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100,000 lives lost: a figure that seemed inconceivable a year ago.

The first steps in Mr Trump’s impeachment trial have begun.

We are joined by Professor David Salisbury, the former director of immunisation at the Department of Health. 

We’re joined by the French MEP Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, who is a medical doctor and a member of the parliament’s environment, public health and food safety committee.

The government has insisted that vaccine supplies to the UK won’t be affected, after the European Commission threatened to block exports of vaccines manufactured inside the EU. 

Travellers arriving in Britain from coronavirus hotspots could be made to quarantine in designated hotels, to limit the spread of new variants of the virus. Ministers are meeting this evening to discuss the proposals. They could be imposed on people flying in from parts of the world where virulent new strains have broken out, like…

India is currently witnessing not just the biggest protests in its history – but the largest demonstrations in the world.

Our foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Rugman, has been to Sweden to figure out why they decided to go it alone – and why it was always a risky strategy.

We spoke to James Comey, the former FBI director who was fired by President Trump in 2017

Donald Trump has become something he never wanted to be: a loser. He joins a list of US presidents who asked the American people for another chance, another term – and failed.

While there’ll be many people breathing a sigh of relief that Donald Trump has left the White House – millions of his supporters still don’t accept the fact of his defeat, and Americans are now divided not so much by their support for different politicians but more by their belief in polar opposite versions of the truth. 

He promised and he delivered. One of President Biden’s very first actions was to sign the United States back up to the Paris climate accord to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Swiftly followed by a series of green decrees, including scrapping oil drilling in the Arctic and a major oil pipeline. But with…

David Frum, the author and former speechwriter to President George W. Bush, joined us from Washington DC.

President Biden might be facing an overflowing domestic in-tray this week, but he’s also got his work cut out for him on the foreign policy front – from Iran and the Middle East to global security. In the latest move, his officials say he is seeking a five-year extension on the US-Russia nuclear arms treaty,…

American school teacher and community organiser Dr Debbie Almontaser made history today as the first Muslim American woman to offer a prayer by reciting the Quran at the presidential inauguration service. She spoke to us from New York.