any of the other papers. there is an advert, a cover to each and every national newspaper reminding people of the importance of dealing, in particular, with the 0micron variant. the netherlands has taken the strongest measures yet to limit the surge in 0micron cases. it s the first country in europe to embark on a month long lockdown. non essentialshops, bars, gyms, hairdressers and other public venues will be closed. all schools will be shut until at least the ninth of january. while other lockdown measures will remain in place for longer as our correspondent anna holligan reports from the hague. virtually silent high streets. it s online and window shopping only this year. last christmas, the dutch thought the pandemic would be over by now. instead, the netherlands has become the first country in europe to shut down in response to the rapidly spreading
the united nations is investigating the mass killings of civilians by the myanmar military ten months after they took power in a coup. we have a special report on the mass graves after four villages in central myanmar were targeted over a period of weeks in july. the leftist candidate in the chilean election, gabriel boric, has won the presidency, after his far right rival, jose antonio kast, conceded defeat in the country s most polarising election ever. chile has seen widespread protests in the past two years, with economic instability and growing inequality. a tough new month long lockdown has begun in the netherlands, as the new coronavirus variant spreads rapidly across europe. non essentialshops, bars, gyms, hairdressers and other public venues will be closed. all schools will be shut until at least january ninth while other measures will remain in place for longer. now on bbc news, it s time for political thinking
this is bbc news, the headlines: the united nations is investigating the mass killings of civilians by the myanmar military ten months after they took power in a coup. we have a special report on the mass graves after four villages in central myanmar were targeted over a period of weeks in july. the leftist candidate in the chilean election, gabriel boric, has won the presidency, after his far right rival, jose antonio kast, conceded defeat in the country s most polarising election ever. chile has seen widespread protests in the past two years, with economic instability and growing inequality. a tough new month long lockdown has begun in the netherlands, as the new coronavirus variant spreads rapidly across europe. non essentialshops, bars, gyms, hairdressers and other public venues will be closed. all schools will be shut until at least january ninth while other measures will remain in place for longer. now on bbc news, it s time for political thinking
cases. it s the first country in europe to embark on a month long lockdown. non essentialshops, bars, gyms, hairdressers and other public venues will be closed. all schools will be shut until at least january 9 while other lockdown measures will remain in place for longer as our correspondent anna holligan reports from the hague. virtually silent high streets. it s online and window shopping only this year. last christmas, the dutch thought the pandemic would be over by now. instead, the netherlands has become the first country in europe to shut down in response to the rapidly spreading omicron variant. now, it feels like it s starting all over again, to be isolated and, yeah it feels really bad. because we re used to going to the cafe, to a bar, and with this lockdown, it s impacted me a bit. so, yeah, it s going to be difficult. george is a chef. so, tomorrow, i m working just to throw away a lot of fresh food, lots of basically, everything
expected anyway. there was a meeting this afternoon between the devolved administrations and london, we were thinking signals might come from that but we re hearing that was not really about restrictions but had to deal with the fallout of staff shortages in that kind of thing. nicola sturgeon tweeted afterwards saying she wanted urgent decisions to be made but the prime minister is under pressure from all sides. the health secretary says they need to take in many different things, not just the science advice but other things into the picture too, the impact of any new lockdown and of course the mps are saying lockdown should not be a choice that the government resorts to sew difficult decisions. . ~ , ., government resorts to sew difficult decisions. ., ~ , ., ., ., , the netherlands has embarked on a month long lockdown in response to the surge in cases of omicron. it s the first european country to introduce this level of restrictions in response to the new variant. non essentialsh