emma vardy, bbc news, belfast. patients with a rare inherited eye condition, which causes gradual sight loss — have said they are astonished and delighted by the success of a new form of gene therapy. the treatment is intended to halt further loss of sight, but has actually improved their vision as well. 0ur medical editor fergus walsh has more — and just a warning — his report includes images of the operation. jake has been gradually losing his sight since birth but no longer — thanks to a ground—breaking gene therapy. i've just been able to see facial features on my own face. it's something that i never used to be able to do. jake, from county durham, has a rare inherited condition which means his central vision is largely a blur. since his rate eye was treated a year ago his peripheral vision has improved. i'm in the best place i've probably been in 24 years of life. last year for a lot of people was a dark and miserable year but for me it was probably the best year of my life. after a year's delay due

emma vardy, bbc news. us federal investigators have carried out searches at the home and offices of donald trump's former personal lawyer, rudy giuliani. they're trying to establish whether mr giuliani illegally lobbied the trump administration on behalf of the ukrainian government. mr giuliani's lawyer says his client did not break the law and has called the searches "legal thuggery". michael collins, one of the three us astronauts who flew to the moon in 1969, has died at the age of 90. it was his job to keep the apollo 11 command module orbiting the moon, while his crewmates neil armstrong and buzz aldrin stepped onto the planet's surface for the very first time. our science correspondent jonathan amos has more. 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

here's our ireland correspondent emma vardy. on an already febrile situation, now more fuel on the fire. at one of belfast�*s peace lines last night the peace was broken. in the hands of teenagers, petrol—bombs, thrown in both directions over the wall. each evening these gates are locked to keep the mainly catholic and protestant communities apart. now forced open, rammed by cars and battered closed by police, amidst a running battle. it is hard to control. when kids see one side doing it theyjoin in. who encourages it? the loyalist politicians, because they got brexit in and it is not working. it will take months to repair the damage to this community, if it is ever repaired. as the fighting continued, local priests tried to warn young people of the danger, themselves in harm's way. the to and fro attacks which lasted over an hour have been interrupted by the arrival of a police land rovers who have pushed the crowd back from this side of the wall. earlier, on the other side of the wall in loyalist shankill road a bus was h

emma theofelus is one of the youngest mps on the continent. the bbc�*s nomsa maseko spoke to her about how she's trying to bring about change. enjoying a night out like any other person in their 20s, but emma theophilus is different from most people her age. she is 2a years older is already a deputy and an mp in namibia. her mission is to get young people to understand parliament and how it works. i people to understand parliament and how it works.— and how it works. i didn't know howl and how it works. i didn't know how i was— and how it works. i didn't know how i was going _ and how it works. i didn't know| how i was going to be received, and a lot of mixed feelings, a lot of doubt from many and a lot of doubt from many and a lot of doubt from many and a lot of confidence from others, it was a mixture of things, but i took it's to heart that this is the first of many. figs i took it's to heart that this is the first of many.- is the first of many. as a teenage _ is the first of many. as a teenage activist, - is the first of many. as a

the us and certain parts of western europe. certain parts of western emma-— certain parts of western euroe. ., , ., , europe. that is a very good oint. europe. that is a very good point- the _ europe. that is a very good point. the concentration i europe. that is a very good point. the concentration of| point. the concentration of these vaccine raw materials i thought about 30 countries, roughly speaking. and some of the most rare of the materials are fewer than that. so we have to be concerned about the vaccine supply chain. i personally think the fact that the united states, india, australia and japan as part of the quadrilateral initiative, designated india is spending up i designated india is spending up i billion doses of vaccine to provide to africa and southeast asia, is an indication that we are starting to think more globally about where we want to source vaccines and to make sure that countries will be able to receive their vaccines from different places in case of supply disruptions. by the way, that goes for a lot of materials, notjust vaccines as we unfortunately learned