to book their covid 19jabs before a predicted dip in supplies. a year later than planned the torch relay for the delayed tokyo olympics finally gets under way injapan. iam i am richard cottingham. i d like to be called richie. finding his voice the audition to give richie the sound he always wanted. and coming up on bbc news: england get their world cup qualifying underway later against the world s lowest ranked nation but tougher ties await for northern ireland and scotland. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. pub operators and landlords have said they are concerned about the possibility of customers in england having to prove they ve been vaccinated against coronavirus in order to enter hospitality venues. a review is looking into the measure as the lockdown is eased. yesterday the prime minister said the decision could be left to individual landlords but industry leaders say the plan is fraught with difficulty . speaking this morning, mrjohnson
in the world has even come close. we will bring you a comprehensive rundown of what the president said at the press conference, he also talked about china, gun control and about former president trump. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. 0ron bbc 0r on bbc news channel or bbc world news. we will start in washington, dc. joe biden has held his first ever formal white house press conference as us president. 25 us and international journalists were in the room. one issue that came up repeatedly was the surge in the surge in migration on its southern border with mexico. the vast majority, the overwhelming majority of people coming to the border and crossing are being sent back, are being sent back. thousands, tens of thousands of people who are over 18 years of age and single, people one at a time coming, have been sent back, sent home. we re sending back the vast majority of the families that are coming. we re trying to work out now with mexico their w
democracy continues in georgia where the republican-controlled legislature enacted new laws directly attacking voting, making it more difficult if not impossible for some residents to vote, particularly targeting black voters while giving the historically republican legislature power over the will of the people and the authority to essentially overturn the results of an election they don t like the outcome of. now, that is specifically something their dear leader, the former insurrection president of the united states, so desperately wanted done in several states he lost including arizona and pennsylvania, but especially in georgia where he was taped talking to the secretary of state about changing the actual outcome of the election. this is just part of many republican efforts across the country, including in iowa, in texas, in michigan and arizona, where the gop has tried to make it easier for them to overturn the results of elections that they lose. if you think that thi
the head of the european commission, ursula von der leyen, has said that astrazeneca must catch up on vaccine deliveries for the european union before exporting vaccine supplies elsewhere. european leaders have been meeting to discuss the covid crisis. cases are rising across the continent. miss von der leyen says astrazeneca has only delivered 30 million of the 90 million vaccines it promised, despite tens of millions being sent to other countries. from brussels, here s our europe editor, katya adler. prague is remembering its dead simply, painfully. with one of the highest covid fatality rates in the world, the czech republic, like many other eu countries, is in the grip of a third wave. vaccines are in short supply. national rollouts like here in belgium in disrepute, the eu s credibility on the line. eu leaders have been meeting remotely today to discuss how to secure the eu s vaccine supply, ensuring companies deliverjabs promised and, controversially, potentially bloc