to book their covid 19jabs before a predicted dip in supplies. a year later than planned the torch relay for the delayed tokyo olympics finally gets under way injapan. iam i am richard cottingham. i d like to be called richie. finding his voice the audition to give richie the sound he always wanted. and coming up on bbc news: england get their world cup qualifying underway later against the world s lowest ranked nation but tougher ties await for northern ireland and scotland. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. pub operators and landlords have said they are concerned about the possibility of customers in england having to prove they ve been vaccinated against coronavirus in order to enter hospitality venues. a review is looking into the measure as the lockdown is eased. yesterday the prime minister said the decision could be left to individual landlords but industry leaders say the plan is fraught with difficulty . speaking this morning, mrjohnson
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are eve pollard, a former fleet street editor and kezia dudale who is a former scottish labour leader and now the director of a research center called john smith centre. welcome back to you both. a few more have come in since we last spoke. the i details what it calls the four steps to freedom as borisjohnson reveals his road map for england to leave lockdown. the metro says lockdown could end on midsummer s day 21stjune a celestial ring of fire annual solar eclipse. an crowd could be filling sports stadiums. the telegraph says 118 days until freedom. the paper reports proposals for a major easing of lock down before easter were dropped after the government was warned by scientists that it could lead to an extra 55,000 deaths. the daily mail says the end is in sight but it is going to take months it asks what are we waiting for? the guardian says in a signal of how different
he has called for an fbi investigation for polygraph test, and a matter of fact, in 2013, there were similar charges against and assemblymen. he demanded his resignation immediately. he said there was no tolerance for sexual harassment in new york state, and so the governor now has a lot of answers that he needs to give new yorkers. john: the new york post with its typical subtlety out with this headline on its front page today cuomo s of pig. sandra: inside that paper, a book with the is a new piece on the harassment piece. but brian yunus is with us today, bill de blasio now speaking out on this. what is he saying? that s right, mayor bill de blasio calling these allegations made by former aide lindsay boylan disturbing. he says that if true, it is unacceptable. when a woman comes forward with this kind of very specific allegation, we have to take them seriously. we need a full and independent investigation. meanwhile, five new new york state republican se
his son, david, took the photo, which has been shared tens of thousands of times on social media, immensely grateful to the soldier who vaccinated his father in north east london. i thank you very much for the vaccination you gave to my father. and, in the process of knocking out a virus, i ve made you viral, how about that! your dad is such an amazing man, and been through so much. i think it wasjust inspiring, and it was so lovely i got to vaccinate such a lovely man. they had no idea the picture would resonate with so many. from private oliver s mum. ..to the brigadier in charge of the army s role in covid vaccinations. thousands of soldiers helping in the effort to get vaccines into arms. how do you feel he s been given this chance to hopefully extend his life? it is amazing. we talk about the difficulties and the terrible tragedy that has befallen many people. yet, there is plenty of hope and light in it, just as my father has always said that there is light in his darkn
live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in singapore, and two in the morning in moscow, where russia has said there is room for further dialogue on the ukraine crisis but warned that the us position as set out in a letter to the kremlin, does not meet their security demands. key to what russia will do next is vladimir putin. is he trying to stop the eastward expansion of nato or has he already made up his mind to invade? steve rosenberg reports from moscow. the world is still puzzling to piece together a picture of what vladimir putin is thinking. what he s planning. what are his intentions in ukraine and in europe? russian muscle flexing. ..is one piece of the geopoliticaljigsaw. military exercises and 100,000 russian troops near ukraine s border are fuelling fears of a russian invasion. so are moscow s demands. we just ask our partners in nato countries get out. get out from our borders. get out from post soviet countries, because it