For three more weeks at least but children could return to schools there after the february half term. Exhausted. The Duchess Of Cambridge talks candidly about the challenges of both Home Schooling and Home Hairdressing her children. The rspb launches its Big Garden Birdwatch where members of the public are asked to spend one hour counting and recording the birds they see from their home and coming up this hour well meet a nurse who gave birth nearly three months ago while seriously ill with covid 19 who has held her daughter for the first time after being discharged from hospital. Good morning and welcome. A new Coronavirus Vaccine has been shown to be 89. 3 effective in large scale uk trials. The novavax jab is the first to show it is effective against both the uk and South African Variants of the virus, as you can see from this graph. The uk has secured 60 million doses of the jab, which will be made in stockton on tees. The doses are expected to be delivered in the second half of t
when london s skyline is lit up in colour with the fireworks all starts here on these barges in the east of london in the docklands. the final preparations are being put in place. there are thousands of shells, there are controlled firing panels, there are wires, so it s really interesting to see it all happening behind the scenes. it s a very, very meticulous operation and i m joined by the event director. just talk me through the numbers. how many fireworks and how long has it all taken? we have about 12,000 individual fireworks on these three barges and also the london eye. we don t get the chance to read that until tomorrow. we don t get the chance to read that untiltomorrow. rig. the most iconic part doesn t get rigged until 6am tomorrow. we have a crew of about 30 people working over the two locations since the 27th of december. we have got over 30 tonnes of equipment to load. almost 50 kilometres of cable and wire that need to be connected and 4,500 individual firin
big ben strikes midnight. it s europe s biggest fireworks display and as the countdown began, more than 100,000 people watched along the river thames as the london skyline lit up and the sounds of big ben chimed. you can actually smell the gunpowder the air, you can smell it. it is fireworks night here. big ben, the chimes have rung and we are now officially in 202a. the best show on earth. amazing, indescribable, no words. so worth it, i am loving it so much. this is my first time for london, coming here and seeing this. i i love it, it is so good. this year s theme is unity, a message played from the king. 0ur society is woven from diverse threads. and the london mayor, who thanked those working in the nhs, the police and the fire service. he said the event took months to organise. we have planned this sincejuly. there is a team of 75 who have been working over the last four days. one of our strengths as a city and country is our diversity. we will be celebrating our dive
they confirmed that lenka hlavkova the head of the university s institute of musicology was one of those shot dead. outside the university, people have been leaving flowers and candles. saturday has been declared a day of national mourning across the czech republic. in a friday morning news conference, police showed bodycam video from their officers. it shows them entering the building to find the gunman. there had been some criticism of their response, but the police said the time between receiving the first emergency call and officers stepping into the building was four minutes. police said the gunman took his own life following the attack. he s been named by local media as 24 year old student david kozak. let s get more from that news conference where prague s chief police officer gave his reaction to thursday s shooting. translation: i was there on site. i was severely impacted by and shattered to see it. and i ve been with the police force for a0 years. around 220, 2