This is bbc news. Im lukwesa burak. The headlines at four the number of people diagnosed with coronavirus in the uk has increased by 43 in one day, bringing the total to 206. 140 british people remain on board a cruise ship off San Francisco, where 21 passengers have tested positive for coronavirus. There is a rush for me to get off the ship. I have stage four neuroendocrine cancer and my tumours are actively growing. Its not going to be easy to off load the ship with 2500 passengers. Gay man in his 80s is the second person in the uk to have died after testing a man in his 80s is the
second person to have died after testing positive for coronavirus. We have five patients who have been tested. We a re have five patients who have been tested. We are waiting for the results to come back. We have asked nine stuff to self isolate. £360 million will be paid by Insurance Companies to clean up the damage from storms dennis and ciara. Good afternoon. Welcome to bbc news. In the past hour we ha
Troops in afghanistan last year. Now on bbc news, panorama. Tonight on panorama the great testing gamble. The stakes are very high indeed. Testing is absolutely critical and central to preventing a second wave now. Thousands of lives now depend on the government getting testing right. We should be very concerned, until we can see there is a fully effective testing and Contact Tracing system in place. So why do our covid investigators have nothing to do . I have had zero cases. Absolutely zero. And why havent millions of test results been shared with the nhs . There is no transfer of data into a clinical record at the moment. I gather theres an aspiration to do that in the next few weeks. But we need it now. It would have been helpful to have it a few weeks ago. Were facing an invisible killer. So we need to see every road, every place, where covid is spreading. The only way to track the movement of the disease is to test. So we can follow the infections and trace those that may have it
It as soon the hope of introducing it as soon as possible. Lets catch up with the weather. Another unsettled weekend because we have low pressure sweeping in. Wet weather in the west will transfer to the east overnight. There will be cooler air and blustery showers blowing in from the west with sunny spells in between. The winds are a feature ending the day this evening. 4050 feature ending the day this evening. 40 50 mph gusts along with a heavy rain, spilling east. The heavier rain, spilling east. The heavier rain will be in the east by the end of the night. Further west, blustery showers with clear spells. It will be cool in the north and milder in the south. When the weather clears away from the south east through the morning and then a brighter day for many of us, lots of sunshine but also blustery showers, heavy and frequent in the north and west,
where there will be a mixture of hail in them and winter us over the high ground. And wintry weather over the high ground. This is bbc
This is bbc news, im ben brown. Our top stories a huge temporary hospital is being builtjust outside london, as britain sees a big jump in the number of coronavirus deaths. Frances death toll rises above 1,000, as the country struggles to keep up with the speed of the virus. India puts more than a billion people into lockdown, as the Prime Minister says it is essential to prevent the country being set back decades. But, amid warnings that the us could be the next epicentre of the pandemic, President Trump says he hopes that it will soon be business as usual. I hope we can do this by easter. I think that would be a great thing
for our country, and we are all working very hard to make that a reality. Hello and welcome to bbc world news. The World Health Organization has warned that the United States could become the global epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic. There are now over 50,000 confirmed cases in the country, and over 600 people with the infection have died. Globally, there are
Hello, this is breakfast with tina daheley and rogerjohnson. Good morning, heres a summary of todays main stories from bbc news. The a level results process has been plunged into further disarray after the exams regulator for england withdrew its guidance on appealing against grades just hours after publishing it. Good morning. On saturday, 0fqual outlined details welcome to breakfast with rogerjohnson and tina daheley. On how mock exam results could be our headlines today used in the appeals process. Confusion for students and teachers, as the exam regulator withdraws key but late last night it deleted guidance on appeals, the advice from its website, saying further information will be just hours after publishing it. Published in due course. The chair of the education it comes amid mounting anger select Committee Robert Halfon has from students over the uncertainty described the decision as farcical. Of their futures. When i opened it i was in complete shielding guidance for people wh