and we hear from the swimmer who s set a high altitude record in the mountain ranges of south america. we re starting in india where the healthcare system is collapsing under the pressure of a surging second coronavirus wave, with hospitals full, patients left untreated for hours, and supplies of oxygen desperately inadequate. it now has more daily cases than anywhere else since the pandemic began and it s set a global record for two days running in the past 2a hours, it s seen 330,00 new cases. 0ur delhi correspondent yogita limaye got access to the emergency ward of one hospital. her report contains distressing scenes from the start. the front line an emergency room in a covid hospital, just about standing under the weight of an unfolding disaster. a patient who s hardly breathing is brought in. as nurses try to get him to respond, there s another person, even more critical. this woman rushes to help. so many like her are putting in all they can. they couldn t revive hi
who s set a high altitude record in the icy waters of the andes. hello and welcome. we re starting in india, where the healthcare system is collapsing under the pressure of a surging of oxygen desperately inadequate. it now has more daily cases than anywhere else since the pandemic began and it s set a global record for two days running in the past 2a hours, it s seen 330,00 new cases. we should receive new daily figures shortly. 0ur delhi correspondent, yogita limaye, got access to the emergency ward of one hospital. her report contains distressing scenes from the start. the front line an emergency room in a covid hospital, just about standing under the weight of an unfolding disaster. a patient who s hardly breathing is brought in. as nurses try to get him to respond, there s another person, even more critical. this woman rushes to help. so many like her are putting in all they can. they couldn t revive him. to get past the shortage of beds, they ve packed in stretchers
wealth who are reimagining the scottish landscape in our day. allan little, bbc news, in the highlands. that s it. newsnight is about to start over on bbc two with a special programme on the migrant crisis. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night. hello. a fresh and sunny day awaits for most on thursday after a widely cold start, a frost in places. there will be some lingering cloud, patchy drizzle from the overnight across parts of southeast and the channel islands, wintry showers continue in northern scotland. snow falling to lower levels, giving a slight covering in places. elsewhere, the odd wintry shower possible around the coast, hail, maybe a bit of sleet over any higher ground. more showers in the far north of scotland, developing a bit more widely in northern ireland throughout the day, but for most, they stay dry and sunny, and it s cold, 5 9 celsius, down on what we d normally expected at this stage in november. but temperatures actu
more than a third of the world s population are active users of facebook and its other social media products. no company in the world has such power and yet such little transparency. but things are changing. since friday, a consortium of news organizations in the united states has begun publishing a series of stories called the facebook papers the evidence comes from hundreds of internal company documents which have been sent to the securities and exchange commission and provided to congress, by facebook whistleblower frances haugen and her legal counsel. the evidence points directly at mark zuckerberg. time and again in these papers, company insiders say the facebook ceo chose profit over safety, compromising his own rules, with disastrous outcomes. today, ms haugen was here in the uk to give evidence to a parliamentary committee. she told them her former employer is unquestionably making hate worse . the algorithms take people who have very mainstream interests interes
the united states is rolling out another $800 million aid package to ukraine, the second in two weeks, according to the department of defense, this latest package is tailored to meet the needs of ukrainian forces after russian troops began a new offensive in the eastern part of the country. it includes 72 howitzers and 144,000 rounds of artillery, dozens of tactical vehicles and drones, and field equipment and spare parts and others that will remain secret, according to the department of defense, the u.s. we move weapons and equipment to ukraine at record speed. we ve sent thousands of anti-armor and anti-missile helicopter, drone, grenades, radar system, we won t be able to advertise everything that our partners are doing to support ukraine and the fight for freedom but to modernize teddy roosevelt s famous advice, sometimes it pays to speak softly and carry a large javelin. according to the department of defense, the u.s. has committed more than $4 billion in security