now on bbc news: dateline london. good evening. the clocks spring forward an hour tonight and the temperatures? hello. i m shaun ley. welcome to the programme, which brings together bbc specialists and the foreign correspondents, who file their stories for audiences back home, dateline: london. this week: borisjohnson boasts of vaccine success. his government says two jabs will be followed by a covid booster in the autumn as europeans struggle with too many infections and too few doses of vaccine. a rare mis step by angela merkel have germans, and others, had enough of lockdown? and the evergreen trafficjam that risked withering global trade. with me this weekend. ashis ray, from india, is approaching 45 years as a foreign correspondent, as well as serving at the crease as a cricket commentator. stefanie bolzen is uk and ireland correspondent for germany s welt. with me here, clive myrie, who reports internationally for the bbc as well as presenting the news back home. t
due to strong winds. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. more than 100 people including children are reported to have been killed by security forces in myanmar, on the deadliest day since last month s military takeover. us, uk and eu officials have condemned the violence, with the british foreign secretary, dominic raab calling it a new low . laura bicker reports. defiant, determined and undaunted, even when faced with bullets. they scream in protest, armed with sticks and slingshots. street battles sprung up in over a0 towns and cities across the country. protesters sheltered behind makeshift barriers in their neighbourhoods, but the gunfire at times two other cars here. attempts were made to save as many lives as possible. the applause here offering hope to these makeshift medics but casualties including children were reported across the country, making it the bloodiest day since the army seized power on the 1st of february. the military tur
that are brighter tomorrow, but this big lump of cloud in the north sea, thatis big lump of cloud in the north sea, that is heading into northern england, southern eastern scotland and it is bringing fairly widespread outbreaks of rain, most of the rain will be light but it a damp night nevertheless, where you keep the cloud 3 6 degrees it is frost free but there will be frosts for part of southern england and north west scotland where the skies clear, temperatures could get down as low as mine four in the coldest spots, tomorrow, we still have this cloudy damp zone in northern england, southern, eastern areas of scotland. the rain extensive but not heavy. the rain extensive but not heavy. the best of the sunshine in the south and north west. temperatures should reach a high of between eight and ten, but like recent days will have a chilly north easterly wind coming in off the north sea, i think fairly quiet day coming up on friday, variable cloud. most of us should have radi
and the singer ed sheeran opens up about using music to cope with depression. in the us, the head of the fbi has claimed it is most likely that covid i9 originated from a leak from a chinese government controlled lab in wuhan. china has accused the fbi of politicising the investigation into the origins of coronavirus, and says there has been no new scientific evidence to support the theory. other us agencies believe the virus developed naturally. our north america correspondent john sudworth reports. suspicions have long swirled around wuhan s laboratories. now, three years after the start of the pandemic, they ve burst into the open once again. the fbi has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in wuhan. here you re talking about a potential leak from a chinese government controlled lab that killed millions of americans. from the start, many scientists believed that covid had passed naturally from animals