Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. One of the worlds biggest coronavirus vaccination campaigns hasjust begun in india. Addressing a Video Conference earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said such an ambitious project had never before been attempted. The huge inoculation programme aims to reach 300 Million People by august. Healthcare staff and front line workers will be among the first to receive the doses. Since the pandemic began it has confirmed more than 10. 3 million cases thats the second highest number in the world. And there have been neary 150 thousand deaths. 0ur correspondent Rajini Vaidyanathan is at a Vaccination Centre in delhi. There is a huge logistical task, a population of 1. 3 billion people who live in all kinds of terrains mountains, deserts, urban and rural. Iamat i am at one of over 3000 centres which have been set up. Here and at the other centres they are helping to vaccinate around people a day. If you do the maths on that, tha
Of sulawesi has killed dozens and left thousands homeless. The uk economy shrank by 2. 6 in november as the second lockdown hit economic output after many businesses were forced to close. And celebrities, including the footballer Marcus Rashford, join campaigners demanding the government review its policy on Free School Meals. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. Researchers say the latest variant to emerge, the one in brazil, could be contributing to soaring covid infections there. Its thought the new variant is more infectious that the original one that started the pandemic. Brazil has struggled to contain the virus, and has the second highest number of deaths after the United States. In a grim reminder ofjust how deadly this virus is the global deaths recorded has almost reached 2 million. In response to the new variant a travel ban on arrivals from south america into the uk has come into force this morning because of concerns about the covid variant di
This is bbc news these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. A sanitation worker becomes the first person in india to receive a Covid Vaccine as the country begins to vaccinate more than 1. 3 billion people. President Electjoe Biden sets out plans to speed up immunisations in the United States promising to vaccinate 100 Million People within his first 100 days in office. Our plan is as clear as it is bold get more people vaccinated for free. Germanys christian democrats elect Armin Laschet as their new leader a key moment in the race to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor. Calls for more support for the uks travel and Tourism Sector after the government imposes tougher restrictions on arrivals to keep out
new strains of coronavirus. Senior Police Officers in the uk says their investigations have been compromised after hundreds of thousands of arrest records were deleted from the Police National computer. Hello and welcome im shaun ley. Thank you forjoining us whether
You ch, mm and thank ou to david you ch, and thank ou to david for raisin and thank you to david for raising that all important point. Time for a look at the weather. Heres alina jenkins. I know it is cold, i had to work two pairs of gloves on my bicycle ride this morning, it is colder elsewhere . , a, this morning, it is colder elsewhere . , l, i, elsewhere . Temperatures fell to minus 115 elsewhere . Temperatures fell to minus 11. 5 celsius elsewhere . Temperatures fell to minus 11. 5 celsius at elsewhere . Temperatures fell to | minus 11. 5 celsius at ravensworth elsewhere . Temperatures fell to i minus 11. 5 celsius at ravensworth in north yorkshire, the coldest night of the year so far for england. This was leeds earlier, sunshine above 30 further snow as we head to this evening, overnight and tomorrow. Similar similar scenes across Northern England and scotland, but some of the snow could be moving further south. Quiet and mostly tried this afternoon, quite a bit of fog and linge
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