Massive fines if they dont act. Im Still Standing better than i ever did. Brexit ended visa free travel to the eu for musicians. Now, eltonjohn tells us why it will hit so many young performers. And coming up, a Hollywood Gladiator sends a surprise Birthday Message to a british sailor taking part in a round the world yacht race. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The Prime Minister has thanked all those who have helped the uk to reach a milestone in its Vaccination Programme ten Million People have now received a first dose. But borisjohnson also issued a warning, describing the levels of covid 19 infections as alarmingly high. He said that while there was growing evidence of the effectiveness of the vaccines, the government needed more data before considering any relaxation of covid restrictions. Heres our Political Editor laura kuenssberg. Sleeves up, syringes ready, vaccine in army medics filling this Church Hall In Chingford where there used to be bingo nights and dog training.
Worst is yet to yet to come do you think theyre right and how much worse can this get. Were obviously in a very deep crisis it is highly differentiated across the world and i think this is the most important point in the Asia Pacific Region the epidemic is getting under control the policies have been smart and effective in stopping the spread of the virus in china japan korea Australia New Zealand taiwan hong kong vietnam malaysia and so want in. Western europe and the United States the epidemic was not controlled effectively at all and in the us we have a complete mass because we have a. Failure of national leadership. Mass deaths. More than 110000 social unrest economic. Catastrophe and throughout most of the rest of the americas resilin for example. Back soko terrible terrible outcomes then the question is the rest of the world including russia including central asia including south asia including africa and the battle is on right now will it be more like the asia pacific experience
Social democratic and labor Party Welcome back to the other later to later to be back are they could like to see you again thinking from your perspective a long leader campaigning constitutional nationalist. You must be pretty pleased with the way things are going i mean they assemble is back up and running in the north they. Off the results of the elections of the public then unification prospectors on the if not meet your Agenda Setting on the medium term agenda and its not looking like theres not going to be the threat of a ball that on land is going to be won on the irish sea following so its pretty good from a constitutional nationalist but if you have is a very positive description ali but the reality is some months something short of that im very glad to see theyre simply back up again on the marking and people are car are happy the battles happened im not saying theyre overconfident because they basically want to see product people want to see it calms that prove leaves and wit
Booming around the world will find out why theyre so crucial to keeping the virus in check. Im carl aspen thanks for joining us there have been fresh confrontations at the turkish greek border between migrants seeking to enter the European Union and police determined to stop them creak Security Forces have been using tear gas to prevent groups of migrants and refugees from crossing the land border theyve made repeated attempts to breach the frontier in recent days thousands of people have been stuck in no mans land outside the turkish city of air dina since friday and the situation on the greek islands closest to turkey has also been deteriorating on lesbos long a flashpoint in the migration crisis. Refugees and locals have been clashing with police. For days theyve been trying to break through. But police are Standing Firm lesbos has europes largest refugee camp and greek authorities are determined to stop a 2nd wave of migrants from entering. There is also strong resistance to new ar
Underwater motorways heavy rain and floods put the brakes on the christmas getaway. Buckingham palace confirms that the duke of edinburch is in hospital. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport with connie. Waiting for announcement from arsenal . Were waiting for confirmation that mikel arteta is the new arsenal manager. Up until this week he was assistant coach to Pep Guardiola at Manchester City and in the last hour or so hes confirmed that arteta has left the club and hes in london. Chris has all the weather parts of the country flooded . We will be looking at how much rain has fallen over the last couple of days, bringing flooding seems like these, but also crucially as the Christmas Holiday getaway gets under way, we will be looking at what the weather has in store over the next few days. Thanks, chris. Also coming up. Three, two, one and lift off a new era in human space flight. Could this capsule one day take paying passengers into space . Hello, everyone this is afternoon liv