An intelligence agent hired an american private investigator by falsely claiming they were looking for someone who owed debts, prosecutors say. The team who are each facing a number of conspiracyrelated charges instructed the investigator to track her, her family, even strangers and take, quote, quality pictures so that we can see license plate on car and send two pictures and one video every hour, adding, he wants pictures of faces of everyone visiting the address, even if they are marketers and salespeople. When i saw the picture of myself, i got goosebumps because i was watering my son s flowers. They took pictures of my stepchildren. Reporter: they are also accused of researching how to rent a militarystyle speed boat that could bring her to venezuela, then ultimately iran. The u. S. Attorney noting in her statement where the victim s fate would ve been uncertain at best. A woman from california who allegedly funneled money in the scheme was arrested. She posted this video on twitt
Commission because he s afraid he ll have to testify in front of it, which he denies. Listen to him today with the bill s senate passage deeply in doubt. Do you think it s a conflict of interest for members to vote on a commission that might potentially have to be witnesses for and provide information on. No, because who knows what they re going to do on the commission. No, i don t think so. Now, without reading too much into it, he sounds like a man at ease, fully expecting the bill he opposed to go nowhere. On the other hand he was not at ease with the next question which proved to be a conversation ender. No i don t think so. Are you absolutely certain that none of your members were in any communication with any of the people who stormed capitol hill? thank you for the question. Everybody have a nice day. His answer was hard to hear, but his discomfort was plain to see, but thank you for the question, he said. He wasn t even under oath. That said, he could probably still breathe eas
vaccinations is down roughly 20% to less than 2.8 million yesterday. some states are starting to turn down shipments of the vaccine because they have more supply than demand. some mass vaccination locations are actually shutting down due to lack of customers. all of this comes amid new reports that more than 5 million americans or about % who got the first shot of either pfizer or moderna vaccine missed getting the second shot. the biden administration said the headline sounds a lot worse than it is, insisting 92% of those who got the first dose also got the second dose, and that is very high by historical standards. there s also a piece of good news for us who are vaccinated and want to go on vacation. an eu official telling the new york times we should be able to travel to europe this summer. i want to go first to nbc s sam brock. he s at a fema evacuation site in miami. sam, where you are people can choose which vaccination they want to take. i m guessing it s going to
hello and welcome to bbc news. the uk government has said it s too early to talk about donating some of its vaccines to other countries, amid a dispute with the eu over supplies. there have been calls for the uk to consider giving some of the jabs to a neighbouring eu country such as ireland. the total number of people who have had a first dose of the vaccine in the uk now stands at 8.3 million the aim is to have 15 million jabs done by the 15th of february. and if the government is to reach its own targets all care home residents should be vaccinated by the end of today. our political correspondent nick eardley reports. nearly 8.5 million people in the uk have had a coronavirus vaccine dose. ministers believe the roll out is going well and could be a way out of the restrictions on our lives. in the eu, though, there have been delays. brussels had wanted to use emergency powers from the brexit deal to introduce controls between northern ireland and the republic. but it di
as the outcry intensifies over missing chinese tennis star peng shuai. and kamala harris becomes the first woman ever to hold us presidential powers whilejoe biden had a medical procedure. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. thank you forjoining us. a us teenager who shot dead two people and injured another during racialjustice protests in wisconsin last year has been found not guilty of murder. kyle rittenhouse had argued that he was repeatedly attacked and had acted in self defence. the protests in the city of kenosha came after a black man, jacob blake, was shot by police. mr rittenhouse and the men he shot are all white. prosecutors said that the teenager had behaved like an armed vigilante who provoked several violent encounters. our correspondent nomia iqbal reports from kenosha. the defendant will rise and face the defendant will rise and face the the defendant will rise and face the jury the defendant will rise and face the jury. fi