Where i am celebrating the life of a Country Music legend kenny rogers has died at the age of 80. Im calling aspen thanks for joining us germany is bracing for the full impact of the corona virus pandemic the countrys finance minister says its preparing a supplementary budget of 150000000000 euros as part of a broader funding package to tackle the Economic Impact of the outbreak close to a 1000000000 people now were around the world have been confined to their homes as governments attempt to slow the global spread of the coronavirus germany is among the worst affected countries 2 of its 16 states of imposed a full on. Down saarland in the west and the area in the south where the streets of the capital munich look a lot like this there are nearly deserted police say there have been a few violations of the 2 week curfew since it came into fact effect on saturday morning other states are considering following suit while the German Government is thinking of imposing tighter restrictions on
And strikes across france. Unions are stepping up their battle against proposed Pension Reforms this is now in the largest industrial action that france has seen in decades and from breaks it to the next it is rocking the British Royal family britains prince harry and meghan announcing theyll step back from royal duties but it seems they forgot to tell the queen will take a look at the royal fall well. Im burnt off to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world well tonight in just the last few minutes the canadian Prime Minister has echoed u. S. Reports that intelligence sources indicate iran likely shot down that Ukrainian International Airlines Plane which crashed on wednesday the plane was on its way from the iranian capital tehran to the ukrainian capital key unnamed u. S. Officials have told the u. S. Media that and raney an air Defense Systems may have accidentally shot down the plane ukraine has asked western nations to provide any evidence intelligenc
Labour on 203 with some significant losses from 2017. The snp performing strongly in scotland on 48. The lib dems on 11, a relatively poor performance by then, alluding their leader, jo swinson, plaid cymru projected to end the night on 4. So, a very good morning to you, and you are watching election 2019. And here at new broadcasting house in central london, we are going to have this mornings headlines. We say a very good morning to louise minchin. Thanks, huw, good morning. With more than 600 seats declared, the conservatives have won the general election, with their biggest majority since 1987. Labour meanwhile has had its worst performance in three decades. Labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn said he was disappointed and wouldnt lead his party into any future general election. It was a poor night too for the liberal democrats, whose leaderjo swinson lost her seat. Jessica parkers report contains flash photography. He knows it. The conservatives have w011 he knows it. The conservatives have
A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business, and sport. Also in the programme amazons head scientist says alexa could one day become an active companion that can see and even walk around the home. What do you think . Is this a thrill or a threat . Are you a fan of Digital Assistants . Tell us what you think just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. We begin in hong kong. Police in hong kong have used live ammunition at pro democracy demonstrations and shot one protestor at close range. Protesters had called for a general strike on monday and have been trying to disrupt transport in hong kong by setting up barricades. Shocking pictures of the incident in the sai wan ho district were livestreamed on social media. An unarmed demonstrator can be seen approaching an officer, and then falling to the ground after being shot at close range. Local media are reporting that he is in Critical Condition in hospital. The police have issued a statement de
Marginally, they are at 120 seats, but their normal putney would be podemos, with them they would not get the 176 seats required, the right has also done well but they do not have enough seats. There will be lots of negotiations. It is a story all over europe, we had here with 2017 by theresa may, we had in germany, and is, we have had it in italy, it is a european story. It is a european story where we have many key countries, as you mentioned, with coalition governments. France was the one that bucked the trend with a Brand New Party created by emmanuel macron. But we will see what the next election will bring because the by election has proved not all is that wealth up you mention the fact that in spain the conservative Popular Party came in second, but what is interesting is that the right Wing Party Vox did extremely well. There was a surge to vox. They are very anti immigration, spain is in the mediterranean and you always see the ships with the refugees come over, 0 you always s