A remote part of Eastern IndIa to fInd out how theyve vaccInated 80 of adults, way above the natIonal average. Only 2a hours to go before the OlympIcs OpenIng Ceremony and the show s dIrector has been sacked. And were lIve In scarborough as part of a serIes of reports about lIfe In Coastal BrItaIn lookIng at the challenges and opportunItIes In seasIde towns. Good Afternoon And Welcome to Bbc News. RetaIlers are callIng on the government to make Food Workers whove had both doses of a vaccIne, exempt from the Self IsolatIon rules whIch they say are makIng It IncreasIngly dIffIcult for some shops to keep theIr shelves stocked. Almost 620,000 people receIved a Contact TracIng alert In the last week. The government has saId the IsolatIon Rules wIll be relaxed for only a very small number of crItIcal workers, before wIder changes In england next month. Theo leggett reports. Empty shelves In supermarkets, retaIlers are warnIng that too many staff are In IsolatIon after beIng contacted by Nhs
putin s surprise visit to the russian occupied city of mariupol devastated in the early months of the war. like all ukrainians, like all mariupol residents, i feel today a war criminal vladimir putin visited the scene of a crime he committed for several months. it s been 20 years since the us led coalition began its war in iraq to topple the dictator saddam hussein we ll assess the history. # i ll take the world apart to find a place for a peaceful heart. and the return of a 60s pops icon we hear from yusuf cat stevens, about music, faith and performing at glastonbury. hello and welcome to the progamme. switzerland s biggest bank ubs has agreed to take over its troubled rival credit suisse. the rescue deal follows a weekend of emergency talks between the two banks, after credit suisse saw its value plummet over the past week. banking regulators hope the deal will restore confidence to the financial markets. credit suisse had been caught up in the market uncertainty tri
boss of a growing bookshop empire, is a leader of this counter revolution. he s made buying physical books cool on both sides of the atlantic. how? james daunt, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. i used to use paper cash. i pretty much don t anymore. i used to write checks in a checkbook. i certainly don t do that anymore. why are you so convinced that iwill, still, continue to use ink on paper, physical books, for years to come? books remain, i think, by far and away the most pleasurable way, and most memorable way, to read most books. you can read on an e reader, of course, and that will have some advantages, particularly for some sorts of books. and millions and millions of people across the world. and millions of people happily do. and the numbers are growing. and the numbers are not growing, actually, within developed markets. in the uk, the us, for example, i think, pretty much, it reached a peak and then came down to a level and is now steadied out. lots of people enjoy d
his new one is a collection of his journalism called dispatches from the diaspora. gary younge, welcome to the media show. let s go back to some of where it all began. you studied french and russian at heriot watt university in edinburgh, and then in your final year you received a scott trust bursary from the guardian to study journalism. and i think you were quite clear at that point that you wanted to be a columnist. why? because i had been very politically involved and my entry into writing was partly because i d studied languages and studied to be an interpreter, and i like to manipulate words, but it was also because i had been very involved politically, almost precociously, and that i thought i had things to say. and what i didn t realise at the time was the degree to which reporting, running out and talking to people, finding out, all of that, is the nuts and bolts of everything, including column writing. so as someone who hadn t done an awful lot ofjournalism and heri