it s the make or break moment for the james webb space telescope as it starts to unfold its tennis court sized sunshield. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk, on pbs in the us or around the world. a woman who gave key evidence in the trial of ghislaine maxwell has spoken publicly today, saying she hopes the guilty verdict will bring some solace to other survivors. annie farmer the only witness to use her real name during testimony said the case demonstrated that no one was above the law. maxwell was found guilty yesterday by a jury in new york of grooming underage girls to be abused by her friend jeffrey epstein. her lawyers say they will appeal against the verdict. 0ur correspondent aleem maqbool s report from new york contains some flashing images. good morning america. guilty. good morning guilty, i a long awaited verdict. the downfall of the british formersocialite, now a convicted sex trafficker, has been headline news here. and one of the four women b
of special events celebrating the life of archbishop desmond tutu. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk, on pbs in the us, or around the world. the uk prime minister, borisjohnson, has urged everyone in the uk to get their boosterjab. he says 90% of people currently in intensive care beds with covid had not received their third vaccine. new figures show more than 10,000 people in england are in hospital with covid the highest number since march. meanwhile, some uk doctors and pharmacists are warning they are running short of covid tests because of high demand. officials say more are on the way. pressure is coming from a surge in cases the latest data showing 183,000 people testing positive for covid in the uk. that s a new daily record significantly higher than a week ago but that s partly due to a delay in reporting results over christmas. 0ur health correspondent katherine da costa has more. george winder and his wife nikki are both gps in leeds. he tested p
she also practised today after taking a break to concentrate on her mental health over the past few months following her shock third round defeat to cananda s leylah fernandez at the us open. osaka won the australian open in 2019 and 2021. still just over stilljust over half an hour to go at brentford, they still trail manchester city 1 0. a reminder city will go eight points clear at the top of the premier league if they win that one. we will have more on that later. it should be the safest place a child could be. why do you study? from there, to go back towards what? but schools in northern nigeria are being targeted by kidnappers. since december, more than 1000 students have been abducted in the region. and it s affecting everyone from the youngest to the oldest pupils, rich and poor. save this country from the hands of these evil people! she said, mummy, they came to our school yesterday night and kidnapped us. she now says, mummy, come and see, they are just beating u
to a tsunami of cases. the european court of human rights, urges russia to suspend the shutdown of the country s oldest human rights group. prayers and thanksgiving as south africa holds a week of special events celebrating the life of archbishop desmond tutu. good evening to viewers in the uk and around the world. the uk prime minister borisjohnson has urged everyone in the uk to get their boosterjab. he says 90% of people currently in intensive care beds with covid had not received their third vaccine. new figures show more than 10,000 people are in hospital in england with covid the highest number since march. meanwhile, some uk doctors and pharmacists are warning they are running short of covid tests because of high demand. officials say more are on the way. pressure is coming from a surge in cases the latest data showing 183 thousand people testing positive for covid in the uk. that s a new daily record but that s partly due to a delay in reporting results over c
hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk, on pbs in the us or around the world. the uk government says it will keep under very close review its decision not to bring in further coronavirus restrictions in england as infections rise to a level not seen before during the pandemic. there are restrictions on socialising in the other nations that form the uk wales, scotland and northern ireland. the latest data shows that there have again been record numbers of cases across the uk. elsewhere in europe, france has also seen record highs in its cases, and the country has announced tighter restrictions to try and get the spike in numbers, caused by the omicron variant under control. and there have been demonstrations in eastern germany against new restrictions. first, let s get more on the situation here in the uk from our health correspondent, sophie hutchinson. a vaccination centre in lambeth in london, among the boroughs worst affected by omicron in the uk. staff here sa