Is being implemented across the country meaning access to a wide range of services such as hotels, swimming pools, hospitality and hairdressers will be restricted to those who are either vaccinated, recovered or tested negative for covid. This comes as germany has begun a fourth wave of coronavirus infections, according to the country s agency for disease control and prevention the delta variant is dominant and this time, younger age groups are more affected. Joining me now is holger schmieding, chief economist at berenberg. Give us some more detail about this 36 give us some more detail about this 3g regime, and whether you think it will do the trick. Good morning, i don t think it will make such a big difference, because something similar has been in place anyway and most of germany s federal states already. They key news is that the government is taking the fourth wave seriously. What we are seeing being implement today is largely prepared about two weeks ago. The government is, o
Now on bbc news: the media show hello. The role of foreign reporter is one of the most glamorous injournalism. Some of our most memorable moments in the history of news came from those with their eyes and ears on the ground. But does that reporting now face an existential crisis? like the rest of us, many international correspondents have spent the past year grounded at home. Audiences and newspaper editors have got used to a year of massively reduced foreign coverage. Within newsrooms, there is a greater emphasis on stringers to tell the story for us. So are these changes permanent? and what do we lose if our perspective no longer comes from one of our own? well, i have a first class panel of guests with me to explore all of that and more. John simpson is the bbc s world affairs editor and a veteran of foreign reporting, covering almost every major war and revolution for 50 years. Sebastian walker is the washington dc bureau chief for vice news and before that ran their middle east bu
Described how he felt in that instance. She said his whole body hurt. His stomach hurt. We know based again from ms. Ross that he was clean and sober for some time while they were in quarantine. We know that ms. Ross again described taking about a week before a similar pill to the ones that they had back in march. Kept her up again all night. Right? she said she felt like she was going to die. We know again from ms. Ross that those pills were purchased from maurice hall. She described owing to a hotel while mr floyd went into the hotel, she was on the phone with him. She heard the voice. We note mr floyd was with maurice hall may five, 2020. We heard from the store clerk, christopher martin, he described mr floyd as being high. His responses were delayed, right? he may have been you know, standing around. He may have been standing up, he may have been able to have communications but mr martin clearly described him as being high. We heard from shalonda hill that when they got back into
hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the us house of representatives has just voted to pass presidentjoe biden s $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid bill. the cash would be extended as emergency financial aid to households, small businesses and state governments. unemployment in the us is close to 10%, with some ten million jobs lost in the pandemic. the vote comes in the same week the us passed 500,000 coronavirus related deaths the largest figure of any nation in the world. the republicans who say it is too expensive had fought to get it defeated in committees. 0ur washington correspondent lebo diseko sent us this update. it s not a surprise that this bill has passed in the house. democrats hold a majority there and it was just a simple majority that was needed to get it through. the real battle will come in the senate. democrats are using a special process called budgetary reconciliation and it means that there are two in the senate it willju
many of us. not everyone, however, with some mist and fog patches forming over the next couple of days. i ll be back with all the details. it s saturday, the 27th february. our top story. the chancellor has said he ll use wednesday s budget to level with the british people about the state of the economy in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. in an interview with the financial times, rishi sunak warns that the uk has been left exposed because of its high debt levels, but acknowledges he ll need to keep spending for the time being to supportjobs. our business reporter, ramzan karmali, reports. with government spending heading towards £300 billion to deal with the pandemic, the unemployment rate hitting its highest level in five years, and the uk economy shrinking almost 10% in 2020, all eyes will be on the chancellor next week, when he delivers his budget on wednesday. 0ne delivers his budget on wednesday. one area that will be in focus will be the housing market. 0ver one are