france reported europe's highest ever number of new daily cases, with 179,807 infections reported on tuesday. we'll bring you more on that later, but first, a report from james reynolds as the scottish parliament is recalled this afternoon. this month in scotland, there have been long queues for booster shots. but the newlyjabbed won't all be able to get together for a post—booster celebration. restrictions on large gatherings are now back in place. we need to do it, but to shut everything down at once is a wee bit hard, as well. we can go out, but not to nightclubs. i feel like now that we've got all of our vaccines, _ there is not actually. another step forward. that's all we can do. across scotland, it is table service only in pubs and bars, and no more than three households in every group. the new set of rules that have come in have just pushed everything a further step backwards. there is so much