QAnon: How it fuelled the storming of the Capitol building

On the programme today we hear about a new BBC series looking at the roots of January 6th when rioters stormed the Capitol building in Washington a year ago. Our colleague Gabriel Gatehouse explains the loyalty to the QAnon conspiracy movement among many of the rioters and what’s been happening since the attack.

A court in New York is hearing arguments in a civil lawsuit against Britain’s Prince Andrew. He has denied allegations by Virginia Giuffre that she was forced to have sex with him in 2001, when she was 17. We’ll get the latest on the proceedings and explain why his lawyers argue that the case should be dismissed because of a legal settlement she made with Jeffrey Epstein.

We’ll also look at the impact of Omicron and hear from India where several states have imposed stricter Covid measures after the country recorded its sharpest ever weekly surge in infections. Our coronavirus expert Dr Swapneil Parikh joins us from Mumbai to explain how the health sector is prepared for the third wave.

And we hear about the wider implications for the tech world of the case of Elisabeth Holmes, the Theranos founder who has been convicted of defrauding investors.

(Photo: Jacob Chansley, holding a sign referencing QAnon, speaks as supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump gather to protest about the early results of the 2020 presidential election, in front of the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center (MCTEC), in Phoenix, Arizona November 5, 2020. Credit: Reuters/Cheney Orr/File Photo)