system a new four week lockdown will begin across france from saturday with nonessential shops and schools closing and a 7pm curfew being imposed. travel between wales and the rest of the uk will be allowed from the twelfth of april, with plans to reopen outdoor pubs and restaurants later in the month. piles of litter in parks as people make the most of warm weather and new found freedoms in england. and the environment agency has revealed that raw sewage was tipped into england s rivers and seas more than 400,000 times last year. a major study of race relations in the uk commissioned by the government that concludes that the system is no longer rigged against people from ethnic minorities has been called divisive and insulting. the review, led by the black educationalist dr tony sewell, acknowledged the existence of overt racism, particularly online. but it said that family structure and social class has a bigger impact on how people s lives turn out, than race. but cr
near the toilets. and the russian missile launch that led to panic on the international space station. good evening. borisjohnson is proposing to ban mps from acting as paid political consultants and lobbyists. the prime minister s intervention comes two weeks after he encouraged his conservative mps to save ex cabinet minister owen paterson, from an immediate commons suspension, over a breach of lobbying rules. in his letter to the speaker this afternoon, mrjohnson gave his backing to reforms that were proposed in a 2018 report written by the committee on standards in public life. it states that mps outside earnings should be within reasonable limits and should not prevent them from fully carrying out their range of duties . our political correspondent chris mason reports. this afternoon, the prime minister welcomed his greek opposite number to downing street with questions about sleaze still swelling. it is nearly a fortnight since the row is a bad parliamentary standard
scotland becomes the last place in the uk to remove the legal requirement people to wear face masks in indoor public spaces. and south africa has sent in thousands of troops to help rescue efforts in kwazulu natal, where floods and mudslides have killed more than 400 people. russia has redoubled its pounding of ukraine targets, including a missile attack on the western ukrainian city of lviv. the latest reports say six people have been killed, and eight wounded in a city which until now has largely escaped unscathed since the russian invasion. smoke was seen rising from the outskirts and residents spoke of hearing five explosions. footage later emerged of the impact on residential areas. overnight there s been an intensification of the russian bombardment with multiple cities and towns across ukraine targeted by air strikes and shelling. five people have reportedly been killed and 13 injured in shelling of the city of kharkiv. in mykolaiv, near the port of odesa, the governor
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