hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the chancellor is set to announce millions of pounds worth of extra support to the badly hit culture sector in his budget tomorrow. £408 million will help museums, theatres and galleries in england to reopen once restrictions start to ease. rishi sunak will also announce a £150 million fund to help communities to take over local pubs. treasury officials said a significant chunk will be given to cricket, as fans prepare to return to stadiums this summer. and an extra £77 million will be given to the devolved administrations in scotland, wales and northern ireland to provide their culture groups with similar backing. 0ur political correspondent, chris mason has this report. how do you save your local pub? many were already closing permanently before the pandemic. how many more might follow now we are out of the habit of propping up the bar? in the budget tomorrow, the chancellor will announce that communi
stuck in a cycle of elections israelis go to the polls for the fouth time in two years. we report from the desert town of mitzpe ramon. and space rock from the dawn of the solar system visible as a major asteroid passes planet earth. hello and welcome to the programme. a year ago, the world was shutting down in that time, some two and a half million people have died from coronavirus but if governments had been better prepared, things could have been very different. that s the view of one of the world s leading experts in infectious diseases, professor dale fisher, who was part of a team sent by the world health organisation to the epicentre of the outbreak, in china. in an exclusive interview with the bbc s panorama programme, professor fisher says that it was countries in the far east, where they d had two outbreaks of similar viruses in the past 20 years that were best prepared. jane corbin reports. across the world, coronavirus has given governments the same challe
welcome to world news america in the uk, on pbs, and around the globe. good news tonight on another coronavirus vaccine results from the us trial of the oxford astrazeneca jab confirm the shot is both safe and highly effective. but trust in the vaccine has plunged in many european countries because of safety concerns. latest polls suggest over 60% of people in france and more than half of those in germany thought the vaccine was unsafe. our health correspondent dominic hughes has more. the vaccination programme is now well under way in the united states and a new trial has cleared the way for the astrazeneca jab to be added to the armoury. it confirms it is safe and effective especially for older people. that adds to the growing body of evidence from the use of the jab in millions of patients in the uk. of course we have a lot of data now coming through from the uk on the use of the vaccine in older people and people over 70 and over 80 and showing that in real world use of
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averaging nearly 8 hup per day, fueling the debate playing out across the country when and how should students return to the classroom. right now sfunts in the third largest district are in limo. a zanl jaaf gone after the chicago teachers union voted to reach remotely and cancelling classes since wednesday. in georgia public school teachers and staff get this who test positive for covid no longer have to isolate before returning to work as long as they wear a mask. contact tracing is no longer required. meanwhile, the state the supreme court s conservative majority appears ready to block president biden s vaccine requirement aimed at large businesses. this effort hangs in the balance as the administration also deals with a messaging problem. white house a.i.d.s. and scientists are frustrated by communication missteps by dr. walensky, the cdc leader who vowed to restore trust in the agency. struggling to do that right now. let s go to ar let saenz at the white house. what i