Lockdown in wales will last for three more weeks at least but children could return to schools there after the february half term. Around 300,000 people are expected to leave hong kong for britain using a new visa route which opens on sunday. Investors respond with outrage after Trading Platforms halt the buying of shares in the us games firm gamestop and other companies. It follows days of frenzied trading that led to a massive increase in its value. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. A new Coronavirus Vaccine has been shown to be 89. 3 effective in large scale uk trials. The novavax jab is the first to show it is effective against both the uk and South African Variants of the virus. As you can see from this graph, the uk has secured 60 million doses of the jab, which will be made in stockton on tees. The doses are expected to be delivered in the second half of this year if approved for use by regulator. Meanwhile, the European Medicines Agency will mee
Hello and welcome to our second look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are former trade minister lord digbyjones and broadcaster henry bonsu. Good to have you both back. So lets start with some of the front pages we already have. Union vacc is the headline of the sun, reporting that 60 million more covid vaccines are set to be made in the uk by us firm novavax. The eus vaccine situation is at crisis point, according to the financial times. The metro says Nicola Sturgeon is siding with the eu in the row, by offering to help with supplies. The mirrors front page features its campaign to get teachers vaccinated in phase two of the roll out. The times reports that borisjohnson insists that the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine does work for over 65s, after germany has decided not to use it for that age group. And the former Prime Minister tony blair writes in the independent that global co operation is needed as the vaccine row escalates. Once again, lovely to have yo
Held as the military takes control. Thousands ofjobs to go online retailier asos buys topshop and three other brands but doesnt want their stores. Well wishers Around The World send messages of support to captain sir tom moore, who remains in hospital with covid 19 and pneumonia. Over the last ten months youve been our inspiration, youve been at the nations heartbeat. We all thinking of you. And coming up on bbc news. Liverpool could be the busiest club on Transfer Deadline Day with the Managerjurgen Klopp looking at two defenders in their bid to retain the Premier League title. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Tens of thousands of people in parts of england are to be urgently tested, after more cases of the highly transmissible South African Variant Of Coronavirus were discovered. Two cases were found in surrey, and testing kits will be delivered there this afternoon. Testing will also take place in london, kent, hertfordshire and walsall. Previous cases in the uk we
cabinet ministers tell the bbc the government should have brought in tougher restrictions in the autumn to tackle the second wave of the virus. i would not let him tell me. and as this year s oscar nominations are announced we ll be speaking to the director of the white tiger, which has been nomimated for best adapted screenplay. france and italy have joined germany in becoming the latest countries to suspend use of the astrazeneca vaccine as a precautionary measure, over concerns of possible side effects. french president emmanuel macron said the country would stop administering the vaccine pending an assessment by the european union s medicine regulator on tuesday. the republic of ireland made a similar decision over the weekend following reports of blood clotting in recipients in norway. but the world health organization says there is no indication of a link between the vaccine and blood clots. the announcements by follow similar moves by denmark, norway, bulgaria, iceland