Stories coming live from the bbc newsroom. There are a number to focus on across the hour. Of course well talk about the royal engagement. These are some of the latest pictures from indonesia where thousands of people are being told to leave their homes because of this enormous volcano to leave their homes because of this enormous volcano and barley. Weve also got this special report to play, its about Lake Victoria and pollution damaging the lives of fishermen. Hope frances is in myanmar and thats going to be a delicate diplomatic trip because of theissue delicate diplomatic trip because of the issue of the Rohingya Muslims. We will talk about that in detail as well. Theres no doubt what the most popular story has been at bbc all day. The american actress and campaign Meghan Markle is engaged to prince harry. Here they are making their first appearance since the announcement. Harry has taken the royalfamily announcement. Harry has taken the royal family somewhere new. Announcement. Ha
A programme that funds job placement opportunities for students studying ICT or related subjects is to receive a funding boost, to incentivise private firms to take on young trainees.
The MITA Student Placement Programme for 2021 will have an €800,000 budget, Economy Minister Silvio Schembri said, with companies receiving a 75 per cent reimbursement of basic salary costs, compared to the 50 per cent they received previously.
In practical terms, participating private organisations will benefit from an additional student salary of around €500 per student employed as part of the program, he said.
Reimbursement for the public sector will remain at 100 per cent of salary.