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good afternoon. there s mounting pressure on the government to close all schools in england for face to face teaching for two weeks after the christmas holidays. teaching unions say a move to home learning for most children is necessary to curb the spread of coronavirus. one union has described it as, the only sensible and credible option. it comes after the education secretary said all london primaries would remain shut on monday, rather than only those in some boroughs. here s our education correspondent, dan johnson. in liverpool, teachers are already at the head of the queue for tests, but there are more and more voices saying schools should not reopen on monday. it seems to me just to be inexplicable that the government is getting it so badly wrong. we said all schools should be closed for the first two weeks, and we regret to have to say that. we don t want to have to say that schools will close. but ourfear is, if we do not do something now, they will have to b ....
for breaking covid restrictions. this could be a year for positive change. sir david attenborough has praised mankind s ability to pull together after a tough year, in a special new year s message. music plays and 36 years after its first release, wham!‘s last christmas finally tops the uk music charts. teaching unions have welcomed a government decision that every primary school in london will now stay closed next week after the christmas holidays. most of the schools were set to stay closed anyway but schools in nine london boroughs including greenwich and haringey were supposed to open. the mayor of london sadiq khan has tweeted his support for the move so has the leader of greenwich council but it is yet to be confirmed by the department for education. we have had a statement from the national education union. he says it is welcome that albeit in the last minute fashion ministers have corrected a nonsensical position unjustifiable by evidence or sense. let s s ....
a doctors‘ union. people will receive the two doses of the oxford and pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart, although initially the plan was to leave 21 days between the pfizerjabs. the british medical association said cancelling patients booked in for their second doses was grossly unfair . the government says it‘s delivered a million doses of the vaccine but some are concerned about the speed of the roll out. our health correspondent jim reed has more. sara nathan‘s mother, mary, is in a nursing home. she is due the second dose of her covid vaccination next week. that is now in doubt. we were hoping that we could actually relax with her. she‘s 89, she may have that much longer. she‘s 89, she may not have that much longer. we want to notjust have to see her in the park, to be able to see her inside as well, it‘s cold. if she had had both vaccines, then we would be able to think, yeah, 0k, mum, we can get on with looking after you in the way you ought to be lo ....
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the republican controlled us senate has overturned president trump s veto of a $740 billion defence bill, handing the republican president the first veto defeat of his presidency weeks before he leaves office. seeing then on this vote the ayes are 81, the nays are 13. two thirds of the senators voting, the quorum being present. having voted in the affirmative, the bill on reconsideration is passed. the objections of the president of the united states to the contrary notwithstanding. mr trump had criticised a clause that would lead to the removal of the names of confederate generals from us military bases. the move is seen as a humiliating rebuke of the president. evelyn farkas is a former deputy assistant secretary of defense in the 0bama administration. i asked her what she thought about this vote. well, i think it shows a couple of things. first of all, obviously with the loss of the presidential election, ....
with the champions liverpool questioning the criteria and pointing out that some children at the top of the premier league, cross boroughs to go to school. after beating aston last night the education secretary announced a change, which means all of london s primary villa last night. schools will now stay closed. the absolute right place ready? down and up! for all children to be is in school, but we need to really focus he got millions of us up and about during lockdown in 2020, on making school safe and ensuring that we get a clear strategy but what has joe wicks in place to support our most got planned for 2021? we ll speak to him just before 9:00. disadvantaged children, whom we are extremely worried about that attainment gap which has grown massively for them, as this pandemic continues to rage. it s not the first decision the department of education has had good morning. 0ur cold spell of to reverse, but ministers say weather is going to continue for quite a while ....