and pope francis visits a migrant camp on the greek island of lesbos. hello and welcome to bbc news. the rules around travelling into the uk have been tightened again in a bid to control the spread of the new omicron variant of covid. the british government says the move is necessary, because of an increase in cases of the strain which are directly linked to foreign travel. anyone arriving into the uk from tuesday morning will need proof of a negative covid test taken within 48 hours prior to travel. they will also need to take a pcr test before the end of their second day in the uk and will have to self isolate until they receive their negative test result. but the travel industry has strongly criticised the move, with one industry executive saying, the introduction of pre departure testing with little warning is a hammer blow . nigeria is to be added to the uk government s travel red list. from tomorrow morning, anyone arriving into the uk from a red list country will nee
that we are the parliament that licensed cash for questions. that was the warning from my guest on political thinking this week chris bryant who chairs a house of commons standards committee. his words won him the plaudit of being the parliamentary speech of the year. he also secured a government u turn and a change into the approach and standards. now, chris bryant is a labour mp, he represents one of the poorest constituencies in the country, yet his background doesn t suggest preparation for that. he was a public schoolboy, he trained to be a vicar in the church of england, and he was, at university, a student conservative activist. chris bryant, welcome to political thinking. you ve now made me seem very odd already! in the words of stephen sondheim, i ve went from careered to career. i ve made you interesting rather than odd! orweird. we are going to explore the interesting and the weird, perhaps. we are going to examine happy and sad. let s start with that speech. i,
a problem of the middle east. | not a problem of north africa not a problem of europe and of greece. it is a problem of the world. and we meet the three friends who have danced their way into a hollywood marvel blockbuster. as a dancer, to get that chance to be a part of something that i love watching so much, like, if someone told me that, you re going to be in a marvel movie, doing a bollywood dance scene, i would never believe them. hello and welcome to bbc news. the rules around travelling into the uk have been tightened again in a bid to control the spread of the new omicron variant of covid. the british government says the move is necessary, because of an increase in cases of the strain which are directly linked to foreign travel. anyone arriving into the uk from tuesday morning will need proof of a negative covid test taken within 48 hours prior to depature. they will also need to take a pcr test before the end of their second day in the uk and will have to self i
including a look ahead to the nail biting final day of the english premier legaue season. hello and welcome to bbc news, live in istanbul with me, anna foster. with a key strategic position, a growing regional influence and difficult economic times the future of turkey is today being decided in the run off round of the presidential election. around 64 million people are eligible to vote turn out in the first round was closing in on 90% and they have a choice between two veteran candidates. immigration has been top at the topics of discussion for the last few weeks as the two candidates vying for votes. this is one of the polling stations you will see up and down the country. voting always happens in schools. i have been outside this one for a few hours then people have been coming in through the day. they head into these classrooms and each one like a separate ballot box and they give their name, because the vote and get photographs of both candidates. they have to st
It happened they said it is too sensitive to say. a couple of years ago, back in 2021, inspectors went to the home office. there was a catastrophic failure across the uk to which the department replied, well, we think that is unlikely to happen. well, it did happen and unless we find out why there could be lots of worry. travel industry representatives are concerned it could happen again in the busy summer holidays. could happen again in the busy summer holidays. a new parliament building in delhi has been inaugurated by india s prime minister, narendra modi. the ceremony has been dogged by controversy over the decision not to involve the president, draupadi murmu. 20 opposition parties boycotted the ceremony, in protest at the president being sidelined. our reporter in delhi raghvendra rao has more on this. well, the inauguration has gone on smoothly except for the fact that 20 odd opposition parties have boycotted the ceremony, and the reason, as you just said,