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silver in the women s canoe slalom. it can mean so much for people, and i hope people see women now as an event that is really high class, there was some amazing paddling out there. half a million fewer people are now on furlough. but experts warn there could be job cuts as government support eases. 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. and itv says there are no current plans for another series of the x factor after reports the show had been axed. in the last half hour, england s deputy chief medical 0fficer, jonathan van tam, has told the bbc that covid vaccinations have prevented around 22 million new coronavirus cases in england and saved about 60,000 lives. he announced the figures which are from public health england while answering questions on the vaccines from bbc newsbeat listeners. let s hear what h ....
capitol physician, official mandate from him. i have nothing to say about that. except we honor it. leader mccarthy says it s against the such. he s such a moron. why did the house speaker speak out? because house republicans are playing down covid as it makes a comeback across the country. as far as the former president goes, he has so far failed to sabotage a bipartisan infrastructure plan that just cleared a major hurdle in congress. is trump losing his grip on the gop? good morning, and welcome to morning joe, it s thursday, july 29th, it s good to have you all on board with us. senators celebrated with us yesterday after finally coming to an agreement on a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. the break through came after weeks of disagreements over sticking points such as public transit, how to fund it and all of that. within hours of announcing the deal, senate majority leader, chuck schumer, moved to hold a procedural vote exactly one week after th ....
an olympic title. we ll have full details of team gb s impressive day and we ll be looking at their prospects for the days ahead. also tonight. another fall in the daily number of covid cases in the uk they ve more than halved in the past nine days. the afghan army tries to contain the taliban, but high numbers of civilians have been killed or injured since the start of the year. and canterbury cathedral discovers that some of its magnificent stained glass is among the oldest in the world. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel. tom pidcock wins great britain s third olympic gold at the tokyo games with a dominant performance in the men s mountain bike cross country. good evening. it s already being called magic monday thanks to the impressive achievements of britain s olympians injapan. three gold medals were won in the space of five hours, including one for tom daley and his diving partner matty lee. it was daley s fourth olympic attempt and lee s ....
hello, and welcome to the programme. from monday, england and wales covid border controls will be significantly relaxed as people who have been fully vaccinated in the eu or us will not need to isolate when coming to england from an amber list country. officials say the move will reunite friends and family who live abroad. the uk transport secretary grant shapps said the new rules will apply to all travellers from the united states, the european union, as well as norway and switzerland. but france for now is not included, after being classed as amber plus. passengers will need to have been fully vaccinated in america or the eu travellers will still need a test before setting off and another test two days after arrival. northern ireland has yet to decide whether to follow suit. meanwhile the government says it will review again england s traffic light system for countries around the world including france at the end of next week. our transport correspondent, carolin ....
if you get vaccinated now 100 million americans aren t vaccinated if they are, the mask won t be around that long, the delta variant won t win, the fall will be what we want it to be. it is all on us and the time is now. and now you re talking about actually real freedom and real liberty because then people don t have to walk around with masks on. we have the freedom of being with our loved ones safely. we have young people who can be free because not all of them can be vaccinated. free from covid, free from getting ill. so the message is right i think from dr. anthony fauci. get the vaccine. get the vaccine. yeah, as you said last night you have a right to not get it. but is it the right thing? i think that s the perfect question. look, we re the land of free, why? because we re the home of the brave? and i don t think it s brave leadership to say to people you don t have to get this, i think it s safe. i m probably not going to tell you that much i got it, b ....