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shoot to kill without warning. chaos in kazakhstan. security forces ordered to open fire. more of what we are learning from newly released cour t documents. january 8, we hope you are happy and healthy and we hope 2022 is good to you. how are you? greatful to start 2022 with you after a few weeks away. we start with growing concern as our nation s kids are battling the omicron variant. hospitalizations are averaging about 800 hospitalizations a day. the highest it has ever been. an 80% increase. look at that chart. states are asking hospitals to help with staffing shortages now. more staff calling out sick. with child health hitting these and more dispute of how in person learning has played out. reporter: a week of clashes and confrontations. chicago, the largest school district with classes in limbo due to a standoff. the union insisted on a virtual learning and push to keep schools open. we ve made significant progress but i want a deal done this weekend. ....
record set almost a year ago of 142,000 hospitalizations. even more concerning, child hospitalizations are hitting new records as the omicron variant spreads. cnn s polo sandoval is watching all of this unfold for us. so, polo, what is the latest? reporter: fred, it s clear that federal health authorities are urging those who have not yet boosted after they have completed their initial series to get boosted as soon as they can. that s one of the reasons why the fda and cdc has amended that emergency use authorization that s been standing for some time, basically shortening that period of time from the initial vaccine series up to to that moment when they have to get the booster. now at five months versus the original six. so that s certainly something that they hope will lead to an increase in vaccination numbers and, of course, number of people being boosted because when you look at the number of hospitalizations, certainly continues to increase and the results hav ....
and our seoul correspondent takes the g force test to fly fighter jets as she reports on south korea s defence spending spree. they are still officially at war with north korea. there have been increasing air incursions over the country. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc world news singapore, this is bbc world news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. let s start with a story that s been breaking in the past half hour. a usjury has found elizabeth holmes, the founder of blood testing start up company theranos, guilty of conspiring to defraud investors. prosecutors said holmes swindled private investors by convincing them that theranos small machines could run a range of tests with a few drops of blood from a finger prick. we ll take a closer look at the details of the verdict in a moment, but first our north america tech reporter james clayton on how theranos was founded. we like to see a world in ....
three, two, one. our seoul correspondent takes the g force test to fly fighterjets as she reports on south korea s defence spending spree. we re still officially- at war with north korea. over the country, . there have also been increasing air incursions. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. a $500,000 legal settlement signed by virginia roberts giuffre and sex offender jeffrey epstein in 2009 included an agreement that ms giuffre wouldn t sue anyone connected to epstein. lawyers for prince andrew say the agreement, which has been made public in the last couple of hours, releases the prince from liability in the civil case brought by virginia giuffre, who accuses him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17. prince andrew has consistently denied the claims. our legal correspondent, dominic casciani, reports. a woman seeking her day in court. the unprecedented def ....
#0u # ou pretty things, don t you know you are driving your mama and six years after his death, david bowie s estate sells his entire catalogue of songs for more than $250 million. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. it was built as a potential revolution in healthcare or it was a massive case of fraud. a usjury has found elizabeth holmes, the founder of the blood testing start up company theranos, guilty of conspiring to defraud investors after prosecutors said she had swindled private investors between 2010 and 2015. the 37 year old did that, they said, by convincing those investors that small machines developed by theranos could run a range of tests with a few drops of blood from a finger prick to detect certain diseases. in a moment, we ll have a closer look at the details of the verdict. but first, our north america tech reporter on how theranos was founded. we like to see a world in which every person gets access to this type of basic te ....