A third wave of coronavirus is beginning to sweep across the european union. France and switzerland are extending restrictions from saturday, while polish Health Officials say the british variant of the virus is so rampant a 3 week lockdown is necessary. Infections have surged, as europes Vaccine Rollout has continued to lag behind the pace ofjabs in the us and the uk. Our correspondent Lucy Williamson has more from paris. Never mind the Prime Minister. In france, it was the Astrazeneca Jab that needed a shot in the arm today. After weeks of shifting guidelines, the message was meant to be clear its safe and it works. But only an hour before he received it, frances Health Authority said a possible link to blood clots in younger patients meant the jab should only be used for those over 55. Last month, it said only those under 65 should take it. Lucky for mr castex that he turned 55 last year. But only 20 of french surveyed this month said they trusted the Astrazeneca Jab. As president macron held off announcing a new lockdown, cases spiralled, and paris hospitals are now scrambling to find space for patients who need intensive care. A Lockdown Lite has been imposed on the worst affected areas from tomorrow. Translation its not because its nice out, | because its spring that we put our lives in danger. Its not over. Were still facing the variants, and people should realise the gravity of the disease. Ja, ich werde mich mit astrazenica. Across the border in germany, Angela Merkel said she, too, would have the Astrazeneca Jab. Germany had been hoping to lift some of its restrictions next week, but with infections soaring there, a warning from the Health Minister Public Opinion is only half the problem. Translation there are not yet enough vaccines in europe to stop the third wave through vaccination alone. Even if deliveries of eu orders are now reliable, it will still take several weeks before the risk groups are fully vaccinated. Only then can we talk about wider openings in society. Poland is also facing a surge in cases, with the british variant expected to account soon for 80 of infections. A partial lockdown will come into force there from tomorrow. Shops, hotels and cultural and sporting venues will close. There is acceptance breaking across europe that its facing a third wave in this pandemic. Hope that the vaccines might outpace the virus has been crushed by a grinding lack of momentum, supply and public trust. As europe prepares for more restrictions, criticisms are mounting, along with costs. Empty streets can help save patients but delays in vaccines are expensive, and politicians could still pay the price. Lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. While many European Countries are resuming use of the astrazeneca vaccine, france has limited it to the over 55s, despite reassurances by eu medicine regulators. The british Prime Minister borisjohnson received his first dose of the Astrazeneca Jab at the hospital in london where he was treated for Coronavirus Last year. He said people should listen to the scientists who have declared it safe and effective. The British Government is aiming to inoculate the majority of adults by the summer. Heres mrjohnson speaking after his vaccination. Please be warned there is flash photography. I cannot recommend it too highly. Everybody, when you do get your notification to go for a jab, please go and get it. It is the best thing for you, the best thing for your family, and for everybody else. Dont just listen to me. Listen to all the scientists, listen to what the European Medicines Agency had to say yesterday, to what the mhra has said. The risk is covid. This is a great thing to do. Thank you all very much. Thank you. Us President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have met members of the Asian American community in georgia following tuesdays mass shooting, in which eight people were killed. Hundreds of people are attending vigils for the victims. The attacks Targetted Asian owned businesses, and six of the victims were women of asian ethnic origin. Robert aaron long has been charged with eight counts of murder. Our washington correspondent lebo diseko says the president s comments contrasted with the First Official responses to the shooting. There was a lot of backlash at the local sheriffs department, the department where these attacks took place. As you said, the spokesman saying that the suspect had had a bad day. Later on, it transpired that a facebook account which was in his name had posted anti asian or anti chinese pictures, so that spokesperson is no longer making comments or no longer speaking for the department in relation to this case. When you look atjoe biden and Kamala Harris of course the first Asian American Vice President and their comments today, they really struck a tone of saying to the community that we hear you, we understand you and were going to do something about this. The conversation we had today with the aapi leaders, and that were hearing all across the country, is that hate and violence often hide in plain sight. Its often met with silence thats been true throughout our history but that has to change because our silence is complicity. We cannot be complicit. We have to speak out and we have to act. Everyone has the right to go to work, to go to school,. To walk down the street and be safe, and also the right to be l recognised as an american. Not as the other, not as them, but as us. A harm against any one of us is a harm against all of us. The president and i will not be silent. L we will not stand by. We will always speak out against violence, hate crimes and discrimination, wherever and whenever it occurs. Lebo, what are Asian Americans hoping for from this raised awareness of abuse to parts of their community over the past few years . Well, in short, mark, i think its that it will stop, that they will believe will be believed, and that something will be done about this. Something i have heard time and time again this week from members of the Asian American community is that we have been saying that this has been happening to us and we have not been believed and that has an impact when it comes to, for example, the statistics around this. When people report attacks on them and there is a reluctance to ascribe this to race, it has an impact on the statistics that, for instance, the government might use. How do you address something when you dont have a record of how widespread, or not, it is . When you talk about this specific attack, that has actually come up again Law Enforcement and even the fbi have been saying that this may not actually be racially motivated, it may be more to do with a sexual addiction that the suspect might have had. Asian American People here saying look, we were the targets of this. The majority of people in this attack who died were Asian American. The businesses that were targeted were Asian American. What does this make this . So it was interesting to watch the Vice President and the president try and walk this quite careful line of saying we are against racism and acknowledging that there has been a rise in attacks on the Asian American community, while kind of getting around actually ascribing what the intent or motivation of the attacker was. And on another note, President Biden� s Journey To Atlanta was not without incident. His critics have, in the past, have criticised his stammer now they are talking about his stumble . Yeah, i think that there has been a lot of hay, as you would have expect, made of this on right Wing Networks like fox news. Also i suppose twitter always loves a meme. I guess the narrative is really around joe biden and his faculties, really and, you know, to put it bluntly, he is the oldest american president. But in fairness, when donald trump took a fall, or was slightly unsteady on his feet last year, the liberal networks also made hay out of it as well. So i think there is a bit of a tit for tat there going on and also, as i said, part of a kind of ongoing narrative about the president his age and his ability to kind of function. The white house has said that he is fine and that it was just due to wind. And i think their focus and the focus of most of the american networks, certainly, today has been the tragedy that has been taking place in georgia. Lebo diseko. Back to the brazils Local Coronavirus Variant is spreading through the country as the nation recorded its second deadliest toll on friday. The figures paint a worrying and worsening picture more than 90,000 cases in the last 2a hours and more than 2,800 deaths. Brazils death toll is second only to the United States at nearly 300,000. But while its evident the country is in the midst of a surge, president bolsonaro continues to criticise lockdowns set by local governors. Microbiologist Natalia Pasternak thinks that the death of a third senator this week may be a wake up call to lawmakers. Major 0limpio dying i think has a greater impact, not on brazilians but on the senate itself, because maybe it is how they finally realise that it can get to anyone of them. Its a young man he was only 58 and he was against restrictions, he indeed, he took part in demonstrations against restrictions before he got ill, so i think it finally it dawns into everyones minds at the senate, at the congress, that this is real and that they can be next. So maybe now they realise how grave the situation is. Indeed, so grave that it has got the second highest death toll in the country to america, as we mentioned. Do you think, though, with all the Focus Turning to the Vaccination Programme which is under way that its in a good place at the moment . Well, we start to see a light at the end of the tunnel but it is actually too little, too late because the vaccines took a long time getting here and thats mainly the fault of the government themselves. The Ministry Of Health has not purchased vaccines in time to guarantee an impact this year. So were glad that they finally closed deals with pfizer and johnson and were finally getting doses in the next semester. But for this semester, we are still in the same situation. We have very few doses and we have to rely on Restriction Measures like lockdowns, which the government is against. Indeed, and just 5 of the vaccination also vaccinated. Indeed, and just 5 of the population also vaccinated. With america sending 4 million astrazeneca doses to mexico and canada, would you like president bolsonaro to be asking for some from america too . Yes, that would be nice, but it is very unlike him because president bolsonaro he usually waits for the world to revolve around himself. Thats what he thats exactly what he did with the vaccines. He said no one offered me vaccines which is a lie because several companies did offer. And now with President Biden, i suppose it is going to be the same. Some months from now, you can bet that he is going to say 0h, President Biden never offered me vaccines and hes not going to ask. Natalia pasternak. You are watching bbc news. The headlines europe braces for a third wave of Coronavirus Infections, with fresh lockdowns in france and poland. President Biden Appeals for unity during a visit to atlanta, where eight people were murdered this week, six of them women of asian descent. Covax is an International Scheme which aims to help poorer countries get more doses of the vaccine. It attempts to bring together governments, manufacturers, scientists, Civil Society and philanthropy to provide a Global Solution to the pandemic. The covax scheme has secured 3. 5 billion doses for middle and low Income Countries but so far, only 32 million doses have been supplied thats less than i of the total number of covax doses secured. Richer countries with strong buying power have benefited and received the most vaccines. The us has had 115 million doses delivered in total, china has received 65 million, and india 39 million. But compare that to the african countries who have received the most rwanda hasjust over 321,000, ghana 300,000 and south africa 177,275 in total. Now on top of that supply problem, look at this this is one of the treacherous roads the vaccines would need to travel down. This is the delivery of another lot of medicine in south sudan by the International Development company. Look at those scary roads fergus drake is ceo of a large Non Profit Company called crown agents, a uk based in country distributor of vaccines on behalf of covax. He on behalf of covax. Explained which countries he has he explained which countries he has been able to deliver to. Crown agents has been involved in the covid 19 response for over a year now, firstly we were involved in distributing Personal Protective Equipment to over 50 countries and overseas territories on behalf of the British Government, we have also now focused on vaccines, so we have supplied over 200,000 vaccines to places like the Falkland Islands and st helena, and also to the Ministry Of Health in ukraine. For covax we are working across africa, with a particular focus on zimbabwe and the challenges of south sudan that you have just mentioned. Indeed, and we saw those pictures, what are the logistical and political challenges facing these types of deliveries . We have been working in these environments for over 180 years, and we currently work in 60 countries but south sudan is the most challenging. We have driven over 100,000 kilometres on hardback roads as it gets over 50 degrees celsius in the summer but it also gets waterlogged in the rainy season. I have seen whole articulated lorries lost in some of these mud traders and you dont want to be camping in the bush in south sudan with armed groups close by. We use things like Light Aircraft and motorbikes to get to some of the most isolated communities across the country. We have seen only around 1 of doses have been received so far when do you think this game will get fully under way . Well, it has been a slow start but it is great to hear that they are so many vaccines getting around the world. The vision of covax was to get 2 billion vaccines out across the world, until the end of this year. Already received those vaccines, which is great. But we are expecting a very big ramp up injune. That gives us time to really invest in the infrastructure, things Like Community health workers, things like transport and supply chains, so we can really hit the Ground Running when that second phase of vaccines arrives in the middle of the year. So next gear injune, but when do you think the whole world could be vaccinated by . There are lots of different predictions out there. I think if everything goes right we will be doing well if we get the world vaccinated by the end of 202a. But i think we all realise that covid 19 is going to be with us for a long time, were going to need jab top ups, a bit like flu in the uk, but one of the things we are concerned about is covid 19 becoming a residual pandemic, and so in the same we dont really talk about hiv aids across Western Country now, hiv aids still kills 700,000 people across the world, and a lot of people in africa as well, and we cant allow covid 19 to go down that route. Fergus drake, the ceo of crown agents. The countdown is on for a mission to clean up space junk with magnets. Elsa d, the worlds first commercial Space Mission to start a debris removal system, will launch in a few hours� time from a cosmodrome in kazakhstan. The new technology has been developed by the japan based com pa ny astroscale. With more satellites being launched, its becoming increasingly important to declutter the space environment. 9,000 tonnes of discarded, uncontrollable hardware. Lets get more on this with mike lindsay, he is the chief Technology Officer at the Company Behind the mission, astroscale. He joins us now from tokyo. Thank you forjoining us. Just a few hours until the launch, how are you feeling . A few hours until the launch, how are you feeling . Thanks for havin how are you feeling . Thanks for having me. How are you feeling . Thanks for having me. Yes. How are you feeling . Thanks for having me, yes, we how are you feeling . Thanks for having me, yes, we are how are you feeling . Thanks for having me, yes, we are very having me, yes, we are very excited here in tokyo, we also have a campus in the uk, doing british operation, offices in the us and israel, we are all very excited, this is a very big day for us. Can you take us through what is big day for us. Can you take us through what is going big day for us. Can you take us through what is going to big day for us. Can you take us i through what is going to happen in this mission and why Everyone Needs to look out for a cat and mouse scenario . laughs yeah, so the mission is the first demonstration of the end to end process of capturing debris and lowering that from orbit. It consists of a Service Spacecraft and the client spacecraft, and if you can see my background, it is a depiction of the two spacecraft that will be flying together. Mission consists of sort of releasing the client and then catching it with the service, it is that cat and mouse that you mention. So the mission simulates a scenario where we would rendezvous with an dock with and capture a piece of debris that is free floating in space, and then we lower it such that it re enters earths atmosphere and stays out of the way of other spacecraft and operations. 50 way of other spacecraft and operations. Way of other spacecraft and oerations. ,. , , operations. So a global comment jerry which operations. So a global comment jerry which will operations. So a global comment jerry which will get operations. So a global comment jerry which will get crazier jerry which will get crazier and crazier as it goes around. Tom and jerry. We have been reporting on a lot of satellite launches recently, there has been a surge it seems like from jumbojets and the been a surge it seems like from jumbo jets and the spacex ones. But some dont clean up their mess all the hardware, is that what space debris is . Certainly sace what space debris is . Certainly space debris what space debris is . Certainly space debris does what space debris is . Certainly space debris does originate space debris does originate from human made objects launched into space and not disposed of properly. Accidents do happen, sometimes fuel tanks rupture, batteries explode, actually just a rupture, batteries explode, actuallyjust a couple of days ago we saw an announcement that there was a satellite that had a debris event where several pieces of debris were found to be scattered, originated from one spacecraft. So yeah, anything from nuts and bolts and washers to paint flax, all the way up to whole intact satellites that are no longer in use, that can represent space debris. In use, that can represent sace debris. ,. ,. , space debris. You have chosen a niche industry, space debris. You have chosen a niche industry, sometimes space debris. You have chosen a niche industry, sometimes it space debris. You have chosen a niche industry, sometimes it is i niche industry, sometimes it is difficult for us to clean up our own houses, what do you two cleanups based debris . I our own houses, what do you two cleanups based debris . Cleanups based debris . I was fascinated cleanups based debris . I was fascinated with cleanups based debris . I was fascinated with space fascinated with Space Exploration as a child, i was looking through telescopes when i could, but looking through my career i worked on a number of space endeavours but with each mission i learned more about the concerns about sustainability and i became passionate about making sure that future generations can have the opportunity to launch their spacecraft and explore, so to do that we need to make sure development and Sustainability Go Hand In hand, and making sure to keep the orbits clean. Orbits clean. Thank you very much, looking orbits clean. Thank you very much, looking out orbits clean. Thank you very much, looking out for orbits clean. Thank you very much, looking out for the i orbits clean. Thank you very i much, looking out for the live launch with you, looking forward to it. Thank you. Saturday is the United Nations annual International Day of happiness, and to mark that, the un has released its World Happiness report which ranks the happiness of 149 countries. Finland tops the list for the fourth year in a row, with the report also revealing the impact of covid 19 on people around the planet. 0ur News Reporter Gareth Barlow joins us for more on this. Gareth, finland on the top of the list, what are the rest of the list, what are the rest of the runners in the race . Lets take a look at the top of the staff, and a really big impact there from the European Countries and the scandinavian countries. Mike you say finland are at the top, denmark, switzerland, iceland and the netherlands filling out the top five. Actually nine out of the ten positions are all European Countries. The one non european country in the top ten . New zealand getting in there at number nine. If you go further down the list to the bottom, afghanistan, 149, mbabu, rwanda, botswana and lesotho, the bottom five countries. If you look more broadly, the wealthier, richer, more industrialised, safer country is further up, take 123 for example, lab and on, economic crisis there for years, the explosion there last august, you can see how all of these factors come together to affect peoples lives and happiness. There are factors of social support, personalfreedom, gdp support, personal freedom, gdp and support, personalfreedom, gdp and level of corruption, but how do they measure those things . How do they measure those thin. S . ,. , how do they measure those thins . ,. , ~. , things . They take those National Things . They take those national stat, things . They take those national stat, you things . They take those national stat, you can i things . They take those | national stat, you can go online and find them relatively easily and then make combined the human aspect which is the powerful thing about this report, in its ninth year. What they do is phone or speak in person to representative samples from each of the countries they survey, and they ask people to evaluate their life, tell them how good it is at that moment in time. But they may ask them to think about the day before, how happy were they, what were their positive emotions. How must they smile and laugh, how much they smile and laugh, how much they were happy, but also the negative emotions they expressed the day before. The worry, the sadness, the anger in their lives. Take those very personal, human emotions, combine that then with the state of their country to give this overall picture of the happiness of these countries. Aha, happiness of these countries. A lot of research then. I was looking through the report and just from last years figures, three quarters of the year or more covered by the coronavirus pandemic, it seems that one third of countries had negative emotions, more negative emotions, more negative emotions, which means that two thirds didnt, and in some way the pandemic made people happier . Way the pandemic made people ha ier . , way the pandemic made people ha ier . , , happier . Really interesting day to look at the happier . Really interesting day to look at the positive to look at the positive emotions rising in 22 countries, like you say, some relatively stable, some going down as well. There is this backdrop isnt there, 2. 7 million deaths, 122 million cases at least, that you would think people would be even less happy. The researchers found that perhaps the commonality of the coronavirus crisis, the fact that it touches all our lives, means there is that sense of solidarity, that kind of common feeling, we dont feel quite so isolated as a result. And so many of us have spent time at home, it was interesting to note that the interest, the things that interest, the things that interest people, who are taking up interest people, who are taking up new things, doing more interesting things in their lives, despite the fact that often they cant go on holiday or go to the cinema, and they are feeling more rested, some respondents. But the flipside of that is that for countries that have had an economic crisis, unemployment, having a real negative impact on Life Satisfaction of the people unemployed on average, a 12 reduction in Life Satisfaction. It will be interesting to see what 2022 says, the 10th year of this survey, coming out of the coronavirus, what impact that will have on peoples lives. But my final question is to you, which country would you be . ,. ,. , ,. , be . New zealand, it dropped one sace, so be . New zealand, it dropped one space. So is be . New zealand, it dropped one space, so is still be . New zealand, it dropped one space, so is still happy be . New zealand, it dropped one space, so is still happy but space, so is still happy but slightly less happy. Space, so is still happy but slightly less happy. What about ou . I slightly less happy. What about you . I would slightly less happy. What about you . I would be slightly less happy. What about you . I would be finland, slightly less happy. What about you . I would be finland, i you . Iwould be finland, i would be brash and say i am finland. You can reach me on twitter im mark lobel. Hello there. For most of us, the weekend promises a fair amount of dry weather, the amount of cloud will vary a bit from place to place, and there will be somejumps around in temperatures as well, as we will see in a moment. This was the Satellite Picture then from friday, showing we had some decent sunshine, particularly across parts of scotland. That was how the sunshine looked in the highlands. Not far away from that, in sterlingshire, we have the highest temperature in the uk, up to 17 celsius, very mild for the time of year. But it wasnt like that everywhere North East England had a really chilly day on friday, just six celsius. A big jump upwards in temperatures, though, on the way later today. Why the change . Well, yesterday, we had the winds coming in from the north east. Its all down to the wind direction, you see. These north easterly winds brought those low temperature to Eastern England because they were travelling over these really cold seas. The temperature in the water just 6 degrees at the moment. But the winds today are changing direction in a big way. They are coming in from a north westerly direction, hence that big jump upwards in temperatures widely across eastern areas of england. Now, heres the Weather Picture over the next few hours. Weve got cloud across england and wales, a few gaps in the cloud for scotland, slowly filtering into parts of northern england. And on account of the cloudy skies, its not cold, temperatures around 6 7 celsius. 0n into saturday then, this Weather Front is going to go nowhere fast, staying across Central England and wales all day. Another cold front will push into the far north of the uk, Bringing Rain To Northern Scotland late in the day. Could be an odd patch of drizzle as well from that slow moving front across england and wales. Thats why its going to stay cloudy here, but well see some sunshine. Central and southern scotland, and particularly North East England, thats where the best of the sunshine is going to be, and its going to be a much warmer day across North East England. In the warmest spots, temperatures reach 17 celsius. But those north westerly winds bringing some cooler weather into North West England and north wales as well. Sunday, while a cold front will have moved across most of the uk bringing cloudy weather across England Wales again, what that cold front is going to do, well, its going to introduce cooler and fresher air. So sunday, temperature wise, temperatures not quite as high, still, though, managing to reach double figures for most of us. What about next week . Well, of the area of High Pressure bringing the settled weather is going to continue to influence our weather, but it will probably gradually turn a little more unsettled across the north west. This is bbc news, the headlines a third wave of Coronavirus Infections is starting to sweep across the european union. New Lockdown Measures have come into force in poland and across large parts of france including around the capital paris. Switzerland is among other countries extending their restrictions. European leaders have shown support for the Astrazeneca Jab. The french Prime Minister, jean castex, received the vaccine and urged the public to do the same after eu regulators found it didnt cause blood clots. Here in the uk, borisjohnson also received his first astrazeneca injection. President biden has appealed for unity during a visit to atlanta, saying many Asian Americans now live in fear. His comments came in the wake of a Killing Spree at Massage Parlours in atlanta which left eight people dead, six of them women of asian descent. Now on bbc news, the week in parliament