Its just over a week since schools in england reopened for the new term, and thereve already been a number of instances where pupils have been sent home to prevent possible covid infection. Our education correspondent Elaine Dunkley has been to a school in darlington, which had to send home a teacher and 20 pupils as a precaution. Who has got a new skill from being in lockdown . Its Distance Learning for Primary School children. Today, mrs craggill is teaching year three by video link. Shes currently self isolating, but lessons continue at heathfield Primary School. Well, obviously, it wasnt the way i wanted to start the year with the children. I wanted to be in school, but circumstances happened. So its been really beneficial for myself and the children to be able to have some connection each day, and just to connect with maths and english. And to see their faces, really, and for them to see me. Children here are having recovery classes and lessons in mindfulness. Helping them to adju
In the world. The large important and critically strategically important nation of turkey undergoing what appears to be an attempted coup, an inprocess coup, and a fastmoving story that has a lot of different elements. Its 4 00 a. M. Local time in turkey right now, theyre seven hours ahead of the american east coast. At 4 00 a. M. Local time, that means the sun is due to rise there in about an hour or so. We dont know if dawn and daylight will bring clarity or resolution. Its starting to feel like it will not, but it has been a tumultuous and shocking night in turkey. Right now, were about six hours into what appears to be an attempted coup by a faction of the Turkish Military. In very short order in the middle of the night, what happened tonight, which was not true at the very start of this story, was that at least tens of thousands of turkish people have turned out into the streets. And at least in istanbul, turkeys largest city, these crowds that have turned out into the streets, wa
Hill testifying tomorrow in open session. Today, senators from the Intelligence Committee were bussed over to cia headquarters in langley, virginia, to go look at classified information at cia headquarters related to the the senators would not say what thooked at, of course, because it was classified but we got to see them get to the scooby van and go over to langley. Its kind of cute. Its both stealth and adorable. How i think of the senate Intelligence Committee. So that story, the trump russia investigation, you should expect thats going to get big again. That may blow up again over the next 24 hours or so. Particularly with that comey testimony tomorrow and whats breaking tomorrow on flynn. The latest on that including some absolutely haircurling new reporting from usa today. The reporter from the usa today new scoop on that subject is with us tonight. In washington, d. C. , tonight, as we speak, the days news is not yet over. Were on proverbial political death watch yet again toni
Thats going to get big again. That may blow up again over the next 24 hours or so. Particularly with that comey testimony tomorrow and whats breaking tomorrow on flynn. The latest on that including some absolutely haircurling new reporting from usa today. The reporter from the usa today new scoop on that subject is with us tonight. In washington, d. C. , tonight, as we speak, the days news is not yet over. Were on proverbial political death watch yet again tonight for the republicans continued efforts to kill the Affordable Care act. Starting this morning over the course of today into this evening, republicans have been trying very hard to mount a third attempt at repealing obamacare. Now they are not even trying to get any democratic votes. This is a 100 republican effort in a congress where they have republican majorities in both houses of congress but its starting to look tonight like their repeal the Affordable Care act effort is going to fail for a Third Straight time. It is not d
Show all of. The leaders and dignitaries from around the world gather in ghana to pay their final respects to former u. N. Secretary general kofi annan at a Burial Service. And risking their lives and just to get an education. For me and my brothers were on our way to school suddenly lots of shooting started so we all go down and it was really scary there was nowhere to hide so we need the children living on the frontline of the conflict in eastern ukraine. Im sunni so misconduct to have you with us german chancellor Angela Merkel is holding an emergency meeting with other key Party Leaders to discuss a dispute surrounding the head of the Domestic Intelligence service. Michaels junior co. Alicia partners the social democrats are demanding that she fired moss and thats after he questioned the authenticity of a video showing migrants being chased by demonstrators in the eastern german city of can its critics also accuse mohsen of passing Sensitive Information to the far right a. S. D. An