Beyond mid february. Buy now, pay laterfirms face stricter controls following fears over young shoppers debts. A Court In Moscow is due to decide shortly whether to jail president Vladimir Putins leading critic, Alexei Navalny. Also coming up heavy snow hits parts of Northern England with the met Office Warning some Rural Communities are at risk of becoming cut off. This morning. Door to door tests are being offered to 80,000 people in england after cases of a new South African Coronavirus Variant were found, with no links to travel. People across eight areas are being asked to take tests, whether they have symptoms or not, after the government said the uk must Come Down Hard on the variant and find every case. Andy moore reports. 10,000 Home Testing Kits delivered to a fire station in woking in surrey. From today, the operation to deliver them door to door will begin. Across england, 80,000 people over the age of 16 will be swabbed to find the true extent of the new variant. Theres no
Minds, thats for sure. Yes, ive headed a lot of footballs as well, so there is a worry. But i feel fine, my brother feels fine and we are ploughing an awful lot of money into it and hopefully, we can come up with some solutions. Throughout february, bbc sport is celebrating the achievements of lgbt athletes and the impact they have made beyond the realms of sport as part of lgbt history month. Jason collins made basketball history eight years ago, when he came out as the first openly gay player in the nba. Precedent barack precedent ba rack obama precedent barack obama said to me my actions will have a positive impact on someone that i might not ever meet in my lifetime president. And i dont, that is really cool. I never really thought about that. And i thought. I didnt want to be the first. This is something that i have guarded since i was 13, 1a years old. I constantly had to wear a mask. Thinking, ok, i cant say this because i dont want someone to pick up on the fact that i am gay.
There were misunderstandings from the beginning but we should forget about them and focus on our vaccine being one of the best. Donald trump is accused of summoning a mob and aiming them like a Loaded Cannon at the capitol according to pre trial documents from democrats were pushing for his impeachment. And tributes are pouring in for Captain Sirtom and tributes are pouring in for captain sir tom moore who has died at the age of 100. He is remembered for raising tens of millions for Coronavirus Workers in the uk. We begin in russia, where a court has ruled that Alexei Navalny will go to jail. A three and a half year suspended sentence for fraud from 2014 has been converted to a custodial sentence. Hes expected to spend over 2. 5 years in prison that allows for time previously spent under house arrest. This is Alexei Navalny arriving in court to hear the verdict he used his appearance to castigate President Putin, and said hed go down in history as someone who poisoned people. This was
when mobilisation was being discussed i agreed with my family that if such a situation arose i would refuse even if they sent me to prison. and the japanese cartoon characters being recreated for the stage by the royal shakespeare company breaking box office records in the process. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. in a few days time, the uk will have a new prime minister and penny mourdant, leader of the house of commons has become the first conservative mp to say she is running to replace liz truss. no other mp has declared yet but both borisjohnson and former chancellor rishi sunak have nominations from other mps. sources have told bbc news, rishi sunak has now received the public backing of 100 mps in the contest to become conservative leader. mrjohnson left office just over six weeks ago, forced out after a series of crises, including infringing the law. whoever wins becomes conservative leader and the next prime minister but opposit