substantially reduced next week. in ireland hundreds line the streets for the funeral of 23 year old teacher ashling murphy as police reveal a man has been arrested. and the biggest gaming deal in history is taking shape as the maker of call of duty and candy crush is set to be bought for £50 billion. and coming up in the sport, on the bbc news channel manchester city may be well ahead in the premier league title race but chelsea can move second with a win over brighton. good evening. faced with persistent claims that he s misled the house of commons the prime minister has categorically denied that he was warned about a drinks party in the downing street garden during the first lockdown. he insisted nobody had told him the gathering was against the rules but his former adviser dominic cummings says he did warn mrjohnson and he s accused the prime minister of misleading mps. at westminster, there is more evidence of discontent among conservative
and in sportsday at 7:45 how england lost yet again in the ashes series, and the rest of the day s sport that s in the next hour here on bbc news. the family of the briton who s been identified as the man who took four people hostage at a synagogue in texas have confirmed that he has died in the incident. malik faisal akram, who s reported to be from blackburn, was named as the hostage taker by the fbi earlier this evening. according to federal law enforcement officials, he was 44 and arrived in the us about two weeks ago. his family said they were devastated, didn t condone any of his actions and apologised to those involved. all four hostages were freed unharmed after a ten hour stand off between the assailant and police. this evening, the us president, joe biden, has called the siege an act of terror . let s hear what he had to say. i spoke this morning with the attorney general to get a rundown and he said there was overwhelming cooperation with local authorities and
on public health grounds. a british woman is missing in tonga after being washed away in the tsunami which hit the island. the amount of damage it s caused is still unclear. coming up the travel show at 8.30. the team s in paris to find out about its competing bids for unesco world heritage status. the family of the briton who s been identified as the man who took four people hostage at a synagogue in texas have confirmed that he has died in the incident. malik faisal akram, who came from blackburn, was named as the hostage taker by the fbi earlier this evening. according to federal law enforcement officials, he was 44 and arrived in the us about two weeks ago. his family said they were devastated, didn t condone any of his actions and apologised to those involved. all four hostages were freed unharmed after a ten hour stand off between the assailant and police. here, counter terror policing north west has confirmed that it s helping the us authorities with the investigatio
take a listen. would you be willing to testify about your conversation with donald trump on january 6th if you were asked by an outside commission sure. next question. you would? change now. another story we re following this morning, tennis star novak djokovic officially the number one seed in the australian open men s singles draw, will he get to play? questions about whether he broke the rules everyone else has to follow. and president biden set to speak next hour to announce a new federal plan to deploy military medical teams to hospitals that are grappling with the omicron surge. let s get right to our top story this hour, house minority leader kevin mccarthy refusing to cooperate with the january 6th committee. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider is following the story from washington. jessica, what more are you learning? bianna and jim, mccarthy doubling down now on his refusal to talk. he released that statement last night condemning the investig
there is also a very extensive mutation which means it diverges quite significantly from previous configurations of the virus. as a result, it might, in part, reduce the protection of our vaccines over time. joining me now, david mckenzie. i want to start with you. there the prime minister was clear about threat they are facing but what else did he say about their plan to address this variant? well, it was a sobering press conference from boris johnson. there were really some warning signs expressed there but boris johnson did say the uk government would be taking a targeted approach. we have had two confirmed cases in the uk. germany confirmed two cases. there are concerns that europe could be seeing a spread in this variant coming in the next few days and weeks. boris johnson announced a series of measures to try to tackle or bring under control the spread of this variant on a national level. we have seen the travel restrictions coming toward in the uk and from the euro