own just gone. heartbreaking stories from colorado, where wildfires reduced hundreds of homes to ashes in a matter of hours. and we begin right here in the united states, where the latest covid surge is shattering records. is u.s. is now averaging more than 394,000 new cases a day, the fifth day in a row a new high was set. now, most states, the ones you see there in dark red, have seen daily case counts rise by 50% or more in the last week. now, so far, thankfully, hospitalizations and deaths are lower than the peaks we saw in 2021, but unfortunately that doesn t mean the danger is over here. the cdc estimates more than 44,000 people could die from covid-19 in the next four weeks. meantime, millions of children are headed back to the classroom on monday. it comes as a record number of children are at this hour hospitalized with covid-19. and some school districts are announcing at least a partial transition to online learning. and that s the approach several school distr
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 a byst
and record numbers of covid infections are recorded across europe and the us, driven by the omicron variant the world health organization warns of huge strains on health systems. hello and welcome. 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 convictions mean maxwell faces the possibility of spending the rest of her life in prison. aleem maqbool reports from new york. ghislaine maxwell will now finally pay for her terrible crimes. her victims were robbed ofjustice for decades, but four of them have helped put a now infamous sexual predator behind bars. each was from a troubled or cash strapped home, and the court heard how ghislaine maxwell gained their trust. during their explicit and em
astronauts are being put in danger of a collision with satellites launched by elon musk. hello and welcome. the supreme court in russia has banned one of the country s best known and oldest human rights organisations, memorial, accusing it of violating a law requiring groups to register as foreign agents. it comes at the end of a year in which the kremlin has cracked down vigorously on its critics. our moscow correspondent steve rosenberg reports. more and more, it feels as if russia is turning the clock back. liquidate, the judge says, as she orders one of russia s oldest civil rights groups, international memorial, to shut down. the n60 was found to have broken russia s draconian foreign agents law. disgraceful decision, the reaction from the gallery. it s100% a political thing. and the substance of this political decision is just one more step from authoritarian regime to totalitarian. for more than 30 years, memorial has been shining a light on one of the darkest c
now on bbc news it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. 75 years ago the first nuremberg trial of nazi war criminals came to an end. the groundbreaking international tribunal handed down 12 death sentences. in the years that followed, there were hopes that an evolving mechanism of internationaljustice would deter and punish further heinous acts of mass murder and genocide. my guest is international lawyer and author philippe sands. 75 years on from nuremberg, is the world any better at delivering justice for the worst of crimes? philippe sands, welcome to hardtalk. lovely to be with you. this notion of international justice, it seems to have sort of consumed you, both professionally and personally, for many years. is it possible to say which comes first, which driver is more important to you? which came first was professional. i got involved in these things in 98 really, when the statute of the international criminal court was being negotiated in r