To mark the symbolic handover of the project to the scottish government. Good morning. Its tuesday, 29th august. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Japan and the United States have requested an urgent meeting of the Un Security Council later today after north korea fired a missile that flew overjapan before crashing into the sea. The missile flew over northern japan before it crashed into the sea off the countrys east coast. The launch prompted an alert and people were told to take cover in basements or concrete buildings. The japanese Prime Minister, shinzo abe, said the launch was an unprecedented, serious, and grave threat to his nation. North korea has fired rockets over japan twice in the past, once in 1998 and again in 2009, but on those occasions pyongyang claimed those they were satellite launches, not weapons. Just before midnight, foreign secretary borisjohnson tweeted that he was outraged by what he called north koreas reckless provocation. The Chinese Governme
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Most pupils in England are due back in primary school after the Christmas break this week - but many parents are deciding they feel safer keeping them at home.
Some primaries in London and parts of the South East are staying closed for two weeks due to the fast-spreading new strain of the virus.
Speaking on Sunday, he said the risk to children was very, very low and the benefit of education was so huge .
He told BBC One s Andrew Marr Show: If you think about the history of the pandemic, we ve kept schools going for a long, long time in areas where the pandemic has really been at really high levels.