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[Music] good morning welcome to breakfast with naga manchette in charlie state our headlines today stocking up for a booster in the autumn the government orders an extra 60 million doses of the fisa covid vaccine a murder investigation begins after the body of julia james a police community support officer is found in woodland in kent looking for a new leader the dup begins the process of replacing arlene foster i guess you're about the only person around that doesn't have tv coverage of the scene up in the stars but out of the limelight michael collins the third member of the apollo 11 crew dies at the age of 90. good morning it's been the coldest and driest spring in 40 years it is bad news for farmers and it could mean prices at the supermarkets start to rise too good morning a big step closer to european glory for manchester city who come from behind in paris to win the away leg of their champions league semi-final good morning last night we had another frost meaning that every night this april we have seen a frost somewhere in the uk today's forecast is one of sunshine and showers some of those will be heavy and thundery i love all the details coming up [Music] good morning it's thursday the 29th of april the uk has secured a further 60 million doses of the fisa biontech coronavirus jab as part of a plan to roll out a booster program in the autumn the health secretary matt hancock said the aim of the extra job was to keep us safe and free here while we get this disease under control across the world james reynolds has this report right now all adults in the uk wait their turn to get two coronavirus jabs but the government's now preparing a possible third dose a booster in the autumn it's an insurance policy for the most vulnerable i'm delighted to be able to tell you that we've secured a further 60 million doses of the pfizer beyondtech vaccine that will be used alongside others as part of our booster shop program later this year and that is all about protecting the progress that we've made the current two-dose strategy gives strong protection but scientists don't yet know for how long so as winter approaches the booster or third jab will be offered it's not yet clear if this third jab will simply be another dose of the current shots or whether the booster will be tweaked to deal with new variants of the virus as infections decline life has begun to open up one adult in five in the uk is now fully vaccinated but this country isn't following the us in allowing fully vaccinated people to meet up indoors i know this feels tantalizingly extremely close and it is going to be frustrating at times for people particularly those who've had their two doses but we just need to make sure we don't have to go backwards again on any of this that means that everyone from the non-jabs to the single jabs and the double-jabbed has to abate the same restrictions which are due to ease in may james reynolds bbc news and at half past seven we'll talk more about this with the vaccines minister nadim zahawi labour has said the prime minister can't be allowed to be judge and jury on his own ministerial standards amid continuing questions over how the refurbishment of his downing street flat was funded yesterday the queen's former private secretary lord guyt was appointed as the government's new advisor on ministerial standards the labour party says he must be given the power to launch his own inquiries and reach binding conclusions without the prime minister's agreement detectives are continuing to search woodland in kent for clues after a police community support officer was found murdered body of julia james who is 53 was discovered in snowden near dover on tuesday afternoon let's speak to our reporter simon jones who's at the scene for us this morning simon bring us right up to date with the investigation well it's a fast-moving investigation but also a difficult investigation for kent police officers because of the course they are looking into the murder of one of their own officers now the hunt for julia james's killer is continuing this morning she was last seen by a neighbor leaving her home on tuesday afternoon she went out to walk her dog she wasn't on duty at the time but then her body was discovered shortly after 4 pm so in terms of what's happening here we've seen a lot of searches of fields this is a very rural area a lot of places were cordoned off as officers carried out fingertip searches also we saw door-to-door inquiries taking place now this has hit the community hard the home secretary pretty patel has said she's so saddened by the death and she says her condolences are with julia james's friends family and colleagues and also we heard from a senior kent police officer who said that members of the force were shattered by what had happened and they were finding it very tough that's also what i've heard from people who live locally i spoke to one man who said that when he was in his teens he did used to get in trouble with the police so he came into contact with pcso james but he said she was always reasonable looking back and she really wanted to help young people in the area and certainly when she became a police community support officer back in 2007 she gave an interview to her local paper where she said she really wanted and enjoyed being part of the community and she described herself as a people person so people in this area very keen to hear exactly what happened for police to make developments in this case but as of yet there have been no arrests sam thank you very much president biden has proposed a four trillion dollar package of reforms to jobs education and social care in his first speech to a joint session of congress marking his first 100 days in office he said america is on the move again let's get more from our washington correspondent lebo de seco libo good to see you um it's all about tone isn't it when it comes to this with joe biden yeah absolutely and as you mentioned he made this speech on the eve of his first 100 days in office so the start of the speech was very much speaking about his achievements the 200 million vaccines that have been given really surpassing his target that he had set and also the uh stimulus checks that have been arriving in many people's bank accounts in america i think the tone of the rest of the speech was ambitious there was one word that kept coming up jobs jobs jobs came up 43 times and he really set out two proposals that hoped to achieve that the one around jobs and as you say the second one really reshaping the role of government in america free education giving free preschool health care also free college as well all of this coming with a very hefty price tag the four trillion dollars together and if you add that to what was spent on the corona virus spending bill comes in at around six trillion dollars so quite a lot to spend there and republicans as you can imagine not pleased about that at all lebo thanks very much for bringing us up to date liber de seco there for us northern ireland's democratic unionist party is beginning the process of selecting its next leader and a new first minister in the devolved government after arlene foster announced yesterday that she will stand down her decision followed a growing revolt among her those in her party here's more from our island correspondent chris page oran foster began her leadership with enthusiastic allies and electoral success but yesterday with her support base all but gone she conceded her time at the top was over for me the decision to enter politics was never about party or person it was about speaking up for the voiceless and building a northern ireland which could prosper and be at peace within the united kingdom unionists have felt northern ireland's place in the uk has been threatened by the fallout from brexit a new trade border in the rsc means there are checks on goods arriving from the rest of the uk mrs foster's critics felt she should have opposed the arrangement more strongly and strategically an early favorite to replace her as first minister is edwin putz who's currently in charge of agriculture in the devolved government others being linked to the position of dep leader are two mps sir jeffrey donaldson and gavin robinson the dup's main partner in the power sharing storm executive is the irish republican party shin finn it said the main priority should be making sure the coalition works we all have a job here politics must deliver for everybody in power turn must learn from everybody i'll play my part in that i hope that the dup found a partner that's also willing to do the same this is a huge moment in the complex and contentious politics of northern ireland he ever takes over as the leader of unionism will have a defining role in shaping its future chris page bbc news belfast tributes have been paid to the former u.s astronaut michael collins who has died at the age of 90. 52 years after he was part of the apollo 11 successful mission to the moon his crewmate buzz aldrin said collins carried us to new heights and the future jonathan amos looks back at his life neil armstrong buzz aldrin and michael collins achieved something extraordinary that even now 52 years later still stirs a sense of wonder armstrong is no longer with us he died in 2012 and now comes the news of the passing of another member of this remarkable apollo 11 trio michael collins his family and nasa have announced his death from cancer at the age of 90. collins was an integral part of the mission but is often labelled the forgotten man because he didn't actually go down to the surface he stayed in the command module circling the moon while armstrong and aldrin made their boot marks in the lunar soil that he missed out was something he never complained about i did not have the best seat of the three on on apollo 11 but i can say in all honesty i was thrilled with the seat that i did have i knew that i had somehow locked into being one third of the team that was going to do this wonderful thing his responsibilities on that mission included making sure armstrong and aldrin could get home if something had gone wrong during the ascent from the lunar surface collins would be their only help michael collins left nasa very soon after coming home although he continued in public service his death comes just as the u.s space agency plans a return to the lunar surface with new rockets and space capsules a new generation of astronauts will soon walk in apollo's footsteps whether they can never recreate quite the aura that surrounded michael collins and his crewmates though is open to question jonathan amos bbc [Music] news [Music] see the headlines as they happen and watch bbc news live in the app and get the full story with bbc dot co dot uk forward slash news follow the story for all the latest with bbc news

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Published: Wed Apr 28 2021