i'm victoria fritz. our top stories — a wildfire menace.reatening towns and villages across greece. protests across italy, as covid vaccine—passes become mandatory for restaurants, sporting events, and live performances. translation: i come to the venue in erson, translation: i come to the venue in person. present _ translation: i come to the venue in person. present my — translation: i come to the venue in person, present my pass. _ translation: i come to the venue in person, present my pass. i— translation: i come to the venue in person, present my pass. i present i person, present my pass. i present my id card, and i'm allowed to enter. a fifth of all the uk's covid hospital patients are aged between 18 and 3a. doctors warn of the dangers facing the young and unvaccinated — we have a special report.

this is bbc news — i'm victoria fritz with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around theorld. a wildfire menace — the greek prime minister urges people to unite, as emergency services tackle the blazes threatening dozens of towns and villages across greece. one of the world's greatest footballers, lionel messi, is leaving barcelona after more than 20 years. vocal protests across italy as covid vaccine—passes become mandatory for restaurants, sporting events and live performances. i come icome up i come up to the venue and question, present my green pass, a vaccination certificate, it is verified, this device doesn't save the data, i present my id card and i am allowed in. i am sarah mulkerinns. live in tokyo on day 14 of the game, where the ioc says its ordered two coaches to leave the olympic village in order to protect the well being of the belarusian athletes still in tokyo. the virtual you—tubers earning millions by using 3d character models to influence their audiences — we have a special report. hello and welcome to the programme. the greek prime minister says days

i'm victoria fritz, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world.merica says it'll fly 6,000 people out of the country in the coming hours. an intelligence briefing for the united nations says the taliban is stepping up its search for so—called collaborators. waiting for aid and answers — why is it taking so long for help to reach the victims of haiti's catastrophic earthquake? and in a land of vulnerable and endangered species, kenya conducts its first ever wildlife census.

i'm victoria fritz, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the evacuation of aghanistan gathers pace — america says it'll fly 6,000 people out of the country in the coming hours. an intelligence briefing for the united nations says the taliban is stepping up its search for so—called collaborators. waiting for aid and answers — why is it taking so long for help to reach the victims of haiti's catastrophic earthquake? and in a land of vulnerable and endangered species, kenya conducts its first ever wildlife census. hello and welcome. us officials say they're looking to fly 6,000 people out of afghanistan over the coming hours, as their much—criticised withdrawal gains pace. in total, according to nato, more than 18,000 people have been evacuated from kabul airport since the taliban took over the capital. meanwhile, the taliban insists there will be no retribution against those who worked with us forces. but an intelligence briefing for the un says militants are stepping up their search for so—called "collaborators". 0urfirst report comes from o

this is bbc news — i'm victoria fritz with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around theto unite, as emergency services tackle the blazes threatening dozens of towns and villages across greece. one of the world's greatest footballers, lionel messi, is leaving barcelona after more than 20 years. vocal protests across italy as covid vaccine—passes become mandatory for restaurants, sporting events and live performances. i come icome up i come up to the venue and question, present my green pass, a vaccination certificate, it is verified, this device doesn't save the data, i present my id

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i can now speak to our business presenter victoria fritz. good morning.act that people had not much else to do, lots of people for load and stuck at home, and unable to do things perhaps managing to get through school were quicker. that they might have otherwise done and that kind of thing and how much is an acceleration of a trend that was going to happen anyway, the fact that we are streaming more, we are glued to screens more than ever before. hopefully to answer that question is the group director of strategy and research at ofcom who published these findings. thank you for joining published these findings. thank you forjoining me today. how much of this was about escapism and the fact that we have been stuck at home with nothing else to do and wanted to watch something on netflix and how much of this is just a complete change in our understanding of media and consumption? brute change in our understanding of media and consumption?— and consumption? we have been trackin: and consumption? we have been tracking some — and consumption? we have been track

earlier, my colleague victoria fritz spoke to charlotte dujradin who is britain's most decorated femaledest member of team gb, carl hester and asked them whether the excitement had sunk in yet... yes, it has, we're home... you know, coming home makes it all worthwhile, you know, seeing everybody and i'm sure everybody will feel the same who has been a competitor there. we have missed family, we have missed friends, you miss your audience and the people that love what you do, so to come home, you know, we have been home, we came back on friday and the horses came yesterday so we have been able to enjoy it over the weekend and run around with these around her neck. ok, and tell me about the celebrations this weekend. they must have been wild. well, i don't think mine were, yours might have been. charlotte's mum has been unwell so she went home to visit her family. it was lovely to go home and see all my friends and family and catch up and celebrate, you know, i have had photos with my brothers and my sister, we went to hospital to see my mum, had pictures with my mum in the hospital and t

i'm victoria fritz. our top stories — a wildfire menace. the greek prime minister urges people to unite, as emergency services tackle over 150 blazes threatening towns and villages across greece. protests across italy, as covid vaccine—passes become mandatory for restaurants, sporting events, and live performances. translation: i come to the venue in erson, translation: i come to the venue in person. present _ translation: i come to the venue in person. present my — translation: i come to the venue in person, present my pass. _ translation: i come to the venue in person, present my pass. i— translation: i come to the venue in person, present my pass. i present i person, present my pass. i present my id card, and i'm allowed to enter. a fifth of all the uk's covid hospital patients are aged between 18 and 34. doctors warn of the dangers facing the young and unvaccinated — we have a special report. one of the world's greatest footballers, lionel messi, is leaving barcelona after more than 20 years. the int

picked up a gold medal in the women�*s bmx final on friday — and earlier she spoke to my colleague victoria fritzng. so i couldn�*t have asked for anything better. we have words going across the bottom of you. you have had yourfunding cut, a double leg break before you got to this stage. it is unbelievable what you have had to overcome in the last few years, and money is notoriously difficult for a number of sports and the athletes that play them. what loops did you have to go through to get to the world stage? with my double leg break, ijust had to be patient with that, take a lot of time out. i think it was almost two years i was out with that. but we stayed positive, never give up and ended up having a full recovery. i still have physio for my leg now. with regards to the funding, we ended up doing some crowdfunding to get me to the world cups for the olympic qualification and to pay for a really good coach at the time as well. that was able to get me there and get me qualified for the games, and after the period when the games was fast approaching, british cycling came to me and saw my potent

i'm victoria fritz — the other headlines... belarus who refused her team's order to fly home early from the olympics has been granted a humanitarian visa by poland. it's believed krystsina tsimanouskaya plans to go to warsaw tomorrow. and the head of an organisation helping belarussians who have fled abroad has been found dead in kiev. vitaly shiskov ran the belarusian house in ukraine. fighting is raging in helmand province as taliban militants and afghan government forces battle for control of the southern city of lashka ga. criticism from uk's opposition labour party, but praise from within the travel industry, as the uk government abandons plans for an amber �*watchlist�* of countries for international travel. and firefighters in helicopters are battling wildfires raging for a seventh day near southern coastal resorts in turkey. a warm welcome to tokyo and what a momentous day it's been. one of the greatest races in olympics history took place this morning. norway's karston warholm won the gold in the men's 400 metre hurdle

i'm victoria fritz. the other headlines: new travel rules mean fully vaccinated travellers from the us and most of the eu are now able to enter the uk without quarantining. more soaring temperatures predicted in turkey where authorities are battling a series of devastating wildfires. how a british surgeon who travelled to aleppo to treat victims of the syrian civil war nine years ago inspired a syrian boy to become a doctor. we have a special report. also coming up this hour... with three months until the un climate change conference in glasgow, the world wildlife fund joins forces with leading international artists to inspire global action. hello from tokyo. it's being reported that a belarusian sprinter who sought protection, after she claimed she was ordered to return home from the olympic games, has applied for asylum in the polish embassy there. yesterday krystina tsimanouskaya said she feared for her safety if she was sent back to belarus, as a penalty for criticising her coaches on social media. w

i can get more on this from our business presenter, victoria fritz.s the world? what do you do about it if so? when do you raise rates and what you do about the flow of cheap money that many economies including our own have become hooked on, including the financial markets that support them? so the big question is what's going to happen to interest rates, what is going to happen to quantitative easing of bond buying? we are expecting the rate won't change. it's at 0.1%, tiny, and the current targets of quantitative easing will remain at £895 billion, quite a lot of money. but what's interesting is what will happen in terms of who says what and where are we on the outlook for the future. economists here are divided. i'm going to bring in elizabeth martin's hsbc. a lot of this sounds highfalutin. how could this matter to me, bond buying? people might want to put the kettle on instead and not listen to this but what i want to get from you is a sense of why this matters, why does the timing, the voting and views of these eight people on the monetary polic