and bringing some cheer to children evacuated from the indonesian volcano but what are they laughing at? hello and welcome to bbc news to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in london where an unofficial tribunal investigating china s treatment of the uyghur minority has found evidence of crimes against humanity and genocide. the findings detail systematic human rights abuses including forced labour and torture. the chair of the tribunal, sir geoffrey nice, explained how women were sterilised without their consent, and families deliberately separated. witness statements also described rapes and assaults in detention camps. pressure is growing on beijing, after both the us and other countries announced diplomatic boycotts of the winter olympics in beijing. the us house of representatives has also approved legislation, banning imports from xinjiang. human rights groups believe china has detained more than one million uyghurs over the past few years. here
reports from south africa are encouraging. those reports suggest that while omicron is spreading rapidly, hospitalizations have not increased at major levels. hospitals are not overwhelmed. so while it is highly contagious, it may be far less dangerous than delta. and that brings us to the alarm. delta is the immediate risk. and the tragic thing is there s a lot of people who will get infected with delta even still and they may find that that immunity that they ve acquired through that delta infection isn t going to be protective against omicron. i worry about states that have low vaccination rates, high delta exposure, and are confident right now and perhaps overconfident because their prevalence has declined. that describes a lot of states in the south right now. for the first time in two months the united states is averaging more than 100,000 new covid cases each day. some cities are seeing hospitals pushed to the brink. the worst all year. and the united states is rea
no. sean: you have a great show tonight, i know that. laura: we are pumped up, hannity. we will take it from you. you did an awesome job, we will see you tomorrow night. i am laura ingraham, this is the ingraham angle from washington. we have a lot to get into, so let s dive right in. full steam behind, that is the focus of tonight s angle. before flying off to europe today, joe biden made a personal mission to capitol hill to urge democrats to pass a so-called infrastructure plan. i don t think it s hyperbole to say that the white house, that the house and senate majorities in my presidency will be determined by what happens in the next week. i need you to help me, he sighed. i need your votes. he probably did that weird whisper thing. pelosi echoed his plea telling her members, don t embarrass the president by voting down the infrastructure bill. reportedly, some members actually began breaking out in chance. a boat, vote. but to what end? i have signaled for da
. we are pumped up and take it from you and you did an awesome job and we will see you tomorrow night. i am laura ingraham angle and this is the ingraham angle from washington. let s dive right in. full steam behind, that s the focus of tonight s angle. before flying off to europe, president biden made a personal mission to capitol hill to urge democrats to pass the infrastructure plan. i don t think it is hyperbole to say the white house, the house and senate majorities will be determined by what happens in the next week. i need you to help me, he says. i need your votes. pelosi at code his plea telling her members don t embarrass the president by voting down the infrastructure built reportedly some members actually began breaking out in chants, vote, vote, vote, but to what end? i have signaled for days that we simply did not have the votes for the bipartisan bill without the build back better act. our members have been saying for months these two bills need to go togethe
don t trust they re willing to invest what needs to be invested to keep facebook from being dangerous. as soon as the election was over, they changed more to prioritize safety. that feels lining a bre trayal of democracy. joining me is the attorney for frances haugen. thank you for being with us. people describe your client as a whistle-blower. if i were to ask you off the street, what s she blowing the whistle on, what would you say? a range of misconduct by facebook in the united states and in foreign countries that affects elections, teenage girls and ethnic violence in myanmar, bangladesh, ethiopia, lying to investors, withholding material information from facebook investors, a wide range of misconduct by facebook. lying to investors about what? everything from how much hate speech is removed from the platform to the serious problems they ve had expanding user demographics, american teens others, and other issues, for instance, how many users are targeted with ads