The World Health Organization says there are signs that coronavirus has stabilised in china. However, its cautioned against reading too much into the data, saying the outbreak could still worsen. China has announced a new way of classifying infections leading to a jump in the reported number of cases. The italian far right leader Matteo Salvini has responded with defiance, after the senate voted to strip him of his parliamentary immunity. Mr salvini is now facing a trial for illegally detaining migrants at sea when he was interior minister last year. He said he would do the same again. Pope francis has decided not to allow married men to be ordained as priests in remote regions where there is a shortage of clergy. A synod voted in favour of the proposal last year, but the pope has been under pressure from conservative factions not to relax rules on celibacy. Now on bbc news click. It is time for the oscars and were here to hand out the awards. There is best actor in a box. Most surpris
Storm ciara is starting to ease, but it left major disruption, damaging gusts of winds, flooding rains, and significant disruption to power and transport, right across the country. It is starting to move its way steadily south and east into the near continent, taking damaging gusts of wind and rain south east as well. Behind it, though, a somewhat noticeable difference to the feel of the weather as we see cool air pushing down from the north west. The winds will remain a feature as well and that will continue to drive in frequent showers, particularly across exposed west facing coasts, but many further inland. Some of them falling as snow. Icy stretches could be an issue in scotland with temperatures close to freezing by dawn on monday. So a treacherous commute here, and it does look as though we will keep plenty of isobars across the uk for the start of the new working week. A windy monday morning for all, plenty of showers rushing in from the west, and again, these will continue to b
Good morning, welcome to breakfast with Naga Munchetty and charlie stayt. Our headlines today growing anger in china as authorities forcibly detain people suspected of having the coronavirus. Thousands of passengers confined to their cabins onboard the diamond princess. More than 60 people are infected with the virus. Six senior conservative mps try to pressure borisjohnson into rethinking huaweis involvement in the uks sg telecom networks. Good morning. We have two huge home nations clashes in the six nations coming up, including rugbys oldest trophy, the calcutta cup, its scotland against england at murrayfield. Good morning. The weather is likely causing disruption over the weekend as storm tube is approaching. Strong winds today in scotland and Northern Ireland storm keebra. Destructive winds, large rain around the coast and heavy rain large swells. More details later. Its saturday the 8th of february. Our top story authorities in china have been forcibly rounding up people suspect
This is bbc news. The headlines at 5 20 people are reported to have been shot dead and several others wounded in a mass shooting in north east thailand. This is main suspect a junior army officer, who killed his Commanding Officer before stealing weapons from a military camp. He is still at large. Five british people, including a child, have tested positive for the coronavirus at a ski resort in france. Six senior conservatives write to tory mps to raise concerns about the governments decision to allow huawei to help build the uks 56 network. Why would you want to build into your system an organisation that remains a threat . I dont know of anything else in the world that would do that. The met Office Issues Severe Weather warnings for the weekend as storm ciara approaches from the atlantic. Both desperate for a win england are taking on scotland
in the six nations. Reports from thailand say an armed soldier has killed 20 people, northeast of the capital bangkok. More than a dozen othe
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