offstage with blood on his face. in a social media post, mr trump said a bullet had pierced his ear. he is now in newjersey, where he plans to spend the night at his private golf club. this image, obtained by the entertainment news outlet tmz, shows the exact moment the shooter, who is lying on his stomach, lines up his shot from the roof. clearly questions about how we was able to do that without being stopped. the gunman was shot dead moments after this. panicked shouting and what you just heard there was some of the reaction from the distressd crowd after he was killed, and the panic which followed. speaking at a news conference, fbi special agent kevin rojek gave this update. this evening, we had what we re calling an assassination attempt against our former president, donald trump. it is still an active crime scene. as i mentioned, we have a number of agents on scene. we are also working closely with other federal agencies, our state partners and our local police partner
guarding our spaces and keeping the pandemic going. on the right, the freak out is already in full effect. we told you last night about texas governor, you have to be joking pledge to protect texans right to choose. really across the board the reaction has ranged from absurd to hysterical to frightening. mr. punch the pores told the working people of ohio only mass civil disobedience will save us. you going to leave that mr. investment banker. former ohio treasurer josh mandel expanded on those thoughts in a corn field. do not c comply with the tyranny. the president is calling for requirement to get tested once a week or get vavaccinated. they are telling them to resist, which is i guess quitting your job which the opposite of the other demand that you get a job. this gustapo that s coming if your freedom, that is you. you re the one that has to decide whether you want to do what it takes to protect yourself and the rest of us or whether you would rather stay home and do
you probably know has spent big portions of the last two decades of his life in afghanistan during the war there. richard also weeks ago reported on some of the last fierce fighting by elite afghan commando units fighting against taliban forces. we now know that was some of the last fighting like that that there was in afghanistan and richard was right there in the middle of it. but now that the taliban have been able to take control of, first, all the provincial capitals, and then the whole country including kabul, without fighting at all, not in a military operation but just in what appears to have been a negotiated surrender by afghan government forces and the afghan military, all over the country, as the taliban have now walked in to kabul without firing a shot, richard has been there reporting around the clock as they have taken over. again, as i mentioned be we have been battling some technical difficulties, as you might imagine, for some obvious reasons but i do believ
at the 149th open, the gates have just opened at royal st george s. the first golfers tee off in half an hour. and we ll reveal the total amount raised for children in need s 2020 campaign. plus, it is a dry sense within state. will it last for the next a0 days? we have at least got the prospect for the next five. good morning. it s thursday, the 15th ofjuly. our top story this morning is a call for sugar and salt taxes to be introduced in england, to improve the nation s health. a landmark report, commissioned by the government, says the money raised by the levy should be used to extend the free school meals programme and pay for gps to prescribe fruit and vegetables. ellie price has more. it s just what the doctor ordered, but not what you might expect. cathy runs the charity care merseyside, involved in what s called social prescribing. patients are referred by their local gp, and then offered things like exercise support and cooking advice here. they also provide healthy
days. it is not as high as it was in february, but we are clearly seeing a rise. what we are seeing is a rise in hospitalizations, right. we see this is the change in new coronavirus. hospitalizations, seven-day average. we had been dropping most of the year, now all of a sudden we re seeing the rise. that is far more worse. we talk about cases, and that s one thing. that s symptomatic, asymptomatic. this is people getting sick. more people are get bting sick,o sick they have to be hospitalized. the rate is increasing pretty quickly at this point. what do we know about the age of people getting sick, harry? right. look, these are the cases. this is a percentage of all coronavirus cases. this is the big take away, right. those under 50, they did makeup the clear majority of new cases back in december of 2020 at 65%. but now we see them rising to 72% in june of 2021. the idea that it s basically this old person disease really does not bear itself out in the numbers. it s, i