yvette cooper, who _ domestically. thank you very much. yvette cooper, who is _ domestically.- domestically. thank you very much. yvette cooper, who is from the - yvette cooper, who is from the labour party, chair of the home affairs select committee here in the uk. the president of ghana has become the world's first recipient of the coronavirus vaccine from covax, a scheme to procure and distribute inoculations for free for poorer countries. as you can see here, the president of ghana has received his covid vaccine. a wider covax programme will begin in ghana tomorrow, but health workers in ivory coast are being vaccinated today. our global health correspondent naomi grimley reports: we all owe a debt of gratitude to countries like south africa, which participated in the global vaccine trials. scientists needed areas of high incidents to find out if their vaccines worked. the question is will those countries now get all the doses they need to cover their most vulnerable citizens? welcome, all. at the world health organization they've been trying to focus minds. i need to be b

yvette cooper. you're watching monday in parliament with me, david cornock.rs in the house of lords. the defence secretary has announced that an raf unit is to be disbanded, following the release of a video appearing to show a man being sexually assaulted. a report in the daily mail claimed the footage showed the young airman being abused during an initiation ceremony. the raf police are investigating the incident and the victims have been offered our full support. the chief of the air staff and i had a discussion about the incident over the weekend, and he has — with my support — acted quickly. he has removed officers from the immediate chain of command without prejudice, pending the findings of a police investigation, and the unit involved, the support weapons flight, will be disbanded with immediate effect. bullying, harassment and discrimination has no place in our armed forces, and i and neither will the chief of the air staff tolerate it. at defence questions, mps focused on the review of foreign and defence policy, due to be unveiled by borisjohnson on

when borisjohnson faced questioning from the liaison committee of senior mps, labour's yvette cooperd france now had 2000 to 3000 new cases each day of the south african and brazilian variants, against which vaccines may be less effective. you said just this week previous experience has taught us that when a wave hits ourfriends in europe, i'm afraid it washes up on our shores here as well but that is because we had no border restrictions in place. shouldn't that previous experience have taught us that what we need is an effective border arrangements to stop... all right, thank you, yvette... you have been advised that you need to bring in restrictions and testing... no, that isn't actually true but thank you for giving me the opportunity to clarify that, yvette. there is a balance to be struck. and what we don't know is the efficacy of the vaccines against the new variants, and we have to balance that against the very serious disruption that is entailed by curtailing our cross—channel trade, this country depends very largely for the food in our shops, the medicines that we need on t

good i forward to yvette cooper. good afternoon _ forward to yvette cooper.u fail to quarantine. there is a group of people who are exempt as you say. they are overwhelmingly people involved in bringing in for instance medicines food to the uk. they typically turnaround very rapidly and go back to france. there is an issue about whether we decide to apply a more stringent measures to apply a more stringent measures to them with the delays that would entail. and the knock—on effects that that would entail. we are certainly looking at that but people should be in no illusions that it would have consequences. that should be in no illusions that it would have consequences. that is not an answer to — would have consequences. that is not an answer to my _ would have consequences. that is not an answer to my question _ would have consequences. that is not an answer to my question which - would have consequences. that is not an answer to my question which was i an answer to my question which was about whether you now felt that last year's failure to put border restri

this was something that yvette cooper was pressing the prime minister on as to whether there would beed to be struck between protecting public health and protecting public health and protecting case levels here in the uk but also, allowing that trade to flow freely, stressing how heavily the uk relies on that cross channel route for food supplies, medicine supplies and much more besides. his key quote their was that the government would take a decision no matter how tough to interrupt that trade, if we think that is necessary. it may be that we have to do that very soon.— do that very soon. jeremy hunt of the health committee _ do that very soon. jeremy hunt of the health committee asked - do that very soon. jeremy hunt of| the health committee asked about possible retaliation to any potential banning of exports of vaccines by the eu and his response was quite interesting in that? yes. was quite interesting in that? yes, this is another _ was quite interesting in that? yes, this is another very _ was quite interesting in that? yes, this is another very timely - was quite interesting i

interesting, we have heard from the home secretary and the home affairs select committee chair lady yvette cooperhe road map may suggest, i think that this discussion we're having around this variant today, the fact there's a missing person in terms of this case, does show how uncertain the situation is if we needed reminding. around coronavirus can be. the health secretary matt hancock will be leading the downing street briefing this evening. we'll have full coverage from 4:30 on bbc one and the bbc news channel. new data from the office of national statistics suggests that in early december teachers had similar rates of covid antibodies to adults working in their local area. 15% of staff tested positive for antibodies, compared to about 18% of people of working age in the same local authorities tested around the same time. it suggests that teaching in person is risk—free for teachers but it does suggest that teaching, with the measures currently in place to reduce transmission, does not put them at markedly higher risk. the headlines on bbc news... the duke of edinburgh has been transferred to