Now its time for a look back at the week in parliament. Hello there, welcome to the week in parliament our look at the highlights from all four of the uks parliaments and assemblies. Coming up borisjohnson tells mps schools in england wont return before the 8th of march. And i know how frustrating that will be will be for pupils and teachers who want nothing more than to get back to the classroom. The Labour Leader Calls for teachers to be vaccinated in the next few weeks. He should bring forward the vaccination of key workers and use the window of the february half term to vaccinate all teachers and all school staff. Also on this Programme Leaders in wales and scotland face questions about the Coronavirus Vaccine roll out. The Home Secretary announces tougher border controls. And theres to be a new investigation into mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland which housed women pregnant outside marriage, including victims of rape and incest. Wasnt their fault that they were raped or th
Hello and welcome. We start with an apology from americas top Infectious Diseases expert Dr Anthony Fauci after he criticised uk regulators over their rapid approval of a new coronavirus vaccine. Britain on wednesday became the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer Biontech vaccine for mass use. Speaking earlier to cbs, dr fauci said the uk was not as rigorous as the us in its vaccine approval process. But when he spoke to my colleagues earlier on this channel, dr fauci backtracked. The point i was really trying to make, i did not make it well, which is why i welcome to the opportunity to get on your show and say it came out wrong. In the United States, there is such a considerable amount of tension of pushing back on the credibility of the safety and efficacy that if we in the United States had done it as quickly as the uk did it, and thats no judgement on the way uk did it, and even though my statement did come across looking that way, if we had a, for example, approved it
Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Kahn won power in pakistan two years ago with a promise to root out corruption and take on the countries vested interest. So hows it going . Well, rising food prices and the covid pandemic have left many pakistanis feeling worse off. While the Anti Corruption drive has become a political battleground. My guest today ishaq dar was pakistans Finance Minister a former Prime Minister nawaz sharif now both of those men are trying to rally opposition to imran khan. But how much credibility do they have . Ishaq dar, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. Let us begin with your personal status, your legal status. You are a wanted man in pakistan. Are you here in london to escape the judicial process . Not really, i think you must be aware of the pakistan history. When our in pakistan over 73 years the rhetoric has been used over the last two dictatorships and the current one isnt different. Because this regime is known to be under the martial law.
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
The week in parliament. Hello there, welcome to the week in parliament our look at the highlights from all four of the uks parliaments and assemblies. Coming up borisjohnson tells mps schools in england wont return before the 8th of march. And i know how frustrating that will be will be for pupils and teachers who want nothing more than to get back to the classroom. The Labour Leader Calls for teachers to be vaccinated in the next few weeks. He should bring forward the vaccination of key workers and use the window of the february half term to vaccinate all teachers and all school staff. Also on this Programme Leaders in wales and scotland face questions about the Coronavirus Vaccine roll out. The Home Secretary announces tougher border controls. And theres to be a new investigation into mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland which housed women pregnant outside marriage, including victims of rape and incest. Wasnt their fault that they were raped or the victims of incest. Yet they we