have a windfall tax on the oil and gas companies. the taliban are celebrating the first anniversary of their return to power in afghanistan but not everybody is cheering, especially women and girls. here as flash floods hit cornwall, the text alerts that will give you a direct warning about severe weather and other life threatening events. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the uk has become the first country to approve what its manufacturers are calling a next generation covid vaccine. the uk s medicines regulator has approved a new version of moderna s coronavirus vaccine the first to target both the omicron variant as well as the original strain of the virus. ministers say the vaccine will now form part of the autumn booster campaign. our medical editor fergus walsh is here with more details. this is the start of a new era of covid vaccines. until now, they ve all been designed against the original form of the virus which emerged in wuhan in china at the end 2019. t
into conservation areas by the end of the decade. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the broadcaster penny smith and the former trade minister, lord digbyjones. here lord digbyjones. are the front pages for you at home here are the front pages for you at home if you havejustjoined us. the i says 25 million people will be offered the new dual strain covid jab this autumn. it has just been given regulatory approval for use it has just been given regulatory approvalfor use in it has just been given regulatory approval for use in the it has just been given regulatory approvalfor use in the uk, made by the us manufacturer moderna. the times is leading with the same story as the i and says over 50s will be called for the new vaccine within weeks. according to the guardian, ministers are planning to slash redundancy pay for civil servants while cutting tens of thousands of whitehall jobs. the daily mirror leads of the sto
fantastic, thank you so much. laura scott at the commonwealth games in birmingham. now fora scott at the commonwealth games in birmingham. now for a look at the weather and hello to chris. we were hearing about the hosepipe bans and no rain in the forecast for a long, long time in parts of the south of the uk. one of our weather watchers spotted this combine harvester bringing the crops in. and although there is a lot of dry weather, across the north of the uk we are seeing some shower cloud speed in. answering the big question, when is it going to rain? well, not for the next five days across the really dry areas but i reckon actually this dry run of weather will last a long time. southern parts of england and wales, i don t think we ll see rain for the next ten days but perhaps even as long as the next two weeks. so perhaps the back end of august we could see some heavy rain moving in, but that is an awful long way off. this afternoon, dry across southern wales, the south m
up, all the bills have gone up. it s just really difficult. and all the food prices, the fuel prices. we ll be asking when we might hope for better economic news and what the two people vying to become prime minister might do to help. also on the programme. china releases images of the country s launch of ballistic missiles into waters around taiwan, in response to a senior us democrat visiting the island nation yesterday. the bbc should have done more to explore claims of sexual misconduct made against the former dj tim westwood says an internal review. and at the commonwealth games, geraint thomas suffers a bruising crash but still takes bronze in the men s cycling time trial. and coming up on the bbc news channel. we ll have the latest from the women s open at muirfield, where japan s hinako shibuno has impressed with a first round of 65. good evening. the bank of england has given a very downbeat assessment of the state of the economy warning that it will fall into