and, the lovely bones author, alice sebold, apologises for her part in the conviction of a man found innocent after 16 years injail. the rising cost of living, inflation in the uk could push an average spending of a family over £2000 over the next year. and coming up this hour. more than £20 million is pledged to end hiv action plan on world aids day. we live in liverpool, remembering some of those who have lost their lives to the disease. we are live. good morning and welcome to bbc news. the nhs is gearing up for a major expansion of the vaccine booster programme, with hospitals and thousands of community sites set to offer the jab in response to the 0micron variant. in england, a further 14 million adults are being offered a booster. the government says all adults should have been offered a booster by the end of january. some 400 military personnel will help out at 1,500 vaccine sites across england to deliver the booster programme. the prime minister said these were
nearly impossible to resolve or ignore. these fissures were on full display this week in the kyle rittenhouse verdict. an acquittal being cheered by the far right, even as it strikes fear in the hearts of communities of color who believe it will be used to justify further violence and oppression. but as troubling as that verdict was, we should not ignore the dangerous assault still being waged by wisconsin republicans on our democracy. this week, the state s democratic governor vetoed republican-drawn redistricting plans that doubled down on maps experts have already called the most severe partisan gerrymanders in the country. the move sets up another legal battle in a state where the republican strategy has long been to reverse or overturn the results of any election they don t like. when governor evers won his seat, the republican assembly moved to strip him of his power. when joe biden won the state, republicans demanded recounts and audits. when none of that panned out, a
since the first covid case was confirmed in wuhan, china. also today, the president will continue his infrastructure tour heading to detroit, michigan, as his party zeros in on the social spending bill with only a few days left before the break before the holidays. and with both spending and prices up across the country, we re going to take a look at how it s shaping up to be the tale of two economies. hear from a family who is feeling the effects firsthand. we ve got to start this morning s broadcast with a verdict to watch. in just moments, the jury in the kyle rittenhouse trial set to resume deliberations for a second straight day in wisconsin but not before a dramatic scene in the courtroom that some are calling legal theater. the judge directing rittenhouse himself, rittenhouse to blindly draw the very jurors who are now deciding whether he is criminally responsible for killing two men during the protests in kenosha last year. that jury now made up of zen seven women
anti-globalization protests targeting the annual g 8 meetings. there was once a big spending scandal involving the u.k. when the u.k. hosted the g 8 once. it was also really super awkward one year when italy hosted the g8 after their prime minister got busted in one of just one of his sex with underaged girls scandals. that happened on the eve of the other g8 leaders arriving to be hosted by berlusconi:the g8 has had aches and pains over the years, but nothing, nothing like what happened that was so bad it made them actually shrink and become not the g8 but the g7. that was 2014. russia became the first and only country in europe since world war ii to invade another sovereign country and take over part of that other country s land as its own. that had not happened in europe since world war ii but russia did that to ukraine in 2014. russia under putin had been pushing it to be considered a part of the g8. him invading ukraine and taking part of it and calling that part of uk