now, it s time for click. this week: the giant coming to a city near you. a giant leap for disability. and thrilling rides on giant screens. hey, hay! it is one of my favourite fests. we ve been coming to the hay literary festival for quite a few years now, each time meeting amazing people who have written on fascinating topics. every so often, someone has stolen the show and stopped our world spinning. can you see it? sobs yeah! i m sorry. the town of hay on wye has more bookshops than you can throw a thriller at and they are usually packed with festival goers. and after an enforced year online in 2020, the organisers are taking tentative steps back into town. as are we. welcome to click at hay, 2020.1. ok, i said tentative steps. anyway, today, we are going to be talking about al, which, of course, is very big. artificial insemination. and then. next year, though. promise. but in the meantime, some of hay 21 s events are being streamed from the cinema around the back of r
now on bbc news, it s time for click. this week: the giant coming to a city near you. a giant leap for disability. and thrilling rides on giant screens. hey, hey! hey, hay! it s one of my favourite fests. we ve been coming to the hay literary festival for quite a few years now, each time meeting amazing people who ve written on fascinating topics. and every so often, someone has stolen the show and stopped our world spinning. can you see it? sobs yeah! i m sorry. the town of hay on wye has more bookshops than you can throw a thriller at and they are usually packed with festival goers. and after an enforced year online in 2020, the organisers are taking tentative steps back into town. as are we. welcome to click at hay, 2020.1. ok, i said tentative steps. anyway, today, we re going to be talking about al, which, of course, is very big, artificial insemination. and then. next year, though. promise. but in the meantime, some of hay 21 s events are being streamed from the cinem
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the deadly conflict between israeli forces and palestinians has continued well into the night, with palestinian militants firing waves of rockets into israeli cities. us secretary of state anthony blinken has called palestinian president mahmoud abbas and condemned the rocket attacks and reiterated the need for tensions to be de escalated a point similarly made in a call between president joe biden and israeli prime minister benjamin netunyahu. 67 palestinians and seven israelis have been killed since the latest flare up in violence began on monday. our middle east correspondent tom bateman begins our coverage. you may find some scenes in his report disturbing. the world s asking if the region is on the brink of war. people who woke to this feel it s already here. palestinians in gaza faced the fiercest israeli bombardment since the last all out conflict. israel says it s going after militant leaders. some were
olympics is brisbane in australia. hello and welcome. european leaders are meeting later on thursday to work out how to speed up the roll out of vaccines across the continent. the eu s vaccination rate is lagging significantly behind that of the uk and us. the united kingdom is ahead of european countries by some margin. since the eighth of december when vaccinations began, 27.34 people in every hundred have received the jab in the uk. in spain, 6.77 in a hundred have been vaccinated. in germany, the figures is 6.41. italy is not far behind with 6.12 per hundred people. and france has only vaccinated 5.66 people per hundred in the population. a few countries are now reporting that some are reluctant to take the british astrazeneca vaccine, after states including france and germany made the decision not to use it on older patients. here s our europe correspondentjean mackenzie. none of the key they have planned for. inside, chairs sit empty. belgium s largest vaccination centr
yesterday. those are temperatures you see in late may or earlyjune so very unusual for february. since then we had a cold front working and that this area of cloud here bringing in light patchy rain to east anglia and south east england. it s bringing fresh air as well so we re not going to see those type of extreme levels of heat across the uk, but rather we ve got the very high temperatures across europe. on this chart, the red of the colour is the more unusual those temperatures are and over recent days we ve seen are and over recent days we ve seen a number of new city records are set for february so it s been really very unusual. today, we ve got some sunshine to come for most of us. 10-12 c. it sunshine to come for most of us. 10 12 c. it should be about 12 in london and cardiff this afternoon. we have she was showers around particularly northern ireland and north western scotland. overnight tonight pressure is going to start building so we get clear skies for many o