amount of days and it can certain amount of days and it can lay dormant before it actually kicks in. ithink lay dormant before it actually kicks in. i think they can have said they think it is necessary, that they say they will keep the whole situation in review every three weeks. i think you need a sense dotted people need to feel that they will feel the full force of the laws they do not adhere to things. we have seen people flouting the guidance during this pandemic. they have unveiled a 20 minute test, two types of tests and we also looking at the track and tracing as well. let us move on to the ft, the vaccine. astrazeneca, 400 million doses of the still unproven oxford vaccine, three quarters though heir to the us, rachel.

that is right. i think this is going to be an issue going forward in terms of who is getting access to the vaccine and if there are any countries trying to stockpile it at the expense of others, that is obviously something that is going to bubble up as we move forward on the vaccine becomes ready. i think there's also a question about people's perception of safety, of taking the vaccine and especially something that is coming on mine so quickly. of the sea i think there will need to be a big campaign of reassuring people about that, there does seem to be a willingness to ta ke does seem to be a willingness to take up the vaccine at the moment. it is something like 70% of people say they wed. that still leaves a percentage of people who would not andi percentage of people who would not and i think we need to drill down into why that is. when you look at the amounts being

spent, giles, on this, the us pledging $1 billion and operation warp speed, which i had not heard of before, talk through that. i have not seen that, but i think you must have been pledged on this. i think rachel is right, there does need to be a public health awareness campaign to reassure people. there's a lot of uncertainty and fake knee swelling around at the moment. we are hearing different things each day, we could be near to a vaccine before september book, some saying we have to live with the virus for another year and we have to live with the virus for anotheryearand a we have to live with the virus for another year and a half. we are feeling this through step—by—step. the politicians need to be given a bit of leeway, there will be a time ina bit of leeway, there will be a time in a place to look at lessons learned and that what could've been done better but we need to get on top of this pandemic first and that is where our energy should be before the king, having sort of benefit of hindsight should be. this is not the

time for cheap political point scoring and the whole kind of political knock—about and lame get. another story on —— political knock—about and blame game. xijinping talking xi jinping talking about xijinping talking about imposing the security law on the constitution of hong kong, writing into the basic law. that is going to be pretty incendiary, isn't it? yes, it is going to be pretty in surgery and it risks igniting tensions in that region. i've only come across that story to be honest, i am very happy to come back in the second half and discuss it. i do want to go back to that point made about political point scoring. i don't think that is what is going on. obviously it is very important that we course correct in this country, there has been one of the highest death tolls in the world. the government does not seem on top of the situation.

farfrom not seem on top of the situation. far from trying to score points, i think what people are trying to do is hold this government to account and make sure things are in place that should be in place so that we can ease the lockdown properly. giles, i will come back to that in an hour when we have another review of the papers. let us crack on. staying with china, president xi jinping is speaking to university students, talking about how the country had stilled itself through hardship and suffering, it is pretty clear that president xi jinping is looking ahead to a much brighter, biggerfuture for the looking ahead to a much brighter, bigger future for the country. to think it is change china and in any way or hardened their resolve? he is trying to use it to solidify his grip on power, as a fee actually needs to. as we saw a few months ago, they disbanded with fixed term for the presidency now he can be

present for an unlimited amount of time. you see from the store he is looking to wedge the issue, to reinforce and create as them and us attitude between china and the rest of the world. pointing that the death statistics in china are not as bad as the rest of the world. one would question how accurate those figures are. you are going to see that them and us narrative wage, it will only get worse and accentuated as we get nearer the presidential elections. as you see with trump, he was going to dine out during his election campaign with the economy. he can't do that now so you can see him leaning back on this narrative around economic nationalism, look, i told you about china all along, i told you about china all along, i told you about china all along, i told you we need to follow a policy of protectionism and pull up the drawbridge. to some extent, that will force, or president xi jinping

will force, or president xi jinping will use up to double down. they are using this to solidify and reinforce his grip on power. i think it is pretty strong already. dmu turn on surcharge for foreign nhs workers. we do not know what made him do that. he was question on the spacer keir starmer on pmqs. —— question on this by sir keir starmer. we can presume it is pressure from opposition, backbenchers and his own party who are not happy about it. this is a completely unjust surcharge, asking nhs workers to pay twice, to pay a surcharge for a service in which they are working in such hard, awful conditions, saving lives, is completely glacially unjust. but i think now that they

come and has you turned on that, we need to look at why anybody‘s pain that surcharge. no migraine should be paying twice to be using the nhs stop —— no migrant. the nhs was for people who reside in the uk, not for people who reside in the uk, not for people with a particular colour passport. everybody should access to health in this country, it is one of the most basic rights. thoughts from giles, what do you make on this? they said it was not his finest hour, he got the figures wrong about what it was going to cost the nhs. yes, i mean, look, good government, good leaders, it is all about admitting when url and changing your mind and rectifying that and i think it's come to the right conclusion. i think that should be applauded, the worst thing is when we think that politicians should be right all the time, did government is about realising when you have got things wrong and he has done that and

recognise that. i think it should be applauded for it. rachel, do you think this is something that keir starmer will carry on running with for the next pmqs as well, as you say, about how this affects other people as well? well, i think it is a pressure point, isn't it? there really is no reason why migrants who live and work in the uk and pay taxes like the rest of us should be charged £624 a year surcharge to use the nhs. it is completely unjust and it is immoral. the thing about it is politicians are always going on about how migrant should integrate, one of the biggest blocks to integrating is a block on access to basic services like health care. there is absolutely no reason why anyone resident in this country should be denied health care. we absolutely can do better and we

should. 0k, let us have a look at the philippine star. all the mail. no, the philippine star. we have a pension borisjohnson no, the philippine star. we have a pension boris johnson taken no, the philippine star. we have a pension borisjohnson taken from their online showing him jogging. pension borisjohnson taken from their online showing himjogging. —— we their online showing himjogging. —— we have a picture of borisjohnson. we have not seen him, he had gone for a jog ahead of that pmqs. he is wearing her philippines holiday t—shirt, which is a good way of getting the story onto the front page. yeah, he is gradually returning to full fitness. as part of that, i think we have over the past seven to ten days because he is going to wage war on obesity because that has been linked to coronavirus.

he potentially thought he should be vetted before he has got the disease, he is to run quite a lot before he was foreign secretary, getting back to a strict fitness regime. one of the fallouts of this is been more about the nanny state getting involved in the sugar tax on things like that, but you will see the government bear down on a busy day again. we have seen a lot of reports about that. rachel, one fact idid not reports about that. rachel, one fact i did not realise, 200,000 filipinos living in the uk at the moment. that is right, each committee here. 21,000 are health care workers and they are disproportionate, tragically losing lives to coronavirus, so good to obviously... rachel, i'm going to stop you. we are out of time for this section. rachel and charles, thank you both very much. —— rachel and giles.

that's it. hello there. the next few days will be windier. there's rain in the forecast and it will continue to cool off a bit as well. whilst many places were a little cooler today, it was still quite hot towards the south—east of england and london in particular, where temperatures reached 28 celsius. the most significant change is coming in from the atlantic, the swirl of cloud around an unusually deep area of low pressure and that will bring some wet and windy weather in from the atlantic. that rain band continuing to work its way northwards and eastwards overnight. the wind strengthening as well. again, it looks still dry throughout much of the night across east anglia in the south—east and particularly warm here as well. this rain will push its way eastwards. there will be some rain for eastern england, probably not a great deal because the weather front is weakening as it pushes eastwards all the while. and most of the rain and the strong winds will be closer to that area of low pressure. so not a great deal of rain where it's perhaps needed most of all. certainly wetter further

west and northwards, with the focus of the heavy rain likely to be in the highlands of scotland. over a month's worth of rain in the next few days. and for a while, northern parts of the uk could be unusually windy for the time of year too. it's a wet and windy start really across for scotland. this rain in eastern england, as it moves through during the morning, won't last very long, may not amount to very much and then the sunshine comes through. the winds are strengthening and we're blowing in some showers, particularly for scotland and northern ireland, and here we'll have the strongest of the winds. could be gusting 50 or even 60 miles an hour. of course that will take the edge off the temperatures. otherwise, we're not too bad for the time of year for scotland and northern ireland. still 16 or 17 celsius, cooler for eastern parts of england. noticeably so, i think, in the south—east. that area of low pressure, though, still bringing some windy weather overnight and into the first half of the weekend, typically for the northern half of the uk, where we'll see some of the wettest weather. we're also going to find some showers coming in, not just across scotland, but also northern ireland, pushing eastwards across england and wales.

some of them could get into eastern parts of england. most of them will be further west, but it will be a cooler day across the board. only 12 to 14 in scotland and northern ireland. where we've got some more rain continuing during saturday evening and saturday night, wet weather still on sunday, mainly for scotland, becoming lighter and more patchy and elsewhere, as you head further south, it's probably going to be dry. it won't be as windy and it'll feel a bit warmer. temperatures back up to 22 or 23 celsius.

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