The past two decades have been warmer, wetter and sunnier than 20th century average. Im Sarah Mulkerrins Live In Tokyo on day 6 of the olympics, where the us swimming Star Caeleb Dressell blazed to victory in the mens 100 metre freestyle. Chinas women break a record. Never never never. And from behind the decks to Centre Stage, the worlds most famous Music Producer Mark ronson joins us to talk about his new Documentary Series. Hello and welcome. President biden is expected to announce that federal workers will soon be required to confirm they are vaccinated orface more testing. The numbers of coronavirus cases are rising, with the director of the us national public health agency. The cdc, saying cases have increased over 300 nationally since mid june. Our North America Correspondent peter bowes reports. There is a growing sense of urgency. About half the population is fully vaccinated, but Infection Rates are rising, the Delta Variant is spreading rapidly, and the number ofjabs in arms
Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im sarah montague. Its a year since Lazarus Chakwera became president of malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world. The preacher turned politician won power promising to create A Millionjobs and to clear the Rubble Of corruption. But a year on, the economy is being hit hard by the effects of covid. His government admits it has no idea how many jobs have been created, and hes been criticised for nepotism, including giving jobs to his family. Hes about to take on the presidency of the southern african development community, but can malawis president even honour the promises he made to his own country . Lazarus chakwera, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much. Now, lets start with the situation as regards covid, because there are currently 11,000 active cases reported in your country. Thereve been 1500 deaths, but that will be underreported. Whats your assessment of the situation at the moment . You know, it is possible that it is
More than 30 billion. We start in the us, where the Central Bank says the economy is Making Progress towards recovery, thanks to widespread vaccinations. As expected, the Federal Reserve has kept Interest Rates on hold near zero after its two day meeting. Fed Chairjerome Powell says now s not the time to start thinking about raising borrowing costs, despite rising inflation. On thursday, the first official figures could show the worlds biggest economy grew more than 8 in the three months to june. From New York heres michelle fleury. From heres michelle fleury. This to theirs. New york is from this to theirs. New york is back. Sales are up. The reopening of offices has the city sizzling again and americans feeling flattering to be here. The vaccine out, it makes me more inclined to be outside. Having some freedom back clearly having some freedom back clearly helps, we stretch our legs, clearly helps, we stretch our legs, get clearly helps, we stretch our legs, get things to see things w
rachel: showing up for dinner a little bit too happy. pete: maybe, yeah. rachel: i look at that picture and wonder why we left. will: that was a rough show on sunday. rachel: for you. pete seems to be able to weather the circumstances. pete: it was a great show on sunday. proper nutrition. glad you re here and welcome to fox & friends on this saturday morning, february 25th, year of our lord 20, 23, and we always enjoy 2023 and we always enjoy reuniting in new york. will: russia s war on ukraine enters it z second year, president biden is hitting moscow with new sanctions. rachel: they ll target 200 individuals around the world supporting the kremlin s war efforts as well as russian financial institutions. pete: didn t prevent it in the first place, see if it does now. we re joined live from kyiv. that s right president biden meeting virtually with members from the g7 and new economic sanctions from russia and administration officials say these new sanctions will seriou