Plan to bring syria refugees to the United States. Over the last couple years close to 2,000 have been welcomed here but now they have to go when it comes to the president s move to bring an additional 10,000 here. Speaker ryan just announcing there will be a pause in that program to Connell Mcshane with the latest. Connell conservative pressure has been building for ryan to ask and to do something about this refugee issue and we may have legislation to address it by the end of this week. Some more on that in a moment but listen to the speaker of the house paul ryan and what he had to say earlier today in washington. This is a moment it is better to be safe than sorry. We think the prudent, the responsible thing is to take a pause in this particular aspect of this Refugee Program in order to verify that terrorists are not trying to infiltrate the refugee population. Connell he is pushing for a pause, the legislation that should make it to the house floor by thursday, three republicans
If their default settings arent changed. Six nations organisers say ireland v italy remains the only postponed fixture this weekend after a meeting to address the coronavirus outbreak. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. The government is to outline its plans to contain coronavirus spelling out action it might have to take to deal with the disease if it becomes more widespread. That will happen this morning. Unnecessary travel could be curbed and people urged to work from home. Some retired doctors and nurses could be asked to return to work to help deal with patients. Unnecessary travel could be curbed and people urged to work from home. Legislation will be introduced to ensure ministers have the powers to prepare for a widespread outbreak. It comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned there could be significant expansion in uk cases as the number rose to 39. The Health Secretary, matt hancock, has been explaining the governments thinking behind when they plan to i