February. Amid pressure to get more people vaccinated faster, Health Workers take the jabs to older people who cant get to vaccine centres easily. The us and britain vowed to take action after a bbc investigation reveals harrowing accounts of weaker women in chinese camps being tortured and raped. And bucking the trend, the lockdown baby boom. Injust one bucking the trend, the lockdown baby boom. In just one street in bristol. And coming up in sport on bbc news, Jose Mourinhos tottenham are up against his former side as spurs take on chelsea at home as they look to avoid a third league defeat in a row. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at ten. The Bank Of England says the uk economy is in for another tough few months, but it believes that the impact of coronavirus restrictions will not be as bad as last years lockdown and the roll out of vaccines will help the Economy Bounce back. The size of the economy the gdp is expected to shrink by 4. 2 in the first three months of this yea
Hotspots is expected to come into force on the 15th of february. Hello and welcome whether youre watching in the uk or Around The World. Stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. We start in washington, where President Joe Biden has made his first majorForeign Policy speech as president. Diplomacy is back, he said. And america is back ready to work with others to solve global challenges once again. It was a huge shift in tone, and in direction from the last four years. The president said he was prepared to talk to americas adversaries and pointed to an early example the extension of a treaty with russia to limit Nuclear Weapons stocks. But he also had a warning for moscow. At the same time, i made it clear to President Putin in a manner very different from my predecessor that the days of the United States rolling over in the face of russias aggressive actions interfering with our elections, cyber attacks, poisoning its citizens are over. We will not
Circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter. This Appointment Underscores for the public the departments commitment to both independence and accountability and particularly sensitive matters. And to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. Lets bring in Wall Street Journal columnist Dan Henninger and kim strassel do you think Merrick Garland had a choice here or was he boxed in and really had to appoint a special council or is he just trying to build in some political insulation here for the hard choices that may come . Well i would say all of the above, paul. [laughter] for sure. I mean, really consider that one week ago today, we were all sitting here discussing that fiasco of Kevin Mccarthy House Speakership Roll Forward nearly one week we have a spectacle of a special council appointed to investigate the sitting president of the United States after one has already been appointed a special council to investigate the form