for over 50 five's completely different advice to what we had just a few weeks ago where president machen was saying that it was quasi effective for all their age groups and that some u.k. experts is causing a problem in undermining confidence it doesn't make any sense the whole thing looks completely crackers the changing the rules almost every week they're really damaging people's confidence in vaccines generally they're sitting on a massive stockpile of vaccines that they haven't deployed yet and at the same time they've got a massive wave of the new variants coming across the country you could make it up. there's also a question about how much of this row is about the e.u. trying to deflect attention from how poorly it's handled this crisis something itself has admitted and of course let's not forget the u.k. was invited to join the joint procurement scheme with the e.u. despite breaks at the e.u. politely declined and said we're going to do it our own way and as a result of that they speeding ahead with their vaccination program just to put that into context 51 percent of all adults

president machen addressing the french nation or no wednesday night following a meeting of the council of defense where of course they discussed all the options available to them to keep calm backing the 19 pandemic a pandemic that is seen now rates of around 40000 new cases being counted every day here in france that's double the number it was just a month ago so serious that we've had doctors talking about the fact that they may have to 2 patients from hospitals now present my corner now that we mainland france would be now under a new lockdown as you mentioned from saturday there it's a similar lockdown lockdown light as many people describe it as to the 900 departments that have already been under these restrictions for the last few weeks including here in paris those restrictions mean that there's a curfew in place at 7 o'clock in the evening that's in place throughout the evening normal essential shops will be closed although this time we've seen here in paris that places such as florist chocolate shops and hairdressers have been allowed to remain open and many of the shops are s

having a drink saying next to the river this is something president machen says there will be much morecontrol over he also said that schools will be closed for the next 3 weeks he talked about accelerating the vaccine campaigns know there are already $1700.00 vaccination centers open across france and she said that by the end of the summer all adults over the age of 18 would have at least been off the vaccine and there was some relief for people today who just feel as if you know after a year after this all started where is the end in sight and insight he said was in mid may when he felt that it would be time to start slowly opening up the country again that would mean terraces reopening for bars and cafes and also some cultural institutions something that many people have been calling for me desperation to just be able to do something to break the routine of monotony that has become life to so many and as i say all of this is because of how much pressure there is the moment on medical staff medical staff the president markham praised for their work over the last year and he said that.

amid multiple crises including at the southern border part we're going to talk to kayleigh machen anyr president trump this hour. plus a key step in broadening efforts of the latest news from pfizer and what it could mean for your children, waiting to get vaccinated. and a curfew in miami beach going into effect just a few hours as thousands of spring breakers continue to flood the streets. we are on the ground with the

amendments that were obstructed including provisions to help restaurant sponsored by senators cinema machen zwicker at vaccine public awareness program, provision to better target direct payment sponsored by senators manchin and collins. make no mistake, make no mistake the american rescue plan is a very strong bill that will move our country forward in amazing ways. so, it should come as no surprise that support of the american rescue plan is coming from all over the country. hundreds of business leaders not the most liberal bunch, everesth conquerors -- urged congress to pass this bill. mayors are more than 4035 mayors and state leaders democrats and republicans have said the same. they want the bill. as one republican the mayor of from michigant, but it the needs real and not just and democratic communities. he went on to tell us that for republicans in washington opposed the bill to quote talk to some other republican mayors, talk to some other republican mayors.bu but if my republican colleagues here in the senate don't want to listen to the words of their fellow republicans and govern