and let s remember, this virus kills people, it kills people my age, younger people and older people. also tonight. more tributes following the death of sarah everard as an independent inquiry is promised into the police handling of saturday s vigil. there should have been an earlier lockdown in england, last autumn according to government ministers and officials. i like it here. no, you don t. and there s plenty of british talent among those nominated for this year s oscars. and coming up in sport on bbc news. we ll see how liverpool fared away to wolves in the premier league. good evening. the biggest member states of the european union have now denmark and norway. the world health organization, along with the eu s very own medicines regulator, say there is no justification for the temporary ban and leading british scientists insist the vaccine is safe. our medical editor fergus walsh has the latest. a public display of confidence in the oxford astrazeneca vaccine from no
seen so many statements of deep concern, condemnation, clearly every country in the world thinks that, for example, banning girls from secondary school is outrageous and beyond the pale, but all of that adds up to almost nothing in terms of concrete action. there are a couple of things we are trying to push for in the coming month or two. one is, there should be a complete and two to travel band exemptions. we should look for a new additional people who should be added to the travel ban list. every human right to cancel needs to be doing much more to insist there is a red monitoring of human rights violations and really can t ability and real accountability. that violations and really can t ability and real accountability. that is not place- and real accountability. that is not place. other and real accountability. that is not place. other than and real accountability. that is not place. other than the - and real accountability. that is not place. other than the trav
a lot to be known about the omicron variant. many thanks. well, today is typically one of the busiest travel days of the year. and new restrictions don t appear to be slowing things down. cnn s anna stewart joins us live from london. it looks like people are not being discouraged by the omicron variant. is that what the numbers are showing us? it is. i find that surprising, given the whole world is a fresh patch work of new restrictions and travel bans. i no longer can travel to fans on account of omicron. and you can t travel to eight nations in africa, which are on the travel ban list.
been caught off guard. what is the u.k. doing to combat the threat posed by the omicron variant. what are the restrictions? reporter: good morning. the travel rule book has been rewritten again and it s catching some flak, particularly people in southern african countries who are struggling to get off the travel ban list. nigeria added to the red list. they can travel from there and they need to stay in a hotel on arrival in the u.k. for ten days costing $3,000. there are reports of people having to wait days or possibly weeks to get on to one of these facilities given that they re at capacity. that s that. then there are all of the additional requirements. people have to do a pre-departure test to come to the u.k. it s done two days before coming and it can be a rapid or pcr. you have to test two days before arriving into the u.k.