Organisers of the Paris Olympics and, indeed, the ceremony. The day started with those Train Delays with those attacks on various Train Lines around france, but it ended with a real bang. The Opening Ceremony that was promised to be a joyful event, an event that would be beautiful theatre in the heart of one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and it really did deliver. We had the french celebrating their culture, their art, their fashion, their music, but also celebrating a global sense of unity, a global sense of belonging together, and that really is what the olympics are about. The flame, that was also an amazing addition to the ceremony. It was lit on a hot Air Balloon then and flew up into the sky and is now hovering over the paris skyline. You can still see the Eiffel Tower is beautifully sparkling and look behind me. The ceremony has been something to behold and it ended within icon on an icon, Celine Dion singing the most beautiful song on the first floor of the Eiffel
Including East Kent and shrewsbury, where a series of Maternity Scandals have unfolded over several years. Jack and sarah hawkins s daughter harriet was stillborn after mistakes were made by Maternity Staff in nottingham. I the things that i would like to havel changed, the things that would have helped us in our lives would have been for the cqc to take over the work that we had to do that was in fact theirs, to investigate properly. The regulator is meant to give hospitals, Care Homes and other services one of four levels of ratings from outstanding through to inadequate to help the public decide what form of care they need. The Health Secretary has said those ratings should now be taken with a pinch of salt. Care home managers say the current situation is hugely worrying. The inconsistencies, the fact that inspections were taking too long, and if they were being done, that they were actually not reporting in good time we have raised so many of these issues. The cqc says it will acce
Systems around the world. This crisis was caused by a faulty Software Update and affected key infrastructure, including healthcare, Banking And Transport all of which rely on microsoft systems. These services are slowly coming back online, but there are wider implications of this crisis beyond the immediate fix that is required. 0ur reporter, Nick Marsh is in singapore with the latest on the situation there. Things are by and large have returned to normal. I think the biggest concern from an international viewpoint is the airport, a massive hub and they are saying that now, things have pretty much got back to the way they wear. Just one airline, air asia, still doing some manual chickens. Yesterday about a0 flights were cancelled. Foran yesterday about a0 flights were cancelled. For an airport like this where things by a large do run pretty smoothly, is quite a lot. 0verall, things do seem to be returning to normal. Overall, things do seem to be returning to normal. Overall, things do
With me in the studio is bbc health editor, hugh pym. Here in the uk, covid has quietly slipped down News Programme running orders. During the summer, Newspapers and Website Front pages have had other headlines olympic and paralympic glory, and of course afghanistan. It was scotland s First Minister who brought us up sharp, tuesday, when she told the Scottish Parliament that cases had increased by 80 in a week. Scotland has just recorded its highest Daily Rate of infections since the pandemic began. Pupils reTurned to school in mid august. Will other parts of the uk now experience a similar rise in cases as the term begins there . Perhaps mindful of the anger on display in City Streets in a country like australia, uk political leaders say they don t want to lockdown again, so what sort of winter awaits here in the northern hemisphere, and can the global south expect some relief . First of all, looking at the uk, what are the statistics telling us at the moment . What sort of picture is