secunder kermani, bbc news.of murder in birmingham over a series of stabbings at four different locations that left seven people injured and one dead. police in suffolk have arrested a teenage boy after a 15 year old pupil was shot on his way to school in suffolk this morning. downing street insists it is committed to implementing the withdrawal agreement — and denies that its new brexit legislation would tear up what was agreed last year. commuter train services return to near normal timetables today, but the governments call to get people back to the workplace is not being heard everywhere. let's hear from the owners of two small businesses in manchester city centre. of two small businesses my name is bob hoque. this is the bowlers sandwich bar. it's one of the oldest independent sandwich bars in manchester. i'm seb heeley and we're, in three little words, the home of manchester gin. we took over about 23 years ago and, as you could see, there's absolutely nothing — nobody‘s here, you know? seeing who comes ou

secunder kermani reports from peshawar.on the war to eliminate polio. and there are men with guns to guard us. dozens of polio workers have been killed in pakistan by militants. and while attacks have reduced in recent yea rs, while attacks have reduced in recent years, the threat remains. there's new challenge too. coronavirus. polio campaigns were suspended in march with teams redeployed to help in the pandemic. now, they are starting again. translation: in august, we did our first local campaign after coronavirus. we were afraid of getting infected and so were the public. a lot of people refused. but now it is much better. this is the city of peshawar in northern pakistan. not farfrom the peshawar in northern pakistan. not far from the border with afghanistan. the two countries are the only ones in the world yet to eradicate wild polio which can cause paralysis in children. even before coronavirus, the campaign to eliminate polio in pakistan was not going exactly to plan with a spike in cases over the past two years, jus

secunder kermani reports now on some of the challenges ahead.journey that it is hoped will eventually lead to peace in afghanistan. officials leaving couple for doha for theirfirst officials leaving couple for doha for their first formal talks with the taliban. —— kabulfor doha. talks with the taliban. —— kabul for doha. the negotiations follow the signing ofa negotiations follow the signing of a deal between the us and the taliban in february. that didn't stop the fighting on the ground, but did set out a provisional timetable for the withdrawal of foreign forces, and paved the way for these talks between the insurgents and afghan officials. after months of wrangling over a prisoner exchange plan, the negotiations will finally begin on saturday. the two sides will be discussing a ceasefire and trying to reach a political reconciliation. this is a campaign suggesting red lines shouldn't be sacrificed in the process. afg ha ns shouldn't be sacrificed in the process. afghans are tired of complex, but also worried any settle m e nt complex, but als

here's secunder kermani with more of what he found in those emails.ou know, about whether herd immunity was indeed a government policy or not. and certainly the government has always insisted that it was never a policy, but you heard that clip from sir patrick vallance, th government's chief scientific adviser, and that interview and a number of other interviews he gave the same day to other media outlets gave a lot of people the impression that herd immunity was indeed the strategy that was being pursued. now, these e—mails that i've obtained through the freedom of information act request, they revealed, really, the level of alarm amongst the seniormost advisers to the british government on coronavirus, their alarm at the backlash to the words used in those interviews and the references to herd immunity. as you said, in one of the e—mails, sir patrick vallance asked a colleague for help in calming down academics who had publicly been very critical of the government's policy. and i should say the government say that these e—mails in fact actually subs

secunder kermani, bbc news.ge backlog of people waiting for the practical exam has been exacerbated by problems with the computer booking system which led to the service being taken offline. johnny rutherford reports. as if it isn't enough pressure on stu d e nts as if it isn't enough pressure on students taking the driving exams, now it seems that being able to get a date for one is proving difficult. there have been problems with the online booking system in the past, and today the website reopened, and it is very busy with queues into the thousands. in the past it has been crazy for supper try to book a test for one of my pupils last week. i was 70,000th in the queue. it took me over six hours to get to the front of the queue and then there we re front of the queue and then there were no tests available. i am hoping today will be a bit better. but because of the backlog, i doubt it. from next week, the dv essay says drivers will be able to book up to 18 weeks ahead of their test rather than the usual sex was

secunder kermani, bbc news.s from their two countries must quickly disengage from a border standoff. they held talks in moscow on the sidelines of a regional conference, mediated by the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov. it was their first meeting since the months of tension along the frontier turned deadly injune. more than half—a—million people in the us state of oregon are fleeing deadly wildfires raging across the pacific north west. the blaze has destroyed hundreds of homes and killed at least ten people in california. security sources in jordan say there have been a series of large explosions at an army base in the city of zarqa — near the capital amman. a jordanian security official said two people were killed and another three injured. the home of britain's war time leader sir winston churchill reopens to the public on monday after a multi—million—pound restoration of some of the national trust property. the work was only possible thanks to those who knew churchill and the house — and matt taylor ha

secunder kermani, bbc news.good friday peace agreement. borisjohnson‘s spokesman has said these limited clarifications deliver on the commitments the government made in the general election manifesto and says if agreement is to be had, there does need to be more realism from the eu on the scale of change from the eu on the scale of change from the eu on the scale of change from the uk‘s departure. and the official says, if we don‘t take these steps, we face the prospect of legal confusion at the end of the year and potentially extremely damaging defaults. so that‘sjust through from the privacy‘s spokesman. leicester was the first city in britain to be placed in a local lockdown after a spike in coronavirus cases there. as phil mackie reports, ten weeks after the announcement by the health secretary matt hancock, some of the restrictions remain in place, but there are calls for them to be lifted. given the growing outbreak in leicester, we cannot recommend that the easing of the national lockdown, set to take pla

secunder kermani reports. starred in and directed crime dramas.s a woman in a conservative country, she helped to push boundaries. but now she is recovering in hospital after being shot multiple times on her way to work. i rushed to the scene of the attack and saw her crouching. that's where she had been fighting with a gunman. by the time i got there, they had all gone away. i put my wife in my car and took to hospitalfor my wife in my car and took to hospital for first my wife in my car and took to hospitalforfirst aid. my wife in my car and took to hospital for first aid. huge suicide bombings had become regular tragedies in cobble but since the taliban signed an agreement with the united states earlier this year, there have been far fewer. united states earlier this year, there have been farfewer. at united states earlier this year, there have been far fewer. at least in the capital. but that doesn't mean the bloodshed has ended. in recent weeks, there has been a spate of assassination attempt in the city. targeting pro—government liberal figu