Texas prisons: Families visit for the first time in a year

We hear from people in Texas in the United States who are visiting their family members in prison for the first time in a year - with coronavirus restrictions being eased in the state.

Also, we continue to look back at the year of the coronavirus pandemic and this week we’ll be playing a conversation with four journalists in India, Brazil, Italy and the US about what it has been like to cover the story and how different governments have handled the pandemic.

And we speak to our coronavirus experts about the concerns over possible side effects of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine. Germany has become the latest country to suspend the use of the vaccine but the WHO has said there is no link between vaccine and reports of blood clots.

(Federal Medical Center (United States federal prison) in Fort Worth, Texas, 12/05/2020. Credit: European Pressphoto Agency)