inflt ‘ur famous testing, doing more than anyone else. nothing funny about that, john. most of the governors have never faced a situation like this before, but we're helping them find unused testing capacity within their states. tremendous testing capacity that the governess did not know they had. and additional capabilities are coming online every day and we are coming up with new equipment like the new laboratory equipment like the new laboratory equipment on—site, five minutes, great success. everybody wants it. we can only make so many of those machines, so we have many other forms of testing and many other forms of testing and many other forms of testing and many other forms of machines that do it very quickly and by the millions, by the millions. our task force issued this is bbc news i'm tim willcox with the latest its headlines for viewers in the uk reopening guidelines earlier than april 30 to give governors the time and around the world. that they needed president trump says to develop testing infection rates and cases in hot spots are dropping — capability and capacity and and more states will be customise plans for their states. in a

which many of them did, we have had some governors who have done a position to fantastic job some governors who have done a fantasticjob on testing and all of reopen. other things. i spoke to these trends demonstrate that the our aggressive strategy to governor, we had a great battle the virus is working and conversation on testing yesterday and they are doing a really good that more states will soon be job in new york. we are working very closely with each of the states ina that more states will soon be in a position to gradually and to safely reopen. it is very help them succeed. i spoke earlier exciting. here in the uk the policy today with governor of social distancing will be needed until at least the end of california of the year according to the chief medical officer. and that was all about testing in the world health organisation insists — the conversation. he has been they warned everyone scaling up really about the virus in good time — and with infection rates rising well. really good warns the pandemic will not be over job. soon. to make use of the tremendous slipping backwards. why japan is facing a renewed capacity that they found. this coronavirus outbreak. the bbc gets is a tremendous contesting capacity. and i'm going to do it very quickly rare access inside a he need certain things. again i get that to them very quickly. could you japanese hospital. get it himself? yes. but i can get a faster he understands that and he's ona faster he understands that and he's on a greatjob. and working to have a lot of it to him over the next two days. and where going to beef up the following week. a lot of additional,

he's done a really terrificjob in california. some of the governors have done a fantasticjob. working with us. i told the governor of georgia brian kemp that i disagree strongly with his decision to open certain facilities which are in violation of the phase one guidelines for the incredible people of georgia. they are incredible people. i love those people. they are great. they've been strong resolute but at the same time he must do what he thinks is right. i wa nt must do what he thinks is right. i want him to do what he thinks is right. but i disagree with him on what he's doing. i wanted to let the governors do... now they see something totally agree just, totally out of line i'll do. but i think spas and beauty salons and tattoo parlors and barbershops in phase one, going to have phase ii very soon. it is just too soon. i

think it's too soon. and i love the people, i love those people that use all of those things. the spas in the beauty parlors and barbershops, tattoo parlors, i love them. but they can wait a little bit longer. just a little bit, not much. because safety has to predominate. we have to have that. so i told the governor very simply that i disagree with his decision. but he has to do what he thinks is right. i'm excited to announce that in the coming weeks the air force on are incredible. and the air force on are incredible. and the navy blue angels equally incredible will be performing airshows over america's major cities. and some of these cities that aren't major cities. they're going to be doing a lot of work a lot of dangerous fine. it's dangerous. the odds when you start going at massive speeds in your 18 inches away from each other, that's

dangerous work. your son is a great pilot. and i don't know, can you be, can he be a thunderbird? i don't know. i think he probably could from what i hear. i don't know if i want him to be. because it is incredible what they're able to do, to sacrifice. what we're doing is we're paying tribute to our frontline. health care workers confronting coded and it's really a signal to all americans to remain vigilant during the outbreak. this is a tribute to them, to our warriors. because they are equal warriors to those incredible pilots and all the fighters that we have for the more traditional sites. that we win. and we win. and we want to win we always win. sometimes we don't want to win so we just win. sometimes we don't want to win so wejust go win. sometimes we don't want to win so we just go to a standstill but that's always, that's not the way this country works. 0peration america strong was the idea of our

great military men and women. the thunderbirds and the blue angels crews who wanted to show support to the american medical workers who just like military. just pull away from the white house at for one minute. kelly, it's notjust coronavirus reading very quickly it descended into a row about fake news. just give us the background to that with this man doctor robert who actually wheeled out to give a statement there. yeah, i don't know about you tim but i get on a whiplash with these press briefings because you never know from none when i took the next weather is going to be relatively calm as it was last night or whether the president is going to be very unhappy and lashing out at the press as he is tonight. the background to this is a story that appeared in the washington post today in which doctor redfield who's the head of the centres for disease was quoted as saying the next season, the autumn, winter season could pop

potentially be more difficult and more complicated because you can have the coronavirus coming at the same as the regular flu virus. of course that would put a lot of pressure than on the american health system. the president began this briefing by saying that doctor redfield was misquoted, that this was fake news doing a bad job. and so doctor redfield was brought out to clarify that statement. actually when pushed doctor redfield said that he was quoted accurately in the article. and that yes, this was going to be more difficult and more complicated if the coronavirus comes back at the same time as the winter flu virus season. so, to some extent you got it argument here about semantics, the president very unhappy with the headline which said that this could be more devastating, the second wave could be more devastating. that it was going to be worse and that you had doctor redfield say i didn't say it was gonna be worse i said it was can be more difficult and complicated. i'm not sure how it more difficult and more complicated could

be easier. some semantics here but the big picture i think stepping back from this is that the president wants to put the most positive spin possible on this. he then brought up doctors from the task force team to try and play down the notion that the coronavirus could even come back. he said even a couple times if it comes back its going to be the embers of it. that we would be able to contain it. that we would be able to contain it. it might pop up here but will be able to suppress it. so you know, the president throughout this has wa nted the president throughout this has wanted to put the most positive spin on this. and to some extent that's the position of any politician or leader. they don't want to stay news that's going to be devastating to the public. they don't want to be the public. they don't want to be the purveyor of bad news. they wa nted the purveyor of bad news. they wanted beat the purveyor of good news. that is what politicians and leaders do because it helps them get reelected. i think you have a really stark example of that with the doctors being in a slightly difficult position of saint yeah, we think it probably will come back, it could welcome back, we hope are going to be in a position to deal with it better. and the president

saying it's not even clear if it will come back and if it does it would just be the embers of it. every night, yesterday and today before we seem to be very much returning to america first, immigration going to beat the big battle grounds for later this year well. nothing at about that at all today. in fact, well. nothing at about that at all today. infact, president well. nothing at about that at all today. in fact, president trump was criticising some governors who wa nted criticising some governors who wanted to open up more quickly than the white house said it wanted. yeah, that's interesting. that's the republican governor of georgia brian kemp who said that he's going to open and i think we spoke about this earlier this week, nail salons, tattoo parlors, gyms, are going to open massage parlors are all can open massage parlors are all can open up on friday. in the state of georgia. the president last night that he's going to speak to government camp and tonight he said in last few minutes that he did speak to him and said he strongly disagrees with that move. because obviously, those are professions

where it's very hard to have social distancing which is what the government guidelines are here. but he also said the president said i disagree with this but you should decide what you are going to do. he's devolving power to the states into the governors but he has told governor camp that this is not a move he agrees with. ok, catty, for now thank you very much indeed. we are going to turn our attention to something else. thank you very much. hello welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us us in the next few hours. we are joined today by harriet line political editor and political commentator and former later party lance price.

welcome to you both. let's just have a look at some of the papers that we have got in. here in the uk, the i focuses on coronavirus and the news from today's government briefing that britain is thought to have reached the peak of infections. according to dominick raab. the telegraph also reports on that briefing, saying social disruption is likely to continue until the end of the year. the mirror leads on the comments from the uk's first secretary of state, dominic raab, that there is ‘light at the end of the tunnel‘ in the country's battle against the pandemic. incidentally that picture of prince louise son of william and kate celebrating his birthday. and kate celebrating his birthday. meanwhile the mail's front page looks at pressure on britain's nhs it says some heart attack victims are having to wait two hours for an ambulance. the guardian reports on the impact of coronavirus on the uk's

minority communities. the front page story in the times focuses on the thousands of people in the uk who will be trained to trace coronavirus cases. and the express leads on dominic raab‘s promise to address virus outbreaks in care homes by increasing testing. welcome to you both again. harriet, let's start off with the telegraph. social disruption will last for a year. which slightly contradicts what dominic rob was saying or the government saying that testing —— dominick raab. saying that testing our vaccine and has been talked out appearing quite quickly not appearing quite quickly not appearing to the chief medical 0fficer? appearing to the chief medical officer? that's right. this is comments from professor chris whitty. at the downing street press conference in which he said social measures we need to stay in place until at least the end of the air

until at least the end of the air until at least the end of the air until a vaccine or a drug which would reduce the severity of symptoms was found. he didn't say exactly what kind of measures these would be but he said that the probability of having a drug or vaccine any time in the next year is incredibly small. of course that slightly goes against what we heard from university of oxford yesterday on the fact that testing will get under way and human trials on a vaccine. that is a long way off and we knew that then. but i think the comments from woody at flash to the bones of what we perhaps already knew. we haven't heard the government explicitly say that this lockdown isn't going away anytime soon. lance, the government has been saying let's read lie on the science stay with the experts even when borisjohnson was stay with the experts even when boris johnson was an stay with the experts even when borisjohnson was an action before he contracted the virus. there is a lwa ys he contracted the virus. there is always that risk if scientists are saying slightly at odds if only su btly saying slightly at odds if only subtly from what the politicians are? yes, obviously, it is the

scientist who advised the government but it's the government who have to make decisions. many of these decisions at the end of the day although guided by the science, will be political decisions. and they'll be political decisions. and they'll be decisions about what the country is willing to accept, whether or not they feel that the people are prepared to carry on going along with the stringent requirements of the lockdown. those are judgement calls. at the same time i don't think you could expect all the scientist to agrees all the time. silence isn't science is again to give you a simple yes or no question that you put to it. i think some of those nuances are starting to come through in the government briefings. i think this it's probably a good thing. i think were all grown up enough to understand that there aren't any easy answers to all of this. but we got a sense of some of the things that may form part of the answer is we go forward. which includes in increase in testing and tracing. harriet, move on to the

times. army of thousands to help trace victims, key move for easing social distance as britain reaches infection peak. but the country abandon contact tracing about a month ago, didn't it? it did, yes. it was one of the early things that the government ditched in its plan to tackle this crisis. contact tracing of course is one of the key ways in which you can kind of suppress coronavirus. and keep it at bay. that's my tracing anyone who has come into contact with someone who's got coronavirus and making sure that they quarantine to stop at exponential spread of the disease. and this goes back to the r value which would eat was talking about what you don't want anyone infecting any more than one person and so contact tracing is key to that. it was something that we abandoned early on. i think perhaps that was to do with testing, that we didn't really have that much capability for testing, that capacity is increasing, it is not near the target of 100,000 a

day yet. but it is increasing and countries like south korea have been very effective in using contact tracing to stem the spread of virus they are. of course they have apps and things which track peoples movements to tell you whether or not you've been in contact with somebody who's got coronavirus or goes on to be diagnosed with coronavirus. a big step forward and as finding a way of getting over this and out of the lockdown. but we're certainly not there yet with it. and that's quite a big exercise as well isn't lance? thousands of traces. this is not an easy thing to do. it's notjust a yes and no answer. now it's a massive operation and they're talking about involving a lot of civil servants and counsel officers as well to do this. obviously, it will operate at different levels in different parts of the country because we know from all the statistics we've been given that there are some parts of the country where the incidence of coronavirus is relatively low. therefore

where contact testing would be a simpler and be, more effective because you're not trying to trace the same scale of the epidemic that you might have in london or in in the west midlands and some of the other.... the important thing to remember about all that and is at contact trick tracing is only part of the solution for some it's not a magic bullet that is going to suddenly mean we can bullet that is going to suddenly mean we can all go back to life is normal because will be able to trace contacts and isolate only the people who are at risk. and therefore am a i think with professor woody was trying to stress is it may enable in combination with in easing of some of the lockdown restrictions enable us of the lockdown restrictions enable us to keep track of the really, the people that we absolutely have to find. but it's not a panacea. no. but it has worked in south korea and other countries. harriet, big day

yesterday for can stammer. big day for the house of commons first time ever that we've had such a reduce number there. and social distancing. what did you make of this? the picture in the guardians got the tourmp luke picture in the guardians got the tour mp luke evans making a point. it felt stilted, did nicholas that it felt innovative as any drama and theatre you would expect. but it was quite doing quite interesting in a forensic way. of course yes care labour leader after he was elected a few weeks now. normally as you say you would expect the clamour and the chairs and the jeers of mps you would expect the clamour and the chairs and thejeers of mps in you would expect the clamour and the chairs and the jeers of mps in the house of commons. particularly so when it's the first time for a leader of the party. we didn't have any of that. because he had no one around him. he was socially distance away from his colleagues. so there was none of that atmosphere in the sense of occasion. course it was quite an interesting occasion because it was the first time ever in parliamentary history that we

had mps dialling in via video conferencing. in this sort of hybrid, virtual parliament. lastly i think it went without a hitch there we re think it went without a hitch there were a few mps that had dodgy connections to the day. peter bogart cut out through his questions. largely it was successfully successful but that wasn't that much ofan successful but that wasn't that much of an occasion for him. he said focused more on frantic questioning and it wasn't quite so politically punchy as normal. very different style, lance. from jeremy corbyn who was there was and he? yes, jeremy corbyn was back in his old seat. the back of the labour benches where he used to hang out when he was actually a bit of a nobody within the labour party. and before he was jettisoned to the leadership. a very, very stark contrast between the way in which jeremy corbyn used to conduct him self at prime minister's questions and mr starmer the new leader. he's got a problem normally when you take over as

leader of the one of the two big parties it's an opportunity to get a lot of publicity, to get people to look again at your party and to do a little bit of a relaunch. of course it's very hard for him to get that kind of publicity at the moment because there is such a big story out there. and labours position seems to be a bit of an irrelevance. he conducted himself extremely well today. very heartening for those of us today. very heartening for those of us in the labour party who'd been longing and longing for somebody who can actually conduct themselves during prime minister's questions with that kind of forensic skill that harriet was talking about. also thinking on their feet. i think he's had some very good reviews in the papers tomorrow. good start for him. it's gonna take it off a lot longer before that kind of, if he is going to bea before that kind of, if he is going to be a more effective leader for that to get through to the majority of the people in the country. yeah. as you say focusing very much on the

governments response to the pandemic. onto the son because for the last five or six weeks most of the medical advice, government advice is been there's really no point in wearing a mask. u nless really no point in wearing a mask. unless you're going to try and protect other people. that and i'll change though now? yes, we've known since yesterday the governments scientific advisers and groups sage met to discuss the effectiveness of mask. we are expecting them to present that information to administer soon. and that ministers will decide how to go forward with that. yes, britain's sort of been out on a limb on this. it's other countries have suggested that people do weara countries have suggested that people do wear a mask. not quite clear why we haven't been told to do the same. there has been talk that actually they are not forjoe public to use they're not great at stopping you catching it. but they probably are is very good at stopping you spreading it. lots of suggestions around that not from the government

yet but lots of suggestions around... gradually more more people are wearing mask. are you wearing a mask? no, i'm not. here in beautiful north yorkshire where i go out with the dog and i don't see anyone for half a mile away. i think that if the recommendation to wear a mask does come in it will be another of those things. it won't be uniform across the country. in certain places and i think the capital in london probably, it may make sense and certainly if people are going to go back on the tubes and the buses where the risk of spreading the disease or disease is actually so cramped up against each other, other parts of the country i think it won't make so much sense. and there will be a resistance against him. i think one of the reasons ministers have been reluctant to go down the road of saying everybody should wear them is that they want the measures that they're putting in place to

have general public acceptance. if a large portion think that they don't make sense then they're going to start losing confidence in the advice that they are being given by the government. more on the financial consequences of the lockdown. the ft, main story for the paper the universities plea for the paper the universities plea for a £2 billion rescue plan falling on deaf ears. harriet, why the relu cta nce on deaf ears. harriet, why the reluctance of the treasury do we think to actually meet these demands. because this is an important sector, isn't it? for the uk. hugely important sector and these figures are pretty hughes. ft says that some universities are facing bankruptcy because of the coronavirus crisis. saying such funding is down as is the collapse of the international student market. which it says brings about £7 billion into the uk annually. become huge figures. i think the treasury

seems to be a split and why some departments are a little bit more pro helping universities out. the treasury of course has been spending an awful lot of money and recent weeks. probably doesn't want another big sector to have to bail out on its books. pointing to the fact that other financial measures that the government has introduced are available to universities. of course i think this is on a slightly different scale and slightly perhaps, bigger issue for some institutions than others. quite why the treasury is not wanting to bite on this were not sure. decision hasn't been made yet but chance or is expected to review it in a coming back coming days. what do you make of this lance? one person quoted saying the government thought this was special pleading? yes, and i think the treasury in particular are very wary of special pleading by ice

specific sectors of the economy. they try to bring in these loan schemes and guarantees to cover everybody. and i think they are wary of the fact that we already saw the response to the area on industry for example. when they were given pretty short shift. when they came asking for a very large pay—out specific to the airline industry. i think the same approach from the treasury is therefore for the universities. and it's not surprising that you might get the government department for example, the transport department more separate attic towards bailout towards airlines and you might as harriet was saying how the education department more sympathetic for bailouts for universities. the treasury has to look at the big picture along sign ten downing st. that's why i think they are very wa ry that's why i think they are very wary of going down the line of giving special and help to one particular sex sector. that sets a precedent. makes sense. another 2

billion more. let's go on to the york shire post. yorkshire post. prince charles sank the crisis has taught us charles sank the crisis has taught us to put people and the planet 1st. it was a good day actually is in it for the royal family. because it was a good day actually is in it for the royalfamily. because you've got a picture of prince louis making his second birthday birthday today. this piece by prince charles as well, what do you make of this? this isa well, what do you make of this? this is a message from the prison he saying what a lot of fans probably already noticed. the drop in air pollution, those incredible pictures of the canals in venice with really crystal—clear water. in the prince of wales is basically saying that this is a chance to reset our approach to environmentalism effectively putting people and planet 1st. he says that the parallels between the human and planetary condition in the coronavirus are quite clear. i'm going to cut in. lance ten seconds from you. i think it's actually right and he says if we treated the

planet the way we treat the patient that we can see the damage that the virus is doing. it's so nice to have a picture of prince louis about him. because of course it's that generation that decisions we make now. and a subject dear to her how his heart and also a man who has had coronavirus do not coronavirus himself. thank you very much indeed for taking us through the additions of the morning papers. i will be backin of the morning papers. i will be back ina of the morning papers. i will be back in a few minutes' time with all the other main news. will also be speaking to the prime minister of st. kitts to see how they have coped with the pandemic there. hello there, wednesday was a com pletely hello there, wednesday was a completely dry day in the uk and in sunshine we had into the low 20s in southern england. 23 degrees in

dorset. but thursday is likely to be the warmest day of the week. mind you we got off to a bit of a chilly start for a 5 degrees typically may be againa start for a 5 degrees typically may be again a touch of frost in the scottish glens. little bit more of this mist and low cloud affecting some scotland northern england. it won't last long going to be a dry and sunny day. the sunshine and little bit hazy at times. for the northern half of the uk. the winds on thursday will be even lighter. it will feel warmer and temperatures may be a bit higher. could reach 25 degrees like hampshire into oxford chair, bark share why late 19 or 20 for england and wales. a little bit cooler around some of those north seacoast. 0f cooler around some of those north seacoast. of course when scotland temperatures may reach 20 or even 21 celsius will come away from scotland, we still got some high pollen levels on thursday. it's tree pollen, of course. this time of year when looking at the oak tree in particular. into friday we start with some missed and low cloud. mainly for the eastern side of england. it will burn up very quickly and the sunshine. maybe a

little bit more cloud to the far southwest threatening a shower. probably going to be a dry day for a fair bit of sunshine again. another warm day for this time of year amateurs peaking at 21 or 22dc. into the weekend a couple of things we can be pretty sure of. temperatures are going to drop away a little although it still warm for this time of year. the winds will remain light but there's a chance of showers. a lot of uncertainty about those. particular on sunday. saturday we are looking at more cloud towards wales in the southwest. this is where we are more likely to catch a shower or two. there will be more cloud coming into the northwest of scotland. elsewhere chances dry and a lot of sunshine around. still very warm, temperatures around 19, 20 southwest of scotland 20 or 21 in the of england. during sunday there is much more uncertainty because now it looks like a shower band could move its way further south into england and wales with a cluster of showers then returning into a more northerly breeze at the cross of

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