We we this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. 90 year old grandmother, Margaret Keenan, becomes the first person in the world to receive the pfizer covid 19 jab, following its clinical approval. Applause. She was given the vaccine at her local hospital in coventry. 800,000 doses are currently available in the uk with up to four million more expected by the end of the month. It was fine, it was fine. I wasnt nervous at all, it was really good, yeah. Shes protecting herself, but shes also helping to protect entire country. Across the whole of the uk this morning, that is happening in scotland, Northern Ireland
and wales, in england, people are having the vaccine for the first time. Let us know your thoughts on the start of the Mass Vaccination Programme in the uk on twitter im geetagurumurthy or its bbcyourquestions. The rest of the headlines. Borisjohnson heads to brussels later this week for face to face talks saying a post brexit trade de
This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. In russia, thousands are arrested as supporters of the jailed Opposition Leader Alexay Navalny take to the streets. Senior uk doctors in britain call for a change to the Pfizer Vaccine roll out, saying the long delay between doses is difficult to justify. The British Medical Association wants the gap between jabs to be reduced by half. At least it would be in keeping with International Best practice guidance. There is no other nation, internationally, that has adopted a 12 week delay. Borisjohnson and President Biden speak for the First Time Since the inauguration and pledge to Work Together towards a green recovery. A curfew has come into force in the netherlands, as part of new measures to contain coronavirus. And the american broadcaster and talk show host, larry king, has died at the age of 87. Hello, and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. The uk foreign secretary dominic ra
No word whether they are dead or alive. The mother of one of these men has a direct message for isis publically pleading for her sons life. Translator to all members of isis kenji is not an enemy of isis. I think he is a man able to help you as your friend once you get to know him. Over the past three days simply i cant understand what was happening around me. When i consider again how my son has caused inconvenience and troubles for so many people i will take this opportunity to apologize again from the bottom of my heart. Joining me now cnn political commentator and david rode held captive for seven months after being captured by the taliban. Welcome to you. Beginning with you in your own experience you got away. No ransom was paid. Why do you think we dont still know the situation with these two japanese hostages. Do you think its possible isis is giving them more time . If they are, its probably not much more. Its a bleak situation. There was a tweet from one isis follower early th
Our reporting begins this tuesday afternoon with the attorney general, william barr, testifying on capitol hill regarding the Mueller Report. For you today, we have four headlines. First, attorney general barr says he expected to release the redacted report within a week. Second, mueller had no part in the barr letter that weve seen on the matter. Number 3, william barr will not release the full report to any committee of congress. Fourth, barr refused to answer today whether the white house has seen the report or been briefed on it. Lawmakers on the House Appropriations committee grilled the nations top Law Enforcement official on how he has handled Robert Muellers findings on the russia investigation. The committees chair woman said shes concerned that the attorney general was able to summarize nearly 400 pages in just a couple days. All we have is your fourpage summary, which seems to cherrypick from the report to draw the most favorable conclusion possible for the president. In man
My fingers, but, still, but sadly, my colleague hand longtime mentor lori kaye was standing in the lobby. She was shot point blank. She was the ultimate woman of kindness, and its unfathomable while this beautiful, beautiful wonderful human being would be shot down. Her mother just recently died, and she came to services to memorialize her mother, and her daughter drove down from ucla and she has an only daughter hana, and she came down to be able to be with her mother, and shes doing the memorial service, so she was there to witness and to be there as her mother lane yne on the floor dy. Unfathomable, undescribable terror. And this has to stop. Just one acount of stories were now hearing about the terrifying moments inside the synagogue. 60yearold lori kaye is the woman who died by jumping between the shooter and the rabbi. We now know a 19yearold man is charged with one count of firstdegree murder and three count of firstdegree attempted man. That man is john earnest who will be arra