would go on working, as part of a daily testing pilot scheme prompting condemnation from labour. hundreds of thousands of people are having to self isolate because of the prime minister s reckless decisions. he expects them to follow the rules. as soon as the rules apply to him, what does he do? he tries to wriggle out. we did look briefly at the idea of cars taking part in the pilot scheme which allows people to test daily, but i think it is far more important that everybody sticks to the same rules. we ll be asking what the government s handling of this might do to public confidence, as england prepares to drop most legal covid restrictions in a matter of hours. also on the programme. more rain and flooding hits western europe. germany s chancellor angela merkel calls the devastation surreal . feelings run high in tokyo, with protests against the olympic games as athletes and staff test positive for covid. hamilton is going to try again! and lewis hamilton wins the bri
family in honduras. the tokyo olympics get under way this week but there s already a growing number of athletes and officials testing covid positive, or being forced to self isolate. in the olympic village, two players and a coach for the south africa men s football team have the virus. eight members of team gb athletics team are also in isolation after being in close contact with positive cases. and us tennis player coco gauff has announced she s not going to tokyo after testing positive. despite the worsening covid situation and strong public opposition to the games, the governor of tokyo has told the bbc it would have been worse to cancel. from tokyo, rupert wingfield hayes reports. with five days to go, the anti olympic protests are not going away. this one is outside the hotel where ioc president thomas bach is staying. their message to him is pretty blunt. over at the olympic village, three covid cases have now been confirmed. across the city, 1,400 new cases on saturda
i m bianca nobilo. and i m max foster. we re following this breaking news. a tragic scene unfolding at a building in johannesburg, south africa where fire has claimed at least 63 lives. we re to workers are conducting recovery operations. the flames proper out around 1:30 a.m. local time presumably while many inside were asleep. a spokesperson says the five-story building were filled with hundreds of settlements and we re hearing disturbing details about what theendured. let s go straight to david mckenzie. reporter: a terrible scene here. if we look at what is happening, there are police, firefighters. the building is just over my right shoulder. and in the early hours this morning maybe around 2w12:30 or 1:00, witnesses say the fire spread rapidly. and people were jumping out to try to escape the inferno. local administrators are saying that there were many children amongst those burnt in the fire. more than 60 people now dead and forensic teams were passing by our
the boss of british gas joins us to talk about that, and to answer your questions. jordan henderson cuts short his stay in saudi arabia. the england midfielder has arrived in amsterdam tojoin struggling dutch giants ajax afterjust 19 games in the middle east. cold today. could it change at the weekend? we are about to go from snow to storms. all the details in breakfast. the indian steel company, tata, will confirm plans today to cut up to 3,000 jobs in the uk. most are expected to be at britain s biggest steelworks in port talbot, at britain s biggest where two coal fired furnaces are set to be closed. unions called it a crushing blow and the worst case scenario. 0ur reporter, lucy vladev, has more. after years of questions about the future of steel making, the answers being provided for workers here are about as bad as they get. both blast furnaces in port talbot will close, as part of major changes to the way tata produces steel. jobs will go across the uk, but south w
The time period for obtaining a new electricity connection under the Rules has been reduced from seven days to three days in metropolitan areas, from fifteen days to seven days in other municipal areas, and from thirty days to fifteen days in rural areas.