Where he was staying. Massive forest fires in the Arctic Circle. We have a special report on the blazes moving across siberia. We start with coronavirus and figures from the World Health Organization showing that new weekly coronavirus cases in europe now exceed those reported when the pandemic first peaked in march. The un body has also warned of alarming rates of transmission across the region. It came as the uk government announced almost 3 00 new infections on thursday. To help prevent the spread of the virus, almost two Million People living in the north east of england will be subjected to tougher restrictions from friday. Spain recorded almost 5,000 new infections in 2a hours, up from just over 3,000 the previous day. Almost 2000 were in the madrid region, which is planning targeted lockdowns. And in france 10,593 cases were recorded on thursday the highest single day count since the pandemic began. Well have a report from our correspondent in marseille, a new french virus hotsp
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a social gathering, that was clearly against the rules at the time. now, borisjohnson knows this and he knew this all along, and he s just trying to lie to the british public, and it seems like he s laughing at them now. any day now, the senior official sue gray will publish her report and its expected more images will be unveiled. we ll have more on the latest revelations and the new questions for the metropolitan police on the way they decided who should be fined. also tonight. nazanin zaghari ratcliffe, held in iran for six years on spying charges, says she was forced to sign a false confession before she could leave. the number of confirmed cases of monkeypox in the uk has reached 57, including the first case in scotland. and with a buggy at the ready, the queen was determined to visit the chelsea flower show in platinum jubilee year. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel: high fives all around, as raducanu battles back at roland garros to book her place in t
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are polly mackenzie, who s chief executive of the cross party think tank, demos. and also with me is sam lister, the deputy political editor at the daily express. welcome to both of you. thank you for being with us this monday evening. let s take a look at the front pages. almost all of them lead on that photograph published earlier today, the party gate revelations asking how borisjohnson escaped police fines after pictures emerged of him drinking at downing street party when other people in attendance were fine. the guardian has the same story and believes he will face further questions of the event because some of those present were fined and the prime minister wasn t. the telegraph has a similar line also saying that the prime minister did not receive a questionnaire from the police about his presence at this event. he i says boris johnson his presence at this event. he i says