Here's What Happened Today: Tuesday

Sheep in snowy conditions in the Maam Valley, north of Galway. Source: Niall CarsonLorries queue for ferries at the Port of Dover in Kent as the UK prepares to leave the EU on Friday. Source: PA Wire/PA Images

#CORONAVIRUS: Germany confirmed its first case of the coronavirus, marking it’s spread to Europe, and one of the first cases of it spreading from human-to-human. #ISRAEL-PALESTINE: US President Donald Trump announced a “realistic” two-state solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict, suggesting that Jerusalem remain as Israel’s capital but that Palestine would get a capital in occupied east Jerusalem.Housing is one of the two most important issues for voters in this election, and so it’s no surprise that it dominated the debate last night.

A helluva lot of figures around the amount of houses built, the Help-to-Buy scheme, and the amounts spent on housing and homelessness were thrown around last night – so we FactChecked them. Have a read.

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