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Face masks will no longer be legally required and distancing rules will be scrapped at the final stage of England's Covid lockdown roadmap, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed. The rule of six inside private homes will be removed and work-from-home guidance abolished as 16 months of on-off restrictions on daily life end. But is it too soon?

Chinese authorities have frozen several prominent apps that recently listed in New York. Yuan Yang of the Financial Times in Beijing explains the background to the dispute, which includes preventing ride-hailing app Didi from adding new users.

Also in the programme, Europe's three biggest truckmakers have agreed to invest almost $600m in a network of electric charging points. However, significant hurdles to electrifying road haulage remain, and we find out more from Claes Eliasson, senior vice-president at Swedish truckmaker Volvo.

Despite the high profile of college sports, most of its athletes are amateurs. But a recent ruling by the US Supreme Court opens the door to the professionalisation of the sector. Professor Gabe Feldman is director of the sports law programme at Tulane University in New Orleans, and tells us where the college sports teams' income has historically been spent. Justine Hartman played basketball for the University of California at Berkeley, and explains why she's one of a number of athletes who took legal action against the National Collegiate Athletic Association. And Chicago economist and business consultant Colleen Loughlin makes the case for maintaining the amateur status of college sports.

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