He won the nations hearts with the simplest of ideas, to walk 100 laps of his garden for his 100th Birthday. It triggered a remarkable Fundraising Campaign for nhs charities, but it also united the country. Captain sir tom was a humble yorkshireman, a Second World War veteran, but more than anything, a family man. As his Daughters Hannah and lucy said, the last year of our fathers life was nothing short of remarkable. He was rejuvenated and he experienced things he only ever dreamed of. I was fortunate enough to be a small part of that amazing year and in this special programme, captain sir tom, we salute you. In less than four weeks, captain sir tom moore raised more than £32 million for nhs charities, found himself number one in the charts on his 100th Birthday and received Tens Of Thousands of birthday cards. Captain tom, we meet at last. Where did you come from . Ive been lurking down the bottom of your garden. Have you . How are you, sir . Fine, thank you. How about you 7 im real
Over his treatment escalates. Edelweiss, edelweiss. Tributes to the actor Christopher Plummer star of The Sound Of Music who has died at the age of 91. No, they cant, because the vice chair s here. I take charge. And the perils of parish politics. Read them and understand them meet Jackie Weaver the woman who went viral after their rather heated zoom meeting in cheshire. And coming up in sport on bbc news a fairy tale in chennai. Joe root scores a century in his 100th test appearance, as england take control in india. Good evening. Almost half the uk population 32 Million People should receive their first dose of Coronavirus Vaccine 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 be offered their first jab by then. Almost 11 Million People have now had their first injection. The uks medicines regulator says the latest Research Shows side effects from all the approved vaccines are mi
Charge of the recovery act and it was hard as hell to get the votes for it to begin with. And then it was hard as hell to get the number even we got. But one thing we learned, is we cant do too much here. We could do too little. We could do too little and sputter. Real live people are hurting and we could fix it. And we could fix it. That is has been his message from the beginning. And President Biden is focused on this today. Hes expecting to speak live later this hour and on how ep plans to revised the economy in response to covid. And the latest jobs report came out this morning showing only 49,000 jobs were added last month across country. And still there is more. On capitol hill, republican freshman Marjorie Taylor greene, shes about to hold a News Conference and at the moment im going to use the term News Conference loosely as we will see if she actually takes questions from actual real reporters which she has long avoided. Greene now without any Committee Assignments after the h
Has had with lawmakers this week. This is what he said in the last hour. We cant do too much here. We can do too little. We can do too little and sputter. The end result is, its not just a Macro Economic impact on the economy and our ability to compete internationally. Its peoples lives. Real live people are hurting. We can fix it. We got the first jobs report out under President Biden. Its a better report than december. Overall though, we have a long way to go. 49,000 jobs were added last month. The Unemployment Rate fell to 6. 3 in january. We will take a closer look in moments. I want to start with the action in the capitol. We have monica alba at white house, jo ling kent with the jobs report and leigh ann caldwell. President biden will deliver economic information later this hour. What can you tell us about the president s economic focus today . Its the first event, the fact that the white house is having these coronavirus briefings now three times a week from Health Experts and o