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a second chinese city is locked down and the winter olympics venues are sealed off as officials rush to contain outbreaks of covid a month before the games begin. novak djokovic claims medical exemption from receiving a covid jab and prepares to travel to australia to defend his tennis open title. and former tech billionaire elizabeth holmes founder of the health company theranos is found guilty of fraud over her failed blood testing technology. hello and welcome. lawyers for prince andrew are attempting to have a civil claim for sexual assault against him thrown out at a court in new york. virginia giuffre is suing him for allegedly sexually assaulting her when she was 17. prince andrew has consistently denied the claims. our correspondent sean coughlan reports. more than 20 years after this photograph was claimed to have been taken, lawyers for prince andrew and virginia giuffre are now in a legal battle today over whether ms giuffre s civil case against him can p ....
having a hard time finding covid tests. a problem that could last into 2022 and now many public school districts say they will require covid testing for students and staff. let s go to our experts that we have with us this evening dr. nicole saphier, fox news contributor and former assistant health secretary admiral brett giroir. welcome to both of you. thank you for having us. mike: from the new york times the u.s. breaks single day record hospitalizations and deaths however have not followed the same dramatic increase in the last two weeks. deaths are down by 5% with the daily average of 1221. while hospitalizations increased by just 15% to an average of 78,781 per day. while you obviously want to track cases, dr. saphier, are hospitalizations and fatalities really more meaningful metrics? well, absolutely. as of right now, as you can see, we really need to change our mindset and stop focusing on daily new case counts. as we know the virus is everywhere. it is ....
a jury in new york has found the british socialite ghislaine maxwell guilty of having helped the late financier, jeffrey epstein, sexually abuse teenage girls. the jurors found the sixty year old guilty of another four charges connected with procuring the victims and facilitating the abuse. she was found not guilty on one other charge. the defence team is expected to appeal against the verdict. the convictions mean maxwell faces the possibility of spending the rest of her life in prison. our correspondent nomia iqbal is outside the courthouse in manhattan with the latest. thejury had been the jury had been deliberating for nearly six full days on the fate of maxwell. they returned earlier today delivering their verdicts. six counts, as you mentioned there, finding her not guilty on count two. i want to read with the account was, enticing a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts. that was in reference to one of the four women whose testimonies made at the heart of the ....
bloggers as well, people who have to me you know, set up their own channels to talk about this trial. lots of conspiracy theories that the trial and the whole story as well, so it does really appeal to people. the case wasn t, the trial wasn t televised, you cannot have cameras and a federal trial as well, so we have been relying on, as reporters, we have been going in and out of the courtroom, but also sketch artist as well has been capturing everything a moment of the trial. our thanks to nomia there. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: a jury in new york has found the british socialite ghislaine maxwell guilty on five counts of grooming and trafficking teenage girls for abuse. maxwell faces the rest of her life behind bars for procuring girls for the financier and convicted sex offenderjeffrey epstein. let s get a bit more analysis of this now. sam lister, deputy political editor at the daily express, has given her reaction to the verdict. imean, i mean, it s suc ....
of covid infections are recorded across europe and the us, driven by the omicron variant the world health organization warns of a huge strains on health systems. hello and welcome to bbc news. a jury in new york has found the british socialite ghislaine maxwell guilty of having helped the late financierjeffrey epstein sexually abuse teenage girls. the jurors found the 60 year old guilty of another four charges connected with procuring the victims and facilitating the abuse. she was found not guilty on one other charge. the defence team is expected to appeal against the verdict. the convictions mean maxwell faces the possibility of spending the rest of her life in prison. let s hear from our correspondent aleem maqbool who s outside the court in new york. tonight marks the final fall from grace for ghislaine maxwell, because a jury in the court has by me has decided she wasn tjust court has by me has decided she wasn t just a court has by me has decided she wasn tjust ....