successful female sailing olympian of all time. the belarusian olympic sprinter who sought sanctuary in a foreign embassy in tokyo has now left japan, boarding a flight to vienna this morning and coming up this hour, professor barbie, the scientist who designed the oxford coronavirus vaccine has been honoured with her very own doll. good morning. the uk government s vaccination committee is expected to recommend that all 16 and 17 year olds should be given a covid jab. thejoint committee on vaccination and immunisation stopped short of making the move last month because it said it was still assessing the benefits and risks for that age group. about 1.4 milliom teenagers would be included in the new roll out. some countries including the united states, canada and france, are already routinely vaccinating those aged 12 and over. tim muffett reports. it began with the elderly and most vulnerable. since last december, the ages of those receiving covid jabs in the uk has got low
with the aim of driving down infections. anything we can do to improve vaccination rates, including going to below the age of18, 16, 17 year olds, clearly will be a good thing, to get as many people vaccinated as possible, with both doses of the vaccine. if you want to get in touch with your views on any of today s stories including the idea of giving vaccines to children i m. lebanon is holding a day of national mourning to mark the first anniversary of a massive warehouse explosion that killed over 200 people and injured thousands. the belarusian 0lympic sprinter who sought sanctuary in a foreign embassy in tokyo has now left japan, boarding a flight to vienna this morning. and coming up this hour, professor barbie. the scientist who designed the oxford coronavirus, vaccine has been honoured with her very own doll. a warm welcome to tokyo and it s been another incredible day on the athletics track, with another extraordinary 400 metres hurdles final and another dizzying
there is a ton of news, so let s get smarter. right now, the covid situation across this country is starting to feel a lot like it did in the early days. things are changing quickly with cases spiking dramatically and transmissions seemingly running wild. according to nbc news, the average number of daily cases is up more than 40% in the last month. but there is one critical difference from where we were last year. vaccines. and while more people are getting sick and testing positive, if you are vaccinated, so far, the omicron variant is pretty mild. that said, here in new york city, the rate of positive tests has doubled in the last week. there are restaurants here shutting down again, at least temporarily. testing lines are once again stretching as far as the eye can see. i want you to take a look at this video from miami. that is not last year, that is yesterday. and this video is from this morning. just a couple of blocks from here. all of these people are waiting in line
for seven and a half days. more than 7000 people are now known to have died and that number is expected to rise and not focuses on getting aid to the thousands who have survived. also in the programme, the new family of the victim was legally stabbed says that her death is of the massive hole in their lives. officials have been explaining more about the series of objects that have been shot down from their airspace. three were shut down this past week and we have just been hearing from the white house sink have not been able to identify with these objects are. but they maintain that this balloon which was shot on the 4th of february was a suspected spy the 4th of february was a suspected spy balloon from china. his national security spokesperson speaking in the last few moments stability were able to determine that china does have a boon for this intelligence collection that is connected to the people s liberation army. it was operating during the previous administration but
also tonight, a hannity investigation into new york city s pathetic failures or protecting innocent, law-abiding people. and we have an update on the bodega worker that was charged with second-degree murder. also texas congresswoman florez, newly elected as you know, will join us to respond to numerous races, repeated racist smears against her, all coming from a woke democrat. but first, over the past 18 months, you might have noticed that joe biden and the climate cult alarmists who control him sometimes pretend they have compassion, they feel your pain. in reality they want you to feel pain. they wanted. joe promised, he s delivering. they want you to pay more at the pump, they want your energy bills to be higher, they will hot food prices to rise, they want you to make do with less all in the name of climate change. according to them the administration must take extreme measures right now in order to save mother earth from imminent doom. ultimately, this is nothing more