thatis moment as well. it is a cold front that is easing the way but the tail end will return later this afternoon, but here is the window of fine weather for many, squally showers to the north west and accompanied by gusts of wind in excess of 60 miles an hour plus in places, but the fine weather across eastern scotland and down into northern england and north wales and the midlands accompanied by a milder field comic ii or 12 degrees, so get out and enjoy it if you can because the emphasis tonight is more wet weather to push up from the south, gradually moving north and some of it will be heavy across north wales and northern ireland in southern scotland as well, perhaps a few scattered showers in the east but here it stays largely dry, cloudy, but very mild through the night and overnight lows of only six up to nine celsius, so yes, the front has to sweep through and it will sweep through quite quickly because all of the isobars behind it, so blustery winds across the coun
hospital leaders warn the prime minister not to ease lockdown in england until services are less stretched. they say it may take another six weeks. good morning. what is the future of hard cash? with more people using contactless payments, there are calls on the government to protect access to coins and notes for the most vulnerable. back to their best in budapest. a much needed win for liverpool in the champions league gives an elated jurgen klopp the advantage after a difficult few weeks for the club. after thousands respond to the case of the mountain rescue volunteer badly injured helping two people who broke lockdown, we look at the couragous work of the teams. today we had band of rain moving west to east, clearing most but lingering in some areas, but i did sunshine and showers and a mild but windy day. it s wednesday the 17th of february. our top story. the family of captain sir tom moore have spoken for the first time about his final days before his death two weeks a
in such a way as to be irreversible. the united nations says it will raise the detention of princess latifa, the daughter of dubai s ruler, with the united arab emirates the uk says it, too, is concerned. the horrific trolling of a national hero the online messages which the family of captain sir tom moore say they hid from him. he was such a lovely parent. they took us camping and helped us out whenever they could. and we hearfrom bbc reporter cathy killick on how she s coped with the death of her parents from coronavirus and why good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. healthy, young volunteers will be infected with coronavirus to test vaccines and treatments in the world s first covid 19 human challenge study which will take place in the uk. the project has just got the go ahead from the uk s clinical trials ethics body. it could start within the next few weeks. 90 people aged between 18 and 30 will be exposed to the virus in a safe and controlled environment whi
and offered a time line and a return to something as normal. by the end of july, we ll have over 600 million doses. enough to vaccinate every single american. as my mother would say, with the grace of god and the goodwill of the neighbors that by next christmas, i think we ll be in a very different circumstance, god willing. than we are today. one of the most pressing questions nationwide, when can schools reopen? and on that, the president tried to clear up some confusion. your administration had set a goal to open the majority of schools in your first hundred days. you re now saying that means those schools may only be open for at least one day a week. no, that s not true. that s what was reported. that s not true. that was a mistake in the communication. but what i m talking about is, i said opening the majority of schools in k through 8th grade. because they re the easiest to open. the most needed to be open, in terms of the impact on children and families. having