sarah campbell reports from dagenham in east london. year eight, can i ask you to open up...best of learning during a pandemic. the pupils are in school, the teacher is at home self isolating. down the corridor, the english teacher is the only person in the classroom. more than a third of the pupils at this school are currently remote learning. it's a real challenge, every day is a covid day at the school at the moment. will testing help? i certainly hope so. insofar as, i think the situation will then start to stabilise. details as to exactly how the testing will be rolled out are still being finalised. what we do know is that testing in secondary schools will be increased in seven london boroughs and parts of essex and kent. mobile testing units will be deployed in or near schools for staff, pupils and their families. and in london, an extra a4,000 home tests will be made available to school staff. although community testing, including in schools, has taken place in other parts of england, this involves so many schools, it's such a large area, there's so many resources, tha

sarah campbell, bbc news, dagenham.ws, from kenya's capital nairobi, ciru muriuki brings you the story of anti—apartheid leader, steve biko, who died in police custody in south africa. i ,and , and welcome to this special edition of this history with me ciru muriuki end can you's capital nairobi at the national museum. this month we are featuring five incredible moments from recent african history. coming up, our tunisian women became some of the most liberated in the world in the 1950s. we find out about the history of zimbabwe, once the history of zimbabwe, once the centre of an african empire. plus one of the world's largest refugee camps. in the ca nyon largest refugee camps. in the canyon pop song that became a global hit. but first, we go back to south africa in 1977 when the country was governed bya when the country was governed by a racist system known as apartheid which discriminated against the black population in almost every area of life. we spoke to witness history about his friend, steve biko, a young blac

sarah campbell, bbc news, dagenham. the time is 6.18pm. our top story this evening.windsor, who has died at the age of 83. and coming up anthonyjoshua squares up against kubrat pulev ahead of the pair's world heavyweight title fight tomorrow night. on bbc news, istanbul assistant coach says the 8th of december will bea coach says the 8th of december will be a significant date, for football's fight against racism. the nhs in wales will not be able to cope by christmas, if covid—i9 cases continue to rise at their current rate, the first minister mark drakeford has said. his government will publish a new plan of restrictions next week. today, all secondary school pupils in wales have been sent home until the new year, and mr drakeford announced that all outdoor christmas attractions will be closed. in scotland, i! council areas in the top tier of restrictions have moved down a level, with nonessential shops reopening. but the first minister nicola sturgeon urged people to do their christmas shopping locally, and not to travel out of their areas. northern ireland too has

sarah campbell, bbc news. a woolly rhino from the ice age has been unearthed in the russian arctic.re still intact. scientists say the rhino was between three and four years old when it died, probably from drowning. discoveries of preserved animals have become more frequent in northern russia as global warming has melted the permafrost. that's it for me, back with headlines here injust a moment. don't go away. good evening. the sun has set on what was a chilly final day of 2020. temperatures for some barely got above freezing. there was a covering of snow on the ground in places, and this is how it looked from space. this is the recent satellite picture. you can see speckled shower clouds that have been moving across parts of wales and the south west as those showers clear away. we could see some icy stretches here. through the night, we've got a band of cloud with some rain, sleet, and hill snow moving across northern england into north wales. i think it will mostly be over high ground that we see the wintry weather. at lower levels, it'll mainly be rain. some slightly less cold ai

our correspondent sarah campbell reports. four, three, two, one!sion should be marked with a firework display. both countries have managed to keep covid infections relatively low and that has to be cause for celebration. in wuhan, china, where the coronavirus took hold a year ago, crowds gathered this evening to watch the countdown. life largely returning to normal. across much of the globe, though, it is a different story. in 2019,100,000 people crowded together to see in the new year in london. who could have guessed how different life would be 12 months later? covid restrictions mean that large gatherings — as would normally be the case here on victoria embankment — simply can't happen. but as the fireworks are cancelled this year there won't be much to see at midnight anyway. it would be really nice to have had something like fireworks, just to kind of celebrate the new year. hopefully a lot more to look forward to in 2021 as opposed to what we have had to go through with the pandemic. personally i am disappointed but i understand, yeah. i work

sarah campbell, bbc news, dagenham. downgrade that status and reopen next week. bristol, south gloucestershire, and north somerset are seen falling case numbers ahead of the review date next wednesday. from there, and your plant reports. they should be full to the brim with christmas customers, but pubs and tier 3 have been pulling precious few points this winter. we are close completely, as we are in bristol. it just seems especially cruel at a time when you would expect to be really busy, where there is a buzz about here, and where you get that kind of christmas magic. virus rates in the west's tier 3 areas peaked about three months ago. bristol's numbers are now down by 74% since then, south gloucestershire by 61%, and north somerset by 63%. there still a long way off the lows seen in the summer, but but they are below the national average. but will it lead the night—time economy out of the protection that tier 3 brings? there is still so little manoeuvring in terms of the number of cases. so this is an incredibly di

. >>> plus an exclusive interview with campbell's ceo, people stockpiling food as coronavirus soar sarahik joins the conversation very good afternoon to you, sarah. mike, i will come to you first in terms of the performance. one thing we haven't touched on yet, the yields ticked up today and so did the vix you might expect that with the selling. things to keep an eye on as well. >> it sort of shows you that this wasn't really about any kind of stirrings of macroeconomic concern hitting the equity market. it was mostly just the positioning story, atmospheric conditions have been there for some kind of a stalling out or pullback in the stock market because of sentiment, positioning and a little bit of stretch index. it's all that stuff that leaves things ripe for a switchback we're starting to get the sense in the nasdaq, that things got a little overexcited in certain parts of this market, whether you want to look at snowflake, tesla, doordash ipo opening and maybe gave a sense out there, not exactly that a bell was rung but that this market doesn't owe you much in the short term. >> we s

campbell outdoor dining tents are empty, hair and nail salons closed. all of this comes as santa clara county sees a significant surge in cases of covid-19. dr. sarah cody painted a dire picture. for the board of supervisors today she says it's worrisome and the surge is not slowing down. >> while these recent cases some not even populated on our dashboard likely reflect the surge from thanksgiving we anticipated, but the contribution of that surge is still not even reflected in the numbers that you see. >> reporter: a surge in case and a surge in hospitalizations. regional medical center of san jose is at capacity but still accepting patients through its emergency room. there are close to 70 covid-19 patients here. >> we are using some of our overflow areas such as our post-acute care unit for our operating room. we're using some of those beds since we've reduced most of our elective cases. >> reporter: an a national level dr. anthony fauci says the full fall out from thanksgiving hasn't happened yet, he worries about another surge following the christmas holiday due to people traveling and mixing. stanford emergency medical professor sam shin is