China and germany signed six documents during merkels visit. There could be some more exciting news out of that. Also, the premier says he will visit germany in october. This is after president xi jinping visited earlier this year in march. Trade has been the focus so far. Business and investment as well on her seventh trip to china as chancellor. The two holding the press conference now after a full military honors welcome in beijing this morning in front of the great hall of the people in central beijing. She is said to be having dinner tonight with president xi jinping. The pressents before conference, calling china germanys highest and important strategic, cooperative partnership that has developed on a very broad foundation. Again, the pleasantries flowing from the two. China is a key market for german appliances from bosch or sedans from audi and bmw. She has brought with her a whos ,ho of Corporate Leaders siemens, lufthansa, volkswagen, and others. Lufthansa is said to be in ad
Bollywood actor irrfan khan, who starred in Slumdog Millionaire and life of pi, has died at the age of 53. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. Im victoria derbyshire. The Coronavirus Testing Programme is being expanded by the government. It will include all care home staff and residents, and anyone over 65. The government says the 100,000 target set by the Health Secretary is due to be met by tomorrow. Downing street is this morning still declining to say whether Boris Johnson will appear at Prime Ministers questions in the commons this lunchtime following his return to work. A recession on an extraordinary scale is predicted by spains Prime Minister following the outbreak. Over 58,000 us citizens have now died from covid 19. Thats more than the number of americans killed in the vietnam war. Almost 18,000 more people could die from cancer over the next year in england because of the impact of covid 19, according to researchers. Well have more on all those stories shortly. 0urfirst re
Hes followed all the watches and warnings. Ivan how bad is it going to be . I think it has the potential to be worse than the last storm. Not because of how much snowfall but because of the wind. Anywhere from 65 to 75 miles an hour. Thats going to be an issue with the wind along the coast and the potential for coastal flooding and Power Outages. These blizzard extend to 495. If youre familiar with the area 40 miles west of boston. This is going to be a high impact storm and that is going to be the case through the day on saturday night heading into sunday especially. Look at these winds that were forecasting here. 55 to 65 for boston. 65 to 75 for nantucket for the rest of the islands too. And then as far as the snowfall its going to be coming downsideways. 15 to 18 inches. Down east maine worst of the snow and boston one to ten. If you saw this map, doesnt tell you the whole story. Those 8 to 10 inches come down with the kind of winds that are going to be causing significant problems