Good morning. Welcome to breakfast with Charlie Stayt and sally nugent. Our headlines today the Royal Australian navy is evacuating around 1,000 people from a ring of fire on the victorian coast, with more extreme fire conditions forecast for the weekend. Us forces kill the head of the Iranian Revolutionary guards elite quds force with an airstrike in iraq. Who was to blame for the blackout . Millions of homes were left without power, and chaos was caused on the trains in the summer. The Energy Regulator will deliver its verdict on what went wrong and whether it should have been stopped. First illness, now injury hits the england cricket camp. Rory burns is out of the test series in south africa, after he was injured playing football in training. After the tv star, ricki lake posted a picture of herself with a shaved head talking about the quiet hell of hair loss. Well look at the impact it can have on womens confidence. And it is a wet but mild start for many in england and wales this
This is bbc news. Im simon mccoy. The headlines at 2pm. Oxford University Announces that its Covid Vaccine works. Overall the vaccine is 70 effective and in some dosages 90 . Its also cheaper, and easier to store than those already announced it really looks as if there is a vaccine which has the potential to protect against the disease, and importantly, in any one who had the vaccine, there were no admissions to hospital, no severe disease. With one more week of lockdown in england borisjohnson prepares to tell us whats coming next. Daily coronavirus tests will be offered to close contacts of people whove tested positive in england to reduce the current 14 day quarantine. We report from melbourne the australian city which accounted for 90 of the countrys covid
deaths on the success of its hard and fast lockdown. The hero of London Bridge tells us how he fought the attacker with a narwhal tusk. This has impacted me. Ive gone through bouts of depression. And sleep is the challenging one
Affected his Mental Health. I wouldnt want to go out, people knew who i was. Obviously i played for man united and i was assuming they would be saying horrible things about me, potentially they were all the time. Some of the warmest weather is on its way this week. It doesnt mean its way this week. It doesnt mean it will be sunny and it doesnt mean eve ryo ne it will be sunny and it doesnt mean everyone will remain dry. I will have all the details here on brea kfast. Its monday the 18th of may. Our top story with two weeks to go until some Primary School pupils in england return to the classroom, the government insists plans are in place to ensure the safety of teachers and pupils. Ministers want children in reception, yeari and year 6 to go back to school, as part of the next step to ease the lockdown. But unions and some parents fear the move may cause a second spike in coronavirus cases, as john mcmanus reports. When is the right time to send children back to school . And how will t
Rolls royce announces plans to axe a fifth of its workforce in the wake of coronavirus most of the jobs will go in the uk. The Aircraft Engine maker is cutting 9,000 jobs amid warnings it take years for the Airline Industry to recover the unions are furious. Nobodys trivialising the challenges we face here, but i think its rash and its premature for rolls royce simply to resort to sacking and throwing under the bus thousands of uk workers, loyal workers. Many of the jobs are expected to go from the main site at derby rolls royce is, you know, the heart of derbyshire. Derby is one of the biggest sites, isnt it . If you look at the area its in, its huge. To lay off a lot of those people
would be devastating for the area. Growing pressure on the government from councils and teaching unions to reconsider plans to reopen englands Primary Schools to some pupils from 1stjune. Welcoming back the tourists italy says its airports will reopen in a fortnight, as some of europes holiday hotspots st
Tonight at ten rolls royce is the latest industrial giant to count the Economic Cost of the pandemic. Management says the firm whose Main Business is making aircraft engines is to cut 9,000 jobs, most of them in the uk. Its about creating a Sustainable Business for the future. So that ultimately we can protect the jobs that we will have left as a result of this. Its warned it will take several years for the industry to recover from the impact of coronavirus, but the unions say the action is notjustified. Nobodys trivialising the challenges we face here, but i think its rash and its premature for rolls royce simply to resort to sacking and throwing under the bus thousands of uk workers, loyal workers. Well be asking what this tells us about the wider
pressures on the economy in the wake of the pandemic. Also tonight ministers say they will listen to the concerns of parents and teachers about re opening some Primary Schools in england at the beginning ofjune. Track and trace the governme