Underway. President biden sitting down with House Democratic leaders, this is as Congress Pushes forward with his 1. 9 Trillion Covid Relief Package. Republicans so far have pushed back on the size and scope. They proposed less than a third of that value. But democrats do have the votes to pass their own bill. Putting the president s call for bipartisanship and unity to the test. We are also watching less than an hour from now, the white house covid19 team holds a Press Conference as we get new warnings on Coronavirus Variants rapidly spreading across the country. Lets begin with manu raju on the hill. John harwood joins us from the white house. Manu, it is really interesting, Jared Bernstein said, no, were still negotiating but still full steam ahead into not needing a single republican vote. It is unlikely that this bill will win over any republicans, certainly not any Senate Republicans based on the size and scope of the legislation. They are pursuing this morning, early this mornin
i don t know what i won t speak to what impressions moscow might be getting but we have not lost focus in any sense on our need to support ukraine. it s why you have seen the president give an oval office address about our support for ukraine and we will stay focused on it. we think we have the ability to work on more than one thing. you hear the secretary often say we have to walk and chew gum at the same time. that is true with the issues. who is compiling the list of evacuees at rafah gate and which is the criteria to determine what injuries are eligible. because of the sensitive nature of this i m not able to get into all of this has been as i said extremely difficult process when you think of the parties involved and i find the not productive to speak to the underlying details here. israel and egypt expressed security concerns and no third party is doing we have worked with the government of egypt and israel to attempt to ensure an orderly flow through th
but it massively ignores the fact that people are very mobile, especially people in these high risk groups. there is a lot of travelling between different cities in the uk. lots of my friends from london come up to manchester for the weekend. the uk is expected to get an extra 100,000 doses in september. those eager to get one are told to look for information about their local clinic online, with those at highest risk contacted when one is available. josh parry, bbc news. we arejoined now we are joined now by ben weil, we arejoined now by ben weil, a student and writer at the university couege student and writer at the university college london. he writes about health, science and technology. thank you forjoining us. from what you are hearing, how difficult is it for people to access the monkeypox vaccines? ~ ., , for people to access the monkeypox vaccines? . ., , ,, ., ., vaccines? well, as we know at the moment, vaccines? well, as we know at the moment. there vaccines? well, as we
look, testing is a rate limiting step. if we don t have ready access ts to tests where people can get responses and results within 24 hours, the public health tool is not being leveraged to contain spread and have those isolate who may need to. we need to do more having rapid tests available. i welcome the white house saying in january families who would like tests are able to ask for them through a website. what about now? what about these weeks where omicron is exponentially growing? we need to do something about that. our public health response system has to be advanced and make light speed better than it is today. okay. on the good news side as well, we now have two pills in the span of 24 hours that have been authorized, one by merck and one by pfizer. basically a pill you can take home if you re infected that shows extremely high efficacy in keeping folks out of the hospital, which helps on a