Life difficult for him to the next 24 life difficult for him to the next 2a months. Life difficult for him to the next 24 months. Being forced back to the drawing board once again, the second time, losing it at such an early stage too. They lost their leader the Tour De France and theyve come to the sick and grantor of the year in three stages and theyve lost a leader there, so, the team to receive the past few seasons commending these events, is now going hunting for stage wins or whatever they can get. Not a team like us that have a big budget, level of strong writers and its number they need. Officials needed to examine the photo finish to decide who won. Eventually Arnaud Demare on the right of the picture was given the victory, ahead of peter sagan and davide ballerini. Portugalsjoao almeida retained the overall lead. To the french open then with some familiar names in action today. But the focus is on one name you may not have heard of, argentinas Nadia Podoroska has made history
Nothing exceptional for this time of year. Tomorrow, quite a lot of cloud in the north east of scotland, still some showers further south particularly in the eastern half of england. The best sunshine in northern ireland, wales and the south west. Not quite as windy as it has been in the last couple of days but still pretty cool, 10 14 at best. Similar on friday, some fairly large areas of cloud around, potentially thick enough to squeeze out the odd spot of rain or light shower but equally, there will be some brighter spells with highs of 1113. Some brighter spells with highs of 11 13. Weekend looks predominantly dry, not always desperately sunny with a fair dry, not always desperately sunny withafairamount dry, not always desperately sunny with a fair amount of cloud and temperatures once again struggling, 13 or 1a degrees at best but a big change heading into next week because low pressure will take over, you can see frontal system is approaching and that brings the potential for so
This is bbc news. The headlines. The Prime Minister says the coronavirus pandemic must be a catalyst to speed up social and economic change in his Party Conference speech. After all weve been through, it isnt enough just to go back to normal. A damning report says the church of england failed, for decades, to protect children from sexual abuse preferring instead to protect its own reputation. President trump urges americans not to be afraid of covid, after leaving hospital. Dont let it dominate you. Dont be afraid of it. Youre going to beat it. We have the best medical equipment, we have the best medicines. Figures obtained by the bbc show that firms planned to cut nearly half a million jobs during the first
five months of the pandemic. And coming up well hear how red nose day will be plastic free after schoolchildren persuaded comic relief to switch to a natural alternative. Borisjohnson has delivered the closing speech of the virtual conservative Party Conference, adopting an upbeat
This is bbc news. The headlines at eight. A sharp rise in the number of people admitted to hospital with coronavirus. New restrictions for scotla nd coronavirus. New restrictions for scotland will be announced tomorrow. Nicola sturgeon says there will not be another full lockdown. Boris johnson tells the conservative party bought my First Virtual conference that the country will have a Bright Future of the pandemic. Even in the darkest moments, we can see the Bright Future ahead. Back in the white house, donald trump says hes feeling great but is criticised for playing down the seriousness of the
virus. He falsely claimed it was less d ea d ly virus. He falsely claimed it was less deadly in the then the flu. The church of england spent decades failing to protect children whod been sexually abused. And round british scientist Roger Penrose is one of the winners of the nobel prize for physics for his research into black holes. Good evening. Welcome to bbc news. The number of people being
Who are weary also a lot of people who are weary of lockdown and i think looking for hope and optimism. His hope about defeating the virus, it may not be that simple but i can see it being somewhat compelling. Thats why i think we are quite right to not write him out of the race too eagerly. Which brings us onto the daily mail. Worlds top scientists rage against lockdown. A debate thats been had right around the uk. I think right around the world about what the balance is between lives and the economy. And those people who really are at risk. Just talk us through this report. Do you remember all those statements from the government right at the start of all this . Were following the science, we are following the science. Its rather like my early economics classes which is to say well, lets ta ke classes which is to say well, lets take the economic advice. The problem is, there are a lot of scientific views. They are lots of
economist views. And balancing those views is a real problem f