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live from our studio in singapore — this is bbc news. it's newsday. it's 8am in singapore, and 7pm in washington where the first day of the new us congress has been full of drama. after the swearing in of new members, the house of representatives is stuck at the very first hurdle — for the first time in 100 years the house failed to elect a speaker in the first ballot. the house has now adjourned until wednesday after three rounds of votes. the latest saw the republican kevin mccarthy fall 16 votes short of the 218 majority required. nothing can go ahead until a new speaker is el...

live from our studio in singapore — this is bbc news. it's newsday. it's 7am in singapore, and 6pm in washington where the first day of the new us congress has been full of drama. after the swearing in of new members, the house of representatives is stuck at the very first hurdle — for the first time in 100 years the house failed to elect a speaker. the house has now adjourned until wednesday after three rounds of votes. the latest saw the republican kevin mccarthy fall 16 votes short of the 218 majority required. it's important because nothing can go ahead until a new speaker is...

I spoke to professor andy pekocz, a virologist atjohns hopkins university in the us and asked him if he thought the restrictions on chinese travellers actually work. where much better off focusing on the core problem, but we really want to know it's more about the types of variants circling in china and things we can do to help get a better insight into that is really the important thing at this time. professor, we have heard from the world health organization haven't we, who have consistently asking for more data, more transparency from china. are you optimistic we are going to get that kind ...

Travel restrictions or testing programmes really do nothing more than often times delay the inevitable. they are never perfect we are much better off focusing on the core problem, which is what we really want to know them of the types of variants that are circulating in china and things that we can do to help get a better insight into that is really the important thing at this time. professor, we have heard from the front to help organisation who are consistently asking for more data, more transparency from china. are you optimistic we are going to get that kind of data? we you optimistic we a...

In south africa, thank you _ taken about us. minister for tourism in south africa, thank you so - taken about us. minister for tourism in south africa, thank you so much i in south africa, thank you so much for speaking to us on bbc1 news. thank you. as we've been hearing, the world health organization has classed this latest mutation as a "variant of concern" and given it the name "omicron". we can speak now to dr catherine smallwood — whe is the senior emergencies officer and covid—i9 incident manager at the world health organization. thank you very much. from the information that they w...