overlooking the river thames, our home for the next couple of hours, as we mark the opening of a new parliamentary session. it s been a time of national crisis since the last state opening, back in december 2019, and the government s new programme will no doubt include measures to recover from the effects of the terrible pandemic. the queen will attend today s event, her first major event since the death of the duke of edinburgh. her majesty will be accompanied this morning by the prince of wales, but the usual display of ceremonial splendour will be more or less absent because of the current restrictions. the other big difference is that the number of mps and peers here today is rather limited. the queen s speech is being delivered just a few days after the extensive elections in scotland, wales and england, which gave new impetus to the debate on the constitutional future of the united kingdom. earlier this morning, the prime minister borisjohnson left number 10 for the hou
near the front line, this is ahmed a nine year old boy who has been blind since birth now a teacher in yemen. my biggest concern was history repeating itself. i can t begin to imagine what it must have been like for her, going through this process by herself all those years ago because it has been unbelievably tough for the two of us but at least we have each other. harry and meghan go prime time, as the first clips emerge of their interview with oprah winfrey. british success at the golden globes. the crown wins four awards, including for the stars playing the prince and princess of wales. and coming up in sport on bbc news: the french sports minister threatens to withdraw the side s permission to play in the six nations, over origins of a covid outbreak in the france squad. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. in the last hour, we ve had an update on the condition of the duke of edinburgh. it comes an hour after an ambulance was seen leaving the king edwar
sunshine and warmth for many of us, because of some high pressure, which will stay with us this week, but a change in direction will bring quite a dramatic change in the weather story over the next few days. there will be quite a lot of low cloud and fog around. this is the story for sunday, the high pressure centre that was us, now veering towards the near continent and allowing ali south easterly flow that has been drawing on cloud off the north sea. it has been rather murky across parts of eastern england down into south east england. you can see where we have the best of the sunshine so far, not too bad across scotland, north west england and parts of northern ireland, and although the fog will lift and that low cloud will thin and breaking places, if you are under it, it will have quite an impact on the feeling of the weather. temperatures underneath a cloud sitting at a maximum of around seven celsius, but where we see sunshine we will see double figures. going through
live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. the omicron coronavirus variant poses a high risk of infection surges around the globe, and it requires urgent action . that s the warning from the world health organisation. the us presidentjoe biden said the newly identified variant is a cause for concern, but not a cause for panic. speaking at the white house, mr biden said the need now was to get the rest of the world vaccinated. our health correspondent, naomi grimley, has the latest. there s an eerie quiet atjohannesburg airport. south africa first raised the alarm about the omicron variant, but is now finding itself increasingly cut off from the rest of the world. meanwhile, on the ground, there s a big push to get vaccines into arms. only 23% of the south african population is fully vaccinated. we still don t know yet whether this version of covid is more severe than previous ones. one of those on the front line is reassured by what she s seen so far