Whats happening as a tsunami losing so many people at the same time is terrible. And harrowing images from overwhelmed new york mass graves and makeshift morgues in a city struggling with huge numbers of deaths. Hello there this is our international from moscow im kevin 0 in this is the weekly of 30 minute roundup of the main stories of the last 7 days and of course one subject continues to totally dominate our coverage and well start them with the latest covert 19 pandemic figures as we know at this hour the number of cases around the world are still on the rise with more than 1700000 people now infected another grim milestone has been reached to more than 109000 people have succumbed to the virus with 1000000000 sitting on the locked over 405000 have recovered and this mean courage in used to report the 1st trials of a vaccine and now underway some experts are confident it could be ready as early as september. So 1st off here from next week people in moscow will need to start getting
Season, temperatures down in rural spots, 4 to minus six. But it is all change tomorrow. In some areas, temperatures could be 10 degrees up on that. One of the reasons for that isa on that. One of the reasons for that is a change of wind direction and a weather front pushing in from the north west. It is bringing cloud and rain as we speak, but further east, we cling onto the sunshine. I suspect the rest of the afternoon, if we draw a line up towards the isle of wight, east of that we will keep crisp and clear blue skies, and sunshine. Chilly with it. Cloud with light rain along west facing coastline, with strong wind and heavy rain arriving into the northwest. That brings milder air, but underneath those guys, temperatures will struggle, down on where they should be for the time of year. Where they should be for the time of yea r. Frost where they should be for the time of year. Frost is likely if we keep clear skies in the south east, but elsewhere, thick cloud, a breeze through the
Harassment allegations. Well have the latest. Its five oclock. Our main story is that the Foreign Office has confirmed that a british missionary who was kidnapped in nigeria has been killed. Ian squire was seized by gunmen last month. Three other british hostages have been freed and have returned home after nigerian authorities negotiated their release. The circumstances surrounding mr squires death three weeks after his kidnap are not clear. It is understood that mr squire and three fellow Christian Charity workers were abducted on october 13th from their accommodation in delta state in the south of the country as our correspondent anisa kadri reports. Ian squire died as he tried to improve lives. Its believed he was taken by improve lives. Its believed he was ta ken by militants improve lives. Its believed he was taken by militants along with three other Christian Charity workers. He frequently left the uk where he practised as an optician to give free medical aid in africa. The uk F
Bilic is sacked. He said he was expecting it, and there is no hard feelings. And the weather, it was cold. Yes, we woke up to a widespread frost. If it was too cold for you, be careful what you wish for because tomorrow its all cloud and rain, i will have details later. Also coming up one of the 4,000 drivers in england caught committing offences over the last two years by Traffic Police driving an unmarked hgv. Hello everyone this is afternoon live. A british man who was kidnapped with three other people in nigeria in mid october has been killed. The three other hostages have returned home safely. 0ur correspondent is in lagos. Stephanie, for a lot of people, news of their kidnap has not been released, so tell us what happened . What we know so far is that these four men were taken from a rural area in Nigerias Delta area. They went to assess people for cataract surgery went to assess people for cataract surgery and they perform hundreds of surgeries forfree. Surgery and they perform
With those measures, but at the same time there is an entrenched elite that has grown fat off the system, and its going to fight back, its going to push back, so he has this balance between popularity on the street and raising tensions within the elites in society. Much will now depend on the continued loyalty of the tribes and their leaders. Modern saudi arabia only became united in 1932. There will be now fears that the glue which held it together risks becoming dangerously unstuck. Frank gardner, bbc news. A century ago this week, bolshevikforces, encouraged by vladimir lenin, stormed the Winter Palace in st petersburg. The provisional government collapsed, and a new government of russia, led by the soviets, was proclaimed. But a hundred years on, the anniversary of the Russian Revolution is being marked without fanfare. Our special correspondent allan little reports from russia, on how successive leaders have tried to shape the countrys revolutionary past, to influence the present.