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three, two, one. our seoul correspondent takes the g force test to fly fighterjets as she reports on south korea s defence spending spree. we re still officially- at war with north korea. over the country, . there have also been increasing air incursions. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. a $500,000 legal settlement signed by virginia roberts giuffre and sex offender jeffrey epstein in 2009 included an agreement that ms giuffre wouldn t sue anyone connected to epstein. lawyers for prince andrew say the agreement, which has been made public in the last couple of hours, releases the prince from liability in the civil case brought by virginia giuffre, who accuses him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17. prince andrew has consistently denied the claims. our legal correspondent, dominic casciani, reports. a woman seeking her day in court. the unprecedented def ....
temperatures. we ll have much or on this developing story coming up. but first, another alert to kick off america reports, millions of children across the country are returning to classrooms following the holiday break. but in chicago the powerful teachers union says the city has not done enough to keep schools safe amid a huge covid surge and remote learning, yes, remote learning could be back as soon as tomorrow. hello, i m john roberts in washington, good tuesday to you, sandra. sandra: you as well, john. we ll talk about how hard it is on the children coming up. sandra smith in new york. the chicago mayor says schools are the safest place for students and the city spent $100 million on protective measures, but union leaders are not satisfied, and will hold a vote later today on whether to return to full remote learning. it is a critical decision that will impact the lives of more than 300,000 students and their families in the windy city. john: fox news cov ....
children, ivanka trump and donald trump jr. and the insurrection one year later. the committee investigating the riot knows what donald trump was doing during the siege this week as washington plans tributes and ceremonies, trump plans to counter are a program with more lies from mar-a-lago. we begin with major covid news. the fda this morning authorizing pfizer vaccine booster shots for 12 to 15-year-olds, and it chopped a month off the time line to get your booster from six months to five months after your last shot. the hope is to stem this, a stunning code of, the u.s. averaging 400,000 infections a day and more than 1,300 deaths a day. hospitalizations overall are not rising as fast as cases, though pediatric hospitalizations are surging. let s get straight to cnn s elizabeth cohen who is with us now to walk through what the fda is doing, elizabeth, and why. john, let s take a look because this is so important. the parents of children this age, they started getti ....
documentaries on bbc two. i gently pointed out to someone who was about my children s age before all of that stuff he actually was a serious politician, being when i first met him the adviser to the shadow chancellor gordon brown and then to the chancellor himself, before becoming education secretary, shadow chancellor and a candidate for the labour leader. all that feels though like a very long time ago. welcome to political thinking. a long time ago. it s christmas after all and while we re recording this before christmas it s being broadcast afterwards. given you just produced a cookery book or at least a book about christmas cooking, reflections, tips, people are sitting there wondering what they should do with the christmas leftovers. what is the ed balls recommendation? the most important thing for post christmas leftovers is chips homemade chips. my mother in law is brilliant at making homemade chips, cut some potatoes, double cooked in a pan, and you can get q ....
but new york city is moving ahead for now with the new year s eve celebration in times square. there ill with be fewer people, all must be vaccinated and masked, it is important to note so far we have not seen a dramatic spike, though, thank goodness, in hospitalizations from the variant. and the data show omicron cases seem for the most part to be lesshospitals are preparing for staffing shortages. they say healthcare workers who test positive but are asymptomatic can shorten their isolation period. the white house is lifting the travel restrictions on eight countries in southern africa. we re covering all of the travel headlines with our aviation correspondent pete muntean at reagan national. joe jonhns joins us at the whit house. this just came, what is the news from the biden administration? you got it there. eight african countries, you know, this travel ban went into effect on november 29th. we re told the president is expected to lift that travel ban as of 12:0 ....