Now says that those non vaccinated must have a test within 2a hours of entering the country. Proper vaccine centre is open in venues across england this weekend, in a push to get more people vaccinated before the country unlocks next week. 0lympics organisers announced the first case of coronavirus in the athletes village, six days before the tokyo games begin. Hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. Rescue crews have been racing to find survivors after the floods that wreaked havoc in germany and its western neighbours. 153 people are so far known to have died across europe, 133 of them in germany alone. Hundreds remain unaccounted for and thousands are now homeless. Thousands of residents of wassenberg, an area west of the german city of cologne, have been evacuated after a dam was breached by floodwater overnight. German officials say the country s flood warning system functioned as it was supposed to, but the amount of rain and how rapidly it fell w
we will hear about another christmas party in norway that led to the biggest omicron outbreak in europe, and from south africa where scientists have spent the last two weeks testing the vaccines against this new variant. good evening. borisjohnson has moved england to plan b in an effort to stop the spread of the omicron variant. from monday people will be encouraged to work from home wherever possible. but more immediately from friday facemasks will have be worn in most public indoor venues. that includes theatres, cinemas, and restaurants. and the nhs covid pass will now be mandatory for nightclubs and other venues with large crowds. remorseless logic of exponential growth could lead to a big rise in hospitalisations and therefore, sadly, and deaths. in hospitalisations and therefore, sadly, in deaths. and that s why it s now the proportionate and the responsible thing to move to plan b in england while continuing to work closely with our colleagues in the devolved admi
lawyers for prince andrew have accused woman of trying to achieve another payday at the duke s expense. virginia giuffre says she was sexually abused by him as a teenager. prince andrew has always denied the claims and now has asked a judge to dismiss a civil lawsuit against them. i will correspondent has this report. after months he has appeared to ignore the civil lawsuit brought forward by virginia giuffre, he has now instructed lawyers to fight to clear his name. the queen s second son has been accused by virginia giuffre of sexual abuse when she was 17, and thus a minor under us state law. in papers filed in new york last night, the prince s lawyers have asked a court to dismiss the lawsuit or to require ms giuffre to provide a more definitive statement of allegations. court papers state prince andrew never sexually abused or assaulted giuffre. a second argument advanced by prince andrew s lawyers is that ms giuffre is not entitled to bring a lawsuit against him, she for
about whether transformation in the past 2a hours which makes us think about what sort of autumn weather we prefer. yesterday might have felt quite fresh, and this view on the south coast shows there was plenty of sunshine but fast forward 2a hours, same location on a different weather, cloud and mist and fog but it is milder what s going on? we had low pressure to the north west of the uk and ex how sam is missing is but drawing ahead of it a lot of very mild air coming from south of the uk which is why temperatures have gone up but the warmer colours don t translate into sunshine on this flow there was plenty of moisture and cloud coming and there was a weather front over scotland and northern ireland which are stuck for several days with cloud and upwards of rain even though it is milder here as well, just if you write to breaks around the very first point of north west england, north and west wales have outbreaks of rain, the rest of wales and england are mainly dry, a lo
first green chancellor. new research says you ll spend longer on an nhs waiting list in england if you live in a poorer part of the country. political stalemate in germany after knife edge election results. and it s football, but not as we know it an experimental game where heading is banned because of concerns it s linked to dementia. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the government says it has no plans at the moment for using the army to drive fuel tankers. thousands of petrol stations are still closed or running dry because of a shortage of tanker drivers, and there ve been more long queues today of drivers trying to fill up. ministers are urging people to get their fuel as normal. the government is issuing temporary visas to bring in 5,000 foreign lorry drivers. the government has also suspended competition law so that oil companies can work together to get more fuel to the pumps. our business correspondent ramzan karmali reports. from early this morn