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hello, good to have you with us. the united states is lifting the requirement for international travellers to have a covid test within 2a hours of boarding their flights from this sunday. the need for testing will be re—evaluated every three months and could be reinstated if a new variant emerges. the move ends one of the last restrictions related to the pandemic in the us, where a more than a million people have died from covid. our new york business correspondent michelle fleury to...

ukrainian officials are warning that humanitarian conditions in the russian—occupied city of mariupol have deteriorated so far that theres a risk of diseases — such as cholera and dysentery breaking out. the exiled deputy mayor of the southern port city says bodies are still being discovered in the ruins, theres a lack of doctors, and food and water are in short supply. our correspondet nick beake has more from kyiv. the concern is that the dark conditions in the city of death and ...

Bo neck at is clogging u.s. ports especially in california. but as crist tye of our chicago station wbbm reports, problems can create opportunities. >> trucker shortages have left cargo ships like these stacked up off the coast of california. >> look at the truck realistically. >> and left clashes for would-be truckers at capacity. >> the demand has never been greater from an industry standpoint with the shortage of drivers. >> vernon cooper runs progressive truck driving school in south suburba...

But it is practised a number of times in recent months, we have seen four supplier is going bust in recent weeks and they are being reallocated. going into winter last year, the same thing happened, a number of smaller suppliers went bust. from a supply standpoint, no problem. in saying that, we start to see that when a number of suppliers go under there is operational challenges for that number of customers being used to bigger suppliers. there will be some constraints, but that is why the indu...

For that number of customers being moved to bigger suppliers. there will be some constraints, but that is why the industry will be getting together with the government this afternoon, to work out how many customers do we expect to see impacted by this and what is the best way to start managing that from an industry standpoint, to make sure that consumer supply is protected, customer balances are protected, if you have a credit balance, to make sure it will not be lost and you are migrated onto t...

The other point i guess id try to make, and we -- the storms are not political, but our politics are. and the amount of money that will either be lost from an industry standpoint, certainly lives unreplaceable, damage to property, et cetera, and the amount of money that will have to be spent on the recovery, you know, if we would make the investments now, it would help us certainly in the future. we need to stop having these mindless debates in the united states of america and certainly other pa...

Movie because im not one who gets it. >> well, you know, this trailer just debuted on monday night football as the halftime show. for somebody who grew up with "star wars" at least feeling like a niche interest and being managed by a studio that put out the horrible prequel, trilogy and didnt know how to market this gold mine that it had, its insane to see the totalitarian precision that disney has in the way that they dribble out information in teeny tiny bits of footage for this film. like fro...

It right and taking your time? >> well, the law as written is not the easiest to apply and get regulations for. there were better alternatives. why they were taken i think is less than in the history books. the fact is, this provision whether 30 hours as a full-time employee is hard to enforce when you come down to people who work seasonally or episodically. for me the profess sorate, people who teach one semester but not another, are they full-time employees. thats why theyve delayed. theyve le...