latest figures show more than 4,000 new cases of coronavirus reported in the uk, ministers are still considering the further easing of restrictions due next month. surgeons are calling for specialist hubs to be set up in england to tackle what they say is a colossal backlog of non urgent operations, caused by covid 19. chelsea and manchester city fans arrive in porto in portugal ahead of tomorrow s champions league final. and coming up on the film review, mark kermode gives his views on the latest film releases including cruella 7 disney s new 101 dalmations prequel. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. an inquestjury has found that two graduates jack merritt and saskia jones were unlawfully killed by the convicted terrorist usman khan, at fishmongers hall in 2019. the jury found that a catalogue of failings led to the deaths of the cambridge university graduates. they said unacceptable management and a lack of accountability among the agencies responsible for usman
communists. now he is openly profiting off of them. and an alarming report from the southern border were a saudi national potential terror ties was apprehended. we will bring you the shocking details. but first, in case you thought the freak out over the omicron variant was about science, not controlling your life, i want you to take a look at what happened the last few days. and let s start with cnn. the south african dr. who first discovered the omicron variant tried laying out the facts about this mutation to them today. it would if you look at our numbers, it is going down. our positivity rates around about 50% and the reason is that people we don t see a high death rate with omicron. jason: keep in mind that only 27% of eligible south africans are vaccinated, and they already are over the curb. here in the united states, just 61%. despite this and that mildness, the white house spent the weekend inducing panic. we are intent on not letting omicron disrupt work
and then fire several shots. this video doesn t capture all of those shots fired, there were more. we ve paused them at the moment when some of those gun shots were fired. german authorities have put police on high alert during the euros tournament. here s a spokesperson for the hamburg police, speaking shortly after the incident. translation: according to what we know now, a man came out of a restaurant. he obviously had a molotov cocktail in his hand and also pickaxe. he also apparently tried to set fire to this molotov cocktail and then walked towards several people with it, including police officers who were on duty here at the time. and the police officers then made use of their firearms. we re assuming that this is an isolated case, which means that it s not football related. there s obviously no football connection, but we re dealing with an individual offender. and in this respect, i don t see any danger at all or any impact on the game today. i v e i ve just been i v
exactly. like keir starmer is a massive football fan. he likes going to football grounds. that also makes sense for them politically because of the image it projects, but he is a genuine football fan. some of them aren t always, and we did have a bit of a laugh about it on our show this morning. but the main thing we talked about this morning on the programme, not exclusively, but we talked a lot about health and social care because there s been lots of chat this week about it, partly because big plans for social care have not featured in the labour and tory manifestos, even though we know it s a huge issue for listeners and viewers and people around the country. but the lib dems, interestingly, have got.they ve majored on social care in health in their manifesto. and hilary gordon, newscaster thank you for your message says, thank goodness we have some politicians who are proposing that all parties get together to look for a long term solution to the nhs and social care
Is it underway? collins also called the scientists and doctors that signed a fringe epidemiologist. passing some articles that debunked the great barrington deck relation. one from wired titled there is no another from nation with the headline focus protection, herd immunity, and other deadly delusions. collins was asked about the email exchange yesterday and he says he stands by his. this is before we had vaccines. and basically, i will call them fringe epidemiologist who really did not have the credentials to be making such a grand and sweeping statement were saying just what the virus run through the population and eventually then everybody will have had and it will be okay. hundreds of thousands of people would have died if we had followed that strategy. he wrote another email to dr. fauci on october 13th with a link to a washington post article. he is quoted in with a headline stating that the declaration