Clots and the astrazeneca vaccine, there have been questions about what it means for the uks Vaccine Programme and peoples confidence in it. Our Health Editor hugh pym explains the potential problems and the effect theyve had. Lockdown is easing, the Vaccination Programme is going well. But today there has been a change of course, raising new questions. First, what is the risk with Oxford Astrazeneca . It is lower the older you are, as the potential for serious illness with covid is weighed against possible harms from blood clots. Some medication, including the contraceptive pill, also has a very small blood clot risk. Anyone who has had a firstjab and four days or more after that gets severe headaches, blurred vision or certain other symptoms should contact a medical professional. A committee of europes regulator, known as prac, drew this conclusion. We know the benefits of the astrazeneca vaccine have been established. It prevents covid disease, it prevents hospitalisation and it pre
Have to bring it out again for next winter. More online sales havent made up for lost Walk In Trade and with little spare cash to buy new summer stock much of last years will reappear. Not everything in town centres like this is closed. You can still buy a takeaway coffee, for example, but many non essential businesses, including hairdressers, have got to wait until the 12th Of April to reopen. The same goes for Clothes Shops as well and they are really hoping people do come back to high streets after getting very used to shopping online. Round the corner shirley hopes to shift left over stock by discounting and she is trying to reassure customers about safety. We will be restricting how many people we get into the shop again, asking people to wear masks and use hand sanitiser. We will be keeping the Changing Rooms open, but we might put in an extra step, for example quarantine the clothing for a little while. After the financial pain of the past year, some shop owners like ian do see
It is about 3 30am. Now on bbc news our world. Hadicha is fighting forjustice. Her husband, azimjan, has been in prison for ten years for crime he says he didnt commit. Now he has one last chance of freedom. But as the court case approaches, coronavirus is spreading. This is the story of hadicha and azimjan and their fight forjustice. Kyrgyzstan, a Central Asian country which borders china. Most of the 6 million population are kyrgyz. But there Arejust Under1 million uzbeks. One of them is hadicha. For ten years she has campaigned for her husband, azimjan askarov, a Human Rights Activist who is in prison. Hadicha and azimjan have been married for over a0 years, but in 2010 he became caught up in violent clashes between kyrgyz and uzbeks. Azimjan set out to find out. While azimjan was documenting the violence, police visited hadicha. Now azimjan found himself being interrogated by the same local police he had been investigating. He says he was mistreated. Shortly after his arrest, he to
Source of entertainment and a way for many people to socialise online. The last year has seen increased investment in the uk games sector, so much so that developers are hiring new staff in large numbers. Marc cieslak reports the uk Games Industry has experienced massive success in the last 12 months. One example of this is developer sports interactive. Based in east londons olympic park, its grown as a business so much, its moving to new, bigger offices. So this area here is where programmers and artists will be. Its very much been set up for a new way of working. As a studio, weve been going forjust under 30 years. Originally started in two kids bedrooms in shropshire. Since then, weve grown to 200. In londons brick lane, the games might be on a smaller scale, like this mobile title mochi from indie developer love shark, but expansion is occurring here too. So weve been around for about three years now, and we make games for Teenage Girls. So these days 84 of Teenage Girls play video
This is the story of hadicha and azimjan and their fight forjustice. Kyrgyzstan, a Central Asian country which borders china. Most of the 6 million population are kyrgyz. But there Arejust Under1 million uzbeks. One of them is hadicha. For ten years she has campaigned for her husband, azimjan askarov, a Human Rights Activist who is in prison. Hadicha and azimjan have been married for over a0 years, but in 2010 he became caught up in violent clashes between kyrgyz and uzbeks. Azimjan set out to find out. While azimjan was documenting the violence, police visited hadicha. Now azimjan found himself being interrogated by the same local police he had been investigating. He says he was mistreated. Shortly after his arrest, he told a localjournalist what happened. Azimjan was sentenced to Life Imprisonment For Murdering A Policeman and inciting ethnic hatred. He has always strongly denied the charges and says he was not given a fair trial. Hadicha has spent the last ten years campaigning for