The salisbury novichok attack quits, saying he can no longer do thejob. And coming up in half an hour, sportsday will bring you a round up of all the days sport, including exeters thrilling win to become champions of europe for the first time in the clubs history. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. There is further confusion in Greater Manchester tonight as local leaders deny downing streets claim that talks have been arranged to resolve a row over covid measures. It comes as more than 28 Million People in england have spent their first day under tighter restrictions. And in Northern Ireland, its been 2a hours since a four week so called Circuit Breaker lockdown was introduced, meaning all hospitality venues are now closed, except to provide take aways. Well have more on the developing story in Greater Manchester, but first Daniela Relph on the impact felt by everyone facing tightened restrictions across the uk. This is one of prestons oldest pubs. London now under tier 2 restrictio
To reset all sorts of things its relationship with parliament, the way it deals with press. Austria announces a National Lockdown of almost three weeks to try to stop rocketing coronavirus cases overwhelming the health service. And diwali with a difference the festival of lights is celebrated in a socially distanced way by hundreds of millions of people around the world. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. Rockets have been fired at the eritrean capital, asmara, from neighbouring ethiopia, in a major escalation of the conflict between the Ethiopian Government, and local forces in the tigray region. The attacks came hours after a senior official in tigray threatened missile strikes on eritrea. There were reports of clashes along the border between ethiopia and eritrea. The Tigray Peoples Liberation Front see eritrea as supporting ethiopias federal government. In an earlier att
Moved into a care home donald trump has made his first Public Comments since president Electjoe Biden was declared the winner of the election. Despite a Record Number of new coronavirus cases, the president said he would not put the us into lockdown. Mr trump avoided any direct comment on the recent election in his speech but came close to admitting that hes leaving the white house next year. Heres our north america editor, jon sopel after a record long period of silence eight days donald trump is approaching a microphone. The News Conference has been called to talk about the search for a vaccine, at a time when coronavirus cases seem to be spiralling out of control across the whole of the us. The past nine months, my administration has initiated the single greatest mobilisation in us history, pioneering, developing and manufacturing therapies and vaccines in record time. Donald trump insisted he would not shut down the us economy again, but. I will not go this administration will not
Hello and welcome. Rockets have been fired at the eritrean capital, asmara, from neighbouring ethiopia, in a major escalation of the conflict between the Ethiopian Government and local forces in the tigray region. The attacks came hours after a senior official in tigray threatened missile strikes on eritrea. Earlier there were reports of clashes along the border between ethiopia and eritrea. The Tigray Peoples Liberation Front see eritrea as supporting ethiopias federal government. In an earlier attack, the tplf fired rockets at two ethiopian airports in retaliation for Government Air strikes in the region. Lets take another look at the territory in the north, thats at the heart of the dispute. The Ethiopian Government says the rockets targeted the cities of gondar and bahir dar. Our Africa Regional editor, will ross, reports. Escaping from war, these ethiopians are making the difficult journey across the border into sudan after fleeing the fighting in the tigray region. They were stuc
Hello, and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. Im tim wilcox. Four and a half years after britain voted to leave the europen union, Boris Johnson will travel to brussels this week to meet European Commission president , ursula von der leyen, in a last ditch effort to salvage a post brexit trade deal. It comes after a 90 minute phone call between the two leaders failed to produce a breakthrough. A senior uk government source warned that a deal may not be possible. Laura kuenssberg has this report. Its not always good to talk. The Prime Minister tonight spent more than an hour in conversation with the eu chief, but they seem only to have agreed on what they disagree on. A statement from both of them said, we agree that the conditions for finalising an agreement are not there, due to the remaining significant differences. We asked our chief negotiators and their teams to prepare an overview to be discussed in a physical meeting in brussels in the coming days. In other