The drive to get more laptops to children to help them with Home Schooling. And how all these lockdown video calls from home have prompted an unexpected boost in business for books. And coming up on bbc news. West bromwich albion Contact Police over alleged online racist abuse of romaine sawyers. Hes the Third Premier League player to receive abuse this week. Good evening. Yet another new vaccine has been shown to be effective in major trials in just 2a hours. The latest is the janssen vaccine. Its 66 effective overall and only needs a single dose. And crucially its 85 effective against severe disease. Last night novavax announced uk trials had shown its vaccine to be 89 effective. And crucially that vaccine protects against the new more contagious uk variant. If approved the uk has millions of doses of both vaccines on order though they wouldnt be available until later in the year. Our medical editor fergus walsh reports. Covid Vaccine Trials keep delivering results beyond all expecta
The most and conservative thing i could do would be to cut taxes by increasing borrowing. Thats just cutting taxes and saying future generations have to pick up the tax after. I wont to do that. But i do want, where its possible to do so, responsibly, to move towards a lower tax economy, and id hope to show a pass in that direction. But this will be a prudent and responsible budget for long term growth, tackling inflation, my investments, morejobs, and thats path to lower taxation as and when we can afford it. But you said also, that the forecast from the obr, which is the economic watchdog which marks your homework, you have said that the numbers have gone against us. So the picture is bleaker than it was at the beginning of the year . Why then are you looking now to cut taxes at all . These forecasts change the whole time. What happened in the autumn was that the forecast went in our favour unexpectedly, quite close to the end. So i was able to introduce the biggest business tax cuts
we are live in ukraine as the country marks a year to the day since russia s invasion. we have a special report on the battle for one strategic town. a t20 world cup semi final. on bbc london: a year after the war in ukraine began and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel. harry brook breaks another test record to put england on top in the second test against new zealand. action for three days, it s got a pretty difficult to deal with across the nhs. there will be other parts of the nhs taking industrial action in march. there will also be ambulance worker strikes on 6th march, 8th march, 20th march involving three separate unions. there is no strike action in scotland after a higher pay offer and some unions are considering an offerfrom the welsh and some unions are considering an offer from the welsh government. the royal college of nursing is in talk with ministers about pay in england. but no news yet on how that is progressed. thank you. pol
were strip searched by police forces in england and wales over four years. and counting is under way in a referendum on whether to make berlin climate neutral by 2030. president biden has declared a major emergency in the state of mississippi, where a tornado has left hundreds homeless. this is the moment on friday when the wind barrelled through a school in the area, captured by cctv cameras inside. and these are the latest drone pictures after the tornado struck carving a path of destruction 170 miles long. at least 26 people were killed in mississippi and one person in alabama. dozens have been injured. 0ur north america correspondent sophie long reports from mississippi. this is rolling fork, a small, close community in mississippi. there is little left. they ve lost loved ones, their homes, everything. we get storms like bad rain or, you know, probably high winds or something. but we never experience nothing like this where it can wipe out a whole town. you know, schoo
This is afghanistan, one year into taliban rule. Ive come here to investigate the disappearance of a woman. Under the last government, alia azizi was a successful career woman as a high ranking prison officer. Hard won freedoms are being rolled back following the talibans victory. Women have been forced out of the workplace. Since the taliban returned to power, the inmates she had been guarding are now running the prison. Alia left work, assuming her career was over, but to her surprise, she was called back to herjob. Then a month later, she disappeared. I want to find out what happened to her and what the taliban authorities are doing about it. Herfamily hasnt heard from her for eight months. I visited their home in herat, western afghanistan. Inaudible dialogue until the return of the taliban, alia had been the familys main breadwinner. Alias eldest son also worked at the prison, but was not called back by the taliban. The family reported alia missing in october. The taliban said the