again for the first time at these olympic games. another gold for team gb injapan as matt walls triumphs in the velodrome, taking the olympics medal tally to 51. seven men have beenjailed for life for the murder of a law student during a botched drive by shooting in blackburn. a wildfire that has raged for eight days in turkey reaches a thermal power plant on the aegean coast. and uk adults spent more than a third of their waking hours watching tv and online video last year because of the pandemic. and strictly come dancing is to have its first all male partnership in the show s history after last yea r s first all female partnership. good afternoon. british holiday makers who are fully vaccinated can more easily travel to france this summer as part of significant changes to the covid travel rules that will come into force in the early hours of sunday. france will be brought into line with other amber list countries, so anyone who s had both doses of a vaccine will no longer
holidays in france get easier for fully vaccinated people, as changes are made to the overseas covid travel rules. people returning from france to england, scotland and northern ireland will no longer need to isolate, starting sunday. we want our travel industry to be successful and ideally in the ideal world, i make no bones about it, i wish that people could just travel freely without any of this bureaucracy or tests or anything else. but thousands of brits on holiday in mexico will have to quarantine in a hotel at their own expense, unless they can get home before sunday. we ll have the latest. also this lunchtime: gold on the track once again. for the first time at these olympic games. another gold for team gb injapan, as matt walls triumphs in the velodrome taking the olympics medal tally to 50. 11 people are arrested by police investigating the racist online abuse directed at three england footballers after the euro 2020 final. this autumn s rugby league world cup has
engaging in the streaming services, where they can watch what they want when they want on their own device, whether that s netflix or youtube, but we re now seeing older audiences also catching up and turning to these streaming services. so 2020 was the year britain became a streaming nation, with traditional broadcast tv something for older people and set to decline. but is this a permanent change, and will we want to continue to pay for the likes of netflix, amazon prime, nowtv, disney+, or will we start switching some of them off? we had a total of six streaming services subscribed at one point. that s now kind of slimmed down to four at the moment, and i think another one will be dropping off soon. hey, google, play the bbc tech tent podcast. one other change in our media habits more than half of uk homes now have a smart speaker. an internet connection, not an aerial or satellite dish, is becoming the way we all get access to entertainment. time for a look at the weath