welcome to bbc news. i m david eades. our top stories: free covid tests for all americans, president biden tries to stop the spread of the omicron variant, urging people to get vaccinated. let me say again and again and again and again, please get vaccinated. it s the only responsible thing to do. israel becomes the first country in the world to make a fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine available. new covid guidance comes into force across england, with quarantine for infected people being reduced from ten days, to seven. london s high court orders the ruler of dubai to pay more than $700 million in a divorce settlement to his ex wife, princess haya ofjordan.
this is bbc news. the latest headlines: president biden announces new measures to tackle the omicron variant, promising free testing and 10,000 new vaccination sites. israel becomes the first country in the world to make a fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine available. what s thought to be the largest divorce settlement in british legal history has been agreed. a high courtjudge has awarded around $725 million to princess haya ofjordan, in a long running dispute with herformer husband, sheikh mohammed, the ruler of dubai. our security correspondent frank gardner has more on an extraordinary case. this is pretty much the culmination of a very long running court battle between one of the
this is bbc news. our top stories: free covid tests for all americans president biden tries to stop the spread of the omicron variant, urging people to get vaccinated. let me say again and again and again and again, please get vaccinated. it s the only responsible thing to do. israel becomes the first country in the world to make a fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine available. new covid guidance comes into force across england with quarantine for infected people being reduced from ten days, to seven. london s high court orders the ruler of dubai to pay more than $700 million in a divorce settlement to his ex wife princess haya ofjordan.
world s richest men, sheikh mohammed bin rashid al maktoum, who is a huge figure in the horse racing world. he is also the ruler of dubai, and the youngest of his six wives, now ex wife, princess haya ofjordan, daughter of king hussein ofjordan. as you said earlier, she fled to britain in early 2019 with her two children, saying she was terrified. a gun was placed in her room with a bullet in it. a helicopter landed on the lawn of her palace with somebody saying that he had orders to take her out to a prison in the middle the desert. all because she said she discovered what had happened to other daughters of the ruler of dubai who had been abducted. he has denied this, but the high court here in britain stood this up. it didn t probably help her case that she had an affair with her bodyguard, and when that was discovered, he was understandably very angry, wrote a poem that went public called
the latest headlines: president biden announces new measures to tackle the omicron variant, promising free testing and 10,000 new vaccination sites. israel becomes the first country in the world to make a fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine available. what s thought to be the largest divorce settlement in british legal history has been agreed. a high courtjudge has awarded around $725 million to princess haya ofjordan in a long running dispute with herformer husband, the ruler of dubai. the princess, who is a7, is the sixth, and youngest, wife of sheikh mohammed. she fled to the uk from dubai, with her children, in 2019 claiming she was in fear of her life. our security correspondent, frank gardner, told us more about the settlement. this is pretty much the culmination of a very long running court battle between one of the world s richest men, sheikh mohammed