Portugal from next monday, after last Minute Uncertainty over their governments plans. And they always land on their feet this cat had onlookers agast as it leapt from the fifth floor of a burning building in chicago landed, and Sauntered Off what a cool cat. Good Evening And Welcome to bbc news. Borisjohnson has said that the new indian variant of coronavirus could pose a serious disruption, to the progress made in tackling the virus, and make it more difficult to move to the final stage of relaxing restrictions in england injune. Speaking earlier this evening, the Prime Minister said that second Vaccine Doses for the Over 50s would be accelerated, in a bid to keep ahead of the virus. Cases of the indian variant have more than doubled in a week, with over 1300 cases, mostly in england. The government says theres no firm evidence that the variant causes more severe disease or that its more resistant to the vaccine but that it may be more transmissible. Heres our medical editor fergus w
and bruce springsteen is given one of the most coveted awards in songwriting the fellowship of the ivor novello academy. hello, i m matthew amroliwala. welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. investigators in the us have recovered the data recorder from the ship that crashed into the baltimore bridge, causing it to collapse. these are the live pictures from the scene it s foggy , but you can see part of the collapsed bridge. the cargo ship is under there with the tangled remain of the bridge over its bow. it s hoped the data recorder will throw light, onto why the container vessel lost power and crashed soon after leaving port. six missing construction workers, who were on the bridge at the time, are now presumed dead. the disaster has forced the indefinite closure of baltimore port one of the busiest on america s, eastern seaboard. said let s go live to our correspondent who is there at the scene. i
you thank you for that great reporting. pro that propublica kind o stuff. thank you for joining us tonight, alex s office evening she will be back nex week we re gonna start the evenin with breaking news out of texa were trump appointed federal judge has issued a ruling th lava act on the lives of nearl every person in the country. why do we say every person because it s about every perso who can become pregnant, everyone who cares about someone knocking apartment, an everyone who cares access to regulated drugs. pretty much everyone has a stake in the case. it revolves around the first o two pills better use i medication abortion. mifepristone, first approved b the fda in the year 2000 it s been used overseas fo that gates before that but tonight, the approval is o pause. because of a case brought by a group of conservative christia lawyers, with a history of failed lawsuits talkin transgender student athletes months, ago one month ago, the lawyers on behalf of antiabortio
tonight, alex is off and she will be back and joining us next week we re gonna start the evenin with breaking news out of texa were trump appointed federal judge has issued a ruling th lava act on the lives of nearl every person in the country. why do we say every person because it s about every perso who can become pregnant, everyone who cares about someone knocking apartment, an everyone who cares access to regulated drugs. pretty much everyone has a stake in the case. it revolves around the first o two pills better use i medication abortion. mifepristone, first approved b the fda in the year 2000 it s been used overseas fo that gates before that but tonight, the approval is o pause. because of a case brought by a group of conservative christia lawyers, with a history of failed lawsuits talkin transgender student athletes months, ago one month ago, the lawyers on behalf of antiabortion organizations and doctors argue to the u.s district judge, matthew ka merrick, that the f
thank you all for your enthusiasm to mark and celebrate these 50 years. gratitude, respect, and pride. these words sum up how i feel about the people of this country and the commonwealth and what this jubilee means to me. i wondered whether i should start this saying when i was here in 1776. [laughter] in my lifetime, the united nations has moved from being a high-minded aspiration to being a real force for common good. that in itself has been the signal achievement. but we are not gathered here to reminisce. in tomorrow s world, we must all work together as hard as ever if we are truly to the united nations. neil: just a sampling is a look back over 70 years, through seven posts, 15 prime ministers, and 14 u.s. presidents. she has been an unstoppable force over decades. the constant anna world i was constantly changing. and now, britain s longest reigning monarch, queen elizabeth ii, is dead. she died in scotland earlier today. her son is now king charles iii. fast-movin