Time since january. Here is vicki young on wednesday. When cases go up, countries have locked down. Not this time. Ministers are taking the opposite approach in england, competent vaccines will protect more of us from the worst of this third wave. g. , , of us from the worst of this third wave. ~ g. ,. , , wave. Andrew james thought very surrisin: wave. Andrew james thought very surprising infections wave. Andrew james thought very surprising infections were wave. Andrew james thought very i surprising infections were unfounded e mailing us to say that cases are now being reported as the highest since january, but testing is now much higher, so case rates are in fact much lower than injanuary. This is a far more positive outlook than you and other media outlets have reported. Juliet asked. 0n the other side of the fence, said salary wrote recently. Mcallen had one since test specific question. 0ther viewers had contacted us about the practice of announcing our news bulletins the
These are flying ants being picked up these are flying ants being picked up on the radar. There is a lot going on out there. As i mentioned, not a lot of sunshine. Count yourself lucky if you have more than blue in the sky. A scattering of down pours, that will be slow moving, particularly in eastern parts this afternoon and into this evening. We could see a bit of rain, but they re very hit and miss. Warm, humid feel, especially if you see some sunshine. Some rain pushing into cornwall, devon and pembrokeshire and some will be heavier tonight. Elsewhere the down pours will start to ease. We will keep a lot of cloud into tonight and it is going to be muggy out there. Misty in places too. The weekend picture, one spell of rain in southern england clearing on saturday. Another system bearing down on us from the west on sunday. In between the two, you may see some sunshine. Saturday and the wet start in southern england, that rain pushing across the south east to east anglia before cleari
In a major escalation since international troops started withdrawing from afghanistan, the taliban have seized a key border crossing. Islaam kalaa is one of the biggest trade gateways into iran, generating around 20 million dollars a month for the kabul government. The defence ministry says security forces are trying to recapture the site. The defence ministry says security forces are trying to recapture the site. From kabul our chief international correspondent lyse doucet has more on the situation across afghanistan. These are momentous and deeply uncertain times in afghanistan. For those who don t follow afghanistan closely, what are these details coming in tell us? they tell us the taliban are making rapid advances in all areas of the country much more quickly than anybody expected. And possibly even the taliban. The latest news is they have taken over this border crossing on the border with iran at islaam kalaa. Russian media now reporting tell taliban now control most of the afgh
You can find it in cinemas now. British actor david oyelowo has long been a commanding screen presence in films such as queen of catwe, and selma which he played martin luther king. Now, he proves himself a dab hand behind the camera in netflix s fantasy drama the water man from a script by emma needell. If you had to choose between a short life with a lot of love and it with a lot of love in it and a very long life with no one there to love, which one would you choose? i would take a short life with your mum in it than a long one without her. Along with directing and producing, oyelowo costars us as amos boone. Oyelowo costars as amos boone. Amos wife mary, played by rosario dawson, has fallen ill to the horror of their son, gunnar. A budding graphic artist played by lonnie chavis. Enraptured by stories of the mythical water man who somehow managed to cheat death in our lives by remote lake endlessly searching for his lost wife, gunnar embarks on a dangerous journey with a local girl
Hands and wrists still bound together. 30 years ago, a young woman s body was discovered in the american midwest. Nobody knew who she was. It s america s silent, masked disaster, that there are so many people without names. it s america s silent, mass disaster, that there she became known as grace doe one of an estimated 250,000 unsolved murders in the us. I was going to keep looking. I did not care what it took, what i had to do. Now, dna from genealogy websites is revolutionising cold case murder investigations like grace s, but at what cost? of our genes. At the same token, so who was grace and can america s dna detectives find out who killed her? i m here in the middle of the us to follow a case that has stumped the police for more than 30 years now. And i m particularly interested in it because the police are using a technique involving dna tracing that s revolutionising cases of missing people and also murder investigations, but it s also controversial. In december 1990, t