Voters. Deadly outbreak. Theres no risk to the water supply from legion airs disease. Officials try to calm fears after the alarming spread of legion airs disease in new york city. Lobbying onslaught. This is not about me and its not about pam a. Its about the team. President obama and Binyamin Netanyahu make duelling appeals to the American Jews for and against the Nuclear Iran Deal good evening, im antonio mora. This is al jazeera america. We begin out west in california where at this hour. 20 million firefighters are are burning. The rocky is the largest, its on assumed more than 65,000 air. Jacob ward has the story from lake country california. Reporter these firefighters come from all over the world. This captain drove 6,000 miles, he was checked in and assigned a task. We are headed to interstate 20 near the biggest priority of the rocky fire. Yesterday the fire jumped highway 20, burning north, burning 32 acres, bringing the fire to a total of 65,000 acres and 65 contained. Ther
Because the weather is queueing up at the moment. This cloud is coming on tuesday to bring wet weather, more rain from wednesday and then out in the atlantic, this cloud is Tropical Storm edward. That will be coming to skies near you perhaps on thursday. Monday, shower is continuing, not many across wales and southern england, are largely dry afternoon with spells of sunshine, batch i was most frequent across Eastern England and Northern Areas of scotland, where you have quite a high chance of seeing one or two through the afternoon. Showers and lengthier breaks delete outbreaks of rain working into scotla nd outbreaks of rain working into scotland over night. Elsewhere, dry. Northern ireland dry for a time but later in the night the next area of rain arriving from the west. This area cure is associated with our first area of low pressure, just sliding in here. Weatherfronts stretching quite a way to the west. With the rain getting into Northern Ireland quickly tomorrow morning, before
Shares soar at the news markets around the world are up dramatically. Airline shares benefit too. The government confirm they have ordered a0 million doses of the vaccine. If all goes well, 10 million could be available to the uk by the end of the year. Good afternoon, and welcome to this coronavirus update as we await a downing street briefing by the Prime Minister on what has been described as, a great day for science and humanity in the fight against covid 19. Those words are from the head of one of the Drug Companies jointly developing a coronavirus vaccine, as trials suggest it is more than 90 effective in preventing infection. That news has lifted hopes and sent stock markets soaring, although challenges remain and the World Health Organization has warned that the news alone will not be a complete game changer. The vaccines developers now want to apply for emergency licensing so that it can start to be given to people in the general public outside of trials, possibly before the e
Says the government, after mps call for a roadmap for their reopening. A report into mother and baby homes and magdalene laundries in Northern Ireland is expected to be published within the hour. Survivors say they were emotionally abused and had to give up their babies for adoption. The supply of coronavirus vaccines is now a critical issue as countries try to stem high infection rates. And the eu is angry because it says its not getting its fair share. Its threatened to impose controls on the export of vaccines made within the bloc, and that could affect the uks supply of the pfizerbiontech jab. The eus Health Commissioner has criticised astrazeneca, saying the company hasnt delivered the number of vaccines it promised. The company says its because of supply problems. What does it mean for us . Well, the British Government says supplies of vaccines are tight, but is confident it will receive enough doses to meet its targets. All this comes as weve just learned the downing street news
This is bbc news. Im Lewis Vaughan jones. Our top stories italys death toll overtakes chinas almost 3,500 have now died. We report from inside one of italys hospitals battling to keep patients alive. As the us tells its citizens to avoid any travel abroad President Trump orders the fast tracking of an anti malarial drug to treat covid 19. We are working on scaling these to allow many more americans to access different drugs that have shown really good promise. Australia bans non residents from coming to the country, as it ramps up measures to control the spread of coronavirus. As japan comes under increasing pressure to postpone the olympics, athletes are still training, including surfers hoping to take part
in their first games. Hello and welcome to bbc news. Italy has passed a landmark, which just a few weeks ago would have been unthinkable. More than 3,400 people have died from coronavirus, surpassing the number in china. A nurse working with coronavirus patients in italy has said t