Rising tensions over russias military build up next to ukaine President Biden suggests a summit to russias President Putin. Lockdown legends a Rolling Stone and a foo fighter call for some optimism as the pandemic eases in the uk. Hello and welcome. The us, south africa and the European Union are to temporarily suspend the rollout of Thejohnson Johnson covid jab, after reports of rare blood clotting. The American Health authority, the fda, said six cases were detected among more than six million americans who received the single dose vaccine. Johnson johnson said it has paused its eu rollout. Heres our medical editor fergus walsh. An abundance of caution was cited by Us Health Officials as the reason why they paused the use of the single shotjohnson Johnson Covid jab. The vaccine, which in europe is branded as janssen, was approved in the us in late february. Since then, there have been six incidents of very rare clots in the brain, out of 6. 8 million doses. So less than one case per
What are your travel plans . Do you hope to go overseas sometime soon . Lets start with international travel, because the industry has been at a standstill since lockdowns were introduced in many countries. People in england have been told they can start thinking about booking foreign holidays again this summer with the earliest possible date 17th may. A Traffic Light System has been proposed with green countries safer to visit and red those with the highest risk from covid. The costs of tests before and after travel are seen as a big obstacle to foreign tourism resuming. Of what it makes of the plan. Joining me now is axel hefer, the Chief Executive of trivago. Welcome to the programme. I dont know if you have had a chance to look at the ideas in the uk about traffic like system, what are your thoughts . It is a complicated situation, honestly, because the uk is further ahead in the programme compared to continental europe. So the structure will help but the key thing that is holding
the us defence secretary, lloyd austin, said the pentagon s main concern was for the soldier s welfare. we believe that he is in brk custody and so we are closely monitoring and investigating the situation. we are working to notify the soldiers next of kin and engaging to address the incident. in terms of my concern, i have absolutely foremost concern about the welfare of our troop. and so we will remain focused on this and, again, this will develop in the next several days and hours. earlier i spoke to our north america correspondent sean dilley, who was at that press conference, and asked what the white house and the pentagon were willing to divulge at this point. the pentagon themselves said as much and as little as you would expect they could. at that time in the afternoon, as it was, it was 1230 eastern time, the pentagon wasn t even naming this soldier because they were engaged in discussions with the next of kin. they were saying they were monitoring the situation clos
a bbc investigation has heard claims from more than 100 current and recent mcdonald s workers about a toxic culture of sexual assault, racism and bullying at the company s uk outlets. mcdonald s has admitted that it has fallen short and says it deeply apologises . today since hearing our report dozens more people have come forward. here s our employment correspondent, zoe conway. shelby was 16 when she started working at mcdonald s last year in berkshire. she says the workplace felt toxic. 0ne senior manager was openly racist and mocked disabled employees. managers warned her to stay away from certain older men, including one man in his 50s. i was speaking to one of my friends and he grabbed me by my hips and pulled me onto his groin area. then he held me there. i felt disgusted, because he was so much older as well. shelby says she complained to the store s management but nothing was done. she quit in may. mcdonald s said it was investigating why any issues that she r
to tory conservative party. when you speak to tory mps, campaigning in uxbridge, you see quite different receptions depending on doors in times receptions depending on doors in times of receptions depending on doors in times of how they feel about the current times of how they feel about the current prime minister and the one before current prime minister and the one before that. key current prime minister and the one before that- before that. key issue is the cost of livin: before that. key issue is the cost of living crisis. before that. key issue is the cost of living crisis. how before that. key issue is the cost of living crisis. how do before that. key issue is the cost of living crisis. how do you - before that. key issue is the cost of living crisis. how do you think| of living crisis. how do you think thatis of living crisis. how do you think that is going to work amongst conservative campaigning here? we have seen inflation figures out today are down bu