the first minister considers drafting in the military to help the scottish ambulance delays after average wait for an ambulance reached six hours last week. and the top 100 most influential people on the planet: time magazine puts harry and meghan on its list for 2021. the programme of third, booster, covid jabs has got underway in england and wales with some vulnerable people and health workers receiving their dose this morning. eligible people who had their second vaccine at least six months ago will be invited for the extra dose the full rollout begins next week. everyone aged 50 and over across the uk is eligible, as well as frontline healthcare workers and vulnerable groups about 30 million people in all. but as some people are now receiving their third jab there are still more than five million adults across the uk who are yet to have one. here s our health correspondent katherine da costa. come along, let s see you. on the front line and among the first in li
in france for not having a covid 19 vaccine before a set deadline. and then mike is proposing to ban prisoners serving life sentences from having romantic relationships. this is to discourage groupies. we will hearfrom the this is to discourage groupies. we will hear from the group who broke the story in copenhagen copenhagen. china has hit out at a new security and defence pact between the us, britain and australia accusing the trio of playing geopolitical games . last night us presidentjoe biden, british prime minister borisjohnson and australiam prime minister scott morrison announced a new partnership called aukus. we re told the aim is to strenghten security in the indo pacific , many see it as a way of countering china s growing influence. here s how borisjohnson sold it in parliament. it amounts to a new pillar of our strategy by demonstrating british let me take a left to the state department where defence secretary our meeting their australian counterparts and
hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. downing street has given details of prime minister borisjohnson s strategy for easing the lockdown in england, ahead of his long awaited announcement on monday. number ten says a key ambition will be to reunite families and last night, the government announced that, from next month, residents in care homes will be allowed indoor visits by a member of their family or a friend and to hold hands. our health correspondent laura foster reports. when england went back into lockdown at the beginning ofjanuary, the doors to care homes were closed to visitors unless circumstances were exceptional. a way of protecting residents from the rising number of cases and the added threat of the new variant. but now nearly 17 million people have had their first covid jab, including 95% of people living in care homes in england. from the eighth of march, they will each get to choose one person who can visit them indoors. but t