Instagram or e mail me. And coming up this hour. The first super group of whales seen in australia. How many whales make a supergroup? we re going to talk to one of the people watching and studying them. Good morning and welcome to the programme. Health officials in north west england are stepping up coronavirus vaccinations and testing to tackle the surge in cases of the delta variant first identified in india. Yesterday, the government announced extra support for greater manchester and parts of lancashire. Next monday, the government is due to announce if restrictions across england will be lifted a week later. The new package of support includes military assistance, and supervised in school testing. New guidance recommends people minimise travel in and out of the affected areas. Residents are also being encouraged to get tested twice a week. Our correspondent richard galpin has the story. In the warm summer sun, people here in manchester looking forward to the possibility of covid r
is cnn newsroom, with kim brun brunhuber. we begin with breaking news out of moscow. russia is confirming for first time that it did strike the ukrainian port of odesa. the russian foreign ministry now says it hit military targets in the port with precision missiles, but these strikes came one day after ukraine and russia signed an agreement in istanbul, which would allow ukraine to resume grain exports through its ports. now, turkey said moscow initially denied it had anything to do with the strikes, and turkey said the attack hit port facilities, but didn t damage any infrastructure that would be used in grain exports. condemnation of the attack has been swift with britain saying russia s word can t be taken at face value. it is absolutely appalling that only a day after striking this deal, vladimir putin has launched a completely unwarranted attack on odesa. it shows that not a word he says can be trusted, and we need to urgently work with our international partners
faced off since the 2020 presidential election and the earliest a debate has ever been held in an election year. at times it was tetchy with them sparring over immigration, abortion and foreign policy. the two etched out sharply differing views on russia s war on ukraine, and the role of nato. at one point president biden said mr trump was a convicted felon mr trump called mr biden a criminal. immigration was a key issue in the debate, with the two clashing with their different views. let s take a listen. i don t know what he said at the end of that sentence, i don t think he knows what he said either. we have the safest border in the history of our country, all you had to do was leave it. he decided to open up the border and are contrary to people that are from prisons. people that are from mental institutions and insane asylums, terrorists. we have the largest number of terrorists coming to our country right now, all over the world, notjust in south america but all of the
hi, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. president joe biden s sole surviving son hunter biden was convicted today on three felony counts related to possession of a gun while using narcotics. a delaware jury of his peers found hunter biden guilty of lying on a federal form while applying for a handgun, lying to a gun dealer and illegally possessing a firearm for 11 days in the year 2018. today s verdict marks the end of a painful chapter for the biden family with witness after witness detailing an incredibly troubled period in hunter biden s life, a time when he was addicted to crack cocaine, a time when he was in and out of rehab with a mountain of financial problems. several members of the biden family have attended court in support of hunter, including his sister, his wife and his mom, first lady dr. jill biden seen her walking out of court today with hunter after the verdict was read. hunter biden s defense had denied that hunter had deliberately lied about his drug use when
manchester attack, a lot of you sending in questions for myself and christian who will be live from manchester and we ll get to them in a few moments but a sixth person has been arrested in connection with the attack on monday evening. we also know the father of the attacker and brother been arrested in libya. before the father was arrested he gave an interview to reuters and some of the details are starting to come through. let me update you, he said he condemns terrorist attacks on civilians and innocence people, he went on to say his son did not have extremist beliefs or belong to islamic state and that he had not travelled to syria. i said earlier that police have expressed suspicions he may have been to syria. he said he was going on a pilgrimage. reuters speaking to the father of the man who carried out the attack, saying the last time he spoke to his son was five days ago and everything was normal. tragically everything clearly was not normal and the details of the man