British armed forces who died after the d day landings. El salvador says it wants to be the first country to adopt bitcoin as an official currency. Charities are warning that cuts to foreign aid are casting a shadow over the uk s influence and the g7 summit. I ll be back at midday with the latest news. Right now on bbc news, it s time for dateline london. Hello and welcome to dateline london. This week we are asking should the uk unlock from covid restrictions or not? should the rich nations provide excess vaccines to poorer countries, and what can we expect from forthcoming global summits? the g7 here in the uk and president biden and vladimir putin meeting in geneva. Joining me we have got foreign correspondent thomas and stephanie baker of bloomberg news. And joining me here in studio is the bbc s esteemed health editor hugh pym. Welcome to you all. Thank you very much for being with us. Freedom from covid restrictions in england onjune 2i, that is what borisjohnson is hoping will s
of all time. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the us and russia have held what they called frank talks in an effort to reduce the risk of a conflict in ukraine. us secretary of state antony blinken and russian foreign minister sergei lavrov spoke for 90 minutes at a meeting in switzerland. afterwards, both said further talks are possible. us president biden has travelled to the presidential retreat at camp david, where he will be joined by secretary blinken and his national security team to discuss tensions with russia over ukraine. the us wants russia to pull its forces back from the ukrainian border, which western countries fear are preparing to invade. the us has promised to provide a written response to russia s security demands, which include a ban on ukrainejoining nato. our diplomatic correspondent james landale has more. more russian forces on the move. surface to air missiles in the country s far east due to join what moscow says are m
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from bolting and going to somewhere where they could be in the uaw. and the public reaction to this was interesting.bl the public was overwhelmingly in support of the autoworkers while they were on this strike. polls showed like 75% of the public supported the autoworkers in this strike.rt so this is a historic thing, a a big deal. but if you think back to september, right when we were at the start of it, before we knew it would work, before we knew it would be successful, before we knew how it would turn out, how much public opinion would be in support of these guys, when we were less than two weeks into that strike, do you remember what president biden did? you might remember. president biden went to michigan and joined the autoworkers. from the white house, he had been supporting them vocally. he had been trying to help facilitate negotiations but once they indeed went on strike, he physically went to michigan to w one of the plants that was being picketed and he stood wit