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Joe bidens given details of his plan to sharply increase the number of americans being immunised against covid 19 in the face of a sustained rise in cases and deaths. The president elect, who takes office on wednesday, said the priority was to inoculate everyone over the age of 65. The number of people around the world who have died with covid 19 has now passed the two million mark. Thats more than the combined total of deaths for hiv, malaria, flu and cholera in the past year. After the united states, brazil and india are the worst affected countries. Police in guatemala have arrested 600 mig...

This is bbc news, im simon mccoy. The headlines one in ten people across the uk had contracted covid 19 by the end of december. Hospitals in the midlands are short staffed and care homes remain on the front line. The vaccine has been certainly the big thing that every provider is now desperate to get into their services and the roll out, it is happening, but it is not as quick as we would all like. Fortress washington as donald trump spends his last full day in office, america anxiously waits for the inauguration of his successor. Scotlands first minister Nicola Stugeon is to update the Scotti...

Tens of thousands of protesters are marching in the us capital washington. Its the biggest protest so far during twelve days of demonstrations against the killing of george floyd. Thousands of mourners gather to honour george floyd at a second memorial service, this one in his birthplace of north carolina. It comes after a service was held in minneapolis, near where he was killed. His funeral will take place in houston on tuesday. In the uk, thousands of people have gathered in cities across the country, despite warnings to stay at home because of the risk of spreading the coronavirus. The dem...

Music out there. you can sit back and listen to jerry. it helps. >> we all have our ways and that's clearly yours. prince harry is blaming the broadcasting for his mother's mental health and her eventual death. head for the hills. there's a fungus growing inside millions of cicadas. it's taking away their butts and genitals and turning them into sex-crazed salt shakers of death. everything i said there is true. should we be worried? >> yes, we should. >> stay with us. for as little as $25 a month. but when you bring a friend, you get a month for $5. so i'm bringing everyone within 12 degre...

Cicadas. an awful lot of them. these insects burrow into the ground for 17 years before they emerge to mate and lay eggs. a few weeks later, they die, leaving their exoskeletons. there are several different groups of cicadas across the us and they emerge in different years. this one, so—called brood ten, is the largest — around 1.5 million cicadas per acre, we think. that makes billions in the whole brood, and those billions will burrow their way out of the ground in these 15 states over the next few weeks. already, though, there have been sightings. cicadas aren't like locusts. they don't...