bringing up to two feet of snow to new york city. hello, i m laura trevelyan in new york. christian fraser is in london. we start our programme with a mix of good news and bad. on the plus side, the number of new covid cases and hospitalisations has been dropping in both the us and the uk. the bad news, though, is that new mutations of the virus could threaten to wipe out those gains. so the race is on to vaccinate as many people as possible, to try and prevent highly contagious variants from spreading and mutating further. the uk s vaccination efforts are going quite well. half a million people were vaccinated just yesterday. in the us, the goal is to get to 1.5 millionjabs a day. the fear is that as the coronavirus evolves it becomes ever more difficult to fight. the uk variant has now been discovered in at least 55 other countries, and we know it is much more transmissible. the now dominant strain in south africa is more of a worry, because we know the existing vaccines pe
vaccine for every american byjuly. and 3,000 sticks of dynamite bring down donald trump s long doomed casino in atlantic city. hello, i m laura trevelyan in washington. christian fraser is in london. the brutal winter storms across the south and east of the us have left millions without power, and more snow is on the way. nowhere has been hit harder than texas, where nearly three million people are facing their third day without light or heat. the state has its own electrical grid, and it s been unable to meet the increased demand for power. it s striking these power outages are happening in a state with such abundant energy resources. texas produces more electricity than any other us state, almost twice as much as florida, the next closest. but because it has isolated itself from the rest of the grid, it can t import any, and so there is a very public row under way over who is to blame the public private partnership that operates the grid or the state politicians who overs
he failed to declare income from the sale of gifts he received while in office from 2018 to 2022. the verdict means he is not allowed to hold public office forfive years, with pakistan just months away from a general election. our correspondent, caroline davies, reports. sirens blaring, police truck after police truck, arresting former prime minister imran khan. the judgement came from here. police filled every corner in islamabad s session court. mr khan says that the case is politically motivated. the court said he s dishonest. so this is after months and months of waiting, we now finally have an announcement. imran khan has been found guilty and has been sentenced to three years imprisonment. outside court, shouts of your show is over, khan. minutes later, we heard he d been arrested. this was what happened last time mr khan was arrested. protests, some violent. mr khan was released, but his party faced a dramatic crackdown. many of his senior party leadership were arre
the former pakistani prime minister imran khan has called on his supporters to protest peacefully, after he was found guilty on corruption charges and sentenced to three years in prison. a court in islamabad ruled that he had failed to declare income from the sale of gifts he received while in office. the verdict means he isn t allowed to hold public office for the next five years, pakistan is just months away from a general election. from islamabad, caroline davies reports. sirens blaring, police truck after police truck, arresting former prime minister imran khan. the judgment came from here. police filled every corner in islamabad s session court. mr khan says that the case is politically motivated. the court said he is dishonest. so, this is after months and months of waiting, we now finally have an announcement. imran khan has been found guilty and has been sentenced to three years imprisonment. outside court, shouts of, your show is over, khan. minutes later, we hear