ratherthan partners to take a major incident today.thorities working separately, we will work together through the london resilience forum but also through the strategic coordinated group. it is really important that londoners understand how serious things are. from today, france has banned all non—essential travel from the uk because of concern over the surging 0micron variant. those who are allowed to travel will have to go into quarantine until they get a negative test result. the announcement has thrown france's tourism industry into disarray during the christmas season. portugal has become the latest european country to start vaccinating its young children. those aged between 9 and 11 are being jabbed over this weekend. five—to—nine year olds are scheduled to be vaccinated from next weekend. greece, spain, italy and hungary are alreadyjabbing under—12s and denmark also began this week. the french health authority is also expected to give the green light next week to begin its child vaccination campaign. a woman arrested on suspici

the pandemic, rather than ending it, programmes are likely to prolong the pandemic, ratherthan endingrging supply to countries that already have high levels of vaccination coverage, giving the virus more opportunity to spread and mutate. it is important to remember that the vast majority of hospitalisations and deaths are in unvaccinated people. not unboosted people. and we must be very clear that the vaccines we have remain effective against both the delta and omicron variants. the global priority must be to support all countries to reach the 40% target as quickly as possible, and the 70% target by the middle of this year. no country can boost its way out of the pandemic. and boosters cannot be seen as a ticket to go ahead with the planned celebrations without the need for other precautions. the head of the who, speaking without warning as the strategy has been developed around the world. i want to go back to the breaking news on the screen, we have had the latest uk figures, just over 90,000 yesterday. you can see on the screen, 100 and cases reported. —— 106,122. we have also had a

in a way, ratherthan and seeing what they can do. looking resolve or intentions, where we've learned something about ourselves that perhaps we didn't have that challenge before, to recognise. have that challenge before, to recognise-_ have that challenge before, to recognise-— have that challenge before, to recoanise. ., ., ., , recognise. thanks for “oining us. ha - recognise. thanks for “oining us. happy new * recognise. thanks for “oining us. nappy newvear. _ countries across the world having been ringing in the new year. we are going to leave you with a look at some of those celebrations, starting in sydney. jazzy music. 1812 overture. upbeat music plays. pop music plays. sunday's premier league match between southampton and newcastle at st mary's has been postponed due to ongoing covid cases and injuries in the newcastle squad. eddie howe's team did not have the required number of players available for yesterday's scheduled game with everton, and that's still the case, forcing sunday's game to be called off. here's ourfootball r

it is obviously tragic and i hope the snow comes sooner, ratherthan and i hope the snow comes sooner,ave key evidence in the trial of ghislaine maxwell has spoken publicly today, saying she hopes the guilty verdict will bring some solace to other survivors. annie farmer — the only witness to use her real name during testimony — said the case demonstrated that no one was above the law. maxwell was found guilty yesterday by a jury in new york of grooming underage girls to be abused by her friend jeffrey epstein. her lawyers say they will appeal against the verdict. this report by our correspondent aleem maqbool contains some flashing images. good morning, america. guilty. good morning. guilty, a long—awaited verdict... the downfall of the british formersocialite, now a convicted sex trafficker, has been headline news here and one of the four women brave enough to testify to put her behind bars, who was abused as a teenager, has been giving her reaction. i wasn't sure this day would ever come and ijust feel so grateful that the jury believed us and sent a strong message that perpetrators

painful past two a new era, we need to gather our strength to courageously meet the future together, ratherthanuried in the past. there is a note saying that in the case of former president park they have considered her heavy health decline caused by almost five years in prison. she is said to be in rather ill health. 0bviously health laying a big part. we have talked about the process and the controversy about this over the years, know this has happened pretty recently, it is breaking news, but what is the reaction likely to be like amongst the public? i think i have already seen a number of liberals who are extremely upset at this announcement. they think it is happening on humanitarian grounds but they do not understand the decision. conservatives have obviously welcome the news. there are a number of protest being organised as we speak saying not only should you be released immediately, notjust on new year's day in the pardon will be granted, but you should be reinstated as president. it must be said that far right conservatives have always held the vigil in the centre of seoul, where they

for kids, and he is very much of the school of thought of trying to intervene with the vaccines, ratherthaning down the economy. vaccines, rather than shutting down the economy-— the economy. thanks very much for that. the economy. thanks very much for that- thank — the economy. thanks very much for that. thank you. _ the northern chinese city of xi'an has ordered all 13 million residents, to stay at home in a strict lockdown, as concern grows over a fresh outbreak of covid—19. all households may only send one household member outside once every two days to purchase necessities, with all others ordered to remain indoors except for emergencies, the city government said in a statement. our china correspondent steve mcdonnell has more. there have only been dozens of new cases today but as an indication of the preparedness of the authorities to stamp out any outbreak, we are seeing a citywide lockdown in xi'an, 13 million people told to stay home. the way it's going to work is that each household will be allowed one person go outside every two days to buy essential supplies. all nonessential se

do you think they have been persuaded by the lip to sit on their hands, to set out the vote, ratherthanset out the vote, rather than have a record against it?— vote, rather than have a record auainst it? ,, ., , against it? the less we have been compiling dash — against it? the less we have been compiling dash the _ against it? the less we have been compiling dash the lists _ against it? the less we have been compiling dash the lists we - compiling dash the lists we have been compiling over the last two days with rebels is getting a bit short over the last few hours. so there are two things to watch for in these boats, not voting against the government and put their hands up and said do not agree with what brycejohnson is doing, but also the abstentions as well. it's always a complicated cat dash process, because there been quite a few covid cases in parliament and last two days which have kept people away from here. ithink days which have kept people away from here. i think you are absolutely right. the message that some of the key rebels, the acrid squad if you like remaking pass pr a

ratherthan leader of the opposition should be doing. rather than playing politics.minister made a number _ questions earlier today. the prime minister made a number of - questions earlier today. the prime l minister made a number of promises and prime minister's questions. firstly, there would be an investigation into the downing street party and that they would be disciplinary action for anybody who was found had broken the coronavirus restrictions. despite the party taking place on the 18th of december, despite the prime minister today apologising for that leaked footage yesterday, which showed some of his aides laughing about how to respond to questions about the downing street party, he has apologised for that but he still hasn't provided that apology that many were calling for for the party itself and downing street and the prime minister still have not explained how the party could have taken place without any coronavirus rules being broken. he has promised that investigation. he also committed in response to keir starmer to hand over any details that the gove

my studies show that when you think about, when you change your mindset, you get more positive, ratherthanet, more positive, and then we get into a state of flow, we can breathe more easily, we can begin to rest, the mind can get,, because of stress and thoughts are the things that really deplete us with health and well—being. so, we need to find techniques to destress, to calm the monkey mind, calm the thoughts, because thoughts are the things that can send us into anxiety and fear. so, it's really great if you can find techniques and methods, and i can give you some examples of what, to help the mind slow down those fearful thoughts and turn them more into a positive mindset. mindset is everything here. it is rarely good _ mindset is everything here. it is rarely good to — mindset is everything here. it is rarely good to talk to you, thank you very much for all of that advice and happy new year to you.- you very much for all of that advice and happy new year to you. happy new year to you. — and happy new year to you. happy new year to you. too- _ and happy new year to you. happy new year

and madam clerk , that is a motion to increase the directorscompensation to four percent ratherthan 4.5 percent . madam clerk, please call the role . >> clerk: [roll call vote] >>. [roll call vote] >>. [roll call vote] we have 11 aye's. to amend the resolution to 4.5 percent passes. >> thank you madam clerk and members of the personnel committee. thank you director chang and thank youcolleagues andplease call item 13 . >> just a reminder to the clerk to please call a vote on the item as amended . >> i will move theitem as amended . >> president: i will second that. madam clerk, call the role. >> clerk: onitem 13, commissioner chan .[roll call vote] >>. [roll call vote] we have 11 aye's, the motion passes. >> president: please call item 14. >> clerk: i think the executive director. >> i wanted to thank you very much, it's a pleasure and privilege to serve. >> president: thank you. director milton. please call item 14. >> introduction of new items, this is an information item. >> president: anybody have new items? all right. madam clerk, please call item 15. >> clerk: item 15 is public co

are starting to have to fend for themselves, you know, _ have to fend for themselves, you know, ratherthanhe otential support they need properly. and the potential threat _ support they need properly. and the potential threat from _ support they need properly. and the potential threat from the _ support they need properly. and the potential threat from the new - potential threat from the new variant is not helping. documents from government advisers, sage, have warned that without new restrictions the peak of the 0micron wave could lead to more than 2000 hospital admissions a day, getting close to the peak from the first wave. fiur the peak from the first wave. our staff feel that _ the peak from the first wave. our staff feel that it _ the peak from the first wave. <1)!" staff feel that it has been relentless. there has got to be a let up at some point. we have put in measures to help and everybody is working really hard, but they feel that every time we go one step forward, we seem to go two steps backwards. forward, we seem to go two steps backwards-— backwards. today's figures for en .

are not treating the afghans when they come here, giving them the title of humanitarian refugees ratherthan giving them a chance to have a green card so that they can contribute . >> clerk: thank you color. any other colors you have 2 minutes. >> caller: i volunteer with walter is ready in the black community. the following is a from our founder felicia jones . there is an urgency to address the injustices of black san franciscans. i'm going to call it what it is, anti-blackness when it comes to the use of force and racial profiling and traffic stops of black san franciscans by sfpd. i've grown tired of talking to the police commission and board of supervisors. where is the urgency? if these tables were turned and these statistics represented white folks i know there would be an urgency. i agree with first lady michelle obama when she stated own that. that happens to us. when are you going to take responsibility and address the harsh bias and unjust statistics for the behalf of all san franciscans not just black san franciscans which is a responsibility as you took an oath to see the good f

are not treating the afghans when they come here, giving them the title of humanitarian refugees ratherthan giving them a chance to have a green card so that they can contribute . >> clerk: thank you color. any other colors you have 2 minutes. >> caller: i volunteer with walter is ready in the black community. the following is a from our founder felicia jones . there is an urgency to address the injustices of black san franciscans. i'm going to call it what it is, anti-blackness when it comes to the use of force and racial profiling and traffic stops of black san franciscans by sfpd. i've grown tired of talking to the police commission and board of supervisors. where is the urgency? if these tables were turned and these statistics represented white folks i know there would be an urgency. i agree with first lady michelle obama when she stated own that. that happens to us. when are you going to take responsibility and address the harsh bias and unjust statistics for the behalf of all san franciscans not just black san franciscans which is a responsibility as you took an oath to see the good f

and madam clerk , that is a motion to increase the directorscompensation to four percent ratherthan 4.5 percent . madam clerk, please call the role . >> clerk: [roll call vote] >>. [roll call vote] >>. [roll call vote] we have 11 aye's. to amend the resolution to 4.5 percent passes. >> thank you madam clerk and members of the personnel committee. thank you director chang and thank youcolleagues andplease call item 13 . >> just a reminder to the clerk to please call a vote on the item as amended . >> i will move theitem as amended . >> president: i will second that. madam clerk, call the role. >> clerk: onitem 13, commissioner chan .[roll call vote] >>. [roll call vote] we have 11 aye's, the motion passes. >> president: please call item 14. >> clerk: i think the executive director. >> i wanted to thank you very much, it's a pleasure and privilege to serve. >> president: thank you. director milton. please call item 14. >> introduction of new items, this is an information item. >> president: anybody have new items? all right. madam clerk, please call item 15. >> clerk: item 15 is public co

are not treating the afghans when they come here, giving them the title of humanitarian refugees ratherthanhance to have a green card so that they can contribute . >> clerk: thank you color. any other colors you have 2 minutes. >> caller: i volunteer with walter is ready in the black community. the following is a from our founder felicia jones . there is an urgency to address the injustices of black san franciscans. i'm going to call it what it is, anti-blackness when it comes to the use of force and racial profiling and traffic stops of black san franciscans by sfpd. i've grown tired of talking to the police commission and board of supervisors. where is the urgency? if these tables were turned and these statistics represented white folks i know there would be an urgency. i agree with first lady michelle obama when she stated own that. that happens to us. when are you going to take responsibility and address the harsh bias and unjust statistics for the behalf of all san franciscans not just black san franciscans which is a responsibility as you took an oath to see the good forall san franci

across continents in africa, for example, being able to produce it and distribute it themselves, ratherthaneceive doses? ., . , , receive doses? producing themselves to something — receive doses? producing themselves to something over— receive doses? producing themselves to something over the _ receive doses? producing themselves to something over the medium - receive doses? producing themselves to something over the medium and i to something over the medium and long term we need to scale up, because we need to scale up production for doses, especially if we will need boosters around the world so that is a key priority, sharing the know—how and the intellectual property so that we can improve regional vaccine manufacturing in africa and asia and across the world. but that is a medium term prospect. in the short term, it is really sharing those doses and providing the money. and this is absolutely critical. next year, the uk needs to contribute less than £1 billion to support the global vaccine roll—out and the benefits just to the uk economy will benefits just to the uk economy will be some

the queen has been staying at windsor castle, as we know, ratherthan staying at windsor castle, as weual at her sandringham estate were thick and despite these breaches being extremely rare, what is clear is that this incident is being taken extremely seriously by the metropolitan police. in fact, this morning we have been told that, following the arrest, detectives are currently investigating a video which the bbc understands is the same video obtained by the sunday newspaper, and hope it might shed light on what happened that day —— the sun newspaper. tributes are being paid to the dj and tv presenterjanice long, who has died aged 66. 0ur entertainment correspondent, lizo mzimba, has taken a look back at her life and trailblazing career. it's from the band who've been together for a year, they come from leighton buzzard. it's their first appearance on top of the tops — it's kajagoogoo! janice long making history — the first regular female host on top of the pops. it's u2 in at number 23, and new year's day! she ended nearly 20 years of men dominating the presenting line—up. i was ab

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coming in, and that will have a knock—on effect to those businesses in those sorts of locations, ratherthana drugs overdose six years later in 2019. butjordan monaghan, who smothered two of his children to death, has been given three mandatory life sentences and ordered to serve a minimum of 40 years in prison before parole, after being convicted of those deaths. and a man in bristol has been sentenced to 14 years in jail in bristol has been sentenced to 14 years injailfor the arson, for our son and the rioting. that was during protests in bristol earlier this year. ryan roberts, who is 25 and from bristol, tried to set fire to two police vehicles while officers were inside them. that was during a kill the bill protest in march. his trial had previously heard that what he did could have killed police officers and did cause more than £70,000 worth of damage to police vehicles and two buildings. now ryan roberts has been sentenced to 14 years in jail roberts has been sentenced to 14 years injail arson and roberts has been sentenced to 14 years in jail arson and for rioting. our europe corresp

have learned over the 20 months of the pandemic is that it is always important to act in advance, ratherthanan regret later on with more severe consequences. unfortunately, this is obviously a blow to the public, just as we are approaching christmas. they are necessary. because we are seeing a significant pressure on our health service. in fact, there is no slack at the moment. there are far too many scenes of long queues of ambulances, unable for patients to be admitted. we have had about 13,000 operations cancelled in two months in a0 hospitals. the real number is even greater to include all hospitals. people are suffering. these aren't necessarily patients with covid but there are other patients, over 5.8 million, waiting for treatment who had not been able to receive their care and that has a health impact. anything that can reduce the current pressure across hospitals will be welcome. in fact, the advice from sage itself to the government is that we are likely to see admission rates in hospitalfrom covid go up to around 1000 two 2000 if we are not careful. we are looking at a virus that

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the ons says that there is still a dominance of the delta variant, ratherthan still a dominance of theandemic, and the potential need for additional control measures, is not yet known. i think we�*ve done the most important thing, which is accelerate boosters. in south africa, the scientists who first identified omicron are racing to unlock its secrets. over the last week, the daily number of new covid infections has increased fourfold. it seems those who have already had other variants of coronavirus may not be protected against omicron. hospital admissions are up slightly, mainly among the unvaccinated. the new variant has now been detected in at least 24 countries, according to the world health organization, including in several states of the us. we have the best tools, the best vaccines in the world, the best medicine and the best scientists in the world. we are going to fight this variant with science and speed, not chaos and confusion. germany, in the grip of the delta variant, has announced major new restrictions on people who aren�*t vaccinated. they will be banned from bars, r

already so this year is looking particularly good for people deciding to eat in, have people around, ratherthanops. even at 2am there was plenty- of people doing shopping, as well. i managed to get most of it, that's the important thing. l christmas dinner round the parents, so it's not been too bad for us. just the cheeses and stuff like that we've been getting in and obviously the port. getting the essentials. i thought there might be some supply problems, so i'm one of those annoying people who got most things very early on, so i think we're 0k. now, it's this time of year that we spare a thought for how the farmers and food producers get all of that stuff into the supermarkets at the right time. i was talking to one farmer earlier and she was explained to me quite the logistics that go into getting all of this stuff in the right place and this he has been really difficult for them to forecast demand. how will they know how much we are going to buy and when we will needed because of all of the disruption caused by a croak over it? the supermarkets say they are well stocked, plenty of stuff,

large that we should be looking at other measures are other restrictions, on how we live our lives, ratherthanwe live our lives, rather than just focusing on the basic campaign. —— booster campaign. those calls will start to get louder and there will be tension with mps who are not even in favour of the current measures being introduced so a very big week ahead. we will discuss some of those issues later on. we'll be joined by the health secretary at 7.30. extra support has been promised to speed up the vaccine drive in scotland, wales and northern ireland. like england, scotland is aiming to offer all adults a booster by the end of the year while wales has set a target for the end of januray. in northern ireland, people over the age of 30 are currently being offered third doses. with plans to step up the rollout. from today, people in england are advised to work from home if they can, in a bid to slow the spread of the omicron variant of coronavirus. sorry! shall i, yes, sorry! the new guidance brings the country in line with scotland, wales and northern ireland. our business correspondent, c

. _ negative pcr test, 24 hours before you go, ratherthan negative pcr test, 24 hours before you go,aid. _ relying on reports about what he said. but — relying on reports about what he said. but it — relying on reports about what he said, but it looks like president macron— said, but it looks like president macron will announce details of the next couple of hours. you macron will announce details of the next couple of hours.— next couple of hours. you will be all over that, _ next couple of hours. you will be all over that, of _ next couple of hours. you will be all over that, of course. - next couple of hours. you will be all over that, of course. thank i next couple of hours. you will be i all over that, of course. thank you. some breaking news to bring you up to date with. four children have died, and five others have been injured, after falling from a bouncy castle that was blown more than 30 feet into the air. the accident happened at a primary school in tasmania. let's speak to our australia correspondent, shaimaa khalil. good morning to you. just take us through what happened?

and madam clerk , that is a motion to increase the directorscompensation to four percent ratherthan 4.5the role . >> clerk: [roll call vote] >>. [roll call vote] >>. [roll call vote] we have 11 aye's. to amend the resolution to 4.5 percent passes. >> thank you madam clerk and members of the personnel committee. thank you director chang and thank youcolleagues andplease call item 13 . >> just a reminder to the clerk to please call a vote on the item as amended . >> i will move theitem as amended . >> president: i will second that. madam clerk, call the role. >> clerk: onitem 13, commissioner chan .[roll call vote] >>. [roll call vote] we have 11 aye's, the motion passes. >> president: please call item 14. >> clerk: i think the executive director. >> i wanted to thank you very much, it's a pleasure and privilege to serve. >> president: thank you. director milton. please call item 14. >> introduction of new items, this is an information item. >> president: anybody have new items? all right. madam clerk, please call item 15. >> clerk: item 15 is public comment. >> president: let's open our