Announcer live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. Not a wave but a covid tsunami. That is the warning from one u. S. Health expert as the omicron variant threatens to plunge the country into yet another covid emergency. The Delta Variant is already driving a surge in cases and hospitalizations, but experts say omicron will overtake delta soon, straining a Health Care System thats already at the brink. Thats why Officials Say it is more important than ever for americans to get vaccinated and boosted. And new numbers underscore why that is so. According to data from the cdc, unvaccinated people are 20 times more likely to die from covid than people who have been fully vaccinated and boosted. And yet around 70 of fully vaccinated Americans Still havent gotten that extra dose. We could be in for an ominous winter season and a kind of grim beginning of the new year. There are still so many now vaccinated but still not boosted folks out there. I wish everybody would g
putin s surprise visit to the russian occupied city of mariupol devastated in the early months of the war. like all ukrainians, like all mariupol residents, i feel today a war criminal vladimir putin visited the scene of a crime he committed for several months. it s been 20 years since the us led coalition began its war in iraq to topple the dictator saddam hussein we ll assess the history. # i ll take the world apart to find a place for a peaceful heart. and the return of a 60s pops icon we hear from yusuf cat stevens, about music, faith and performing at glastonbury. hello and welcome to the progamme. switzerland s biggest bank ubs has agreed to take over its troubled rival credit suisse. the rescue deal follows a weekend of emergency talks between the two banks, after credit suisse saw its value plummet over the past week. banking regulators hope the deal will restore confidence to the financial markets. credit suisse had been caught up in the market uncertainty tri
boss of a growing bookshop empire, is a leader of this counter revolution. he s made buying physical books cool on both sides of the atlantic. how? james daunt, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. i used to use paper cash. i pretty much don t anymore. i used to write checks in a checkbook. i certainly don t do that anymore. why are you so convinced that iwill, still, continue to use ink on paper, physical books, for years to come? books remain, i think, by far and away the most pleasurable way, and most memorable way, to read most books. you can read on an e reader, of course, and that will have some advantages, particularly for some sorts of books. and millions and millions of people across the world. and millions of people happily do. and the numbers are growing. and the numbers are not growing, actually, within developed markets. in the uk, the us, for example, i think, pretty much, it reached a peak and then came down to a level and is now steadied out. lots of people enjoy d
his new one is a collection of his journalism called dispatches from the diaspora. gary younge, welcome to the media show. let s go back to some of where it all began. you studied french and russian at heriot watt university in edinburgh, and then in your final year you received a scott trust bursary from the guardian to study journalism. and i think you were quite clear at that point that you wanted to be a columnist. why? because i had been very politically involved and my entry into writing was partly because i d studied languages and studied to be an interpreter, and i like to manipulate words, but it was also because i had been very involved politically, almost precociously, and that i thought i had things to say. and what i didn t realise at the time was the degree to which reporting, running out and talking to people, finding out, all of that, is the nuts and bolts of everything, including column writing. so as someone who hadn t done an awful lot ofjournalism and heri
it s been 20 years since the us led coalition began its war in iraq to topple the dictator saddam hussein we ll assess the legacy. and valencia s streets come to life for a five day festival celebrating the spanish city s culture history and people. switzerland s biggest bank, ubs, has agreed to take over its troubled rival, credit swiss. the rescue deal follows a weekend of emergency talks between the two banks, after credit swiss saw its value plummet over the past week. banking regulators hope the deal will restore confidence to the financial markets. credit suisse had been caught up in the market uncertainty triggered by the collapse, nine days ago, of america s silicon valley bank. here s the swiss president speaking at a press conference. on friday, the liquidity outflows and market volatility showed it was no longer possible to restore the necessary confidence, and that the swift and stabilising solution was absolutely necessary. this solution is a takeov