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This is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the latest headlines. major changes are due to be announced to international travel rules — the amber travel list of countries could be scrapped. also — fully vaccinated travellers may no longer have to take costly pcr tests — but ministers are urging caution. the rationale for keeping pcr testing in particular rather than lateral flow testing is it does enable you to do the genome sequencing of potential new variants. that's been the argument for keeping it as a pcr test. would the changes encourage you to go on holiday abroad? get in touch with me o...

In, we have had some very strange data with respect to the fact that 12 in 1000 people have been detected as positive with the pcr system and these were asymptomatic individuals who were coming in and who had previously had a lateral flow in order to fly. so there are people coming into the country, and if they are simply being tested with lateral flow then we will have more risk of variants coming into the country in the future. ., , ., , ., ., the future. can you give us an idea in the difference _ the future. can you give us an idea in the difference of _ the future. can you give us an idea...

Night. into saturday, we have a lot of dry weather, still reasonably warm, some rain in the west but that becomes more widespread by sunday. hello, this is bbc news with me, lukwesa burak. the headlines: major changes are due to be announced to international travel rules — the amber travel list of countries could be scrapped. also, fully vaccinated travellers may no longer have to take costly pcr tests but ministers are urging caution. the rationale for keeping the pcr testing in particular rather than lateral flow testing is it does enable you to do the gene sequencing of potential variants...

The environment secretary, george eustice, told the bbc this morning, that nothing has been decided yet — but has stressed that the current system of using pcr tests has good reasoning behind it. the rationale for keeping the pcr testing in particular rather than lateral flow testing is it does enable you to do the genome sequencing of potential new variants. that has been the argument for keeping it as a pcr test. we also want to try to help people get back to life as normal. so, if a case can be made four changes then obviously we'll consider that but i have to stress that no decisions hav...