some of you will go off to college and study and explore things that we have not even discovered yet. you will become teachers and leaders, nurses, you will invent the technology that will help our nation compete and you will help lead our nation including as public servants no matter what you decide to do or where you go or no matter how many times you change your major if you go to college or your profession. we need you. we need you to be as kind as you are courageous. we need you to be as ambitious as you are curious. we need you to dream and we need you to do. that s what i call american aspiration. it is the capacity to think big and keep going. it lives in each and every one of you. as you cross the graduation stage in person or visrtually. as we emerge from this pandemic, please remember you are prepared. remember you are not alone. remember to inspire with ambition and graduates, always know president joe biden and i and your country believe in you. we are counting
an escalation of violence in the middle east an israeli air strike kills 1a people, including eight children, while one man is killed by a hamas rocket strike on israel. the offices of international media groups were destroyed in an airstrike on gaza city israel claimed the building was being used by hamas intelligence. there was an assumption amongst some in israel that the conflict was more or less over and simply had to be managed. now, the tension here and the events of the last week also have shown that that is not the case. tonight us president biden has spoken to leaders on both sides, expressing his grave concern. we ll have the latest from the region. also tonight: extra testing s being carried out in 15 places across the uk for the variant of the coronavirus first detected in india. fa cup winners! for the very first time! leicester celebrate beating chelsea in front of the uk s biggest football crowd since the coronavirus pandemic began. good evening. there s
investigators raided the home and office of the former presidents lawyer, rudy giuliani. as part of an ongoing investigation into giuliani s dealing with ukraine. you may remember that giuliani set himself the task of digging up dirt on the bidens in ukraine. part of his effort to keep joe biden away from that podium tonight. he did not succeed. we ll have much more on that story ahead with one of the former presidents impeachment managers. but first, it was a historic night. two women seated behind the president for the very first time in a joint address to congress. one of those being a woman of color, vice president kamala harris. the address was also unlike any other dream to the ongoing pandemic. you can see it there in the shot. just 200 members of congress and officials attending. whether usually 1600. they were seated apart from each other for social distancing purposes. but much else about tonight was familiar to joe biden, who of course attended dozens of these addr
about the alleged use of uighur forced labour in cotton production. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. president biden has held his first news conference as president of the united states. the 78 year old said he expected to run again in 202a. mr biden announced a doubling of his vaccination target in his first hundred days to 200 million doses, and defended his policies on immigration and gun control. here s our north america editorjon sopel. no fanfare, no hail to the chief, no fight with journalists. please, please, sit down, thank you. no one even called another beauty . this is about as different from the trump era as you could get, though the memory was there. my predecessor, oh, god, i miss him. he wanted to parade achievements the speeding up of vaccine delivery, the boost to the economy from his stimulus package and a new tone for political debate. t
more than 100 years, sells at auction twice. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the head of the european commission, ursula von der leyen, has said that astrazeneca must catch up on vaccine deliveries for the eu before exporting vaccine supplies elsewhere. european leaders have been meeting to discuss the covid crisis. cases are rising across the continent, but miss von der leyen says astrazeneca has only delivered 30 million of the 90 million vaccines it promised, even as tens of millions are sent to other countries, including the uk. from brussels, here s our europe editor, katya adler. prague is remembering its dead simply, painfully. with one of the highest covid fatality rates in the world, the czech republic, like many other eu countries, is in the grip of a third wave. vaccines are in short supply. national rollouts like here in belgium in disrepute, the eu s credibility on the line. eu leaders have been meeting remotely today to discu