we're a small family hotel set in south devon.we have two self—catering units, a lovely restaurant, and outside dining area, which we'ave just extended. it's a real challenge to get things there. and we've often been referred to as a hidden gem, which is lovely a customer, but of course, in the interest of being a successful business, we want everyone to know about us. online travel agents or, otas, like booking.com, expedia, and tripadvisor have helped hotels get noticed and help travellers shop around for good deals. but there are some downsides, too. we've taking quite the brave move to step away from what i would consider the biggest of the otas more recently. and that was for a number of reasons, really. well, for hotels, one of the main ways is that otas have an arrangement to have access to sell a certain number of the rooms — all of them, in lots of cases. the otas will charge a commission for every room they sell. the rate of commission has gone up over the years. it now ranges from around 15—25%. a difficulty for the hot

devon. the south west. i wait your is a drifting — devon. the south west.ul backdrop before you put the story you are talking about today, it sounds like common sense in a way, you see a seal, what will you do? people are worried about this. yeah, the problem — people are worried about this. yeah, the problem with _ people are worried about this. yeah, the problem with common _ people are worried about this. yeah, the problem with common sense, i people are worried about this. yeah, the problem with common sense, asj people are worried about this. ie—u the problem with common sense, as we always know, is that it is not that common. bit like common seals and common. bit like common seals and common dolphins, they are not as common dolphins, they are not as common as their name implies. the problem is where you get on seals in certain locations, one will pop up and decide it is a good meeting place and a place to make their new home. whether large established colonies, particularly on the east coast ever been to scotland, people are aware they are there and t

kind of felt to him when she was just a teenager, not far from here, actually, because i am in south devonhave to meet and greet 800 people. she is a very private woman. i have only seen her cry once, and that was that the decommissioning of britannia, and i think to be isolated, she will be sitting alone in the chapel with her thoughts and her reflections, that is probably what she would have wanted. aha, her reflections, that is probably what she would have wanted. a little bit about the — what she would have wanted. a little bit about the duke _ what she would have wanted. a little bit about the duke of _ what she would have wanted. a little bit about the duke of edinburgh i bit about the duke of edinburgh himself. lots of people are saying that partly because of covid, but he was closely involved in whatever would have happened in connection with his own funeral. it is very much a reflection of him? it is, es. much a reflection of him? it is, yes- the _ much a reflection of him? it is, yes. the nautical— much a reflection of him? it is, yes. the nautical theme, i much a reflection of h

we are a small family hotel set in south devon. which we have just extended. it's a challenge to get things there. we often referred as a hidden gem, which is lovely a customer, but of course, in the interest of being a successful business, we want everyone to know about us. online travel agents or, otas, like booking.com, expedia, and tripadvisor have helped hotels get noticed and help travellers shop around for good deals. but there are some downsides, too. we've taken quite the brave move to step away from what i would consider the biggest otas more recently. and that was for a number of reasons, really. well, for hotels, one of the main ways is that otas have an arrangement to have access to sell certain number of the rooms, all of them, in lots of cases. the otas would charge a commission for every room they sell. it ranges to 25%. when rate parity comes in, it's different around the world, but generally speaking, hotels are not allowed to offer cheaper rates than the otas. hotels struggle to get customers to book direct, in f

the army says he was killed while visiting soldiers fighting rebels in the north devon he had just won re-election. a south korean court has rejected a compensation claim by a woman group of women forced into sexual slavery by the japanese military during world war 2 it ruled the japanese government should be a mute under international law it contradicts a ruling by the same court in january. those are your headlines more news here on al-jazeera after the listing posts to stay with us. you want to see wrigley streaming night on the channel. last thousands of our programs will be documentaries don't. subscribe to you would slash al-jazeera english. it's bracing for what could be. more said exclusive that's right. the brazilian president. right now in. hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post where we don't cover the news we cover the way the news is covered here are the media stories we're examining this week brazil covert 19 and the misinformation too much of it comes from the president's office and a consortium of news organizations is out to change the narrative putting a happy face on a gen

devon cole. he was writing about south dakota's legislation on transgender athletes.e this line and amazingly seen and published it. we are courting this directly from the scene on website. it's not possible to know a person's gender identity at birth and there is no consensus criteria for assigning at birth. meaning that for literally hundreds of thousands of years, humans have been reproducing in caves, huts, hospitals, a squealing human comes out but a kid and no one has been able to determine whether this kid was a boy or a girl, no one has known because there's no way to know.t because biology is not real, totally fake. is there some way to tell if yoa were to have a baby, if you were to take time from your vacationing and your internet use and your weed smoking if you actually decided to perpetuate this piece if you had a child, how would you know if that child was a boy or a girl? we don't know -- i've only had four of them but we thought possibly louisiana senator john kennedy one of the most erudite men in the u.s. senate might have some sense ona how to desi

south sudan aren't safe either also many of the refugees are born and raised in the camps all they know is kenya the kenyan government has a responsibility to find some sustainable solutions so many questions devon post right there but the logistics are wrong. and the u.n.h.c.r. have been trying to repatriate people then they ran out of money and kenya seems extremely serious this time around about those camps closing what logistically can be done. well i think the plan that was put forward by the unit that has been rejected by the government in terms of its timetable raised some of the complexity of this i mean 1st of all not everybody in these camps is going back to somalia you've got people from the d.r. see you know upwards of 5 to 6 different countries that you would have to re repatriate or relocate over this period and i think the 1st thing to say is that you know i think as devon has said is that you know we have had 30 years and one of the reasons that i am proud to be a kenyan is that i come from a country that has provided sanctuary for a refugees for 30 years and the numbers comparative to some of the countries in that are much richer and much more wealthy really you know there's a t

south and west, one or two showers. it could get to 16 degrees across parts of devon, cornwall and somerset but notice the eastern coastnough even after a chilly start won the grand without being dry and those temperatures lift into the maid if high teens. do it all again lift into the maid if high teens. do it allagain in lift into the maid if high teens. do it all again in fact on friday after a frosty start with a high—pressure continuing to build, breezy conditions through english channel areas, bit of patchy cloud in northern scotland, the odd path of fairweather cloud elsewhere, but it could be 17 or 18 degrees for one or two. still chilly down to one of those eastern coasts, but not as chilly as it will be on tuesday. the start of the weekend, the high pressure is firmly in place, really doesn't want to give up but we could start to see some low cloud developed through the north sea, brought in across some parts of southern and eastern england, and fairweather cloud building up could spread out, so a slightly cloudy afternoon than the morning, but in the west the best of the sunshine after a frosty start, anothe

heaviest across the high ground of northern england, wales and also a zone from devon and cornwall towards other parts of south like tomorrow, if you coastal showers, as temperatures rise throughout the day after a sunny start, more cloud into the afternoon, more in the way of showers, heavy as tomorrow on the hills of wales and just inland from the south coast of england. temperatures up a little bit but overall it will be a cool weekend with a mixture of sunshine and showers. but changes on the way for monday with some very wet and windy weather. i will update you on that later. this is bbc news. the headlines. dozens of people are killed in israel during a stampede at one of the holiest sites in thejewish world. the prime minister netanyahu says it's one of the "worst" disasters in israel's history. it's thought people slipped in an overcrowded walkway, causing dozens more to fall at an event attended by tens of thousands of ultra—orthodox jews. we've just finished treating one of israel's worst disasters. a terrible disaster of people who came to celebrate lag b'omer, and unfortunately, were literally crus