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Sunshine saturday, with travel agents predicting a big uptick in bookings from people who want to get away from it all. simon jones, bbc news. up to 500,000 flat owners across the uk will no longer be liable for the cost of replacing dangerous cladding on their properties, under new government proposals. the plans, set to be announced by the housing secretary, michael gove, would instead see developers forced to pay up to an additional £4 billion to help resolve the crisis, which has left many unable to sell their homes. newsnight�*s lewis goodall has more. it's estimated that more than hal...

Against hospitalisation remains at about 90% for people aged 65 and over. protection against mild symptomatic infection is more short—lived. that drops to around 30% by about three months. some countries, such as israel, have already started offering fourth jabs, but in the uk, the priority remains getting first, second and third doses to those who have not yet had them. that will be kept under review. one thing that's changing is travel. fully vaccinated people arriving in the uk from abroad no longer need to take pre—departure tests. from tomorrow, post—arrival pcr test are being repla...

Shutdown is going to end, every time we make a decision it hurts someone else. we are in the same situation as a furloughed worker. we are not getting paid. i feel we should be able to collect unemployment. >> reporter: jim and poppy, we spoke to local labor unions who represent many federal workers affected by the shutdown. they told us this next week they are expecting to see a big, big uptick in the amount of their members who are eligible to file for unemployment. if the government does re-open any time soon and they are paid back those unemployment checks are going to have to go right bac...

Another big uptick after newtown, to the problem they are having troubles keeping rifles like the ar-15, for example, on their shelves. >> chris, what does that tell you about us, collectively, as a society? >> well, what it tells me is that we know the majority of americans support universal background checks, especially when it comes to private sales and my colleagues on the editorial board, we ed toward y'allize about this, what the silent majority needs to do is it neeo and unequivocally and let the gun lobby know and let the elected politicians, the senators, like senator portman from ohi...