Hello and a very warm welcome to our viewers around the world. I m fred pleitgen right here in london and here is what s ahead on cnn newsroom president biden remains defined as calls for him to step aside, grow louder, we ll tell you who s joining the chorus and what the white house has to say. Russia sentences american journalist evan gershkovich too for espionage. Why washington called the conviction, quote, a sham and a cyber meltdown around the world from airlines to banks. We re learning what happened and how long it could take before things get back to normal our top story go u. S. President joe biden is vowing to stay in the race despite a growing list of fellow democrats telling him to drop out more than 30 democratic lawmakers are now publicly urging him to step aside. And that includes a dozen on friday alone, a source says the president is quote, seething at former house speaker nancy pelosi. Since some of her close allies are joining the calls earlier legendary journalist
Friday, july 12 right now on cnn this morning i wouldn t have picked vice president trump to be vice president. I think she s not quite while fired to be president an uneven performance from the president on the world stage, democrats still scrambling to figure out what to do about the top of their ticket i get more defections in the ranks 17 democrats now publicly calling for president biden to pass the torch and an embarrassing introduction new aid package for the president of ukraine all right 5:00 a. M. Here in washington. A live look at capitol dome on this friday morning. Good morning. Morning, everyone. Happy friday. I m kasie hunt. It s wonderful to have you with us. We re going to begin with the good, the bad, and the ugly from president biden s closely watched nato press conference prince, the president speaking to reporters for almost an hour. At times showing his depth of knowledge on a wide range of issues. He also was more animated at, at the point when he talked about gu
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Let s start with the us economy, because the latest official figures suggest that it s showing mixed signs of recovery from the pandemic. Data from the labor department showed the number ofjob vacanciesjumped by 590,000 to 10. 1 million injune. That figure is a record and well above economists expectations. The figures also showed hiring rose to 6. 7 million injune from 6 million in the previous month, which is the second largest increase since the government started tracking the data in 2000. To get more details on the data, michelle fleury sent us this report from new york. If you are wondering what a pandemic labour market looks like, in a word, peculiar. America had a record 10. 1 millionjobs available america had a record 10. 1 million jobs available in america had a record 10. 1 millionjobs available injune, million jobs available in june, the millionjobs available injune, the result in part of businesses struggling to hire enough staff, despite an unemployment rate above 5%. A
Also in the programme, the uk government defends changes to the rules on foreign travel as thousands of british tourists scramble to get home from mexico by sunday morning. The government has defended its decision to add the country to the government read list causing some difficulty to some who are there. I can t afford another £3000, and also with my work, i can t afford to take any extra time off. And i can t work in the quarantine hotel, so we had to get back. We start with the escalating fighting in afghanistan. For months now, the taliban have been gaining ground in rural and underpopulated areas. Now there s fierce conflict in several provincial capitals, the afghan army fighting back in crowded neighbourhoods, and all this putting more civilians in more danger. This map shows you some of the key areas of the fighting kandahar, herat and lashkar gah. Lashkar gah is the capital of helmand province, which was the former headquarters of the british forces. There s fierce fightin