Both houses of congress are in recess. Members for the most part are out of town. Another major development we are following tonight, a setback in White House plans to make Vaccine Boosters widely available as soon as monday. Today, an Fda Advisory committee voted against recommending a third dose of Pfizers Vaccine for most fully vaccinated adults among us. The panel did hold a second Followup Vote and agreed to recommend boosters for people over 65 and for those at high risk for contracting severe disease during the day long meeting. Members said they needed to know more about the impact of these third shots. Recommending a third goes to younger people is just not something that i would feel comfortable with at this. Point i think we should be concerned with immunity clearly seems to decrease overtime. Do we want to wait until more previously vaccinated people get sick . I want to support a recommendation for people over 65, i have a hard time supporting it for anyone who is younger
Walkers are urged to respect The Mountain as the number of visitors soars. And britains paralympians prepare for the start of competition tomorrow, hoping to beat Their Medal Haul from rio five years ago. Welcome to Bbc News. The Defence Secretary has warned there are hours, not weeks, left to airlift people out of afghanistan. Diplomatic pressure is building to try to extend the august the 31st Deadline Forforeign troops to leave. But the taliban, now in charge of course in kabul, appear to be ruling out any delay to the withdrawal. The Ministry Of Defence says british forces have already airlifted out more than 6,000 people. The focus now, it says, is on a further 1,800 Uk Nationals and more than 2,200 afghans. The government conceded again today that some who are eligible to come to The Uk will be left behind. 0urfirst report comes from our afghanistan Correspondent Secunder kermani who is in kabul. Its crowded, filthy and baking hot. But desperate afghans keep coming to Kabul Airpo
Well over 100 afghans and was intended to target another potential isis bomber. this strike was taken in the earnest belief that it would prevent an imminent threat to our forces. we but it was a mistake. and i offer my sincere apology. as the combatant commander, i am fully responsible for the strike and it s tragic outcome. as you, know the biden administration already facing intense criticism over its afghanistan withdrawal. this incident will also add to the scrutiny of join chiefs of staff, chairman general mark milley who has defended the military s action at the time as a right to strike. he s already being criticized for reports that he made calls to his chinese counterpart in the final months of donald trump s presidency to assure that the u.s. had no plans to attack. today, milley defended those calls, telling the associated press they were, quote, routine. and he said they were made to,
65, i have a hard time supporting it for anyone who is younger than 65. the fda has the final word on approvals. that is expected by next week. the cdc will also set guidelines of its own on just to should get these boosters. all the, while some people have gone ahead and gotten their booster shots anyway if they are able to. today, the government updated the number of americans apparently dying of covid. the latest seven-day average shows we are losing 1448 souls every day. that number is about 17% higher than the week before. this is the day the pentagon admitted that a drone strike launch just before american troops left afghanistan was indeed a tragic, deadly mistake that killed ten civilians, seven children among them. the air strike was launched just days after an isis terrorist attack killed 13 american service members and
They follow this vehicle for eight hours. so i thought they had target fixation, they didn t have cross reference intelligence. they made a mistake and they killed ten innocent civilians. so it is a tragedy, as we pull out of afghanistan, while we continue to strike isis, al-qaeda, and other terrorists, from over the horizon. we are going to have a continuing challenge. tom and jonathan lynn, here how did this news today complicate things for america in the region and around the world? it certainly did, brian. it came today in about as bad of an hour as the u.s. president has had in quite some time. this is a moment where the white house really wanted to reset, start focusing again on the president s domestic agenda, the two huge bills, the infrastructure bill and the reconciliation package that needs to pass through congress in the next couple of weeks. they wanted that to be the priority.