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now on bbc news, review 2021 the coronavirus pandemic. 0ur health editor hugh pym has the story of the coronavirus pandemic across the year and its impact on so many different aspects of people s lives. hospitals under pressure. loud and clear covid is serious. some of the shifts that i have had are the toughtest i ve ever had. and the race to vaccinate the public. i got the letter yesterday, and i m booked in today. i three, two, one! welcome back, everyone! cheering. lockdown ends. i can literally not stress how much i missed being able to go out. but there s the threat of a new variant. there is a tidal wave of omicron coming. the year began with intensifying pressure on the nhs. covid infections were rising, and there was a worrying increase in hospital admissions. the second wave of the virus was going to prove more deadly than the first. with covid cases rising, the new school term began with confusion. some teachers and children stayed at home. there s 21 mem ....
good evening. thanks very much. what a wonderful tribute to bishop tutu. your fabulous pod cast, all the episodes are out. you worked on it for a year. and i m just wondering, it dove tails nicely with the start of the show. that is, has the radicalization that you have been reporting on for the last year, do you think things have gotten more radical? first of all, thank you so much. that s a great question. i think we heard from earlier saying that radicalization is trending up in the country. everyone should be concerned about what is happening in various corners of the just not the dark web. but happening in plain sight. when you see politicians and others perpetuating the big lie. using that to stoke division and violence in the country. i think it s something we should be concerned of and echoed by officials in law enforcement as well. the fbi director and others warning congress about online radicalization. thank you very much. and tonight, we begin with the ....
warnings the british government isn t doing enough to help people deal with sharp increases in the price of gas and electricity. energy bills are predicted to rise by another 50% next year. and tributes and reflections for the anti apartheid hero archbishop desmond tutu, who died at the age of 90. an official state funeral will take place on new year s day in cape town. now on bbc news, review 2021, the coronavirus pandemic. our health editor, hugh pym has the story of the coronavirus pandemic across the year and its impact on so many different aspects of people s lives. hospitals under pressure. loud and clear covid is serious. some of the shifts that i have had are the toughtest i ve ever had. and the race to vaccinate the public. i got the letter yesterday, and i m booked in today. i three, two, one! welcome back, everyone! cheering lockdown ends. i can literally not stress how much i missed being able to go out. but there s the threat of a new variant. there is a ....
biden administration rejected a proposal for free rapid test for the holidays for the president trying to reassure frustrated governors on a video call earlier, but he just wound up blaming them. look, there is no federal solution. it s gets solved at the state level. seeing how tough it was for some folks to get test this weekend shows we have more work to do. when i took office ten months into the pandemic, and even so, we had no, 0, over-the-counter home tests in the united states. we got to work. we crossroad the number of pharmacies offering the free test and now there are more than 20,000 places we can get testing for for free. for over the counter at home tests, as i said, there were none when we took office. none. now we have eight on the market, it s clearly not enough. if we have known, would have gone harder and quicker if we could have. we slept tens of millions of unvaccinated people and we are seeing hospitalizations rides. and even dr. fauci thinks bi ....
hospitals under pressure. loud and clear covid is serious. some of the shifts that i have had are the toughtest i ve ever had. and the race to vaccinate the public. i got the letter yesterday, and i m booked in today. i three, two, one! welcome back, everyone! cheering. lockdown ends. i can literally not stress how much i missed being abel to go out. but there s the threat of a new variant. there is a tidal wave of omicron coming. the year began with intensifying pressure on the nhs. covid infections were rising, and there was a worrying increase in hospital admissions. the second wave of the virus was going to prove more deadly than the first. with covid cases rising, the new school term began with confusion. some teachers and children stayed at home. there s 21 members of staff that have opted not come into school, because they would consider it to be an unsafe environment. in my school, that s led to nursery, year 3 4 not coming to school. the empty classrooms were ....