Good morning. Welcome to bbc news, im 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 mrjohnsons 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 take charge, and that we ferven
The un warns the coronavirus pandemic could almost double the number of people suffering from acute hunger. More details on president trumps 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 well be asking, how safe is it . Hello. Also today, were going to talk to British Companies who say they can help with sourcing and distributing ppe thats 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. Ministers have insisted it did
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 much with us so
Now on bbc news, its dateline london. Hello and welcome to dateline london. Im carrie gracie. This week another roller coaster of hopes and fears. This weekend, europe marked the 75th anniversary of the end of world war ii on european soil. This week lockdown, grieving, paralysis, not part of the original plans for celebration. A lot of fighting talk has been deployed in relation to covid 19 and a lot of talk about solidarity, too but are there real lessons on fighting or solidarity that the Second World War generation can teach us now . My guests on socially distant screens are guardian columnist. And a journalist from the new york times. Welcome to both of you. And in the studio, jo coburn, presenter of politics live. Would you start us off, nesrine, the uk this past week has reached the grim distinction of being the european country with the highest death toll, how did we get here . There is a short history and a long history. The short history is, obviously, the months and weeks of
And the tills are cleaned after every transaction. In a small way, its back to business as normal today. The safety of customers and staff remains paramount, even for the Garden Centre cat, pudding. Phil mackie, bbc news, worcester. Time for a look at the weather. Heres darren bett. A word of caution. It will be cold again tonight but gradually, over the next few days and nights temperatures should rise higher and again it looks dry for much of the country like today. Cloud tending to increase today and many have skies looking like this. The satellite shows how the cloud has bubbled up, producing showers mainly in the north east of england and north east scotla nd north east of england and north east scotland where it will be colder through the afternoon. Elsewhere temperature is 11 14. Sunshine at times. A cool breeze in southern parts of england. The cloud will melt away this evening. It will get cold overnight. Northern scotland seeing cloud and showers. Elsewhere the risk of a fros