They have got a lot of young children to vaccinate. 6a0,000. And with the polio vaccination it comes in two rounds, so more thani million it comes in two rounds, so more than 1 million vaccinations are already in gaza, the first round of vaccinations will start tomorrow as part of this campaign, and then in three weeks those children will have to have another vaccination. So, a lot of the logistics around this have actually been about keeping the vaccination is cool because obviously it is very hot in gaza at the moment and they have got to be refrigerated, and for the most part it is local doctors who would be administering it, but with so many people to be vaccinated it is obviously going to be challenging. Let s turn our attention to israel s military operation in the west bank, what is the latest on that? well, this intensified israeli military operation has now been going on for several days, and it has continued today, as you say specifically in jenin. My today, as you say speci
through an act of violence at the hands and the feet of people who had been charged with keeping them safe. with the brother of george floyd and the mother of breonna taylor in attendance, tyre nichols, yet another young, black life snuffed out by the brutality of police is mourned in memphis. and later, congresswoman omar joins me as republicans continue their revenge tour. plotting to deny her a seat on the foreign affairs committee. we begin tonight on the first day of black history month, while it s still legal, presumably even in florida. in memphis, tyre nichols was eulogized today by reverend al sharpton, vice president kamala harris, ben crump, and tyree s family in an emotional and powerful ceremony in the city that was once the site of the final speech of reverend dr. martin luther king jr. on the night before his assassination in april, 1968. looking at the balcony where martin luther king shed his blood, for city workers, for black city workers, to be able
house republicans have repeatedly come up empty-handed when asked a straightforward question given that they re now in charge of the house, what do they want to cut? this is in the context of a possible debt showdown looming. social security and medicare are off the table, then where do republicans want to cut spending? that s going to be the part of the dance. well, the dance is here, and that s the context for the president s meeting late today. this was his first meeting with the new speaker, kevin mccarthy. we don t have the deal because the white house kept it as a closed press first summit. biden we know has sat at that resolute desk before, had his share of high stakes meetings and watched as vice president when then president obama faced a similar effort to ransom the economy. republicans are offering a similar brinksmanship, but also have internal fights with a narrow majority about what they want to do and what they want to cut. house republicans say they migh
the military takeover there. we start in the uk, which has seen the biggest day of strike action in more than a decade, according to the unions, with up to half a million people walking out in disputes over pay, jobs and conditions. among those striking are train drivers from the aslef union impacting most train companies across england. bus drivers in london about 100,000 civil servants from over a hundred government departments. thousands of university staff from 150 universities across the uk. and teachers from the national education union. these aerial images show demonstrators marching past the bbc s headquarters in london. 0ur employment correspondent was with them nearby at whitehall. the scale of this. this is the biggest straight for more than a decade. there has been some sort of talk about, could this be the general strike? it is not that. there are unions who have decided not to strike today. it certainly could be a lot bigger. what s interesting is there are un
from everything they know. we can t go back to hong kong right now, but i think ten years or 20 years we can. if she is still in hong kong, then i think she sjust going to be brainwashed. i think they deep down know that | i won t come back to hong kong. many are cash rich and are buying homes outright in towns across britain. they re bringing over on average, six, 700, maybe 800,000 into the uk economy. but are the tensions they were hoping to escape now in the uk? this is my bloody face after being attacked by those chinese people. i m elaine chong. over the past few months, i ve been following hong kongers who ve moved to the uk and i ve been finding out if their new life here is what they were hoping for. in 2019, violent clashes spread through hong kong. millions of hong kongers took to the streets to protest against china s growing control in the region. they felt their freedom of speech was being threatened with new risks of deportation to china and possible torture. t