in germany, where voters will elect a new chancellor tomorrow. the uk government is set to formally announce a visa scheme on sunday that will make it easier for foreign drivers to work in the uk. it s expected the scheme will be temporary and issue visas for about 5,000 drivers to tackle the hgv driver shortage. the road haulage association estimates the uk is short of about 100,000 hgv drivers with existing shortages made worse by the pandemic and brexit. the bbc understands the government will also announce a raft of longer term measures including training up more drivers and addressing the backlog of driving tests. 0ur transport correspondent, caroline davies reports. chicken, milkshakes, now petrol. a shortage of lorry drivers continues to bite across the uk, and as the problem grows, there is more pressure on the government to make changes. bp reported they were having trouble getting their petrol to some pumps. there is enough fuel, just not enough drivers to take it
attacked and injured, so lots to discuss around the media s role. katya adler, the bbc s europe editor is with us. we have also gotjournalists who have been out reporting for french outlets. and we have got one of the bosses of agents france press, the big news agency. but before we get into that, i want to cross to new york and start with emma tucker, the editor in chief of the wall streetjournal. one of emma s reporters, evan gershkovich, has now been imprisoned in russia for more than 100 days. the authorities accuse evan of being a spy. charges that he, the us and the wall streetjournal all deny. he is the first western journalist to be detained in russia since the cold war. emma, welcome to the show. i will ask you for the latest on the situation in a moment but can you just take us back and remind people the circumstances of his arrest back in march? evan is an accredited journalist in russia. he had full accreditation from the russian foreign ministry and he was doing
false claims about what is going on, have been in abundance. journalists have been attacked and injured, so lots to discuss around the media s role. katya adler, the bbc s europe editor is with us. we have also gotjournalists who have been out reporting for french outlets. and we have got one of the bosses of agents france press, the big news agency. but before we get into that, i want to cross to new york and start with emma tucker, the editor in chief of the wall streetjournal. one of emma s reporters, evan gershkovich, has now been imprisoned in russia for more than 100 days. the authorities accuse evan of being a spy. charges that he, the us and the wall streetjournal all deny. he is the first western journalist to be detained in russia since the cold war. emma, welcome to the show. i will ask you for the latest on the situation any moment but can you just take us back and remind people the circumstances of his arrest back in march? evan is an accredited journalist in rus
the circumstances of his arrest back in march? well, evan is an accredited journalist in russia. he had full accreditation from the russian foreign ministry and he was doing what he always does, he was out reporting from the ground. he was covering a story over in the east of russia and while he was out on this assignment, he failed to check with us. we have a system for journalists operating in difficult territories, which i am sure the other journalists will recognise, whereby we asked people to check in twice a day. he missed his morning check in and then he missed again his afternoon check in and overnight, it was confirmed he had been picked up and arrested and taken back to moscow to be held there. and after the first. i m sure people listening will be interested in the check in system. were you very worried after the first non check in? is it very rare for people not to check in? it s unusual. and i didn t like it, but i didn t panic because, you know, people lose inte