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- Trump acquittal: Biden urges vigilance to defend 'fragile' democracy after impeachment trial
- Japan earthquake off Fukushima an aftershock of 2011 disaster, say scientists
- Coronavirus live news: UK minister cautious about reopening England's schools on 8 March; German borders tightened
- Biden press aide TJ Ducklo resigns over 'abhorrent' remarks to female journalist
- UK-US Brexit trade deal ‘could fill supermarkets with cancer-risk bacon’
- Catalonia goes to the polls amid Covid and independence debate
- How far right uses video games and tech to lure and radicalise teenage recruits
- Rwanda: The Dove's music united a nation torn by genocide. Why did he die in a cell?
- Exercise can help prevent cancers, new research finds
- Nelson urged mistress to give their baby girl 'new' smallpox vaccine
- ‘Astonishing’ dig reveals domestic life in the iron age
- Life savers: the amazing story of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine
- Has Covid changed the price of a life?
- New Zealand Covid outbreak: Ardern puts Auckland into three-day lockdown
- 'We took a huge risk': the Indian firm making more Covid jabs than anyone
- London's bridges are falling down: how politics has failed the capital's crossings
- Laverne Cox: ‘I can be so hard on myself’
- Among the storm chasers: witnessing the terrifying power of tornadoes
- I’m thinking of asking a work colleague out for a romantic walk
- Designer Harris Reed: 'How are we still outraged by me putting Harry Styles in a dress?'
- How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates; The New Climate War by Michael E Mann – review
- ‘Children are not pets, society has to help parents bring them up’
- World's oldest known beer factory may have been unearthed in Egypt
- Mitch McConnell lambasts Donald Trump but votes not guilty – video
- Victoria Covid hotspots: list of Melbourne and regional Vic coronavirus case locations
- ‘We cannot hope for anything good’: Myanmar coup sparks despair for Rohingya
- Lawyers seek justice for women jailed for killing abusive partners
- Trump’s acquittal seals his grasp on the Republican party
- Canons don’t only belong to dead white Englishmen. We have a Māori canon too | Alice Te Punga Somerville
- Failure to convict Trump in impeachment trial will live as a 'vote of infamy', says Schumer – video
- Five Republicans join vote for witnesses in Trump Senate trial – video
- 'We've made huge progress' says Johnson on UK vaccine rollout – video
| Trump acquittal: Biden urges vigilance to defend 'fragile' democracy after impeachment trial Posted: 13 Feb 2021 08:31 PM PST President says the substance of the charge against Donald Trump over the January attack on US Capitol is not in dispute US president Joe Biden has urged Americans to defend democracy following the acquittal of Donald Trump at his second impeachment trial, saying: "This sad chapter in our history has reminded us that democracy is fragile." In a statement on Saturday night, Biden said the substance of the charge against his predecessor over the Capitol riot on 6 January in which five people died was not in dispute, and noted the seven Republicans who voted guilty. Continue reading... |
| Japan earthquake off Fukushima an aftershock of 2011 disaster, say scientists Posted: 13 Feb 2021 07:46 AM PST Saturday's 7.3-magnitude quake, which cut power to nearly a million households, linked to temblor that led to 18,000 deaths 10 years ago A strong earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan, injuring more than 100 people, was an aftershock of the devastating 2011 quake that sparked the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, the nation's meteorological agency has said. Saturday night's earthquake had a 7.3 magnitude and struck off the coast of Fukushima prefecture at a depth of 60km (36 miles). It triggered widespread power outages, but there appeared to be no major damage and no tsunami warning was issued. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 14 Feb 2021 02:27 AM PST Dominic Raab says 'we need to wait to see' data before deciding how schools will reopen; Germany bans travel from Czech border regions
One of the team of experts sent to China by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to investigate the possible origins of Covid-19 has said that the visit had provided some new clues which the scientists involved had agreed most likely pointed to an animal origin within China or Southeast Asia. Peter Daszak, an animal disease specialist, was asked by the New York Times if there was any particular animal which was suspected to have had a link, more strongly than others. He replied: It's too up in the air. We don't know if civets were on sale. We know they are very easily infected. We don't know what the situation is with the mink farms in China or the other fur farms, like raccoon dogs, even though they're normally farmed in a different part of China. That needs to be followed up on, too. But if you were to say which pathway would you put the most weight on, I think the virus emerging either in Southeast Asia or Southern China from bats, getting into a domesticated wildlife farm.
Malaysia has reported 2,464 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of recorded infections to 264,269. The health ministry also reported seven new deaths, raising total fatalities from the pandemic to 965. Continue reading... |
| Biden press aide TJ Ducklo resigns over 'abhorrent' remarks to female journalist Posted: 13 Feb 2021 05:14 PM PST In first departure from Biden administration, Ducklo says he has 'embarrassed and disappointed' colleagues White House deputy press secretary TJ Ducklo has resigned, the day after he was suspended for issuing a sexist and profane threat to a journalist inquiring about his relationship with another reporter. In a statement on Saturday, Ducklo said he was "devastated to have embarrassed and disappointed my White House colleagues and President Biden". Continue reading... |
| UK-US Brexit trade deal ‘could fill supermarkets with cancer-risk bacon’ Posted: 13 Feb 2021 10:45 PM PST Fears of illness over nitrites used in US but currently banned in Britain and EU British stores could be flooded with "dangerous" bacon and ham from the US, marketed under misleading labels, as the result of a transatlantic trade deal, says the author of a new book based on a decade of investigation into the food industry. The meat has been cured with nitrites extracted from vegetables, a practice not permitted by the European Commission because of evidence that it increases the risk of bowel cancer. But it is allowed in the US, where the product is often labelled as "all natural". The powerful US meat industry is likely to insist that the export of nitrite-cured meat is a condition of a post-Brexit UK-US trade deal, which the UK government is under intense pressure to deliver. Continue reading... |
| Catalonia goes to the polls amid Covid and independence debate Posted: 14 Feb 2021 02:07 AM PST Sunday's election will serve as yet another barometer of strength of independence movement Catalonia is voting in a regional election overshadowed by the Covid pandemic and dominated by the continuing debate over independence from the rest of Spain. Nine parties are contesting the election but polls suggest a tight race between the unionist Catalan Socialist party (PSC), the pro-independence Catalan Republican Left (ERC) and the similarly secessionist Together for Catalonia party. Continue reading... |
| How far right uses video games and tech to lure and radicalise teenage recruits Posted: 13 Feb 2021 11:30 PM PST After a 13-year-old was sentenced last week, a young victim of radicalisation talks about how white supremacists target children John was 15 when a member of his Facebook group volunteered to become Britain's "first white suicide bomber". Another advocated attending Friday prayers at the local mosque and "slaying people where they stood". Another wanted to firebomb the place of worship. Ultimately, no blood was spilt. Police soon raided several homes linked to the group. John and a friend – also 15 and an adherent of far-right ideology – buried an arsenal of knives and machetes to ensure officers never found them. Continue reading... |
| Rwanda: The Dove's music united a nation torn by genocide. Why did he die in a cell? Posted: 14 Feb 2021 01:00 AM PST A year ago, singer Kizito Mihigo died after being arrested for his song mourning the Tutsi and Hutu killings. Now western donors want a full inquiry into his death Masses will be held across at least four continents this week to mark the anniversary of the death of Rwanda's most famous gospel singer. But there will be a key difference in the ceremonies staged in Kizito Mihigo's country of birth and those abroad. In Rwanda, no one will dare publicly to question how – or why – the baby-faced singer met his end. In the rest of the world, fans will be clamouring for justice. The 38-year-old star's death in police custody last February sits near the top of a list of cases cited by human rights and civil society groups calling for a fundamental reappraisal of western governments' relationship with president Paul Kagame and his central African nation. Guilt over the international community's failure to stop the 1994 genocide, they say, has for too long encouraged donors to ignore the sinister realities of his Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) regime. Continue reading... |
| Exercise can help prevent cancers, new research finds Posted: 13 Feb 2021 11:15 PM PST Obesity could soon overtake smoking as the main preventable cancer risk Taking regular exercise is going to become increasingly important in helping to prevent cancers as the UK emerges from lockdown, say scientists. Since the pandemic began a year ago, growing numbers of people have reported gaining weight after cutting down on physical activity while others say they have been eating more junk food. Continue reading... |
| Nelson urged mistress to give their baby girl 'new' smallpox vaccine Posted: 13 Feb 2021 10:00 PM PST Naval hero praises Jenner's cowpox jab in a newly found love letter to Emma Hamilton, written as he prepared for war He is best remembered as the one-armed hero who defeated Napoleon, rewrote the rules of naval warfare and died at sea, in battle, onboard HMS Victory. Now, the "chance discovery" of a 220-year-old love letter from Admiral Horatio Nelson to Lady Emma Hamilton, his mistress, reveals how open-minded and ahead of his time the formidable captain was about a radical new scientific breakthrough: the smallpox vaccine. In the letter, dated July 1801, Nelson appears to advocate the use of the brand new vaccine on his own baby daughter. Continue reading... |
| ‘Astonishing’ dig reveals domestic life in the iron age Posted: 14 Feb 2021 02:00 AM PST A large settlement, a Roman villa and many household objects are among the discoveries at an ancient site in Oxfordshire When archaeologists began excavating land near the iron age hillfort at Wittenham Clumps, a famous Oxfordshire landmark, they were hopeful of unearthing something of interest because the area has been occupied for more than 3,000 years. But nothing prepared them for the excitement of discovering an extended iron age settlement, with the remains of more than a dozen roundhouses dating from 400BC to 100BC – as well as an enormous Roman villa built in the late third to early fourth century. The structures would have remained buried beneath the sprawling green landscape if not for a decision by Earth Trust, the environmental charity that cares for it, to redevelop its visitor centre. Investigating the archaeology was part of the planning application. Continue reading... |
| Life savers: the amazing story of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine Posted: 14 Feb 2021 02:00 AM PST A year ago, two scientists began work on the response to a new virus. Now, as their vaccine is being given to millions, they tell of their incredible 12 months Exactly a year ago, Oxford University scientists launched a joint enterprise that is set to have a profound impact on the health of our planet. On 11 February, research teams led by Professor Andy Pollard and Professor Sarah Gilbert – both based at the Oxford Vaccine Centre – decided to combine their talents to develop and manufacture a vaccine that could protect people from the deadly new coronavirus that was beginning to spread across the world. A year later that vaccine is being administered to millions across Britain and other nations and was last week given resounding backing by the World Health Organization. The head of the WHO's department of immunisation, vaccines and biologicals, Professor Kate O'Brien, described the jab as "efficacious" and "an important vaccine for the world". Continue reading... |
| Has Covid changed the price of a life? Posted: 14 Feb 2021 12:00 AM PST A pandemic is a moral and economic minefield. How should governments weigh up the difficult choices – and are they getting it right? The dilemmas are achingly familiar by now. Should we lock down or stay open? If we lock down, when and in what order should the different sectors of the economy open up? What about schools? Places of worship? Cultural and sporting venues? In each case, the question being asked is essentially the same: is saving x lives from Covid-19 worth y potential damage to society? The question is usually framed in terms of damage to the economy rather than damage to society, because the former is easier to measure (how do you measure the damage done to religious people of not being able to pray together, to schoolchildren of not being able to mix, or to any of us of being deprived of art?) That calculation is complex enough, but feeding into it is another that's even more morally fraught: are some human lives more valuable than others? Continue reading... |
| New Zealand Covid outbreak: Ardern puts Auckland into three-day lockdown Posted: 13 Feb 2021 11:57 PM PST Three members of South Auckland family tested positive, prompting Jacinda Ardern to place region into level 3 measures Lockdown measures will be introduced across Auckland from midnight on Sunday, while restrictions will also be increased elsewhere in New Zealand, after three local cases were reported over the weekend. The prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, said the government was taking a cautionary approach to the cases, and acting under the assumption that they involved new, more transmissible strains of the virus. The source of the infections is not yet known. Continue reading... |
| 'We took a huge risk': the Indian firm making more Covid jabs than anyone Posted: 13 Feb 2021 09:00 PM PST Adar Poonawalla, chief executive of the Serum Institute of India, on vaccines, regulation and what comes next Adar Poonawalla, 40, is the chief executive of the Serum Institute of India (SII), the Pune-based, family-owned vaccine manufacturer that is producing more Covid-19 vaccines by dose than any other in the world. For now it's the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine rolling off its production lines, but SII has signed contracts with three other developers – Novavax, Codagenix and SpyBiotech – all of which have candidates in the works. Did you ever imagine you would be making vaccines for a global pandemic? Continue reading... |
| London's bridges are falling down: how politics has failed the capital's crossings Posted: 14 Feb 2021 01:00 AM PST The £150m repair of Hammersmith Bridge, closed since 2019, is mired in squabbling – and it's just one of many across the UK that need work Toby Gordon-Smith can see the district of Hammersmith from his flat. In normal times it takes him a few minutes to get there in his wheelchair. His cannabidiol products business is there, with the accessible tube station that he needs to get to the rest of London. The station is the reason why he moved to the area, but now it might as well be in another city. For he lives in Barnes, on the south side of the River Thames, opposite Hammersmith, and the bridge that connected them is closed for safety reasons – to vehicles since April 2019, and to pedestrians, cyclists and wheelchair users since last August. Although it is nearly two years since the first closure, there is still no clear plan for fixing the bridge. There are thousands of stories like Gordon-Smith's. For children in Barnes who go to schools in Hammersmith, what was once a 15-minute walk is now a tortuous three-mile journey along a towpath regularly flooded by the tide, up flights of steps on to a railway bridge (which makes cycling difficult) and through an ill-lit park with high rates of crime. Or they can take a long bus ride, which means getting up at 6am, if you're going to beat the rush-hour traffic. The area's main hospital, Charing Cross, is on the north side of the river, so those of its staff who live to the south, and patients needing such things as chemotherapy, now have to make gruelling journeys of an hour or more each way. Ambulances face potentially lethal delays. Continue reading... |
| Laverne Cox: ‘I can be so hard on myself’ Posted: 14 Feb 2021 12:00 AM PST Laverne Cox is a trailblazing actor and trans activist. But the one person she still has trouble winning over is the little girl inside herself. She talks about self-discovery and why she'll never stop fighting Laverne Cox knew she was different because everybody told her so. She was eight when a teacher called to warn her mother, "If you don't get your son into therapy right away, he's going to end up in New Orleans wearing a dress." This was Alabama, 1980, and Cox was escaping bullies every day. At 11 she attempted suicide. The bullying continued when she moved to New York in her late teens – by day she'd get harassed in the street, but by night, on stage at Lucky Cheng's drag bar, she was celebrated, a queen. It was here that she began her transition, and it was only after wrapping season one of Orange is the New Black in 2013 (where she played Sophia Burset, a trans woman sent to prison for credit-card fraud, committed to fund her gender-reassignment surgery) that she finally quit the night job and leaned into her new life – as the most famous trans actor in the world. Today, Cox is applying hand cream in her hotel room in readiness for her first interview of the day. "OK!" She is used to this by now, to people wanting her to tell her story again, in her kind and clever way. In the years since she started acting she has become the first openly trans- gender person to be on the cover of Time magazine, the first to be nominated for a Emmy, the first to have a waxwork in Madame Tussauds and the first to appear on the cover of British Vogue – chosen, no less, by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. "So where should we start?" she asks, smiling with teeth. Continue reading... |
| Among the storm chasers: witnessing the terrifying power of tornadoes Posted: 14 Feb 2021 02:00 AM PST Witnessing the destructive power of a tornado can be exhilarating. Now some amateur enthusiasts are helping scientists predict these awesome weather events Eight years ago on 20 May – a Monday afternoon – the most destructive category of tornado, known as an EF5, touched down just outside the town of Newcastle, Oklahoma. For 37 minutes, with winds estimated at 210mph, it snaked its way northeast towards the city of Moore, forging a catastrophic path. More than 1,000 homes were destroyed, 24 people were killed and 377 were injured. The damage was estimated at $2bn. Late that same night I drove from my then-home in Austin, Texas, the five-and-a-half hours to Moore to report on the aftermath. On the way into town the following morning, I passed abandoned cars that told their own story of panic and terror. I saw houses that had been ripped from their foundations. Continue reading... |
| I’m thinking of asking a work colleague out for a romantic walk Posted: 13 Feb 2021 10:00 PM PST How should I go about making my move? Strange times indeed, says Mariella Frostrup, but who says romance is dead? The dilemma A colleague I have had my eye on in the office was recently promoted, meaning we are now equals in the company. Along with working remotely at the moment, this has made me wonder if now the right time is to ask her out (so far as we can date anyone right now), away from the glare of our small company. I have always ruled it out but when I date other girls, she is always in the back of my mind, which has led me to think I need to give it a go. When I became suddenly ill last year, it was her I thought of in my hospital bed as I wondered what I would regret, even though I was in a relationship with someone else. I do feel worried though, as I'm very inexperienced for someone my age. I was thinking of asking if she wants to go for a lockdown walk first, and seeing what happens after a few walks and messages. Can you give me some advice on workplace relationships, particularly in the circumstances? Mariella replies Strange circumstances indeed. First, may I congratulate you on waiting until you were of equal stature in the workplace before making your move? How very evolved and modern. In other ways you're an old-fashioned guy. As your dilemma aptly demonstrates, these are challenging times for the singleton, the ranks of whom will have swelled considerably with anyone not already hooked or bubbled-up nearly one long year ago likely to still be on their own. If you didn't have a partner last March it is more than likely you're stuck with, at best, a virtual one at this point. Continue reading... |
| Designer Harris Reed: 'How are we still outraged by me putting Harry Styles in a dress?' Posted: 14 Feb 2021 01:45 AM PST Ahead of London fashion week, the gender-fluid designer talks about glue guns, pop stars and courting controversy in Vogue Before anyone had heard of the designer Harris Reed, they had seen his suit in Vogue. Or was it a dress? A tailored suit with peak shoulders attached to a hoop-skirt draped in tulle and hot pink satin garlands, it was worn in the magazine's December issue not by a Hollywood starlet, but by a popstar: Harry Styles. Arguably, it was both. Continue reading... |
| How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates; The New Climate War by Michael E Mann – review Posted: 13 Feb 2021 11:00 PM PST Two eminent voices on the climate crisis present clear strategies for tackling emissions, deniers and doomsayers President Joe Biden has promised a new era of American leadership on global climate action, after four years of unscientific denial and misinformation under Donald Trump. Two important new books by prominent American authors, both written before the result of the presidential election was known, should help to capitalise on the new spirit of cautious optimism by laying out bold but well-argued plans for accelerating action against climate change. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates presents a compelling explanation of how the world can stop global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions effectively to zero. Gates and his wife, Melinda, are well known for their foundation's tremendous work on improving health and tackling disease around the world, particularly in poor countries. It is this concern for the most vulnerable people on the planet that has meant Gates has occasionally appeared equivocal about climate and energy policies that he thought could undermine the fight against poverty and illness. However, this book lays out forcefully his understanding that the impact of climate change poses a far bigger threat to lives and livelihoods in developing countries – it is thwarting efforts to raise living standards because poor people, in every country, are the most at risk from droughts, floods and heatwaves. Continue reading... |
| ‘Children are not pets, society has to help parents bring them up’ Posted: 14 Feb 2021 01:10 AM PST As she prepares to leave office, children's tsar Anne Longfield says families should be at the heart of MPs' plans Parents have had to become teachers, a footballer has helped expose the plight of deprived families, and local groups across the country have been on the frontline in providing emergency advice and supplies. As a result, the pandemic's extraordinary impact has helped shift Britain's attitude to a community's role in bringing up children, the children's commissioner for England has said. Talking to the Observer before she leaves the role at the end of the month, Anne Longfield said that when she took up the job in 2015, the care of children was regarded as "a bit like pets – you wanted one, they're yours". Continue reading... |
| World's oldest known beer factory may have been unearthed in Egypt Posted: 13 Feb 2021 01:46 PM PST Ancient Egyptian site in Abydos apparently dates back to beginning of the first dynastic period American and Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed what could be the oldest known beer factory at one of the most prominent archaeological sites of ancient Egypt, a top antiquities official said on Saturday. Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the factory was found in Abydos, an ancient burial ground located in the desert west of the Nile River, more than 450km (280 miles) south of Cairo. Continue reading... |
| Mitch McConnell lambasts Donald Trump but votes not guilty – video Posted: 14 Feb 2021 01:57 AM PST Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell said on Saturday that Donald Trump was 'practically and morally responsible' for the insurrection at the US Capitol on 6 January – minutes after voting to acquit the former president in his impeachment trial for that very same act. House majority leader Nancy Pelosi criticised McConnell's remarks in a press conference on Saturday and said the issue of timing 'was not the reason that he voted the way he did; it was the excuse that he used' Continue reading... |
| Victoria Covid hotspots: list of Melbourne and regional Vic coronavirus case locations Posted: 13 Feb 2021 11:01 PM PST Here are the current coronavirus hotspots in Victoria and what to do if you've visited them
Victorian authorities have released a list of public exposure sites visited by a confirmed case of Covid-19. This comes after a hotel quarantine at one of the hotels used to isolate international tennis players and officials in Melbourne for the Australia Open tested positive to the virus. Continue reading... |
| ‘We cannot hope for anything good’: Myanmar coup sparks despair for Rohingya Posted: 14 Feb 2021 12:00 AM PST While Aung San Suu Kyi defended a genocidal campaign against the Muslim minority, refugees fear military rule will end dreams of a return home For the Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar, news of the fall of Aung San Suu Kyi after the military coup was bittersweet. After all, no community had felt more betrayed by Myanmar's civilian leader. When she came to power in 2015, the belief was that she would overturn decades of persecution and finally bring about peace and citizenship, following in the footsteps of her father, Gen Aung San. Continue reading... |
| Lawyers seek justice for women jailed for killing abusive partners Posted: 13 Feb 2021 07:52 AM PST A failure to account for previous violence has led to at least 20 unsafe murder convictions, campaigners claim It was a specific moment in which she thought she might die that drove Stella to the brink. "He had strangled me at the bottom of the stairs and that frightened me because you can get punched in the face or your hand broken, but I had never lost my breath before," she recalled. For Nicole, she was "pushed over the edge" when violence by her partner triggered a post-traumatic response to historic abuse by other men. "I was getting flashbacks of abuse ... everything came to a head and I just lost it." Continue reading... |
| Trump’s acquittal seals his grasp on the Republican party Posted: 13 Feb 2021 01:02 PM PST The former president and his supporters are likely to claim victory as they did after his first impeachment trial a year ago Donald Trump's highly anticipated acquittal at his US Senate impeachment trial is the least surprising twist in American politics since … well, his acquittal at his first US Senate impeachment trial a year ago. Related: Democrats fail to secure enough votes to convict Trump in historic second impeachment trial - live Continue reading... |
| Posted: 13 Feb 2021 11:00 AM PST Literary canons have real-world effects – they steal limelight from everyone else. We can challenge them by drawing attention to how they work I feel sheepish to admit how deeply affected I was when I encountered the research of Gauri Viswanathan, a professor in English at Columbia University in New York City. In Masks of Conquest: Literary study and British rule in India, she traces the history of English back to when it was first systematically taught as a secular discipline. I ask my students: where do you think English was first taught as a discipline? "England?" someone will always guess, realising it seems so obvious there must be a trick. And yes, they're right. It's a trick. Continue reading... |
| Failure to convict Trump in impeachment trial will live as a 'vote of infamy', says Schumer – video Posted: 13 Feb 2021 03:50 PM PST The Senate's top Democrat, Chuck Schumer, decried the decision to acquit Donald Trump of inciting a riot at the US Capitol on 6 January. House Democrats, who voted a month ago to charge Trump with 'incitement of insurrection', needed two thirds of the Senate, or 67 votes, to convict him. Only seven Republicans joined all 50 Democrats in voting to convict Trump. The Democrats argued in the short trial that Trump caused the violent attack by repeating for months the false claims that the election was stolen from him, and then telling his supporters gathered near the White House that morning to 'fight like hell' to overturn his defeat. Five people died when they then laid siege to the Capitol. Continue reading... |
| Five Republicans join vote for witnesses in Trump Senate trial – video Posted: 13 Feb 2021 09:23 AM PST Five Senate Republicans voted with the Democrats on Saturday, that the Senate should call witnesses in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. Before the 55-45 vote, Trump's impeachment lawyer Michael van der Veen warned senators that if Democrats wished to call a witness, he would ask for at least 100 witnesses and insist they give depositions in person in his office in Philadelphia – a threat that prompted laughter from the chamber. Continue reading... |
| 'We've made huge progress' says Johnson on UK vaccine rollout – video Posted: 13 Feb 2021 08:44 AM PST During a visit to the Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies plant in Billingham, Teesside, where the new Novavax vaccine will be manufactured, the prime minister hailed the coronavirus vaccine rollout, but said the infection rate was still high. Johnson said he would announce an outline for the 'roadmap forward' on 22 February, with priority being given to schools Continue reading... |
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