Now on bbc news Tuesday In Parliament. Hello again and welcome to Tuesday In Parliament. As the Health Secretary promises to come down hard on a new coronavirus strain. Our mission must be to stop its spread altogether and break those chains of transmission. But is there light at the end of the tunnel in scotland . We may be able to begin looking towards a careful and gradual easing around the start of march. And the death of a hero, tributes to captain sir tom moore. He brought joy to the nation. He was an inspiration to everybody in this country. But first, the Health Secretary has faced calls from mps for stronger Border Controls after the outbreak of the South African strain of coronavirus here in the uk. Amid concern that the new variant is spreading in the community, matt hancock said it was critical that people in areas singled out for enhanced testing stay at home. The Health Secretary did have some good news, more than 10 million doses of vaccines have been given in the uk, bu
earlier this season, he had to apologise after going out after a defeat to manchester city. he is available for their premier league game at wolves tomorrow, but ten hag was asked whether he was instilling the correct discipline at the club and if rashford was showing him disrespect. nothing to do with that with me, but in football, ute discipline you need. that is on the pitch, but also off the pitch, because also, there s a line. every player knows this. every professional knows this, what is required. we have to focus on winning football games, and that s all that matters. every talk professional knows what is required. a couple of matches. barcelona have moved up to third since manager hernandez announced he would be leaving at the end of the season. they won 1 0 at home. atletico madrid can move back, but no goals yet. japan either to the asian cup quarterfinals after beating bahrain 3 1 in qatar. after a spectacular effort, after the break, goals ensured the four tim
tech bosses including meta s mark zuckerberg and linda yaccarino of x have been accused of having blood on their hands by a powerul us senate committee in washington. the hearing was called as concerns rise about children s mental health and safety online. politicians say big tech companies are not doing enough to protect children from sexual exploitation. they have been debating tougher laws, and demanded executives explain what has been done so far. in his opening remarks, senator lindsay graham, the top republican on the committee, took aim at facebook founder and ceo, mark zuckerburg. mr zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, i know you don t mean it to be so, but you have blood on your you have a product that is killing people. and i use it, we all use it. there s an upside everything here. of the dark side has not been dealt with. it s now time to deal with the dark side because people have taken youridea dark side because people have taken your idea and they ha
been talking to nick. we have worked hard over the last two years to deliver the progress that has now been secured and it will bring real change. also tonight: on a so called hit list and fearing for their lives a group of british sikh activists ask the government for protection. sima has the exclusive story. and we ll talk live to the conservative chair of the foreign affairs select committee about foreign threats to british citiziens, and to the leader of the uk support group for india s ruling party, about the accusations. and i m in kyiv with ukraine s foreign minister has been talking to us about his country s challenges in the fight now against russia. and, thousands of women taking an anti epilepsy drug have given birth to babies with disabilities because they weren t warned about the dangers. tomorrow new restrictions on who can be prescribed sodium valporate come into force. we ll talk to a mum of four grown up children all born with disabilities after she w
materially, that didn t happen. nobody came to me and said, you know, if that said agreed to restart work on independence, that would mean something much more than that it does. there was not a process of consideration of that then saw somebody come to me with a proposal to restart work on independence. i m sorry, i am genuinely sorry if it sounds like i m dancing on the head of a pin, i sounds like i m dancing on the head ofa pin, i don t sounds like i m dancing on the head of a pin, i don t mean to. but the key point here is that we did not restart work on independence at that point, oranywhere restart work on independence at that point, or anywhere near that point. if it were to be decided on the basis if it were to be decided on the basis of if it were to be decided on the basis of the evidence before this inquiry basis of the evidence before this inquiry that there was a politicisation of the pandemic, and that you politicisation of the pandemic, and that you had u