Beyond mid february. Buy now, pay laterfirms face stricter controls following fears over young shoppers debts. A Court In Moscow is due to decide shortly whether to jail president Vladimir Putins leading critic, Alexei Navalny. Also coming up heavy snow hits parts of Northern England with the met Office Warning some Rural Communities are at risk of becoming cut off. This morning. Door to door 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 and find every case. 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 people over the age of 16 will be swabbed to find the true extent of the new variant. Theres no
his funeral will be held on the 5th ofjanuary and will be presided over by pope francis. world health officials call on beijing to share accurate covid data, as england becomes the latest country to control arrivals from china. queen guitarist brian may and members of england s women s football team are among those celebrated in the uk s new year s honours list. the former pope, benedict xvi, has died at the age of 95. the vatican says he passed away this morning at his residence there. his health had been worsening in recent weeks. benedict served as head of the roman catholic church for eight years until 2013, when he became the first pope in 600 years to announce his retirement. he was german by birth, and was known for his conservative theological outlook. bells tolling this was the moment his death was confirmed in rome. you can hear the bells ringing, in st peter s square in vatican city. the vatican says pope benedict s body will lie in state from monday in st peter s
because earlier in the week there was a line from government ministers here saying the situation was being kept under review, there were thinking that there wasn t yet the evidence to act to warrant in bringing those testing equipment. there is quite a lot of confidence in the immunity of the population here in the uk. but i think now of those concerns have come to the fore around how accurate the picture is from china that we are getting, so they are stressing that these are time limited, it isjust they are stressing that these are time limited, it is just a precaution, but in the uk they are the first new set of code measures to be brought in for many months, since the spring when most covered measures were relaxed. i think we are going to start seeing a reopening of those debates we had previously run code measures, how effective they are, how to decisive they are, how the government is being precise in their decision making measures. some breaking news and ukrainian officials say r