resurgent, the job recovery severely decelerating. and this morning there are growing questions about when a vaccine booster will actually be available. top health officials have warned the white house that more time is needed to review all the data. school is back in session as the u.s. is now averaging more than 160,000 new coronavirus cases a day. that is 300% higher than labor day one year ago. and dangerously high level of community transmission in nearly the entire country. dr. anthony fauci says the country is getting perilously close to having to make tough decisions about who getting an icu bed. but hospitalizations have dropped below 100,000 again. that is a positive trend that hopefully will continue. and overnight, the taliban announced they seized panjshir province, that was the final holdout of resistance forces in afghanistan. the white house is still insisting that the u.s. will find ways to get the remaining americans out of the country. and on this holiday
raised is underwhelming and a disappointment we ll look at their reasons for saying that. and an urgent warning in a new report greenhouse gas levels are already too high for humanity to have a manageable future . we ve put too much greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. we all need to collaborate to find means of removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and in particular, we need to remove at scale. hello, welcome to the programme. let s turn now to covid vaccines in the us. president biden is expected to announce that all federal workers will have to be vaccinated. this comes amid rising case numbers and stagnating vaccination rates. there s been a 46% increase in cases from last week. the highly transmissable delta variant now accounts for 83% of us covid cases. overall, 48% of the us population are fully vaccinated. but there has been a 35% decrease in week on week vaccination rates. the us would not be alone in starting to introduce vaccine mandates. in ma
of harry dunn, killed after a collision involving a car driven by a us citizen. local public health officials are urging the government to delay lifting the last coronavirus restrictions in england which is due to take place on the 21st ofjune. and birdwatchers joy after white tailed eagles appear on loch lomond for the first time in more than 100 years. good morning. today is the first day of the g7 summit a meeting of the world s seven largest established advanced economies. let s go now to cornwall. ben brown is there for us. good morning i m here at tregenna castle the resort in st ives, cornwall in the south west of england which is hosting world leaders for the g7 summit. this event will see the leaders of canada, the eu, france, germany, italy, japan, the us and uk gathering in person for the first time since the pandemic. the early morning missile as it is called, the mist and drizzle, has now lifted. it s becoming a somewhat brighter day, i am now lifted. it s
what chance the end of lockdown in england onjune the 21st? and at last, football s euros get underway, wales, england and scotland all vying for glory. hello and welcome to bbc news. the g7 summit between the leaders of the seven of the world s most advanced economies is getting under way in cornwall. my colleague ben brown is there. he has been there all day, he will be there for the next few days, and we join will be there for the next few days, and wejoin him now over in cornwall. and we join him now over in cornwall- yes, hello from cornwall, and the weather is brightening up in this beautiful cornish coastline, just as the world leaders are right for this g7 summit, we will have the family photo in about half an hour, and that will be followed by an initial welcomed all the leaders from the british minister, borisjohnson. so we are here at the castle resort here in st ives in the south west of england, which is host to the g7 summit of world leaders, and during the fir
the three big stories we are following in this hour. there is continuing crisis at the southern border. fox news has exclusive video showing dozens of migrants trying to cross into our country in the middle of the storm. vice president harris heads to central america this weekend. the administration calls the root causes of all this migration. greg declared it a disaster declaration for his border, and ongoing imminent threat of damage, injury, trafficking, and a violation of the state. e-mails revealed the state department looking into the origin of covid as we gain momentum forward lawmakers calling on the biden administration to get the bottom of what happened in the wuhan flap. the team coverage of all this plus david at the white house. let s first go to christina coleman in los angeles about the airline incident. the man brings back echoes in a sense of what we ve gone through at 9/11. definitely a scary situation, the crewmembers are credited for stopping a man from