Now on bbc news, britain has one of the highest death toll from covid 19 in the world. This film follows staff at the Royal Hospital in london as they try to cope with a second way. And a warning, this programme contains content which some of may find it distressing. Shes young. Shes someone s relative. This is something precious that were holding and were trying to do. My wife lost her fight for life. Nobody wants to go through this. I wouldnt wish this on anybody. The coronavirus pandemic has hit the United Kingdom hard. I think the public want to do the right thing, but i dont feel they understand fully the scale of the problem. This is the story of one of the hospitals in the eye of the storm. So were now going to run into a problem because we havent got any beds. Weve got patients on 12 floors in total. Weve returned to the royal london, to witness for ten days the full force of the second wave of covid 19. Staff are tired, and then we have to ask them to do more and more and more
Now on bbc news, britain has one of the highest death tolls from covid 19 in the world. Clive myrie s film follows staff at the Royal London Hospital as they try to cope with a second wave. A warning this programme contains content which some viewers may find distressing. Shes young. Shes someone s relative. This is something precious that were holding and were trying to do. My wife lost her fight for life. Nobody wants to go through this. I wouldnt wish this on anybody. The coronavirus pandemic has hit the United Kingdom hard. I think the public want to do the right thing, but i dont feel they understand fully the scale of the problem. This is the story of one of the hospitals in the eye of the storm. So were now going to run into a problem because we havent got any beds. Weve got patients on 12 floors in total. Weve returned to the royal london, to witness for ten days the full force of the second wave of covid 19. Staff are tired, and then we have to ask them to do more and more and
Hundreds of homes evacuated. Signing away the trump legacy from the pandemic to immigration and Climate Change, President Biden orders a change of direction. Chapter one. A book at bedtime how going online has preserved those cherished moments with the grandparents. And coming up on bbc news. Its claimed uefa are considering staging the European Championship in one country instead of across the continent as planned due to the pandemic. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Were in it for the long haul. Borisjohnson has warned that its too early to say whether or not restrictions might last till the summer. Much will depend on the data. Today Public Health england is reporting that covid case rates have fallen in every region. But some scientists are warning that any easing of the lockdown before may would cause another rise. By then, millions should have been vaccinated. As our medical editor, fergus walsh, reports, 65 new centres have opened today. Queueing for the main fea
Also in the programme. Coronavirus cases here in the uk put hospital staff under greater pressure than ever before but our special report also reveals how doctors are now saving an increasing number of patients. Plus how the fashion choices of the trump and Biden Administrations at their inaugurations say oh so much without uttering a word. Hello, im Laura Trevelyan in washington, James Reynolds is in london. What we inherited is so much worse than we could have imagined. So says the new white house covid 19 response coordinator. But its President Biden s problem now, along with everything else. With wafer thin majorities in congress, mr biden used his pen to make a difference in the first 2a hours signing more than 20 executive actions, many of them reversing trump policies. The first batch covered areas like immigration and the environment. Today, mr biden put his focus squarely on tackling covid. At the white house he signed a series of executive actions that would ramp up vaccine p
Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. In his first full day in office, President Biden has asserted federal control of all aspects of the fight against coronavirus, saying it would require a wartime effort to defeat the disease. Mr biden warned that the number of covid deaths could exceed 500,000 by next month. The new president renewed his promise to vaccinate 100 Million People in his first 100 days in thejob. 0ur north america correspondent, peter bowes, has more on the president s plans. Tackling covid has been first on the list since he ever decided to start tackling the pandemic. Hes described trump administrations efforts, especially as it applies to getting the vaccine out as a dismalfailure. He says he has a lot of work to do there, he is signing these executive orders and all it takes is a signature to make things happen. This isnt something that has to take a long time to get through congress. He can immediately order the compulsory wearing of masks