registration properly. nicholas sarkozy has been convicted of bribing a judge after leaving office. and prince phillip has been transferred to a second hospital in london for tests for a heart condition. the 99 year old duke has been in hospital for 13 days. let s begin with the latest on kovac smack. covax is a global scheme to get coronavirus vaccines to poorer countries and it s underway. this is the president of ghana, who s become the world s first recipient of a jab delivered via covax. he received the oxford astrazeneca vaccine. and the ambition of the world health organization is that covax will deliver more than two billion doses by the end of this year, and that 92 lower income countries will receive vaccines, as well as 98 wealthier countries. covax vaccinations are also under way in neighbouring ivory coast. the bbc s lalla see is in abidjan. today, ivorians are among the first africans to get vaccinated against covid 19. so the government has made it a big, big
i ve got trackie bottoms on my bottoms and i m comfortable. and a star studded hollywood awards ceremony, lockdown style, on a good night for the brits at the golden globes. and coming up in sport, on bbc news. the bha tell gordon elliott he can t race horses in britain while an irish investigation into a picture of him sitting on a dead horse is carried out. good evening. there s yet more evidence of the dramatic impact the two main coronavirus vaccines being used in the uk are having. the data is based on people in england who were the first to receive the jab. it suggests thatjust one dose of either the oxford astrazeneca or the pfizer biontech vaccine cuts the risk by 60% of people over the age of 70 developing any covid symptoms. it also reduces by more than 80% the chance of the over 80s needing hospital treatment. but the government stressed that people should still have their second jab and warned that it takes about three weeks for the protective effects to develop.
nicolas sarkozy is sentenced to three years in jail after being found guilty of corruption. lessons in yemen the blind nine year old taking classes near the front line as an entire generation faces losing an education. and before nine o clock there may not be gold in them hills but there might be fragments of meteorite somewhere in gloucestershire. good evening, there s fresh evidence that the vaccination programme is having a dramatic effect on the numbers of people being admitted to hospital or dying. in the government s daily briefing, the health secretary matt hancock hailed as seriously encouraging . data that shows that a single dose of the pfizer or astrazeneca vaccine works against severe infection with a more than 80% reduction in hospitalisations of older patients. the news comes as almost 20.3 million people in the uk have had their first dose of a vaccine. and public health england data showed the effect kicked in around 35 days after vaccination. our medic
in the aftermath, will have plenty of time to evaluate the response. israeli police say that two people have been wounded in a terrorist attackjust outside the old city in occupied eastjerusalem. it comes a day after a palestinian gunman killed seven people near a synagogue. israeli police say they ve arrested 42 people in connection with friday s shooting. the gunman was killed. israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu has urged israelis not to take matters into their own hands. on thursday, nine palestinians were killed during an israeli military raid in the west bank town ofjenin. our middle east correspondent yolande knell reports. another victim of a jerusalem shooting being treated by medics. an israeli father and son were injured in a new attack this morning. police saying they were shot by a palestinian boy aged just 13. meanwhile, this was the scene of last night s attack, the deadliest israelis have seen in years. here, a palestinian gunman opened fire after praye
angeles. israel conducting airstrikes and localized ground raids in gaza at this hour, the israeli military says the latest rounds of attacks killed a senior hamas member involved in planning last saturday s horrific attacks in israel. murad abu murad was killed in a strike targeting a building in the gaza strip. it comes as israel continues to urge palestinian is to leave the northern part of the gaza strip, warning the combat will intensify. they ve also extended a 24 hour window to leave that was issued early friday local time. and new video also coming in overnight showing damage from the israeli city of ashkelon. hamas armed wing al qassam saying friday that it launched 150 rockets toward that city. there are now reports whether or no new reports yet whether any israelis were injured in that attack. it s been exactly one week now since hamas staged those shocking, brutal and deadly attacks against israel. israel has been striking back hard all week. in addition to airstr