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Hello, youre watching afternoon live. Im simon mccoy. Today at 2. Were out of time and World Leaders need to make life or death decisions on Climate Change now a warning from Sir David Attenborough. We have been putting things off year after year. Weve been raising targets and saying, oh well, if we do it within the next 20 years or if we do it. The moment of crisis has come. Prince harry makes his first public appearance since announcing he and meghan will be stepping back from front line royal...

This is bbc news. Hello, im Victoria Derbyshire. Here are the headlines from the uk and around the world. On the eve of another set of crunch brexit trade talks, the government warns it will re write a deal already agreed with the eu. Police in birmingham arrest a man in connection with a series of knife attacks in the city, which left one person dead and seven others injured. The Public Inquiry into the Manchester Arena terror attack begins this morning, as families of the 22 victims look for a...

Masters, golfs first major tournament of the year, its been postponed. The Boston Marathon has been postponed until september. Those moves following moves by major league baseball, the nba, even broadway, all taking their own precautions because of the outbreak. People understandably have a lot of questions this morning about their health, about their safety, about how their government is handling this pandemic. Were going to do our absolute best to answer those questions this hour. We have a te...

The house had their briefing starting at 8 15. It has since wrapped. Now the senators are having their own briefing, but the issues, the frustration about testing and the rate of testing is on both sides of the aisle. I asked how would you describe what youre hearing . She said one word. She said, kwoequote, frustratio. Another member who was in the house briefing said you should have seen the line of lawmakers lining up to ask questions to these cdc officials, trying to get answers, especially ...

The government introduces emergency legislation to protect private tenants from being evicted if theyre unable to pay their rent. The bank of england hasnt ruled out handing money directly to businesses and households stuggling to cope and urges firms to seek support before laying off staff. This is a message from the governments chief medical officer about coronavirus. A new government advert to ensure people know the symptoms as the government says it wants to increase testing to 25,000 people...

Still got to go to work. The Prime Minister wanted to avoid this step and put it off for as long as possible, but millions of children may now be at home for months. There is no end in sight. The bank of england hasnt ruled out handing money directly to businesses and households stuggling to cope, and urges firms to seek support before laying off staff. This is a message from the governments chief medical officer about coronavirus. A new government advert to ensure people know the symptoms as th...

Across the uk. The past few days, thousands of people ignored social distancing advice over the weekend its been selling takeaway food as crowds flocked to parks and beaches. Only. But now it says for the safety as the Coronavirus Crisis continues, of its customers and its staff, that the Health Secretary promises more protective mr stop as well. From today, all equipment for nhs staff. In the uks Broadband Network cope with increased demand from home schools are also closed but the networking a...

Home from next week. After school shut the gates from friday afternoon. They will remain closed for most people, so the vast majority of people further notice. Level and gcse exams due to take place in june are level and gcse exams due to take place injune are cancelled in england and wales. We have worked so ha rd england and wales. We have worked so hard and the past two years its always had that long and goal, and it hasjust got always had that long and goal, and it has just got to the point ...

The Prime Minister promises to protect private tenants unable to work, saying hell stop them being evicted. The pound plummets it has plunged to its lowest level in 35 years against the dollar. In italy, a record rise in the number of deaths 475 people have died in the past 2a hours, bringing the total to almost 3,000. Eastenders theme music. And the bbc halts filming on eastenders and other big dramas, as broadcasters are hit, but lessons for children stuck at home are among new programmes bein...

Study of the drug remdesivir. Listen to this. It is a very important proof of concept. Because what it is proven is that a drug can block this virus. And ill give you an example in a moment of why we think looking forward this is very optimistic. Dr. Fauci notes that this is not a proven treatment but evidence so far very good news. The data shows that remdesivir has a clearcut significant positive effect in d diminishing the time to recovery. This is important for a number of reasons but we thi...