a call to issue 10,000 temporary visas to eu workers to tackle an estimated shortage of 75,000 lorry drivers. logistics uk, the trade body which represents freight businesses, says many restaurants and supermarkets are facing serious supply problems. but ministers say employers should invest in the domestic workforce, by offering higher wages, rather than rely on foreign labour. earlier i spoke to alex veitch, general manager of public policy at logistics uk. he explained how serious the situation is. it he explained how serious the situation is. he explained how serious the situation is. , , ., , ., , situation is. it is serious and it s caettin situation is. it is serious and it s getting worse- situation is. it is serious and it s getting worse. we situation is. it is serious and it s getting worse. we aren t - situation is. it is serious and it s| getting worse. we aren t making situation is. it is serious and it s i getting worse. we aren t making this call for 10,000 tempor
against such practices. it is hoped these new proposals part of an eight week great britain wide consultation will lead to new rules, ending what has been called to a grim trade, and preventing cruelty. lebo diseko, bbc news. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes. hello again. saturday was always going to be the slightly dodgy day of the weekend in terms of weather, and we have a lot of cloud. most of us saw some fairly heavy rain as well. that was the grey skies that we had in wales, for a time, with the rain coming down. a bit misty over the hills, as well. since then, the rain band has been progressing its way northwards and eastwards, and it will continue to do so over the next few hours, as well. that said, i reckon it will stay pretty wet across parts of eastern scotland, down the eastern side of england for the next few hours, with some heavy rain coming in across northern england, east midlands, east anglia. we ve still got some
this is bbc news, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. gunfire us troops fire smoke tear gas in kabul to try to push back thousands desperate to escape the taliban. translation: we have a legal visa. many people who are coming here don t have the right documents, but we have the visa and they won t let us through. senior taliban figures including the group s co founder, mullah baradar are in the afghan capital for talks about establishing a new government. a state of emergency has been declared in parts of new york state ahead of the forecast arrival of hurricane henri. anti lockdown protests in australia turn ugly. more than 200 are arrested.
to give us time to catch up from the missed driving tests and to reskill and retrain uk nationals to take up the manyjobs available in our sector. the government have already rejected that call and have said you should just pay british workers more. we see that wages are rising. we are working hand in glove with the government on reskilling, on apprenticeships, on trying to get people into our sector where there are jobs available for people impacted by covid. the problem is that it has been very difficult to actually get a driving test over the past year. it is nobody s fault, it is due to covid restrictions at the dvsa, so we have a huge backlog of people waiting to take their test to become a truck driver, so we think it is a
they said at such a visible presence on the street guarding the british embassy, they would have been amongst the first to be at risk of reprisals from the taliban. and that is the difficulty, working out who does qualify, and when you have those people who are not direct employees, link through contractors in different companies, it is difficult working out how best to protect people. they work for a massive global security firm which presumably has other employees in kabul that it will need to look after, but it shows you how complicated this is, and who should take responsibility for making sure that anybody who was at risk is safe or able to leave the country. let s talk now to pen farthing, a former royal marine who runs nowzad, an animal welfare ngo in afghanistan. he s in kaaul. you have been trying to get members of staff out, i think you have managed to get pregnant members of