To help Small Businesses trying to survive the pandemic. 100 in his 100th test match. What a player england Captainjoe Root marks his 100th test with 100 of his own. They cant because the vice chair is here. I take charge and the Parish Council meeting in cheshire that went viral. And coming up on bbc news three months after it ended the six nations begins again well look ahead as england start the defence of their title. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Almost half the uk population 32 Million People should be vaccinated against coronavirus by may. The government says it expects all adults over the age of 50 as well as the clinically vulnerable and those working in health and social care to have received their firstjab by then. The uks medicines regulator says the latest Research Shows side effects from all three vaccines are minor and dont last long. As cases continue to fall, politicians are divided over how soon restrictions should be lifted. Heres our medical edito
To receive migrants who will be flown at of the country as a deterrent and this is very different way to eat into the numbers that are still waiting to be processed and we will get to that a little later. Let us focus because the head of the cia, william the head of the cia William Burns told the Senate Intel Committee last night that more losses are likely in ukraine unless congress can pass joe biden s ukraine aid package, which has been opposed by republicans. It is our assessment that with supplemental assistance, ukraine can hold its own on the front lines through 2024 and into 2025 and down another road without supplemental assistance, it seems to me that theres a much grimmer future. Ukraine is likely to lose ground and probably significant ground in 2024. There is a bi partisan majority in the house that would vote for the 60bn Dollars In Military Aid which the Senate Approved six weeks ago. But House Speaker mikejohnson is standing in the way. This afternoon the Senate Minorit
A number of people were seen being carried off the lifeboat on stretchers when the vessel docked in dover. French Officials Say six people have died. The mp for calais gave us this update. Around 65 to 70 people were on these boats, 50 people were rescued by the french authorities, five people were found dead at sea, one died at the hospital. And we are still missing ten people. The home secretary Suella Braverman posted this message on social media, saying her thoughts and prayers were with those affected by the tragic loss of life. She is expected to chair a meeting with Border Force Officials later today. On thursday, 755 people crossed the channel, the largest daily figures so far this year. And more than 100,000 have made the journey since the crossings began in earnest in 2018. Once again, the channel, one of the most dangerous and busiest Shipping Lanes in the world, has proved to be deadly for migrants. Simonjones is simon jones is in simonjones is in dover with this update. A,
than 100 years. the reason for that, thatis than 100 years. the reason for that, that is probably quite a deep, dark story but prince harry has always maintained he was prevented from taking legal action against newspapers by buckingham palace. that they didn t want him giving evidence in the witness box went the argument. of course, buckingham palace denied that. it has tried to settle claims here and there when it could come against the many newspapers who have been involved in this long saga. just to give you some of the background to this, before we get into what s happening here today, back in 2006, it became known that newspapers had been accessing people s mobile phone voicemails. most of us don t leave voicemails. most of us don t leave voicemails any more, do we? we leave text messages or we do video calls. but in the 90s, and 2000s of the people often left voice mail messages and journalists worked out that because the pin numbers were not changed very often, they c
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