On coronavirus, im on twitter annita mcveigh, and use the hashtag bbcyour questions. The man who murdered british backpacker Grace Millane in new zealand is named after a court order banning his identification was lifted. Music plays and coming up, the former Scottish Rugby star organising daily street aerobics sessions. Good morning. Welcome to bbc news. The french government says it will announce measures today that will allow transport links with britain to resume and trade to flow across the channel again. Borisjohnson and president macron spoke yesterday following frances decision to close its border after growing concern about the new variant of coronavirus. Thats as lorry drivers in kent spent a second night sleeping in their vehicles waiting for the border with france to reopen. Yesterday the pm said there are 150 lorries waiting in kent to cross back to the continent, but the home secretary has confirmed that figure is actually over 1,500. 0peration brock, which was initially
and it looks as the deeper the air and it looks as if towards the beginning of the next week we could have Stormy Weather as well. Lots of detail to fill you in on over the next few nights. For mid week it looks drier. Rain starts to return for the weekend and potentially Stormy Weather next week. Hello, this is bbc news with ben brown. Well be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. First the headlines the government says it will introduce emergency legislation over Early Release for terror offences, following an attack on shoppers in south london by 20 year old sudesh amman. Amman was shot dead at the scene by armed police, and had only recently been freed from prison, after serving half of his sentence for terrorism offences. We face an unprecedented situation of severe gravity and, as such, it demands that the government responds immediately and that this legislation will therefore also apply to serving prisoners. Borisjohnson says britain wont bind itself to eu rule
Decent trait frwrmru itsn a decent foundation to be able to go into that game. Lets round up some of the other rugby stories of the day. Theres a Chance Centre manu tuilagi could feature in that calcutta cup match on saturday. He hobbled off early in englands defeat to france yesterday but hes been retained in the squad with his groin problem being assessed. Ireland Centre Garry Ringrose will definitely be missing their next two games against wales and england. Hes had a procedure on a hand injury picked up in the win over scotland. And soon to not be playing at all . Former england skipper Chris Robshaw is leaving club side harlequins at the end of the year. Hes not said if hes going to retire or not but is believed to be looking at options abroad. Shaun wane has spent the last year working for the Scottish Rugby union as a High Performance coach. But hes coming back to his roots in league replacing Wayne Bennett as england head coach. Kevin sinfield, the head of englands High Perform
What is the moment like where you film a scene with Robert De Niro . Well, if we can find him. You know. The irishman, we were able to have some nice scenes. I was very happy to be able to do those. Finally. I won for godfather part two . Yeah sorry to break the news to you oh, my god. I thought i won for serpico next up, on sunday, the oscars. And a word of warning for 1917. The last five films to win at the baftas have all been beaten at the biggest awards of them all. Last man standing. Colin patterson, bbc news. Time for a look at the weather. Heres helen willetts. The main thing to be concerned about is the strength of the winds today and tomorrow. We also have quite a lot of cloud over the country and an array of weather systems being blown in. Lots of showers in the north,
not so windy right now in the south but we have some rain and it will become windier. You can see the rain making its way across the south with sleet and snow showers across the north as well. With operating w
Tonight at ten. Emergency legislation to be introduced to end the automatic Early Release from prison of those convicted of terror offences. It follows yesterdays events in south london, when a man was shot dead by police after stabbing two people. Sudesh amman, whod been sent to prison for terror offences, had been released at the end of january. Ministers say they want to change the system. We face an unprecedented situation of severe gravity and, as such, it demands that the government responds immediately. But the governments critics say the new plans would merely defer the problem of what happens when a prisoner is released. Also tonight. In china, the race to tackle the outbreak of coronavirus, as a 1,000 bed hospital is built in two weeks. In the grandeur of greenwich, borisjohnson unveils his vision of trade after brexit, critics say his plans are unrealistic. A special report from yemen, as the first flight for critically ill patients has taken off, five years after the confli