Meeting this morning ahead of that recall which is to start at midday. The first and Deputy Mcpherson ministers have said Theirjoint Priority is to face down racism and intimidation. We are going to have a News Conference shortly and we will bring you thatjust as soon as it starts. Lets start here in the uk, where thousands of Anti Racism protesters have rallied in cities and towns across england after a week of anti immigrant rioting. Britains most senior Police Officer has praised the show of unity and said fears of extreme right violence had abated. Police had been prepared for further violence, but there was no sign of any disorder on the scale of recent days. The marches were mostly peaceful and the government says it cautiously welcomed Last Nights the scenes. Police units had been mobilized on Wednesday Evening from newcastle to birmingham, liverpool to brighton, sheffield to london. The week of violent unrest was sparked by misinformation that spread online following the fatal
Hello, and welcome to the programme. From monday, england and wales covid Border Controls will be significantly relaxed as people who have been fully vaccinated in the eu or us will not need to isolate when coming to england from an amber list country. Officials say the move will reunite friends and family who live abroad. The Uk Transport Secretary Grant shapps said the new rules will apply to all Travellers from the united states, the european union, as well as norway and switzerland. But france for now is not included, after being classed as amber plus. Passengers will need to have been fully vaccinated in america or the Eu Travellers will still need a test before setting off and another test two days after arrival. Northern Ireland has yet to decide whether to follow suit. Meanwhile the government says it will review again englands Traffic Light System for countries Around The World including france at The End of next week. Our transport correspondent, caroline davies, reports. Few
At 10pm, Sophie Raworth will be here with a full round up of the days news. Before that, newscast. Laura, shall we do that old thing of which character from friends are you . But do it with chris mason, who has still never seen a single episode . What, still . Still . Well, i suppose he has been quite busy in the last few years. Yeah, have i missed this new one as well . Has that been and gone already . You would not have a clue who any of the people are or what theyre talking about. No. Has it been on, though . It was on today, wasnt it . Yeah. Well, its streaming, so it is on all the time. 0h. Right. This is one of those newfangled, all the kids are doing it that way. Didnt exist when friends first existed in 1996. No but chris, you still havent watched any of it . No, i havent. Maybe illjust watch this new one and just. Thats it, ill be caught up, wont i, in one go . Well, luckily, us political geeks had the one with Dominic Cummings this week, which was a special seven hour long re
it s saturday, 13th january. our main story: the united states has confirmed it s carried out a fresh strike on a houthi target in yemen overnight, a day after both the us and uk carried out a series of raids on the iran backed group. the operation follows an attack by houthi rebels on commercial shipping vessels in the red sea. the group have said attacks in yemen will not go without punishment or retaliation . graham satchell reports. before and after satellite images show the impact of the american and british bombing raids. the americans say airfields and weapons storage depots were destroyed. the raf didn t take part in the attack overnight, but both the british and americans say the raids are vital to keep shipping routes open in the red sea. houthi militia have been targeting container ships off the yemeni coast for weeks. sometimes, like this, they have boarded vessels. in other attacks, they used drones and missiles. they say they are disrupting this key shipping
house of representatives who have jumped into our present day and we believe into ou history in a way that we haven t seen, as he pointed out, since martin luther king was 2 years old, when he came to prominence as a civil rights leader it is what feels like a terrible moment for the country, but out of it there are thes absolute lightning sparks of hope in the form of those thre lawmakers who have bee unbelievably strong an principled, and just brilliantly the struggle, if you will a reason for hope in the darkness, i guess. one of those sparks of hope representative justin joins us gonna join us tonight. and so very glad to have reverend warnock kind of leading into that. yes, what a ticket. thank, you alex on this day, this very day, 60 years ago, the reverend dr martin luther king junior wa arrested along with 55 other and was jailed and birmingham, alabama. the notorious segregationist will conor ordered the arres of dr. martin luther king on april 12th, 1963, fo