two passenger trains have collided in pakistan killing at least 30 people. to delay or not to delay? it s a week to go until a decision is made on whether to lift the remaining lockdown restrictions in england. a cleaner, greenerform of transport or a menace to motorists? electric scooters are introduced in parts of london from today. buckingham palace says the queen is delighted by the news the duke and duchess of sussex have had a second child lilibet diana mountbatten windsor. brighton defender ben wright gets the last spot in gareth southgate s england squad for the euros. and the bafta goes to michaela coel. and michaela coel is the big winner at the tv baftas, winning two awards for her drama i may destroy you, which is based on her own experience of being sexually assaulted. good morning. just days before he hosts the g7 summit of world leaders in cornwall, the prime minister is facing a rebellion in the commons over the government s cut to the overseas aid budge
come under the spotlight. and president biden is in kentucky meeting some of those affected by what the governor says are the worst tornadoes ever seen there. we start in the uk which has recorded its highest number of daily covid infections since the start of the pandemic. here s prime minister borisjohnson. if omicron continues to building across the whole of our united kingdom with over covid 19 cases today, the highest ever daily number of reported. and the doubling rate of omicron in some regions is now down to less than two days and i m afraid we re also seeing the inevitable increase in hospitalisations, up by 10% nationally week on week and up by almost a third in london. so more than 78 and a half thousand new cases in the past 2a hours recorded in the uk. that s 10 thousand more than the previous record injanuary. but while cases are at a record high (ani)the number of deaths the number of deaths 165 in the past 2a hours is significantly lower than during th
emphatically. so they are the underdogs, but expect plenty of drama before we find out the winners on sunday, ben. drama before we find out the winners on sunday. ben- very much indeed. nice and sunny there. let s find out what the weather is like from chris fox. thank you. this was cornwall earlier this morning, the weather changing our two hour almost. they ve been low cloud, missed and mark. it will be one of those days across the west of the uk with extensive cloud. mist and murk. to eastern wales, that is where the best of the breaks in the cloud will continue to be and we will have some sunshine. even where it says cloudy we are on the mild side. but in the best of the sunshine we could see highs of 24. overnight tonight, if anything it will turn quite murky widely across western areas, particularly western england, southern england and wales, fog patches around the cuts as well. not much variation given the cloud, 13-15 not much variation given the cloud, 13 15 tem
in south africa for a building that has been taken over by squatters and undocumented immigrants. it has been described as one of the worst fire incidents in the city s recent history. the head of the emergency services injohannesburg says the cause of the fire is currently unclear. groups of people gathered outside the burnt building waiting fair use of their loved ones. our correspondent reports, and a warning that you may find her report distressing. the worst imaginable noise to wake up to people screaming, fire, fire, fire, in a building housing hundreds of people. residents trapped inside by a locked gate, unable to escape. their bodies now piled up. at least 12 children among the dead. i was watching out the window, all the buidling was fire, so i decided myself tojump first. ijumped down, my wife throw for me a baby, i catch him. i tell him to tie a bed sheet, she came down it, i catch. relief and shock etched on the faces of those who managed to escape, their hom