Day of action including injudo and fencing. Ill have all the latest. Im Ben Mundy in london. Todays other main news. Plans to require Football Fans to be fully vaccinated if they want to go to Premier League matches from october are being considered by the government. British mps have warned that taxpayers will bear the cost of the Governments Coronavirus Spending for decades. Wildfires in northern California Force thousands into Evacuation Centres while a Covid Outbreak in oregon puts firefighters into quarantine. A warm welcome to tokyo, its day two of the olympics there has been an extraordinary upset in the womens cycling Road Race with austrian Mathematician Anna Kiesenhofer taking gold. She has not had a professional contract since 2017, and raced ahead of the peleton with more than aokm still remaining. In mens swimmming,18 year old tunisian swimmer, Ahmed Hafnaoui, has pulled off a stunning victory the outsider won the mens 400 Metre Freestyle Gold despite qualifying last. He h
Social Media Companies to pay for news content. Starving to death a special report on yemens 400,000 children, innocent victims of an increasingly brutal conflict. And new views of the martian landscape nasa releases videos of its perserverance Rover Landing on the surface of mars. Also this hour the dangers of dating apps. With more people than ever using them, well be finding out what warning signs you should look out for. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. The uks Prime Minister Boris Johnson has defended what he says is a cautious plan for easing lockdown in england, after facing criticism from some of his own mps and businesses leaders that the pace of change will be too slow. The outcome of a review on International Travel is set to be announced by a special Global Travel task force on the 12th Of April. But theres already been a surge in bookings for foreign holidays by travellers with easyjet reporting a 630 increase in enquiries. In the uk, se
With huge p. R. To find Sexual Harassment. Spent just 10 percent of donations received on actually helping with a very good morning. Youre watching r. T. International with me. Its the french president s ruling party has scrapped a hugely unpopular bill to restrict filming police a spokesperson blamed misunderstanding, misunderstandings over the law, which will now be rewritten. Opponents had warned the measures called article 24. 00, violated media freedoms and allowed officers to get away with brutality. The u. Turn follows weeks of national uproar. My it, it was present my current chad and the movement see meeting on monday. As part of that meeting, there was the french prime minister, the French Interior minister, and also the leaders of the parliamentary parties of the majority, the president s of these parties. Now they decided following that meeting, that this specific article, article 24 would be suspended from the bill. As i say, it follows a weekend of violent protests in fra
Melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us south korean boy band b t as has fans around the world and their stardom scenes unstoppable except it might come to a sudden halt because of south koreas mandatory military service where theyd spend 18 months out of the spotlight training for potential war on the Korean Peninsula fans say they should be exempt while others say they need to do their duty frank smith reports. So korean boy band b. T. S. Reigns supreme over billboard charts as their fans their army fallen over their good looks and slick moves but as they move through their twenties an ominous obligation approaches a minimum one and a half years mandatory military Service Required of every healthy south korean male between 18 and 28. The issue of mandatory military service for entertainers like b. T. S. Is complicated by the fact that high achieving south korean athletes have seen their army obligations reduced after winning a gold medal in the 2800 games soccer st
Are preparing to go to the polls to vote in a referendum on whether to replace the countrys pinochet era constitution the present constitution is considered by many to prevent social progress and justice the vote comes after a year of mass and rest against social inequality. A suicide bombing in afghanistans capital kabul has killed at least 18 people and wounded many more the interior Ministry Says the blast struck an Educational Center in a Western District of the city the socalled Islamic State militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack. This is d. W. News from bolen follow us on twitter and instagram at news or this is our website w dot com. Org. For. This week on the world stories. British sheep farmers fear for their livelihoods. Dangerous apportions in kenya but we begin in the south caucasus where han conflict between armenia and azerbaijan continued this week despite a cease fire the 2 nations from the former soviet union are involved in a dispute over the not go