Now lets go over to westminster and join that bbc special on the budget with andrew neil. It is budget day, thejohnson government unveils its new plans, with special emphasis on its new voters in the midlands and the north. But for a rookie chancellor, only 28 days in the job, the north. But for a rookie chancellor, only 28 days in thejob, the biggest challenge is the growing Economic Impact of the coronavirus, and what he can do to vaccinate the economy from it. With me for this politics live budget special Political Editor laura kuennssberg, Business Editor simonjack, and economics editor faisal islam. It was meant to be the levelling up budget, to the regions and people that have not done well in the past decade but looks set to be the coronavirus budget. This morning he bank of england has already announced an emergency cut in Interest Rates. The bank of englands role is to help uk businesses and households manage through an economic shock that could prove large and sharp. Meanwhil
The latest headlines for you from bbc news. President trump tries to calm fears of the coronavirus, telling people the risk remains very low. He has put american Vice President mike pence in charge. He says of the 15 people there diagnosed with the infection, only one is still in hospital. International efforts to contain the coronavirus outbreak intensify. More new cases are reported outside of china than inside. The virus has been detected in almost a0 countries, the World Health Organization says it is deeply concerned. Indias Prime Minister calls for calm as at least 27 people were killed in clashes over the citizenship law in delhi. The violence first broke out between people for and against the controversial new citizenship law. Muslim residents have been falling their homes and businesses fleeing. You are up to date on the headlines. Time for wednesday in parliament. Hello again, and welcome to wednesday in parliament as Jeremy Corbyn attacks Boris Johnson over his response to f
Said centres around the country. He said £1. 575 centres around the country. He said £1. 575 billion the government has set aside to help the arts out through this terrible times, he said a lot of that money should not go to the buildings in london, it should go to regional theatres and very specifically to regional theatres, to give them the capacity to put any necessary measures like cleaning and sanitising that have allowed them to welcome to welcome audiences again, to operate and to make a contribution to the community. This isa contribution to the community. This is a story that is actually much bigger than theatre. Time for a look at the weather. Heres nick miller. A much brighter day for some of us today. This picture is from northumberland. On the satellite clinic yesterday, so much clout. There are big breaks in the cloud, east of england, eastern scotland and parts of wales as well. The
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Tonight at ten, the worst recession in more than three centuries as the uk counts the cost of fighting the pandemic. The chancellor tells mps that the uk is having to take on record borrowing, the highest ever in peacetime. Our Health Emergency is not yet over. And our economic emergency has only just begun. In its response to this pandemic the conservative government has wasted and mismanaged public finances on an industrial scale. And unemployment is set to rise to two and a half million next year, we speak to young people in the north west of england. And well have more on the controversial decision to scale back the uks spending on foreign aid. Also tonight. Going at them again. Brilliant run by Maradona Diego maradona, world cup winner and, for many the best footballer in history, has died at the age of 60. The duchess of sussex talks of the unbearable grief she felt, when she suffered a miscarriage earlier this year. And the first black coach to head british athletics talks about
Hello, welcome to bbc news im victoria derbyshire, bringing you the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Police in hong kong use tear gas and a water cannon and arrest 30 democracy protestors, as chinas new National Security law comes into force. Its a bit of a weird stand off at this moment with the riot police here and people walking away, and some of the police are leaving as well. The water cannon truck has just been doing rounds. More uk job losses because of coronavirus 5,000 jobs are under threat at upper crust and 1,700 jobs are to go at airbus uk. The us buys up nearly all stocks for the next three months of the drug remdesivir one of the only drugs shown to work against covid 19. Councils in england will get Real Time Data on coronavirus cases in their areas, after signing a data sharing agreement with Public Health england. It follows criticism over how long it took to get data in leicester. And remembering the man who shouldve been englands first bla