hospitality sector. we ve responded i think generously today, the grants we ve outlined up to £6,000 are comparable to the grants we provided for hospitality businesses when they were completely closed earlier this year. our other headlines more bodies are found as rescuers reach islands in the phillipines, cut off by last week s typhoon. we ll talk to a film maker who was on one of the worst hit islands when the typhoon hit. hello, and welcome. in the last hour, scotland s first minister, nicola stugeon, has announced new restrictions, due to the surge in omicron cases. the number of people allowed to socialise both, indoors and outdoors, will be limited which means new year s celebrations will have to be scaled back, and sports events will effectively be spectator free for a three week period from 26th of december. we heard nicola sturgeon making that announcement in holyrood in the last half an hour. new restrictions being brought in. let s hear a little bit of that
way in congress tonight to hold in contempt the white house chief of staff to former president trump. former republican congressman t mark meadows. now, last night at this time we were reporting on a bombshell hearing from the january 6th investigation in which they voted to recommend holding mr. meadows in contempt. at that hearing the january 6th investigators read into the public record all of this new material we d never heard of before, quotes from texts and ec emails and other documents mark meadows had turned in to the investigators before something spooked him and he decided he was no longer going to cooperate and he would start to defy their subpoenas.igoo last night is when we got those shocking, shocking details from some of the materials meadows sh has turned over, including verbatim they tell us ed verbatim texts and emails from prominent conservative news personalities and from members of congress and all sorts of co other people whose words we have not heard
the prime minister faces further questions about a gathering in number 10 last christmas after it emerges that his director of communications was present. and no10 has confirmed it s christmas party this year won t now be going ahead. find out what mark kermode thinks of theirs, it is of course stephen spielberg s west side story. add the rest of the main releases in the film review at 5:45pm. an inquestjury has concluded that police errors probably contributed to the deaths of three young men who were murdered by the serial killer, stephen port. the jury found that flaws in the investigation into the first death in east london, meant he was free to kill three more times before he was caught. port is serving life for the murders in 2014 and 2015. the families of the victims believe the police failures were partly driven by homophobia a charge the met denies. helena wilkinson has more for life truly cut short, fashion student anthony walker, caprari, young chef daniel whitwo
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are sienna rodgers, editor of labourlist and tom newton dunn, chief political commentator at times radio. tomorrow s front pages, starting with. the mirror for a second day leads with borisjohnson and reports of christmas parties in downing street during last year s lockdown. the paper says attendees enjoyed, food, drink and games until past midnight despite curbs. the prime minster has insisted no covid rules were broken. the times reports the government aims to offer a fourth covid shot to fight against new variants as it makes a two yearjab deal with suppliers. the daily telegraph has more details on that story two more jabs per person, under the agreement, which will provide 114 million more doses. the daily mail tells minister s to stop being christmas killjoys , after one advised against kissing underneath the mistletoe. the daily express has a more upbeat tone it s not a
the polish forces have responded with water and also with gas it s quite difficult to breathe. and we ll have an update from canada, where torrential downpours caused widespread floods and mudslides in parts of british columbia. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in the morning in singapore and ”pm in the uk, where the former yorkshire county cricketer azeem rafiq has given harrowing and, at times, emotional evidence describing the racist abuse he says he experienced at the club. he told mps that the way he was treated was inhuman and said he felt isolated, humiliated at times. more than a year after he first spoke publicly about racism, the former off spinner accused senior figures at the club of turning a blind eye to what was happening. a subsequent report by yorkshire confirmed that he d suffered harassment, but no one faced disciplinary action. our sports editor dan roan s report contains some details you may find offensiv