the week in parliament. hello there, welcome to the week in parliament our look at the highlights from all four of the uk s parliaments and assemblies. coming up: borisjohnson tells mps schools in england won t return before the 8th of march. and i know how frustrating that will be will be for pupils and teachers who want nothing more than to get back to the classroom. the labour leader calls for teachers to be vaccinated in the next few weeks. he should bring forward the vaccination of key workers and use the window of the february half term to vaccinate all teachers and all school staff. also on this programme: leaders in wales and scotland face questions about the coronavirus vaccine roll out. the home secretary announces tougher border controls. and there s to be a new investigation into mother and baby homes in northern ireland which housed women pregnant outside marriage, including victims of rape and incest. wasn t their fault- that they were raped or the victims o
welcome to those watching in the uk and around the globe. we start with growing concerns over the emergence of a new strain of covid 19 in south africa. the world health organisation has in the past few hours classified it as a variant of concern and named it the greek letter omicron. meanwhile european union leaders have agreed to suspend travel from affected areas after belgium detected the first case in europe. the us have also announced they will bring in restrictions from monday. south africa has denounced the measures taken against the country, calling them unjustified and draconian . here s the statement from the world health organization. mcron is named as a variant of concern because mcron is named as a variant of concern because it mcron is named as a variant of concern because it has mcron is named as a variant of concern because it has concernin- concern because it has concerning properties. it has a large number of mutations and some of them have som
facebook whistle blower, frances haugen, tells mps that the platform puts growth over safety. the real thing we re seeing here is facebook accepting little, tiny additions of harm, like when they way off how much harm is worth how much growth for us? but facebook has told the bbc it has rules against harmful content, and has halved the amount of hate speech on its site. the prevalence of hate speech on facebook is less than a fifth of a percent. that s less than .05%. and that s a result of the progress we ve made in developing technology to find and remove that kind of content. a key spending pledge to help some of the world s poorest countries cut their carbon footprint has not been met, days before world leaders meet in glasgow for the cop26 climate summit. when s your birthday? may 5th, why? oh, i m just making a list of people s birthdays. 0h, mine s december. yeah, whatever. and tributes pour in for james michael tyler who starred as gunther in friends and has die