and i honest to god believe it s your patriotic duty. the choice can be the difference between life or death. please get vaccinated. the data is so clear. those who are vaccinated, much lower chance of being hospitalized or dying. the surge in new infections has led to an increase in hospitalization. this is important. while infections are jumping, it is overall hospitalizations we need to keep an eye on. those are the people getting severely ill. right now, to be clear, they are rising steadily but not yet speaking. let s begin with one look at the demand for testing this morning. cnn s shimon prokupecz, he s at a pop-up testing site in new york. the good thing here is people want to know their status. they want to be able to protect themselves and the people around them. more people want those tests than there is availability. how is the city responding to that? reporter: hundreds of thousands of people here in new york and new york city demanding the demand for testi
now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk from manchester. i m stephen sackur. of all the football mad cities in the world, few can compete with this one, home to two of the world s biggest clubs, united and city. for all of football s global appeal it s wrestling with big problems, from financial greed to residual racism. my guest today is former manchester united and france star patrice evra. now he s done something most footballers never do. he s opened up about the emotional scars he s carried through his career. so why has he done it? patrice evra, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. what has happened to you? cause as a professional footballer, when you saw journalists you tended to turn the other way, you didn t really want to talk to journalists. but now here you are, you re a massive star on social media, you ve just written a searingly honest memoir. what has changed for you? maybe i m more open, more ready, i think emotionally, more open,
and covid won t stop play. the english premier league will continue over christmas despite rising infections amongst its players hello and welcome. omicron now makes up nearly three quarters of new coronavirus cases in america. president biden will outline plans to tackle the variant later today. outside the us, more countries have introduced restrictions to deal with rising cases. mark lobel reports. texas was bracing itself for an micron storm. now it reports what is believed to be the usa s first related death. look how quickly over the past week in the states omicron in purple here has taken over the delta variant, represented in orange, in new cases. variant, represented in orange, in new cam- in new cases. three, two, one, ha . . in new cases. three, two, one, happy new in new cases. three, two, one, happy new year! in new cases. three, two, one, happy new year! so in new cases. three, two, one, happy new year! so is - in new cases. three, two, one, happy new year
a kicking over it and the prime minister has rightly said that we made mistakes and he regrets that those mistakes happened. wales announces tighter coronavirus restrictions with the return of social distancing and nightclubs shut from december the 27th. and coming up we ll check in with our correspondents across europe as other countries bring in new restrictions to combat the threat of omicron. a 27 year old woman has been arrested on suspicion of child neglect after two sets of twin boys, aged three and four, died in a house fire in south london last night. at least 27 people are feared dead in an office building fire in the japanese city of osaka. hello, and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. here in the uk, the liberal democrats have pulled off a political shock in the north shropshire by election, taking one of the country s safest conservative seats. it follows the resignation of tory mp owen paterson, who was found to have breached parliam
We have the vaccine already here. how is it being taken there. jim, i know across the world people are bracing for that storm of omicron. here in the uk it s already arrived. we are absolutely in the eye of the storm. record-breaking case numbers in recent days. tens of thousands of people testing positive for covid-19. the prime minister has vowed no new restrictions before christmas. health officials taking steps to bolster their defenses against omicron. you mentioned one of the key ones there, young people aged between 5 and 11 now approved for a child vaccination from pfizer. authorities are going to start recommending that to children in that age group who are particularly vulnerable. you also now have the covid isolation period being reduced from ten days to seven days as long as you test negative on a lateral flow test for the sixth and seventh day. that s to keep the country running essentially because so many critical services are not running due to the number of positive c