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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are george eaton, senior online editor of the new statesman and rosamound urwin, media editor of the sunday times. and rosamound urwin, tomorrow s front pages, starting with. the i reports that the number of covid 19 patients in hospital is climbing but serious illness from omicron remains lower. the daily telegraph writes that the nhs test and trace is incorrectly telling people to isolate for ten days, despite official guidance cutting it to one week. the guardian reports that uk households are being warned of the year of the squeeze as cost of living soars. the daily mirror writes new year, new hope adding that there is a growing belief that omicron will not swamp the nhs, despite the huge surge in cases. the financial times reports that is was a blockbuster year for markets as companies raised a record $12 trillion by selling stock and issuing debt and loans. t ....
hello and welcome to sportsday i m hugh ferris. the headlines this evening. england cricket fans have spent the last three weeks waking up to bad news, but the final nail in the ashes coffin came before they even went to bed. everyone in that dressing room is gutted. that s not a good enough performance. we all know that. we need to put some pride back into the badge. west ham swap places with spurs as they win for the first time in five premier league games to go fifth. and the three time champion becomes the third player to withdraw from the pdc world darts after testing positive for covid. hello again. in the end it took less time than the team had to quarantine on arrival in australia. england s ashes hopes turned into dust in just 12 days of cricket. the final nail being bowled out for a measly 68 in melbourne to lose the third test by an innings. it leaves england three nil down in the series. and a significant fallout to deal with both down under and back hom ....
the bloody aftermath of the soviet occupation set the ground for a new force to emerge. they were really seen as angels, these young angels who had arrived to save the country. on december 27th, 1979, soviet special forces stormed the presidential palace in kabul. the president, hafizullah amin, was killed. this was the start of the soviet invasion of afghanistan. the soviets had invaded to shore up the communist government. afghanistan s communists had taken power in a coup in 1978, but opposition to the radical modernisation programme, together with internal communist party squabbling, had resulted in crisis. moscow ran out of patience. after assassinating president amin, soviet forces poured into afghanistan and occupied the major cities. this was the first time in the cold war that a regular armed force, tanks, jet fighters, was crossing into another country and occupying it. now, if they had their own jet fighters, at the air force base in bagram and herat, they co ....
of an ancient egyptian pharoah we hear from the researcher who peeled off the bandages using modern technology. the government says it will keep under very close review its decision not to bring in further coronavirus restrictions in england as infections rise to a level not seen before in the pandemic. there are restrictions on socialising in the rest of the uk. the early indications are that the omicron variant is not leading to the same level of hospitalisations as previous waves, but ministers say they re watching the data and will act if there s a large increase in the coming weeks. it comes as latest government figures show a record number of covid cases reported in the last day 129,471. but this data does not include figures for scotland and northern ireland due to the christmas holidays. meanwhile in the us, health officials have halved the recommended isolation time for people with asymptomatic covid 19 from ten to five days amid a surge in cases. elsewhe ....
as the kremlin bans one of russia s oldest and best known human rights organisations. right, those are our headlights. i will be back with more in half an hour. now on bbc news, our world. six years ago, amsha escaped from captivity in northern iraq, after being held by is militants. today, she is risking her life to clear her homeland of unexploded mines. in the summer of 2014, is militants swept across northern iraq. gunfire in sinjar, they would go on to commit a massacre, taking thousands of young women like amsha captive. almost seven years later, much of the region remains in ruins and thousands remain missing. despite everything, amsha chose to remain in sinjar. now every day, she confronts the deadly legacy left hidden by herformer captors. on the 3rd of august 2014, is militants invaded sinjar, homeland of the yazidi people. gunfire the so called islamic state regarded this religious minority as infidels, reserving for them their most brutal treatment. is milit ....