with the leaked cctv footage. borisjohnson says his plans for ending inequalities in the uk won t make richer areas poorer. give musicians a fair share of the hundreds of millions of pounds record labels earn from streaming, say a group of mps. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. sugar and salt should be taxed and fruit and vegetables prescribed by the nhs in order to improve our diets, an independent review has said. the report, led by the businessman henry dimbleby, says the taxes raised could also be used to extend free school meals to more children. mr dimbleby said that poor eating habits cause horrific health harms . but the food industry says new taxes could increase the price of food and when asked about the review, borisjohnson said that he is not in favour of raising taxes on food. here s our correspondent ellie price. maureen has got a number of physical and mental health issues. she knows she needs to eat more fresh food but it s something she can t afford wi
holding us back is us. more specifically, some of us. more specifically, some of us in certain areas, with very specific politics. the proof. of the 25 states with the best-vaccination rates, 17 of the governors have a d in front of their name. where trump got the most votes, you see the most hesitancy. we re going to go this to this in detail with the wizard of odds later. but the question is, if you look for those in congress who are fighting this progress. messing with vaccines. vaccine passports messaging. you will find party of trump members. raises a question. is the willingness to frustrate the fight of a pandemic illness a major symptom of poison politics that is literally making us sick in more ways than one? few people understand the state of play, better than our first guest, tonight. former-republican governor, actively now working to help vaccinate america. new jersey s chris christie, good to see you, gov. good to see you, chris, thanks for having me. all
your son s fine. thank you. there was something in the road. it s okay. you re safe now. i m chris cuomo. welcome to prime time. the virus is in retreat. cases are down, across the country. 57%, this past week, from a month ago. six states report an average of less than one covid death, per day, over the past week. why? big raisin is that half of the 50 states have now fully vaccinated at least half of all adults against covid. but only half the states. turns out, the only thing holding us back is us. more specifically, some of us. more specifically, some of us in certain areas, with very specific politics. the proof. of the 25 states with the best-vaccination rates, 17 of the governors have a d in front of their name. where trump got the most votes, you see the most hesitancy. we re going to go this to this in detail with the wizard of odds later. those but the question is, if you look for those in congress who are fighting this progress. messing with vaccines. vaccine
organized by iranian-supported militia. take us through it. it s simplest to look at it this way, this region from iran to iraq into syria is the shia cres nlt, a place where iran has a tremendous amount of influence and they support proxies, provides weapons and more. that s why the message to iran comes to syria, and comes into syria. that s where we saw the military carry out its first air strike, its first offensive action under president joe biden. that s what we saw when u.s. aircraft carried out an air strike on syria, and that s the key, the strike carried out a few hours ago. a u.s. official tells us that up to a handful of militants were killed in this attack. the authorization for the strike came earlier today at the recommendation of secretary of defense lloyd austin. austin says he is confident that this site that was attacked was used by the iranian militias, the iranian-backed militias that carried out the rocket attacks in recent weeks on u.s. and coalition
theirs. it certainly is, sanjay and we re basing our assessment of 19% on the many, many surveys around prevalence, people measuring antibody tests in the population state by state over time. and we track those and put it all together with cases, deaths, and hospitalization, that s where we come up with the 19%. those higher numbers are essentially taking an assumption about what fraction of cases go undetected and then they scale across cases. so we believe in the lower number around 19%. dr. chris murray. sorry, go ahead, sanjay. i was going to say it s interesting because antibody studies could be tough, just measuring certain populations. it s a longer conversation we can hopefully have at some point. sorry, thank you, we re out of time. be sure to download dr. sanjay s podcast, coronavirus fact versus fiction. and don t miss full circle, catch it live streaming at 6:00 p.m. on cnn app watch it my time on demand. turn it over to chris for cuomo primetime. thank