happy free friday, everyone. almost the weekend, or what kat likes to call a two day blackout. speaking of, lisa boothe is back on the show. quite an achievement, given [applause] sure, why not. while go, somebody had a problem back there. i guess we should be grateful given her and kat s commute to the studio today. you think that is bad, you should see the park. chicks. a sexist would say that. so, you know what i love more than world peace, red wine, and light bondage? a poll on americans trust in the media is like injecting adorable puppies into my waiting veins, and lo and behold, we got one. new gallup poll shows 75% of the country has no faith in legacy media. it s funny people still use newspapers to get their news. a way to start the day before they spend the next 12 hours churning their own butter. but only 21% of respondents said they had a great deal of confidence in newspapers, which of course they get from reading [laughter] it was worse for tv news at 16%,
unvaccinated, unvaccinated, unvaccinated, unvaccinated. a special report from the royal london hospital about the continuing pressures from omicron. and after too many incidents like these did you know the highway code is changing this week giving cyclists and pedestrians priority? coming up on the bbc news channel, messages of support for chinese player peng shuai are banned at the australian open. a former world number one labels organisers pathetic and wea k . good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. prime minister borisjohnson has warned russia that invading ukraine would be disastrous and a painful, violent and bloody business . nato is sending more warships and fighterjets to member states in eastern europe and both the uk and us have announced that they are pulling some embassy staff out of ukraine. tension in the region has been building with around 100,000 russian troops massed near ukraine s borders. president putin has publically stated his belie
of fraudulent covid business loans. people arriving in england will no longer need to take people arriving in england a covid lateral flow test, if they have been double vaccinated. we promise we wouldn t keep these measures in place a date longer than was necessary. it s obvious to me now that vaccinated travellers has outlived its usefulness. the prime minister warns russia that invading ukraine would be a disastrous step as the uk withdraws staff from its embassy there. the founder of wikileaks julian assange wins the first stage of his legal bid to appeal against the decision to extradite him to the united states. and how well do you know the new rules of the road? the highway code s been rewritten to make it safer for cyclists. also coming up this hour overcoming scorching heat, sleep deprivation, and being trailed by sharks a british all women crew including a woman with incurable cancer break the world record for rowing across the atlantic. borisjohnson
racist joke. just for the record, my arash friends, i don t do any arab jokes in my act. it s not that i don t think you re funny, i don t know, i don t want to die. [ laughter ] [ applause ] thank you, thank you, thank you. thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. i did a festival in telluride, colorado. a ski town. not a lot of minorities there. i was talking to this dude. he says, yo, man, before you go, i got to ask you one thing, where are you from? i went, i m from south carolina but my parents are from india. he went, what? but you talk exactly like i do. and then i showed him a video of an asian kid rapping and his head exploded. the state of diversity in comedy is the same in this country. comedy is more diverse now as it s ever been but not near enough as it should be. who is racist, black or white people? black people because we hate black people too. comedy is anger, fear, insecurity and self-denigration. it s like the civil war going o
we start in france. large numbers have taken to the streets again, the 11th day of mass protests against the change in pension age in france. a meeting between the prime minister and labour unions failed to break the deadlock yesterday. on the streets there in france we have more large protests, notjust paris but many of the big cities. notjust paris but many of the big cities. france s constitutional council will decide next week on the validity of the government s move after the change was rammed through parliament with no vote. let s speak to our correspondent hugh schofield who is on the streets near the protests in paris. there is no prospect of the government giving way on the key part of the law which is raising the age from 62 to 64 for state pension, and there is no sign as we see here of the protesters giving up. it may be that beneath the scenes there are things happening as the law approaches this publication in becoming actually law, people will start giving up,