tensions with russia over ukraine and china over taiwan. as the omicron theories is blamed for record price and covid cases nationwide, a new study may reveal why it does not appear as deadly as previous strains. live fox news team coverage today, charles watson on the covid surge, president biden s mounting crisis but first, a look back on life and legacy of betty white. senior correspondent laura is live in new york with more. hi, laura. betty white died new year s eve, just weeks before her 100th birthday. when she left, part of americana went into the history of 2021 and now today she s remembered with a lot of love and laughter. ninety-nine years old, she had a career in television for second seven decades, she passed away in her home. her resume is very warm, many knew her from the mary tyler moore show, rose on : girls and most recently the show cleveland. as part of their continued to skyrocket in later years, she was in demand for many years, she appeared in an adv
no wicket fell for more than two and a half hours. say it quietly: maybe . but english optimism on this tour is no sooner formed than shattered. the end of woakes, and, ultimately, hope. england dragged this into the evening. still there, jos buttler, the adelaide barricade. for so long, he d hardly put a foot wrong, until. 0h, he s thrown it onto his stumps. he has! watch the lights on the bails, hit wicket, the last in a series of backward steps. england s day five fight was too little, too late. australia win the test match! they go up 2 0 in the ashes. we can tjust leave it to the last day and expect to pull - off an enormous feat, which is what it - would have been today. the disappointing thing about this week is that we made the same . mistakes as last week. we just can t afford to do that. it s 4,000 days since they will last won a test in australia. to regain the ashes, they must now win three in a row. patrick geary, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here s
his blog is called the first rough draft of history. the much travelled ian birrell, who writes for the mail on sunday. and damian grammaticas, who s been based in the past in beijing, brussels and delhi, and is now a political correspondent at westminster, is here in the studio. welcome to all of you. it is lovely to have you with us here. this is very interesting weekend in terms of domestic politics. let s begin there. we still don t know whether a party took place in downing street last christmas nor whether strict covid rules which affected the whole of the country at the time were broken. yet, thanks to a video leaked on wednesday, apparently by someone inside the british government, an allegation knocking around for more than a week has become weaponised. borisjohnson insists he wasn t in number ten at the time. if he fumbles this one, he may not be in there for very much longer. damian, how did an allegation about a party become a threat to boris johnson s longevity i
his attendance at the christmas party was revealed. but boris johnson would not accept it. failures by the metropolitan police were responsible in part for the deaths of three victims of the serial killer stephen ports, an inquestjury has found. the wikileaks inquestjury has found. the wikileaks founder - inquest jury has found. the wikileaks founderjuliana sanchez wikilea ks founder juliana sanchez can wikileaks founderjuliana sanchez can be extradited to face charges in the united states, the high court has ruled. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the government is warning of a deeply concerning situation, as new data confirms that the omicron variant in the uk is growing rapidly in all regions, and could be the dominant strain here within the next week. the uk health security agency is suggesting that vaccine protection against mild symptoms has been substantially reduced, but that boosters are effective. tonight the government has announced 300 million pounds of fun