container ship blocking egypt s suez canal has said an effort will be made to free the vessel by saturday night, japan time. and coming up click meets the australian community torn apart by suicide, and learns how tech can offer support. that s in half an hour on bbc news. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the government is preparing to roll out booster vaccines from september to protect people from new variants of the coronavirus. the vaccines minister, nadhim zahawi, told the daily telegraph he expected there would be eight different vaccines available by the autumn, and they d be offered first to the over 70s as well as care and health workers and the extremely vulnerable. simonjones reports. on track, the government is confident of offering all adults the first of two doses of a covid vaccine by the end ofjuly, but now it s looking further ahead. the vaccines minister has told the telegraph that the most vulnerable could be given a third dose as early as september
over safety concerns. another twist in the novak djokovic saga as he admits he didn t immediately isolate after testing positive for coronavirus. he s also blamed his agent for mistakes on his travel declaration form for entry to australia. mistakes on his travel declaration good mistakes on his travel declaration morning. we hai split good morning. we have a north south split in the weather today. in the south, frost and fog, but as that lifts we will see sunshine. in the north, more cloud, spots of rain and in the far north west, pretty windy. all the details throughout the programme. it s wednesday, 12th january. the prime minister is under intense pressure to explain why a bring your own booze party took place in the downing street garden on may 20th, 2020 at the height of the first lockdown in england. borisjohnson will face the house of commons later for the first time since the email inviting more than 100 staff was leaked. both conservative and opposition mps are
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are kezia dugdale who is the director ofjohn smith centre, glasgow university & former scottish labour leader and lucy fisher who is the deputy political editor at the telegraph. the telegraph leads on calls from some of the prime minister s own mps for him to resign in the wake of the downing street lockdown drinks party it was the paymaster general michael ellis, pictured on the front page, who was put forward by the government to mop up labour s urgent question over the affair. mounting pressure on borisjohnson from tory mps to come clean over whether he was at that event in may 2020 is the headline for the guardian. a similar warning on the front of the times say sorry, or doom us all , ministers tell borisjohnson. the i has been speaking to some mps who believe there will be further revelations about downing street lockdown law breaking. the ft looks ahead to tomorrow s sh
been the result, mr speaker? another body blow to the uk economy and to our ability to fund our nhs. that is the fundamental difference between. that is the fundamental difference between this government and the opposition. we have a plan for getting to covid, all they do is carp from the sidelines. mai; for getting to covid, all they do is carp from the sidelines. carp from the sidelines. may i commend carp from the sidelines. may i commend my carp from the sidelines. may i commend my right carp from the sidelines. may i | commend my right honourable carp from the sidelines. i l commend my right honourable friend for resisting calls from the labour party and others for more restrictions before christmas. and also for the changes that he has announced today. omicron is less serious than previous variants. we will see new variants appear in future, the likelihood is that they will continue to be less serious. it is not in the national interest to partially or wholly set
not been following the rules mr speaker as i was also furious to see that clip. millions of people now think the prime minister was taking them for fools, and that they were lied to, they re right, aren t they? his fictional party was a business meeting his fictional party was a business meeting and his fictional party was a business meeting and it his fictional party was a business meeting. and it was his fictional party was a business meeting. and it was not - his fictional party was a business meeting. and it was not sociallyl meeting. and it was not socially distanced and allegra stratton who led that mock downing street press briefing has quit as the prime minister s adviser. to all of you who lost loved ones, who endured intolerable loneliness and he struggled with your businesses, i am truly sorry, and this afternoon, i am offering my resignation to the prime minister. borisjohnson has announced that he s strengthening coronavirus restrictions in england impl