For three more weeks at least but children could return to schools there after the february half term. Exhausted. The Duchess Of Cambridge talks candidly about the challenges of both Home Schooling and Home Hairdressing her children. The rspb launches its Big Garden Birdwatch where members of the public are asked to spend one hour counting and recording the birds they see from their home and coming up this hour well meet a nurse who gave birth nearly three months ago while seriously ill with covid 19 who has held her daughter for the first time after being discharged from hospital. Good morning and welcome. A new Coronavirus Vaccine has been shown to be 89. 3 effective in large scale uk trials. The novavax jab is the first to show it is effective against both the uk and South African Variants of the virus, as you can see from this graph. The uk has secured 60 million doses of the jab, which will be made in stockton on tees. The doses are expected to be delivered in the second half of t
At the Global Crisis in retail. A warm welcome to the Programme Briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. Also in the programme, have you started Christmas Shopping . If so, are you heading to the high street or shopping online . As amazon becomes the worlds biggest retailer tell us what you think about the crisis on the high street. Just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. The impeachment inquiry in washington is about to go public. Until now, the testimony has been heard behind closed doors. House democrats are looking at whether President Trump abused his power by witholding military aid from ukraine, while pressing for an investigation into the bidens. Mr trump calls the inquiry a hoax. The first two people in front of congress on wednesday are William Taylor the top us diplomat in ukraine, and George Kent Deputy assistant secretary for european and eurasian affairs. And on friday, former Us Ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch is due to testify. But,
Were certainly on different paths at the moment. Some members of the Northern Irish assembly will gather at stormont for the first time in nearly three years to debate the liberalisation of abortion laws which become law tonight. Two people are arrested after an fa cup tie was abandoned on saturday, amid reports of racist abuse against the haringey team. Two indian based call centres, thought to have defrauded thousands of british victims in a Computer Security scam, are put out of business following an International Police operation. This man on the phone kept saying, oh, my god, oh, my god, this is really serious. And he was just increasing my level of anxiety to the point where i was in total panic. The tears flow for andy murray as he wins his first singles title since career saving hip surgery. He won the european open in antwerp. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. The government will push again today for mps to vote on borisjohnsons brexit deal. It comes after a br
Win over argentina. Good evening. Donald trumps political opponents have intensified efforts to impeach the president. Three congressional committees have demanded legal documents relating to a telephone call by mr trump in which he asked ukraine to investigate his president ial rival, joe biden. From washington, Chris Buckler reports. What was a request has become a demand. Democrats are piling the pressure on President Trump by issuing a subpoena for a series of documents. They want a full, rather than a rough, transcript of thejuly phone call in which he asked the ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, to investigate his political rival and potential president ial candidate, joe biden. And amid all the talk of impeachment, mr trump continues to make unfounded allegations about mr biden, who hopes to challenge him in next years president ial election. Youre pointing out when hes flatlining, where there is no evidence, none, not a scintilla, not one tiny piece. The American People know