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get in touch @annita mcveigh #bbcyourquestions from monday travellers arriving in england, scotland and wales who ve been fully vaccinated in the eu or us won t need to isolate when entering from an amber list country. uk foreign secretary dominic raab defended the move. the answer to your question why we are taking this step, we are doing it opening up internationally in the same way we are domestically in a sure footed, careful way with the safeguards in place to make sure that we can do it in a sustainable way. a coroner concludes that liverpool football fan andy devine who died this week after suffering life changing injuries in the hillsborough stadium disaster is the 97th victim of the tragedy. hello and welcome to tokyo, where it is now day six of the olympic games. there has been an upset in the athletics, with reigning world pole vault champion, sam kendricks, ruled out of the games after testing positive for covid 19. australia s track and field team brief ....
may be closing in on a final vote today. cnn s manu raju is following the developments from capitol hill. manu, what might this final bill look like and how close are they to a vote? reporter: pretty close. they re moving pretty rapidly right now after this marathon voting session, all-night voting session. they ve been voting for 12 straight hours. that came after the senate democrats left open for 12 hours one single vote, and they did that because behind the scenes they were working feverishly to lock down the backing of one of their members, joe manchin, who had concerns about a key amendment dealing with jobless benefits. they were worried he would split and vote with republicans, change one key aspect of the bill and potentially disrupt the compromise between progressives and moderate democrats. ultimately with some back door deal making, they got joe manchin on board and now democrats are confident they re moving to the finish line. the votes happened through t ....
under 4 million doses of the johnson & johnson single-dose vaccine available initially. meantime the w.h.o. noting for the first time in seven weeks a rise in new cases as they call alarming but not surprising. public health measures still need to be in place for this virus. the first johnson & johnson vaccines could be in arms tomorrow. it s very good news. now we have three important tools in our armament of capabilities against the virus. reporter: the advantages of this latest tool? just one shot and no need for special freezers. this really eases the capacity to get the vaccine where it s needed. reporter: 3.9 million doses to start. that was the entire j&j inventory. reporter: with promises of 20 million by the end of the month. the vart jost going to state and local health departments and pharmacies, 4% for community health centers. j&j testing a booster for variants and hoping to expand the trials this summer. we are working to accelerate that as s ....
we begin with the budget in the uk that takes place on wednesday with all eyes on chancellor rishi sunak it will be closely watched due to the massive economic effects of covid. it will also be the first indication of how the uk will pay for the crisis. there is much speculation out there as to what will be in this budget and the chancellor has hinted at some of his give aways such as five billion pounds to help high street businesses. when it comes to balancing the books one way of raising money would be to raise corporation tax in 2019/2020 the uk collected 52 billion pounds from the tax. but the chancellor says he is keen to keep britain s business taxes competitive with other g7 countries. some argue though there is some wiggle room for the chancellor with the uk s corportation tax rate currently at 19% whereas france s rate for 2020 was 28% and germany was 30%. so what will be in that famous red budget box? ruth greg is senior uk economist with capital economic ....
extremely narrow, and many republicans who oppose it are determined to draw out the process forcing the 628-page bill to be read aloud on the senate floor. this isn t a pandemic rescue package. it s a parade of left-wing pet projects that are ramming through they are ramming through during the pandemic. also today, political pressure is rising for new york governor andrew cuomo and the new york times and the wall street journal are reporting that many so of his top advisers changed a health department report to hide the higher number of covid-19 deaths in nursing homes. plus, the investigation into the january 6th attack on the capitol. the feds are now examining communications between members of congress and some of the rioters who stormed the building. we ll look into when some of these calls and texts took place. but, first, let get back to what s happening in the senate. cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju is live on capitol hill. manu, i kno ....