countries will be played. there'll be two new events in asia and south africa and eight tournaments return to the calendar. the tour starts in mid—february. and that's all for now from the bbc sport centre. this is bbc news. your headlines: new records for covid in the uk — the highest number of daily cases since the pandemic began and an estimated 1.7 million people are reported to have had the virus on a single day last week. millions around the world face travel disruption over christmas, as the surge in 0micron variant cases sees flights cancelled due to staff shortages. united airlines says it's contacting impacted passengers ahead of them coming to the airport. at least 39 people have been killed after a packed ferry caught fire in southern bangladesh. the number of casualties