A sprinter from belarus who refused her team s order to fly home early from the olympics has been granted a humanitarian visa by poland. It s believed krystsina tsimanouskaya plans to go to warsaw tomorrow. And the head of an organisation helping belarussians who have fled abroad has been found dead in kiev. Vitaly shiskov ran the belarusian house in ukraine. Fighting is raging in helmand province as taliban militants and afghan government forces battle for control of the southern city of lashka ga. Criticism from uk s opposition labour party, but praise from within the travel industry, as the uk government abandons plans for an amber watchlist of countries for international travel. And firefighters in helicopters are battling wildfires raging for a seventh day near southern coastal resorts in turkey. A warm welcome to tokyo and what a momentous day it s been. One of the greatest races in olympics history took place this morning. Norway s karston warholm won the gold in the men s 400
Let s cross now to the scotland first minister nicola sturgeon who is making a virtual statement to msps she is set to reveal whether her government will lift most legal covid restrictions. I will set out a number of mitigation conditions. I will summarise the key points from new guidance being published today on arrangements for the start of the new school year. Let me start by summarising today s statistics. The total number of positive cases reported yesterday was 1016 which is 8. 1% of all tests. There are 406 people receiving host tokyo and 61 people receiving host tokyo and 61 people receiving host tokyo and 61 people receiving intensive care which has won more than yesterday. Sadly nine further deaths were reported over the last 24 hours taking the total number of registered is death and the daily definition to 7952. As always i want to convey my sincere condolences to everyone who has lost a loved one. I can also report that 4,014,000 212 people have now received a first dose
busy this easter. airports and airlines are expecting passenger on airlines are expecting passenger on a bus to return to pre pandemic levels. in the uk there are reports of long queues of motorists waiting to board ferries at dover as the easter getaway begins. the ferry service dfds says there are delays because of high winds in the channel. earlier i was joined by our transport correspondent katy austin and host of the bbc travel show carmen roberts. carmen told me about the issues facing travellers in dover. yes, it s not a good start for many holiday makers. about 20,000 cars are expected to get through dover this easter weekend. if you look on social media, holiday makers are saying they have arrived at the port at 2am and 3am and it s taken them up to three hours to get checked in. only to find that their ferry is delayed. so these ferries crossing the channel overnight have been buffeted by winds of up to 70 80mph from storm nelson. so it s not a good start. i suppo
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