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the headlines... spanish children are being allowed out of their homes for the first time in six weeks, as one of europe's strictest lockdowns is relaxed. the british prime minister boris johnson is to return to work on monday, two weeks since he left hospital after falling ill with coronavirus. dozens of protesters are arrested in central berlin, after demonstrating against germany's lockdown measures. the military will begin testing essential workers around the uk for coronavirus in mobile units which will operate in "hard to reach" areas. also in the programme, people take up challenges across the uk, raising money for charities that would have benefited from the london marathon.
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hello and welcome to our look at what this mornings papers bring us. with me are sian griffiths, the education editor of the sunday times and ben chu, economics editor at the independent. let's take a look at today's front pages. the express hails the return of borisjohnson after recovering from the virus, saying he'll be back at his desk for key meetings regarding easing the lockdown. the mail on sunday leads on the story about a so—called "game—changing" immunity test that could check if people have developed immuntiy to the coronavirus. the observer says borisjohnson will return to work facing a "lockdown dilemma" as scientists suggest the number of cases is still too high for measures to be relaxed. the telegraph's headline... "two weeks quarantine if travelling to the uk." that plan would apply to britons returning and foreigners arriving at airports and ports. keir starmer leads the mirror
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with calls to ministers to stop treating brits in lockdown like children. he says the nation deserves to know how life will be restarted. the times also focuses on easing the lockdown. it says tory grandees are calling on the pm to ease lockdown measures. so let's begin. sian tory grandees telling the prime minister time to ease the lockdown. he is returning to work tomorrow after his convalescence at chequers and some very difficult decisions ahead? absolutely. the sunday times front page is reflecting what feels like a growing mood in the country where people seem to be quite frustrated now with the lockdown and wa nt to frustrated now with the lockdown and want to know what is the exit strategy? or at least some pointers towards an exit strategy and some dates for when things might start to
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get back to normal. the story in the sunday times is a pincer movement of six tory party donors, some big names, the owner of the ivy, the phones for you owner, together with some cabinet ministers and leading tory backbenchers are putting boris johnson under quite a lot of pressure to come up with a plan and announce a plan to ease the lockdown. as you say he is expected to return to work tomorrow. and it is now five weeks since we started the lockdown on march the 23rd and there is some data coming out which is reflected in the story by the sunday times from apple, the tech giant, showing that people are much more mobile than they were at the start of the lockdown. they are going out and about and there are signs the public is starting to flout the lockdown which means the success flout the lockdown which means the
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su ccess we flout the lockdown which means the success we have seen in lowering the transmission of the virus may not be so transmission of the virus may not be so successful in the future. then, we have heard about balancing the needs of the economy against the needs of the economy against the needs of the health care but at the same time, a warning that if there isa same time, a warning that if there is a spike in the epidemic that could mean another lockdown and that would be even more destructive to the british economy? that's right. the fundamental trade—off is the one as you said, lives versus economic livelihood. i think everyone recognises it is a trade—off but at the same time, the fundamental problem in making that calculation is what if we get another spike? this is the key thing when of course a lot of people in the economy, business leaders as you mentioned, are pushing for an easing to the lockdown but this is an equity me a logical question. how likely is it we will get another spike? —— epidemiological. sian, let's go to
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the sun on sunday. you mentioned this lockdown in the uk fraying around the edges and they highlight what the home secretary priti patel was saying. are you all to stay home, stay strong and protect the nhs and some pictures inside of what seems to be a breach of social—distancing. lots of people out and about quite close together and partly the very good weather, the unusually good weather has contributed to that? absolutely. the weather is just amazing at the moment and i think it has made the lockdown a bit easier to bear because when you do go out for your daily dose of exercise, it is sunny and everyone's spirits left a bit. but especially in london where there are so many but especially in london where there are so many people and we are lucky we do have a lot of parks but nevertheless when everyone comes out together, in the sunshine the parks together, in the sunshine the parks to feel very crowded and it feels difficult to keep social—distancing. we have seenjoggers running too close to people who are just
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walking, cyclists going out en masse sometimes for cycle rides hundreds of miles long and priti patel is clearly as home secretary talking to the police very aware of this and i understand she did say to the police chiefs on friday, she discussed the possibility of an increasing the size of finds people face if they breach lockdown. the public has been amazing, responded so well to the challenge were definitely signs now and reflected in the photographs that people started to just slightly disregarded hand go back to normal. ben, let's go to the sunday manor because they are highlighting what sir keir starmer has been saying, effectively stop treating us like children, give us the exit strategy oi’ children, give us the exit strategy or at least in outline of the exit strategy. is it possible for ministers to do that do you think
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without then getting people to relax a little? i think labour have had a dilemma throughout this whole crisis, how do you be responsible and supportive of the right measures without at the same time providing an opposition? this is sir keir starmer's first attempt if you like to try and set a new tone so he has been supportive but now he is saying we need more clarity over the exeter strategy. don't treat people like children. we know that a lot of analysis is taking place within the government about using the lockdown but that thinking has not really been shared with the british public and he is saying that's not the right approach. we need to have a more open approach. is it possible, look at what are the governments are doing. you see more clarity from south african government, the french government, you see from the scottish administration and that's really what he is picking up on. esa we need to have me a more clear
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exposition of the way ministers are thinking about this. —— he says we need to. they should be told about that by business etc and i think what we're seeing from sir keir starmer and labourers and intensification of pressure on the government to be more open and i think that will be appreciated by a lot of people. a lot of groups throughout society. sian, the sunday telegraph go on to weeks quarantine if travelling to the uk. it would apply to british citizens returning and also foreigners arriving at airports imports. does that make sense to you think? i think it has an eye think it goes back to whatever other countries doing? has been criticism of the british government that it has been too slow to act in this pandemic. it has not done things like tracking and tracing which other countries have
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done successfully. we abandon that early on and numbers have exploded. this plan is an interesting one and it is very similar to something singapore are doing already so if you are a briton returning to a british airport, flying in or a foreignerflying british airport, flying in or a foreigner flying and you would be quarantined. you would be asked at the airport where is your place of residence, where are you going to go and stay? please stay there for 14 days and you would have to supply your address and if you breach that he would face fines. this is a plan that i think now is being discussed as part of an easing of the lockdown andi as part of an easing of the lockdown and i think it's really, really important. we have seen and know that many of the cases that came into this country came into our airports and we have had a very, very open airports. just recently a friend of mine came back from america to heathrow. she was not asked water temperature was, she was not checked, she was just asked, in fa ct not checked, she was just asked, in fact she was not even asked if you
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had any symptoms, she just came straight through. i think we do need to get a control on new cases that may be coming and that could spark a second wave of this. so i think the seems a very sensible plan, definitely learning from what other countries are doing. ben let's go to the observer, an interesting story about dominic cummings, the chief advisor to borisjohnson about dominic cummings, the chief advisor to boris johnson and about dominic cummings, the chief advisor to borisjohnson and the guardian have been running this during the week. he has been attending meetings of sage, the scientific advisory group for an agency is on the question really is should a political adviser like that be involved in a crucial meeting of science, it should be about pure science, it should be about pure science, that's the allegation. what do you make of that? review on that, the view divides into two camps. some states ridiculous, why is a
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political adviser on scientific advisory committee? there is no justification for that. the other side, the government takes issue, he was merely an observer, he was not contradicting or doing infant u ntowa rd contradicting or doing infant untoward and he would want the government to be getting the best advice. regardless of the rights or wrongs of the argument, i think there is a pretty clear sense building and you get this from the observer story with people like david davis and greg clark saying it's probably not appropriate simply because it does not look appropriate and if it's no big deal he's on counsel, then why is it no big deal if he is offered as well? and the channels can, information can flow through other channels. probably more important than the question of whether dominic cummings is on it are not is the level of transparency about what this council is saying, why don't we see the minutes of it,
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why don't we see the minutes of it, why don't we see the full membership asa why don't we see the full membership as a matter of course? in a similar way, we need more transparency about the locked—in exit strategy, we need to know precisely what it has. let's talk more about it because the mail on sunday go with scientists hailing a game changing immunity test. ministers ordering up to 50 million new immunity tests as part of what experts hope would be a game changing development in the fight against covid—i9. we have heard a lot of talk about panaceas haven't we? yes and this test which has been developed by oxford university scientists would test, it is an antibody test essentially. it will test whether a not somebody has had covid—i9 and whether they have antibodies in their system. which this test could detect and the
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thinking is, this is apparently a very accurate test, it has been tested pretty quickly and there is a plan to roll out, the story says i million a week of these tests. to see how many people in the population have had this virus already, have some immunity and then the thinking is they could then go back to work, secured in the knowledge they had a virus. the only flaw i think in this full plan is that we don't know whether if you had a virus once whether you can catch it again. you can catch flu more than once, can you get covid—i9 more than once, can you get covid—i9 more than once because it does mutate, we understand it mutates and it may be possible that the immunity you get from having it once doesn't last very long and so these are u na nswered last very long and so these are unanswered questions. that's the big question. it is but one of the things take away from this is actually our universities and scientists and academics are doing
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amazing work in the face of this pandemic. they are working so hard, they are working collaboratively and work coming up with some fantastic, what looks like solutions that could help not only britain but could help the world and we have oxford working ona the world and we have oxford working on a vaccine. absolutely at the forefront of these battles to find solutions to this terrible situation we are all in. ben last one to you and this is news that i think many readers might find surprising. budget airline becoming the first european airline to announce it will resume flights back in the sky this week says the sunday times. resume flights back in the sky this week says the sunday timesm resume flights back in the sky this week says the sunday times. it may lift people's spirits to know that in the coming weeks there will be flights to different places, this seems like a sign on the face of it that some element of normality is
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returning with a thickness this delay is interesting because it mentions a sting in the tale flagged by the witch group which is that if you have a holiday cancelled because the planes don't fly, you rmi for a refund. if your holiday is cancelled or your flights cancelled because you cannot go but the flight is still going then you're not into entitled to a refund. so there is some suggestion this of the airlines not having to pay compensation to people who are unable to fly which would obviously be a pretty step scandalous state of affairs. the bigger issue here may be economically about the fate of the airlines. we know a lot of them are in serious trouble and they still have not been given a bailout by the government, the government has told them you only to find other sources of revenue first before we offer you public money. when this is all over how many of these airlines are still going to be in operation? how much of the traditional transport infrastructure is going to survive?
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so yes and interesting story about wizz air but don't lose sight about the bigger picture as well. good to talk to you both. that's it for the papers. thanks to sian griffiths and ben chu. goodbye for now. welcome to click. the days are getting longer, and so is the hair, but we are still here. hope you're ok. look, lara's in the house. well, hers. hello!
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good to see you, spencer. how are you? what have you been doing apart from growing your hair? i've been quite busy watching a lot of tv, actually. we are big fans of doctor who here, so on social media, thousands of people have agreed to hit play on the same episode at exactly the same time, like seven o'clock. and what then happens is we all watch together but the director, the script writer and some of the actors are all tweeting along while we are watching so you get this live director's commentary on a second screen. i love it, it's a kind of communal feel, we're all watching these great programmes. that sounds really fun! in this house, we've been very busy making television. downstairs my husband has been making his tv show, it's a good job i'm good with tech because he's needed a bit of help. yes, i've seen. and this sign has become a bit controversial, because when his sign arrived for his show, it's huge! so there's now been a competition. next week this may have to move closer to the camera.
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ok, whatever you need to do to stay sane during lockdown, you have your logo wars. that's absolutely fine. anyway, let's move on, let's talk dating! dating apps have seen a rise in interaction since we've all been an isolation. you know, i found that weird as well, because i wondered why people would start the dating process when they know they can't then meet in the flesh anytime soon. that was my first thought, but actually, if you're single and you're looking for love, you might as well get on the case as soon as possible. and omar mehtab has been putting one of them to the test. with dating apps exploding in popularity over the past years, a generation learned a new way of finding love. but, with social isolation now in place, the dating game is being reinvented once again. also innovating are two roommates from new york, they are rance nix and thi lam. they've come up with loveisquarantine, a dating format
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that's broadcast as a sort of live reality show on instagram. after giving a few details on their google sheets, six people are then manually sorted by nix and lam into pandemic pods and paired up to go on phone dates with each other. so, i'm actually going to give this a go myself, and even though it's a phone date, i do have to look my best, so i'm going to get ready. as the evening goes on, i'll have to send a video to loveisquarantine after each date talking about how it went, so that the audience on instagram watching this reality show unfold can keep up with the action. and for the purposes of this online show, i have to provide a short intro video. hey there. my name is omar mehtab, i'm 29... during the round—robin dates, those involved don't know what each other looks like. in all the videos uploaded, fingers obscure faces.
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only if a couple hits it off are they finally revealed. the creators wanted to get right away from the normal obsession with image that you find on most dating sites to get to what they say is important. ‘cause anything is possible! for me personally, i happen to have achondroplasia, which is the most common form of dwarfism. now, a lot of girls, not all girls, but a lot of girls are looking for the ga", attractive, "he's got the beard, he's got the good hair, the muscles and all the things," so for me to go on a dating app like hinge or tinder, the numbers just aren't great because i don't get that opportunity... people go, "oh, nah — swipe left," but for something like loveisblind and loveisquara ntine, like i said, we're allowing people the opportunity to get to know people, and who knows? right, it's 2am here, making it evening time in the us. and before the first date has even begun, excitement is building
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up in the comments. so, must admit, bit nervous. let's see how this goes. hey, olivia. how are you? and as i'm talking away, i realise that there's little to worry about, largely in part because i'm not focusing on anything except the conversation. ok, i've just had my first date and it kind of feels like the ‘90s, where if you had a penpal via letter or via e—mail, you wouldn't see them until you actually met them in real life, but it's refreshed for a social media generation. right now i'm about to send a video talking about the date and how it went for everyone to see. we're excited, so keep us posted. let's go! we believe in love! but after this lockdown is over, will there still be a place for loveisquarantine? for others that do consistently use dating apps, i feel like something similar to loveisquarantine actually is a better option — it's just a lot more of an intentional, ifeel like, sort of approach. it's hard because i know that
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when i am using an app and i have all this information about somebody, i know what they like, i know that i can be more particular about it. i was way more nervous on loveisquarantine than i was in person, because i get scared of what i'm going to say, but when they're in person there is a connection and there's more back—and—forth. for better or worse, when dating apps came in, they changed our culture. in this time of isolation, we're still relying on technology but re—learning how to connect with people, so maybe the art of conversation isn't dead after all. hello and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that netflix added 16 million new subscribers in the first quarter of the year, nintendo said it's increasing switch production by 10% and facebook released its gaming app ahead of schedule, a move
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they said was directly in response to the lockdown. facebook also launched a coronavirus survey in the uk this week asking select users if they had'd symptoms of covid—i9. it's a part of a joint effort with carnegie mellon university to help track the illness. the uk surveyjoins an online heat map to track where people in america are feeling ill, county by county. people can report any covid—i9 or flu—like symptoms they've had had in the last 2a hours. a device made from a raspberry pi mini—computer is being tested to remotely monitor vital signs in coronavirus patients. engineers at the university of toronto designed the device which attaches to a fingertip probe. it feeds patient data back to nurses via wi—fi. 60 more satellites were launched into orbit by elon musk‘s spacex starlink mission, joining 360 that are already up. spacex says it will eventually have 12,000 satellite in space with the aim of providing global internet coverage. and finally, it was the 50th anniversary of earth day this week, with celebrations taking
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place mainly online. the european space agency beamed a powerful message of human unity from stephen hawking out across the planet. stephen hawking: when we see the earth from space, we see ourselves as a whole. ok, school is back and that means for parents at home, we have to start helping our children with their lessons. there is a lot of homeschooling content online, but it's pretty overwhelming for any parent to work out where to go for what. so here's kate russell with a round—up of what's around. you know, it's ok to admit that this shutdown is sending you a little bit doolally. like these parents who posted these brilliant memes about homeschooling. and with schools going back, but the kids remaining at home,
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here is my tech survival kit. many of the resource hubs that teachers already use have put up special sections to guide parents through this stressful period. twinkle has daily activities for primary age. a search for live lessons brings up tons of pre—made classes with qualified teachers. and if your kids' teachers are emailing worksheets in a confusing array of file formats, zamzar can quickly convert stuff so you can open them with ease. you are not going to become a first—class teacher overnight, so try not to be too hard on yourself. and don't give out too many detentions, it'll punish you more than it will them. parentkind is full of straightforward advice for the shutdown, including what to expect from your kids' school and some tips to create a good learning environment for all ages. lessons aside, keeping the kids focused with all the distractions of home will be tough, so don't be afraid to use the bells and whistles of educational apps to help keep their attention. sign up to easypeasy for a guide
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to playful learning, including daily game ideas and tips. you can also track progress to help see the difference you are making. phonicsplay teaches reading skills using phonics. the parents‘ section can help with understanding the teaching process. this is usually a paid site, but the makers are offering everything free during the shutdown. carol vorderman became famous doing quickfire maths on a tv show, and her video classes for kids are now also being enjoyed free of charge for the duration of the shutdown. good science begins with thinking like a scientist, and that's the focus of this site full of lessons and activities. when you're feeling like it's about to spin out of control, set the kids a brainpop quiz. with fun, colourful videos, they'll forget they're learning. if you want to dig deeper, there are challenges, worksheets and vocabulary tests you can set. and i wouldn't be doing myjob as a tech evangelist if i didn't suggest that now is a really good time to learn coding.
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it's something you can do together, and teaches logic and problem—solving skills too. raspberry pi projects and codecademy are two old favourites that have fun, interactive projects for all stages of learning. for primary age, bee—bot is a fun app that teaches the principles of coding and develops computational thinking in a playful way. and if all else fails, restore peace and tranquility with some mindful meditation — cookie monster style. head over to the sesame street channel on youtube kids where they will be publishing two new monster meditation cartoons each week, to help younger kids deal with the stress of having you teaching them at home. me smell with me little nose... cookies! oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! that was kate, and i have to say to every single parent that is trying to juggle a job and be teacher now, hats off to you — it's a really tough gig and i am sure you're
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doing absolutely brilliantly. and i am afraid that is all we have got time for on this, the short cut of click for this week. as always, the full—length version can be found on the bbc iplayer. thanks so much for watching, and we'll see you soon. bye bye. hello there despite some cloud around the coast and a touch of ground frost this morning it will be for many another dry and bright day but already we're seeing a change in the north and for many of us the week ahead brings cooler and more u nsettled week ahead brings cooler and more unsettled weather. showers are with us already for the northern half of
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scotland, heavy showers around here for the day. there may be the odd showerfor northern for the day. there may be the odd shower for northern england and parts of wales but by and large warm and bright with hazy sunshine. after the 20 degrees yesterday it will feel significantly cooler particularly with a brisk north—easterly wind picking up across northern scotland continuing to carry the showers and through the night. the colder air means a cooler night, a touch of ground frost with showers continuing in the south, it will be milder here. a more u nsettled will be milder here. a more unsettled picture as we head through the new week as ever you can get more information on the website.
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this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. spanish children are being allowed out of their homes for the first time in six weeks, as one of europe's strictest lockdowns is relaxed. uk prime minister borisjohnson is to return to work tomorrow, two weeks since he left hospital after falling ill with coronavirus. dozens are arrested in central berlin, after demonstrating against germany's lockdown measures. the military will begin testing essential workers around the uk for coronavirus in mobile units which will operate in "hard to reach" areas. also in the programme, people take up challenges across the uk, raising money

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