Lieutenant. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Environmental and Health Campaigners have criticised the governments long awaited clean air strategy, saying it doesnt go far or fast enough to tackle pollution in our towns and cities. The plan, ordered by the high court, includes a ban on new petrol and diesel vehicles from 2040, and measures which could allow local councils much sooner to change road layouts, remove speed humps or penalise the dirtiest vehicles. The aim is to encourage us all to switch to electric vehicles. Heres our science editor david shukman. 0n the worst days, the pollution hangs like a mist over our cities. The gases and particles cause asthma and heart trouble, maybe dementia. And theres evidence that dirty air shortens lives, linked to an estimated 40,000 premature deaths in britain every year. And the biggest source of pollution is Diesel Engines, and we have millions of them. So the government has a vision for a future where all our cars will be electric. N
Programme. Hello and welcome to the programme. Were live until 11am. Were also talking about the british is fighter who died in that Suicide Bomb Attack on iraqi forces in mosul this week. He was a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who received, it is reported, £1 million in compensation, taxpayers money, your money, on his release back to the uk. Well be asking if the money was spent on terror and how he was able to travel abroad. Heres how to get in touch. Use Victoria Live. If you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today, a ruling expected later this morning at the Supreme Court could mean that thousands of british citizens gain the legal right to bring their foreign spouse to live in the uk. Currently, people who are married to a briton but are from outside the European Economic area that is, the eu plus iceland, liechtenstein and norway, have been barred from settling here unless their partner earns more than £18,600 a year. Lisa hampele is here t
Com plete did that happen . No, it was the complete opposite the Campaign Urges people to open up to a friend or colleague; well speak to people whove done exactly that. And, as new guidelines on sugar in food are published well talk to Industry Insiders about how manufacturers are juggling the pressure to make products more healthy without losing sales. Hello, welcome to the programme, were live until 11 this morning. Tell us what you think of this. Imagine you finally get a statue, and it looks like that its a new statue of Cristiano Ronaldo which has been unveiled on the portuguese island of madeira. Hes putting a brave face on it, but if you were him, would you be happy . His fans on social media have been less than complimentary do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the Hashtag Victoria Live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. According to the duke and Duchess Of Cambridge, and prince harry, they believe we are at a T
Holiday, the numbers came down, and and outbreaks of rain but it will also produce milder air as well. Then, as behaviour changed, with joined me laterfor all of schools going back and everybody also produce milder air as well. Joined me later for all of the going back into normal life in details. Join. September, of course, cases went back up again. And we are really good morning. Its sunday, december 13th. Our top story sort of repeating that all over last ditch talks are continuing in brussels this morning as uk and eu officials again. We had a very harsh lockdown attempt to break the deadlock over a post brexit trade deal. Again. We had a very harsh lockdown again in november, weve been given borisjohnson and the president of the European Commission back some life back and some economy will decide later whether back some life back and some economy backin back some life back and some economy to abandon or continue back in december, and yet, were negotiations beyond todays deadline.
To book a covid vaccination, the government promises that everyone over the age of 18 will be offered one by autumn. Search teams recover the black boxes of the passenger plane that crashed yesterday off indonesia, killing 62 people. Coming up in the travel show, trekking expedition across rwanda to find gorillas in the Volcanoes National park. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The Health Secretary, matt hancock, has warned that every time people flex the lockdown rules it could be fatal and has urged everyone to follow government restrictions. But the labour leader, sir keir starmer says the current rules may not be tough enough. In the latest 24 hour period, the number of people who have tested positive for covid 19 is 5a,940 with 619,91 virus tests conducted overall in the same period. The latest number of people who have died within 28 days of a positive test is 563. The number of patients admitted to hospital in the last 2a hours stands at 4,066. This report from our Political