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welcome to meet the press daily. america now enters the final weeks of august bracing for a 2021 fall season that looks and feels a lot like fall of 2020. in a matter of weeks the highly contagious delta variant has ripped through communities turning this summer from one of optimism to confusion and anger. the 0% of counties are seeing high or higher transmission levels. more and more kids are being hospitalized in the hot spots as well. deaths are also rising. they re well off of their pandemic peaks, but they re averaging more than 500 people every day in this country. public health officials spent months imploring the vaccinated to voluntarily get the jab. now the time has come for local officials to mandate it. the time has come to go the extra step to get people vaccinated. you want to persuade them, and that s good, and i think some people on it s own will go ahead and get vaccinated. but i believe mandates at the local level need to be done. as the delta va ....
also in the programme the belarusian sprinter krystina timanovskaya flies from tokyo to warsaw. she was granted a humanitarian visa by poland after claiming that belarusian officials had tried to repatriate her against her will. and in the uk, all16 and 17 year olds will now be offered a covid vaccine. around 1.4 million teenagers will be eligible. we start in lebanon. violence has broken out in beirut as the city marks a year since it was devastated by one of the biggest non nuclear explosions in history. over 200 people died when a warehouse storing ammonium nitrate exploded. a year on, no one has been held to account, and there s anger. this is the scene in beirut. in the past couple of hours violence has broken out. tear gas has been fired. it s chaos. this was earlier. thousands of protesters took part in the rally, demanding truth about the disaster. it s been a day of rememberance, too. elsewhere in beirut, hundreds attended a ceremony for the victims in the ruins of ....
with their reputation intact? poland says a record number of migrants have tried to enter from belarus. we ll speak to the polish government about allegations it s breaking the law and pushing them back. hello and welcome. we are starting here in the uk, where new distressing details have emerged at the start of the two day sentencing of the police officer who raped and murdered sarah everard in london. today, a court heard how wayne couzens, who was a serving metropolitan police officer, used covid rules to pretend to arrest the 33 year old as she was walking home from a friend s house. her murder in march sparked an outcry against male violence towards women. our special correspondent lucy manning was in court. she was my precious little girl, said sarah everard s mother. i can never talk to her, never hold her again. i am tormented at the thought of what she endured. that was at the hands of wayne couzens, in handcuffs when he was arrested at home, telling lie af ....
under the very same espionage act that trump is complaining about being charged under. and more than three years after the murder of george floyd under the knee of a minneapolis police officer, the doj finally releases the damning findings of their investigation into the minneapolis pd. but we begin tonight with the rantings of a twice indicted former president who seems to forget that history is well chronicled and easily searched. at his bedminster golf club earlier this week where it s cited in the special counsel s indictment that he on two occasions shared classified documents with people lacking security clearances, donald trump attacked the use of the espionage act under which he s being charged. charming a former president of the united states under the espionage act of 1917 wasn t meant for this. an act for a crime so heinous that only the death penalty would do. it s one of the most outrageous and vicious legal theories ever put forward in an american co ....
target ukraine s energy infrastructure. iran previously denied providing russia with the weapons. the mayor said that the drones caused several explosions, rocking the city. people sent fleeing for shelter as attacks sent buildings on fire in a busy area filled with universities, bars and restaurants. at least three people have been killed, authorities urging people to stay indoors and pay attention to air-raid sirens throughout the day. let s get to clarissa ward, live for us in kyiv, ukraine. you have just visited the site of one of these attacks. what have you seen, clarissa? reporter: it was a horrific scene and we were quickly moved on from there because there were continuing alerts about possible oncoming missiles. essentially it was a residential building. we saw one elderly lady who was rescued during our time on the ground there. one body of a resident of that building. but authorities saying three people were killed, two of them killed were a couple, a you ....