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a re are forming patrols to locals are forming patrols to repel asylum seekers arriving from turkey. meanwhile, turkish president is expected to demand hundreds of millions of pounds from the eu he heads to brussels. but as the president of turkey in exchange for stopping the flood of migrants covering. and finally, if we go back to the virus briefly, the matter wanting us, don't be sheu matter wanting us, don't be shelf —ish, a great headline there. it's talking about all of us stockpiling. i need to explain that really, i'm sure you will know. we have priya lakhani back. we have priya the italian paper, north italy has been in lockdown, 14 provinces for some time now. just the practicalities of that. businesses closing down, pa rents that. businesses closing down, parents at home with their children, closed schools, how to keep it locked down, even
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the information about the lockdown was leaked. some people who had flight tickets actually ended in british airports. and escaped essentially, yes, they did not wa nt to essentially, yes, they did not want to be part of the lockdown, which i think you have to question how sensible thatis have to question how sensible that is of them given the situation we have, with 366 dance, which was last night's use dance, which was last night's use “— dance, which was last night's use —— threaded and 66 deaths which was last night's use. —— 366 deaths. people are not coming out and i don't know about, we haven't seen pictures of the army on the streets, but what they are trying to do is contain this, because containment is so challenging. i was reading the rules of contagion which is a fantastic book, based on this german mathematician years ago who talked about viral, efficiency, if one person is affected how many people might they in fact. measles is 20, coronavirus is two. although that does not seem very high, actually the same, it has the same number is
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theice same, it has the same number is the ice bucket challenge. how many people do you know took the challenge. you can imagine that it has that same sort of viral effect. we have to shut this down, close these regions, to try and stop the spread. whether it will work on it is something that we are all keeping an eye on. we are, and now italy, outside of china, has the highest number of cases, it has gone beyond south korea. if we go on to the eye, it has a lot of headlines, 60 million people face travel ban, as the death toll rises in italy. —— the i. the third death in the uk, the chancellor supporting the nhs, what will he be delivering to help support those who are under so much pressure right now. you case it targets a rationing, the government may now be holding court cases via video link, a number of cases in china on the decline, that is
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the little bit of good news at the little bit of good news at the end of those high lines —— headlines. what we have seen is the numbers spiral and also just being in the uk we are looking at europe very closely, but so much here, so much is happening. every country is looking at its own policies, it is really interesting to rewatch chris whitty‘s evidence with the select committee in the uk, and actually the practical advice he was giving as our chief medical officer, and saying that countries deal with these things differently. looking at each other, although we may find our policies are different. the headlines will continue to appear as we see different countries being hit and they will make their own policies and their own cases for other closing schools, public gatherings, et cetera. but you are starting to see people retract from public gatherings. we are concerned about the elderly. we have data, we have the fact that there could be a huge wipeout
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of people who have... people who have spoken to us on this programme are saying they are choosing not to go to the cinema or seeing this nfl game or, you know, the six nations rugby or whatever it might be. but then there are a lot of people who say to us it is business as usual, if i get it i get it, and i hope that i will be ok and recover. they are very pragmatic about it. arab news, we do not have this ina paper arab news, we do not have this in a paper stuck, but this is what we are discussing earlier, schools across the kingdom will be closed, universities shut to fight the virus. they are taking very radical action for containment. but it is all about e—learning, which you are providing. which is our space. you have been getting messages from saudi arabia in the green room. while you are reading these stories you are busy working. it is a big country, 30,000 schools, they have more schools in the uk. closing schools in the uk. closing schools are some countries policy, it is not what the uk
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is doing, we are not there yet. e—learning is the solution to keep teaching and learning going, and with an ai it makes ita going, and with an ai it makes it a lot easier. from a practical point of view, whatever it all falls over? you will have a huge number of kids and teachers, you know... we already do. trying to use the system. we are very fortunate, we have an engineering team that used to work as another well‘s biggest banks. that has scaled up the technology in the backend, technology and a platform on a website can survive a 20 people on it, is not the same as 20 million people. there is a cost to scaling up your services, because we are offering a free to closed schools, we use amazon web services, we have to pay amazon for the space, it has not gone back to the company, but other social enterprise it is what you do. you will see a lot of stories emerge i think about how people wa nt to emerge i think about how people want to help people in these
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situations. the japan times has "virus secure rumours swell online", this is all about... cani online", this is all about... can i give you a nice gentle story, mum, this is her what that message," drink plenty of hot water, coronavirus won't survive, a ginger and garlic... the japan times, drinking lu kewa rm the japan times, drinking lukewarm water, room number two, intake of vitamin d is effective against the new coronavirus, and... facemasks can be sterilised in a microwave. misinformation. the uk government has set up a counter disinformation europe. -- unit, counter disinformation europe. —— unit, to council —— counter misinformation. if they want to solve that, a big red bus, £350 million a week can be saved if
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you do not listen to us. i had to put that in there. it is a joke but obviously. it is very important stop we are —— we asked our viewers, have you been receiving misinformation. "definitely we have, due to these cases i have postponed my trip. " another ones as "my view of social media is a new tool, it dates back to village gossip mentality which has been with us for generation. the issue of news outlets then using said gossip and recycling it as global news drives are necessary frenzies". another one says "sadly in the us we have been misinformed and misled for weeks about the virus". it is dangerous, because it is being seen as though it comes from a legitimate source, people believe that, not my mum, my mum who is lovely... (laughs). she is forwarding it in the family chat. it is important...
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good morning to your mum. the new york times, it is really important. greeks say "no more", this is the difficulty, the border between greece and turkey, with hundreds of thousands of people trying to get over the border and president adeline of turkey said he is no longer going to control it, no longer going to stop them crossing into greece, they want to get to germany, they want to get to germany, the uk, wherever it is, and 200 miles in the south, on the border island of lesbos, locals are now finding this really difficult. and they are themselves coming out to try and deal with this and stop people coming over. a few years ago they were very compassionate and welcoming, but the eu is accusing turkey of engineering this as a form of engineering this as a form of blackmail. to be fair to turkey, they have a humanitarian crisis. and there is no sympathy, but the greeks are saying that we can't have them here and deal with them.
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president adeline is going to meet you tonight and his main cases, you promised me 6 billion euros worth of aid in 2016 to have —— that has not been delivered. we are in 2020 now. he is saying you have not delivered that, be part of the negotiation, i will open the border to even more migrants u nless border to even more migrants unless you help me solve this crisis and deliver more aid funding. priya lakhani, thank you so much, you are very busy woman, you have a lot going on right now. it is all kicking off with e—learning all over the world. give all your time in your comments, so many have beenin in your comments, so many have been in touch about the misinformation out there with regards to coronavirus. 0ur website of course, there is a lot of information for you, and a lot of advice and the latest news as well. so do take a look, but for now have a good day and i will see you very soon. hello. recent days have brought a real mix of weather —
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it's that sort of time of year and we will continue in that vein in the days to come, so if you do not like what you are getting on one day, hang on and it is sure to change. we start bright and crisp with a little frost around perhaps for some eastern areas, even that will change because the weather system towards the west of the british isles creeps its way ever further towards the east. initially spreading a veil of cloud across western areas after a bright enough start, a couple of showers running ahead of the main rain area. after lunchtime the rain will be all over northern ireland, by mid—afternoon it will be over western scotland, western england and much of wales too. 0ut east, you will lose your sunshine but you will stay dry until later on in the day. temperatures maxing out at around 10 degrees. part of the problem is that once it starts raining, because we've not got one system but two, it may well continue to rain and there are concerns from the met office who have issued yellow warnings already for the intensity of rain across parts of wales and indeed the north—west of england, because on tuesday some of that rain keeps on coming on what will be
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a blustery day across the british isles here. the wind gusts for you, you can see widely 30, 40, perhaps 50mph in the exposed locations. the air is coming from the atlantic and if the cloud should break across the eastern side of england, in particular, perhaps 1a, 15, 16. reaching in the norfolk area you could look at 17 degrees. exceptional for the time of year. that weather front taking time to pull away but notice that the isobars almost run straight through the weather front, so there's no great change in the airmass. as the front slips away, the sunshine comes out across the greater part of england and wales. plenty of wintry showers across the higher ground of scotland on another breezy sort of day, but, as i say, the wind is coming from the south—west so we will keep it feeling relatively springlike and mild across the south with temperatures 11—14, much chillier when you get the showers in the heart of scotland — five, six, seven degrees only here.
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into thursday, we will push this weather front down and across the southern half of the british isles, and that i think that will really freshen things up. plenty of wintry showers again across the higher ground of scotland, a couple of showers in northern ireland, but once the rain slips away from the southern counties of england then essentially a dry fine day, but that bit fresher. we return to the temperatures we saw on monday and we get them again on thursday.
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good morning, welcome to breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. 0ur headlines today: a third person dies from coronavirus in the uk as ministers discuss plans to delay its spread. the foreign office is warning against all but essential travel to northern italy, where 16 million people —— travel to northern italy, where 16 million people are in lockdown. cutting the country's cloth in the context of coronavirus. the new chancellor rishi sunak will deliver his first budget on wednesday. i look at what we know, and what we don't. a bbc breakfast investigation reveals safety cameras on smart motorways aren't continuously monitored. we have a special report.
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