Intimidation and bullying. China has been celebrating 70 years of communist rule but in hong kong more violent demonstrations. The police have been using teargas, pepper spray and live rounds. And biologists have discovered one of the oldest remnants of evolution seen in humans yet. Well have the details. 30 days til brexit is due to happen. We can bring you right up to date. Weve started to get an idea on how the uk thinks it can leave the eu and avoid border checks between Northern Ireland and the republic of ireland. This matters because its the biggest single block to a deal on how the uk leaves. Tony connelly from Irelands National broadcaster rte got the scoop on this. He put this on twitter late last night. The Prime Minister has since disputed that the leak is entirely accurate but says he accepts the reality of customs checks. Hes been interviewed by the bbcs laura kuenssberg. If the eu is going to insist on customs checks, as we come out, as it is, then we will have to accept
our army and passers by that we were tv. there was the first shot. returned and found her on the ground. borisjohnson signed a new host security deal with amanda swindon. both countries are considering joining the nato military alliance. ukrainian forces are advancing against russian troops just north of the country s second largest city, kharkiv. kharkiv is just 30 miles from the border and the operation may pose a wider threat to russia s war in the east. you can see in purple in this map the ukrainian counter attacks, which have taken a number of towns and pushed russian artillery back towards the border. the ukrainian military says it has recaptured four villages near kharkiv in recent days. he air raid sirens. the spectre of russian victory once haunted this city. but no more. for months, the invaders were at the city gates, but kharkiv has cast doubt vladimir putin s foot but kharkiv has cast out vladimir putin s foot soldiers, forcing them back towards the border. this
Quarantine on arrivals from spain. Vietnam sees its first coronavirus cases for three months and reacts by flying 80,000 tourists out of one city. Plus an update from lebanon where there are warnings it is on the brink of losing control of the virus these pictures are of an underground car park in the north of the country being used to train medics. There are calls for a new lockdown there. 0n awful lot to get through. Its been almost 6 months since covid 19 was declared a Public Health emergency and this is whats happening. The pandemic continues to accelerate. In the past six weeks, the total number of cases has roughly doubled. Lets take a detailed look at the pandemic, how its escalating and how its being tackled. Lets start with the headline statistics. Im afraid its stark. There are over 640,000 confirmed fatalities. And more than 16 million confirmed cases. And look at the infection rate the who was talking about. It took 38 days to go from 5 to 10 million confirmed cases. To go
Outside. After weeks of protests in belarus britain and canada impose sanctions against the countrys president and other officials. More than a Million People have now died from covid 19 globally. While that is shocking were told the true figure is probably much higher. Well have updates from across the globe. First, lets hearfrom un secretary general, antonio guterres. Roald has reached an agonising milestone. The loss of1 million lives. Its a mind numbing figure. Yet we must never lose sight of each and every individual life. They were fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, friends and colleagues. The pain has been multiplied by the severe and this of the disease. We can overcome this challenge but we must learn from the mistakes, responsible leadership matters, science matters, cooperation matters and misinformation killed. We first learnt of the virus nearly 10 months ago in china. Youll remember these images of the Seafood Market in wuhan suspected to be at the centre of the o
Hello, im ros atkins, welcome to outside source. Scientists here in london have begun human trials of a revolutionary vaccine against the coronavirus. A team at Imperial College are working at record speed. If it works, the vaccine could be mass produced. It means that we can make the equivalent of 2 million doses in the volume of a litre. Imagine a litre bottle of lemonade, that would have 2 million doses in it. As india reports 16,000 new cases of coronavirus in the past 2a hours, we get exclusive access to an intensive care unit in one of mumbais top hospitals. More than 100,000 people have now died from covid i9 in latin america, with over half of those deaths, in brazil. A Us Appeals Court orders a federal judge to drop the criminal case against President Trumps former National Security adviser, Michael Flynn. There is only one guaranteed way to get out of the coronavirus pandemic and that is a vaccine. And the bbc has been given exclusive access to human trials of a vaccine being