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the new variant of covid what measures do you think should be in place? get in touch with me on twitter @annitabbc and use the #bbcyourquestions. a 14 year old boy is to appear in court charged with murdering 12 year old ava white in liverpool. she was stabbed on thursday and died shortly afterwards. british socialite ghislane maxwell, is to go on trial in new york for sex trafficking and other charges. hello and welcome to bbc news. six cases of the omicron coronavirus variant have been identified in scotland. they bring the total number of known omicron infections, in the uk, to nine. scotland s first minister nicola sturgeon is due to give a further update on the situation at half past ten this morning. it comes as the uk sjoint committee on vaccination and immunisation is expected to announce an expansion of the booster programme across the uk to everyone aged between 18 and 39, in response to omicron. new measures have also been announced for england. from today, ....
welcome, everybody, and happy weekend. i m neil cavuto. and the fallout from a decision that polarized the nation in one of the most scrutinized cases probably since o.j. simpson. let s get the very latest of how things are looking in kenosha with alexis mcadams. reporter: that s right. 18-year-old kyle ratenhouse walking outside of the courthouse here in kenosha, wisconsin, now a free man. people were preparing for fallout here in denobody that shah, but this morning things remaining very quiet. let s go back into the courtroom as we watched for two weeks things unfolding here. the illinois teen shot three men, killing two during the unrest following the police shooting of jacob blake last summer. kyle rittenhouse breaking down in court, grabbing his knees and sobbing as he stood in front of the judge hearing he was found not guilty on all five counts. also in the courtroom, the loved ones of the two men killed by kyle rittenhouse. we need to focus on what s most h ....
alexis mcadams on the ground in kenosha. let s start with alexis. set the scene there. it s a lot more quiet outside of the courthouse than the past few days the trial ticking on as people prepared for possible unrest. in kenosha things are calm in the area, but an emotional day in court. take a listen. as to the fifth count of the information, gabe grosskreutz. we find kyle rittenhouse not guilty. he was breaking down, grabbing his knees and sobbing like he was in front of the judge waiting to learn his fate. found not guilty on five charges. he shot three men, killing two of them following the unrest following jacob blake. he had as much right to be there as demonstrators and rioters, there will be people who never agree with that statement, but if we all would mind our own business a little bit i think we d be better off. now, going back inside the courthouse, and seeing how emotional it was, you see kyle rittenhouse there grabbing his knees and his mom cry ....
the globe. the end of coal is in sight. that s the word from the government here, in the uk where world powers have been meeting at the cop 26 climate conference. it comes afterr more than a0 countries promised to phase out coal in the coming decades. poland, vietnam and chile are among the fast growing economies which now say they ll reduce their coal use. but as our science correspondent rebecca morelle reports, other big users of coal such china and the us haven t signed up to the deal. a dinosaur on the loose at the united nations, but with a message for humanity. listen up, people, i know a thing or two about extinction. going extinct is a bad thing. if we want to save our planet and ourselves, we ll need to stop climate change, but to do that fossil fuels will have to become a thing of the past. today at the climate conference, the talk is all about energy, and top of the list is phasing out coal. this fossil fuel is the biggest single contributor to climate cha ....
this is the scene there now. a fifth teenager is guilty of killing 15 year old keon lincoln, who was shot and stabbed outside his home in birmingham. an experimental pill to treat covid new trial results show it can cut the risk of hospitalisation or death by nearly 90% in vulnerable adults. and gimme, gimme, gimme new music that s been a long time coming. we speak to abba, on the day they release their first studio album in a0 years. the chairman of yorkshire county cricket club has resigned in the wake of its response to the racism experienced by azeem rafiq when he was a player there. roger hutton has apologised unreservedly to mr rafiq, and has criticised the governing body the england and wales cricket board for what he says was its failure to help. it comes after an investigation found azeem rafiq had been subject to racial harassment and bullying during his time with yorkshire but the club said it would take no disciplinary action. azeem rafiq represented yor ....