and i would act on those if transmission is rising still, and if hospitalisations are going up across the country. the world health organization is urging people around the globe to be extra careful when socialising this festive season. also on the programme. a whistleblower tells the bbc of the neglect of an autistic man detained in a specialist hopsital for more than 20 years. the biggest divorce settlement in an english court the ruler of dubai must pay more than half a billion pounds to his ex wife. and the monster millipede eight feet long, discovered by chance in northumberland. coming up on the bbc news channel, no fans at sporting events in wales from boxing day as the welsh government tries to control the spread of the virus. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the chancellor, rishi sunak, has announced there ll be more than a billion pounds worth of financial support to help struggling businesses and the arts sector cope with the spread of the 0
i m able to bring you. that is a process that takes some time. so that s where we are at the moment. i think it s fair to say, as things stand, the story has eased off a bit. it s not as dominant and sort of headline making as it was at the tail end of last week. that s not to say it might not flare up again. prime minister has said today, he s been in edinburgh launching the conservative scottish manifesto with douglas ross, the outgoing leader of the scottish conservatives, that he s not aware of any of the conservative candidates who are being looked into. it s intriguing that because i m not sure it d be absolutely certain he would necessarily know, potentially. and of course, there s lots of people in and around politics who may or may not be candidates. so, yeah, that s kind of where we are now. it hasn t gone away. it may not go away, but as things stand it has eased in the nosiness of about i think would be a reasonable summary as we record at what 5.10pm on monday. a
south west and wales, we could blow in some further showery bursts of rain. milderairas you head northwards as the rain moves through the north of england, feeling quite gerry macro for northern ireland with this more persistent rain. scotla nd with this more persistent rain. scotland looks largely dry, the best of the sunshine across the northern half of scotland, and this weather watcher picture highlights the difference, this was taken earlier on today in lerwick. it won t be as cold in northern scotland tonight because all of this cloud is moving northwards and taking wet weather into scotland, we keep the persistent rain going in northern ireland. there will be some showery bursts of rain from time to time. as you can see, there is a lot of blue on the map, and that will continue to be the case on saturday. we have this rain continuing, the wind off the sea, some snow over the mountains, further rain for northern ireland and northern england for a time, rain threatening
and is failing on public services. unstructu red and disorganised , the police force which investigated the sudden death of poppi worthington comes under fire forfailing to examine claims she was sexually abused by her father. president trump says his attorney general is the victim of a political witch hunt. jeff sessions has removed himself from an fbi inquiry into alleged russian meddling in the us election, but he s still accused of perjury and is under pressure to resign. and 100 years of history, the imperial war museum celebrates its centenary. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. air accident investigators say the shoreham airshow disaster which killed 11 people was caused by the pilot flying too low and too slow. a vintage jet performing a loop the loop stunt crashed onto the a27 in 2015. in their report the investigators said the pilot could have taken action to abort the display even after he had started the maneouvre. 0ur correspondent richard galpin is at farn
it of tunnel vision nationalism . a room with no view in bethlehem banksy‘s latest project, a hotel in the west bank. and hugh bonneville as lord mountbatten in viceroy‘s house. we ll find out what mark kermode thinks of that and the rest of the week s releases in the film review at 5.45. good evening. it s five o clock. our main story. air accident investigators say the shoreham airshow crash which killed 11 people was caused by the pilot flying too low and too slowly. a vintage jet performing a loop crashed onto the a27 at the annual airshow in august 2015. in their report, the investigators say the pilot could have taken action to abort the display, even after he d begun maneouvre. duncan kennedy is in shoreham. yes, good evening from shoreham and the place where the accident happened just over 18 months ago. the jet happened just over 18 months ago. thejet came happened just over 18 months ago. the jet came down just over there. right next to the a27, causing that