Attention. I appreciate your service pic i understand you dont get paid a lot. Thank you. Thank you for all your work with bikes and caltrain. Picnic speaker, please. Is. Here cloth. Good afternoon, commissioners i am a bicyclist who occasionally rides on valencia and i am from the netherlands which was mentioned earlier. Everything he said about this design was right. I think the only thing he got wrong was the notion that people will be dropped off by car to go to school. That is crazy why we do that. I have never been dropped off at school by my parents in a car because they have Better Things to do and because everybody bikes there or walks. It is an obstacle course. There is double parking everywhere. It is not uncommon for there to be three double parker seen anyone block, which is crazy. These changes are long overdue. They are fantastic. There are mixing zones involved. It looks like there is an intent to say it does change those and i would repeat the call from the other speak
Term are going to lose and protect them or you will run into the sort of problems that the conservative party ran into with the poll tax. Are you on universal credit or due to switch to it next year . Do get in touch this morning. Also weight hate. Discrimination against people who are obese is more common in britain than prejudice against gay people and those from ethinic minorities according to new research today. Well talk to this woman about the vicimtisation she says shes had because of her weight and ask this man who used to weigh 33 stone how he lost 21 stone in two years. And the British Government is due to launch an ambitious plan to protect endangered species at a conference in london today. Well talk to the World Wildlife fund after 09 30am. Hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. Just as we are each weekday. Two questions for you this morning. Have you been discriminated against because you are overweight or obese . We were talking about that the
This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london, and 7pm on the east coast of us, where police are stepping up their efforts to find whos behind those crude bombs, which were sent to leading democrats and critics of President Trump. Two more suspicious packages were intercepted today. One to former Vice President joe biden, and another to hollywood star, robert de niro. Our north america correspondent, nick bryant reports. These are the scenes that america woke up to. What looked like old footage from the war in iraq, but which were real time images from a postal facility in delaware. A bomb disposal expert examining a suspect package, addressed to the former Vice President , joe biden. Yet another prominent democrat sent a crude bomb. In the middle of the night, Lower Manhattan became the focus and a package sent to the office in tribeca of movie star robert de niro, an outspoken critic of donald trump. Once again, a suspect explosive device
Transatlantic airlines are Breathing A Sigh of relief following the news the us is easing its Coronavirus Travel restrictions, re opening to passengers from the uk, eu and other nations around the world. From Novemberforeign Travellers will be allowed to fly into the us if they are fully vaccinated, and undergo testing and contact tracing. In the hours that followed the announcement British Airways holidays saw an increase of nearly 700 percent in searches for holidays to key us destinations. Virgin atlantic reported a 91 increase in us bookings in the hour following the announcement. The Transatlantic Routes are worth an estimated 9 billion in revenues to us and uk carriers, shares in iag, the owner of British Airways, air france klm, American Airlines and other carriers soared on the news. Michelle fleury has more from new york. Passengers who are fully vaccinated will now be able to fly into the United States from anywhere in the world from november. This brings to an end a series O
Here on bbc news. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Secondary schools in england have been told that children should wear face coverings in classrooms to help stop the Omicron Covid 19 Variant from disrupting the new term. The move brings england in line with the rest of the uk. Unions have welcomed the advice while also warning that Staff Shortages could once again lead to some children being taught at home. Sanchia berg reports. In scotland, pupils have been Wearing Masks as they learn with the windows open for the last few months. The picture is similar now in Northern Ireland and wales. Next week, English Secondary School students will follow suit as the government tries to reduce the spread of covid 19 in schools. Around half of children over 12 have been double jabbed not enough to keep the virus out. The face coverings is very much a short term measure, simply until the 26th Of January when it will be reviewed because we recognise it is not something many children will wan