everything. we are in reactive mode, constantly. there are now growing concerns about sole shortages of health care workers. late today, the cdc revived s guidelines saying, those workers who tested positive, who are asymptomatic can come back to work after seven days if they have a negative says, adding that isolation time can be cut further if there are staffing shortages. in many parts of the nation, lines to get a covid has continued to stretch from blocks, ahead of the holidays. supplies of at home tests continue to run out. nbc news reports the dozen or so companies who are authorized to make those tests are scrambling to step up. the white house is pledged to send out 500 million tests to americans, but that starts next month. today, the administration was asked for more details about that program. we re just working to finalize contracts. as we understand, it they will be a website that people can go to, starting next. week we ve been planning for the website
donald trump admits he did want mike pence to overturn the result of the 2020 election and he calls on his supporters to come out in their thousands, if they dare to charge him for it. tonight with the context, ayesha hazarika, former labour advisor and evening standard columnist. and guto harri who worked with borisjohnson when he was the mayor of london. hello and welcome. 12 of the 16 events sue gray investigated are now subject to a police investigation, including three events it s claimed borisjohnson attended in person. in the abridged version of her report published today, sue gray said she was limited in what she could make public because of the met police inquiry. none of the 70 people she has spoken to were identified, nor did she include any of the relevant email information, whatsapp messages, or some 300 photographs that the met police now have in their possession. but she didn t pull any punches in her conclusions. some of the behaviour, she wrote, is difficul
the criteria for membership. of the 15 council members, 12 voted yes while britain and switzerland abstained. we agree that the people of the west bank and gaza must be given the political perspective of a credible route to a palestinian state and a new future, and it needs to be irreversible. this is not entirely in our gift but our recognition of a palestinian state should be part of it. we believe that such recognition of palestinian statehood should not come at the start of a new process but it doesn t have to be at the very end of the process. the palestinian president mahmoud abbas condemned the us veto as quote unfair, unethical and unjustified, saying in a statement that it challenged the will of the international community, which strongly supports palestine s full membership. the push to recognise its statehood comes after more than six months of war in gaza while israel continues expanding settlements in the occupied west bank. that s a move widely considered
the criteria for membership. of the 15 council members, 12 voted yes while britain and switzerland abstained. we agree that the people of the west bank and gaza must be given the political perspective of a credible route to a palestinian state and a new future. and it needs to be irreversible. this is not entirely in our gift but our recognition of a palestinian state should be part of it. we believe that such recognition of palestinian statehood should not come at the start of a new process. but it doesn t have to be at the very end of the process. the palestinian president mahmoud abbas condemned the us veto as unfair, unethical, and unjustified, saying in a statement that it challenged the will of the international community, which strongly supports palestine s full membership. the push to recognise its statehood comes after more than six months of war in gaza, while israel continues expanding settlements in the occupied west bank. that s a move widely considered a vi
Substantial pressure to reduce and minimise any response it makes to iran in response to iran s attack at the weekend, and it s coming under pressure from different angles. from the united nations, you have got antonio guterres, the un secretary general, saying, look, because we are now in a place of maximum danger, we need to be in a position of maximum restraint, warning that if there is an escalatory act by the israelis, then potentially, we could have a full scale regional war. that s the pressure from the un. then, from the other side you have pressure from the iranians themselves, doing everything they can to try to deter any israeli counter attack. so, you have got a revolutionary guard general saying, look, if israel attacks hard, we might have to revise our nuclear strategy. you ve got the iranian foreign minister at the united nations, saying, look, if israel