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Estimates but if we hit 50,000 cases a day, that could mean nearly 1.5 million people a week being ordered to self—isolate. and if we hit 100,000 cases a day by 16 august, the date at which the self—isolation rules are being relaxed, it could be nearer three million people a week. tomorrow, ministers are expected to announce a date when fully immunised people arriving in england from amber list countries will no longer have to quarantine. it would open up a travel to many tourist destination...

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Malaysia is well ahead of both of its neighbours in vaccinating its population. the government believes it can inoculate 80% of them by the end of the year. yet even here in a much wealthier society, thats a long stretch of continued lockdowns and travel restrictions to endure. without access to more vaccines, governments across this region have run out of answers to give their increasingly frustrated people. jonathan head, bbc news, bangkok. the british government has signalled a further easing...

It. but what really bothered me was the fact that general dempsey, through general ham, knew because -- >> general ham, over africom. >> they knew a request was made by chris stevens for additional security, that the consulate in benghazi was not secure. >> the april 16 memo? >> yeah. august 16. >> august 16. >> just a month out. and yet they took no action based on that. what they said is, well, we called up state department and they said we dont really need anything. you know, this is next to ...

Ill tell you what difference it makes. it makes a difference when americans think they were misled about something for political reasons. in hearing this morning you mentioned that we were clear eyed about the threats and dangers as they were developing in eastern libya. madam secretary, if you were really clear eyed about the levels of threat to our consulate in benghazi or our special mission in benghazi, then you should have known about chris stevens memo of 16 august that said the consulate ...

So as to secretary clinton, to those who suggest that shes dodging her responsibilities because she is not sick i think that is inappropriate and not true. i think secretary clinton has been ill, suffered a concussion and she will testify. but having said that, when her day to testify comes she should testify as a sitting secretary of state. she needs to be asked. as far as i can tell there was no interview of her in preparing this report. she needs to be asked about what she knew about the dete...

By providing this giant experiment on whether the system and people can withstand the delta variant? i guess thats right. im not sure its an experiment the world is rushing to run on itself. but people are looking very closely. but you referred at the beginning to the pingdemic, and this is where the government policy looks notjust brave, but contradictory because on the one hand it says, open up, on the other hand it says, isolate yourself if you get pinged. and more and more people have been b...