problems, from financial greed to residual racism. my guest today is former manchester united and france star patrice evra. now he s done something most footballers never do. he s opened up about the emotional scars he s carried through his career. so why has he done it? patrice evra, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. what has happened to you? cause as a professional footballer, when you saw journalists you tended to turn the other way, you didn t really want to talk to journalists. but now here you are, you re a massive star on social media, you ve just written a searingly honest memoir. what has changed for you? maybe i m more open, more ready, i think emotionally, more open, getting rid of that toxic masculinity. i met the woman of my life to help me to open myself to the world. because i think before that i think i was like a robot, like a machine, just a winning mentality, a survivor. being abused in my childhood, living in the streetjust like, surviving, i hate people fr
and the chinese tennis star peng shuai appears to have retracted her claim of sexual assault, as concerns persist around her wellbeing. hello and welcome to our viewers in the uk and around the world. it s nine in the morning in singapore, and 8pm in the us east coast. the fast spreading omicron variant of the coronavirus has become dominant in the united states with lightning speed. the variant now accounts for 73% of new infections in the us, according to estimates from the centre for disease control. in the new york area, it s thought 90% of cases are omicron. with coronavirus cases rising quickly in new york, mayor bill de blasio says the city must move faster in its response to the omicron variant. based the omicron variant. on everything we have seen based on everything we have seen so far, the cases are more mild than what we have experienced previously but again, a lot of research and evidence we are still waiting for. what we do know is omicron moves very fast, it
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the fast spreading omicron variant of the coronavirus has very rapidly become dominant in the united states. according to modelling by the centers for disease control, omicron now accounts for nearly three quarters of the new infections. and this is a very significant jump from a week ago when about 13% of the new infections were omicron. in some parts of the country, including new york, the variant is even more widespread, making up more than 90% of the latest cases. new york s mayor, bill de blasio, says the city must move faster in its response to the omicron variant. based on everything we ve seen so far, the cases are more mild than what we ve experienced previously, but again, a lot of research we re still waiting for, lot of evidence we re still waiting for. what we do know is omicron moves very fast, it s very transmissible. it moves fast, we have to move faster. that s why we are focusing even more on v
of the jury. let s go out front. good evening, everyone. i m kate bolduan in for erin burnett. out front tonight breaking news. the country s fears confirmed. the omicron variant is now, by far, the dominant variant in the united states amid a surge of cases across the country. it makes up 73% of new cases right now, which the cdc previously estimated was just 3%. right now, the u.s. is averaging more than 130,000 cases every day. and president biden preparing for a major speech tomorrow to address this wave and announce new steps to fight the threat from omicron. this is not a speech about locking the country down. this is a speech outlining and being direct and clear with the american people about the benefits of being vaccinated. tonight, cities in the northeast are taking action. the mayor of washington, d.c. declaring a state of emergency, and reinstating the city s indoor mask mandate. boston announcing it will require proof of vaccination to enter most indoor pub