and says the row is starting to hit the party s polling figures. quarantine and testing requirements will be reintroduced for british travellers who don t get a covid boosterjab, according to the mail on sunday. it claims ministers want to protect against new variants of the virus. the sunday telegraph claims to have seen a leaked document showing the uk is willing to leave eu science programmes, allegedly worth 15billion pounds to brussels, if relations with the bloc don t improve. and in the sunday people, the story of baby dua, who was born after her mum died of coronavirus having refused a vaccine. it reports the woman s brother is now begging other it reports the woman s brother is now begging other mums to be to get the jab. so, let s start then. welcome back. jo, tell us about the sunday times story. this is an investigation between the sunday times insight team and open democracy. what they ve discovered is that if you become treasurer of the conservative party and
in a separate development, a us official has told the new york times that american spy satellites detected an explosion at ukraine s karkhovka dam, just before it collapsed. the recordings can be verified. military experts say the area will be the focus of ukraine s long awaited counteroffensive. let s start this hour by looking more detail about what we know about damn collapse. rajini vaidyanathan has been working with the bbc verify team and explained more from the verify hub. as people try and work out what caused the breach of the dam, more and more data is coming into us to help us try and piece what happened. now we ve had some data, as you mentioned, from norwegian scientists who ve been monitoring the seismic signals and they detected seismic signals from romania that suggested, according to their work, that there was an explosion at 254 local time. this is the time in norwegian time. so you can see there on that wave a peak. and that s what they say indicates there
Senator Floyd Morris has become the first visually impaired person to be appointed a full professor at The University of the West Indies (UWI). Morris, who was advised of his promotion yesterday by the UWI Appointment Committee, will be professor.
The extension comes as the government has set an August 31, 2024 deadline for implementing recommendations by former Principal Scientific Advisor, Prof. K. Vija