the moon is expected from nasa. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. its newsday. welcome to the programme. it s 7am in singapore and seven in the evening in florida, where the former president donald trump has asked a federal court to temporarily block the fbi from reviewing the materials it seized from his mar a lago home two weeks ago. in a filing to the court, mr trump s legal team is requesting the appointment of a watchdog to oversee the fbi review. this is the first formal legal action since federal agents seized highly sensitive documents. our north america correspondent chi chi izundu has been examining the documents filed by mr trump. 27 pages of what donald trump s legal team are trying to assert in a court in florida, and donald trump himself has just issued a statement, helpfully i might add detail exactly what it is he believes occurred when the fbi searched his home two weeks ago, his mar a lago florida home. he says they demanded the security c
for themselves. certainly a lot of discussion and debate about the possible return of facemasks when it comes to covid. you mentioned los s county. their local rates of infection for covid have gone up by more than 50% since the start of november so in los angeles county, officials are calling and strongly recommending that people do wear facemasks now in public places. now since covid is being joined by the flu and by rsv there are many medical professionals who say it is time for some people to consider returning to wearing facemasks. true that covid is just smoldering along but now we have rsv and we have influenza surging in most of the country. those are also very, very serious viruses. so it seems a reasonable thing to do if you are going out in public, put back that mask. and do some social distancing.
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let s all make sure our children and young people are vaccinated before they go back next term. as we take forward our national mission we are supporting similar efforts by the devolved administrations which are also rapidly increasing vaccination rates across scotland, wales and northern ireland. a cobra meeting with edinburgh, cardiff and belfast is taking place this evening. already the pace of roll out across the four nations is such that the uk as a whole now has twice as many boosters there had as the eu and more than twice as many as the united states. let s keep going. let s keep giving omicron both barrels and lights slow its spread and give the vaccines more time. wear facemasks and give the vaccines more time. wearfacemasks vendors, and give the vaccines more time. wear facemasks vendors, use ventilation, get tested if you are going to an event where you are likely to meet lots of people and
heard me repeat earlier on what we need people to do it, triggers ventilation, to wear masks inside, continue to wash your hands, exercise caution. to do a daily contact testing and so forth if you come into contact with somebody who has omicron, to isolate, certainly if you have omicron. and to get tested when you want to go to a nightclub or other venue. all those restrictions are coming and and that is the right thing to do to slow the spread of the disease, but what we are also doing is using a tool that we did not have, if you think about it, i get a go, when we were also facing a spike, and that is the huge advantage notjust of testing but of vaccination a year ago. the booster provides an excellent level