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the american military is now saying about the afghan government s collapse. there was nothing that i or anyone else saw that indicated a collapse of this army, in this government, and 11 days. all in starts now. good evening from washington, d.c.. amid the hasan, in fricassees. we are never gonna get through this pandemic if a significant chunk of the population continues to refuse to get vaccinated. this spring, the united states was leading the world in vaccinations. no country in the world was even close. now they have all take overtake in the u.s.. here is a list of just some of the countries with the higher percent of the population that is vaccinated. chile, belgium, denmark, spain, portugal, ireland, canada, united, france, the netherlands, italy, germany, austria, hungary, and china which has a billion people more than the u.s.. you know what category we are back near the top in? deaths. we are averaging nearly 700 deaths per day over the last two weeks. a 5 ....
closing ceremony. another golden moment for team gb cyclistjason kenny, making him the country s most decorated olympian. lauren price wins the women s middleweight final, becoming the first welsh boxer to claim olympic gold. reports from northern afghanistan say there s heavy fighting in the city of kunduz, where government forces are trying to push back taliban militants. new changes to the uk s covid travel restrictions come into force. thousands flee their homes in greece as forest fires burn out of control. the country faces its most intense heatwave in more than 30 years. now, on bbc news hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. those of us lucky enough to live in countries where 70%+ of the adult population have been double vaccinated against covid might be tempted to think we can relax our guard. but the pandemic isn t over and the global vaccine roll out still faces enormous challenges. my guest is professor sir andrew pollard, a key figure in the dev ....
the situation in afghanistan is becoming increasingly perilous, after the taliban seized a second provincial capital within 2a hours. the deputy governor of sheberghan in jawzjan province, says government forces have retreated to the airport on the outskirts of the city, where they re preparing to defend themselves. the us and the uk have asked their citizens in afghanistan to leave the country immediately because of the worsening security situation in the country. richard galpin reports. in this fast moving offensive the taliban are claiming a second province is in their hands. this video appears to show them releasing inmates from the prison and the afghan authorities admit some parts of the city have been taken. just a day ago the taliban captured a city in the south west of the country, now it seems the north is also coming under their control. in the wake of the fighting many civilians are being treated at local hospitals with serious injuries. amongst them young c ....
welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. those of us lucky enough to live in countries where 70%+ of the adult population have been double vaccinated against covid might be tempted to think we can relax our guard. but the pandemic isn t over and the global vaccine roll out still faces enormous challenges. my guest is professor sir andrew pollard, a key figure in the development of the oxford astrazeneca vaccine. science has offered us tools to beat the virus. are we making the most of them? professor sir andrew pollard, welcome to hardtalk. hello, there. it is pretty much seven months since that historic day when the uk began the roll out of the vaccine you were intimately involved with developing. that is the oxford astrazeneca vaccine. in those seven months, has the impact of that vaccine been what you expected? well, there has over that seven months been the most enormous impact. i mean, there s now a billion doses of the oxford vaccine which are out the door. and th ....
andrew pollard, a key figure in the development of the oxford astrazeneca vaccine. science has offered us tools to beat the virus. are we making the most of them? professor sir andrew pollard, welcome to hardtalk. hello, there. it is pretty much seven months since that historic day when the uk began the roll out of the vaccine you were intimately involved with developing. that is the oxford astrazeneca vaccine. in those seven months, has the impact of that vaccine been what you expected? well, there has over that seven months been the most enormous impact. i mean, there s now a billion doses of the oxford vaccine which are out the door. and those vaccines are already having that impact. there s almost certainly now hundreds of thousands of lives that have been saved already this year from the vaccine. so the impact is enormous, and i think it s probably more than we could ever have hoped for, given the predictions from even a year ago about how long it would take to get ....