we've been speaking with francisco domingo's of middlesex university thank you for your time and your comments and. you know all that as well as also signed a deal with russia for approximately $10000000.00 doses of sputnik be present nicolas maduro said the shot will be free for the whole population he plans to complete the 1st round of axioms by march that as well was the 1st country in the western hemisphere to take part in post approval trials of precious jap the u.s. has revealed its 1st case of the more contagious british strain of corona virus a variant confirmed in the state of colorado comes amid fears of a further spike in cases over the holidays we have been talking about potential for spread during christmas and as america struggles to deal with the effects of the pandemic arctic correspondent looks at an especially tough year for the city dubbed the epicenter of the crisis new york city. they call it the big apple and in 2020 that apple got a giant one minute and that worm is known as ovid when a national emergency was 1st declared in the city back in march many panicked.

doctor grogan from middlesex university.hit by an outbreak of coronavirus. a number of scientists at the lighthouse laboratory in milton keynes are believed to have been affected along with admin and warehouse staff. the lab, which is being asked to process about 70,000 tests a day, say it follows covid—secure work procedures. more than 1,000 people are being evacuated from a holiday park after heavy rain and flooding. police and firefighters have been working through the night to rescue those stranded at the billing aquadrome in northampton. two leisure centres have been turned into emergency accommodation. there are more than 100 flood warnings in place across parts of england and wales. christmas in bethlehem looks a little different this year, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. this was the scene in bethlehem this morning, in manger square. you can see a normally busy scene is quite empty. but the celebrations still went ahead at the church of the nativity, where christians believejesus was born. but the service, which

doctor grogan, a lecturer of law in middlesex university.rsonnel are being deployed to clear the backlog of lorries waiting to cross the channel. 0ur correspondent is in the port of dover this morning and said a little earlier that while things are now moving it could take a long time for the tailback to clear. for many of us this isn't the christmas we hoped we would have, sat at home, but spare a thought for a lot of these drivers who have been stuck, some of them for four nights here, queueing to try to get on the ferries going across the channel to france. if you look behind me you will be able to see we have movement. some of these lorries are moving, they are slowly but surely being loaded onto ferries this morning to make their way across the channel. port staff have been working through christmas throughout the night to try to get this moving, to see these scenes, all these lorries will have tested negative. in order to get those tests, there has been a huge wait in store. around 800 troops were drafted to try to speed up the process