getting seriously ill. you have to give people hope. one arm, one shot, one life. and we ve just got to keep pumping and grinding. millions of folks are just a couple questions or answers away from being vaccinated. and that s the answer to this pandemic. getting as many people vaccinated as we possibly can. in washington, in for pamela brown tonight. you are live in the cnn newsroom. more pandemic wary americans are getting the point. the vaccines work. the number new shots given is still rising. the cdc reporting that more than 700,000 americans got a dose of vaccine every day for the past five days. still, just shy of half the country is now fully vaccinated. the tens of millions of people still unvaccinated are vulnerable to the more contagious delta variant and new cases are rising. all those states in dark red have new cases jumping at least 50% compared to the week prior. hospitalizations and deaths, they are also surging. so health officials are stressing this n
position, with their 1% pay rise, a real terms pay cut, rejected by the independent peabody. so what do the government do? nothing. less than an hour ago, there were competing briefings on what the deal was going to be but it turned out to be nothing. our nhs staff deserve better than this. they have worked incredibly hard throughout this pandemic, the personal sacrifice is astounding. their hard work never stops, and that is not without consequences. work related stress has increased by nearly io%, mental health is consistently the most reported reason for staff absence in the nhs, accounting for approximately half a million days lost every single month. half a million days lost every single month to mental health. these issues preceded the pandemic, but the increased pressure, intensity and trauma experienced by staff is taking its toll. reports published in january found that nearly taking its toll. reports published injanuary found that nearly half of front line nhs staff
for russia. a minor incursion, president biden sparks confusion and sows doubt on america s response if russia invades ukraine. we ll have reaction from moscow this hour. donald trump gets handed a major legal blow as the u.s. supreme court rejects his request to keep his white house documents hidden. what this means for the january 6 investigation. and hundreds of thousands of syrians facing a harsh and brutal winter. human rights groups calling it a crisis within a crisis. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. good morning, everyone. welcome to the show. it is thursday, january the 20th, and we begin with the last thing u.s. president joe biden needed really with his approval rating at a listless 41%, and that is a foreign policy stumble. his administration is scrambling really to clean up his suggestion that a minor incursion by russia into ukraine might get a less forceful response than an outright invasion. have a listen. russ
formula one title but lewis hamilton has gained a knighthood hello and welcome to bbc news. this evening we ve heard an update on the booster vaccine rollout from the prime minister in a downing street briefing on the day that uk has recorded the highest number of coronavirus cases on record. in the latest 2a hour period, there have been a recorded 78,610 cases of coronavirus. again, that s the highest daily figure since the pandemic began. the previous uk daily record was 68,053 on the 8th of january this year. england s chief medical officer, professor chris whitty said those records, and more, will be broken over the coming weeks as rates rise. the prime minister said the government was throwing everything at the vaccine rollout across the uk, to curb the spread of the new variant with over 650 thousand jabs being administered across the country yesterday. despite the significant rise in cases, there was no indication of any further restrictions in england. our polit