avoid the risk of war with ukraine. a statue commemorating the deaths of students protesting in beijing s tiananmen square has been removed from the university of hong kong. the work known as the pillar of shame was created by the danish sculptor. new south wales has proposed to charge unvaccinated people for covid medical costs. the australian state has come under widespread criticism, with the australian medical association says it s unethical and members of the federal government are also sceptical. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk, with zeinab badawi. welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi, coming to you from barbados. i m on an historic sugar plantation where enslaved africans toiled in backbreaking labour during three centuries of the transatlantic slave trade. barbados was one of the earliest and most profitable of the slave colonies in the caribbean. this is the house on the grounds of the plantation, built in the 16505, where the slave owners lived in great style
and says he s initiated high level talks with the us. translation: if we are plunged in a conflict? i but we don t want that. it is not our choice. this is why i responded to president biden s proposal. hello and welcome. tighter restrictions against coronavirus have come into effect in some european countries, amid concerns over the highly infectious omicron variant that continues to spread rapidly. there s a fear that a wave of omicron infections could overwhelm health services , despite preliminary studies suggesting that omicron is milder and that the risk of being hospitalised is up to 75 percent lower. we ll look at mainland europe in a moment, but let s start here in the uk. over 1.3 million british people were infected with covid in the week ending the 16th of december the highest level of infections recorded since the pandemic began. here s our health correspondent, dominic hughes. the last few days before christmas have brought some better news. early studies of t
olympic qualification. this is definitely the hardest we have done it out of the few olympic games have already been asked. also coming up in the programme: a one million pound lifeline has given the bury the chance to return home to gigg lane. and we ll bring you the story behind the unlikely hall of fame at corinthian casuals. good evening, two more premier league matches have been called off, the lunchtime kick offs on boxing day between liverpool and leeds and wolves watford have both gone. leeds have shut their training ground as they deal with five new positive covid cases as well as a number of injuries. the premier league say watford also have an insufficient number of players to field a team. with 20 fixtures postponed across the football league as well, over half the boxing day fixtures in england are off. adam wild reports. as regularly as christmas comes around, so do the arguments of beta testing schedule. too many games, too little time. it s the football manage
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