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The European Union will step up sanctions against Belarus and those closest to its leader in response to an escalating migrant crisis. The government in Minsk denies that it is deliberately engineering the crisis. Thousands of people are still stranded in the freezing cold on Belarus鈥檚 border with Poland, hoping to cross into the European Union. We鈥檒l hear from our correspondent at a border crossing in Belarus where a tense stand-off is taking place between border guards and hundreds of migrants.

Austria has introduced a partial lockdown for the two million people who haven鈥檛 had two doses of coronavirus vaccine. We鈥檒l bring together people who are affected by the restrictions to hear why they have not had their jabs. We鈥檒l also discuss the measures with our regular coronavirus expert Dr Eleanor Murray, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health.

And we'll talk about lockdown measures India is considering because of air pollution in the capital Delhi.

(Photo: A migrant holds a child at the Bruzgi-Kuznica Bialostocka border crossing on the Belarusian-Polish border in the Grodno Region, Belarus November 15, 2021. Credit: Leonid Scheglov/BelTA/Handout via REUTERS)