And we find out what these adelie and Gentoo Penguins in antarctica have to tell us about global warming. Hello and welcome. We begin in beijing where the Winter Olympics torch relay has just got under way. Over the next three days, 1,000 people will carry the torch past chinese landmarks, including the Summer Palace and great wall. Its a scaled down event with very few spectators because of coronavirus restrictions. But despite the governments commitment to a zero covid strategy, the Omicron Variant is spreading. The Beijing Olympics organiser says 32 new cases have been detected among games related personnel in the last 2a hours. Lets go to beijing and our china correspondent stephen mcdonell. You are covering every twist and turn as these games are about to begin. Talk us through todays torch relay. This about to begin. Talk us through todays torch relay. Todays torch relay. This is nothina todays torch relay. This is nothing like todays torch relay. This is nothing like the todays
An extra hour in school for some pupils in wales as heads try out changes to the Academic Year. The Winter Olympics torch relay kicks off in beijing as chinas capital gears up for the games. Good morning. Quite a lot of Cloud Producing Light Rain in the north and east. Not as windy as it has been but it is still going to be mild. Details later in the programme. Good morning. Its wednesday, the 2nd of february. The government will today set out its long delayed Manifesto Plan to level up the lives of millions of people across the uk. The proposals include a series of pledges to improve education, Public Transport and housing in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the country. Labour have dismissed the project as more slogans and strategies. Our Political Correspondent Jessica Parker reports. We are a government committed to levelling up. It is absolutely what levelling up is all about. What were doing is levelling up. Level up across the whole of the uk. Ministers have talked about
1968. All the cool kids are saying it. Liz cheney has decided her lifes mission is now to defend democracy. Jim acostas new cnn show in which he uses there were democracy in the way some people use prepositions. In every sentence. At 2 00 p. M. Eastern tomorrow there is a zoom webinar on democracy, which are welcome to attend in case you havent heard enough about it already. Every left of Center Nitwit on twitter will be there. All of them will be fretting about the future of democracy. Pretty amazing. Its easy to make fun of an event like that. And of course we have a moral obligation to. Bloviates about democracy, insert jokes here but if we are being honest about it you should be a little worried about the state of our democracy. How is our democracy doing . Well, lets see. Another way to describe Demoss Democracy is popular representation. When the government does what citizens want it to do you have a democracy, and when it doesnt, you dont. You know longer have a free country tha
And we find out what these adelie and Gentoo Penguins in antarctica have to tell us about global warming. Hello and welcome. We begin in beijing where the Winter Olympics torch relay has just got under way. Over the next three days, 1,000 people will carry the torch past chinese landmarks, including the Summer Palace and great wall. Its a scaled down event with very few spectators because of coronavirus restrictions. But despite the governments commitment to a zero covid strategy, the Omicron Variant is spreading. The Beijing Olympics organiser says 32 new cases have been detected among games related personnel in the last 2a hours. Lets go to beijing and our china correspondent stephen mcdonell. You are covering every twist and turn as these games are about to begin. Talk us through todays torch relay. This about to begin. Talk us through todays torch relay. Todays torch relay. This is nothina todays torch relay. This is nothing like todays torch relay. This is nothing like the todays
An extra hour in school for some pupils in wales as heads try out changes to the Academic Year. The Winter Olympics torch relay kicks off in beijing as chinas capital gears up for the games. Good morning. Quite a lot of Cloud Producing Light Rain in the north and east. Not as windy as it has been but it is still going to be mild. Details later in the programme. Good morning. Its wednesday, the 2nd of february. The government will today set out its long delayed Manifesto Plan to level up the lives of millions of people across the uk. The proposals include a series of pledges to improve education, Public Transport and housing in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the country. Labour have dismissed the project as more slogans and strategies. Our Political Correspondent Jessica Parker reports. We are a government committed to levelling up. It is absolutely what levelling up is all about. What were doing is levelling up. Level up across the whole of the uk. Ministers have talked about