Pressing covid situation, the biggest contraction of our economy for 300 years, double the Budget Deficit we faced after the financial crash, we are still putting £10 billion in as a proportion of gdp, still the third biggest g7 donor. The biggest. One of the biggest bilateral humanitarian donors. The biggest donor to gavi. So i appreciate its been a difficult decision but actually if you look at all of the areas and the positives we are still contributing to, i think it shows the scope for us to be a greater scope for good in the world but we need to work with our partners in order to magnify and amplify those efforts and that is what the g7 is all about. Thank you very much. What the g7 is all about. Thank you very much very much. First of all this is something very much. First of all this is something we very much. First of all this is something we raise very much. First of all this is something we raise at very much. First of all this is something we raise at every| something we r
the victims of ghislaine maxwell have been speaking after she was convicted of grooming girls to be abused byjeffery epstein. her family say they can t accept the verdict. joe biden has again told president vladimir putin that the us and its allies will respond decisively if russia does not de escalate tensions on his country s border with ukraine. and as the big celebration approaches, are you getting ready for your new year s resolutions? we ask, are they really a good thing? the government says it has met a target to offer covid boosterjabs to all adults in england by today as part of efforts to slow the spread of the omicron variant. the same claim has been made in scotland, wales and northern ireland. but as people contemplate celebrating the new year tonight, the prime minister has warned people to be cautious and take a covid test before going out. in a year end message, borisjohnson praised what he called the heroic vaccination effort across the country. but nhs bosse
it is hundreds and hundreds of people that have come through and that number is now about 600 homes destroyed in this area. relieved and grateful the victims of ghislaine maxwell have been speaking after she was convicted of grooming girls to be abused byjeffery epstein her family say they can t accept the verdict. joe biden has again told president vladimir putin that the us and its allies will respond decisively if russia does not de escalate tensions on his country s border with ukraine. and are you getting ready for your new year s resolutions? we ask are they really a good thing? before we move to today s news, let s go back to that light show in the new zealand capital auckland as new zealanders welcome in the new year. it isa it is a light show and that is because there are no fireworks this time. the traditional. hang on, there are fireworks. i was misinformed. the information was that would be no firework because i didn t want crowd to gather and there would
after being stabbed in separate incidents in london. 30 teenagers have been killed in the capital this year the highest figure since 2008. you can carry knives in london. this is what happens when knives are carried. cannot. we all want to tackle knife crime. relieved and grateful the victims of ghislaine maxwell have been speaking after she was convicted of grooming girls to be abused byjeffery epstein her family say they can t accept the verdict. joe biden has again told president vladimir putin that the us and its allies will respond decisively if russia does not de escalate tensions on his country s border with ukraine. good afternoon. welcome to bbc news. new figures show staff absences caused by covid at nhs acute trusts in england rose by more than 40% in the week to boxing day. hospitals in northampton, sheffield and rotherham have temporarily suspended visiting due to the high number of 0micron cases. an average of more than 25,000 health workers were off
hello and welcome. as countries around the world welcome in 2022, many new year s eve celebrations have been cancelled or scaled back because of concern over covid infections. london and paris are among the cities to have cancelled their usual public celebrations and edinburgh s hogmany celebrations have also been called off. china is attempting to stick to a zero covid strategy ahead of the lunar new year. its vice premier has visited the northern city of xi an, where 13 million people have been confined to their homes in one of the country s strictest lockdowns since the pandemic began. well, here, new figures suggest that nearly 2.3 million people in the uk would have tested positive for covid in the week ending the 23rd of december the highest level of infections since the data was first compiled. separate data shows the number of nhs staff at acute trusts in england who were off work rose by more than a0%. let s get more on this with anna collinson. while most of us