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to celebrate her birthday. and england bat their way through a nervous final session in sydney to draw the fourth ashes test. lawyers for the tennis champion novak djokovic are preparing for the next round of their legal fight to overturn the cancellation of his australian visa. the tennis world number one is currently being held in a detention centre as he waits to see whether he can play in the australian open amid a row about his covid vaccination status. his team released documents yesterday and say he doesn t need a jab because he had coronavirus last month. djokovic is stuck in an immigration detention centre ahead of the court case on monday. his case has caused a huge outcry in australia and made headlines around the world. simonjones reports. serbian music plays. supporters of novak djokovic gather outside the immigration detention centre in melbourne where he s staying. they want to see him on the tennis court. the countdown is now on to his court case. 0h, ....
england and australia in the fourth ashes test. england trail three nil in the series, with one test to play. the education secretary, nadhim zahawi, has backed cutting the covid isolation period in england from seven to five days. he said if there s evidence it s safe, the change could reduce staffing pressures on schools, hospitals and other important sectors. the uk health security agency is reviewing thelength of the isolation period. mr zahawi said ministers are doing all they can to make sure the health service can operate during what he called a rocky few weeks . our political correspondent jonathan blake is with me. tell us what nadhim zahawi he is not saying we should do this and do it now but he has illustrated the benefits of reducing the isolation period from seven days as it was recently reduced from ten days until five. it was recently reduced from ten days untilfive. he it was recently reduced from ten days until five. he said beware of comparisons with ....
hi, nick. and i m glad you added that context about the prison line. because i didn t want people to think that i d made an admission of serious wrongdoing and should be behind bars for some crime i ve committed! not yet, you haven t made the admission, but we ve got quite a while to go in this conversation. we ll come to that extraordinary and fascinating background in a second. but what a year you ve had! it must feel like an extraordinary roller coaster. yeah, it has been, and i don t know how you felt when you came back from your experience with cancer, which was far worse than mine. but, especially having a cancer diagnosis at 38, although i was pretty clear from the prognosis that i wasn t going to die, that it had been caught early, that i would have an operation and recover, that time off that i had and that reminder of my own mortality made me think very hard about my life and what i want to do. and the way i want to live my life. and how i would feel if i had ....
england trail 3 0 in the series, with one test to play. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. england s education secretary, nadhim zahawi, has backed cutting the covid isolation period in england from seven to five days. he said if there s evidence it s safe, the change could reduce staffing pressures on schools, hospitals and other important sectors. the uk health security agency is reviewing the length of the isolation period. mr zahawi said ministers are doing all they can to make sure the health service can operate during what he called a rocky few weeks . our political correspondent jonathan blake is with me. tell us more about what he said. there is a couple of main points to discuss this morning as the education secretary says it moves from being in a position of a pandemic to coronavirus being endemic, that will do something to appease pressure from backbenchers on borisjohnson who are keen to see an exit strategy from the restric ....
together bbc specialists with foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline: london. this week, pragmatism versus extremism in faith, politics and health. joining us jef mcallister, us broadcaster and international lawyer. ashis ray, who s been explaining the british to indians for almost half a century now. and in the studio, damian grammaticus, who s been based in delhi, beijing and brussels for the bbc, and who s now at westminster. welcome to you all and happy new year. now, covid pragmatism is that the news year resolution adopted by some world leaders? in the uk, faced with the highly infectious variant of covid, omicron, borisjohnson has resisted imposing fresh restrictions in england. this despite a wave of staff absences, including one hospital derriford in devon which had 500 of its employees absent on a single day. instead, 100,000 key workers in sectors such as energy will be required to self test every ....