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and if we are both good—natured and good—hearted. my definition of sensible might be i can meet up with six people in a park locally, or my friends as long as we sit two metres apart. the rules might say that i can't do that, there is no single of sensible here. one of the root definition that we've got about being sensible is staying two metres apart. in the rules were quite clear that you can meet one other person outdoors as long as you keep the two metre distance. so that is perfectly clear, that is perfectly enforcea ble, clear, that is perfectly enforceable, it doesn't have to be enforced because as i say, most people will behave sensibly. go to talk to you, thank you so much. thank you. let's get some business reaction to prime minister's statement. the cbi, who represent british businesses, welcomed getting the country back to work saying their members are keen to reopen. we know through our own surveys and
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talking to businesses that around four out of ten businesses have had to close the doors at least for some period over the past few weeks. but more and more are starting to reopen where it is safe to do so, so our manufacturing side, some of our car producers are looking at their production lines, they are making sure that their workers are staying apart by more than two metres, and so apart by more than two metres, and so they are able to continue operating. that has always been the case. if you can't work from home and it is safe to do so in the workplace, those businesses have been able to open up, apart from the nonessential retailers. there's been a list of very specific businesses, oui’ a list of very specific businesses, our pubs, our cinemas and other places that have needed to chat. but i think as we get more guidance, we will see more businesses having confidence that they can this safely. while business leaders may welcome the prime minister's annoucement union leaders say the message is "confusing and chaotic. well, the tuc unions want
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a safe return to work, but i'm afraid the prime minister's statement tonight is a recipe for confusion and possibly chaos. withjust 12 hours' notice, people are being encouraged to go back to work, but without any answers for what happens on public transport, what happens if you've got children, what happens if you are supposed to be shielded, or vulnerable in some other way. and of course, we haven't even had any guidance published or properly consulted on. so we've been saying that there have to be tough new rules on safety and on enforcement too, because the hse, the health and safety executive and local authorities‘ budgets have been cut to shreds. so we have fewer inspectors, fewer inspections, and fewer prosecutions. how can working people can be confident —
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never mind the transport issue, how can working people be confident that they can work safely until they at least see what the government is proposing for their safety? frances o'grady from the tuc. huw edwards will be here at 10pm with all the reaction to the plan is to's speech. now on bbc news, in india a child goes missing every eight minutes. the children are often trafficked into domestic labour or the sex trade — many are never seen again. a warning, this programme does include details some viewers may find upsetting. this is what it feels like when your child disappears. in india, a nationwide trade is separating children from theirfamilies. every eight minutes, a child goes missing in this country, and they are often trafficked.
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we have had a tip—off that dozens of kids are working in bakeries here. we have been told that some children already escaped from one of the premises, but we have got a lead for another place, so we are just going there now. this operation is being led by a child protection agency, who rescue thousands of children from slavery every year, working alongside the police. after 20 minutes, the first children emerge. one of them is a 15—year—old boy, who we're calling ahmed. ahmed's been doing 18—hour days in one of the bakeries here, and he has been working in factories
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like these since he was just 12. after two hours, 16 young boys have been rescued. but thousands of others in child slavery in india aren't as fortunate. in my time covering this country, one shocking figure stuck in my mind. every year in india, around 70,000 children are reported missing. it's thought the actual number is higher, as many cases aren't registered. young lives lost and never found. almost every time i pick up a newspaper in india, i find an ad for a missing child.
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the problem is staring this country in the face, but there is very little public outrage. i've been investigating the networks behind this huge trafficking industry and meeting the children it exploits into the sex trade, domestic slavery and, like ahmed, who we saw freed in the raid, into child labour. ahmed and the other boys have been taken to mukti ashram, a rehabilitation centre just outside delhi. here, they are given an education and a fresh start. ahmed was sent to work thousands of miles from home after a trafficker promised his parents he'd give him a better life. how did you get through
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so, everyone in this village pretty much knows of someone who has gone missing? the family members themselves are sometimes involved when a child initially goes missing. amrita, not her real name, was traded by traffickers at the age of nine to a family she had never met. herjob was to look after two
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thanks to poonam's support launching a criminal investigation, amrita's uncle is now injail. but that's rare. fewer than i% of trafficking cases in india end with a conviction. despite attempts by the government to fight the trade, it's thriving. in a nearby village, we meet another family who fell prey to traffickers. munsi and suggi's daughter sunita was just 12 when a couple befriended the family, promising a better future for their child.
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those affected by trafficking often don't have a voice. they're from poor, tribal communities where they feel powerless. poonam often talks to young girls in villages to encourage them to speak up. this group is where she first heard about sunita's case. it's a safe place to share stories. most of these girls know others who have been trafficked and they started a campaign wanting young people of the dangers. ——warning young people.
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but as poonam and others try to fight this crime, they're faced with a new frontier — social media. i've come to meet a girl we're going to call seema. two years ago she began chatting to someone who randomly added her to a facebook group for teenagers. after a few months of messages, he invited her to meet him in a city 100 kilometres away.
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but the reunion itself is awkward. it was ahmed's family who'd sent him away to work. living in poverty, they felt it was their only option. do you regret ever sending him away to work? what's the first thing you'll do when you both get home? it's hard to keep children like ahmed from being sent back to work. but the centre's ensured that his parents receive state support and has a stern warning for the future.
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ahmed's story has come to a happy ending — for now. police tried to track sunita down in delhi. they believe she may be working overseas for a family. as traffickers continue to exploit vulnerable families it's hard to see a way out of this trade. for the vast majority of india's missing children, rescue remains a distant dream.
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a recent scene in shetland behind me. imagine that. the second week of may, strong arctic winds blowing in some snow as that cold front swept across the country. you can see it here, this line of cloud and this is an animation of that cold air streaming out of the arctic regions through today and into tomorrow. you can see that cold air spreading into other parts of europe as well, so it is notjust us feeling the chill. certainly, france, all the way to berlin as well, that cold air moving in on monday. monday is certainly going to be a chilly day, needless to say, but it is going to be quite a sunny, at the very least bright day for much of the country. this is what it looks like through the night, so a lot of clear weather. and quite often when
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the wind is strong, temperatures don't tend to dip so low, but because the air is so cold coming from the north we are still going to get an air frost. —i in glasgow, and even further south in rural areas temperatures could get close to zero. in central london, 6 degrees is pretty nippy for a may night. here is the forecast for monday. a lot of bright weather with some scattered clouds and a few showers as well. still a very strong wind blowing out of the north, so if you are out of the sunshine in the shade, it is going to feel nippy, temperatures only around nine or 10 degrees for many places. then on tuesday, we are looking at this little area of weather here coming into scotland again from the north. this is almost like a secondary cold front. we have just had one front through. this is going to be another one that is going to temporarily bring slightly colder air to scotland, so for a time we could see some sleet and snow falling in scotland, even down to low levels, and it will be particularly cold here, only about 5 degrees in aberdeen, five in lerwick, but south of that it won't be quite so chilly
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and maybe 14 degrees in cardiff on tuesday. let's look at the middle part of the week. not much change as a whole in the weather pattern. it is still going to be fairly bright, but the winds will slowly start to ease, so even though the temperatures are going to be similar, 10—13d, with lighter winds and in the sunshine it is just going to feel that little bit less cold. i want to show you the outlook now for the rest of the week. we can see those temperatures gradually rising, and certainly by the time we get to friday we will get up into the mid or high teens again and by the weekend possibly 20 degrees.
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tonight at ten — a gradual easing of the lockdown in england, but it's all conditional on the pandemic being under control. it's no longer stay at home — but stay alert — as the prime minister outlines a three—step plan — to boost the economy, schools and social life. if there are problems, we will not hesitate to put on the brakes. we've been through the initial peak, but it's coming down the mountain that is often more dangerous. from june, schools in england could see a partial reopening — starting at primary level — but most secondary pupils won't return before september.
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