h “a fi h: “an wt think it is it-‘u1 m 1it1z1‘wvsnnwit film 1it 1: 1w>16=1tfis6ait v7 think it is important we say and i think it is important we say that. but nevertheless we are looking at the figures that have been given. we know that germany conducts 70,000 tests a day and britain is starting to get around 10,000. arj in the reading you have done on the conversations you have had with colleagues, is there readily understandable explanation for the difference between germany and britain? and i think this is the problem because the government are not being straight on explaining why we are not doing so many tests. if you look back a week or two ago, the message was where going to have millions of antibody tests and ramp up millions of antibody tests and ramp up testing to 10000 and 25,000, we have only hit 10,000 in the last air to and even then all those people are not nhs staff and we saw the daily press briefing earlier today. the government was asked repeatedly why we are behind germany, what is going on with the testing wasn't all we got was vague platitudes and that

is now being played out in the pages of the newspapers because people are getting angry about this and the whacked of testing and whether it is pa rt of whacked of testing and whether it is part of the government's strategy and how important it is. —— the lack of testing. it plays into the question of what is the exit strategy for the lockdown if we have not got the tests of? it is fascinating trying to talk about listening to the government. i am writing down the phrase we're catching up on. wrapping up, commitment. these are words people don't want to hear necessary at the moment. they want to hear that tests are actually coming. just a quick question, is there a problem with the fact that boris johnson space was via the mobile phone by the government cease us was via the mobile phone by the government cease us through government cease us through government briefings being told that the government would be back in control by borisjohnson? the government would be back in control by boris johnson?” the government would be back in control by boris johnson? i think that if he is still self isolating, then we cannot necessarily blame him for having to use the same technology that we are all using to

communicate at the moment. but nevertheless i think it can perhaps undermine 1's sense of feeling that the government has got a real grip on this particular issue. —— one's sense. i think what kent —— one can sense. i think what kent —— one can sense the real change in coverage and anger for good reasons. sense the real change in coverage and angerfor good reasons. somehow in the messaging today it is not so much we are not getting the full picture but almost let the government doesn't quite know what's going on here and that does i think make us feel insecure. we will look at the daily mail, the same subject as we have been saying. let us show you the headline there. and the other papers say that was syrup .16% of nhs staff. —— 0.16%. it's interesting that you say the

government is losing goodwill. arj if the government loses goodwill in a crisis, how does it get it back? it needs to show correct and to give straight answers to the public the questions asked which is how do we get out of this and how does testing play into it? otherwise it's a difficult situation. it's interesting if you look at opinion polls. this hasn't fed through from the media possibly to people eat yet people seem to be giving the government the benefit of the doubt and the conservative concept ratings are going up, borisjohnson's ratings are going up. there might be a bag and people waking up to this. but that's at the peak of this virus is supposed to be coming in ten days and we found out yesterday that a massive 30 ventilators are being delivered to nhs hospitals this weekend. they will have to do something faster people will start noticing i think. i noticed in one

newspaper there was talk of the dunkirk spirit and i always try if there is at least one world war ii reference to dj or we will win, i found it on dunkirk. is that dunkirk spirit that one of the paper starts about enough to get the country through this? well, i think it is obviously a good thing if people are able to feel positive but that... the ability to do that is very much driven by a sense that the government does have grip that is in control and does know where it's heading. we have seen some very positive developments really in over the last week, we have seen this astonishing capacity work for the nhs working in conjunction with the military to bring onboard these new hospitals and i think many people will feel that that is frankly

remarkably impressive. and makes us all feel reassured on one level. but as we are saying this testing issue isa as we are saying this testing issue is a problem because we seem to be having mixed messages. maybe it goes back to a sense that the government did change their own direction of travel two weeks ago from the idea of herd immunity to then suppressing the virus as much as possible. and they are not quite sure what the longer—term strategy is and i think that could be quite damaging for morale. i want to move onto one headline which we do not see in the selection of newspapers i have got at the moment. i might be wrong when more newspapers come in but i do not see the figure 560 get on the front pages in bold type and yesterday we did see one newspaper talking about 300 dead on the date we had almost 600 dead and it is rather interesting that is not one of the

headlines. arj is that a good decision by the paper is not to bombard us with these death tolls when there is a specific issue like testing that needs to be addressed? there is very little that can be gained. everyone in the country noticed that a lot of people falling ill with this and there are going to bea ill with this and there are going to be a lot of deaths. i think it is the media'sjob to be a lot of deaths. i think it is the media's job to focus on possibly what we can do to get out of this crisis and try and be constructive but also critical as we have seen to date. we go back now to the daily express with and onto a different theme from testing. 0ur message to banks rescued with £137 billion of taxpayers money. jo—anne that is a business focus from the daily express. you see strong campaigning sense this headline. with this particular call that they

have taken up —— this because they're almost working on behalf of they're almost working on behalf of the consumers. and it does refer directly back to the financial crisis of 2008 and the amount of public money that was spent on propping up the banks and the idea now that quite frankly unnecessary charges, calling in loans too quickly, all of things which perhaps unscrupulous or sharp practice in banking we could see that happen and it's very important to stop that happening. because many people are really facing potential severe financial hardship, possibly their company's financial hardship, possibly their compa ny‘s folding financial hardship, possibly their company's folding under financial hardship, possibly their compa ny‘s folding under the financial hardship, possibly their company's folding under the stress of what is happening now and i think the express is absolutely right that the express is absolutely right that the banks need to take something of a moral stance in this and notjust see the bottom line or the potential to make a quick buck. thanks jo—anne. when banks pick up a daily

express and see that kind of headline, do they react to that, does that change the way they think? tabloid campaigns like that bicycle newspaper do they work?|j tabloid campaigns like that bicycle newspaper do they work? i think they can work and i think they can work in persuading ministers and highlighting gaps in proficient to ministers and there are some reports out tonight that the chancellor is working very much —— looking very much at this issue and it's about to announce the change to the this is interruption loan scheme, which is the aid fund for small businesses that this splash refers to and it looks like he will tweak that and basically try and compel the banks to lend to small businesses to keep them afloat. so, it could be that decision was already made but the cove rage decision was already made but the coverage will make a difference i think. we will go briefly to the financial times. jobs claims rocket by1 million as virus of a shock to the economy. everything is topsy—turvy, it was 100,000 people, now it is1 million.

that is really significant. these are the number of people that have registered for universal credit. and in many ways, clearly it's very alarming and an alarming figure. but it doesn't necessarily point solely to joblessness because you are entitled to claim this credit even if you are still able to do some work. what it would represent though and this is the financial times and what they're pointing out is that if all of those claimants were as a result having lost jobs, all of those claimants were as a result having lostjobs, this would represent a huge increase in the percentage of the unemployment rate which over the last few years has been very low in this country. just a for the moment that all of these figures did relate to people losing their jobs, figures did relate to people losing theirjobs, this would represent an over the last two, three weeks and increase and i think i have just checked the figures from 3.9% unappointed rate up to 6.7%. that's

a huge change! exactly, that will not be wholly accurate for the reasons i have said. but it is a very graphic indicator of what we are up against here i wa nt to want to go into ourfinal want to go into our final story, want to go into ourfinal story, we have been talking about testing, and the effects on the economy and the bank. let's go back to the express which shows us what we don't do talk about a lot. recovery. prince charles had it and now he appears to be well enough to give what the express because a message of hope, the times put him on the front page as well. arj, recovery is important in this, people to get better from this. it is nice to see people recovering especially at the age of 71. and getting that message of hope and that is the thing that the vast majority of people who get coronavirus will recover from it. so it is good to see and it's good that he did a video i think and it's good

that some papers are putting on the front page ticket all the doom and gloom away. your thoughts on the recovery of the prince?” gloom away. your thoughts on the recovery of the prince? i am pleased he has recovered, and i think you are right. we need to have that message reinforce as well. we talked earlier about whether it was appropriate to have not covered the rise in the death rate over the last 24 rise in the death rate over the last 2a hours. and i think as a danger of if we just focus on that it could be extremely alarming for people and also worth because remembering that many also worth because remembering that r also worth because remembering that many very many many people will have a very mild version of this illness and recover. ithink a very mild version of this illness and recover. i think prince charles is right to appear in public as far as he has done and make a statement like this for those reasons. thank you very much to both of you. that's it for the papers this hour. arj singh and jo—anne nadler will be back at half past eleven for another look at the papers.

goodbye for now. hello. 0ur weather is about to do a 180 degrees turn in the next few days. for the end of this week will feel chilly and there will be frosty sta rts feel chilly and there will be frosty starts co m e feel chilly and there will be frosty starts come the weekend. it starts to warm up quite hermetically but it will get quite windy as well on sunday. here is why, we are on the tailand of sunday. here is why, we are on the tail and of low pressure moving into northerly and northwesterly winds on friday and come the weekend we switched to southerly or south—westerly is as an area of low pressure squeezes in from the west. there is high—pressure essentially keeping things relatively calm and marjorie dreyfus i'm weak weather fronts sliding down the uk on thursday. and behind us weak cold front, cold air. gusty winds across the board part particularly for

shipment up to 70 mph at times today. —— for shipment. you can see the indicator of how far south the cold air will have worked through thursday afternoon. for the remainder thursday into friday, that cold air floods right the way across the uk. isobar is open up, waiter winds across the northern half of the uk which will mean a fronts a star for friday across scotland but also parts of northern england and northern ireland. here is good sunshine from the get—go, wintry showers perhaps even down to lower levels at times. that is how cold the air will be. and the odd thundery shower as well. more cloud in the south. the biggest difference is the way things will feel. six or 7 degrees. there is that high hanging around and on we go into saturday. the clear skies overnight friday through saturday at make for a chilly start across southern parts of the uk but there should be sunshine around on saturday and with the low start to approach to the

west, we flip that wind direction around to a southerly. white on saturday by just starting around to a southerly. white on saturday byjust starting to lift our temperatures back up into double figures. —— light on saturday. here's the big change as that low closes in. the isobars squeeze together making the wind stronger but look at how the milder air works its way all the way north across the uk. temperatures are set to leap widely in the mid teens across scotla nd widely in the mid teens across scotland and we could even see up to 20 degrees and possibly in the south—east of england.

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