to apologise for his footwear. hello. for decades germany has stood shoulder to shoulder with america and the uk. but in the wake of brexit and the election of donald trump, might that be about to change? the country s chancellor, angela merkel, has warned that europe can no longer completely depend on its old allies and that europeans had to take their destiny in their own hands. it follows a g7 summit that chancellor merkel called very difficult and unsatisfactory. caroline davies reports. a loud reception and a giant pretzel, angela merkel received a large warm welcome campaigning in munich but the german leader had less warm words for america and britain. translation: we must take oui’ britain. translation: we must take our fate into our hands. of course in friendship with the united states of america and great britain and as good neighbours were ever it is possible, also with other countries, even with russia we know we have to fight for ourfuture even with russia we k
for decades germany has stood shoulder to shoulder with america and the uk. but in the wake of brexit and the election of donald trump, might that be about to change? the country s chancellor, angela merkel, has warned that europe can no longer completely depend on its old allies and that europeans had to take their destiny in their own hands. it follows a g7 summit that chancellor merkel called very difficult and unsatisfactory. caroline davies reports. a loud reception and a giant pretzel, angela merkel received a large warm welcome campaigning in munich, but the german leader had less warm words for america and britain german and europe can no longer rely on you. translation: we europeans must really take our fate into our own hands. of course, in friendship with the united states of america, in friendship with great britain, and as good neighbours whereever in friendship with great britain, and as good neighbours wherever that is possible, also with other countries, eve
shoulder to shoulder with america and the uk. but in the wake of brexit and the election of donald trump, might that be about to change? the country s chancellor, angela merkel, has warned that europe can no longer completely depend on its old allies and that europeans had to take their destiny in their own hands. it follows a g7 summit that chancellor merkel called very difficult and unsatisfactory. caroline davies reports. a loud reception and a giant pretzel, angela merkel received a large warm welcome campaigning in munich, but the german leader had less warm words for america and britain german and europe can no longer rely on you. translation: we europeans must really take our fate into our own hands. of course, in friendship with the united states of america, in friendship with great britain, and as good neighbours wherever that is possible, also with other countries, even with russia, but we have to know that we must fight for our own future on our own, for our dest
up the alert level for the virus goes up from three to four, but how will ministers propose to slow the spread of the disease? tonight amid warnings the uk is only weeks behind spain in infection rates, we report from madrid, where almost a million people have just been put under strict lockdown conditions for the next fortnight. at the inquiry into the manchester arena bombing families pay tribute to more victims amid praise for the way the city came together in the aftermath. and battling it out for a place on the podium how a wrong turn for this british triathlete led to a moment of sportmanship from his spanish rival, who slowed down to let him cross the finish line first. coming up on bbc news, leyton orient s league cup match against tottenham is in doubt after they confirmed a number of first team players have tested positive for covid. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the message from the government s chief scientists was blunt. if action isn t taken
we ll be live in washington. important covid developments in a number of countries. first, the uk, where thejoint biosecurity centre has recommended the covid alert level should be raised. it s currently at level 3 which as you can see here means the epidemic is in general circulation. the recommendation is that it should move to level 4, where transmission is high or rising exponentially. and we ve had this stark message from government s top scientistific advisors. is, and quite a big if, but if that continues unabated and this grows, doubling every seven days, then what you see of course, let s say they we re you see of course, let s say they were 5000 today and 10,000 next week, 20,000 a week after, 40000 and after, you can see that by mid 0ctober if that continued, it would end up with something like 50,000 cases in the middle of october per day. 50,000 cases per day would be expected to lead a month later, so the middle of november, to 200 plus deaths per day. now the