He has not classed at the line. He is facing Mounting Pressure to resign after the State Attorney General has said he has broken Sexual Harassment was. Three quarters of Uk Adults have now received both doses of a covid vaccine. Boris johnson described the milestone as a huge national achievement. A lawsuit is filed against Prince Andrew by a us woman who alleges she was Trafficked To Him by the convicted paedophile, jeffrey epstein, and then sexually abused. Lionel messi has arrived in france wheres hejoining Paris Saint germain after his Shock Departure from barcelona. Good Afternoon And Welcome to Bbc News. More top grades have been awarded for A Levels this year, after exams were cancelled for a second year because of the pandemic. Nearly 45 of entries in england, wales and Northern Ireland were awarded an a or a star thats an all time record, and much, much higher than when exams were last held in 2019. Students work was assessed and graded by their teachers in place of exams. Thi
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President biden s agenda. And building a new olympic spectacle. Beijing prepares for the winter games, which due To Covid will take place less than a year after tokyo. Live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. Its newsday. Welcome to newsday. Its 6am in the morning in singapore and 6pm in the evening in New York, where, for years, Andrew Cuomo successfully navigated the murky waters of politics in the state, amassing power with precision, leaving his opponents trailing in his wake. But it took just a week for the governor to find himself out of moves following the publication of a report by the new York Attorney general s office which claimed that Mr Cuomo had sexually harassed 11 women. He denied the accusations but faced a Growing Cacophony of voices from within his own party to resign, and today, he succumbed to those calls. I think that given the circumstances, the best way i can help now is if i step aside and let government get back to governing. And therefore thats wh
Unprecedented proportions. And the u. N. Issues a stark warning to the world. The window to limit catastrophic Climate Change is closing fast. Good to have you with us. Well, the Battle Over Mask Mandates rages on in the United States. Florida governor Ron Desantis is threatening to withhold salaries of officials like School Superintendents if they violate his order banning School Mask mandates. And as you can see here, florida is just one of several states that have passed measures banning Mask Mandates in schools. And the timing could not be worse. Lucy kafanov shows how the pandemic numbers are suddenly trending in the wrong direction in the u. S. Reporter as children across the Nation Head back to school, covid19 cases are surging. Hospitalizations and deaths have nearly doubled over the last two weeks. The u. S. Is now averaging more than 109,000 new covid19 cases each day and more than 500 deaths per day. Florida reported more covid19 cases over the last week than any other Seven
Could push forward President Bidens infrastructure bill. And a disaster of unprecedented proportions, wildfires ravage all corners of greece forcing hundreds to evacuate. As local officials implement mandates and measures to curb the coronavirus, more americans are coming to terms with the severity of the Delta Variant. The cdc says more than 98 of the u. S. Population now live in counties with high or substantial transmission. 250 Million alone live in high transmission areas. Barely more than half the total population in the u. S. Is vaccinated. That is nowhere near the level required to reach herd immunity. And while vaccinations are the highest they have been in weeks, nearly a third of the eligible population, that is americans 12 and older, remain unvaccinated. All this comes as kids across the u. S. Are heading back to the classroom. And while many districts will require them to mask up, that is not the case everywhere. At least seven states have banned any sort of Mask Mandate