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
marathon for the moment. now it s the thousands of amateur runners completing the marathon. personal bests have been hit, records have been broken and millions have been raised for charity. and in half an hour, the week in parliament looks at the week and theresa may s decision to call a surprise general election injune. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. labour says it still supports the renewal of britain s trident nuclear deterrent. earlierjeremy corbyn wouldn t say whether it would be in the party s election manifesto. the labour leader told the bbc that if his party came to power injune, it would conduct an immediate strategic defence review. it is still an entirely unresolved question as to what you are going to do. your spokesman has said clearly that keeping trident will be in the labour manifesto. we haven t completed work on the manifesto yet. as you would expect less than 100 hours into this election campaign. so we could be in for a shock? no, no. we are havi
turnout in the first round of the presidential election is slightly higher than at the same stage in 2012. a murder investigation has been launched after man was killed by thieves who stole his car from outside his house in manchester. now on bbc news, bbc parliament s programme looking back at the week in westminster, presented by alicia mccarthy. hello and welcome to the week in parliament, when theresa may went public with the best kept secret in westminster. i have just chaired a meeting with the cabinet where we agreed that the government should call a general election, to be held on 8thjune. opposition parties say they welcome the fight, but. this is a prime minister who promised there wouldn t be one. a prime minister who cannot be trusted. meanwhile in holyrood, the snp and the conservatives square up over scotland s future. but it wasn t all about the general election. in the commons, there was concern over the nuclear ambitions of north korea. and condemnation of th