Numbers of young children in Accident And Emergency departments across the uk with most suffering a mild fever which could be treated at home still cutting hair at 91 we meet the uks oldest hairdresser and coming up later this hour, ill be taking your questions on International Travel and putting them to our experts you can send in your questions to yourquestions bbc. Co. Uk or tweet us with the Hashtag Bbcyourquestions good morning. Leading figures in the Travel Industry have expressed Dismay And Frustration at the governments easing of restrictions on foreign holidays, saying it does not go far enough. Sixteen destinations have been added to the uks Green List. In europe, those include the spanish Balearic Islands of ibiza, Menorca And Majorca as well as Malta And Madeira. Further afield, Green List countries include antigua, barbados, dominica and bermuda. It means from 4 oclock on wednesday morning, travellers from those Green List countries will not have to quarantine upon arrival
freeze in england is coming to an end, with the chancellor announcing that more than five million people are in line for a pay rise next year. rishi sunak said it was right that public sector workers should see their wages go up, with better than expected economic conditions. he ll give further details in wednesday s budget. here s our political correspondent, alex forsyth. behind the treasury s closed doors, the budget plans are being drawn up. but, while the official announcement s still days away, details of spending plans have started to emerge. today, news of a wage rise for some of the lowest paid. the cost of living is a really important issue. the key thing is that today s announcement, an extra £1,000 a year for people on the national living wage, is a really important protection against those pressures, and it helps to make sure that every family in the country where people are in work can really see that this is a government that s on their side. people working in
the increasing number of people desperate for help with their mental health. and scotland s cricketers struggle in their first appearance in the main draw of the t20 world cup. and coming up on the bbc news channel: ben stokes is back in the england squad for the upcoming ashes series, after recovering from injury, and says he s ready to take on australia. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. how desperate would you have to be to sell your child? that s what some families in afghanistan are resorting to, as the country faces the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world, according to the united nations. since the taliban seized power in august, a record 22.8 million people over half the population face a dangerous lack of food. that s a rise of nearly 40% since april this year. international aid, which propped up the country s fragile economy, has been stopped, as the world debates how to deal with the taliban regime. yogita limaye s report from herat contains
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facebook whistle blower, frances haugen, tells mps that the platform puts growth over safety. the real thing we re seeing here is facebook accepting little, tiny additions of harm, like when they way off how much harm is worth how much growth for us? but facebook has told the bbc it has rules against harmful content, and has halved the amount of hate speech on its site. the prevalence of hate speech on facebook is less than a fifth of a percent. that s less than .05%. and that s a result of the progress we ve made in developing technology to find and remove that kind of content. a key spending pledge to help some of the world s poorest countries cut their carbon footprint has not been met, days before world leaders meet in glasgow for the cop26 climate summit. when s your birthday? may 5th, why? oh, i m just making a list of people s birthdays. 0h, mine s december. yeah, whatever. and tributes pour in for james michael tyler who starred as gunther in friends and has die