the scottish government requires to military help for its ambulance service amid warnings of the most challenging winter ahead in a lifetime. back to the office for some, but a bbc poll suggests most workers and bosses don t expect to give up working from home altogether post pandemic. and emma raducanu is back in london at last after the new york high life, a low key welcome home for britain s new tennis sensation. coming up in sport later in the hour on the bbc news channel, another big night of european football with plenty of british interest leicester have a tough europa league match against napoli. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the roll out of covid boosterjabs across the uk got under way today, with the government setting out to give more than 30 million people an extra layer of protection this winter. jabs will be offered to the over 50s, as well as care home staff and residents, front line nhs workers and younger adults with certain health cond
prince edward and his wife, the countess of wessex, visited the queen at windsor this morning. on leaving, her daughter in law said the queen had been amazing. hello and a very good afternoon from windsor castle. gun salutes have taken place to mark the death of the duke of edinburgh across the uk, in gibraltar, and from navy warships at sea. at midday, batteries fired 41 rounds, one every minute. prince philip who died yesterday aged 99 served as a naval officer during the second world war and held the office of lord high admiral. later today, details of the duke s funeral are expected to be announced. our royal correspondent, nicholas witchell, reports. at midday in the capital cities of the four nations of the united kingdom, 41 gun salutes were fired. fire! and for a man who served in the royal navy in the second world war and later, guns were fired in the royal naval base in portsmouth. ..and in gibraltar, home to the royal navy s gibraltar squadron. at windsor castl
the next place to go and live. and where s wally? well, sort of. the british antarctic survey is asking for our help to study satellite images of around 15,000 square miles to see how many walruses can be spotted, and where. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. police in norway say a suspect accused of killing five people with a bow and arrow had converted to islam and showed signs of radicalisation. a spokesman said police had been in contact with him over his views. the suspect is a 37 year old dane, living in kongsberg, the south eastern norwegian town where the attacks took place on wednesday. he is now in custody, and his lawyer says he s cooperating. reports say he shot at anyone he came across. arrows hit several houses. norway s new prime minister has called the murders a gruesome and brutal act . in the last hour, police in norway have been holding a press conference about the killings. here s what they said. translation: there had b
good morning. iam good morning. i am out of the very front and to get this prized position you had to be here two days ago, at a 7am on saturday morning. it won t be long before this lot are inside. that is wherejohn and carol r. yes, good morning. the big news on day one of these wimbledon championships is the withdrawal of nick kyrgios. the beaten finalist last year and the amount s singles is out because of a wrist injury after what has been an injury ravaged season. and will it stay dry? well, actually, we are expecting some showers this afternoon at wimbledon. for most, rain in the north of scotland, rain in northern ireland putting eastwards. behind all of that, sunshine and showers. a day for taking the brolly. more later. good morning. it s monday, the 3rd ofjuly. it appears to have been a calmer night across france, after the family of a teenager shot dead by police said they did not want his death to spark riots. police made around 80 arrests overnight, down from mo
of state antony blinken of catastrophic repercussions of the continuation of israel s military campaign in gaza. mr blinken is on a tour of the middle east as the us tried to prevent the conflict in gaza from spreading. earlier he met thejordanian foreign minister. king abdullah also urged blinken to put pressure on israel to agree to an immediate ceasefire. later mr blinken will head to qatar for talks with the emir. this is what the secretary of state had to say before he left forjordan. as we said from day one, we have an intense focus on preventing this conflict from spreading. and a big part of the conversations we ll be having over the coming days with all of our allies and partners is looking at the steps that they can take using the influence and ties that they have. to do just that, to make sure that this conflict doesn t spread. second, we ll be looking at what we can do. maximise the protection for civilians, maximise humanitarian assistance, getting into them, a