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schumer for procedural vote on an infrastructure package. you say that chuck schumer is trying to give an arbitrary deadline. i covered lots of legislative battles in the senate and what he is saying is start debate. he s not saying let s have a final vote on a bill. what s wrong with that? start debate on what? we don t have a product yet. we won t have a product until we can finish the negotiations properly. tomorrow a big hearing on the january 6th insurrection. the first defendant will be sentenced on a felony charge related to the breach on capitol hill. let s get amanda golden. welcome to you. a big week ahead on the hill. first of all, what are lawmakers saying about the capitol riots? reporter: in addition to the sentencing that you alluded to that will be coming tomorrow, the attention is turning to first public hearing that will be taking place in just over a week on july 27th from the house select committee that will be investigating the attacks. we r ....
prime minister modi s constituency. also in the programme. it s four months to the day since the capitol riots. over 400 people have been arrested so far. as for the political accountability? well who really has paid the price? how is everybody feeling tonight?! and some of the biggest names in music have come together for vaccine equality we ll talk to the organiser of this weekend s vax live event. hello, i m laura trevelyan in washington, christian fraser is in london. it has been an extraordinary year in american politics it sjust four months since supporters of president trump stormed the us capitol, claiming the election had been stolen from them. now, we re on the verge of a reshaping of the top ranks in the republican party itself. this would mean silencing those who challenge the fraud claims, and elevating those who support them. arch conservative liz cheney, a key member of the house republican leadership, says the gop is at a turning point . she writes that ....
america, just 5% are delta. the skyrocketing case numbers have prompted some governors to call in help from the national guard. ohio did the same on monday, and maryland yesterday. and there is big news at one of the largest school districts in the country, starting today chicago public school classes are canceled for more than 340,000 kids after the teachers union voted last night to switch to remote. let s dig in right there. nbc s mara barrett in chicago, sam brock is in florida where cases are increasing faster than anywhere else in the country, and with us to explain it all, dr. richard besser, the former acting cdc director, president and ceo of the robert wood foundation and a pediatrician. dr. besser, i want to start with omicron now making up 95% of all new covid cases. is that a good thing? because it s a lot less deadly than delta. it s a hard question to answer as a good or bad thing. it is what we re faced with, and i do think that there are aspects of t ....
let s begin with the breaking news on omicron. cnn s senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us now. elizabeth, this is significant here because the wording after three shots is not that this gives a little boost, right, but it increases immunity dramatically. how should folks at home take this news? jim, i think we should take this very seriously. of course, larger studies need to be done. what pfizer is announcing today, it jives very nicely with what south african doctors are finding when they take care of their vaccinated patients who get the omicron variant. the bottom line is that two shots really seems to do quite well, but three shots seems to do even better. let s take a look at more of the specific. what s been found so far is that two doses may not provide good protection against invection against omicron. in other words, you may still get omicron, but two doses does give significant protection against sive veer disease. i got that from speaking ....
for dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme bringing together bbc specialists with the correspondents who write, blog and broadcast for audiences in their own countries from the dateline london. this week borisjohnson s finance minister opens the taxpayers purse as the prime minister himself tries to persuade world leaders to open theirs to mitigate climate change. plus, is famine stocking afghanistan? joining us to discuss all that is henry chu of the la times, who keeps the show on the road whilst the us west coast sleeps. latika bourke, columnist for the age and the sydney morning herald in australia. and here in the studio, the bbc s business editor simon jack. cop26, which begins in glasgow this weekend, is supposed to be the moment when the world s nations present individual beefed up pledges to mitigate climate change, agreed rules to prevent double counting and honour previously agreed plans in which the poorer countries can adapt to survive. the ....