this is bbc news — these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. every adult in england will be offered a covid booster by the end of the month— as the health secretary promises to "throw everything" at beating omicron. what we have now that we didn't have before with any of the other variants when they started is that we have vaccines. now, we know that two don't work. we know that three do. that's why it's eminently sensible, absolutely the right thing to take this action. the target will mean up to a million jabs a day, but there's concern over the scale of the task for an already stretched nhs. a hong kong court sentences hong kong businessmanjimmy lai and seven others for taking part in a vigil to marking the 1989 tiananmen massacre.