Environment. The main one, reducing emissions. We ve heard the g7 will announce aboute $2 billion per country fromnt the g7 to help developin countries take steps away fra from high emissions coal. This announcement is a broad move from the g7 to emitting any carbon energy source. Getting these countries to agree, a mainstay of energy for generations is actually pretty ambitious. We re talking about a lot of these countries signing up to have their emissions from 2010 byro 2030. That s the main goal. 2010 level of emissions had by 2030. Whether we get to that is unclear. All of these leaders sign on to it and allowing diplomats to kind of hash out the details. When we hear about this later today and expecting to hear about this and some of the ambitious commitments, it s going to be light on details, but that s the kind of thing hashed out later by diplomats. Sarah, after the press conference by the president he and the first lady head to windsor castle h for a meeting with the queen.
How it s breaking from 145 years of tradition. And words of inspiration for the class of 2021. Good evening, everyone. We begin with an nbc news exclusive. What russian s vladimir putin is telling us just days before his summit meeting with president biden in geneva. In his first american television interview in nearly three years, the russian president pushing back at characterizations of him as a killer, taking measure of president biden. And offering a nod towards former president trump. The interview tonight with nbc s keer simmons potentially providing an early window of what to expect in the high stakes summit meeting. Reporter: noept our exclusive interview president vladimir putin held up he s going into next week s summit with relations with the u. S. At an historic low. Translator: we have a bilateral relationship that s deteriorated to its lowest point in years. Reporter: the last met with a u. S. President in helsinki. How does he compare? former president trump with the fi
Telling my colleague ali velshi, in a renewed push for the george floyd policing bill. Statues are great. They are symbolic, but what would be greater is having the george floyd justice information act. Let s sit down around the table and let s reach a compromise. Meantime, the white house is celebrating a major milestone. The u. S. Administering over 300 million covid shots across the last 150 days. The administration, though, still well short of its goal to have 70% of adults with at least one dose of vaccine by july 4th, but president biden says his efforts won t stop there as the dangerous delta variant is spreading in several states. Deaths and hospitalizations are drastically down in places where people are getting vaccinated and unfortunately, cases and hospitalizations are not going down in many places in the lower vaccination rate states. They re actually going up in some places. The new variant will leave unvaccinated people more vulnerable than they are a month ago, or a mon
More countries are demanding answers. On the possible role of wuhan lab leak in the pandemic. I m sandra smith in new york, and this is america reports. Happy friday, john. That word friday sounds so good. I m john roberts in washington. The start of the g7 summit comes one day after eu leaders called for a new investigation into the covid origins, they say the initial probe by the world health organization was quote insufficient and inconclusive. Can get this as a leaked document suggests that g7 leaders will also press for eight new probe while calling on china to cooperate. Kicking it off is eat our. Hi, peter. Good afternoon. The whole overarching goal of the summit is figuring out how to help the world collectively recover from the covid 19 pandemic and the economic fallout that follows. There s also no interest in how covid started and we are hearing that european partners are not satisfied with the information they ve gotten from the chinese so far. There is a wide scope of diff
Mccarthy making it abundantly clear he has absolutely no interest in creating this january 6th commission of inquiry. Reporter: that s right, at least under these conditions negotiated by republicans and democrats in the homeland security committee. A new development tonight. Steve scalise, the second most powerful house republican, initially told members he was not going to whip this bill, that they could vote according to their own conscience. But he sent out an email with a long list of problems the republican leadership has with this commission, recommending they vote no. The plans for a commission to investigate the january 6th capitol insurrection have hit a serious roadblock. In a statement rejecting the bipartisan deal, house minority leader kevin mccarthy said, quote, given the speaker s shortsighted scope that does not examine interrelated forms of political violence in america, i cannot support this legislation. Mccarthy is insistent that groups like black lives matter and a