vaccine are being refused it by some gps who are not following government guidance. the premier league and english football leagure are urged to do more to tackle racist abuse from fans. and quarantine free holidays in cyprus from may for british holiday makers if they ve been vaccinated. good morning. welcome to bbc news. there s been a furious reaction to the government s proposed 1% pay rise for nhs staff in england. health unions have called the proposal a kick in the teeth for staff who have worked throughout the pandemic. a 1% pay rise would be below the rate of inflation forecast in the budget for next year amounting to a cut in real terms. it would apply to all staff apart from junior doctors, gps and dentists. other public sector workers earning more than £24,000 a year have had their pay frozen. nhs pay is devolved, so there will be separate pay agreements for scotland, wales and northern ireland. the royal college of nursing says the pay rise in england woul
tonight the department of homeland security warning about the threat of possible violence by domestic extremists emboldened by the attack on the capitol. and meanwhile the biden administration moving to battle the climate crisis vowing to create clean energy jobs to the stimulate economic recovery. and with a few days still to go, january s already the deadliest month for covid-19 since the pandemic began, nearly 80,000 deaths so far. good evening to both of you. john, you first. today we saw the first coronavirus briefing in months and sweeping plans to combat climate change and create jobs. it seems like science is driving the biden agenda. there s no question about it. and, look, the reliance on science and data and evidence and reason is one of the key dividing lines between democrats and republicans now. and that was the message that the biden team was trying to showcase today. there was some audio glitches. it was a little technical and wonky at times, but they re mak
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saying democracy is precious and fragile, but emphatically reminding americans and people around the world who were watching that democracy has prevailed. do you believe that? i believe it survived. yeah. i got a little echo in my ear. is it just me? i m very resonant. on these big occasions, my voice is very resonant. it wasn t my voice. continue. i would say democracy survived. is the president right to say it prevailed? absolutely. why? because his job is primarily to capture the imagination of the american people. yeah. to motive the american spirit. but we re in a bad way, and i think that today was about relief and was a reminder of us being more than our worst. ordinarily, you and i have covered a number of these, never in these kinds of situations. but i usually tire at a certain point of the different pomp and circumstance and the fife and drum. at a certain point, i get it. let s get through some of this. not today. today i needed every piece. you did.
february and that the nominee will be a black woman. the person i will nominate will be someone of extraordinary qualifications, character, experience, and integrity. that person will be the first black woman ever nominated to the united states supreme court. it s long overdue, in my view. i made that commitment during the campaign for president, and i will keep that. in the end, i will nominate a historic candidate, someone who s worthy of justice breyer s legacy and someone, who like justice breyer, will provide incredible service on the united states supreme court. breyer s announcement today takes his relationship with the president full circle in a way. then senator biden presided over breyer s confirmation hearings in 1994. let s go now to cnn white house correspondent m.j. lee. the president, he made it clear he s not chosen his nominee to the court yet. so, what happens now? reporter: that s right. though it is clear that the search has already begun, choosing a