Wednesday in parliament. Hello again, and welcome to wednesday in parliament as borisjohnson is warned his covid controls arent working. Its the 3rd of february, 2021, with new variants in the country, our schools are shut and our borders are open. The number of people getting a jab reaches ten million, but the head of test and trace strikes a note of caution. The big concern and worry is that the virus mutates and succeeds in finding a form that can escape the vaccine. And remembering a long life, lived well. I invite members to nowjoin me for a minutes silence to commemorate sir toms life. But first, The Government says its a hugely significant milestone in the fight against coronavirus. Ten Million People in the uk have now received their first dose of the Covid Vaccine. But at Prime Ministers questions, borisjohnson was told that the biggest threat to the Vaccine Programme was his governments reluctance to order the complete closure of the uks borders to limit the arrival of new st
Beyond mid february. Buy now, pay laterfirms face stricter controls following fears over young shoppers debts. A Court In Moscow is due to decide shortly whether to jail president Vladimir Putins leading critic, Alexei Navalny. Also coming up heavy snow hits parts of Northern England with the met Office Warning some Rural Communities are at risk of becoming cut off. This morning. Door to door tests are being offered to 80,000 people in england after cases of a new South African Coronavirus Variant were found, with no links to travel. People across eight areas are being asked to take tests, whether they have symptoms or not, after the government said the uk must Come Down Hard on the variant and find every case. Andy moore reports. 10,000 Home Testing Kits delivered to a fire station in woking in surrey. From today, the operation to deliver them door to door will begin. Across england, 80,000 people over the age of 16 will be swabbed to find the true extent of the new variant. Theres no
There were misunderstandings from the beginning but we should forget about them and focus on our vaccine being one of the best. Donald trump is accused of summoning a mob and aiming them like a Loaded Cannon at the capitol according to pre trial documents from democrats were pushing for his impeachment. And tributes are pouring in for Captain Sirtom and tributes are pouring in for captain sir tom moore who has died at the age of 100. He is remembered for raising tens of millions for Coronavirus Workers in the uk. We begin in russia, where a court has ruled that Alexei Navalny will go to jail. A three and a half year suspended sentence for fraud from 2014 has been converted to a custodial sentence. Hes expected to spend over 2. 5 years in prison that allows for time previously spent under house arrest. This is Alexei Navalny arriving in court to hear the verdict he used his appearance to castigate President Putin, and said hed go down in history as someone who poisoned people. This was
Downing street insists borisjohnson is still in control, after another conservative mp called on him to go. The Prime Minister has also seen the resignation of a fifth senior adviser. Rescuers in morocco are reported to be getting closer to reaching a young boy trapped at the bottom of a well. The five year old, called rayan, fell down the 32 metre well on tuesday. At 10pm, Reeta Chakrabarti will be here with a full round up of the days news. First, its newscast. Confession time. Wed recorded tonights episode of newscast, and then i went to the pub to have. Ah . It turns out two thirds of a pint with a friend. Then, of course, my phone went mad because loads of developments happened in the Downing Street sacking saga. So, ive popped back, laura never left. Whats happened tonight . Well, as one mp said to me, its not a Downing Street nightmare, its a Downing Street meltdown and lets say, we are now recording this at 8 15. In the last couple of hours, the Prime Ministers policy chief has