Korea. In a century after the panama canal opened, work is underway on a rival passage from the atlantic to the pacific. Good to have you with us. Peace in ferguson, missouri barely lasted 24 hours. Today, the community is cleaning up a mess from looting overnight. Peaceful protesters fought off people breaking store fronts. Investigations have begun, fbi agents going doortodoor searching for witnesses last week when a Police Officer shot and killed Michael Brown. Once again, we are waiting on a live brief from ferguson, missouri. We will bring that to you as soon as it happens. First, diane esterbrook is joining us live there. I know there has been a lot of activity. Whats been happening so far today diane . Reporter the cleanups have commenced today from some of the looting that we saw last night. We are, as you mentioned, waiting for this press conference to start with the governor and captain ron johnson from the missouri Highway Patrol. Earlier this afternoon, about two people tur
This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. The global number of deaths from covid 19 has risen to more than 35,000 with the majority of deaths in europe. In the uk the death toll has risen to more than 1400. It comes as the governments chief scientific adviser says social distancing is having an effect in reducing the number of contacts. We see a massive reduction in the amount of transport being used, germanic fallen footfall, we know in places of restaurants and pubs where people aggregate have been close. We are seeing a big change in contact. A New London Hospital
built in a week will be ready to treat patients from wednesday. The people of madrid remember the more than 7000 whove died in spain from covid 19. President trump extends restrictions on movement until the end of april, as the number of cases there continues to rise sharply. A Navy Hospital ship docks in new york as the citys mayor calls on donald trump for more help. And comi
In a supermarket, 30 odd years, i dont think ive known it this busy at christmas time. It really has been manic. Panorama asked other minimum wage workers to get in touch and, across the country, people responded. Im rhys, im a 25 year old porter, i work at colchester general hospital. Hi, im steph, im working a 15 hour shift today with natasha. Its been a busy morning, probably done about a 25 drops or so, been all around the sort of da rtford, millions fighting the disease on a minimum wage. Richard bilton, bbc news. You can see more on that story and the low paid workers keeping the country going on panorama lockdown uk. Thats on bbc one tonight at 8. 30pm. Now, a soprano singerfrom ipswich was due to take part in the London Landmarks Half Marathon last weekend. That was cancelled, for obvious reasons. Not one to be deterred, fiona wilson came up with a plan b. She cant do the run in london, of course, so. She cant do the run in london, of course, so. She has decided to run over 13
Bit of sunshine coming through, but in scotland and Northern Ireland staying quite cloudy today, and there will be a little bit of rain to come for some of us as well. I will have the full forecast coming up will have the full forecast coming upa will have the full forecast coming up a little bit later on. Its saturday, may the 16th. Our top story stick with the rules and dont take risks. Thats the message from the Health Secretary matt hancock, as we enter our first weekend since lockdown restrictions were eased in england. Local councils are warning us to stay away from beauty spots and beaches, fearing a surge of visitors will lead to an increase in infections. It comes after scientists revealed the infection rate across the uk has risen. John mcmanus has the latest. In southwold in suffolk, they are hoping for visitors this weekend, so long as they follow the distancing rules. They dont want to see a repeat of these scenes from march. With warm weather on the way, and a resumption
To try to figure out what happened to the other five people onboard who have not yet been located. Chris. Will thanks for staying on it. We do want to know more about the u. S. Marines who were aboard the missing helicopter. Heres what we understand at this point. Lets bring in cnn pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr. What can you tell us . Good morning, chris. This was a marine corps unit out of Camp Pendleton. They had deploy today japan for a sixmonth tour when the crisis erupted with the earthquakes and had been sent there to help. Our understanding from the pentagon when they went down they were on a Relief Mission delivering tarps and rice to a hardhit village. And at that point some other villagers came up to them and said wait a minute theres another village that needs help. They got back in their helicopter and they went off to the second village and were trying to get there to help those people as well when this happened. A couple of days ago the father of pilot chris snogre