Withdrawal agreement, as the two sides meet in london. The roof of a school bus is sheared off in a crash in hampshire. Three children are in hospital with serious injuries. And wildlife is dying out at a rate never seen in Human History according to a stark new report from the World Wide Fund for nature. Hello. Good afternoon. The Health Secretary matt hancock has defended the governments ambition to carry out millions of coronavirus tests every day. Leaked official documents show that the Prime Ministers so called Moonshot Programme aims to carry out three million tests a day by december, and up to ten million early next year. Experts have expressed concerns about Laboratory Capacity and say the technology for rapid tests doesnt yet exist. It comes as the number of positive tests jumped 43 in one week, at the end of last month. Dominic hughes reports. Is mass testing for coronavirus the key to opening up the economy, and is it even possible . These are the questions being asked in th
To increase the pressure on their manager. It wouldnt be a lockdown without captain tom. Hes back with a new Walking Campaign to help the lonely. Good morning. Mr and good morning. Mrand wagnerto good morning. Mr and wagner to watch out for this morning, particularly in southern areas but there will be some brightness and i will put that altogether in about ten minutes and fog to watch out for. Its thursday the 5th november. Our top story. The result of the us election remains in the balance, as votes continue to be counted in key battleground states. This joe biden is inching closer to victory after claiming michigan overnight, with reports suggesting he will take more key states today. But the Trump Campaign is taking legal action in several areas, calling for counts to be stopped as our north america correspondent, ben wright reports. There are still millions of votes to count, and this president ial race is not decided. In georgia, donald trump kept the narrowest of leads overjoe b
Liverpool list of injuries and compare that list of injuries with what is the best liverpool team. West brom go to anfield next weekend but not with their manager slaven bilic whos been sacked after 18 months in charge. The clubs second from bottom in the premier league with just one win all season. But they did put in a good performance last night, getting a 1 1 draw at manchester city. In a statement west brom thanked bilic and his staff for achieving promotion last season. Theyre not commenting on his replacement, with Sam Allardyce amongst the names in contention to takeover at the hawthorns. Trials of concussion substitutes have been approved by footballs lawmakers ifab this afternoon. It means from next month clubs could get an additional substitution for incidents like this. You might remember wolves striker rauljiminez suffered a fractured skull in a clash of heads with arsenals david luiz, who carried on playing for a while,after being treated on the touchline. Its set to be i
I will take the difficult decisions, not hand them over to individuals. And the r number across the uk has gone up, another indication of the rapid rise in covid cases. Also on the programme. Headteachers say the last minute demand for the testing of secondary schoolchildren across england, is a shambles. The chief constable of Greater Manchester police says hes stepping down, after his force is placed in special measures. A brief visit to the Eu Parliament for the uks chief brexit negotiator, as the two sides continue to try to hammer out a trade deal. Like father like son. Wayne rooney announces his 11 year old has signed with manchester united. Good evening. The reproduction rate of coronavirus across the uk is going up again. The r number now stands at1. 1 to1. 2, which means that every ten people will on average infect between 11 and 12 other people increasing the spread of the virus. The governments advisory commikttee sage says this represents the average situation over the past
Hours. And there is continued disruption in dover. The borders have reopened with france but thousands of lorry drivers are still waiting for their covid tests. Hello, welcome to bbc news. In the last half an hour matt hancock held a News Conference in downing street to confirm more areas of england will move into tier 4, the highest level of coronavirus restrictions. People must stay at home, non essential retail is closed and movement in or out of the area isnt allowed. Lets recap the main points. The Health Secretary said from boxing day, norfolk, suffolk, cambridgeshire and essex would move into ts four along with oxfordshire, waverly and surrey and hampshire, including portsmouth and southampton, but excluding the new forest. More areas of england will move into tier 3, bristol, somerset, gloucestershire, the isle of wight, the new forest, cheshire and warrington. Matt hancock also said two new cases of another new variant of coronavirus had been detected in the uk, both are conta