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officials say 97 people were killed when a pakistani passenger plane crashed into homes in the city of karachi. at least two passengers survived. the airbus a320 was enroute from lahore when it came down in sight of the runway. dominic cummings — a key adviser to the uk prime minister borisjohnson — has been criticisced for breaking lockdown advice to stay at home by travelling to his parents‘ home while suffering with coronavirus. it's reported he needed help with child care and went into self isolation in a separate building. brazil's supreme court has authorised the release of a video, that reportedly shows brazil's president bolsonaro confessing to interfering with the federal police to help his family. in a message on facebook, mr bolsonaro said the video did not prove any interference. now on bbc news — spain is one of the countries hardest
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the lockdown begins to be lifted. spain is under one of district is locked down is in the world. people are only allowed to go out on their own to buy food or medicine and walk their dogs. it is forbidden for children to go outside. in just a single week, the number of covid infections has tripled. and hospitals across spain are struggling. the uk has started its own lockdown. i've travelled the
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her cousin has been in the hospital with the virus. first, they need to collect their ppe - first, they need to collect their ppe — personal protective equipment. when the crisis started, the central government took charge of sourcing ppe, but some local authorities say they couldn't do it quick enough. in madrid alone, hospitals need 200,000 masks every day. a couple of hours south of madrid is the source ——
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this small village. a group of people have volunteered to make ppe for loli's hospital. this woman has wa nt of for loli's hospital. this woman has want of them. clinicalfabric is clinical fabric is scarce and the red cross is distributing blankets to operating theatres. this town has a population of 8700. nearly all of the women in the village havejoined nearly all of the women in the village have joined the effort.
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at home, she keeps sewing. a few days later, her 89—year—old mother gets the virus. esperanca has been helping care for her mum but has to destroy the masks in case they are contaminated. esperanca and herfamily have they are contaminated. esperanca and her family have decided that their mother won't be going into hospital.
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la mancha has had more than 10,000 cases of the virus and she is working 12 hour shifts at the hospital. undertakers are preparing for a huge numbers of deaths. they have already been 15,000. in door ice rings have been 15,000. in door ice rings have been turned into mortuaries. and families grieve at drive—through funerals. shortly after infections
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more than 18,300 people have died of coronavirus in nursing homes. that is nearly 70% of all the deaths in spain. when the army was disinfecting care homes, they found 11 people who had been a abandon and some were found dead. the prosecutor ‘s office is investigating more than what hundred and a0 care homes for alleged criminal actions. —— 1a0 ca re alleged criminal actions. —— 1a0 care homes.
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what people had told me in this film. they said ppe and otherforms of medical supplies were provided in the regions at the beginning of the crisis. today, children under 1a are allowed out for the first time. spain is the only country in europe where children were not allowed out during lockdown. lola's children are going for a walk with her sister. children are still only allowed out for one hour each day and only with the one adult. madrid's field
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at specific times to exercise. lola has finally been tested, the result is negative stop sue is back with her colleagues, nursing non— covid patients. now she can bring her children back home. and lola's pa rents children back home. and lola's parents have come up for the first time to see their grandchildren.
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hello there. we've seen some unusually windy weather for the time of year affecting the north—west of uk in particular. now, on friday, the strongest gust of wind reached a good 60mph across the north coast of northern ireland, into parts of scotland. and in north—west wales, we had a gust into the low 70s of miles an hour. these strong winds have been bringing large and battering waves to the coastline. many of our beaches are unpatrolled, for understandable reasons, and with similar rough seas expected this weekend, it's probably best to stay well away. 0n the weekend, we have more rain and strong winds, thanks to this slow—moving area of low pressure. the strongest wind's always closest to the centre of the low, passing just toward scotland, and through the day on saturday, although we start off very windy across
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the north—west, the isobars begin to slowly space out, the low pressure starts to get a bit less intense through the afternoon, and the winds will start to lose some of their strength. here are the temperatures as you start the day on saturday, but blustery winds first thing in western scotland — gusts here still reaching a good 60mph and only slowly ease down after that. northern ireland and scotland — scotland, looking wet for most of the day, and quite cool too. england and wales — some sunshine. we could see the odd shower just about anywhere but won't last long, given the windy conditions into the afternoon. 30 or a0mph for england and wales but still up ataround 50mph in northern scotland. cool in scotland — just 11 degrees in glasgow saturday afternoon. 19 in the sunshine in london. even in the winds, not feeling too bad at all. now, during saturday night, we do have a bit more rain to come through. that rain tends to ease down as we go through sunday with brighter conditions spreading in from the west. a bit more sunshine to come
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across these western areas. 17 degrees in belfast, but 22 towards the london area. this warming trend to our weather is set to continue into next week as well as this area of high pressure builds towards our south. the sunniest weather will always be across england and wales — mind you, we could probably do with some rain here. the weak weather front will move in off the atlantic, bringing some rain into western scotland and northern ireland, probably not too heavy. it gets quite a bit warmer across eastern areas of england — temperatures reaching the mid—20s — and we could see mid—to—high 20s as we head into the first part of the new week as the weather certainly gets quite a bit warmer. that's your latest weather.
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this is bbc news — i'm lewis vaughan jones with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. two people survive as a passenger plane crashes into homes in the pakistani city of karachi — at least 97 are confirmed dead. the british prime minister's chief advisor is reported to have broken lockdown guidelines by travelling to his parents‘ home when suffering with coronavirus. a new study says an anti—malarial drug promoted by the us president to treat covid—19 may increase the risk of death among infected patients. us democratic candidate joe biden apologises for his comments about african americans who choose to vote for president donald trump. you got more questions. but i tell you, if you got
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