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So, russians are bracing for another tough year once the festive lights go out. the covid vaccine has brought a flicker of hope, but this virus is one thing the kremlin is struggling to control. sarah rainsford, bbc news, moscow. the scottish government has pledged an extra 41 million pounds to support businesses which were forced to close as they entered the countrys top tier of coronavirus measures yesterday. the holyrood government says its now allocated more than three and a half billion pou...

Suburbs have gone back into lockdown. there was an amnesty for a couple of days over christmas but those regions are now back under those restrictions. other parts of the northern beaches have stay—at—home orders imposed on residents. there are restrictions on other parts of sydney as well. australia had been hoping for a covid—safe christmas but this outbreak in sydney is causing the authorities a great deal of concern, and these restrictions in sydney will last until wednesday and then t...

Needs to be provided, even education. and this is quite a challenge for a country like bangladesh. thank you so much for coming on to talk about this with us. lots of different coronavirus restrictions remain in place across the world as countries try to keep the pandemic under control. cases are rising in russia, but president vladimir putin says he wont impose a new national lockdown as he tries to protect the economy. 0ur moscow correspondent sarah rainsford reports. red square is at its pict...

Gutters and will be 13—15 metres long, trained along the wires. these wires stretch up to the roof. its designed for high—wire crops like cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers. so how long does it take to grow a cucumber, and is it difficult? it takes about 18 days. it is difficult. theres a whole plethora of different actions that need to be taken at the correct time. and it depends on the amount of sunlight as well, it depends on the quality of the water. everything has to be done correctly. onc...

This is called a wet well and it was purpose—built for this greenhouse project here in norwich. it is diverting water from the treatment plant into this heat exchange building. so this is the heat exchanger building and theres two types of pipes in here. the silver pipe is taking the effluent, so the clean water from the treatment plant. its putting it into these heat exchangers. and from the heat exchanger, the heat is taken off, put into these red pipes, which then pump it 2.5 kilometres dow...

The headlines: cases of the more contagious variant of covid—19 first identified in the uk have been confirmed in several european countries, including spain, sweden and france. the variant strain has also been found injapan and canada. meanwhile, some eu nations have started their mass vaccination programmes 24 hours early. federal agents have searched a house on the outskirts of nashville, tenessee — as part of their investigation into the christmas day explosion there. police say they hav...

There that do care and actually we do care. we do. during lockdown, marcus and his mum, mel, worked with the food charity fair share. they raised £20 million, enough to feed more than 3 million children throughout the uk. today, they are visiting their local depot in manchester. hi, there. hello, mr rashford. welcome to fareshare greater manchester. we have got some ppe to share with you. the mayor of manchester andy burnham is attending. some of the comments were hard to listen to in the debat...

Is to go back to myanmar, but that is not happening with the myanmar authorities not making it happen. so this relocation seems to be one of the options. at least 10 climbers are now known to have died during an avalanche in iran. more than a dozen others were rescued from the alborz mountain range, north of tehran. the victims include a mountaineering instructor. a search operation is continuing for other survivors. gusts of more than 100mph have been recorded as storm bella continues to bring ...

For the australian open. and a brilliant unbeaten century from ajinkjya rahane puts india in control of the second test against australia in melbourne. hello and welcome to sportsday. earlier leeds bounced back from their heavy defeat at manchester united with a hard—earned win over burnley at elland road. the breakthrough coming early, patrick bamford winning a penalty after nick pope brought him down. ba mford then ruthlessly dispatched the spot kick.

They call it the greatest show on earth. take your marks for tokyo 2020. that was the sporting year that wasnt. a calendar with a line through it. 2020 showed sports irrelevance, but also strangely its importance. it all began fatefully in smoke. fumes from the bushfires which were ravaging australia injanuary choked the melbourne air ahead of the australian open. at one point, the city had the worst air quality in the world. the whole competition was in doubt. but the winds changed, and the cro...