[laughs] but i do it all the time, sorry. That does it for us tonight. Well see again on monday, provided i still have a job. Now is time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. And who needs commercials . Come on. The audience is very grateful for that move. Rachel, i listened to your interview with Attorney General Keith Ellison, who managed the prosecution of Derek Chauvin. So fascinating to hear his perspective on it. He of course among many other things, really great moves, hired the dream team of special prosecutors. He brought two attorneys out of private practice to prosecute this case. The lead prosecutors. Theyre going to join us in this hour. But they wouldnt have been there. They would have been in that courtroom without Keith Ellison calling the police and putting them in that courtroom. Yeah, and to have had not only the conviction, but to have had this landmark sentence today i mean that number is going to mean Something Di
That we hope to have voted on both of them in the senate and house in july. Im completely fascinated by this, rachel, because nothing like this have ever been done before. I dont know how they are going to do the two bills, because if you are the republicans and your negotiating with the democrats on an Infrastructure Bill, normally you would be saying to them, so this is the bill, right . Theres no extra thing. You are not talking about it. Yeah, theres this other Reconciliation Bill with taxes and other stuff that you dont like, were gonna do that on a separate tracked. And republicans are supposed to just walk out of the room and say forget it. Ed markey is here hes going to be able to explain to me how the senate is going to do something that it has never done before. I have no idea how this works. I trust senator mark key to know how this can work, but i share your slack jawed skepticism that it is going to perceive in a two track way in any path that results in something that loo
For three more weeks at least but children could return to schools there after the february half term. Exhausted. The Duchess Of Cambridge talks candidly about the challenges of both Home Schooling and Home Hairdressing her children. The rspb launches its Big Garden Birdwatch where members of the public are asked to spend one hour counting and recording the birds they see from their home and coming up this hour well meet a nurse who gave birth nearly three months ago while seriously ill with covid 19 who has held her daughter for the first time after being discharged from hospital. Good morning and welcome. A new Coronavirus Vaccine has been shown to be 89. 3 effective in large scale uk trials. The novavax jab is the first to show it is effective against both the uk and South African Variants of the virus, as you can see from this graph. The uk has secured 60 million doses of the jab, which will be made in stockton on tees. The doses are expected to be delivered in the second half of t
The drive to get more laptops to children to help them with Home Schooling. And how all these lockdown video calls from home have prompted an unexpected boost in business for books. And coming up on bbc news. West bromwich albion Contact Police over alleged online racist abuse of romaine sawyers. Hes the Third Premier League player to receive abuse this week. Good evening. Yet another new vaccine has been shown to be effective in major trials in just 2a hours. The latest is the janssen vaccine. Its 66 effective overall and only needs a single dose. And crucially its 85 effective against severe disease. Last night novavax announced uk trials had shown its vaccine to be 89 effective. And crucially that vaccine protects against the new more contagious uk variant. If approved the uk has millions of doses of both vaccines on order though they wouldnt be available until later in the year. Our medical editor fergus walsh reports. Covid Vaccine Trials keep delivering results beyond all expecta
A Government Expert says its a big step forward. It means that we can spread the vaccine around, it means that we can really start to impact on this pandemic notjust here but right the way across the world. Some Primary School children in wales could be back in the classroom after half term, if Infection Rates continue to fall. And the trailblazing African American actress cicely tyson has died at the age of 96. And coming up in sport on bbc news, Dina Asher Smith makes a winning return to International Athletics as she storms to 60 metre victory at the World Indoor Tour event in germany. Good evening. The Prime Minister says the European Union must urgently clarify its intentions over its decision to temporarily override part of the brexit deal as the row intensifies with astrazeneca over a shortfall in supplies. The eu has introduced new controls giving Member States the power to block exports of the Coronavirus Vaccine to countries including the uk should they want to. Under the bre