Could have here in the uk. Also tonight. The army is out on the streets of myanmar as the military stage a coup months after losing an election. The fake covid Test Certificates with a negative result being sold online. And taking on one of the uks toughest races despite an unexpected medical diagnosis. And coming up in sport on bbc news its transfer deadline day for clubs up and down the country well have the latest, including the man set to join champions liverpool. Good evening and welcome to the Bbc News At Six. Urgent testing is to start in parts of england as the south african strain of coronavirus has been detected in 11 of the cases there is no known link to the country. Its raised fears that the variant is now being transmitted within the community. Door to door testing will be carried out in the affected areas of london, the West Midlands, hertfordshire, kent, surrey and merseyside. Health officials are confident the vaccines will work against the South African Variant but pr
particularly for students and even more so for younger students. let me explain. we ve been talking about this idea for some time. it s now official from the cdc. but they re specifically saying for all students, elementary school students, they can maintain just three feet apart when mask use is universal regardless of what is happening with community transmission. that s for elementary school students. so that s going to be a big deal. but they also say, kate, that for middle school and high school students, they should still maintain at least six feet apart if the community tr transmission in their community is high. so making a difference between older and younger students. for all elementary schools, regardless where you live in the country, guidance is now going to be three feet. but if you happen to live in a community where community transmission is high still, at about 41% roughly of counties in the united states do have high transmission, if you live in one of those
more anxious and less confident as people, but there have been gains, too. we listen to the birdsong more, we speak to neighbours that we didn t previously know, we are more connected to our surroundings and our communities. for some, the pandemic has meant new roots. sam walker and family moved house for more space. when we were in london, we lived in an upstairs maisonette. we were inside the flat, you know, with no outside space apart from a really small balcony that we had, so that really was the motivation to get a house with a garden. sam is a make up artist who s seen all her work disappear. it s changed her as a person. before, i had a lot more focus on my work and my career, and that has flipped 100%. you know, so now i realise, you know, where i get my values from, my family and my home. did you feel lonely? a little bit, because i didn t have as many people around me, - because i was used to, like, as we were going to school, i was used to having quite a lot of p
off the table. explosive hearing on capitol hill where chip roy invoked lynchings and railed against china, prompting a very emotional congresswoman grace ming to accuse him of, quote, putting a bulls eye on the backs of asian americans. congresswoman grace meng is standing by live. we ll discuss with her in a few minutes. we re also following new video released by the fbi showing some of the most violent attack on capitol police during the january 6th capitol siege. they include rioters beating police with metal poles, stolen shields and doucing them with chemical sprays. we ll share that video with you. that s coming up. first, let s go straight to atlanta where ryan young is joining us. ryan, atlanta s deputy police chief is stressing that this investigation is clearly ongoing. reporter: yeah, wolf. we ve been learning new details from the atlanta police department. they are stressing the fact that they are going through this as a separate investigation. they still say
asian. news of the shooting sparked a new round of fear, a fresh round of fear across the country given the rise of anti-asian hate crimes since the start of the pandemic. the white house says president biden is monitoring the developments out of georgia. attorney general merrick garland and fbi director chris wray are set to brief the president on these developments throughout the day. let s start this hour in georgia with the latest from the shooting scene. ryan young is joining me right now. ryan, that police briefing just wrapped up. they did release quite a lot of information. reporter: kate, i m just surprised by how much information we ve gotten so far in this case. you can really see the coordination that was involved in bringing the suspect to justice in terms of being able to capture him yesterday. this entire area was put on alert after the shootings occurred. we are standing in atlanta. the original shooting happened in cherokee county which is about 47 minutes