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fukushima nuclear disaster we ll visit a site transformed and meet those still clinging to the past. the house of representatives, the lower house of congress, has passed a major covid 19 stimulus package worth $1.9 trillion. the plan was approved in the senate on saturday, despite every republican voting against. and the same thing has happened in the house every republican voted against, along with one democrat. the measure will be signed into law by president biden on friday. here s house speaker nancy pelosi announcing the result. on this vote, the yeas are 220. the nays are 211. the motion is adopted. applause the bill s aim is primarily to address the impact of covid on the us economy. but there are broader ambitions to tackle longer term causes of poverty. here are some of the details. the so called american rescue package gives one off payments worth $1,a00 to most americans. it allocates $350 billion to state and local governments, and $130 billion to schoo ....
who fled to india after being told to shoot at protesters. the brother of ghislaine maxwell tells the bbc that the conditions of her detention in an american prison are degrading and amount to torture. hello to you. it s exactly one year since the world health organization officially declared the coronavirus outbreak is a pandemic. that is the point the disease was confirmed as a truly global problem. covid 19 has so far claimed 2.6 million lives, but there is hope on the horizon as vaccines reach some of the furthest corners of the world. our global health correspondent naomi grimley has been looking at the pandemic, one year in. it s been a year that most of us will remember for the rest of our lives. one of grief and loneliness on a scale none of us could ve imagined. it s exactly 12 months since the world health organization officially sounded the alarm about the seriousness of covid 19. we have therefore made the assessment that covid 19 can be characterised as a ....
hello to you. it s exactly one year since the world health organization officially declared the coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic that s the point the disease was confirmed as a truly global problem. covid 19 has so far claimed 2.6 million lives, but there s hope on the horizon as vaccines reach some of the furthest corners of the world. our global health correspondent naomi grimley has been looking at the pandemic one year in. it s been a year that most of us will remember for the rest of our lives. one of grief and loneliness on a scale none of us could ve imagined. it s exactly 12 months since the world health organization officially sounded the alarm about the seriousness of covid 19. we have therefore made the assessment that covid 19 can be characterised as a pandemic. and yet, after a whirlwind of scientific discoveries, we re now seeing vaccines being distributed to some of the most remote communities on earth. in brazil, they ve mounted a vaccination campaig ....
by his criticism of the duchess of sussex after dramatically leaving itv s breakfast show and putting stammering in the spotlight the actor sir michael palin, whose father stammered, on why this disability should be talked about more. everyone needs to be heard. everyone has a voice and the idea, the old idea, that stammerers somehow have little to say or aren t as bright as everybody else that is so utterly, ridiculously wrong. and coming up on bbc news: can the champions league breathe life back into liverpool? jurgen klopp s side have won just two games in their last eight, as they get set to face rb leipzig. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. a serving metropolitan police officer has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman disappeared in london last week. 33 year old sarah everard has not been heard from since she left a friend s house in clapham last wednesday night. the officer who s in his 40s was detained last night in kent along w ....
now anyone over 16 can get a jab. we ll hear from a doctor in a remote area about how they re doing it. we shall meet again, and thunder, lightning we shall meet again, and thunder, lightning or rain. and all the world s a stage even the virtual world of zoom, we ll talk to actor simon callow about bringing shakespeare to a new generation. hello, i m katty kay, in washington, christian fraser is in london. it s the first major victory of the biden presidency, a whopping $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, that in the last few hours cleared a final vote in the house of representatives, in the house of representatives. the american rescue plan, as it s called, will now head to the president s desk for his signature. we re expecting him to sign on friday afternoon, and the cheques will roll out soon after. so what s in this bill, and where s all that money going? well, among other things, there s a new round of means tested payments of up to $1,400 for most american adults. dem ....