extra support for parts of the country including of the north east of england in the battle against rising numbers of covid 19. it s due to recent data showing that nearly 30% of adults in newcastle for example, haven t even had their firstjab. among younger adults it s almost half. in the whole of england nearly 70% of the adult population has had both jabs which is why auhorities say they re taking action. the bbc s martin forster reports. injanuary, worried people queued up to be vaccinated and the limiting factor was how quickly the nhs could get hold of vaccines. six months later, and it s a very different story. the vaccines are there, the vaccinators are there, but the nhs is dealing with a far more sceptical audience. while the north east are seeing the highest rates of infection in the country, in newcastle, nearly three in ten adults remain completely unvaccinated. i guess there s a sense that perhaps were getting towards the end of the pandemic and i think that s p
hello, and welcome. the violence we have witnessed in south africa these past two days is worse than anything the country has suffered since apartheid. protests that began last week over the imprisonment ofjacob zuma, the former south african president, have now devolved into widespread looting and arson. the chaos has spread tojohannesburg. over 70 people have died, hundreds have been arrested. today, the king of the zulu nation, the largest ethnic group, said the chaos was destroying south africa s economy. one of the worst hit cities is durban, from where our south africa correspondent nomsa maseko reports. dramatic scenes in durban show the extremity of desperation of those people caught in the middle of this mayhem. people were screaming, throw her, throw her! she threw her child to safety after her home was allegedly set on fire by looters. i was scared, i was really scared, but there were people down in the street. i wasn t. .. like, the way i was panicking, i was tr
they ve lost one or even both parents, and they are now having to face a very uncertain future all alone. england s mayors urge the government to think again about making masks mandatory on public transport as 42,000 cases of coronavirus are recorded in a single day. and britney spears is back in court as her fight to end her father s conservatorship gathers pace. we start in south africa, where the number of people killed in the disorder that s gripped parts of the country has risen to 72. the country s now facing the biggest security challenge since president cyril ramaphosa became president in 2018. the catalyst was the arrest, last week, of former president jacob zuma. but it s gone beyond that now. we ll get onto to that in a bit. but first, take a look at these images. what you just saw there is a mother throwing her baby to safety from a burning building in durban. rioters targeted shops on the ground floor there and then set the building on fire. the mother with her
we are dry at wimbledon and for most of the uk, it is also looking fine and dry this afternoon. we have had the best of the sunshine in scotland, increasingly the sunny skies are moving into parts of northern england and elsewhere the cloud will to murray pin and break but looking out to the south west, an area of low pressure and it will be chucking bands of rain our way in time for the weekend. make the most of the relatively dry weather that we have over the next couple of days. i say relatively, because today although most of you will have a dry day, a few showers brewing. south west england is humid, the humidity is a few storms and a sea breeze breeze bringing a few showers near to the south coast, one or two for wales and the south west midlands as well, but apart from that, it is looking dry with spells of sunshine and it will feel warm in the sunshine, temperatures as high as 22 degrees. no problem with the weather today at wimbledon, the chance of showers tomorrow a
harry will come together to reveal a statue of their mother on what would ve been her 60th birthday. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the japanese car maker nissan has announced a major expansion of electric vehicle production at its car plant in sunderland. the development will see the creation of more than 1,500 jobs at the site and several thousand more in the supply chain. most of these will facilitate the manufacture of the company s new generation, all electric model at the site. alongside this, partner company, envision aesc, will build a new electric battery plant which it believes will produce enough batteries to power over 100,000 nissan electric vehicles each year. nissan hopes the site will be operational by 2024, when the level of uk made components in cars manufactured in the uk is required to start increasing, in line with the terms of the uk s trade deal with the eu. the development has already received billions of pounds worth of funding, with the gove