having to self—isolate. welcome to bbc news. but a choir in oxford has shown that music can be one means we will be bringing you the latest of challenging the isolation. the soundabout inclusive choir has harnessed technology briefing from the white house when to support its members, he gets under way later. at first it's time for the papers. as the bbc‘s fergal keane reports. # amazing grace # how sweet the sound... hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be a voice from a deep confinement. bringing us tomorrow. with me are the deputy womens editor music helps make isolation bearable of the daily telegraph, claire cohen and former editor for sam pittick, aged 37. of fleet street, eve pollard. tomorrow's front pages, he has a vulnerable immune system starting with. .. the lead story for and can't leave home. the daily telegraph and its exclusive is the revalation that professor neil ferguson # i once was lost, but now i'm found one of the architects # was blind... of the lockdown here in the uk has stepped aside because he'd and when you're all singing broken social distancing rules. together, what is the feeling? i feel more powerful with britain now having the highest

when i'm singing. death condition that on tuesday the i open my own voice uk's failure to increase testing rates earlier in the crisis may have to the power of music. cost the country dear. cost the uk edition of now it's got to this fifth week, the financial times, majors on the news that it's very difficult for him. virgin atlantic is preparing to cut sam's mum, ann, keeps a video diary, almost a third of its 10,000 workforce in the uk here filming his daily exercise. and close its gatwick operations as it scales back that's lovely. in an attempt to survive good lad. the impact of coronavirus. she's in her 70s, her husband in his 80s, both with severe for the times the main underlying health conditions. news is that the uk chancellor rishi sunak will next the carers who once visited sam week announce plans to wind every day can't come any more. down the government's we're sort of struggling along furlough scheme from july. with it, and the carer usually does it through the phone for him. the paper reports options include cutting the 80 per cent wage subsidy "come on, sam, you've got to get in the bath, and lowering the currently cap you've got to get washed". on monthly payments. and things like that. it also claims the treasury will prevent self—employed workers it means no more face—to—face with profits over 30—thousand pounds sessions with his beloved choir. from claiming government grants. founded last year by the charity ‘new lifestyle‘ reads soundabout, and at the centre the japan times. of life for dozens of special needs the japanese government has called people in oxford. on residents to maintain for different families, a " new lifestyle" even

different challenges. after restrictive measures over the new coronavirus choir drummer matthew nicholls have been relaxed. was born blind and unable to speak. he cherishes the human touch in singapore, the strait times leads on how the country is seeing of his brother, c], of his parents. one of its worst retail slumps ever, with recent takings at the till but matthew lives in registering their sharpest supported accommodation and, because of the virus, drop in nearly 22 years. can't have visits. his mum, sophia and father, on the front page nigel bring freshly—baked bread of the daily mirror, which they leave at the entrance it shows the uk's coronavirus death for their child. toll has topped italy's to be europe's worst. you know, he likes to give you a big hug and a squeeze and a kiss. we miss him quite a lot. and on the front page i must be honest and say that i do miss him. of france's le figaro, i miss him, because also not more than 100 vaccines knowing this how long this are in development in a bid to combat coronavirus. lockdown is going to be for, so let's begin... you think, if it's only a few weeks, which is what i thought it was originally, we'd at least be able to see him, but now, you know, we don't know how talking to claire and eve. welcome both of you to the program. thank long it's going to be. you very much for taking the time but in a time of general anxiety, this evening tojoin what's striking about the choir you very much for taking the time this evening to join us virtually. families is their optimism claire, let's start with you. if and good humour. your paper and exclusive the lot of 14 years ago, edward shryane was too weak to cry. professor. this is the man basically

listen to him now. # whoa—oh—oh, on the radio #. whose advice prompted borisjohnson to lockdown the uk has resigned what does the sound of the choir mean to you? after he himself broke rules of incredible. it's changed my life, and i think... lockdown. an incredible story. it is i'm just lost for words. and congratulations to my colleagues who got this amazing school. i mean, can i ask you a very fundamental question? i don't personally mind too much what does he mean to you? you mean everything, don't you, eds? about the details of the professors oh, my god! personalize. for me and for many thank you! that's the right answer. people i'm sure it's the hypocrisy i mean, thanks. of his actions. i mean do is i say drives me insane. are not as i do. which will really thank you, that is the right answer. hit home over this story. for weeks and weeks we've been told to stay but there is another reason for laughter. home, to protect the nhs to save lives and that a message that he at using a video conference, the choir the forefront of theirs. it is a overcomes isolation and reunites. member has really pushed himself and driven hard. it was only a couple of weeks ago he said if we lifted and matthew hears the sound lockdown too soon we would see of his mother's laughter. 100,000 deaths in this country. and iwe 100,000 deaths in this country. and i we discover that he hasn't been # matthew, hope you have following the advice himself on top so following the advice himself on top so it's really hypocritical. and i a really good week #. absolutely understand why he had to

go. because we are seeing a time in lily bartlett, blind, britain where we are already having with special educational needs, taught herself piano and leads a bit ofa britain where we are already having a bit of a wobble over lockdown. in the choir‘s version raising increased traffic on the road, more people starting to be out of an anthem for our times. and about. and if he had been allowed to stay it would've sent the message that well, it's ok and i # when you got what you want but not think that lockdown wouldn't have helped. eve, his position untenable? what you need # lights will guide i think sadly his position was untenable. when you think of the you home normal front pages they often do # and ignite your bones include a bit about romance and a bit about people just being so attracted to one another they do bad # i will try to fix you #. things. this is certainly one of those cases. he was visited by obviously, a long—time friend. was it really interesting about this story is he is a medical man. he applause said that he actually had tested positive for the coronavirus was up fergal keane, bbc news, oxford. and then because he felt he had some symptoms, i think, and then because he felt he had some symptoms, ithink, he quarantined himself for two weeks and didn't go

out for two weeks. and then that's it. obviously, thought it was say. perhaps this is telling something now on bbc one, time about immunity. because that's the for the news where you are. 00:05:10,642 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 have a very good night. question the whole country is asking. if you patted are you immune from ever getting it again? i think it's sad, i think a lot of people who are in let's say, distant relationships and romances of 1's owi'i relationships and romances of 1's own or another really feel very sympathetic towards the couple. do you think claire, they will feel sympathetic or angry that this man have done what they probably wish they could have done over the last several weeks? i think they could have done over the last severalweeks? i think you're right. i think they will feel angry because we are all, many of our suffering under this lockdown divider for my loved ones whether they be romantic partners or parents or siblings or just good friends. and our lives have been severely curtailed and thatis have been severely curtailed and that is a message that professor ferguson has been hammering home for weeks and weeks. and looking one for

him and another for everyone else. weeks and weeks. and looking one for him and another for everyone elselj think him and another for everyone else.” think could make a very short novel at the end of this. you know the doctor's love affair. remember doctors used to be regarded as romantic heroes. do you remember all those books that were written about doctors and nurses and all the rest of it? it could bring it back. it could but i suppose the main point is low, this guy is obviously a scientist is not a politician, is he? should we take that into account when thinking about his private life are not? i'm afraid the private now leads into the public does in a? when you are him and you're on stage and you're at the forefront of the lockdown for which actually we should be very grateful. i'm afraid you can't separate the two. which is rather sad but you can't. but he's a man of clinical silence and i think when it comes to behavioural science he really hasn't hit the one note there. no, i think

he really hasn't hit the one note there. no, ithink that's he really hasn't hit the one note there. no, i think that's true. he really hasn't hit the one note there. no, ithink that's true. if there. no, ithink that's true. if there only was woman's and woman's owfi there only was woman's and woman's own this would be a story when athat he resigned pretty quickly didn't he? even before the story came out. he did. he saw the writing on the wall. you can't sort of bang the drum so strongly for weeks and weeks and weeks and then sort of get away with behaving that way yourself as i think he would've known straightaway. let's move on, talk about the number of deaths in the uk. it's on the front page of some papers, the daily mirrorfrom bad to worse. the uk's coronavirus toll has topped italy is to be europe's worst. this is obviously, hugely upsetting in terms of the human cost. the number of those who have died in the uk is significantly higher than many countries. higher than italy right now and the government says it is difficult to compare. what do you think claire, is it difficult to compare with other countries? should we be

comparing, is it the right thing to do? i think it's human nature to wa nt to do? i think it's human nature to want to compare. it's a stark headline on the front of the mirror and it's a tragic one. i think there are and it's a tragic one. i think there a re caveats and it's a tragic one. i think there are caveats and that we don't necessarily have all the excess numbers yet from countries like italy. but, at this stage it looks farand italy. but, at this stage it looks far and away like we do have the highest toll in europe. it's not a race to the bottom anybody wants to win, is a? coming a headline like this coming in a week which is fairly key for the government. they all are fairly key for the government. they allare up by fairly key for the government. they all are up by this week we've got the second, third week lockdown on thursday. we've got borisjohnson supposedly setting out his road map to end lockdown on sunday. so to see a sort of, a stark front page like this ina a sort of, a stark front page like this in a really tragic number of deaths emerge like this in the week will not be filling with positive for any of us. i agree with everything that claire said. i also

feel of course, that we have a much larger population than italy. of course, london is one of the most dense, biggest cities in the world. so it's very hard to compare london to rome or milan. but that doesn't ta ke to rome or milan. but that doesn't take away from the fact that they did say they were hoping the 20,000, weren't they? and we've got well, figuresjust weren't they? and we've got well, figures just astronomically higher than that. the other thing is i think, the care home situation is so tragic. we have to remember care homes are not run by the national health service. they are run privately, they run to make a profit. they run all sorts of ways and there are brilliant ones and less brilliant ones. but the tragedy of having a parent died in one of those homes, who died on their