Specific and tell us if you can rule out the attackers and i would like to go back to the deadline, the french authorities said today that it is necessary to continue the evacuations beyond this. We cannot rule out who the hostile actor was in this shooting incident last night. I think as you saw central command referred to it as a hostile actor, and it just happened. So i don t know when we ll have more forensics on this. Again our focus was on making sure that we could maintain security at the airport. It was maintained. Sadly it resulted in a loss of a life of one afghan soldier and wounded several others. That is our focus right now. The goal is to get as many people out as fast as possible. While we re glad to see the numbers we got yesterday, we re not going to rest. The focus is on trying to do this the best we can by the end of the month. F we need to have an additional conversation with the commander and chief about that timeline, he will do that, but we re not at that point r
Right now on msnbc reports breaking economic news on two fronts. President biden about to speak from the white house, his first comments since the better than expected july jobs report showing 943,000 jobs were added just last month. Wall street so far liking what it is seeing, but why some experts are warning today s snapshot possibly already muddied by a delta variant and recent covid surge. We look for the president to address new reporting, the white house talking about withholding federal money from some parts of the country and an effort to getting vaccinations up and cases down. Our business and white house teams are standing by to cover it all for you. Also in d. C. , house speaker nancy pelosi is going to take to the podium, her chamber getting ready to get their hands on that massive infrastructure bill. The senate poised to pass it tomorrow. Democrat senator john hickenlooper will join me with where this goes next. You don t want to miss that conversation. Good morning, ever
For the covid delayed year as uk city of culture 2021. Radio jingle: bbc cwr! good morning, happy saturday! this is rachel new. I hope you ve had some caffeine in you already, because today is going to be a very big day. The start of a summer weekend in coventry but this is no ordinary saturday. Today, the whole city will be become a giant stage, to mark the start of a big year. As the uk city of culture. Stay with us all day, because we re going to make sure that you do not miss a moment of this. Cove ntry. It s been a long time coming. Coventry won the honour back in 2017. Cove ntry!. Way before covid forced artistic directorjustine themen to change all her plans. You see the track? it s down here. Because we can t be bringing audiences together in large numbers, or even participants, we have had to think very differently. For a start, what is about to take place on these streets has had to be kept a complete secret. There s one of you that isn t. To avoid large crowds gathering to
Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines. The queen has welcomed the us presidentjoe biden at windsor castle. The g7 summit concludes with member states agreeing to deliver more than a billion coronavirus vaccinations to poorer countries and raise a hundred billion dollars to help them cut carbon emissions. But there is also being a continuing row over the northern ireland protocol. Doctors confirm denmark s christian eriksen suffered a cardiac arrest during a match at the european championship. And a sterling effort from england as they beat croatia i o in their opening game of the european championship at wembley. We ll be back at the top of the hour with more news. Now on bbc news, we re in coventry as the city s streets are transformed into a giant stage and the celebrations finally begin for the covid delayed year, as uk city of culture 2021. Good morning, happy saturday! this is rachel new. I hope you ve had some caffeine in you already, because today is going to be a very big day.
Streets are transformed into a giant stage and the celebrations finally begin for the covid delayed year as uk city of culture 2021. Radio jingle: bbc cwr! good morning, happy saturday! this is rachel new. I hope you ve had some caffeine in you already, because today is going to be a very big day. The start of a summer weekend in coventry, but this is no ordinary saturday. Today, the whole city will be become a giant stage, to mark the start of a big year. As the uk city of culture. Stay with us all day, because we re going to make sure that you do not miss a moment of this. Cove ntry. It s been a long time coming. Coventry won the honour back in 2017. Cove ntry!. Way before covid forced artistic directorjustine themen to change all her plans. You see the track? it s down here. Because we can t be bringing audiences together in large numbers, or even participants, we have had to think very differently. For a start, what is about to take place on these streets has had to be kept a compl