Good morning come to order today we are having a hearing on paid good morning. The Senate Health Education labor and Pensions Committee will please come to order. Today, we are having a hearing on paid family sick and medical leave and what having paid leave options would mean for workers and families across the country. I would like to thank ranking Member Burr for Hold Thing Hearing with me. And i will introduce the witnesses and senator also have five minutes for questions. I do want to walk through the Covid19 Safety protocols and i want to thank all of our staff who have worked really hard to get this set up and help us stay research and healthy. We will be conduct Thing Hearing following the same covid protocols we have used in the past, committee members are seated at least six feet apart. Some senators are participating by videoconference and while we are unable to have the hearing fully opened to the public, live video is available on our committee website. Given the new guida
and to laugh or not to laugh. a warning that cancel culture could wipe out comedy. hello and welcome to bbc news. people with covid in england can now stop self isolating after a week following two negative lateral flow tests effectively opening up christmas for thousands of people. the health secretary says it s to ease disruption to people s lives, and comes after the prime minister ruled out imposing further covid restrictions in england at this stage. so, from today, in england, self isolation for those who have tested positive will be cut from ten days to seven days as long as they receive negative lateral flow test results on day six and seven of their isolation period and have no symptoms. people ending isolation on day seven are strongly advised to limit contact with vulnerable people, not visit crowded or poorly ventilated spaces, and work from home. if they can. health secretary sajid javid said it would minimize disruption caused by the rapid spread of the om
and i would act on those if transmission is rising still, and if hospitalisations are going up across the country. the world health organization is urging people around the globe to be extra careful when socialising this festive season. also on the programme. a whistleblower tells the bbc of the neglect of an autistic man detained in a specialist hopsital for more than 20 years. the biggest divorce settlement in an english court the ruler of dubai must pay more than half a billion pounds to his ex wife. and the monster millipede eight feet long, discovered by chance in northumberland. coming up on the bbc news channel, no fans at sporting events in wales from boxing day as the welsh government tries to control the spread of the virus. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the chancellor, rishi sunak, has announced there ll be more than a billion pounds worth of financial support to help struggling businesses and the arts sector cope with the spread of the 0
we report from one of the worst hit places. hello, and welcome to viewers in the uk and around the world. president biden is expected to announce new measures later today to combat a surge of covid infections, driven by the 0micron variant. officials say, 0micron accounts for 73% of all new cases recorded in the country. 1,000 military, medical personnel are being mobilised to help increase vaccination capacity. the federal government will distribute 500 million free covid tests, and set up federal covid testing sites in new york city. more on that in just a moment. in france, the government is to fast track a covid vaccine passport law they expect that to be adopted by the middle ofjanuary. in germany, federal leaders are meeting now to decide on new measures there. in the last hour in the uk the government has announced measures to help businesses dealing with mass cancellations, a drop in footfall on the high street and staff absence, because of covid. here
new year celebrations. as 0micron spreads rapidly across the us president biden prepares to ramp up the response. our other main headline more bodies are found as rescuers reach islands in the phillipines, cut off by last week s typhoon. we ll hear from a filmmaker who was on one of the worst hit islands when the typhoon hit. and a huge fossilfind, a monster millipede, eight feet long, 50 kilos and the size of a car discovered by chance in the uk. hello, and welcome. as countries around the world grapple with the rising tide of coronavirus cases fuelled by the new 0micron variant governments everywhere are walking a narrow line between protecting public health and keeping their economies open. here in the uk, borisjohnson s government will not rule out further, tighter restrictions for england. the chancellor rishi sunak has announced a one billion pound support fund for the hospitality industry, as it struggles with a collapse in bookings sparked by the rise in c