Its been a quiet year for hollywood, but the awards season is underway with female directors making history as three women are nominated for Best Director. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or Around The World, and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. Finally, vaccines are being produced that might help us return to Something Like the lives we had before covid. Here in the uk over ten million doses have already been given out, but at the same time, new variants are emerging too first here in the uk, then in brazil and south africa. So, scientists are turning their attention to how to adapt vaccines to make sure they work against all new variants. Astrazeneca and Oxford University say they plan to have a Next Generation Covid Vaccine ready for the autumn. Our medical editor fergus walsh reports. The scientists at oxford who created the astrazeneca vaccine are continually monitoring how coronavirus is evolving. The current vaccine is t
the presenter what next? here is the news from bethan holmes. the bbc director general tim davie is to face questions for the first time since an unnamed bbc presenter was accused by the sun newspaper of paying tens of thousands of pounds to a teenager for explicit photos. mr davie will answer questions at the unveiling of the corporation s yearly report. a lawyer representing the now 20 year old at the centre of the story says the allegations are rubbish but the sun says it s seen evidence to back the claims made by the young person s mum. mortgage costs have hit their highest level for 15 years after the rate on a twp year fixed deal surpassed the peak in the aftermath of the mini budget. the average rate on such a deal is now over 6.6% a level not seen since august 2008 and the financial crisis. mps are to vote on changes to the illegal migration bill. amendments put forward by ministers include limits on the detention of unaccompanied children who will be gr
as a corrective procedure . his public engagements will be postponed immediately, and will resume after a period of recuperation. live now to sean coughlan our royal correspondent who is outside the london clinic where the princess of wales is being treated. where the princess of sean, where the princess of ijust want to ask, how much of sean, ijust want to ask, how much of this is a shift in terms of the details of medical and health details of medical and health details revealed from how the royal family has taken an approach before? as you suggest, usually, medical matters of the royal family or a private affair but here quite an amount of king charles, they want to send a message, a public awareness message, of mentioning positive people getting their selves checked. we have mentioned, the prostate situation is a benign situation that will get sorted, i think he s sending a message that every people should get take care of their prostate. in terms of the princess
also in the programme. president zelensky addresses the european parliament saying ukraine is fighting to protect europe s way of life president zelensky pleas for. we start with the devastation following monday s earthquakes in turkey and syria, where mass graves are being dug, as the death toll climbs rapidly. nearly 20,000 are known to have lost their lives. rescuers are continuing desperate attempts to find and free survivors, four days after the quakes hit. the world health organization has warned there could be a secondary disaster with survivors living on the streets with very little food and water and in freezing temperatures. our middle east correspondent anna foster is in gaziantep the epicentre of the biggest earthquake to hit the region on monday. this heavy machinery is starting to arrive mainly in the big cities like this one, it has to be said, when you think about the rural villages, towns that are as badly affected, it is so much harder to get the equip
instigate an in depth report by dame carol baker on how we should proceed with regards to drugs, reporting wise, but with equaljustice policy, and they sort of. the researchers who think did a very good job, it is a very good document, they categorised the sort of level of deal, if you like, from at such a street dealing come into four areas, but they note that in two of them, the key drawback is that there is serious intelligence gaps. 0ne the key drawback is that there is serious intelligence gaps. one way we can mitigate that intelligence gaps and the importance of intelligence that viewers need to understand, criminal investigations these days, particularly the proactive ones, they are what we call intelligence led. that means that we know where we are going before we do it, we are not interested in looking around on the street, that policy does not work. one way we can improve that intelligence flow, or kick it again, is by reforming a neighbourhood policing teams, becau