make more progress. prince andrew s lawyers argue for the first time in court, that the sexual assault civil lawsuit against him, should be thrown out. they say he can t be sued, because of an agreement signed by his accuser, virginia giuffre. despite strict covid rules, novak djokovic will be allowed to defend his australian open title, without being vaccinated. and the end of an era, a tribute to an historic travel hub in thailand as it prepares to close for good. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. china is showing its determination to continue with its zero covid strategy, the authorities have put an entire city into lockdown, after the discovery of just three asymptomatic cases. residents won t be allowed to leave their homes in yuzhou, which has a population of 1.2 million. the transport system has been shut down, as well as shops and entertainment venues. only food stores can stay open, and only workers involved in epidemic prev
prince andrew s lawyers argue for the first time in court that the sexual assault civil lawsuit against him should be thrown out. they say he can t be sued because of an agreement signed by his accuser, virginia giuffre. despite strict covid rules, novak djokovic will be allowed to defend his australian open title without being vaccinated. and the end of an era a tribute to an historic travel hub in thailand as it prepares to close for good. 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. china is showing its determination to continue with its zero covid strategy. the authorities have put an entire city into lockdown after the discovery of just three asymptomatic cases. residents won t be allowed to leave their homes in yuzhou, which has a population of 1.2 million. the transport system has been shut down, as well as shops and entertainment venues. only food stores can stay open
another run for the white house, still insisting, without evidence, that the 2020 election was stolen. well, my guest is american constitutional law professor laurence tribe, who contends that the us system of government is now in peril. how strong is his case? professor laurence tribe in massachusetts, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. professor tribe, it is, as i say, one year since those extraordinary events on capitol hill. isn t it time to be positive? time to say that despite those extraordinary events, the us institutions of government withstood the storm? well, i wish we could say that, because i am an optimist by nature, but we came so close to losing our democracy that simply basking in our having survived would be a dangerous course of action. it turns out even though trump is no longer president, that he has learned quite a bit from his failure to successfully overturn the results of the last election to the point where he and a very loyal following and tens of mill
hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are broadcaster john stapleton, and kate proctor, editor of politics home and the house magazine. parliament s magazine pa rliament s magazine of parliament s magazine of record. let s start with the front pages. the metro quotes the prime minister, who insists england can ride out the omicron wave, as he announced no new coronavirus restrictions at a downing street press conference. the express captures borisjohnson s hopes of not wanting to shut the country down, despite the uk recording more than 200,000 covid cases in the latest 24 hour period. in the times, borisjohnson pledges to stick england s plan b measures but acknowledged the battle against the coronavirus was far from over . the i leads on 100,000 key workers involved in food, transport and borders will receive daily covid tests, says the prime minister. however, in the guardian, he admits parts of the nhs could be over
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