almost a0 people are dead after a passenger train and a freight train collide head on. and the singer ed sheeran opens up about using music to cope with depression last year after his pregnant wife was diagnosed with a tumour. and coming up on the bbc news channel: the long awaited disciplinary hearing following azeem rafiq s allegations of racism in yorkshire cricket club has begun in london. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. fresh questions have been raised about the judgement of the former health secretary matt hancock during the covid pandemic after a collection of his whatsapp messages were released. the messages, dating back to april 2020, published by the daily telegraph, cover issues such as care homes, schools and testing. in one of the most serious allegations the paper claims the messages show mr hancock ignored advice from senior medical officers to test everyone going into care homes in england, something he strongly denies. here s our political ed
condemned nationwide protests against his plan for an overhaul of thejudicial system. after a nationwide investigation . police in sussex in the uk confirm the remains of a baby have been found in their search for the child of a couple who went missing injanuary. and the singer ed sheeran opens up about using music to cope with depression last year after his pregnant wife welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in greece where at least 43 people are dead and dozens injured after two trains collided head on last night, in one of the country s worst ever rail disasters. the passenger service heading to thessaloniki with 350 people on board collided with a freight service in the town of tempi near the central city of larissa, causing carriages to fly off the tracks and catch fire. police have charged a local stationmaster with manslaughter by negligence. our europe corrrespondent, nick beake, is at the scene, and sent this rep
president biden the power to ban tiktok overfears president biden the power to ban tiktok over fears it is a potential security risk. and thinking out loud. the singer ed sheeran opens up about using music to cope with depression. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. the head of the fbi has claimed it is most likely that covid i9 originated from a leak from the chinese government controlled lab in wuhan. china has accused the fbi politicising the investigation into the origins of coronavirus and says there has been no new scientific evidence to support the theory. other us agencies believe the virus developed naturally. 0ur north america correspondent john sudworth has more. suspicions have long swirled around wuhan s laboratories. now three years after the start of the pandemic, they have burst out into the open once again. the fbi has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. fbi director christopher ray says it s most likely covid 19 emerged from the chinese government controlled laboratory in wuhan. in response, china has accused the fbi politicising the investigation into the origins of coronavirus and says there has been no new scientific evidence to support the theory. other us agencies believe the virus developed naturally. 0ur north america correspondent john sud worth reports. suspicions have long swirled around wuhan s laboratories. now three years after the start of the pandemic, they have burst out into the open once again. the fbi has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in wuhan. here, you are talking about a potential leak from a chinese government controlled lab that killed millions of americans. from the start, many scientists believed that covid had passed naturally from animals to humans. some of th
we ll have the latest from justin rowlatt at the summit, where the prime minister rishi sunak hasjust been speaking. also on the programme. five years after the fire at grenfell tower, which claimed 72 lives, the official public inquiry is drawing to a close. many rail services are still badly disrupted despite a series of planned strikes being called off. how fast could you run in your slippers when you were a kid? laughter. and, peter kay announces his long awaited return to stand up comedy with his first live tour in 12 years. also this hour on bbc london. protests by climate change activists close parts of the m25 this morning, the same day world leaders gather for cop 27. good evening. the global climate summit known as cop 27 has started in egypt, with the darkest of warnings from the head of the united nations. antonio guterres said the world was on the highway to climate hell with no sign of slowing down, and that humanity needed to cooperate or perish . he declare