(30.09.2020)
Professor Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance both warn that the UK’s coronavirus epidemic has a concerning direction of travel.
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Coronavirus: ‚There may never be a COVID-19 vaccine‘
The chair of the UK Vaccine Taskforce says there may never be a vaccine for coronavirus.
Kate Bingham told Kay Burley @Breakfast if a vaccine was found, it may not prevent people from getting the virus but will reduce symptoms.
Full report: Russian jets ‚bombed civilian areas in Idlib, Syria‘
A Sky News investigation has found evidence that suggests Russian warplanes systematically bombed civilian targets in Syria.
SkyNews @AlexCrawfordSky was embedded with Bilal Kareem, an American convert to islam who illegally entered #syria to act as PR for AlQaeda. He‘s on the drone kill list. He interviewed suicide bombers & the us backed rebels who beheaded a child. Their excuse was “he’s not a boy”.
MI5 boss warns of ’startling‘ IS terror threat to Britain
(today)
Mr Parker said that his staff were doing “extraordinary things” to keep the country safe in the face of such dangers, thwarting plots and saving lives. But he cautioned that the increasingly “vast amounts” of material on smartphones and the scale of social media output meant that more data than ever was being created at the same time as encryption was making it harder for MI5 to access it.
Sri Lanka attacks: Islamic State may have ’new strategy‘, president warns
(today)
Sky’s foreign affairs editor, Deborah Haynes, said: „Investigators are looking in detail at how the attackers, captured on CCTV, seem to be looking at their mobile phones – potentially receiving instructions.“
President Sirisena explained that authorities are aware of „a small group“ of Sri Lankans who have travelled abroad to receive training from IS over the past decade.
First light in #Cucuta in #Colombia and volunteers are preparing to try and help get aid across #Tienditas bridge. The border between Colombia and Venezuela is closed but they’re confident Maduro’s military will let them through.
Sky Views: We may yet be glad John Bercow is still Speaker
But if you think the only thing that matters is that a majority voted to leave the EU in the referendum, then you are likely to think Mr Bercow is a dishonest and biased scoundrel who has broken the rules in his determination to stop Brexit.
It is possible to take a different view of the Speaker’s behaviour. For a start it is entirely consistent with the way that he has done the job over the past 10 years – when a majority of MPs have repeatedly chosen to keep him in the chair.
Prime Minister Theresa May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn grilled on Sky News
Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn interviewed live on Sky News. It is the Prime Minister’s first broadcast interview after an historic week in politics.