Separatist leaders. Its a huge weekend for the home nations at the Rugby World Cup. England face their arch rivals australia in the First Quarter final this morning before ireland take on the defending champions the all blacks. Wales play france tomorrow. Another changeable day on the way today, worth taking your umbrella. Still some showers in the forecast but gradually through the weekend, we will see fewer and fewer showers. Its saturday the 19th october. Our top story. Its a momentous day at westminster, as mps vote on borisjohnsons new brexit deal. Parliament is sitting on a saturday for the First Time Since the invasion of the falklands in 1982. Lets take you through what will happen today. The Prime Minister will present his agreement to mps at 0930, theyll debate the details annd then will start voting on it this afternoon. The result is too close to call between now and then, borisjohnson still has persuade enough mps to back him in order to take the uk out of the eu, with a d
Christian frasers in london. It was 9. 20pm on sunday when the earth started to shake. A time most people in that northern border region of iran and iraq would have been at home, perhaps already in bed. The tremor was huge killing more than 400 people, a toll thats expected to rise. Now theyre trying to pull people from under the rubble but the rescue operation is being hampered by landslides and power cuts. The epicentre of the quake which measured 7. 3 was about 30 kilometres south of hala bja. One of the worst hit areas was Sarpol E Zahab, as James Robbins reports. The moment the earth starts shaking violently. A man runs for his life from the control room of this dam, as massive boulders are hurled around outside. The dam wall was not breached but elsewhere devastation. In iran, the border town of Sarpol E Zahab was hit hardest. As entire walls collapsed, many families did manage to flee their homes, but others were crushed or buried. At a local hospital, there were many stories of
A meeting between the four nations of the uk to discuss tightening coronavirus restrictions over christmas has broken up, without agreement. Pressure has been growing on the government all day. Here are two of the uk leading medical journals publishing a joint editorial calling for the government to stop any household mixing. They describe the current plan to allow three households to gather at christmas as a rash decision that will cost lives. The journals also highlight the increase rate of here are their editors. The real striking, stark truth of the matter is that our Health System is not going to manage if we allow the current trend to continue out on top of this super spreader events that will be these five days of christmas. We are currently on course for around 19,000 Covid Patients in hospitals. At the start of the second wave number was 451. And bear in mind it was only yesterday that the government announced 3a Million People in the uk will be living under the toughest rules
Seized 1 billion euros of amphetamines. Tonight, they are taking those drugs to be incinerated. European nations have begun to apply travel bans with the uk after it reported a more infectious and out of control coronavirus variant. Eu ambassadors are to meet for emergency talks on monday to work out a common strategy. Do not, italy have already detected the strain. Denmark. Frances band arrivals and freight. Ireland, italy, the netherlands, belgium and germany, canada the latest to impose restrictions. Mark lobel reports. Lorries isolated, passengers grounded, many in the uk now stuck as european nations try to protect themselves from this fast spreading covid 19 variant. The netherlands was the first to ban all passenger flights from the uk until january 1, and now ferry passengers too. Belgium has suspended flights and train arrivals from the uk for 2h hours. Irelands announced a 48 hour ban on flights arriving from the uk. France has suspended all travel links thats air, sea, rail
Earlier this summer, they seized 1 billion euros of amphetamines. Tonight, they are taking those drugs to be incinerated. European nations have begun to apply travel bans with the uk after it reported a more infectious and out of control coronavirus variant. Denmark, italy and the netherlands have already detected the new strain. Eu ambassadors are to bid for emergency talks on monday to work out a common strategy. Frances band arrivals from the uk by most routes, including forfreight. Uk by most routes, including for freight. Ireland, italy, the netherlands, and germany with canada the latest to impose restrictions. France has banned. Mark lobel reports. Lorries isolated, passengers grounded, many in the uk now stuck as european nations try to protect themselves from this fast spreading covid i9 variant. The netherlands was the first to ban all passenger flights from the uk untiljanuary i, and now ferry passengers too. Belgium has suspended flights and train arrivals from the uk for 2