but says it doesn t yet know how many hotels will take part. canadian actor christopher plummer, best known for his role as captain von trapp in the sound of music, has died aged 91. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world, and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. almost half the uk population 32 million people should be vaccinated against coronavirus by may. the government says it expects all adults over the age of 50, as well as the clinically vulnerable and those working in health and social care to have received their firstjab by then. the uk s medicines regulator says the latest research shows side effects from all the approved vaccines are minor and don t last long. as cases continue to fall, politicians are divided over how soon restrictions should be lifted. here s our medical editor fergus walsh. this is an immunisation production line, at epsom racecourse in surrey, where they are doing 1000 cov
overhaul of u.s. elections while two democrats refuse to take the steps necessary to force it through. the question is what s next in this fight? and the supreme court rejects a request by donald trump, clearing the way for the house committee investigating january 6th to receive records from his time in office. the question is what hidden information will now come to light? it s way too early for this. good morning to way too early, a show that underpromises and overdelivers. as expected senate democrats came up short last night in their bid to overcome republican opposition on voting rights legislation. an attempt to change senate rules to pass a sweeping election overhaul with only democratic support also failed after senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema broke ranks and joined all 50 republicans to vote against it. senator manchin said changing the rules would, quote, pour fuel on the fire of political whiplash while senator sinema said it would, quote, dee
illegitimate, on his build back better program. the president says it is quote clear that he would have to break it up and mentioned two items he wants but may not get tax credit and free community college. he says vice president kamala harris will be his running mate. he gave reporters a lot of time. this is 4.5 hours and yeah, there were some good parts. they should have taken care of it in the editing room. it gave something to everybody. he was generous of his time. if you don t joe biden, you can pick out the clips that you hated and if you like joe biden, you can pick out the part. this was custom made for angry primetime for the news. luckily we are in the news here. and we are mellow. it was long but we are as reporters and journalists, that s what we want. we want two hours questions asked. he let everybody asking questions. he answered shows questions as well. there were some things about russia and ukraine caused some problems. the president predicted th
leader of the house republicans kevin mccarthy. they have asked him for an interview that would be testimony, a big deal, as well as cooperation to provide information. and they also are signaling as they have in some of these dra other letters. the information they have already gathered. this new information has the committee asking about a very heated conversation with trump that took place during this insurrection. where according to this committee, this is their characterization on their screen, kevin mccarthy was urging trump to get help to the capitol. that s bad for donald trump if it speaks to the culpability he had and what he knew in realtime. it also notes that trump privately admitted to mccarthy, some degree of responsibility for this insurrection. that s a big deal as more detail its spill out. . and the request to meet with kevin mccarthy on february 3rd and 4th. now this is a bit unusual in interesting ways. mccarthy is the third lawmaker that this committee h