have a windfall tax on the oil and gas companies. the taliban are celebrating the first anniversary of their return to power in afghanistan but not everybody is cheering, especially women and girls. here as flash floods hit cornwall, the text alerts that will give you a direct warning about severe weather and other life threatening events. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the uk has become the first country to approve what its manufacturers are calling a next generation covid vaccine. the uk s medicines regulator has approved a new version of moderna s coronavirus vaccine the first to target both the omicron variant as well as the original strain of the virus. ministers say the vaccine will now form part of the autumn booster campaign. our medical editor fergus walsh is here with more details. this is the start of a new era of covid vaccines. until now, they ve all been designed against the original form of the virus which emerged in wuhan in china at the end 2019. t
blackburn, plus brian kilmeade and more in a jam-packed hour. john: busy friday afternoon. begin with president biden s plunging poll numbers, americans take stock how he is handling or not handling inflation. john roberts in washington, good to be with you as we head into the weekend. sandra: i m sandra smith in new york, and this is america reports. president receiving the highest unfavorable rating to date in the latest fox news polling. 57% of american voters say they have a negative view of the president. the new numbers come as the national average for a price of a gallon of gasoline surges past $5, making record after record in recent weeks. john: it hurts just to put the pump in the car these days. president biden pushing forward with his green agenda, amid political pressure to lower gasoline prices. holding a virtual meeting with some largest economies to discuss climate change. sandra: peter doocy is live from the north lawn, kicks things off for us, hello,
now auto work hes could be next to walk off the job and demanding more than just higher pay. their union leader is here after this bold statement online. billionaires in my opinion don t have a right to exist. plus a shift in the 2024 race as america comes off summer vacation. and the candidates zero in on the first contest on the calendar. and unplugging kids. constantly connected. see china s new minor mode. could it work in your household? welcome to this special edition of the lead. i m bianna golodryga in for jake tapper. and we start with labor day worries and big trouble. we re just ten days away from 140 to you union works possibly going on strike against the big three automakers. ford, general motors and stillantis, though jen jeep, ram and chrysler. the contracts expire september 14th and in a video posted on x, sean feign lays down an ultimatum. we re parents. we are siblings. we re active members of our communities. and we demand respect and we demand
wherever you are around the world s are thank you for joining us here on cnn, i m john vause in atlanta with the ongoing kupfer of on hamas a few hundred people holding foreign passports and dozens civilian wounded palestinians have arrived in egypt from gaza. for weeks many have been waiting on the rafah crossing with egypt. the two other border crossings into israel remain sealed. israel and egypt agreed to open the border after the u.s. and qatar brokered deal which allowed all foreign nationals and dual citizens to leave gaza. your state department believes 1000 americans and their family are stuck in gaza desperate to leave. more from joe biden. we re in a situation where safe passage for wounded palestinians and foreign nationals have started. american citizens 1000 who will see more of this process going on in the coming days. working nonstop to get americans out of gaza as soon and as safely as possible. aid worker was one of two americans among the 361 peop
women are among the dead. casualties were rushed to the al aqsa martyrs hospital, in the nearby town of deir al balah, which has been overwhelmed since the israeli military began a new ground operation against hamas in central gaza this week. our middle east correspondent lucy williamson has the latest. ad a warning, some viewers may find images in her report distressing. torchlight barely reveals the bodies. who they were, why they were here, can take even longer to expose. israel says this strike hit a hamas compound inside a un shelter. but an israeli human rights group said if that were true, the harm to civilians could still make it a war crime. a hamas official said women and children were among the dead. in daylight, survivors mined the rubble for scraps of security. the head of the un agency for palestinian refugees said 6,000 people were sheltering here and that there had been no warning of the strike. ibrahim s cousin, mohammed, was killed. translation: i was sitti