German police have arrested the driver of a car who ploughed into pedestrians killing four people one of them a baby. And an extraordinary story from brazil where a convoy of gunmen pull off a brazen bank robbery, leaving cash behind on the streets. Were keeping an eye on the house of commons. Mps are going to vote on the governments new coronavirus tier system which, if approved, will come into effect in england on wednesday. This is the scene live in the house of commons. Mps havejust wound up a long day of debate. More than 100 mps made their cases either for or against the tier system. The last of which was Health Secretary matt hancock. The mps are in the lobby now as the voting begins. This is whats theyre voting on. If the plans are approved there will be three tiers. 55 Million People will enter tier 2 or tier 3 the two stricter tiers. Most will be in tier 2 they will not be able to mix indoors with anyone outside their household or support bubbles. In tier 3 the strictest up t
Todayss figures confirm that taken together we are providing to get the economy through coronavirus. Ethiopian troops are preparing to attack the tigrayan capital as a deadline for local forces to surrender expires. Half a Million People are in the city. Such sad news a little earlier, Diego Maradona has died at the age of 60. Football is our true global sport, and certainly for a time, perhaps for all time, was the best at it. Hell forever be remembered for moments like this. Maradona. Going at them again. Brilliant run by maradona. Fantastic goal and of course for this, too, in 1986. Here is Diego Maradona speaking to the bbc back in 2006. Translation i ought to thank the guy upstairs, the beard, as i call him. He gives me opportunities and i make the most of them. And i give my all to make the most of them. Look at these pictures just in from naples in italy. These are crowds chanting there is only one maradona. Lighting candles next to an enormous mural of the legend. He played for
Are heading to the polls in the run off for the two senate seats to determine who will have control of the upper house of congress. And a three year dispute between qatar and its gulf neighbours appears to be over. The emir of qatar was warmly welcomed by the Saudi Crown Prince ahead of a summit aimed at resolving the rift. We begin with some start covid 19 stats here in the uk. More than a Million People in the uk are currently infected with coronavirus. In england, one in every 50 people had the virus in the week over christmas and new year. And all of the uk returned to lockdown today. The rules differ slightly from nation to nation, but the key message is the same everywhere stay at home. Heres the Prime Minister. When everybody looks at the position, people understand overwhelmingly that we have no choice. When the office of National Statistics is telling us that more than 2 of the population is now infected, thats over 1 Million People in england. Heres a reminder of the new lock
Will v f aid will find out vll hr milt vain will find out what is supper and we will find out what is on the menu and how successful this evening goes in the coming hours. Dont go away. This bbc news. Do stay with us. Bye bye. Hello, im ros atkins. Welcome to outside source. The uks Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, is going to be having dinner in the next few minutes with ursula von der leyen from the eu. Brexit is on the menu. At the moment, it sound like neither the uk oi moment, it sound like neither the uk or the eu is going to back down. We will be taking back control, and we have already taken back control, of our money, our borders and our laws, and we will seize all the opportunities that brexit brings. Translation we are working on it, but we are also prepared for conditions that we cannot accept. So we will keep you up on all of
that. The Pfizer Biontech vaccine. Meanwhile, the roll out continues in the uk. And Indian Farmers vow to intensify an extraordinary protest thats been
On sunday, 97 people in china died from the coronavirus. Thats the highest number in a single day since the crisis began. In a single day since the death toll is now over 900. In a single day since across china, more than 40,000 people are infected, and over 180,000 are under medical observation. The only better news is that the number of newly infected People Per Day has stabilised. Heres president xi at a prevention and control centre in beijing. Hes having his temperature checked like many people have done. The president says hes working to prevent large scale job losses because of the virus. But that looks harder to avoid as each day goes by. For more on how the government has been reacting to this crisis heres kerry allen from bbc monitoring. This was just really striking footage in general anyway, given that we were talking about this coronavirus back injanuary. It was very apparent that he was very much not in the public eye and very publicly, he appointed his deputy to be the k