Hello and welcome to the programme, im Luxmy Gopal. We start with our breaking news from the uk where there have been more violent far right protests in england. This is the scene in rotherham in the last half hour the british prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer has made a staement from downing street about the violence which he called far right thuggery. Protests on Counter Protests taking place. Protests on Counter Protests taking lace. ,. , , place. Counter Protesters left the area but protesting place. Counter Protesters left the area but protesting and place. Counter Protesters left the area but protesting and unrest i area but protesting and unrest continued with some groups of protesters causing Violence And Damage with throwing things at Police Officers and throwing things into the hotel. They had been surrounding a holiday inn express hotel in rotherham and chanting, get them out, and it is believed the hotel where Housing Asylum seekers. There were people still within the hotel
What the office is when i went to europe and watched the rest of the heads of state react to me. Not me because i m the president of the united states of america. The united states of america. And here s what happened. It s the first time i ever felt like you always hears them say leader of the free world. Well, i realized when i am sitting across from putin right now, he knows who i am. I know who he is. He knows i mean what i say, and can do what i say. He understands. Doesn t mean he will do it or not do it. But the point is it s the first time i ve ever felt the notion that i am in the office that is the leader of the free world. And we must be the leader of the free world. If we don t do it, nobody good is likely to do it or has the capacity to do it. I really mean it. I genuinely mean it. So, it s the thing, don, that is the only time. And by the way, the first time i walked downstairs and they played hail to the chief, i wonder, where is he? you think i m kidding. I m not kiddin
Listen. The cdc is going to say that what we should do is everyone over the age under the age of 12 should probably be wearing a mask in school. That is probably what is going to happen. Secondly, those over the age of 12, who are able to get vaccinated, if you re vaccinated, you shouldn t wear a mask. If you aren t vaccinated, you should be wearing a mask. Still the cdc tells cnn it has to intention of changing mask guidance yesterday. Le le let s begin this hour with kristin holmes. Where are biden officials on this later consideration. The science is key but there is the question of if they reverse course, are people going to believe it this time around. There are those considerations too? yeah. And all of this is weighing heavily on the biden administration officials as well as state and local officials. One person i spoke to in constant communication with the white house said that white house officials were hesitant to weigh in on anything involving masks because of how politicize
President biden is facing a critical moment in his agenda. Nearly half of the u. S. Population is fully vaccinated against covid19 but the pace of the vaccination is at the lowest point since january and the highly infectious delta variant is driving a new covid surge in all 50 states. Virtually all covid hospitalizations and deaths are now among the unvaccinated so tonight we are here in ohio taking questions from a live audience as the president works to keep the pandemic in check and his goal of an infrastructure deal on track. It is really a critical moment for his agenda. We will take questions from some who voted for the president and some who did not vote for president biden. The president and myself and everyone here in our audience, we are all fully vaccinated so without further adieu, everyone, let s welcome the 46th president of the united states, joe biden. [ applause ] hi there, don. Good to see you. How have you been? well. Very well. It s good to see you. Good to be back
Presidential town hall last night. This is simple basic proposition. If you are vaccinated, you are not going to be hospitalized, not in the icu and you re not going to die. So it is important that we all act like americans that care about our fellow americans. We re not in a position where we think that any virus including the delta virus, which is much more transmissible and more deadly in terms of unvaccinated people, the various shots that people are getting now cover that. You re okay. You re not going to get covid if you have these vaccinations. So that last part is actually incorrect. A small percentage of vaccinated people are still being infected with covid, although they are far less likely to die from it. But the need to stop the socalled breakthrough cases is just a reason to keep an eye on the cdc. They are meeting today to review whether booster shots will be needed. And the president also sounded the alarm on misinformation when it comes to these vaccines. He said the co