we start in the us where, as you ve been hearing, president biden is taking the fight against covid to the workplace. the spread of the delta variant has hit the economic recovery, stalling job creation and battering consumer confidence. now, the president is ordering all federal government employees to get vaccinated and businesses with more than 100 staff will have to ensure they are either vaccinated or tested weekly. my message to unvaccinated americans is this what more is there to wait for? what more do you need to see? we have made the vaccine free, safe and convenient. the vaccine has fda approval. over 200 million americans hav gotten at least one shot. over 200 million americans have gotten at least one shot. we have been patient, but our patience is wearing thin and your refusal has cost all of us so, please, do the right thing. butjust don t take it from me. listen to the voices of unvaccinated americans who are lying in hospital beds, taking their final brea
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are author and journalist yasmin alibhai brown and henry zeffman, chief political correspondent at the times. hello correspondent at the times. again. a quick look at print hello again. a quick look at the print pages. 0n the front page of the times, its main headline is the uk to admit 20,000 afghans. borisjohnson will offer those fleeing the taliban a safe legal route. similarly, the guardian leads with the latest announcement of how britain is set to take in 20,000 afghans fleeing the taliban. the prime minister said britain owed a debt of gratitude to all those who have worked with us to make afghanistan a better place over the last 20 years. big hearted britain to take 20,000 refugees that s what the daily express leads with: women, children and religious minorities are set to be top of the list. 0n the front of the daily mirror, it also has how afghans will be able to set
for survivors, as the death toll from a huge earthquake rises to nearly 1,300. the taliban s extrarodinary sweep across afghanistan has now extended into the capital kabul, which it has seized with precious little resistance. taliban commanders have been photographed in the president s palace, while president ashraf ghani has fled to uzbekistan. it is nigh on 20 years since the taliban fled the capital. today as they reassert their authority they have urged calm, but the city is said to be in chaos. the us state department says american troops are now taking steps to secure the airport. our first report is from our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams. afghanistan has new masters. 20 years later, the taliban are back. hours after arriving in kabul, sitting at the president s desk. earlier at the same desk, president ashraf ghani clinging to the last fragments of power. but the man gazing down on kabul s streets has gone, fleeing to neighboring uzbekistan. in a facebook post,
the white house convened a meeting today for all living former surgeon generals to tackle the pandemic. particularly the every ffort to more people vaccinated. the current surgeon general said they also talked about combating misinformation. right now, vaccinations against covid are at the highest level that have been seen in a month. that s the good news. but at the current pace, it would still take six months from now to get all eligible americans at least one dose. this is according to cnn s analysis of the cdc data. in the meantime, the delta variant continues to spread across the u.s. almost all of the new cases are among the unvaccinated. look at the screen. this is a cdc timelapse. it shows how in one month, it has taken over. these red areas indicate parts of the country that see the highest transmission. the cdc says delta now makes up more than 90% of u.s. cases. late may, it was about 3% of cases. today, for the third day in a row, the average number of infection