republican members of state legislatures are trying to pass. the let legislatures are trying to pass. the 21st centuryjim crow assault is 2ist centuryjim crow assault is real. it s unrelenting. and we are going to challenge it vigorously. while this brought assault against voting rights is not unprecedented, it is taking on a new and literally pernicious forms. it is no longer about who gets to vote or making it easier for eligible voters to vote. it is about who gets to count the vote. who gets to count whether or not your vote counted at all. it is about moving from independent election administrators who work for the people to polarise a state legislatures and partisan actors who work for political parties. to me this is a simple, this is election subversion. it is the most dangerous threat of voting and the integrity of free and fair elections in our history. never before has been decided who gets to count, count, what votes count. some state legislatures want to make it
this week we are reporting from across the uk asking about life through the pandemic and asking how your community and your business has been affected. today i am in somerset. let us go straight to manchester. as everyone knows, a suicide bomber evaded the security outside the arena and detonated his bombjust as the concert was coming to an end, killing 22 people and injuring many more. it should not be necessary to have security to protect us from murderers but while the terror threat remains and shows no sign of going away we do need to have in place protective measures which provides security against threats but do not prevent as enjoying the freedoms that are part of our way of life. the enquiry has examined in detail the security provision against terrorist attacks at the manchester arena on 22nd may 2017. i heard evidence from a 53 witnesses over a period of 32 days, lasting 154 hours, and considered over 1000 documents. for many of those witnesses, giving evidence was
stresses that israel and the palestinians should fully adhere to the ceasefire that began on friday morning. the pause in violence is entering its third day. the queen visits the royal navy flagship hms queen elizabeth as it begins its first major deployment. and nul points for great britain at eurovision, as italy wins the big prize. hello and welcome to bbc news. both the pfizer and astrazeneca coronavirus vaccines, the two main jabs used in the uk s rollout, are highly effective against the indian variant of the disease according to a study by public health england. the health secretary matt hancock described the findings as ground breaking and said he was increasingly confident the government is on track for the final stage of its roadmap out of lockdown. here s our health correspondentjim reed. back up a little bit more there, fella, if you will. in places like rochdale in greater manchester, vaccinations are now being offered to younger age groups. all those ove
first detected in india, as doctors raise concerns about the easing of restrictions. and covid 19 testing before the revision song eurovision song contest. hello and welcome to bbc news. the us president, joe biden, has spoken by phone to both the israeli prime minister and the president of the palestinian authority after another day of violence in the region. mr biden expressed grave concern over mounting casualties. more than 150 people most of them palestinians have died since the latest conflict began on monday. our middle east editor, jeremy bowen, reports from jerusalem. the made desperate attempts to find survivors in the flatten three story house, but ten civilians were killed. 0h, three story house, but ten civilians were killed. oh, god, he is saying, take your revenge. mohammed lost his wife and four small sons. only his five month old son, omar, survive, with a broken thumb. his mother, was buried with her four dead boys, and his sister, four dead boys, an
gaza, as palestinian rockets continue to target civilian areas in central and southern israel. amazon says it will create 10,000 new permanent uk jobs in 2021 and a new training programme. in an appearance on an american podcast, prince harry says he wants to break the cycle of the pain and suffering of his upbringing with his own children. and coming up this hour. a meteorite that landed in gloucestershire in february will be on display at the natural history museum in london, when it re opens next week. hello, and welcome to bbc news. the government has this morning confirmed it s sending more vaccine doses to some parts of the uk that have seen an increase in the indian variant of coronavirus. it s one of a number of measures planned to try to tackle the spread after the number of cases more than doubled over the past week. public health england has recorded 1,313 uk cases of the indian variant in the past week. the figures are more than double the 520 cases record