For tropical storm grace. Good evening. The white house rejects any notion that the us exit from afghanistan should in any way compare to the capitulation in saigon in 1975. But how should the world view the images we have seen today from kabul airport? amid the scramble to evacuate western diplomatic staff and with taliban now surrounding the airfield there was chaos on the runway as afghans clung desperately to one of the few military transporters that left. Not quite the last plane out, but surely the enduring image of this chaotic american withdrawal. We ve heard nothing from joe biden since saturday. He s just about to appear at the white house. Let s take you there to hear his comments. white house. Let s take you there to hear his comments. | white house. Let s take you there to hear his comments. Good afternoon. I want to speak hear his comments. Good afternoon. I want to speak today hear his comments. Good afternoon. I want to speak today to hear his comments. Good
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are kezia dugdale who is the director ofjohn smith centre, glasgow university & former scottish labour leader and lucy fisher who is the deputy political editor at the telegraph. the telegraph leads on calls from some of the prime minister s own mps for him to resign in the wake of the downing street lockdown drinks party it was the paymaster general michael ellis, pictured on the front page, who was put forward by the government to mop up labour s urgent question over the affair. mounting pressure on borisjohnson from tory mps to come clean over whether he was at that event in may 2020 is the headline for the guardian. a similar warning on the front of the times say sorry, or doom us all , ministers tell borisjohnson. the i has been speaking to some mps who believe there will be further revelations about downing street lockdown law breaking. the ft looks ahead to tomorrow s sh
and a medicalfirst in america, where doctors have transplanted a genetically modified pig s heart into a human patient. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in singapore, and 6pm in washington where the number of new covid infections and the number of hospital admissions have reached an all time high. in europe, the world health organization says there s a new tidal wave of omicron sweeping the continent from west to east with france, italy, and turkey reporting new pandemic highs. more on that in a moment. if we take a closer look at the us, we ll see cases there have soared over the past few weeks to an average of 737,000 per day. the number of americans in hospital with covid is over 142,000. it s never been higher, and it s increased 83% in the last two weeks. 0ur washington correspondent barbara plett has more. with 0micron reaching across the country, the government s response to the resurgent pandemic is coming under a harsh
growth for the month which was broadly in line with economist expectations. the sluggishness comes after the uk economy recorded its fastest growth in two years from january to march, exiting the recession it fell into in the final half of last year. but my opening question starting with you, geoffrey cox, is rishi sunak right to say the economy has turned a corner? i think he is, no economy has turned a corner? i think he is. no doubt economy has turned a corner? i think he is, no doubt about economy has turned a corner? i think he is, no doubt about that. economy has turned a corner? i think he is, no doubt about that. all - he is, no doubt about that. all predictions show that growth will continue this year an increase next year and inflation is down to 2.3 and we can look in the next two or three months to cuts in interest rates. it s definitely turned the corner, no doubt about that. this is one month of figures. it is corner, no doubt about that. this is one month
safety a nd recruitment of workers, strengthen safety and protection is at work and give all workers equal rights from day one in the job. cheering and applause and increase prosecutions of employers evading the minimum wage. applause and four areas where immigration has placed a strain on public services we will reinstate the migrant impact fund, scrapped by the tories and lib dems after the 2010 election. labour s team will also guarantee and expand the rights and protections that british workers have secured three eu legislation. we will bring forward specific rights and protections bill that will lock those protections into uk law. the conservatives simply cannot be trusted on rights at work. they fled an all out assault on workers‘ rights through their trade union act. borisjohnson rights through their trade union act. boris johnson has rights through their trade union act. borisjohnson has demanded that the government should scrap the eu social chapter, and the conser