now, dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme that brings together bbc specialists and the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week: one virus, three countries the contrasting covid fortunes of china, the united states and the uk. afghanistan s president says it ll take six months to rout the taliban but does he have six weeks? joining me this week are henry chu, uk bureau chief of the american paper the la times, ned temko, who is with the christian science monitor, and bbc uk political correspondent, damian grammaticas, is with me in the studio. welcome, lovely to have you with us this week. and at home, thank you for watching. it s been a week of contrating fortunes in the global pandemic. here in the uk, wales is lifting its covid restrictions over the weekend, and scotland will lift most covid restrictions at the end of this weekend, three weeks after borisjohnson did the same in englan
hello and welcome to the programme that brings together bbc specialists and the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week: one virus, three countries the contrasting covid fortunes of china, the united states and the uk. afghanistan s president says it ll take six months to rout the taliban but does he have six weeks? joining me this week are henry chu, uk bureau chief of the american paper, the la times, ned temko, who is with the christian science monitor, and bbc uk political correspondent, damian grammaticas, is with me in the studio. welcome, lovely to have you with us this week. and at home, thank you for watching. it s been a week of contrating fortunes in the global pandemic. here in the uk, wales is lifting its covid restrictions over the weekend, and scotland will lift most covid restrictions at the end of this weekend, three weeks after borisjohnson did the same in england. fears of a signfic
and, jackpot students at the university of sussex are given the chance to win £5000 if they can prove they ve had two doses of a covid vaccine or they re medically exempt. now on bbc news, it s dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme that brings together bbc specialists and the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week: one virus, three countries the contrasting covid fortunes of china, the united states and the uk. afghanistan s president says it ll take six months to rout the taliban but does he have six weeks? joining me this week are henry chu, uk bureau chief of the american paper, the la times, ned temko, who is with the christian science monitor, and bbc uk political correspondent, damian grammaticas, is with me in the studio. welcome, lovely to have you with us this week. and at home, thank you for watching. it s been a week of contrating fortunes in the global pandemic. here in t
henry chu, uk bureau chief of the american paper the la times, ned temko, who is with the christian science monitor, and bbc uk political correspondent damian grammaticas is with me in the studio. have you with us this week, and good to have you with us at home, thank you for watching. lovely to have you for watching. lovely to have you with this week. it s been a week of contrating fortunes in the global pandemic. here in the uk, wales is lifting its covid restrictions over the weekend, and scotland will lift most covid restrictions at the end of this weekend, three weeks after borisjohnson did the same in england. fears of a signficant surge in cases have not been born out, and the number of people requiring hospitalisation appears to have stabilised. there s also been the first fall in the number of infections since the end of may, and a reduction in the r rate below one come in other words, the virus is not growing in the population. the delta variant, first identif
headlines. now on bbc news, the media show. hello. for the last 130 years, the great british banker has worn a distinctive uniform a pinstriped suit, a furled umbrella, and a salmon coloured newspaper under one arm. the financial times is one of the world s most highly regarded newspapers and, now, digital publications read by devotees in shanghai, new york and delhi and of course bristol, manchester and edinburgh, too. and the paper has a certain reputation. the layout is traditional. you could call it old fashioned. the journalism is unashamedly intelligent. the front page generally manages to find an economic angle on the biggest news of the day even when that news is the death of a duke. but how easy is it to edit a newspaper that has such a fixed place in readers imaginations? but how easy is it to edit a newspaper that has such a fixed place in readers imaginations? what scope is there for setting a new editorial position? and is there a danger that in appealing to hi