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our thanks. your rewards. as we begin a new hour, we turn to the biden agenda. joe manchin says he wants a spending bill not too big. in moments, how the poor people s campaign is putting pressure on the west virginia senator. plus, a humanitarian crisis in del rio, texas. new developments about how the biden administration is responding. and the woman who designed the dress that has the worlds of fashion and politics buzzing. this is american voices. we begin this hour in texas where the state s ultra-conservative legislature kicks off a new special session tomorrow. this time around, texas republicans plan to focus on redistricting. they are already busy working to redraw maps to favor republican incumbents. the texas tribune reports, quote, republicans hold majorities in both chambers they will have every advantage as they use the process to position their party for the next decade as the state population becomes younger and more diverse. this is a process ....
dozens of universities have set up pop up clinics and walk in centres for students to receive covid vaccines, as the new academic year begins. students who are not yet vaccinated, are being urged to getjabs during freshers week. megan paterson has the details. a new addition to the usual freshers week festivities at oxford brookes university pop up clinics and grab a jab drop ins, all aimed at encouraging as many students as possible to get vaccinated, amid some concern about covid spread in young people. we are aware just before the summer there was quite a high increase in covid infection rates amongst the 18 24 year olds, so we re really keen to try and sort of capture them just as they re coming back to university, to make sure in the environment they live in maybe in shared houses that we minimise the spread and the transmission of covid as much as possible. obviously we want people to really enjoy their university terms and so it s to really make it possib ....
after their three day mission. now on bbc news it s time for click. this week we re looking at the world of extremism in gaming. also, meet your robot squash coach. let s play squash! and we all know that mosquitoes suck, but so do these anti mozzy machines. hey, welcome to click. hope you re doing 0k. this week we are going to be talking about video games, hey, welcome to click. hope you re doing 0k. this week we are going to be talking about video games, but not perhaps in the way that you might think. i don t know about you, lara, but my boy is now playing more games online with his friends, which means i m starting to have to think about the type of games that he wants to play and who he s talking to online. are you at that stage yet? no, we re not therejust yet, but we are hoping, when the time comes, she s just now into the nice, light hearted stuff, i really don t like shooting games. yeah, exactly. we know that there are constant suspicions about links between v ....
they know when it hits the bottom, it ll be 1990. good-bye to the 80s in ten, nine, eight, eight, eight, eight! oh, will this horrible year never end? when the 90s began, we are starting to see a lot of experimentation. seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. and the simpsons i think in some senses was inspired by not necessarily hatred of television, but a distrust of a lot of the ways in which television was talking to us. tv respects me. it laughs with me. not at me. you re stupid. doh! i think the sitcoms of the 80s were such a warm, safe, humor. i love you guys. the kids, they listen to the rap music which gives them the brain damage. and i think there was a real yearning for another type of humor. we were able to spoof fatherhood what a bad father. which at the time, and i stress at the time, was bill cosby as the shining example. did you ever know that you re my hero the stuff they got away with because it s a ....
live from cnn center, this cnn newsroom. with robyn curnow. thank you so much for joining me this hour. great to have you along. and we actually begin the show in afghanistan and a chilly warning that came from the cia, and it came too late to stop a u.s. air strike that killed ten afghan civilians last month. according to three sources, the intelligence agency warned there were likely civilians in the area and possibly children just seconds before the missile found its target. the military hit the toyota following a suicide bombing that killed 13 u.s. troops and scores of afghans racing to evacuate at the kabul airport. but the pentagon now admits no one in the car was linked to isis-k, calling the air strike a mistake. seven of those killed in the attack were children. nic robertson has been speaking some of the relatives who lost siblings, sons and daughters in the strike. he has a look at their heartache from kabul. a lot of children. reporter: this is the ....