Employed you dont to bailing out both businesses and their permanent staff. And breaks it is say the u. K. Should push ahead with trade talks and cut ties with the e. U. In december despite the ongoing virus crisis. That afternoon tea host and former 1st minister of scotland alex salmond has been acquitted of all 14 sexual offense charges. Joins me now with the latest hi there recess so take us through the verdict. So the scottish the former scottish 1st minister alex salmond was cleared off to to be childish at the high court in edinburgh he was originally charged with 40 sexual offenses against 9 women young and midway through the trial the prosecution of one of those charges and he was found not guilty of 12 others and in a peculiar quirk unique just to the scottish legal system on the fortys charge it was found that it was truthful that he had committed that particular crime so all 14 charges mr sam and acquitted him found innocent in the eyes of the law d in scotland now the jury
Couple of hours issuing a Global Travel advisory now to americans saying that any american abroad should return to the United States immediately or plan to remain in place now just to give some perspective that level of the highest level advisory against travel for american citizens is the theme that the state department would use for an area of war for example and in this case it is the global coronavirus pandemic that is being advised for americans not to travel hi joe castor there joining us live with the latest from washington d. C. Heidi thank you. For Global Markets are trading up slightly after a major losses thanks to several Central Banks scrambling to soften the impact of the pandemic the dow jones in new york and fitzy 100. 00 in london both closed almost one percent higher but trading of course remains volatile it comes after the u. S. Federal reserve bank of england and the European Central bank will that fresh measures to support the Financial Markets or cases of corn a v
The virus brings added misery to refugees already struggling to survive. Hello there good to have your company its elise overtaken china as the country which has suffered the most deaths from the coronavirus italians have recorded surer than half the number of infections us china but now has a big death toll 427 people died in italy in the past 24 hours taking italys toll talk to 3405 thats a 156 more deaths than china will spains numbers are rising rapidly to more than 100 dead in the past day while the rons Health Minister said that over the past 24 hours on average one person die from the virus every 10 minutes or Michel Barnier the European Unions chief breaks it negotiator has tested positive for coal that 19 the 69 year old said hes doing well and following the necessary instructions im on a positive note china has recorded its 1st day with no person to person infections colbran and reports now on thursdays grim news from a city. The head of the World Health Organization has call
Fires in the amazon. From this vantage point, you get a sense of the scale of the disaster facing the region of the amazon. Hectare facing the region of the amazon. Hecta re after facing the region of the amazon. Hectare after hectare of pristine forest, just going up in smoke. And coming up. The huge street party begins. More than a Million People are expected at Notting Hill Carnival this bank holiday weekend. Good afternoon. It was one of the most astonishing innings in the history of test match cricket. With england heading towards a humiliating defeat which would have seen australia retain the ashes, ben stokes hit an amazing centiry to give england an unlikely one wicket victory. After collapsing forjust 67 runs in the first innings, this time england needed 359 to clinch the game. That looked a long way off when stokes was joined by the last manjack leach, still needing 73 to win. Stokes then launched a stunning solo assault to win the game and bring the series level at 1 1. 0ur
World cup suffer a blow as they slump to a shock defeat against sri lanka at headingley. Life now gets much harderfor the hosts. Good morning. All quiet on the weather front, at least for today. Stormy days ahead and for some of us, hotter days. The full weekend forecast is on its way. Its saturday the june 22nd. Our top story. Borisjohnson is in the headlines once again this morning, this time over reports that police were called to his home in the early hours of friday morning because of a domestic disturbance. Mrjohnson and jeremy hunt are due to address Party Members in birmingham later today as part of their leadership bids. Our Political Correspondent Helena Wilkinson is in our london newsroom. Helena, what more do we know . We know police were called to his address. Just take us through what is known. We know this happened in the early hours of yesterday morning. This is a flat that mr johnson shows with his partner, carrie symons, and it follows reports from a neighbour who sai