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in russia. students jumped from the building to escape the gunman who posted on social media that he was consumed by hatred and wanted to harm others. 5,000 people have been evacuated because of a volcanic eruption in spain s canary islands officials fear imminent explosions and clouds of toxic gases from the lava. we ll speak to a volcanologist. and canadians are voting in a snap election prime ministerjustin trudeau called. it isa it is a political gamble. the prime ministers neck and neck with his main rival. is is neck and neck. every canadian has met a justin trudeau in their lives privileged, entitled and always looking out for number one. the united states has announced it will relax its travel ban for travellers from the uk and the eu, who are fully vaccined against coronavirus. providing travellers from those countries are fully vaccinated against covid. the change comes into effect in november, 20 once after the restrictions were brought in. here ....
but there are still more than 5 million adults in the uk who haven t yet had their first vaccine. the government is urging those people to come forward. our medical editor fergus walsh reports. do you want to roll up your sleeve for me? here we go again not first or second doses of covid vaccine, but boosters. sharp scratch. health workers at croydon university hospital were at the front of the queue. well done, all protected! so far i ve not caught covid, and i wanted to keep it that way, so having a booster is the extra protection that i need. front line health workers, who ve faced a wave after wave of covid, know all too well it s not gone away. working in a&e, we are seeing increasing numbers of covid patients coming in over the last few weeks. we were all originally looked vaccinated in december of last year, so our immunity due to the first doses is now waning. and that s the rationale behind boosters initially, two doses give more than 90% protection against being ....
henry chu, uk bureau chief of the american paper the la times, ned temko, who is with the christian science monitor, and bbc uk political correspondent damian grammaticas is with me in the studio. have you with us this week, and good to have you with us at home, thank you for watching. lovely to have you for watching. lovely to have you with this week. it s been a week of contrating fortunes in the global pandemic. here in the uk, wales is lifting its covid restrictions over the weekend, and scotland will lift most covid restrictions at the end of this weekend, three weeks after borisjohnson did the same in england. fears of a signficant surge in cases have not been born out, and the number of people requiring hospitalisation appears to have stabilised. there s also been the first fall in the number of infections since the end of may, and a reduction in the r rate below one come in other words, the virus is not growing in the population. the delta variant, first i ....
plus, how high flying criminals were brought back down to earth by one feisty parrot. hello and welcome. we start in washington and the first hearing into the january 6 attack on the us capitol. it got under way earlier today. police officers have been giving harrowing first hand accounts of what happened that day to a congressional panel, set up to investigate the siege. opening the session, the chairman of the committee said the events that day were a co ordinated attempt to derail the peaceful transfer of power. one of the officers who testified was michael fanone, who was violently attacked and beaten by the mob. a warning you may find some of his words distressing. they ripped off my badge, they grabbed and stripped me of my radio, they seized ammunition that was secured to my body. they began to beat me with their fists and with what felt like hard metal objects. at one point, i came face to face with an attacker, who repeatedly lunged for me and attempted to re ....
so far and there are warnings of a third wave could be coming. of a third wave could be coming- of a third wave could be comin. . . , :: :: ., coming. and france s 2020 euro cam aiun coming. and france s 2020 euro campaign is coming. and france s 2020 euro campaign is over, coming. and france s 2020 euro campaign is over, as coming. and france s 2020 euro campaign is over, as the - coming. and france s 2020 euro campaign is over, as the world l campaign is over, as the world champions lose to switzerland in a nail biting penalty shoot out. hello and welcome. we are covering all the latest of elements here in britain and globally. let s start with canada. it s being called a heat dome, a huge band of high pressure which has settled across a vast swathe of north america and canada, bringing with it a summer heatwave which is breaking all records. it s hotter in parts of western canada right now than it is in the desert in dubai. a new record was set on sunday in ....