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
Hedges. Coming up on this weeks programme Facing Herfears We follow an anxious traveller as she heads abroad for the first time in almost two years. It was that first view of the sea, and i was like, i can do this, i made it. This is going to be ok, this is going to be good. Weve got tech thats designed to take the stress out of your overseas adventures. Ive rounded up a bunch of gadgets that will be sure to guide you to a state of zen. We find out what bangkoks taxi drivers did when their customers disappeared. And we meet the people helping passengers with their paperwork. Were here to reassure them, to guide them and to make sure that they have everything to hand. Hi. Its london, its january, and the weathers, shall we say, cold. So what many of us desperately want is some much needed sunshine. I think its fair to say that travelling right now is more than a little complicated, with a seemingly never ending list of rules and regulations. So, if youre someone who battles from anxiety
Out front tonight, putin breaks his silence, speaking for the first time publicly since december. Putin taking questions during a meeting with ironically a nato country, claiming the United States has broken its word and is forcing his hand in ukraine. There are mk41 launchers on which tomahawks can be installed. That is, these are not antimissile but strike systems that will cover our territory for thousands of kilometers. Isnt that a threat to us . Let us imagine ukraine is a nato member and stuffed with weapons and there are State Of The Art Missile Systems like in poland and romania, who will stop nit crimea, let alone dumbas, a russian sovereign territory. Let us imagine ukraine is a nato member and venture such as combat operations. Are we supposed to be at war with nato . His demands have not changed, trickling down, crimea was originally annexed by russia. No one has done much about it. Which remains the reason why putin believes he can control more of ukraine. Here is somethin
Committee, as the former president himself spells out clearly in his own words just how far he was willing to go to stay in power. And ahead, the socalled Teacher Loyalty Law proposed in New Hampshire, aiming to bar educators from reaching the u. S. Was founded on racism. And more than a dozen historically black colleges and universities reporting bomb threats. Former head coach of the dolphins and brian flores filing a lawsuit against the dolphins and two other teams alleging Racial Discrimination allegations, bob costas is going to join me straight ahead. And abc has suspended Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks in the week of her comments on the view claiming the holocaust was not about race. And the president of abc says i have asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments. More about that in the next hour. I want to bring in stewart stevens, Senior Adviser to the lincoln project, and elliott williams. Good evening. Thank you so much for joining us on a ver
Committee, as the former president himself spells out clearly in his own words just how far he was willing to go to stay in power. And ahead, the socalled Teacher Loyalty Law proposed in New Hampshire, aiming to bar educators from reaching the u. S. Was founded on racism. And more than a dozen historically black colleges and universities reporting bomb threats. Former head coach of the dolphins and brian flores filing a lawsuit against the dolphins and two other teams alleging Racial Discrimination allegations, bob costas is going to join me straight ahead. And abc has suspended Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks in the week of her comments on the view claiming the holocaust was not about race. And the president of abc says i have asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments. More about that in the next hour. I want to bring in stewart stevens, Senior Adviser to the lincoln project, and elliott williams. Good evening. Thank you so much for joining us on a ver