Why have black and asian their 90 minute session. People suffered more from the coronavirus ghislaine maxwell, a new report looks the former girlfriend at the key factors. Of the convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein, denies witnessing flex and looking any inappropriate activities like all of my boys. Hes done glastonbury, involving him with underage girls. Also in the programme. He supported black students, the British Government unveils a bigger relief package to support those hit by covid now stormzy is starring restrictions after an angry in a video game. Response from businesses fighting to survive. Well hear from one of them. Hello, good evening. Less than a month after he announced the job support scheme, the chancellor rishi sunak has had to announce a substantial revision. It follows intense pressure from businesses, especially those in tier 2, who complained that, though their income was hit hard, they were not getting anything like enough help. Mr sunak said the updated sch
We now need a government thats worthy of the british people, and that means using this lockdown to establish a massive and immediate and round the clock Vaccination Programme. Record covid admissions have put the nhs under severe strain Lincoln County hospital is the latest to declare a Critical Incident due to a surge in patients. Billions of pounds in new grants for businesses hardest hit by the lockdown up to nine thousand pounds to help individual companies until spring. Empty classrooms once again as millions of children are forced to stay at home. And coming up at 8. 30 well be putting your questions on the latest restrictions to a representative from Public Health england. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The numbers are stark. More than a Million People in the uk are currently infected with coronavirus. Record numbers have been admitted to hospital putting huge strain on the nhs. The whole of the uk is back in lockdown. The Prime Minister said there was no other choice. He
This is bangkok, live at midnight. Spectacular scenes in the capital of thailand. There was a pause on the dot at midnight. Perhaps someone had lost the key moment. But in the end, it was worth waiting for. Those fireworks will no doubt continue for a number of minutes as people in thailand celebrate the arrival of 2020. Those images matching some of those we have shown you around the
world in the previous hours in cities like auckland, sydney, where there was controversy over the rights and wrongs of the fireworks display in sydney harbour. Pictures from tokyo. We showed you what happened one hour ago in hong kong, a more low key celebration because the annual firework display did not happen because of security concerns. There was instead a light show. But now the scenes in bangkok and i think you will probably agree that they are pretty good. Plenty more capital is to visit, of course, in the coming hours, and we will show you some of the preparations going on in this country as midn
This is bbc news with the latest this is bbc world news. Headlines for viewers in the uk the headlines and around the world. In the uk, a man has been killed Hong Kong Police have fired pepper spray projectiles and seven people are injured at pro democracy protesters. The unauthorised demonstration in stabbings in birmingham overnight was organised to mark the day that Police Declare a Major Incident legistlative elections but rule out terrorism. Were scheduled to be held, before the government delayed them for a year. Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated out of the path there is absolutely no suggestion of a powerful typhoon are taught that this is a terror which is on track to hit southern parts of japan. Related. This is being treated as a it is the second storm to strike homicide being investigated by west the region in less than a week. Midlands police. The coronavirus lockdown the stabbings occured at four is being extended in australias or five different locations
Serene music. So, in hong kong, 2020 has struck. You can see the laser displays, the fireworks have begun, the music and various buildings, spectacularly illuminated. Whats not entirely clear at this point is whether this is the exact display that was previously planned. With a heavy Police Presence and talk of human chains forming at major sites across the territory, the annual firework display, we were told, had been cancelled because of Police Warnings about security threats. It may be that youre not watching what had been planned in advance but clearly there is a spectacular acknowledgement of the turn of the year, nonetheless. Those are the scenes live in hong kong as 2020 strikes in that part of the world, at the same time as it does in beijing, taipei and other major cities. We may be able to show you pictures from their later. Thousands of people in south eastern australia have been forced to seek refuge on beaches and boats after becoming trapped by advancing bush fires. In th