uk nationals and residents returning from 22 red list countries will be placed in quarantine in hotels for ten days. anyone leaving the country will need to declare why they are travelling. and the row between the eu and drugs firm astrazeneca deepens. the eu says the pharmaceutical giant must guarantee delivery of its covid vaccines, including those manfactured in the uk. welcome to bbc news, building up the latest coronavirus briefing from the government, today led by the prime minister, alongside the government s chief scientific advisor, sir patrick vallance, and the deputy chief medical officer for england, jonathan van tam. borisjohnson says it will not be possible to reopen schools in england after the half term holiday in february. the prime minister told mps that if the government meets vaccination targets, it may be safe to start a return to face to face teaching from the 8th of march. it comes as borisjohnson promises a plan next month for phased easing of lockdown
we have more people in employment land more employees on the payrolll now than there were before the pandemic began. - that is what my staff have been working on in downing street. i some mps are accusing borisjohnson of misleading parliament over lockdown parties in downing street. the leader of the scottish conservatives says the number of letters needed to oust the prime minister is near . 5a letters are needed to trigger a leadership vote. over the next half an hour, we ll look at how borisjohnson got to this point, his career so far and his future as prime minister. he s a successful politician. we ll look at what you need to do if he s to carry on. he needs to do. boris johnson s future tonight hangs in the hands of his own mps after days of public anger, over lockdown parties held in downing street. we heard another person calling for him to go. like many on these benches, i spent weeks and months defending the prime minister against often angry constituents. i r
the australian open. and after winning best drama actor at the golden globes, will smith is nominated for a screen actors guild award. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. for the first time, borisjohnson has admitted he did attend a downing street party during last year s lockdown. and for the first time, the leader of the opposition has called on him to resign. the prime minister urged all sides to await the findings of an internal inquiry led by the senior civil servant sue grey. but as far as lawbreaking goes, many would say he has already admitted that his advisors if not the prime minister himself were in breach of laws that many others have been fined for breaking. our political editor laura kuenssberg has the latest. a mess there is no other word. the prime minister belatedly trying to clean up. reporter: are you going to apologise? with an admission of possible rule breaking, an apology from a weakened leader. but will the answers to t
two former prime ministers back calls for a so called hillsborough law to ensure fairer treatment for bereaved families. and, whatever happened to roly, zammo and gripper? grange hill, a tv staple for 30 years, is being turned into a film. good afternoon. staff absences caused by covid are making hospital care unsafe that s the warning from the main nursing union, the rcn. absences are up more than 40% in a week in england, and about one in eight hospitals are in a critical incident, which means they re struggling to provide core services. the armed forces have been called in to help 200 personnel have been deployed in the capital, with another 1800 around the rest of the uk. our health correspondent katharine da costa reports. like many hospitals, kingston in south west london has been tackling a rise in covid admissions over christmas and a busy a&e. that has been compounded by growing staff absences. 4% of staff here are off work due to covid, and that is having a big
battlefield, dundas, and they tried to be use in darkness between the brothers and ours brothers in arms. donbas. following the address, putin held a meeting with his security officials, including defence minister sergei shoigu. putin made no mention of wagner boss yevgeny prigozhin by name. prigozhin, who was thought to be in belarus but whose whereabouts are currently unknown, is claiming the rebellion wasn t meant to overthrow the russian government. our correspondent sarah rainsford has more on the rebellion s aftermath from warsaw. this is yevgeny prigozhin s attempt to answer some questions but it leaves a lot of questions unanswered. we still don t know where he is. we don t know if he is in belarus as had been suggested over the weekend but he did leave a bit of a hint because he said it was alexander lukashenko, the president of belarus, who had intervened to resolve the crisis over the weekend. as to what caused that crisis, mr prigozhin was trying to make ver