second-seeded maryland to reach the final four for the third time in a ree. the defending champs will take on second-seeded iowa. virginia tech will play number three lsu, both those games are on saturday. for a spot on friday, for a spot in final game. the nfl, former mvp quarterback lamar jackson said he s requested a trade from from the baltimore ravens. he represents himself. tweeted yesterday he asked for that trade back on march 2nd saying the team, quote, has not been interested in meeting my value. on march 7th the ravens placed the franchise tag on jackson. it gives the ravens to match any agreement he might make. he ll make $32.5 million under the tag this season. the nhl, another offensive
from the manhattan institute talking about the state of disney last night on the ingraham angle. take a listen. disney claims to be standing tall but you saw the video. ceo bop chapek someone who owns 32.5-million-dollar a year as a basalry. absolutely degrading himself. the reality is that the conservatives in this country have dealt a major blow to walt disney in florida. legislators are looking at taking away their special tax breaks in congress and d.c. conservatives have said we are not going to extend the disney copy rights for mickey mouse and other characters set to expire next year. that s a multibillion dollars hit against the come and conservative parents and families all over this country are in revolt against the mouse because they don t want their kids to be an experimental ground for the kind of sexual engineering of children. we have seen the kind of bizarre permanents that are he had hymn where it s a biromantic sexual a
for now, it s a call for caution, but new year celebrations are set to look very different in different parts of the uk. simon jones, bbc news. well let s take a closer look at the latest government data now there are a lot of figures that still aren t available because of the holiday period. but what we do know today is that there were 98,515 new infections recorded in england alone in the latest 24 hour period. that s after a record number almost 111,000 were recorded in england on christmas day and more than 100,000 on boxing day. 143 deaths were recorded in england, that s of people who died within 28 days of a positive test. in total nearly 32.5 million people have had a booster that s 56.5% of the uk population, aged over 12. 0ur political correspondent
32.5 million, may be more booster jabs now and it allows us to go ahead with new year in the cautious way that we are. but i cannot stress too much how vital it is for everybody to get that booster, particularly the 2.4 million people who have had to jabs but not yet to their booster, they have had their jobs more than six or seven months ago so they are eligible but they have not come forward yet. come forward and get it, is a fantastic thing to do, it makes a huge amount of difference to you, you protect you. i am sorry to say this but the overwhelming majority of people ending up in intensive care in our hospitals are people who are not boosted. i have spoken to doctors who say the numbers are running up to 90% of people in intensive care are not boosted. if you are not
if they are to keep that up though, bentley like every car maker in the country is going to have to embrace electric. they already make a hybrid vehicle on site here, and there s a big announcement coming later at about half past seven. but first, let s look at the challenges that come with the electrification of the uk car market. when it comes to cars, the future is electric. the government brought forward a ban on the sale of new petrol or diesel vehicles to 2030. so are people responding? there s around a50, 500,000 fully electric cars on our roads out of a pool of about 32.5 million. there is a long way to go, but the progress is clear to see. sales soared last year. in fact, more electric cars were registered than in the previous five years combined. however, surveys show that while people say they intend to buy electric, they re often not following through in the showroom. but why?