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this is a victory for anyone who wants to be on the right side of history. four people are cleared in bristol of criminal damage after the toppling of a statue during a black lives matter protest. will he or won t he defend his australian open title? novak djokovic s appearance is in doubt after problems with his visa. and the first woman of colour, a british army officer, makes the 700 mile solo trek to the south pole. and coming up on the bbc news channel. the series may be lost, but england battle hard on a rain affected opening day of the fourth ashes test in sydney. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. lastest figures suggest one person in every in 15 across the uk, had covid in the run up to new year s eve, the highest level of infections recorded by the office for national statistics. but borisjohnson s confirmed there ll be no new restrictions in england, saying the government was taking a balanced approach to covid. the rules on testing are changi ....
bare. dr. anthony fauci telling cnn this morning it will improve soon. we had a conflation of high demands, high demands because of the concern about omicron, which is a justifiable concern, but the high demand that was triggered by the holiday season. you know, obviously, not making any excuses for it, we should have had more tests available, but hopefully now as we get into the first couple weeks in january that will get much better. in new york state, daily cases approaching 50,000. new york city is hoping to help curb that with its vaccine mandates for the private sector. that goes into effect today. this latest surge is also wreaking havoc on travel plans according to flight aware. more than 800 u.s. flights have been cancelled this morning. staff and crew are out sick worldwide. that s more than 2,300 flights. more on that in just a moment. let s begin this hour, though, with testing. leyla santiago joins us in miami at a 24-hour covid testing center. car rs h ....
audience with them too believe a good crew here. so onto the monologue. so come in omicron variant sweeps across america and the world and the data that is being collected about its severity is very encouraging. according to the new york post, the early real world that it which is expected to be released before christmas found in omicron is likely to bring on a mild illness with less serious symptoms in most people. it is a fest of this, people. and a south african study, the only kind i read, suggest low risk of hospitalization with omicron versus delta. omicron is milder than delta a leaked u.k. study finds. this is welcome news. to calm the frayed nerves of the american people, right, mainstream media? health experts are warning the country could be in for a grim beginning to the new year because of the cases are on the rise. speak of virus is running rampant through both the psyches of the american public and on the ground in certain places thanks to the incredi ....
do that. people are no longer embarrassed to watch televtelev. we have seen the news and it s us. slowly but surely the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be pupon us. as we begin the 80s. nine out of ten people were watching only one of three networks. more than 30 million people are addicted to it. what is it? it s television s primetime prairie pot boiler of dallas. a move like that will destroy all of you and ruin our family name. brothers or no brothers, whatever it takes, i will stop you. dallas, the one hour show that captivated america for 13 years. dallas rooted in the 1970s. this character, jr as a pop phen phenomenal. tell me which you will be staying with tonight. whatever it is, it s much more delicious than the i am looking at now. you could do something so unexpected that it would become news over night. [ gunshot ] . the national obsession around who shot jr is hard to imagine how obsessed we were with that question but w ....
build back better bill which would significantly impand the country s social safety yet. senator joe manchin a key moderate democrat announcing this morning he is officially a no on the legislation. i cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. i just can t. i ve tried everything humanly possible. i can t get there. a lot to get to. we ll begin with the pandemic. new cases and hospitalizations rising in the u.s. the delta variant fueling most of these increases right now. but the omicron strain is also spreading quickly in much of the country. one expert saying there is a tsunami coming from the unvaccinated. in new york people are waiting in long lines for coronavirus tests as you see there. nearly a third of broadway shows are shuttered once again, just months after reopening. the nba, nhl, and the nfl are postponing games as teams deal with outbreaks. and some major colleges and universities including harvard and yale, are returning to remote learning ....