A remote part of Eastern IndIa to fInd out how theyve vaccInated 80 of adults, way above the natIonal average. Only 2a hours to go before the OlympIcs OpenIng Ceremony and the show s dIrector has been sacked. And were lIve In scarborough as part of a serIes of reports about lIfe In Coastal BrItaIn lookIng at the challenges and opportunItIes In seasIde towns. Good Afternoon And Welcome to Bbc News. RetaIlers are callIng on the government to make Food Workers whove had both doses of a vaccIne, exempt from the Self IsolatIon rules whIch they say are makIng It IncreasIngly dIffIcult for some shops to keep theIr shelves stocked. Almost 620,000 people receIved a Contact TracIng alert In the last week. The government has saId the IsolatIon Rules wIll be relaxed for only a very small number of crItIcal workers, before wIder changes In england next month. Theo leggett reports. Empty shelves In supermarkets, retaIlers are warnIng that too many staff are In IsolatIon after beIng contacted by Nhs
When they take italy In Rome. Hello and welcome to bbc news. One of the countries hit hardest by the pandemic, brazil, has recorded a total of more than half A Million coronavirus deaths making it the second country, after the us, to pass that figure. 2300 people have died of covid in the past day alone. As the virus continues to spread, President Bolsonaro has refused to back measures like social distancing. Experts say the outbreak could worsen with slow Vaccination Rates and the beginning of winter. Mark lobel reports. As covid deaths reach 500,000 here, the painful goodbyes continue. The Death Rate has been higher recently despite all precautions. I lost members of my family. Brazils Health Minister tweeted the grim news of the 500,000 lives lost, saying that he is working tirelessly to vaccinate all brazilians in the shortest time possible and to change this scenario that has plagued brazil for over a year. But some blame the government for that, accusing them of initially letting
This is the latest Front Line of the Cannabis Boom in the us. A massive legal Marijuana Operation on Native American land. The suspects were found staying at a Farmington Motel where they occupied 19 rooms. Police found around 2000lb of Marijuana Plants and substances in multiple groups. There is evidence of Human Beings that are not here any more, they have just vanished. In the summer of 2020, hundreds of chinese immigrants moved to shiprock, New Mexico, believing they were taking well paid jobs on hemp farms. They found themselves prey to unscrupulous entrepreneurs, who took advantage of the confusing laws that govern this industry. Navajo nation farmers are calling for help against farmers for illegally growing marjuana. As more us states move to legalise marijuana, people are cashing in on the so called green Gold Rush. You traitor but some see the events in New Mexico as a warning of things to come. This is a Cautionary Tale to our leaders, our policymakers, our lawmakers across
It is a neat phrase, some might even say it is a glib Phrase But America is back in what way and where . The question is an existential back or aspirational America Is Back . The answer is it is a bit of both. The fact is that Donald Trump took america out of international organisations and threatened to get out Of Nato and really affected the western alliance. WhatJoe Biden is saying is we are back in this alliance and we are back as a collective but that aspirational part of it is that Donald Trump and the American Democracy has really been tested and the legitimacy of American Democracy is not where it was a decade or two ago and so it becomes an aspirational America Is Back. America wants to be notjust economic but the moral leader of the world. Joe biden is keen to restore that but there is a lot of work to do and domestically the us is not fair. Nonetheless, America Is Back at the table. And that really is the take away from this past week. In european terms, what might America I