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protect the progress lawyers for prince andrew tell a court in new york that sexual assault allegations filed against him are baseless and potentially unlawful. and there s a new star in town: emma raducanu joins the celebrities enjoying the glitz and glamour of the met gala in new york. everyone aged 50 and over, across the uk, is to be offered a coronavirus booster vaccine. the programme is the central plank of the government s strategy to deal with the virus through the autumn and winter. the strategy involves a plan a which focuses on identifying and isolating positive cases to limit transmission; funding the nhs and social care and controlling the borders. but if cases spiral out of control, the government has plan b, which would include mandating face coverings in certain settings , instructing people to work from home and the introduction of covid passports, which the government says it is holding in reserve . borisjohnson says society must continue to live w ....
team gb are also guaranteed at least another silver in the boxing. most remaining coronavirus restrictions in wales will be scrapped from tomorrow limits on the number of people that can meet indoors will end, social distancing rules will ease and nightclubs can reopen. a fifth of all the uk s covid, hospital patients are aged between 18 and 3a doctors warn of the dangers facing the young and unvaccinated we ve a special report. firefighters in greece continue to battle wildfires across the country it s predicted that worse is still to come. and the end of an era barcelona say lionel messi will leave the club after 21 years due to financial obstacles . gas and electric prices will go up for millions of people across the uk in october. the energy watchdog, ofgem, has confirmed its biggest increase so far to the price cap for domestic deals to cover suppliers extra costs. on average, households in england, wales and scotland on standard tariffs will pay an ....
i thought it was oh, okay. rachel, we are going to be joined we are going to be joined by eric holder, tonight. because oh, good. it was it was get out of afghanistan day at the white house today but it was also vote rights day at the at the white house, today. he s involved in a project with president obama on voter fairness in this country which has been a battle going on for so long, that you would think you would think, that at some point, it would be settled. but that meeting in the white house today was very similar to the kind of meeting that the reverend dr. martin luther king jr. used to have in the white house with the president. and here we are, still, at it. i just spoke with wade henderson, who was at that meeting today. and i was interested to hear. he is a very measured person. and he speaks, um he is one of these people, who is completely in control, at all times, and speaks in very measured terms. but i was very interested to hear ....
was encouraged coming out of that meeting. there is not a lot of externally visible reason to be encouraged about voting rights right now. hearing white henderson say that the meeting was encouraging to him and that he sees the hope for progress including on legislation was not what i expected to hear from him. seems like a great prospect. we will have to people who were in the room and we will find out how encouraged they were. excellent. thanks, lawrence. thank you, rachel. ks, two of the people who arn the room in that meeting today with a vice president and president are joining us tonight. the white house meeting about voting rights went on for much longer than the hour that it was scheduled for. that s always a good sign about white house meetings, if they go on extra long. it was the kind of meeting, as i was mentioning to rachel, that the reverend dr. martin luther king junior used to have with the president of the united states 60 years ago. 60 years ag ....
knee on floyd s neck more than nine minutes even after didn t have a pulse, violated the police department s policy. it was the police chief today making the case that almost everything chauvin did that day was wrong. do you believe that the defendant followed departmental policy 5-304 regarding deescalation? i absolutely do not. this is a trained minneapolis police department offensive tactic technique? it was not. is it your belief this form of restraint in fact violates department policy? i absolutely agree, it violates our policy. is what you see in exhibit 17 in your opinion within minneapolis police departmental policy, 5-300, authorizing the use of reasonable force? it is not. in a striking moment the police chief spoke directly to the jury and made it clear that chauvin did not represent his police force. once there was no longer any resistance and clearly when mr. floyd was no longer responsive and even motionless, to continue to apply that ....