Of the national in abu dhabi. Ned temko, from the christian science monitor, was born in the United States but has spent much of his Career Reporting from the uk. With me in the studio, the british political Commentator Steve richards, who hosts the podcast rock n roll politics. Welcome to you all. A pandemic of the un vaccinated. The phrase used by us president Joe Biden on thursday illustrates a growing frustration among political leaders in countries fortunate enough to have stocks of covid vaccine that this hasnt been the Escape Hatch from Pandemic Theyd hoped for. In france, President Macron has told the unvaccinated they wont be allowed into restaurants. In the uk, they could be excluded from football stadia. President biden announced that employees of the federal government who decline to be vaccinated will have to wear masks, keep physically distanced from their colleagues and be tested once or twice a week. Earlier, hed praised the republican governor of alabama, kay ivey. Sh
Hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together leading commentators in the uk with the foreign correspondents who write, Blog And Broadcast to audiences back home from the Dateline London. This week the Un Vaccinated become the un loved, and is democracy bound to wither in the arid lands of North Africa and The Middle East . Let me introduce our dateline panel. Mina Al Oraibis Family originated in iraq. Shes editor in chief of the national in abu dhabi. Ned temko, from the christian science monitor, was born in the United States but has spent much of his Career Reporting from the uk. With me in the studio, the british political Commentator Steve richards, who hosts the podcast rock n roll politics. Welcome to you all. A pandemic of the Un Vaccinated. The phrase used by us president Joe Biden on thursday illustrates a growing frustration among political leaders in countries fortunate enough to have stocks of covid vaccine that this hasnt been the Escape Hatch from Pandemic T
Why Is thIs stIll happenIng . Why has thIs been allowed to contInue . Why are these numbers up, death fIgures up agaIn . There has been another attack on an OIl Tanker In the arabIan sea, wIth concerns In Israel that Iran Is responsIble. In the latest IncIdent, the IsraelI company, zodIac marItIme, saId two Crew Members on an OIl Tanker It operates dIed, In what It has called a suspected pIracy IncIdent. The vessel was In the northern IndIan ocean, near oman, when Israel says It was attacked by a drone. One of the crew who dIed was brItIsh and the other romanIan. WIth more, heres the bbc securIty correspondent, frank gardner. Well, thIs Is quIte a serIous escalatIon, and certaInly It doesnt look lIke pIracy. An InvestIgatIon was begun faIrly soon afterwards. It took place late In the afternoon yesterday, about 150 nautIcal mIles, thats about 250, roughly, kIlometres, northeast of the omanI port. And what IsralI TelevIsIon Is sayIng, quotIng an IsraelI offIcIal, was that It was attacked
Good morning. Welcome to your new day. Im boris sanch. Im amara walker. Rising Gun Violence. As the country hits a vaccine milestone, there are worries out there that one variant could spark a new wave of cases. Thank you for starting your saturday, June 19th with us. The very first juneteenth national independence day. Now an official national holiday. Happy june tteenth, boris. I cant believe you eat that. Ill send you some of the good kind. We begin this hour with images that some lawmakers in congress are trying to downplay and distract you from. They are from January 6th. And they are a brutal reminder of the violence carried out by a mob that was stirred into a frenzy by the former president and his lies about the last election. Yeah. The latest clip shows a rioter taunting, stalking, and hitting Law Enforcement. It was disturbing enough it moved a judge to keep the man in jail pending trial. The judge saying, quote, if any crime establishes danger to the Community And Disregard