after he became the first british athlete to ever win four medals at the games. the telegraph says that booster vaccines are set to be offered to 32 million people in the uk starting next month, with up to 2000 pharmacies poised to deliver the programme. in the times tory mps and travel industry criticise the governement over plans to introduce a new amber watchlist of countries at risk of moving to the travel red list with little warning. and according to the guardian, there s another rebellion awaiting the prime minister over the treasury spending this autumn, after a high profile mp hit out at the intolerable levels of hardship in their blue wall constituency. a daily mail exclusive reveals that growing number of patients are having to pay for life saving surgery because of large nhs waiting lists. according to the ft, there are signs of a housing fever as house prices boom in almost every major economy in the wake of the pandemic, which revives concerns over poten
charged with conspiracy to murder over the shooting of the black lives matter activist, sasha johnson. the 6 trillion dollar plan. president biden pushes the biggest spending programme since world war two to try to reboot america s economy. and billions of cicadas emerge in the us, after spending 17 years underground. they are at the opposite of locusts because they are not actually a plate. they re not destroying they are living their lives completely in exclusion of humans. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. thousands of fans are descending on the portuguese city of porto ahead of this evening s champions league final between chelsea and manchester city. 16,500 supporters will be allowed into the stadium to watch the all english affair after the venue was switched from turkey, when the country was placed on the uk s travel red list . our sports correspondent, natalie pirks, reports from porto. wembley may have been a more practical ch
office computer system. a number of newspapers are quoting downing street sources reportedly blaming the prime minister s former adviser dominic cummings for leaking mobile texts between borisjohnson and sirjames dyson. hairdressers re open in northern ireland the last part of the uk where they re being allowed to welcome back customers. the risk of infection with coronavirus falls sharply after the first dose of a vaccine, a study finds, as the number of people in the uk who ve received a jab reaches 33 million. and coming up this hour: the duke and duchess of cambridge have released a new picture of prince louis to celebrate his third birthday and mark his first day at nursery school. hello, good morning and welcome to bbc news. new restrictions for people coming to the uk from india have come into force this morning, as the country has joined the uk s red list which effectively bans travel. in the past couple of hours, india has reported the biggest daily rise in i
talking of which, that travel list. don t go to istanbul , fans of chelsea and manchester city are told, and they re now calling on uefa to move the champions league final to wembley after the uk government added turkey to its travel red list. weatherwise, in the company of low pressure introducing a settled story unsettled story but those temperatures are rising. i will return with all of the details. it s saturday the eighth of may. our top story: the snp s hopes of an outright majority in the scottish parliament still lie in the balance today. with votes still being counted, the party needs another 26 seats to win total control, but two key targets of dumbarton and eastwood have been missed. with all the details, here s our scotland editor sarah smith. angus robertson, scottish national party, 16,276. angus robertson, scottish national party. 16.276. party, 16,276. every seat that has chanced party, 16,276. every seat that has changed hands party, 16,276. every s
india has reported its highest figure for new daily infections more than 330,000 cases industrial oxygen is now having to be used in hospitals. government borrowing hits the highest level since the end of world war ii with hundreds of millions spent supporting the econony during the pandemic. on its way to wembley england is given an extra euro 2020 match, as dublin misses out. and coming up on the bbc news channel: an independent regulator, changes to governance and more say from fans just some of issues the government will look at in it s review of football. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. 39 former subpostmasters who were convicted of theft and false accounting because of a defective post office accounting system have been cleared by the court of appeal, at the end of what lawyers have called the uk s most widespread miscarriage of justice. some had gone to prison, and many sawjobs, marriages and reputations ruined after being wrongly accused o