Needs to be spent on? get in touch with me on twitter @annita mcveigh and use the hashtag yourquestions. Ministers say their covid booster jab plan will help deal with any increase in cases in the autumn. Scotland s first minister, nicola sturgeon, will set out her government s programme for the next year at holyrood this afternoon. An urgent call for more foster carers barnardos says the number of children needing a foster family has shot up by 36% in the last year. The actor, michael k williams who starred in the american crime drama, the wire has been found dead in new york. And coming up this hour: teenage british tennis sensation, emma raducanu, is through to the quarterfinals of the us open after defeating shelby rogers in straight sets. The prime minister is preparing to announce his long awaited plans to reform the system of adult social care in england. He says it it will fix a broken system in which people face catastrophic costs. He s expected to breach election promis
And julia coronado, former economist at the federal reserve. Good morning to you both. We are 30 minutes from president biden making remarks on the economy. Mon, these numbers are not what economists thought we d be seeing. What are you hearing from the white house pokes behind the scenes? reporter: they re trying to highlight some of the good signals of hope in this jobs report, for instance the fact that the unemployment rate fell to 5. 2%, which is the lowest it has been since march of 2020, when the pandemic of course kicked off in full swing, and so many jobs were lost, and the fact that so far, 76% of those since the pandemic began have been recovered, leaving more than 5 million jobs still to go. This is something we really got a preview of about a month ago when the president spoke on the july jobs report. He wasn t ringing a note of celebration, he was worried about the hard work to come and the potential impact of the delta virant. You can expect a repeat of those things toda
It is a good day. We made progress today. Embrace that. Thank you for watching. It s good to share it with you. The big show, don lemon tonight, big star, d lemon, right now. How are we going to celebrate juneteenth? when there is progress, we should celebrate. Oh, we ll figure it out, this weekend. But i am just going to celebrate by honoring the people who came before me. I try to celebrate it, every day, by honoring the people who came before me. Who fought for me to be able to sit in this seat, every night. To be able to speak, with authority. To be able to give my point of view, not opinion, there s a difference. Opinion is not based in fact. A point of view is based in fact and in truth. And it is my particular lens, through which i am speaking, as a black man in america, who happens to be gay. And i have the incredible opportunity to have this platform to to speak, directly, not only to the american people but, to the world. To more than 200 countries around the world. So that s
Through which i am speaking, as a black man in america, who happens to be gay. And i have the incredible opportunity to have this platform to to speak directly, not only to the american people but, to the world. To more than 200 countries around the world. So that s how i try to honor evhonor, every single day, the enslaved people who were my ancestors. So there you go. Part of the learning curve there. Enslaved, not slaves. Enslaved, you re right. And our friends, on the left, have to, on a day like today, not chase after enslaved, versus slaves. Don t play pc with terms. Recognize who the allies are, who we re in favor of today, who sees it as the right kind of history, and who doesn t? is that an issue? enslaved versus slave? yes. Fight the big fights. You want to win the big fights, fight the big fights. I don t really see you know, when people say i like to say survivor, instead of victim. I get that, but that s me. I just said, enslaved, because it was i thought it was proper gra
and president biden promises it sjust the start. george s legacy will not be just about his death but about what we must do in his memory. borisjohnson is challenged about texts which show he offered to fix tax rules to encourage businessman sirjames dyson to make ventilators for the nhs. if he s referring to james dyson, i make absolutely no apology at all for shifting heaven and earth to secure ventilators. sleaze, sleaze, sleaze, and it s all on his sleaze, sleaze, sleaze, and it s all on his watch. the queen says thank you for the support and kindness she s been shown since the death of the duke of edinburgh in a message issued on her 95th birthday. in india, cases and deaths from coronavirus reach record numbers two days before the countryjoins the travel red list. and, how the desire for an hourglass figure is fuelling use of a dangerous appetite stimulant, promoted on social media. and coming up on the bbc news channel: team gb led by the interim england head