alan arnette, great to have - of cues they had in 2019. alan arnette, great to have your. g on and talking us through that. you that, thank you. —— you bet. in the us president biden says he wants 70 percent of adults in the country to receive a first dose of coronavirus vaccine by the fourth ofjuly. around 56 percent have already had one jab and a third have had both. two months from today, two months from today, families across the country are going to celebrate the ath ofjuly. our goal byjuly the ath is to have 70% of adult americans have at least one shot, and 160 million americans fully vaccinated. that means giving close to 100 million shots — some, first shots, others, second shots — over the next 60 days. 0ur north america correspondent, peter bowes, talked me through the vaccine rollout. it's been doing well for a number of weeks and that ambition by independence day is well within reach. if you look at the pace of the rollout, and i think the big concern at the moment is just extending the age groups that receive the vaccine. he talked about children, especially t

alan arnette is a mountaineer who has been speaking to climbers in nepal. this is his take.rible crescendo in late march. but recently things have improved. i think that the nepal government definitely can do a betterjob of providing more transparent information. as you noted, they've been denying that there's any cases at all in spite of overwhelming evidence and first—hand reports of people that have been evacuated from base can enter kathmandu and then tested positive not once but twice. nepal has basically issued a censorship ban on all communications of bad news including photographs of dead bodies or climbers because they don't want to be embarrassed like they were in 2019. as a result, we aren't seeing a lot of transparency coming from the operators either. but if i were to take a guess i'd say it somewhere between 40 and 60 people that have covid that have been evacuated in one form or another. foreign climbers are a major source of revenue for the nepalese government, which shut everest last year during the pandemic. the bbc world service's environment correspondent