The rising number of Coronavirus Infections after borisjohnson admitted a second wave of the virus was under way. The Prime Minister is considering tighter restrictions in england, as figures show the number of infections is doubling roughly every week. Heres our Political Correspondent Jonathan Blake. Closing time came early in newcastle last night. Much of the north east of england now under tighter restrictions, to slow the spread of coronavirus. Actually, people are going to go out during the day now, instead of at night, so its not really going to change anything. Its good cause its saving peoples lives, bad because its impacting my nights out so far, the government has used local lockdowns to try to contain covid 19 but, yesterday, borisjohnson said stricter rules across england may be needed, and ministers admit nothing is being ruled out. I think what the Prime Minister said was, weve got to be really careful about making sure that we can keep the r rate down, the transmission
Church in northern pakistan at least 78 are dead. Well have the latest on the progress on typhoon usagi as it bears down on southern china. Hello. In the last few hours there has been increased military activity at a Shopping Center near kenya. Its been more than 30 hours since attackers claiming to be from alshabab stormed the westgate mall. 59 have been killed and dozens of hostages are thought to be inside. Military reinforcements are sent in. They say their priority is to rescue the civilians still inside the mall. The attackers have several hostages. President uhuru kenyetta and his political opponents the former Prime Minister raila odinga and others addressed the nation and called for calm. They asked the International Community not to issue travel warnings for kenya, and had their own warning for the attackers in the mall. They shall not get away with their despicable and beastly acts. The cowardly perpetrators now cornered in the building, we will punish the master minds swift