African player of all time. But could this man soon take that crown . A deadline day dash for leicester winger riyad mahrez, but is he bound for Manchester City . And its notjust about today we take a look at the best of the rest of the deals that took place earlier this month, in whats been the most expensive january transfer window. Good evening, and welcome to a special deadline Day Programme where the clock is ticking on this january transfer window. By now, the private jets have been boarded, contracts have been written, and records broken arsenal making history as mesut ozil becomes the clubs highest paid player, while the signing of this man, Pierre Emerick aubrameyang at a cool 56 million makes him a club record. But what do we know about the striker from gabon . Joe lynskey has been finding out. This is arsenals new gift from gabon. The £56 million striker with quite the back story. His path to the world status, via the equator, a country unlikely to make a world cup, but wit
Repairs take place at the palace of westminster. A prisoner is stabbed to death at wormwood scrubs prison in west london. And once in a super blue blood moon skywatchers across the globe are getting a glimpse of a rare celestial event as three lunar phenomena coincide. And its footballs transfer deadline day well have full details of all the big name deals in sport. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The Prime Minister on her visit to china has forecast a golden era in trade relations while being dogged by rows over brexit and personal attacks back home. Theresa may says she has won assurance that beijing will further open up its markets to the uk but has also been forced to insist that shes not a quitter following days of criticism of her leadership from her own party. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg is travelling with the Prime Minister. Even the most carefully planned entrance can go a touch awry. A bit of pushing and shoving not the political kind this time. Asias red carp
To millions of others. Hysteria is the most Communicable Disease known to man. And we are now living through a pandemic of it. On memorial day weekend, a man called george floyd died in Police Custody in minnesota and thats where this outbreak first began. Minneapolis was our wuhan. The first cases appeared a little over a month ago. Here is the scene of the pandemic now. He it was just before midnight thursday when protesters began dismantling and toppling a statue honoring Christopher Columbus in civic center park. Crews moved in and destroyed what was left. One processor climbing up the statue began spray painting its face and hands, possibly symbolizing blood, while others spraypainted the words george floyd, blm for black lives matter, and the communist symb symbol. They have just torn down this statue of Christopher Columbus. The statue has been here since 1931. Tucker so to translate what you just saw into the clinical language of epidemiology, holy smokes, this is getting reall
Congress forced to resign now after multiple allegations of Sexual Misconduct. My legacy cant be compromised or diminished in any way by what were going through now. This, too, shall pass. And the boys on the bus. New reporting on mike pences reaction to the access Hollywood Tape. Billy bush speaks out about the Vice President s purported denial of reality. You cant say that. I was there, thats your voice on the tape. Coming up, the latest from team pence right here. And good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington where white house special counsel ty cobb has rejected a novel theory from the president s personal lawyer, john dowd, that he cannot commit obstruction of justice because hes in charge of law enforcement, a claim universally mokd mocked by experts on all side. Cobb saying, there is no strategy of which im aware to rely boldly on the proclamation that obstruction is always impossible with regard to a president. He was accused of being in contact with someone as soon
Market news right now, the dow again down today after a brutal day of losses yesterday at one point this morning it was down more than 500 points. It has bounced back a smidge, now down some 326 there. The gains that had been achieved so far this year gone, all of them wiped out. Weak results from Tech Companies primarily the responsible party here, i want to bring in ali velshi for some more analysis. Tech sector, is that all were seeing here . Theres a bunch of things here. Were still down for the year. If you invested money at the beginning of the year putting your money in a bank account would have gotten you better returns. Im not a shortterm market guy but thats whats relevant. There are a couple of things happening. Tech was just a place people put their money for a long time without a lot of care to valuation. Weve seen this game before. We see it happening with tech stocks a lot. Now youre seeing some of that money come out of the big tech names like facebook for various reaso