Parliament has requested an extension. Some people are being forced into sex work because the new Credit System leaves them without enough money to cover their most basic needs. Thats what mps have found and they are calling for urgent action. Many women become stuck in the cycle of needing to continue to sell sex to keep a roof over their heads, because the cost of living has become so high and benefits so frequently fail to cover it. Imagine being able to be in two, three or even four places at the same time. With your own realistic human avatar thats now possible, if but what will this mean for society and especially women . Sake im a ceo and a mother and an adviser and an investor. I have a lot of roles and i think that if i could send my avatar off to have fun and party on my behalf, that would be a great thing. Hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. Josh hanson was stabbed to death four years ago by a man called shane obrien. Mr obrien immediately went
Next week will see the start of a coronavirus inoculation programme after it was approved for use in the uk. At the four chief medical officers are urging caution saying it will only have a marginal impact on the numbers in hospital this winter so it must testing is likely to be key to containing the virus. But there are concerns as well after the rapid turnaround tests used in a test in liverpool mist half of the cases. Council staff here in wolverhampton are preparing to roll out mass testing from monday. Nose and throat swabs are taken but instead of being sent to a lab, lateralflow tests provide results within half an hour. But there is concern they are not as accurate as standard pcr tests, so more people could be told they are negative when they are not. If those people then go out and they visit their grandparents, they stop socially distancing and so on because they believe they havent got covid, thats not going to help, it could actually make it worse. In wolverhampton they ho
Obviously my inspirations were quite unrealistic, you know . Its kind of like supermodels and barbie dolls. And who will control our avatars once weve gone . I just want to do what we started off doing and as much as that feels right. To find out ive made my own avatar and entered the dystopian world occupied by our digital twins. When most of us think of avatars, we imagine a tall blue movie when most of us think of avatars, we imagine a tall blue movie character, but today theyre being used in a very different way. Avatars can be the digital copy of a human and theyre difficult to spot. From hollywood to the newsroom, avatars are going mainstream and our digital doubles could soon be working for us or maybe even replacing us. Back in 2019, i travelled to la where some of this Futuristic Technology is being built by women. But with big investment from the gaming, social media and porn industries, is it being built for women . To find out im going to need my own avatar. Hello this is l
Of golf, has died. He was 89. He won more than 20 tournaments during his career as a golfer, and played on eight ryder cup teams before becoming a commentator working for the bbc for more than 50 years as well as a host of american broadcasters. Katherine downes looks back at his life. You think he enjoyed that one . His was the voice that brought the game of golf to life for millions. 0h for a sport defined by its quirks and characters, peter alliss was the perfect match. Hello, what have you been doing . Ive been down to that st mellion. What a day ive had. The people and the noise, ive never had a moment to sit down. Golf was in his blood, his father percy had been a professional and under his guidance, young peter flourished. Even when he was still playing, he had begun to make the move behind the microphone. I think this course is in wonderful condition at this time of year. His warmth and wit made him a regular on British Television where he said the key to commentary was never t
From now on, trading goods between the uk and the eu will no longer be frictionless. While the new trade agreement ensures there will not be tariffs or quotas on goods, there will still be more checks and paperwork. Some hauliers are nervous about the changes, as our transport correspondent Caroline Davies reports. Is this the calm before the storm . After weeks of cues, a quiet eurotunnel. The way goods are moved in and out of the country is about to change and requires new paperwork but here they say they are ready for it. It will add no more time to the journey because it takes place where we are already doing safety and security checks so they are all lumped together. We dont expect to see things build up until later on in the first week of the second week of january. But some are not so confident, concerned that delays will cost money, this Haulage Company decided not to run lorries from the uk to the eu for the first week of january. We didnt think the risk ofjoining a queue that