a final flourish of festive cheer before dutch cities shutdown for christmas. department stores and toy shops weren t ready for this level of footfall. while here, a beauty salon squeezed clients in for a last minute shave. translation: it was nice to go to the city for a little while before the lockdowns. translation: it s too busy i everywhere but i have to come get presents before the christmas holidays. under the new measures outlined on saturday, all nonessential stores, bars, restaurants, and other public places are to shut from sunday. essential shops, such as supermarkets and pharmacies, must close by 8pm. and as previously announced, schools are closed until at least january 9. the prime minister delivered the message in a sombre tone. translation: omicron is spreading even faster than feared, so we must intervene now to prevent much worse. this is what a christmas lockdown looks like on my local high street in the hague. most of the shutters have gone down and the
in southern afghanistan, explores and introduces a remarkable set of films shot in the 1950s by american glenn foster, and his afghan assistant hajji mehtabuddin. this is precious. i love this sweet. and ijust ate half of it and kept another half because i thought i will never, ever have them again. for me, this is a diamond. reminds me of my childhood. and the golden time. i was so excited to discover these films. my family had many photographs, but we lost them when we fled the afghan wars as refugees. most afghans have no pictures of their past. nothing to show their grandchildren. it is a terrible gap in our lives. these films, kept safe for half a century, are the only ones i have ever seen that have survived the wars. they show my afghanistan to me, the real one. a land full of life and hope. they tell a special chapter of our story that s almost forgotten. half a century ago, an american, glenn r foster, from california arrived in southern afghanistan. he stayed on f
department stores and toy shops weren t ready for this level of footfall, while hair and beauty salons squeezed clients in for a last minute shave. translation: it was nice to go to the city for a little while before the lockdown. translation: it s too busy - everywhere, but i have to come to get presents before the christmas holidays. under the new measures outlined on saturday, all non essential stores, bars, restaurants and other public places are to shut from sunday. essential shops such as supermarkets and pharmacies must close by 8:00pm, and as previously announced, schools are closed until at least 9 january. the prime minister delivered the message in a sombre tone. translation: omicron is spreading even faster than feared, and so we must intervene now to prevent much worse. this is what a christmas lockdown looks like on my local high street in the hague. most of the shutters have gone down, and they won t be rolled up again untilat least mid january. this lockdown
it has just it hasjust gone it has just gone half past five. now on bbc news, it s time for the media show. hello, good evening. good evening. that distinctive music can only mean one thing. it s time for channel 4 news and one of the most famous faces in broadcasting. jon snow has been the face of the programme since 1989. over the course of three decades, he has grilled every prime minister, from margaret thatcher up to and including theresa may. he drew the iconic words, let bygones be bygones from nelson mandela. he shared a plane with idi amin, reported on wars in iran and crises in vietnam. and it s not all been hard news. he has danced and sung on tv and even got stoned on camera. but he has also been accused of being too partisan, of having political views that were too obvious and which undermine the network s impartiality. and so, at a time when the future of channel 4 is up for grabs, his words have come under unprecedented scrutiny. jon snow, welcome to the media
across central and eastern england, parts of southern england haven t the sunshine for a good week or so now, so that will be a welcome change. probably the best of the sunshine again across the north of the uk, and again, whatever you are, it will be chilly whether you have the grey and gloomy skies or even the sunshine. now, as the run up to christmas has been giving us a headache. at the moment it looks like we could see this area of low pressure push in from the atlantic. that will have some weather fronts, some rain bands and some milder air which will push into the south and west, but colder air will want to continue to dig down from the north east. so we re in a bit of a battleground between these air masses around the christmas period. it does look like the upcoming week to start with, certainly for the first few days, will be chilly and bright, and then it will turn more unsettled around the christmas period and with some cold and we could see some sleet and snow in