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Here that the teenager died from an injury probably caused by a fall. Hes back, bandaged, unbowed. Donald trump gets a rapturous welcome at the republican convention. Celebrity contestants will now be chaperoned on strictly during training, after controversy surrounding two professional dancers. And the search is on for a new England Manager 0n Bbc London a vigil is held in East Ham after a third child dies later in the hour on the Bbc News Channel well round up the latest action, hear key interviews and discuss the days biggest Talking Points from here at the bbc sport center. Good evening. Theres turmoil in the Welsh Labour party tonight, after the first Ministers Decision to stand down. Vaughan gething has only been in the job since march, and his replacement would be the Third Labour First Minister this year. Today, four senior colleagues quit the government, demanding his resignation, but pressure has been mounting for sometime. Hes been facing questions about a £200,000 donation
That is how long the Senate Clerks were reading that 628page bill. Thats how long it ultimately took them. They finished in the middle of the night. And at the end, senator chris van hollen, a democrat from maryland, rose to ask for some consent to go ahead and restart this debate, beginning at 9 00 a. M. Today in the u. S. Senate. I want to tell you why that is significant. He argues they are going to have three hours of debate. And thats important because, remember, the whole reason that senator ron johnson wanted the reading of that bill was he was arguing he wanted to delay this process. In the end, instead of having 20 hours of debate because there wasnt a republican there to object at the end of this process, they are now just going to have three hours of debate. Then they will start at noon with this votearama. This is a very well known process up here on capitol hill. Its an exhausting process because what it means is one amendment after another about one amendment everyent ins
They are dahl. When asked about the decision by the leaders of texas and mississippi to lift Mask Mandates. Message to texas and mississippi, texas and mississippi . , i think its a big mistake t. Look, i hope they realize by now masks make a difference. We are on the cusp of being able to fundamentally change the nature of this disease because the way in which we are able to get vaccines in peoples arms. The last thing, the last thing we need is Neanderthal Thinking in the meantime, everything is fine, take off your mask, forget it. It still matters. Thats the president on wednesday. Heres what Martha Black Burn of tennessee had to say about the president s comment. We were called neanderthals when i led the fight against the imposition of a tax. I started the neanderthal caucus. They are huntergatherers, they are protecters of their family, they are resilient. They are resourceful. They tend to their own. So i think joe biden needs to rethink what he is saying about the states that a
Liverpool move to plug a hole in their defence. The premier League Champions bring in ben davies from preston, as well as a loan signing on a quiet transfer deadline day. Its not quite with the weather today, and Weather Warning for heavy snow across parts of Northern England. Valid until lunchtime. Widely three to eight centimetres above 200 metres we can easily see 15 centimetres to Sow Destruction is likely. All the details later in the programme. Its tuesday the 2nd of february. Our top story. Urgent 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. 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 p