dan johnson reports.nts, liverpool could now hold the key to all of us getting back out to enjoy the things we love. it's hard to imagine that a bit of grass, a bit of fencing and a huge big top could be sojoyous but, gosh, it isjoyous. sefton park is the venue for this afternoon's festival. the government said "we want you to do it, but we you to do it in liverpool". i was like, "i would do it on mars, quite frankly. it wouldn't matter where i did it." i tell you what, it's exciting just to wear the wristbands again. the simplest things, eh? the masks can come off, there will be no requirement for social distancing, and in just a few hours now, there'll be 5,000 people crowded in here, finally able to enjoy live music once again. stockport band blossoms are on stage for the first time in a year. # i want to know. # since you've been gone. # have i been on your mind? we've played a set, like, once. laughter. there's nothing like it, is there? hearing ten, 20, 30,000 people singing together. i think it wil

dan johnson lockdown restrictions are easing.ll over and _ danjohnson is there tonight. it 3 all over and people are heading home. at whatever you fancy doing with your weekend, what has happened could be important. whether this is the sort of thing you have missed, or the sort of thing you would usually avoid, it could have a really big impact. i should warn you to have been flashing lights here this evening, among other things. although this has been one relatively small gig for liverpool, it could be one giant leap for live events. i it could be one giant leap for live events. ., it could be one giant leap for live events. . ., ., ., ,, .,' unmasked! unmasked and ready to go! it is like they are lifting the restrictions finally. and because liverpool went into it first and came out of it first. it's a good day to be a scouser! it feels strange being right next to somebody queueing for portaloos. everybody is being tested and will be checked again next week. but the question is, can they gather like this without masks on social

dan johnson reports. the masks are off and the volume is rising.would be illegal tonight. i think it's really going to be like a magical moment in history, to be honest. and look what it means to be back in front of a crowd. i think it's going to be electric, i think everyone is going to be absolutely buzzing. people are literally walking into the venue and going, "oh my god," like, just screaming their heads off, like, so excited. and this city is leading the way. i have literally spent about three weeks at home preparing for this outfit. oh, so long. genuinely. yeah! deciding what to drink, deciding what to wear. big up liverpool for having the first non— socially distance eventin first non— socially distance event in this country. we love this city. all of us are excited. we're all on the verge of tears _ honestly, yeah, we're. not even drunk yet, so, we're just — - we're ready for it. we haven't been around so many people in so long, and it's weird to get back into it, i'm excited, a bit nervous, but i'm excited. this comes after the quietest y

dan johnson reports. dance music.year. no masks, no distance, no vaccine passports. this is the power of music to unite people for one weekend, and they're making the most of it. it's been a nice change, yeah. i could get used to it. it's been brilliant, yeah, 100%. honestly, it's been| such a nice change. because you've been on your own for, like, the last two years. _ and it's been really nice, in a safe way. because everyone has been tested, so it's been brilliant. _ you had to go through four different checkpoints to get in. it was a lot. you had to confirm that you had an lft, you had to confirm that you were in liverpool, you had drug dogs sniff you, there was a lot of steps before you got anywhere close to it. they weren't sparing the decibels, after djs spent such a long time stuck at home, like so many in the live events business. dance music. this is for the covid generation. you know, there's something that happens when you're together all experiencing the same thing at the same time. you feel connected to

dan johnson reports. the masks are off and the volume is rising.would be illegal tonight. i think it's really going to be a magical moment in history, to be honest. and look what it means to be back in front of a crowd. i think it's going to be electric, absolutely buzzing. people are going, "oh my god," just screaming their heads off, like, so excited. and this city is leading the way. i spent three weeks at home on this outfit. deciding what to drink, deciding what to wear. big cheers to liverpool. we love this city. we're all excited. practically in tears. we are not even drunk yet, we're just ready for it. - airflow monitors will work out if the virus will spread. there will be cameras and ai looking at the movement of people. are there any bottlenecks that could be removed? are there any pockets? we have chosen a deliberately big, airy venue. we have monitors for covid safety and carbon dioxide levels. everyone being here is helping us collect the data while it is safe to do so and both rates are very low. they will be tested before and after.

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and those with a ticket will have to provide a negative covid test to get in. 0ur correspondent dan johnsonement?— wristband on, i'm sure. plenty of excitement? , ., , , , , excitement? yes, absolutely. this is sefton park. — excitement? yes, absolutely. this is sefton park, there _ excitement? yes, absolutely. this is sefton park, there will _ excitement? yes, absolutely. this is sefton park, there will be _ excitement? yes, absolutely. this is sefton park, there will be 5000 - sefton park, there will be 5000 people coming in here very soon. this is the entrance. the gates are not open yet, but not long before people can get back to enjoying live music, at least in this experimental arena. if you look here, you can see some of the scientific equipment that will be used to monitor the crowds. these are cameras that have been positioned by some of the experts from loughborough and liverpool universities. they will monitor how people are moving about this space, how they interact, but will help them learn lessons about how to do this safely in other places. you can see them setting up the cat

dan johnson reports.is vaccine hesitancy amongst care home workers. i was really scared about it. i didn't know anything about the vaccine. it was the unknown, really. gabby was one of many who were reluctant at first. there were all these rumours going online about gene manipulation and you are going to go an extra pair of hands and all sorts. you didn't believe that, did you? no, no. obviously, there are some side effects nobody knew about. maybe still we don't know about what might happen in future. and here they face a real challenge. it came as a shock but we had about 30—35% of our workforce that were refusing it. they've now got that down to just 7%, but the boss wants help to get it lower. i personally would support mandatory vaccination in social care. i think it is so, so important that everyone is vaccinated for the benefit of the residents and the staff. i have a responsibility to protect everyone. but it is such a sensitive question — how to protect vulnerable residents but also respect perso

this has led to long waiting lists and frustrated patients, damaging morale. 0ur correspondent dan johnson more than two years already. now i'm very, very self conscious and i kind of really, you know, desperately want to have the work done and feel more confident in myself again, because it's knocked my confidence as well. extra measures to guard against the virus have slowed down dental appointments. so clearing last year's backlog has been near impossible. some patients were told to go private, or forced to travel miles. at some point it got as bad as wanting to bang my head against a brick wall, really. so, yeah. and i'm a complete dental—phobe anyway, so for me to actually want to go to a dentist, that says how bad it was, really. the british dental association says in england there were 28 million fewer appointments in the last year. and a survey of their members suggests things aren't getting better. nearly half of those who responded say they'll change career, or take early retirement in the next year, if working conditions don't improve. a significant number are thinking of changi

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dan johnson reports.hey are not mandating it for anybody else. _ no health care workers have been mandated to have it. _ technically, one of our residents could leave an environment - where everybody is vaccinated, need to go into hospital and be cared for by somebody who is not vaccinated. | itjust doesn't make sense. but it has been a difficult year of restricted care home visits, families separated, even at the end of life. when you have got a 92—year—old parent that you can�*t see, i think 15 minutes a week is ridiculous. phil�*s mum died last year. he now feels mandatory vaccination is the key to reconnecting others. everyone has their right. but, you know, my mum had a right for a family life and that was taken away from her. it�*s a bit ironic that you have staff working in there who haven�*t had a vaccination. yet you�*ve got families that, in some situations have had a vaccination, but they are still not being allowed into the nursing home to see their loved one. that can�*t be right, can it? thi

dan johnson reports. we were so excited and alljust burst out crying. nall was missing for a month after be taking from her dog walker�*s van. t month after be taking from her dog walker's van-— walker's van. i didn't even eat. it is torture- _ walker's van. i didn't even eat. it is torture. that _ walker's van. i didn't even eat. it is torture. that is _ walker's van. i didn't even eat. it is torture. that is the _ walker's van. i didn't even eat. it is torture. that is the only - walker's van. i didn't even eat. it is torture. that is the only way i l is torture. that is the only way i can think about it is torture. your mind is going at 1000 miles an hour and even when you are asleep i wake up and even when you are asleep i wake up and i remember having packet —— panic attacks because i was worrying about the worst of the worst happening to her. bhd about the worst of the worst happening to her.— about the worst of the worst happening to her. and it is a rurowin happening to her. and it is a growing pr

. >> pete: okay, one more in the lightning round here, dan, senators ron johnson, you cover stuff likes better than anybody. ron joonsd chuck grassley demanding answers after "the washington post" conveniently found out about their supposedly confidential fbi briefing and used that information to then summary the senator's are report on hunter biden. is this a setup here? >> yeah, we need a house cleaning at the top of the fbi and we have to stop beating around the bush around it. we have seen this tactic before where they allegedly briefed candidate donald trump before he was president. i have say allegedly they used the briefing to spy on donald trump. they are doing this again now but they are -- it's even more pernicious they briefed these two g.o.p. senators it leaks suspiciously to the "the washington post." then when the g.o.p. senator ron johnson from wisconsin puts out a damning report about hunter biden, "the washington post" then gets to write they were warned. this could have been russian disinformation, why? because the fbi briefed them. what is the fbi doing, guys? i mean

ocho miembros de los yanquees dan positivo pese a estar vacunados con johnson & johnson.el equipo se estÁ sometiendo a pruebas de seguimiento del contagio. la Única dosis de la vacuna tiene una efectividad de 72%. borja: para entender bien por quÉ se enfermaron, nos vamos a conectar con juan rivera, cÓmo pasa el tiempo, ya estamos hablando de quitarnos la mÁscara quÉ opina sobre las recomendaciones de los cdc? juan: borja, me parece que es apropiado. lo dije hace una o dos semanas cuando ellos dieron las recomendaciones anteriores, lo que las personas vacunadas, aunque sabemos que las vacunas no son 100% perfectas, sabemos que en la vida real, las vacunas son bastante efectivas en tÉrminos de protegernos. yo creo que las personas vacunadas deben seguir su criterio. tenemos que enfocarnos en las personas no vacunadas. sin ellas no vamos a llegar a inmunidad de rebaÑo y son, entre ellas, el virus se puede alojar y seguir propagando. es un enfoque a la poblaciÓn que no estÁ protegida. podrÍa haber un incentivo para que las personas se vacunen. carolina: sabemos de casos como

our correspondent dan johnson reports.ad as wanting to bang my head against a brick wall, really. so, yeah. and i'm a complete dental—phobe anyway, so for me to actually want to go to a dentist, that says how bad it was, really. the british dental association says in england there were 28 million fewer appointments in the last year. and a survey of their members suggests things aren't getting better. nearly half of those who responded say they'll change career, or take early retirement in the next year, if working conditions don't improve. a significant number are thinking of changing career, or leaving the profession altogether. really working in the current situation, with the arrangements for the pandemic, with our standard operating procedures that we're working to at the moment, make delivering dentistry a very difficultjob to do. and it's clearly reflected in the results of our survey. the department for health and social care says it is supporting dentists, and increasing access while protecting patients and staff.

dan johnson, bbc news. we'rejoined by spain's foreign minister, arancha gonzalez laya.t me first tell you that we _ holiday-makers to spain? let me first tell you that we are - holiday-makers to spain? let me first tell you that we are getting l first tell you that we are getting ready to welcome british tourists in spain and this will work in steps. step number one is to accelerate the vaccination efforts in spain, this is going on the right direction. 20 million doses have been distributed and this is good. second, probably next week, the european union will lift restrictions to british people accessing the european union, let's not forget that today, the borders are closed. this will be the next step, good news again. and the third step, good news again. and the third step would obviously be the uk putting spain in the green list. for this to happen, we are having good discussions with the uk authorities, to convince them that there are many regions in spain, the balearic islands, the canary islands, where the numbers are equivalent to those in the uk today. so maybe

and dan mark will no longer include the johnson and johnson kogan vaccine to its national campaign the country's health authorities says the move is being made in response to concerns surrounding the side effects involving those blood clot denmark also announced last month that they would stop using astra zeneca vaccine all together over another link to rare blood clots. in the e.u. is looking to open its borders after more than a year of pandemic isolation this comes as the european commission on monday proposed easing travel restrictions on foreign citizens but only for those who have been fully vaccinated with authorized brands with all the details now here's artie's peter oliver of things ever is easy as it may see when it comes to getting a unified e.u. proposal passed all 27 member states on monday the european commission put forward their proposals for what essentially amounts to a new vaccine passport they'll be discussing that further on choose day but it's an attempt to open up the 27 member states to non-essential travel and to tourism tourism of course the absolute lifebloo

dan johnson, bbc news, closertogether. danjohnson, bbc news, liverpool.e a lot of people watching that as you are, yes, how fantastic and a lot of other people thinking... ooh. not used to it. fin other people thinking... ooh. not used to it. , , other people thinking... ooh. not used to it— used to it. on the flip side, let's brina used to it. on the flip side, let's bring them _ used to it. on the flip side, let's bring them into _ used to it. on the flip side, let's bring them into this. _ used to it. on the flip side, let's bring them into this. i _ used to it. on the flip side, let's bring them into this. i am - used to it. on the flip side, let's bring them into this. i am very l bring them into this. i am very cautious. but what was great there, then, i'm sure you will agree, everyone was willing to be tested and go through the four stages. they want to go out but to do it safely. i'm with you, naga, i am very envious. i'm with you, naga, i am very envious— i'm with you, naga, i am very envious. �* , ., ., ., envious. and it is not an age thing, is

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being they ended up with joe mr johnson's concerns you are see they've abandoned labor and that is not something you can blame on kish or jeremy called in or in media danand i are his a direct result of the very cynical strategy adopted by tony blair and now that mr johnston has a man's triumphant over the labor party in much of a ruined is he now going to turn his sights to the last the doubt of labour's a little wales and what about scotland where the independents and the s.n.p. are reception how his list of johnson going to the deal with these up starts and the celtic nations you keep on asking really difficult questions. and it probably too vague too difficult to be certain but it feels like mr johnson by mistake in some ways has ended our leading a sort of english nationalist movement. and so that being the case he is the biggest possible gift you would have to be independence movement in wales and indeed in scotland the way he talks about the union you know the olsen foursome is flippant it doesn't i mean it's strong unionists but it is flippant it doesn't pay it pay proper respect sad things through the historic nature of the union and what it n

dan? >> well, paul, no, i was not around for franklin d. roosevelt's new deal but, alas, i was there for lyndon johnson's great society, and that is exactly whatf. this will be the greatest expansion of federal welfare since the creation of the great society. and i think this is an important point to keep in mind. the great society was famous for creating medicare and medicaid. those were permanent entitlements, and what joe biden is proposing is not just more spending. i think the republicans have that a little bit wrong. yes, it is a lot more spending. these will be permanent entitlements, guaranteed pre-k education, subsidized child leave, subsidized childcare and free community college. these are entitlements that will have to be paid for unto eternity if they are passed. there has never been anything like this in the past 55 or 60 years and the question is whether the american people are ready for more entitlements on the scale of medicare which i think most people know, paul, are running out of money. both that and social security. where's the money going to come from for these new federal entitlements? paul: yeah, the key, kim, is that

dan thorn has the latest on that story. >> these 2 men are now facing charges in connection with the killing of donald stanifer, 21 year-old alijah jordan, brooks and 22 year-old marcus johnson simon were captured friday by east bay regional park police. i think today is a wonderful day for justice for donald stanifer. we're adams's donald's mother. she and her family have spent the last several months waiting for answers and hoping her son's killers would be caught. the arrests are now bringing the family closer to getting closure i'm just trying stay strong and keep moving and keep fighting for donald for justice for because he was a great and he didn't deserve whatever happens to him. he didn't deserve it adams described her son donald is joyful and hardworking the 21 year-old alameda native was first reported missing last july. his car was found days later by a deputy in san leandro when it was believed a violent crime had taken place nearly a week after he was reported missing stanifer's body was found at huckleberry botanic regional preserve in oakland. the investigations spending 11 months led police to these 2. the alameda county dia is expected to charge jordan broo

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dan thorn has the latest. >> these 2 men are now facing charges in connection with the killing of donald stanifer, 21 year-old alijah jordan brooks in 22 year-old marcus johnson simon were captured friday by east bay regional park police. i think today is a wonderful day for justice for donald stanifer greer. adams's donald's mother. she and her family have spent the last several months waiting for answers and hoping her son's killers would be caught. the arrests are now bringing the family closer to getting closure i'm just trying stay strong and keep moving and keep fighting for donald for justice for because he was a great and he didn't deserve whatever happens to him. you didn't deserve it adams described her son donald is joyful and hardworking the 21 year-old alameda native was first reported missing last july. his car was found days later by a deputy in san leandro when it was believed a violent crime had taken place nearly a week after he was reported missing stanifer's body was found at huckleberry botanic regional preserve in oakland. the investigations spending 11 months led police to the east to the alameda county da's expected to charge jordan br