Political parties on suspicion of receiving foreign fund. Among them is that the largest party and the Coalition Government has been pushing for elections after president. I dismissed the prime minister in for parliament earlier in the week of president sharp needs and giving a Policy Speech on the future direction of the country. Fannys address comes as the taliban continues to make games across a thump. Last week, the government opposed the nighttime curfew. Americas top diplomats reiterated the only Past Piece in afghan astonished negotiations. Secretary State Anthony Blanket made those comments in india. He is there on his 1st visit, is joe biden, to the office, held a meeting with his count junker, and is expected to meet prime Minister Mode and moody in the coming hours. What were seeing on the ground in the last week is the taliban and making advances on district centers. Challenging some provincial capitals. Weve also seen these reports of atrocities committed by the taliban in
and higher pressure is here this weekend, so we should see plenty of dry and settled conditions. 0ver weekend, so we should see plenty of dry and settled conditions. over the coming days we will see quite a dramatic change. i ll be back with more details. it s saturday, the 6th of march. our top story: pressure is mounting on the government over its proposed pay offer of 1% for health workers in england, after it was claimed that a long term plan had assumed an increase of double that. nhs providers, which represents trusts in england, accused ministers of snatching planned pay rises from the pockets of deserving nhs staff. four health unions have written to the chancellor, urging him to reconsider. our health editor hugh pym reports. nhs providers is the first employers group to wade into the health service pay row in england. it argues that a long term government financial plan for the nhs in 2019 included a commitment to pay staff a wage increase ofjust over 2% from this
this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone we re following several major stories tonight including for the first time charges of seditious in the u.s. capitol the leader of a far right group facing serious charges. we ll get to that in a moment but first a big blow to the white house covid strategy the u.s. supreme court today blocking enforcement of the president s vaccine and testing mandates for large employers ruling the requirements go too far. it is a decision impacting more than 80 million workers. but the court also leaving intact a separate vaccine mandate for most of the nation s health care workers the ruling is announced as the number of fully vaccinated americans reaches more than 208 million, close to 63% of the population. let s get late details now from gabe gutierrez. reporter: three days after the biden administration s covid vaccine or test mandate for private companies with more than 100 workers started to take effect, today th
that party is heading. and, of course, we re following new concerning developments with this pandemic. we ve already blown past last winter s hospitalization peak. the federal government is deploying military personnel to help strained hospitals. how much worse can it get? we ll break it down. i ll ask one michigan s doctor whose hospital is getting help from the military why he says right now is the worst point in the pandemic he has seen. we re going to start this morning there. antonia hilton and gabe gutierrez and jake ward and dr. ungerlighter. an internal medicine physician in california pacific medical center. doctor, we ll come to you in a moment. antonia, let me start with you. you re at a coney island hospital in brooklyn. it s a hospital getting help from the military. we re talking doctors, nurses, more. how are they going to use those things to help the patients? well, craig, they are all part of a surge team from the military. and like you said they are essent
underway to gather debris of the balloon. and that debris is estimated to roughly the size of two school buses. here s what president biden told reporters about the operation last hour. on wednesday, when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down. on wednesday, as soon as possible. they decided it might do damage on the ground. they decided that the best time was when it was over water. so that has been our limit. they successfully took it down. and i want to compliment our aviators who did it. and we will have more to report on this a little later. thank you. what is your message to china? i told him to shoot it down. on wednesday. yes, they said to me, let s wait for it to be now beijing is claiming that it is a weather research balloon. that we have seen floating over the united states. and beijing expressed regret that it accidentally drifted into u.s. airspace. but the pentagon and the secretary of state anthony blinken say that