new nightingale hubs to combat a potential wave of covid admissions due to omicron. an extra 4,000 emergency hospital beds are to be deployed. around eight million covid test kits will be made available to pharmacies by tomorrow after reports of shortages following the self isolation rule change good morning. the british socialite ghislaine maxwell, daughter of the late and disgraced media mogul robert maxwell, has been found guilty of having helped her lover, the financierjeffrey epstein, sexually abuse teenage girls. the 60 year old was found guilty on five of the six counts she faced including the most serious charge, of sex trafficking a minor. it means maxwell could spend the rest of her life behind bars. her legal team say they are working on an appeal. 0ur north america correspondent aleem maqbool reports. court sketches show the moment ghislaine maxwell s victims have waited decades for. after five days of deliberation, jurors decided she was guilty on five counts l
to pharmacies by tomorrow, after shortages following the self isolation rule change. new rules for home and motor insurance come into effect injanuary which could save customers more than £4 billion in the coming decade. the british socialite ghislaine maxwell, daughter of the late and disgraced media mogul robert maxwell, has been found guilty of having helped her lover, the financierjeffrey epstein sexually abuse teenage girls. the 60 year old was found guilty on five of the six counts she faced including the most serious charge, of sex trafficking a minor. it means maxwell could spend the rest of her life behind bars. her legal team say they are working on an appeal. 0ur north america correspondent aleem maqbool reports. court sketches show the moment ghislaine maxwell s victims have waited decades for. after five days of deliberation, jurors decided she was guilty on five counts linked to the sexual abuse of teenagers. and it was four of her victims who helped put he
an extra 4,000 emergency hospital beds are to be deployed. around eight million lateral flow covid test kits will be sent to pharmacies before new year s eve. there are still shortages of the rapid tests and pcr slots in many parts of the uk. and new rules for home and motor insurance come into effect injanuary which could save customers more than £4 billion in the coming decade. the british socialite ghislaine maxwell, daughter of the late and disgraced media mogul robert maxwell, has been found guilty of having helped her lover, the financierjeffrey epstein sexually abuse teenage girls. the 60 year old was found guilty on five of the six counts she faced including the most serious charge, of sex trafficking a minor. it means maxwell could spend the rest of her life behind bars. her legal team say they are working on an appeal. 0ur north america correspondent aleem maqbool reports. court sketches show the moment ghislaine maxwell s victims have waited decades for. after
hospitals are asked to find 4,000 extra emergency beds in england to deal with a potential wave of 0micron patients as admissions hit the highest levels since march. and a government promise has been made to get 8 million lateral flow test kits into pharmacies by tomorrow after reports of shortages. is the premier league title race over already? victory over brentford puts manchester city eight points clear at the top as one of their biggest rivals falters. it may be the end of december but at six o clock this morning it is 15 degrees in some parts of the country. exceptionally mild weather continues and will continue to see the year out. the full forecast here on breakfast. it s thursday, the 30th of december. our main story. ghislaine maxwell has been found guilty of grooming and trafficking underage girls for the convicted paedophilejeffrey epstein. jurors found her guilty of five of the six charges she faced. it means she could spend the rest of her life behind bars. alee
there are a number of updates from around the world on the pandemic as the omicron variant continues to spread rapidly stop we will take a look at france, the uk and india in particular but first let s go to the united states which has now recorded its ever seven day average of new covid cases according to the tracker maintained byjohns hopkins university. the moving average of new cases was 265,427 as of tuesday surpassing the previous peak of more than 251,000 reported nearly a year ago. one of the remarkable things about this latest spike here, as elsewhere, seems to me, is that the numbers are, you know, sort of stratospheric, but we haven t seen the complete panic and breakdown of health services, which you might have expected, given that these numbers are so high. they re the biggest numbers since the start of the epidemic, as you say, tuesday, 180,000 daily cases, which is nearly double the 100,000 that we recorded at the end of last week, and every expectation that it