Were going to take you now to the Pentagon Briefing which underway. Before he ask your question, identify yourselves and your outlet. So The General has an idea who have is talking to you. And just reminder, we have 30 minutes we have haired stop at 3 3 so with that, General Mckenzie . John, thanks. Its a hard day to day. As you know, two Suicide Bombers assessed to have been isis fighters detonated into the vicinity of the Abbey Gate at Karzai Internationality airport and the Baron Hotel. It was followed by a number of isis gunmen that opened fire on civilians and military forces. At this time we know that 12 u. S. Service members have been killed in the attack. In 15 more Service Members have been injured. A number of afghans to day were killed in the attack. Were treating some of them aboard and others have been taken to hospitals in town. Were still working to calculate the total losses. Ill talk more about that as we go through my prepared remarks. We continue to focus on the prot
Represent less than 0. 8 of the 164 Million people who have been fully vaccinated here in the u. S. So that is less than 1 . And 98 to 99 of the people who are dying are unvaccinated. So these are the preventable deaths. This is not like last year when doctors were overwhelmed watching the patients die as they tried in vain to save them, so now we have vaccines and while they are not to Stop Transmission 100 of the time, they do Stop Transmission in the vast majority of the people. And the people who are vaccinate and get sick are less likely to be hospitalized so say the experts. Now to the flip side, and to say it is alarming is an understatement. It is a pandemic of the unvaccinated but that is still the epidemic of the unvaccinate and still in arkansas and Louisiana And Missouri is an epidemic that could have been prevented and the stories of the people in the icus saying that i wish i had been vaccinate and a final Text Message from a 39yearold Father to the wife, i wish i had the
infection rates have fallen by two thirds in england since the latest lockdown. and in our weekly video for bbc online, we ll look at what it ll take to reopen schools during the pandemic. we start on mars, because in just under two hours time, nasa s perseverance rover will attempt to land on its surface. only 50% of missions to the red planet are successful. it s a nail biting moment for everyone involved. and for quite a few people watching as well. mars is a70 million km away and it s taken the rover seven months to get there. its mission is to search directly for signs of life the first nasa mission to do so since the 1970s. rebecca morelle has a simulation of what the scientists are hoping is about to happen. nasa calls it the seven minutes of terror. an approach to mars at 12,000mph, then, just at the right moment. ..a parachute opens, dramatically slowing it down before a complex landing system brings the perseverance rover down to the ground. that s the plan, but
the uk is to be the first country in the world to deliberately infect volunteers with covid 19 in a human vaccine trial. and we ll bring you the latest on the coronavirus pandemic from across europe. in some countries, cases continue to rise alarmingly. queen elizabeth s husband, the duke of edinburgh, has been admitted to hospital as a precautionary measure. buckingham palace says the prince, who will be 100 years old this year, is expected to remain there for a few days. here s the bbc s royal correspondent nicolas witchell. fanfare plays. he s been retired for more than three years now, and he s remained largely out of public sight during the lockdown. this was an exception. july last year, when he took his leave from the rifles, one of the regiments of which he d been honorary colonel in chief for many years. the most recent image of him is this, at windsor castle with the queen, a photograph released by the palace last november to mark their 73rd wedding anniversary. pri
to hawaii on monday to meet the survivors and emergency workers in maui. the white house says biden is expected to visit the areas of wildfire damage and discuss the next steps in the recovery operations with officials. officials have now reopened the road to the worst hit part of the island, giving most survivors their first opportunity to assess damage and retrieve their belongings. however, people are still barred from entering the town of lahaina, which was destroyed in the blaze. our correpsondentjohn sudworth has been on maui since last week, and has more. there s been some criticism, of course, over the speed of the national government response to this disaster. so it will be welcome news here on maui that the president and the first lady are coming here. i m in the community, we are some distance away from the devastated town, but nonetheless, you can see from these destroyed homes and businesses the power of the weather event that the fire crews were tackling that ni