save everything. those are the sectors that are most impacted, but also the ones where we have tried to direct the most amount of support. dozens of chancellors have sat in number 11, but none have seen the economy slide so fast, or the scale of dilemmas he will face. what is your instinct? will there have to be tax rises? the agenda i set out before it is still relevant. i talked a lot about investing in our regions to drive up productivity wherever you happen to live, so that agenda remains even more relevant today than it did then, and we will not at all retrenched from delivering on that. but the world s changed so much between the day rishi sunak became chancellor 12 weeks ago and when he turned a0 today. who can know what may have shifted by the time he is 41? laura kuenssberg, bbc
a new facility to help cope with a sharp rise in cases in the midlands is being prepared. this nightingale hospital on the outskirts of birmingham willadmit hospital on the outskirts of birmingham will admit its first patients in the five days‘ time. and testing is being increased. a new centre at the edgbaston cricket ground opened just yesterday. the wider midlands region has recently been described as a particular concern by the government. and a spike in the number of deaths is being investigated. those involved in coordinating the response on the ground say they currently have enough capacity to copia. but they admit that understanding more about the transmission of the virus would help. some of the work we are doing here is understanding the density of the population, so we have a lot of families in the west midlands that are large family groups that perhaps live in smaller properties, may be
and stretch his legs a bit. and for some native animals who survived the fire, including jake, a gentle reintroduction to their transformed habitat. he s not a wallaby, and he s not a kangaroo. he s a wallaroo. there may be strength in adversity here, but no one wants to be rebuilding time and time again. i hope that in the future this is a little bit of a wake up call. it s never too late to change the way that we do agriculture and do coal mining and that sort of thing in australia. so yes, you can see new life here, but with other fires still burning it‘s a new urgency that‘s needed to protect the future of this land. nick beake, bbc news, new south wales. coca cola have said it will not stop using plastic bottles because it says consumers still want them.
the way that we do agriculture and do coal mining and that sort of thing in australia. so yes, you can see new life here, but with other fires still burning it s a new urgency that s needed to protect the future of this land. nick beake, bbc news, new south wales. britain is looking at putting sanctions on some chinese officials. a british foreign office minister made the announcement to parliament in answer to questions about the incarceration of a million uighurs in detention centres in china s xinjiang province. with more, here s david campanale. international concern has been growing over china s high security detention centres in xinjiang province. last november, data leak confirmed fears that hundreds of thousands of muslims are being
is a little bit of a wake up call. it s never too late to change the way that we do agriculture and do coal mining and that sort of thing in australia. so, yes, you can see new life here, but with other fires still burning it s a new urgency that s needed to protect the future of this land. nick beake, bbc news, new south wales. universities have had a tough time of it financially, in recent years. and one way they ve coped is by attracting increasing numbers of foreign students. more chinese students than ever are studying here up by a third in just five years, according to the latest figures. they are the largest single group with 120,000 students. it s a lot more than india, which comes second, and almost as many as all eu countries combined. so they produce something of a financial windfall, but some mps are now warning about the influence of the chinese government on campus. as part of our series