unvaccinated, unvaccinated, unvaccinated, unvaccinated. a special report from the royal london hospital about the continuing pressures from omicron. and after too many incidents like these did you know the highway code is changing this week giving cyclists and pedestrians priority? coming up on the bbc news channel, messages of support for chinese player peng shuai are banned at the australian open. a former world number one labels organisers pathetic and wea k . good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. prime minister borisjohnson has warned russia that invading ukraine would be disastrous and a painful, violent and bloody business . nato is sending more warships and fighterjets to member states in eastern europe and both the uk and us have announced that they are pulling some embassy staff out of ukraine. tension in the region has been building with around 100,000 russian troops massed near ukraine s borders. president putin has publically stated his belie
of fraudulent covid business loans. people arriving in england will no longer need to take people arriving in england a covid lateral flow test, if they have been double vaccinated. we promise we wouldn t keep these measures in place a date longer than was necessary. it s obvious to me now that vaccinated travellers has outlived its usefulness. the prime minister warns russia that invading ukraine would be a disastrous step as the uk withdraws staff from its embassy there. the founder of wikileaks julian assange wins the first stage of his legal bid to appeal against the decision to extradite him to the united states. and how well do you know the new rules of the road? the highway code s been rewritten to make it safer for cyclists. also coming up this hour overcoming scorching heat, sleep deprivation, and being trailed by sharks a british all women crew including a woman with incurable cancer break the world record for rowing across the atlantic. borisjohnson
is to close blast furnaces in port talbot with 3,000 jobs to go. the union plan to savejobs has failed. so what does it say more generally about the green transition? also in the programme. a walk out in northern ireland. no government, no funding, no pay rises. is the standoff over stormont now a constiutional crisis. a constiutional crisis? and is it the demand for cocaine europe that has turned ecuador into a war zone with the drug cartels? is there a future for steel making in the uk? and if there is then what sort of sector does it become. that very issue has been under discussion today between unions representing the steel workers of south wales and the bosses of the tata steel making company. no official word of what has been agreed but we understand tata steel is to close both blast furnaces at its port talbot works with the loss of up to 3,000 jobs. instead of blast furnaces, tata have a plan backed by the british government to invest in a new, greener, electric ar
the second worst school shooting in american history, 19 children and two teachers slaughtered, while police waited outside. the us justice department has just published its long awaited report into the mass shooting at the robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. we will get reaction to that. our panel this evening from california, the republican strategist lanhee chen, and in glasgow the former labour leader kesia dugdale. also in our programme. only 10% of voters under 50 would support the conservatives at the next election. that s is the lowest level of support for the tory since the last days of liz truss. and this hour, we will keep an eye on the failed lunar lander peregrine which is about to burn up over the south pacific. good evening. the families of those who died in the uvalde shooting nearly two years ago, don t need a report to know that law enforcement failed them. for over an hour, the children were locked in a school classroom with an active shooter, while
last month in new york. more on those in a moment. first story making headlines in australia. now to a story which is making headlines in australia and around the world after broadcaster antoinette lattouf was sacked by the abc network for reposting a human rights watch report about gaza. the company has denied it succumbed to external pressure from an israeli lobby group citing a breach of its social media policy and referencing the importance of impartiality. hundreds of staff at the abc have threatened walk outs, unless they get assurances about support to staff in the spotlight. i ve been talking to antoinette lattouf who s now launched legal action against the broadcaster i started by asking how suprised she was, when she was fired. i was floored, not only how i was fired, but how quickly things escalated. one minute i was taking talkback calls about christmas playlists don t include michael buble, the next thrown under the bus in a very public way and within a