The drive to get more laptops to children to help them with Home Schooling. And how all these lockdown video calls from home have prompted an unexpected boost in business for books. And coming up on bbc news. West bromwich albion Contact Police over alleged online racist abuse of romaine sawyers. Hes the Third Premier League player to receive abuse this week. Good evening. Yet another new vaccine has been shown to be effective in major trials in just 2a hours. The latest is the janssen vaccine. Its 66 effective overall and only needs a single dose. And crucially its 85 effective against severe disease. Last night novavax announced uk trials had shown its vaccine to be 89 effective. And crucially that vaccine protects against the new more contagious uk variant. If approved the uk has millions of doses of both vaccines on order though they wouldnt be available until later in the year. Our medical editor fergus walsh reports. Covid Vaccine Trials keep delivering results beyond all expecta
The ports of military in myanmar code was draw out the results of november pause my collection. And how all these lockdown video calls from home have prompted an unexpected book the macro boost in business for books. Welcome, youre in bbc news. The European Union has announced its introducing Export Controls on Coronavirus Vaccines so that it can monitor where theyre being sent. Its the latest escalation in a deepening row between the eu and astrazeneca over supplies of the vaccine which is mostly produced here. Today the eus Medicines Regulator approved the use of the astrazeneca jab for everyone over the age of 18, though germany says it will still only give the jab to the under 65s. Our brussels correspondent nick beake reports. Throughout the week, this post brexit battle between the eu and a british based Vaccine Maker has been intensifying. European countries are demanding that astrazeneca delivers all the jabs they ordered even if it means taking them from the uk supply. It all
A Government Expert says its a big step forward. It means that we can spread the vaccine around, it means that we can really start to impact on this pandemic notjust here but right the way across the world. Some Primary School children in wales could be back in the classroom after half term, if Infection Rates continue to fall. And the trailblazing African American actress cicely tyson has died at the age of 96. And coming up in sport on bbc news, Dina Asher Smith makes a winning return to International Athletics as she storms to 60 metre victory at the World Indoor Tour event in germany. Good evening. The Prime Minister says the European Union must urgently clarify its intentions over its decision to temporarily override part of the brexit deal as the row intensifies with astrazeneca over a shortfall in supplies. The eu has introduced new controls giving Member States the power to block exports of the Coronavirus Vaccine to countries including the uk should they want to. Under the bre
He is going to try again today . That is right. There is this feeling this might be the last chance to be able to get that election in december. So, hes going for a different route which requires a simple majority. As far as statistics are talking, its possibly easierfor him far as statistics are talking, its possibly easier for him to get that than the two thirds majority. There are is talk from the liberal democrats and the snp that they can actually be supporting this as long as he puts his brexit deal on hold while the elections take place. So there is a sensation that this could be, the population voting for that deal, or not, that could be broadly interpreted that way. Absolutely. And the Financial Times talks about the difficulty he had in Parliament Late yesterday, jeremy corbyn, the labour leader saying we are being wrongfooted by this Prime Minister and his government, we dont trust the Prime Minister. Which is why labour, the vac majority of those on the opposition party, di
But it could be good news for teams like england, as Katie Gornall explains. What this means for england potentially is that it opens up that side of the draw for them because they were on course to meet germany in either the quarterfinals or the semi finals if they got that far. And like it or not, for the players and the manager, this is now going to increase the expectations around this england team that they can go all the way in this tournament. Of course, for the england camp, they are very much focused on the next game. They are taking it one game at a time. They wont want to look past nigeria. There has been so many shocks and upset in this tournament well, the round of tournament 16 gets underway tomorrow. So so far, england will be determined to avoid another one in brisbane on monday. Maz farookhi looks ahead to the first day of knock out games. Auckland is going to her spain against saints land. We are here in wellington where we have an eating beef between two former World