england. also tonight: the aftermath of storm arwen thousands of people spend a fifth day without power in parts of scotland and north east england. packing away the royal standard as barbados severs ties with the queen, becoming the world s newest republic. and why the american born french singer and activistjosephine baker has been honoured alongside the nation s heroes. and coming up on sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel. we ll catch up with all the home nations in women s world cup qualifying action with ellen white expected to break the england goal scoring record. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the prime minister has vowed to offer a coronavirus booster to everyone in england who is eligible within the next two months, as he said it was time for another great british vaccination effort. the military will be brought in to help the nhs and volunteers, with vaccination centres being set up around the country. 22 cases of the omicron
had to absorb almost 1,000,000 people fleeing war, where10% of children have malnutrition and are still people fleeing war, where10% of children have malnutrition and are still haunted people fleeing war, where10% of children have malnutrition and are still haunted by people fleeing war, where10% of children have malnutrition and are still haunted by the people fleeing war, where10% of children have malnutrition and are still haunted by the terrible people fleeing war, where10% of children have malnutrition and are still haunted by the terrible things they have seen. that is the reality of life in yemen. it is now at the centre of a conflict in which all sides have been accused of war crimes. the other side, the who these, started to push at the beginning of the year at the beginning of the year at the beginning of the year, and it has really intensified and it is been like that since september. much more on this in my report on bbc news at ten. but from us, goodbye. hello, a
also in the programme: we report from yemen as the war reaches a turning point. houthi rebels are gaining ground in the seven year conflict a war that s caused shocking levels of suffering and forced many into makeshift desert camps. the people here are suffering because of the fault lines that run right through the middle east. and barbados has spent its first day as a republic with a president not the queen as its head of state. we ll be live from the capital. there s evidence the omicron variant of covid was present in europe days before international travel restrictions were introduced and before it was first reported by south africa. a lot to show you on the pandemic. let s start with bbc health correspondent laura foster. we had thought that the first cases came to the netherlands over the weekend, but it now transpires that there were two test samples between the 19th and the 23rd. why am i telling you those dates? that s because south africa reported its finding