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and celebrate his nomination for a big award. a touch of hollywood comes to north wales. but who s responsible for this sign on a hill above wrexham? good on a hill above wrexham? morning. the weather t: similar good morning. the weather today is similar to yesterday in that there will be cloud, and some rain and drizzle, but some shine also and i will tell you where you can expect that in about 25 minutes. it s wednesday the 18th of august. our top story. up to 20,000 afghans will be resettled in the uk over the coming years, under a new scheme announced by the government. it follows the taliban s return to power in afghanistan, which has sparked fears of a refugee crisis. 0pposition parties have criticised the government for not going far enough, as our political correspondent, nick eardley, reports. arriving in the uk last night, british citizens and their afghan allies, some of those who have now fled kabul after the taliban takeover. back in afghanistan, many more ....
i m going to show you the real face of the real life harm a wave of laws are causing. one family s struggle and what can actually be done about it. but we want to begin in the state of california where a federal judge has struck down the 32 year ban on assault weapons ruling it as unconstitutional writing that like the swiss army knife, the popular ar-15 rifle is a perfect combination of weapon and homeland defense equipment. and this is as the gun epidemic is surging. last week thine were kill at a rail yard. as of last week, there has been at least 232 mass shootings so far this year. california is not the only state loosening restrictions either. texas state legislature says that texans can carry hand guns without a license or training. and so let s get into this more. talk us through this, what are you hearing from california leaders about this decision? good afternoon. governor newsom immediately speaking against this decision. we know that even before he was gov ....
million commitment for the end of june of doses. at the same time, we re going to be starting with only a few million in inventory. and we re doing everything we can working with the company accelerate the delivery schedule. we re joined now by cnn political correspondent sarah murray to talk about this. sarah, what about this delay here off the top of this rollout, and what s the time line now going to be? well, look, there was this expectation that once johnson & johnson is authorized, which it has not been yet by the fda but could hahn as soon as the end of this month, the expectation was that a number of these doses would be ready to roll out. and it turns out that that number is smaller than federal officials expected. we re talking less than 10 million doses out of the gate. the hope was 20 to 30 million by april. you saw jeff zients saying by early june, july we could get these few hundred million doses. but that s going to be on the back end of this order. a ....
so the white house can still point to job growth. a number of aides have been texting the new york times story with the headline that the job numbers are still pretty good, but this was not the report that they were hoping for. they were bracing for better numbers. and even last month that is exactly how president biden did react when those lackluster numbers came out from the month of august and the president said look, i wanted to see something better here. we all did. acknowledging that because of the surge in the delta variant at the time that this was the economic picture of where we are. but that is something that the white house has been stressing all summer long, that these jobs reports are a snapshot of where we are and it is important to add context to what was going on and what was driving what is this weaker report. and what we are seeing clearly here is that as students were going back to the classroom, as some parents were going back to work, because o ....
in florida. but the states gop looking to restrict voting rights. tonight, the efforts on the way to fight back. we will start this hour for you with a ukrainian commander confirming right now that about 20 women and children successfully made it out of mariupol s embattled steel plant. united nations have been leading efforts to rescue up to 8000 civilians who have been bunkering underneath that berry structure. russian troops have destroyed mariupol, where an estimated 100,000 ukrainians remain. russia s destruction of the port city is part of the strategy to overtake the donbas region. but, the pentagon says that fierce pushback from the ukrainian troops have set russia several days behind schedule. that is rj thing too heavy weapons that the west has been sending to ukraine in recent days. president biden requested for even more military aid to be sent. earlier this week, he asked congress to authorize 33 billion dollars of artillery, anti tank weapons and funds for ....