In our election blind date series. Today, cambridge historian mary beard and strip club owner Peter Stringfellow. You look slightly distinguished, quite hunky. You are quite a pretty lady. Get that on camera welcome to the programme, were live until 11am. Were also talking about Ariana Grandes one love Manchester Concert to raise money for people affected by the manchester bombing. Tickets go on sale at 10am this morning. Well have the details and wed love to hear from you if youre planning to go. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victorialive. If you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. Theresa mays political opponents have criticised her for not taking part in a seven way General Election debate. She was accused of lacking guts during the 90 minute event. Lets get more from our political guru norman smith. Is it possible to say who one . It was probably the Television Volume button as people try
Will have the latest on the us election for you and also coming up, new research on dinosaurs suggest they were thriving right up until they were thriving right up until the moment that meteorite wiped them out. Lets begin with some good news. Us pharmaceutical giant, pfizer, says latest data suggests its Coronavirus Vaccine is even more effective than we first thought. Pfizer and biontech have released preliminary data which suggests the vaccine is 94 effective in people aged over 65. Last week, the Companies Said the vaccine was more than 90 effective. And earlier this week, there was impressive data on another vaccine, made by us company moderna, suggesting nearly 95 protection. Heres our medical editor fergus walsh. The us New York Times has created this vaccine tracker. They include vaccines russia and china have improved without waiting for the results of trials. Scientists give the vaccine to thousands of people, compared to volu nteers thousands of people, compared to volunteer
Former labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will not be reinstated as a labour mp, following remarks he made about anti semitism. It stops us from doing a lot of the things that we enjoy that, before getting covert matt, we could do without any problems. Concern that children suffering from long covid are being left behind. Hello and welcome. Government science and medical advisers have said they are keen for christmas to be as close to normal as possible, and that people must observe coronavirus rules in order to achieve that. Its understood plans to allow some household mixing are being considered by ministers, but Public Health england warned that each day of relaxation needed five extra days of restrictions. All four uk nations are trying to work out a common approach to the holiday but its dependent on how much cases fall over the next few weeks. Heres our health editor, hugh pym. Will it be a christmas nightmare, or a dream come true . The question being widely asked as people look beyond
This is the business briefing. Im samantha simmonds. Ghosn may be gone but hes certainly not forgotten as Japan Presses lebanon to return the fugitive ex nissan boss. And testing out the top tech trends at this years Consumer Electronics show in las vegas with everything from rotating tvs to robots on display. And on the markets, asian shares rebounded on tuesdayas investors reassessed the risk of an all out
conflict betweenthe United States and iran, while wall street battled back to the black as tech stocks climbed. Japan is reported to be pressing lebanon to return fugitive ex nissan boss carlos ghosn, who escaped house arrest in tokyo before reportedly being smuggled out of the country. Lebanon does not typically surrender its citizens but japan says it can request his extradition. The news comes as details have emerged of how the former top ceo escaped japan where he was on bail pending his trial for financial misconduct. Sharanjit leyl is in our Asia Business hub, so what have we
Tonight at ten, the uks four nations are trying to agree on a common approach to covid in the Christmas Period. It all depends on the rates of infection coming down in the coming weeks in time for the festive season. Every administration is trying to find common ground. Public Health England says it would like families across the uk to celebrate together. We are very keen that we have christmas as to close normal as possible. That requires all of us to make every effort over this national restriction period, and even in early december, to get the cases as low as possible. But any relaxation of the rules would come at a price. Well have more details. Also tonight more encouraging news about the Pfizer Biontech vaccine. Its 94 effective in people over 65. An official report says suppliers of protective equipment to the nhs who had political connections to the uk government were ten times more likely to get contracts. In ten years time, the sale of new diesel only and petrol only cars wil