Tonight at ten, the uks four nations are trying to agree on a common approach to covid in the Christmas Period. It all depends on the rates of infection coming down in the coming weeks in time for the festive season. Every administration is trying to find common ground. Public Health England says it would like families across the uk to celebrate together. We are very keen that we have christmas as to close normal as possible. That requires all of us to make every effort over this national restriction period, and even in early december, to get the cases as low as possible. But any relaxation of the rules would come at a price. Well have more details. Also tonight more encouraging news about the Pfizer Biontech vaccine. Its 94 effective in people over 65. An official report says suppliers of protective equipment to the nhs who had political connections to the uk government were ten times more likely to get contracts. In ten years time, the sale of new diesel only and petrol only cars wil
Tonight at 6pm plans are being drawn up to make christmas as normal as possible, say government scientists. Looking for some festive cheer, but there are warnings that a few days of family gatherings may mean many more days of tighter restrictions on either side of christmas. Coming into christmas we need to be very careful about the number of contacts that we have to reduce transmission before christmas and get our cases as low as possible. Well be asking how tight restrictions may need to be to allow festive gatherings to go ahead. Also tonight pfizer says its new Covid Vaccine is almost 95 effective for people over the age of 65. Digging down deep to transform the way we heat our homes the plans to replace 600,000 gas boilers a year with electric heat pumps. Jeremy corbyn wont be
reinstated as a labour mp despite being readmitted to the party says its leader sir keir starmer. And turning other peoples lives around the charity thats helping to tackle the big rise in loneliness during
The headlines donald trump says he will travel to a Campaign Event in florida on monday, less than two weeks after testing positive for coronavirus. Hell also speak at an event at the white house on saturday. His democratic rival for the presidency, joe biden, has been campaigning in nevada. Hes accused President Trump of reckless personal conduct since his covid diagnosis, and of not taking the correct precautions to protect himself or others from the virus. Talks between armenia and azerbaijan are continuing late into the evening in moscow, as the kremlin tries to broker a ceasefire in the disputed territory of nagorno kara bakh. A two week state of emergency has been declared in madrid, to try to contain a big rise in coronavirus cases. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the director of centre for labour and social studies former Labour Police and crime commissioner, Faiza Shaheen and the Deputy Editor of the daily ex
Of life in a time of death. And the Legendary British motor racing driver, sir Stirling Moss, has died aged 90. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were in the uk and around the world. Covering all of the coronavirus were covering all of the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. In the past few moments the european death toll has a capacity 5000 with spain announcing their latest casualties. The number of dead air has risen by 619 in the past 2a hours taking the total number of deaths to 16,972. Here one of the governments most senior advisers has warned the uk is likely to be one of the worst, if not the worst, affected countries in europe by the coronavirus pandemic. It comes as uk debts are expected to pass pass 10,000 today. We will find out the figures later today. The leader of the comments Jacob Rees Mogg says parliament will return on april the 21st. It is expected to reconvene using Technology Rather than in the usual way. Els