Government and sadly it has created unnecessary disruption and stress for hundreds of thousands of british families. are you one of the thousands of britons currently in portugal or have you booked a holiday, and are unsure what this decision means for your travel plans this summer. please do get it touch with me on twitter @annita mcveigh and use the hashtag #bbcyourquestions. a leading hong kong pro democracy activist is detained by police, as authorities ban a vigil to mark the anniversary of the tiananmen square massacre. the detained belarussian journalist roman prostasevich appears on state tv saying he helped to organise anti government protests. his family say he was speaking under duress. and coming up remembering the british heroes of d day, the final preparations are made at a new normandy memorial ahead of its opening this weekend.
Furious, the decision is ridiculous and everything is stricter than the uk, masks worn properly and everybody sanitising regularly and restaurants were clearer than here. this says, there is little information about euro travel tunnel, particularly travelling through france to another destination. glenn says, i am disgusted the travel industry is putting profit before safety. it is clear the travel industry are putting their recovery before customers or people in destination hotspots. shot all but essential travel, he says. keep those thoughts coming into me. in australia, a dozen media outlets have been handed hefty fines for contempt of court over their coverage of the conviction of cardinal george pell on child sex abuse charges. the cardinal, who has always maintained his innocence, was released from prison last year after his convictions were quashed. phil mercer reports from sydney. justicejohn dixon had some pretty stern words for sections
You speak of in lisbon, does that account for that increase in infections? yes. we haven t had deaths, we have a death per day in the last 14 days, we don t have problems in the hospitals but we have had that spike, and that spike explains that rise, because we had a very, because we had very, very low numbers in the last month, just on the two past weeks, the numbers have risen a little bit. but we have 66 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. we have a transmission rate of 1.07, i think it s more or less the same as the uk. so, for us, it s disappointing, it s an unfortunate decision. we hope, by 21stjune,
Also, the remarkable failure of the british government to add malta and the balearics. in malta and the balearics, they have much lower covid case rates than the uk and malta has vaccinated more of its people. so there is equally no reason why they haven t been added to the green list. there will be short term disruptions, but over the main through the end ofjune, july, august, september we see most of europe going back on holidays and british visitors will be welcome to the beaches of portugal, spain and greece on their ryanair flights. cristovao norte is a member of the portuguese parliament, representing the algarve region, which is heavily dependent on tourism. he told me earlier that he was caught by surprise by the decision and that to his knowledge there were only 12 cases of the nepalese variant in portugal. i respect the decision but i don t think it s a fair decision. there were no major changes in the portuguese pandemic situation in the last few weeks. we have had a spike
This is bbc news 7 these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. a furious backlash from travel companies over the uk government s decision to remove portugal from its green list of covid safe countries. ministers insist they have taken a cautious approach. i think when we re coming up to an important decision as a country whether to do the next phase of reopening on 21stjune or not, it is important now for us to be careful not to jeopardise the progress that we ve made. british holidaymakers who return from portugal from tuesday will have to self isolate at home for ten days. airlines say the decision is a devastating blow for the industry. they re making it up as they go along, it s more mismanagement of the covid recovery by the johnson