have a windfall tax on the oil and gas companies. the taliban are celebrating the first anniversary of their return to power in afghanistan but not everybody is cheering, especially women and girls. here as flash floods hit cornwall, the text alerts that will give you a direct warning about severe weather and other life threatening events. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the uk has become the first country to approve what its manufacturers are calling a next generation covid vaccine. the uk s medicines regulator has approved a new version of moderna s coronavirus vaccine the first to target both the omicron variant as well as the original strain of the virus. ministers say the vaccine will now form part of the autumn booster campaign. our medical editor fergus walsh is here with more details. this is the start of a new era of covid vaccines. until now, they ve all been designed against the original form of the virus which emerged in wuhan in china at the end 2019. t
good morning, after the peak of the cross part of the world and central england. still hot and humid in the south, we could see thunderstorms in the evening. all of the details coming up on bbc breakfast. it s saturday, the 18th ofjune. our top story: some migrants who cross the channel in small boats are to be electronically tagged, in a 12 month pilot scheme run by the home office. ministers say it will help maintain contact with asylum claimants who reach the uk by what it calls dangerous routes. critics fear it will treat people who have fled war and persecution as criminals. simonjones reports. another busy week for the border force in the channel, more than 1000 migrants brought ashore after being picked up the sea. the government says it will seek to remove those who have passed through several safe countries before claiming asylum in the uk. and, as part of a year long pilot scheme, some of those awaiting deportation will be fitted with electronic tags. officials say
the highlands and into northern ireland and are more showers than we saw today and temperatures in the mid to high teens but we are starting to build the heat in the south and east, 27 is the high in london and pollen levels shooting up for all including scotland and northern ireland and moderate to high levels here. into thursday, spot the difference, more showers for northern ireland and parts of western scotland and longer spells of rain. fair hazy sunshine for england and wales and temperatures widely in the mid 20s but then the knights will get more hot and humid as well, so an uncomfortable start to friday and then a day of heavy rain across scotland and northern ireland but for england and wales in the sunshine we will see temperatures for eastern areas of around 30 or 33 degrees. a very hot day indeed. and that s bbc news at six on tuesday the 14th ofjune. you can keep up with all the latest developments on bbc website. from the six team, it s goodbye. developments on
Teacher in essex, says he did fill in the survey, but the governments policy on raac changed mid way through the process. I will tell you my comment about yesterdays comment. Its, well, hey, we arent all monks, are we . Weve probably all had our own discretions at times, but they arent always recorded. However, i quite like a compliment when i cook a nice dinner for my wife, but i usually fish for the compliment at the end of the meal, not before ive finished cooking it. So lets wait until we are at the end of this crisis and then well decide who deserves a thank you at the end. Thats really my take on it. With regard to the more recent comment that you just spoke about, well, i dont think that thats aimed at me particularly because i am a school that did fill out the questionnaire that then was then put in touch with the dfe and then the dfe kindly surveyed the school for us and kindly commissioned a report. That report is what identified the fact that we had raac. However, i think th
Wednesday we start off with early mist and fog which will turn back, it could linger into the north sea coasts of North East England and scotland. A hot day to come. High 20s widely, up tow 32 or so in the south east, at least the Mid 20s In Scotland and Northern Ireland too, with high Humidity Levels into thursday it will be largely dry and sunny, that should set off thundery showers to northern around western areas, most areas should avoid them. Another hot day to come. 30, maybe in excess of 30 in the south east. Mid to height 20s further north. Whip High Pressure holds on into friday, keeping low pressure out to the atlantic, so another dry day, once we lose the Early Morning mist and fog. Fog. Widespread sunshine again, feeling humid, all the temperature also show mid to high 20s temperature also show mid to high 205 It Temperature also show mid to high 20s it will feel hotter, again we could be looking at 30 or more in the south east, so consecutive days of 30 degrees, this could