prince william breaks his silence after harry and meghan s interview with a direct challenge to their most explosive claim. is the royalfamily a racist family sir? we are very much not a racist family. it s one year since the world health organisation declared coronavirus a global pandemic. since it first emerged in china, 118 million people have been infected. and 2.6 million people have died. the united states is the worst affected country, with more than half a million deaths. in the uk, the death toll has passed 125,000. anne marie rafferty is president of the uk s royal college of nursing. it s a sense of shock and it was quite profound and i think that continues to some extent although people have attuned to the pandemic, no one hoped it would last this long i think the psychological consequences of this have yet to completely unfurl. the great success of the last year has been the development of vaccines. more than 300 million doses have been administered worldwide.
Intervention. Just the fact that murders of these 21 hostages took place in north africa not the middle east is raising new questions about the strength and reach of the Islamic State. Nbcs Foreign Correspondent is with us this morning. First of all, talk about the significance over what has happened over just the last 48 hours. Reporter yeah. A group of egyptian christians who are among the thousands who work in libya. They had been missing, kids knapped, feared kidnapped for the past several weeks. Yesterday Late Afternoon local time here in the u. S. A video emerged online belonging to isis so shooing the brutes execution of several of those men. Within hows the egyptian president addressed the nation vowed this response. You can see on the screen egyptian fighter jets taking often from egypt, bombing targets in the eastern part of the country. Now, according to the Egyptian Military they say they targeted training sites, weapon deep oes belonging to some of these militants in retal