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Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Gps have been asked to be on standby from the start of next month to offer the new Covid Vaccination if regulators say its safe and effective. The governments already ordered enough doses of the vaccine for 20 Million People. This as the number of weekly registered deaths involving coronavirus in england and wales has exceeded 1000 for the First Time Sincejune. 0ur Health Correspondent Anna Collinson has more. A possible Coronavirus Vaccine has been likene...

Donald trump had threatened to bring all american troops home by christmas. Hes not going quite that far, but he will reduce the us military presence in iraq and afghanistan before he leaves office. So, lets look at that plan in a bit more detail. At the moment, there are 3000 soldiers stationed in iraq. 500 of them will be pulled out. The drawdown looks much more meaningful in afghanistan, where 2000 of the a500 us troops will be withdrawn. They are part of the nato force in place to support wh...

After he was suspended, labour has reinstated Jeremy Corbyn who says hes sorry for the hurt caused in the row over antisemitism. In thailand more violence in the streets of bangkok as protesters demand changes to the countrys constitution. They are spraying water cannon. Its laced with chemicals so you can really smell the tear gas in it. And for the first time, a fully operational private spacecraft takes astronauts from earth to the intermational space station. And coming up in sport, on bbc n...

Nothing. I have a long way to go. Well go live to the white house in a moment for the late es on this ongoing outgoing president and the conspiracy theories that he is sticking with here. Were also keeping an eye on this, the Kennedy Space center in florida where the Spacex Falcon 9 rocket is set to blast off in just a few hours from now. If nasas schedule and the weather holds, this rocket will blast off in a couple of hours on another Historic Mission to the International Space station. We are...

Paid £21 million of taxpayers money for acting as a go between to secure ppe for nhs staff. And a new era in commercial space travel begins, the first fully operational private flight takes astonauts to the International Space station. Large parts of scotland are being put into effective lockdown from friday until just two weeks before christmas to try to reverse worryingly high infection rates. More than 2. 5 Million People will be affected in glasgow, as well as east and south ayrshire, renfr...

Reporters he plans to visit georgia a week from today to rally support for republican candidates ahead of the two senate runoffs. But in the past few weeks are any indication hell likely be going to georgia to tout some debunked fraud conspiracies. Joining me now opinion columnist for the washington post, shauna thomas, msnbc political contributor, david jolly, former congressman and contributor, and latasha brown, cofounder of black votes matters. Thank you for joining me. Shauna, i want to sta...

And tony blairs biggest mistake. Members of labours ruling National Executive will meet this afternoon to considerJeremy Corbyns suspension from the party last month. And coming up on the programme well speak to 12 year old chef omari mcqueen, whos landed himself his own cooking show on cbbc. Were expecting very shortly the first minister of scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, to stand up and announce whether parts of scotland will be moved into the countrys highest tier of covid 19 restrictions level 4....

Gradually easing as we had to this afternoon but there is still quite a cold wind making things feel colder than they are. A ridge of High Pressure building on from the west but the wind is rotating around that coming from a north westerly direction so particularly brisk winds around eastern parts of scotla nd winds around eastern parts of scotland and Eastern England and flood warnings with high tide combined with these winds. Most area staying largely dry through the afternoon. The brisk stayi...

Than 4 million new cases just this month alone. Were going to have more on the pandemic in just a moment. We begin first at the white house, with cnns jeremy diamond. This week, President Trump said he would leave the white house if the Electoral College confirms bidens victory. Then he backtracked. Is he any closer to accepting the reality of this loss . Reporter privately now, weve been told for a couple weeks that President Trump understands the reality here, that he is unlikely to be able to...

They should have kept us locked down. The chancellor prepares to set out the british governments Spending Plans for the coming year. The Spending Review will give a boost to the health service, but expect a sting in the tail for Public Sector workers in england and private pensions. France gets a partial reprieve from its strict coronavirus lockdown, as president macron announces his country has passed the peak of the second wave. Britains spending watchdog says ppe stockpiles in england were in...