And australia sends in the army to enforce sydneys Stay At Home restrictions, as Covid I9 infections continue to rise. The uks biggest dairy company, arla, tells the bbc that it had failed to make 25 of its deliveries to supermarkets last weekend due to a shortage of drivers. Nine years in prison for incitement to secession and terrorist activities. Prodemocracy Activist Benny Tai is the first person to be convicted under Hong Kongs new Security Law. And its an Epic Battle Between A Star and her studio, as Scarlettjohansson Sues Disney for streaming her latest movie. Theres been a sizeable Medal Haul for Team Gb at the tokyo olympics. Tremendous Bmx Racing by 22 year old Beth Shriever has won her gold. And Kye White took silver in the mens event. For a full round up of the action at the olympics this morning, lets cross to Mike Bushell At The Bbc Sport centre. And call it a fabulous friday for Team Gb including that gold from Beth Shriever, what a story, she relied on crowdfunding to g
you may have noticed lately that the gop is working overtime to make the lives of trans people more difficult than their lives already are. the gop wants to kick trans people out of bathrooms, sports. 31 states introduced legislation. the military. doctor s offices. anti-transgender health care. and trans women especially are under threat at all times. was shot and killed on an east dallas street saturday morning. then those of you who know all that s awful call trans people brave for putting up with it. trans people don t want to have to be brave. they just want to be. this week we are talking to black trans women in dallas, texas, about trying to just be. i m back in dallas, y all. yay! while we often think about the black trans community being in big cities like l.a. and new york, we need to see that black trans folks are everywhere. even in a state like texas, where 70% of the population identifies as christian, and not just easter/christmas christian, meg
And the pandemic of the unvaccinated. New figures show america could have have halved its hospitalisations, had its Vaccination Rates kept up with those in europe. Tonight with the context, republican, rina shah, who advises the renew democracy initiative, and chief political commentator of the i newspaper, paul waugh. The russian president Vladimir Putin says the United States is trying to pull russia into an Armed Conflict over ukraine, as a pretext for stiffer sanctions. His comments, at a News Conference in moscow this evening, with Prime Minister viktor orban of hungary, were his first since december. He said ukrainejoining nato would be an existential threat notjust to russia, but to world peace. Translation United States mosti important goal is to contain russia. Thats the thing. In this sense, ukraine itself is just a tool to achieve this goal. This can be done in different ways. One of them is to draw us into Armed Conflict. Borisjohnson was in kyiev, a timely distraction from
Tomorrow, low pressure dominates and this Weather Front here is in tomorrow, low pressure dominates and this weatherfront here is in no mood to move, so, it isjust going to continue to bring outbreaks of rain in central, Southern England drifting up into the midlands, parts of wales, eventually rain into Northern Ireland. Elsewhere a lot of cloud, a few sunny break, Northern Scotland should see sunshine, with a scattering of wintry showers, here, cold, five to seven degrees, further south ii or 12 degrees, now as we go through tuesday night into wednesday, we will see further pulses of rain, this one again bringing know fall over high ground in scotland. Bands of heavy thundery downpours with Hail Flinging in scotland. Bands of heavy thundery downpours with Hailflinging In in scotland. Bands of heavy thundery downpours with Hail Flinging in from the south west for wednesday, it will be a windy day, there will be some sunny spell as well, and those temperatures no great shake, eight to
our senior international correspondent orla guerin sent this report from tel aviv. a warning that you may find some of the images in her report upsetting. a truce can t come soon enough. in rafah, another day of harrowing loss. palestinians mourn for 20 members of the abu ansa family, killed in their beds by an israeli air strike, according to hospital officials and gaza s civil defence. among the dead, five month old twins, as old as the war. they were laid down gently with their relatives. their mother spent ten years trying to have them and endured three rounds of ivf. now all she can cradle is their baby clothes. i gave birth during the war, she says. it started on saturday, i gave birth next friday. i didn t get enough of them, i swear i didn t get enough. i have no one else, she says. they have gone with their father. we were sleeping, i swear . israel continues to say it takes feasible precautions to lessen civilian harm. there were about 35 people in the hous