as covid cases and hospitalizations are surging across the globe, france s president wants to infuriate the unvaccinated by tightening restrictions further. in israel, a fourth vaccine shot is introduced. in australia, backlash over a medical exemption for a tennis star has some folks there saying bugger off. cnn has this covered coast to coast. reporter: i m jim bittermann in paris where president macron caused a stir last night with covid comments. in an interview with the widely circulated newspaper, he expressed his frustration with people pwhor stiwho are still n vaccinated and said his strategy is to piss them off. the president has been trying to get lawmakers to approve changes in the nation s health pass which would make it almost impossible for the nonvaccinated to engage in all activities like
awkward silence after president trump made this crack referring to elizabeth warren, the senator from massachusetts, as pocahontas and as you well know, native american groups and other people beyond that specific ethnic group take great offense to that, to that joke that president trump, you know, seems to think is funny. it s a slur. it s not a joke. it a slur. jeff bennett at the white house. jeff thank you very much, my friend. reporter: sure. we ll chew over that more in the 3:00 p.m. hour. elizabeth warren is joining my colleague ali velshi. i m sure she ll have a comment on it as well. meantime, take one moment to have a little happy news. more than 200 years ago the united states told england to bugger off. because of that, don tster to give a toss about royals and love lives, while there are some who think the institution is rubbish, the royals that is, to them i say, at least for today,
strikes one. we re gonna pop .around the clock tonight. we re gonna pop, pop, pop . till the broad daylight. we re gonna pop around the clock tonight. pop in new tide pods plus febreze a 4 in 1 detergent that cleans brightens and fights stains. now with 24-hour freshness. last week we brought you news about the daring escape of johnny depp s dogs. they left before barnaby joyce promised to have them killed. now. depp has to either take his dogs back to california or we re going to have to euthanize them. so it s time that pistol and boo bugger off back to the united states. mr. joyce accused depp of sneaking pistol and boo into australia without getting the
number of americans are suffering from nomophobia. the warning signs include constantly checking your phone 30 times a day, constantly worried that it s going to get lost even when it s in your pocket, and never turning the little bugger off. a whopping two-thirds of us said they call qualify for those characteristics, 17% up from a similar study a year ago. a majority of people have smartphones when, four years ago, regular cell phones were more popular. a recent study found that in the past 30 days in this country of ours, 41% of us who are smartphone users have created a
world. china. that s what we need. explain that a bit. why is china so relevant to what happens with iran and syria? china is so relevant because they are iran s largest importer of oil. they buy 20% of their oil. they also have a lot of say with their relationship with the russians. so it all kind of comes back to who can flex muscles. they are not doing it militarily, which is the only way we know how to do. how is china flexing? because they are the largest consumer out there. of oil? of oil. not just of oil, but of goods. and everyone is dying to compete there. and as a result, they are able to basically, jimmy, tell the entire west without even having to say it, bugger off. get out of here.