invasion threat to ukraine we will discuss this further with our guests. hello and a very warm welcome. could this be one party too many? tonight borisjohnson is facing further questions this evening about a surprise birthday party that s alleged to have been held at number 10 during the first lockdown in 2020, despite government rules in place that banned any social gatherings indoors. itv news says the prime minister s wife, carriejohnson, helped organise the surprise get together onjune 19th just after the prime minister returned from this school visit in hertfordshire. # happy birthday to you # happy birthday to you # happy birthday dear prime minister. up to 30 people are said to have attended the party in the cabinet room, including interior designer, lulu lytle who was not a member of number 10 staff but was there in downing street helping renovating boris johnson s flat. the organisers are understood to have laid on a cake and some m&s nibbles, with the gathering la
and the two metre social distancing rule will be reinstated. boosterjabs are being ramped up in many countries around the world, but the w h o has this warning. blanket booster programmes are likely to follow in the pandemic rather than ending it. by diverting other countries who already have high levels of vaccination coverage, giving the virus more opportunity to spread. and coming up scientists in china reveal a dinosaur embryo from at least 66 million years ago! hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the uk has recorded the highest number of daily cases of coronavirus since the start of mass testing. in the last 2a hour period 106,122 cases have been reported the first time more than 100,000 cases have been reported in a single day. we ll have more on that in a moment but first let s take a look at the rest of the days developments. uk government vaccine advisors says that vulnerable primary school children should be offered a low do
blanket booster programmes are likely to prolong the pandemic. rather than ending it. by diverting supply to countries that already have high levels of vaccination coverage. in other news, the un security council votes to allow aid to afghanistan finding a way round sanctions against the taliban. and we report from kyrgyzstan where environmentalists are trying to save reindeer from the brink of extinction. daily covid cases in the uk have topped 100,000 for the first time since mass testing began. 106 thousand, 122 daily cases have been recorded, passing the previous record of 93 thousand on the 17th of december. these numbers are driven by the rapid spread of the 0micron variant. here s our political correspondent ben wright. we correspondent ben wright. are still within a rising v infections. we are still within a rising wave of infections. searching across the country. this is what ministers and officials had expected. but we have seen is a fracturing of these figures
onshore winds of the atlantic and here is the high pressure at which is building across the uk, pushing away all of the wind and weather fronts to the north and once the high pressure sits on top of the uk, it will not budge for a considerable amount of time so we will be looking at wind directions and when the wind comes from off the atlantic that is where we will have the claudia skies so the best chance of sunshine will be in aberdeen, edinburgh and norwich but it will always be cloudy and night we are likely to have fog and night we are likely to have fog and also what tends to happen with the blocking high pressure is temperatures tend to call off but on the whole it looks fine and it could be worse. that is it from us. time tojoin that is it from us. time to join the news team is where you are. you are watching bbc news with me, shawn lay. mps have begun voting on the government s new covered restrictions tonight. the government is expected to win a showdown with its