sides in the champions league quarterfinals. chelsea join liverpool and manchester city in the last eight, after a convincing win over the spanish league leaders atletico madrid. keeping beauty spots beautiful when the covid restrictions lift why landowners want more people to pay attention to the countryside code. good morning. today once again is going to be fairly cloudy for most with some patchy rain coming down the east of the country. the best of the east of the country. the best of the sunshine in the south west and also central and eastern parts of scotland. i will have all the details later in the programme. it s thursday the 18th of march. our top story. people under the age of 50 are unlikely to get their first dose of a covid vaccine before the end of april because of what nhs england is calling a significant reduction in supply. it s understood to have been caused by a delay in the manufacture of millions of doses of the oxford astrazeneca vaccine in india.
Then a Leave Minister said they had waited their life to do it. Theresa may wants to get on and trigger article 50 well before her self imposed deadline of the end of march. The possible date is the ninth or 10th of march. It has to be a formal letter from the uk. The reason why they want to get an early if they have been advised the European Commission and the European Council will be able to give their formal response before the first round of the president ial election on the 23rd of april, but only if they go early. Obviously, if they do not go early, the second round of the french president ial election is made seventh. Hugh knows. May. Not a great day for labour. Divided, 47 mps defied a three line whip, three members of the Shadow Cabinet resigned, although between ten and 13 Labour Frontbenchers are still in place and as i understand Itjeremy Corbyn is in no rush to do the usual thing, to sack them, hes going to wait for next week and see if any of the amendments we see at the
Its 9am here in singapore, 1am in london and 5pm in hollywood, where its the biggest night of the year. The Oscar Ceremony gets underway in half an hour, and the biggest names in the film world have been arriving. We go straight now to peter bowes for the latest. It is or is an exciting night for hollywood. Welcome to los angeles, perhaps we should say la la land, because it is a film that everybody is talking about. 1k nominations. It could set about. 1k nominations. It could set a record. Lets see how it does in all of those categories that it is nominated for later on this evening. As you have already said, it could be one of the most politicised oscars ceremonies for a long time. And also notable for the racial diversity of the nominees, which is something that has been a huge controversy something that has been a huge c0 ntrove isy over something that has been a huge controversy over the last few years in hollywood, with only white actors nominated in the acting categories for the
Its 9am here in singapore, 1am in london and 5pm in hollywood, where its the biggest night of the year. The Oscar Ceremony gets underway in half an hour, and the biggest names in the film world have been arriving. We go straight now to peter bowes for the latest. It is or is an exciting night for hollywood. Welcome to los angeles, perhaps we should say la la land, because it is a film that everybody is talking about. 1k nominations. It could set about. 1k nominations. It could set a record. Lets see how it does in all of those categories that it is nominated for later on this evening. As you have already said, it could be one of the most politicised oscars ceremonies for a long time. And also notable for the racial diversity of the nominees, which is something that has been a huge controversy something that has been a huge c0 ntrove isy over something that has been a huge controversy over the last few years in hollywood, with only white actors nominated in the acting categories for the
Of public funds, but he rejects calls to step aside. Karen pence, 350, not content is, 256, so the contents have it. Contents. The British Government suffers a first defeat on brexit legislation. The House Of Lords backs an Opposition Amendment which could delay theresa mays timetable. And read my lips. A rare glimpse into the president s big speech preparations. Youre watching one hundred days with Katty Kay In Washington and Christian Fraser is in london. It was a very different donald trump who addressed Congress Last night less flame thrower, more president. He was still tough on immigration and terrorism but there was a surprising splattering of optimism, too. Even the odd call for unity. And it seems people here liked it. In fact, so favourable were the Morning Headlines even from what he calls the failing New York Times that an often irascible president could find nothing to moan about. On his twitter page was this thank you, and in bold type, too lets have a listen to some of w