Good evening. The government is coming under intense pressure, to scrap plans to reopen Primary Schools in england on monday due to fears over the spread of the new variant of the coronavirus. The uks largest Teaching Union says its members shouldnt go back to work, and headteachers are taking legal action, to force the government to explain why it thinks its safe to reopen primaries outside london and parts of the south east. The department for education says schools will implement appropriate safety measures, to help mitigate the risk of transmission. Heres our education correspondent, dan johnson. Children and teachers were amongst those invited for tests at charltons Football Ground today. One way to help keep the virus out of schools but will it be enough . Some think things are out of control and they want schools to stay closed. Teaching unions say staff are at risk. We know that members of our union got sick, some of them died over the christmas period, so there is the concern
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the author journalist rachel shabi and sebastian payne, the whitehall editor of the Financial Times. Tomorrows front pages, starting with the daily mirror accuses the Prime Minister of causing confusion over lockdown rules after going for a bike ride, seven miles from downing street. The times reports that britains most Senior Police officer has said it is preposterous that anyone could be unaware of the need to follow lockdown rules and served noticethat those who ignore them will be challenged and fined. While according to the guardian the police have set themselves up for conflict with ministers by insisting they will not enforce mask wearing in supermarkets. The metro carries a warning from the government that lockdown will get tougher unless people stop mingling by chatting to friends in shops. Meanwhile, the daily mail says borisjohnson is under pressure to increase social distanc
Not a someone like you. Lucky it is nota singing someone like you. Lucky it is not a singing competition chorleys fa cup dream continues as they shock derby county to move into round four. Good morning, we start this morning with a few icy patches and some fog around as well, but it will be a milder day today, some much needed milder day today, some much needed mild air is on the way and its a fairly mild weekend on the way. Join me for all the details. Its sunday, the 10th of january. Good morning. Our top story hundreds of thousands of people aged 80 and over are being invited to book their slot at one of englands mass vaccination centres. Letters have been sent to those who live within 45 minutes drive of one of the seven sites, which are due to open this week as our health correspondent, Anna Collinson reports. There are already more than 1000 vaccination sites across england, but the rollout is expanding further, with some of the most vulnerable now invited to receive theirjab ata
New sanctions on russia from both the eu and the u. S. Targeting statecontrolled companies. Moscow is warning of retaliation. Our International Course bond and has the latest. Good morning. The eu finally imposed these sanctions. What was the holdup . There was some states that. That they were counterproductive given the progress on the ground in eastern ukraine. The concessions that allows for a process to sanctions back almost immediately. Here is what the new sanctions do, they limited the ability of statecontrolled companies to raise capital. Energy and defense had years, also extended to the banking sectors are as from raising afterfalls down hours they did this, the u. S. Said they were going to do something similar. Companies that it may affect. We are extrapolating based on what is statecontrolled. Also would not be protected. The European Companies and taxpayers will have to the costs for the penalties. That came out of off now almost immediately after targets in terms of resp
Indefinitely. Sponsors are not happy with any association. They are not walking away from the sport. Maybe that nfl is weathering athletes this financial storm. Look at what else is happening. Australia uncovering a plot to behead people in sydney. The market powers ahead on cheap money, as far as the eye could see. Varney and company is about to begin. Stuart cto of pepsi. The latest head of a big nfl company. She says she still supports Roger Goodell as commissioner. This after one quote that sums up how sponsors will ultimately respond. In a world where you cannot get a big audience anymore, where in the hell not argue going to go . Obviously, we do not condone violence against women a month but how is it the right thing to do for our shareholders to pull out of the nfl . My question is about women. Will they continue to watch nfl games. A lot of women, a lot of men have big problems. No one condones sexual violence, Domestic Violence, child abuse in the case of adrienne peeters. I