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no one bbc news, now on bbc news, dateline london. hello, and welcome to the programme that brings together some of the uk s leading commentators and foreign correspondents whose stories are published back home dateline london. this week, is coronavirus extinguishing not only lives and jobs but also our appetite for polarised populist politics? within days, if the polls are right, we could see the end of the extraordinary trump era. here in the uk, borisjohnson‘s conservative party is five points behind in one poll and jeremy corbyn, labour s former leader has been suspended from the party. amidst a crisis, do we crave the conventional politics and duller virtues of competence and compassion rather than the swagger and promise of the populist? after the 2008 financial crisis, angela merkel in germany survived whilst other incumbent governments fell. is that a template for how politics will settle after covid 19? joining me this week ned temko from christian scien ....
hello, and welcome to the programme that brings together some of the uk s leading commentators and foreign correspondents whose stories are published back home dateline london. this week, is coronavirus extinguishing not only lives and jobs but also our appetite for polarised populist politics? within days, if the polls are right, we could see the end of the extraordinary trump era. here in the uk, borisjohnson‘s conservative party is five points behind in one poll, and jeremy corbyn, labour s former leader, has been suspended from the party. amidst a crisis, do we crave the conventional politics and duller virtues of competence and compassion rather than the swagger and promise of the populist? after the 2008 financial crisis, angela merkel in germany survived whilst other incumbent governments fell. is that a template for how politics will settle after covid 19? joining me this week ned temko from christian science monitor and jeffrey kofman, the north american wr ....
good morning. welcome to bbc news, i m victoria derbyshire. here are are the headlines this tuesday morning: the prime minister has spent the night in an intensive care unit being treated for coronovirus after his symptoms worsened yesterday evening. borisjohnson is at st thomas‘ hospital in london, where he was admitted on sunday. the prime minister is in intensive care, being looked after by his medical team, receiving the very, very best care from the team at st thomas‘, and our hopes and prayers are with him and with his family. the foreign secretary is standing in for the prime minister where necessary the queen is being kept informed about mrjohnson‘s health we have a prime minister who, as somebody said, is first amongst equals. the rest of those equals are still in post, and dominic raab is one of them, and he will lead them through this using the same policy positions and the same decision making process, until boris is able to step back up again and ta ....
the un warns the coronavirus pandemic could almost double the number of people suffering from acute hunger. more details on president trump s plan to temporarily halt immigration into the united states he says restrictions will last for at least 60 days. and for many of us in lockdown, exercising outdoors offers a chance to clear the cobwebs, but we ll be asking, how safe is it? hello. also today, we re going to talk to british companies who say they can help with sourcing and distributing ppe that s coming up in 15 minutes. but first, an raf plane carrying personal protective equipment for nhs workers has arrived in the uk. the shipment from turkey, including 400,000 surgical gowns, arrived in the early hours of the morning. it had orginally been due to arrive on sunday but suffered a series of delays. meanwhile, the british government is facing more questions over the confusion overjoining an eu scheme to bulk buy potentially life saving medical equipment. minis ....
has changed and is changeable once again. we had sunshine earlier in kent but no rain bearing down. it was a wet morning in wales but now the sun is out. so very changeable, some welcome rain amount at times with low pressure in charge. and also something drier and brighter for a time also something drier and brighter fora time in also something drier and brighter for a time in those gaps. this afternoon the rain advancing across more of northern and eastern england, northern ireland and southern scotland. wales in the sunshine but further showers later this afternoon. temperatures in the mid to low teens, such average for the time of year and quite breezy especially when we get the rain. the rain pushes north across scotland over night with further heavy downpours pushing to england, wales, northern ireland and southern scotland. all of that going on temperatures not going down too far, mid to high single figures as we start the day tomorrow. the pressure is still very ....