updated ids guidance on how long health care workers should isolate if they get covid-19. shortening the time from ten days to seven days if they are no longer positive and if they are asymptomatic. let s go to our national correspondent athena jones more on the omicron surge as the holiday travel rush is underway. reporter: with holiday air travel surpassing pre-pandemic levels, according to the tsa, tonight long lines at airports and at testing sites. this whole thing is frustrating. reporter: as people scramble to do what they can to keep themselves and their families safe through the holidays. doctors are applauding the fda decision today granting emergency use authorization to a second anti-viral pill. this one from merck that people could take at home. adding another covid fighting weapon to the nation s armory. but they stress even these game-changing medications must be given within five dies of onset making timely access to tests all the more important. we ca
enough of burning and i drilling our way deeper, we are digging our own graves. we ll be looking at the challenge ahead, for the hundreds of negotiators in glasgow searching for consensus. also on the programme. the driver of one of two trains involved in a collision near salisbury, suffers life changing injuries. several others were hurt. you re in the black and you are just looking around, seeing if everyone is ok and can tjust help but feel like what is going to happen? what is going to happen next? the chief executive of barclays resigns after an inquiry into links with the sex offender, jeffrey epstein. helps it away. and jos buttler s big hitting makes it four wins out of four for england, at the t 20 world cup. and coming up in sport on the bbc news channel. following the sacking of manager nuno esp rito santo, tottenham look to the former chelsea boss antonio conte. good evening from glasgow, where world leaders have attended the opening ceremony of the global clima
in the tv station in the port city guayaquil. they ve got grenades with them as well, in the past minutes them as well, in the past minutes the president said that ecuador is now in a state of emergency, but it is now in a state of armed conflict. let s speak to naomi wells who is in sao paulo. saying in the last hour, we ve got a new person who s threatening to take on the drug cartels and they are pushing back forcibly. cartels and they are pushing back forcibl . . v cartels and they are pushing back forcibl . . , ., forcibly. that s right, and the scenes tonight forcibly. that s right, and the scenes tonight demonstrate l forcibly. that s right, and the - scenes tonight demonstrate that, certainly. it is incredibly distressing footage, footage there of staff as they were broadcasting live on air at the television station in guayaquil, with guns being held to some of the staff as they plead please, please, please as they plead please, please, please as they beg for their
the hottest year ever recorded and the global temperature was m387 celsius, beating the previous hottest year set in 2016 by zero .17 celsius according to the eu climate change service, copernicus. the met office in the uk believes this record could be short lived. they are forecasting that 2024 could be even hotter. we are keeping a close eye on the people at copernicus who we understand will give a press conference in the next few minutes orso conference in the next few minutes or so updating us on their research and evidence. watching that for us is our climate change editor, just in raleigh. we were expecting this. we change editor, just in raleigh. we were expecting this. were expecting this. we were expecting were expecting this. we were expecting 23 were expecting this. we were expecting 23 was were expecting this. we were expecting 23 was the - were expecting this. we were expecting 23 was the hottest | expecting 23 was the hottest year ever recorded. and by a