The drive to get more laptops to children to help them with Home Schooling. And how all these lockdown video calls from home have prompted an unexpected boost in business for books. And coming up on bbc news. West bromwich albion Contact Police over alleged online racist abuse of romaine sawyers. Hes the Third Premier League player to receive abuse this week. Good evening. Yet another new vaccine has been shown to be effective in major trials in just 2a hours. The latest is the janssen vaccine. Its 66 effective overall and only needs a single dose. And crucially its 85 effective against severe disease. Last night novavax announced uk trials had shown its vaccine to be 89 effective. And crucially that vaccine protects against the new more contagious uk variant. If approved the uk has millions of doses of both vaccines on order though they wouldnt be available until later in the year. Our medical editor fergus walsh reports. Covid Vaccine Trials keep delivering results beyond all expecta
The ports of military in myanmar code was draw out the results of november pause my collection. And how all these lockdown video calls from home have prompted an unexpected book the macro boost in business for books. Welcome, youre in bbc news. The European Union has announced its introducing Export Controls on Coronavirus Vaccines so that it can monitor where theyre being sent. Its the latest escalation in a deepening row between the eu and astrazeneca over supplies of the vaccine which is mostly produced here. Today the eus Medicines Regulator approved the use of the astrazeneca jab for everyone over the age of 18, though germany says it will still only give the jab to the under 65s. Our brussels correspondent nick beake reports. Throughout the week, this post brexit battle between the eu and a british based Vaccine Maker has been intensifying. European countries are demanding that astrazeneca delivers all the jabs they ordered even if it means taking them from the uk supply. It all
And it is blowing at the moment. North east england, 2a miles an hour. 73 miles an hour over the tops of the pennines. At the moment we have got gusts of wind of 57 miles an hour, so two or three times the strength of the winds elsewhere in Northern England. Overnight it will stay quite blurry and there will be a lot of cloud around with Rain Pushing Northwards and westwards. None of the rate will be heavy. Temperatures four to seven overnight. The weekend whether prospect is dominated by this low Weather Pressure further south. It will throw in bands of rain across the uk, and on saturday we start off with Rain In The South West going into Northern England and that will move northwards to Reach Scotland and Northern Ireland in the afternoon. At the same time it will brighten up across east anglia and the midlands with hazy, sunny spells coming through. Could get up to 13 in the sunshine. But in the north sea coast cold again, temperatures just six or seven celsius. Saturday looks like
And its notjust my industry and the Entertainment Industry, this is the world at large. But in the Entertainment Industry and your industry, you know, as a senior director, there are very few black women in that position. Yes. And what do you put that down to . What i put it down to, i put it down to hollywood being a part of the world. There are very few women, there are very few black people and very few black women in positions of power and status in the world, specifically in the western world. And so its not only the Entertainment Industry. But do you think the Subject Matter of this film was a problem for hollywood . Oh, yes. No, i mean, hollywood is definitely caste ist for sure. Thank you very much indeed, ava. Thank you very much, i appreciate it. Thank you. So lets take a look at some of the front pages. We are looking at the daily mail and it continues with its boost defence spending campaign. Forformer spending campaign. For former defence spending campaign. Forformer Defen
damage by representing trump. in other words, while he s legally presumed innocent and the burden is on the government, it is a public fact that even getting a lawyer is hard when you are this yolked to this person you work for who s your coconspirator under the indictment. the florida he did find is a former public defend we are limited experience in the federal courts according to the new york times. if you check there s a federal system for this, the google of courts. it s called pacer. and can t find her name in pacer, in that database. but the times notes she has handled local cases. nauta was out dining with trump as recently as friday. you can see him there. they were together in philadelphia. but this news tonight that nauta s finally gotten a lawyer so he can do step one, which is plea, speaks to the potential gap here between two people whose fates are intertwined. a gap in the very literal time of these arraignments it s taken three weeks but also a gap in