This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Plans for a huge increase in covid testing in britain. Operation moonshot aims to do ten million daily tests by early next year. The idea is to have a test which would be carried out at the location, a bit like a pregnancy test that provides a very quick result, and that would completely revolutionise things. Senior uk ministers will hold emergency talks with eu officials later over the governments plan to override parts of the brexit Withdrawal Agreement. Thousands of migrants desperately seek shelter after a camp on the greek island of lesbos was destroyed by fire. Three people die as wildfires continue to rage in california, which is in the middle of a 20 year mega drought. Wildlife populations are plummeting across the world according to a stark new report from the World Wide Fund for nature. Hello and welcome if you re the world, and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and ac
Despite pressure to toughen the restrictions over christmas mixing theres to be no formal change to the relaxation of covid rules. This is bbc news with the latest the Prime Minister says hell stick to the rules allowing households headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. To meet over the five day festive window but issues stronger guidance to families. Sterner warnings about the dangers of christmas socialising will be we do think its absolutely vital issued by the four uk nations later that people should at this very, but the rules allowing three households to meet are expected to remain. Very tricky time, exercise a high its not for government to tell people exactly degree of personal responsibility. How to handle the situation, but it is to offer them clear guidance. Here we go again, mr speaker, ignoring the medical advice, last orders in london as it moves and we know where that leads because weve seen what happened to tougher tier 3 restrictions in the last nine mon
Hello, youre watching afternoon live, im simon mccoy. Today at 2. Released days after serving half his sentence and under surveillance, as questions are asked about why a terrorist was free to stab victims in london. The government says it will act. The anomaly we need to clear up is the process by which some people are still coming out under automatic Early Release without any kind of scrutiny or parole system. Borisjohnson says the uk wont bind itself to eu rules in order to get a trade deal by the end of the year. Built in just eight days a 1000 bed hospital opens in wuhan for coronavirus patitents as one of the passengers who landed in the uk from wuhan is taken ill and escorted to hospital. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport. Everyone is still talking about the super bowl and how the Kansas City Chiefs produced such an outrageous comeback to the biggest prize in the sport for the first time. And we have news of wind . Yes, you can see the choppy seas and we have some sever
This is bbc news. Im victoria derbyshire. Here are the headlines from the uk and around the world. After almost six months at home, its back to school for millions more children in england and wales. Because we have been at home for so long, so it is very nice that we are able to come back to school and find new friends and things like that. Quite nervous because its my first day but i feel like it will be, like, nice meeting new people. Lockdown restrictions in the uk, affecting more than a Million People in parts of Greater Manchester, lancashire and West Yorkshire are eased, despite strong local opposition. But hundreds of thousands of people in glasgow and surrounding areas are now living under new coronavirus restrictions. And if youre in glasgow or in Greater Manchester, how are you reacting to the latest change in rules . Let me know. 1a people go on trial, five years after the deadly attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in paris. The coronavirus pandemic plunges austr
Translation it would be a lot more acceptable to have 80 of the catch in british waters rather than nothing at all. 60 of the catch . Ah, that is not viable. But if there is some sort of financial compensation, maybe. At boulognes markets, buyers choose fish for french restaurant tables. Three quarters of britains catch is sold to the eu. No deal risks a sort of mutually assured destruction for fisherman on both sides of the channel. Will navigation of these contested waters prove easier in boulogne than in brussels . Lucy williamson, bbc news, boulogne. A 10 year old boy from devon has raised more than 16 thousand pounds after sleeping outside in a tent for more than 200 nights. The tent was left to max woosey by his 74 year old friend and neighbour rick, who died in february. The money which max has raised will be going to the north devon hospice that cared for rick and his wife
in theirfinal days. Time for a look at the weather. A fairly quiet few days ahead but not always as sunny