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cabinet ministers tell the bbc the government should have brought in tougher restrictions in the autumn to tackle the second wave of the virus. i would not let him tell me. and as this year s oscar nominations are announced we ll be speaking to the director of the white tiger, which has been nomimated for best adapted screenplay. france and italy have joined germany in becoming the latest countries to suspend use of the astrazeneca vaccine as a precautionary measure, over concerns of possible side effects. french president emmanuel macron said the country would stop administering the vaccine pending an assessment by the european union s medicine regulator on tuesday. the republic of ireland made a similar decision over the weekend following reports of blood clotting in recipients in norway. but the world health organization says there is no indication of a link between the vaccine and blood clots. the announcements by follow similar moves by denmark, norway, bulgaria, i ....
news of another cyber this time affecting several large london hospitals, being described as a major cyber attack. services including the delivery of blood transfusions have been affected, according to memos are sent to nhs staff. we know that the king s couege staff. we know that the king s college hospital and guy s and saint thomases are amongst the hospital is experiencing problems, with some operations reported to have been cancelled or redirected. we will talk to one of a health correspondence about this shortly. more on that story, the breaking story coming up for you. let s continue with the general election campaign. the big news today is rishi sunak and sir keir starmer will go head to head in their first televised debate of the general election campaign tonight. the hour long programme on itv will be filmed in front of a live studio audience. it comes as the conservatives have promised to introduce a yearly cap on the number of migrant visas, while labour has ....
a russian attack on ukraine s strategic port city of odesa. the council in ukraine s third biggest city said two missiles were shot down by ukrainian forces, but that others hit a military facility and residential buildings. has led to reports that several people have been killed. this video shows the aftermath of a strike on a residential building. in an online post, zelensky s chief of staff andriy yermak says at least five people were killed and 18injured in the missile strike. in the city of mariupol, russian forces appear to be trying to storm the azovstal steel works, where ukraine s remaining forces in the city are holding out. russians are said to have resumed air strikes on the plant in the south east of the country.from ukraine, danjohnson sent this report. more ukrainian homes are coming underfire. shelling s intensified in kharkiv than across the east of the country, but intelligence assessments say the russians aren t gaining much ground. still, the ukraini ....
after diving through the gap between the planet and its rings. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the foreign secretary has suggested britain could take military action in syria without a vote in the house of commons. borisjohnson said it would be ‘very difficult to say no if president trump asked for british help in punishing the syrian regime for another chemical weapons attack. meanwhile mrjohnson has also waded into the election campaign for the first time, with a highly personal attack on the labour leaderjeremy corbyn. he has called him a mutton headed old mugwump. here s our political correspondent, alex forsyth. us misile strikes on a syrian airfield earlier this month, the first direct us action against syrian government forces, a response to a chemical attack which killed civilians. today the foreign secretary suggested if asked the uk would support such strikes in the future, possibly without the approval of parliament. if they come to us and ask for ....
be the youngest president since napoleon. he was voting in his hometown, rather nice seaside town. he wants to shake up french politics. he wants to bring together he says a coalition of the willing which he said would be able to reform france. and he wants an open facing france at the centre of a much more deeply integrated european union. he is the favourite but he is up union. he is the favourite but he is up againsta union. he is the favourite but he is up against a woman who needs very little introduction, marine le pen of the front national, the self proclaimed champion of the forgotten. she was voting in the north where she has been a regional councillor. she has a very different vision. she would restore the borders of france. she would limit immigration, she would bring back the frank, she would give the french people a membership on their european union membership and she tells people at the rallies that she is the only defender of french workers and french fa ....