And in the other big football match of the day brentford are promoted to the premier league after victory at wembley. In other news a teenager appears in court charged with conspiracy to murder, following the shooting of sasha johnson, the black lives matter activist. The 6 trillion dollar plan. President biden pushes the biggest spending programme since world war two to try to reboot america s economy. another lost summer for uk musicalfestivals a report by mps blame the government for not backing an insurance safety net for organisers. And in half an hour george floyd one year on a look back at the impact his death has had on the world. Thousands of fans are descending on the portuguese city of porto for this evening s champions league final between chelsea and manchester city. Champions league final 16,500 supporters will be allowed into the stadium to watch the all english affair the venue was switched from turkey, when the country was put on the uk s travel re
Unemployment fell 5. 8%. It was an improvement from an april report that was a major disappointment. Bill: maria bartiromo. Line it up. How is the economy doing? what does it mean for the biden agenda? thank you so much. I think this report is very indicative of where we are in the labor force. This number could have been a lot better but because of policy and all this money we re throwing at people, whether the extended unemployment benefits, the child credit, the food stamps expanding, etc. , etc. , people are still not going back to the office. Going back to work. These are not lazy people. These are practical people saying you know what? i can have a gig here, a second gig there and still get the $300 from the government. A much more accurate picture of where we are in terms of jobs happens next month when we get a true reflection of the 25 states that have stopped these extended unemployment benefits. Having said all that, this was a good number, bill you have more than half a mil
you start to ask yourself that. to clear the mental restore sanity, we are going to return to what we actually know which is to say to the facts here is the most important fact and american politics. democrats cannot continue to ru the united states of america. they ask him at democrats get elected president with 33 percent of the hispanic vote. or with the matter with 43 percent or with that 53 percent. oil as the answer, no chance. it s impossible. this is a huge change for what most people thought. certainly with democrats thoughts thought. they sincerely believe they wer the party of repressed racial minorities. that was the whole point of thae party, and weirdly, republican leaders seem to accept it as true, but actually it turns out it wasn t true at all. the democratic party is not thea party of the repressed racial minority. and pretty lament only entitled white liberals. democratic donors live in aspen and martha s vineyard in bel ai , democratic voters live in brook
live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to our viewers in the uk and around the world. it s 7am in the morning in singapore and midnight in geneva, where the world health organization has warned the omicron variant of coronavirus appears pretty good at evading immune responses. the who has said it s also causing an increase in infections, both in the vaccinated and those who ve already had the disease. here s what the head of the organisation had to say. there is now consistent evidence that omicron is spreading significantly faster than the delta variant. and it s more likely that people who have been vaccinated or have recovered for covid 19 could be infected or reinfected. here are some of the other major developments in the coronavirus pandemic at this hour. switzerland has become the latest european country to introduce new covid restrictions, including a mandatory order to work from home. indonesia has added the united kingdo
of my children and yours, hangs in the balance. this will be the decade i that determines the rest of human history. we cannot let it slip by. the wildfires blamed on climate change that raged this summer in california. we report from one town that was engulfed in flames. and coming up in half an hour foreign correspondents based in london give an outsider s view of events in the uk in dateline. good evening. let s cross to my colleague christian fraser. a warm welcome to glasgow, i m continuing coverage of cop26, it is 7pm here and the gavel should have come down on the summit an hour ago but it hasn t, because we don t yet have an agreement. in the last few hours, the presidency told us that a third draught of the text will be published this evening followed by a further stock take among the parties to see where we are. with the expectation that the negotiations will continue long into the night. that said, the closing sermon he has resumed, it started in part yesterday t