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Good evening. As thousands of students are preparing their return to university, data now shows the highest number of detected infections of coronavirus, is in young people. A leading epidemiologist said today, she believes the country is at a critical moment in controlling the spread of the virus. This evening, bolton has announced tighter restrictions. The council says the towns infection rate has risen to 99 cases per 100,000 people, per week the highest in england. Residents have been asked ...

And is mainly among young people. A minutes silence as the Public Inquiry into the Manchester Arena terror attack, which killed 22 people, gets underway. The worlds number one Novak Djokovic apologises for hitting an official with a ball and is disqualified from the us open. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Police in birmingham have arrested a 27 year old man on suspicion of murder and seven counts of attempted murder, in connection with a series of stabbings in the city centre yesterday ...

Dame diana rigg was, at heart, a classical actor who trained at rada and learned her craft at the Royal Shakespeare company, working alongside the likes of laurence olivier, Albert Finney and vanessa redgrave. I know she was fabulous in the avengers and very sexy and all those necessary things, which came to her easily, but the point is she was a brilliant actress and she was fun. Will i be interfering with his majestys obligations . will i be interfering with his majestys obligations . I sincer...

Hello and welcome. A leading opposition activist in belarus has arrived in the polish capital warsaw after fleeing the country. 0lga kovalkova was told by the authorities she would face further arrest if she didnt leave the country after already spending ten days injail. Paul hawkins has more. 0lga kovalkova, another opponent of belarus president , who says shes been forced to leave the country. It was either that, or a long spell injail. Shes now in poland. Translation i consider everything tha...

On twitter, its Annita Mcveigh or bbcyourquestions. Leading figures in uk aviation accuse the government of overseeing the demise of the industry due to the lack of testing at airports. From today, people in scotland will have different travel quarantine rules from the rest of the uk as new rules come in for people returning there from greece. Russia demands to see the evidence that the opposition activist, alexei navalny, was poisoned with a novichok nerve agent. Body camera footage emerges sho...

Britains authority on the international stage. We are determined to ensure we are delivering on the agreement we have in the protocol. And our leading priority is to do that through the negotiations. I think the government needs to focus on getting a deal, moving on, and actually focusing on the crisis that is the pandemic. I think thats what the public want. Greater Manchester Police say they werent aware of the Ariana Grande concert ahead of the Manchester Arena bombing because British Transpo...

Didnt realise i was not allowed to. The optics of arresting somebody pregnant is terrible. President trump visited kenosha wisconsin on tuesday. Nowjoe biden is doing the same. Pictures coming in from wisconsin at moment. Hes met with the family of jacob blake who was shot seven times by Police Last Month when unarmed. That meeting took place in private. Butjoe biden is now at an event on camera, Meeting Community leaders. Lets listen in for a moment. It is considered the worst place in the next...

The week in parliament. Hello there, and welcome to the week in parliament, where the governments under fire over the shortage of coronavirus tests. The system is broken. We risk losing control of the virus, and will he issue a public apology . Borisjohnson reckons the eu could have de escalated the trade talks impasse and stopped him bringing in his controversial internal market bill. They have singularly failed to do that. Are they negotiating in good faith . Im afraid. You dont think so . I d...

Tuesday in parliament. Hello again, and welcome to tuesday in parliament, as a government minister makes a startling admission about Boris Johnsons brexit plan. I would say to my honourable friend that, yes, this does break International Law in a very specific and limited way. Also in this programme, the challenge of finding a covid test near home. But in devon, helpfully, people were told they only need travel 20 miles, but unfortunately that involved crossing the sea to get to swansea. And a l...

Reaction from hospitality businesses. President trump is accused of lying to the American People about the threat posed by coronavirus and there are fears that fa ns coronavirus and there are fears that fans could be shut out from sport again. All crowds of 1000 people will be allowed a pilot event this month all this is now under review after the rising infection rates. And it is a cool start to your thursday but for many a dry day in store. The full forecast here on brea kfast. Good morning. I...