to where the bafta award winning documentary my octopus teacer was filmed campaigners there are trying to preserve one of the world s richest ecosystems. good evening and welcome to bbc news. if you re over 45 years old and live in england you can now book your covid jab, as the vaccination programme enters its next phase. everyone over fifty or in a high risk group has already been offered a first dose, according to the government, and ministers say they re on track to offer all adults a vaccine by the end ofjuly. it comes as officals try to contain new cases of the south african variant in south london, where hundreds of thousands of residents have been asked to come forward for tests. today the prime minister has warned that infections will rise as the economy reopens, and he s urged people to continue to be cautious. with the latest on the vaccine roll out, hugh pym reports. are you feeling well today? a firstjab with a new vaccine, this one supplied by the us company,
last month. but so far, the houthi haven t been deterred. these are pictures of the forces actually seizing a ship in november, the iranians back group which controls most of northern yemen had been targeting ships in the area for months, and protest at offensive in the gaza strip. this latest action is a major escalation, the ship hit by houthi yesterday was the envy true confidence that the ballcarrier was selling with the crew of 20 who are mainly filipino nationals. the attack happened about 15 nautical miles from the yemen port. the ship was travelling from china to saudi arabia. the us condemned the attack saying it went way beyond disruption to navigation and international seas. ., , ., seas. not ust endangered seafarers seas. notjust endangered seafarers but seas. notjust endangered seafarers but now, - seas. notjust endangered l seafarers but now, tragically killed a number of them so we will continue to hold them accountable and we call on government to run the
vaping and smoking, but the office for budget responsibility warns the government could find it hard to balance the books. here s our business correspondent, emma simpson. did you catch any ofjeremy s budget? it was a chance to turn around the fortunes of the conservative party. but was it enough? i think it s good that the workers are going to get money back in their pockets. but then if you think about the cost of living and how everything is going up, then maybe they could have given a little bit more back. anything that cuts taxes, i wish he would have done something a bit more for savers, we re in a position where we re living off savings. i think they re trying to do it in light of a general election and probably not really thinking about what the benefit - to the country is. the centrepiece of this budget was a £2 billion cut was a 2p in the pound cut to national insurance, a tax paid by workers. so who are the winners and losers if you include all the changes to tax
could be removing them. hello, i m ben thompson. welcome to the programme. within the last hour, indian company tata steel has confirmed plans to close blast furnaces at its plant in port talbot, south wales, with the loss of up to 2,800 jobs. tata said in a statement: tata steel today announced it will commence statutory consultation as part of its plan to transform and restructure its uk business. this plan is intended to reverse more than a decade of losses and transition from the legacy blast furnaces to a more sustainable, green steel business. following the confirmation, the general secretary of steelworkers union community, says tata s announcement is unacceptable and claims the uk s primary but a uk government spokesperson has said they are determined to secure the future of the uk steel industry. uk prime minister rishi sunak has been asked about this lets listen to what he had to say. well, i know first of all that it will be a worrying time for everyone af