Wednesday in parliament. Hello there and welcome to wednesday in parliament. Coming up in the next half hour, labour says parts of england face prolonged agony with no clear route out of coronavirus restrictions. I really think the Prime Ministers crossed a rubicon here, not just with the miserly way that hes treated Greater Manchester but the grubby take it or leave it way these local deals are being done. He stands up and attacks the economic consequences of the measures that were obliged to take across some parts of the country when he wants to turn the lights out with a full national lockdown. Also on this programme, labour calls on the government to continue providing free meals for children in england during the School Holidays. They dont stop being hungry just because the School Bell Rings for the end of term. And peers give their verdict on the uk eu trade talks. But first, the Prime Minister has confirmed that Greater Manchester will get £60 million of extra funding to suppor
Time for brexitcast. Ina change in a change to their schedules, newscast is going to be brexitcast. We are bringing back our old podcast because it feels like theres quite a lot to say about brexit. The great thing is, reality obliged because i have gone back to trying to work out Michel Barniers worker bouts. At lunchtime today, he tweeted that he was taking a break from the negotiations and he went looking for some level Playing Fields. He took a picture of himself in a Playing Field because that is one of the big disputes in the negotiation. We should say that youre charging onto the pitch, its not quite all over because there are seven weeks ago when he comes out chasing Michel Barnier. M was a football picture. North london i was told. We went to the nearest football pitch and was in london and was Michel Barnier there . No he was not. How did you feel . It left me with a sad daily truck that i had missed it. I gone to com pletely had missed it. I gone to completely the wrong foot
At a hospital in an area with the highest covid rates in the country. The doubters out there who dont believe in it, its here. And this is very busy, the nurses dont stop. I personally dont cope well in the lockdown situation, i hate every minute of it, but id be the first to say that our restrictions now are probably not tight enough because were getting too many patients coming in. Hopes that families will be allowed to visit residents in all care homes before christmas after successful trials for Rapid Testing of visitors. A bbc investigation uncovers evidence of an underground network in kenya, that snatches babies from their mothers and sells them for a profit. Three, two, one, zero. Ignition. Launch of the space taxi a private rocket carries four astronauts to the space station. And saves nasa billions of dollars. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. A second Coronavirus Vaccine has been found to be highly effective at preventing covid i9 infections. Interim results suggest it
And Lewis Hamilton wins a record equalling seventh world title after claiming victory at the turkish grand prix. Good evening. One of the scientists behind the first Covid Vaccine to emerge from early Clinical Trials with high levels of success says it wont start to make a significant difference until next summer. Professor ugur sahin, whose Company Biontech developed the vaccine with the pharmaceutical giant pfizer, told the bbc today that normal life should be resuming this time next year, if mass vaccination programmes had taken place by then. Our Health Correspondent Sophie Hutchinson reports. Tiny vials of the new biontec pfizer vaccine, which hold the worlds hope for an end to the pandemic. But today, one of its creators, from the husband and wife team, warned there are still many months to get through. This winter will be hard. We will not have a big impact on the infection numbers with our vaccine this winter. The bigger impact will happen until summer. The summer will help us
The bigger impact will happen in summer. Summer will help anyway because the infection rate will go down in the summer. Farewell to one of our best known entertainers des oconnor has died at the age of 88. Lewis hamilton wins a record equalling seventh world title after claiming victory at the turkish grand prix. Good evening. The former us president , barack obama, has told the bbc that the United States is more divided today, than when he was elected 12 years ago. He said the divisions have been actively fanned by donald trump for political purposes and would outlast his presidency. Mr obama was speaking to the bbc in an interview with the historian david olusoga. Our Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale reports. Congratulations, mr president. The election of the United Statess first black president was seen many asa first black president was seen many as a watershed moment that was a step to ending divisions that had scarred the us. Barack obama now believes those divisions have d