correspondents childhood shells and charlotte chelsea tellen alexandra naaman welcome both let's start in brussels with you alexandra what's in this deal well i think that what is the most important takeaway here is that this deal sealed today it's going to guarantee tariff free trade between the u.k. and the european union and most goods and it's also going to a create a platform for future corporations on issues such as crime fighting energy data exchange and of course what is also important both sides appeared to have agreed on the mechanism that would help in the future to sell a 2 fold disputes between the european union and the u.k. and talking about fisheries it's also good news for the youth fishing men and women they are going to have access to u.k. waters in the future it will be reduced but there will be a transition period of 5 and a half years so you know let's pick up the points on fisher's with chelsea on the pill that vision as well was a big symbol on both sides charlotte is boris johnson going to be able to sell the steel as a good one to british fisheries. it was ind

in new york, alexandra field, cnn. >> alexandra, thank you so much. later this morning at 8:00 eastern time, the vice president mike pence and his wife karen will get their vaccinations live on camera. that will make the vice president the highest ranking member of the u.s. government to get inoculated so far. president trump meanwhile still declining the shot. cnn's kaitlan collins has more now from the white house. >> reporter: good morning, christine and laura. president trump has been basically absent all week. this is part of this larger pattern that we have seen since he lost the election. of course back in november, six weeks ago, where the president has, instead of his usual demeanor, it's straight from the public eye, refused to answer reporters' questions on a regular basis, like he spent the last four years doing, and this comes of course as this vaccine rollout is happening, something the president was tweeting about yesterday, saying that they are getting great reviews from the vaccine rollout. as he normally does, he's viewing this throu

climate meeting this weekend for more on this i'm joined by our alexandra von naaman good morning again. what can you tell us about this climate agreement. so after a very long night you leaders as you just said were able to agree to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent by 2030 and this was a goal put forward by the european commission a much more ambitious goal that the initial plan to cut emissions by 40 percent but it was very telling that it took so long the leaders started discussing this issue over dinner and were specifically countries in eastern europe who were saying that they are industries are still coal dependent that they would cost them extra money to achieve this goal so it will be interesting to see the final declaration on this topic and how the european union will try to help those countries to achieve this goal but now we have the breakthrough and as you just said to european council president michel took to twitter to to to celebrate this achievement saying that europe is still a leader in the fight against climate change and that that was of course what was

for today so 6 weeks for now for the people that receive their shots today all right alexandra thank you very much for the moment. are there with simon klock who is an associate professor in microbiology at the university of reading and he's joining us by skype from writing in the u.k. thank you very much for being with us simon this quite a lot of distrust toward since russian made coronavirus vaccine among western scientists but also understand russian medics and the general population there what do we know about sputnik and how it works for us. but we know that it works in a manner similar to the bat sea that's being developed by the arch oxford astra zeneca seat in the u.k. where it uses other viruses to deliver molecules from the corona virus whose kind of humanity into our bodies to stimulate an immune response really i think the skepticism around this comes from the fact that it's been worked on very quickly speedy it to be developed very quickly and it appears to be big put into the general population rather earlier than it would if you have been developed say the u.k. but th

tonight's evening session at the world darts championship is underway at alexandra palace. joyce up against poland's krzysztof ratajski. and krzysztof ratajski has taken the first two sets. lee westwood has been named the european tour's golfer of the year. it's the fourth time he's won the award and comes just a week after westwood became the oldest winner of the race to dubai title. scottish premiership side livington have appointed david martindale as manager. he won all four of his matches since taking interim charge, following the resignation of gary holt. elsewhere, john hughes has been appointed manager of ross county. there are two matches in the premier league this evening. in the early game, wolves are at burnley, burnley are currently leading 2—0 after 57 minutes. later, chelsea take on west ham at stamford bridge. chelsea could go fifth with a win, but a loss would mean three league defeats in a row for the first time since 2015. meanwhile, west ham have won three games on the bounce away from home. you can follow it on 5 live, kick—off is at eight. staying with

the world starts chipper chip is under way at alexandra palace.here peter wright is aiming to defend his head and is an action later. there will be some of those fans, 1,000 in all but after today, they will be locked out due to new covert restrictions. for more on this, but here now from barry hearn. very great to see you. how big a blow this is for the competition? there is a little bit of deja vu about this because it happened to the world snooker chamfer chips as well where we were a pilot event for the government. we had one day of tickets and fans in there which made such a big different anterior, it has happened again, i can't believe it but i am guided to lose the fans because they are an integral part of life support. no more so than at the world at darts championships which sta rts world at darts championships which starts today, creates a print atmosphere but these are unusual times and we have to do the bestjob we can. indeed so and what sort of financial impact you think this will have on the organisation as a whole? everything is a d

laura, boris. >> alexandra, thank you so much.now to cnn's arwa damon who's live in istanbul with more on the escalating exchange between the president and iran. nice to see you. break down for our viewers what exactly is happening here. >> it's quite disturbing, and very frightening, especially if ironically, you're iraq because iraq does invariably end up being the proxy battlefield between the united states and iran. and senior iraqi officials have been concerned for quite some time now over these escalating tensions. there was a meeting at the white house yesterday where options for responses were discussed. no military options approved just yet. but there is quite some concern, especially at the pentagon, that some sort of military response to iran could be unfolding. although, again, no guarantee of that at this point. but this is all going back to these repeated tensions between both countries and these ongoing rocket attacks that we see happening in baghdad. rockets that land inside the green zone at times inside the u.s.

donde ha comenzado la distribuciÓn de la dosis alexandra renterÍa informa desd londres. >>> la expectativantra el coronavirus inicia en las prÓximas horas el programa mÁs grande de in mucmunizaciÓn n todo el reino unido empezando por los mÁs vulnerables, los mayores de 80 aÑos el personal mÉdico y social. hari serÁ uno de los primeros e recibirla dice que ahora siente que la crisis va a llegar a su fin. este enfermero que no revela su identidad nos dice cÓmo se preparan en los centros hospitalarios. (informaciÓn en pantalla). aut >>> foifrm infor >>> las autoridades sanitarias han enfatizado aunque comience el sistema de vacunaciÓn es importante el uso de tapa brocas bocas y el lavado de las manos >>> creo que es un gran avance lo que han hecho con la vacuna >>> las vacunas de pfizer y biontech mostraron eficacia de 95% enfrentan retos porque el transporte y su almacenamiento requieren temperaturas frÍas, Á puestos en el reino unido para ver el resultado de la experiencia en londres los ojos de la comunidad mÉdica internacional estÁn en el reino unido, en londres alexandra rentarÍa noticia

number of senses is supposed to send the data to president trump by december 31st in washington alexandra le mon. >>coming up despite legal challenges president elect joe biden unveiling more of his white house team. we take a look at who he has tapped for his diverse communications team. and it's not just coronavirus cases rising anxiety levels are rising to a new study says anxiety levels have nearly doubled in one group in particular details on that coming up. ♪ we have the power to harness california's abundant solar and wind energy, but it's not available all day long. use less energy from 4 to 9 pm for a cleaner california. >>for your health now the level of anxiety nearly doubled for young people during the first lockdown a study from university of bristol founding zion he jumped from 13% to 24% for adults between 27 and 29 years of age. researchers say parents of millennials were less likely to show symptoms of anxiety, scientists from the study say they expect the trend to continue into the winter months. this follows reports from the cdc showing the pandemic has brought a mental

>>in washington, alexandra le mon. >>for your health, some doctors are now recommending getting your blood pressure taken in both arms to help predict the future heart attack or stroke or heart issue. a new study from the university of exeter medical school finds that the higher the difference in blood pressure between your 2 arms. the greater chance of getting new chest pain or having a heart attack or stroke. study subjects who had a 10 millimeter different or more between arms at a one percent chance over the next decade of cardiovascular risk. researchers say checking blood pressure in both arms is only performed about half the time, but should be done regularly. the american heart association considers blood pressure normal. when the top number is less than one 20 in the bottom numbers, less than 80. while people in gurley a wait for their covid vaccines. there is a looming question. kids have this christmas is it going to be safe for santa to come on into their home but of course so america's top infectious disea

at chernobyl and already discovered for themselves the army was not the price of technology but alexandra and spassky had told everyone. the military reactors. [inaudible] was inherently unstable and the design that they intended to build had only exacerbated these problems. the list of defaults was long and torturous ranging from those caused by the director to instrumentation failures at both share noble and emergency control room design in other circumstances that meant that reactor power can increase instead of fall as it was intended to. taken individually none of the many faults would happen except in the unlikely event the operators would line up every single one of the false in a disastrous fall and then take a final initiating step by shutting the reactor down using the emergency control. this is exactly what happened in reactor number four at share noble early in the morning of april 26 1986. during the course of the long-delayed safety step the chain reaction began to run out of control and toptenov pressed the emergency shutdown resulting in an explosion that totally destroyed

alexandra le mon. less than 2 weeks before christmas and the post office is facing a history making the air. >>with millions and millions of packages filtering through their system. a red alert can be found at the top of the united states post office's website saying they are quote experiencing unprecedented package increases and limited employee availability due to the impacts of covid-19 usps predicts that tuesday will be the busiest day for shipping ever. the postal service says they've anticipated the increase for months and prepared accordingly. >>we start in plan brought on seasonal help early be trained them. well ahead of time we arrange director transportation, so we knew would be a high volume in. >>we were right. >>with shipping at historic levels, the best advice is to get your packages in the mail right now the post office recommends mailing christmas cards and small first-class packages by this friday with saturday being the last day to ship priority mail. >>for sports. there were 2 welco

right alexandra enjoying her little shop of britishness there and d.-w. has much more on the as much more on the new u.k. e.u. trade relationship in our documentary more bitter than sweet our correspondents talk about who they see as being brecht's its biggest winners and losers that's available now on our you tube channel w news now legendary french fashion designer pierre cardon has died at the age of $98.00 a master of outdoor in the 1950 s. and sixty's he was celebrated for his visionary creations and for bringing parisian chic to the masses during a career that spanned 70 years i don't was born in italy emigrated to france as a child. that's all for now for me and some of us a t w well i'm william blue craft join us more of the top of the search for. the fight against the corona virus 10 damage. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update those 19 specials. on t w. how does a virus spread. why do we panic and when we'll all be. trying to just 3 of the topics covered in th

phil: will leave it there, alexandra in brussels and charlotte in london.tain's decision to leave european union was a hugely divisive issue that turn families against each other and brought down to prime ministers. how did it come about? here is a look back at a debate that has dominated british politics for half a decade. correspondent: june 2016. british people voted in the millions on a referendum for exiting the european union. it's brett the country down the middle. 52% voted to leave, 48% to stay. [people yelling] >> this means the uk's voted to leave the european union. correspondent: it was the beginning of an end for a relationship that always was ambivalent. after joining in 1973, the u.k.'s on the club as a trade block. but for many in europe, it was a project with one aim, a closer union, a loss of sovereignty that was unthinkable for many brits who turned to the u.k. independence party in throws. nigel for roche campaign for years to leave the block. but it meant defeat for him. britain's conservative p.m. david cameron recalled the vote in a

now alexandra in glasgow.right, the guidance has been tightened already. people are being advised just to spend christmas within their own home and not to be mixing with other households. but obviously, that is very difficult for a lot of people. it has been acknowledged by many people and the first minister that loneliness is an issue and some people just don't want to be alone at christmas. some people don't want their friends and family to be alone at christmas. so legally, you can still have a christmas bubble of three households, but that is not being recommended. that is to be seen as being recommended. that is to be seen as the absolute maximum, and the recommendation is two households but even that, the first minister has said, only if that is essential. legally, you can have a christmas bubble of up to eight people over 12 but again, that is not being recommended. the advice is to keep your bubble as small as possible and in terms of the five days, the advice is very strong not to go and spend five da

alexandra le mon. >>the state of california is expected to get 327,000 doses of the pfizer vaccine which will be in the divvied up and ship to county health departments and hospitals, the bay area public health departments are expecting the first batch to arrive by next tuesday might be couple days after, but that's what they're hoping for and expecting alameda county set to receive almost 14,000 doses contra costa 10,000. both marine and napa counties will likely be given a little less than 2000 doses of peace, san francisco expecting its first allocation to be about 12,000 shots. while san mateo county figures to get almost 6,000 santa clara county is expecting to get just over 17,000. sonoma county just under 5,000 and solano county estimates it will get nearly 8,000 doses it is a 2 dose vaccine. but officials are being told not to hold any back for the second round of shots but rather to give them all to the first time recipients. santa clara health officials are also expecting more doses from the

alexandra le mon. >>still ahead on the kron 4 morning news, a bay area native who relying on unemployment. bank account just wiped out by a scam artist how you can prevent this from happening to you that story coming up next. >>welcome back everyone, the time it's for 29 good morning to you and thanks for staying with us we're waking up to some soggy weather. the rain will we have the sound of rain and when that i had a slippery commute heading to work this morning. so let's check in with john schreiber who is tracking the storm. it's our big weather story this morning, hey john yeah guys we are looking at conditions out there this morning really wet it may not be actively raining very hard like we did see around midnight to 02:00am even though showers of calm down it certainly has left roadways very wet though, and that does mean that roads like the bay bridge and your view across to chart our here looking really shiny which shows you that shimmer and that witness you're going to be encountering as yo

alexandra le mon. >>a monster winter storm blasting communities up and down the northeast a look at this it is creating dangerous conditions to and affecting crucial transportation routes for distribution of the first doses of the coronavirus vaccines. the snow is falling from new york city to virginia and the pandemic is adding new complexities leaving health officials to decide whether or not to close the covid testing size because a dangerous storm is heading. some people could see up to 2 feet of snow so they have snow we're looking forward to rain and it's not quite here yet chief meteorologist lawrence karnow here to tell how far away it is or hours away now it is going to be moving in our direction you can see. >>that storm system on the east coast just rip it right across there some heavy rainfall out ahead of it we've seen some gusts of 50 plus miles an hour. and now they're talking about all that heavy snow on the backside spam mentioned maybe couple of feet across parts of new new england. y

>>in washington, alexandra le known. >>coming up next on the kron 4 morning news to white house officials accused of playing politics in the u.s. pandemic response what we're learning >>welcome back everyone to top trump administration health officials are facing subpoenas over alleged political interference with the federal response of the pandemic well health and human services secretary alex azar and cdc director robert redfield have until december 30th to produce relevant documents. lawmakers on the house oversight committee panel on covid-19 say the pair tried to block or change. more than a dozen scientific reports related to coronavirus as the outbreak spread nationwide. president elect joe biden received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine live on television yesterday. well, this is part of a growing effort to convince the american public. the vaccines are indeed safe. president elect got the pfizer vaccine at a hospital not far from his delaware home, future first lady doctor jill biden also received the v

alexandra le mon. president elect biden is thanking those responsible for the vaccine releasing a statement that reads in part quote. >>we are grateful to the scientists and public health experts who evaluated the safety and efficiency of this vaccine free from political influence, the integrity of science led us to this point and quote. well if the pfizer vaccine is approved that it shipped out 5,000 doses from the first batch will arrive at john muir medical center in walnut creek hospitals is already to receive those shipments of vaccine and get those shots out to the people shot in the arm, the vaccine needs to be stored at below freezing temperature and the medical center has the right freezers on hand to do just that. now the first round of doses will go to frontline healthcare workers. >>when i think about our staffing we have to think about 2 very different things the first is how do we ensure that we continue to manage the search right now are stretching is good on that front. and then the sec

alexandra mckenzie and james williams, thank you.t 24,752. 534 deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours, that‘s of people who died within 28 days of a positive covid—19 test. on average in the past week, there were 436 deaths per day, bringing the total number across the uk to 67,075. our medical editor, fergus walsh joins us now. what is the effect of this new variant? and how and why has it affected government thinking so radically? this new variant appears to be up to 70% more transmissible, thatis to be up to 70% more transmissible, that is very significant and crucially it does not appear to cause more significant disease but it makes it much harder to control the epidemic. it is thought that it could push the reproductive number of coronavirus up by not .4. it is currently between 1.1 and 1.2 across the uk. it was first identified in kent in september and seems to just be one of these spontaneous mutations. it now accounts for six in ten cases in london and in the east of england but has spread throughout the uk. a virus will

and it's hoped they'll start to really grow what's been lost on the great barrier reef alexandra byers al-jazeera. for around 2 minutes coronavirus concerns were eclipsed earlier in argentina and chile. tourists gathered to cheer on this year's only total solar eclipse star gazers were worried that they wouldn't see much because of cloudy skies but the weather cleared up just in time the next total solar eclipse will not hit south america until 2848. and soon it is and i am i think it has been an incredible experience to watch the eclipse with rain despite it being overcast it was incredible. spectacular the truth is that it was a unique experience the fact that it was cloudy allowed me to watch it without glasses i've not seen one before this is my 1st and it is a beautiful experience. a reminder now of the top stories on al-jazeera the 1st americans and canadians have been vaccinated against the corona virus a new york intensive care nurse was the 1st person to be inoculated in the u.s. with thousands of other caregivers prioritize the to receive the jab regulators approve the vaccin

the panel has returned, alexandra wilkes, jessica tarlov, and leslie marshall.. what are you going to do about the anti- vax or safely need to reach her community site finally said the sauna again? >> nothing we can do except deny their public services like denying their children to public schools. there could very well soon be very cheap, very accessible, at-home covid test. so the very least the anti- vax is that they refuse to get vaccinated we will have some way whether not to allow them on their buses. i kennedy: i can't believe the hoaxes. they will not take the test the vaccine is free, jessica pritt is it because are trying to inject us with ill dates 5g? >> i have the 5g filbert i had the iphone 12 but i had the iphone seven which is according to the woman at verizon helping me. kennedy: was at my 15 year old daughter? so i guess it was. they were both there and they're both shaming. i feel very challenged about it. [laughter] it worked. i was shooting hd television off with it and the text people at our very own fox news were shocked at. moving on, cas

>>i'm alexandra le mon in washington, a new congressional investigation revealed more problems with how the trump administration treated migrant children all have all the details coming up. >>the big guy himself. the organizer of santa con is urging his fellow santas just a whole whole home this weekend his full message after the break. >>the last 25 years santa is young and old have flocked to san francisco in early december for santa con. this year's official gathering of course has been canceled but the organizer is afraid the some santas will go rogue and gather any way kron four's noelle bellow joins us now live with his message tonight. noel. >>that's right santa is his name he's been helping to organize santa-con for the last 10 years here in the city even starting a toy drive several years ago to try and brighten up the image of all that debauchery that seems to come along with santa con. but this year he's begging all of the santa is out there to just stay home. >>please looking directly in the camera do not go down there tom gabel or santa tom as he's known says he's >>bello s

and it's hoped they'll start to really grow what's been lost on the great barrier reef alexandra byers al-jazeera. and now a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the 1st americans and canadians have been vaccinated against the corona virus a new york intensive care nurse was the 1st person to be inoculated in the u.s. with thousands of other caregivers prioritize that to receive the jab but this good news comes too late for meddling with several states still in the grip of a post thanks.

alexandra limon has the latest from d c.e're dealing with the corona virus pandemic but they're also dealing with a hunger pandemic and they have never seen anything like this oregon senator ron wyden says americans will likely see both the health and economic impacts of the pandemic get worse over the coming months tsunami of evictions people losing their homes that's why he and top democrats introduce the american worker holiday relief act which allows americans to qualify for 26 additional weeks of unemployment benefits and extends the $600 a week federal boost through october of 2021 it also ensures freelance and gig economy workers qualify for extended benefits for months, lawmakers have failed to reach an agreement on a new covid relief package in part because they can't agree on whether to extend the extra $600 a week in unemployment benefits larry kudlow director of the national economic council says the white house isn't against extending unemployment benefits but he suggest paying for it with the hundreds of billio

>>in washington alexandra le mon.ational news attorney general william barr says the justice department has not found any evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the election in an interview with the associated press barr said the u.s. attorneys and fbn agents have been working hard to follow up on specific complaints, they perceived. but that they've uncovered no evidence so far to support them, san jose state political sides lectured on a crane says that she expects even more former trump allies to begin distancing themselves from the president. >>baseless claims of widespread fraud. >>there's been a steady trickle republicans who have come out and said that the election is over and it's time to move and that and that i think really days that the state started to certify their results then it became realy indisputable so i think that trickle is going to continue into a stream i imagine there will be some that just never admit it and i don't know if president trump will ever admit it, it's awfully hard t

in amsterdam welcome alexandra why did you choose that the city feel 1st stone. well we are here in amsterdam field because this city is becoming an increasingly popular destination for brics it's impacted companies companies operating in financial sector i see advertising industry the media and many of them have to sided so relocates to the neverland to be able to be operational in the european union and to talk about the advantages we are joined here by you are not on the ha search you are had to offer the go as currency cloud and fin tech company and you are to have you have quarters. but. and i'm saddam why i just got that's correct their currency clouds in tech company launched in 2012 we have offices in london and in new york but we decided to expand an opus and open an office here in amsterdam well we've always had plans to come times to rex this really accelerated those plans for us because you were afraid you were not able to do business in the you opinion yeah i think for us off to the referendum of became clear that there was a real risk that as a u.k.

good morning, alexandra. we don't see you on camera because we are actually looking at the back of a health care worker about to administer these live. >> reporter: yeah, you are not seeing me because you are seeing a much more important shot literally, the first shot in the arm for one of the front-line workers at three hospitals in southern new jersey. these are hospitals that have not received any covid vaccine until now. the first dose being administered comes from moderna. it is going as we speak to rene stevens who didn't even flinch. she's a 22-year hospital employee. she's somebody who has been working in the covid unit. she tells me she has been seeing for months now the despair, the devastation that is felt not just by patients but by their families, by their loved ones. she has held the hands of people with covid, she says that while there are loving staff members who have been in place to see them through this crisis, there is no substitute for family. she firmly believes that this shot is the fir

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the facts let's get more now from alexandra good for us she joins us from moscow and alexandra this is a mammoth events expected to continue for quite some just in the last few minutes that it starts what have we learned so far. oh hello yes indeed the 16th annual a press conference of russian president has just started and it started from the main subject of the 0 worldwide which is the damage caused coronavirus he was basically asked to estimate at this year it's blasters in mind and says and then noted that this year was definitely marked by the pandemic and that affected all the aspects of life of a russian citizens now he did meet the jobs were lost to this been there many people have less money to spend that prices rose the economy went down but then he turned on a more positive note and this is also something that happens basically every year he said that despite of all of this russian economy was stable and the fall of the gross domestic product g.d.p. of russia is less than it is in you or united states according to him he also tried to sort of suv people saying that even they

alexandra, any thanks for the update. mps over his decision to support the new trade agreement struck by the uk and the european union. sir keir will instruct his mps to vote for the deal in the commons tomorrow. although he says the deal is not what boris johnson promised, he says it‘s better than no deal at all. 0ur political correspondent jessica parker is at westminster. jessica, tell us a little more about the feeling on the labour backbenchers and indeed the front bench. firstly, important to point out the boris johnson bench. firstly, important to point out the borisjohnson is likely bench. firstly, important to point out the boris johnson is likely to get his trade deal through parliament tomorrow. he has a majority and today won the backing ofa group majority and today won the backing of a group of eurosceptic conservative mps in parliament but things looking more complicated for the labour party as sir keir starmer has ordered his mps to back the agreement and describes it as a thin but says it is better than a

is and alexandra, what's the situation there?in level three. no—one is in level four at the moment, which is the highest level, but east lothian and aberdeen, and aberdeenshire, they all moved from level two to level three at 6pm tonight. edinburgh and glasgow were already in level three. pubs and restaurants have to shut at 6.00 in level three and can't serve alcohol. this would have been one of the busiest nights of the year. the scottish government is going to review the levels on tuesday, and they haven't ruled out tightening restrictions after christmas. thank you both the government's plans to test more than five million school pupils in england when they return injanuary is undeliverable — that's according to teaching unions, school governors, the church of england and colleges. ministers announced the plans yesterday along with a staggered return to the classroom. but schools says it will be impossible to recruit and train the thousands of people needed to carry out tests in the next two weeks. our education editor bra nw

alexandra mackenzie, bbc news.our coronavirus restrictions are to move down one level from friday. the changes will allow nonessential retail and hospitality to reopen, two weeks ahead of christmas. the queen and senior members of the royal family have met volunteers and key workers at windsor castle to thank them for their work this year. windsor was the final stop on the duke and duchess of cambridge's tour of britain, which has provoked some criticism from ministers in scotland and wales. 0ur royal correspondent nicholas witchell‘s report contains flash photography. it is the season to say thank you, most particularly if you're a member of the royal family charged with expressing a nation's gratitude to all of those who've made the difference in this most difficult year. and so, on the quadrangle of windsor castle, the queen wasjoined by members of herfamily for some festive cheer — seasonal music from the salvation army, and gratitude, widely sprinkled to people who've done so much during the pandemic. the camb

let's get more from our correspondent in glasgow alexandra mackenzie. on the 23rd, no law and tighter restrictions to come into force —— now law? tighter restrictions to come into force -- now law? this travel ban had already been in place but it was expected that it would be used for the five days over christmas so that people could come up from the best of the uk and scotland to spend time with family and friends, and people from scotland could travel to the rest of the uk to spend a couple of days with family and friends from the rest of the uk but that is not going to happen. nicola sturgeon announced yesterday that there is not going to be any lifting of the travel ban, not even for the one day that the easing of some of the other restrictions are happening in scotland, so there will be no easing of that ban. the first minister said yesterday that she was asking police scotla nd yesterday that she was asking police scotland and transport operators how the enforcement of this could be strengthened. now, she did acknowledge that it was an operational

s could help replenish one of the outs most endangered ecosystems alexandra bias reports. they may not be the most vibrant but these corals are healthy and resilient and represent a major lifeline for the most spectacular ecosystem of its kind on the planet. they're part of the very 1st trial of in vitro fertilization for corals or coral i.v.'s. coral large by our collective during what are called mass spawning events they're rare annual moments linked to the cycles of the moon then baby corals are cultivated in floating nursery pools before being transplanted onto damaged areas of the reef. 4 years later the original population has grown large and even survived coral bleaching events. this proves that the lava worse direction take works just as we predicted and we can grow very large corals from tawney microscopic larvae within just a few years. scientists say the success of this project is critical for the great barrier reef the un listed world heritage site runs more than 2000 kilometers along australia's north east coast but it's being severely damaged by climate chang

indeed, alexandra, many thanks indeed.ver you live in the uk, you can find out what the rules are in your area, by entering your postcode in our interactive tool — you can find it online at the bbc news website or on our app. a trial has begun of an experimental antibody treatment which could offer emergency protection against covid—i9. the treatment is designed to be given to people who've been exposed to the virus within the previous eight days. researchers hope it could stop them developing coronavirus. the met office has warned of severe gales and heavy rain as storm bella approaches the uk. yesterday, more than a thousand people in bedfordshire were advised to leave their homes because of flooding. evacuation centres have been set up to help those affected. anisa kadri reports. i rise in the river at levels he had caused rising anxiety. i300 households were told to evacuate after heavy rainfall, with people urged to stay elsewhere. police said the flooding situation overrides the requirement to stay in your own home a

alexandra mackenzie, bbc news, glasgow.nies fined if they fail to remove harmful material, such as terrorist propaganda and content used to bully and groom young people. under the proposals, all platforms will have a legal duty of care to protect children. 0ur media editor amol rajan is here now. what have they actually announced? it has been a long time coming, we have been talking about this for yea rs, have been talking about this for years, for the past 15 years also the richest companies in history have basically had a free pass. they are extraordinary companies powered by very powerful engineering but they have largely been left alone by regulators but now there is a myth saying their worst excesses have to be curbed, that means clamping down on monopolies but this is about social harms, things like bullion, grooming, the promotion of suicidal terrorist content. there are four elements which will come under the purview of 0fcom, which currently regulates podcast and telecoms, there will be fined if they do not comply,

alexandra le mon. >>at 7.21, we'll take a break coming up on the kron 4 morning news pfizer and moderna made headlines over the last couple of weeks with their covid-19 vaccines. but there are more vaccine trials currently underway in the bay area and we'll tell you why it's crucial that these trials continue we'll be right back. by harnessing california's abundant wind and solar energy, we have the power to take on climate change. use less from 4 to 9 pm to keep california golden. >>7.24 pfizer and moderna have been making headlines in last couple of weeks because of their vaccines but they're not the only ones still we've got several other vaccines in trials right now some currently in their phase 3 trial which means a real close to being done and they need to continue right now astrazeneca and johnson and johnson are in phase 3. >>doctor hyman scott with u c s f says that they are currently enrolling more participants for astrazeneca's trials and johnson and johnson has 45,000 people enrolled in the

cnn's alexandra field is joining us from new york right now.k to one of the first health care workers to be vaccinated in new york city. what did you hear? >> just a handful of hospitals and a number of health care workers are lining up here, wolf. these are the people who have been working the most closely with the men and women who have become the most severely ill as a result of covid overall of these many mountains. they've lined up today, coming in to sit for these appointments. mayor bill diblasio was here, calling it a beautiful moment, a shot of hope. tara easter, icu nurse, was the first woman to roll up her sleeve. for her, it brings some relief. >> a lot of mixed feelings. i think staff, there's many staff like me that are excited for the opportunity, happy to be able to get it, to protect themselves, protect their families, protect patients that they're taking care of that may not have covid. there's some reluctance, of course. this is very new. but we have so much information here and so many resources for people to be informed, an

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under huge pressure to start rolling out vaccines given that the sputnik trials are incomplete as alexandra was saying do you think this was perhaps a little tricky. i believe it is too soon to heard it we are working under the earl of militancy and therefore we have to have been it could be that the justification for rushing into 'd rolling out the vaccine is because under this step it was senses if the benefit is more is better than the risk or art and therefore they're all in how to solve that in normal you know to additionally if we need to wait that there will be a phase if it clinical trial shows us if they can see it with some confidence and you need to build confidence among the people who oversee the vaccine the better or number 2 we need to know how this works in be here it behaves in the target population that itis like the elderly or instance is the vaccine safe is the vaccine immunity only and has some if it be a seat all these questions are not finalized all we know is that there was a 2 in the cases and the. majority of those cases were in the placebo group that is not enough

alexandra of our nominee in chantilly alexandra looks lovely. so tell us what you've been looking out there. let's 1st explain me where we are as you can see behind me the horse because shown is the self-proclaimed french capital off the horse and you can see on my right side there are raised of course and it was actually horse racing that attracted many brits to come and settle here and we would love to show you horses or. race but of course we are in the middle of the pandemic and it's not possible but we are so happy to have a british couple with amanda and homer thank you for being with us so tell us please what do you like about this place it's very relaxed it's. very nice to bring your children in an environment. isn't too stressful it's not a city on the course it's good wine and good food and you've been living in france for quite a while then you went to china to work there and then you came back after the breakfast referendum and you were trying to figure out what it means for you and your life and friends and we joined the referendum

got frog who joins us live now from moscow and alexandra i think you're inside to a vaccination center that tell us how it's been rolled out and what's been happening. yes indeed we are in one of the vaccination centers in the center of moscow in moscow clinic that opened today there is in total they say 70 of such centers in which patients after they signed for it online now these are very specific categories that get the priority that is people working in health care education in a social services they have to be younger than 60 and they have to be in of generally good health because people with chronical diseases are not liable to get to this of a scene yet still the procedure is that after they signed in they get their time and date and there was 1st people coming in here they 1st get a journal checkup then there is a procedure to defrost the vaccine that has to be kept in the temperatures below minus 18 celsius and then after the shot so they're left to rest for like 30 minutes to see if there is any reaction to this now the massive x. nation started in moscow today by the end of

here's alexandra field. >>> the first vaccine from pfizer is going into arms across america. now a second vaccine is nearly here. moderna's vaccine proven 94% effective is likely to receive its emergency use authorization later this week. that would trigger the shipment of 6 million doses in the country. that's double the doses sent out in the first batch which has already arrived in 50 states. 405 places are receiving shipments today. in new york city front line workers lining up to get theirs. in chicago lining up in one of the hardest hit communities. california received 33,000 doses of the vaccine on monday, nearly the same number of hospitalizations on the same day. >> i think the biggest concern is accidental loss of temperature control in a cold chain base, particularly abowit the pfizer vaccine. the last mile of inoculation into subjects. >> reporter: out of the gate reporting no problems with the massive undertaking of moving vaccines. a fast-moving nor'easter could affect shipments later this week. >> 60 million people are under some type of watch or warning. >> rep

in brussels thanks so much alexandra.let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world at this hour u.s. president elect joe biden has nominated retired army general lloyd austin to be his defense secretary if confirmed he would be the 1st african-american to lead the pentagon but he faces resistance from some democrats who have a preference for civilian control of the military. meanwhile the president elect's son hunter biden has confirmed his tax affairs are under federal investigation president donald trump has often accused hunter biden of corrupt dealings in ukraine trump's early pursuit of these allegations resulted in his own impeachment after he pressured the ukrainian president to investigate 100 bidens work in the country. gone as electoral commission says president. has won a 2nd term in office officials say he won over 51 percent of the vote putting him ahead of his predecessor and old rival john muhammad the results fall in contentious poll which led to widespread protests and vi

charles and pale in london and alexander phenomena in brussels welcome both let's start with you alexandra in brussels a britain is going to be out of the block in 8 days can 27 countries ratify this deal so quickly. well i think they can if they want to and we have to say that we are talking here about the governments of the member states not about their problem instead would be a much longer process and so we also have to add that judging from a reaction so far most leaders are happy with that compromise so the chances of a rejection of the deal are slim. merkel the german chancellor has already announced that there are her cabinet is going to decide on the deal on the 28th of december so in the next few days and all the birds follow suit that would mean that the european commission can move forward and provisionally implement the deal before of course the european parliament is able to decide on that and that is going to be in at the beginning of january and short of jolson what about british lawmakers will they have to go their christmas holidays to ratify this and will they actually g