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need to remember the last we need to remember the last time the country was challenged in this way you can understand why. my slight nagging feeling on this, and this is kind of an odd thing about but my grandfather served in the war. he never talked about it. and he deliberately did not talk about it. and actually, a lot in that generation did not because they wanted to move the country forward and there'sa wanted to move the country forward and there's a slight irony that subsequent generations have kept alive, but the actual people who served in war, actually, a lot of them wanted to forget. it is interesting, in a way. they on ve day were looking to the future, that we are looking back towards them for examples. we'll move onto ft weekend
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now. and to what is going on in america. there is a story about us a template record, 20.5 americans. rachel cunliffe, we occasionally have to introduce stories about america. i always have to pause on the graphs, we always think the graph is broken when you look at the number of people that are unemployed. we have talked about war memories in the last few minutes. it's instead in america that in america, the situation is so dire the only comparison is the great depression, which not that it may people were alive to remember. yet. as you said, 20.5 million americans unemployed. and the other thing after member when considering less unemployment is that many things in america, particular health insurance, are tied to having a job. that was obama's great victory, enabling anyone employed to get health coverage through their employer, so that now means that
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there are 20 million americans potentially who don't have health insurance at this really critical time. health insurance and mass health care coverage is the one thing you really want most of the population to have and you are right in that the graph does, you look at it and you scale back and you think, what is that line doing? how has that line on vertical? and i know that line on vertical? and i know that there are going to be lots of conversations over the next couple of days over the situation here in the uk, how the furlough scheme gets valves and phased out in the chancellor rishi sunak has a huge challenge on his hands there, but what the british system and try to do is keep people who are in business or industries that cannot function at the moment, keep them engaged somehow, keep them with jobs. but thosejobs engaged somehow, keep them with jobs. but those jobs are still there, on ice so that when we can go back with some semblance of normality, they can return to work. in the us, they haven't gone back to that and people are unemployed for
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the or even a medium—term —— long term or even the medium—term. there is clearly an economic and employment crisis going on in the states at the moment. and jason, if you are unemployed in the uk, you can still rely on the nhs. if you are unemployed in america, you might lose your health care, and that might be affecting millions of people. it is notjust health care there. sick pay is very sparse in there. sick pay is very sparse in the united states as well. one of the united states as well. one of the things coronavirus has exposed is actually the social welfare model of most european countries has come into its own. it's not particularly adequate in a lot of cases but it's adequate in a lot of cases but it's a lot better than what they've got in the united states, and does affect us because americans still the biggest economy in the world, and if that catches a chill, that permeates the rest of the world economies. it is going to affect us.
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it is deeply worrying. and the social divisions in america, the other thing to remember about this, as we know from our own research in this country, it's the black and minority ethnic populations which are most vulnerable to this virus, and in america there are enough a lot of them and they are dying there in numbers which we should not be seeing. we might come to one of those points in the later on. we are going to have a look at the times newspaper now. all arrivals to be quarantines, visitors newspaper now. all arrivals to be quara ntines, visitors and newspaper now. all arrivals to be quarantines, visitors and returning holiday—makers racing two weeks isolation. it is almost quite odd because you have to provide your address, square scouts honour you're going to that address and promise you will stay there for 14 days. you could face a fine of £1000 if you will stay there for 1h days. you could face a fine of £1000 if you break it. with that system work? but like so much of what is being proposed, that rely so much on public trust in committee spirit. they are planning on doing spot checks, and £1000 is quite substantial for a fine, given the
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fines at the moment have not been respecting social distancing just £60. i honestly think there is a lot of people who are still abroad, stranded abroad, so relieved to get home at all. i've got relatives in australia at the moment who have been desperately trying to get home. and it is not international travel is coming back on a mainstream way anytime soon, i think none of us are going to have holidays abroad. there's a telegraph story as well but how we're going to go camping this summer. i think the aim here is the just this summer. i think the aim here is thejust deal this summer. i think the aim here is the just deal with the small number of international travellers coming into that we will have an i am not sure how much faith people have in this system, but it does seem to make more sense than building mass quarantines centres which could themselves be hotbeds of infection. and jason beattie from the daily mirror, we did see that from cruise ships, so as rachel was saying, perhaps it does make sense to tell
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people to go back home, promise they will stay in a residence for 1h days. a couple of weeks ago, i think the telegraph had the story, so we knew it was coming. when it was reported, it caused a huge backlash from the aviation asian tree from the aviation asian —— aviation industry. in place and lots of other countries, it is the only way they seek to control the virus. we will have to see. whether they extend it to other form of transport in this country, i don't know. we are onto the new york times, which has i think one of my favourite stories in the last few weeks. in isolation here. white open next door. it is about the dutch— belgian border, people in one house have to obey lockdown, people in the other house are free to walk around.
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what do you think of this?|j other house are free to walk around. what do you think of this? i have to look at my note... sorry for anyone who is dutch or belgian, my terrible pronunciations! this is one two a —— a city half in one country— the other. the point is that belgian law is stricter on social distancing then dutch law, so this poor woman is the only shop on her street who has had to close. i don't know if you've got the image there, you've got crosses on the pavement that you we re got crosses on the pavement that you were the border is. itjust kind of brings home how arbitrary and how random some borders are. this particular one by competent because various feudal lords gambled away their land and that is why the border kind of ends up looking like this. but i think for the most part, it's a nice story, but for the most
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pa rt it's a nice story, but for the most part european countries are going on similar lines when it comes to lockdown sightings is probably a comical issue but one that only affects a small number of people. very small. jason, briefly, if you had you pick the dutch side or the belgian side, you might want to go for the dutch side? really difficult to tell. belgium is only got slightly better beer! we are going to go onto the guardian now, which has a sport as its front page, and jason i want to pick up and carry on with you, black and minorly ethnic populations. there is a crisis living about bame athletes returning. i slightlyjumped the gun here. the study by office for national statistics this week said
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numbers of the black community in britain are four times more likely of people from pakistani, bangladeshi or indian heritage, at least twice more likely to die from the coronavirus. they don't know exactly why. and you can see it is going to have, it immediately has conferences for bame people working in the nhs —— admittedly has consequences. in the nhs —— admittedly has consequences. should they be serving oi'i consequences. should they be serving on the front line? they are to any percent of our workforce, of the nhs, is bame. are they getting the adequate equipment if they are working on the front line? they do an amazing job for stubble should be entitled to grateful to them. and then you got this —— we should be entirely grateful to them. we have sport. you can understand the anxiety. they say when they restart foot ball anxiety. they say when they restart football but there will be testing again and again all the players have to take part, but i can understand
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that concern. you're going to look also, rachel, at the other story there. put —— football is back in south korea. iam —— football is back in south korea. i am sorry to put you in the spot... what i would say is i used to live in south korea, and this does not suppress me in the slightest, and it's not just football. suppress me in the slightest, and it's notjust football. south koreans in baseball stadiums are putting up photos of the fans on the seats, so that the players feel that the crowd are watching them. this is a book that only really would happen in that country. i don't think recorded crowd noise or photos would work in the uk. and that's the final word. rachel cunliffe, jason beattie, thank you for now. that is it for the papers for now. rachel and jason will be back with a look at the papers in about half an hour.
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bye for now. how though. there are lots of weather changes on the way as we go through the rest of this weekend. still some warmth in the day had been turning colder in northern scotla nd been turning colder in northern scotland and much colder elsewhere across the uk by sunday. and windier as well. what's going on? hold air looking close to northern scotland saturday night into sunday. not a huge amount of rain at least towards england and wales, and with that cold air is stronger when coming down from the north or northeast as well. we start today with temperatures well above freezing, a lot of dry weather around, but in that quarter air we have a weather system near to northern scotland and that will bring the rain heavier and more widespread across northern scotla nd more widespread across northern scotland during the day with a strengthening wind. elsewhere in scotla nd strengthening wind. elsewhere in scotland and northern ireland, sunny
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spells, could see a few heavy and thundershowers flipping through england and wales. largely sunny, temperatures could be as high as 25 celsius, nine or 10 degrees in northern scotland with the rain. and we know the cold air is going to win out through the weekend. this is the process overnight and into sunday morning. by the way, channel islands i'm a baby close to the south coast of in the other could be a few heavy showers. at its wet weather coming down south with the colder air going into sunday morning. look how mild it is to start sunday in the south. there could be some snow following the cold air in scotland to start off on sunday, a few wintry showers around as well. cloud, not a huge amount of rain left as the weather system works south across england and wales, introducing the colder airon and wales, introducing the colder air on sunday. and for all, it is going to be much winter as well. strong gusty winds, 35—45 or so on their strongest on these doors to
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sea coasts. colder sunday compared by saturday. and on sunday morning, a phosphor many of us, so gardeners and growers, take note of that —— on monday morning. a lot of dry weather but still the air coming down from a chilly direction. and he wind is quick to gradually ease as the week goes on. so, for next week, high—pressure, a lot of dry weather, frosted night at first, using becomes a little bit less chilly. —— easing. becomes a little bit less chilly.
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this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. bagpipe music. prince charles leads tributes in the uk for the 75th anniversary of the end of the second world war in europe. the queen also marked the occasion. many people laid down their lives in that terrible conflict. they fought so we could live in peace at home and abroad. from boom times to a heartbreaking bust — more than 20 million americans lost theirjobs last month as the coronavirus crisis laid waste to the us economy. a father and son are charged with murder after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man in the us state of georgia.

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