and we meet this year s mercury prize winner, singer songwriter arlo parks, who itjust 20 years old. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. in his most sweeping act yet, president biden has set out a series of radical measures to get more americans vaccinated against covid 19. it follows a surge in cases of the fast spreading delta variant. all federal government workers will have to be innoculated as will businesses with more than a hundred employees. mr biden expressed frustration at the 80 million americans who are still notjabbed, saying they were causing hospitals to become overcrowded, and he appealed to them to get the shot. what more is there to wait for? what more do you need to see? the vaccine has fda approval. more than 200 million with at least one shot. we have been patient, but patience is wearing thin. and refusal has cost all of us, so please, do the right thing. listen to the voices of unvaccinated americans. taking their final brea
we had an early patch of rain of eastern england. scotland was one of the sunniest places. we sought the cloud break across southern england. it stayed pretty cloudy for some across northern england. over recent hours, we had seen rain arrive in the rain is making inroads across scotland and will push southwards and eastwards over the next few hours. the rain will be more persistent over england and wales for a time. light rain across southern wales and south west england but otherwise staying largely dry in the south east. temperature is mild but relatively cool temperature is mild but relatively cool. it should be a fine start for orkney and shetland with some sunny spells, may be the odd isolated shower. rain elsewhere, turning light and patchy through the day, some mistiness over the tops of the hills. damp in northern england and scotland. we will start to see sunny spells breaking through across parts of the south of england and south midlands. temperatures could be hig
like slaves. also, broadway is back. its busiest season in more than a decade. it has it beaten covid? hello. thank you forjoining us. we start breaking news. the us political website politico says it has seen a majority opinion leaked from the supreme court which says that it is voting to strike down the landmark roe versus wade decision, that is the decision which legalised abortion across the united states, a federal decision. the document, said to be written byjustice samuel alito, says roe versus wade was wrong since it was first introduced in 1973. if that were to be verified, then the leaking of the document is certainly unprecedented in the history of the us supreme court. it is worth pointing out that this, the leak is still an opinion, so that would have to be confirmed as a decision by the supreme court, by all the judges of the supreme court, a majority of those. this is one of the biggest single legislative issues in the united states. it has stirred contention f