We are going above and beyond what they ask us to do. Then the goalposts change the following day. The chancellor says hes had to make tough choices as he defends his decision to freeze the pay of many Public Public sector workers. Ive had to make some tough choices, and what i couldnt do was justify an across the boa rd rise in Public Sector pay. Global firms amazon and apple are accused of dodging their environmental responsibilities by failing to recycle old tech products. And, people mourn across argentina after the death of the footballing legend Diego Maradona. Details of which tier of coronavirus restrictions will be imposed on the different regions of england when the National Measures are lifted a week today have been announced by the Health Secretary. More than 23 Million People will be under the most severe restrictions tier 3 in areas including manchester, newcastle, leeds, kent and bristol. Most of the country will be in the middle tier 2 including london and liverpool. Th
Differences, we agreed that a further effort should be undertaken by our negotiating teams to assess whether they can be resolved. Trade and transport organisations in Northern Ireland have expressed their concern about the stalemate. From belfast, mark simpson reports. Whichever way the brexit negotiations go, there is huge interest in Northern Ireland. But some business groups say theyre tired of waiting for answers. We would hope, and ill use an old ulster phrase, that the eu and the uk would just simply wise up, get the deal done. This is too important for the games and we need to make sure that people understand what the rules are going to be from the 1st of january and relationships are improved. First of all we need a deal, that will be vital to reducing any barriers between trade between gb and Northern Ireland. Then we need an Implementation Phase because industry and government simply isnt ready for january the ist. And lastly, we need special derogations on retail food movem
This is bbc news. The headlines at 5 20 people are reported to have been shot dead and several others wounded in a mass shooting in north east thailand. This is main suspect a junior army officer, who killed his Commanding Officer before stealing weapons from a military camp. He is still at large. Five british people, including a child, have tested positive for the coronavirus at a ski resort in france. Six senior conservatives write to tory mps to raise concerns about the governments decision to allow huawei to help build the uks 56 network. Why would you want to build into your system an organisation that remains a threat . I dont know of anything else in the world that would do that. The met Office Issues Severe Weather warnings for the weekend as storm ciara approaches from the atlantic. Both desperate for a win england are taking on scotland
in the six nations. Reports from thailand say an armed soldier has killed 20 people, northeast of the capital bangkok. More than a dozen othe
Measures to contain the spread of coronavirus. It comes after over 1,200 new cases were reported in italy in the last 2a hours the biggest daily rise in cases since the outbreak. Officials say 36 more people have died in the last 2a hours. The authorites are preparing to introduce stringent new measures to try to contain the outbreak including in a major escalation of controls blocking all but emergency travel to and from lombardy and eleven northern and eastern provinces. A decree being prepared this evening would also see schools closed for several weeks along with all museums and swimming pools. Earlier i spoke to cristina nadotti, an editor at la repubblica in rome, about the rise in new cases. We expected that. At la republica, the edition that come out this morning, we had already written that the experts had expected that this reason, in the figures, and we are aware that we are in a crisis, because now in lombardy there are some problems with intensive care units. That was exac
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