it has been more than a year and a half into a pandemic that has killed over 4.5 million people and returned all of our lives upside down. the world scientists are still hunting for answers. this startsed in wuhan at th market. the first hypothesis is it came from a bat. with 75% of all emerging diseases caused by a jump from animals into humans, there were warning signs. every few years there is a new spillover event with a new disease that humans have no i m t immunity to. it s a probability this originated from animals as well but the possibility also remains that the virus leaked from a lab. the wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab. the disease is the same name as the lab. it s a laboratory at the heart of the city where the outbreak occurred that s undertaking some risky work. laboratory accidents happen much more often than we know. the biological window to learn what happened thanks window might be closing., happe window might be closing. twindo
hope for. that s going to do it for us tonight. now it s time for the last word. thank you. i ve been sitting here thinking what a difference a year makes and then what about those things where a year doesn t make that much difference. which we re living with tonight also. yeah. exactly. both in terms of both in terms of covid-19 and also in terms of our politics. the revelations of the last 24 or 48 hours on january 6th have been mind blowing. yeah. and they are those that kind of revelation that confirms what we kind of assumed. as we were watching the day unfold, it would make sense, of course, that all those republican friends of mark meadows and donald trump would be texting mark meadows and saying, save us. what s happening here? and so it s fascinating to get the detail. but does it feel like one of those things that where we could have as drama writers filled in the blanks. right. i think the thing that we couldn t have known was that we would get to see
and so you will eventually get to see it. if it was ever ridden down or typed out, it will come back. yes. that s exactly right. thank you rachel. well several deeply reported techs have documented donald trump s rage. we have had angry presidents before but we have never had a rage-aholic like donald trump. we can only imagine how high his rage is speaking tonight. now that a federal judge who he appointed has dismissed donald trump s frivolous lawsuit to block the treasury from handing over donald trump s tax returns to the richard neil. donald trump s rage at the judge he appointed, and who he believed he owned is accompanied tonight by his rage at the news. that his longtime accountant, at the mazars accounting firm, donald bender, has been granted immunity to testify to the grand jury in mental ton investigating donald trump s businesses. the washington post, says mr. bender, quote, could serve as a human roadmap. through donald trump s tax returns. in all of t
militia were secretly recorded by one of the attendees they discussed bringing weapons to washington d.c. and being prepared to fight on on behalf of the former president donald trump. whitney wild is here with the latest. reporter: it was a bombshell moment that the defense and the department of justice agree is one of the most important cases in decades. a new recording released by the department of justice of an alleged november 2020 planning meeting of the far right militia group, the oath keepers. you re going to see a street fight. don t be afraid. go there in large numbers. that s why we need to be there. reporter: federal prosecutors played the audio during the second day of the trial of five associates of the oath keepers. all five defendants have pleaded not guilty. this is the first major piece of evidence presented at the trial that prosecutors used to support their allegations that the group planned to descend on washington to prevent the peaceful trans
russian shelling hits targets in ukraine overnight as nato and the western allies promise to continue helping kyiv to defend itself. hundreds of allegations of sexual or domestic abuse are made against metropolitan police staff. a report by conservationists says global wildlife populations have fallen by nearly 70% in less than five decades. good morning and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister is coming under increasing pressure to rethink the tax cuts announced in last month s mini budget. one tory mp accused her of wrecking ten years of conservative policies aimed at helping working people. this morning the foreign secretary james cleverly warned tory mps that any attempt to replace liz truss as prime minister would be a disastrously bad idea . let s take a look at how we ve got this point. yesterday, liz truss appeared at pmqs for the first time since the chancellor set out the mini budget. she was repeatedly asked about her management of the economy which has bee