Around $38 million. The pink diamond that s putting the sparkle back into the jewellery market we start with the travel business because there are hopes tourism can restart across europe this summer after a deal in brussels on thursday. The european union has agreed to bring in covid 19 certificates allowing free movement for travellers if they ve been vaccinated or had a recent negative test. The deal will allow the european parliament to vote on the plan next month in time for it to be introduced at the beginning ofjuly. The european parliament s negotiator on the deal was very excited at the prospect. You are vaccinated in a member state of the europe and union so the health system of your member state will provide you with a certificate, that is the new rule of the game and that certificate will do, that certificate will do, that certificate means you don t need a test every week, i am vaccinated. This certificate says so. I was vaccinated. Please let me in. So that we regain t
Welcome to hardtalk. I m stephen sackur. For 17 years, estonia and the other baltic states have been members of the eu and nato fully paid up members of the western club. But the simple facts of geography have not changed russia is their giant neighbour. And, as tensions between vladimir putin and the west rise, so a chill wind blows through eastern europe. My guest is estonia s prime minister, kaja kallas. How confident is she that her partners in brussels and washington have her back? prime minister kaja kallas in tallinn, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. It s a pleasure to have you on the show, prime minister. Let me ask you, how intensely do you feel the rising tensions with russia right now? well, russia is our neighbour and, considering our history, we feel the tensions here always, so considering the geographical location that we have, russia s acts always influence us. I understand that the facts of geography haven t changed, but the cyclical tensions are clear
now on bbc news it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. the 20th century was, in many ways, shaped by america s unrivalled power. two decades into the new century, and it s clear the story arc is shifting. china is projecting its power across the globe. russia is out to reassert its regional supremacy, and the limits of american power have been exposed from iraq to afghanistan. my guest is retired us general ben hodges, former commander of the us army in europe. is america in danger of losing the race to define the 21st century? ben hodges in frankfurt, germany, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. general hodges, it s great to have you on the show. i want to begin not by talking about geopolitics or military balance, but about covid and whether you believe for governments around the world, the global pandemic has led to some sort of shift in priorities, a belief perhaps that some of the military threats they thought they perceived aren
angerfrom the premier league and uefa, as reports suggest the big six in england have signed up to a new european super league. hello, welcome to bbc news. on the first weekend since the government eased coronavirus lockdown restrictions in england, millions have taken the opportunity to get outdoors and enjoy the sunny weather. but there are concerns over new variants of the coronavirus, with 77 cases discovered in england and scotland, of an indian mutation of covid 19. it comes as deaths from coronavirus continue to fall, with ten in the latest 24 hour period, though the figures are usually lower at the weekend. our health correspondent, catherine burns, reports. as steps along the road map go, this one has made a big difference to streets up and down england. it s been the first weekend for nonessential shops to open. streets packed, and apart from masks and queues, it s almost like old times. just to see everybody out and about, because that s one thing i ve missed, bein
pushing this, democrats all, an opportunity for joe biden to select those four justices and thereby join the three other liberal justices in a 13-man and woman court. have that majority. it s called packing the court. franklin roosevelt tried it and failed. will this group of congressmen and senators succeed by pushing their colleagues in the senate and the house to go along? this as the president has set up a bipartisan commission to look at this issue. this much we know. they re not giving up. right now though it s an uphill battle, at this point, it isn t necessarily a losing one. welcome, everyone. i m neil cavuto. this is your world. first to jacqui heinrich following all this movement at the supreme court and now the push in the capitol is building maybe they hope a little steep. jacqui? good afternoon, neil. nancy pelosi is trying to swiftly stifle this effort as it could distract from other priorities and threaten to divide democrats. she says she has no plans to