We start with the Travel Industry. Its been welcoming changes to the uks covid travel rules which come into force on sunday. As you have been hearing france a major destination for british tourists is to be brought into line with other Amber List countries. Those coming from france to england, scotland and Northern Ireland will no longer need to quarantine, if they are fully vaccinated. Seven europen countries including Austria And Germany willjoin The Green List. And india and the United Arab Emirates are among those moving from red to amber. Dfds which operates ferries between the uk and france is among the companies welcoming the changes. In terms of the Amber Plus rules, We Saw a dipping in bookings. People were booking for the next few days and people who really had to travel. We saw a surge in booking when travel looked to be reopening. We know how many people visit our website and looking for prices. We expect that will pick up sharply and people will have more confidence to boo
has told this programme that eu member countires have so far been discplined and prevented from making any meaningful pre negotiations with the uk. he also confirmed it would not be possible to agree all of the issues during the two year negotiation period, and he foresaw the distinc possibility of political and economic turbulence. we ll hear his interview with our diplomatic editor mark urban in full in a moment, but first, to our political editor nick watt. what are you hearing tonight? snp sources said that theresa may told nicola sturgeon that the uk government is confident they can do an overall deal within 18 months. so it means the future trading relationship. number ten doesn t believe the future trading relationship can be done and dusted them, it will need what it described as an implementation phase. but it shows that the uk is accepting the timetable by the eu, which is a greek it by the autumn of 2018 so it can be fully ratified. but the eu chief negotiator is s