hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i am fredricka whitfield. happening now, the nation s capital on high alert. substantial police presence and crowd control measures in places, demonstrators in support of the mob which stormed the capitol january 6th gathered in washington today for a rally. it was just nine months ago we saw these terrifying scenes unfolding. hundreds of people scaling walls, breaking windows, storming hallways of the capitol, yelling to find nancy pelosi and to hang mike pence. lawmakers and the vice president ran to safety. capitol police horribly outnumbered and targeted by the mob. one officer died. more than 100 were hurt. some seriously. three other officers later died by suicide. today, the scene quite different. barriers, fencing surrounding the capitol. hundreds of officers in position should demonstrations grow violent. we have a team of correspondents covering every angle of this. let s begin with shimon prokupecz in the mid
to members in that crowd. and there were some very interesting moments. is that right? what can you tell us? reporter: certainly, jim, some very, very interesting moments. certainly people who believe that this insurrection just didn t exist, that this was just people trespassing, people who just don t believe that when have seen before their very eyes. i had the opportunity to talk to one of the attendees, and he was talking about how no officers were assaulted, how this was a bunch of people who were just trying to go in and essentially protest, and asking him all sorts of questions, you could just tell he was living in his own kind of reality, take a listen to some of what i asked him. it s a public building. i mean people out there, people are in this town all the time and i think the most severe charge they have is trespassing. destroying property, assaulting an officer? you don t believe the video? on video, there is assaulting of a police officer. you don t think
in south africa, a mother s desperate action to save her baby, as widespread looting and arson grip parts of the country. and british olympic hope laura collett tells us how she got back in the saddle after a terrible accident eight years ago. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel. a moment of magic helps south africa a sink the british and irish lions in cape town. good evening. spain s popular holiday islands, ibiza, majorca and menorca, are all being moved onto the government s amber list, just two weeks after they were approved for quarantine free travel. from next monday, anyone over 18 who s not fully vaccinated will have to quarantine on return home. the announcement applies at the moment only to people travelling from england, but other uk nations could follow suit. around 200,000 british tourists are understood to be holidaying on the islands now, with many more booked to travel there over the summer. let s go to our correspondent, colletta smith, who s
hello and welcome. more than 70 people have now died after a week of unrest in south africa sparked by the jailing of former president jacob zuma. shops and warehouses have been looted and set on fire, with the worst violence in years centred on durban and johannesburg. the government says it plans to deploy 25,000 soldiers on the streets to try to quell the violence. here s our south africa correspondent, nomsa maseko. factory after factory after factory, ransacked and burned by looters. two young men lying dead beside a railway line, 48 hours after they died. this is what six days of looting and rioting in kwazulu natal and gauteng provinces in south africa looks like. violent protests began just hours after south africa s former president, jacob zuma, was jailed for failing to comply with a court order to give evidence at a corruption inquiry. however, speculation is rife that even though this may have started out as a pro zuma protest, it was a well orchestrated plan desi
spending. how will the president agend hit the wallet? we will talk to kaylee and congressman of florida, that s all ahead. a very busy day. it is. we begin first with house lawmakers now introducing two bipartisan bills that aim to hold china accountable for its role in the pandemic for the legislation would example shoul commission to investigate how this pandemic started and how families of victims to sue beijing. hello, and welcome to i m sandr smith here in new york. and this is america reports. i am in for john roberts fro los angeles, the bill has come is house republicans on the judiciary and oversight committee wants her own investigation into an nih grant that reportedly used taxpayer money to fund the institute of neurology studies on that coronavirus is. there are concerns over how tha chinese lab could be the source of that and eventually spread around the globe. congressman dan crenshaw callin out china s lack of cooperation and transparency earlier on