to cut as many as 8,000 jobs. And on the front line of the fight against fake news how to stop coronavirus conspiracies from catching on. Hello, and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. We start in europe where coronavirus restrictions are gradually being eased, as the continents daily death toll continues to fall. With the easing comes an increased requirement for facemasks on Public Transport this will now be compulsory in spain and portugal and on eurostar trains between londo
Troops in afghanistan last year. Now on bbc news, panorama. Tonight on panorama the great testing gamble. The stakes are very high indeed. Testing is absolutely critical and central to preventing a second wave now. Thousands of lives now depend on the government getting testing right. We should be very concerned, until we can see there is a fully effective testing and Contact Tracing system in place. So why do our covid investigators have nothing to do . I have had zero cases. Absolutely zero. And why havent millions of test results been shared with the nhs . There is no transfer of data into a clinical record at the moment. I gather theres an aspiration to do that in the next few weeks. But we need it now. It would have been helpful to have it a few weeks ago. Were facing an invisible killer. So we need to see every road, every place, where covid is spreading. The only way to track the movement of the disease is to test. So we can follow the infections and trace those that may have it
An outbreak that only seems to be getting worse. Shaimaa khalil, bbc news, sydney. Nasas new robotic spacecraft is on its way to mars in a mission to search for evidence of ancient life. It will take almost seven months to travel more than 300 million miles to the red planet. Its one of three missions currently trying to make it to mars as Rebecca Morelle reports. Engine ignition, two, one, zero. And liftoff. The start of a mission. Launching the next generation of robotic explorers to the red planet. That could finally answer the big question was there ever life on mars . And that was to you. Gone to close loop control. The rover is called perseverance, and its going to a region that was once covered by a lake. We now know mars had an enormous amount of water in its past. If ancient life was on mars,
you know, we have a good bet that we might be able to find it in these sediments. So this is really a life detection mission. This is the most advanced mars rover that nasas ever built. I