Continues to unfold in europe with exponentially increases in daily cases and matching but a scent that increases in daily deaths the evolving situation in europe raises great concern daily numbers of cases or a hospital admissions or approach and cover it is no defeat leading cause of deaths at the bar of 8000. 00 bits per day has no been reached kurdistans Prime Minister has assumed the powers of the president after the countrys leader has resigned so somebody has been called face that they really protests against his leadership since of the spirit of the election said yeah part of had been named Prime Minister just this week after his supporters freedom from jail Charles Stratford is in the east of the country. Its fair to say mr jeenbekov has been changing his story since these rigged elections on october the full initially off to those elections we heard nothing from him until there was a potentially a Statement Given by him saying that resignation was not on the columns. And then
The firm they created. And peloton gets a rough ride after its exercise bike ad is mocked for being sexist and dystopian. And well be getting the inside track on how happy workers are productive workers much like myself and sally, who are of course always all smiles. Were talking about increasing diversity at the top today. So is positive discrimination in favour of ethnic minorities the answer . What do you think . Let us know just use the hashtag bbcworklife. Hello and welcome to worklife. Britains leading companies are failing to improve Ethnic Diversity at the top. Executive search firm green park found the number of black, asian and minority ethnic or bame Board Directors of major uk firms has stalled at almost every senior level. According to the firm just 3. 3 , senior execs in ftse 100 companies are from an ethnic minority and its barely improved over the last six years. In fact, there are more bosses called steve in the ftse 100 than there are those from ethnic minorities. And
Good morning, hello, im Victoria Derbyshire with you this wednesday morning, 2a hours into this partial lockdown how are you doing . Welcome to bbc news. Let me bring you the latest headlines. Stepping up the fight against coronavirus a huge makeshift hospital is to be opened in london but theres a stark warning from these a e doctors. We are seeing patients in their 20s, patients in their 30s. We dont know what the outcome of some of these patients will be. They will go to intensive care, they may be in intensive care for some weeks. In some of them will die. And its completely heartbreaking and harrowing. Overnight 170,000 people answer the governments call
for a volunteer army to help tackle the crisis thats 3 a minute. In times like this, as the chief medical officer has already said, we see outbreaks of altruism, people wanting to help. So its a wonderful response, in the same way that all those doctors coming back, nurses saying they will come back, i am bowled over by it. The go
As it starts Running Services previously operated by arriva rail north. As 10,000 migrants try to reach the eu from camps in turkey, weve a special report from northern greece. Manchester city secure their third League Cup Win in succession with a 2 1victory over aston villa at wembley. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. The Prime Minister will chair a meeting of the governments Emergency Cobra Committee later this morning to discuss possible responses to the coronavirus outbreak. The official government plan will be finalised and signed off at the meeting. 36 people are now confirmed to have the disease in the uk. 13 of those were diagnosed yesterday the biggestjump in a single day. One of the new cases is a health worker. Another of the new cases is the first in scotland, meaning the virus has now reached all four parts of the uk. Looking at the global picture, there have now been more than 3,000 deaths worldwide. More than 90 of those are in Hubei Province in china, but
And in america one in five people are ordered to stay at home as state authorities struggle to control the pandemic. Hello and welcome to viewers in the uk and around the world. The british Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned the coronavirus outbreak is accelerating and could overwhelm the National Health service if people dont do more to slow its spread. Hes urging people not to visit parents on mothers day, and says everyone should join what hes called a heroic and collective National Effort to follow social distancing advice. The number of people whove died in the uk from coronavirus has risen to 233 with more than 5,000 confirmed cases. Nhs england is to write to one and a half Million People most at risk, strongly advising them not to go out for the next 12 weeks. Globally, the number of coronavirus related deaths is now more than 13,000. Well have reports from around the world over the next half an hour, but first, simonjones reports on the situation in the uk. Borisjohnson s