At just explosive rates. And well hear this boat took six months to travel from bangladesh to indonesia with this large group of Rohingya Muslims on board. There are fears people smugglers kept them at sea. The uk government is planning new legislation that would over ride a part of the Withdrawal Agreement it signed, to leave the eu. The context here is that talks over the future trading relationship between the uk and the eu are reaching the sharp end and theres no deal yet. To sum up what this amounts to, heres rob watson. It seems to me there may be three reasons for this tactic. Number one, a sort of obvious one, to exert maximum pressure on the European Union to do a deal. Two, it may be about domestic consumption, it may be the British Government tried to send her before eventually giving away, as indeed happened lester with borisjohnson. And away, as indeed happened lester with Boris Johnson. And then away, as indeed happened lester with borisjohnson. And then the third possibi
Well have more on those testing problems, and how the prioritising is meant to work. Also tonight. Unemployment on the rise, as 700,000 people come off the payrolls since march, with more to come. At the white house, a landmark deal to normalise relations between israel, the United Arab Emirates, and bahrain. And a plea for the worlds nations to unite to save the planet. Experts say humanity is at a crossroads, with nature in decline. And in sport on bbc news. We will have all the latest reports, results, interviews and features from the bbc sport centre. Good evening. We start with the growing row over the shortage of tests for coronavirus, especially in some of the uks worst affected areas. Seniorfigures in the nhs are warning that operations are being cancelled because of the testing shortages. Matt hancock, the Health Secretary, for england admits the system is facing an enormous challenge which could take weeks to sort out. He says tests will have to be prioritised with people in
This is newsday on the bbc. Im rico hizon, in singapore. The headlines President Trump gets ready for his state of the Union Address, with the economy set to dominate his speech. First partial results from the Democratic Party caucus in iowa give Pete Buttigieg a narrow lead over Bernie Sanders, with joe biden back in fourth place. Im kasia madera, in london. Also in the programme the World Health Organisation says chinas drastic measures to contain the coronavirus have given the rest of the world the chance to stop it from spreading. And in a special bbc report, we meet the children no one wants the sons and daughters taken by their parents to join the Islamic State. What happened to your brothers and sisters, and to your mum and dad . Translation they were killed. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore, iam in london and 8 pm in washington in the united states, where President Donald Trump will deliver his
The United Nations estimates that more than half a Million People have been displaced over the past two months 80 of them are women and children. It took years of fighting and a Massive International effort to defeat the Islamic State group. But is was a different type of terror group its fighters didnt travel alone, but brought entire extended families with them. The result is that there are now 70,000 is followers, including 10,000 children being held in the middle east. 0ur correspondent Quentin Sommerville and cameraman Darren Conway travelled to North Eastern syria to meet some of the children of is fighters, brought from their homes in indonesia and now detained without much hope of return. The detention camps of the Islamic State group arent just a stain on syria. Theyre a black mark on the conscience of the world. In this desert of good and evil, there are the guilty. And the innocent. Few countries have bothered to sift and separate what is left behind. Nada fedulla is being p
This is bbc news. The headlines at ten p m. A dysfunctional system allowed ian pattison to perform the necessary operations on hundreds or possibly thousands of women says a damning report. Collings avoided or worked around him. Some could have known, others should have known. And a few must have known. If you are a patterson patient, you are 50 wanted to get a recurrence of Breast Cancer because you have been left with breast tissue, basically a time bomb in your chest ready to explode because he did not remove it. Leave china if you can come up brits are told, as a death toll from
coronavirus reaches more than 400. A court is told that the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber is equally guilty of the murder of the 22 people who died in the attack. A ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the uk is to be brought forward by five years to 2035. And the generation that has never known life without the internet. Half of all ten year olds have a smartphone. A rogue surgeon in t