Two months after a ba flight filled with smoke, and was forced to make an emergency landing, passengers tell the bbc theyre still suffering from breathing difficulties. The veteran labour mp Dame Louise Ellman quits the party after 55 years saying Jeremy Corbyn is not fit to be Prime Minister. Also coming up a new way of detecting arthritis in knees moves a step closer. Researchers use High Frequency sound monitoring to help their diagnosis. And in sport, american boxer patrick day has died aged 27 four days after suffering a brain injury in a fight against Charles Conwell. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. Borisjohnson is expected to travel to brussels in the coming hours where hes hoping to finalise a brexit deal with eu leaders. But his chances of that deal being supported at westminster have this morning been dealt a severe blow by the democratic unionist party. The dup said it couldnt accept the plans as things stand. Its understood that the new text of the agreement
Thats it for this special edition of your call on bbc radio 5 live and your questions answered on the bbc news channel. Thanks to all of you who called and to englands deputy chief medical officer, Jonathan Van Tam. I hope that was an informative question and answer session for you with professorjonathan question and answer session for you with professor Jonathan Van Tam, question and answer session for you with professorJonathan Van Tam, we cannot answer all the questions sent to us but hopefully we got through some of the key areas people wanted to know more information about. And took one of the other main stories today, students sitting gcse and a levels in england next year will be awarded more generous grades to compensate for the disruption to schooling in the pandemic. Pupils will get advanced notice of exam topics and be allowed to use memory aids. Measures will also be put in place to help students who miss exams because of self isolation. Heres more from our education editor
Be done and a lot of discipline to be maintained. Breakthrough in brussels as theres been agreement on the brexit withdrawal bill as the uk drops clauses in the controversial internal market bill. This means that both sides have agreed rules for trade across the border in Northern Ireland after brexit for issues including Border Control posts the archbishop of canterbury and the uks chief rabbi talk about coping with death having each lost a child themselves. The fightback has begun. The first person in the uk to be given a Coronavirus Vaccine outside of a Clinical Trial is a 90 year old woman. Margaret keennan received the historicjab at University Hospital in coventryjust after half six this morning. That was just the start, hundreds of other patients have been given the jab in the past few hours as the biggest Vaccination Campaign in the history of the nhs gets under way. Borisjohnson has thanked Health Workers and scientists but urged people to remain cautious. The uk has an initia