Hello and welcome to bbc news. Chelsea fans are celebrating after their team won the champions league final in porto. They beat fellow english side and premier league champions manchester city in a 1 0 victory, after seven tense minutes of extra time, to pick up their second european cup. More than 16,000 supporters were allowed into the stadium in portugal, after the venue was switched from turkey because of covid 19. The bbc s tim allman watched the action. Champions, champions of europe! victory is always sweet, even when there s a pandemic on. Only a few thousand chelsea fans were able to savour their team s win first hand, but not one was complaining. Wonderful. Fantastic, fantastic. We just can t believe it. Beginning of the season, we d never have thought. We re exhausted but we re overjoyed. Just delighted. Ecstatic! unbelievable! there s no words on this planet to describe how every chelsea soul out there, in there feels. Cheering. It was a similar story back home in the bars
now on bbc news, it s dateline, london. hello, i m shaun ley. welcome to the programme, which brings together some of the uk s leading commentators, bbc specialists, and those journalists who ve worked as foreign correspondents, filing stories to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week: will there be enough vaccine doses? the uk closes its doors to some but infuriates china by opening them to kong hongers. and what a disputed prime ministerial visit tells us about the future of the union. on dateline s panel this week: janet daley, whose columns appear weekly in the sunday telegraph. jeffrey kofman is a former tv anchor and foreign correspondent in canada and the united states. and here with me in the studio is vincent knee, a china specialist with bbc world news. warm welcome to all of you. the european commission has been piling pressure on the vaccine manufacturer astrazeneca all week, angry that millions of doses it agreed to supply to the eu before the en
hello, i m shaun ley. welcome to the programme, which brings together some of the uk s leading commentators, bbc specialists, and those journalists who ve worked as foreign correspondents, filing stories to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week: will there be enough vaccine doses? the uk closes its doors to some but infuriates china by opening them to kong hongers. hong kongers. and what a disputed prime ministerial visit tells us about the future of the union. on dateline s panel this week: janet daley, whose columns appear weekly in the sunday telegraph. jeffrey kofman is a former tv anchor and foreign correspondent in canada and the united states. and here with me in the studio is vincent knee, a china specialist with bbc world news. warm welcome to all of you. the european commission has been piling pressure on the vaccine manufacturer astrazeneca all week, angry that millions of doses it agreed to supply to the eu before the end of march may be cut by
confusion over coronavirus rules in maternity wards midwives warn a lack of clarity means some staff are being abused. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the european union has reversed its decision to override part of the brexit withdrawal treaty following an uproar over measures that could have placed limits on the supply of coronavirus vaccines into northern ireland. the eu is giving member states the power to block the export of vaccines to address a major shortage and was concerned the irish border could be used as a back door to bring vaccines manufactured in the eu into the uk. prime minister borisjohnson had expressed grave concerns about the move in a phone call with the european commission president late friday. paul hawkins reports. no hard border between ireland and northern ireland. that point was made time and time again by the eu during the brexit negotiations. so, when the eu announced late on friday that it was trigg
now on bbc news dateline london. hello, i m shaun ley. welcome to the programme, which brings together some of the uk s leading commentators, bbc specialists, and those journalists who ve worked as foreign correspondents, filing stories to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week: will there be enough vaccine doses? the uk closes its doors to some but infuriates china by opening them to kong hongers. and what a disputed prime ministerial visit tells us about the future of the union. 0n dateline s panel this week: janet daley, whose columns appear weekly in the sunday telegraph. jeffrey kofman is a former tv anchor and foreign correspondent in canada and the united states. and here with me in the studio is vincent knee, a china specialist with bbc world news. warm welcome to all of you. the european commission has been piling pressure on the vaccine manufacturer astrazeneca all week, angry that millions of doses it agreed to supply to the eu before the end of