penalites in the euros final. good penalites in the euros final. morning, under clears parts good morning, under clearskies in parts of scotland and northern england there is a touch of frost. rain moving from the south west heading north east and behind that, some mild air. all the details throughout the programme. good morning. it s wednesday, the 29th of january. our main story. the scottish parliament will be recalled this afternoon, as first minister nicola sturgeon delivers an update on rising coronavirus infections. a record number of cases were also recorded in england, but there are still no plans to bring in new restrictions before new year s eve. meanwhile, the uk health security agency has said it has doubled the number of lateral flow kits available, after a group representing thousands of independent pharmacies across the uk claimed the supply was patchy, and they were sending people away empty handed. james reynolds reports. this month in scotland, there have b
up in the courtroom and said black lives do matter. a new coalition government in germany led by social democrat olaf scholz pledges to make climate change its top priority. and new zealand finally announces its plans to welcome back foreigners next year. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. french officials now say 27 people have drowned in the channel off calais in the worst incident since the waters between france and the uk became a major route for migrants. two people were rescued and are being treated in hospital another person is missing. the french authorities say four suspected people smugglers have been arrested in connexion with wednesday s deaths. our correspondent lucy williamson is in calais. well, as you say, the rescue and recovery operation has been going on here into the night. but there are very few details so far about who the victims are or why their boat sank. and there are questions already b
people or more than we did before covid hit. and today s most colorful and creative sign yet that america is nearly back to normal, a packed macy s thanksgiving day parade. 2.5 million people were expected to show up along the route in new york city, and take a listen to their cheers for the start of the show. it feels like we re almost getting back to normal in a sense. we re able to be out in crowds again. we re visiting family in new jersey we haven t seen in a long time. it is a great feeling. and cnn s pete munteen is at reagan international airport. the tsa just announcing a new pandemic air record for the number of travelers. which means this new move by the justice department matters even more. tell us what they re doing and this new priority for federal prosecutors. it s so true, jessica. 2.3 million people screened yesterday aausz the country by the tsa. that number double than where we were this time last year, 88% back in 2019 before the pandemic. a new pand
in there. more than i am. thank you very much. have a great holiday, man. you have a good one, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. rachel has the night off. she ll be back on monday. the law stated that was georgia s citizen s arrest law. it enabled any ordinary citizen to capture any other ordinary citizen if they claimed a person committed a crime. it was made the law of the state in 1863. it s no coincidence that that law was put into place that year, 1863 was codified, the law was codified just after president lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation and enslaved people in georgia started fleeing their captors. one cornell law professor put it bluntly. and it remained the state s law during jim crow when it was used to justify the lynchings of four black people in january of 1912. it was used again to justify the killing of two black couples in july of 1946. black couples who were dragged from their cars and shot dozens of times by white
the violence was second only to that of mississippi. the citizen s arrest law helped eskew some of that violence. what a terrible old law. the problem is, that law was still on the books in 2021. this spring, the state of m georgia repealed that law and it only happened because of a tragedy that took place in february of 2020. it was then that three white georgia men chased down a 25-year-old ahmaud arbery while he was jogging through their neighborhood. when he didn t stop, when they n ordered him to, they trapped him with their trucks and shot him dead. they claimed they were attempting a citizen s arrest. they say they assumed arbery was responsible for local thefts they had been hearing about for weeks before seeing arbery jog by. they just assumed it was him. they did not investigate. they did not have evidence. they assumed it was him and assumed they had the right to capture this black man to make a citizen s arrest. when georgia governor kemp finally repealed that civ