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The Caribbean island of St Vincent has been rocked by a huge explosion, as the La Soufrière volcano fired a huge plume of ash and hot gas into the skies.

We talk to the political strategist LaTosha Brown, who’s the co-founder of the Black Voters Matter group.

In the United States, a new wave of Black Lives Matter protests are beginning around the country at the killing of a young black man by police.

Heavy ashfall has been raining down on parts of the Caribbean island of St Vincent – a day after the La Soufriere volcano exploded – forcing thousands of people to flee their homes. The island’s prime minister has urged local people to remain calm, after warnings that the volcano could keep exploding for several days…

More than half of people in England live in areas which have barely recorded any new Covid cases – with some showing increases close to zero for more than a month. The latest 24-hour government figures show 106,000 people received their first dose of the Covid vaccine yesterday, more than 450,000 people had their second…

From Vladimir Putin to China’s Xi Jinping and every living US President, tributes to the Duke of Edinburgh have poured in from around the world, especially the Commonwealth countries where the Duke had made more than two hundred solo visits over his lifetime.

President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden have sent a message of condolence on behalf of the American people, paying tribute to the Duke’s charitable work and his “decades of devoted public service”.

It is hard to imagine that when the Duke of Edinburgh first entered the world of the British royal family, he was very much the outsider.

Eleven more anti-coup protesters are reported to have been killed by security forces in Myanmar – more than 600 people have died so far in the crackdown.

President Biden has made the fight against climate change a key priority of his new administration, cancelling the planned Keystone XL pipeline on his very first day in office. But he hasn’t done the same for Enbridge 3, a pipeline carrying oil across much of Northern Minnesota, including swathes of Native American land. Protesters claim…

So what about developing countries which are desperate to rollout any vaccines – but are still struggling for supplies?

We look into the story of one woman found in that container – who risked it all to come to the UK and provide for her family.

Dr Miguel Nicolelis of Duke University tells us that the P1 Manaus variant of Covid currently ravaging Brazil is a threat to the world.

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro is being blamed for his country’s deadliest episode of the pandemic yet – with a highly transmissible variant, and warnings from doctors reporting more young people being admitted to hospitals with the virus than ever before.

In America it’s the seventh day of the murder trial of the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin who is accused of killing George Floyd last summer.