To control the virus. Jet2 cancels all flights to spain, the Balearic Islands and the canary islands, with immediate effect. Some European Union countries say they will close their borders to most, or all, foreigners. And well be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers penny smith and benedicte paviot. Stay with us for that. Welcome to bbc news. Ten more people in the uk have died after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths in the uk to 21. Englands chief medical officer, professor chris whitty, said all of the latest to die were patients in at risk groups. The rise comes as the government draws up new plans, in response to the escalating outbreak. The total number of cases in the uk now stands at 1,140. Almost 38,000 people have been tested. To help tackle the spread of the virus, the government is to ask some of the uk biggest buisnesses to help build ventilators. The nhs will fund the use of 8,000 private hospital beds, at a cost of n
Threat to the public. To this end, we carried out two searches at addresses both in staffordshire and in the stoke on trent area. The Prime Minister says he wants longer sentences for violent offenders , and says the attack is proof serious criminals shouldnt be released from prison early. The practice of automatic Early Release, where we cut a sentence in half, and lets serious violent offenders out early, simply isnt working, and we have some very good evidence of how that isnt working, im afraid, in this case. But the mayor of london sadiq khan says ministers are to blame for reducing sentences for serious offenders. Judges used to have the power to give an indeterminate sentence to protect the public. And in other news, millions of commuters will have to pay an average of 2. 7 more for rail tickets in the new year. And england will face croatia in their opening game for the euro 2020, on 14th june. Good evening. One of the victims of yesterdays terror attack has been named as jack
Uncle americal to shoes and in soccer battered and bruised but ready for battle germanys shorthanded mens team host fell roots in the euro 2020 qualifier in just a few hours away and could book their place in the chart. Im called aspen welcome to the program a fiery anniversary today in france as yellow vest protesters mark one gear of their Grassroots Movement police turned Water Cannons on demonstrators in paris protesters also targeted a bank the yellow best actions peaked at the end of last year bringing hundreds of thousands of people into the streets to oppose high living costs and inequality the numbers have fallen since that. Lets get more now from correspondent lisa lewis shes in paris for us following this story lisa we saw that some of those violent images of the demonstrations so far today i mean 1st just give us a sense whats the situation like right now i mean how big are these protests and who is out in the streets today. Well there were dozens of protests in places acro
The installation of radar facility. A new hightech facility radar facility on top of Montara Mountain which is a regional effort were taking part in with other water and floodcontrol agencies in the bay area called the advanced quantitative precipitative information system, aqpi is the acronym for short. But the whole concept is to establish a Radar Network that can provide much better accuracy in terms of predictions of prescription in various parts of the bay area. What weve seen historically and recently is more extreme evens s and those are going to be significant for us to deal with as well as other agencies. Weve got a cooperative effort being largely funded from a grant to acquire radar facilities and then operate them in cooperation with National Oceananic and Atmospheric Administration and folks from Colorado State university. There are various agencies involved in the east bay for radar facility there. So these are being located at Strategic Points around the bay area. This i
Negative declaration fmnd , the mitigation monitoring and reporting program mmrp , and the findings as required by the California Environmental quality act ceqa for the Montara Mountain rainfall prediction and radio replacement project; approve Montara Mountain rainfall prediction and radio replacement project to install a weather radar and Communications Tower on Montara Mountain; adopt the required ceqa findings, fmnd and mmrp; and authorize the general manager to implement the project. This this is a sequa action that youre taking today to adopt the final mitigated declaration and Mitigation Monitoring Program as required under ceqa for the Montara Mountain rainfall prediction and radio replacement project. The real key of this project is the installation of radar facility. A new hightech facility radar facility on top of Montara Mountain which is a regional effort were taking part in with other water and floodcontrol agencies in the bay area called the advanced quantitative precipi