of a key supreme court ruling. shanghai residents face more covid 19 restrictions as china tries to crush an outbreak. millions have now been locked in their homes for seven weeks we are restricted on the food we can get over the next few days. no commercial deliveries, no group buys just government approved food deliveries. there s also further restrictions on access to the hospitals. and a passenger with no idea how to fly is given instructions to land a plane in florida, after the pilot fell ill. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. ukrainian forces have been retaking a number of towns and villages, pushing russian infantry and artillery back towards the border. the fighting, which has led to a dramatic fall in russian shelling of kharkiv, has been slow and costly but ukrainian forces, say they now have the upper hand. kharkiv is just a0 kilometres from the russian border, and the russians retreat coul
who fled to india after being told to shoot at protesters. the brother of ghislaine maxwell tells the bbc that the conditions of her detention in an american prison are degrading and amount to torture. hello to you. it s exactly one year since the world health organization officially declared the coronavirus outbreak is a pandemic. that is the point the disease was confirmed as a truly global problem. covid 19 has so far claimed 2.6 million lives, but there is hope on the horizon as vaccines reach some of the furthest corners of the world. our global health correspondent naomi grimley has been looking at the pandemic, one year in. it s been a year that most of us will remember for the rest of our lives. one of grief and loneliness on a scale none of us could ve imagined. it s exactly 12 months since the world health organization officially sounded the alarm about the seriousness of covid 19. we have therefore made the assessment that covid 19 can be characterised as a pande
parliamentary elections. prime minister theresa may said of the weekend there was work to do and on that we can all agree. the uk continues to career towards the exit negotiations with seven days to go and this is where we have got to. it remained unclear what type of brexit the government will seek, no details on the deal the tories intend to do with the dup in order to pass laws and the queen speech, where the government lays out its legislative agenda, may be delayed. this is why that has happened. obviously we are in talks with the democratic unionist party to see that the deal we can put together and are optimistic that will happen but until we have that we can t agree the final details of the queen s speech. as soon as we have we will be able to say when the queen speech will be. the prime minister is only in thejob because will be. the prime minister is only in the job because the tory party neither wants another election nor a leadership contest. that time may come, w
the constructive approach both sides have taken. we need to agree on the key principles on the main challenges on the uk withdrawal as sooi i as challenges on the uk withdrawal as soon as possible. christian fraser will be live from brussels. if you have a question about these brexit negotiations, send them my way and we will put some of them to christian. the uk is dealing with its fourth terror attack in four months. last night a van drove into a crowd of worshippers near a mosque in north london. this was the moment the man who allegedly carried out the attack was apprehended by onlookers. several men were needed to pin him to the ground. the bbc understands he is a 47 year old called darren osborne, from cardiff. here s one of the people that captured him. we got him down to the ground. he was saying, i m going to kill more people. when he was on the ground, i asked him, why did you do that? innocent people. and he said, i want to kill muslims. he said, kill me. we said w