infection rise is translating into increased hospitalisation. from the 19th, wearing a mask on public transport will be a matter of personal responsibility rather than the law in england. bus and rail industry groups have said they won t require passengers to wear them. in scotland, first minister nicola sturgeon will announce today whether its restrictions can be eased next monday, as planned. wales is due to review its restrictions on wednesday, and northern ireland is due to ease some covid measures on july the 26th. the peak of the current wave of infections is not expected before mid august. this ward in middlesbrough is getting ready for a surge in patients. there is uncertainty about how the virus will spread in coming months. this will be a delicate balancing act. aruna iyengar, bbc news. andy burnham, the mayor of greater manchester, has said he s not ruling out making
eased next monday, as planned. wales is due to review its restrictions on wednesday, and northern ireland is due to ease some covid measures on july the 26th. the peak of the current wave of infections is not expected before mid august. this ward in middlesbrough is getting ready for a surge in patients. there is uncertainty about how the virus will spread in coming months. this will be a delicate balancing act. aruna iyengar, bbc news. trish greenhalgh is a professor of primary care health sciences at the university of oxford. thank you forjoining us and we heard the prime minister in that report, the clip used, saying scientists say this is the right day to do this, ease restrictions on the 19th ofjuly. you would beg to differ with that date, wouldn t you? i think most scientists would disagree that now is the right time.
temperatures topped 43 celsius for much of this week. the palestinian authority has cancelled a deal under which israel was to give it at least a million coronavirus vaccines. the palestinians said the jabs were too close to their expiry date. there s been international criticism of israel s failure to fully extend its world beating vaccination programme to the occupied territories. a court in belgium has delivered a ruling on the supply of the astrazeneca covid i9 vaccine to the european union. the eu brought the case, saying that the pharmaceutical company had broken its contract by not supplying enough doses to the bloc. the court in brussels ruled that the firm must send 80 million doses by the end of september in line with a strict timetable, with the first 15 million due on july the 26th. it will be fined ten euros for every dose short.
refuse to come forward. but we see career people in the u.s. government stepping forward, sometimes at great risk to their careers despite the protections we have for civil servants o talk about what they saw. i think it s pretty powerful. i think the ambassador testimony yesterday was pretty heartening to americans to see the people who are representing us in dangerous places doing difficult things on behalf of our government. andrew, another career official is david holmes. there was so many focus on the testimony maria yovanovitch yesterday. he brought up this phone call from july the 26th. what did lawmakers learn from david holmes last night? there was a lot of vulgar language contained in that opening statement that i can t necessarily repeat on television. the gist was he did corroborate william taylor s testimony
these impeachment hearings, that there is still no evidence of a quid pro quo and the two murky witnesses who are on the stand yesterday have not spoken with the president nor do they have firsthand knowledge about what the president was speaking to ukraine about. the white house did seem to be taken by surprise by the new evidence that ambassador bill taylor brought forward that on july the 26th there was a day after the president had that call with the president zelensky, eight if ambassador taylor overheard a phone conversation between the president and the e.u. ambassador gordon sondland. taylor testified that the aide said he heard the president asked silently and what the status of investigations was with ukraine and that sondland said they were prepared to move forward. he said that he also cared more about biden then he did about ukraine. in a news conference with president of turkey erdogan the president said he knew nothing about the claim or the call. listen here. i know n