the headlines: queen elizabeth and the duke of edinburgh receive their covid vaccinations — buckinghamace have said. act like you have the virus. that's the advice in a new campaign in the uk urging people to abide by lockdown rules. a boeing 737, believed to be carrying around 60 people, has gone missing after take—off in indonesia. donald trump is banned permanently from twitter because of concerns his tweets could incite more violence. democrats reveal the draft of a new impeachment resolution against donald trump — he's accused of inciting an insurrection and endangering the security of the us. at least three people are reported to have died in spain as a result of flooding and heavy snow. now on bbc news, amanda ruggeri explores the new technology that is allowing archaeologists to explore the hundreds of mayan structures that are still hidden beneath the amazon. this week, we are tearing into 2021 at full pelt, but what technology wonders may it hold 7 we'll ask the experts. and no, you are not having a bad dream, but an artificial intelligence is. hey, welcome to click. happy ne

it comes as queen elizabeth and prince philip both receive coronavirus vaccinations at windsor castledonald trump is suspended from twitter permanently over concerns about the further risk of inciting violence. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world. a boeing 737 passenger plane — carrying 62 people — is believed to have crashed into the sea in indonesia. the authorities have had to suspend their search overnight for the airlinesjet — which appeared to fall around ten—thousand feet in less than a minute after taking off from the capitaljakarta en route to pontia—nak. jonathan head reports. flight sj182 had only been in the airforfour minutes when all contact was lost. with no emergency call from the pilots, indonesian officials struggled to piece together what might have happened. transport minister budi karya sumadi described the boeing aircraft veering off—course before disappearing from radar screens. the flight tracking app, flightradar, monitored the plane making an apparent plunge from 10,000 feet to near sea level before it vanished. friends and rela

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and 2012 for the sixty's you believe queen elizabeth the 2nd and carrington constructing an opulent banner from about half a 1000000 gold but. the design was developed in close consultation with prince charles the banner was draped over the stern of the ship in which the royal family embarked on a parade cruise in my youth and and of course for years i've been making it ring mcquade from buttons and to be actually making a pretty foul with wonderful. currington finds the material for her art in junk shops like this one in her adopted hometown of margate in southeast england a specific object often captures her attention becoming the foundation for a new piece of work. i use a lot of similar materials to make my artwork lots of multiples and i when i come somewhere lot base i'm going to find multiples and if i don't have enough hair sometimes i'll go on a bag or i might go to a scrap yard. carrington began working with found everyday objects while at art school more than 30 years ago she's used a wide variety of materials over the years and plans to start branching out into glassware. no ma

did you meet queen elizabeth? >> i did. that was the bicentennial. that was the year of the bicentennial, that was a white tie dinner, it was only white tie dinner that we had during that administration. >> she always gets white tie. >> that he was attend out in the yard, it was in the rose garden, if i'm not mistaken. it was a lovely, lovely dinner. win dad danced with the queen, the marine band, i think it was the marine band, they played a song which turned out to be muskrat love. that was not a terribly appropriate song. my mother was standing on the sidelines like, oh my god, i'm so embarrassed. >> your mother, how did she -- she had to take care of the spouse usually of the visitor. did she have to do, a brush up on policy, how did she handle that? she didn't. i think she always tried to talk to the visitors, either the husband or the wife or whatever, all depending with the situation was, because they were normally parents and they had children. when i'm at queen elizabeth upstairs before the state dinner, we talked about family and her sons a

, who came to the throne four years ago, is on paper a constitutional monarch, like britain's queen elizabethgh, he has far more power. and he's been using it in alarming ways. some thais fear he wants to take the country back to the absolute monarchy of his forefathers, when the king's word was the law. palm is a 21—year—old student on her way to yet another protest in bangkok's old royal quarter. we've come to democracy monument, which marks the end of the absolute monarchy 88 years ago. the democracy it promised never took root here. this is an outspoken generation, informed and mobilised through social media, taking the hunger games salute as their own symbol of defiance. they want the king's power to be accountable, and they want the freedom to speak out without the threat of reprisals. palm reminds the crowd of the incident which helped to ignite these protests back injune, the abduction and presumed murder in cambodia of an exiled young activist called wanchalearm. wanchalearm's sisterjen is here too, trying to keep up the public interest in his case. jen was talking on the phone to he

, who came to the throne four years ago, is on paper a constitutional monarch, like britain's queen elizabethlity, though, he has far more power. and he's been using it in alarming ways. some thais fear he wants to take the country back to the absolute monarchy of his forefathers, when the king's word was the law. palm is a 21—year—old student on her way to yet another protest in bangkok's old royal quarter. we've come to democracy monument, which marks the end of the absolute monarchy 88 years ago. the democracy it promised never took root here. this is an outspoken generation, informed and mobilized through social media, taking the hunger games salute as their own symbol of defiance. they want the king's power to be accountable, and they want the freedom to speak out without the threat of reprisals. palm reminds the crowd of the incident which helped to ignite these protests back injune... ..the abduction and presumed murder in cambodia of an exiled young activist called wanchalearm. wanchalearm's sister, jen, is here too, trying to keep up the public interest in his case. jen was talking o

the only person who could claim that is queen elizabeth but she is not an executive president, so joe biden i think at least from our point of view brings to the presidency a very deep understanding and knowledge of the evolution of the transatlantic relationship and the reason why we think we need nato and many in the united states believe nato is good and in the interest of the united states. i'm not the only one that is hopeful there will be a number of low hanging fruit which the united states and her european allies can pick in the coming months and returned to the retue the accord, for example, at least offering to enter into a discussion with the iranians. that would be another one. starting arms-control discussions with the russians et cetera. there's enormous opportunities waiting to be seized and the couple will coming months. >> that reflects the thinking here also that early on in the new administration there would be an effort to harvest some of that low hanging fruit. one problem that i do see what sort of u.s. european relationships and maybe it is a larger problem is w

did you meet queen elizabeth? >> i did. that was the bicentennial.hat was the year of the bicentennial. that was the only white tie dinner that we had during that administration. >> royalty always gets white tie. >> yes, and it was a tent out in the yard and actually, i think it was in the rose garden, if i'm not mistaken. i mean, it was a lovely, lovely dinner and when dad danced with the queen, the marine band played a song and it turned out to be musk rat love which was not a terribly appropriate song and my mother was standing in the sidelines oh, my god, i'm so embarrassed. >> popular song, but not the right place. your mother, she had to take care of -- usually the spouse of the visitor. did she have to brush up on policy or how did she handle that? >> you know, she didn't. she always tried to talk to the visitors and either the husband or the wife or whatever all depending what the situation was because they had parents and they had children and when i met queen elizabeth upstairs before the state dinner and we talked about family and sons and

we refer to it to the queen's speech today in honor of queen elizabeth.he most gracious speech to parliament, this was an occasion when the monarch commanded members of parliament to attend to him as he laid before them his priorities and his policy recommendations. king george iii's speech in 1775 noted, "the present situation in america and my constant desire to have your advice, concurrence and assistance on every important occasion have determined me to call you thus together early.” this is a command, no matter how gracious the languages. this is a command that parliament attend to the king. this language was modified a bit, as one might expect, in the early american constitution. the new york constitution of 1777, quote, "it shall be the duty of the governor to inform the legislature at every session of the condition of the state so far as may respect his department to recommend such matters to their consideration, as shall appear to him to concern its good government, welfare and prosperity.” the pennsylvania constitution was more straightforward a

the only person who could claim that is queen elizabeth, i guess. but she is not an executive president. so joe biden, i think at least from our point of view brings to the presidency a very deep understanding and knowledge of the evolution of the trans-atlantic relationship, the reason why we think we need nato, the reason why many in the united states believe that nato, to have nato is good, and it's in the interest of the united states, etc. so we -- i'm not the only one who is hopeful that there will be a number of low hanging fruit which the united states and her european allies can pick in coming months, returning to the climate accords, paris climate accords, for example. at least offering to enter into a discussion with the iranians, that would be another one. starting arms control discussions with the russians, etc. so i think there is, there are enormous opportunities waiting to be seized in coming months. >> i certainly get the impression that that reflects the thinking here too, that early on in the new administration this would be, ther

it comes as queen elizabeth and prince philip both receive coronavirus vaccinations at windsor castledonald trump is suspended from twitter permanently over concerns about the further risk of inciting violence. now on bbc news, on september 8th the moria refugee camp on the greek island of lesbos went up inflames. gabriel gatehouse investigates the events surrounding the blaze. 0n the night of 8 september, europe's largest refugee camp went up in flames. the greek authorities say the fire was started by the refugees themselves, angry at conditions in the camp. more than 12,000 people already living in dire conditions were burned out of their tents. among them was a group of young filmmakers, most of them refugees from afghanistan. they've shared their footage with us. and what file number is that? a huge archive of evidence from the fire and its aftermath that raises troubling questions about the blaze and about europe's dysfunctional policies on migration. since his early teens, yaser taheri has wanted to be a filmmaker. now 16 years old, he arrived on lesbos with his family in janua

tom moore is now sir tom, the 100—year—old world war ii veteran was knighted by queen elizabeth for anryjob well done. for me, the queen was more than anyone could've expected. never did i imagine that i would get so close to the queen and have such a kind message from her. that was really outstanding. it really was truly outstanding. tomorrow will be a good day. if we as a country can show the same spirit of optimism and energy shown by captain tom moore, then we will beat it. together, we will come through this all the faster. it's wonderful that everyone's been inspired by his determination. god knows what the final total will be. every crisis needs a hero, and in 2020 in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, the uk found one. captain tom moore. hello, i'm michael ball, and this is the story of one man and his sheer determination to make a difference. in less than four weeks, captain tom moore raised over £32 million for nhs charities, found himself number one in the charts on his 100th birthday, and received tens of thousands of birthday cards. captain tom, we meet at last. where

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. ♪ >>> in today's quick hits, queen elizabeth and prince philip are morning the 1.5 million people ineceived the covid-19 vaccine the 94-year-old queen and husband received their first tests. >>> and the national average sitting around $2.35 a gallon. despite the increase prices are 30 centers less than a year ago. >>> and scientists say the earth rotated abnormally past in 2020. scientists are now considering adding a negative leap second if the earth continues to spin faster >> as long as we're not spinning out of control to earth. >> spinning back to 2020 >>> the world's biggest tech show is about to kick off digitally. but first, let's find out how wall street is startingthy monday after ending last week with record highs. cnbc's karen tso joins us. >> good morning. we have record after record on the s&p and dow to close out fridaya friday's session as investors keeping an eye on the fiscal stimulus i want to caution early on as we wait for more detail around further infrastructure spending that's expected. also around any individual checks for americans the other big point around

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queen elizabeth and her husband prince philip have been vaccinated the royals are 94 and 99 years old putting them in the highest priority group for the job and more than half a 1000000 germans have received the coronavirus vaccine the government has been under fire for the slow roll out of the vaccination campaign. sports now and in the bundesliga an american teenager is the toast of shocker after scoring 3 goals and a victory that saves the club from equalling and unwanted record they'd be tough at home for until the royal blues have won any of their last 30 lead matches but things looked promising in the 1st half when matthew hobby scored his 1st ponderously goal to give his side the lead then scored 2 more goals in the 2nd half and bad means his club do not equal the league record for games played without a win. ok here are the other results from saturday's blunders the game's sic wasted the chance to go top of the table in a 31 home defeat by dortmund jade and century when erling holland's classic double sealed the with liver cruisin could only draw with braman when young berlin

. >> queen elizabeth and her husband received the first of two vaccine doses today. no word on which one they got but the shots were administered at windsor castle where the couple has been staying during the lockdown. they joined some 1.5 million people in britain who have gotten their first shot. >>> meantime londoners are being urged to stay home. the city's mayor says london hospitals could be overwhelmed by that rapid spread of the virus. health leaders say one in 30 people there have contracted it. ambulances in london are now responding to as many as 8,000 calls a day. >>> at least one person was killed in an early morning freeway crash in the east bay. it happened about 1:00 this morning. alameda county fire and the chp responded to southbound 880 near marina boulevard in san leandro. seven people were hurt inside three heavily damaged cars. you saw some of them there. one passenger was ejected and tied at the scene. six other people were taken to the hospital. >>> households across the bay area may finally get some fresh dungeness crab this week. dungeness c

today in britain, 94-year-old queen elizabeth and 99-year-old prince philip got theirs.e in the u.s., the slow vaccine rollout continues as american infections surpass 22 million. deaths have topped 371,000. danya bacchus has the latest. >> reporter: the worst of the covid crisis has america in its grips, setting alarming new records: more than 20,000 deaths this week. that's someone dying every 29 seconds. health officials warn darker days could come. arizona now one of the worst hot spots in the world, the state's governor still refusing a mask mandate, but ramping up vaccination efforts, designating the arizona cardinal's n.f.l. stadium a 24/7 vaccination site. nationwide, the vaccine rollout can't come fast enough for weary frontline workers. marnie pomoroy is a pediatric audiologist in kentucky. >> the anxiety has been overwhelming, worrying about contracting coronavirus from the community or one of my patients. >> reporter: so far, just over 6.5 million americans have been vaccinated, significantly short of what was supposed to be 20 million by the end of 2020. pre

in a statement, buckingham palace said queen elizabeth and her husband, phillip, both in their 90 dose of the vaccine today. in indonesia, a plane carrying 62 people crashed into the java sea shortly after taking off from jakarta this afternoo local time. the indonesi navy says it has pinpointed the location of the crash and is looking for survivors. according to the indonesian transportation ministry, the domestic flight had been delayed at least 30 minutedue to heavy rain. it disappeared from radar four minutes after taking off. the plane was a 26-year-old bo 7ei-524, a much older ve trsion boeing 737-max, which was pulled from service foter 20 months two crashes. one of those crashes was in indonesia in october of 2 and killed all 189 people on board. michael apted, the british director of the "up" documentari es, and films including" coal miner's daughter" and the james bond film "the world is not enough,"as died. apted chronicled the lives of a group of british chi oren in a serifilms that began in 1964 when they were seven years old, and revisited them every seven years. the firs

queen elizabeth and her husband, the duke of edinburgh, have received their coronavirus vaccine. the cleanest 94 years old and philip is 99, a royal spokesperson says the couple were given their shots at windsor castle by a household doctor, their son and heir to the throne. prince charles and grandson prince william. both contracting the virus and recovered. turning out to our weather. the national weather service has issued another high surf warning. starting tomorrow. the warning is in effect for big sur to sonoma county with dangerous waves expected some getting up to 30 ft. visitors are urged to stay off any rocks near the water peers and coastal jetties at to keep a very close eye on kids never turned their backs on the ocean. that's a reminder. we always like to say, ah high surf advisory starts tomorrow at 7 a.m, and it's set to expire at nine o'clock tomorrow night. ktvu meteorologist mark tamayo joining us now with a look at those conditions and our forecast high mark either, kristina. yeah, they had to be very careful right near the immediate coastline. what's interest

queen elizabeth and her husband prince philip have been vaccinated the royals are 94 and 99 years old putting them in the highest priority group for the job and more than half a 1000000 germans have received the coronavirus vaccine so far the government has been under fire for the slow rollout of the vaccination campaign but now the health minister says it is picking up speed. to the german soccer now where a shock i have avoided equalling the record for bonus league games without a win shall be tough and high time for an ill thanks to matthew hope these hattrick it was their 1st victory in the surgery won the league games meaning tez mani amber lynn keep the infamous record from the 1960 well meanwhile never couzin andrew with braman when you're in berlin also drew but freiburg one minds last and are bottom instead of shock i'm glad to be the leaders byron munich on friday live 6 can now top the table if they be dormant in saturday's late game and there are also 2 matches coming up on sunday. you're up to date now on the w. news next reporter with a look at the russian opposition lea

queen elizabeth and the duke of edinburgh receive their covid vaccinations — buckingham palace have saidact like you have the virus. that's the advice in a new campaign in the uk urging people to abide by lockdown rules. a boeing 737, believed to be carrying around 60 people, has gone missing after take—off in indonesia. donald trump is banned permanently from twitter because of concerns his tweets could incite more violence. democrats reveal the draft of a new impeachment resolution against donald trump — the president elect accuses him of inciting an insurrection and endangering the security of the us. he has been an embarrassment to the country. embarrassed us around the world. not worthy to hold that office. at least three people are reported to have died in spain as a result of flooding and heavy snow. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. in the last hour buckingham palace has confirmed that both the queen and the duke of edinburgh have been vaccinated against covid—19. royal sources say the jabs were administered by a household doctor at windsor castle, though we've have not bee

in 40 minutes, the united kingdom we will see queen , elizabeth visiting former british colonies.n about an a look at our hour, neighbors to the north introducing canada, and finally in about 80 minutes, we see 1956 america as we presented ourselves to our nato allies in introducing the united states. ♪ [dramatic newsreel patriotic symphony music] ♪

and in the uk, queen elizabeth and prince philip both receive coronavirus vaccinations at windsor castleter large parts of the country lost its electricity supply. major cities, including the capital islamabad, lahore and karachi, were suddenly cut offjust after midnight local time. the power minister said the cause of the blackout was being investigated. 0ur pakistan correspondent secunder kermani has more from islamabad. at midnight local time, power was cut to homes across the country, including, as you say, to my one here in islamabad. now, the power minister has appealed for calm. he said this had been because of a drop in frequency in the transmission system and he said that officials are working on restoring services. this has been, though, a really nationwide blackout with residents from every major city, every province talking about power outages in their areas. we are now getting reports that in some places, power is being restored, but officials have said that it could take several hours for services to be fully restored right across the country. i've been in pakistan reportin

his day—long visit by going to the lighthouse laboratory, which processes covid tests at the queen elizabethalls have been growing for another independence referendum, and the snp said the prime minister was panicking because he was losing the argument. meanwhile in holyrood, the conservative leader questioned the speed of the country's vaccine roll—out. ruth davidson quoted one family doctor. these jabs are sat there, but they're not getting to us. this argument that the focus is on care homes rather than the over—80s is a red herring. it isn't a choice between the two. these are different cohorts being vaccinated by different staff. first minister, are you telling these gps on the front line that they're wrong? we have now virtually completed the vaccination of care homes, around 95%, there will be efforts to get that percentage up. we are on track, though, to notjust meet, but i hope to exceed our targets for the other cohorts that we are now vaccinating. around half a million people have been vaccinated already in total, and in terms of the over—80 population, as i said, today that is no