so well, for so long. a new species of whale has been discovered ten metres long in the gulf of mexico. hello, i m laura trevelyan in washington, christian fraser is in london. south africa has suspended the roll out of the astrazeneca vaccine, because a new study shows it to be much less effective against the south african variant of covid 19. this matters because the vaccine is supposed to play a big part this year in meeting the huge global demand. three billion doses have been ordered so far. so not great news. but then we should put this into some perspective. while it may not be effective at stopping mild or moderate infection from the south african variant we can t draw any firm conclusions about severe cases, because the participants in the study were young and so weren t in the demographic most at risk. and the better news is that the oxford vaccine has shown to provide good protection against the uk variant which is much more predominant here in the uk of cour
they made their decision to attack ahmaud arbery in their driveways because he was a black man running down the street. as countries across europe continue to battle covid 19, northern ireland has now asked people to work from home. the first tightening of covid measures here in the uk. and nasa are firing a rocket into space to try to hit an asteroid and make it change course. we will look into how and why it s doing that. it s100 days since the taliban re took power in afghanistan. many commentators viewed it as a humiliation for the west, nato, and president biden in particular. this is the moment when taliban forces entered the presidential palace. president ghani had long since gone, prefering to leave the country altogether. fast forward to today and girls are banned from education and the economy is in tatters. this week, the red cross warned of a humanitarian crisis this winter with millions facing severe malnutrition. president biden got severely criticised for
rittenhouse and conservatives make him a folk hero. kyle rittenhouse is an innocent man and the hell that he went through because of the slander and liable from the left. white men feel they have the right to enforce the law themselves. and covid cases spike ahead of thanksgiving. how rough of a winter is the u.s. in for. we re about to go yet again over 100,000 new cases a day. we re starting to see now the beginning of that winter wave. inside politics the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to inside politics sunday i m kaitlyn collins in for abby phillip. president biden turned 79 yesterday. congress gave him two early birthday gifts. the bipartisan group of lawmakers celebrated behind him after signing the bill into law. this bill is monumental. it s historic. it s transformative. it s bigger than anything we ve ever done. we have a lot to be thankful for this thanksgiving and i want to express my gratitude for president joe biden
and jubilation. kyle rittenhouse would probably make a good congressional intern. reporter: what does it say about american justice? . plus you get a boost. get as many people eligible for boosters as possible. reporter: but can cases rising and the holidays here, can we avoid a winter surge? i ll speak to dr. anthony fauci ah ahead. hello i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is taking stock as the holiday week approaches, president biden had some good news to be thankful for, after weeks of tense negotiations, friday the house passed the cornerstone plan of president bi biden s agenda. the roughly $2 trillion social safety net and climate bill, what he calls build back better but on the other side of thanksgiving, another huge challenge lies ahead for democrats, convincing moderate senators joe madgein and kyrsten sinema to sign onto the legislation as biden confronts rising legislation and falling poll numbers and democrats fight over the sco
we go now to kenosha where alexis mcadams is live on the ground with more reaction. alexis? good morning. there was a lot of emotion inside of that courtroom here in kenosha, wisconsin. but those emotions didn t really flood out here onto the streets like some people expected as they braced for that verdict here in the kyle rittenhouse trial. and getting to what we know so far. so after more than 20 hours of deliberations behind those closed doors here in wisconsin the jury finding kyle rittenhouse not guilty on all five counts. the illinois teen now free after shooting three men killing two during the unrest following the police shooting of jacob blake in kenosha, wisconsin last summer. as each count was read rittenhouse breaking down in court grabbing his knees and the family very emotional. i looked at kyle and he looked at me and it was just one of those, you know, finally, finally. like kyle gets to start his life as a young man as an innocent, an acquitted, as a n