hello, welcome to bbc news i m victoria derbyshire, bringing you the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. police in hong kong use tear gas and a water cannon and arrest 30 democracy protestors, as china s new national security law comes into force. it s a bit of a weird stand off at this moment with the riot police here and people walking away, and some of the police are leaving as well. the water cannon truck has just been doing rounds. more uk job losses because of coronavirus 5,000 jobs are under threat at upper crust and 1,700 jobs are to go at airbus uk. the us buys up nearly all stocks for the next three months of the drug remdesivir one of the only drugs shown to work against covid 19.
councils in england will get real time data on coronavirus cases in their areas, after signing a data sharing agreement with public health england. it follows criticism over how long it took to get data in leicester. and remembering the man who should ve been eng
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Away from 0tas. ultimately, if margins are increasingly being squeezed, then something has to give, if we re to make do with what we re doing, and that s not a compromise that we re willing to make. and for some, the cost of convenience means that us travellers will have to pay more. previous research that we ve carried out has found that in the uk, this has raised prices anything up to 10 20% across the board, so, anything you re saving in shopping around, unfortunately, is being passed on because of this general raise. our advice, and we have backed this up with research as well, is if you contact the b&b or the hotel directly, this is notjust uk, but europe as well, anywhere that you are, you will almost certainly be given a better deal. because it allows them to get around those rate parity clauses. but it was aviation that held a lot of the travel headlines during the pandemic.
Already above the cap imposed in the 2015 nuclear deal. now, in a letter to the international atomic energy agency, iran says it intends to produce low-enriched uranium with more purity but far below the 90% that is considered weapons grade. now, last month, iran s parliament called for the increased-enrichment levels, in response to the killing of its top nuclear scientist. and in the coming hours, of course. protests are expected at the site where iranian general, qassem soleimani, was killed nearly one year ago. friday, a statue of him was unveiled at tehran university. soleimani, the former head of the islamic revolutionary guard quds force was killed by a u.s. drone strike, january 3rd, 2020. that upcoming anniversary has increased the saber rattling. the u.s. says the potential of an attack from iran is now the highest it s been since his death.
Scientist in november. and the u.s. and iran have been rattling sabres with implied threats in the persian gulf as well. sunday marks the first anniversary of the death of general suleimani in a drone strike and the potential of an attack from iran is the highest since his death. the u.s. has flown nuclear capable b52 bombers twice in the past month as a show of force. still ahead on cnn, field hospitals are on standby in england as the nation struggles to contain the new variant of the coronavirus. a live report from london. that s next. also, the chinese city of wuhan was ground zero at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. now we ll look at how far it has come since, when we return. os. they know exactly which parking lots have the strongest signal. i just don t have the bandwidth for more business. seriously, i don t have the bandwidth. glitchy video calls with regional offices?