Science

Dr Jonathan Quick, from the Duke Global Health institute, joins us from Washington DC.

We are joined from Geneva by Dr Margaret Harris from the World Health Organisation.

The coronavirus is officially a pandemic, the World Health Organisation confirmed today – although they declared it was not too late for countries to act, saying they were ringing the alarm bell “loud and clear”.

The broadcaster Sky has sent home staff at its Cardiff call centre after a worker there was diagnosed with coronavirus.

Dr Rosalind Eggo an infectious disease modeller in public health epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and tropical medicine tells me that ‘deciding when to put extra measures in place a really difficult decision’

One of the most influential women in scientific history – Marie Curie is only scientist to have won Nobel Prizes in two different sciences – for her pioneering research into radioactivity.

We’ve all heard of superbugs – nasty bacteria which can’t be wiped out by antibiotics – well a powerful new drug that can kill some of the world’s most dangerous strains of drug resistant bacteria has been discovered using artificial intelligence.

A pair of beavers have been released on a National Trust estate in Exmoor – as part of efforts to improve biodiversity and help tackle flooding.

Scotland Yard says facial recognition cameras will be deployed across London – aimed at identifying people suspected of gun and knife crime, child sexual exploitation and serious violence. Signs will be put up to show where the cameras are in use – and the Met have insisted they won’t be used ‘to search speculatively or…

Over the past year, excessive weather events have hit every populated continent, harming and displacing millions of people and costing billions.

Our weather presenter Liam Dutton is here with the latest on Australia’s record breaking heat…

A seven day emergency has been declared across Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales – as the record hot temperatures continue to fan around a hundred wildfires.

Australia has had its hottest day on record with the average temperature hitting 40.9 degrees.

The climate campaigner Greta Thunberg has been mobbed at the United Nations climate crisis conference in Madrid.

From Washington DC is Sherri Goodman, the Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate and Security.