sports. hello and welcome. we begin in washington where the us house of representatives has adjourned in disarray after three failed attempts to elect the republican kevin mccarthy as speaker. it s the first time in a century the procedure has a small number of hardline republicans are refusing to support mr mccarthy. nothing can go ahead in the house until a new speaker is elected. our north america correspondent peter bowes has the story. the heart of us government deadlocked because its members can t agree on who will be the next speaker. the house of representatives is meeting for the first time at the start of the new congress, with the republicans in charge. pursuant to law and precedent, the next order of business is the election of the speaker of the house of representatives for the 118th congress. with a slim majority, the republicans have the votes chris to select the next speaker, but only if most of them agree. kevin mccarthy is the front runner. the republican le
the real concern here is the lack of transparency and information around covid figures within china. during the last daily covid update, the last daily covid update, the chinese government said they have fewer than 5000 cases per day, but that s a population of more than 1.4 billion people, so the world health organization has said that average sounds quite low and some analysts say they believe the daily covid caseload right now is more than 2 million and that it could reach a peak of almost 4 million this month. you did mention million this month. you did mention in million this month. you did mention in your million this month. you did mention in your report - million this month. you did mention in your report to i mention in your report to the eu has offered to provide free vaccines to china, tell us more detail about that, why do they offer to do that? offer to do that? that offer was promptly rejected by the chinese government and they said they have ample resources themse