tv The Papers BBC News May 2, 2020 10:30pm-11:01pm BST
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hello, this is bbc news with james reynolds. we will take a look at tomorrow's papers in a moment with nigel wilson and jo philips. first of all, the headlines. with some parts of the uk reopening, ministers announce measures to help some of the country's most vulnerable trapped at home. the uk prime minister reveals the extent of his experience of the virus saying his condition was so serious that a statement announcing his death was prepared. spain embraces the start of a return to normal as lockdowns begin to be lifted across europe. another blow to british business as rolls—royce says it may have to cut as many as 8,000 jobs. an experimental drug is authorised by us officials for emergency use on severely—ill coronavirus patients.
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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the political commentator, jo phillips and the political editor of the sunday mirror and sunday people, nigel nelson. tomorrow's front pages, starting with the sunday telegraph. it reports on the government's aim to reopen primary schools at the start ofjune. that story shares the front page with a picture of borisjohnson‘s newborn son. the mail on sunday has the same photo splashed across its front page. wilfred johnson being cuddled by his mother, carrie symonds. the sunday times focuses on the debate over strict lockdown rules for the elderly. the british medical association is arguing for restrictions to be relaxed for healthy people over 70. the sunday express looks at the prime minister's plans for getting people back to work post—lockdown. it says the government is drawing up 11 new rules to help make
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the workplace safer. and finally, the sunday mirror continues its campaign for people working on the coronavirus front line to receive bonus pay. it also reports on drug trials in the uk that could help ease the suffering of some victims. shall we begin? we are going to start with the sun on sunday. boris exclusive on his hospital hell. doctors were ready for me to die. nigel nelson, first of all. the full amazing story of his fight for life, see pages four and five. i only have page one. have you read the others? i have, the sun newspaper on its website. there is some details. what he is saying is the doctors prepared him to announce his death and he said it was a type of death of stalin type of scenario which is a very boris way of describing it. i'm rather dumbstruck as to why somebody would want to compare themselves to
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stalin but i guess that's part of the story. me too but he said it! i will see if i can five pages four and five. jo philips, did you read that paper? yes, i did. he was referring to the comedy film death of stalin. i thought he was talking about the 1953 death of stalin. you need to move on, james, get involved with the popular culture! as nigel says it is full of borisisms that underline this interview he has done with the sun newspaper. he's obviously very emotional and it has affected him hugely. who wouldn't be affected him hugely. who wouldn't be affected by a brush with death that close. he says it was hard to believe how quickly his health deteriorated. i mean, we would probably be in a very different place if he hadn't been so gravely ill. but i think this does reveal
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just how very, very poorly he was and it is quite an extraordinary interview really. you have given me wise advice to reboot my own cultural references. it is a brilliant film, you must watch it.|j haven't seen it, clearly! we move on to the sunday times, set free healthy over 70s, say doctors. the british medical association, the royal college of gps saying there is such a thing as healthy over 70s and they should not be discriminated against. that's right. at the moment they are being shielded and told they are being shielded and told they have to spend three months behind locked doors and now there is a suggestion, hang on a second, why should they if they are perfectly fit? why could they not come out earlier? and obviously the theme at the moment is actually how lockdown will be eased. we got a hint today at the no 10 press conference from
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the deputy chief medical officer jenny harries when she was saying they have discovered, for instance, that anti—arthritis drugs may have a positive effect on covid—19. so in the event there was somebody being shielded and they were on these drugs, there is a chance they might have a bit of protection. they don't know yet but it is something that is showing promising results. at the moment you have the british medical association and the royal college of gps saying there are other things to be considered here like the mental health of people who are locked up for quite so long and perhaps it is time now to start thinking about which ones could actually come out. jo philips, it's an interesting point. two months ago, without knowing much, everybody wanted to protect the over 70s but a lot of over 70s have said we are not dead yet and we are active members of society and do not deserve to be treated as such. absolutely and if there was a blanket ban on people
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over 20 there would be uproar. it is an arbitrary figure and somebody of 75 or 80 could be healthier and fitter and more useful and valuable, for instance helping out with grandchildren and things like that, than somebody who has underlying health problems who is only in their 30s or 40s. the bma said it is discriminatory and unacceptable to have this blanket ban. i think we have this blanket ban. i think we have had people like dame joan ba kewell have had people like dame joan bakewell who i think is 87, or something like that. there are an awful lot of people who are extremely fit and active and healthy and a perfectly sensible. you know, you can trust them to not go screaming around and gathering for a long distance ramblings and things like that. i mean, itjust seems to me if we are going to remove any sort of lockdown we need to look at the ability of people to deal with the ability of people to deal with the easing of restrictions. and just to say you don't count because you
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are 70. and i think also there is a nuance here, james, is well that we have seen so starkly illustrated by the horror that is happening in our ca re the horror that is happening in our care homes. of course. that we cannot have this attitude towards elderly people. you know, what is elderly? does it start at 70? does it start at 80, 90? look at now captain, now colonel tom. it start at 80, 90? look at now captain, now coloneltom. there is a lwa ys captain, now coloneltom. there is always one date thrown out by one newspaper possibly giving some people some hope. we have talked about the oldest and now the youngest, potential to go back in june. the telegraph is saying that primary schools would go back and during the first and following that for secondary schools, years ten and 12, which means it is the children who will be taking gcses next year and a—levels next year, might be able to go back. we have to be
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really careful about dates. while the papers are full of different measures to ease the lockdown, actually when that will happen is much more problematic and of course what they are talking about is the r rate, the reproductive rate of the virus, that's got to be below one, which means that gradually the disease will be in retreat. and until they can be sure that's happening there is no way they can actually put dates on the of these things going ahead. however, i do think that schools have to be the first to go back because if schools don't go back, parents can't go back to work. so it becomes a sort of logical way of doing things, that the schools are the first things that will return. we are going to go to the sunday express now, still talking about the plan to go back to
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work. pm's plan to get britain back to working. 11 workplace rules, including floor markings. if we go to one of the inside pages it talks about the 11 rules. i should say, if we can cut to me, that these 11 rules are almost all deployed behind me in the bbc newsroom. there is tape on the floors, there are one—way systems. if you go to the wrong stairs you have to make sure that's right. jo philips, your turn on this one. might we see more workplaces doing what we are doing here at new broadcasting house? yes, i think that's inevitable. 0ne here at new broadcasting house? yes, i think that's inevitable. one of the things nigel has alluded to, you can set as many dates as you like and see what happens, but in a sense, the government has got to ta ke sense, the government has got to take the country with it. the express alludes to a survey that says 59% of people polled feel very unsafe about any sort of return. i
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think parents will be particularly anxious about children going back to school. and workplace rules are fine. face coverings, whether it's masks or fine. face coverings, whether it's masks of scarves, fine. face coverings, whether it's masks or scarves, whatever, floor markings, staggered lunchtime breaks, staggered arrival times, markings, staggered lunchtime breaks, staggered arrivaltimes, no rush hour, that sort of thing. it doesn't solve the problem of public transport. i think we have already seen how quickly supermarkets and places have adapted and how people are perfectly happily queueing outside, maybe not perfectly happily. near enough! as it is not pouring with rain! but people have got used to that sort of behaviour. it is funny, i was watching a concert on television the other day andl concert on television the other day and i thought, good lord, all those people so close together. bit like when you pee no see people smoking in films. it looks very odd. people have got used to being distant —— a bit like when you see people smoking
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in films. i think there will be a lot of reluctance from the public to go, 0k, we are going back. it will have to be staggered and carefully managed. one set of people who might not be going back, if we go back to the sunday times, art students, they will be the last ones to go back to university, nigel nelson. yes, that's right. the argument seems to be that if you are studying something practical like medicine or veterinary science or dentistry, or something like that, you need to get back sooner. so if you've chosen an a rts back sooner. so if you've chosen an arts subject, tough luck, you are not going to get back this year. arts subject, tough luck, you are not going to get back this yearlj did arts, what did you do, gerry? yeah, afraid so, we are not exactly key workers, are we? any of the three of us? —— jo. key workers, are we? any of the three of us? -- jo. i'm afraid that is pretty truthful! the next up on the picture that has been run by a lot of other papers, the picture of the prime minister's fiance carry
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assignments, and their son, wilfred lawrie nicholasjohnson, with the quote, he's got daddy's hair. two of his names come from the doctors who treated the prime minister. nigel, it is your turn. the doctors were nick price and nick hardt who say tonight they are very honoured that carry assignments and the prime minister have chosen their names for the baby. this is the first time really we have seen very much of, or heard very much about wilfred. when heard very much about wilfred. when he was born he was treated with more secrecy by no 10 than a royal birth, and they didn't even reveal which hospital he had been born in. now we know it is university college and 110w know it is university college and now we see a picture of him and he looks great and he has boris's hair. the birth of stalin. may be a film about that but i can actually watch!
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the independent starts with an international story, spain emerges from 49 days indoors. jo philips, did you know, i'm sorry, this isn't a quiz, people of different ages are allowed out at different times in spanish parks? who goes first at 6am in the morning? i think older people go later. yes, you've got it right, adults first, then older people and then children. it is interesting to see how spain is doing it but we are not doing that here. not yet but again it is one of the things you need to look at in terms of how you stagger a return to normality, or the new normality. it is a great picture. i've just been watching people on the news talking. the relief they must have felt. because of course children haven't been allowed out of their houses for weeks on end. they haven't been able to go out for exercise or anything. it has been a long time and to see people strolling around the streets of that beautiful city of barcelona isa of that beautiful city of barcelona is a great relief to them, and
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obviously the spanish authorities will be watching very carefully, as they have done in germany, to make sure that there is no increase in infections. but it's good to see that it's happening around europe, that it's happening around europe, that people will be able to go out and feel the sun on their faces. that is the last word for now. jo philips and nigel nelson, thank you. that's it for the papers this hour. we will be back in an hourfor another look at the papers. click is next. goodbye for now. hello, you.
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day 6,021 of lockdown here in the uk, and i'm still here. lara isn't, though — she is somewhere else. where are you? there you are. what's going on, mate? well, i had a bit of a problem, there was a leak in the ceiling in the original click studio so i thought i would have a change of scenery. and while i was about it, i'm really starting to miss you now so i thought it was time to get a nice framed picture of you. what do you think? uhh... actually this isn't true, it's notjust a picture of you, i'm missing 0mar, too. take a look at this! this is the meural ii digital canvas. you can upload your favourite pictures and moving images, and if you subscribe, there are tens of thousands of pictures. the picture resolution is fantastic. in the flesh, it really looks like a high—res framed photo. but the frame isn't great, and you do need to live with the fact that it has this
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slightly messy lead. but i've got another picture for you to look at here. right... what do you think this one may be? well, it's an aerial shot, isn't it? i don't know — some kind of oilfield, i'll go for. that's what it looks like, but this is actually the car park of disney world florida during lockdown. no cars, no mickey mouse, no mini, it does not look no minnie, it does not look like a theme park at all. these pictures are taken by a company called planet. they've put loads of cubesats into orbit around the earth and are collecting photos of what is going on all the time. their near—consta nt surveillance gives us insights into how the world is changing, covering everything from deforestation to refugee camps in myanmar. during the covid—19, crisis these images can provide surprising insights into how the pandemic is impacting our world. that data is even used as an indicator of global economic health. governments can estimate crop
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yields, and investors can use it to monitor oil storage in areas across the world. you see a lot of effects on the economy. the most obvious cases are things like the ships either stacking up or disappearing from ports, planes stacking up at airports. we saw oil tanks getting full up because the oil was still being in supply but it wasn't being used as much, and so all the tanking capacity was being filled up. and there may be positives for the environment and new ways of working that will emerge from populations being locked down. pollution has gone down, and we have seen some of that effect with a factories going off or less people travelling on the roads and planes, and the effects of that.
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and in general, this is relatedly changing people's behaviour a bit. a bit like people are moving to zoom instead of travelling to meetings, we are seeing people use remote—sensing satellite data rather than going out to visit sites. but there's only so much that we can understand from flat images. the next step is utilising artificial intelligence to make the world searchable. with computer vision and machine learning, soon you may be able to ask for highly—specific information. how many houses are there in pakistan? give me a plot of that versus time, and you should be able to extract that out. 0rjust tell me where the trees have been cut down in the amazon between last month and this month, and give me the latitudes and longitudes so i can go and investigate that. we can now see daily pictures of every simultaneous economic, environmental and human activity
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all at once. when you add in al and other data sets, the insight, patterns and predictions we can glean are completely unique. it may turn out that these eyes in the sky will give us a whole new way of seeing our world. the village of moneygall140km south—west of dublin, and the site of a proof—of—concept partnership between drone company manna aero and the country's health service executive. manna aero are already testing essential food deliveries from this service station, but now with the coronavirus lockdown, they've shifted their attention to medicine. hello, dr 0'reilly. the new service starts with a gp video consultation. cough bottle for that. the doctor sends a prescription by e—mail to a nearby pharmacy. and they're going to
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deliver the drugs back to you by drone delivery. ok, no problem. the medicine is attached to a drone and is transported back to the patient‘s door, in this case people who are currently self—isolating. i'm 70 years of age and we're told to stay in, so we've stayed in, we've never gone out anywhere. 0h, sure, it's absolutely brilliant. i thought i'd never see the day that there'd be such technology that i wouldn't have to be driving into town and back home to get my medicine. the uk too is considering how drones can be used to transport vital medical supplies. we'd like to be there in the next few weeks, we'd like to start something in the uk with a similar set up to here in ireland, to support the local communities during these times. we're in discussions. 0ur plant and office and r&d is in wales, so we'd like to do something initially in wales to show the uk public what it looks like.
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wales has already been the site of remote drone delivery testing. just before the lockdown, a drone successfully dropped a defibrillator over snowdonia, in wales. it was a successful beyond—line—of—sight test in collaboration with the welsh ambulance service. and another first—of—its—kind trial in the uk, bringing medical equipment by drone from southampton general hospital to st mary's on the isle of wight, is currently under way. in a joint initiative with the european space agency, the uk government has pledged £2.6 million for drone or satellite projects that could help the nhs, and the uk space agency says we may one day see dedicated drone corridors for shipping vital supplies. the possibility of air corridors between different locations to support the covid—19 outbreak is a possibility in months. you find a few hospitals who are aware of the challenges that they are facing and up for engaging with us, and we have got some who are already engaged within nhs england and supporting this, who want to engage and have these testing and these pilots in theirarea. so, is this a sight we're going to have to get used to? drone delivery may be coming
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to our towns and cities sooner than we'd imagined. that wasjen. now, for anyone at home with kids, things have, of course, become a little more complicated of late, as we're always looking for ways to entertain them. so marc cieslak has been taking games to the next level. "why don't they go outside and kick a ball about?" that's the phrase often repeated by lots and lots of television preventers right after any item about videogames has just run. goose honks well, in the current circumstances, where all real—world ball—kicking activities have been cancelled for the moment... 0h! so sad! ..a lifetime spent playing video games has better equipped millions of people for life in lockdown than all the doomsday prepping of toilet paper in the world.
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but, for parents and carers, it can be difficult to find titles the whole family can enjoy, especially if you yourself don't play games. help is at hand in the shape of an online guide designed to help parents who don't know their mario from their mortal kombat. it's the work ofjournalist, youtuber and father—of—three andy robertson. collaborating with the games industry, he's come up with a guide that navigates the modern gaming landscape. parents can search for an individual title to see if it's right for them, or they can search through curated lists which are categorised by the type of experience games provide. talking to families, i'm often, kind of, suggesting games they should play. it can be quite hard to find games in the way it's presented to them with the information they need, which are things like pegi rating, how long will it take to play, what's the kind of time commitment.
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it's designed for parents in a form they can access. a game just released and quite timely is a game called animal crossing, played on the switch, a game where you escape the world and you go to your own desert island. the list also provides a heads—up about features like loot boxes and content where games could be asking players to shell out extra cash to purchase in—game items. you know, children may well, and probably are, using games to cope with what's happening in the world. they're finding meaning in games, they're finding calm and maybe a bit of hope and a bit of control, and so if we come in and just say what we can do to limit them, we take away something that's very supportive for this particular time. the guardian newspaper games editor keza macdonald has a podcast dedicated to parenting and gaming and she's compile a list for parents who may already be gamers but might
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want to find titles the whole family can play. so in my family i have a 14—year—old stepson, 3—year—olds and a seven—month—old baby. obviously the baby's way too young to play games with. i find with kids under five, they don't like levels and goals, they want to play with it like it's a toy, and there's lots of really good games, especially on the ipad or an iphone for that age group. especially everything by toca boca. .. ..and sago mini... ..and they are essentially digital toy boxes. so if you've got some teens, the teens and the adults can play together. and if you've got little kids, the little kids can play with each other or the adults and the little kids can play with together. kids can play together. unfortunately, i don't have any kids old enough to play the kind of thing i want to play. brilliant! that was marc, and you'll find the details to all of the games marc
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mentioned pinned to the top of our twitter feed. that's it for now, though. you staying in that place next week or are you moving around again? i don't know. tweet me — we could have a vote! throughout the week, you can keep track of all the team on social media on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter, @bbcclick. thanks for watching, and we will see you soon. bye— bye. hello. skies have threatened rather than delivered many showers today. if you've seen a bit of sunshine, the garden‘s been a nice place to be. spring in full swing of course right now and for part two of the weekend tomorrow, high pressure in control for much of the uk but there will still be a few showers breaking out. maybe for some of us, a greater chance tomorrow of catching one than today. this weather front towards
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the south—west of england will produce a bit of patchy, light rain in places. and in fact, that's the case as we go on into tonight, as the cloud increases as that weather front gets closer. and where we have seen some showers today across northern and eastern scotland, north—east england, they will slowly fade as we get on into the night. for most overnight it is dry with clear spells, temperatures fall a little lower than this in more rural spots but most of us just about avoiding a frost as we go into the morning. sunday will start dry with a fair amount of sunshine around but cloud is going to build and some showers will break out. towards northern and eastern scotland once again, a few for northern ireland, northern england, especially east of the pennines. it will take some time but from north wales, the midlands to east anglia later in the afternoon a chance of showers here could be heavy. and all the while a lot more cloud compared with today in south—west england and south wales, maybe some patchy light rain from that. temperatures in the mid teens for most of us. it will feel cooler for most in scotland tomorrow where you have the showers, especially in the north and east. they will continue
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on here into the evening. and we could well see as we get into sunday night a spell of rain across parts of yorkshire and lincolnshire which will gradually clear on monday, just leaving a few showers. whereas most places on monday will be dry, a mixture of cloud and some sunny spells around. the wind willjust start to pick up across parts of england and wales coming in from the east. that will cool things particularly across eastern counties. and as we get beyond monday to tuesday, that weather system towards the south—west brings new life and brings in a spell of heavy rain here and particularly towards south—west england. some uncertainty about exactly where it is going to sit before it fizzles out later on tuesday and just about gone by the time we get into wednesday. as high pressure builds back in. but it does bring the chance of seeing a bit of rain towards southern, south—western parts of england and south wales on tuesday. drier, though, on wednesday, and throughout the week for much of scotland and northern ireland it is looking dry with a mixture of cloud and sunshine. but where you are starting the week with a bit of rain, from mid week on it is looking mainly dry.
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this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. with some parts of the uk reopening, ministers announce measures to help some of the country's most vulnerable trapped at home. the uk prime minister reveals the extent of his illness from the virus, saying his condition was so serious a statement announcing his death was prepared. spain embraces the start of a return to normal, as lockdowns begin to be lifted across europe. another blow to british business as rolls—royce says it may have to cut as many as 8,000 jobs a trial begins to see if blood plasma from people who've recovered from coronavirus could help treat sick patients.
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