The new Lockdown Craze sweeping the globe. Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. Major trials of a new vaccine have shown its effective against some new variants of covid 19, helping to reduce fears that they might prove resistant. Novavax is an american jab but its being produced in the uk. Its also easier to roll out than some previous vaccines since it doesnt need to be kept at ultra low temperatures. The news came amid a deepening row between another vaccine maker, astrazeneca, and the European Union over shortages. Our medical editor fergus walsh reports. Once again, science has triumphed in the fight against coronavirus. The Us Firm Novavax has released results of its british trial showing the first proven efficacy against the new, more contagious uk variant. There were more than 15,000 volunteers on the trail throughout the uk. Over half the cases of covid recorded were the result of the new variant. The results showed the vaccine was 95 effective agains
At least 30 passengers have been killed after an express train derailed in southern pakistan. A Police Officer supervising the Rescue Operation said more than a hundred people had been injured in the incident. The Hazara Express came off the rails near nawabshah in sindh province, as it travelled from karachi to abbottabad. Its not immediately clear what caused the derailment. These are the latest pictures from the scene, in a remote area. Emergency workers are battling to rescue passengers trapped in at least five overturned carriages, with more rescue teams deployed to the scene. An emergency has been declared in nearby hospitals including this one in nawabshah where casualties have been arriving. Our correspondent Tarhub Asghar is following developments from lahore. Well, a Rescue Operation is still going on. And according to the Chief Minister, he said that 30 people have been killed in this incident and 84 people are injured. And according to the officials, approximately 17 bodies
support to give to ukrainians in the long term. with the former business and long term capital correspondent in the washington post anchor. hello welcome to the programme. for the past five years, the conservative party has at times, appeared to stray into labour territory. when theresa may came to power in 2016, the conservatives she said would be the party of the ordinary working class . the 2017 manifesto promised to stand up for the weak , restore fairness, there would not be, she said, untrammelled free markets . then came borisjohnson, nominally of the right, but with a plan to redistribute wealth to the north, and on the back of what became, post pandemic the highest tax take in 70 years. today, in her first prime minister s questions, liz truss returned to something that looked much more, like the conservative orthodoxy of old. i m on the side of people who work hard and do the right thing. that s why we will reverse the ni increase and why we will keep corporation
point and what it tells us about the investigations, ongoing into the former president. tonight with the context the former democrat senator and us district attorney doug jones katy balls the deputy political editor of the spectator and the republican strategist doug heye. hello welcome to the programme. it is unprecedented. never before, at least in the modern age, have federal agents searched the home of a former president. the warrant that was executed on mar a lago yesterday, while donald trump was in new york, would have required close collaboration between the fbi and the secret service guarding him, and no doubt it was signed off by the attorney general, merrick garland. but what were the agents looking for? and why the sudden urgency? what we do know, is that when donald trump left the white house last year, there were thousands of documents still in his possession, some of them classified. the washington post reported, that injanuary, 15 of those boxes were r
gun violence. sir keir starmer sets out his party s position on brexit the opposition leader says labour will not be campaigning to take the uk back into the eu. and halo by name halo by nature the cockpit invention that saved the life of a formula 1 driver this weekend, in a spectacular crash at silverstone. tonight with the context, from tel aviv, political analyst dahlia scheindlin andjim murphy, former secretary of state for scotland and now managing director at arden strategies. hello and welcome to the programme. breaking news this evening six people are known to have been killed and 31 others taken to hospital in another mass shooting incident, this time during an independence day parade in the state of illinois. the incident took place in highland park, lake county, 50 kilometres north of chicago. the gunman is thought to have been firing from a rooftop position towards the parade. police say a high powered rifle was recovered. but the gunman, said to be white