the shooting of black lives matter activist sasha johnson. making a splash a rise in lockdown river swimming promts public concern around the state of the uk s waterways. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. we start in belarus. key members of the government there will be hit with sanctions as the us is drawing up a list of people to target. it s a response to the forcing down of a commercial plane to capture an opposition journalist last week. at a meeting with russian president vladmir putin on friday, the leader of belarus, alexander lukashenka, said the west is trying to destabilise his country. opposition leader svetlana tikhanovskaya seen here with the dutch prime minister last week is due to lead a belarus solidarity march later today, in the lithuanian capital, vilnius. it s one year to to the day since her husband sergei was imprisoned. he was due to stand as a candidate in the presidential elections last year. she s called for
charged with conspiracy to murder over the shooting of the black lives matter activist, sasha johnson. the 6 trillion dollar plan. president biden pushes the biggest spending programme since world war two to try to reboot america s economy. and billions of cicadas emerge in the us, after spending 17 years underground. they are at the opposite of locusts because they are not actually a plate. they re not destroying they are living their lives completely in exclusion of humans. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. thousands of fans are descending on the portuguese city of porto ahead of this evening s champions league final between chelsea and manchester city. 16,500 supporters will be allowed into the stadium to watch the all english affair after the venue was switched from turkey, when the country was placed on the uk s travel red list . our sports correspondent, natalie pirks, reports from porto. wembley may have been a more practical ch
vaccine brought closer to home offer. to make sure they get the opportunity to have the vaccine, and the opportunity to consent to do that. so that s just one example of how this has improved, but there is so far to go for the nhs to really get the value out of the darter. data. the country has got used to dashboards now. from daily briefings. how do you see that playing out moving forward outside of the pandemic, do you think that information will continue to be available? there are huge strides forward we need to keep pushing on. using data for research purposes for new treatments, get them fast to people. using data to make sure we can better manage things and have better coordinated delivery of care for instance. using data to take preventative action to stop people getting ill. we will launch a data strategy for the department that will set this out in detail. when you planned that? in the next few weeks. we made big strides but there is a lot further to go. would
p.m. eastern. top of the hour. i m alisyn camerota. thank you so much for joining me. new this afternoon, 12 to 15-year-olds may soon be able to get a booster shot. the ceo of the fda is expected to approve that booster shot in just a matter of days. it could be as soon as monday. we re talking to cnn s elizabeth cohen. elizabeth, how soon can these 12 to 15-year-olds get boosted? alisyn, it looks like it could happen in just a couple of days, and we know how helpful it can be against omicron. let s take a look at what these numbers look like in the 12 to 15-year-old group. approximately 4 million children that age are at least six months past their second shot. that means once the fda gives the green light, they should be able to go out and get their boosters. then another 4.7 million more will be six months past their second shot soon or in the coming months, so they will, in the coming months, be able to get a booster. alisyn, really the most important number is, and i
people in the uk are left waiting days for covid pcr testing following high demand and pharmacists warn of patchy supplies of rapid test kits. we don t know when these are going to be available, so it s very difficult to plan and let our patients and people know in terms of when to come back and when it s going to be in the pharmacies. soaring energy bills, rising taxes and stagnant wages will leave millions of british families struggling in 2022 according to a leading think tank. and after prayers and thanksgiving in soweto earlier, an interfaith memorial service for archbishop desmond tutu is being held in cape town. hello and welcome to bbc news. borisjohnson has urged everyone in the uk to get their boosterjab. he says up to 90% of people currently in intensive care beds with covid had not received their third vaccine. the number of people in hospital in england with covid has risen to nearly 10,500. meanwhile, pharmacists in the uk are warning of patchy supplies of r