we had to start more with using technology and using streaming, for instance. it's a beautiful art and if more and more young people come to the theatre and enjoy that, it's a magical world. let me take you to the opera. juan diego florez and cecilia bartoli are two of the most popular and respected stars in opera today. but they are also helping to forge a more secure future for opera, one that embraces tradition whilst also driving innovation. italian mezzo soprano cecilia bartoli is unique in opera. she has received numerous accolades for her performances and has millions of admirers — like me. but she is also a music scholar and manager of one of the world's biggest opera festivals. cecilia's got that mystery quality that only very few singers have of complete charisma. when you see her on stage you look at her and it's very hard to look at anyone else because she's got that ability to inspire and thrill just by being on stage, before she even opens her mouth. for nearly 30 years, cecilia has been singing at the salzburg whitsun festival in austria where

he won the us olympic trials. usain bolt�*s picked him out as his favourite, he is the fastest in the world this year. interestingly, though, sneaked through the first round heats as a fastest loser on saturday, so we will wait and see. canada's andre de grasse, too, finished third in rio, he is being talked about as well. his best chance for gold, though, might well come in the 200 metres. want to also talk about the gymnastics because the athletics understandably takes our attention on sunday, but we are going to see the final of the women's vault and uneven bars. and no simone biles for either, the four—time 0lympic champion first withdrew from tuesday's women's team final and then thursday's individual all—around final, saying she had to focus on her mental health. she has yet to decide if she will compete in the floor and balance beam finals, those are next week. a us gymnastic statement saying simon biles will continue to be evaluated daily, so still uncertainty about whether we will see simon biles at

elizabeth greenway joins us now. walk us through the decision-making process. why are we skeptical do beto ben with and what changed your mind? >> yes, hi, ryan, thanks for having me on. to start i was so concerned with how new it was. i was worried about the side effects, short term and long term. i know they have studies, of course, that they do before opening it to the public even under an emergency use authorization. but i was just concerned that those trials are limited in scope and number and so was just nervous about what this look like long term for me. so i credit prayer with sort of bringing it altogether for many i think it's important to mention that. because if you look at the statistics, there is a lot of others like me that are skeptical a. lot of conservative christians. so, i had not given up on doing research. i was doing research. i wantled to see if this was something that felt safe and i happened to see dr. paul offit from philadelphia hospital on a number of news programs talking about side effects and other components of the vaccine. and

land, we have the suicide squad, the latest addition to the dc extended universe which previously gave us the dismal suicide squad, to which this stand—alone sequel — whatever that means — adds an all—important definite article. it's all about the "the". margo robbie's harley quinn is back, alongside the likes of idris elba's bloodsport and john cena's peacemaker, all part of a ragtag team sent in by tough—as—nails viola davis to do battle with project starfish, a project that does exactly what it says on the tin. really. uh-huh. written and directed byjames gunn, the suicide squad is notable primarily for the fact that sylvester stallone voicing a talking shark doesn't even come close to being the most bonkers thing on screen. hand! yes, that is your hand. very good. we're all going to die. i hope so. well, this is a world in which a giant weasel is just another passenger on the plane and polka—dot man, a character who shoots polka—dots and whom gunn himself called the dumbest dc character of all time, gets ample tragicomic screen time. the result is a huge splurge of pos

hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. stick with us and you will be fully briefed if you are preparing to watch the olympics overnight. with me are the broadcaster and journalist james lewer, and the education editor of the sunday times, sian griffiths. tomorrow's front pages starting with... super saturday steals the show on the observer's front page — with the emotional celebrations of team gb�*s gold medal—winning triathlon team. the sunday telegraph splashes on celebrations of another kind — those of the prime minister and his wife carrie — who have announced that they are expecting a second child. the sunday express refers to the "heartbreak of miscarriage" as carriejohnson reveals she experienced a pregnancy loss earlier this year and hopes sharing what happened to her will help others going through the same. "kebabs forjabs" declares the sunday people on the latest efforts being suggested to encourage young people to take up the coronavirus vaccine, and summer holidays are the focus of the sunday times â€

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what can you tell us? >> that's exactly right, ryan, i have been talking to a couple senator biden administration officials. i can tell you the white house is incredibly frustrated and they are, frankly, concerned that the media has been too focused on these break-through infections. this cases when someone is fully immunized against covid and managed to contract the disease. their worry is that by focusing on the rare threats to vaccinated americans that it will deter people from wants to go out and seek a vaccine. you know, if you watch the coverage over the past week, it might have presented a message to people that said, you know, vaccinated americans are still very likely to get the disease and spread it to others. obviously, that's not true. they're much less likely to get the disease and spread it to others. that might have been the message that people took away from some of the coverage. so white house is concerned about the, actually reached out to news organizations, asked them to dial back the c

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us gymnastics says biles is continuing to be evaluated daily as she focuses on her mental health. there's been plenty happening away from the olympics — in cape town, the british and irish lions lost the second test by 27—9 as south africa levelled the series. it'll now come down to next saturday's decider. katie gornall reports. pride and pressure is what a lions tour is all about, with the series on the line it was a question of which team could harness that passion. defeat last week left the springboks wounded. early on it was clear they would not go down without a fight. the penalties racked up, so to the yellow cards, this kick sent duhan van der merwe out the sin—bin before south africa boss mike cheslin kolbe flew in to join him, again tempers flared. the springboks boss had criticised referees this week but one man in the middle kept his cool. finally some rugby broke out. three points down at half—time, south africa responded brilliantly, mapimpi with a try, worthy of the world champions. they would sneak through again on the hour, am was quick but did he have con

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as we move into tuesday, again, that dry story stays with us. a greater chance of seeing a little more sunshine on tuesday. still the risk of a few isolated showers but temperatures should peak at around 21 degrees, that's 70 fahrenheit. now we will start to see a change, potentially, from the west on wednesday but not for all of us. this area of low pressure will tend to move in and the position of the low could change. if it's a little bit further north, it could bring its rain into scotland. but at the moment, it looks likely that we'll see some showery outbreaks of rain along western fringes. eastern areas will start off dry with some sunshine in the morning, clouding over a little later on in the afternoon. and with the winds swinging back round to a lighter southerly direction, maybe with the sunshine, a degree or $0 warmer. we could see 21 or 22 degrees, 72 fahrenheit. a similar story as we move into thursday. that low quickly weakens and will be replaced by another pushing in from the south—west, but again, the position of this low is

us and nato presence had brought a modicum of stability and gains in the civil liberties, education, and a little bit in the economy in afghanistan. that is collapsing, and i think the focus ought to be more on how to reach out to these civilians, innocent civilians who are fleeing this virus. also at the countries who are going to host these large number of refugees at a time aren't afraid of public attitudes towards refugees is fast deteriorating in turkey, but also in european countries. the united nations's food agency says more than a dozen trucks carrying emergency aid to tigray, in northern ethiopia, have reached the regional capital, mekelle. they were part of a convoy of 170 vehicles, stuck for weeks in the neighbouring afar region because of security problems. some of the other trucks are also making their way to tigray. about five million people in the region rely on emergency assistance, with 400,000 living in famine conditions. vanessa tsehaye is human rights activists and a horn of africa campaigner at amnesty international. how bad is the situation on the ground at the

can you walk us through that? >> reporter: they seems to be having a hard time controlling the crowds along race routes. the triathlon course is directly beneed where i am. we saw thousands of spectators lining the streets. here's what one of them had to say. >> yeah, i was going to go to the ride cycles last weekend, i read the please don't come report, and then during the week, i saw so many people there, i thought i'm going to have a go myself. >> reporter: this is obviously concerning, given that covid-19 cases are exploding here in tokyo and across japan, to the highest rates of transmission they have seen so far, yet people are coming out. the cases are not coming from inside the oil bubble. there's just a couple hundred, and most are not athletes, but staff members tied to the olympics. >> will ripley, i don't think you've actually slept over the course of the last two or three weeks. thanks so much, my friend. i appreciate it. >>> protests are breaking out across france over the government's decision to ma

my mum used to cook food, and he used to complain that we smelled of onions. but we left the area, he would eat curry every day, he'd come and knock on my mum's door. we couldn't get a job anywhere, them days, you know, so we created our own industry. we created our own product that we could sell to make a living out of it. that's how i see it. today, we're at altab ali park, which is a park in memory of altab ali, who was a bangladeshi man murdered by three racist individuals back in 1978. the british bangladeshi community ended up protesting in thousands. it's through the sacrifices and perseverance of the older generation that we can...not live perfect lives, but live a much more comfortable life. altab ali park is in the east london constituency of bethnal green and bow, an area represented by mp rushanara ali. she was the first ever british bangladeshi mp elected to the uk parliament. when political leaders amplify tensions, when they fail to show courage and leadership and stand up in the face of division and hatred, then we send the wrong message. you m

us air strikes had to be employed last night to support government efforts in herat — that's despite the fact that around 95% of american forces have now been withdrawn from afghanistan. you've got tens of thousands of people who are actively being displaced by this fighting right now, and that's adding to around 300,000 or so who were already displaced even a number of weeks ago. a number of other afghans, many other afghans, are planning, or at least considering what their options are, when it comes to leaving the country. i've been looking at social media groups set up by people smugglers, offering routes out through iran and into turkey. the people smugglers who are operating those groups are really being inundated with requests by people. the passport office here in kabul recently has seen large queues, as well, many people going there trying to renew their documents in order to apply for legal reasons to get to apply for legal visas to get out of afghanistan. the fear that many people have is that at the end of august, when the international military mission in afghanistan form

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it told us... wallbox, based in spain, didn't reply to us, but they did tell ken's team that they had fixed the online problems. time to see if the units are safe. retesting took place this week and suggests most of the problems in both chargers have been fixed, but ken says owners still need to take action. check for updates, solve the problem. the wallbox charger uses hardware that isn't secure enough. there's really nothing you can do to make it completely secure. so unless wallbox have found a way of fixing that, which would be beyond me, i'd suggest perhaps supergluing the box cover in so hackers can't take the top off. and what of the approval they had to be sold in the uk by the department of transport and the government grants handed out to help sell them? the department did not comment on the security issues we raised, but said... it's worth noting that all smart home chargers will still be usable if you just want to plug your car in. but when it comes to security when using them with a ph

thank you so much as speaking to us. american military forces have boarded an israeli—operated oil national — were killed in a reported drone strike. the us navy has said experts boarded the tanker to "ensure there is no additional danger to the crew, and are prepared to support an investigation into the attack". israel has accused iran of being behind the attack, which occured off oman's coast in the arabian sea on thursday. iran has not yet responded to the allegations, but it appears to be a serious escalation in tensions in the region. our correspondent tom bateman is injerusalem. he explained more from there. the foreign minister yair lapid who has quite firmly put this at the feet at the very means and said that he has spoken to the uk foreign secretary dominic raab about this because one of the two people killed on board was a british security guard on the other was a senior member of the crew, a romanian national. mr lapid said he expected the need for what he described as a severe response following that att

could we please use our heads here? this is nonsensical and the members of congress who are saying the things they're saying, which is it? wear a mask or get vaccinated? i'm so confused. if you're that confused over what's happening, you shouldn't be in congress because you're not smart enough. this isn't that hard. get vaccinated. and then you should wear a mask around other people who could potentially get infected. this isn't that hard. i don't understand why everyone is acting like this is that big of a deal. put a piece of cloth over your mouth. what is so hard about this? >> so much of the misinformation and the animosity is fed by the fringes and the places where these fringes thrive. specifically, fox news. let's play a clip. >> americans were promised if they took the vaccines, they could have their lives back. so by the millions, they did that. now they have learned in the clearest possible way that they were lied to. they got their shots, but the biden administration has decided to continue to control what th

that's the fourth medal for us. in| that's the fourth medal for us. in the that's the fourth medal for us. the other action involving british competitors, a split points victory over a tricky zambian. look mccormick is out after a unanimous points defeat to double world champion and cruz of cuba. look will turn his attention to supporting his twin brother on sunday. also returning to action is fraser clark. should he win, that would guarantee a fifth medal in tokyo. now, away from the olympics the british and irish lions are looking to seal their first series win in south africa, since 1997. we're deep into the second half in cape town and after a tight first half, south africa have started to pull away. makazole mapimpi scored the game's first try early into the second period and lukanyo am has just given south africa an 18—9 lead. and lukanyo am has just given less than 20 minutes to go in cape town. theres text commentary on the bbc sport website right now. the olympics may be in full swing, but the new football season is already under way in sco

we have other congress members talking about coming out here to be with us. congresswoman presley, congresswoman omar, the hope is there. because we know that we have to save lives. our job should be to save lives we are representing. >> congresswoman, the clock had been ticking on this moratorium expiring for some time and the white house knew this was coming, speaker pelosi said she didn't know the house was going to have to act on it. why do you think this came down to the wire like this? what happened, where was the disconnect? >> our office, we reached out to the cdc back in may, may 2nd, sent a letter to the cdc saying hey, we want to see the moratorium extended through the pandemic but also strengthened. we want to see that moratorium strengthened. we didn't want to be here now. even this past week, we made sure we sent another letter saying hey, we want to see this

. >> that's what she told us. she's like this isn't a real virus, a real disease, there's nothing wrong with me, even though she was on oxygen, signed out against medical advice and left. >> this has to be frustrating for you. are you seeing more unvaccinated patients pour in here still doubting the virus? >> reporter: it is beyond frustrating, everyone that we're seeing, the vast majority of patients are unvaccinated, to men and women, they all say if i knew i would feel this bad, i would have gotten the vaccine. >> reporter: she's the exception. tell us, you have a small amount of so-called break through cases here, but you hate the term break through. >> i do. for 20 years, i have taken care of patients that develop influenza after being vaccinated. we don't call them break through cases, i call them expected cases. with the vaccines available, my conversation with patients has always been yes, you can still get the infection, but the vaccine protects you in terms of developing severe covid. the vaccine prevent

what more can you tell us? _ this is such a tragic story. what more can you tell us? it - this is such a tragic story. what more can you tell us? it was - this is such a tragic story. what more can you tell us? it was at| this is such a tragic story. what. more can you tell us? it was at 545 this morning when police were called to a report of consent for a missing five—year—old child in bridgend. —— the port of concern. they found the body of the child in a river near a park and he was taken to the prince of wales hospital where it was concerned the child had died. an investigation is ongoing into the circumstances of the incident and the police are keen to anyone who was in the area at around 545 this morning you may have information about how the child ended up in the water. they have called it a tragic incident and are asking the public not to speculate about the incident on social media as this is an active investigation. the family is being supported by specially trained officers. we supported by specially trained officers. ~ . ., officers. we will leave

the threat is still with us. there's increased awareness by businesses and they're looking at mandating workers similar to the government has on being vaccinated. the eeoc stated that employers can do this. they are allowed to mandate their employees be vaccinated as a condition to coming back to work. the question now is should they. we know mandates are a polarizing issue. introducing that into the workplace brings for the complexities that can arise. light now, what we are advising businesses is to set a strategy within the organization to encourage workers to get vaccinated. communicate with them benefits of it, in some cases, incentivize them to get vaccinated prior to mandating some sort of process of vaccination. at the end of the day businesses have responlded, this will be a business decision. walmart, disney, google have taken measures to make the decision to vaccinate some or all employees. the spread of the virus moving forward is going to dictate whether or not businesses mandate or have a voluntary

can you give us a sense of the scale? yes, it's an enormous operation, that's for sure, notjust the broadcast operation, but the entire olympics in tokyo is tens of thousands of people who have gathered, 11,000 athletes plus another 10,000 officials and volunteers, and others who come to actually make this show happen. it's the biggest show on earth, quite frankly, when it comes to sporting events. our operation with our sublicenses is, you know, several thousand in size. we have scaled back the number of people we have sent to tokyo, obviously given the current covid situation here, so we are sending less people than we had originally planned. but it is an enormous operational effort, and in the current environment with additional rules and procedures, and things that we have to do to keep the japanese public safe, it's become a logistical challenge, for sure. and you've got the rights to the olympic games in 50 european territories? yeah, we've broadcast them in 50 different markets and 19 different languages across our

give us your reaction. i'm kind of shocked, but i made this prediction yesterday when i said people should not count out elaine thompson—herah, she is the previous olympic champion. that does not come lightly. i am just shocked at how she did it, and at the time, 10.61 is absolutely incredible. she did it in class and style. you did call it. ijust cannot believe it. but we all hope and want our favourites to win, but for them to go out and do it it is a whole other ball game. also, it was a jamaican one, two, three, which i expected but did not expect it to see it live. hugely disappointing for dina asher—smith, but daryll neita made it through to the final? i feel for daryll, this is still an amazing thing to be celebrated. she made an olympic final. yes, it may not have been the performance that she wanted, but she should still be able to hold her head up high. congrats to daryll also. huge disappointment for dina asher—smith, she has been struggling with a hamstring injury, she has also pulled out

help us do that. translate for us, what do we know now about covid and the delta variant that we didn't know before? >> well, jessica, i think it's simple in one phrase. delta is different. it's a much more infectious virus. it's a virus that gets to high levels in people who are infected and goes out into the environment, making it more transmissible. it's also quicker in terms of its disease cause. call it viralance, but it's the ability to transfer faster. and -- infection and going into our children's hospital, some of them going into the icu. so that's what's different about delta. it's quite a shock to all of us who feel like we're going through whiplash right now because we were heading out of this. boom, we're right back in it again. >> right. delta is different. in this report, we heard that phrase, viral load. it's something we've talked about. cdc director rochelle walensky said it is increased risk of cannes mission a-- transmission. people with the vaccine can still transmit the virus. va

it told us: wallbox, based in spain, did not reply to us, but they did tell ken's team that they had fixed the online problems. time to see if the units are safe. retesting took place this week and suggests most of the problems in both chargers have been fixed. but ken says owners still need to take action. check for updates, solve the problem. the wallbox charger uses hardware that is not secure enough. there's really nothing you can do to make it completely secure. so unless wallbox have found a way of fixing that, which would be beyond me, i'd suggest perhaps supergluing the box cover in so hackers cannot take the top off. and what of the approval they had to be sold in the uk by the department for transport and the government grants handed out to help sell them? the department did not comment on the security issues we raised, but said: it's worth noting that all smart home chargers will still be usable if you just want to plug yourcar in. but when it comes to security when using them with a phone app or home wi—fi, it seems some are smarter than others. that was dan, and more g

boom and thanks for joining us. even if this massive infrastructure bill makes it through the senate, which would be an impressive feat considering its bipartisan nature, it's not at all smooth sailing in the house, right? a lot of democrats aren't happy with the bipartisan bill, and they want to change it before they vote. house speaker nancy pelosi also made clear that they won't vote on it until the senate moves forward with reconciliation. intense debate about that. how does all of this get across the finish line, especially for pelosi? she doesn't have much room for error here. >> good morning, boris. yeah, the good news here is the bill is expected to pass. it's gotten past the cloture vote, and senators on both sides of the aisle say they're working toward a deal. the bad news, as you say, is that the senate bill has been pared down from what democrats wanted initially, in part because they wanted to get republican senators on board and that's what it took. ultimately, i think the victory will be getting havi

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cnn's natasha chen is with us. we know dekalb county is a lot of places in georgia, where experts are encouraging people, roll up your sleeves. get vaccinated and they're pointing out some of their own incentives to do this. any indication it's working this morning, natasha? >> reporter: christi, the incentive is definitely working. they're giving out $50 pre-paid debit cards and there was a line before this even started. you can see all of the folks behind me, they're getting good numbers here. that is a good sign. it's tracking with what we see across the country that vaccination rates are on the steady rise. especially a sharp increase in some southern states that have been lagging in vaccinations, this is definitely a race against time. a race against that delta variant. america is waking up to a new day of increased covid restrictions and president biden says we're likely to see more as cases of the highly contagious delta variant continue to rise. >> in all probability -- by the way, we had a good day yesterd

two of us were deaf and one was hearing. i have a lot to bring to the university but i also have a lot to learn from it, and that process must start right away. the board of trustees voted to name elisabeth zinser the seventh president of gallaudet. dr zinser had a lot of experience but she didn't know anything about deafness. and that's when i guess you could say the protests started. someone had the bright idea to bring buses to block the gates. the rallying cry was "we want a deaf president now! chanting: deaf president now! we want a deaf president! one of the posters out front said "honk if you support a deaf prez", and of course everybody drove past, saw that sign, honked. honking. then the press started to come, and for a week it was the front page of the washington post. are the students prepared to continue blocking the entrance as long as the board refuses to meet your demands? "we give up our soul in order to get a deaf president". - the chair of the board was jane bassett spilman. and she came to campus and calle

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. >> walk us through the factors that led us through this decision, why is it necessary to take this step? >> as you know, as vaccination rates have stagnated and declined now infections due to the delta variant have steeply increased. so as a front line government agency, our foremost responsibility is to ensure our readiness, as an organization to respond to the needs of our community. it's hurricane season on top of that here in florida. and we have been the epicenter for this trend of decreasing vaccinations and increasing new infections due to the delta variant. so, yes, we require it as a condition of employment for employees to become fully vaccinated. again, to ensure our readiness and our responsiveness. we didn't necessarily think we'd be here just a short time ago. but it really is the only responsible thing to do to ensure our readiness. i've said before, that the days of free doughnuts to incentivize vaccinations are unfortunately behind us. >> yeah, the free doughnuts didn't seem to quite work out. you said that 50% of leon county's workforce has been vaccinated. that's

now, iceland is putting all of this heat to good use. it drives the geothermal power stations which provide clean, cheap electricity, and that means that now, nearly half of all of the cars here are electric. the country is second only to norway in its adoption.

doctor, thank you for sharing part of your weekend with us. i want you to start with what you're seeing in the emergency room. you wrote an op ed for cnn and in it you say in part, quote, the patients i see frightened and struggling to breathe are mostly in their 30s, 40s and 50s. the one thing many of them have in common, they are all unvaccinated. doctor, i see all sorts of misinformation on social media but i wonder what you are hearing directly from people that you're treating about why they are unvaccinated. is it a lack of access or is it misinformation? >> thanks for having me. it's good to be here. you know, i hear it all. i don't think it's a lack of access, at least in the areas where i've been practicing in the emergency room. i think most of these patients have just been overloaded with information to the point that they can't make an educated decision. i've heard every myth there is about the vaccine turning you into a magnet, patients becoming infertile, having miscarriages. the vaccine causing the disease that it actually preven

what do you think that tells us? i think, as you said earlier, it's a window into the huge frustration that governments in countries that are lucky enough to have stocks of vaccine and the ability to put the vaccine into arms has so far fallen far short of the number of vaccinations that they wanted to administer, and they feel they need to administer. the other thing it reflects is quite frankly a new urgency, because there have been reports, even in the last 2a hours, based on an in—house assessment by the centers for disease prevention in the united states, suggesting this delta variant, the one that originated it india but is now prevalent pretty much all over the world, is not only more transmissible, it's much, much, much more transmissible than had been assumed. and it's also capable of infecting and being passed on by fully vaccinated people almost as easily as by those who have not been vaccinated. so i think there's a sense of the clock ticking, and i think that's what you're seeing. and i think we will s

jess always goes first for us, she has a phenomenal swimmer and gets us right to the front of the race. she did a fantasticjob on the bike on the run. jonny brownlee helped with the athletes until the run and then pulled away, gave georgia a lead, she increased the lead towards the end of the run, she handed over to alex. what about his composure for a 23—year—old, to have vincent louise pass you on the first lap, but to have the composure to know that he could pull away on the run, and that is exactly what he did. all four of the transitions were exceptionally good. you put all of those things together, and a fantastic preparation these guys have. we are lucky in britain, because of the national lottery, we are able to invest in supporting these athletes in perhaps ways that athletes in other countries are not supported. we are very grateful for that. staying on the games — and tokyo has reported that new daily coronavirus cases have surged to a record high of 4,058. a spike in cases in recent days has prompted an extension of the capital's state of emergency. it's also been exp

natasha chen joins us live. it's where many experts are encouraging people to roll up their sleeves by offering incentives, right, natasha? >> reporter: yeah, boris. they're giving out prepaid gift cards today in hopes more people will come to this spot at a mall and get the shot especially as school districts in this area sometimes a bit early to make up for lost instruction time during the pandemic. in many places across the country, georgia is seeing a rising 7-day average new covid cases and that has a lot of people concerned. >> america's waking up to a new day of increased covid restrictions and president biden said we're likely to see more as cases of the highly contagious delta virus spreads. >> almost 1 million people got vaccinated yesterday. >> cdc data shows the rate of new vaccinations is the highest it's been in weeks. just under half the u.s. population is fully vaccinated. the u.s. is pulling in extra help to get it approved as quickly as possible to ease the minds of those worried about vaccine

we just said, "what about us? "why not us? " why not me? onjune 28, 1969, the riot at the stonewall inn on christopher street would mark the birth of the modern gay rights movement. so this is where it's all it. yes. where it all happened. mark segal was 18 at the time and had arrived in the cityjust a few weeks earlier. it's so amazing, all the rainbow flags on it. what's it like to be back here? it's sort of emotional. i think of the people who helped educate me or what we needed to do to create a real movement to create real equality. what was it like that night? just like any other normal night. we were inside, we were having a great time. i was standing in the back near the dance floor. lights flickered on, then they came on full force. i looked over at someone and said, "what's happening?" and they said, very casually, "it's a raid." i had never been in a raid before so i was a little nervous. police barged in, just started pushing people around. and if anybody looked like they were successful, they went up to them and said, "take out

thank you forjoining us. could you give us an idea on what those numbers mean? you could you give us an idea on what those numbers mean?— could you give us an idea on what those numbers mean? you are talking about 1.5 million _ those numbers mean? you are talking about 1.5 million families, _ those numbers mean? you are talking about 1.5 million families, that - those numbers mean? you are talking about 1.5 million families, that is - about 1.5 million families, that is the size of birmingham are in temporary accommodation. if you think about the children, the future generation of a city not having a permanent home. that is a terrible situation to find families and in the 21st—century. we are calling for the 21st—century. we are calling for the government to work with us, as they have worked with us throughout they have worked with us throughout the pandemic, to allow us to build 100,000 homes that actually are truly for rent at affordable prices. the right to buy system, well it has worked for many, it has worked for all and a0 years on from the start of

with us for years to come. we may be having our flu shot and our covid booster as time goes on which may also try to be tweaked a little bit to identify what is changing as the virus changes across the planet. now, i know nature came out today with a stand-up and saying is it really fair to the rest of the world that the wealthy nations are going to begin a third vaccine, when, you know, we have, what, 2% of the underserved countries that haven't even had one vaccine? well, that's a decision that we all have to stand up to do. and that is get the world vaccinated. so there's no doubt, the world needs to be vaccinated for this to be stopped across our planet. >> covid testing, dr. scott miscovich speaking to me a little bit earlier. ♪ >>> usa gymnastics said simone biles, arguably the world's greatest gymnast has just withdrawn from more at the games. biles said she's suffering from the twist ies which is basicall a mental block. and nicole is joining us, biles is making sure she is right before she competes a

useful on stage. he has fantastic— incredibly useful on stage. he has fantastic charisma on stage and his delectable voice to go with it. that is why— delectable voice to go with it. that is why he _ delectable voice to go with it. that is why he is— delectable voice to go with it. that is why he is a perennial favourite with audiences here. he is why he is a perennial favourite with audiences here.— with audiences here. he also believes that _ with audiences here. he also believes that opera - with audiences here. he also believes that opera should . with audiences here. he also i believes that opera should have with audiences here. he also - believes that opera should have a much wider global appeal. he is from latin america. do you think it is important that opera is taken out of it's kind of european niche? i important that opera is taken out of it's kind of european niche?- it's kind of european niche? i think it's kind of european niche? i think it is important _ it's kind of european ni

michaela skinner will compete in the vault finals in the us. simone biles says she doesn't trust herself at the moment any more. she said there were a couple of days where everybody tweet you and you feel may be the weights of the world on your shoulders. she said sometimes you just have to step back. we may see them all the time as the superhuman athlete foot out of competition they are just like the rest of us. there's already been controversy surrounding drugs on the track? yes, and one of the big names in the woman's100 metres it on your way home afterfailing a woman's100 metres it on your way home after failing a drugs test. it is blessing okagbare. she was suspended after being tested positive for human growth hormone. that was on the 19th ofjuly. blessing okagbare had won her 100 picture feet on friday and was due to line up in a few hours against dina asher—smith in the first semifinal, head of the final later on today. she won a silver medal in the beijing olympics in the long jump. this comes after ten nigerian athletes were declare

what can you tell us? >> we are talking about a couple of things this weekend that may make some of those fires a little bit worse. we're tracking, as you said, about 83 fire, large active fires across the western united states, across 13 states really, and we're talking about having a condition of 95% drought, and what's really troubling is that this week, a lot of the areas moved into the highest level of drought. extreme or exceptional drought. and this weekend, we got a couple of things going on, we've got heat, that's going to be a problem, especially in the pacific northwest, it could be breaking records, high heat warnings, excessive heat warnings, temperatures between 95 and 105. and in addition, we could see some rain, and isn't that going to help, no, these are going to be dry thunderstorms, and they could potentially spark new fires. so that's something we will be watching. and it is all part of the monsoon that has been helping some areas, a little bit to the south, get some relief from the hea