Now its time for a look back at the week in parliament. Hello there, welcome to the week in parliament our look at the highlights from all four of the uks parliaments and assemblies. Coming up borisjohnson tells mps schools in england wont return before the 8th of march. And i know how frustrating that will be will be for pupils and teachers who want nothing more than to get back to the classroom. The Labour Leader Calls for teachers to be vaccinated in the next few weeks. He should bring forward the vaccination of key workers and use the window of the february half term to vaccinate all teachers and all school staff. Also on this Programme Leaders in wales and scotland face questions about the Coronavirus Vaccine roll out. The Home Secretary announces tougher border controls. And theres to be a new investigation into mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland which housed women pregnant outside marriage, including victims of rape and incest. Wasnt their fault that they were raped or th
Now its time for a look back at the week in parliament. Hello there, welcome to the week in parliament our look at the highlights from all four of the uks parliaments and assemblies. Coming up borisjohnson tells mps schools in england wont return before the 8th of march. And i know how frustrating that will be will be for pupils and teachers who want nothing more than to get back to the classroom. The Labour Leader Calls for teachers to be vaccinated in the next few weeks. He should bring forward the vaccination of key workers and use the window of the february half term to vaccinate all teachers and all school staff. Also on this Programme Leaders in wales and scotland face questions about the Coronavirus Vaccine roll out. The Home Secretary announces tougher border controls. And theres to be a new investigation into mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland which housed women pregnant outside marriage, including victims of rape and incest. Wasnt their fault that they were raped or th
Led to green forces refuse to step aside. And china launches an unmanned spacecraft to the moon with ambitions to eventually set foot on the surface. U. S. President donald trump has accepted that a full transition can begin for joe biden to take office. The head of the General Services administration, told biden the process can begin. Trump said in a tweet, hes directing his team to cooperate, but hes promising to keep up the fight. Joe bidens Transition Team has welcomed the move. It frees up millions of dollars for the president elects new administration. And bidens team can now work with federal officials on the Pandemic Response and National Security has the latest from washington. This is the letter president elect. Joe biden has been waiting for, giving him the federal resources he needs to begin putting his administration in place. Trump loyalists, emily murphy had delayed for weeks, but monday in this letter, she says she decided on her own, not the biden was going to be presi
A phone tapping scandal and another record high for Greenhouse Gases in the atmosphere. And theyre still growing this by the long downs. Astra zeneca says its developed a covert 19 the vaccine for the world and at a fraction of the cost of others in the pipeline. The british drug maker working with Oxford University says trials show it could be around 90 percent effective. It would cost around 2. 00 and a half dollars a dose and be stored at normal frigid temperatures for 6 months, helping distribution. By contrast, modern or says its experimental vaccine looks to be 94 and a half percent effective. It consists in the fridge for 30 days or a regular freezer for 6 months. The fine is a vaccine on the other hand, well that is said to be 95 percent effective. However, it requires specialist freezing. Both maternal and pfizer will charge at least 20. 00 a dose. Marriott is the Health Policy manager and oxfam. She says the news from astra zeneca and oxford is encouraging. If they do, you re
Along the border with sudan is worsening, and u. S. President elect joe biden is set to announce his 1st cabinet appointments and tony blinken, a former Obama Administration official, is expected to be named secretary of state. An unschooled, the head of african football has been handed a 5 year ban a by the sports world governing body fifa. Ahmed ahmed was found guilty of financial misconduct following an investigation. Thank you very much for joining us. We begin this news hour with a promising breakthrough in the global race to find a vaccine for corona virus. Raising hopes of an end to the pandemic could be within reach the u. K. Pharmaceutical company, astra zeneca and the university of oxford have said they have caught a vaccine for the world. They say that on average have seen is 70 percent effective, but that may increase to 90 percent depending on the dosage at 2. 50 is the cheapest potential vaccine so far with no serious side effects. This is the 3rd Major Company to report