For the Winter Olympics, due to start in south korea. Coming up in sportsday, the last of the fa cup fourth round replay is as ta ke the fa cup fourth round replay is as take on Newport County at wembley. Good evening. Some victims of the serial sex attacker, john worboys, have been given permission to challenge the decision to release him from jail. The fulljudicial review hearing will take place in the high court on the 13th of march, and worboys will stay in prison until then. Last month, the parole board was criticised when it announced he would be freed after less than ten years in prison. Police believe he may have carried out more than 100 rapes and sexual assaults. He is serving a life sentence now, because that is the way it was put across to us. So we never thought for one second that he would be eligible for parole. However, today there he was, behind the bars in the dock, but potentially just weeks from being freed. Sir bian leveson had ordered thatjohn worboys should be pr
Its hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi. Politics is a tough business. It puts you in the limelight, but sometimes for the wrong reasons. My guest is katie hill. She was seen as a rising star for the us democrats, but she resigned last year as a congresswoman, barely 12 months in office. She claims she was the victim of sexual double standards after she admitted an inappropriate relationship with a Campaign Staff member and after nude photos of her were published in the media. What does her case tell us about american politics in the metoo era . Katie hill in washington, welcome to hardtalk. You made headlines in november 2018 when you flipped a seat in california from the republicans to the democrats. Young woman, early 30s, rising star and all the rest of it. A year later, you resign. What went wrong . Well, the basics of what went wrong is that i had a relationship preceding my swearing in as a congressional member. And after i left my husband, which was about in th
Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets of the belarusian capital, minsk, to call for the resignation of president lukashenko. Two weeks ago he won what they are calling a rigged election, but the president has responded with a show of defiance. President trump has confirmed the use of blood plasma from recovered coronavirus patients can be used as a treatment against covid 19 in america. The technique uses antibody rich blood plasma from people whove recovered from the disease. He said the treatment could reduce the number of deaths by 35 . Firefighters in california are preparing for conditions to worsen as they try to bring nearly 600 wildfires under control. Dry lightning strikes, blamed for starting many of the blazes, are forecast to return along with warm and windy weather. The fires are among the worst in californias history. Now on bbc news, its hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi. Politics is a tough business. It puts you in the limelight, but sometim
Hello to you. The number of people who have died from covid 19 in the United States has now officially exceeded 100,000. The actual numbers are likely to be higher than that, but it is clear that in the past three months more americans have died from infection than during the korean war, the vietnam war and the conflict in iraq combined. But the number of new cases has slowed and more states are lifting their lockdowns to ease the economic impact. 0ur north america correspondent, aleem maqbool, reports from washington. Happy birthday to you. Friends and relatives of more than 100,000 people in america can nowjust cling to the memories of happier times before the coronavirus. My father was a really caring person. And he just wanted to help people and he was really outgoing. He thought he was really funny. Doug was one of the first confirmed deaths back on the first of march. As somebody who lost someone so close to them and was someone obviously very, very dear to you so early on, when