Everything is fine. Someone might have the coronavirus and they dont know it, and then they might sneeze or cough on me, and then they might give me the coronavirus and i wont know. Reports say women in labour are being refused epidurals, despite official guidelines saying all women should have that option. Were you told you couldnt have an epidural when you were giving birth . Get in touch. And an inspiring story from this young woman, who escpaed a life of poverty, violence and drugs and has a strong message about carrying knives. Violence is never the answer, and so we all have to make an active effort to create a world of peace, and it sta rts to create a world of peace, and it starts with each of us putting down the knife. Hello and welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. When you were giving birth, did you want or need an epidural . And if you did, was one forthcoming . Were you able to have one . Talking about the health guiidelins and epidurals and whether th
Continues to improve and he has been taking short walks in hospital. In new york, a mass grave as the city tries to deal with the rapidly growing number of dead. Queuing forfood in calais we report on the migrants in camp there searching for supplies. And bringing the outdoors indoors, how charities are trying to connect people with nature using webcams to help Mental Health and in sport on bbc news, the head of the League Managers Association Says professional football should not restart in england until all players have been tested for coronavirus. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Almost 9000 people in the uk have now lost their lives to coronavirus in the past five weeks. The latest daily death toll has risen by a record 980 people thats higher than spain and italys worst daily death tolls. And that number does not include people who have died from coronavirus in care homes or in the community. It brings the total number of deaths in hospital to 8,958 at the end of a
A Good Friday Service in Notre Dame Cathedral almost a year it went up in flames. And bringing the outdoors indoors for lockdown how charities are trying to connect people with nature using webcams to help Mental Health. In bbc news, the head of the Managers Association said football should not restart in england until all players have been tested for coronavirus. Good evening. Almost 9000 people in the uk have now lost their lives to coronavirus in the past five weeks. The latest daily death toll has risen by a record 980 hospital people. Thats higher than spain and italys worst daily death tolls. And that number does not include people who have died from coronavirus in care homes or in the community. It brings the total number of deaths in hospital to 8,958 at the end of another week of tragic news for thousands of families across the country. Today has been the third day in a row in which the government has announced close to 1000 deaths in a single day. Meanwhile, despite fresh cla
Just behind italy. The state has more confirmed cases than any single country in the world. Pictures have now emerged of a mass grave being used in new york city as the death toll there continues to rise. It is somehow unimaginable, unbelievable, that in the most famous city of the richest country in the world, theyre digging mass graves for those who cant afford a funeral, and for those who died of coronavirus with no next of kin. This is hart island, just off the bronx in new york city. Nearly 8,000 people have died in this state alone, and theyre struggling to deal with all the burials. We are in total control of our destiny here. What we do will affect literally life and death for hundreds of people. And so many new York Hospitals have had to bring these refrigerated lorries in to act as makeshift morgues. The whole Health Care System is creaking. There is an important glimmer of good news, though and that is the number of people being admitted to hospital is falling sharply. And d
Support Vulnerable Children and theirfamilies support Vulnerable Children and their families and it will support victims of modern slavery. This Additional Support will ensure more safe s pa ces Additional Support will ensure more safe spaces and accommodation for survivors of Domestic Abuse and their children. And the recruitment of additional councillors for victims of sexual violence. And this funding will also help front line charities to be able to offer different ways of supporting those in need, including virtual or phone based services. We know that some refuges have had to reduce or even cancel the services that they would wa nt to cancel the services that they would want to provide during the pandemic. This funding will help them to meet the challenges posed in this national emergency. And to continue to help those that desperately need support. I would like to say a word of thanks to Domestic Abuse charities who are doing so much at this time to help so many people. The wome