welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. it s seven in the morning in singapore, and in manila where there s been a big strategic development in the pacific rivalry between the us and china, with america sealing a deal to greatly increase its military presence in the philippines. it s seven in the morning in singapore, and in manila the agreement was signed off by the us defence secretary lloyd austin, after talks in the capital of the philippines. it represents a change in approach by president marcos. previous adminstrations tended to weaken their ties to washington. the deal gives the us access to four more military bases in the philippines, which will make a total of nine. neither country has said exactly where the new locations would be although it has been acknowledged that washington has requested access to bases on the northern land mass of luzon, the closest part of the philippines to taiwan, and on the island of palawan, facing
others were concerned about the practicalities, with terry pearson e mailing: and someone tweeting as patrickphotos posted this: well, let s put those concerns to the man in charge, interim executive news editor of bbc news channel, paul royall. thank you for coming on newswatch. now, we ve already seen some of the changes, like the loss of the paper review, the film review, dateline london. what differences will there be from next week? we re entering, i think, a really exciting phase for bbc news with the news with the new channel. we re gradually bringing in the changes during april and early may. as you ve said at the beginning there, some of the output will be combined. and so, the way to sort of understand the channel is there are two main feeds. there s a global feed and there is a uk feed and at some points, they re combined, but at other times, they re separate. so, for example, just to give you a sense of things, between 6am and ”am every day every weekday u
the country s biggest children s short story competition 500 words is back for the first time in three years. it will be supported by camilla, the queen consort. welcome to the bbc news channel. a postmortem examination is to be carried today out on the body of a baby found by police searching for the missing child of constance marten and mark gordon. the couple disappeared in earlyjanuary and were arrested earlier this week. in earlyjanuary and were they are currently being held on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter. the news comes after a days long search by police of a 90 square mile area near brighton, which ended with a baby s body being discovered near to where the couple was arrested on monday. vincent mcaviney has more. yesterday, at locations from newhaven to brighton, the search for the missing baby was in full swing over a 90 square mile area. officers from the sussex force were joined by those from the metropolitan police and volunteer experts in search an
former england captain michael vaughan is appearing at the hearing into racist behaviour at the cricket club. it follows allegations made by azeem rafiq in august 2020. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the former health secretary, matt hancock, has described the leaking of thousands of his whatsapp messages written during the height of the covid pandemic as a massive betrayal and breach of trust . he says the messages were released in a biased account to suit an anti lockdown agenda . but the journalist, isabel oakeshott, who revealed the messages, insists she s acted, in the public interest. the messages suggest mr hancock pushed to close schools during the pandemic, while the education secretary at the time, sir gavin williamson, wanted them to stay open. our political correspondent, jonathan blake, has more from westminster. the impact of the pandemic on education. we the impact of the pandemic on education- the impact of the pandemic on education.