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About more than 70,000 cases being registered a day, - and a third of those this last| week were in just two states alone, florida and texas, - where the republican governors have decided not to take more active measures . to try to suppress that spread. they're very populous states, but my own state, california, | the most populous state of all, has taken more drastic- measures. they're just about having masks on indoors again in places - like the bay area up - north and in los angeles, that has now helped i tamp down the spread. it's a mixed bag in the us,| but one thing to remember when i s...

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 borne 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 1, other words, the virus is not growing in the population. the delta variant, first identified in india, is now the dominant strain. in the united states, it's led dr anthony fauci, the infectious diseases ...

A few months ago, there l was the argument that no - country should be vaccinating youths, vaccinating children or teenagers until adults . were vaccinated, and now that has shifted to there shouldn'tl be any booster shots, - and there isn't much more objection being made to younger people getting vaccinated. - the us, ithink, says. it is stepping up, it has delivered about 100 million| doses to over 60 countries, and biden has said there i will be a pledge ofi billion. today you heard china saying they are going to supply- 2 billion doses. it's notjust— about supply, though. it's also about...

Man—made causes. thank you very much. 20 seconds, damien! i think we should go to the olympics, we had about the belarussian athlete that saught asylum which has put the spotlight back on by the recent human rights there, but a lot of sort of grim talk let's also remember the highjumpers who shared gold, i think that was a moment worth reflecting on. thank you all. and thank you, too. hello there. low pressure brought a very unsettled day on saturday. we saw lots of showers around, some torrential downpours in places, but there was some good spells of sunshine, too.

In the way it perhaps hadn't been in countries like canada, - but now we are seeing catastrophic floods in central europe, _ central and western europe, - we are seeing extremely deadly heat waves in the north—west which has made everybody sit up in these . countries, but let's not forget that climate change has been hitting i poorer countries hard. just very briefly, henry. sorry. madagascar in particular, - we are seeing a famine happening before our eyes which might be the first time in modern history i that is purely from climate change . and not because of man—made causes. thank you v...