Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me arejohn rentoul, who s the chief political commentator from the independent, and lucy fisher, the deputy political editor from the telegraph. Hello again to both of you. A quick look through those from pages, we will start with the metro which reports on the story that flights to belarus have been grounded by the uk and aircraft diverted from its airspace after the country was accused after the country was accused of state sponsored piracy. The move follows the detention of the belarussian opposition journalist roman protasevich whose flight was diverted to enable his arrest. The times reports that nearly 400,000 homes will be built on greenfield sites in the south of england over the next five years, according to a new analysis of planning policy. The i says downing street is braced for new claims about borisjohnson s handling of pandemic calling it the revenge of dominic cummings. T
Plus the president today sending his top diplomat to the middle east, and the president making a promise to not put israel and gaza on the back burner, now that rockets and air strikes have stopped. More on the big political stakes on those stories ahead, covid numbers signal normal, or at least near normal, it s close. The united states today hitting a key milestone, 25 states in the district of columbia have fully vaccinated at least half of their adult populations. Important signs of the times right there, take a look, weekend images of fans jamming ballparks and arenas for baseball and the start of the nba playoffs. Another sign, new york s mayor pledges city schools will be fully open in the fall, no more remote learning, the trajectory is good, quite good. But the threat is by no means gone. Your choice about the covid vaccine is paramount. I think it s an environment right now where we re not going to be able to rely necessarily on public health ordinances and mandates from gove
It s the top of the hour. I m alisyn camerota. I m air erica hill in for vi blackwell. It s a busy week on capitol hill. Let s listen to where they are. At the moment infrastructure negotiations appear on the brink of collapse. A white house counteroffer is still $1 trillion more than what republicans want to spend. Plus, a senate vote on whether to set up a bipartisan commission to investigate the january 6th riots is expected to fail, and republicans appear ready to block it from even being debated with a filibuster. Then a police reform bill that the president wanted on his desk by tomorrow, the oneyear anniversary of george floyd s murder, is not finished. And the president s plan for gun reform has also stalled as has a sweeping voting bill rights voting rights bill, which is opposed by all 50 republicans and 1 democrat. For more on this very busy, very consequential week, let s bring in manu raju on capitol hill. So, what s going to happen this week? reporter: talks about continu
Face mask during a once in a generation pandemic is an historical. It s nothing like the holocaust. Republican congresswoman liz cheney referred to greene s remarks as evil lunacy. Let s go straight to cnn s donne o sullivan. This is about more than one congresswoman s remarks. Despite major pushback the congresswoman is standing by what she said and there s very little coming from republican workers to defend her. Take a lessen when she was asked to qualify. I stand by all of my statements. I did nothing wrong and i think an average jewish person didn t like what happened in nazionaly germany and an average person doesn t like what s happening with overbearing mask mandates and overbearing vaccine policies. Reporter: so there you have greene who in 2018 shared a conspiracy theory online blaming jewish space lasers for wild fires in california and now seemingly speaking for what she calls rational jewish people. Jake? donne, we should note this is not just a sentiment that maskwearing
Face to face meeting, a rebuke to china and russia. Airline bosses were hoping the g7 summit would be the beginning of a us uk travel corridor across the atlantic. But the industry hasn t been cleared for take off just yet. Plus, you can t exactly hold a g7 on an empty stomach. We speak with chef adam handling, who s prepared the menu for the summit. I ll have the dover sole with seaweed butter, thank you. Hello, i m christian fraser live in cornwall on the eve of the g7 summit. Laura trevelyan is in washington. It s been a day of high level diplomacy here on the english coast, with plenty of personal mixed in with the political . There s been camraderie for the cameras, and closed door talks; friendly walks on the beach, and more elbow bumping than you can imagine. And yes, a bit of news to boot. Christian? during his first official trip overseas, president biden announced the us plan to buy 500 million pfizerjabs, to donate to lower income nations. The news had been expected, and