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that s good news. it s at least sort of simplifying news in terms of the rules and formal government advice about vaccinations. that news comes on the same day, we ve learned, that pfizer is going to the fda to get approval for its new antiviral pill. this is not a vaccine, this is a pill you take as a treatment for covid. merck has one of these antiviral pills, pfizer has one of them, too. the merck clinical results looked really good in terms of people being kept alive, getting out of the hospital if they could get that drug soon after being diagnosed with covid. the merck results were good, but the pfizer clinical trial results looked even better. the pfizer clinical trial results showed nearly 90% efficacy at keeping people out of the hospital and alive if they could get this drug, this new pfizer antiviral drug, again, that you take as a pill soon after contracting covid. again, pfizer has just put in to the fda to have that treatment authorized for use in the unit ....
february. see right there, exchange of flowers. ar let signs is at the white house. kate bennett joins us from traveling with the first lady. kate, what do we need to know about this visit? reporter: well, we re back in slovakia tonight. earlier today we made the surprise trip with the first lady into the south western corner of ukraine. a 15-minute drive from the border. besides the trip on mother s day, the biggest surprise was the first lady of ukraine. they ve exchanged correspondence, and meeting today was a big deal. not only is a first lady going into an active war zone. this is also the wife of the president of ukraine who has tried to keep under cover. the public has not seen her. the two women together on mother s day. as dr. biden said, it was important to express support from america on mother s day for ukraine. now, the two women held a bilateral behind closed doors for about a half hour or so that the press didn t get to see. i m told they talked about e ....
the editor of the mail on sunday has turned down a meeting with the speaker of the house of commons to discuss the newspaper s controversial article about labour s deputy leader. the piece quoted an unamed conservative mp claimed angela rayner tried to distract borisjohnson by crossing and uncrossing her legs in parliament, and has been condemned as sexist, classist and misogynystic. the paper s editor, david dillon, says it should be up to journalists to decide what they report. we can cross live to westminster and our chief political correspondent adam fleming: the meeting was going to happen, what has changed? they have written today that they had initially accepted this invitation to speak to the house of commons speaker but they changed their mind for two reasons, the said public comments have been made about the case and the reporting so they say they would not get a fair hearing and secondly, the newspaper claims that three further conservative mps have come forw ....
the electronics costing you more than £100 a year without you even knowing it. new research puts a figure on the cost of so called vampire devices, those which drain power when they re on standby. i ll reveal the biggest culprits. a real mad night in manchester as city edge real madrid in seven goal thriller in the champions league semifinal first leg. # i m up in space, man from tiktok to turin. sam ryder tell us about his remarkable rise to eurovision. blogging for trafalgar square which for one day only has been transformed into a wild metal as part of a campaign to reconnect as with nature. it s a cold start to the date for some of us, i foresee one and an east west split eight krusty wide east west in the weather today. it s wednesday 27th april. a high courtjudgment is expected today on claims that the government failed to put proper measures in place to protect care home residents in england at the beginning of the pandemic. the case has been brought by two women w ....
that high pressure, it isjust sitting there, stopping any weather fronts coming in and stopping any meaningful shower is really bubbling up. some signs things might get moving a little more into the first week of may. here is the high, parked up across the uk. various weather systems try to topple in around it. the signs of anything having any great success perhaps saturday, this area of low pressure coming into the north west. but these highs are stubborn so that is by no means a given in terms of its detail. the rest of today, quite a lot of cloud in the eastern half of the uk, some drifting westwards. best of the brightest brightness in the western coastal counties. isolated shower may be in northern ireland, may be for the mountains of wales and the malls of the south west but overall, a dry picture. dry overnight, cloud in the east will hold the temperature is about the further west you are, clearer skies, light about the further west you are, clearerskies, light w ....