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trade wars, climate change and the pandemic add up to a vintage hangover for the wine trade. we start with those supply chain problems hitting businesses across the uk because there have been more warnings from industry about the growing impact of staff shortages, blamed on the pandemic and brexit. the british retail consortium says some parts of the food industry in the uk are now becoming unsustainable. andrew opie from the brc was speaking to the trade and business commission, an independent group of business representatives and mps looking to make recommendations to the government. he says it s notjust about the well publicised truck driver shortages but a lack of staff in factories and right across the supply chain. if you look at the vacancies in the process sector, which is so important both in primary production and to sales and retail, they are really struggling now with availability. they do not have the access to the seasonal workers, there is a small seasona ....
coronavirus may still suffer symptoms months after infection. nicola sturgeon announces plans to introduce vaccine passports for nightclubs and larger live events in scotland later this month. colin pitchfork, who raped and murdered two schoolgirls in the 1980s, has been released from prison. the game changing anti cholesterol drug that could save 30,000 lives in a decade and may soon be offered on the nhs. itv is cleared by the media regulator over pier morgan s comments about the duchess of sussex. and the image of a bird at the us mexico border wall has won a prestigious photographic contest. we will be talking to the winning mexican photographer. but evening and welcome to bbc news. the foreign secretary, dominic raab, has insisted that the uk did not perform worse than other countries in its evacuation from kabul after the city fell to the taliban. he s been answering questions from mps about his response to the crisis in afghanistan this afternoon. mr raab said ....
this is just some of the destruction in louisiana, that s about an hour south of new orleans. in new orleans, the french quarter was hit hard with significant damage. still dark there but as the sun comes up we ll have a better feel for things. in all, more than 1 million people there are without electricity. the power outage could make the area for susceptible to extreme flooding like we see in this video from grand isle, along the coast. joining us now jay gray. good morning, the power is out in new orleans, what does it look like this morning? reporter: willie, it is a mess right now. once we get some sunshine i think we ll see more problems in new orleans. but a break in the conditions, the winds dropped off, the rain thankfully after 16 straight hours has stopped. we have a chance to look at some of the devastation. you can see the roof top behind me pulled from a building thrown into the french quarter, bringing with it an elevated street sign. you can see the b ....
we need heard a come home. then, they found her. launching a mystery that would divide this family, one daughter thought her stepdad math did. the other said, no way. and matt he had a theory all his own. this is not the first time she s run away, okay? had nique taken off and found trouble? now you re thinking someone gave her a date rape drug. that s a possibility. the trail would lead to this house of cameras. there is a big server tower that would indicate a large amount of data being stored. what they discovered, thousands of hours of tape. let me out of this room. it s absolutely a torture to listen to. and would reveal one shattering truth. i got down on my knees and just started crying. welcome to dateline. nique leili was juggling family life and a thriving career when suddenly she vanished. detectives turned to those closest to her for information then they discovered something unusual. nique s last months had been recorded on came ....
katrina. plans to ban single use plastic plates, cutlery and polystyrene cups in england have just been announced, as part of proposals to tackle what ministers say is the unnecessary use of plastics that wreak havoc with our natural environment. the measures will be considered in a public consultation this autumn, with scotland, wales and northern ireland having similar plans. here s our political correspondent, nick eardley. this is our bamboo set. is this the future of eating on the go? paris sells bamboo cutlery across the uk. we are still working with bamboo and hemp. sustainable items which he hopes are part of the answer to reducing plastic consumption. what do you think about the idea of banning plastic cutlery? yeah, i would vote for anybody who will ban it. i think plastic is everywhere. we cannot get rid of plastic completely, but there are definitely certain areas where we can improve. this is the problem plastic in oceans around the world, deadly for a ....