Liverpool move to plug a hole in their defence. The premier League Champions bring in ben davies from preston, as well as a loan signing on a quiet transfer deadline day. Its not quite with the weather today, and Weather Warning for heavy snow across parts of Northern England. Valid until lunchtime. Widely three to eight centimetres above 200 metres we can easily see 15 centimetres to Sow Destruction is likely. All the details later in the programme. Its tuesday the 2nd of february. Our top story. Urgent tests are being offered to 80,000 people in england after cases of a new South African coronavirus variant were found, with no links to travel. People across eight areas are being asked to take tests, whether they have symptoms or not, after the government said the uk must Come Down Hard on the variant. Andy moore reports. 10,000 Home Testing Kits delivered to a fire station in woking in surrey. From today, the operation to deliver them door to door will begin. Across england, 80,000 p
Could be a fire risk. A warning that children in refugee camps on the greek island of lesbos increasingly feel life isnt worth living we have a special report. Firefighters in australia are battling to prevent raging bushfires from threatening a major power station in New South Wales. And how a pop star came to the aid of a driver being shunted sideways by a lorry. And coming up on bbc news, several top clubs in italy condemn a serie a anti Racism Campaign which features monkeys with painted faces. Anti Discrimination Group fare have called it a sickjoke. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Borisjohnson has held his first Cabinet Meeting since his election victory and promised to pass a law ruling out any extension to the Brexit Process beyond the end of next year. The uk is scheduled to leave the eu onjanuary 31st, and enter a transition period which is due to conclude next december, but that can be extended for up to two years if talks arent complete. Critics say that
The judge says he will always be a danger to society. And russia is banned again from all major Sports Events for doping, this time forfour years. And coming up on bbc news arsenal and west ham look to get their seasons back on track in the premier league. Who will have the edge . Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. At least five people have been killed and dozens more are assumed dead after a volcano erupted off the coast of new zealand. Live images from the volcano showed a group of visitors inside the crater before the picture suddenly went dark. Up to 50 people are believed to have been on the island at the time 23 have been rescued. Fears of furter eruptions means Emergency Service arent able to get to the island. Theyve flown over it and say there is no sign of survivors. White island is new zealands most active volcano. Its in the bay of plenty around 30miles off the coast of the port of whakatane on the north island. Our correspondent Shaimaa Khalil is there. Fiona
Society. And russia is banned again from all major sporting events for doping this time, the band will last for years. And coming up at 8 30pm, a question time special with an audience entirely made up of under 30. Thats live on bbc one in the news channel at 8 30pm. Hello, good evening to you. If youre just joining hello, good evening to you. If yourejustjoining us, welcome to bbc news. At least five people have been killed and eight more are missing assumed dead after a volcano erupted off the coast of new zealand. Live images from the volcano showed a group of visitors the british high commissioner, laura clark, has announced that teams are offering assistance. Up to 50 people are believed to have been on the island at the time live images from the volcano showed a group of visitors inside the crater before the picture suddenly went dark. Up to 50 people are believed to have been on the island at the time 23 have been rescued. Fears of further eruptions means Emergency Services aren
On wednesday, house of representatives is almost certain to vote in favour of impeaching President Trump. Thats whats prompted an extraordinary letter from the president to the speaker of the house of represantatives. From the president to the speaker of the house of representatives. It includes baseless allegations, for example. Theres massive exaggeration too. He also accuses democrats of. If the house votes in favour of impeachment, there will be a trial in the upper house of congress, the senate, and today the House Rules Committee has been meeting to establish the rules that will govern that process. The president is facing two articles of impeachment. The chair of the committee set out the first one. President trump withheld congressionally approved a to the ukraine. Not to fight corruption, but to extract a personal political favour. President trump refused to meet with ukraines president until he completed the scheme. The second charge against president is obstructing congress