now on bbc news: the week in parliament. hello again and welcome to the week in parliament. is good news breaks out at westminster. our nation, madam deputy speaker is getting safer every day as more and more people get protected by the biggest immunised pro immunisation programme in the history of our health service. health service. boris johnson is want he health service. boris johnson is want he picked health service. boris johnson is want he picked the - health service. boris johnson is want he picked the wrong l is want he picked the wrong sort of brexit. sort of brexit. the protocol has betrayed sort of brexit. the protocol has betrayed us sort of brexit. the protocol has betrayed us and - sort of brexit. the protocol has betrayed us and made| sort of brexit. the protocol l has betrayed us and made us feel like foreigners in our own country. tea and sympathy will not cut the mustard. and a long life well lived. not cut the mustard. and a long life well lived
the situation in ukraine, the former president has told the bbc that everyone now understands that global security is at stake. he said the world needed to show president putin that it was strong and united. he president putin that it was strong and united.- strong and united. he is absolutely strong and united. he is absolutely serious. - strong and united. he is absolutely serious. the | absolutely serious. the understanding of the world is different because everybody in the world understands this is the danger for ukraine. now no one has an illusion that this is the danger for the european and global security. it can, at the same time, attack the baltic states, attack the baltic states, attack poland, using the ukraine as an instrument for blackmailing the whole world, and with this situation, everybody understands that in western, in ukrainian security, they invest to their own security. and i have one proposal for all the viewers and listeners of bbc. to all the leader
thanks for talking to us. get well soon. let s return to brussels, that protest is alive and kicking. there has been some trouble and there has been some quite strong reaction from the police with tear gas and with the police with tear gas and with the firing of bob that all police the. it is worth remembering brussels there are sections of brussels there are sections of brussels that have public buildings, european buildings and this looks like downtown brussels. there it is again, people putting up flares of their own and we have had tear gas fired. still a particularly sized demonstration. there have been a lot of angry demonstrations in belgium over previous months about lockdown, about the restrictions, about the frustrations people feel over covid. frustration is shared in lots of countries as well. but as you can see, there is a heavy police presence in downtown brussels at the moment. people are trying to come as far as they can, continue to carry out their activities
extensive cloud across most parts of the uk. a lot of cloud. some breaks, some sunny spells. northern scotland seeing the highest temperatures. tonight, large areas of cloud. some mist and fog patches in the south. one or two places may be down to 3 or minus four celsius. south west of england most prone to clear skies overnight and frost, but that is where we will see sunshine tomorrow. east of scotland will see sunshine as well, north west of scotland seeing thicker cloud and drizzle. for most of us, a cloudy day. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. police will meet a conservative mp who s accused downing street of trying to blackmail politicians who ve tried to oust borisjohnson. the first shipment of american military aid to ukraine arrives there after talks over russia s troop build up on the border. a week after tonga was devastated by a volcanic eruption and tsunami, humanitarian aid begins to reach the tens of thousands of people affected. the actor arnold sc
labour calls the latest revelations shameful. they are treating the public with contempt. the prime minister needs to step up, accept what happened, and apologized. unfortunately we have but a prime minister who is socially distanced from the truth. the government defends itself after a whistle blower claims its evacuation of people from afghanistan was chaotic and dysfunctional. of course, sometimes decisions took hours longer than we wanted to, but you know you have to be careful about how you do it. but it was still an astonishing thing to get 15,000 people good evening and welcome. itv news has obtained footage tonight of senior downing street aides apparentlyjoking about the christmas gathering at the centre of a row over whether downing street staff broke lockdown rules last year. the footage was reportedly filmed as part of preparations for televised briefings which were subsequently abandoned. the labour leader kier starmer this evening called the latest development