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
the world s most wanted cyber crime supects are living freely in russia. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. mps in the uk will today debate proposals to tighten the rules on second jobs for mps, as the row over sleaze continues. borisjohnson has set out plans to ban mps from working as paid consultants, while labour wants a ban on all second jobs. it follows weeks of mounting political pressure after the former tory mp owen paterson was found to have broken lobbying rules as a paid consultant. our political correspondent, helen catt, reports. good morning, prime minister. the prime minister has a tough day of questioning ahead, as he tries to draw a line under the sleaze allegations which have dominated westminster for the last few weeks. yesterday, he announced he would support banning mps from working as paid political consultants, at the exact moment labour was holding a press conference calling for the same. labour is chalking the prime mi
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,
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Is announced by the prime minister is to slow things down, but it s doubling currently between two and three every two and three days. but there is no escaping the timing of today s announcement. for weeks borisjohnson has denied rumours that a christmas party was held in downing street, at this time last year, when london was under tier 3 restrictions. at the time, gatherings of more than two or more people were banned, as were christmas parties. senior ministers have consistently denied that any rules were broken. but now we have the video. a recording from last year, in which his team are seen joking and laughing about the party they had been to in downing st four days earlier. there are references to cheese and wine and you will hear mrjohnson s spokesperson allegra stratton, openly admitting there was no social distancing. there was a downing street christmas party friday night, do you recognise those reports? i went home.