you can send me a message by the usual ways. you can send me a message by the usual ways. thousands of women stage rallies, across australia to protest against gender discrimination and violence. martial law is imposed in more areas of yangon in myanmar, after one of the deadliest days of protest since last month s coup. further lockdown easing as more children return to school in scotland and hairdressers reopen in wales. the grammy goes to beyonce! at the grammys, beyonce breaks the record for the most awards ever won by a woman. as an artist, i believe it is myjob, and all of ourjobs, to reflect the times and it has been such a difficult time. and coming up in around halfan hour, we ll talk live to katie price as her petition to make it more difficult for online trolls to be anonymous passes 100,000 signatures. hello, and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. borisjohnson will chair a meeting today of the uk government s crime and justice taskforc
but he says even when the pandemic is over, he ll think twice before returning to the festival. fiona lamdin, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here s chris fawkes. thanks a lot. for many of us the weather will stay bright and right through the rest of the day today, quite a bit of cloud around but some spells of sunshine poking through. the satellite picture shows a weather system looking to the north west ultimately bringing some rain, particularly tonight and tomorrow. but we also have rain stretching across parts of eastern england from this line of showers that have developed over the last couple of hours. those showers have formed due to a convergence zone, where the winds bash together, scraping all the moisture together to make this line of downpours and they will continue to affect these areas well over the next few hours. if you live across parts of west yorkshire, nottinghamshire, leicestershire and towards greater london and into parts of east sussex and k
sunday. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. in the past hour spain hasjoined france, germany and italy to become the latest countries to suspend use of the oxford astrazeneca jab. it s over concerns about blood clots. this is happening despite the who saying there is no indication of a link between the vaccine and blood clots. earlier, the republic of ireland and netherlands made a similar decision. it means eleven european nations in total have paused their rollout of the vaccination. some european countries have stopped using certain batches of the drug as a precautionary measure. the european medicines agency is carrying out a review into incidents of blood clots. it says the vaccine s benefits continue to outweigh its risks, and that it will hold an extraordinary meeting on the vaccine on thursday. around 17 million people in the european union and the uk have received a dose of the vaccine, with fewer than than a0 cases of blood clots reported.
Heres to you norfolk. A white wine from the broads, beats global competition, to be crowned one of the worlds best. And the legend of king arthur gets the guy richie big screen treatment. Our own knight at the round table mark kermode will be giving it his verdict in the film review at 5 45pm. Its five oclock. Our main story Julian Assange the founder of wikileaks and urged on the belt that prosecutors in sweden have dropped their investigation into Rape Allegations against him. He said in a tweet i do not forgive or forget. He has always denied the charges. The development emerged this morning as the swedish prosecutor announced they would discontinue the investigation into an alleged sex offence committed in 2010. Julian assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy since august 2012. The met police say they would still be obliged arrest him on a lesser charge if he tried to leave. He has now gone back inside the embassy and has not said what he will do next. Victory is howJuli
Since she became the new doctor who, Jodie Whittaker says she cant wait to start life as a timelord. I hope my gender isnt a fearful thing for the fans because in this world particularly, there are no rules and that is a great thing. New laws will be introduced, giving people greater control over what happens to their online personal data. The government says the legislation offers the right to be forgotten. Proposals in the Data Protection bill would make it easierfor users of social media platforms like facebook to get content about themselves deleted. Meanwhile companies would also have to get explicit consent to collect personal data, rather than rely on pre selected tick boxes. Heres our Political Correspondent, leila nathoo. Our lives are led online. We all leave a digital trail. But what happens to all the information we upload about ourselves . A new law will ensure that the United Kingdom will retain its world class regime of protecting personal data. Now we will have more con