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they want to make sure that mum and offspring make it safely down to the nearby river ouse. lucy isn't the only animal to move in on an urban area while all the humans are indoors. the goats of llandudno are also still having a good time. and we've had deer reclaiming the streets in parts of london. but for lucy in york it's nowjust a waiting game until her new family arrives. danny savage, bbc news. let's have a look at the weather, here is ben rich. good to see that even in the strangest of times. this week some spring weather and warmer weather to come for a time.
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what goes up must come down by the end of the week. this is how today shapes up. a few showers in eastern and southern parts of scotland. one or two and southern parts of scotland. one ortwo in and southern parts of scotland. one or two in the midlands and east anglia, largely dry elsewhere. chilly for some north sea coast, up to 19 degrees in cardiff. down south a bit more clout and the wind is strengthening all the while. this evening the wind could cause one or two problems in south wales and the west of england. dartmoor and cornwall could see 55 mph. very heavy rain in devon and cornwall and into the channel islands and the south—west of wales. further north, any daytime showers with fade and it will be dry. in scotland temperatures will dip down to freezing or attached below. tomorrow we start off the day with this band of cloud and rain in the south with brisk winds. but with this frontal
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system running into high pressure, which is dominant in the north, the rain does not make much progress northwards. wet for the west, but otherwise it is fine and dry and we will see spells of sunshine again. cool for north sea coasts and cool for the south—west underneath that cloud and rain. in wales, north—west england and scotland, up to 18 degrees. on wednesday we could see one 01’ degrees. on wednesday we could see one or two degrees. on wednesday we could see one oi’ two showers degrees. on wednesday we could see one or two showers grazing into western fringes, but otherwise it is fine and dry with patchy cloud and sunny spells. the temperatures generally start to nudge upwards by this stage. that continues as we move into thursday and friday. we develop a southerly flow across the british isles. you can see the orange colours on the charts. a bit more unsettled further north. a bit
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cooler as well. let me show you what happens at the weekend. here comes a plunge of very cold air, unusually cold for this time of year. that is going to feel more like winter. in fa ct, going to feel more like winter. in fact, for some of us there could be some wintry showers. a reminder of our top story... the government has drawn up draft rules for businesses to follow once lockdown is eased, including reduced desk—sharing, and staggered shift times. that's all from the bbc news at one, so it's goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. can't good afternoon, it's 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news.
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you're watching bbc news, the time is 1.30pm, i'm olly foster at the bbc sport centre. the football association chairman greg clarke says it's difficult to knowjust when fans might be allowed in to watch matches again. in a letter to the fa governing council clarke has also warned of a £300 million budget cut over the next four years as a worse case scenario. let's speak to our reporter laura scott. laura, we know that if there's a resumption it will be behind closed doors, but greg clarke's letter is perhaps suggesting a longer—term impact. well, exactly, he has stressed that well, exactly, he has stressed that we don't know how things are going to pan out, that he has said that it thatitis that it is hard to foresee the crowds returning to matches any time soon. crowds returning to matches any time soon. now, we knew already that the rest of the season wouldn't have crowds, that he is clearly looking to next season as well and we know that a premier league are preparing themselves for the possibility of playing the entirety of next season behind closed doors. greg clarke also announced a £75 million cut to the annual budget and warned that the annual budget and warned that
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the worst case scenario would be similar cuts for the next four years because of changes to the whole football ecosystem. yeah, and the impact that would have on the various project they have. this is all leading up to a council meeting, isn't it, later this month? where are we at with project restarts? the premier league resumption is certainly a little bit of unrest surfacing from various parties? exactly, after friday's shareholder meeting of the 20 clubs there has definitely been some reaction to the latest updates. we hearing from brighton, who are opposed to neutral venues and their thought to be around six or seven clubs that could oppose the current plans for project restart. there is a growing idea that perhaps these clubs with the threat of relegation could accept playing neutral venues if relegation we re playing neutral venues if relegation were scrapped this season, but there is certainly going to be an interesting point of contention this week. but a lot rests on the
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government's review of lockdown restrictions and the clubs are set to meet of the back of that to just reassess what is likely to happen with the rest of the season and whether it could go ahead. we will see. lower, many thanks indeed. let's stay with that. as laura were saying, we seem to be some way of a consensus as to how football should resume. former spurs boss, harry redknapp, once the season to be completed by, but he knows that some teams will have very little motivation to see out the campaign. there is no doubt there are teams in the championship... there are a big problem is how the players want to play, how many players have got the appetite now to want to come back finish the season? liverpool, manchester united, may be the top six, leicester. if you are in the bottom six in the premier league, you will be quite happy to say, let's call it off now because if
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they get relegated all of them players who look like, you know, they are down there struggling, they will have a 30—50% cut in wait wages if they get relegated next year, so they are not going to want that to happen unless they are going to win the league like liverpool or do something special, what is there to play for? the british horse racing authority say their sport can restart behind closed doors within a week if the government say it's safe. the british horse racing authority has outlined plans, which include jockeys and staff living onsite in quarantine, with horses brought to and from the venue each day, and a limited number of courses being used. in our sport, we have to try harder to make the case, but we don't want to make the case, but we don't want to make the case, but we don't want to make the case ahead of public opinion. we are making the case to say, we are ready when you are ready, when the public health advice is ready we can be won at the first to go. we don't have to have premier league footballers trained for six weeks in our sport. our equine and human athletes are ready to go
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within a week to help bring life sport back. that's all the sport for now. lots more on the website. including details of another event pushed back 12 months, cycling's six—day women's tour, scheduled for this june, will now be at the same time next year. that was due to be at bicester, heading to southwark. i will have an update for you in the next hour. as we've been hearing, the government has set out plans for how companies can safely bring employees back to the workplace once lockdown measures are eased. the bbc has seen details of the new proposals, which include staggering start times, limiting hot desking, and introducing one—way systems. andy mcdonald is the shadow secretary for employment rights. hejoins me now. good afternoon tea year. good afternoon. we don't know when, of course, which is perhaps the most useful are questionable, but what do you make of this as we have seen them? you have seen them, i haven't. they were produced at 10am yesterday
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and stakeholders, principally the trade unions, had 12 hours in which to respond. i'm not convinced that is the right way to build confidence and trust. putting that aside, there are substantial elements of the documents, as i understand them, are somewhat weak. it is not a mandatory instruction from government. not a regulatory requirement for people to carry out covid—19 risk assessments. it is what they could expect employers to consider. i think it is more than consider. this has got to be an absolute must do and it has also talked about social distancing and hand washing, where possible, and hand washing, where possible, and to help. that is not enough. that is purely, we would like that to be enforced. what i am saying is they should be specific covid—19 risk assessment and they should be registered centrally with the health
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executive and be made public. a lot of people are very unhappy about how this has been, not only produced, but more importantly what it now says and in my view and my current assessment is it is nowhere near enough. there is an awful lot of work to be done to better particularise these guidelines, if people are truly going to feel safe in returning to work, whenever that may happen. there is a very difficult balance to be struck here and whilst larger governments may find it easy to go along with —— larger companies may find it easier to go along with government guidelines, smaller companies are going to struggle because they don't have the space to introduce the social distancing measures. what would you say to them? because there is huge pressure, particularly on those companies, to get back to work. i understand that entirely and thatis work. i understand that entirely and that is why i think the tuc have particularly singled out those companies with five or fewer employees. they wouldn't be expected
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to apply with such rigour, these particular regulations. but what it does lay bare is the absence of any health and safety team were as the name. we had a loss of —— health and safety regime. we had a lot of new mobile health and safety inspectors are now down to 950. a business could expect to be inspected in the course of 50 years perhaps once. that is not good enough, particularly when we consider the ctc and health inspecting facilities and ofsted with schools. why not have a better regime of health and safety for the workers? but if bare minimum now must be a risk assessment and for those businesses that would struggle with that, they should be given assistance. it doesn't have to be a nurse. but there are 100,000 trade union health and safety reps who are skilled in
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this discipline and there could be a great assistance to those employers where they have union recognition, and indeed, for those in the supply chain where there is none. they could be a great asset here and people do want to work collectively to get to the right place, which is people going back to work in the right circumstances at the right time, knowing that everything has been done to keep them safe and that is what we are calling for today. what employer is going to put an employee at any sense of risk, given that they open themselves up to legal cases, apart from anything else. common sense would suggest that it else. common sense would suggest thatitis else. common sense would suggest that it is not in the interest, so why do you assume that employers are going to try to get round it? oh, no, i don't assume that, but to rely on common sense and i no, i don't assume that, but to rely on common sense and i have heard this said on many occasions, you could just do away with a whole raft of health and safety at work legislation and regulations and just rely upon common sense. well, that
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didn't play out well in glasgow, or in scotland, 80 days ago, when the government's own subcontractor, circo, had won at their call centres with people working very, very closely together and indeed common sense didn't prevent circo being obliged to sign a disclaimer to say that if they did become ill as a result of a breach of health and safety regulations that they would be liable. so am afraid relying on common sense is... be liable. so am afraid relying on common sense is... you be liable. so am afraid relying on common sense is... you would like to think that that would work and there is innate goodwill. every employer i would think, or the vast majority of employers, do want to ensure the safety of their workers, but they have got to be assisted to get to that objective and at the moment the current publication of guidelines from the government isn't going to get them there and they need every help that they can get. that is why iam help that they can get. that is why i am calling for greater particularise agent and specification of these guidelines and regulations. while i had here,
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and regulations. while i had here, andi and regulations. while i had here, and i know that his words everybody drags, while i had a heck and ijust get your reaction to the news that jennie formby is standing down as the labour pa rty‘s jennie formby is standing down as the labour party's most senior officials standing down. why now?‘ i thinkjenny came in to post and of course she had a really difficult stewardship. also, it is no secret that she was quite poorly, but she battled through that incredibly and i have got incredible regard for where —— the wayjenny has gone about her business. she has done it with great professionalism and a terrific amount of progress, but she just feels that now is the time for her to step aside and let somebody else take up the reins. but i want to thank her for the work she has done and she has been absolutely terrific and i wish you well for her future. you don't think anything it is about that internal review of
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anti—semitism in labour's ranks?” don't know that that is played on jenny's mind, but i haven't spoken to her since news brokejust a few ago. but she has taken up the role, at what was clearly a difficult time for the labour party. she has done a terrificjob and she feels that this is the appropriate moment for somebody else to take over and help them in that transition was not i'm sure she will, but she needs to think what is next for her in her own life and all i can do is wish her well and thank her for her incredible service. andy mcdonald, it is good to talk to you and thank you for your time. in the past hour the membership of the scientific group advising the uk government's response to the coronavirus has been published. the group's membership had been kept secret to this point and the government has been under pressure to give more detail of who has been advising the government. our political correspondent helen catt is at westminster. well, up until now we haven't had a full list of the members of sage and
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actually we still don't have a full list and that is because each person on it was asked if they were happy to have their name published and a couple of them said that they wouldn't. downing street said they had to ask each of them to safeguard the personal security of individuals and protect them from lobbying. we have known that it has been led by professor chris whitty, the chief medical officer and also the chief scientific adviser, search patrick balance, and there had been pressure mounting over —— sir patrick vallance. there have been pressure mounting over recent weeks and that is because the government advice over the pandemic... the government has said it has been leaning heavily on that scientific advice, so there have been calls to say, we should really know what may cut that is thatis really know what may cut that is that is advising the government and having such an influence. somebody who is really welcome this is the committee chair greg clark, the
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former business secretary. he had pushed to get this publish. he said that this was called for in order to provide public assurance that the government is making decisions informed by a substantial body of expert advice. so he's welcome think that today. first minister of scotland nicola sturgeon has been outlining the scottish government's plans for a test, trace, isolate strategy to deal with coronavirus. this new strategy would mean anyone with symptoms reporting them to the nhs, who would then inform everyone they'd been in contact with.the first minister said that this new approach would rely on the public‘s co—operation and trust. a test, trace, isolate approach will only work if you, the public, are willing to do what we ask of you, so it is really important to start building your knowledge of and confidence in such an approach now as part of that grown—up conversation you know that i'm keen to have. the initial key point i want to make is that a successful tti approach depends first on us suppressing the virus to as low a level as possible.
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it infection rates are too high or they get too high again in the future the number of people with symptoms and who will need tested could overwhelm the system, even with a vastly expanded testing capacity. second, tti will be a key part of our approach, but it will not on its own keep infection rates down or the r number below one. it is not a quick fix or a magic solution. it will have to be combined with continued social distancing, rigorous hygiene and the appropriate use of face coverings. crucially, it will mean you, the public, knowing exactly what it is that we are asking you to do and why we are asking you to do it and being prepared to do it. that means if you have symptoms you need to recognise them and be willing to isolate, to contact the nhs and get tested, and also be prepared to share details of anyone you have been in contact with. and for all of us, it will mean being prepared to isolate for 1h days if we are contacted and told
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that we have been in close proximity to someone with the virus. and that, of course, could happen multiple times, with significant disruption to our lives. in his daily briefing mark drakeford, the welsh first minister reiterated his belief that a joint approach across the uk was preferable: i believe that a four nations approach works best for wales. across the united kingdom, we entered lockdown on the same day and on the same basic terms. i believe that it would be best if we could begin to lift lockdown for a set of common measures implemented to a common timetable, which we then put to work for wales. and there's a second important point to make, that whatever actions we agree upon, it is essential that we take people with us.
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and that welsh citizens feel that any changes we make are safe for them and for their families. with more than 100,000 confirmed cases and 7,000 deaths, brazil has now surpassed china where the outbreak started — but experts are warning the true numbers are far higher. already, the health system in the amazon has collapsed and there's real fear the virus could devastate the vulnerable indigenous population in the region, as well as its land. our south america correspondent, katy watson, reports. in the middle of the rainforest, the virus has taken hold. this is manaus, the biggest city in the amazon, where they're digging mass graves known as trenches. how else can the overwhelmed authorities cope with the numbers of people dying? manaus is at breaking point — it has one of the highest infection rates in the country and one of the most underfunded health systems.
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this video, shot inside one of the hospitals, shows body bags lying next to those gravely ill. manaus is home to many indigenous communities where poverty, malnutrition and displacement make tackling the virus an even bigger challenge. history has taught people here that viruses from outside bring devastation. their only defence now is home—made masks, but much more is needed to protect them. translation: we already have lots of people in the community with symptoms. but we don't have a doctor here. we don't have a nurse who looks after us. indigenous communities in the city struggle to access health services and they are struggling to work too. those living deep in the rainforest face even bigger challenges. the closest medical help is often days away by boat. some communities have shut themselves away, fearful of contagion. protection agencies are no longer on the ground and that has huge consequences in a country where illegal loggers and miners
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have been emboldened by a government set on developing the amazon. translation: we can't forget the attacks that keep happening and are never resolved. covid—19 kills with an illness. here, people are killed either through abandonment or contamination. invaders are coming in and taking advantage. they aren't in quarantine. the are using this time to explore and they are the principal vectors. deforestation rose more than 50% in the first three months of this year and there is an added urgency as fire season begins in a region already struggling with the covid—19. we will have these two big problems together. as we saw in the last year, when you have a lot of fires, you have people going into the hospital. when the hospitals are completely full of people with covid—19, it will be a madness when the fires start this year. the death toll keeps climbing and there is no peak in sight.
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and little protection for brazil's most vulnerable people. katy watson, bbc news. we're entering our seventh week of lockdown in the uk, and for most of us, life has been disrupted beyond recognition. as we wait to hear the government's strategy for eventually easing restrictions, many have been reflecting on their time at home, and their hopes for the future. graham satchell has been hearing some of your stories. # superhuman girls. # there is nothing they can't do. six weeks of lockdown through the eyes of six different people. nine—year—old bella has spent much of the time dancing. she's also paid tribute to the nhs. what do you think of the doctors and nurses at the moment? well, they're amazing and they're really super because, yeah, they're true heroes and they really help right now.
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this week, we'll learn more about the government's plans to ease the lockdown. will shops, businesses, schools, reopen? bella's mum kirsty is nervous. i think we just sort of adapted to being at home now and the thought of going back to normality is quite daunting, really. this is bella's grandma, christine. she's been busy volunteering, delivering food and prescriptions but she misses her grandchildren. they were here every day, every day, sometimes the four of them together, for tea. so the quietness now is. . . is so different. is it hard not being able to have physical contact? that's the thing that's so strange about all this, isn't it? yes, that is probably the hardest part is missing holding them, you know? and cwtching them, yeah. i had a bypass from my arteries
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to my femoral arteries, both. and i've taken medication that's deemed to make me vulnerable because my immune system is lowered. alfie's been told he needs to shield for at least 12 weeks. he's also missing his grandchildren. my granddaughters, as i see it, give me life. on a couple of occasions, i've seen them at a distance. we live on the top floor of a mansion block and i've looked down from our balcony and waved to them. so it's time to get back to normal, is it? you think it's time for people to start to get back to normal? ijust think we need some degree of normality back in our lives. i'm looking forward to the day when they say we don't need gloves, we don't need masks and we don't need to be overcautious. we haven't left the house at all since the lockdown came in. in london, jack has no problem
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seeing his grandmother eileen. they're living together. i think we've had a few little run—ins when it was bad weather. when you're locked inside and you can't get out. what do you mean by run—ins? me and nana going at each other. arguments. laughter. eileen had major surgery injanuary, she's also nervous about lockdown restrictions being relaxed. i don't think i'm ready for that because i'm still vulnerable. i have nurses still coming in to dress my wound, so i'm very nervous about going out. i'm not ready to go out. jack is a professional chef. give my area a clean... he worked in 5—star hotels in london but has been laid off. he's been running a weekly live cook—in online. into the pot.
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i would love jack to have some break from me. and be able to go out. break from you? laughs. just because i feel very guilty that he is locked down, but he won't do it. he won't go out. the risk versus the reward is, is not worth it at all. delivery of sunday dinners. back in south wales, christine has come to drop off some shopping and say hello from a safe distance. thank you! she's desperate to cuddle her grandchildren, but as a nurse of a0 years, she is also prepared to wait until she is told it's safe. i think if people really understood how many people have lost their lives and been affected by this and how we could come back again, and be even worse,
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then that's enough of a reminder that we need to do this slowly. it's lovely, innit? that was graham satchell reporting. now it's time for a look at the weather. good afternoon, it has turned into a fine spring day for most of us, one or two showers out there. one to those on the heavy side. call for north sea on the heavy side. call for north sea coasts and a bit warmer elsewhere, when's speaking up towards the south and three that evening parts of west devon, cornwall and west wales could see some very strong cornwall and west wales could see some very strong wales indeed, gusts of 50-55 some very strong wales indeed, gusts of 50—55 mph. there is a met office yellow weather warning in force and very heavy rain piling in across the channel islands cornwall and devon as well and elsewhere it is dry with clear spells. it will be quite a cold night in scotland as well. we
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this is bbc news. the headlines: draft proposals to get the uk back to work, with staggered shift times and safe workplaces. if it's very vital you work next to each other, then the shields like you see in supermarkets, or ppe is a way forward. eight weeks after imposing a strict nationwide lockdown — italy starts to ease restrictions. the 4,000—bed nhs nightingale facility at london's excel centre is to be placed on a standby footing in the coming days. thousands of medium and small businesses apply for aid as the government launches its bounce back loans scheme. and, mother goose on the loose before bedding down in york railway station. and she's become an internet sensation.
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