Victims' families hang in the balance, without answers or compensation, after the deaths of their loved ones in Iran's alleged strike of an Israeli-owned merchant tanker
on a tanker off oman is named as adrian underwood. a minute s silence and the reading of victims names of victims names to commemorate exactly one year since the catastrophic explosion in the port city of beirut. new research shows the amount of people worldwide who are exposed to flooding has risen by 24% since the turn of the century ten times higher than scientists previously thought. calls to boost the uk s forestry industry as the price of timber and pressure on supplies rise sharply. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. scientists advising the government have given the go ahead for 16 and 17 year olds to be given the pfizer coronavirus vaccine.
119 deaths were recorded in the past 2a hours that s an average of 81 deaths a day in the past week. the number of people in hospital with covid seems to have levelled off atjust under 6,000. almost 89% of uk adults have now had their firstjab, and just over 73% are now fully vaccinated. the british security guard who died last thursday in a drone attack on a ship off the coast of oman has been named as adrian underwood. a romanian sailor was killed in the same attack on the vessel mercer street. police are investigating the incident which britain, the us and israel have blamed on iran s revolutionary guard. scotland s first minister nicola sturgeon has said that people will find it a bit odd and a bit strange that the prime minister, borisjohnson, has not
the british security guard who died last thursday in a drone attack on a ship off the coast of oman has been named as adrian underwood. a romanian sailor was killed in the same attack on the vessel mercer street. police are investigating the incident, which britain, the us and israel have blamed on iran s revolutionary guard. scotland s first minister nicola sturgeon has said that people will find it a bit odd and a bit strange that the prime minister has turned down her invitation to meet during his two day trip to scotland. borisjohnson denied that claim, saying he was always delighted to meet ms sturgeon. our scotland correspondent james cook has more. this is boris johnson this is borisjohnson reminding us that he is prime minister of the entire united kingdom. policing in scotland is usually a matter for the scottish government. you scotland is usually a matter for the scottish government. scotland is usually a matter for the scottish government. you will be on the round scotti