suppress the story, they trying to suppress the story, they are trying to silence doctors who spoke out about the outbreak in wuhan. and i think if there had been more transparency, than other countries would have been able to respond more appropriately, and that this crisis would not have killed so many people around the world. the question is will it ever be really possible to get to the bottom of that? i think the idea that there should be reparations, that china should be reparations, that china should somehow pay the bill for the economic devastation around the world has a certain appeal to its come about, you know, if we are going to get into the business of reparations, than you know, there are plenty of crimes of colonial expansion by the united kingdom or by the united states. you would never get to the bottom of whatever country never get to the bottom of whatever cou ntry owes never get to the bottom of whatever country owes to every other. i think inevitably it comes down to basic politics. if the chinese feel under pressure, they will see some access, but you know, every sovereign nation wa nts to

but you know, every sovereign nation wants to defend its own interests. will that be a full investigation that will satisfy the most anti—chinese rapid debt people in the united states, and the united kingdom, i'm not sure that it ever can. let's talk about countries wanting to defend their own interests and moved to that financial times. at the beginning of the outbreak, there was real anger in southern european countries, italy and spain about what they perceived as the complete lack of solidarity shown by northern european countries and real anger particularly in italy growing euro skepticism, sebastian pain, a slight report on a slight turnaround, journey in france —— germany and france. indeed. this has so many reflections of what happened to of the financial crisis on the euro zone crisis as well, because of person everything oi'i well, because of person everything on the eu pivots on that crucial relationship between france and germany here, and so far, there has beena germany here, and so far, there has

been a lot of dispute between those two countries about what kind of package should be offered, should be grants, should it be loans, what period is a need to be repaid, and how should it be open here when you look at those southern european countries those same ones that struggle during the euro zone crisis, italy being the obvious example here, there has been this growing stands that they have been able to bring a package together and bring those back neck of their economies of the most fragile, they have some of the biggest debt piles, and they are in the most trouble. but again, it's come back to that crucial france germany relationship, it looks as if they are close to agreeing some kind of deal here, that will be granted based not loan based, and this is something that will be paid for over a very long period of time, so it's not going to add to the big debt piles of these countries, and i think of those southern european countries, they will be delighted, particularly leaders of those countries come as a rigid sink and are concerned about going euro skepticism and blaming

with their economy and their coronavirus crisis, but again commencement to be details of how europe as a whole is going to pay for this, because of course, it's going to require more money somewhere. it's going to require taxes to be increased, more contributions to the european project, and terry mention it, from the beginning of next year, the uk is going to be missing from that budget at a big contributor and hold up budget at a big contributor and hold up already having to be filled for the eu, and now that hole hasjust gotten off a lot bigger there, but generally, this is a very good thing for europe, because those southern countries really need it, particularly those economies that depend on tourism, so it's good to see that france and germany abashed heads together and got to some kind of detail, as with all these things, let's see exactly what it is over the next couple of days. polly mackenzie, it was a real crisis point potentially for that you at the start of this crisis that spain and italy were so angry, and there was talk about the point of the year you. now it seems this plan might address some of those issues. yeah,

i think because it started as a public health crisis, and of course every country has its own health system, that the eu has got its own way of thinking about things, oh, that's devolved, that is nothing to do with us, and was far too slow to recognise the extraordinary economic impact that this was going to have and recognise the importance of a kind of solidarity fund between the nations. it's interesting that greece, which was of course so devastated by the financial crisis and the economic impact of that has actually done incredibly well at suppressing coronavirus. italy, as sebastian payne says suffered enormously, as well as spain. so looking forward, it does seem that the eu is starting to find its feet. there is still some hostility. eft is reporting that the austrian and dutch governments are still very sceptical about doing anything that is grand based rather than loan

based, but, again, in france and germany united as a general rule, smaller countries will come into it. we will go back to the uk now and look at the eye newspaper. uk mr critical moment to stop virus. sebastian pain from the financial times —— sebastian payne it from the financial times, i've been wondering about inquiries from future use who might leader, who might be on it, what might say, how compare to the frank's report it seems like inquiries are happening already. this is a commons inquiry, the common science and technology committee i believe, let's look, they want to have answers about testing in particular, white testing stopped on the 12th of march? this is one of the big questions, and we do come to that big inquiry which will be quite something, anything we can all get our popcorn and tv sets ready to watch that over a period of many months, if not years when we get to the other side of this crisis, but as you income of the house of commons have already started digging into that particular area, and this very acute area of testing, because one thing that has

baffled a lot of mps come a lot of onlookers as well as that when coronavirus started in the uk, when cases were in the tens, people were doing exactly what later happens, which as they were isolated for 14 daysin which as they were isolated for 14 days in centres are at their homes, and alltheir days in centres are at their homes, and all their contacts were traced from everybody that came into contact with had to provide their details and they went into isolation as well. then for whatever reason, about the 12th of march, the governmentjust stop about the 12th of march, the government just stop doing that, about the 12th of march, the governmentjust stop doing that, and that's when we moved from this containment strategy to a suppressant strategy, and of course, i'iow suppressant strategy, and of course, now that we are now back to exactly where we were almost two months ago, people are saying, well, why did we stop doing that? and obviously, going back to our earlier question about the scientists versus the politicians, it's a question of "what's their political decision made at that point to say, "look, we don't have the resources to test that many people, we don't have the capacity to do that contact tracing, therefore, we need to move with a very different strategy, the herd immunity strategy, where you acknowledging it's going to spread widely before it was then modelled

by imperial college london, and that could lead to have a million deaths, so we could lead to have a million deaths, so we then had another u—turn and we nt so we then had another u—turn and went back to where we were originally. but those three weeks of the being of march are going to be absolutely crucial for that inquiry, because that is the point at which most people that i speak to say that we really lost control of this and we really lost control of this and we could be under much different trajectory free had continued testing, really built up our contact tracing capability, but now having to do it, essentially our strategy is where it was months ago. so it's rather perplexing, but this report from mps does raise some very problematic questions for governments, which they want to answer how, governments, which they want to answer now, but one day, they will eventually have to. talking about problems for the government, looking at the next two newspapers numb from the daily mirror, first of all, talking about schools, new schools. how secretary says it's up to had teachers to decide if staff should wear face masks. teachers to decide if staff should wearface masks. in the daily telegraph says children who do not return to school may receive less online teaching because teachers would be occupied with students in their classes. polly mackenzie come

on the 1st ofjune from a primary school some classes may reopen it, from your read of the paper estimates that likely to happen?” think it is certainly very unlikely that there will be a kind of full blind kids opening with every child turning up, you know, freshfaced and ready to learn. a lot of parents who just don't want to send their kids back. i gotta call for my children's school today asking, do you thank you will send your children back, and the teacher was clearly going around calling every parent with a healthy degree of skepticism that many people would be back in at all because it's not just many people would be back in at all because it's notjust teachers who are worried about whether it's safe, it's also parents. i don't think the government has handled this very well. they have been much more moderate in their language in the last couple of days, but they started out accusing the unions of scaremongering, briefing the newspapers to be incredibly aggressive and hostile instead of

recognising. this is just aggressive and hostile instead of recognising. this isjust difficult. of course, there is no risk—free environment for any of us, given this disease. but this, and children must learn, it is obviously affecting poor kids much worse than richer kids, to be stuck away from school, but they haven't shown flexibility. you know, we should be looking at cancelling summer holidays, not trench rush kids back to school. let's move on to our final papers now, let's look quickly at the sun, clean hit by £18 million losses. although, i did a quick look on the sunday times rich list, she still is worth £350 million, and now oui’ still is worth £350 million, and now our final still is worth £350 million, and now ourfinal paperagain, we still is worth £350 million, and now ourfinal paper again, we go to the times, very interesting picture on the front page of two having brea kfast. the front page of two having breakfast. opposite the cathedral, fascinated by this, because it looks like the woman on the right is eating chairman sue for breakfast, which i have never seen in italy. and think when we get out of the locked on from a we are allowed to

go back out to cafes and pups, there will be all manner of interesting things people will do because during out things people will do because during our period in lockdown, people i've been thinking about those they want to see in the things they want to the experiences they want to have. italy think having coffee and chairman sue at 9am in the morning is completely acceptable, given that it's had one of the most stringent lockdowns and sourcing chairman sue from inside your house has been no doubt very difficult for those people. so they look very happy. but it does show sort of what life is going to look like on that picture oi'i going to look like on that picture on the times, you can see you've got people with masks and with gloves on, and it's a reminderthat even when things open up again and we can go back to cafes ncr family and friends, that it's not going back to normal for quite some time. mass virtue from the financial times and polly mackenzie, chief executive, thank you for now. that's it for the papers this hour. polly and sebastian will be back at 11:30 for another look at the papers. goodbye for now.

hello there. on monday, the temperature reached 25 celsius in suffolk and over the next couple of days, the heat will continue to build. the peak of the temperatures is likely to be on wednesday. things start to break down a bit after that. chance of thunderstorms on thursday before we all turned cooler and windier by the end of the week. pretty mild out there at the moment away from northern most parts of scotland. these are the temperatures by the end of the night, and as you can see, still a lot of cloud around. some are bricks of rain to come of that rain continuing to affect the northern half of the uk

mainly during tuesday morning. slowly petering out, many places becoming dry during the afternoon. the cloud thinning and skies brightening. the best of the sunshine likely to be across wales, midlands and southern england, where temperatures will peak at 25—26d. on the whole, it should be a slightly warmer day across the uk then it was on monday. those chapters continue to climb for wednesday. that area of high pressure is sitting over the uk. it's pushing the cloud and rain away, and we are going to be drying up away, and we are going to be drying upa away, and we are going to be drying up a gentle southerly breeze, it will bring the heat northwards all the way from spain and france and move its way across the uk. northern areas start quite cloudy on wednesday, some rain to clear away from the northern isles, the cloud thins and breaks, and sunshine develops more widely stop into the afternoon, we are likely to find temperatures of 23 degrees through the central scotland, 20 or so for northern ireland, the highest temperatures across the midlands to the southeast of england, 27—28d. things start to break down a bit on thursday, a bit of rain trying to come in from the west. that may not make it too far. these showers are likely to break out. from the southeast of them and heading towards the midlands, lincolnshire and east anglia, and they could be heavy infantry. that will knock the temperatures down. for many of us, still quite a warm day on thursday, just not quite as warm as wednesday. and then things start to change more widely, i think, for the end of the week, because we have got this area

of low pressure, it's winding itself up, the winds will be strengthening come in this weather front will be bringing some rain. that's going to move its way eastwards across the uk for friday, but not much rain for england and wales, and the more persistent rain soon sweeps away from mainland scotland. the winds with will be stronger, gales likely in the northwest, and this is where we will see most of the showers. otherwise, some sunshine, cooler and fresher feel, still 21 in otherwise, some sunshine, cooler and fresherfeel, still 21 in eastern england.

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