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Will close to most pupils from later today until the february half term due to the lockdown, and summer exams will mostly be cancelled. Our education editor bra nwen jeffreys reports. Some schools did not reopen today staff too worried about the new variant of covid. Tonight, the Prime Minister accepting the virus spreads in schools. And i want to stress that the problem is not that schools are unsafe for children. Children are still very unlikely to be severely affected by even the new variant of covid. The problem is that schools may nonetheless act as vectors fortransmission, causing the vi...

Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. First. Scotland has largely gone into a National Lockdown following a rise in new coronavirus cases. People will have to stay at home for anything other than essential purposes, and schools will have to provide distance learning, until at least the first of february. With me is news reporterjohn mcmanus. John, reporterjohn mcmanus. Tell us more about the restriction. John, tell us more about the restriction. James, those restrictions that were annou...

England is back in a National Lockdown as soaring covid case numbers threaten to overwhelm the health service. The move follows advice from the uks chief medical officers who raised the coronavirus alert level to the highest possible. Mrjohnson said the weeks ahead will be the hardest yet. It will be the hardest yet. Is clear that we need to t more it is clear that we need to do more together to bring this new variant under control while our vaccines are rolled out. In england we must therefore enter a National Lockdown which is tough enough to contain this variant. That means the government i...

Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. The International Reach of the black lives Matter Movement has put a new focus on racism in sport. My guest today is an athlete who made a stand. Adam goodes was a star in aussie rules football, one of the greatest ever players of aboriginal descent. He quit the game after years of racist abuse. A movie has been made of his story. What can australia and the wider world learn from it . Theme music plays adam goodes in new south wales, welcome to hardtalk. Thanks for having me, mate. Adam, you quit your sport, aussie rules football in 2015, having made a s...

The covid threat is to be raised to the highest level five across the uk , following a warning from all four chief medical officers that the Health Services are at risk of being overwhelmed within three weeks. With coronavirus cases continuing to rise rapidly, driven by the new variant of the virus, the number of covid 19 patients in hospitals across the uk is also increasing sharply. Our Health Editor hugh pym has the latest. On the front line of a major London Hospital today. Here at st georges, staff say its exceptionally busy after a big increase in admissions of Covid Patients. Over the w...