the government says it will examine any recommendation made by the inquiry, into the lobbying row, involving david cameron. nasa is attempting to make history with the first powered flight on another planet with a helicopter mission on mars. and coming up at 6.30 a round up of all the day s top sporting action in sportsday. hello, welcome to bbc news. on the first weekend since the government eased coronavirus lockdown restrictions in england, millions have taken the opportunity to get outdoors, and enjoy the sunny weather. but there are concerns over new variants of the coronavirus, with 77 cases discovered in england and scotland, of an indian mutation of covid i9. it comes as deaths from coronavirus continue to fall, with 10 in the latest 2a hour period, though the figures are usually lower at the weekend. here s our health correspondent, catherine burns. i steps along the road map go, this one has made a big difference to streets up and down england. it s been the first
on the video last year, apologised and resigned today. to all of you who have lost loved ones, who endured intolerable loneliness, and who struggled with your businesses, i am truly sorry. that video, taken during lockdown last year, seemed to make fun of a downing street party, a party the prime minister still says did not happen. i apologise unreservedly - for the offence that it has caused up and down the country, and i apologise for- the impression that it gives. millions of people now think the prime minister was taking them for fools, and that they were lied to. and pfizer biontech announce that three doses of their vaccine can neutralise the new omicron variant of the virus. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel, a stoppage time zenit st petersburg equaliser means holders chelsea finish runners up in their champions league group. welcome to bbc news at ten, which comes to you from media city in salford tonight, which along with the rest of england is facin
the online world can seem like a lawless space. this bill, a first attempt to regulate it, is expected before parliament soon. tech companies had already been told they would face fines of up to 10% of turnover if they didn t take down child abuse material and terrorism content. now that will apply to drugs and arms dealing, encouraging suicide, fraud and revenge porn. the government says it will be able to bring the full weight of the law against people using the internet as against people using the internet as a weapon to ruin other people s lives. those who send threatening messages, like the racist abuse of england s footballers last year, will face prosecution, as well people at the companies themselves. the organisations will have to enable individuals who will be responsible within those organisations for complying with the legislation. if they continue to flout that legislation, those named individuals will be responsible and could face up to five years imprisonment.
and coming up the bbc sjiyar gol travels to israel on the trail of half a ton of missing iranian secret documents. that s in the hidden war at 1.30. a good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. a former government minister has joined calls for borisjohnson to resign over the claims of downing street lockdown parties and submitted a letter of no confidence. nick gibb who was schools minister until last year accused the prime minister of flagra ntly disregarding the rules . mrjohnson has written to all of his mps, pledging to improve the way downing street operates. our political correspondent damian grammaticas reports. borisjohnson left downing street for the weekend last night and escaped to the countryside, perhaps, but there s no escaping his difficulties. nick gibb, a former schools minister, the latest mp to submit a letter of no confidence. in today s telegraph, which once carried mrjohnson s columns, he says. adding. others disagree. of course there are problem
the community, wasn t he? so although this was worldwide, global news, it would have been felt much more personal here in norfolk. yes, i mean, the king was very special to everybody in norfolk because he. i think sandringham was one of his most favourite places to be. and i remember that my sister and my mother and i went to wolverston station and saw the king s coffin being put on the train. and it was so moving because the train went very, very slowly and there was so many people. most of us didn t have television sets in those days, but one or two people did. and i remember, they were like postage stamps, and we went to someone who had one to watch the queen coming back from africa. and it was so moving her standing at the top of the stairs in her black coat. and suddenly, somebody, you know, we d known i d known since she was a child was queen. of course, the queen every year comes here this is where she wants to remember him. absolutely. as the queen. i think it