hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. i m ben boulos. we start here in the uk, where our screens have been full of pictures of miles of traffic queues as thousands of holiday makers have been stuck trying to make their way across the channel to france in recent days. the latest reports say the situation is easing, with the gridlock seen at the port of dover and the eurotunnel entrance at folkestone beginning to move more normally. but for many, the experience has been one of high stress and exhaustion not really how you want to start your family getaway. now blame has been thrown around, with the uk blaming french border staff and france pointing to the effects of brexit. butjust how damaging is all this? to help me through all this, with me is the independent s travel correspondent simon calder. do you think this will put people off, long term taking that holiday? people off, long-term taking that holiday? people off, long-term taking that holida
of the young thai footballers rescued from a cave our correspondent revisits the people who saved them. when i first walked up here four years ago and saw the row of bicycles up against these railings, belonging to boys the same age as my own sons, i remember the heavy feeling i had then, how unlikely it was they would ever come out alive. hello and welcome to the programme. pope francis will visit a former residential school in canada later on monday, where he is expected to make a historic personal apology to indigenous survivors of abuse. it s believed more than 150 thousand children were taken from their families and mistreated in catholic run institutions. but the detail and extent of the pontiff s apology is proving controversial as mark lobel reports. preparing to confront his flock s terrible past in canada but not everyone appears as pleased as canada s governor general, seen here welcoming the pontiff with the pope s agenda this week. that is part of the probl
And more unlikely that those loans will really be paid back and that is why the European Central bank which is the major supervisor of the european Banking System is taking a very close look at this and is on high alert all right lets get the view now from Turkey Correspondent joining Jones Reporting for us in istanbul during turkeys Foreign Minister has said further pressure will only hurt bilateral ties hes about retaliation but how much worse can relations get. Well the potential is to get a lot worse currently u. S. Forces are working with a Syrian Kurdish militia just across turkeys border so if you consider a terrorist organization and if they so wish they could put a lot of pressure on those u. S. Forces and the Kurdish Militia theyre working with that would ratchet up tensions further on top of that washington is looking for ancora to enforce its new
sanctions against iran has refused to do so given the current climate is unlikely to change that stance that again puts the two n
we ta ke a look at the great bicycle boom will the surging cost of fuel drive yet more people onto two wheels? cheering. the us space agency, nasa, has ordered an investigation, after confirmation today that astronauts were cleared to fly while drunk. the last foot patrol in south armagh, once an everyday part of the soldier s lot, drudgery and danger, now no more, after almost four decades. if one is on one s own, - in a private house, not doing any harm to anyone, i don t. really see why all these people should wander in and say, - you re doing something wrong . six rare white lion cubs on the prowl at a worcestershire wildlife park, and have already been met with a roar of approval from visitors. they are lovely and sweet,