this is bbc news. the headlines at four... a pledge that every adult in the uk will be offered their first dose of coronavirus vaccine by the end ofjuly — a month ahead of schedule. it's because of the success of the vaccine rollout that we are able to do that and that will have an impact on how quickly we will all be able to return to normal, which is obviously what everyone wants to see. borisjohnson meets ministers and scientific advisers to put the final touches to plans to bring england out of lockdown. the dj jo whiley says it "couldn't be crueller" that her sister, who has learning difficulties and diabetes, was offered the vaccine after she was already "fighting for her life" with covid. the medical professionals, who are doing an amazing job, just aren't equipped, because it's all so new. they don't know how people with a learning disability

are going to react in this situation, which is why it makes such sense to just get them vaccinated. air emergency above the us state of colorado — but the passenger plane lands safely to the relief of crew and passengers. my daughter was sitting on the window, and i was just like, "don't look! let's close it up and let's just pray." so that is what we did. wejust held hands and said some prayers. and world number one novak djokovic wins a ninth australian open title with a comfortable victory over daniil medvedev. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister has promised that all adults in the uk will be offered their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine

by the end ofjuly. so far, more than 17 million people have already had a jab — that's around one in three adults. the vaccines offer protection against the two most commonly found variants in the uk — but it's not clear yet how they work against the south african variant. a single case of that strain has been confirmed in brentwood in essex and surge testing is now being expanded there. our health correspondent laura foster reports. more than 17 million people in the uk have been given their first dose of the covid vaccine, offering some form of protection against this deadly virus. but we are only a third of the way there. what is critical, of course, is that as many people as possible are vaccinated because the more who are vaccinated, the more individuals are protected and the more society as a whole is protected. so for all those reasons i encourage everybody to come forward when you get that invite and get yourjab as soon as possible. the next phase is to protect

the over 50s, and anyone with an eligible underlying health condition by the middle of april, that's two weeks earlier than originally planned. and the latest promise is to offer the vaccines to all adults by the end ofjuly. there has been much praise for the speed of the roll—out. but not everyone has been convinced it has been done correctly. not everyone is convinced the roll—out is being done correctly. broadcasterjo whiley says her sister frances, who has a learning disability and diabetes, was only offered her vaccine after being hospitalised with covid—19. keep them safe and protect these people, because they are so precious, they are so vulnerable, and we should have looked after them a long time ago. i feel, i'm talking to you today because i just want to give them a voice, because we should be doing more, we should have been doing more for these people who have no way of helping themselves. they are just wholly reliant on us. the vaccines offer protection against the two most commonly found variants in the uk, but it's not yet clear how they work with others. everyone in brentwood in essex is now being asked to take a covid

test after the south african variant was detected there. we do not yet have the confidence that the vaccine is as effective against the south africa variant and the variant first seen in brazil. but we do think that the measures that we have taken, both the enhanced contact tracing really clamping down when you see one of these, and the measures at the border are reducing those new variants here. scientists say that it's important to keep transmission low to stop new variants from appearing. it is certainly a risk if we allow high rates of infection in certain parts of the communities, younger individuals, then we do run the risk of further mutations occurring, which could reduce the effectiveness of the vaccination programme. but even when you get yourjab, there are key things to remember. vaccines don't work immediately, it takes weeks after your first dose before protection kicks in, and it will take months to vaccinate us all.

laura foster, bbc news. we have just had the government figures in for the number of deaths over the last 2a hours. 215 deaths of those people who tested positive in the past 28 days. also the latest figures on the number of new cases, which stands at 9834. well, the prime minister has said vaccinating more people sooner will help further ease lockdown rules across the country. borisjohnson has been meeting senior government members and advisers to discuss plans to ease restrictions. tomorrow he will reveal what's been decided. but what could the "road map" out of lockdown involve? our political correspondentjessica parker has been taking a look. change is coming, though the government says it won't spring up all of a sudden. that as the vaccine roll—out

is speeding up, but to what effect? there are signs that the numbers in hospital are falling much more sharply than they were in the first wave and there's further analysis to be done on that. but clearly, the level is still far too high. that's why the prime minister will be setting out a road map. we can't lift the measures right now. but we can see that direction of travel. so in parliament tomorrow, england's road map will finally be unveiled. ministers in scotland, wales and northern ireland set their own plans. it's already known that limited indoor care home visits in england can resume in just over two weeks. downing street has also said it will look to prioritise more outdoor social contact. on schools, some teaching unions have called for a phased return. but the labour leader says ideally all students should be back on march the 8th. i've been worried through the pandemic, a number of people have,

about the impact of being out of school has on vulnerable children and the attainment gap is getting bigger. so ideally the 8th of march. we'll have to see where the data is, see where the science is, but that is where we should be working towards. if that means more testing, if that means nightingale classrooms, if it means other measures, let's do that. ministers are emphasising caution. nearly a year on since the first lockdown was announced here, the journey has, so far, already often been unpredictable. i've been speaking to dr zubaida haque, a member of the independent sage group of scientists. she praised the vaccination roll—out but said we must still be cautious. it is fantastic news. it is a fantastic testimony to science and the nhs that we vaccinated 17 million people, it is incredible news, but we mustn't relax. the problem is, vaccination, while absolutely required, is not the whole answer

to the problem, and that is because vaccination, whilst preventing severe disease, we are not entirely sure whether it stops transmission, so we still need a lot of restrictive measures to not only bring down cases but to make sure that they stay down, and that is because unless we keep cases low, circulating virus, high rates of circulating virus means there could be more mutation of the virus and more mutation of the virus might lead to a vaccine—resistant virus. we have still got a long way to go with the vaccination. isn't there some evidence already emerging suggesting the vaccines do prevent transmission? there is some tentative evidence, but it is early days yet, tim. we have still got the rest of the population, some two thirds of the population to vaccinate and we haven't even really talked about children being vaccinated, because that is also quite important.

we don't vaccinate children, then we are still going to have high rates of coronavirus circulating and that still might bring back more mutant cases, more mutant viruses, which means once again that the vaccine might not be as resistant, so we need to make sure that all the cases come down and they stay down. at the moment what independent sage are asking the government to do is notjust rely on the vaccination programme but have suppression virus measures that keep the virus down. so you would support the government in terms of the briefings we have had about these dates for relaxation to be aspirational dates because they are going to have to rely on the data as well, and just on schools, if i may, do you think it was a mistake to get all schools open again on march the 8th or should that be staggered? first of all i want to say it shouldn't be about dates, it should be about data.

and how you open up safely so that everyone is safe. we know first of all from sage, from london school of tropical medicine and imperial college and ons and others that we can't open everything up all at once. we saw what happens when you do that last september. this is our third lockdown. we cannot have another lockdown. so first of all what we need to do is think about how we are going to do it. with schools what we need to think about is at the moment there is only 20% of primary school children in school, and yet they have the highest rates of prevalence with covid cases at the moment. that is just with 20% of schools so imagine what would happen if you introduce, reintroduce approximately 10 million children and school workforce all at once on march the 8th. we have already heard from sage that that is likely to kick r above one. so we need to think

about whether it is phased re—entry of different years for primary or secondary or whether we have a rota class—based system where we have classes coming in one week and then another or half the class coming in another week, some kind of rota system so that all children can come back, but not everybody is in school at the same time. the other thing i want to mention is we need to talk about safer school environments, safer working environments, and at the moment the government have not said very much about how they are going to ensure that schools stay open. one way of doing that is to have safer schools with smaller classes, better ventilation, more mask—wearing among primary and secondary schoolchildren. lorry drivers returning to france from britain will not now need to have a coronavirus test

if they have spent less than 48 hours in the country. transport secretary grant shapps tweeted that he'd "agreed more flexibility in testing for hauliers" — and that the change would come into effect from 11pm tonight. france demanded in december that lorry drivers must carry a negative test result to reduce the spread of a more infectious coronavirus variant detected in kent. debris from a united airlines passengerjet, which suffered an engine failurejust after take—off, has landed on a residential area in the us state of colorado. the boeing 777 was flying from denver to honolulu when the accident happened. it was able to return safely and land, and there have been no reported injuries. mark lobel reports. the chilling view from inside united airlines flight 832 moments after takeoff from denver, when its right engine catches fire. some of the 231 passengers using their phones to film what could be their last flight.

others nervously texting loved ones goodbye. you could just feel it, like, boom. and you could hear it. and we just started shaking. we were right on the wing, so i looked out and i could see some smoke coming and ijust knew, you know? my daughter was sitting on the window and i was like, don't look! let's close it up and let's just pray. so that's what we did, we kind ofjust held hands and said some prayers. as the boeing 777 destined for hawaii suddenly circles back for an emergency landing... why don't we get going, because these things are just falling? ..parts of the plane were raining down on the city of broomfield. landing in the parks, streets and on people's front lawns. this casing was meant to be keeping the plane's engine free from ice, and literally weighs a tonne. it initially struck this pickup truck with its ownerjust metres away.

a lot of people said they heard that really loud explosion, which scared a lot of people, then they started seeing basically what they thought was a plane falling from the sky. what it was, was debris. it's hard to determine exactly what it is. i did comb through, i was taking a look at some of the debris, it looks like possibly some exterior pieces of the plane. this whole town is now effectively behind police lines. only residents are permitted to enter. investigators are requesting that debris is left alone. america's national transportation safety board has opened an investigation into what they are calling an "engine event." for all those who were onboard and on the ground below, it's certainly an event none of them will ever be likely to forget. mark lobel, bbc news. seven people have been killed after a nigerian air force plane crashed while approaching the runway at abuja airport. this eyewitness described what she saw.

for us it is very painful. because when the plane just landed, wham, once i heard wham, when i heard wham, ijust see it explode with fire and smoke together. when i get here, i saw the dead body on the ground. i'm joined now by ishaq khalid, who's in the nigerian capital abuja. what more have you learned over the past few hours?— past few hours? basically what we have so far _ past few hours? basically what we have so far as _ past few hours? basically what we have so far as seven _ past few hours? basically what we have so far as seven people - past few hours? basically what we have so far as seven people were | past few hours? basically what we l have so far as seven people were on board the military aircraft. all of them have died and authorities are saying that the aircraft developed an engine problem on its way to the central city of minna, after taking off from the capital of abuja and it returned, when it returned it hit the runway and burst into flames. witnesses say that it caught fire

before crashing and it also had a loud sound before after the crash and the aircraft went into flames. the authorities are investigating, they are pointing at technical problems. the weather here also is quite hazy. there is some sort of bug but they are not mentioning that at the moment but possibly may be one of the things are going to consider in the investigations. mas consider in the investigations. was this a military _ consider in the investigations. was this a military operation and is abuja airport shared by the military as well as civilian aircraft? basically the airport in the capital abuja has several wings. this particular accident happened in one of the wings where chartered flights are used and also sometimes official fights. this situation at the moment is not at the passenger wing of the airport. this particular aircraft according to officials was conveying

officers to minna in niger state to help the rescue of dozens of people who were abducted on wednesday from a holding secondary students and staff there. this crash is hampered that rescue effort but authorities are saying this is not the only time that was going there. the rescue efforts of those abductees are still going on. this plane crash is quite a blow to the nigerian air force, which has in the past also seen similar incidents for example in 2017, one of its crept mistakenly dropped explosives and a camp in the north—eastern state where the boko haram conflict is taking place of this might be another reminder of the kind of tragedy is that the nigerian air force has seen in recent years. nigerian air force has seen in recent veere— nigerian air force has seen in recent ears. ., ~ , ., , . indeed for that update. the headlines on bbc news... there's a new promise that every adult in the uk will be

offered their first dose of coronavirus vaccine by the end ofjuly — a month ahead of schedule. borisjohnson is due to hold a final meeting with senior ministers and scientific advisers about how to ease england's lockdown — ahead of tomorrow's announcement of a road map out of restrictions. a passengerjet has scattered debris over a residential area near denver after one of its engines failed on take—off. let's go back to sarah. good afternoon. a big day of games at the top of the premier league. leicester have lived up premier league. leicester have lived up to second after their 2—1 win at aston villa. their goals came from two england hopefuls watched by the manager gareth southgate. james maddison opened the scoring in the first half before harvey barnes made

it to a macjust minutes later. —— two. then bertrand traore pulled one back for the hosts in the second half but leicester held on to move above manchester united, who play later. west ham's push for a champions league spot is gathering momentum. they have now won seven out of their last nine league matches after beating tottenham 2—1 at the london stadium. spurs are ninth — nine points behind the hammers. patrick gearey reports. few saw west ham coming. the assumption was the pressure would tell, the bubble would burst and yet they keep rising. surprising. spurs's defence are easily shocked. not five minutes in, they couldn't keep out michail antonio. west ham are a step closer to the top four place spurs crave. at half timejose mourinho sent gareth bale on for a bailout. the problem is they hadn't fixed the leak. in poured jesse lingard to score.

as he celebrated, the video officials deliberated, was it offside? pablo fornals not interfering, they said. goal given. spurs needed something fast. over to bale and moura. 2-1. just under half an hour for spurs to turn around a match and perhaps their season. they had kane and bale. they didn't have luck. it never returned. the hammers held on, through a scrambling stoppage time, sometimes only by a matter of inches. in the table now the gap is clearer. west ham go fourth, tottenham continue to go south. i think for a long, long, long time, that we have a bronze in the team that we have a bronze in the team that i cannot result —— problems in the team that i cannot resolve by myself as a coach. and no coach can. but our potential is higher than where we are, of course frustration.

two more games today. leaders manchester city host arsenal at 4.30 before manchester united take on newcastle united at seven. the top two sides are in action in the scottish premiership. leaders rangers started the day with a 15—point lead over celtic. rangers are currently 4—0 up at home to dundee united. celtic are away at bottom side ross county at 7.30. to the six nations now as five of the french side who started the match against ireland last weekend will miss the game with scotland next sunday after testing positive for covid—19. centre arthur vincent and hooker julien marchand are the latest to return positive test results. gabin villiere, mohamed haouas and star scrum—half antoine dupont are also in isolation after catching the virus. france insist they will fulfil the fixture. there's one match in the premiership this afternon — leaders bristol are at london irish.

into the second half, bristol playing some lovely rugby — lead 31—13. novak djokovic says his journey to a ninth australian open title and an 18th overall grand slam trophy was an "emotional roller—coaster". he beat daniil medvedev in straight—sets to continue his dominance in melbourne, as adam wild reports. there are few players in the history of tennis that have dominated one tournament quite like novak djokovic in melbourne. eight times a winner before today. there is a slight sense that times in tennis may be changing. daniil medvedev at the forefront of the sport's next generation but novak djokovic is not the type to let up or let go. the mark of a great champion, always the hunger for more. set one hard—fought but, for djokovic, hard—won. daniil medvedev giving everything, getting nothing, the feeling of so many players before him.

things now beginning to fall apart for daniil medvedev, whose racket did the same. in truth djokovic remains too good, at times unplayable, the complete player, drawing himself onward to yet another title, winning in emphatic style. the greatest the australian open has ever known. the next generation willjust have to wait. ronnie o'sullivan has work to do if he's to claim a record equalling fifth welsh open snooker title the rocket trails northern ireland's jordan brown by 5 frames to 3 after the opening session of the final. it's the first time brown has appeared in a ranking final, but he's shown no nerves so far. the players return at 7 this evening for the final session. the first to nine will win that.

that's all the sport for now. you can stay up—to—date using the sport website. i will say you about a bit later. a funeral has taken place in myanmar for a young woman who has become a national symbol of resistance to miltary rule. the military overthrew the elected government earlier this month. mya thwe thwe khaing died on friday after being shot during a protest against the coup. a hearse carrying her coffin was driven through the capital naypyidaw. thousands lined the streets to honour her, some making the three—fingered salutes used by demonstrators. across myanmar, protesters have taken to the streets again despite the previous day being the worst violence yet in weeks of protests. two demonstrators were killed in mandalay after police opened fire. the united nations, the united states, britain and france have strongly condemned the use of force by the authorities. myanmar�*s ministry of foreign affairs insists the authorities are exercising restraint.

here's nyein chan aye with the latest. the funeral service was held in the capital naypyidaw for mya thwe thwe khaing, who was the first confirmed death from the anti—coup movement, after she was shot in the head last week and died on friday. the funeral was, so far, peaceful, despite thousands of mourners and supporters turning up to show their solidarity. in the meanwhile, the military regime arrested more people, including a famous actor called lu min, who was among the celebrities calling for all civil servants to take part in a nationwide civil disobedience movement. he was charged with incitement against the regime. now, nearly 600 people have been already arrested or charged, or sentenced under this regime, according to local rights groups.

however, there is no sign of dying down in the anti—coup movement, and protesters have called for a nationwide strikes on monday. some of the largest retail outlets have already declared a temporary shutdown tomorrow, and huge protests are expected again. this is nyein chan aye, bbc news, yangon. the duke of edinburgh has spent a fifth night in a london hospital. he was visited yesterday by his son, the prince of wales. prince charles spent around half an hour at the king edward vii hospital, before returning to his highgrove home in gloucestershire. a round trip of about 200 miles. prince philip, who's 99, was admitted to hospital on tuesday on the advice of his doctor after feeling unwell. now, the weather with nick miller. hello. it's been a fine day today in scotland and northern ireland. it will be again tomorrow.

whereas there is a weather front in parts of england and wales, which will continue to bring some rain, as it will through the evening and overnight. northern england, wales, the west midlands and the south—west in particular. eastern parts of england staying dry. a mild night across england and wales, but temperatures close to freezing in the coldest parts of scotland and northern ireland under largely clear skies. and bar the odd shower approaching north—west scotland tomorrow, most here will again have a fine day. the weather system in england and wales nudges a bit further east away from wales, northern and western parts of england as it brightens up a bit, but increasingly light and patchy rain edging back towards east anglia and the south—east of england on another mild day. some very wet weather, though, to come in as we go into tuesday. this is the weather system approaching from the west, especially to northern ireland, into scotland, where there is a risk of flooding too, affecting wales and western parts of england, whereas the eastern side of england stays dry and becomes very mild.

hello this is bbc news with tim willcox. the headlines... there's a new promise that every adult in the uk will be offered their first dose of coronavirus vaccine by the end ofjuly — a month ahead of schedule. borisjohnson is due to hold a final meeting with senior ministers and scientific advisers about how to ease england's lockdown — ahead of tomorrow's announcement of a road map out of restrictions. the dj, jo whiley has said "it couldn't be crueller" that her sister, who has learning difficulties and diabetes, was offered the vaccine after she was already "fighting for her life" with covid. a passengerjet has scattered debris over a residential area after one of its engines failed on take—off. thousands of protesters have returned to the streets in myanmar, a day after security forces fired at a crowd killing two people in the city of mandalay.

now on bbc news, with millions now vaccinated, panorama investigates the scare tactics of anti—vaxxers who are they, and what are their motives for trying to deter people from getting the jab? with more than 15 million people now having their firstjab, panorama investigates those trying to derail the vaccine roll—out. this is all a lie, this covid—19. from protesters on the streets... toxic dna—altering vaccine! ..to doctors on video... covid 19, the greatest hoax in history. i'm marianna spring, the bbc�*s specialist reporter on disinformation and social media. tonight, the video spreading fear... it sounded so real, and the people were so plausible.

i hearfrom the communities being targeted by anti—vaccine tactics... lots of things were coming in, like, "there's embryo, - foetus or something, or pork inside." - ..and the doctors fighting to defeat disinformation... it's almost as if we're fighting two pandemics. the first pandemic is the viral pandemic, the second pandemic is the misinformation. it's four days since the government began its vaccine roll—out, and i'm meeting a woman called joanna who told me on facebook she doesn't want the jab. joanna, hello. hello. lovely to meet you. wearing a mask on public transport is compulsory, butjoanna refuses.

i hate them. i honestly hate them.