this is bbc news. the headlines at 5: 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 roll—out that we're able to do that and that will have an impact on how quickly we'll 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 is going to react in this situation, which is why it makes such sense to just get them vaccinated. a nigerian airforce passenger plane has crashed just outside abuja airport after reporting engine failure — killing all seven people on board. air emergency above the us state of colorado — but the passenger plane lands safely to the relief of crew and passengers. a pioneering breakthough for children needing a heart transplant — a machine that keeps hearts beating outside the body for up to 12 hours. and people at an illegal gathering in spain find there is no hiding from the law — as partygoers unsuccessfully try to evade police enforcing covid rules.

good afternoon. 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 1 in 3 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're only a third of the way there. what's 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. 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've 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 it's important to keep transmission low to stop new variants from appearing. i it's certainly a risk if we allowl 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. 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 correspondent, jessica 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 particularly 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. jessica is with me now. staying with coronavirus and the latest government figures show that another 9,834 people have tested positive for the virus in the latest 2a hour period. a further 215 people have died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test in the uk. that number tends to be lower on weekends. and nearly 17.6 million people — around a third of the uk adult population — have now received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.

those vaccination figures climbing, as you can see. 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. matt hancock has insisted that transparency about coronavirus—related contracts is "completely second order" to saving lives. he was responding to a high court judgement which ruled his department had acted unlawfully in failing to disclose on time details of deals to purchase items such as personal protective equipment. the government is meant to publish contracts worth more than £120,000 within 30 days of it being awarded. mr hancock told the bbc�*s andrew marr that ministers made the right decision in order to help hospitals during

the height of the pandemic. the technical issue is that we were just over a fortnight late, on average, with the publication on these things. and the reason for that is that i back my team up 100% on. 0k. they were totally focused on saving lives. just remember back, andrew... i know the situation was stressful. the situation was that we were very, very tight on ppe and, thankfully, thanks to the incredible work of my team, we didn't have a national shortage of ppe. yeah, all right... and that's because they spent all of their time buying life—saving equipment. so... some of these... even if some of the paperwork was a little bit late. matt hancock on the andrew marr programme. 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, 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. 0thers 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 she's af... i wasjust like, "don't look," like, "let's just 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...

che, 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 park, 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, and 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 kind of comb through the park, 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 permitted to enter with investigators requesting that debris is left alone. america's national transportation safety board has opened an investigation into what they're

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 likely forget. mark lobel, bbc news. seven people have been killed after a nigerian airforce 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. i could not go there. later, when i get here, i saw the dead body on the ground. our correspondent in abuja, ishaq khalid, gave us more details about the crash. what we have so far is that seven people were on board the military aircraft. all of them have died.

the authorities are saying the aircraft developed an engine problem on its way to the central city of minna after its take—off from this airport in the capital, abuja. then it returned. on its return at the airport, it hit the runway and then burst into flames. witnesses say that it hovered before crashing and there was a loud sound there after the crash and then the aircraft actually went into flames. the authorities are investigating. now pointing at a technical problem. but the weather here is also quite hazy, there is some sort of fog but they are not mentioning the weather at the moment but possibly maybe one of the things that they are going to consider in their investigations. ishaq, was this a military operation and is abuja airport shared by military as well as civilian aircraft? well, basically, the airport in the capital, abuja, has several wings. so this particular accident happened in one of the wings

where chartered flights, you know, use and also sometimes official flights. so this situation at the moment is not in the passenger wing of the airport. and this particular aircraft, according to officials, was conveying officials... i mean officers to minna in niger state. to rescue or to help in the rescue of dozens of people who were abducted on wednesday from a boarding secondary school, students and staff there. this crash has now, in a way, hampered that rescue effort. but authorities are saying this was not the only plane that was going there. so the rescue efforts of those abductees are still going on. but this plane crash is quite a blow to the nigerian air force, which has, in the past, also seen similar incidents. for instance, in 2017, one of its craft, you know, mistakenly dropped explosives on an idp camp, internally displaced persons camp, in the north—eastern state. where the boko haram

conflict is taking place. this might be another reminder of the kind of tragedies that the nigerian air force has seen in the recent years. a four—year—old girl and a couple have died in a house fire in exeter. devon and cornwall police say the girl, a 29—year—old man and a 28—year—old woman died in the property near exeter st davids railway station. three other children who were in the house are in a stable condition in hospital. police say no—one is being sought in connection with the blaze, which officers have described as a "tragic incident". you are watching bbc news. 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 roadmap out of restrictions. a nigerian airforce passenger plane has crashed just outside abuja

airport after reporting engine failure — killing all seven people on board. the uk has introduced a new heart transplant technique for children that reanimates a donor heart outside the body and can even repair any damage sustained by the organ during death. this programme, a collaboration between the royal papworth and great 0rmond street hospitals, significantly increased the number of such life—saving operations carried out in the uk last year. 0ur health correspondent, anna collinson, has this report. just a year ago, one of these sisters had a failing heart and was put on an urgent transplant list. nice wave! freya heddington was warned she may have to wait up to two years. but thanks to a new programme it was just eight weeks. and within months she could start

doing the things she loved most. i'm ecstatic that i got such an amazing gift of a heart. but it's also upsetting to know that someone also died. a donor's family must be consented before surgery, as this training simulation shows. until a year ago, almost all paediatric heart transplants came from patients who had suffered brain death. their heart may beat but they will never wake up. life support is withdrawn and the heart is stopped and retrieved. but this new programme uses hearts which have been allowed to cease beating on their own after life support is withdrawn. as soon as this happens, the heart begins to deteriorate. by using this machine demonstrated here using red dye at the royal papworth hospital, doctors can effectively restart it and repair the damage. you would have the heart sitting with the connector at the top, the aorta. these tubes move blood through the heart which keeps it healthy for up to 12 hours, giving surgeons much more time to carry out checks, and even transport it to other locations.

this organ care system is now used by adult cardiac transplant centres across the uk. but 12 months ago, the team here in cambridge joined forces with great 0rmond street hospital to extend their world—leading service to children, and despite the pressures of the pandemic, treated six patients in 2020. in the adult world we doubled the amount of heart transplantation and we reduced the waiting time period. we had to do exactly the same thing for the paediatric recipients at the same time for both populations to reduce the mortality in the waiting list. and this is what we achieved. 0nce retrieved, the hearts are delivered to great 0rmond street hospital for transplantation. children normally have to wait around two and a half times longer than adults for a new heart. for many of our transplant patients now, they are so sick that they have

to wait in the hospital for their transplants, sometimes for six months, perhaps even over a year. so not only is it reducing wait times but it is transplanting patients that otherwise would not get an organ. freya's family will never forget what they've been through, or the people and the machine that saved her life. it will always be there i in the back of our minds. but, you know, we know now she's got a lovely healthy heart _ and her future's bright. you are watching bbc news. 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 thwet thwet khine 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 arrest more people, including a famous actor, called lu min, who was among the celebrities calling

for all civil servants to take part in 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 called for nationwide strikes on monday. some of the largest retail outlets 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 around 200 miles. prince philip, who's 99, was admitted to hospital on tuesday on the advice of his doctor after feeling unwell. police in birmingham are continuing to question two 15—year—old boys on suspicion of kidnap and theft. the boys were arrested after a car with two young children inside was taken from a driveway in the city. a police helicopter was involved in the search before the car was stopped on a road in the city centre. the boys, aged two and four, were unharmed and reunited with their parents at the roadside. israel is easing many of its covid lockdown restrictions from today. nearly half of the country's population has received at least one dose of the vaccine. gyms, hotels and tourist attractions are reopening, but entry will only be allowed to those with a green pass, which shows they've either had the jab or the virus. nickjohnson reports. beer to persuade some.

pizza to persuade others. israel's programme at getting covid jabs in arms continues at pace. the country has the highest vaccination rate in the world, more than 49% of people have had at least one dose. it's all part of the national effort to break free from this new normal. shops and restaurants closed, an economy at risk, people's lives on hold. after a steep resurgence in covid infections, the country entered its third lockdown just after christmas. but health officials say progress in their vaccination programme is now starting to make a difference in the number of infections, allowing the country to begin reopening its economy. studies in israel showed that the pfizer vaccine is 95.8% effective in preventing hospitalisations and deaths. from today, shops, libraries and tourist attractions are able

to reopen, but social distancing and masks will still be required. we do need to hurry up and get everyone on board the vaccination programme because with all of those variants rising their heads, we could be facing other setbacks in the future and we need to hurry up with community immunity. but in order to be allowed into shops, museums and libraries, israelis will have to download a so—called green badge to carry around as proof of inoculation. announcing the scheme last night, prime minister benjamin netanyahu urged israelis to use it. as israel begins to ease restrictions, it is hoped the country's so—far successful vaccination programme of work as a blueprint for other countries

hoping to begin their own journeys out of lockdown. nickjohnson, bbc news. the united arab emirates has sent 20,000 of the covid—19 sputnik v vaccines to the gaza strip. it's the first shipment of the russian vaccines arriving in gaza via the bitunia crossing today. according to a spokesman for the palestinian ministry of health, israel has previously prevented the entry of vaccines into the strip. australia's covid—19 vaccination programme is officially underway, but the launch didn't quite go to plan. the country's first recipient was 84—year—old jane malysiak, who received the pfizer—biontech jab at a sydney medical centre. when prime minster scott morrision encouraged her to make a "v for vaccine" sign, she accidentally made a somewhat ruder gesture instead, much to the amusement of the medical staff. she didn't quite get it right... all

is forgiven. australia's summer bushfires last year are thought to have killed or displaced roughly 3 billion animals. and on kangaroo island in south australia, conservationists are battling to save a unique species that was already threatened with extinction even before the blazes tore through its habitat. 0ur correspondent, shaimaa khalil, has returned there to see what's being done. it's possibly one of australia's cutest animals, but the kangaroo island dunnart is also one of its most critically endangered. before the january 2020 blazes, it's thought fewer than 500 dunnarts lived here. but the catastrophic bushfires scorched half of the island, destroying the dunnarts' natural habitat and food resources. they lost 93% of their known range just like that, within a couple of days. so, for those animals that have survived the fire, they're dealing with a highly modified landscape. it's a huge ask for any

threatened species to survive. ecologists have been working for months trying to gauge how many remain, but the small nocturnal marsupials are hard to spot. despite working with them for years, pat has never seen a kangaroo island dunnart in real life. in the aftermath of the fires, the survival of the dunnarts is even more precarious thanks to an increased threat from rampant predators. feral animals, like cats, have posed a danger to rare species on the island well before the bushfires, but since the devastation of last summer, efforts to keep them away from natural habitats here have intensified. for a feral cat, the fire has actually been quite an advantage for them, because when you remove the majority of that vegetation, they can find those prey species a lot more easily than they did before the fires. conservationists have stepped up efforts to kill the cats, including using these baited traps

to capture them. we don't want to kill them, but we have to, to protect the dunnart. if we don't, the dunnarts are gone. like, you won't have them here, and they'll be extinct, extinct. there's always going to be cats, but there's not going to be dunnarts. and this is another line of defence, several kilometres of cat—proof fencing. there's electric wire here, so hopefully they'll hit that and get thrown off the fence, cos it shocked them. the hope is that creating a protective zone will allow dunnarts to thrive and reproduce and will give ecologists like pat a chance to study them up close. it's going to be fantastic to finally see one after so many years, but i will say it'll be a little bit sad in a way because that element of mystery around the species won't be there any more. it'll be bittersweet, i guess, in a way, yeah. with climate change making more extreme weather events likely, the fear is that it would only take a lightning strike for disaster to hit this biodiversity haven again, making the dunnarts' fate here even more perilous. shaimaa khalil,

bbc news, kangaroo island. just before the weather — it's worth showing this video released by police in spain. officers in madrid were called to an illegal party and when they arrived it appeared the flat was empty — but like a bad game of hide and seek — they found party goers — hiding under the mattress — and under cushions next to the bed. and of course in the cupboard too. police in the city said more than 200 illegal gatherings were found this weekend. now it's time for a look at 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 through into tuesday. this is the weather system approaching from the west, especially to northern ireland, into scotland, where there's a risk of flooding, too, affecting wales and western parts of england, whereas the eastern side of england stays dry and becomes very mild.