the bbc did hold an inquiry in 1996 when the bank statements were first made public. never published, it cleared martin bashir of wrongdoing. the men and women who ran bbc news in the ‘90s have all moved on. the new director—general has acknowledged the deceit and promised an independent inquiry. there are a lot of questions. but so far, no answers from martin bashir — now the bbc‘s religion editor. seen up and about this weekend, the bbc says he is recovering from heart surgery and is unable to answer questions. jonny dymond, bbc news. it's 25 years since the disability discrimination act was passed. the landmark civil rights legislation protecting disabled

people in employment, education and the provision of goods and services. but new research for the bbc suggests nearly a quarter of today's young disabled people feel they can't lead independent lives. 60% say they find pubs and clubs inaccessible. and four out of five people questioned said they felt the needs of disabled people has been overlooked during the pandemic. our disability affairs correspondent nikki fox reports. the voices of disabled people in the uk. if you see me walking up a flight of stairs and your heart breaks because i'm struggling to walk up the stairs, you should ask why i am taking the stairs, you should ask why there is no step free access into the building. just some of the problems nearly 1a million people face right now. we're still getting driven past on the street by taxis. that's, like, basic. that's super basic. 25 years on from a breakthrough in disability rights, what has actually changed?

i often feel like a second—class citizen. sam lives and works in the city of london. but she's quickly falling out of love with her adopted home. because i can't cross over there, i can only get to these shops here. this is as far as i can go on my own. pretty much, this is my lot! i kind of feel a little bit like rapunzel, trapped in a tower, if i'm honest. despite some obvious improvements over the last 25 years, sam still has to fight for her independence, because of a lack of access and social care support. and she's not alone. in an exclusive survey for the bbc, nearly a quarter of young people told us they don't either. do you think much has improved in the last 25 years? a lot of non—disabled people, because we have got the equality act, they think we can't be discriminated against, it's fine! when in actualfact, you know, we've still got a very long way to go to really, truly say that we live in an equal society.

what is interesting is that young people are finding it so hard to live independent lives. you know, something as simple as drink in a pub orjust get around on public transport. well, that's why we will have the national strategy for disabled people, which the prime minister has personally raised, and what that is doing is challenging each government department to remove barriers in society and to help create a more inclusive society. i'm tess, and i'm from sheffield. the disability strategy, which has been delayed until next year, isn't going to give tess, a young social media influencer, the changes she needs now. she just wants to have the same opportunities as everyone else. we need to start thinking bigger, like putting wheelchairs on aeroplanes, because correct me if i'm wrong, but haven't we landed on the moon? how is it not possible to put a... something's not adding up there for me. summat‘s not adding up. nikki fox, bbc news.

that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the defence editor of the times, lucy fisher and the uk editor of politico, jack blanchard. welcome jack blanchard. to you both. have a look at jack blanchard. what somebody come in and we wi start at what somebody come in and we will start with the metro. the metro. the metro leads with the coronavirus ‘vaccine brea kthrough', speculating that ten million doses ‘could be ready by christmas'. the telegraph hails the news as ‘a great day

for humanity', with scientists saying britain could return to normal life by spring. the guardian calls the vaccine test results a ‘significant breakthrough‘, adding that it offers the ‘distant prospect of a potential end‘ to the pandemic. the mail describes it as ‘one small jab for man‘ and a ‘giant leap for humanity‘ and says that the vaccine could be rolled out within weeks. the i writes that ‘the world celebrates‘ — and quotes vaccine developers on its front page who say they‘re ‘on the cusp of one of the biggest medical advances in 100 years‘. the financial times reports on its impact on what it calls ‘battered global markets‘ — saying news of a vaccine has given some sectors a boost. so let‘s begin... apart from have zoom in people who have been making their money on the

lockdown. nice to have you back on. i—story as i say lucy, although some papers are not giving it quite the sort of, boosting optimism that others are. the telegraph, a great day for humanity. not the telegraph viewed this was from pfizer, was in a? yes, that's right. there is in extraordinary sense jubilation across manic papers and headlines about this breakthrough. the first signs of hope that we might see a return to normality next spring. we‘ve already had more than six months worldwide of disruption facing all sorts of measures from restrictions to full lockdown. as you say, they are yet some reasons to bea you say, they are yet some reasons to be a little bit cautious about this. concerns raised on the front of the telegraph about anti—vax disinformation. whether that could hit the uptake of the job. also

concerns about the conditions in which it needs to be stored and travel. it has to be kept in a very, very low temperature, —17 degrees. which could yet present some problems with the rollout. but so far the news that that the jab appears to be 90 296% effective is the net and safest cause for optimism. what she is saying is clear a ll optimism. what she is saying is clear all the papers are going with this story. there are a lot of questions that haven‘t been answered. does it stop the transmission from somebody who‘s had coronavirus passing it on to somebody else? also the cost implications, as well. and how long the regulatory process is going to last. yes, many other questions as well. to take a step back, it sounds like what science thinks it's learned today is that this is a virus that can be stopped. and that was the most important question of all. going through this crisis. because there are plenty of deadly and dangerous viruses that we found i'io and dangerous viruses that we found no way of getting a vaccine for. so

if we can get this type of efficiency and the numbers they are talking about, over 90% is far higher than anybody had realistically hope for. the flu jab that we've come up with after all these years is sort of, 60% effective. you have to have it every year. it'sjust not that good. it's obviously much better than not having it. now with the kind of numbers privately people in the department from health if you talk to about they would sort of say, that would be good to aim for. this kind of result is way, way at the top of peoples hopes and expectations. it's borne out by the data and it's important to say that we haven't seen the data yet, this isa we haven't seen the data yet, this is a pharmaceutical companies think this is what they found in peer review. if they are bright and further test continue to show the sort of result, it feels like this really could be, not the end of this crisis but potentially the beginning of the end of it. that is a huge moment for the whole world, to be honest. lucy, the prime minister dampened expectations a little bit.

does it raise questions do you think about the track and trace and all the other systems that the government is still rolling out now around the country? and the billions that they‘ve been spending on it. around the country? and the billions that they've been spending on it.|j think it does in part. i think there isa think it does in part. i think there is a clear logic behind the prime minister urging caution while recognising characteristic colourful language that the bugle of scientific progress draws closer. and the reason for that caution is of course, that the vaccine isn‘t here yet. as you mentioned there is speculation we could have between five to 10 million doses by the end of this year if the regulators do to give the pfizer vaccine the green light within coming weeks. but it won‘t appear immediately. and in the short term, i think the prime ministers point was people shouldn‘t think that this means they can ignore social distancing regulations oi’ ignore social distancing regulations or think that the lockdown that we are currently under his four week

lockdown can be set lifted. very much need to stay in place. interesting that van dam reached for a football analogy to warned that although this is like a penalty shoot out although it may have scored the first goal we haven‘t won the count. it this way we met one way to dampen britain‘s hopes it‘s a football analogy like that. especially with england‘s record. 0 nto especially with england‘s record. 0nto the metro. shot in the arm to be covid. none of the papers seem to reach unanimity on the number of doses were going to get. i thought there were 5 million. they are saying ten. how many doses are we signed up for in this do we know? we are do to get 10 million doses by the end of this year. but those doses, you need to take two of them if it's gonna work. so 10 million doses of 5 million people. and that isjust up doses of 5 million people. and that is just up till the doses of 5 million people. and that isjust up till the end of december. there are more than ordered for

early in the new year. i'm sure there'll be plenty more orders going in for the latter half of next year. roll—out will be slow and lucy is actually right, the fact that this type of vaccine, it's a brand—new technology that they are using here has to be kept in incredibly low temperatures. mine is god knows what. —70, ithink. i know winter might be a cauldron but that's not going to cut it. just the nature of the infrastructure you need to do this even in a very well developed country like the uk is extreme. this isa country like the uk is extreme. this is a vaccine that we are going to need to roll out notjust people in the uk but to the whole world. so the uk but to the whole world. so the logistical challenges is enormous. i pick it's important to say, the other thing we've learned todayis say, the other thing we've learned today is that thing that if this is correct about this vaccine, maybe many of the other vaccines currently being worked on are also likely to being worked on are also likely to be successful. some are using the same technology. they are working along similar lines. and so it could

well be that we get more good news in the weeks ahead about other vaccines which again, the uk has ordered large number of doses. as have other countries as well. the way that these things tend to work is that if you get onto a good thing, the good news hopefully keeps coming. the astrazeneca in oxford vaccine as well. let‘s look at the mail. 0ne vaccine as well. let‘s look at the mail. one small vaccine as well. let‘s look at the mail. 0ne smalljob for man. what do we know about the finance of this because i think pfizer is struck a deal with the states for 19 dollars a shot. do you know what we paid for it here and presumably this company will be locked in with the at this price if it is the first one and the most effective one, that will make it extremely valuable. that's right. as jack said, the signs are that if this vaccine is effective with its novel technology some of the others might be as well. i think it‘s important to note that it‘s a real

breakthrough for a whole medical process without the biggest medical breakthrough in 100 years. the way the vaccine works is different to traditional vaccines. and deferring to my colleague who explained it really clearly today, he said that the way a traditional vaccine works is by injecting a deactivated husk ofa is by injecting a deactivated husk of a virus into the body and allowing the body to overcome that very week version of the real virus. this vaccine that has had its 90% effective rate so far it works in a different way by injecting instead some genetic code known as rna into the body. that hijacks the cell and tricked them into creating their own versions of what looked like the outside of a fragment of the virus. and that‘s how the body that learns to detect with the virus looks like and defeat it. it‘s a very novel technology that could actually have

many other applications to other viruses and vaccines as well. i'm more impressed by tom bartels clear explanation or your ability to remember every single moment of it. i got remember every single moment of it. igota remember every single moment of it. i got a clear in my head now. thank you very much, lucy. jack, we‘ve got the china vaccination and russian vaccination program, as well. do we have any idea about how effective they have been? that they‘ve been rolled out in the last six weeks or so rolled out in the last six weeks or so haven‘t they? rolled out in the last six weeks or so haven't they? it's a lot less clear because of course, the data, transparency in those countries is not always the best. pfizer haven't yet come forward there died either although i know they're going to in the days ahead in their whole protocols that these big companies use protocols that these big companies use that they will obviously follow in this case. i don't think many people are optimistic particularly about the russian vaccine. there is certainly a sense that might be more ofa certainly a sense that might be more of a propaganda thing more than anything else was out the truth is we know. president president put his

daughter was involved in it a p pa re ntly daughter was involved in it apparently wasn‘t she? daughter was involved in it apparently wasn't she? if it was me i'll be waiting for the pfizer one, personally. each of their own. there isa personally. each of their own. there is a whole geopolitical angle to this as vaccine start to get rolled out. countries that get them first in can get their economy is approaching normal again first will obviously have a huge advantage over those that don't. you can bet your bottom dollar that they are already in capitals all around the world they are thinking about the implications of that and how they can try and win in advantage. when we we re can try and win in advantage. when we were talking about the temperature it‘s got to be stored at, this is not good news for the developing world, is it? which doesn‘t have the same infrastructure. no, that's absolutely right. it‘s even going to bea absolutely right. it‘s even going to be a struggle for the uk —70 is far, far colder than a standard refrigerator. pfizer have so far come up with a sort