Shooting of a Police Officer in south london on friday, say four crime scenes are being searched. Fresh Anti Government protests are expected in belarus, as president macron of france joins calls for alexander lu kashenko to step down. And Sir David Attenborough attends a private viewing of his new documentary at Kensington Palace, hosted by the duke of cambridge. Hello and welcome to bbc news. Thousands of students across the uk are being forced to self isolate after a rise in Coronavirus Infections. The Health Secretary for england, matt hancock, has refused to rule out a ban on students returning home for the christmas holidays. The government says its monitoring the situation closely. The bbcs Political Correspondent Jonathan Blake has more. It has been a hard start to University Life for many this year. Confirmed cases of coronavirus have meant many students are confined to their accommodation. There is a social side of university along with the educational side, and we are comple
Directly on this last july. Reporter we did, and this is incredibly controversial, andrea, because you would have such a significantly high death toll. Lets look at that exchange. It is going to disappear. Its going to disappear. It would go away without the vaccine, george. It would go away without the vaccine . Sure, over a period of time, sure, with time. And many deaths. And youll develop herd like a herd mentality, its going to be herd developed and thats going to happen. That will all happen. Reporter now, when the president said herd mentality there he presumably meant herd immunity. But again, a highly controversial notion that the disease will go away without the vaccine and it was one that was being pushed by scott atlas who has now of course stepped down from his position here and a lot of, i can tell you, Top Health Experts are breathing a sigh of relief about that, that hes no longer the person who is closest in counseling the president on this issue. Now that there is, of
Most striking thing to me when i talk, sit in rooms in lebanon or turkey or jordan and talk to refugees, sit in Community Centers and meet, you know, ive got in my mind 35 women who are in one of our health centers, they will tell you unbelievable stories of horror and loss. And the only time they will smile is when you ask them do you ever think youll go back . And extraordinarily strikingly, their face changes s and they say, yes. And thats someone who 30 seconds before was talking about her house being bombed and her husband being lost and her son being lost. But that, none of them expect to go back anytime soon. I think thats the other side of the coin. And i dont its a very technologicallyenabled and connected population. Theyre reading the ruins in the same way that we are. They see the news reports. They know that president assad is not going to be toppled tomorrow. They can see the war lengthening. They go backwards and forwards, by the way, a point that hasnt come up very much
To adjoin assads forces. They have been bolstered by militiamen from iraq yemen afghanistan months others leaving some to refer to the regimes constellation of forces as irans foreign legion. Meanwhile heavily sunniarab northcentral region has come under the control of the diverse assortment of armed opposition groups including al qaeda affiliates and the Islamic State of iraq bolstered by fighters from the middle east to europe and even the United States. In the Kurdish North the offshoot of the Workers Party of the pkk has also dominated the scene and operates freely. Meanwhile attempts by major neighboring states and world powers to contain the crisis are under serious stress. Car bombs and violence threatening both the countrys fragile sectarian balance and jordans suffering the stress of a 615,000 official refugees is currently struggling to defend his territory from crossborder attacks. What is sometimes called the regions Security Architecture middle east postworld war i boundar
Specifically the art museum in berlin which is one of the areas things to go through in the world room by room. There is no provenance attached to any of those works of art. It is just artists, title, thats it. You dont know if it came from prussian state. You dont know which state or municipal gallery it came from. You dont know anything then thats the principle artist. Museum of germany. It is very very weird. Comments . Let me just contrast that with france. France had this socalled Art Collection which was essentially jewish art that they made minimal efforts to locate the owners but to their credit much more recently and after the Washington Trust what they did with their art is face and its and in fact it was the question whether the Jewish Community should claim that art and have a museum of their own and they said no it belongs to the french state but what we want and what we got was some history of what happened. It may save from an unknown jewish family that at least someone