In the first wave of the pandemic while the south east was hardest hit in the second wave the heatwave across the uk has been continuing and this afternoon northern ireland has broken it s all time temperature record for the second time in 5 days. The gb women s football team off to a flying start at the tokyo olympics with a 2 nil win over chile good afternoon. we cannot go on as we are the words today of the brexit minister lord frost, demanding a rethink from the european union on britain s post brexit trading arrangements with northern ireland. The government has called for significant changes to the deal negotiated only last year but it s held back, for now, from the dramatic step of effectively suspending parts of the deal. The european commission vice president has flatly rejected the uk demand for a renegotiation of the northern ireland protocol a protocol which requires checks on goods coming in from mainland britain. Chris page reports. Northern ireland has always
Hello and welcome to our look at what the papers are bringing us today. With me are david wooding, political editor of sun on sunday and miatta fahnbulleh, chief executive of the new economics foundation and former labour adviser. Today s front pages starting with. The observer has been hearing from bosses within the uk food industry, who say government measures to prevent staff from isolating have been so badly mishandled, they ve made the crisis worse. The sunday people focuses on the transport industry which is also suffering the adverse effects of the pingdemic. It says a shortage of staff at heathrow meant travellers were queueing for hours. According to the mail on sunday, the health secretary, sajid javid, has been accused of frightening borisjohnson into making his decision to move france into the amber plus travel category. The sunday times reports that private schools have been accused of taking advantage of covid disruption to a levels and playing the system by lobbying top
Position, with their 1% pay rise, a real terms pay cut, rejected by the independent peabody. So what do the government do? nothing. Less than an hour ago, there were competing briefings on what the deal was going to be but it turned out to be nothing. Our nhs staff deserve better than this. They have worked incredibly hard throughout this pandemic, the personal sacrifice is astounding. Their hard work never stops, and that is not without consequences. Work related stress has increased by nearly io%, mental health is consistently the most reported reason for staff absence in the nhs, accounting for approximately half a million days lost every single month. Half a million days lost every single month to mental health. These issues preceded the pandemic, but the increased pressure, intensity and trauma experienced by staff is taking its toll. Reports published in january found that nearly taking its toll. Reports published injanuary found that nearly half of front line nhs staff are suffe
Now on bbc news, dateline london. Hello. I m shaun ley. Welcome to the programme which brings together columnists from leading journals, bbc specialists and the reporters who write, broadcast and blog for folks back home from the dateline: london. This week biden s back and bibi s out. What changes will follow from a united states administration re engaged on the world stage and an israel led by its first new prime minister in more than a decade? to discuss that and more, i m joined byjeffrey kofman, who hails from canada and anchored programmes there and in the united states. He s also served as a foreign correspondent in war and peace. Russian born arkady ostrvosky reports on the country of his birth, as well as the whole of central and eastern europe, for the economist magazine. The bbc s chief international correspondent, lyse doucet, also canadian by birth, is with me here. Still canadian. You re still canadian still canadian by birth and by nationality, and a privileged guest
Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. Inevitably, we associate artists with the times in which they emerge and the work which brings them widespread acclaim. So it is with my guest today, michael stipe, lead singer of the american band rem, who were pioneers of an indie rock sound which emerged from a georgia college campus in the 80s and won worldwide acclaim in the 1990s. Now, he s a visual artist who records new music sparingly. He says the best art is about bravery, confronting fear. So what has he been frightened of? michael stipe in berlin, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. How are you, stephen? i am very well, delighted to see you. I think it s fair to say that we all think of you, first and foremost, as a musician. But these days, your primary focus seems to be visual art. And i m just wondering whether that visual sense was with you from the very beginning. Yeah, i actually started as an art student, but prior to that, i took up photography at 1a.