it seems to be odd to me to take all those risks with infection when we are so close to vaccination doing the job of keeping us safe. scotland currently has the highest rates of covid cases in europe, according to the world health organisation. the scottish government is hoping to ease all restrictions on the 9th of august, but they may end up retaining some basic measures. hello and welcome to this special programme ahead of the prime minister s press conference at downing street in around 15 minutes time. borisjohnson is expected to confirm he is confident the majority of the remaining covid restrictions in england can be lifted from 19thjuly. the final stage of the roadmap out of lockdown in england was delayed after ministers said the four tests necessary to ease restrictions further had not been met. but tonight, the prime minister will announce that wearing face masks will become voluntary from the 19th, and it s also expected he ll put an end to the one metre plus soc
southwest of tokyo. we re live on the ground with the latest. what started as a traffic stop escalated into a nine-hour standoff with police and armed men in tactical gear. the highly transmissible delta variant is complicating the u.s. fight against the coronavirus and pushing case numbers back up. authorities say the strain is the likely driver for a 10% rise in u.s. infections this week compared to the week before. experts say the delta variant is hitting states with the lowest vaccination rates the hardest. right now nearly half the u.s. population is fully inoculated and that s not enough to reach herd immunity, where 75% to 80% of people are immune to the disease. health authorities say the delta variant could make reaching that threshold harder. in california, where the positivity rate has doubled, the strain is responsible for more than one-third of new infections. some officials are asking people to wear masks in indoor public spaces even if fully vaccinated. w
homeland again. we did that. we accomplished that objective. i said, among with others, we would follow osama bin laden to the gates of hell if need be. that s exactly what we did, and we got him. with the terror threat now in many places, keeping thousands of troops grounded and concentrated in just one country at a cost of billions each year makes little sense to me and to our leaders. we cannot continue the cycle of extendsing or expanding our military presence in afghanistan, hoping to create ideal conditions for the withdrawal and expecting a different result. i m now the fourth united states president to preside over american troop presence in afghanistan. two republicans, two democrats. i will not pass this responsibility on to a fifth. after consulting closely with our allies and partners, with our military leaders and intelligence personnel, with our diplomats and our development experts, with a congress and the vice president as well as with mr. ghani and many other
including rick scott, matt gaetz, mike lee, ted cruz, josh hawley, tom cotton, kevin mccarthy, ron desantis, mike pompeo, ben carson and sarah huckabee sanders. but the star will be the former reality star. and everybody there knows it. donald j. trump ain t going in addition. [ cheers ] this is amazing given that trump s long sought tax returns are now in the hands of prosecutors under the direction of new york district attorney cyrus vance jr. his office obtained millions of pages of financial documents that contain tax returns spanning 2011 to 2019, this after the u.s. supreme cour denied trump s effort to keep them private. for two years vance has been investigating whether trump and the trump organization engaged in frauds and other schemes including potentially providing false information to financial institutions or banks about the value of certain assets. the records could be critical to the investigation because they are likely to contain documents that reflect t