tv BBC News BBC News April 18, 2022 6:20pm-6:31pm BST
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you are watching bbc news. i'm martine croxall. a picture has emerged reportedly showing the russian warship moskva shortly before it sank last thursday in the black sea. in the image, which has not been independently confirmed, a plume of black smoke is seen rising from the heavily damaged moskva, which was reported to have been hit by a ukrainian missile strike last week. russia says the ship sustained damaage in stormy weather. the authorities in the chinese city of shanghai have reported the first covid deaths since 2020. official figures show three people died on sunday. according to beijing, they all had underlying health conditions. lockdowns remain in place across parts of the city, four weeks after they were first introduced.
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and some residents are understood to have been taken to quarantine facilities — with reports of food shortages in some parts of the city. from beijing, our china correspondent stephen mcdonell has been analysing the authority's approach. after more than 400,000 infections in shanghai in this outbreak, these are the first three people to have been officially listed to have died from covid. now, of course, the question of death and what causes it is a very complicated one. officials, health officials in shanghai have said that these three people, a 91—year—old man, a 91—year—old woman and an 89—year—old woman, all had underlying health problems. plus, all three of them had not been vaccinated. and when it comes to vaccinations, new figures released would appear to show that china really has dropped the ball when it comes to booster shots. so when we consider the number of, say, people over the age of 60 in shanghai who have had two shots, well, that is over 60%. it could be higher, but not too bad. those over 60 who have had
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the booster shot, it is only 38%. it is too low if you want to be really easing off restrictions in those cities. some have asked why the government does not switch focus from this mass testing and centralised mass isolation towards a big push on getting those boosters done, but the government is not showing that it is going to change tack. in fact, we had an article on the front page of the communist party's school newspaper today with an official saying that this idea of living with covid should be rejected, calling for more of these mass isolation centres to be built, so it looks like that is the way, at least for the moment, that the chinese government is going to keep going. i think we can expect to see more mass lockdowns and it really
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is a big challenge for the chinese economy to stay afloat. stephen mcdonell reporting there from beijing. search operations are continuing for 63 people still missing following the devastating floods that swept through south africa's kwazulu—natal province last week. more than 440 people have died, including two emergency workers. officials have described the floods as some of the worst to ever hit the province. 10,000 soldiers have been deployed to help. 0ur correspondent vumani mkhize has this report. at the kwa—santi township south of durban, this community is still trying to come to terms with the flash floods that devastated this area. this search and rescue team is on a recovery operation. they are looking for a woman swept away by the flash floods at night while she was asleep. behind me, this is where the water was cascading down this hill. and unfortunately, a man and woman were swept away by the raging waters. the man was found alive. unfortunately, the woman is still missing and we have got
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community members here, searching with their bare hands, looking for her. further downstream, we have got search and rescue operations with dogs also looking for the woman. 0n the night of the floods, some even risked their lives to save others. translation: | found | a man trapped by a tree, so i managed to pull him out of the water. i put him inside the house. i heard more people crying and ran to help another woman. she is still in hospital, but alive. the other man died. all over the kwazulu—natal province, stories of flash floods and local heroes who did their best to save lives are emerging. the death toll has risen to nearly 450. 63 people are still missing. local authorities are rallying the public to rebuild. this is the moment of great adversity, but this is also
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a moment where we need to summon our collective courage and turn this devastation into an opportunity to rebuild our province. it is a moment for the human spirit to triumph over adversity. more search and rescue teams from around the country have been dispatched to kwazulu—natal as recovery operations continue. vumani mkhize, bbc news, durban. in recent years, a number of celebrities have reclaimed their birth names after years of anglicising them. it's an issue many people from ethnic minority backgrounds are faced with when they're growing up or looking forjobs. 0ur reporter noor nanji has been to meet one woman who's taking back her name. ifelt like i had to fit in — like i needed to keep up with the joke and keep up with people, like, calling me by the wrong name. changing your name to fit in? i know a bit about that. 0ur reporter nina nanji... nina nanji.
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nina nanji, bbc news. that's actually not my name, though. my real name is noor, but at work i chose to go by nina because so many people were getting it wrong — and that got me wondering whether other people have done similar things. i'm off to meet chinemelum, who's been abbreviating her name for most of her life. so when i was in year three, ijoined a new school and they called me up to the front and they're like, "what's your name? " and i said, "chinemelum," and i was really standing there proudly. and the teacher was like, "what was that?" i said, "chinemelum." and she was like, to the whole school, "if you don't know "how to pronounce that, just call her chicken lemon." and from that day, literally everybody was calling me chicken lemon. i just felt a bit small, like nobody was taking me seriously. like, i needed to keep up with the joke and keep up with people, like, calling me by the wrong namejust so, like, my friends wouldn't leave me, basically. after that, she decided to go by mel. it's all just rooted in a lot of discrimination and prejudice, i guess, and, like, people's opinions towards people of colour in general. i feel like a lot of the time when people pronounce my name
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correctly first time i feel so happy, but then i feel like that's the bare minimum — like, that's my name! so i really feel like people should put more of an effort into it. she's not the only one. this is celebrity chef tony singh. his real name is rajinder, but he never uses that. i asked him whether using tony had made it easier to get ahead. i've never thought of it as easier or more difficult, because when you turn up to work, you can't hide who you are, especially being a sikh. i think, yes, it is an obstacle for people if they have a foreign—sounding name. to some people, it might be something to say — "well, we don't want anybody that's not like us," or... whatever reason it is, which it shouldn't be, i think it can be a challenge if you're applying forjobs or filling out forms. the human resources body the cipd says it's completely unacceptable that people should feel the need to change their names to avoid discrimination. it adds that organisations need to have transparent and fair processes. i've recently decided to reclaim my real name. so has chinemelum, who's also set up a food blog called — wait for it...
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..chicken lemon! i wanted to change the narrative of what it was and, like, that was a big trauma, i think, and now it's something i can laugh at instead of, like, thinking bad about it. she told me why she's going back to her real name. that's, like, my identity, that's my pride. it's my country and my culture and my language. ifeel like names have power, and i'd be losing a lot of that power if i kept going by mel, basically. i couldn't have said it better myself! noor nanji, bbc news. president biden has marked easter monday by taking part in the traditional easter egg roll event at the white house. he was accompanied by his wife, jill, and flanked by two easter bunnies — as he re—introduced the event for the first time since the pandemic. the joy and the laughter is something that has been a wonderful tradition here at the white house for a long, long time. i especially want to thank the white house historical association, the national park service and america's egg board
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for all their hard work to make this day possible. let's give them a round of applause. applause all of you, have fun today! welcome to the white house, welcome to your house. welcome to the south lawn. thank you and happy, happy easter. in a moment, we'll bring you sportsday, but first the weather with stav. hello there. 0ur easter monday wasn't too bad, weather—wise. we saw some sunshine, best of it across eastern areas, a few showers further north and west. but with that cooler air mass in place, it is going to be a chilly night tonight, particularly where skies stay clear. there will be one or two showers dotted around, although most places will be dry. the northwest of scotland probably seeing most of the showers with more of a breeze here, but clearer skies for the rest of scotland, northern ireland, wales, northern and western england. it's here where we'll see the lowest of the temperatures, a touch of frost likely, so it will be a chilly start for many for tuesday, but we should see quite a bit
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of sunshine around. bit of cloud for eastern england, one or two showers here. that weather front in northwest scotland will fade away through the day, but across england and wales, the sunny spells break through and we're likely to see a few showers being set off. some of them could be quite heavy and slow—moving as the winds will be light. but it will be a cool day, 12—15 degrees. high pressure builds back in from wednesday onwards. winds will come in from the east, quite brisk. it will be cooler along eastern coastal areas, a little bit warmer further west. hello and welcome to sportsday — i'm holly hamilton — and today, it's all about the championship. derby go down. wayne rooney's side are relegated to league one after a crucial day in the championship... best of frenemies —
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