and unfortunately cancel people for new year s eve. omicron is causing chaos in the airline industry 6,000 flights cancelled around the world over the christmas weekend. hello and welcome to bbc news. the former archbishop of cape town, desmond tutu, the leading anti apartheid campaigner who helped bring down white rule in south africa, has died at the age of 90. desmond tutu was uncompromisingly opposed to violence and was awarded the nobel peace prize in 1984. after nelson mandela became president, he headed the truth and reconciliation commission, investigating the crimes of white rule. nomsa maseko looks back at his life. he was first and foremost a priest, not a politician. but for the best part of half a century, he was the face of reconciliation and south africa s moral compass. the system of this country, apartheid, is immoral. the system of this country is evil. desmond mpilo tutu remained outside of party politics, but he used the church as a platform for protest
This is bbc news broadcasting in the uk and around the globe. i m ben brown. our top stories. tributes are pouring in for archbisop desmond tutu, nobel laureate and veteran of south africa s struggle against apartheid who has died at the age of 90. he was extraordinary. but you also knew to his dying day, he was constantly focused on jesus christ and that was where he got his sense of integrity and truth from. new coronavirus restrictions come into force in scotland, wales and northern ireland, as the uk s devolved nations try to limit the spread of the omicron variant. with a two metre rule, we probably lost 20% of the capacity, so have had to phone a few people
Funds because traditionally they have an incredible atmosphere at anfield, and when they didn t have fans the feeling was that as a team and club they had actually suffered. that is right. we did some research on the home advantage affect and it clearly shows that it has been affected, we even stood an analysis of all published studies on this topic and we found a systematic and robust reduction of the home advantage. a team like liverpool probably suffers even more from this effect. it is still there, to a certain extent, but it is significantly reducing games behind closed doors. significantly reducing games behind closed doom- closed doors. fabia, thank you for talkin: to closed doors. fabia, thank you for talking to us- let s return to our top stpry this hour the announcement that the nobel peace prize laureate