just almost nonbelief. , beyond these tornadoes devoured everything in their path. a stunning rescue in hong kong, as first responders save more than a hundred people who were trapped on the roof of a burning building. it s 7 am in singapore, and ”pm in london, where a leading scientific advisor to the uk government has given a stark assessment of how effective the current vaccine measures are against the omicron strain of covid. professor neil ferguson has told the bbc that we now know that if you got two vaccine doses a few months ago, then you have very limited protection against being re infected, or being infected with omicron. and he added that research suggests that if you were previously infected with either the alpha or delta strains, you probably only have about 20% protection against reinfection with omicron. his comments came on the day the uk recorded its highest ever number of confirmed covid infections. statistics compiled across the country show 78 thousand
The lewinsky affair tonight guaranteed bill clinton his place in history as only the second president ever to be impeached. this is newsday on the bbc. our headlines. more than 78 thousand new cases were reported in the past 2a hours as the growth rate of the new variant rises. president biden goes to kentucky to see the devastation caused by this weekend s tornadoes. let s turn to pakistan now where seven years ago on the 16th december 2014 a school in peshawar in north western pakistan was targeted by the pakistani taliban also known as the ttp. 134 children were killed in what is regarded as the worst
Welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. more than 78 thousand new cases were reported in the past 2a hours as the growth rate of the new variant rises. the doubling rate of omicron as now down to less than two days. i m afraid we are also seeing the inevitable increase in hospitalisations. president biden goes to kentucky to see the devastation caused by this weekend s tornadoes. the scope and scale of this destruction is almost beyond belief. look around here, it s