rain, and so there were only 30 children in the facility at the time, but apparently normally there are many, many more, and so there are many, many more, and so there are some parents, of course, who are going to be thinking of themselves as very lucky today. in fact, we now know that there are normally more than 90 children at the daycare. so how easy was it for the attacker to arm himself? gun laws are strict in thailand. possession of an illegal firearm carries a prison sentence of up to ten years. but ownership is high compared with some other countries in the region. thailand is home to 70 million people. according to some experts, ten million have privately owned guns. in comparison, myanmar, which has a population of 5a million, has around 870,000 firearms, while in south korea, where 50 million live, has around 79,000. in this case, police say the killer had legally bought the pistol he used in the attack. here s the bbc s thai editor.
emergency support of1 america. the eu has offered initial emergency support of 1 million euros, it s roughly £870,000, and in the end pakistan have both said they are delivering relief material on the ground. are delivering relief material on the ground- are delivering relief material on the round. . ., ., the ground. lucky yogita limaye in kabul, thank the ground. lucky yogita limaye in kabul, thank you. hundreds of british airways workers mostly check in staff at heathrow airport have voted to go on strike over pay. the exact dates will be announced over the coming days and are expected to be during the summer holidays. today, workers on the railways in england, scotland and wales walked out for the second time this week, with just one in five trains running. here s our transport correspondent katy austin. demand for travel has taken off since covid rules eased but there s already been disruption amid aviation staff shortages. now hundreds of british airways workers at
that during our jobe we find out that joe biden wrote a letter. i think he typed it out. to the major oil and gas company saying it s because of you guys that oil and gas is so much. and by the way, putin. and i want you to purchase more gas, pump more oil and i want you to refine more. a little problem. he has vilified fossil fuels and promised to destroy it, discourage the investment of fossil fuels and any type of building of refineries in this country. so no matter how much oils you pump, we don t have the refinery to refine them. i love this. the white house says don t use the war as an excuse. they re saying that is to oil companies, meanwhile that s all we heard since russia inrated ukraine. in the first hour he took office, he moved to curve energy production. he shut down the keystone pipeline. that would have carried 870,000
concerned omicron will be more transmissible, circulating at the same time as delta is leading to a tsunami of cases. infections are also rising quickly in the u.s.. the country is averaging more than 300,000 new cases a day in the past week, and that s another record. johns hopkins reports close to 490,000 cases on wednesday. and more than half a million on monday. we should point out, though, these numbers could be the result of a lag in reporting over the christmas holidays. the centers for disease control and prevention is forecasting 44,000 new covid deaths in the u.s. over the next month. that would bring the country s death toll to nearly 870,000 in just two years. and one expert predicts a looming disaster for the health care system. we don t know a lot of the things we wish we d know, but what we do know and what is emerging here is the country is going to be in the soup in the next few weeks. with so many cases and so many
health care system is buckling under new pressure the virus is so widespread many healthcare workers are testing positive and calling out sick, and there s a lot of seemingly conflicting information. this virus is less severe, but icus are still approaching capacity, and what to make of the larger number of people who tested positive for covid while hospitalized for something else sam brock leads off our coverage tonight to help us make sense of it all. a year ago or even a month ago the dail covid infection number might have seemed impossible roughly 870,000 cases recorded friday alone. this has now been the largest influx of patients that we ve ever taken care of they ve been the sickest of the patients we ve ever taken care of. a deeper dive into the number of hospitalized patients and deaths reveals trends that certainly don t match the massive case rise daily average. a 265% increase over two weeks compared to a 72% increase for