For news, well look at how The Social Network is increasingly going head to head with National Governments and its not always going the way of the countries. And lady gaga has offered half 1 million reward after a gunman shot her dog walker and carried her dogs away. We start with the Stuttering Roll out of vaccines in the european union. Leaders have met to work out how to speed up the process. Theyre facing a combination of problems lower than expected supply, bureaucratic glitches, and reluctance to take the british Astrazeneca Jab. European Union Leaders are holding a Virtual Meeting to address speeding up the distribution of coronavirus vaccines. The European Commission has been heavily criticised over its vaccine Mainland Europe is lagging far behind the uk, where 27 have had at least one dose of vaccine. Spain, germany, italy, belgium and france are all at between five and 7 . And look at this from germanys biggest selling newspaper. Dear britain, we envy you, it says. Separatel
All adults on the Learning Disability Register will be prioritised for vaccine. And india thrash england by ten wickets in an bizarre third test to take a 2 1 series lead. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. After last years exam fiasco, when grades were decided by an algorithm, this year the government has opted to pass the responsibility of gcse and a level grades on to teachers. With so much term time lost and exams cancelled, pupils in england will be assessed only on what theyve been taught. There are several ways in which teachers will be able to determine grades from mock exams, coursework, essays and optional tests provided by exam boards. Results will be published earlier in august to allow more time for the extra appeals that are expected. Todays announcement follows similar moves in scotland, wales and northern ireland, but there are concerns about the fairness of the approach, and that vexed issue of Grade Inflation. Our education editor Branwen Jeffreys reports from asht
If theyve never had a vaccine. They ought to think about other people rather than themselves. Scotlands first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, says claims that her government covered up its handling of Sexual Harassment allegations against alex salmond are a deluded conspiracy theory. A letter from the missing dubai princess Latifa She Calls on Cambridgeshire Police to reopen the investigation into her sisters disappearance 20 years ago. A five day match Done And Dusted injust two days england go down in the third test against india. And coming up in sport on bbc news aubameyang to the rescue, as the arsenal captain sends his side through to the last 16 of the europa league. Good evening. The Prime Minister has defended plans for teachers to grade gcse and a level pupils in england this summer, calling it a good compromise. The decision follows last years exam fiasco when grades were decided by an algorithm. With so much time lost, pupils will only be assessed on what theyve been taught. Gra
and scotland will be fully or partially closed today, because of concerns about crumbling concrete. investigations are also under way in schools in wales and northern ireland. ministers have promised to speed up checks on schools where the material, known as raac, may have been used. 0ur reporter louisa pilbeam reports. from the midlands to suffolk. and london. more than 100 schools in england look like this today, with buildings roped off and closed on what for many should be the first day of the new term. the problem crumbling concrete called raac, meaning many schools are unsafe. sarah, a mum of two who didn t want to be on camera, told us. the main issue for me is we don t have any certainty about when the children are going back to school. the lack of certainty right now is worrying for everyone. the school haven t been that specific about the actual meanwhile, on social media sites, including mumsnet, one parent said. the government has been criticised for not acting
the new year s eve nightclub attack in istanbul in which 39 people are known to have died. the authorities are continuing their hunt for the suspect, who escaped after opening fire on party goers. officials have now identified all but one of the victims and they say nearly two thirds of them were foreign nationals. funerals for some of those killed are being held today. from istanbul, our correspondent selin gerit reports. this is the gunman that has sent shock waves across the country. he is still at large, but now his motives could be clearer. the so called islamic state claimed responsibility for the attack. in a statement, they said the shooting was carried out by a soldier in revenge for the turkish‘s governments strikes on islamic state in syria. eight people have been detained, but the gunman is not thought to be among them. in the area, some more funerals were held today. 29 of the victims are farne national foreign nationals. a 29 year old actor from lebanon was