It is about 2 30am. You are up to date on the headlines. Now on bbc news tuesday in parliament. Hello again, and welcome to tuesday in parliament, as thejustice secretary defends plans to make some terrorists serve longer injail. We are introducing emergency legislation is not a step that the government would ever take lightly but the law was not working and we had a responsibility to act. The dilemma facing some war widows. Whos only course of action today, my lords, if they want their pension reinstated, is to divorce and remarry their present partners. How bonkers is that, my lords . And after the floods, wales calls for help from the Prime Minister. This is not a time to walk on by on the other side when people are facing such hardship and distress or in the case of boris johnson, simply not to turn up at all, of course. All that to come and more, but first, an emergency bill to block the automatic Early Release of people convicted of terrorist offences is due to become law during
0h, oh, you are spinning again keeping me on my toes lets go and have a sit down. There we go. Right. Itell you and have a sit down. There we go. Right. I tell you what, lets pretend that didnt happen facebook founder and Ceo Mark Zuckerberg will be in brussels today where he will meet three european commissioners. While the meeting is not specifically about tax, dont be surprised if the question pops up. Mr zuckerberg is expected to back plans by think tank oecd to find a Global Solution to the problem. Facebook and others have been accused of not paying theirfair share of tax in countries where they operate. In the uk, facebook paid just 37. 2 million or £28. 5 million in Corporation Tax in 2018 despite generating a record 2. 15 billion or £1. 65 billion in british sales. Amazon, facebook and google have strained existing rules because they are able to book profits in low tax countries, like ireland, no matter where their customers are. The uk has planned to introduce its own Digit
Up. This president and his task force, they are making literally lifesaving choices now. Rewriting the book so that it will forever transform how we deal with future pandemics. Travetravel bans, quarantines, publicprivate partnerships, drivethru testing, soon we will have home testing. Telemedicine, all of it is the future. Off label use and elimination of two ghanaian rules by the fda for compassionate use, the right to try, why not . Vaccine trials in record time. Make no mistake. You are watching history unfold. This is transformational, lives will be saved and lives are changing. But in the midst of tragedy and triumph two ghanaian rules by the fda and amazing achievements, look at the travel ban. Lets start. Thousands and thousands of americans from contracting the virus, save them. Bought us valuable time and save lives. This is america at its finest. All of these things to protect and save lives for the American People. The president of the United States, let me say, he is now,
We are checking the economic and medical coasttocoast tonight. Jeff paul covering the bases from our west coast news from peter Rick Leventhal joins us live from the nearempty streets of new york with some potentially encouraging signs. White house correspond kevin corke reporting on the president s take, but we begin tonight with lehman vendors for the latest from capitol hill, hey. Hi, there voting on the hill, the senate voting, the house will vote in a couple of days. The final bill, some 883 pages so in the words of a famous woman, we might have to pass it in order to see whats actually in it or certainly how it works. But here the big 6 for you at home. A payment in the next three weeks for anyone making less than 75,000 a year. That will be a 1200 payment whether youre out of work or not. Plus 350 billion of loan guarantees that essentially turn into grants for Small Businesses to incentivize them to keep paying people, but already conservatives are pointing out bigticket items,
Winner is, well be live from the Berlin Film Festival with news of whos got the golden bear. Thank you for joining us. A bomb targeting people shopping for vegetables has once again highlighted pakistans deep sectarian tension. At least 60 have been killed in an explosion in the southwestern city of quetta. More than 200 were injured when a bomb exploded outside a market. Police say it was aimed at the regions minority shia population. Attacks in quetta have killed more than 200 in the past month. We have the latest from islamabad. What more do we know about this attack . Hi, barbara. What we know is that this bomb, which went off in this market was very powerful bomb. It was an improvised explosive device and more than 60 people were killed and well over 200 people were injured. This attack, of course, comes only five weeks after another major attack, pakistans worst ever sectarian attack in which close to 100 people were also killed in a similar bombing. The people targeted in that a