president macron criticises borisjohnson over his proposals to tackle the crisis in the channel, saying he s not acting seriously. the french have cancelled talks with the uk home secretary this weekend. i m ben boulos live in dover. that escalation of the political crisis comes after the deaths of 27 people who were trying to cross the channel on wednesday. i ll have all the latest. four teenage boys are arrested on suspicion of murder after a 12 year old girl is stabbed to death in liverpool. mps will vote on plans that will see better support for people in england with down s syndrome in what could become the first law of its kind in the world. and coming up this hour. # we are family.# the multi award winning music producer,
the city centre in liverpool was busy with the christmas lights switched on just before it happened so the police think there might have been a lot of witnesses and they want those people or anybody who saw anything that might help the enquiry to come forward so they can get what they call justice for ava to come forward so they can get what they calljustice for ava white. the french interior minister says he ll no longer meet the uk home secretary this weekend after borisjohnson made a number of demands on france to tackle the crisis of people crossing the channel in small boats. priti patel was due to attend a meeting on sunday, after the deaths of of twenty seven people on wednesday. but france described as unacceptable a letter by mrjohnson, which outlined steps to prevent attempted crossings. my colleague ben boulos is following developments for us in dover. quite a change in the political language since you spoke to us yesterday. b. language since you spoke to us
following suit. scientists are said to be deeply concerned because the new variant could evade immunity. president macron criticises borisjohnson over his proposals to tackle the crisis in the channel, saying he s not acting seriously the french have cancelled talks with the uk home secretary this weekend. in the uk, a 12 year old girl dies following an incident in liverpool. four teenage boys are arrested on suspicion of murder. also coming up. shoppers are expected to splurge nearly £9 billion on what could be britain s biggest black friday yet. let s get more now on the emergence of a new coronavirus variant of serious concern which scientists fear could be more transmissible and better able to evade vaccines.
passengers know that they were going to have to cancel those flights because there is also a flight ban, it s not possible to travel between these countries and the uk from midday today until sunday morning. the travel industry trying to react and work out what this means for them but of course quite a lot of concern from the travel industry, on the one hand they want to make sure people are kept safe. infections are kept out, the variant is kept out. but there are worries that things have been going in one direction, everything opening up and suddenly things are closing down, it doesn t just mean there might be concerns about travel to these countries. i guess the industry is hopeful this does not mean they are going back into more travel restrictions in the future. . ~ into more travel restrictions in the future. ., ~ , ., in the uk a 12 year old girl has died after sustaining what s been described as catastrophic injuries in liverpool. ava white was with friends when she was assaul
assaulted is a couple of yards from here, a side street of one of the main shopping streets and police said they were called at 20 to nine last night and van ava collapsed on the ground with a passer by giving her first aid and ava was taken to alder hey children s hospital and despite the best efforts of paramedics she died and police in a statement have said that no parent should have to wait for the knock on the door to tell them that their child has died and two to s world has been torn apart. she was believed to be an altercation at the scene which resulted in her receiving catastrophic industries and a postmortem will be held to establish the cause of death. for teenagers from the toxteth area of liverpool have been arrested on suspicion of murder and between 13 and 32 years old and one is 15 years old and this happened at a time when