and the us driven by the omicron variant the world health organization warns of a huge strains on health systems. hello and welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. 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 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. 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 courthouse behind me has decided she wasn tjust a bystander to the crimes, the sexual offences committed byjeffrey epstein, they decided that