Well have all the latest coronavirus developments across the world. We will talk about the uk to pass 50,000 deaths. Almost sent three neck 600 people died in the last day. In italy. And italy passes a million virus cases after a huge spike in infections 32 thousand were recorded in the past day. Extraordinary pictures from poland. There is far right rally taken place. Despite the ban on these type of events because of the pandemic. We are going to be live in warsaw. President donald trump has appeared in public for the First Time Since election night. He attended a veterans day ceremony at the arlington Military Cemetery close to washington. He did not speak to the media. The president Electjoe Biden also attended an event in philadephia. Hell meet with his Transition Advisors today. On tuesday mr biden said the transition was underway in spite of President Trumps refusal to concede. And he added this. Ijust think its an embarrassment. Quite frankly. The only thing how cani quite fran
Effo rts ok . Joe bidens team has called efforts to stop the count at rangers. He has urged his supporters to be patient. We are going to have to be patient. We are going to have to be patient until the hard work of tallying votes is finished. And it aint over till every vote is counted, every ballot is counted. Votes in the pivotal states of wisconsin, michigan and pensylvannia are still being counted. It could take days to find out who will be in the white house. And i am alive from the Battle Ground state of wisconsin, where the democrats say they have won the state. At the touch screen, keeping track of the votes as they stack up, is reeta chakrabarti. There is the slimmest of margins separating the two candidates as you can see, and i will plot the ten the potential paths to victory for each contender. The race for the white house is on a knife edge. This is bbc us election 2020. Imjane obrien in washington where the nation is on edge. There is no clear winner and campaign lawyers
And joy in china as 11 gold miners whod been trapped underground for two weeks are rescued. Good afternoon. The Health Secretary has said 77 cases of the South African variant of coronavirus have been found here in the uk, but they can all be linked to International Travel and there is no evidence it is spreading in the community. Matt hancock also said we are a long way from covid restrictions being eased as scientists warn vaccinated people may still be able to pass the virus on. The uk has recorded a further 30,004 daily covid infections. Thats down from more than 33 and a half thousand yesterday. There have also been a further 610 daily covid deaths thats people whove died within 28 days of a positive test. That figure was at 1,348 yesterday. More than 6. 3 Million People in the uk have now received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, an increase in the past 24 hours of nearly 492,000. 0ur science editor David Shukman reports. All kinds of surprising locations are now mobi
Coronaviurs case in months, which appears to have slipped through the countrys rigorous quarantine system. It isa it is a woman who travelled to the country from abroad. Here in the uk, the snp will present its National Assembly with what its calling a roadmap to a new referendum on scottish independence. And borisjohnson becomes the first european leader to speak to the new us president , joe biden, since he entered the white house. Hello, and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. Here in the uk the Health Secretary matt hancock says 77 cases of the South African variant of covid have been found here in the uk. But all have links to International Travel and there is no evidence to date that it is spreading in the community unchecked. Matt hancock has also said we are a long way from restrictions being eased as scientists warn people may still be able to pass on the virus even if theyve been vaccinated. Our Health Reporter jim reed has more. The vaccination roll out
Hello, welcome to the programme. We begin in the us, which has onw recorded more than 25 million cases of coronavirus. Thats according to Thejohns Hopkins University thats tracking the virus. Its the hardest hit country in the world, with neary a18,000 people dying with the disease so far. New President Joe Biden has signed executive orders to expand testing and vaccine distribution, increase the production of essential equipment and guarantee Unemployment Benefits as part of his covid action plan to try get on top of the virus. Im joined now by our correspondent nomia iqbal in washington. The new president was really clear this would be his top priority and clearly these numbers bear out why. Thats right, and hes also said its going to get worse before it gets better. These figures that were seeing, i think what is more staggering is Health Experts think they might be understatements. Joe biden has already taken action, about ten executive orders signed the deal with the pandemic, but