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
Its tuesday, october the 24th. Our main story. Two israeli women, who were taken from their homes more than two weeks ago, have been released from captivity. Yocheved lifshitz and nurit cooper were among more than 200 people abducted by hamas fighters in the attacks of october 7th, and brought to gaza. Hamas, which is designated a Terrorist Group by the uk, said the release was for humanitarian reasons. The women, whose husbands are still being held, were handed over at the rafah Border Crossing between gaza and egypt at around 10 oclock local time last night. Our middle east correspondent Yolande Knell has the details. Freed after more than two weeks in captivity. In a video released by hamas, nurit cooper and Yocheved Lifshitz were handed over to representatives of the International Committee of the red cross. Not before 85 year old Yocheved Lifshitz turns to a masked hamas gunman, shakes his hand and says, shalom, hebrew for peace. Hamas is designated a Terrorist Group by many weste
not djokovic. british victory in the open single seemed imperative but kecmanovic was super strong and extremely consistent. said he felt the pressure but he thrived. britain s captain leon smith has been through all of this before. draper, at 21, not so much. ranked just below his opponent, draper took kecmanovic to two tie breaks but he lost them both. serbia celebrated as if they knew what was coming. well, here he is. novak djokovic tried to settle it. in the blue corner, cameron norrie. good luck. there were some british voices in the crowd trying to hurry djokovic up when he served. but when he won the first set, the gesture was aimed back at them. good natu red, probably. djokovic wrapped up the match in straight sets, job done for serbia. then he went to do an on court interview seemingly near some noisy british supporters. wasn t broadcast at the time, but was captured on a mobile phone. djokovic suggests they learn how to respect players and behave. britain out. dav
and british victory in the opening singles seemed imperative, but miomir kecmanovic was super strong and extremely consistent. he said he felt the pressure well, he thrived. britain s captain leon smith has been through all this before. draper, at 21, not so much. ranked just below his opponent, draper took kecmanovic to two tie breaks, but he lost them both. serbia celebrated as if they knew what was coming. well, here he is. novak djokovic tried to settle it. in the blue corner, cameron norrie. good luck. now, there were some british voices in the crowd trying to hurry djokovic up when he served, but when he won the first set, the gesture was aimed back at them good natu red, probably. djokovic wrapped up the match in straight sets, job done for serbia. then he went to do an on court interview, seemingly near some noisy british supporters. it wasn t broadcast at the time, it was captured on a mobile phone. djokovic suggests they learn how to respect players and behave.
against serbia jack draper was playing kecmanovic, not djokovic. british victory in the open single seemed imperative but kecmanovic was super strong and extremely consistent. said he felt the pressure but he thrived. britain s captain leon smith has been through all of this before. draper, at 21, not so much. ranked just below his opponent, draper took kecmanovic to two tie breaks but he lost them both. serbia celebrated as if they knew what was coming. well, here he is. novak djokovic tried to settle it. in the blue corner, cameron norrie. good luck. there were some british voices in the crowd trying to hurry djokovic up when he served. but when he won the first set, the gesture was aimed back at them. good natu red, probably. djokovic wrapped up the match in straight sets, job done for serbia. then he went to do an on court interview seemingly near some noisy british supporters. wasn t broadcast at the time, but was captured on a mobile phone. djokovic suggests they learn