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
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
ukrainian officials are warning that humanitarian conditions in the russian occupied city of mariupol have deteriorated so far that there s a risk of diseases such as cholera and dysentery breaking out. the exiled deputy mayor of the southern port city says bodies are still being discovered in the ruins, there s a lack of doctors, and food and water are in short supply. our correspondet nick beake has more from kyiv. the concern is that the dark conditions in the city of death and destruction are idealfor the rapid spread of this disease among the 100,000 people were still set to be living there. tonight, the ministry of health here in ukraine have told us they actually have not recorded any official cases. that s not to say that they do not exist, but smirk case of they can t do any testing there because the russians are not allowing people in and out. this is a city where it s very hard to get any information from, communications are poor but we were able to speak to one
joy in india as 41 construction workers are freed from the tunnel they ve been trapped in for more than a fortnight. and fragments from a 4.5 billion year old asteroid now in the uk for analysis they could hold clues about the origins of life on earth. on newsnight at 1030, michael gold in the covid 19 inquiry for the appearance of borisjohnson. is the inquiry becoming a stage for a score settling? good evening. 12 more hostages have been released from gaza tonight bringing the total number now freed to more than 80. it comes on the fifth day of the extended truce between israel and hamas, designated a terrorist organisation by the uk government. this evening a red cross convoy brought out the latest hostages ten israelis and two foreign nationals all now safely back on israeli soil in return, israel has freed another 30 palestinian prisoners. well, among the israeli hostages released in the last few hours is ada sagi our special correspondent lucy manning has been