British trade and industry overseas. Good evening. The vaccines minister, nadhim zahawi, says the government will be cautious and look at all the data before deciding whether to end covid restrictions in england next month. It comes as the chief executive of nhs providers says very, very few coronavirus patients in hospital in england, have received two covid jabs, showing that a double dose of vaccine can provide very high levels of protection. But he warned hospitals are dealing with a heavy backlog of patients because of delays caused by the pandemic. Here s our health correspondent, catherine burns. The critical incident for the south western ambulance service, not because of coronavirus, though. There are just 13 covid patients in hospital there but the system is dealing with a backlog in cases and a busy bank holiday weekend. So people are being told to only call 99 in an emergency. We people are being told to only call 99 in an emergency. people are being told to only call 99
With them, a verdict. For decades, labour has counted on this seat as one of its safest, but now after taking so much of the party s territory in the general election two years ago, the conservatives are confident this too could be theirs. Careful counting and socially distanced democracy in action has made for a long night but, in the early hours, labour all but conceded defeat. We haven t got over the line tonight, which is clearly disappointing. I think we had a good candidate, we had a solid campaign, one that had integrity and a good plan for hartlepool behind it but, ultimately, on the day, i just don t think we were able to get the numbers. Across england, there are council elections at almost every layer of local government. Counties, boroughs, districts and more. Almost 5,000 seats being contested. In the north east, the conservatives gained seats on sunderland city council, eroding labour s once rocksolid hold. I think what we ve seen is that a lot of the ukip votes have gone
first, chad pergram is tracking all the key votes from the last 48 hours. chad. reporter: good afternoon. well, it was an all night session in the united states senate, and here in just the past couple moments, the senate actually recessed for just a moment. they re coming back into session, technically you see the chaplain delivering the opening prayer. senators are exhausted. they have been voting for 25 hours straight, the session went really 25 hours here as they consider amendments to this coronavirus relief bill. senators have been catching cat naps in the back of the chamber as they process 345, 40 35, 40 amendments here. this bill is going to pass sometime in the next hour or so, we expect the vote to be 50-49. dan sullivan, republican senator from alaska, he is out. he had to go back to alaska because his father-in-law passed away, so we re anticipating a party line vote here, and that means they will not need vice president harris to come to cap to hill to break
surprise visit to a ukrainian school and meeting with ukraine s first lady. at around the same time, canadian prime minister officially reopened canada s embassy in the capital. the two leaders also took part in a crucial call with joe biden and g-7 counterparts who vowed to phase out russian imports. on the other side, we just learned a russian deputy visited mariupol, a city russia has been trying to take over for two months. he s now the highest ranking russian to set foot there since the war began. that visit coming hours before the victory paid in russia. they will commemorate the soviet defeat of the nazis in world war ii. it s a stark contrast to the war being waived by russia today. russian forces bombed a school in eastern ukraine. dozens of civilians were sheltering at that school. cnn s sam kiley spoke to survives. reporter: to to putin is what a modern victory looks like. dozens dead or missing from a russian air strike on a russian-speak village as part of a ru
stand at this hour and president biden reacting to the leak and slamming republicans, saying controversy is about more than abortion and warning that the crowd is the most extreme political organization that s existed in recent american history. plus, amber heard takes the stand in the defamation trial pitting her against her ex-husband johnny depp. the courtroom drama continues and we will break it down. we begin with what the president is saying about the impact of the possibility the supreme court could possibly overturn roe v. wade. white house correspondent kevin corke has details. good evening. to call extremists who voted for his predecessor is a shocking claim. however, it also reflects a renewed political focus on yes, an old foe, thanks in large part to renewed debate about roe. the economy, gas prices, food prices, crime, the border and foreign policy, each to varying degrees, political kryptonite for the biden white house. with roe v. wade hanging in the balance