Liverpool move to plug a hole in their defence. The premier League Champions bring in ben davies from preston, as well as a loan signing on a quiet transfer deadline day. Its not quite with the weather today, and Weather Warning for heavy snow across parts of Northern England. Valid until lunchtime. Widely three to eight centimetres above 200 metres we can easily see 15 centimetres to Sow Destruction is likely. All the details later in the programme. Its tuesday the 2nd of february. Our top story. Urgent tests are being offered to 80,000 people in england after cases of a new South African coronavirus variant were found, with no links to travel. People across eight areas are being asked to take tests, whether they have symptoms or not, after the government said the uk must Come Down Hard on the variant. Andy moore reports. 10,000 Home Testing Kits delivered to a fire station in woking in surrey. From today, the operation to deliver them door to door will begin. Across england, 80,000 p
Transit and sanitation will continue. So your garbage will be picked up. Police officers will be out there on the front line. Our fire safety officials and others. Also Grocery Stores and pharmacies and banks and gas stations will remain open. An astounding clampdown on life as we know it here in the bay area. Good evening, everyone. Im frank somerville. Im julie haener. The coronavirus is changing everyday life, where we go, if we work, the things we buy, things education, person to person interactions and financial stability. On wall street today stocks took another blow over fears of a recession. The dow plunged more than 12 , nearly 3,000 points, its largest point drop ever. Nasdaq fell 970 and the s p lost 324. Emergency action by the fed to lower Interest Rates and buy treasuries and mortgagebacked securities was not enough to stop the slide. Tonight Governor Newsom went on facebook to announce a number of new measures to help people in california get through this crisis includin
Are in the stands, as their new sides went head to head at goodison. And, learning from a great. Britains Daniel Dubois has the ear of frank bruno as he moves towards a shot at a heavyweight title. He fights in london tonight. We start tonight with the death of Martin Peters, one of englands heroes of 66. He was a west ham legend, and the club say that he passed away peacfully this morning at the age of 76, after a long illness. Geoff hurst stole the headlines with his hat trick in the 1966 world cup final, but for a while it looked like Martin Peters goal might win it before west germany equalised. Peters also won honours at west ham and spurs in a career that spanned more than 20 years. Natalie pirks looks back at his life. With all eyes on hurst, the danger from Martin Peters went unnoticed. It is a goal peters Little Wonder they called him the ghost. Theres Martin Peters, the man who scored the goal which could well win the world cup for england. It didnt of course, geoff hurst cla
A catastrophic fire warning is issued for parts of eastern australia including sydney amid record breaking temperatures following months of severe drought. These are very difficult and trying times, were now up to day 105 of this bushfire emergency across New South Wales and the community really is going to have to stay alert and understand what theyre going to do if threatened by fires. The government approves the takeover of uk defence and aerospace specialist, cobham, by an american company. A man who confronted the fishmongers hall attacker, with a narwal tusk, describes his deep hurt that he couldnt save the two people who died. Prince philip has spent day in hospital in london, to be treated for whats being described as a pre existing condition. Nearly 90 flood warnings in place across england and the situation could get worse, with heavy rain forecast overnight. Now on bbc news its time for sportsday. Hello and welcome to sportsday, with me Lizzie Greenwood and gavin ramjaun. Th
Two months after a ba flight filled with smoke, and was forced to make an emergency landing, passengers tell the bbc theyre still suffering from breathing difficulties. The veteran labour mp Dame Louise Ellman quits the party after 55 years saying Jeremy Corbyn is not fit to be Prime Minister. Also coming up a new way of detecting arthritis in knees moves a step closer. Researchers use High Frequency sound monitoring to help their diagnosis. And in sport, american boxer patrick day has died aged 27 four days after suffering a brain injury in a fight against Charles Conwell. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. Borisjohnson is expected to travel to brussels in the coming hours where hes hoping to finalise a brexit deal with eu leaders. But his chances of that deal being supported at westminster have this morning been dealt a severe blow by the democratic unionist party. The dup said it couldnt accept the plans as things stand. Its understood that the new text of the agreement