you can send me a message by the usual ways. you can send me a message by the usual ways. thousands of women stage rallies, across australia to protest against gender discrimination and violence. martial law is imposed in more areas of yangon in myanmar, after one of the deadliest days of protest since last month s coup. further lockdown easing as more children return to school in scotland and hairdressers reopen in wales. the grammy goes to beyonce! at the grammys, beyonce breaks the record for the most awards ever won by a woman. as an artist, i believe it is myjob, and all of ourjobs, to reflect the times and it has been such a difficult time. and coming up in around halfan hour, we ll talk live to katie price as her petition to make it more difficult for online trolls to be anonymous passes 100,000 signatures. hello, and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. borisjohnson will chair a meeting today of the uk government s crime and justice taskforc
you were pretty insistent, actually. this year s oscar nominations are announced with many brits, including carey mulligan, up for the top acting prizes. the grammy goes to beyonce. and beyonce makes grammys history breaking the record for the most awards ever won by a woman, and there s british success for harry styles and dua lipa. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister has said the country is united in shock and grief at the killing of sarah everard. borisjohnson said her death had unleashed a wave of feeling about the safety of women in britain, and insisted the government would work to ensure that women had confidence in the justice system. following strong criticism of the police s handling of saturday s vigil in london, mrjohnson said he continued to back the metropolitan police chief, cressida dick, and said there would be an investigation into what happened. here s our correspondent, richard galpin. the kidnap and murder of sarah everard has tri
cabinet ministers tell the bbc the government should have brought in tougher restrictions in the autumn to tackle the second wave of the virus. i would not let him tell me. and as this year s oscar nominations are announced we ll be speaking to the director of the white tiger, which has been nomimated for best adapted screenplay. france and italy have joined germany in becoming the latest countries to suspend use of the astrazeneca vaccine as a precautionary measure, over concerns of possible side effects. french president emmanuel macron said the country would stop administering the vaccine pending an assessment by the european union s medicine regulator on tuesday. the republic of ireland made a similar decision over the weekend following reports of blood clotting in recipients in norway. but the world health organization says there is no indication of a link between the vaccine and blood clots. the announcements by follow similar moves by denmark, norway, bulgaria, iceland
that will actually make it to the line and there will be a lot of backroom cajoling and backroom dealing going on over the next few days. in london, a group of conservative mps have warned the prime minister rishi sunak that he risks eroding public trust if he fails to drastically cut immigration. calling themselves the new conservatives , the group has published a plan to cut net migration by about 400,000 by the next election. our political correspondent damian grammaticas is at westminster for us now. new mps at the last election that say the commitment they stood at the time of that election was to see immigration to the uk declining, and at the time it was around 200,000 a year. the balance of the population
on, in the nhs, social care, agriculture, who wants not fewer but more workers, universities who do not want to see the numbers of foreign students going down either. so he and his key ministers are considering how to respond to those figures next week, but on the evidence of this, it looks like he s trying to perhaps distance himself from an electoral promise you may not be able to keep by the time everyone votes again in the next election. mil everyone votes again in the next election. ., everyone votes again in the next election. . ., ., , election. all right, damian, many thanks again. election. all right, damian, many thanks again, damian election. all right, damian, many. thanks again, damian grammaticas election. all right, damian, many- thanks again, damian grammaticas at westminster. scientists have warned today that the world will almost certainly experience its hottest year on record within the coming five years, and a key temperature threshold is likely to be breached