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The coming days, more flight, more tourists will arrive as greece reopens to the world. music to the ears of many around here. tim allman, bbc news. hello there. a slow—moving area of low pressure has been responsible for the unsettled weather during the weekend and indeed for monday. it has brought strong winds and quite a lot of rain across areas, particularly across cumbria. now for tuesday, it looks like we will see further rain at times but it wont be quite as windy as what weve see in th...

Will allow vistors from 15 countries it considers to be "safe" — to start coming in from wednesday. they include canada, morocco and australia, but not the us, brazil or russia. china is on the safe list, but the eu says it first wants reciprocal arrangements for its citizens to travel there before it grants permission. it is 100 days since boris johnson announced that he was introducing a lockdown. in those 100 days, the uk has been affected by covid—19 far more than most. and we wanted tak...

That meant face masks for eve ryo ne that meant face masks for everyone and a precautionary test for the virus. none of these people had to pay for this trip. holiday companies footing the bill for the medical staff, police officers, supermarket workers, all of them were nominated by the public, and where better to come than kos, the home of medicine. it was a surprise for me, ididnt medicine. it was a surprise for me, i didnt know i was nominated. i feel very lucky. i am also very tired from wo...

Troops entered galveston, texas, and made the announcement on june 19th, 1865. laura smalley, who was born a slave in texas, was a child when it happened and gave this interview in 1941. >> we didnt know where to go. mom and them didnt know where to go. you see, after freedom broke, they started just, like, to turn some of them out, you know? didnt know where to go. they turned them loose on the 19th of june. thats why, you know, we celebrate that day.iv >> reporter: today, 155 years later, comm...

Europe to the united states for the next 30 days. >> reporter: americans abroad began the scramble home, crushing together in airports. felicia temple, in europe on a singing tour, got an urgent call from her husband. >> hes freaking out, and hes like, "you have to get home. i will fly you home." >> reporter: we now know the virus had been flowing into new york from europe unchecked for weeks, and the presidents second travel ban did nothing to satisfy the playbooks authors. was that a moment in...

The government guidelines in keep is a disaster waiting to happen. washing our hands and be as safe and it was like they were in a bubble, like a cocoon, as possible, but obviously i am like a cheltenham cocoon, at high risk so i havejust had and all they cared about was the racing and the craic to basically go and do and the drinking and the gambling and just having a good time, the necessities with the horse having a big party. and then come back home again. so, i contacted my news desk the fi...

Close confines, hugging each other, greeting each other, and ijust thought this is a disaster waiting to happen. and it was like they were in a bubble, like a cocoon, like a cheltenham cocoon, and all they cared about was the racing and the drinking and the gambling and just having a good time, having a big party. so, i contacted my news desk and i told them that i did not think people were acting prudently and i felt like it was a disaster waiting to happen and they got me the next flight out f...

He identified covid—i9 hotspots following the cheltenham festival, and liverpools champions league match against athletico madrid. a man and a teenage girl died in separate incidents along the cornish coastline on bank holiday monday. the girl had become trapped beneath a capsized boat while the man was pulled out of the sea. despite warnings not to go into the water, volunteer and off—duty lifeguards rescued dozens of people in a spate of incidents yesterday. police said it had been "a very...

Contains a0 times more antibodies than the average donor. so that means i can give a lot of them away, which im very pleased to do, and suddenly as my friends knew about that, they all become very nice to me in case they ever need it in the future! theyre particularly asking for people to come forward in manchester, birmingham and london where there have been a lot of cases of covid—i9. laura foster, bbc news. and we will be speaking to him later, sorry to interrupt. im like a ventriloquist du...

Its reached 24%, according to the centre for monitoring the indian economy. 0ne centre for monitoring the indian economy. one in four people employed lost theirjobs in india between march and april. its the daily wages and those from the poorer sections of society that have been hit the hardest. every day the covid—i9 outbreak brings a new challenge for indias working class. 90% of the workforce is employed in the informal sector. with 18 million entrepreneurs shutting down their operations, d...