hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me arejenny kleeman, journalist and presenter, and kieran andrews, political editor at the scottish times. tomorrow s front pages, starting with. britain s race to get boosted, reads the i newspaper as thousands of people queue for up to five hours in the hopes of receiving a covid boosterjab amid the rise in cases of the omicron variant. the metro follows the story at least one person in the uk has died with the new variant. the government says omicron now represents 20% of cases in england. the guardian says the nhs was told to discharge as many patients as possible in england as more pressure mounts on hospitals. the daily express covers conservative backbenchers preparing to vote against borisjohnson s new covid rules as mps will cast their vote tomorrow. and the financial times reports business leaders are accusing the prime minister of bringing lockdown by stealth as working f
beaches are closed in southern california, as a large oil spill washes ashore leaving dead wildlife on the sand. new travel rules come into force in the uk, with the traffic light system replaced by a single red list. as fuel supply issues persist particularly in the south east of england the military start delivering to petrol stations. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the secret dealings of hundreds of world leaders, politicians and billionaires have been exposed in one of the biggest investigations of leaked offshore documents in history. the files dubbed the pandora papers reveal that tony and cherie blair didn t have to pay more than £300,000 of stamp duty on a six million pound house because it was sold to them through an anonymous offshore company. and they reveal how a prominent donor to the conservative party was involved in one of europe s biggest corruption scandals. andy verity reports. the offshore dealings of presi
by attempting to climb snowdon. morning. starting off on a very cloudy note with some patchy rain and drizzle, the cloud will break through the day allowing sam chan to develop but as that happens further showers well as well. all the details throughout the programme. it s tuesday 3rd may. our main story. the un and red cross hope to oversee the evacuation of another group of civilians from a steel works plant in mariupol. there are hundreds of people still trapped inside the azovstal bunkers, including dozens of young children. ukrainian forces defending the site say russia is using planes, tanks and warship missiles to continue its bombardment. james reynolds has this report. imagine having to make your home in the depths of the nuclear bunker. hundreds of civilians, including about 20 children, remain deep under the azovstal steelworks in mariupol, alongside ukrainian soldiers. this underworld is the only refuge from russia s siege. on sunday, around 100 civilians managed
days trapped underground in ukraine. more than 100 civilians including children who ve been living for weeks in desperate conditions beneath a steel works in the besieged city of mariupol finally reach safety. chanting: we don t need roe, hell no! l chanting: not the church, not the state, women - must decide our fate! protests in the united states after a leaked document suggests the supreme court is about to overturn a law protecting the right to abortion. a race to the polls as people across the uk prepare to vote in local elections on thursday a special report from northern ireland where the results could bring seismic change. commentator: liverpool are heading to paris! - and liverpool have breezed through to the champions league final after a stunning victory against villarreal. and coming up in the sport, on the bbc news channel: after two years out of the premier league bournemouth are back following a 1 0 win over nottingham forest. good evening from belfast.
good afternoon. people in florida are bracing themselves for a hurricane which the authorities say could be catastrophic . these are some of the latest pictures of hurricane idalia, with possible winds of 130 miles an hour and the danger of a storm surge of sea water overwhelming low lying areas. pilots on an evacuation mission filmed these pictures of the rare electrical weather phenomenon known as st elmo s fire. more than a million residents have been told to leave their homes and the hurricane is making landfall about now in northwest florida. our correspondentjon sudworth has the latest from tampa. as you can say, the straits of tampa are pretty quiet this morning for a city of 400,000 people but the hurricane has largely passed by this stretch of coastline is now coming ashore in an area of the state known ashore in an area of the state known as big bend. the realfear is the storm surge, with warnings it could bring waves as high as 16 feet. the unusually warm conditio