The critical government errors which led to many more people contracting covid 19 a damning report from mps. 1,500 jobs are at risk at wh smith after lockdown caused sales to plummet. Scotlands first minister says schools must be prioritised over pubs, echoing englands childrens commissioner. Lets return to our top story. The critical government errors an operation is under way in lebanon which led to many more people to recover the bodies of the more contracting covid 19 than 100 people who are a damning report from mps. Missing after a huge explosion devastated the port area news from the high street of the capital beirut yesterday. The blast killed at least 100 people 1,500 jobs at risk at wh smith after lockdown caused sales to plummet. And injured more than 4,000 others. And coming up. Happier feet there are many more emperor penguins than we first thought, the moment of the explosion happened as new colonies are was caught on camera by a bbc arabic spotted from space. Reporter in
If you want to get in touch with me on that or on any other story today im on twitter. You can use the hashtag bbcyourquestions. The first polling stations will open this morning as President Trump and joe biden spend their final hours campaigning in the us president ial election. The wales football manager, ryan giggs, says he is co operating with police after he was accused of assault. The former Manchester United player denies the allegations. And coming up this hour after being badly hit by last years australian bushfires, we check in on the health of the recovering koala population. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. The austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz says the gunman shot dead by police in an attack in vienna last night was an Islamic State sympathiser. In a News Conference in the past half hour, the chancellor promised to defend the country against islamic attacks
Theres been a massive Drug Overdose in Central Georgia. At least two dozen cases over the past 48 hours, and the reports are still coming in. So far, as many as four people have died. It is just the latest alarming e ample of the overdose epidemic in america. Mark strassmann begins our coverage. Reporter authorities in Central Georgia say a deadly new drug has hit the streets hard. Its the largest cluster of opioid overdoses in state history. Bibb county sheriff david davis this is a poison and it acts very fast, and our timeline is very tight, to be able to get to these individuals and render them aid. O reporter at least two dozen users have been found unconscious or unresponsive in the last 48 hours, and potentially four have died from poerdoses. Toxicology analysis of the street drug is incomplete, but investigators believe the yellow pill is being falsely sold as pe pain pill percocet, but is laced with other drugs. When its taken, the patients are experiencing significant and crv
Israel closed its main crossing point for delivering badly needed humanitarian aid for Gaza on Sunday after Hamas militants attacked it, while the defence minister claimed Hamas wasn't serious about a ceasefire deal and warned of "a powerful operation in the very near future in Rafah and other places across all of Gaza."
The United Nations human rights chief on Tuesday said he was horrified by reports of the discovery of hundreds of bodies in mass graves at two medical facilities in Gaza and called for an independent investigation into the deaths and destruction of the complexes.