a third wave of coronavirus is beginning to sweep across the european union. france and switzerland are extending restrictions from saturday, while polish health officials say the british variant of the virus is so rampant a 3 week lockdown is necessary. infections have surged, as europe s vaccine rollout has continued to lag behind the pace ofjabs in the us and the uk. our correspondent lucy williamson has more from paris. never mind the prime minister. in france, it was the astrazeneca jab that needed a shot in the arm today. after weeks of shifting guidelines, the message was meant to be clear it s safe and it works. but only an hour before he received it, france s health authority said a possible link to blood clots in younger patients meant the jab should only be used for those over 55. last month, it said only those under 65 should take it. lucky for mr castex that he turned 55 last year. but only 20% of french surveyed this month said they trusted the astrazeneca jab
republicans passed this law after spreading lies about unfounded voter fraud in the 2020 election nor the fact that the state gop pushed restrictive voting bills after voters turned the state blue. as for president biden, the white house released a statement today saying that he supports the move from mlb to move the all-star game out of georgia. so where does the pressure campaign go from here? joining us now, bishop jackson who is leading the movement to hold companies responsible. it is good to see you, bishop i, want to start with major league baseball pulling its all-star game out of atlanta. how did advocacy on the ground make this possible? i like major league baseball for acting with conscience and deciding that what georgia did did not meet its value. and so as much as the governor may complain and gripe, major league baseball did not make its decision based on a lie, it made its decision based on truth. we advise the governor to go and do likewise. governor kemp
chief of staff mark meadows engulfing more and more republicans. new confirmation that congressman jim jordan was one of them. his office confirming the message you re about to see was authentic. vice president pence should call out all the electoral votes that rebelieves are unconstitutional. jordan basically says, and this may sound familiar, it s not something he was endorendorsing. he was considering this. consider this the retweet defense in this era of coup-by-text, by powerpoint, by communications online. it s going down in the dms. what s going down may have been a crime. it s a bombshell that further ties mark meadows into the problems he has as he was just hit with the contempt vote. that means the justice department now will have to decide whether to indict mr. meadows as they did mr. bannon. liz cheney and adam kinzinger are the only republicans that went along with the majority in the house, being comprised of democrats, to hold meadows in contempt for defying th
last week. there are also new outbreaks in professional sports, from hockey to basketball and football. today the cleveland browns announced six players, including quarterback baker mayfield are now on the reserve covid-19 list. this is after the teams had a coach test positive, and news from earlier this week that more than 60 nfl players are infected, according to a league source, and that was just on monday and tuesday alone. let s get right to our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. elizabeth, this is starting to feel a lot like the early days of the pandemic, sadly. what more can you tell us about colleges and universities and nfl and other outbreaks? it really does feel like deja vu. let s look at universities who have moved classes or exams on online. middlebury college, princeton, depaul, southern new hampshire, cornell university. new york university is strongly encouraging professors to move their exams to online. they say they re seeing an acceleration