Hello, this is breakfast with chris mason and nina warhurst. To reach, again, North Western good morning. Heres a summary of todays main areas during the course of tuesday. Stories from bbc news. Theres a bit more cloud overall across the uk the government says it will soon be on stepping up measures to protect people from coronaviru5, including shielding elderly and Vulnerable People. Ministers have so far stopped short of introducing some of the strict controls that have been tuesday. Imposed in mainland europe. It comes as the number of people known to have died from the virus in the uk has reached 21. I think the sunniest spots easyjet has joined jet2 in cancelling flights to spain. Will be on the south the airline announced it would be and in the east, but look 5u5pending all flights from tuesday. At these temperatures. These are south westerly winds, it comes as the worlds biggest 15 16 degrees tuesday carrier, american airlines, for some of us. Has announced its 5u5pending nearl
Against the coronavirus, and has introduced further restrictions to try to curb its spread. Hes forbidden people from leaving home, except for essential reasons, from midday on tuesday, orface punishment. The us treasury secretary, steve mnuchin, is seeking a large stimulus package to prop up the American Economy after the dowjones suffered its biggest ever one day points drop. Economists now no longer doubt that the Global Economy is heading into recession. In britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on people to stop travel and avoid what he called unnecessary social contact. He said if drastic action was not taken now, cases could double every five or six days. He said people showing any symptoms should self isolate for m days. In every part of the uk, people have been taking in the full import of the governments latest advice which marks a very sharp change from just a few days ago. With advice to everyone to stop non essential contact and to avoid pubs, clubs and theatres, the
Between police and protesters, who are angry at the governments response to tuesdays massive explosion. International donors have pledged 300 million for rebuilding the capital. Anti government protests have broken out in cities across belarus, after exit polls reported a sweeping victory for the long time, authoritarian president alexander lu kashenko. The police say getting the situation under control. Opposition leaders have accused the president of rigging the election, and denounced the expected result as a joke. British teaching unions have criticised borisjohnson for saying there was a moral duty to get children in england back into school at the start of setember. They urged him to boost coronavirus testing and tracing in order to reopen schools safely. Now on bbc news, its time for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. The covid 19 pandemic has inflicted huge economic damage, but it has offered the Natural World a little bit of respite room to breathe. But what wil
This is bbc news. The headlines President Trump was escorted from a White House Briefing after Us Secret Service agents shot an armed man. Minutes later, he returned and told reporters a man was taken to hospital after the shooting. The president said he did not think the white house fence had been breached. Anti establishment protests on the streets of beirut are continuing even though the entire lebanese government has now stepped down after last weeks catastrophic explosion. The prime minister, hassan diab, blamed a corrupt political establishment for the countrys many problems during an angry tv interview. In belarus, clashes have continued between police and protesters, angry at sundays disputed president ial poll. Police say a demonstrator has died in the second night of protests after an explosive device went off in his hand,
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Hello, this is breakfast with tina daheley and rogerjohnson. Good morning, heres a summary of todays main stories from bbc news. The a level results process has been plunged into further disarray after the exams regulator for england withdrew its guidance on appealing against grades just hours after publishing it. Good morning. On saturday, 0fqual outlined details welcome to breakfast with rogerjohnson and tina daheley. On how mock exam results could be our headlines today used in the appeals process. Confusion for students and teachers, as the exam regulator withdraws key but late last night it deleted guidance on appeals, the advice from its website, saying further information will be just hours after publishing it. Published in due course. The chair of the education it comes amid mounting anger select Committee Robert Halfon has from students over the uncertainty described the decision as farcical. Of their futures. When i opened it i was in complete shielding guidance for people wh