Of the Alqaeda Terror attacks. Rehearsals have been taking place ahead of the funeral of the Duke Of Edinburgh on saturday. Well find out details of who will attend later. And a major landslide sends 4,000 tonnes of rock tumbling onto a beach on dorset sjurassic coast. Hello and welcome to Bbc News. David cameron says hell respond positively to any requests for him to give evidence to the Lobbying Inquiry into greensill. The former Prime Minister has faced criticism for contacting ministers in an attempt to win financial support for the firm before it collapsed. Its sparked a wider row over private companies attempts to influence government. 0ur political correspondent Helen Catt reports. The way David Cameron used his contacts with ministers on behalf of the businessman who employed him, lex greensill, sparked a row about lobbying that has dominated westminster for days. Yesterday, conservative mps voted against setting up a special parliamentary investigation. So the noes have it, th
to walk that back yesterday, tweeting about a quote federal plans to fight the virus. the one thing is clear, the u.s. is falling short on testing. connecticut, georgia, and ohio. just some of the states calling out the national guard to help distribute masks and tests. fox coverage starts now. we got my coven he s going to tell us what to expect in schools as millions of students prepared to head back after the holidays. but first, we go to david, he is hoping to be delaware of the president this afternoon. hi david. high gillian, high rich. we are just a few days away from the beginning of a brand-new year, 2022. we are talking about the national guard. we are talking about ventilators going back to states. some of this language is reminiscent of what we heard in the early days of the pandemic. the white house, covert response team held a news conference just about two hours ago, making several announcements showing somewhat of a federal response. meaning that they are
hope for. that s going to do it for us tonight. now it s time for the last word. thank you. i ve been sitting here thinking what a difference a year makes and then what about those things where a year doesn t make that much difference. which we re living with tonight also. yeah. exactly. both in terms of both in terms of covid-19 and also in terms of our politics. the revelations of the last 24 or 48 hours on january 6th have been mind blowing. yeah. and they are those that kind of revelation that confirms what we kind of assumed. as we were watching the day unfold, it would make sense, of course, that all those republican friends of mark meadows and donald trump would be texting mark meadows and saying, save us. what s happening here? and so it s fascinating to get the detail. but does it feel like one of those things that where we could have as drama writers filled in the blanks. right. i think the thing that we couldn t have known was that we would get to see
but a third booster increases it significantly. also tonight: failures by the metropolitan police were responsible in part for the deaths of three victims of the serial killer stephen port, an inquestjury has found. the wikileaks founder julian assange can be extradited to face charges in the us, the high court rules. and the final dramatic strait this weekend for the formula one season what can lewis hamilton do to clinch the title in abu dhabi? and coming up on the bbc news channel: captainjoe root leads england s fightback in the opening ashes test. they are 220 2 going into the fourth day in brisbane. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the government is warning of a deeply concerning situation as new data confirms that the new omicron variant in the uk is growing rapidly in all regions, and could be the dominant strain here within the next week. the uk health security agency is suggesting that vaccine protection against mild symptoms has been substantially