Test within 48 hours and then one every 72 hours afterwards. The Prime Minister is urged to swiftly clarify how many Covid Vaccine doses the uk is prepared to donate to poorer countries. The un demands International Action to stop a shocking wave of brutality against civilians in myanmar. I am terrified of what is going to happen. I think this could be just the beginning of a wave of brutality that is going to be just even more shocking than what we have seen today. The latest attempts to dislodge the ship thats stuck in the suez canal have failed Officials Say efforts will continue around the clock. 5,000 people attend a Trial Rock Concert in barcelona the latest test of how viable large cultural events are during covid. A new milestone has been reached in the uk barca against coronavirus. Battle against coronavirus. Battle against coronavirus. More than 30 Million People in the uk have now received the first dose of a Covid Vaccine. The Health Secretary Matt Hancock Has said reaching
The latest attempts to dislodge the ship thats stuck in the suez canal have failed Officials Say efforts will continue around the clock. And coming up, stroud in gloucestershire is named as the most desirable location to live in the uk. ~. , welcome to bbc news. A new milestone has been reached in the uks battle against coronavirus. More than 30 Million People have now received the first dose of a vaccine. The Health Secretary Matt Hancock Has said reaching the 30 million threshold was a phenomenal achievement. It comes as the government says its on track to ease the lockdown in england. The Culture Secretary 0liver Dowden says hes confident a further lockdown can be avoided as long as people dont treat the easing of restrictions as a complete free for all. Meanwhile, the first minister of wales, mark drakeford, revealed there had been high level talks across the four nations about the idea of so called Vaccine Passports. Heres our Political Correspondentjessica parker. Teeing off the
Contending with whether to keep doing business in the peach state amid growing calls for a boycott. The fallout is now as american as the Major League Baseball is. Major League Baseball announced friday that it will be pulling this years allstar game from atlanta as a handful of Companies Weigh whether to take actions of their own. Of course, gop lawmakers in the state are punishing those companies for exercising their freedom to value black and brown consumers. Just a short time ago, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp said he will not bow to pressure from Major League Baseball or anyone else. But georgians of good faith of all races tried to purge trumpism from their midst. President biden is counting proposals to reclaim republican hearts and minds, unveiling his 2 trillion Infrastructure Package this week amid immediate pushback from republicans who take issue with these tax hikes on corporations to improve conditions for americas poor and Working Class. Later in the show, ill talk to the
Hopefully, their jobs have not been affected area well, thousands of jobs are being affected. In wyoming alone, a longterm leasing band would result in 33,000 workers losing their jobs. Hundreds of thousands more workers stand to lose their jobs in new mexico, colorado, texas, and other states. As for why the administration would not just let Energy Workers keep their jobs, she had no good answer. American jobs are being sacrificed in the name of the biden agenda. These policies will have no effect on Climate Change but have reallife consequences for thousands and thousands of americans. The nomination is historic. If confirmed, she would be the first native american cabinet secretary, but let me be very clear representative holland s extreme policy views and lack of substantive answers during the hearing to me disqualify her for this job. She is allowed to pursue her green new dealinspired policies at the department of interior. She will run wyoming and other states economies into the
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Thursday approved the nomination of deb haaland to be interior secretary by a vote of 119. Senator Lisa Murkowski of alaska was the only republican to vote in favor. Following that vote, they held a confirmation hearing for the Deputy Energy secretary nominee. This is to an a half hours. [gavel bangs] the meeting will come to order. We are meeting today for both a business meeting and a nomination meeting. I want to begin by approving our subcommittee assignments and then we will move to considering the nomination of deb haaland to be secretary of interior. Approval of subcommittee assignments need not detain us any longer. I think all of you have the breakdown on that. The chairs and Ranking Members were chosen with regard to rules of our respective party conference. Member assignments reflect member preferences. Do you wish to add anything on the subcommittee assignments . Im sorry, senator brosseau, do you wish to add anything . Know