Hello. Green, green watch, amber, the now cancelled possibility of amber watch and red. If you get a bit lost in the traffic light travel restriction system, tomorrow s papers may help you out. If they can t help, our reviewers probably can. With me are rachel cunliffe, deputy online editor of the new statesman, and kieran andrews, political editor of the times scotland. Tomorrow s front pages. Let s get stuck in. The i leads with the government changing its mind over plans for a travel amber watchlist after pressure from tory mps and the travel industry. The story makes the front page of the telegraph too, which claims borisjohnson stepped in personally to scrap his own government s scheme. Meanwhile, the guardian says the head of thejoint biosecurity centre, which advises the government on travel rules, has quit. The paper claims this has left the organisation rudderless. The times carries a call from chancellor rishi sunak for young people to stop working from home and get back to t
Were targeted for vile abuse, but it affects other sports, too. This is lords, the headquarters of english cricket. My guest today is the former west indian fast bowler michael holding, who has become a prominent voice confronting racism. But is this a fight that sport can win? michael holding, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Thank you, stephen. It is pretty much exactly a year since you used your platform as a cricket commentator to speak with great eloquence and passion about the continued damage being done to society by racism. Now, in the year since then, do you see any signs of progress? definitely. I see quite a few signs of progress. First of all, i don t think the voices that you re hearing most, stephen, what you re seeing on social media, is the majority. I think that s a very, very small minority. And i see people now hitting out against those people who are coming forward with those views. And when you talk about social media right now, you re talking about the vile abuse a
Showers will be across northern areas and northern ireland, northern england and scotland could see the downpours on wednesday, there were a shower is possible just about anywhere. Pleasantly warm where you get to see some sunny spells. Thursday onwards into the weekend, the weather dominated by low pressure. Windy again to the south, though not as windy as it was last week, bands of heavy rain or showers moving through with brighter spells in between. And with weather like this and temperatures like this, you may be forgiven for thinking that august is doing a good job of dressing up as autumn in disguise. Iam sure dressing up as autumn in disguise. I am sure we are all thinking that, thanks. That s all from the bbc news at six, so it s goodbye from me. And on bbc one, we nowjoin the bbc s news teams where you are. Hello and welcome to sportsday i m chetan pathak, coming up on tonight s programme: for the first time in 49 years gold for great britain in the olympic eventing compet
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At least 430 migrants made the journey across the english channel to the uk yesterday a new record for a single day. We ve just come across this small dinghy, probably three or four metres long. We think there s maybe 12,13 on board. A couple of small children at the front and a couple of women. I ve asked them how long they ve been at sea this morning they ve said a couple of hours. The met office issues its first ever amber weather warning for heat as parts of the country will hit 33 degrees celsius. And we re at some eid al adha celebrations the first time many muslims have been able to mark the festival in person since the start of the pandemic. And coming up on the bbc news channel: coronavirus continues to dominate the build up to the tokyo olympics as yet more athletes test positive with just three days to go. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Downing street has tried to clear up confusion about whether people should self isolate when pinged by the nhs