mandate would expire on sunday. the need for testing will be re evaluated every three months and could be reinstated if new variants emerge. now on bbc news, the media show. hello and welcome to the media show. for this week s edition, we ve come to paddington in central london to the newsroom of gb news because, as i m sure you may remember, back onjune 13th last year, andrew neil and his programme launched gb news at 8pm on 13june. it was certainly a distinct launch. the studio was quite dark. there were some technical problems. it was widely discussed on social media. within weeks, andrew neil would be on holiday, never to return. within months, nigel farage would have his own primetime show. and a year on, well, it s still very much on air. just through the window here, there are many people journalists, producers working on the output as it goes on. and we re going to consider what s definitely been a tumultuous 12 months. i m joined by angelos frangopoulos, the ceo
now on bbc news it s time for newswatch. hello and welcome to newswatch with me samira ahmed. did bbc news overdo the platinumjubilee celebrations last weekend and forget its normal journalistic values? 0h, quite the booing in the crowd, and you can hear it. and did the bbc alter the sound level of booing when repeating shots of boris and carriejohnson at last week s thanksgiving service? a decade ago, the bbc was widely criticised for dumbing down it s treatment of the queens diamond jubilee, with its rain drenched royal flotilla along the thames. and a year ago, it received a record 100,000 complaints about the extent of air time devoted to the duke of edinburgh s death. those experiences coupled, with the recent troubled history of the royal family meant there was an intense focus on how the platinum jubilees death was covered on the bbc. and the corporation certainly pulled out all the stops from the start of the weekend to the end. cheering. she was the star of the show
hello, good to have you with us. the united states is lifting the requirement for international travellers to have a covid test within 2a hours of boarding their flights from this sunday. the need for testing will be re evaluated every three months and could be reinstated if a new variant emerges. the move ends one of the last restrictions related to the pandemic in the us, where a more than a million people have died from covid. our new york business correspondent michelle fleury told me more about this latest announcement. the timing of this cannot be better for americans getting ready for their summer holidays. it means if they want to leave the country and travel to europe, they don t have to worry about getting stranded abroad. that was certainly something that the airline industry had been lobbying the administration about, saying it was creating hesitancy amongst americans who were nervous that they would then be out of pocket if they got stuck overseas with a positive
neatly to the i. some various suspects to the next specific wheezes they re trying to line up according to the bullet points, the front page of the i. according to the bullet points, the front page of the i. already we had david frost yesterday front page of the i. already we had david frost yesterday saying - front page of the i. already we had david frost yesterday saying that l david frost yesterday saying that the prime minister should expect a coup of some sort after the autumn. if he doesn t serve up bucket loads of red meat to the tory right in the intervening period. we are now seeing johnson s enemies on both the right and the centre exploring options. one they are looking at here is getting a local party chairs to hold a vote. if they can do that and mass then that would enable a trigger to borisjohnson s leadership and we know already the option is available to change the rule of the back bench, 1922 committee so that the year of protection borisjohnson has is t
ukrainian officials say humanitarian conditions in the city of mariupol are getting worse under the current russian occupation and people there are at risk of diseases like cholera. the exiled deputy mayor of the southern port city says bodies are still being discovered in the ruins, there is a shortage of doctors, and food and water are in short supply. our correspondet nick beake has more from kyiv. the big concern is that the dire conditions in mariupol, this city of death and destruction, are idealfor the rapid spread of this disease among the 100,000 people who are still said to be living there. tonight, the ministry of health here in ukraine have told us they actually haven t recorded any official cases. that s not to say they don t exist, but they say it s more a case they can t do any testing there because the russians are not allowing people in and out. this is a city where it s hard to get information from. communications are poor. but earlier today, we were able to