And sister both win gold. Britain s brandley sinden takes silver after a defeat in the taekwondo final, the uk s first silver medal in tokyo. And africa wins its first gold medal, as a tunisian teenager stuns the field to win the men s 400 metre freestyle. Thousands of people in the western united states, are spending the weekend in evacuation centers, as wildfires continue to burn across the region. More than 80 large wildfires in 13 us states have burnt around 1. 3 million acres in recent weeks. British mps have warned that taxpayers will bear the cost of the government s coronavirus spending for decades. A report found £372 billion has already been spent, pushing government debt to a rate not seen since the early 1960. Now on bbc news the week in parliament. Hello again, and welcome to the week in parliament, your irreplaceable guide to the world of westminster and beyond. In this programme, labour delivers the prime minister s end of term report. Last week, a million kids were o
In the first wave of the pandemic while the south east was hardest hit in the second wave the heatwave across the uk has been continuing and this afternoon northern ireland has broken it s all time temperature record for the second time in 5 days. The gb women s football team off to a flying start at the tokyo olympics with a 2 nil win over chile good afternoon. we cannot go on as we are the words today of the brexit minister lord frost, demanding a rethink from the european union on britain s post brexit trading arrangements with northern ireland. The government has called for significant changes to the deal negotiated only last year but it s held back, for now, from the dramatic step of effectively suspending parts of the deal. The european commission vice president has flatly rejected the uk demand for a renegotiation of the northern ireland protocol a protocol which requires checks on goods coming in from mainland britain. Chris page reports. Northern ireland has always
Worse in many places. One of the places is los angeles county which is hours away from starting or restarting a mask mandate. Paul vercammen is there. Paul, what are people saying about all this? reporter: well, they re all trying to figure it out, fred, that s because county health came out and said there were 1900 new cases just yesterday, and now the mandate goes into effect at 11:59 p. M. Tonight. Tomorrow, you have to wear masks again indoors at gyms, movie theaters, shops, restaurants. We re at patty s restaurant, bringing in george, the owner. You now have to reckon with a new rule that says inside, your patrons must wear masks, outside i guess no. They put it on you to enforce it. How do you do it? it has been a confusing situation with the masks. When they removed them june 15th, you can t ask a consumer whether or not they re vaccinated or not or prove it so we re supposed to assume, it was an assumption rule put in place for us that when a consumer came to the restaurant and
Just 300,000 a day. There is a clear message that is coming through. This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated. We are seeing outbreaks of cases in parts of the country that have low vaccination coverage because unvaccinated people are at risk. The good news is that if you are fully vaccinated, you are protected against severe covid hospitalization and deaths and are even protected against the known variants including the delta variant, importantly over 97% of people who are entering the hospital right now are unvaccinated. Here is something interesting. The white house says one out of every five covid cases this week is in florida. Why there? might it have something to do with the governor s pet slogan don t fauci my florida? sadly for everyone, unvaccinated people are now ruining the freedom the rest of us enjoyed this month. Starting tomorrow, everyone in the country s most populous county los angeles county will have to wear masks indoors in public places whether they are vac
Coverage right now. $550 billion infrastructure plan after a group of senators from both parties reach an agreement months in the making. It is not a done deal. Here at home, a major announcement to combat covid19 as the delta variant intensifies its furious grip on unvaccinated communities. In hours, president biden set to announce additional efforts aimed at ramping up the pace of vaccinations, specifically in areas with very low vaccination rates. That s in addition to him declaring a new vaccine requirement for all federal workers. It is not just the government beginning to implement vaccine mandates. Netflix is the first major hollywood studio to require the shot for all cast and crew. Google and facebook and lyft say they require them for all employees returning to the office. Also new, growing number of states with high infection rates say they will not follow the cdc guidance on wearing masks indoors again. It is erupting into an allout battle guess where, capitol hill. House m