and has launched a fundraising page to help with reliefs. the tongan government has asked for the international aid effort led by australia and new zealand to be paced so the island s small airport and harbour are not overwhelmed. in the next few days, a repair ship will arrive to reconnect the undersea cable that links tonga to international telecoms networks. jatinder dhillon, bbc news. borisjohnson s government is being urged to delay mandatory covid jabs for frontline national health service staff in england with one doctors group warning of severe consequences if it goes ahead with the plan. workers have been told to get their firstjab by february the 3rd and be fully vaccinated by the 1st april or face losing theirjobs. on saturday, hundreds of people marched in cities across england to protest against the policy
protections. for kids travelling to the uk, under 18 is will continue to be treated as eligible for the vaccinated passengers, which means they will not face any tests at the uk border. today, i m pleased to confirm that from february the 3rd, 12 to 15 year olds in england will be able to prove their vaccination status via the digital nhs pass for international outbound travel. again, this should help families cope plan holidays for february half term. it will help the aviation sector to take back to the skies. from 4am on 11th february, we will recognise at the uk borders vaccine certificates from 16 further nations. that will include countries like china and mexico, bringing the vaccine recognition total to over 180 countries and territories worldwide.
things right and so it was the right thing to do to take it. thing to do to take it. if you have this cross-party thing to do to take it. if you have this cross-party support, - thing to do to take it. if you have this cross-party support, why - thing to do to take it. if you have | this cross-party support, why not this cross party support, why not get it openly before you actually try and change the system? to a certain extent you must be dismayed it has become this controversial? i am absolutely dismayed. opposition politicians have decided to take apart is in line because i was. you could have consulted them? i was very careful you could have consulted them? i was very careful to you could have consulted them? i was very careful to make you could have consulted them? i was very careful to make it you could have consulted them? i was very careful to make it clear you could have consulted them? i very careful to make it clear that this was not letting anybody off the
that you see there because he has that national strategy. tom steyer s not doing as well nationally. but if you look at the state polling, he s, for example, in the top five when you look at south carolina. so when you look at skipping the primaries, the first few are small states. they they they aren t important to the delegate count. but they used to signal that if you could do well in iowa, that you can do well elsewhere. if you can do well in new hampshire, you can do well elsewhere. if you don t need to do well in order to raise the money, bloomberg s strategy might make sense. right. but then you also have the factor that you re not going to be talked about for the whole month of february. i mean, the iowa caucus is february the 3rd. super-tuesday is not until march 3rd. that s a whole month where you re going to have other candidates who are winning contests. other candidates who are starting to drop out. the field is going to shrink at that point. it s really a theory o
four candidates separated by just five percentage points, essentially within the margin of error. warren leads with 20%. pete buttigieg close at her heels at 19%. bernie sanders in third place at 17%. joe biden rounds out the top tier with 15%. no other candidates crack double digits, notably more than half those surveyed say they could still change their minds. before february the 3rd. jason johnson, lanhee chen. lanhee, we basically have four candidates at the top, something unusual would have to happen for somebody else to get into that top tier, what do you make of it? two things. one is i think traditionally iowa is tough to poll. you re going to see a lot of variance the next couple of weeks and numbers are going to bounce around. it s going to be interesting. i think sanders and warren are going to be in one lane, in the other buttigieg and biden. i think there s one survivor from each lane. as we observe what happens in iowa, we re going to be looking at relative rankings.