country and m.” “m; "55?wa risk going in the country and taking coronavirus with them, perhaps now that it suggests that londoners should worry about them coming into london and bring the virus with them. i think it will stay the other way around for now. london was ahead of the rest of the country and so london got to a position where there are some successful race in that figure of 24 people catching it a day is very impressive with the results achieved after this lockdown. but i have so much sympathy for rural areas and particularly national parks of these places rely on tourism absolutely and now they're saying please don't for the virus particularly in the northwestern in cumbria with the rate is high. so it really indicates that while london is head and it's a great story and you can see this as a success great story and you can see this as a success story but the rest of the country has not caught up with london yet sol country has not caught up with london yet so i think this is great

for one part of the country but a different story elsewhere. to the daily mirror and it's the front page, 19 million brits have had the virus and recovered. this is the kind of figure that we have not really talked about very much in the media, not really come out and said this number of people have recovered from a list about how many have become infected or how many have tragically died but a figure like this is quite heartening to read. tragically died but a figure like this is quite heartening to readm is. it is a really positive bit of news and i feel like saying the government has been giving quite a lot of positivity in the way is handled this. such an appalling start of the week in terms of how its messages were put out there and then today grant schaap spent most of the day talking about actually all the things that have been done while people have been a lock down. so improvements to roads, talking about an expansion now and investment and cycle pathways and

also talk of trying to widen payment and encourage people to get to walk to work. and i feel like today there has been a bit more positivity and we are seeing in that telegraph story. that maybe there is some positivity knits of news out there. overall it is been a very bleak situation and care homes. but yes 19 million brits have had the virus and have recovered and that is a really good message and people should be given quite a lot of hope that if they are still to come down with this illness, as the weeks go on. the youth of the government has not been pushing the positive stories ha rd been pushing the positive stories hard enough or has a media not been interested in positive stories? hard to say slightly. i'm not sure the government has been entirely positive until recently that there isa positive until recently that there is a switch because now they are try to get people back to work and even

boris johnson's to get people back to work and even borisjohnson's address on sunday night was very much contrary to the messaging conveyed earlier that it was all about how we are going to stick with this for quite a lot longer. and then as it happened this great effort to try to get the economy restarted and in small ways but significant ways and i think clearly they have to therefore struck a more positive note if that is the case to try and give you a back to work. no goods and able but maybe i'm a realistic but but at the same time clearly if your people to go back the need to be confident that they can go back and there are reasons to be optimistic about the future and also the general well—being of the country. if you think there is no end in sight and he will be an lockdown for month after month over month with no respite and more morejobs is them up respite and more morejobs is them up it not getting treatment and all sorts of various things that are not

covid—i9 related and so on and all this are attached, the government has to convey a positive message of the extent or tried to be positive when it can. that story it will be fantastic it was true and people who have had it because that amount is a third or so the population and going back to the antibody test, clearly if it were the case of them and people were proven that they were in effect largely immune, then it would make it much easier people to start to go to work in a safe way. that story i think is based on a study and is not a definitive finding by any means but... listened onto the daily telegraph and the story on the front page also would business travellers to britain could be spared i4 travellers to britain could be spared 14 day quarantine under shake—up of rules. this of course

referring to the rules being planned two people coming into the uk quarantine themselves for 14 days. we have already heard ministers filling out the idea of a blanket executive for france and now there is talk of business travellers exempting. how will this be effective if you start exiting different people from different countries for different reasons?” think if it is to be effective at all you have to have a corner for everyone coming into the uk and especially if you're planning to bring people who are returning from abroad. i think you have to apply across the board and take it really seriously. and i think by allowing businesspeople to not have to take pa rt businesspeople to not have to take part in that 14 day quarantine period, i know the argument will be the coming of the country because they have no economic benefit and value and we need to give people with the economy up and running again. but what if they are there to give it to someone on the tube or what if they were to pass on the virus to someone who is a key

worker? ultimately someone could end up worker? ultimately someone could end up being really sick and if they have and to through the airport while others have this quarantine syste m while others have this quarantine system enough in the government have to be really careful because itjust feeds into the narrative that get in the economy going is more important than human life and the government would not that is the case but you have to look across social media just to see that this idea to get things moving again really i have a bit of a detrimental effect on how people feel about they are being treated by the government. there has beena treated by the government. there has been a lot of things that they're saying key workers and people in lower paying jobs have to go back to work now but you're a wealthy person can work from a laptop or stay at home and have little risk of getting the virus. it is a fine balance. i agree with the difficulty of differentiating on the basis of what your commitment to the country for.

it looks like the businessperson might be in effect buying their way back into the country and exempt while the average person who was on the beach all day and relaxing cannot do it and if they come back they will be quarantine for two weeks. so it would be an element of resista nce weeks. so it would be an element of resistance there i think from people for that and secondly perhaps more releva nt, for that and secondly perhaps more relevant, clearly it seems a more logical approach would be to do it by which getter they are coming from. where the infection rates are because rather than trying to differentiate by occupation of the person coming from the country, if you are coming from a country where there is a high prevalence in recent weeks with high prevalence of covid—i9. then that surely is a problem in a way that coming from germany where is under control, it will be much less of a risk. so that

was said to be more sensible if you get into exemptions but it probably is not right is much as i regret the exemption for france, i hope to take advantage of that. to france and to you, martin, the ft front page with president ron berates for saying us to have priority on vaccine. whenever the vaccine is up and running the question arises he will get it first. will there be a fight for it? how will it be dished out and will it be fair to everybody? it cannot be really. it cannot. at the defence of how quickly it can be manufactured. in fact in this dispute seems to be slightly candid in the sense that not the boss who created this irritating situation

but the president denies that is the intention and he does not want to support the us ahead of france or indeed european countries. they wa nted indeed european countries. they wanted to be able to make it clear that he wants to be able to provide a vaccine for everybody. the one thing i would set is a course in all of this we just need to be investment into the drugs companies that manufacture the drugs in general and especially in a case like this. i suppose it is important that people do the us has invested in this research and therefore there isa in this research and therefore there is a credit to them for that. and reallyjumping is a credit to them for that. and really jumping the queue is a credit to them for that. and reallyjumping the queue but clearly the bigger question is ultimately going to be it with a far poor countries who are behind european nations and behind the americans in pulling power so to speak. that is the thought there is well. some of those had much with her —— with your health care systems as well. in the

cannot deal with this. what is your ta ke cannot deal with this. what is your take on that? will be fair when the vaccine is distributed among countries? it is not going to be fairand the who countries? it is not going to be fair and the who says that countries have to work together now more than ever and we see no evidence of this when the vaccine is concerned. and very finally before we go, football in the guardian newspaper, club seeking clarity about whether or not players will be safe if the premier league starts up again. should they start again? i thought i would see it so start again? i thought i would see itsoi start again? i thought i would see it so i want to see the season finish only for leeds united. so it is difficult but i think also... restart later. it been lovely to have you on the programme so thank you so much for your company and we will see you again in about an hour. for another look at the papers.

that's it for the papers this hour. goodbye for now. hello. well, it's fairly chilly out there at the moment, but nowhere near as cold as the last couple of nights. last night in northern ireland, it was down to minus six degrees celsius, the coldest may night there in nearly 40 years. this morning, most major towns and cities will be generally above zero, but it is cold air that's sitting on top of us at the moment. you can see the pale blue colours there. the really cold air is to the north of us, but we're certainly in that chilly air mass. we'll have to wait before the warmer air from the southern climes arrives, and that's not going to happen for a few more days. so, the forecast for friday morning, well, early hours of the morning shows some clear weather, but also patchy cloud. temperatures in norwich close to freezing. that does mean a ground frost outside of town, but more generally speaking,

we're talking around 4—6 degrees. so, a bright start to the day. i wouldn't go as far as saying it's going to be a sunny day on friday, but it is going to be a bright one. there'll be some scattered clouds, and actually in the north of the country at times, it will cloud over and there will be a little bit of fleeting rain. now, temperatures are just starting to rise a little bit now. in fact, we're expecting around 17 degrees in the south of the country and around 13 degrees for our northern towns and cities. and friday and towards the weekend, we'll start to see high pressure building in from the south. this is actually going to help to introduce some slightly warmer air from the southern climes, so day—by—day, those temperatures will be creeping up just that little bit. saturday's actually going to be very similar to friday, so sunny spells across the uk and some spots of rain in the very far north of scotland and the northern isles and the northern highlands. so, temperatures around 17 degrees again in london, but perhaps rising a little bit across the north of england there, 16 for yorkshire, 14 for glasgow and edinburgh. and then saturday night into sunday, we are going to see a change

in western scotland and northern ireland. in fact, southwesterly winds will blow in cloud, moisture and a fair bit of rain, so it could be quite wet here second half the weekend. around 15 degrees expected in the lowlands and in belfast, but to the south of that in london, those milder southwesterlies, temperatures will get up to around 20 degrees. and indeed, you can see those temperatures climbing as we head into next week. in fact, next week, the indication is that temperatures could hit the mid—20s, so again it's going to feel more like june. that's it from me. bye— bye.

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