How long you expecting the trial to go . Not giving interviews, sorry. Nothing there. Well, this comes hours after this moving tribute to pay a ceremony to pay tribute to u. S. Capitol Police Officer brian sicknick. He, of course, died from injuries he suffered defending the capitol during the riot four weeks ago today. Were going to be speaking with a staff member who feared for her life, barricaded with lawmakers as the mob took over the capitol. And on the other side of pennsylvania avenue, President Biden began his third week in office by meeting with a group of democratic senators. Theyre talking about how to get a pandemic relief deal passed by march 14th. That is the day that extended Unemployment Benefits will run out for millions of americans. The president was asked if a bipartisan deal can happen. What were you saying, youll get republican support . I think well get some republicans. Joining us now to startoff our coverage for this hour, nbc correspondent Carol Lee Covering
Questions are also being asked about whether power to the island should have been cut. For more, heres our correspondent in hawaii, sophie long. This is what remains of lahaina. Cars abandoned as people ran and jumped into the sea to escape the flames. Homes and businesses reduced to charred remains. President biden promised immediate help and said every available asset should be used to provide it, but, days later, people here say its not yet reaching those most in need and people like felicia are desperately trying to get supplies into lahaina themselves. Im frustrated. People are. Were all together. Were one family, we need to take care of each other. No one s feeding everyone. Theyre traumatised. Theyre upset. No one s giving hugs. They need mental help. What do you need for me . To hear people in the same pads since the fire on thursday. Kids in the same diapers since thursday. People without food. They havent drank since before the fire. What are we doing . Hundreds of thousands
welcome to bbc news. we start in moscow, were a court has as i expected rejected the appeal of the us match one. evan gershkovich. evan gershkovich. have a look at these images of evan gershkovich appearing in court. the russian authorities accuse him of spying, charges which he and his employer, the wall streetjournal, strongly deny. he appeared at the same court where yesterday an opponent of president putin was convicted of treason and sentenced to 25 years in prison. here s our russia editor, steve rosenberg. this was the first time evan gershkovich had been seen in public since being arrested. the wall streetjournal reporter was appealing his detention. the appeal was rejected. he s the first western journalist here to be charged with spying since the cold war, a charge that he, his newspaper and his government categorically reject. the charges against evan are baseless, and we call on the russian federation to immediately release him. a rare glimpse inside the prison wh
workers in the lab at that time. if you are able to go back and look at those blood samples and say, did they show antibodies to the covid virus, then that would be another pretty definitive piece of data. and then you would obviously want to have a complete forensics investigation of the lab. but it is these things, these types of things that we do not have still. that has been the lack of transparency that so many people have been talking about. i think the answer to the question that everybody is answering ins noble, but we don t know it because we don t have all the data. sanjay it s interesting because you even spoke to some of the scientists who worked in wuhan. what did they say about how hard it is to get information in china? they say it is really hard. it s interesting because there is this world health investigation i talked to peter dasha who also runs ecohealth alliance, the organization that was doing research in wuhan. so he had sort of two halves that he w