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this is bbc news. the headlines. the uk records 1,325 new covid death, the highest so far since the pandemic started. there have also been 68,053 additional positive cases. the mayor of london declares a ‘major incident‘ warning the virus could overwhelm hospitals in the capital. the message to londerners is, even though it's not compulsory to wear a facemask outdoors all the evidence suggests it reduces the chance of of you passing the virus of you have it and don't realise it. so please do wear a facemask whenever you do get home. the moderna vaccine is approved for use in the uk. it's the third vaccine to get the green light and 17 million doses are now on order. president trump says he won't be
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attending the inauguration of president—elect biden hours after condemning the violent storming of the us capitol. and coming up: wonder woman 1984 tells us the origin story of the superheroine, that's still to come on the film review with anna smith. the uk records the highest number of deaths in a 2k hour period. the deaths of 1,325 were reported in the past 2a hours. previously the highest level was on the 21st of april, when 1,224 deaths were recorded. the uk also records a further 68,053 new cases in the past day.
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the news comes as government scientists estimate for the r number — that's the measure of how fast the virus is growing, has gone up to between one and 1.11. that means on average every ten people infected with the virus will pass it on to between ten and 1a others. before christmas it was estimated to be between 1.1 and 1.3. scientists advising the government said the estimates of r and growth rates are based on the latest data available up to january four — and do not include any impact of the current national lockdown. the mayor of london sadiq khan has declared a "major incident" in the capital and says spread of covid in london is "out of control". figures from the office for national statistics suggest around one in 30 people in the capital had the virus last week. but there is some more positive news as a third covid vaccine has been approved for use in the uk. it is made by us company moderna and works in a similar way to the pfizer one that is already being offered on the nhs. the uk has a total order
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of 17 million doses, but supplies are not expected to arrive until spring. i'm joined now by our health correspondent, jim reed. a correspondent, jim reed. lot of information they a oui’ a lot of information they are for our viewers to take in. there is no getting away from the very grim serious situation that we are in with regard to cases and data. that's right, i'm afraid it's more grim news that what's been a grim week in generalfor this grim news that what's been a grim week in general for this virus news about it. i should say that some of these figures, we need to take them with a slight dose of caution because the debt figures in particular tend to move around through that festive period. death registrations get delayed over that period. nevertheless when you look at those figures, 1325 people have lost their lives within the last 2a hours. that's within 28 days of a gravitas. that's now the highest on record the previous high was back in april last year at the peak. it means that we are nowjust short of
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80,000 deaths in total by that measure since the pandemic began. also we were talking a lot about the pressure on health services. within those numbers to some pretty grim news about admission to hospitals. another 3867 people admitted to hospital with covid. that means that in hospital at the moment we are now up in hospital at the moment we are now up to around 31,000 people across the uk. that's up by over 1200 people. in a single day. again it's an all an people. in a single day. again it's an all record since the beginning of this pandemic. you mentioned as well they are a number in the introduction for this is very important it's the rate of which one person passes on the virus to other people. today we had the latest estimate of that by a number in the introduction for this is very important it's the rate of which one person passes on the virus to other people. today we had the latest estimate of that ice age which is the government advisory panel. they found is between one and one point far. unless we get that under the value of one it means that the pandemic as a whole is still spreading across the country. when you look at the regional breakdown for that are number it's important.
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it shows it's notjust in the southeast parts of london where we've seen these problems. we are seeing the increase at the pandemic as pretty much across the entire uk. so we've passed the peak of deaths that we previously saw in april despite your caveats. is there any sense of whether we are yet at the peak of this third wave or is that peak of this third wave or is that peak still to come? we had some figures out from the office of national statistics today which are quite important. they don't look at people who have had symptoms of covid, they actually go into the populations and sample 10,000 bits of people in the population froze up again it made for some pretty grim reading on the surface but if you look behind the data at what's happening in london, there was perhaps and i say perhaps, in the last few days some early signs that we might be flattening that curve and reach and perhaps what could be the peoples of its very early to start saying that. certainly people have been part and at those figures
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today and saying that there may be some signs were reaching that point. and there is some real positive news with the maternal vaccine, the third to be approved here. the third to be approved by the regulators for the pluses and negatives with this latest vaccine. 0n the plus side the data from trial shows it is very, very effective. we think about 95% effective after two doses. perhaps as high as 90% effective after one does. although the number in the trials are pretty low for that. it's also going to be available fairly soon we think of the spring for stops or march or april we can actually start to see this. and the government ordered more of it than we previously thought. 7 million. million thought it's up to 17 million on this negative side it isn't available straightaway, were going to have to wait perhaps until march, april until it's widely available. also it's thought it's much more expensive than some of the
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other vaccines which obviously has an impact on the nhs. 0f other vaccines which obviously has an impact on the nhs. of course individuals are never to have to pay for it. it's a health service that's going to have to pay. jim, thank you very much indeed. so, as we've heard a major incident has been declared in london because of the risks of hospitals being ovewhelmed. but what exactly does it mean? major incidents have previously been declared after the grenfell tower fire injune 2017 and the attacks at westminster bridge and london bridge. today's announcemnt comes as the coronavirus infection rate in london has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people. london fire brigade said more than 100 firefighters have been drafted in to drive ambulances to help cope with the demand. the mayor of london, sadiq khan, explained what led to the decision of a major incident being taken. well, the reason i have had to declare a major incident today is because i am afraid this virus is out of control. the nhs in london is at risk of being overwhelmed. the staff there are working heroically, but it is a real risk
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over the course of the next couple of weeks, unless the virus reduces and there are fewer people going to hospital, we could run out of hospital beds. across london on average, one out of 30 londoners now has this virus, but in some parts of london it is one out of 20. the number of people now in hospital with covid is 35% more than the peak in the spring. the nhs has done an amazing job. they are stretched. but to give you an example, normally the ambulance service on a daily basis receives about 5,000 calls a day. they are currently receiving 8,000—9,000 calls a day, which is why our brilliant firefighters are now driving some ambulances, but it is really important that the additional message from the government are given to us, but also londoners heed this warning. the best thing you can do, the best way you can help the nhs, is by staying at home. that the mayor of london, sadiq khan
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0ur correspondent charlotte wright is in the city centre. charlotte, a major incident. what does that practically mean, what powers are available? well, today he has announced that he is asked government for more money to enable londoners to stay at home if they have symptoms or a positive test. enable them to stay at home in south isolate if they can't work from home. that's one think that he is saying. practically. he's also saying. practically. he's also saying that lenders should be considering wearing their masks more often. he suggested for example, wearing them in cues for supermarkets. he says that the city is at crisis point at the moment. so these measures need to be taken to help kerb the spread of the virus. but ultimately, the state of emergency really means that the emergency really means that the emergency service can work more closely together and pool resources.
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so we know that firefighters will be driving london ambulances. and the met police and said today that they will be helping out with that too. we've also had a statement today from the deputy assistant commissioner of the met police. who said the this announcement is a stark reminder of the critical point that we are at. he also described a small selfish minority of people who have been holding house parties, having large warehouse raves, he says. and other gatherings as well. he says these rule breakers cannot continue to feign ignorance at the risk that the virus is posing. he says fines for people who are committing obvious, willful, serious breaches of the covid laws are happening and will continue. today we know that it was announced across the country more than 30,000 fines have been handed out across the air sends those covid laws were introduced. the met today saying that people won't be able to get
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away with breaking the rules. just a reminder of how serious the situation is. but the met police did today praise londoners, the majority of lenders who are sticking to the rules and staying at home. and they are being called london's unsung heroes. a third coronavirus vaccine made by madrona has been bit of proved in the uk. the government has introduced 17 million doses of the job which is expected to reach the two arrive by spring. an important milestone. this is the third vaccine to be produced was up another important i guess, weapon in our armoury against this virus. as we begin to vaccinate more and more of the most vulnerable people, so the first bold cohorts we are now
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absolutely focused on making sure that they are offered the vaccine by mid february. and then we carry on through the rest of the cohorts of thejoint committee through the rest of the cohorts of the joint committee on vaccination and immunisations of the most vulnerable so we complete the full nine. this vaccine in volume will come on board next spring. to allow us come on board next spring. to allow us to then go even further. 0bviously, us to then go even further. obviously, the more we vaccinate their some very good dater today out of the 0ns lifestyle survey where vaccine acceptance of people considering to take a vaccine is that 85%, i think. which is the highest it's ever been. and so this becomes very much part of the plan that the task force have always been focused on delivering. was to make sure there's enough vaccine doses to really be able to offer it to the whole of the adult population.
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the total number of patients is now 1000 530 in the number of deaths recorded yesterday is 93. at her daily briefing nicola sturgeon said the return of students to university was being delayed. the lockdown in wales is to remain in place for at least another three weeks. the first minister mark drakeford has also warned that some measures may need to be strengthened. he said that unless there's a significant drop in cases soon, school and college students are likely to continue their education online until the february half term. all visitors to the uk from next week will have to have proof of a negative covid test before they're allowed to travel. anyone arriving by air, rail or sea — including uk nationals — will have to take a test up to 72 hours before departure, and people arriving from countries that aren't on the travel corridor
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list will still have to quarantine for up to 10 days once they arrive. 0ur transport correspondent caroline davies reports. until today's announcement the uk has not required anyone arriving in the country to show that they recently tested negative for the coronavirus. but things are about to change. international arrivals including uk nationals travelling to the uk to the uk will need to show that they have a negative covid—19 tests ta ken up to 72 hours before they travel. it applies to everyone arriving by boat, plane or train but not to hauliers or children under 11. it won't apply to anyone travelling within the uk or ireland. the government has said tests will be needed from next week. but haven't set an exact date. and they haven't specified a particular sort of test. it can be different types of tests. a pcr test perhaps there is also lateral flow tests and lab test. the important things it's up to a certain specification and then
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people take that test and as long is it a negative than they can fly but they can't board the aeroplane for example, without having that negative test. some of the countries already have strict measures in place. raphael recently returned to south korea. it took 2a hours of testing and paperwork before he was allowed home to quarantine. he said it was very different when he flew to the uk. the process was completely opposite there were no checks, no temperature check. there's no screening, there was no social distancing. many people were not wearing masks. neil is a marine engineer he counts as a critical work and has been told he doesn't need to quarantine. over the last few weeks travelling through southeast asia he's had 11 test. and after all those tests were you surprised to go back to the uk not need one? yes. i was, yeah. but it was a ridiculous scenario to be in as i arrive from transiting through to countries. and then arriving in the uk and then
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given the ok for me. it's total and absolute utter nonsense. even with a negative test arrivals from countries not on the travel covered a list will still have to quarantine. many in the aviation industry have been calling for testing since april last year. they hope that in the long term testing can be used instead of quarantine and that a common standard can be introduced. companies around the world have introduced departure testing. they all have a slightly different set of measures that they're looking for, different ways in which they have to be validated. and it's very confusing for passengers. but some airlines are concerned that if the passenger gets a positive test it destroys their business. if you leave the airlines with the risk that they all cancel within a day or two days of departure they click back we then
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have to run flights five or 10% of the seats sold. we lose so much money. it makes it the only way we can survive is to not operate the flights at all. the government has said that policies like travel corridors quarantining and the test to release programme have help manage important infections before. over the new variance of the virus it's clear the government want to go further. uk arrivals into the indian capital delhi will be required to self—isolate for a week to stop the spread of the new coronavirus variant. the new rules will require people to take a test on arrival in delhi. anyone who tests positive for covid will then have to quarantine for a fortnight. the announcement came as flights between india and britain resumed, following a 2 week ban. schools are urging parents to be honest about whether they qualify as "key workers" after seeing a much higher demand for lockdown places than expected. the national assocation of headteachers has said some primaries in england are seeing between 50 and 70% of normal attendance. the government has said there should be no limit on the number of vulnerable children or those of critical workers,
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who are able to go into schools. 0ur education correspondent is sean dilley. is it the change, has the government expanded of who can send their children to school? it very much has into key ways. remember the first lockdown in march where very, very few people are actually attending school at the time. the critical key workers were asked to send their children to school. so in that aspect first they have specifically said this time around that you could do that with two ofjust one parent isa do that with two ofjust one parent is a key worker. was certainly aware that some councils and schools haven't saying can only do it in both parents are key workers. the government said that's wrong. if you have one parent you can send your child to school. the other very different criteria this time is criteria for vulnerable have been changed from last time. children without access to a proper study place for instance. those without
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la pto ps place for instance. those without laptops or place for instance. those without la pto ps or ta blets place for instance. those without laptops or tablets those of have many don't. they continued to look nice on the children to school if they wish to do so. teachers have expressed all sorts of concerns around safety of their teaching staff in some areas across england teachers have been reporting up to 50% and indeed 50% of people attending classrooms. they say that's rather difficult for them to manage. it's been described by the association college of school as a logical or illogical. because the department for education is made absolutely clear that both schools are expected to allow anyone who is eligible into schools. they are not supposed to limit numbers. 0n the other hand the department for education are saying to parents, critical workers that if you are a key worker and it's possible for you to look after your child at home and work then that's what you should do. many thanks. sean quoted the word of the
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association of college leaders. sean quoted the word of the association of college leaders. geoff barton is the general secretary of the association was there any consultation between you and the government before it expanded its criteria? you and the government before it expanded its criteria ?|j you and the government before it expanded its criteria? i take it that's a rhetorical question because if you remember on sunday what we heard from the prize click my prime minister was business as usual. monday night it's lockdown. it feels like were in a parallel universe. is this a lockdown? primary school in yorkshire for example expecting 48 children to come in on tuesday had 200. how on earth are we supposed to deal with the logistics of that if we hadn't had exactly the consultation that you've described? and that particular school had no idea that so many children would turn up. they didn't. it might be that we are naive. it might be that what we assume back in march is what was going to happen now. it might be that the government is like not model and suggested they should be more young people and schools. if that's the case that we needed to
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know that we need to be reassured by it. what i thought we all heard from the prime minister was that this wasn't so much about keeping schools safe, it was about keeping community say. it was about stopping as much transmission in the community and movement in the community. those 200 children going to the primary school will have been dropped off. you will have had adults taking them to the school gates. i just take we all need to have reassurance that if the government is essentially saying there is no limit on the number of children who should be in school then that is not going to put undue pressure on the nhs. what your report is showing is under very significant amount of pressure.|j wa nt significant amount of pressure.” wa nt to significant amount of pressure.” want to put the same question to you i put to your counterpart which is that the fact that that school that you quoted the parents of 200 children rather than a0 children who are wanting their children in school, is a reflection of the sort of stresses and strains that people are under after ten months of
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lockdown. families, parents needing to work. perhaps there are savings have become depleted, they've got to work. perhaps they think it's better for their children's mental health to be in school. yes, it definitely could be that. nobody is saying that we don't want children to be educated. it's just again we don't want children to be educated. it'sjust again i go back to what the prime minister said when he said we are now moving into a period of remote learning. if you're the head teacher in that school on monday night you would be scrambling, wouldn't you to deploy your teacher so the remote learning was in place ready for the next morning? and then what you suddenly find the next morning is that significantly more young people are turning up at your school then you would've expected. none of this is to be snarky about it it's to do the opposite. it's actually saying could we not have planned this and do it properly to make sure that the right young people are getting the right kind of teaching in our schools? and will keep and keep community say. they correspondent didn't mention those young people who feel that
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they are not access saying romance learning are also entitled to a place. how many young people are we talking about they are? particularly on the watch of the government who really should be able to expect and get the data and equipment for those young people to be able to learn at home by their more advantaged counterparts. so what do you want the government to do? do you want them to set a limit on the maximum number of pupils i can be in a school? i think the first thing is can you do show is the scientific modelling? if you're saying it doesn't matter how many children are in school, i think everybody particularly those people working in schools, particularly a lot of pa rents schools, particularly a lot of parents will want to be reassured by that. surely there must be a quota at some point. there must be a point at some point. there must be a point at which the scientist wouldn't want that number of young people being dropped off and collected by their pa rents. dropped off and collected by their parents. i could wejust dropped off and collected by their parents. i could we just have a grown—up, transparent conversation so that people i represent are able to plan accordingly and building a sense of reassurance for all the
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community was mac very good to talk to you as always. the outgoing us president donald trump has confirmed that he will not attend the inauguration of his successor, president—electjoe biden. it would make him one of a only a handful of incumbent presidents to have refused to attend the ceremony. the president also said his supporters ‘will have a giant voice long into the future", despite earlier expressing outrage at the attack on the us capitol and, in a video message calling for calm to be restored. a police officer who was hurt in the violence has died of his injuries — it brings the total number of deaths to five. 0ur correspondent nomia iqbal is in washington. just hours after appearing to accept the result of the presidential
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election the president trump now shows his bitterness by showing he's not going to the inauguration ceremony. yes, a real contradiction by him. on the one hand he says that he's committed to in an orderly transition of power but how can he be if he doesn't recognise the man who was about to replace them? throughout recent modern history thatis throughout recent modern history that is part of the deal of a peaceful transition of power. that you recognise a replacement for some and every president has done that. there's been gracious concession speeches. think about the way president bush accepted his defeat to bill clinton. president 0bama invited donald trump to the white house and also attended his inauguration despite the many attacks on mr 0bama by president tromped. but mr trump still doesn't recognise that joe tromped. but mr trump still doesn't recognise thatjoe biden is the president. even in that video he never mentioned his name once. we are also hearing reports that he is
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likely to leave washington, dc, leave the white house the day before inauguration to return to his residential home in florida. so he may be wanting to leave but still lots of questions about the very turbulent events of a couple of days ago. and still lots of comparisons between the way in which the riots at the capitol were policed compared to the way in which the black lives matter protests were policed. yes. huge questions about that security lapse. because that rally that president trump held was something he had been previewing even before christmas. encouraging his supporters to come down and basically try and protest on his behalf to get the election results over time. there is the chief of capitol police who has resigned after pressure it was put on him because on social media there are
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lots of videos of, not all of them verified yet but videos i do suggest the protesters didn't have that much ofa the protesters didn't have that much of a problem coming in to the capital. i spent some time they yesterday i spoke to 123—year—old man and he was very blunt with me about it. he said look, i'm a white man and if, and most of these protesters were white. if they have been black he said the police would've acted much more quickly. it's something that even president electjoe biden said in a speech. he said that the way the police would've reacted if it had been blm protesters would've been very different. thank you very much. we can speak now to latosha brown, co—founder of black lives matter. now let's take a look at the weather. hello there. it's been a very cold day right across the board.
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we've seen further sleet and snow for northern england and wales. this will tend to ease down through the day as it pushes southwards. we should see quite a bit of sunshine around, especially for scotland and northern ireland. this sleet and snow, though, across northern england, the west midlands and wales will push down into the south—west as it eases, leaving a legacy of cloud, so we could see a few mist and freezing fog patches here, but elsewhere under clear skies a very cold night to come, perhaps —11 or —12 across some central and northern areas. now, as we move into the weekend, it's going to be a cold and frosty start, but bright with plenty of sunshine. early mist and fog should clear from the south. we see a weather front pushing into northern and western scotland, northern ireland, introducing thicker cloud, outbreaks of rain, a little bit of hill snow here, but quite a bit of sunshine around for most but it's going to be another very cold day for all away from the far north west of scotland. through sunday and into next week it looks like we see more of a atlantic influence, so temperatures beginning to creep up somewhat, but we'll see some rain at times, particularly in the north.
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hello this is bbc news. uk records 1325 new covert desk. the highest since the pandemic started. it's also a record number of positive cases. “— also a record number of positive cases. —— covid. the maryland of london declares a major incident. winning the virus can overwhelm hospitals in the capital in urges people to wear a mask whenever they are outside. —— mayor of london. people to wear a mask whenever they
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are outside. -- mayor of london. my wish to lenders is a mineral is not compulsory to wear a mask outside come all the others and suggest it reduces the chance of you passing the virus if you haven't. so please do weara the virus if you haven't. so please do wear a facemask whenever you leave your home. the maternal vaccine is approved for use in the uk. it is the third vexing to get the green light and 17 million doses are now on order. —— moderna vexing president trump says he won't attend the inauguration ofjoe biden. how adept they condemning the violent storm over the us capitol. —— hours after condemning. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here'sjohn. many thanks. good evening. thank you — the newcastle manager steve bruce believes it's morally wrong for football to continue amid rising infection rates. warning players and managers are just as vulnerable as anyone else. it comes as a number of teams deal with outbreaks in their squads. one of those aston villa play liverpool in the third round tonight, a match which goes ahead despite nine first team
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players and five villa staff testing positive for the virus. their training base was closed on thursday, but with the virus conatined to their first team, players from their under 23 squad wil fulfil the fixture. will fulfil the fixture. newcastle were the first premier elague side to have a game called off earlier this season. with some players still struggling to overcome the effects of the virus. tell me a football club that hasn't suffered. at the end of the day, we are socialising. we are together training every day and alleges that before, when man city scored the other day, how do you stop that? celebrating together, all hugging each other, breathing heavily into each other, breathing heavily into each other. even the other protocols we put in place by the premier league have been fantastic. this thing, this disease, we are not immune to it because we are footballers. stricter coronavirus protocols were introduced by the premier league today as the tottenham manager jose mourinho urged the league
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to avoid further postponments. three top flight matches have been called off, with doubts now hanging over spurs next league game with aston villa. mourinho fears fixture congestion could prove detrimental to their title ambitions. i think it is a moment for the premier league to show leadership and to make decisions, decisions we re and to make decisions, decisions were of course a club like us that is trying everything to him every day to follow the rules, we cannot be punished if we don't play against aston villa, we will have three matches postponed and that is impossible because after the season, we have the euros and of course the euros are not going to be moved. manchester city women's continental cup tie against chelsea on wednesday has been postponed because of the outbreak in city's squad. four players at city tested positive
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for covid—19 earlier in the week, following a festive trip to dubai, with tomorrow's wsl match against west ham already called off. arsenal's game tomorrow is also off. there have been cause for the players to apologise. —— calls for the players. rugby union's european cup competitions are in doubt as the french governement considers pulling its teams from their remaining fixtures. the new strain of covid—19 infections has led to urgent talks among the french government, the french clubs involved and the tournament organisers, who hope revised protocols will allay any fears they have. there are two rounds of champions cup and challenge cup pool games remaining this month. australia's steve smith, has scored a long awaited test century on the second day of the third test against india. he hit 131 at the sydney cricket ground, his first test century, since the ashes series in england back in september 2019.
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there was a big score too, for marnus labushane, who got 91, as australia finished their first innings, on 338. india are 96—2 in reply. i read a lot of things as i think i've said numerous times. and plenty of people said i was at a farm. so it was nice to i guess come back in the form if that is what you want to call it. it was only about three or four weeks ago i think i scored 200. so yes, it kind ofjust makes me laugh sometimes when people say that kind of thing. missy got in the first to test methods and coming back today and scored some runs and hope put us in a decent position. —— missing out on the first two test matches. we'll have more for you in sportsday at 6.30. thank you, john. let's get martin on the violent the storming of the us
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capital. there has been criticism over the disparity between policing of the us capital process and the black lives matter protest. we can speak now to latosha brown, the co—founder of black lives matter. good afternoon to you. thank you for speaking to us without first of, their thoughts on the disparity in their thoughts on the disparity in the way these, the various protests and blm protests were police in which the capital rights were. so my organisation, black voters matter, which is unnecessarily the organisation black lives matter, but we work in alignment with that movement because black lives matter isa movement because black lives matter is a movement and what we have witnessed in this country, with the entire world has witnessed is there isa entire world has witnessed is there is a very different response to peaceful protesters who have literally in the last few months but we have seen take to the streets, first we saw the massive protests around the murder of george floyd, who saw as we saw people peacefully walk down the street, we saw an army
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of police officers, rubber bullets, they shot rubber bullets at them, tear gas them, however as a contrast on this wednesday, what we witnessed was a failed coup in this country that actually be president facilitated and he egged on. and we didn't see the same response. we didn't see the same response. we didn't see the kind of police presence, we didn't see the aggressiveness of the police and if you watch some of the video, you can actually see what they write police officers are exporting a woman down the steps as after they have invaded the steps as after they have invaded the capital and put people to harm, in addition to that, if anybody who lives in the us and has gone to those grounds will know those grounds are normally highly secured. a year grounds are normally highly secured. ayearago, i grounds are normally highly secured. a year ago, i was standing there, just with my cell phone, and doing a text message, before long, there was
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an officer and a security person saying what are you doing and i have to move along. that area is highly secure. so what we saw, i certainly think there is far more to the story. it is notjust a matter of the police were prepared because they were prepared. they knew this was going to happen like the rest of us. but i think also there's an issue around the complex and this, how that this was an inside and outside for inactivity because what happened on wednesday this country was a failed coup and i do believe there will not enforcement that played a role who are part of it. so ina sense, played a role who are part of it. so in a sense, you are saying that what happened expose the inequities that you have been campaigning against what do you want to happen now? immediately, want to make sure there are folks are held accountable. number one, everybody that participated in that, including the president who was the chief at edging a non—compete called for the mop to come to the capital committee
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told them to be strong and they had told them to be strong and they had to be strong. —— for the mob. we knew what the words were. underneath what he was actually a so i think he should be removed immediately, we need to have a full account of everybody. i know there's been some recognition but a full account for every single leader of what and how world the state capital, the most powerful centre place of power in this country be overtaken by an angry mob in this country. and literally i think we also had to have master prosecutions for those that actually sedition us, though sedition is that they are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and that has to be a full investigation i went that has to be a full investigation iwent in that has to be a full investigation i went in fact happen in every single person, no matter where they are in their rank, they had a part to do with that it should be treated accordingly that is laid out in the constitution related to sedition. we are now in the dying days of the term presidency. what hope do you
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have for this new era that is about to open up? —— donald trump era. it sta rts to open up? —— donald trump era. it starts with georgia electing its first ever black senator. absolutely. i have a lot of hope. what gives me hope in this country are the people in this country. that findability would happen in this last election was that the people of this country, the majority said no and we've had enough. we have had enough of all of this stark, racism rooted in white supremacy and enough of that mean—spirited, hate messages that the president has sent out and we wa nt that the president has sent out and we want something different and so in november, we made a change but we also knew that with the new administration, they needed to be able to have the power to govern since the republicans have not only been complicit but obstructionist to progress in this country and so those of us who did this work in georgia, we were very active and engaged in the process, those of us that did the work wanted to make
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sure we had a high turnout and it was quite extraordinary because the runoff election itself was designed bya runoff election itself was designed by a white official years ago under the guise of saying that this would be the way to break up the he go voting. so for black voters to come out in historic numbers to propel this new african—american senator and the youngest man a young jewish senator to go into what will be the youngest person to serve in the us senate, i think that will be extraordinary because what we want is something different and i think we will continue to see this kind of transformation and what trump has done to him he has open up pandora's box but what he underestimated is the will and the strength and the dedication and the resiliency of the people of this country. very good to talk to you. thank you so much. firms exporting to the eu have expressed concern about the impact of new trade rules since the end
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of the brexit transition period last month. many british—based retailers that distribute goods around europe fear they will have to pay some tariffs or taxes. and other companies including seafood exporters and delivery firms have complained about significant extra paperwork. katy austin reports. 80% of this scottish seafood producer's fish and shellfish goes to the eu, but so far this year it is not even getting to the border because new customs paperwork submitted online keeps getting rejected. 0ur customs agent has checked the paperwork and he is mystified because everything is correct. he thought there could have been problems with product packaging, little glitches like that, but no, he identified that everything was correct. are you just going to try again? what action are you taking? no, unfortunately we have had to stop our boats from fishing, so... just to save any other exposure to further losses, so we have had to stop that and we are actually having
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to furlough a lot of staff. the company, which runs major sea food distribution hubs in scotland, is now suspending some assignments until monday, while it tries to clear a backlog. fish isn't the only industry encountering hitches. parcel delivery service dpd uk has paused its european road service until wednesday, over what it called increased burden of customs paperwork. it said around a fifth of parcels have had incorrect data attached. one of the headlines that the trade deal reached last month was tariff—free trade, meaning no import taxes on goods between the uk and the eu if they meet complex rules about where they are made. but marks & spencer has pointed out tariffs could apply where companies use the uk as a distribution hub for products which are then re—exported to the eu. it is going to lead to some restructuring. there are some easements, which could be used.
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companies can transit goods and avoid customs declarations and tariffs, but that doesn't work for everyone. so it is clear that there is going to be some structural change in how goods are distributed. a government spokesperson said it had always been clear there would be some disruption at the end of the transition period. it said it was aware of some issues and providing support. businesses want creases ironed out now, while cross—border traffic remains quiet, to be confident goods will keep moving once things get busier. katy austin, bbc news. actors and celebrities have joined the tribute by dame barb one surface up the tribute by dame barb one surface up there would later hark often at the funeral procession in london. they barbara chris ever begins and the comedians david williams and matt lucas were mourners. david walliams and matt lucas the mourners at the small service which followed government limits. the actress died in
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december at the age of 83, suffering from dementia. now it's time for the film review. hello and welcome to the film review it with me, and smith. i bust up and filling in for it mark kermode to review this week's home releases. —— anna smith. i am filling in this week for mark kermode. by the time wonder woman 198a came out in mid—december, only a fraction of eu cinemas were actually open. but i have good news. everybody will be able to watch it at home from wednesday. cheering.
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this sequel from pattyjenkins begins with a flashback to the utopian world of thymiscira, before jumping into the 1980s. diana prince, played by gal gadot, is now living in washington, dc. she is leading a double life, working for the smithsonian and occasionally leaping into superhero mode to thwart robbers and joyriders in the like. she then meets a more complexed foe in would be oil baron max lord, who is played by the mandalorian's pedro pascal. i take what i want in return. in terms of tone, this feels deliciously 1980s. there are shades of everything from ghostbusters to back to the future to big. there's also an air of vintage dc films like superman and batman returns. ready to go. i think we can do better. political and feminist messages are here if you choose to look

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