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and, jackpot students at the university of sussex are given the chance to win £5000 if they can prove they ve had two doses of a covid vaccine or they re medically exempt. now on bbc news, it s dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme that brings together bbc specialists and the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week: one virus, three countries the contrasting covid fortunes of china, the united states and the uk. afghanistan s president says it ll take six months to rout the taliban but does he have six weeks? joining me this week are henry chu, uk bureau chief of the american paper, the la times, ned temko, who is with the christian science monitor, and bbc uk political correspondent, damian grammaticas, is with me in the studio. welcome, lovely to have you with us this week. and at home, thank you for watching. it s been a week of contrating fortunes in the global pandemic. her ....
henry chu, uk bureau chief of the american paper the la times, ned temko, who is with the christian science monitor, and bbc uk political correspondent damian grammaticas is with me in the studio. have you with us this week, and good to have you with us at home, thank you for watching. lovely to have you for watching. lovely to have you with this week. it s been a week of contrating fortunes in the global pandemic. here in the uk, wales is lifting its covid restrictions over the weekend, and scotland will lift most covid restrictions at the end of this weekend, three weeks after borisjohnson did the same in england. fears of a signficant surge in cases have not been born out, and the number of people requiring hospitalisation appears to have stabilised. there s also been the first fall in the number of infections since the end of may, and a reduction in the r rate below one come in other words, the virus is not growing in the population. the delta variant, first i ....
so you got the shot and now, surprise, surprise, they are demanding that even after you got the shot you wear a mask again even when you are outside. what s going on here? why are they saying this? there s got to be some reason for it. we ve been wondering all week so we asked the cdc to explain the reasoning behind it. they couldn t tell us. today, they did. what an explanation. it turns out the covid vaccine, those wonder drugs that were absolutely perfect, more impressive than the moon landing, the drugs you were not allowed to question in any way, i don t actually work in the way they told us they did. the science is more complicated than we thought. there s still an awful lot we don t know. these are after all experimental drugs and they are behaving like it. the bottom line is a huge number of vaccinated people are getting covid. some of them are getting very sick and even dying. that is true around the world, iceland, gibraltar, israel. in small countries with hi ....
got the shot you wear a mask again even when you are outside. what s going on here? why are they saying this? there s got to be some reason for it. we ve been wondering all week so we asked the cdc to explain the reasoning behind it. they couldn t tell us. today, they did. what an explanation. it turns out the covid vaccine, those wonder drugs that wereeh absolutely perfect, more impressive than the moon landing, the drugs you were not allowed to question in any way, i don t actually work in the way they told us they did. t the science is more complicated than we thought. there s still an awful lot we don t know. these are after all experimental drugs and they are behaving like it. the bottom line is a huge number of vaccinated people are getting covid. some of them are getting very sick and even dying. that is true around the world, iceland, gibraltar, israel. in small countries with high vaccination rates are seeing big spikes in covid cases and it she every bit as tr ....
now says that those non vaccinated must have a test within 2a hours of entering the country. proper vaccine centre is open in venues across england this weekend, in a push to get more people vaccinated before the country unlocks next week. 0lympics organisers announced the first case of coronavirus in the athletes village, six days before the tokyo games begin. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. rescue crews have been racing to find survivors after the floods that wreaked havoc in germany and its western neighbours. 153 people are so far known to have died across europe, 133 of them in germany alone. hundreds remain unaccounted for and thousands are now homeless. thousands of residents of wassenberg, an area west of the german city of cologne, have been evacuated after a dam was breached by floodwater overnight. german officials say the country s flood warning system functioned as it was supposed to, but the amount of rain and how rap ....