allowed girls to go to secondary schools and most of afghanistan, the only country in the world to do so. china military launches fresh drills off taiwan. it s in response to a visit to the island by a new group of american lawmakers. and world leaders meet in an attempt to reach an agreement on a treaty to protect the world s oceans from exploitation. welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. broadcasting to viewers in the uk we begin in britain, which has become the first country to approve what its manufacturers are calling a next generation covid vaccine. the uk s medicines regulator has approved a new version of moderna s coronavirus vaccine the first to target both the omicron variant as well as the original strain of the virus. ministers say the vaccine will now form part of the autumn booster campaign. here s our medical editor fergus walsh: this is the start of a new era in covid 19 vaccines. until now, they ve all been designe
want an intelligence damage assessment. and some republicans are digging into a new tactic to question whether the documents are actually that sensitive. we re on top of all of the latest. plus, a federal judge ruled that republican senator lindsey graham must testify in georgia s investigation of trump s efforts to overturn the election. graham s attorney has asked the judge to quash his subpoena. we will have more on that. and barricades lining the headquarters here in washington, d.c. as as the agency faces an unprecedented number of threats. let s begin with the mar-a-lago search, cnn s caitlin poll la polantz about all over this. that s right, alex, there may have been different motivations but bipartisan calls for transparency for people on the hill to really learn more about why the search was needed and what was found in those boxes removed from mar-a-lago. so, over the weekend, we had two house chairs, committee chairs, both democrats asking the director of nati
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cnn s blake is in taipei. blake, let s start with you. how much of a surprise was this, is this congressional visit? well, alex, look, these kinds of visits happen from time to time. and we don t often hear about them until after the arrival, and in this case, while taiwan s ministry of foreign affairs say the visit was aannounced, it s the timing that s perhaps the biggest surprise, especially after china reacted so strongly against speaker pelosi s visit. that reaction involved nearly a week of live fire drills surrounding taiwan with war planes and military vessels and missiles that flew over the self-governed island for the first time. this is the second time this month a surprise delegation has made this trip to taiwan here. two weeks ago, house speaker nancy pelosi. this time, a delegation led by ed markey during their two day visit, taiwan s foreign ministry says the group of u.s. lawmakers is going to meet with the democratic island s president, foreign minister, an
this is cnn breaking news. it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. and we to begin with breaking news, the federal investigation into donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. a source says a federal grand jury has subpoenaed pat cipollone but now, we are learning that the justice department is expanding its probe. katelyn collins is breaking the story. you are learning about another person in the trump white house is being subpoenaed? it s not just any person it s the number 2 lawyer in the trump white house at the end of the administration, his name is patrick philbin, the deputy white house counsel, so working alongside pat cipollone, they both now have been subpoenaed for both documents and testimony in this federal criminal probe conducted by the us attorney s office in d.c., the justice department and the fbi. when you take this together, this is aggressive grand jury activity from the justice department and federal prosecutors as they are