We start with the travel business, because as youve been hearing, the uk is about to announce a Shake Up of its covid rules for International Travel. Airlines and Tour Operators have been pushing for simpler rules on destinations, instead of the so called Traffic Light System of green, amber and Red Lists. And they want compulsory Pcr Covid tests to be scrapped, arguing the cost has been putting people off travelling, as our Transport Correspondent Caroline Davies explains. There have been hints that now people are vaccinated, they could be swapped for lateral flow test, the cheaper option. That could still prove controversial with some people in public health. Other things the industry wants to see our things like moving from the Traffic Light System to just a Red List and an open List System as well, so simplification there. The industry are really piling on the pressure on the government. Thurlow comes to an end at thE End of this month and they still have thousands of employees on
of the former prime minister david cameron for the collapsed firm greensill capital mps vote today on whether to hold a parliamentary inquiry. the family of a pregnant nurse who died with covid 19 hasn t received any money from a fundraising campaign which is now at £186,000, even though it was set up to support her husband and children. young black people have been hit hardest by unemployment during the covid pandemic, according to new research. the resolution foundation think tank said that over the past year, the jobless rate for young black people rose by more than a third to 35%, compared with 24% for young people of asian descent and 13% for young white people. the foundation said that covid had widened existing gaps between ethnic groups. it added that young people had borne the brunt ofjob losses in lockdown: between the second and third quarters of 2020 the unemployment rate among 18 24 year olds rose from 11.5% to 13.6%. i can now speak to kathleen henehan, who s
for the first and second dose is being expanded to include new vaccines and more volunteers. an inquest into the death of jack merrick and saskia jones has heard from another victim who was also stabbed at fishmongers hall in 2019. climate talks between the world s two biggest polluters us envoyjohn kerry hopes to persuade beijing to agree new targets on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. and the countdown is on it s 100 days until the opening of the summer olympic games in tokyo. hello, good afternoon. mps will vote this afternoon on whether there should be a parliamentary inquiry into the lobbying activities of the former prime minister david cameron. labour says a government investigation into mr cameron s work for the collapsed firm, greensill capital, is insufficient. a debate in the commons is under way and at prime minister s questions boris johnson admitted it wasn t clear the boundaries between whitehall and business had been properly understood. the labour leader
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