bringing up to two feet of snow to new york city. hello, i m laura trevelyan in new york. christian fraser is in london. we start our programme with a mix of good news and bad. on the plus side, the number of new covid cases and hospitalisations has been dropping in both the us and the uk. the bad news, though, is that new mutations of the virus could threaten to wipe out those gains. so the race is on to vaccinate as many people as possible, to try and prevent highly contagious variants from spreading and mutating further. the uk s vaccination efforts are going quite well. half a million people were vaccinated just yesterday. in the us, the goal is to get to 1.5 millionjabs a day. the fear is that as the coronavirus evolves it becomes ever more difficult to fight. the uk variant has now been discovered in at least 55 other countries, and we know it is much more transmissible. the now dominant strain in south africa is more of a worry, because we know the existing vaccines pe
she was once the darling of silicon valley with her company at one point valued at $9 billion but now elizabeth holmes has been found guilty of fraud and conspiracy following a four month trial in california and awaits her sentence. the founder of the discredited blood testing company, theranos, was accused of lying to investors and retail customers by overstating what the firm s machines were capable of and the accuracy of its tests. holmes can appeal against the verdict in federal appeals court. elizabeth holmes had a vision that turned her into a billionaire. she rated a machine that she called the mike edison, that could detect hundreds of diseases with just a few drops of blood. the pitch convinces a very prominent people. the pitch convinced some very important people. media tycoon rupert murdoch invested, bill clinton was a fan. behind me are theranos s former head offices. very plush, very expensive and in the heart of silicon valley. and the great and the good ca
but no agreement was reached. here s what the leaders of both sides had to say following that high stakes meeting. we agreed to continue our discussions and we will meet again on friday. in the meantime, our staff will meet today and daily between now and then, and everyone in the meeting understood the risk of default. our economy would fall into a significant recession and it would devastate retirement accounts, increase borrowing costs, according to moody s nearly 8 million americans would lose theirjobs. everyone in this meeting reiterated the positions they were at. i did not see new movement. the president said staff would get back together, i was clear to the president. we have two weeks ago. president biden also said that it was possible he might call off his trip to asia if there is no breakthrough on the debt. ryan sweet is the chief us economist at oxford economics i spoke to him a little earlier and he says he s not surprised no deal was reached. this is going t
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but no agreement was reached. here s what the leaders of both sides had to say following that high stakes meeting. we agreed to continue our discussions and we will meet again on friday. in the meantime, our staff will meet today and daily between now and then, and everyone in the meeting understood the risk of default. our economy would fall into a significant recession and it would devastate retirement accounts, increase borrowing costs, according to moody s nearly 8 million americans would lose theirjobs. everyone in this meeting reiterated the positions they were at. i did not see new movement. the president said staff should get back together. i was clear to the president. we have two weeks to go. president biden also said that it was possible he might call off his trip to asia if there is no breakthrough on the debt. ryan sweet is the chief us economist at oxford economics. he says he s not surprised no deal was reached. this is going to be a game of political chicken.