india is added to the uk s red list. most travel from the country will be banned from friday, because of fears over a new variant of coronavirus. good morning. the biggest drop in car insurance costs in half a decade. motorists are paying £87 less a year i ll find out how long the savings might last. good morning from odds farm park, which is in buckinghamshire. we are going to meet some plans and chat to the kids later but it is a chilly start wherever you are this morning. many having a dry day with sunshine but there is some rain in northern ireland and scotland. all the details in ten minutes. good morning. it s tuesday, 20th april. our top story. boris johnson will meet football fans and officials today, as the backlash over plans for a new super league intensifies. the prime minister stepped in after supporters, pundits and playersjoined growing calls to stop the breakaway competition. the premier league s so called big six have signed up for the league, and 14 more
we start with the latest on the military coup in myanmar. and there are troop deployments in response to the mass demonstrations. western embassies in myanmar have called on the country s military to refrain from violence against demonstrators and civilians . this comes after reports security forces opened fire to disperse a protest. car horns blaring armoured vehicles have been seen driving round the streets of central yangon for first time since the coup two weeks ago. many drivers expressed their anger by beeping their horns. our reporter nin yah ay filed this report from yangon just before the blackout started. back on the streets for the first time since the coup, the military have returned to central yangon. tonight, the generals want to send a powerful message to those planning to take part in a nationwide strike on monday. tensions are high across the city. as news of more arrests filter out, people are taking to the streets tonight, setting up barricades and patroll
in the uk and around the world. we start with the latest on the military coup in myanmar. there s now an internet blackout enforced across the country. and there are troop deployments in response to the mass demonstrations. western embassies in myanmar have called on the country s military to refrain from violence against demonstrators and civilians. this comes after reports security forces opened fire to disperse a protest. armoured vehicles have been seen driving round the streets of central yangon for first time since the coup two weeks ago. many drivers expressed their anger by beeping their horns. our reporter nin yah ay filed this report from yangon just before the blackout started. back on the streets for the first time since the coup, the military have returned to central yangon. tonight, the generals want to send a powerful message to those planning to take part in a nationwide strike on monday. tensions are high across the city. as news of more arrests filter out, p
hello and welcome to the program. we start with the latest on the military coup in myanmar. there s now an internet blackout enforced across the country. news comes in the last few minutes. and there are troop deployments in response to the mass demonstrations. western embassies in myanmar have called on the country s military to refrain from violence against this comes after reports security forces opened fire to disperse a protest. cars beeping armoured vehicles have been seen driving round the streets of central yangon for first time since the coup two weeks ago. many drivers expressed their anger by beeping their horns. our reporter nin yah ay filed this report from yangon just before the blackout started. back on the streets for the first time since the coup, the military have returned to central yangon. tonight, the generals want to send a powerful message to those planning to take part in a nationwide strike on monday. tensions are high across the city. as news of more
now on bbc news, it s dateline, london. hello, i m shaun ley. welcome to the programme, which brings together some of the uk s leading commentators, bbc specialists, and those journalists who ve worked as foreign correspondents, filing stories to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week: will there be enough vaccine doses? the uk closes its doors to some but infuriates china by opening them to kong hongers. and what a disputed prime ministerial visit tells us about the future of the union. on dateline s panel this week: janet daley, whose columns appear weekly in the sunday telegraph. jeffrey kofman is a former tv anchor and foreign correspondent in canada and the united states. and here with me in the studio is vincent knee, a china specialist with bbc world news. warm welcome to all of you. the european commission has been piling pressure on the vaccine manufacturer astrazeneca all week, angry that millions of doses it agreed to supply to the eu before the en