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pursuing criminal charges. we re going to talk about that, which allegations this specifically centers on, and what the women inside the report are telling us this morning. also right now, the relief reversal. the eviction ban extended for some americans in some places, but it s almost certain to get knocked down in court. how much time this move really bought and new details about one big part of the pressure campaign you did not see. plus, new reporting this morning the fda hopes to fully approve the pfizer vaccine soon. the hard push for the green light is the u.s. sees daily cases surge back to levels we haven t seen in months. i m hallie jackson in washington on what s shaping up to be a busy wednesday. yasmin vossoughian in albany, new york, kate snow and former assistant district for manhattan is with us as well, rebecca. yazmin, the letter from the westchester county district attorney asking for materials, things like transcripts, et cetera, to see if they s ....
swathe of the highlands, heavy and persistent rain bringing the risk of flooding and travel disruption. and as you can see from the earlier radar, there has been some really very wet weather across this part of scotland so far today. and elsewhere, plenty of these big downpours and thunderstorms, some particularly heavy ones across parts of northern ireland, southern scotland come into northern england, and persistent rain continues throughout the afternoon across parts of northern scotland. it is quite windy out there, the showers could well see gusts of a0 mph or more, but generally these strong winds will help to bridge those showers along. so hopefully if you get a shower it should not be with you for quite such a long time as we have had at times over the last few days. and quite a cool feel as well, 17 to 20 celsius. through this evening, across england and wales, we keep some of those showers for a time, they should fade through the night. the rain pivots south a ....
it s six in the morning in singapore, and six in the evening in washington where president biden is expected to announce that federal workers will soon be required to confirm they are vaccinated orface more testing. the numbers of coronavirus cases are rising with the director of the us national public health agency. the cdc, saying cases have increased over 300% nationally since mid june. president biden has renewed his call for people to get vaccinated. so many people all over 630,000 americans have lost their lives because of covid 19 will stop and the press keeps wanting me to talk about covid 19 but i m going to mention this one thing, we still have a lot of people not vaccinated. in the pandemic we have now is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. so, please, please, please, if you are not vaccinated, protect yourself and the children out there. it is important. meanwhile the problem for many countries in asia which are experiencing a surge in coronavirus cases, is th ....
with us to accelerate that. secondly, we believe that driving should be recognised as a skilled shortage and therefore open up temporary visas for the industry to be able to bring european drivers back into the country. the government says the industry needs to find the solutions to this, which means better working conditions, better pay. what are you doing? i would absolutely agree with that and arla, through our third party hauliers who do our distribution for us, has significantly increased pay. in fact, this week we have announced a 2,000 signing on bonus for the drivers tojoin and work on weekends. and we ve introduced an academy to make sure that we re growing the home talent, because what we really want in the long term is for british young people to come into the industry as well. how serious is this? well, i think when you re not able to supply 10% of the stores that would be expecting to get milk every day, i think that s quite worrying for a customer walking ....
and australia sends in the army to enforce sydney s stay at home restrictions, as covid i9 infections continue to rise. the uk s biggest dairy company, arla, tells the bbc that it had failed to make 25% of its deliveries to supermarkets last weekend due to a shortage of drivers. nine years in prison for incitement to secession and terrorist activities. prodemocracy activist benny tai is the first person to be convicted under hong kong s new security law. and it s an epic battle between a star and her studio, as scarlettjohansson sues disney for streaming her latest movie. there s been a sizeable medal haul for team gb at the tokyo olympics. tremendous bmx racing by 22 year old beth shriever has won her gold. and kye white took silver in the men s event. for a full round up of the action at the olympics this morning, let s cross to mike bushell at the bbc sport centre. and call it a fabulous friday for team gb including that gold from beth shriever, what a story, she r ....