the drive to get more laptops to children to help them with home schooling. and how all these lockdown video calls from home have prompted an unexpected boost in business for books. and coming up on bbc news. west bromwich albion contact police over alleged online racist abuse of romaine sawyers. he s the third premier league player to receive abuse this week. good evening. yet another new vaccine has been shown to be effective in major trials in just 2a hours. the latest is the janssen vaccine. it s 66% effective overall and only needs a single dose. and crucially it s 85% effective against severe disease. last night novavax announced uk trials had shown its vaccine to be 89% effective. and crucially that vaccine protects against the new more contagious uk variant. if approved the uk has millions of doses of both vaccines on order though they wouldn t be available until later in the year. our medical editor fergus walsh reports. covid vaccine trials keep delivering results
intelligence. peter fleischer will join us with more. let s put it this way. communist chinese party, pretty much owns the entire biden family syndicate and we will ask geraldo if joe biden is mentally fit to served as president and tonight, a little different from last night that we have the real videotape. and later, that biden and administration is now blocking the state of florida from accessing those lifesaving monoclonal antibodies. against the cult of vaccines and vaccine only and one-size-fits-all medicine strikes again. we have a full report tonight that you don t want to miss because it is dangerous. but first, it was a big day for joe biden. don t take my word for it. just listen to always honest and ever forthcoming white house propagandist jen psaki cycling back. the president has nothing on his schedule, can you shed any light on how he is spending his day? let s see. this morning, i think he had some policy meetings. he later this afternoon, i think it is d
it would happen in this time frame before the midterm elections when republicans hope that they will regain control of the house and the senate. obviously time is of the essence more this decision and this process for the president of the united states. president biden. so if that happens, and he makes that nomination and it goes through, it would presumably keep the balance of power on the high court as it is now. you would have six justices appointed by republican conservative presidents, three appointed by liberal presidents. democrat president. so the court would probably not change in that dynamic. that balance of power dramatically. at least, that s what we think at this point. justice breyer was subjected to an overt campaign who was rude as the they way went after him to get him to back down and retire. parked a truck in the highest court of the land with a big banner on it with breyer retire with his face all over it. you can see that making the rounds in washington,
officers charged with civil rights violations in the killing of george floyd. and in arizona, why one voting rights group is investing six figures to unseat democratic senator kyrsten sinema. uh. and we begin with the latest on the rising tensions between russia and ukraine. democratic aides tell nbc news there will be two classified briefings today for congressional leadership aides and committee staff on the situation in ukraine. full briefings for lawmakers are expected next week, as the house and senate are on recess this week. this comes one day after the u.s. put 8,500 troops on heightened alert, ready to join a nato response force at a moment s notice, but the pentagon says no troops have been deployed just yet. in the event of nato s activation of the nrf or deteriorating security environment, the united states would be in a position to rapidly deploy additional brigade combat teams, logistics, medical, aviation, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, t
generation vaccines and anti-virals and therapeutics as well. we re in the process of working with dr. fauci s team to develop a unified nir research agenda and budget to address these issues to identify candidates that might already be in the pipeline to help support the research into candidates that are just starting in the pipeline so we can accelerate the availability of next generation vaccines and therapeutics. thank you for that answer. dr. walensky i would like to ask you a question about access to testing and in particular what is the cdc doing to make sure that testing capacity is robust in rural america and also among community health centers in disadvantaged parts of the country? thank you, senator kaine. we have this program increased community access to testing in collaboration with as per as well. this is a program that has collaborated with fema to increase surge testing just over the holidays. we ve increased testing, federal testing sites for pcrs doing