The decision that we must move to alert level four. The government in scotland says it intends to issue strengthened guidance over the relaxation of Christmas Covid regulations. The five day relaxation is a window of opportunity during which you can meet. It is not a period that we think it is safe or sensible to get together for. You should see it as a maximum, not a target. Injecting progress almost 140,000 people have been vaccinated for coronavirus so far in the uk. As london goes into tier 3, other areas of england are hoping to be moved down following a review today of covid restrictions. Nine year old Ella Kissi Debrah died in 2013, the inquest finds that air pollution did contribute to her death. Good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. Christmas isnt cancelled, but leaders across the uk want you to be very careful. The rules over festive gatherings will not be changed despite growing pressure for them to be toughened. All four nations have agreed to not to make a formal change
So, i see robin and jeremy here so change. And concussion substitutions it is one rule for one and one rule in football from january. Trials are expected to be approved for everyone else. Today following pressure on the sport to do more to protect players. Alison steadman willjoin us to tell us about her latest sitcom, singing carols on your doorstep set during lockdown. On december the 16th. Good morning. Some of us have seen some beautiful sunrises this morning rejoice, rejoice, emmanuel shall whilst others have had wet and windy come to the from israel and spreading some socially distanced cheer well be live conditions, and those conditions in on a street in shrewsbury to hear the west will move across all areas why we we should all sing carols on our doorsteps tonight. Through the day followed by blustery showers. More details in ten good morning for many of us a mild minutes. Start to the day but through the day what you will find is the rain in its wednesday the 16th december. Th
African variant. The number of children of key workers who are still going into Primary Schools is undermining the lockdown, teaching unions have warned. And some nurseries looking after the very youngest children question why they have to stay open and say they need more help to deal with the pandemic. A change in tone from President Trump he now condemns the violent storming of the us capitol by his supporters. Hello, good afternoon. The latest r numberfor the uk has been published and government scientists estimate it is currently between 1 and 1. 4 that means that on average every ten people infected with the virus will pass it on to between 10 and 1a people. Before christmas it was estimated to be between 1. 1 and 1. 3. Scientists advising the government said the estimates of r and growth rates are based on the latest Data Available up to january 11th and do not include any impact of the Current National lockdown. The mayor of london, sadiq khan, has declared a Major Incident in t
He came back onto the site and decided to make that than permanent. Twitter has also taken action against some of his allies as well. The explanation given by twitter, saying lets get more from our correspondent david willis in los angeles thatis that is now it. Hes been permanently banned from his preferred blood form of communication. Mr trump has long said he missed trusts the mainstream or, as he calls it, lamestream media, preferring to talk over its head directly to talk over its head directly to his supporters. Platform. There are 88 Million People who follow him on the form. Twitter. A short while ago, the authorities are twitter said he was being permanent band after close review of recent tweets from his account in the context surrounding them. They go on to say of course, there was a 12 hour block placed on mr trumps account earlier in the week following that mass brilliant the violence on the capital, around the capital, and now it seems the preferred platform for seems the
Hello, welcome to bbc news im victoria derbyshire, bringing you the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Police in hong kong use tear gas and a water cannon and arrest 30 democracy protestors, as chinas new National Security law comes into force. Its a bit of a weird stand off at this moment with the riot police here and people walking away, and some of the police are leaving as well. The water cannon truck has just been doing rounds. More uk job losses because of coronavirus 5,000 jobs are under threat at upper crust and 1,700 jobs are to go at airbus uk. The us buys up nearly all stocks for the next three months of the drug remdesivir one of the only drugs shown to work against covid 19. Councils in england will get Real Time Data on coronavirus cases in their areas, after signing a data sharing agreement with Public Health england. It follows criticism over how long it took to get data in leicester. And remembering the man who shouldve been englands first bla