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borisjohnson could face his biggest rebellion yet. also on the programme. a woman is found guilty of murdering 16 month old star hobson her girlfriend s daughter after months of physical abuse. and calling time on the wild west online, mps want big tech companies to be forced to take tougher action over online crimes and abuse. and coming up on the bbc news channel: the premier league says players and staff at all 20 clubs must be tested daily for coronavirus, after a record 42 positive tests were confirmed this week. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. england s chief medical officer, professor chris whitty, has warned that hospitals face a significant increase in the number of people being admitted with covid, as infections of the omicron variant double every two or three days. the uk has today recorded the highest daily number of new cases since 9th january. with close to 60,000. across scotland, people are now being urged to limit their socialising, with ....
they re very much so right now. let s go to rich edson in mcclean, very very with terry mcauliffe and his night to get his old job back as governor. rich? good afternoon. we re here at mcauliffe headquarters setting up for the big watch party event tonight. the polls close at 7:00 p.m. they say they re encouraged by the reports that they re hearing around the state as to where people are showing up on this election day. show me a pessimistic politician, we ll acknowledge something pessimistic on election day. it s a tough ask here. terry mcauliffe has had a quiet day. he showed up earliner falls church and met with a number of union supporters. he s been getting a boost from politicians in the democratic party from washington, congressional democrats and especially from president joe biden who campaigned with him last week and now from across the pond in europe he s doing so again today. i think we re going to win in virginia. you know, you re reporting it being clo ....
about these talks? reporter: fred, this is such a critical moment for democrats as they work throughout the weekend to try to broker a deal, reach an agreement that so far has been allusive to them. now, there is still this continued stalemate among house democrats. you have the moderates who want speaker of the house nancy pelosi to hold firm and hold that vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill on monday and then you have progressives in the house, they are pushing back about that. they want to tank the infrastructure bill, they have threatened to vote against it in mass until they can first get an agreement on their broader economic bill, that social spending bill $3.5 trillion bill and there so far has been no agreement from the senate over the contours of those that bill. now, speaker throwsy says it is her intention next week to pass both of those bills but bills, but at this moment the path forward is very, very unclear. today up here on capitol hill we ....
for refusing to produce company documents in a civil investigation in new york. tonight with the context, live from paris, georgina wright from the think tank, institut montaigne. ..and republican strategist rina shah is in washington. welcome to the programme. the white house view of the war in ukraine has gone through a complete metamorphosis since russia invaded. the language has become bolder, the military aid has expanded, and now there s a far more optimistic assessment of ukraine s prospects after two months of fighting. in poland after a visit to kyiv, the us secretary of state, anthony blinken, told reporters that russia is clearly failing in its war aims and that ukraine is succeeding. amid mounting frustration. russia s hit five railway stations in central and western ukraine five people killed and another 18 were injured. the russians are trying to degrade kyiv s military supply route, but with limited success. and there is more aid coming. alongside antony b ....
sitting across england and wales tomorrow, with colder conditions across the rest of the uk. we are likely to see icy stretches on untreated surfaces in northern ireland and scotland on friday morning. furthersouth ireland and scotland on friday morning. further south this band of wet weather pushes through east anglia and the morning. that clears away by about lunchtime and we are all in sunnier skies but the cold, north westerly wind blowing soap gusts up to 55 mph across the north west. that will take the edge of the temperatures, and it will be colder than in recent days, about three degrees, but feeling chilly when you add on the strength of the wind, even though you have a bit of sunshine. as we head into the weekend, the next area of low pressure moves in from the north west into saturday. so some rain initially for northern ireland and scotland, snow over higher ground. that drifts gradually further south over england and wales with milder conditions in the sout ....