This week, we are back on the road in our electric motors. Im digging up the truth around battery tech. Lara has the low down on charging them up. And chris is using all of that power to take some fabulous photos. Welcome to click. I know, im not on the sofa dont panic, though i brought it with me. No, i have not made a dash for it. I am in an electric car on a 300 mile trip across the uk. This is a lockdown mission to find out if an electric vehicle revolution is about to happen. Across the world, governments are pulling up ambitious targets for environmentally friendly transport. The eu aims to reduce its Greenhouse Gases by 80 in the next 30 years and electric vehicles are a big part of that plan. The uk this week announced its ambition to stop selling cars that are wholly powered by petrol and diesel by the year 2030. So many more of us, it seems, will be buying electric cars in the next few years, and lara has some tips for you on that later in the show. But first, im off to a pla
As always, much more at the top of the hour. Now on bbc news, its time for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. The uk has the highest covid 19 death toll in europe and one of the steepest declines in economic output. Opinion polls suggest Prime Minister Boris Johnsons claims of a world beating governmental response cuts little ice with the public. My guest today isjeremy hunt, former Health Secretary, foreign secretary, and mrjohnsons rival for leadership of the conservative party. Has the pandemic exposed weaknesses in the countrys systems and its leader . Jeremy hunt, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. One of your current parliamentary responsibilities is to hold the government to account, to scrutinise it, hold it to account on health policy. Do you think borisjohnsons government has a record to be proud of when it comes to covid 19 . Well, were still in the middle of the pandemic, so its probably too early to make that assessment. But were certainly not amongst the best.
Tonight at ten, the worst recession in more than three centuries as the uk counts the cost of fighting the pandemic. The chancellor tells mps that the uk is having to take on record borrowing, the highest ever in peacetime. Our Health Emergency is not yet over. And our economic emergency has only just begun. In its response to this pandemic the conservative government has wasted and mismanaged public finances on an industrial scale. And unemployment is set to rise to two and a half million next year, we speak to young people in the north west of england. And well have more on the controversial decision to scale back the uks spending on foreign aid. Also tonight. Going at them again. Brilliant run by Maradona Diego maradona, world cup winner and, for many the best footballer in history, has died at the age of 60. The duchess of sussex talks of the unbearable grief she felt, when she suffered a miscarriage earlier this year. And the first black coach to head british athletics talks about