Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk with me zeinab badawi, coming to you from barbados. Im on an historic Sugar Plantation where Enslaved Africans toiled in backbreaking labour during three centuries of the transatlantic Slave Trade. Barbados was one of the earliest and most profitable of the slave colonies in the caribbean. This is the house on the grounds of the plantation, built in the 16505, where the Slave Owners lived in great style. My guest is Barbados Born Eminent Historian Sir Hilary beckles. Hes Vice Chancellor of the University Of The West Indies and chair of a Caribbean Commission to gain reparations for the descendants of Enslaved Africans. What are his chances of success . Theme music plays professor Sir Hilary beckles, welcome to hardtalk. Tremendous honour, pleasure to be here. So, were here in the part of barbados that is your ancestral land, your great, great, great grandparents worked on Sugar Plantations just nearby. What is the legacy of that history of
ProvInce one of several cItIes under threat. A new survey suggests seven out of ten brItIsh motorIsts want the Speed LImIt on motorways lowered In wet weather. Its currently 70mph at all tImes. Health chIefs are urgIng people under 30 to sIgn up for a CoronavIrus Jab amId concern that they are reluctant to be ImmunIsed. A brItIsh satellIte has launched from French GuIana In a boost to the Uk TelecommunIcatIons Industry. Hello and welcome to bbc news. Its been another great start for Team Gb at the tokyo olympIcs, addIng two more Gold Medals to theIr tally In new events InvolvIng both men and women. The fIrst came In the trIathlon mIxed relay. Alex yee and GeorgIa Taylor brown added to theIr IndIvIdual sIlvers. They were joIned Byjonny Brownlee and jessIca learmonth. Then, In the pool, great brItaIn claImed another gold In the mIxed axIoom medley. So where does all thIs leave the Medal Table . Well, great brItaIn remaIn sIxth, wIth eIght Gold Medals and 27 In total. Up at the top Is chI
Its covid lockdown. Its eight in the morning in singapore, and 9am In Tokyo where the Czech Republic and poland have offered to help a belarusian sprinter who was ordered home from the games by her countrys 0lympic officials. This is her Krystsina Tsimanouskaya. She had been due to compete in the womens 200m event on monday. But after posting a Video Complaining about being entered into another race at short notice, she says she was told to pack and taken to the airport. She then contacted police, and uploaded this video on social media, appealing for help. The flight took off without her on board. Tsimanouskaya has said she believes shes now safe im joined now by Sarah Mulkerrins In Tokyo. The International Olympic Committee says it has asked the belarus authorities to clarify what happened. It comes of course against a backdrop of ongoing protests against president lukashenko Of Belarus who the opposition accuse of stealing the election, and repressing any dissent against his leaders
Its covid lockdown. Hello and welcome to the programme, i am Live In Tokyo for day ten of the Olympic Games. We start our Coverage Today with news that the czech Republic And Poland have offered to help a belarusian sprinter who was ordered home from the games by her countrys olympic officials. Krystsina tsimanouskaya was due to compete in the womens 200m event on monday. But after posting a Video Complaining about being entered into another race at short notice, she says she was told to pack and taken to the airport. She then contacted police, and uploaded a video on Social Media, appealing for help, and the flight took off without her on board. In the last hour, the Ioc Spokesman Mark adams says the unhrc is now involved in the case. After she spent the night an Airport Hotel in tokyo. Adams says her wellbeing is their first priority and the ioc are waiting for a report on the incident from the belarusian national olympic committee. With this particular athlete, the most important th
Now on bbc news, Dateline London with shaun ley. Hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together leading commentators in the uk with the foreign correspondents who write, Blog And Broadcast to audiences back home from the Dateline London. This week the unvaccinated become the unloved, and is democracy bound to wither in the arid lands of North Africa and The Middle East . Let me introduce our Dateline Panel this evening. Mina Al Oraibis Family originated in iraq. Shes Editor In Chief of the national in abu dhabi. Ned temko, from the christian science monitor, was born in the United States but has spent much of his Career Reporting from the uk. With me in the studio, the british political Commentator Steve richards, who hosts the podcast rock n roll politics. Welcome to you all. Lovely to have you with us this evening. Now, a Pandemic Of The Unvaccinated the phrase used by us president Joe Biden on thursday illustrates a growing frustration among political leaders in countrie