Now on bbc news, dateline london. Hello and welcome to the programme which brings together bbc specialists with foreign correspondents who write, Blog And Broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. This Week England gets back its freedom from covid restrictions that is but how long will it last . In Cuba And South africa, thousands have taken to the the streets protesting at their respective plight. Two popular revolutions betrayed . With me this week are Stephanie Bolzen of germanys die welt, michael goldfarb, whose blog aims to be the first Rough Draft of history, hence its title. And here in the studio with me, the bbc s diplomatic correspondent, james landale. Welcome, james. Welcome to both of you. Lovely to see you both again albeit at a distance for now. Now, monday will be what borisjohnson once liked to call freedom day the one on which all the legal restrictions imposed on people in this pandemic will be lifted. Prime minister Boris Johnson used to say this f
And 140,000 fans are expected at silverstone for the british Grand Prix the nations biggest Sporting Event since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Hello and welcome to the programme which brings together bbc specialists with foreign correspondents who write, Blog And Broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. This Week England gets back its freedom from covid restrictions. But how long will it last . In Cuba And South africa, thousands have taken to the the streets protesting at their respective plight. Two popular revolutions betrayed . With me this week are Stephanie Bolzen of germanys die welt, michael goldfarb, whose blog aims to be the first Rough Draught of history, hence its title. And here in the studio with me, the bbc s diplomatic correspondent, james landale. Welcome, james. Welcome to both of you. Lovely to see you both again albeit at a distance for now. Now, monday, will be what borisjohnson once liked to call Freedom Day the one on which all the lega
All of these things. people should really be paying attention to what s happening in the state houses, particularly the ones controlled by the republican party, which seems to really be making a strong effort to turn america into a one party state, even though they are not in the majority nationally. stephanie, talking of elections, you mentioned the election in germany already and then this week we had the terrible flooding. yes, of course, and while that is, by the time being, very much in the news everywhere, it is also very political because it is now a challenge for the likely successor in the job of angela merkel. i mean, laschet, who, by the way, is also the prime minister of the land where there are the worst damages are found, he is competing very much with the green party and the green party now has a kind of advantage because they are saying, well, the flooding is a consequence of climate change and the cdu,
Stephanie first. we obviously heard angela merkel say at one point she didn t want brits coming to the uk, she wanted them all to go to quarantine, then that didn t work, and is not happening now in germany either. what is at the situation in germany in terms of the domestic side? how are the restrictions being eased? because there has been a fair bit of resistance and protests? and how are they looking now in the run up to this forthcoming general election? well, as you say, i mean, there are still some restrictions in place, but they are very few because the cases have gone down dramatically. i mean, they were very, very low for quite a long time, but now, because of the delta mutation, it is also now dominant in germany, the cases are rising as well. so when merkel actually said she did not want any brits to come to the continent, first of all, there were many countries who resisted that because of the tourism. portugal and spain, for example. but then also the german chancellor als
Angela merkel s party, they always say yes, well, there s climate change but we have to think of our economy. so it is interesting to hear the candidates from the green and the conservatives are showing up at the floods and how they are bringing over their message and this might be a decisive message for who wins the election. thank you. james? afghanistan. the media in the world is good when flags are being pulled . down and armies are pulled out, but then we forget about them. i you know, syria. the spread of the taliban across afghanistan, - the capturing of border posts, the besieging - of provincial capitals. we are seeing in some of these areas all of the stuff we saw - before, women being forced to cloister away in homes, l girls to not go to schools, - men to spend most of their day praying, grow their beards, all of that happening again| and yes, there are discussions taking place at doha