Twitter, m44 musk originally offered to buy twitter, $444 billion, and under his ownership said he would make the platform replaced for free speech 44 billion. a few months after the he backtracked and said the deal was on hold, and decided, requested to terminate the deal with twitter, citing concerns about the high number of fake spots on the site, higher than twitter had claimed. four days later twitter suit elon musk singh he did not honour his obligations and then twitter musk countersued, so it has been a whole illegal tobacco and it has taken months to get through but elon musk on october the 4th offered to buy twitter again for the original price on twitter said it intended to close a transaction. the deadline was today and it was completed earlier on this morning. it has been a
There s the old football joke/cliche on me ead, son, turned into a song by mike bassett. i know you re normally the provider, have you ever shouted that? imight give i might give it a go today. let s return to our top story now, and the government has announced major changes to the rules around travel for passengers entering england. the first is the removal of the current traffic light system, meaning countries will now either be open for travel or on a red list, those returning from a red list country will still be required to quarantine in an approved hotel. there are changes to testing too, from october the 4th, travellers will no longer need to take a lateral flow test, before heading home, if they are double jabbed. from the end of next month, you won t need an expensive pcr test on return, if fully vaccinated instead, a cheaper lateral flow test must now be done within two days of arrival. and travellers from 17 more countries who have been double jabbed using vaccines appr
Red list, some people really hoping that number was going to be slashed, it hasn t been slashed quite as drastically, but eight countries are now off it. that means that no longer, turkey, pakistan, the maldives, egypt commercial anchor, oman, bangladesh and kenya, no longer on the red list. as of next wednesday had liam, that means that people coming from that time, from those countries, will not have to quarantine in a hotel. that is quite a big dramatic move for a lot of people, particularly for international travel, people going on holiday to turkey, which has been on holiday to turkey, which has been on the red list since may, and of course, people who will have a family and all of those countries as well who would now be able to travel. that is the first one. the next step will come into effect from october the 4th, and that will be when the traffic light system is overhauled, and we go from having green and amberand overhauled, and we go from having green and amber and red list
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With people returning from red countries still having to quarantine in designated hotels. the number and type of covid tests is changing for travellers, too, from october the 4th. you ll no longer have to take a lateral flow test before setting off and won t need an expensive pcr test on return if fully vaccinated. however, there must be a lateral flow test within two days of arrival. and people who ve been given vaccines approved for use in the uk will now have those innoculations recognised regardless of where in the world they were originallyjabbed. eight countries are coming off the red list from the 22nd of september, including turkey, pakistan, egypt and kenya. the changes only apply to england at present. wales and scotland say they will take the same eight countries off their red lists, but will not adopt the changes to testing for now. our transport correspondent caroline davies has more. travel has meant testing. across the country,