the new omicron variant of covid what measures do you think should be in place? get in touch with me on twitter @annitabbc and use the #bbcyourquestions. british socialite ghislane maxwell is to go on trial in new york for sex trafficking and other charges. the fashion designer and creative director of louis vuitton, virgil abloh, has died from cancer. the 41 year old founded the brand off white, and had worked with some of the industry s biggest names including kanye west and jay z. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. we start with a warning from the world health organization that the new omicron variant of coronavirus is likely to spread internationally, posing a very high global risk. it comes as 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
presesus christ. president joe biden didn te d speak publicly to the press about the deadliest fires in moderlifire in n american hir five straight days. why wasays. that?sk well, because he was afraid the press was going to ask him about hunter. and he should be afraid because every answer he ever giveswer hgives immediately col. he never talked to his a son about business. mo his family never took money from china. he never met hunter s business r me partners. all lies. and the new live from the bide n white house is this. i ve been asked thia st is question a million times. the answer is not going to change. the answer remains the sam theev the president was never in business with his son. i just don t have anything else. to add. all right. well, let s examine this. what does it mean to b s itn toe in business with someone? well, the dictionary says being in business with someonegn means you re both engaged in the same business activities or pursuit s. same
democrat. but as you know, biden s not looking so goothe leadd these d. democrat insiders are increasingly talking out and speakingso goo out about hi. health, which has been obvious, but now they re talking about it. lking aband now, with house investigators breaking, breathing down joe s neck, , an he s in more trouble. so let s say joe drops out. who jumps in? well, can t be kamala. she fizzled out in the primaries. her campaign ran out of cash before super tuesdaspy and all. by the way, she s a terrible vice president. the passag bright e of time, s, has not has had a significant impact on her chances and not a good one. the dnc is not going to let rfk on the ticket. they d lose big pharma and their foreign wars. there s only one guy waitinge is in the wings, and that s california governor gavin newsom. s calihe s got almost everythin a presidential candidate needs money, looks ate need good hair, t and he s related to pelosi. there s just one problem. ga is a governo
could easily win a national election. he had left the 1960 election which he lost narrowly to john f. kennedy with bitterness. and a sense the election had been stolen from him. this allowed the demon that is he always had within him to play during elections. it is about lust for power and absence of morality. it was all about holding on to power. no one can find out about this. whatever it takes. when the president does it it means that it is not illegal. i told the american people i did not trade hostages for arms. there will not be an abuse of power in this office. he develops weapons of mass destruction. we are in trouble. i just want to find 11,780 votes. and that s really when you reach a tipping point in a democracy. that s how dictators come to power. within hours of the arrests at the watergate, the nixon white house started covering up. i was the desk officer of the cover-up. i get the information and gather it and i share it and they were maki
giving. yes, no doubt about that. that was inevitable. i giving. yes, no doubt about that. that was inevitable. i want - giving. yes, no doubt about that. that was inevitable. i want to - giving. yes, no doubt about that. that was inevitable. i want to be | that was inevitable. i want to be clear about this. principal decision makers in government, prime minister, the then secretary of state for health, duchy of lancaster, for example, nor in my view did that apply to the majority of political leaders, but there were some who chose their sites they wanted to hear, put it that way, and there were optical commentators whose view of the site started with what was my political position and then derive from that. in terms of decision makers in the decisions taken during covid in the uk, my view is, they were not intending to cherry pick, they may have done so by accident, it was not by design. you obviously spent a great deal of time in you obviously spent a great deal of time