and i m lucy hockings, in tokyo, where it s been a day of world record smashes and upsets. i ll have the latest in a moment. hello, and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. fully vaccinated travellers will no longer need to quarantine on arrivalfrom france as part of a shake up of coronavirus travel rules in england, scotland and northern ireland. seven more european countries have been added to the green list, while spain will remain amber despite concerns about covid variants there. other changes include india, bahrain, qatar and the united arab emirates, switching from red to amber meaning arrivals from those countries will no longer have to quarantine in government approved accommodation. while austria, germany, slovenia, slovakia, latvia, romania and norway will be moved onto the green list. but georgia and mexico have been now be added to the red list the highest level of restrictions. this report from our transport correspondent, caroline d
migration in india. we ll take a look at the annual spectacle wowing locals and bird watchers alike. hello and welcome to bbc news. a bbc investigation has found evidence that china s policy of transferring hundreds of thousands of uighurs and other ethnic minorities from north west xinjiang to factoryjobs often far from home is being used as a method of uprooting and assimilating the population. it s also uncovered possible connections between these workers and major international brands. china says transferring workers away from the region is a way of tackling rural poverty and unemployment. our china correspondent john sudworth has this report. at this factory, the uighur workers are clearly visible. more than 2000 miles from home, brought all the way to central china by a massive relocation scheme. now the bbc has found compelling evidence of how it works. in this xinjiang village, the authorities need 100 people to send to jobs on the other side of the country. they set
katie: the left loves to accuse republicans of damaging our rule of law but they couldn t be more wrong. in reality, it s the democrats who see democracy as a pesty road block in way of radical socialist agenda. just ask kamala harris who said the quiet part out loud this weekend. what do you sees a the biggest national security challenge confronting the u.s.? what is the thing that will raise you and keeps you up at night? frankly, one of them is our democracy. katie: the biden-harris administration has routinely shown they don t care about your freedom as they push unconstitutional vaccine mandate. now they are admitting they just don t care about your democracy either. the democrats are hell bent on federalizing our elections and will let nothing stand in their way including our current laws. vice president spent the weekend trying to guilt the american people into following her lead saying our standing in the world is being threatened. people around the world wa
new cases. testing is expected to be a major focus. in parts of the country we ve seen lines for covid tests stretch across multiple city blocks and folks getting charged hundreds of dollars for rapid hults. the white house is getting slammed with headlines like these from the new york post. biden has been breaking his promises on covid tests all year only to keep doing it again and again. out of bangor joe biden says access to covid-19 testing is a lot better than it was but that s not good enough. dr. fauci is insisting that help is on the way. take a listen. it s always been an issue with the 500 million tests the president is putting out there as well as the putting online the capability of ordering tests and having them delivered to your home and setting up 10,000 to 20,000 testing centers throughout the country, particularly in the cities that are having high surges. things are going to change substantially in the first couple of weeks and as we get into the middle
washington with more on the nation s response. todd: thousands of comments across the country were just handed to get out of jail free card. the lease move from the biden doj, the crime crisis is even worse. ashley: bed miller says she s sorry for calling west virginia s poor, illiterate and strong out. we will ask a west virginia coal miner what he thinks about her apology. i m looking forward to that segment coming from a long line of coal miners in kentucky and we will see what he has to say. todd: it was quite an apology or lack thereof. let s get to the news. the white house facing criticism for surging omicron cases amid a lack of available tests and the holidays. ashley: the president places blame on the unvaccinated. reporter: good morning. referring back to the stricter pandemic measures, the president says don t panic, this is not march of 2020 but his remarks came with a warning to the unvaccinated. i know vaccination requirements are not popular for many. they