Well find out how Different Countries are welcoming in the 2021. For you watching on pbs in the us and around the globe, welcome to bbc news. Lets stick with those fireworks in athens, to celebrate the new year. The city is under restrictions and no one is allowed on streets after 10pm. More than 10,000 Police Personnel will be deployed throughout the country for the new years festivities, in order to ensure citizens comply with the covid 19 measures. Seeing out 2020 at the acropolis. Many countries have decided to cancel the usual new year celebrations, because of surges in coronavirus. But some have plenty to celebrate. This was the scene in wuhan the capital of Hubei Province in china several hours ago. The new year was welcomed with a mass street party exactly one year after the city reported an unknown pneumonia outbreak to the World Health Organization that was later named covid 19. In dubai, a socially distanced crowd was allowed to watch the fireworks and light show at the worl
And it is a cold start to 2021. 7 in parts of wiltshire. Will things warm up . Full forecast here. Good morning. Its friday, the 1st ofjanuary. Our top story. As most people across the uk seem to have heeded calls to stay at home on new years eve, some hospitals in london and the south east of england say they are now under extreme pressure because of rising coronavirus cases. They say some seriously ill patients are being moved to intensive care units in other parts of the country, as our health correspondent, katharine da costa, reports. Like several major hospitals in the capital, University College london has had to rapidly increase Critical Care capacity to cope with the surge in covid patients. Its caring for more than 200, with numbers rising by the day. Staff cant always provide one to one care. What were having to know do is stretch those ratios. So one intensive care nurse is finding themselves looking after two, three. In some places at the peak they were looking after four
Shocking, and sad in a way. We look at how the Younger Generation from across the world has been affected by the hurdles of 2020. Hello and welcome. As a new year begins, the uk is starting a new relationship with the European Union, following the end of the brexit transition period a couple of hours ago. The agreement between westminster and brussels has brought an end to a partnership that lasted almost 50 years with historic changes to rules on travel, trade, immigration and security. Brexit continues to divide British Public opinion, four years after a closely fought referendum paved the way for the uks departure. 0ur Political Correspondent alex forsyth reports. Its almost five years since this moment the date set for a referendum that would change the countrys course. One of the biggest decisions this country will face in our lifetimes. Fast forward through what came next. There were campaigns, promises, heated protests. Chant democracy now prolonged negotiations, high profile re
With democrats to reject President Trumps veto of a key defence bill. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. Military personnel are to provide remote support to schools and colleges with coronavirus testing programmes, as they reopen in england from next week. 1,500 Armed Forces Staff will form local response teams, providing telephone and online advice on setting up Testing Facilities. It comes as the chief of the National Health service in england warns Health Workers are back in the eye of the storm as coronavirus cases rise at the end of the toughest year. Around the world, russias coronavirus death toll was revised to 186,000, more than three times higher than it had previously reported, making it the country with the Third Largest number of fatalities. Spain is to set up a registry of people who refuse to be vaccinated against coronavirus and share it with other European Union nations. And australia says it could deport backpackers who flout covid rule
Hello and welcome. The uk has fully left the European Unions Single Market and Customs Union after the transition period ended exactly two hours ago at 11 oclock local time. It brought an end to a partnership that lasted almost 50 years. With historic changes to rules on travel, trade, immigration and security. Brexit continues to divide public opinion. 0ur Political Correspondent alex forsyth reports. Its almost five years since this moment the date set for a referendum that would change the countrys course. One of the biggest decisions this country will face in our lifetimes. Fast forward through what came next. There were campaigns, promises, heated protests. Chant democracy now prolonged negotiations, high profile resignations. The country i love. Behave yourself parliament paralysed as westminster wrangled. Then another public verdict, and after this testing year, a last minute trade deal, a political win for the Prime Minister. The central purpose of this bill is to accomplish so