Good morning. 762jobs here at sheffield are on the line as liberty steel restructu res sheffield are on the line as liberty steel restructures its operations in order to survive. Gareth southgate will name his provisional england squad for the euros today. He ll reveal who s made the final cut next tuesday. Good morning. A cloudy start to the day. The cloud will break. We will have sunshine and showers. Some of them will be thundery with hail. Some rain coming into the south west. All the details later in the programme. It s tuesday, the 25th of may. Our top story. European union leaders havejoined the uk in pledging to punish belarus over what it called the state sponsored hijacking of a ryanairflight in order to arrest a prominent critic. Belarusian carriers are now banned from entering the airspace of the uk and the eu, and more sanctions will follow. Mark lobel reports. A hijacking. An affront to international norms. Playing russian roulette with innocent civilians lives. Some of
Office computer system. A number of newspapers are quoting downing street sources reportedly blaming the prime minister s former adviser dominic cummings for leaking mobile texts between borisjohnson and sirjames dyson. Hairdressers re open in northern ireland the last part of the uk where they re being allowed to welcome back customers. The risk of infection with coronavirus falls sharply after the first dose of a vaccine, a study finds, as the number of people in the uk who ve received a jab reaches 33 million. And coming up this hour: the duke and duchess of cambridge have released a new picture of prince louis to celebrate his third birthday and mark his first day at nursery school. Hello, good morning and welcome to bbc news. New restrictions for people coming to the uk from india have come into force this morning, as the country has joined the uk s red list which effectively bans travel. In the past couple of hours, india has reported the biggest daily rise in infections of
now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. from john lennon to bob marley, the music business has embraced songwriters who combine their beats with political activism. my guest has upheld that tradition with an energy which sets him apart. serj tankian is best known as frontman of the heavy metal band system of a down. he s also an arch advocate for his family s homeland, armenia. his passionate views on genocide, war and corrupt governance have won him millions of fans and numerous enemies too. which matters more to him the politics or the music? serj tankian in los angeles, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. thanks for having me on. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. i don t want to start in a downbeat way, but i can t help noticing that you recently described the last year as the worst of your life. i guess we can all imagine why that might be, butjust spell it out for me. well, i mean, covid obviously is a huge part of
trading on wall street. and neighbours actress sharonjohal becomes the third minority actor to claim they were racially abused while working on the long running australian soap opera. from the hello and welcome. president biden is ending america s longest ever war. american soldiers invaded afghanistan in 2001 almost 20 years later, they are still there. but not for much longer. he will withdraw the remaining two and a half thousand troops by september 11th the anniversary of the terror attack that launched this fight. here s what mr biden had to say a little earlier today. keeping thousands of troops grounded and concentrated in one country for many years makes little sense to me and our leaders. we cannot continue to cycle extending or extending our military presence in afghanistan, hoping to create ideal conditions for the withdrawal and expecting a mr biden s announcement has raised perhaps as many questions as it has provided answers. perhaps none is more relevant th
problems to emerge since brexit its impact on northern ireland. it s over three months since britain left the eu s single market. in an effort to honour the good friday peace accord, and keep an open land border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland, britain agreed to the northern ireland protocol. this effectively moved the relevant customs checks to the irish sea. however this has led to trade friction. logistics uk, which represents the freight industry, calculates that since january around half of its members sending goods from great britain to northern ireland have had their exports delayed or cancelled due to the new border changes. joining me now is roger pollen, head of fsb northern ireland how has this affected your members how bad is the situation? we ve just mentioned that one statistic from logistics uk. there is all sorted evidence to show how hard this transition has been. show how hard this transition has been- has been. that s right, ther