vaccinated avoiding to have to quarantine. bronze for team gb s charlotte dujardin who has riden into the record books, as britain s most decorated female olympian of all time with six medals. this is wonderful. gold to great britain in the men s 4x200 metres freestyle relay! and britain s swimmers strike gold again at the tokyo olympics with victory in the men s 200 metre freestyle relay. the american gymnast, simone biles, pulls out of another final saying she wants to focus on her mental health. nearly 28,000 new covid i9 cases have been reported in the last 2a hours across britain that s an increase of over 4,000 and the first rise in the daily total after seven days of falling cases. prince charles unveils a national memorial in honour of all the british police officers who ve died in the line of duty. and after liverpool lost its world heritage status, it s given instead to the slate landscapes of north west wales. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the gov
but not everyone is celebrating. all: six, five, four, three. the moment they ve been waiting for for over a year. cheering. we speak to people who are immunosuppressed about how they view what some are calling freedom day. and, the uk and the eu have accused china of carrying out a major cyber attack earlier this year. the final stage of unlocking in england, with social distancing rules dropped. 1,000 people packed into this club in central london. no testing, contact tracing details orjabs required, with many more lining up outside. they ve waited 16 months. what s a little longer? there s so many people there, and we re just so, good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. so pumped to get in there. it s been a year and a half, and now 16 months after they were introduced, most legal restrictions we re alljust ready to dance. on social contact have been i ve had my vaccines. lifted in england. i want to have a good time, hun! there are now no limits on how many so excited. so
is above average for the time of year, but that is something we will not see next week for the most part. we will talk about next week later on. as we say, we have cloud stretching its way further west through the night, just patchy frost under clear skies. a weather front will bring some rain to the north west of scotland by the end of tonight and tomorrow a very different day for scotland. 17 in the sunshine today, 13 and outbreaks of quite heavy rain and gusty winds tomorrow. eventually that cloud and a bit of rain getting in to northern ireland and the far north of england, but still warm at 16. 16 or 17 in a southern areas. it will be a warm day again in the south in a sunshine but it is all change for the north tomorrow. you re watching bbc news with me ben brown. england s biggest football teams in the sport s governing bodies are going to stage a four day boycott of social media from next friday. the campaign for social media platforms like facebook and twitter to cra
and, the lovely bones author, alice sebold, apologises for her part in the conviction of a man found innocent after 16 years injail. the rising cost of living, inflation in the uk could push an average spending of a family over £2000 over the next year. and coming up this hour. more than £20 million is pledged to end hiv action plan on world aids day. we live in liverpool, remembering some of those who have lost their lives to the disease. we are live. good morning and welcome to bbc news. the nhs is gearing up for a major expansion of the vaccine booster programme, with hospitals and thousands of community sites set to offer the jab in response to the 0micron variant. in england, a further 14 million adults are being offered a booster. the government says all adults should have been offered a booster by the end of january. some 400 military personnel will help out at 1,500 vaccine sites across england to deliver the booster programme. the prime minister said these were
# we are family.# the multi award winning music producer, nile rodgers, auctions some of his favourite guitars for charity. good morning. urgent travel restrictions are being rushed in for south africa and five neighbouring countries because of concerns about a new strain of coronavirus which scientists fear could be more infectious and better able to evade vaccines. the measures were announced last night even though the variant s potential danger is still not fully understood, and only a few dozen cases involving it have been confirmed. all flights from south africa, namibia, zimbabwe, botswana, lesotho and eswatini are being suspended from midday, and from sunday, travellers arriving in england from those countries will have to quarantine. cases have been identified in south africa, hong kong, botswana so far. but no cases have been confirmed in the uk. the health secretary, sajid javid, said the variant has a significant number of mutations, which means it could be more tr