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India’s COVID-19 vaccination program is getting underway. The country aims to inoculate one-quarter of its 1.3 billion people against the coronavirus by July. Two vaccines – both made in India – have been approved for emergency use. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said healthcare and other frontline workers will be among the first to get the shot. India has recorded over 10 million cases of the virus, the second-highest number in the world, after the United States.

A time-lapse shows anti-lockdown protesters gathering at Yonge-Dundas Square before police dispersed the crowd on the first weekend of the stay-at-home order.

Jenna Ryan, a Texas real estate broker who took a private jet to Washington to join the attack on the US Capitol, pleaded with Donald Trump to pardon her after she was arrested by federal authorities. Ryan said she thought she was following what her president ‘asked us to do’ and that she had been ‘displaying my patriotism’ in travelling to Washington DC, where she filmed herself entering the Capitol building. ‘I’m facing a prison sentence,’ she told CBS 11 News at her home in Dallas. ‘I do not deserve that`

This video answers the question: Can I analyze the Lisa Montgomery case? Montgomery was executed on January 13, 2021 by the federal government of the United States for the 2004 murder of Bobbie Jo Stinnett.

Glen McGregor breaks down the impact on Pfizer temporarily reducing vaccine shipments and the impact on Canada’s vaccination plan.

The UK is closing all its travel corridors as fears grow about new variants of the coronavirus. Anyone arriving in the UK will have to present a negative test and will still have to self-isolate for up to 10 days. It came as Boris Johnson urged people to stay at home – with hospitals across the UK under extraordinary pressure. A record 37,000 people are being treated in hospital for coronavirus with the peak not expected for another 10 days in most areas. A quarter of patients are under the age of 55. Hospitals in Nottingham and Newcastle among others are preparing to accept intensive care patients from London, to try to ease the pressure on the worst-hit areas. Sophie Raworth presents BBC News at Ten reporting by health editor Hugh Pym, transport correspondent Caroline Davies and deputy political editor Vicki Young.

Reported global coronavirus deaths are set to hit two million. Even as countries race to vaccinate their populations, the COVID-19 death toll continues to rise at an alarming rate. New variants of the coronavirus, which scientists believe are more transmissible, have been blamed for a surge in infections. Across the world, countries are facing a second or third wave, with many governments tightening lockdowns already in place.

The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, has said it is possible that members of Congress could face prosecution if found to have ‘aided and abetted’ the violent attack on the Capitol earlier this month that left five people dead .