The Foreign Office is advising british holiday makers in spain to return home as soon as possible, as hotels their are to close by tuesday. Supermarkets take action to reduce stockpiling and panic buying. The bbc suspends production of hit dramas like eastenders and casualty. And the Glastonbury Festival is called off as is this years eurovision because of coronavirus. Good afternoon. Schools across much of the uk look set to close their doors and shut down by the end of the week the governments in scotland and wales have been first to announce their plans as part of the measures to tackle the coronavirus crisis. Borisjohnson says an announcement on the rest of the uk is imminent. Our correspondent lorna gordon is in glasgow. This announcement from the first minutes there was a short time ago. Nicola sturgeon made this announcement within the last hour. It is not entirely unexpected, there have been increasing reports of growing absinthe in schools and people keeping their children hom
Severe thunderstor to late parts of afternoon. Ill show you future weather and help you get you ready for the weekend coming up. Chuck, looking at the roads here now, outer look at aock road left lane getting by the work zone. Rest of the belt way is looking good now, inner loop and outer loop, dont have any big delays. Everything is rolling along pretty nicely. 66, 95, same situation. Nothing in your way into or out of town. 66 erb we have the right lane getting by the work zone notng seoo much of a delay quite yet. Aaron . Melissa, thank u. The third street tunnel is open this morning after a gunman opened fire on another driver in the middle of traffic. Ptrice are stillng to find the shooter in an apparent road rage incident. This happened on a busy stretch that runs right under h theeart of Downtown Washington just before the massachusetts avenue exit tuesday afternoon. A witness told us that ford suv rear ended a smaller honda around 3 00 p. M. Yesterday. You can see the crash cau
Hello and welcome to sportsday im azi farni back to winning ways england beat bangladesh at the cricket world cup after posting their highest ever tournament total. Defeat in crotia wales suffer in the sweltering heat as they are handed the first loss of their euro 2020 qualifying campaign. And a winner on her debut teenager yulia gwinn helps two time champions germany to victory in the womens world cup also coming up in the programme. Asheligh barty wins herfirst grand slam singles title after a dominant display at the french open hello and welcome to sportsday. Thanks forjoining us. England have bounced back from defeat to pakistan in the cricket world cup with a 106 run win over bangladesh in cardiff. Jason roys powerful 153 helped the tournament hosts post their highest ever world cup total of 386 6. Jorfra archer and ben stokes then got 3 wickets each as bangladesh were reduced to 280 all out. Our Sports Correspondent joe wilson was there. Cricket has generally considered banglade
To the bbc news at ten. As Anti Government protestors in iran have gathered for fourth day of demonstrations, the countrys president , hassan rouhani, has said iranians have the right to protest, but not resort to violence and vandalism. His comments are the first by a senior figure in the country since widespread protests began on thursday. Today, police in tehran used water cannon against protesters and some social media was banned. Kasra naji of the bbc Persian Service has this report. The centre of tehran during the fourth day of Anti Government protests. These protesters are shouting death to the dictator, a reference to irans supreme leader. The protests a re reference to irans supreme leader. The protests are the most serious challenge to the iranian clerical regime for many years. As the night fell, there were reports of demonstrations from at least a dozen 01 so demonstrations from at least a dozen or so cities up and down the country. President rouhani has finally made a comm
Ringing in the new year. London hosts its traditional fireworks display in front of a crowd of more than 100,000 as big ben chimes in 2018, despite its restoration work. And in half an hour, we will take a look back at an incredible year in hull, the uk city of culture. From the royal ballet, two world class theatre and the most talked about artists, we will have all the highlights. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. The chief executive of the british catering company, compass and four members of his family have been killed in a seaplane crash in australia. Local Police Confirmed that Richard Cousins, who was 58, was on board the plane which crashed into a river 30 miles north of sydney yesterday. He died with his two sons, edward and william, who were in their 20s, his fiancee, emma bowden, and her 11 year old daughter, heather. The australian pilot, gareth morgan, was also killed. Earlier today, the detective superintendent fulcher you South Wales Police marine command held a news