but his opponent liz truss says the solution lies in lowering taxes which he brought in as chancellor. also on the programme. urgent polio boosters for children under nine in london, after the virus was detected in sewage. a four day amber extreme heat warning for parts of england and wales is due to come into force at midnight. # we re walking in the air. and the storyteller who enchanted us all, author and illustrator raymond briggs has died at the age of 88. and coming up on the bbc news channel. golf s big battle reaches court again with three liv golfers told by a judge they cannot overturn their ban to compete in the pga tour s lucrative end of tour play offs. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. with fresh warnings about soaring energy bills over the next few months, and with borisjohnson due to step down next month, the chancellor nadhim zahawi has said the treasury is preparing options for the next prime minister. but there are concerns that households
to liftoff for nasa s return to the moon and harry s smith on the end of the road for two american classics this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening over 93 million covid cases in today came a stunning admission from the head of the cdc. in our big moment our performance did not reliably meet expectations. with her agency still confronting not just the pandemic but evolving threats including monkeypox and a troubling reappearance of polio, cdc director dr. rochelle walensky acknowledging the cdc s poor messaging and at times confusing guidance all this as she kicks off a sweeping overhaul of the agency including a bid to arm it with new powers the reckoning coming on the heels of an internal review of the cdc. the immediate challenges couldn t be anymore urgent as demand grows for monkeypox vaccine doses, as well as experts monitoring the awakening of a dangerous disease long thought to have been defeated i get reaction from the white house covid resp
relatives of the young men murdered by the serial killer, stephen port, welcome a decision by the police watchdog to begin a fresh investigation into the way detectives handled the inquiry. borisjohnson is in rwanda for a meeting of the commonwealth s heads of government. downing street says it is unlikely the uk s rwanda asylum policy will come up when he meets the prince of wales. good evening. taliban officials say the main search for survivors from wednesday s devastating earthquake in the south east of afghanistan has ended. more than 1,000 people are thought to have been killed in the remote part of the country. doctors say many children may be among the victims. relief efforts have been hampered by heavy rain and the destruction of road and communication networks in paktika province the worst hit area. entire villages have been destroyed, with survivors saying they re finding it difficult to bury their dead. 0ur afghanistan correspondent secunder kermani is there a
even if you did get them as a child, getting another one will be safe, very effective and it can protect you from polio. and gabe joining me here in the studio what if you did get the polio vaccine when you are a kid and you want another one now just to be sure? polio boosters are not recommended, lester if you got that initial vaccine as a kid doctors believe that the immunity lasts a lifetime, and according to the cdc about 93% of children in the u.s. are vaccinated against polio by the age of 2. all right gabe, thanks very much and beyond the upheaval at the cdc we re getting a better sense of what the future may hold for combating covid with plans for a new booster to be offered soon for more i m joined by dr. ashish jha, the white house covid response coordinator good to have you here. before we talk about the updated vaccines let me ask you about this admission by the head of cdc that the agency missed the mark in its covid response especially when it came to