hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. downing street has given details of prime minister borisjohnson s strategy for easing the lockdown in england, ahead of his long awaited announcement on monday. number ten says a key ambition will be to reunite families and last night, the government announced that, from next month, residents in care homes will be allowed indoor visits by a member of their family or a friend and to hold hands. our health correspondent laura foster reports. when england went back into lockdown at the beginning ofjanuary, the doors to care homes were closed to visitors unless circumstances were exceptional. a way of protecting residents from the rising number of cases and the added threat of the new variant. but now nearly 17 million people have had their first covid jab, including 95% of people living in care homes in england. from the eighth of march, they will each get to choose one person who can visit them indoors. but t
hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. downing street has given details of prime minister borisjohnson s strategy for easing the lockdown in england, ahead of his long awaited announcement on monday. number ten says a key ambition will be to reunite families and last night, the government announced that, from next month, residents in care homes will be allowed indoor visits by a member of their family or a friend and to hold hands. our health correspondent laura foster reports. when england went back into lockdown at the beginning ofjanuary, the doors to care homes were closed to visitors unless circumstances were exceptional. the way of protecting residents from a rising number of cases and the added threat of the new variant. but now nearly 17 million people have had their first covid jab, including 95% of people living in care homes in england. from the eighth of march, they will each get to choose one person who can visit them indoors. but t
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what s it like to host the winter olympics amid some of the world s toughest covid restrictions? hello. thanks for joining hello. thanks forjoining us. washington has placed more than 8,000 us based troops on a heightened state of alert as part of its readiness to respond if russia should carry out any assault on ukraine. a pentagon spokesman said that if deployed, the troops would be sent to bolster nato s presence in eastern europe. president biden has been holding talks with key european allies over a common strategy towards russia over ukraine. moscow denies planning to invade, but it has amassed more than 100,000 troops close to the ukrainian border. 0ur correspondent gabriel gatehouse sent this report from the ukranian capital, kyiv. bell rings this is a country in limbo, waiting for an invasion that looks more likely with every passing day, but may yet never come. to the east, 100,000 russian troops are massed, but the kremlin says talk of an invasion is hysteria. faci