annita mcveigh or bbcyourquestions the Us State Department calls for serious consequences for china after a bbc report alleging women were systemically raped and tortured in uighur camps. But china calls it lies and disinformation. The uk and eu agree to work intensively to sort out problems with post brexit trade in Northern Ireland. Myanmar s military blocks facebook after protests continue to spread against mondays Military Coup. And coming up this hour tennis Officials Say the Australian Open will start as planned on monday, despite hundreds of players and staff being forced to isolate again in melbourne. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or Around The World. A new trial has launched here in the uk to look at the impact of giving people different Coronavirus Vaccines for their first and second doses. The mix and match approach could provide more flexibility in the event of any Supply Problems. Scientists say its possible that having different vaccines might even provid
A row over the governments plan to have Quarantine Hotels for travellers Industry Bosses say theyve not yet been consulted. A green and pleasant land now but this site in cumbria could soon have a coal mine like this. So how does that square with the governments promises to go green . Must be something in the water the Bristol Street where having a baby is becoming something of a trend. And coming up on bbc news. Can england stop the mighty india on home soil . Joe root s men begin their test series in chennai tomorrow. A tough challenge lies ahead. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. The uks Vaccination Programme is not only helping to curb the spread of the coronavirus it could also give the economy a shot in the arm. That is the view from the Bank Of England. While were in lockdown, the bank expects the size of the economy the gdp to shrink by 4. 2 in the first three months of this year. But it says a successful Vaccination Roll out should see a rapid recovery from spri
Today scotland has snowfall, in the days ahead colder air that spreads across the whole of the uk, the risk of snow move southwards. Here is thursday with the cold air to a north, by saturday and sunday it works right the way southwards into the north of france. Here are scotland this afternoon, still a pretty tricky travelling conditions, particularly for higher routes for the next few hours, Snow Piling Up. Rain at lower levels, central belt with a mixture of rain and sleet and snow. That persist this afternoon, snow. That persist this afternoon, Snow Piling Up in places, an easterly breeze. Feeling chilly in the wind. Towns and cities, 3 4 c, lower elsewhere. In the south, comparatively mild but thats set to change. This area of low pressure will move southwards in the coming days are bringing rain overnight insert northern ireland, Northern England or perhaps note for the pennines, persisting across scotland. Ice a consistent issue for the north of the uk to begin with on thursday.
Flags are lowered over Downing Street and borisjohnson describes captain sir tom as a National Inspiration, and a beacon of hope for the world. The uk variant of coronavirus has mutated again the Health Secretary says hes seen cases of concern in bristol and liverpool. Meanwhile, 80,000 people in england are tested to stop the spread of the Virus Variant from south africa. Scotland is to introduce Travel Quarantines for overseas arrivals and plans are put in place to open scottish schools later this month. Travel disruption in parts of the north of england and scotland as heavy snow brings chaos. Good afternoon. In the last hour, its been announced that captain sir tom moore has died. Captain tom, who was 100 years old, and had raised almost £33 million for the nhs, was taken to hospital earlier this week, with coronavirus. The army veteran, originally from keighley in West Yorkshire, came to prominence by walking 100 laps of his garden in bedfordshire, during the First National lockd