in london, us secretary of state antony blinken accuses china of acting more aggressively abroad and more repressively at home. and why singer billie eilish has received millions of likes for images posted on social media, with fans loving her new look. hello and welcome to the programme. there s been condemnation of the clashes between around 200 manchester united fans and police as the supporters called for the club s american owners to go. two police officers were injured as fans got into the old trafford ground and stormed the pitch ahead of the match against liverpool. it s the first time an english premier league match has been postponed because of demonstrations by fans. 0ur sports correspondent joe wilson reports from old trafford. all chant: we want glazer out! the concourse outside old trafford where protesters were expected to congregate. all chant. ..to voice their continued opposition to the ownership of manchester united by the glazer family. some protesters soo
at the week in parliament. hello there, and welcome to the week in parliament. coming up: more questions for borisjohnson over who paid for the revamp of his downing street flat. don t the british people deserve a prime minister they can trust and a government that isn t mired in sleaze, cronyism and scandal? but the prime minister insists he picked up the bill. he should know that i paid for downing street refurbishment personally, mr speaker. also on this programme: fresh demands by help for india as it struggles with its covid crisis. and peers fail in an attempt to stop the cost of fire safety work being passed on to leaseholders. here we are today, with perhaps a million of our fellow citizens being thrown to the ravages of financial bankruptcy. but first, it s been dubbed cash curtains, the row over just who fitted the initial bill for the revamp of the prime minister s downing street flat has daubed borisjohnson all week. the news that the election watchdog was launchi
contact with someone who s tested positive, you may receive this a message from test and trace saying you must self isolate for ten days. but this could soon change. a new study, backed by the government, is going to trial giving close contacts rapid lateral flow tests every morning, for seven days. results take about 30 minutes, and if they re negative, they can go about their lives as usual. rapid tests are considered less sensitive compared to pcr ones, which are processed in a lab, but scientists hope they can still play an important role in tackling the virus. we will also ask participants to take a pcr test at the beginning of the seven day period and at the end of the seven day period, and also if they test positive at any time to confirm the result, and this will help us really understand, you know, the effectiveness of this approach. there are also hopes this study could help people who ve struggled to self isolate, particularly those who are unable to work from ho
borisjohnson and his fiancee, carrie symonds, carried out renovations on their private residence above number 11. the total cost of the works isn t known, but it s reported to be well above the annual public grant of £30,000 that is available to spend on the flat. before turning to that row, sir keir starmer brought up another embarrassing headline comments borisjohnson is said to have made ahead of imposing a second lockdown in england. mr speaker, it was reported this week, including in the daily mail, the bbc, and itv, backed up by numerous sources, that at the end of october, the prime minister said he would rather have, i quote, bodies piled high than implement another lockdown. can the prime minister tell the house categorically, yes or no, did he make those remarks or remarks to that effect? prime minister. no, mrspeaker. and, i think what i think the right honourable gentleman is a lawyer, i am given to understand, and i think that if he s going to repeat alle
of scotland through the day. temperatures 7 8 in the south, 9 10 further north. into the afternoon and evening hours, we ll start to see that rain pushing a little bit further south. overnight, rain and cloudy conditions work in across northern england. further south across england and wales you keep the clearer skies tonight, so another cold night to come with a touch of frost here in the south first thing monday morning. milder conditions from the word go across scotland, northern england and northern ireland, with patchy outbreaks of rain here lasting on and off through monday. a bit more sunshine for the north of scotland and dry and brighter conditions holding on further south across england and wales. temperatures on monday around about 9 10 degrees. hello, this is bbc news with ben brown. the headlines. the british iranian woman nazanin zaghari ratcliffe imprisoned in iran has had her ankle tag removed, after her sentence came to an end. however, a new court case again