this is bbc news, the latest headlines. the uk sets another daily record for infections as more than 93 thousand new cases of coronavirus are recorded in the past 2a hours. as casesjump sharply in the us the nation s leading expert on health dr fauci urges everyone to get vaccinated. let s go to california now and a trial which has been fascinating america with a mix of money, celebrity and supermarket blood testing. it centres around elizabeth holmes who made a fortune after founding a company which she claimed would revolutionise healthcare only to be accused of massive scale fraud. ms holmes wasjust 19 when she founded theranos in 2003. it promised to develop a pinprick blood test that could diagnose over 200 different diseases.
let s go to california now and a trial which has been fascinating america with a mix of money, celebrity and supermarket blood testing. it centres around elizabeth holmes who made a fortune after founding a company which she claimed would revolutionise health care only to be accused of massive scale fraud. ms holmes wasjust 19 when she founded theranos in 2003. it promised to develop a pinprick blood test that could diagnose over 200 different diseases. at its peak, theranos reportedly raised $400 million in investments. the firm also attracted a high profile board members such as henry kissinger and former generaljim mattis. she signed deals with the retail giant walgreen and at one point, she was thought to be the richest woman in america. so how did she finish up facing criminal prosecution? this court case came out of claims her company provided inaccurate test results. 0ne witness said she had been given a false positive for hiv when taking the test in 2015. a convention
and being here today. thank you. thank you. take care. martha: you too. so this is getting a lot of attention. britney spears pleading with a california judge to let him give her control over her own life. she s almost 40 years old, made a fortune. so we are talking about what is next for her father, jamie spears.
ticket? i do. montana has a history of splitting tickets. you know, we have a democratic governor, republican attorney general. one democratic senator, one republican senator. donald trump won the state of montana by 20 points. so tester walks a fine line. careful not to take on the president directly and also point out how many of his bills the president has signed. he s been here three times. his son has been here. he tweeted about you and dr. ronny jackson. is he doing payback here? what do you think this is all about? no, i mean, what i think it s about is him loving montana. tester is montana born and bred. a third generation dirt farmer who still works the land on weekends. he s now asking for a third term. rosendale, who made a fortune in maryland real estate, moved to montana in 2002, became a state senator, and is now the state auditor, but tester says rosendale is not montana enough.
he s a nice person. who cares, right? you want a nice person? we have plenty of nice we got too many nice people. but carl is a brilliant businessman, made a fortune. i said, carl, i would love you to do me a favor. if i pull this off, i want to make the country so strong financially, you know. . some people say it sounds crass. i said we re going to make the the country rich again, then then we re going to make the the country great again. mr. trump, that sounds so crass. i said what s crass? rich. we have to be rich to make it great. we re in detonation. we owe $18 trillion. it s going to go up to 21, 22, 24 is like the magic number that s a disaster. and we re going there. you know that. and we need we need it won t be long we need this kind of mentality to make great deals. you know, an example, not financial, but it s the same thing, the iran that we all know about. everybody is all talking about.