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pressure to the west mayjust introduce a few showers sometimes, but there is a lot of fine weather around and temperatures will start to creep up a bit as well. by the end of the week, an increasing chance of getting a few showers. i willjust show you a few locations in our forecast here. so an increasing chance for showers particularly toward scotland and northern ireland later in the week and one thing perhaps you really notice in this, just look at how much colder it gets as we go through next weekend. hello. this is bbc news with james reynolds we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines. the uk government is considering a series of measures to control the spread of coronavirus post—lockdown.
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it comes ahead of an announcement next sunday — which will set out its next steps. the phone app to track and trace people with covid—19 will be piloted this week on the isle of wight, and rolled out nationally across the uk later this month. russia reports a record one—day rise in coronavirus infections, with more than 10,000 people testing positive. is there a coronavirus crisis in iraq? 100 have died, but few believe the official figures. the race to find a treatment — a trial for a promising new drug to treat coronavirus is under way in southampton. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are former
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conservative adviser, mo hussein and the political writer and academic, maya goodfellow, the and academic, maya goodfellow, front pages. we: guardian. the front pages. we start with the guardian. ministers talking about using health passports for people to return to work. the i focuses on d raft return to work. the i focuses on draft guidelines on the return to work sent to employers and union same working hours will be staggered with one—way systems and stations. according to the financial times, hot their skin will be curtailed, lifts will be closed and workplaces kept half empty. the metro claims the prime minister will urge the world to come together in the quest for a coronavirus vaccine as he joins a bid to raise £6.6 billion to fight the pandemic. the daily telegraph reports that borisjohnson will describe the race to develop a coronavirus vaccine is the most urgent shared endeavour of a lifetime as he urges countries not
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to see it as a competition. the times says the prime minister is relu cta nt to the times says the prime minister is reluctant to ease the lockdown for phase of moving too fast. healthy over 70s might stage a rebellion against lockdown rules. let's begin. we have our guests, the lines are good. we will start with the daily express, boris leads £6 billion global race for vaccine. mo hussein, that is what it is all about? it is, without the vaccine we will still be in a similar position where people will be cautious and nervous, understandably, even if lockdown measures are ease. the certainty of a vaccine will definitely help the country to move forward and people to get on with their lives as best they can. things probably won't be exactly the same, but it will help. the global effort is really important, this is not just an issue in the uk, as we have
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seen, it is all around the world. the best minds do need to work together and everybody parting in the resources to try to get to the vaccine that can hopefully help other countries as well. they are 80% certain vaccine can be found soon, others say we should be more cautious, what do you think?” vaccine is what everyone wants. this story really highlights the importance of investment in science, international collaboration, the uk, japan, saudi arabia, a number of different countries around the world to put money into looking for a vaccine, which is incredibly important. it is something boris johnson wants to see on the front of the papers, but there are serious questions to ask about the uk government's own handling of coronavirus. thinking about the fact we have one of the worst death numbers in the world and what
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happened early on in the early stages in the handling, in terms of testing and why they abandoned contact tracing. but why do we have a fiddling of the numbers around the testing, saying 100,000 have been tested when that isn't accurate. borisjohnson is talking tested when that isn't accurate. boris johnson is talking about fighting the virus and winning this fighting the virus and winning this fight and people do want a vaccine, we all want a vaccine but this kind of language and this kind of positioning should not obscure deeper questions to ask about the government's handling and ask for an enquiry when this is over. we are going to look at the daily telegraph, johnson, the vaccine is the endeavour of our lives. but i wa nt to the endeavour of our lives. but i want to move to the neck story, queues of one kilometre to board aeroplanes post lockdown. that is the estimation of how long it would ta ke the estimation of how long it would take for a the estimation of how long it would take fora q the estimation of how long it would take for a q for an aeroplane full capacity. mo hussein says there will
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be no more fight for the overhead luggage space. but apart from that, it would be a disaster? it would be, but unfortunately it is a reality check. there is lots of talk about an exit strategy, which is misnamed. we will not be exiting back to how things work, we will be exiting to a new situation and set of circumstances, affecting all of our lives. i think the aviation industry, again, unfortunately, is going to lose out from this. even with measures in place of social distancing, there are elements of this article that suggests they cannot really do that. you also have to think about public appetite. just because something is lifted by the government, it does not mean people will necessarily follow. i think people will be extremely nervous about getting on a flight again, probably for quite some time. it is
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not every sector i think will look the same as it did before this started. briefly, finishing on this, it can you envisage flying again soon? it is not something i was thinking about. for people who have family elsewhere in the world, that is something they are more probably concerned about. it is very difficult to imagine any kind of normal any time soon. we are going to go to the i, britain to get back to go to the i, britain to get back to work, draft guidelines on return to work, draft guidelines on return to workplaces sent to employers and unions. some offices will remain closed. 0ne eyesore in a different paper, it might not be accurate. it says we have avoid sharing pens. the last time i shared a pen was in a bank in the 1980s that had those little anti—theft devices, have you seen the draft guidelines? there is lots of different ideas, canteens close, lifts a re lots of different ideas, canteens close, lifts are monitored and desks
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spaced apart and people working on different days, all seem like sensible ideas. this is to try to get the economy moving, but they have to work practically. i think all of this, again, is going to be guided by the science. that is why the prime minister will take his time this week and look at the data before actually giving more details, which we are expecting him to do in a weak‘s time. but these do seem like measures that can help to an extent to get the country moving again, which clearly does need to happen at some point when it is safe to do so. no more hot busking then? looking at this, there is a number of different things. even saying there should not be face—to—face meetings and you will have to practise social distancing within your workplace and having to have tape on the floor so people are standing two metres apart. it is a reminder that standing two metres apart. it is a reminderthat ina standing two metres apart. it is a reminder that in a lot of ways, things will remain very, very different, very, very strange for
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quite some time, even if some of us are able to return to work. it is sad to think about because i would never think i would say it, but with things like getting on the central line again. i have never heard anyone saying they miss the central line before, it is something i never thought i would hear. we will go to the guardian now, their main story. ministers in talks over immunity passports to get the uk back to work. we did hear a lot about immunity passports, the who has suggested extreme caution over that idea? yes, we are probably moving slightly away from that language, just because what is immunity? how long does it last? can you catch the virus again? these are unknowns, because this is a new virus the country and the world is dealing with and we are still learning lots and lots of things about it. the idea goes back to how do we get businesses working and how do we get
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the economy moving? this is one of many ideas, but it does need to work and it does need to deliver the outcome that people wanted. i am not sure at this stage, does. the next story, still in the guardian, year six first in phased return to school. this will be the idea that primary school students aged ten and 11 will be the first one is back in the classroom? yes, this is everything being covered at the moment, suggesting this would happen when in normal times after the next half term would be, so the ist of january coming back after the half term and it is a staged return for different year groups. something thatis different year groups. something that is important to note, talking to teachers, social distancing in the classroom, this is really unrealistic for middle schools and primary schools. thinking about what the return will look like and for the return will look like and for the teachers is really important. a
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lot of people have underlying health conditions and so thinking about when is it safe is for the schools to come back and when it will not, seems to be factored into these plans. the times newspaper has a headline that says if i was at school in normal times, i will have enjoyed, because thousands of a—level students have been given no work by teachers. so that is a real issue? it is worrying, but it may sound good for the first few days but when you are about to go to university, it is worrying. how prepared are you to make that change if you are not getting any of this work? coupled with the anxieties around moving away from home anyway and thinking about the financial implications for people given the economy as it is and as it will be. this doesn't help the situation of
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young people who are making that quite big life change.” young people who are making that quite big life change. i mention for some teenagers having no work would be ideal, but for those who want to learn and start getting to university, they need stuff to do? yes, generally it is a real shame looking at how the school year ended. for those students who have kind of been robbed and all the work they have put into it. i think for a lot of people, maybe this is me revealing my slightly nerdy side, because i would want to see howl didl because i would want to see howl did i get those results. they have put in the works of the whole year and it is such a shame they were not able to do those exams. you want work and you want the central line back. we will have to to find out more about you, immam hussein in the next set of the paper. that is it for this hour, we will be back at 11.30 looking at the papers, for
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now, it is click. hello, you. 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? 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
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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 neural 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 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 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
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and are collecting photos of what is going on all the time. their near—constant 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 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
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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. 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
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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 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
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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 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 where there'd be such technology that i wouldn't have to be driving into town and back
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home to get my medicine. the uk too is considering how to use drones 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. 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 underway. 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
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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 their area. so, is this a sight we're going to have to get used to? drone delivery may be coming 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
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about videogames has just run. presenters 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. 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.
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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. 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
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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 compiled a list for parents who may already be gamers but might 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. ..
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..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. 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 mentions pinned to the top of our twitter feeds. 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.
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hello there. the weather will not be the main thing we remember about april 2020. but in normal circumstances it just might april 2020. but in normal circumstances itjust might have been because it was an exceptional month. the sunniest april on record according to the met office and also an exceptionally dry month. where you see the dark brown colours on this map, that showed rainfall that was well below average, particularly across northern england and eastern scotland. will the dry trend continue as we move deeper into may? high pressure will try to keep things dry through this week but with low pressure squashing in from the south, see the white lines on the south, see the white lines on the chart, the isobars squeezing together, that means we will have a strong easterly wind during monday.
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the wind is picking up as we get into the afternoon. some showers across eastern england, many spots will be dry but the best of the sunshine will be out west. temperatures typically between 1a and 19 degrees but a little bit cool for some north sea coast. the wind will continue to strengthen to the england, got a 45 mph or more for the far south—west of england. turning wet here and for the channel islands, as this frontal system slides in. but remember our area of high pressure. they will act like a black, it will stop this front making much progress northwards. yes, we see rain across the south—west of england getting into parts of wales, midlands, may be the south—east during tuesday but the rain tends to fizzle away as it runs into the area of high pressure. it is dry further north with some sunshine. the highest temperatures across north—west england and western scotland. as we move into wednesday, we keep a lot of dry weather in quite a chilly start to wednesday morning but we see spells
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of sunshine. more of a breeze out west with some cloud and perhaps some showery rain coming and going at times but there is temperatures just nudging upwards, 19 or 20 degrees are not feeling as chilly for in those north sea coast. as we move into thursday, the high pressure slips eastwards and a low pressure slips eastwards and a low pressure coming in from the west this time and that will drive a southerly flow across the british isles. temperatures will start to rise, warm air heading our way. notice something cold that lying in wait up to the north. this is thursday's forecast and a lot of dry weather around for many but across northern ireland and scotland there isa northern ireland and scotland there is a potential for sharp showers into the afternoon, maybe with some thunder and lightning but there's temperatures around 18 or 19 degrees across parts of southern scotland and 22 to the south—east of england. 0n and 22 to the south—east of england. on friday the chance of showery rain across northern ireland and north and west scotland and further south it is but only dry with sunny
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spells. temperatures could get up to 23 degrees but signs of something chilly across the north of scotland. as we go through next weekend, this plunge of cold air working southwards across all parts of the british isles. it will not feel much like spring at all. it is going to feel significantly colder. there is the chance of showers and some of them could be wintry over the highest ground with some dry weather as well. so into the following week, high pressure still not too far away and actually it looks as if the high pressure might build a little bit more strongly towards the uk, cutting off some of the coldest of the airand cutting off some of the coldest of the air and certainly bringing a fairamount of dry the air and certainly bringing a fair amount of dry weather.
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this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. easing the lockdown: the uk's government signals proposals ahead of an announcement. but there's a warning — restrictions could return in a "specific and localised way" if coronavirus cases go up again. the worst thing to do would be to prematurely relax the current measures to see a second spark caused by the risk overwhelmingly of the nhs and would introduce lockdown measures all over again. the phone app to track and trace people with covid—19 will be piloted this week on the isle of wight and rolled out nationally across the uk later this month. russia reports a record one—day rise in coronavirus infections with more than 10,000 people testing positive. is there a coronavirus crisis in iraq?

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