dr tedros called on beijing to provide more data and to urgently step up its vaccination programme.sk assessment of the situation on the ground, who needs more detailed information on the severity, hospital admissions, and requirements for icu support. who is supporting china to focus its efforts on vaccinating people at the highest risk across the country. the founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange, ftx, is in custody of the fbi, and being flown to the us. authorities in the bahamas agreed to extradite sam bankman—fried to new york where he faces fraud charges. ftx went bankrupt last month. hilaryj allen is a professor of financial regulation at the american university washington college of law and was an expert witness in the hearing on collapse of crypto currency company ftx last week. a little earlier, i asked her what led to the ftx ex—boss extradiction and how the acquisition against him came about. sam bankman—fried and ftx were basically the golden boy of crypto for a long time, it seemed to be that he was the responsible player in the room, but behind the scenes,

dr tedros called on beijing to provide more data and to urgently step up its vaccination programme.essment of the situation on the ground, who needs more detailed information on the severity, hospital admissions and requirements for icu support. who is supporting china to focus its efforts on vaccinating people under highest risk across the country. in the latest wave of industrial action including paramedics and call handlers, are on strike in england and wales. they want a pay rise above inflation and a change to working conditions. it's prompted a bitter exchange of words between unions and ministers. our health editor hugh pym reports. noisy, busy — one picket line in today's strike, the biggest such action by ambulance staff in more than 30 years. it's pressure at work as much as pay which they say has led them to this. you're hearing the radios going off, thejobs coming in and you can't go to them because you're stuck at hospital, and that's frustrating. and also we're going to patients who have been waiting for ambulances and unfortunately they have died waiting for ambulance

dr tedros called on beijing to provide more data and to urgently step up its vaccination programme.s more information on the severity, hospital admissions, and requirements for icu support. who is supporting china to focus its efforts on vaccinating people at the highest risk across the country. members of the scottish parliament have been debating plans to make it easier to change gender legally. the scottish government says the legislation will ensure dignity for trans people. but critics say it's a threat to women and girls. the bbc�*s scotland editorjames cook has been following events. yeah, i came out as trans when i was 18. and i was really lucky, all of my friends and family were so supportive. it was a really positive experience for me. ellie gomersall is now 23. she's been trying — and failing — to change the sex on her birth certificate for nearly five years. i often joke that the hardest thing about being trans is the admin, and there is definitely truth in that. i mean, certainly, to apply for a gender recognition certificate can be so costly, it can have so much admin

tedros, the attempt of. dr. tedros, the communist china shill.uess to take away our last little bit of joy in life, i suppose. what i'm saying. so this is the draft, the zero draft for the pandemic treaty they've been talking about for a long while. a couple of months ago, there was a big fuss about them talking about this pandemic, amending the international health regulations. and thankfully got on to it and said, oh , we really on to it and said, oh, we really don't want dr. tedros to be the one to decide when there is a pandemic and how to respond to it just by himself, because pandemic and how to respond to it just by himself , because that it just by himself, because that was basically what he was proposing . you know, it sounds proposing. you know, it sounds great to have one guy in charge of all of that. so thank for the. a lot of african nations actually shut those amendments down that were put forward by biden administration. surprise surprise which was just basically saying that they could declare a pandemic and then or say some langua

tedros, the attempt of. dr. tedros, the communist china shill.ss to take away our last little bit of joy in life, i suppose. what i'm saying. so this is the draft, the zero draft for the pandemic treaty they've been talking about for a long while. a couple of months ago, there was a big fuss about them talking about this pandemic, amending the international health regulations. and thankfully got on to it and said, oh , we really on to it and said, oh, we really don't want dr. tedros to be the one to decide when there is a pandemic and how to respond to it just by himself, because pandemic and how to respond to it just by himself , because that it just by himself, because that was basically what he was proposing . you know, it sounds proposing. you know, it sounds great to have one guy in charge of all of that. so thank for the. a lot of african nations actually shut those amendments down that were put forward by biden administration. surprise surprise which was just basically saying that they could declare a pandemic and then or say some language

world health organization director-general tedros adhanom ghebreyesus said his uncle was killed by eritrean troops amid ongoing fighting in ethiopia's northern tigray region. he made the revelation at the end of a covid briefing on wednesday. >> i spoke to my mother and she was devastated because he was the youngest from tir family. he was almost the same age as me. he was not alone, by the way. and the village when they killed him in his home, the same village, more than 50 people were killed. amy: last month, ethiopia's government and tigrayan representatives agreed to a peace deal after two years of war but eritrean forces were not part of that agreement. meta has been sued by two ethiopian researchers and a kenyan rights group for allowing facebook posts inciting violence in the tigray war to proliferate on the site. one of the plaintiffs says his father, an ethiopian academic, was the subject of racist attacks online before his murder in november 2021 and that facebook had refused to remove the violent posts. this is kenyan lawyer mercy mutemi, who filed the lawsuit. >> not only does f

this is the who's director-general tedros adhanom ghebreyesus. >> the who is very concerned the situation in china with increasing reports of severe diseases. in order to make a risk assessment of the situation on the ground, the who needs more information on the severity, hospital admissions, and requirements for icu support. amy: on wednesday, china reported no new deaths from covid-19. the claim came after a top chinese health official said china would change the definition of covid deathso include only those caused directly by pneumonia and respiratory failure. many disease models predict a surge of covid cases could kill up to one million people across china over the next few months. here in the ited states, life expectancy has dropped to its lowest level in a quarter century, brought down by the coronavirus pandemic and a surge of drug overdoses. new data from the centers for disease control show a baby born in 2021 can, on average, expect to live 76.4 years. that's nearly two-and-a-half years of lost life expectancy since the start of the pandemic. last year, a record 106,000 u.s.

hotez at baylor in houston and now tedros at whl. and fauci.and what it's doing is it's trying to take an intimidation tactic where it's trying to obfuscate clean discussions, fair, balanced discussions on vaccine and safety and efficacy. fauci walensky and the public health officials had their chances through 2020 to january twenty fourth. and then on december 7th, 2020 two, they were invited to face me and doctors on unknown panel in the u.s. senate and they failed to show they've also failed to show up in a congressional hearing led by chip roy, dr. martin caldara, jay bhattacharya and scott atlus. so the use of the term antiscience, they're using this in a sense to avoid confronting discussing the data with respected colleagues. >> you know, look, you're a very accomplished medical doctor . i'm not. but when i hear dr. fauci in such a role, listen to what he had to say about masks along the way. >> when you're in the middle of an outbreak wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet. but it's n

dr tedros called on beijing to provide more data and to urgently step up its vaccination programme.no—one in the entire country has died from covid. you also have the chinese government saying that they have actually lost control themselves of who has got covid in the country, they have already admitted that. they have also changed the definition of who has covid, or hit deaths in china, they are defined very narrowly so it is perhaps no surprise that the recording... so we have seen the chinese government trying to downplay the knob of people who have covid in the country, the number of people who are dying and the reality of what people experience in their daily lives. he of what people experience in their dail lives. . ., , ., daily lives. he said the increase a direct correlation _ daily lives. he said the increase a direct correlation with _ daily lives. he said the increase a direct correlation with the - daily lives. he said the increase aj direct correlation with the stricter zero covid policy measures being lifted? . �* , zero covid policy measures being lifted? . �*, , . z

out and doing so it is corrupted w.h.o. by lobbying for a non—medical very supplement head which is tedrosasically listen to them and he basically listen to them and they know the world when he should have and it should never have come out to china and china just walk away and not be held also account for this. so it's one of the reasons why i think you have to in so say had come our country going have a test our country going to have a test first and well angus you very much for that but very briefly really quickly we've got about 10 seconds. you think that 10 seconds. do you think that this a manmade virus or like this is a manmade virus or like the past been boosted you the past been boosted or do you think that it was something that it natural that escaped it was natural that it escaped from an animal or when the backbone of the virus came from from a back? there's no doubt about it the bats were living over a thousand miles away and they were brought to the laboratories say for a reason and they had lots of viruses on them . they they isolated lots of them. they they isolated lots of