government of making decisions not based on science and he has called it excessive. clearly a lot of anger on that side of the channel. france is a hugely popular holiday destination for brits. i am wondering what your response is to the french minister and others who might be angry? i the french minister and others who might be angry? might be angry? i spoke to my o- osite might be angry? i spoke to my opposite number might be angry? i spoke to my opposite number in might be angry? i spoke to my opposite number in france i might be angry? i spoke to my i opposite number in france yesterday and he and i both agreed that of course every country needs to look at the data, look at recommendations from scientists, in our case from the joint by a security centre and respond if we did not, quite rightly, asking us why we ignore data that might be of concern. in this case the beta variant. the decision in france was to keep france on hold for the time being before looking at the data agai
the headlines. on day seven of the tokyo olympics, all eyes will turn to the track, as the heats for the 100 metres marks the start of the athletics. jamaica s double olympic champion, shelly ann fraser pryce is among the favourites. tokyo has extended its state of emergency, afterjapan suffered a record breaking 10,000 daily covid cases. there s increasing concern the olympics is fuelling the spike. doctors are warning the city s healthcare system could be overwhelmed. the australian government has deployed hundreds of troops in the city of sydney to help police ensure that residents observe the stay at home restrictions, as covid infections continue to rise. one of hollywood s best paid stars, scarlettjohansson, is taking legal action over disney s decision to stream her latest movie black widow at the same time as it was released in cinemas. you re watching bbc news. when a country holds the olympics there s often a big
tjy last seven days, most of it fuelled by the spread of the delta variant. barely 50% of the population here is fully vaccinated. that leaves 19 million americans who are eligible for a vaccine that has so far chosen not to get one. today president biden expressed a measure of frustration, a measure of desperation. he said it was not a political issue, nothing political about this. he also blamed misinformation on social media and other platforms for the reason for a lot of people not getting their jabs. as she mentioned he announced new requirements for federal government workers to either get vaccinated or undergo regular testing and he pushed as well for cash incentives to be made available to those who are in areas of the country where vaccination rates are low. to incentivise them to get a
or some new shoes we may talk about in the days to come but there s some very coming on the track so we might well get a lot of records over the coming days at the athletics. hundreds of troops are to be deployed in the australian city of sydney to help police ensure that residents observe stay at home restrictions as covid infections continue to rise. 0ur correspondent in sydney, shaimaa khalil, says australia s low vaccination rate is an issue. it is the availability of the vaccine, the fact that has been so much mixed messaging around astrazeneca that many people have gone for it for weeks. also this is a country where for the longest time life had gone back to near normal. as recently as may. there was not that push in the beginning to get people to get vaccinated because people to get vaccinated because people felt there wasn t an urgency. now of course with the situation in
there has been so much mixed messaging around astrazeneca that many people have not gone for it for weeks. also this is a country where for the longest time life had gone back to near normal. as recently as may. there was not that push in the beginning to get people to get vaccinated because people felt there wasn t an urgency. now of course with the situation in new south wales going from bad to worse, there is a big push from the government to get people vaccinated but numbers are nowhere near when they need to be, only 17% of the population is vaccinated. in new south wales we have seen the biggest spike yesterday, 239 cases in one day. that is the biggest in the pandemic for new south wales. today it is 170 but this is after five weeks of lockdown, which has been extended to another four weeks. on top of that, there are eight