Hello and welcome. President biden has arrived in geneva ahead of tomorrow s summit with president putin of russia. Relations between the two countries are at their lowest point in decades, and mr biden has already said he will lay down america s red lines during the discussions. Our moscow correspondent steve rosenberg has travelled to geneva. They say that the waters of lake geneva have the power to rejuvenate, to cure. But can a lakeside summit here revive a political relationship that s in very poor health? when vice presidentjoe biden met vladimir putin, he told him he had no soul. More recently, he said he was a killer. Mr putin hit back: takes one to know one. So when they sit down for talks, what message will the white house be putting across to the kremlin? fiona hill was donald trump s senior adviser on russia. She says moscow must be told to behave. The biggest danger that the united states faces right now from russia is the coercive, subversive, covert action that is the ha
Risk of blood clots. The cdc director now has to sign you have. I just interviewed dr. Fauci, and here is what he said. Well, the j j vaccine is clearly a highly efficacious vaccine. And i think the pause, which some people may have taken as a real condition, the pause should underscore how seriously we take safety because the risk of this is extremely low, very, very low risk of this adverse event. And the fact that the cdc and the fda originally paused this should underscore to everyone that we take safety very, very seriously. So when a vaccine is let out again to be able to be vaccinating people in this country, you can rest assure that that s a safe and efficacious vaccine. As officials work to combat vaccine hesitancy, gop senator ron johnson is undermining it. The science tells us that vaccines are 95% effective. So if you have a vaccine, quite honestly, what do you care if your neighbor hooz one or not? you got a vaccine and science is telling you it is very, very effective. Wh
is one of the richest heads of state in the world he s claimed his daughter is in the loving care of her family. still waiting for a vaccine the radio presenterjo whiley speaks of her fears for her sister frances who has learning difficulties and diabetes after a covid outbreak at her care home. they ll make the situation changed because she has tested positive and i cannot believe it. it s like being in a bad movie and every day there is another plot twist and it s worse than the one before. diversity the final frontier as the european space agency goes recruiting for new astronauts. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the number of people in england being asked to shield to protect themselves from coronavirus infection is to be expanded. the government is recommending an extra 1.7 million people be added to the 2.3 million already on the list. half the group have not yet been vaccinated, so will now be prioritised by their local gps. in other developments toda
time line. and on saudi arabia, another front, president biden speaking with saudi king salman ahead of the release of a u.s. intelligence report today concluding that the king s son, crown prince mohammed bin salman approved the 2018 journalist jamal khashoggi. that report will be released this afternoon. admiral john kirby is a retired admiral and joins me now. thank you very much. you ve had a busy trip and a busy day. the pentagon s decisionmaking, the timing on this action against these iranian-backed militias. as you might expect, andrea, whenever you re going to conduct an operation like this, you want to make sure that it s done as the secretary said at a time and a police and in the manner of our choosing. so, you know, this was based this particular strike was based on intelligence that we had and that our iraqi and kurdish partners helped develop about the types of facilities that were being used by we believe the two groups that were responsible for these re