matt gutman on the virus in this country and rachel scott at the white house. also tonight, the department of justice now revealing how it plans to sue texas over its new law banning most abortions in the state. attorney general merrick garland arguing the new law is, quote, clearly unconstitutional and an unprecedented scheme. terry moran live in washington. overseas tonight and americans in afghanistan and the new images. the first charter flight out of how many americans onboard?awal- the taliban allowing the plane to take off. several other planes still grounded. martha raddatz with late reporting. new images tonight of north korean dictator kim jong-un and why they re raising questions. back here at home tonight, police releasing frightening surveillance. young gunmen firing 150 shots into a house over an alleged high school dispute. inside that home, a 3-year-old boy is killed, his young sister wounded. tonight, one-time presidential candidate senator amy klob
the semiconductor giant intel has announced it will set up dedicated capacity to make computer chips for the car industry at its existing foundry in ireland. intel will invest up to 80 billion euro in european production over the next decade. earlier this year, intel s chief executive predicted the situation would get worse before it got better. our correspondent theo leggett caught up pat gelsinger, who has been visiting the international mobility show in munich, and asked him if those fears had been borne out? exactly as we predicted, the worst is the second half of the year, 03, 04. next year it will get incrementally better each quarter but we think it will continue into 2023. it takes that long to get more capacity in place, just designs, rebuild supply change. it in place, just designs, rebuild supply change- supply change. it is fair to sa it supply change. it is fair to say it will supply change. it is fair to say it will be supply change. it is fair to say it wi
now account for more than one in four of all weekly new coronavirus infections, with over 250,000 new infections in the last week alone. child hospitalizations, they re also at an all-time high. but to be clear, less than 2% of all pediatric covid-19 cases result in hospitalization, far below with older people. dr. anthony fauci says the uptick in cases is still avoidable. if we do things right, we hope that we don t see much increase at all. if we want to protect the children, particularly those who are not yet eligible for vaccination, you want to surround the children with people who are vaccinated. teachers, school personnel, everyone else. some schools in the south have been particularly hit hard since reopening. one district in central georgia has temporarily moved to virtual learning after three transportation staff died in recent weeks. in florida 13 employees in miami dade public schools died since mid august. we should note, all of them unvaccinated. that statis
the hashtag #bbcyourquestions. scotland s first minister, nicola sturgeon, will set out her government s programme for the next year at holyrood this afternoon. the taliban say they re now in control of the panjshir valley the last province to fall to them. the resistance says it will fight on. as nearly half the world s gamers are women and girls, why relatively few are making it in esports the competitive side of video games. the actor, michael k williams, who starred in the american crime drama the wire has been found dead in new york. and coming up this hour: teenage british tennis sensation emma raducanu is through to the quarterfinals of the us open after defeating shelby rogers in straight sets. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. uk prime minister borisjohnson is preparing to announce his long awaited plans to reform the system of adult social care in england. he says it it will fix a broken system in which people face catastrophic
not clearly communicating how he plans to respond to that virus. the recent poll has found that 42% of americans do not agree with the idea that the president has clearly communicated his plans. also when you take a look at the numbers, 41% do not think the cdc has clearly communicated the plans for that response. this comes as we have seen a bit of confusing messaging from the biden administration when it comes to the roll out of those booster shots. they were slated to roll out by september 20th. officials say it may only be the pfizer booster that s available and not the moderna and that approval process may take a few weeks longer. when the president speaks at the white house on thursday, he s trying to show they are trying to tackle this spreading delta variant as more children are returning to schools, people are returning to the workplaces and the president is expected to lay out some further ideas and proposals when it comes to dealing with the coronavirus in schools.