Over his treatment escalates. Edelweiss, edelweiss. Tributes to the actor Christopher Plummer star of The Sound Of Music who has died at the age of 91. No, they cant, because the vice chair s here. I take charge. And the perils of parish politics. Read them and understand them meet Jackie Weaver the woman who went viral after their rather heated zoom meeting in cheshire. And coming up in sport on bbc news a fairy tale in chennai. Joe root scores a century in his 100th test appearance, as england take control in india. Good evening. Almost half the uk population 32 Million People should receive their first dose of Coronavirus Vaccine by may. The government says it expects all adults over the age of 50 as well as the clinically vulnerable and those working in health and social care to be offered their first jab by then. Almost 11 Million People have now had their first injection. The uks medicines regulator says the latest Research Shows side effects from all the approved vaccines are mi
Canadian actor Christopher Plummer, best known for his role as Captain Von Trapp, in the sound of music, has died at the age of 91. Hello and welcome whether youre watching in the uk or around the world. Stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. We start in the us, where President Biden has warned that americas economy remains in trouble after weak monthly jobs figures highlighted the economic toll the pandemic is still taking. He said the data underscored the need for congress to act on his 1. 9 trillion stimulus package, which would alleviate americans suffering. Speaking with the treasury secretary, janet yellen, and Vice President Kamala Harris by his side, mr biden appealed to republicans to act urgently to turn his Coronavirus Relief measures into law. I see enormous pain in this country. A lot of folks out of work, a lot of folks going hungry, daring at the ceiling wondering what they will do tomorrow, a lot of folks trying to figure out how t
Funeral, i think it was 1965, seeing it on the television and just being told about the great man. The World Cup Final of 1966, where the nation stopped, and in our own household, my brother had a sort of flirtation with meningitis which was very dramatic, as you know, those can be fora minute, and then he was fine, thank goodness. But i watched the World Cup Final in a neighbours house and ijust remember in both those cases, in belfast, as i was, i was very aware of a national event, or at least it seemed to galvanise everybody and everything, and i was looking at images that said, the world is watching. Wow. And you mentioned belfast there. Some people, i think, are still surprised when they hear that you grew up in working class belfast. Uhhuh. And youve now written and directed a film called belfast. Uhhuh. How autobiographical a film is it . Well, its seen through the eyes of nine year old buddy. Its seen at 50 years distance from me. So inevitably, not everything happened absolut
Have been killed, including a mother and her ten year old daughter. Almost 70 have been injured and around a dozen are trapped under rubble. It is a familiar yet still horrifying sight where you have a residential block with a chunk missing smoldering debris and rescue teams frantically trying to save who they can. And when you have wave after wave of missile strikes, there is always a place in ukraine that is the most acute, acutely hit, and it is the turn of kiev. But alongside this, ukraine is desperately trying to seize the initiative in its counteroffensive, which is coming up to two months old. The gains it has made have been modest and they have been intensely contested. We are seeing an increase in fighting. It is true to say that they are concentrating men and machinery, notably in the southeastern and eastern parts of the front line. But we are getting comments from the kremlin alleging that the counteroffensive is not going according to plan, in their words, saying that all