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people are saying i want total safety, that is impossible in any form of transport. by what they are doing is putting on measures such as test of your temperature and before you get on the aircraft, wearing face coverings if not exactly surgical masks throughout your journey through the airport and on the aircraft, and then making good morning. welcome to breakfast with charlie stayt and mega munchetty. everything from the boarding process our headlines today: to the in—flight... food and drink a calls for the prime minister's most senior advisor to resign after he's accused of breaking lockdown rules. lot more kind of socially distant, dominic cummings travelled 250 miles so lots of contactless payment and to his parents‘ home when he had coronavirus symptoms. so lots of contactless payment and so on, and reallyjust saying "ok, a source close to him denies any breach of the restrictions. we're going to do everything we can but of course there are no absolute a two—week quarantine for most people entering the uk, with fines for those guarantees, and a lot of people i am who don't self isolate. speaking to us saying, actually, i'm 97 people have died after a plane crashed into homes in the pakistani not going to fly anywhere until there is a vaccine. ijust city of karachi. not going to fly anywhere until there is a vaccine. i just want to clear up the head of the premier league tells there is a vaccine. i just want to clearupa there is a vaccine. i just want to clear up a couple of things which us they're as confident people have said. which is number as they can be that matches can begin again injune, one, by getting rid of the middle now they've taken the first step seat on the plane, you are making it safer.
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and number two, actually with group training. flying on a plane is safer because the error is circulated so we shouldn't worry about that anyway. what do you say to that? good morning. in weather, the if you take the middle seat out of an weekend is getting off to a windy aircraft then you can reduce start. some heavy showers around. very wet in western scotland. slowly the distance between passengers from maybe 50 centimetres to 1 metre. through the weekend the winds are a lot of people going to ease. it will turn drier, would say that in the course of a three hour flight, sunnier and a little warmer, too. that's actually not going to make much difference, but it would certainly make a lot of difference to the fare. it's saturday, 23 may. our top story: the prime minister's top adviser is facing calls to resign if you take out one third of the passengers, the cruelty after being accused of fractions means of breaking lockdown rules. that you would need dominic cummings travelled hundreds to increase the price by 50%. of miles from london to his parent's home and in terms of the way that the air in county durham when he had coronavirus symptoms. circulates on aircrafts, yes, they do have very high quality air filters, up to operating durham police confirm they spoke to his family about self—isolation guidelines and reiterated advice around essential travel. theatre standards. a source close to mr cummings denies he broke any rules. jessica parker reports. but if somebody next to you is sneezing and coughing, i'm afraid that the best dominic cummings dashing out filters in the world aren't of number 10 in late march. going to do you much good. a few days later, the other thing of course it was confirmed he is that while these developed coronavirus symptoms things are all starting and people are trying to be induced and was self isolating. into flying, if you like,
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now it's emerged there could be some nice, that around that good deals, i suspect. time, he travelled from his london property to his parents‘ home in durham, 250 miles away. but in the long run, will it make flying prohibitively expensive? it's clearly, there is it depends who you talk to. going to be questions there are certainly, of course, going to be some increased costs. if you're a low—cost airline that number ten will have to address. and you have to clean out not least because of the aircraft really the readiness of the thoroughly after a two hour public to follow government flight, that's going to add to your returns. guidance more generally, that's going to reduce the amount is going to be affected by this sort of story. of time you have aircraft in the air but i don't want to rush and effectively going to undermine to condemn without hearing the full story. a lot of your business model. the extra costs at airports are going to it's prompted calls push prices up. from opposition but against that, you're parties for the prime going to see the airlines, minister's chief aid to resign the holiday companies, coming in with all sorts of deals to persuade us or face the sack. that, yes, it is a good idea to go the reality is that travelling once again. boris johnson's most senior adviser blatantly breached the rules that millions of people have been and so, as it were for the brave, trying so hard to keep. maybe for the foolhardy, it is the case there will be plenty that his position is of bargains out there. totally untenable and he needs to resign, or borisjohnson but i think when things needs to step up to settle down, we won't see quite as many flights, the plate and sack him. we won't see the same range labour is demanding a swift explanation of opportunities that we have now, from downing street. the explanation
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from a source close to mr cummings is that and we will certainly the journey was so his parents see higher prices because the only way that the airlines can recoup could help with childcare the billions of dollars while he and his wife, that they have been losing over unwell with covid symptoms, stayed in a separate building. the past few months, is of course to push up the prices the source denied that mrcummings had broken lockdown rules or that and they will do that police spoke to him. by keeping a lid on capacity. in a statement, the durham thank you, simon. constabulary said that officers explained to the family that it for this week. we'll be back the guidance on self isolation and essential travel. inafew earlier this month, that it for this week. we'll be back in a few weeks with a brand—new show professor neil ferguson but until then, take care, stay quit his role on the government's scientific advisory committee after safe, and goodbye. the telegraph reported he had been visited by his married lover during lockdown. dr catherine calderwood resigned as scotland's chief medical officer last month after making hello, this is breakfast two trips to her second home. with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. good morning. jessica parker, bbc news. here's a summary of today's main stories from bbc news. we can speak now to our political dominic cummings, the most senior adviser to the prime minister, correspondent helen catt. is facing calls to resign after being accused of breaking lockdown rules. good morning, helen. on the one mrcummings is underfire hand, some politicians saying for travelling hundreds of miles dominic cummings should be allowed from london to country durham the opportunity to explain what to self—isolate at his parents' home happened himself, but will there be when he had coronavirus symptoms.
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durham police confirm they spoke questions for boris johnson? yes, i to his family about self—isolation guidelines and reiterated advice around essential travel. think that there will be pressure on a source close to mr cummings denies he broke any rules, the prime minister to respond in claiming that the family stayed some form. so far number ten have not issued any sort of comment on this. but dominic cummings is a very in a separate building. senior member of downing street's staff, so i think there is going to the government is facing more be pressure for the prime minister questions over its plans to explain what happened here. we to introduce a 14—day quarantine for people arriving in the uk. had a source close to dominic from june 8, travellers will have to self—isolate for a fortnight cummings saying they don't believe and could face fines of £1000 he broke any rules, because there is if they break the rules. an increased focus on the issues of airlines and travel companies are worried it could damage self isolation, as we look to come their businesses even further. out of lockdown and look forward to the government says the measures are being introuced to stop a second things like track and trace. we have wave of coronavirus. heard that of course that pressure from opposition parties, the labour party saying there needs to be a swift explanation about this. but i think the really key factor is going at least 97 people have been killed to be how conservative mps react to after a passenger plane carrying 99 this, and how that develops over the passengers and crew crashed into the city of karachi in pakistan yesterday. day, and what they are saying to many were travelling ahead borisjohnson behind of the eid holiday on sunday. day, and what they are saying to boris johnson behind the day, and what they are saying to borisjohnson behind the scenes. helen, thank you. one of the survivors has described his ordeal, the government is facing more saying all he could see "was fire." questions over its plans to introduce a 14—day quarantine the exact cause of the crash for travellers arriving in the uk. airlines and travel companies are worried the new rules, is still unknown. which are due to begin on 8june,
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could damage their businesses even further. our correspondent simonjones five people have been charged is at heathrow airport. with the murder of a law student simon, what are some in a drive—by shooting in blackburn. of the main concerns? 19—year—old aya hachem died from a gunshot wound to the chest, we are actually going to talk to the after shots were fired boss of heathrow a bit later in the programme, but this is where we are from a passing car last sunday. going to be seeing this put into her funeral is due to take place practice? yes, the boss of ryanair, later today in lebanon. for example, has described this plan by the government as "bonkers", and if you are tempted to book a holiday time now is 632 a.m. nick will have anytime soon i think you will be pretty brave stop because even if the weather for us later, but first you are allowed to travel to we're going to talk to mike. good somewhere like spain, after your two morning to you. weeks on the beach in the sun you will then have to pay for it by did you have a good evening? a good spending two weeks in quarantine when you return to the uk. why is sleep? no, and charlie knows why, as well. never mind, never mind! this being introduced ? nothing dodgy, don't worry. when you return to the uk. why is this being introduced? well, the government says with coronavirus cases falling here, but it doesn't wa nt cases falling here, but it doesn't want is a devastating second wave laughter. i am bright-eyed and bushy tailed after my first cup of coffee. how is it working with the premier fuelled by people bringing in the virus from abroad. —— what it league? well, you know, little doesn't want. the plan is that if tentative steps towards the resumption. and so far those little you are coming to the uk you will steps have been encouraging. as have to fill out a form online
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confident as we can be, is how the saying what exactly you are going to stay for those two weeks of quarantine. once you have done that, official line is, how the premier league is something up their plans if you do not fill out the form, you for a restart next month. could be fined £100. and afterwards in an exclusive interview they could be spotchecks. and in with our sports editor dan roan, chief executive richard masters said england, at least, you could get a they had momentum now after this week's return to fine of £1000 if you do not obey the non—contact training. quarantine. the airline industry a huge amount of work and says while this is in place this is effectively going to kill the consultation, discussion with clubs business. the ferry industry is and players and stakeholders, to get us and players and stakeholders, to get us to the point where we could go describing the plans is overzealous. back to step one of training this they will be some exceptions, for example, if you are travelling from week, and it's great for everybody, ireland or if you are involved in including the fans, to see our the haulage industry, but overall i players back on the training ground. think travel in the short term at we wouldn't have taken the first least is going to look very step to go back to training if we different from places like heathrow. weren't convinced that we had it certainly is. simon, thanks very created a very safe environment for our players to go back to, and each much. at least 97 people have been killed of our clubs voted unanimously for after a passenger plane crashed it last week. and so they were into the city of karachi in pakistan yesterday. convinced too. the pakistan international airlines so we still don't know exactly how flight from lahore was carrying 99 passengers and crew, long it will be before we'll be many of which were travelling ahead of the eid holiday on sunday. seeing premier league action again. so while we wait, would the exact cause of the crash you like to see a goal? is still unknown. this is in the german capital, where hertha berlin beat their city our news correspondent rivals union 4—0. saher baloch joins us now from islamabad. there may not have been any
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fans but there was still plenty of entertainment! very good morning to you. very distressing images have emerged. one football team in denmark has tell us a bit more about what is come up with a novel way of bringing known about the crash? yeah, so far supporters closer to the action. aarhus will put up a giant what we know is that the army has screen alongside the pitch cleared the area. the residential which will broadcast sounds and pictures of over 10,000 fans, area, basically, where the plane who'll support the team crashed yesterday. 25 houses have been cleared so far, and the from home on zoom. affected houses and those people have been relocated. the residents we have only got positive feed back, have been relocated. the residents have basically been relocated to other areas. at the same time, the both from our founders, we have only got positive feed back, both from ourfounders, of we have only got positive feed back, both from our founders, of course, and also the fans from others. they aviation division has cold into an investigation and has made a four will have their own way, a way stand member investigative committee, in the stadium, individual stadium, which will look into and probity so they are also welcome at the causes of the crash, and it will game. and our own fans there are submit its report in a month, we are welcome and think it is a good idea. told. —— probe the causes. at the and it is an opportunity for them to get a sense of the community that same time, cctv footage has also they experience around football. come to the fore in which the plane can be seen crashing into the yeah, clubs are really thinking on residential area. at the same time, their feet, aren't they, there is also an audio clip of the yeah, clubs are really thinking on theirfeet, aren't they, to make this new world work? now, the hope is that cricket incident that has gone viral right will return in july,
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now, in which the pilot can be heard with some notable changes. bowlers have always used sweat making a mayday call and telling the and saliva to polish the ball on one side, and make it move in the air, calls our that they have basically to wrong—foot the batsmen. lost two engines in the incident. so england all—rounder chris woa kes was one of the players who returned to training this week, far, a lot of information is still and he expects the use of saliva coming in, and the authorities are to be banned next week. not saying anything for confirmation, like what exactly caused the accident. thank you very if you actually don't put any sweat on the ball, or any saliva, you can much. that was saher baloch still shiny ball by it on your jersey or your trousers or whatever it is. -- reporting from islamabad for us. five people have been charged with the murder of a law student jersey or your trousers or whatever it is. —— shine the. it'sjust in a drive—by shooting in blackburn. 19—year—old aya hachem died doesn't buff up as well as if you from a gunshot wound to the chest, had put a substance on it. we're after shots were fired just going to have to work hard on from a passing car last sunday. her parents described her it and really give it a shine, and i as the "most loyal devoted daughter" think that is the only real option who "dreamed of becoming a solicitor". her funeral is due to take place we have, because, you know, unless later today in lebanon. we have, because, you know, unless we are allowed to put some form of a new study suggests that an anti—malarial drug promoted substance that is given to us on the by donald trump as a treatment for coronavirus may in fact increase ball, ben, you know, it is the only the risk of death among infected patients. way we can get our heads around it. the research published by the medicaljournal, the lancet, shows that those now, here's a question who were treated with for you to throw into your next lockdown quiz. hydroxychloroquine had a higher risk who is the world's highest of death and heart problems paid female athlete? than those who were not. well, the answer — forjust the one point —
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last week mr trump admitted is japanese tennis star naomi osaka. he was taking the drug himself. according to forbes magazine, keepers at chester zoo have been she earned nearly £31 million delighted by the squeaks of some in the last 12 months. tiny mammals they've been looking after. she's won two grand slams, the dwarf mongoose but now replaces serena williams, triplets were born a few weeks ago, who had been at the top of the list but have onlyjust emerged for the very first time. for the past four years. staff had been hearing tiny squeaks inside the mongoose burrows but now the miniature babies now, with sport seasons being cancelled — and any that do resume being staged behind closed are happily exploring the outside doors for the foreseeable future — world, alongside their new what about fans who have paid up front for season tickets? legally, they are entitled to their money back, but any payouts could jeopardise the survival of lower league football clubs. parents hope and cooper. i've been looking into this and found the issue is bringing fans and their clubs even hope and cooper. their parents propose names. it sounds like a closer together. comedy duo, doesn't it? —— parents' fans singing. this is what ray and names. well, mongoose is quite deborah paid for, the highlight of comical. or solicitors. just my their week, taking their seats at thoughts for this morning. let's ba bylon their week, taking their seats at ba bylo n ha d their week, taking their seats at babylon had walsall, but normally have a look through some of the with the 3000 other season—ticket saturday morning papers. holders. now that that can't happen,
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the guardian leads with they are owed a refound of £100 for a joint exclusive story they are owed a refound of £100 for the four remaining home games they with the mirror, that now want to see. but along with the boris johnson's chief advisor dominic cummings travelled to durham, more than 260 miles vast majority here, they want the clu b to vast majority here, they want the club to keep their money. we're from his london home while displaying asking for a refund. we are hoping coronavirus symptoms. for the football club cosmic future. it is all about the community. it is that is of course our lead story this morning as well. a family club, and it is a lovely, the daily mail's main story says friendly feel when you come here on that "hope is on the horizon" a saturday afternoon. it is part of for those wanting to travel abroad this summer. us it reports on plans from ministers a saturday afternoon. it is part of us and part of our history. that is to agree "quarantine—free pacts" with popular tourist destinations such as france and spain. far more than any refund the club the daily telegraph also leads on mrjohnson's senior advisor might give us in the current circumstances. paying all the facing calls to resign. season—ticket holders back cost walsall £100,000, money they can't opposition parties have said afford to lose. so they've come up mr cummings' position is "completely untenable", the paper reports. with creative ways of rewarding fans and the independent‘s website is leading on how travel firms who do not ask for their money back are reacting to the news incoming passengers stop free tickets in the future, a to the uk will be quarantined discount at the club's shop. for 1h days. stop free tickets in the future, a discount at the club's shoplj stop free tickets in the future, a discount at the club's shop. i have it says it puts the long term future got one that are now requesting a of the industry in doubt and also claim a loophole, refund, and that is perfectly which means those travelling via ireland won't have acceptable, because people may well be short of money. but the vast to isolate may be abused. majority are saying, keep the money, chairman, give me some discounts in the future. they simply care that a quick look through some of these the future. they simply care that the club gets through this crisis,
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front pages? i would quite like to and we come out the other side. if spend some time on this. andy, our they can play a part in that, they will do it. so it is a question of cameraman, i don't know, if i put care. it is clubs like this we have that there, right? let's take a look at that. and then can we cut to seen varied, and it ain't going to camera three? happen here. —— buried. seen varied, and it ain't going to happen here. -- buried. walsall are certainly not alone. we spoke to a what i am showing you here, this is range of lead to clubs, and the consensus is that while they will basil, a three—year—old alpaca, offer refunds to any season—ticket showing off a new look, after holders who want their money back, getting a much—needed trim at manor they would far rather keep hold of they would far rather keep hold of the money for the good of the club and offer fans rewards when next season does eventually begin. i set up season does eventually begin. i set upa good season does eventually begin. i set up a good chat with season—ticket reith and farm park. there you go. holders of several different league as all, and charlie. do you like to clubs, and they all told me they wa nted to clubs, and they all told me they wanted our clubs to hold onto their money from this season. for me, but that? that is in the times, charlie. it isa that? that is in the times, charlie. it is a nice picture, isn't it? a nice picture. it is lovely. look at a city has invested a lot within the some other things that are in the community, so for me it is about shall we? you know these things, investing our time and giving back what can you tell from someone, from to the club as well. it is a 2—way the shape of someone's ad? for a process. we enjoy the club, we love the football, and we don't want to long time, no, we're not looking at be asking for money back if that is that again. this is a new study. for going tojeopardise it.
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be asking for money back if that is going to jeopardise it. the club hasn't done anything wrong. and this yea rs that again. this is a new study. for years ideas, people have said, the shape of your head is a sign of your support is giving players uncertain about their futures and unable to do character. so what can you tell, what they normally do a timely what can a computer tell about your character from a selfie? so they put boost. any up beat feeling, anything thatis boost. any up beat feeling, anything that is going to give us a chance to all these things in, and humans make look towards a future, is a real inspiration, really. it has created characterjudgements based on photographs, we know that. a new a real unity across the board, because we are all in the same boat. artificial intelligence system is trying to do the same thing. so the and going forward with some of next things they are trying to do, right, season's potential behind closed you see, for example, they were faced with a machine, looking at all doors as well, this unity will be even more important. with no income these images, which was trying to from gate receipts, league two clubs makejudgements these images, which was trying to make judgements about whether you are an extrovert, whether you are an will have to come up with new ideas, like livestreaming of matches. will have to come up with new ideas, like livestreaming of matchesm will have to come up with new ideas, like livestreaming of matches. it is a massive part of it. will it agreeable person, or whether you are recover everything? absolutely not. an open person. sometimes based on the shape of your face and other but it will provide an absolutely things. is it the shape of your face vital channel for that and we will or the shape of your head? just let be urging fans, perhaps you haven't me clarify here. faces with extreme watched a game, were not able to expressions were removed from the watched a game, were not able to watch it in a live stadium, to watch it from their laptop or mobile. all test. faces with extreme expressions of the fans in our group video chat we re test. faces with extreme expressions were removed, as were several images said they would pay to watch of celebrities and cats. why would streamed matches, and they all said they would also buy cardboard or you put a picture of a cat? that is metal cutouts of themselves,
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what i thought. it is fairly obvious following the idea of german side you wouldn't want a picture of a cat in there. anyway, they are saying borussia munchengladbach. in league the thing you can most easily tell, well, the hardest hotel is whether two, several clubs that are working someone is open. just from their on prototypes for next season.“ face, whether they have an open you can't be there, that is the next personality. how does how come into best alternative. we'll be providing it? i don't know, they didn't look those cutouts, fans will soon be at that. maybe they should have. able to get their hands on that, if they are not as equally there, they shall we talk to nick? he is a will be able to support it. it would lovely person to talk to in the morning. i saw you looking at that. be quite nice to have a little what do you think? can you judge somebody‘s character from the shape webcam, may become in your cardboard of the head? i've got a very big cutout or your metal cutouts, so you would actually get the view that he head right now. i think most of it would actually get the view that he would normally get. that would be is taken up with hair right now. you quite a good idea. the view is very canjoin the is taken up with hair right now. you different now for season—ticket can join the club. exactly, holders like ray and deborah, but is taken up with hair right now. you canjoin the club. exactly, it is taken up with hair right now. you can join the club. exactly, it has taken a lot of moulding this they are hoping that by sticking morning. we will press on all the together, they will all have clubs same. together, they will all have clubs to support until the day they are allowed back here once more. anyhow will be blown around quite happily today because it is a windy start to the weekend. we know i love that original idea there from yesterday was a blustery start to the harrison's, that you can have a the weekend across the uk. very little camera in your cutout. and it windy again today, showers around, wouldn't be like the real problem we and more persistent rain in have somebody really tall standing up scotland, in the west, where it will have somebody really tall standing up infront have somebody really tall standing up in front of you unblocking your view, because they couldn't move.
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be happy. scotland is closest to that is something i have always this area of low pressure, bringing struggled with. me too. being a bit all the wind, but it bringing some of that rain as well and michelle shorter than the average power, i was elsewhere. it is only slowly a lwa ys shorter than the average power, i always get the tall person in front of me. so this is actually a perfect moving away as the weekend moves on. solution. yeah, and it is what clubs some rain feeding further east are going to have to do, come up across scotland. rather patchy here. with these ideas, straining or having cutouts or as we saw in aq brighter spells. cloud this morning in northern ireland brightens up a bit this afternoon, denmark, earlier today, having cutouts or as we saw in denmark, earliertoday, having the big screen and fans can still more ryan —— reina arriving this interact and get involved. it is so evening. england and wales, showers, very important. as for the season tickets, which are the same right across the board in all sports, already heavy from the word go, heavy and thundering places, which legally, whether it be cricket or may spread east. around much of by, legally, whether it be cricket or rugby, fans can apply and get refunds. but obviously that level of england and wales, winds around financial restriction that places 40-50 england and wales, winds around 40—50 miles an hour. some of the like little league two clubs have, it is very important and it seems strongest gusts in the range of 50 to 60 mph. it does mean that these fa ns it is very important and it seems fans are really sticking by the showers, when they come along, will clu bs, fans are really sticking by the clubs, with the potential of being rewarded in the future. thank you, move through quickly in those gusty winds. and as for the temperatures, mike. lockdown restrictions in guernsey it feels a bit cooler out there are about to be further eased from the end of next week, today as well. 11 degrees in as the island has recorded no new coronavirus cases glasgow, 19 in norwich and london. for over three weeks. under the new phase, restaurants and cafes will be but there will be, for many of us, allowed to reopen, as well as hairdressers, gyms and cinemas. from the channel islands, some sunny afternoon spells. tonight, the rain across the western
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side of scotland, especially to the highlands north of the central belt, may ease for a time, then we will robert hall reports. see another spell of rain coming through northern ireland into southern and western scotland. but ina she rain showers towards parts of in a guernsey garden, eight week old northern england and wales. it is north—east scotland down through the east and south of england that we get to see some clear spells charlie flood is meeting his wider overnight, but temperatures are not falling down too far. let's take a family. until now his grandparents have only had glimpses of him at a look at part two of your weekend. lots of cloud to start the day distance. today the family can hold tomorrow. patchy rain affecting charlie and hugged each otherfor the first time since lockdown began. parts of northern ireland, wales, northern england and scotland. notice how as we get on through the ijust the first time since lockdown began. i just feel really the first time since lockdown began. ijust feel really blessed that we live over here, but we can do that. day, a lot of that rain will slowly we are so fortunate, because in fizzle out, we will keep some cloud, england they can't do that, and it's just must be so difficult for them. but if you bridal sunny spells will we're just must be so difficult for them. we' re really, really lucky. gradually develop. the temperatures just must be so difficult for them. a little bit higher and the wind we're really, really lucky. not hiding any more! he needs to see his slowly easing. the wind will ease family, so it is really nice that more on the bank holiday and more of they can all see him. it feels us more on the bank holiday and more of us will get to see the sunshine. it will be warmer by then as well. absolutely amazing. it has been a long time coming. and it feels so nice. i can't put him down. on may thank you nick, it is 615. 16, guernsey moved into phase three teaching unions are calling of the lockdown exit plan...
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on the government to explain how children can safely return to school next month, guernsey families and friends can after key evidence was published meet up under what is called a by the scientific advisors. the devolved nations are taking bubble system. gradually widening different approaches to the issue, and many families say they are also their contacts. the islands battle facing a dilemma over how to proceed, especially those with covid—19 has been a community who live their lives across the england—wales border. effort. captured by the slogan our news correspondent tomos morgan went to meet some of them. "guernsey together", it brought a sharp fall in infection. social this is my dining room table where i distancing, coupled with rigourous testing and tracing, has taken am now using at for school work. confirmed new cases down to zero.- like thousands of other good and across the uk, hope has been the peak of when we were seeing most learning, practising and playing at of our cases, we regularly doing home since the pandemic. she is in over 100, up to 120 some days, up to year6, home since the pandemic. she is in year 6, the last year of primary school. and on the first ofjune 180 tests a day. in uk terms, that many classrooms for her age group in england will be reopening. this is is over 100,000 tests per day. in josey, two, the curve of new cases has flattened close to zero, and life looks almost normal. —— jersey. where my dancing practices done. although she lives in sudbury, her shops, businesses and outside school is in wales where no schools eateries have reopened, but social distancing measures remain in place, will be opening next month following wealth government advice as and islanders have been advised to use masks if they can. beaches, education is devolved. the transition, they are going into a though, remain mostly deserted, and big school, and it is kind of a
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that sums up the dilemma now facing major change. so theyjust need the island governments. getting covid—19 figures down to or close to zero is baby major change. so theyjust need the ba by ste ps major change. so theyjust need the baby steps that year 6 gives them a cause for celebration. but the getting ready and they haven't had celebration might be short lived. the channel islands know they can't that because we are all remain within a sealed bubble homeschooling them. by september she will be split up from many friends indefinitely. they must open their as they will be heading to the local borders if they are to slow the welsh high school in chepstow and decline in their economies. the others will be going to why dean. latest figures from jersey show the island is losing £120 million a month from its economy. increases in welsh high school in chepstow and others will be going to why deanlj really won't be able to say a proper testing and tracing might replace goodbye to all my friends. here in quarantine, but even a gradual return of sea and air links could knighton the border runs directly reverse the progress made. to keep through the town. the majority of residents live in wales and the rest in england. and the reality for it in reverse the progress made. to keep itina reverse the progress made. to keep it in a bubble and to keep cases those living here is that life takes low, but at the same time, if you place on both sides of the border, don't have immunity then, you don't really know what is going to happen which has made for some tough as cases that as things open up, and decisions during this pandemic. we at some point they will have to. as cases that as things open up, and did scrabble instead of spelling, at some point they will have tolj think doing all right, personally. didn't we, because i decided i compared to the population in the couldn't face another spelling test. uk, the uk, the numbers are morgan's live in the welsh part of dramatically low compared to what they are in the uk. i think we knighton. in complete contrast to
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should see it out, i say. see it clear. but then you've got to test the lyalls, the morgan live in people coming and that is going to be the problem, i think. as wales, but some remains and get politicians and health experts their education in england. mason is debate their next moves, islanders also in year6 are savouring their freedom. robert their education in england. mason is also in year 6 and following uk government advise his school is reopening next week. it is confusing hall, bbc news, in the channel and it is difficult. i think you islands. it is lovely seeing people hug again, isn't it? yeah. the value ta ke and it is difficult. i think you take the bits of advice that suit you, to be honest. the morgan's have ofa hug. hug again, isn't it? yeah. the value of a hug. i hug again, isn't it? yeah. the value ofa hug. i miss them. it is 6:45am. decided not to send mason back to we'll be getting nice, warm hug from school next week, and although the weather this weekend? safety is the main concern for mum rebecca's decision, there are here's nick with a look at this morning's weather. several factors at play. rebecca's decision, there are several factors at playlj rebecca's decision, there are several factors at play. i almost for southern parts, today looking feel like me having him at home is windier than yesterday, so the one less child for them to have to weekend is getting off to a windy worry about me to be honest, in this start. showers to be had for many unknown circumstance. the wealth and across particularly western government say that travelling parts of scotland, a soaker of a day across the border for education government say that travelling across the borderfor education is classed as an essentialjourney, so on the way, particularly into the hills. that's all down to this area the morgan's wouldn't be fined if they change their minds. —— welsh. of low pressure, which is bringing the strong winds, but closer to that you go — uk government says they encourage families to send their in scotland, this is where you see the rain with that as well. children to school is open but given elsewhere, some sunshine but
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the circumstances those who choose showers. this is the heavy rain in not to send will not be penalised. scotla nd showers. this is the heavy rain in scotland in the west, especially to two families divided by an invisible the higher ground in the north of line, living in both countries but the higher ground in the north of the central belt, patchy rain further east in scotland at times whose children follow different sets of rules. stop in northern ireland, plenty of cloud, brightening up in the afternoon with rain clearing but coming back in the evening, and it is 6:19am. england and wales are seeing plenty time now for a look of showers, not everyone will see at the travel show, looking at the future of flying. one, but if you do there could be on this week's travel show, heavy and thundery, and moving your guide to the future of flying once the lockdown is over. through quickly on the strong gusty winds. for much of england and wales, gusts between a0 and 50 mph and we could have the strongest gusts in the range of 50 to 60 mph and rough seas around many coasts of western britain, especially western scotla nd western britain, especially western scotland in winds that strong. the temperatures are not down on yesterday, so most of us only around the mid teens, close to 20 in the sunnier and warmer parts of eastern england. into tonight, we'll still here at stansted, there see a future around parts of england
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are normally 500 flights coming in and out every day. and wales, but for northern ireland, today, there are only nine. north wales, north—west england, southern and western scotland, cloudy skies bringing patchy rain. but flight numbers from the uk north—west scotland will see clear could be slowly picking up again. spells, as will much of the east and british airways and south—east of england, and temperatures overnight aren't going ryanair have recently down too far. let's go on to part both announced plans to schedule up to 50% of their usual flight two of the weekend and what we can capacity from the beginning ofjuly. expect tomorrow is some patchy rain though they say, around, still raining for a time normal scheduling isn't likely to return until 2023. around, still raining for a time around western scotland, but notice as we go deeper through the day, a of course this is not lot of this rain is going to fade going to be a normal summer. not for any of us. away. we'll keep some cloud, mind meanwhile, local travel restrictions you, but even that will thin and break—in places to allow sunny are easing and some governments spells. the winds are going to gradually ease, still breezy are even planning to open their borders to citizens of neighbouring countries, tomorrow, and the temperatures will bea creating so—called travel bubbles. tomorrow, and the temperatures will be a bit higher, so some spots in the whole purpose of us discussing the low 20s, and those temperatures the possibility of having higher still for the bank holiday, a bubble of sorts between us, lighter winds and more by then will a safe zone of travel, get to the sunshine. would be so that you wouldn't have you know what i think when ice wind, to have a quarantine attached. i think everyone would do you know what i think about? acknowledge that it would be prohibitive. golf. golf! i wouldn't
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safety, that underlies our guidance. do you know what i think about? golf. golf! iwouldn't be do you know what i think about? golf. golf! i wouldn't be the one on this sofa thinking about air. fair enough, it is a challenge. it's and that means taking gradual, careful steps to help travel restart in line with what going to be a challenge! thanks, nick. it's time for a news summary the science tells us. on coronavirus presented by annita mcveigh. those bubbles are one way of kickstarting travel again. but when we do begin to fly, can we trust the airlines are doing enough to keep us safe? so here at stansted, they are using all of the space to enforce social distancing. hello and welcome to the latest in there are stickers on the ground our special programmes on the to make sure that you stand coronavirus pandemic. i'm annita in the right place. and when it comes to masks mcveigh. and gloves, well, they're not o nto compulsory but they mcveigh. onto day's programme: we'll hear from minority communities in the us are very much advised. and the uk about how the pandemic you can get your hands cleaned first. has affected their lives. and an thank you very much. then, you get the mask. thank you. interview with facebook‘s founder on what the company is doing to combat which you then put on around your ears. misinformation around coronavirus. and then the gloves. and you can even get your but first, in the united states, temperature scanned before you get to security.
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native american communities and say well, that all seems pretty they've been forgotten in the straightforward and simple coronavirus crisis. despite making when you've only got up coronavirus crisis. despite making upjust 2% nine flights a day. coronavirus crisis. despite making but how easy will it be to maintain up just 2% of the population, the rate of infection in these when there are many more communities is amongst the highest passengers and many more flights? in the country, as ellie costello and also, when you actually get explains. on the plane, how safe will that be? a roadblock in the hills of rural south dakota. since april, they've this week, the international air transport association announced been operating 2a/7, with tourists a series of measures the industry should be taking to keep passengers and hunters turned away. two native and crew safe. etihad, based in abu dhabi, american tribes say the threat of is just one of the airlines already taking action to try the virus, combined with their vulnerable populations and poor and reassure passengers. medical sizzle teas, meant they had they are currently trialling to urge ntly medical sizzle teas, meant they had to urgently control access to their lands —— facilities. technology that allows them we have an inherent and sovereign to monitor passenger's heart rate, temperature and respiratory rate, right to protect the health of our with the potential to detect covid—19. people and no—one, man or woman, we have embarked on a huge sort candace piette that right. of sanitisation programme. what we're doing is actively but now fighting the coronavirus has encouraging people to got political. south korea's... check in online. it's all about limiting touch points throughout the travellers' journey. i just want to ask you about what we are looking for is
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the middle seat because there seems to be some debate about that. clarification, respecting tribal does it actually make any difference? sovereignty, which is something i've it is difficult to achieve a lwa ys the two metre distancing. sovereignty, which is something i've always done in my words and actions, for example, in economy, but also making sure that we have what we're doing is ensuring that the neighbouring seat is free. the ability to protect people. despite their efforts, tribal leaders here haven't been able to all of our aircraft have hepa air filters which basically filter 99% of airborne microbes. keep the virus out of their land so effectively, the air quality entirely. last week, a tribe ordered on an aircraft is equivalent to what you would get a reservation wide shutdown after in a hospital operating theatre. learning that two residents had tested positive for covid—19. to be unable to use an aircraft's full capacity, it's not economically let all your relatives know, all of sustainable in the long—term. the only way i suppose your people know, all yourfriends, you could counter eve ryo ne a cross your people know, all yourfriends, everyone across our reservation — it this would be to double airfares will be shut down. and that's not viable. we would hope that the wearing elsewhere, native american of facemasks, as well as the many communities have been hit hard. the other measures, that largest reservation in the us, that is going to be sufficient. because it is impossible to maintain social navajo nation, is home to over distancing on an aircraft. 350,000 people, spanning the states etihad is not alone in this efforts. of arizona, utah and new mexico. delta will be spraying its cabins with a it's had 1aa deaths from covid—19 so special disinfectant between every flight. the spray is electrostatically charged to ensure far, thing in one of the highest that no surface goes untouched. infection rates in the country.
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navajo nation is... the land base is and hong kong airport has introduced enormous and covers several states, decontamination tanks. but in their highly populated areas, the claim is they will that's where we are seeing large kill any viruses or bacteria on your clothes or exposed cases of confirmed coronavirus parts of your body in only a0 seconds. infections. but it's notjust technology that could be seeing us in massachusetts, this tribe are one through this crisis. of the few with their own health medical detection dogs service and virus testing scheme. may soon be in place would you say that tribes have been at airports like this, forgotten in this pandemic? in an effort to literally sniff out absolutely. tribes are forgotten passengers with the virus. every day regardless, but in this so, this is asher, one of the rescue pandemic, itjust dogs who's going to be every day regardless, but in this pandemic, it just brings every day regardless, but in this pandemic, itjust brings it more to helping in the fight against covid. light. its just we don't get the attention we deserve and we definitely have been an afterthought. we are an afterthought steel, way down. he's got 350 million sensory under the $2 trillion corona receptors in the nose. us poor humans have 5 million. coronavirus relief act, travel that nose is going to be put to good use and going to save many, many lives. governments across the states are set to receive a billion—dollar... volunteers who were tested positive for covid—19 are given special socks to wear. tribal leaders say this is not the socks capture the odour nearly enough to reverse inequality of the virus which is then used to train the dogs.
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we are hoping that and discrimination that goes back the dog will be able for centuries. to make a good detection without becoming too close meanwhile in britain, thejewish to the individuals. this is going to be quite smelly. community also appears to have had a disproportionately high death toll. if there is an odour on a person, the bbc‘s disproportionately high death toll. the bbc'sjohn disproportionately high death toll. the bbc‘s john mcmanus disproportionately high death toll. the bbc'sjohn mcmanus has been they are going to be speaking to some of the families of those affected. shedding these odours and the dog should be able to pick it up. he was very special to us and our for example, when working at heathrow, where there flights coming in from areas family. remembering a dearly loved brother, of the world where we know there is a current hotspot. another victim of the covid—19 virus which has hit britain'sjewish community particularly hard. yankey so the dogs will be able to detect, rothschild shared a love of singing very rapidly, it takes 0.5 seconds with his brother, known as yy. the for a dog to sniff someone 20—year—old lived independently in and make a detection. the ultraorthodoxjewish community let's find out what our global guru of sta mford the ultraorthodoxjewish community of stamford hill in north london. simon calder makes of the situation. one evening on the phone, yy told hi, simon. let's face it, it's going to be a long time before most of us ya nkey one evening on the phone, yy told yankey he was feeling unwell. it was are flying again, isn't it? to be their last conversation before he was rushed to hospital. that all depends who my he was rushed to hospital. my parents were crying, their hands you talk to, actually. because you have, for example, the middle of may, lufthansa we re my parents were crying, their hands were tied, they couldn't do suddenly came out and saying, right, we're going to be flying a really, anything. their son, they couldn't quite significant network even go into hospital to hug him, to
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from 1june. say goodbye properly. yy's one of you've had obviously, ryanair, the biggest budget airline hundreds of deaths amongst all in europe saying that they would be pretty much doing the same from the start ofjuly. denominations ofjudaism which appear to be out of proportion to the community's small size. and, it's a question of which airlines are flying this cemetery in hertfordshire, just where and most crucially of course, north of london, has been here for as we been hearing, what sort of restrictions are in place, notjust 00:26:20,802 --> 2147483051:49:55,115 for the airlines but crucially, 2147483051:49:55,115 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 for the passengers. more than 70 years stop thousands of britain's jewish community more than 70 years stop thousands of britain'sjewish community have been laid to britain'sjewish community have been la id to rest britain'sjewish community have been laid to rest here, but staff say over the weeks of march they saw a sudden and unexpected spike in the number of funerals, many then the result of covid—19. at the moment it's result of covid—19. at the moment its quiet, but in the busy period we were having around ten to 15 a day for six days a week. this is a tube or mask, so two ways obviously to get the oxygen. other parts of the community have also raised to adapt. this community has been supporting the health needs of the community for decades. hospital beds if they need edge down to crutches. in the last few months it has bought
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dozens in the last few months it has bought d oze ns of in the last few months it has bought dozens of oxygen machines to lend to coronavirus patients when they are discharged from hospital, but there have been accusations and some jewish people have been slow to change their lifestyles in the face of virus warnings. i don't know anyone who doesn't know someone who has died. this woman is a community advocate and activist. she says some influentialjewish leaders failed to set a good example, but insists a much larger blame lies with the authorities. there are health inequality is known to public health england about individual ba any communities, and none of that was news —— inequalities. it should have been obvious our communities were going to be affected in a different way —— bame. to be affected in a different way —— b ame. no—one took the step to warn these communities in the advance and took control of the situation. there still communities morning. there still communities morning. the message of the pandemic has been to keep healthy by staying apart,
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but one organisation says for traditionally large families who often live in cramped conditions, that was impossible. there are families who have every age group in the house, and that means you have little children all the way from 1—year—old going to somebody in the house who is possibly 60 years old or above that age. that did contribute towards, you know, the virus being more aggressive in some parts of the community unfortunately. meanwhile, even as he continues to mourn his brother, yanki says yy's life was a gift. he brought life, he was a beacon of light in the whole community, not just in was a beacon of light in the whole community, notjust in ourfamily, he brought light to people. the founder of facebook, mark zuckerberg, has defended its record of tackling misinformation during the coronavirus outbreak. speaking to the bbc in his first uk broadcast interview in five years, he said the platform removed all content which put people at imminent risk of
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physical harm. he's been talking to the bbc‘s business editor, simon jack. on the immediate health risks, if some crazy person decided to start telling people to drink or inject bleach or, you know, saying that silver would be a good way of keeping the virus at bay, what is the facebook algorithm's response to that? well, it's not our algorithm, we have policies around this, around halting misinformation. we break this into two categories — so there's harmful misinformation that put people at imminent risk of physical harm. so things like saying that something is a proven cure for the virus when in fact it isn't, we will take that down. and there have been hundreds of thousands of cases of things that are harmful misinformation. another example which i know has been very prevalent in the uk has been 5g
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misinformation, which has led to some physical damage of 5g infrastructure, so we believe that thatis infrastructure, so we believe that that is leading to imminent risk of physical harm and we take down that content. there have been hundreds of thousands of pieces of content like that. reinforce that no matter who is saying it. there was a case where the brazilian president went out and said that it was proven by all scientists, or something to that effect, that there is a drug that was proven to cure coronavirus, and that's obviously not true — there's nothing yet, at least that i'm aware of, that's proven to be a cure. so we had to enforce that. even if something isn't going to cause imminent risk of physical harm, we don't want misinformation to be the content that is broadly going viral across the network. we work with independent fact checkers. over the course of this period, since the covid outbreak, they have issued
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about 7500 articles, fact checking content, which has led to us showing about 50 million warning labels on different posts across our services. we know that those posts are effective because 95% of the time when somebody sees a post that has a warning label on, they don't click through to it. no—one doubts the awesome responsibility a company like facebook, which has whatsapp and instagram, of course, the responsibility it has in the world. your old friend, chris hughes, who founded the company with you, who wrote a note saying that facebook should be broken up, these were heads, his words, what privacy settings they can use and even which m essa g es settings they can use and even which messages get delivered. he sets the rules on how to prohibit violent and incendiary speech. hand on heart as the controlling shareholder in facebook, do you, hand on heart,
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think it's a good idea for that kind of responsibility to be vested in one human being — you? i've actually said publicly that i don't think that any one individual orany don't think that any one individual or any company should be making so many decisions about important values and for society, like free expression and safety. we've taken a lot of actions on that front. just recently we've established this independent oversight board, and this oversight board will make it so that people in our community can appeal if they think we're making decision incorrectly on content. this board will have the final binding say. if they say something needs to come down, or needs to stay up, at that point it doesn't even matter what i think or what the other folks on our team think — this independent board will get to make that decision. i do think that there needs to be some additional governance beyond just our company
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making all the decisions, which is why we're taking steps like that. think that's very important. that's it for now. a reminder, you can that's it for now. a reminder, you ca n follow that's it for now. a reminder, you can follow me on twitter or head to the bbc news website for the latest information. thanks for watching. good morning. welcome to breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. our headlines today: calls for the prime minister's most senior adviser to resign after he's accused of breaking lockdown rules. dominic cummings travelled 250 miles to his parents' home when he had coronavirus symptoms. a source close to him denies any breach of the restrictions. a two—week quarantine for most people entering the uk, with fines for those who don't self—isolate. 97 people have died after a plane crashed into homes in the pakistani
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city of karachi. the head of the premier league tells us they're as confident as they can be that matches can begin again in june, now they've taken the first step with group training. good morning. in a letter, the weekend is getting off to a windy start. heavy showers around, very wet in western scotland, slowly through the weekend the winds are going to ease. it will turn drier, sunnier and a little warmer, too. it's saturday, may the 23rd. our top story: the prime minister's top adviser is facing calls to resign after being accused of breaking lockdown rules. dominic cummings travelled hundreds of miles from london to his parents' home in county durham, when he had coronavirus symptoms. durham police confirm they spoke to his family about self—isolation guidelines and reiterated advice around essential travel. a source close to mr cummings
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denies he broke any rules. jessica parker reports. dominic cummings dashing out of number 10 in late march. a few days later, it was confirmed he developed coronavirus symptoms and was self isolating. now it's emerged that around that time, he travelled from his london property to his parents' home in durham, 250 miles away. it's clearly, there is going to be questions that number ten will have to address. not least because of the readiness of the public to follow government guidance more generally, is going to be affected by this sort of story. but i don't want to rush to condemn without hearing the full story. it's prompted calls from opposition parties for the prime minister's chief aide to resign or face the sack. the reality is that boris johnson's most senior adviser blatantly breached the rules that millions of people have been trying so hard to keep.
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it is the case that his position is totally untenable and he needs to resign, or borisjohnson needs to step up to the plate and sack him. labour is demanding a swift explanation from downing street. the explanation from a source close to mr cummings is that the journey was so his parents could help with childcare while he and his wife, unwell with covid symptoms, stayed in a separate building. the source denied that mrcummings had broken lockdown rules or that police spoke to him. in a statement, the durham constabulary said that officers explained to the family the guidance on self isolation and essential travel. earlier this month, professor neil ferguson quit his role on the government's scientific advisory committee after the telegraph reported he had been visited by his married lover during lockdown. dr catherine calderwood resigned as scotland's chief medical officer last month after making two trips to her second home.
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jessica parker, bbc news. we can speak now to our political correspondent helen catt. good morning, helen. so on the one side, some people are saying, let dominic cummings explain for himself what he has done, but others are saying that the prime minister has questions to answer in relation to this as well? yes. and of course, you know, number ten so far has not commented on this. now, we know that in normal times, downing street, the current downing street administration is one that is not afraid to tough things out. a bit of controversy. but of course these are not normal times. the government has had repeatedly we are now at a perilous point in a pandemic, and they are really focusing on urging people to keep to those lockdown restrictions. so i think the last thing they are going to want is to have this perception there is one rule for some and another rule for others, although of course a source close to dominic cummings believes he has not broken any rules here. so i think there will be increasing
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pressure on the prime minister to explain. dominic cummings is of course a very senior member of staff at downing street. we have heard those calls coming from the opposition already. i think a key thing will be how conservative mps react, and what they are saying to borisjohnson behind react, and what they are saying to boris johnson behind the react, and what they are saying to borisjohnson behind the scenes. the government is facing more questions over its plans to introduce a 1a—day quarantine for travellers arriving in the uk. airlines and travel companies are worried the new rules, which are due to begin onjune 8th, could damage their businesses even further. our correspondent simonjones is at heathrow airport. simon, good morning to you. this is one of the places we will see this in action. what are the concerns surrounding this? well, the message from heathrow is that any plans need to be workable, and overall, the airline industry is saying that as long as these quarantine rules are in force, it is effectively going to kill business. because, for example, if you wanted to go abroad on holiday this summer, i think you would be pretty brave to book
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anything at the moment, because even if you are allowed to travel somewhere like spain, you could have to weeks of sun and sangria but when you return to the uk, you would have to pay the price of isolating for two weeks. which is a tall order. now, the government says it is doing this because cases of coronavirus are falling in the uk and it doesn't wa nt to are falling in the uk and it doesn't want to start importing a new cases from abroad. the way it is going to work is, before somebody comes into the uk, they will have to fill out a form online declaring where they will spend their two weeks in quarantine. if you don't do that, you could face a fine of £100. then, if you don't obey the quarantine, you could be fine, if there is a spot check of £1000, in england, at least. we are waiting to hear what the other nations are going to do to police it. here at heathrow, changes are afoot. for example, they are trialling temperature measurers, so they can see if somebody has a
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temperature and potentially stop them from travelling. it is likely in future that if you travel from somewhere like heathrow you will have to wear masks or gloves, so things are going to look very different. simon, thank you very much. that's the situation here, let's get the picture from greece, where they're gearing up for the tourist season. our correspondent quentin sommerville is in athens. what's it looking like there for holidaymakers? what a beautiful day it looks there. they say they are gearing up for the tourist season, what is the new normal, in terms of grease and how it is preparing? for what would normally be a very, very busy time? well, the picture is pretty here at the moment. the new normal is that the moment. the new normal is that the beaches are still quite empty, but after months of lockdown, greeks themselves were finally allowed back to the beaches and to the seafront a couple of weeks ago. the big thing coming upfor couple of weeks ago. the big thing coming up for them, is that this weekend the islands reopen. people will be flooding there as of monday.
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what about the rest of us? about our summer holidays? well, greece will start welcoming back international tourists from firstjuly, that is from all over the world, except countries which have a very high infection rate. sadly, that means britain at the moment. so up until now, anybody arriving in greece had to do now, anybody arriving in greece had todoa now, anybody arriving in greece had to do a two—week quarantine. but will be gone and greece will be open for business again. yes, and went on, give us a for business again. yes, and went on, give us a sense more for business again. yes, and went on, give us a sense more generally in greece, is there a tangible sense that they are coming out of one phase, if you like, and moving into a different place altogether? —— quentin. because the country has not been nearly as severely hit as many other countries. you are right, charlie. fewer than 170 deaths. greece and greeks really feel that their government has handled this really well. there is a sense of relief here. lots of the people we have been speaking to expressed
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that. but also a sense of nervousness, because they want to continue to get this right. they wa nt to continue to get this right. they want to continue with this success of keeping infection rates low and those deaths low. the greeks are really embracing this chance to reopen because tourism is such a mainstay of the economy here. quentin, thank you very much. around 2,500 jobs have been lost after travel company specialist leisure group went into administration. the firm owned europe's largest coach holiday provider, shearings, as well as national holidays and country living hotels. the collapse is being blamed on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. more than 6a,000 bookings have been cancelled. the us car hire firm, hertz, is close to bankruptcy after after its business was decimated because of the coronavirus pandemic. the company, which was already struggling with large debts, didn't manage to negotiate financial relief after talks broke down. the company, which is one of the largest of its kind,
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was founded over a century ago. at least 97 people have been killed after a passenger plane carrying 99 passengers and crew crashed into the city of karachi in pakistan yesterday. many were travelling ahead of the eid holiday on sunday. the exact cause of the crash is still unknown. our reporter freya cole has more. so many didn't make it. they had little chance when the plane made its final call. only two survived. an eid miracle for theirfamilies. only two survived. an eid miracle for their families. so thankful and grateful that we are one of the lucky ones, that our loved ones survived. the aftermath was catastrophic. billows of black smoke, a signal of the distress and devastation. ambulances are forced to form a line. the weight is long ina
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to form a line. the weight is long in a health system already under strain. and for relatives outside, the way it feels like forever. we don't have any solid information. we are still hopeful, as it is not yet confirmed that she is dead or alive. we're still waiting. nestled between homes, the wreckage awaits for a thorough investigation to determine what went so wrong. freya cole, bbc news. five people have been charged with the murder of a law student in a drive—by shooting in blackburn. 19—year—old aya hachem died from a gunshot wound to the chest, after shots were fired from a passing car last sunday. her funeral is due to take place later today in lebanon. plans to quarantine passengers arriving in the uk will "kill air travel," according to airlines. the government has announced that as of next month, anyone arriving in the uk will have to self—isolate for two weeks.
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the home secretary says it will reduce the risk of a second wave of coronavirus. so what are the new measures? from 8th june, all arriving passengers will be required to fill in a form and provide contact details of where they'll be staying. they'll then be required to self—isolate for 1a days. if they can't stay with friends orfamily, or in a hotel, the government will arrange accommodation. in england, public health officials will carry out random spot checks to ensure people are complying with the quarantine. if someone breaches self—isolation, they could face a £1,000 fine. this applies to people in england. enforcements rules in scotland, wales and northern ireland would be set by the devolved administrations. we're joined now by tony smith, the former director—general of the uk border force, and victoria bacon, from the trade body for the travel industry, abta. good morning to you both. victoria,
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let's start with you. how is this going to work in practice? what are your members saying to you? well, i think the concern that we have, clearly, if it is the right thing to do for health reasons, then we absolutely respect and support for government's decision around that. but i think the concern we have is, what is the wider strategy here? this is going to be a very restrictive and clearly very damaging measure in terms of people both going abroad and actually coming to the uk. so, the government has announced this will begin on the eighth ofjune. they have said they will put in place review periods, but what we really need is more reassurance about how they are going to manage that and also what the future looks like stop that is a bigger concern. we have seen a lot of restrictive measures put in place, clearly for health reasons, but actually, one of the supporting measures for the industry, this is going to have an absolutely devastating impact on the industry, so we need a much wider and more positive strategy from the
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government about what the future looks like and how we're to emerge from this. i suppose the counter argument to this, victoria, is that actually, so many people were so unsure if they would ever be able to travel or get a holiday, at least with these quarantine measures in place, for health, there are measures in place, so at least people know they can travel, with these minimum restrictions? so when you say it is going to devastate the industry, at least there is some business coming through. well, i think in terms of a 1a day quarantine period, i think there is going to be very, very little business coming through. the other thing i would say, at the moment the foreign office has a complete ban on international travel anyway. so we would like to hear how the government is going to set up plans to co—ordinate limiting international travel with other control measures, whether they be content or anything else. as i say, this is more about having a joined up this is more about having a joined up approach, which we are asking from the government. we completely support measures which preserve people's l. but actually, if you look at what other countries are
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doing right now, they are talking about exit strategies, but a wider package of measures to ensure they are preserving people's health but also thinking about the future, how we can emerge that emerge from this. but also, that many people are thinking to the future and want —— wanting to think about holidays. they don't necessarily want to go on holiday tomorrow or in the next few weeks, but actually, in the future, people are wanting to think about holidays, they want to have something to look forward to. i think that is what we are asking for, but more forwardthinking, but morejoined up for, but more forwardthinking, but more joined up thinking for, but more forwardthinking, but morejoined up thinking about for, but more forwardthinking, but more joined up thinking about how we can get through this. tony smith, very good morning to you. you have expertise because you area you. you have expertise because you are a former director of the uk border force and you would have listened very carefully to the proposals which many have welcomed, questions about the timing but we'll leave them to one side. can you talk us through in a practical sense what will be expected of border force personnel when someone arrives in this country? yes, good morning. well, these are unprecedented measures for the uk border force. i
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worked there for 40 years and never seen anything quite like this. essentially there is a requirement now for people coming into the country to give us an address and contact details, and that would enable us to ensure that people are complying with the new regulations. now, we have had powers in the past to require foreign nationals to give us addresses through landing cards. they've recently been done away with it so they've recently been done away with itsoi they've recently been done away with it so i think this will be done through some preclearance electronic mechanism, so when you're boarding a flight mechanism, so when you're boarding a flight or vessel to come to the uk, you would do that wherever possible before you come. that data would be forwarding us, so we wouldn't be halting and questioning every single passenger, but we would be doing spot checks at the border to make sure you had completed the declaration. can i just sure you had completed the declaration. can ijust ask sure you had completed the declaration. can i just ask you, tony, because it is all about how things work in practice. we know this by now, because of the current situation. if someone comes
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in and they fill in a form and they put an address down and someone sees a form filled in, it is a tick box exercise — what measures or efforts will they go to to make sure this is a real address and they're not walking into a household where they could be bringing risk, and how do they determine who the people are who have to go into special accommodation? how do they determine that? because we know that's one of the possibilities the authorities will have. yes, so charlie, the border has shifted now, and many of the checks are done before you come actually because we have the capability to do that electronically. when you book a flight that electronically. when you book a flight to come here, your data is automatically transmitted to us at the border force and so there will be an additional requirement that the data you have do submit, and you probably won't be able to get on board a plane unless you agree to do that. we will capture that data electronically wherever possible, but that won't necessarily... we won't be able to do that
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universally. it is possible that people could give us a false address or something like that, that's always been the case, but the idea is there will be checks and fines and for those who haven't done that, and for those who haven't done that, and when you are in country, that data will be passed over to public health authorities who will be phoning addresses and contacting people to make sure you have complied with the contract we have agreed with you to enter the country. this can only be an interim measure and at the best of times, charlie, we get 130 million arrivals in the uk. that's down by 99%, so it's probably manageable for the short—term and there's work to be donein short—term and there's work to be done in terms of communication with the travel industry, with the airlines, the airport and so on before the eighth ofjune about getting the message right and updating the youguv page regularly every day, so keep an eye on that, so there's work to be done so it's potentially manageable but not durable as a long—term solution. we
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will have to look at this... review it every three weeks and then look at the potential for further relaxation based on mutual recognition agreements, and air bridges or bubbles, travel bubbles, which we already have with the common travel area with ireland, with other countries where the virus is declining. that's what the government is doing — taking cautious steps to try to open up the border for am cohorts of people. victoria, while we've got you, with your abta hat on, the travel company, turing ‘s, that has collapsed, lots of bookings cancelled there. the sign of things to come perhaps? that is incredibly sad news, 2500 people have woken up this morning with nojob to go sad news, 2500 people have woken up this morning with no job to go to. that is all across the uk, so very sad news for those people. they have cited the current situation as the main reason for that. clearly the
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situation at the moment is there's very few bookings but also they've had to pay out for tens of thousands of refunds for people with cancelled holidays, and that is just not viable for companies unfortunately to do that on a prolonged basis. as i say, incredibly sad but the good news for customers is they will have no get their money back because the vast majority of holidays booked with shearings were packaged holidays, but very worrying news for people who have lost theirjobs this morning, and for other companies in the sector. we really need to see some wider more forwardthinking strategies from the government on this issue, because, you know, there's a whole range of support... i'm not talking about financial support, i'm talking about other measures the government and put in place to start helping the sector, and we haven't heard anything from the government at all, we've heard very little on this issue, so we desperately need some help. interesting talking to both of you,
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victoria taken from abta, tony smith, former director—general of uk border force, thank you for your time this morning —— victoria taken. here's nick with a look at this morning's weather. good morning. it was a windy end to the weak and the winds have continued into the start of the weekend. notjust continued into the start of the weekend. not just windy continued into the start of the weekend. notjust windy but continued into the start of the weekend. not just windy but very wet for some, especially in parts of scotland. our weather watcher at fort william recording 60 millimetres in the past 2a hours also. the rain here will continue today. showers elsewhere, a blustery day across the uk —— or so. some blustery spells around. this is the cause of the wind and rain, this area of low pressure and as the weekend goes on, that gradually pushes north. another weatherfront tonight bringing patchy rain but tomorrow, and especially into the bank holiday, high pressure building from the south settling things down once again. a glancing blow from these weather fronts back to the
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north and north—west of scotland. taking it day by day, we start with how this morning is shaping up. wet in western scotland with rain and showers in northern ireland. patchy rain in the east of scotland and showers in england and wales. already some thundery ones in wales and they will push east through the day. still fairly hit and miss. as for the winds out there, these are the gusts for england and wales. many will have the strongest gusts at 50 or a0 mph, many will have the strongest gusts at 50 ora0 mph, but many will have the strongest gusts at 50 or a0 mph, but others could see 60 mph, and around the coasts of western britain, western scotland, rough seas and big waves as well. with all of that going on, it's a bit cooler than yesterday. many of us just around the mid—teens, just a few to the east and south—east of england getting close to 20 celsius. looking into tonight, the rain through parts of western scotland will ease for a time and another speu will ease for a time and another spell of rain comes into northern
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ireland and pushing back into scotland. north—east scotland seeing clear spells, northern england and parts of wales will be cloudy with patchy rain and showers and the temperature is not going down to far in england. tomorrow, cloud, outbreaks of rain, parts of northern england will get showers. a lot of that will gradually ease away and die outand that will gradually ease away and die out and it will turn drier and a bit brighter as well. the winds will ease. still breezy tomorrow but the winds will ease and the temperatures are heading up a few degrees as well. the big picture shows high pressure building in into the bank holiday. that means a lot of fine weather on monday. the bulk of the sunshine will be across england and wales, eastern scotland. for northern ireland and into western scotland, likely to some cloud increasing and likely to see some rain out of that. temperatures across—the—board rain out of that. temperatures across—the—boa rd up a rain out of that. temperatures across—the—board up a little bit, but especially in central and eastern parts of england on monday. it's a bank holiday weekend,
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and with warm weather on the way, lots of us may be tempted to get out and about. but we're being urged to put safety first, after beaches and parks were packed earlier this week. it sparked concerns some people weren't following social distancing rules. breakfast‘s tim muffett has been looking at the plans being put in place to ensure tourist spots aren't overrun. fresh airand a fresh air and a sense of freedom. this is my first time out. i have beenin this is my first time out. i have been in lockdown since early march, which is nine, ten weeks, and ijust decided this would be a good place to come because it's so open, and i feel relatively safe. i'm gloved, i'm masked — i'm free, i'm free! dunstable downs in bedfordshire, like so many places, seems so appealing. enjoying the outdoors is now allowed, and in england you can drive to a place of your choice to
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get some fresh air. but another message also remains in place — to stay at home as much as possible. this video was made by councils across lincolnshire, but in skegness this week, the closure of car parks, toilets and this week, the closure of car parks, toilets a nd restau ra nts this week, the closure of car parks, toilets and restaurants didn't put some visitors off. i've come from nottingham. seems pretty quiet considering, obviously it's lockdown, so we're trying to do our best to social distance stop at the end of the day, the government and say we can do it. we've brought our own food so we can just sit and not interfere with anybody. like other train operators, east midlands railway is grappling with social distancing. only 20% of seats can be used. we've got key workers we need to be able to provide a service to stop the it's really important people who don't need to travel essentially stay away to allow key workers to use the service of the available to them. in warwickshire, you have to buy a
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car park ticket for some country parkas in advance to control visitor numbers. west midlands police have released this video. a crowd of more than 100 people had to be dispersed. the biggest gathering this police force has encountered during the pandemic. particularly with a lot more young people now, this pressure to congregate starting to grow, and that's got to be an area we've got to police carefully. enforcement is a last resort in this particular set of circumstances, but enforcement is going to be appropriate and i think we've shown with the over a00 fixed penalty notices issued already, we're not afraid use that power. the rnli has warned there will be no lifeguards on any beaches this weekend. for many tourist resorts, it's a difficult but important message — please, save your visit for another time. tim muffett, bbc news. so much coming up.
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coming up in the next hour: we'll meet the world's leading meteorite hunter, filmed in antartica earlier this year, on a mission to find clues to the origins of the solar system. one of those job titles that you don't hear every day. meteorite hunter, greatjob title! stay with us, headlines coming up.
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hello, this is breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. good morning. here's a summary of today's main stories from bbc news. dominic cummings, the most senior adviser to the prime minister, is facing calls to resign after being accused of breaking lockdown rules. mrcummings is underfire for travelling hundreds of miles from london to country durham to self—isolate at his parents' home when he had coronavirus symptoms. durham police confirm they spoke to his family about self—isolation guidelines and reiterated advice around essential travel. a source close to mr cummings denies he broke any rules, claiming that the family stayed in a separate building. the government is facing more questions over its plans to introduce a 1a—day quarantine for people arriving in the uk. from june 8, travellers will have to self—isolate for a fortnight
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and could face fines of £1,000 if they break the rules. airlines and travel companies are worried it could damage their businesses even further. the government says the measures are being introuced to stop a second wave of coronavirus. time now for our regular appointment with a gp. let's speak to dr sarah jarvis in west london. good morning, drjarvis. how are you? we always ask. very well, very well. good to see. it would be interesting to get your thoughts on the latest quarantine announcement from the government. you have been talking a lot about mental health and people's desires, obviously there are restrictions at home, so people are thinking about holidays, it is that time of year. there is going to be an impact, isn't there? because the quarantine measures are restrictive. do you mean a quarantine measures coming into the country? 14 days, yes. i think it is very sensible, frankly, and i'm
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quite disappointed it wasn't brought in earlier. i sort of understand the government saying, well, there were a lot of cases circulating in the uk, it wasn't going to make a lot of difference bringing things into the country. now, people have looked at other measures, for instance, people have looked at taking temperatures as you come in. the problem is that some people don't have a temperature. if people would coronavirus to have a temperature, they often only have it for a brief period during their illness. and of course people who are presymptomatic, who have been affected but don't have symptoms yet, will not have a temperature. if you take the test, the same thing applies. it is only positive during applies. it is only positive during a certain window. there is the have i got its test, the pcr test, and this new lab test that is being trialled. really, the only way to be certain as to content people for 1a days. we know the average time after exposure, but you get symptoms, is five days, and 97.5% of people will have had symptoms by 12 days. so to be on the safe side, you really need 14 be on the safe side, you really need 1a days. i do understand it is a challenge, in terms of free travel and in terms of opening up the
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airlines, but i have to say that if we are going to keep cases low, i think it is necessary. can we go through quite a few issues, actually? there has been a lot of news out this week, obviously. you would have seen the pictures of long queues around takeaway places, new fast food places open, and people picking up a picture of beerfrom their local pub and taking it home. what are the risks of coronavirus transmission in terms of takeaway is? the risks from food are relatively small, but you do have to remember the packaging has been touched by somebody else. so my feeling would be that when you get home, ideally, you probably want to go for hot food, which carries a small risk of having been contaminated while it has been cooked and transferred to you. when you get it home, open it up, turn it onto a clean plate. throw away the container, and then wash your hands really carefully. and of course, do be aware that even if it is a drive—through, you are having some contact with your servers. so there are potential risks there. keep contact are potential risks there. keep co nta ct to are potential risks there. keep contact to a minimum. don't touch
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your hands, nose, face, if you are away. if you are going into somewhere to buy takeaway, and you can't socially distance from your server, you might want to consider wearing a mask, although of course thatis wearing a mask, although of course that is to protect them, not you stop a face covering doesn't really protect you. the debate has been going on this week, drjarvis, about children going back to school. more schools are opening more, because of course we have had key workers keeping their children in school. we know children are going to be asked to wash their hands and the concern has been around particularly young children. what other advice should the parents be mindful of? well, we know that children are less likely to get severe illness. significantly less likely. but kids will have seen all of this and they will be very worried. so you need to explain to them if they go back that now risks are very, very small. we are doing this to protect everybody. you do need to make it clear to them, they need to make it clear to them, they need to make it clear to them, they need to do what their teacher says, including social distancing, and
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that they will not be able to run around between their friends. that they will not be able to run around between theirfriends. but that they will not be able to run around between their friends. but it will be a lovely opportunity for them to see their friends again. it is important that you follow rules when you go there, because my real concern about this is that the r number, the number of people infected, could increase every bit as much, if not more, from parents congregating at the school gates. so iam hoping congregating at the school gates. so i am hoping that not only will classes be smaller, but also parents dropping off and collecting will not be congregating. so it is not a huge concern for parents. my biggest concern for parents. my biggest concern is actually for the number of infections in the country. i think we do need to worry about that andi think we do need to worry about that and i am hoping that the government will look very carefully at the r number. they said, we will be looking out the science, at the r number, and only taking steps, i hope they will not be giving into the temptation to say, right, we said the first ofjune, so we will the first ofjune. i think we should be looking at the infection rates, possibly in regional areas, and saying the infection rate in this
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region is too high, let's wait until it comes down. we will be talking about the r number a bit after eight o'clock this morning as well, taking a close look at that. one more question. the office of national statistics says the number of coronavirus cases in the community is relatively stable. how do you think people are going to interpret that? i am not sure what that says to us. the good news is that they are not going up, and we do know that a number of cases in care homes appears to be dropping. i think what that tells us is that we are just starting to open up. so far, there is often a large, but so far cases are not going up. —— a lag. i think what that says to people is that it tells us, we have open things up a bit, if we stop doing everything we are doing, if we stop taking the precautions we are taking, things could start to go up again, and if they go up, they can go up very quickly. so please, please, please be responsible. don't think that
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just because the restrictions have eased,it just because the restrictions have eased, it is back to life as normal. you certainly should be thinking about. what this tells us is that we are on a bit of a knife edge here and things could go either way. are you working today?” and things could go either way. are you working today? i am working today. thank you so much for talking today. thank you so much for talking to us before your shift begins. i hope it is a good one and you get to enjoy some sunshine this weekend. thank you, drjarvis. mike has got the spot for us. how are things? good, absolutely. i think the encouraging signs are there in terms of getting the premier league started again in june. early days, of course, small steps, but so far, so good, you could say. "as confident as we can be" is how the premier league sums up their plans for a restart next month. in an exclusive interview with our sports editor dan roan, chief executive richard masters said they had momentum now after this week's return to non—contact training. there's been a huge amount of work and consultation, discussion with clubs and players and stakeholders, to get us to the point where we could go back to step one
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of training this week, and it's great for everybody, including the fans, to see our players back on the training ground. we wouldn't have taken the first step to go back to training if we weren't convinced that we had created a very safe environment for our players to go back to, and each of our clubs voted unanimously for it last week. and so they were convinced too. you can see the whole interview on the bbc sport website, and masters also says there is "optimism" fans could attend matches next season. but if that season was to start behind closed doors, some supporters will still be able to buy tickets for home games. league two clubs walsall and leyton orient have told us they will be offering fans the chance to have a cardboard or metal cut—out of themselves at games. this is how it looks in practice, at german club borussia monchengladbach, and walsall and orient are both already working on this. it isa it is a way of getting some revenue into the club. it's a bit of fun.
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and when matches are streamed, at least they will be able to see themselves on the telly. so we are doing the same thing, we have got some prototypes of cutouts of fans that we could put into the stands. i mean, it is a substitute for real fans, but at least it is something. so, almost creative ideas are something that we going to have to do. —— all those. now, the hope is that cricket will return in july, with some notable changes. bowlers have always used sweat and saliva to polish the ball on one side, and make it move in the air to wrong—foot the batsmen. england all—rounder chris woa kes was one of the players who returned to training on thursday, and he expects the use of saliva to be banned next week. if you actually don't put any sweat on the ball, or any saliva, you can still shine the ball by polishing it on yourjersey or your trousers or whatever it is. itjust doesn't quite buff up and shine as well as if you'd put a substance on it. so we'rejust going to go that route. we're going to have to work hard on it and really give it a shine,
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and i think that's the only real option we have, because, you know, unless we're allowed to put some form of substance that's given to us on the ball, then, you know, it's the only way we can get our heads around it. now, who is the world's highest paid, female athlete, do you think? suddenly feels like i'm back hosting a lockdown quiz. well, the answer is japanese tennis star naomi osaka. according to forbes magazine, she earned nearly £31 million in the last 12 months. she's won two grand slams, but now replaces serena williams, who had been at the top of the list for the past four years. silverstone bosses are confident the british grand prix will go ahead injuly, despite the government's 1a—day quarantine measures set to come in next month. two races are due to be held behind closed doors at the circuit, as formula 1 attempts to put together a decent schedule. government officials say the "door has not been shut" on events involving international travel.
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we'll be talking to stuart pringle, the managing director of silverstone, in an hour's time. to really find out why he is still optimistic, despite the challenges that the quarantine measures will of course impose. it is a global sport, isn't it, even though the home of a lot of global sport are in the uk, they really depend on other people coming in from abroad. looking forward to that, mike. one of the questions we were just having, you are good at things like this. we are doing kilos and we were trying to figure out how much 16,000 kg looks like. wow. so that is 1600 tons, and we figured it out in terms of mikes. how many mikes is it? well, you know when you fill in forms and you have to put in your weight, i always do it in stone and have to look at up in kilos.
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a p pa re ntly have to look at up in kilos. apparently it is the equivalent to 700 of you. all falling at the same time! that is scary, isn't it? what an image. sounds like all of our dreams. i can imagine that. we want to go down that road. no, you will like this. imagine 700 mikes falling in terms of rock to the earth. those are the rocks that fall from space every year. yes, we are talking about meteorites. and there is one of those men who has a greatjob to start a dinner party, a meteorite hunter. that would be a conversation stopper. everybody would lean in. justin rowlatt has more on the meteorite hunter. do you want to find a meteorite? well, here is where to look. out on the antarctic ice. the pristine white surface makes meteorites easy to see. alexander ghost is part of a tea m to see. alexander ghost is part of a team hunting for rocks from space, which makes sense, because he spends
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a lot of his time up here. he is a former commander of the international space station, and has spent more time in orbit than any other european. but he is back on earth, searching for clues about the origin of our solar system. his boss on the ice gives me a lesson in how to find a meteorite. so, john has found more meteorites than anyone else. so we are going to simulate finding a meteorite. we have placed one on the snow over there, right? we have and driving on the skidoo, we have spotted it over there, what happens next? next thing, we walk over to confirm whether it is a meteorite or not. so you are not allowed to touch it? we're going to touch it. i don't want to drip my
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nose on it. not is the least of it. there are strict rules to ensure nothing contaminates the meteorites. most meteorites date back billions of years, right to the birth of the solar system, so the research year helps us understand how the earth itself was formed and it could also protect our planet. everybody knows that the dinosaurs came to extinction because of a big, big astroid crashing into earth. that was long ago. but nowadays still we have astroid sitting earth, and sooner or later a bigger one is going to hit us. they are made, in principle, of the same stuff as some of these rocks that we find out that on the polar plateau. if everone comes straight at us, and we realised that, we can only do something about that if we know exactly what it is made of. for astronaut alex, the rocks hold a personal certificates. —— significance. you see things coming
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from outer space, zipping past you into the earth's atmosphere, and this is your thought, one for the first time in your life, you see a shooting star from above, realising, hey, nothing just flew past me. so his antarctic trip kind of closes a circle. the astronaut has recovered the remains of shooting stars on earth, so we can understand our planet a bit better. justin rowlatt, bbc news. i know that nick on the weather has been paying special attention to that piece. isn't it fascinating, the forensic detail they go to, picking up the rocks and making sure nothing gets contaminated, almost like a crime scene? absolutely, and i was checking out the winds, comparing them to how doing here at the moment. it isa it is a pretty blustery start to the weekend, not antarctic levels, but still pretty blustery. this is from one of our weather watchers in fort william, reporting 60 millimetres of rain in the past 2a hours. there
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will be parts of western scotland that and that weekend having amassed over 109 metres of rain in around a three—day period. so very wet for some of us. for many of us it is sunshine today, but there are showers around. if you catch when it will be heavy and possibly sunbury as well. let me show you the big picture for the weekend. low pressure right now, and closest to that, it is wettest and windiest in scotland. notice that moves away, and as we go deeper through the weekend, particularly later tomorrow and into the bank holiday, high pressure is building, which will settle things down. the winds are going to ease. still if you close to western parts of scotland in particular, with more cloud, compared to elsewhere. it is very wet here, as you can see, and will be through much of the day. parts of eastern scotland seeing a bit of rain, as will northern ireland this morning. turning dry and brighter for a time this afternoon before more rain this evening. you can pick out the showers running in across england and wales from west to east. not everybody will see them, but if you do, they are heavy and thundering. they move through quite
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quickly and be strong and dusty winds. —— gusty. gusts of a0—50 miles an hour today, that makes it a bit windy and further south you are, compared to yesterday. northern ireland, northern ireland and scotland, you'll wind gusts could be around 50—60 miles an hour, which brings some pretty big waves under rust thieves towards western coasts, especially western parts of scotland. —— rough seas. mid teens today, a notch down from many of us in the past few days. close to 20, in the past few days. close to 20, in the warmest and sunniest parts of eastern england. tonight we are going to maybe just see that rain easing in north—west scotland for a time. another spell of rain runs in across northern ireland, toward south—west scotland, patchy rain showers, north—west england and parts of wales. north—east scotland seeing clear skies, as will the east and south of england, parts of the midlands to come and i were getting particularly cold overnight. into tomorrow, we start with a lot cloud. still some patchy rain. still wet in
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western scotland. all that to ease away, and the wind begins to die down a bit. still a breezy day, not as windy, more of us turning drier and brighter in the afternoon and temperatures creeping up as well. so some spots back into the low 20s. high pressure building and as we approach the bank holiday, building and of the uk. lots of fine weather on monday. a fair amount of sunshine as well across much of england, wales and eastern scotland. but when the front i showed you earlierjust starting to bring more cloud to northern ireland and north—west scotland, and there may be a bit of patchy rain out of that. close to 20 in the warmest parts of northern ireland and scotland on monday, but some, particularly in england, getting close to the mid—20s once again. that's your weather for the whole of this weekend. we will be back at 8am with the headlines. time now for this week's click.
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hello, you. hope you're doing ok. lara's on the end of this line, you're looking well, mate, how have you been? how's the first week of not quite so lockdown lockdown been? it has been good being able to go out and do more exercise. i did 30,000 steps yesterday. wow, is that good? i have no idea, no—one has ever explained this step business to me. but talking of health, another issue that has been happening over the past couple of months is that when people have needed to go to the doctor or hospital, they have been nervous about either catching the virus or playing their part in overwhelming health systems. so that has meant in some cases, that people have missed urgent care that they really needed. sojen copestake has been
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to harrogate district hospital and a gp surgery in london to find out how staff has been trying to see more patients remotely where they can. when coronavirus hit the uk we saw hospitals being rapidly set up to take more patients and even new ones were built. but in the past month admissions to hospital emergency rooms have dropped to the lowest point since records began. many hospitals have seen a decline in the number of patients coming in for emergency care or scheduled appointments due to the coronavirus. but technology is enabling safe social distancing while also ensuring that important issues aren't missed. finding ways to quickly adapt nhs system to remotely check on patients with acute or continuing illnesses has been an urgent task. we have been shown some of the ways doctors are working to carry on seeing patients without physically seeing them. something as simple as sending an image on a phone is incredibly
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complex for the nhs. there are rules surrounding patient data that make it difficult to share scans, even between hospitals and doctors. but with coronavirus doctors had to quickly find ways around this to enable them to work from home. when covid occurred, the approach to the deployment changed. the nhs has a number of challenges around governance arrangements, they have a lot of sensitive information and sometimes that can be a barrier to deploying technology in the nhs. it was a very pragmatic approach taken by the guys across this region than to make sure that those final remaining steps were accelerated. the yorkshire imaging collaborative were already working with agfa healthcare on ways to share x—rays and scans among six hospitals using the xero exchange network browser. but now the system is entirely accessible from home, meaning doctors can consult on radical patient care including for cancer from their living rooms, with no ppe required a no risk of spreading the virus. everything has escalated,
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over the last month i have really integrated it into my house so i can work almost exactly as i do at the hospital. all the data regarding the patient is hospital servers which are all very secure, there is high level encryption, i have to use a special vpn network to access it, as soon as i log off there is nothing on my computer to identify that patient, or any images remaining whatsoever, so if i had my computer stolen there is no data on there, the only potential risk is when people come around sticking cameras through my window and see what is on the screen. gps are also finding new ways to see patients remotely. we're all now familiar with apps like gp at hand and push doctor which allow you to see a doctor by video call on your mobile. the medicspot takes things further. these se machines are used in 318 pharmacies and and 86 nhs care homes and gp surgeries, including dr yasmin razak‘s clinic in west london. it moves beyond the simple video call with a doctor by giving the patient access to a blood
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pressure monitor, pulse oximeter... did you get a reading? ..stethoscope. .. ..contactless thermometer... ..and even a light check their ear, nose and throat. obviously we're doing everything remotely and digitally as much as possible for patient safety, but there are times we really do need to examine our patients. and so it gives us also that safety aspect that we can listen to the heart and lungs, look inside the throat and ear and make a proper diagnostic assessment rather than just rely on a conversation over the phone or a remote video. the system cuts down on the use of vital ppe as the doctor does not need to wear it and change for each consultation. this is very helpful as at this surgery, ppe is in short supply. while we were filming, a volunteer from a 3d printing charity dropped off a donation. this is a face shield, and these are 3d printed, the black part has been 3d printed by somebody,
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and then we have cut the visor and attach the elastic and we are disturbing them to frontline health workers. it turns out there is a distributed manufacturing capacity across the uk to make 1a0,000 so far. we have a need and it is wonderful that you have come to support us because unfortunately as we were saying, through normal procurement lines we can't actually access ppe, and so gps are having to do their best to find it from everywhere available to support their staff. i think it is amazing that you have come and helped us, i am really, really grateful. new apps are also allowing patients and doctors to interact remotely. silo allows doctors to communicate with enhanced security, allowing them to annotate photographs and blur patient records so they don't have to meet in person. while zesty helps patients access their medical records, book appointments and even attend consultations online. we are often guilty about being
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slower to adopt technologies in health, but sometimes it takes a crisis like this to come out with a positive change, and i think it's really shown us that the benefits of adopting remote technologies to deliver healthcare, and we won't be going back. that was fascinating, and jenjoins us now, hey mate. i have to be honest, i have really struggled with my motivation during the lockdown, and i'm just not the kind of person that goes for a run — i'm not a jogger — so for the last week i've been travelling to exotic locations and working out in virtual reality. this is supernatural, a vr fitness experience, and the company promises it's the most fun you can have working out, although that's what everyone who tries to trick me into exercise says. i'm in machu picchu today and i have to strike these orbs as they come towards me, and when i see triangle, i have to squat into it and you have to forgive me if i don't put my back into it today because turns out after doing this for a week,
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your legs really hurt, so i guess it's kind of working. you might notice a striking similarity with a popular vr game, beat saber, which is one of those breakout vr hits, and it is very similar, although the developers of supernatural have tried to distinguish it make it appeal to more thanjust a gaming crowd, and they've done it by having fitness trainers in the game. today i'm doing full body work with raneir. enough talk, let's get into some warm—up. and they're using big—name artists and songs. ‘take on me' by a-ha plays but they're hoping to charge a monthly subscription, and that has annoyed some oculus qwest owners, who are used to paying just once to own a game. 0k. well, online from the company is chris milk. chris, i've been doing this for a few days and my thighs are killing me! is that normal? we hear that a lot. a lot of people aren't used to lower body bodyweight exercises. what i'm excited about is people
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say that they are... their lower body is sore but they don't actually remember the workout being hard. nobody likes multiple squats in a row. if you can hide it inside of a fun activity, you don't remember the pain of the workout because it wasn't painful. how are you going to make it appeal to more than just gamers? because i suspect most people who have one of these headsets are gamers. we're trying to bring virtual reality to a different demographic. the oculus quest is what we've launched on. we're getting a lot of people that are saying they bought a headset either off of ebay or a off a third—party for the purpose of exercise using supernatural, and we are engaging with all of them — we've learned so much in the last month from having thousands of people inside of it. at the moment this is only available in the us and canada, where the earliest adopters are about to end their free trial month, so the company
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is about to find out if people are prepared to pay. one downside to working out with vr is you get really sweaty in the headset, although supernatural‘s offering a free silicon face shield to anyone who signs up for the free trial. i've been comparing the experience to ring fit, it's nintendo's latest fitness game for the switch, and you use your body and this ring to control this character on the screen, and it has you doing jogging, sports and yoga poses, even stretching and squeezing this ring to defeat an evil dragon in the game who wears a wrestling singlet. as you would expect from nintendo, it's very cute and a little bit weird. what's even cooler is the controller can measure your heart rate to if you're working up a sweat, and i certainly did, and like a lot of nintendo games, this one is full of text from you have to skip, skip, skip your way through and a lot of the time ijust feel like, "get on with it!" a lot of these might be a passing phrase, like wii fit was, but i'm
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determined to lose my lockdown weight and at least they got me moving every day and sweating it out. how absolutely fantastic was that? we've got to talk to chris, he's online now. mate, how do you feel after all that? i'm exhausted! doing that for a few days in a row has left my thighs so sore i could barely sit down. 0h goodness! but was it better than doing a youtube workout? it can't be very comfortable wearing a vr headset for it? ok, yeah, it's definitely gross having the headset on. you get sweaty with vr at the best of times, and doing a full workout with it on, you do get very warm and steamy in there — not nice. at least with this, you're forced to do what it's telling you, rather than if it was just a youtube video, i could just ignore it. ddon't you think this is alljust a bit of a novelty, really?
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would you keep doing it? ok, yeah. it might be a fad, i'm not sure yet, but ultimately it's got me working out. before i was doing nothing, i wasn't going for a jog, now i'm doing these exercises every day. so i'm going to stick at it and work on my ‘fad' bod rather than getting a dad bod. nice! brilliant! chris, you're such a great sport. it's always brilliant to talk to you, thanks for doing that for to us! that is it from us for this week. check out the full—length version waiting for you right now on iplayer. you can keep up with the team throughout the week on instagram, youtube, facebook and twitter — @bbcclick. thanks for watching, and we will see you soon.
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good morning. welcome to breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. our headlines today... calls for the prime minister's most
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senior advisor to resign after he's accused of breaking lockdown rules. dominic cummings travelled 250 miles to his parents' home when he had coronavirus symptoms — a source close to him denies any breach of the restrictions. a two—week quarantine for most people entering the uk — with fines for those who don't self isolate. 97 people have died after a plane crashed into homes in the pakistani city of karachi. the head of the premier league tells us they're as confident, as they can be, that matches can begin again injune, now they've taken the first step with group training. good morning. in weather, the weekend is getting off to a windy start and heavy showers around. very wet in western scotland. slowly, through the weekend, the winds are going to ease. it will turn drier, sunnier and a little warmer, too. it's saturday may the 23rd. our top story.
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the prime minister's top adviser is facing calls to resign after being accused of breaking lockdown rules. dominic cummings travelled hundreds of miles from london, to his parent's home in county durham, when he had coronavirus symptoms. durham police confirm they spoke to his family about self—isolation guidelines and reiterated advice around essential travel. a source close to mr cummings denies he broke any rules. jessica parker reports. dominic cummings dashing out of number ten in late march. a few days later, it was confirmed he had developed coronavirus symptoms and was self isolating. now it has emerged that, at around that time, he travelled from his london property to his parents' home in durham 250 miles away. there is clearly serious questions that number ten are going to have to address, not least because the readiness of members of the public to follow government guidance, generally, is going to be affected by this sort of story, but i don't want to rush to condemn
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without hearing the whole story. it's prompted calls from opposition parties for the prime minister's chief aide to resign or face the sack. the reality is that borisjohnson's most senior adviser blatantly breached the rules that millions of people have been trying so hard to keep. it is the case that his position is totally untenable and he needs to resign or borisjohnson needs to step up and sack him. labour is demanding a swift explanation from downing street. the explanation from a source close to mr cummings is that the journey was so that his parents could help with childcare whilst he and his wife, unwell with covid symptoms, stayed in a separate building. the source denied that mr cummings had broken lockdown rules or that police spoke to him. in a statement, durham constabulary said that officers had explained to the family the guidance on self isolation and essential travel. earlier this month,
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professor neil ferguson quit his role on the government's scientific advisory committee sage after the telegraph reported he had been visited by his married lover during lockdown. doctor catherine calderwood resigned as scotland's chief medical officer last month after making two trips to her second home. jessica parker, bbc news. we can speak now to our political correspondent helen catt. the correspondent helen catt. lockdown rules apply to everyone. the lockdown rules apply to everyone. that is a fact, so how much of a problem is this to boris johnson? i think he is going to come under increasing pressure to speak about this. in normal times, this is about this. in normal times, this is a downing street that is not afraid to toss out some controversy. but these are not normal times. we are nine weeks into lockdown. this is coming into that. we are at a point in the pandemic that the government
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has said is particularly difficult as they try to make sure people keep respecting lockdown rules and various isolation rules as they look to ease and lift restrictions. it is quite a difficult point, and they certainly won't want the perception that those rules are flexible or can be applied by different people in different ways. that is the risk they are facing. i think a lot of it will also depend on what tory backbenchers are thinking, what conservative mps are saying privately to boris johnson, conservative mps are saying privately to borisjohnson, but pressure will build i think on downing street to say something. the travel trade body abta is calling on the government to adapt its plans to quarantine passengers who arrive in the uk. from the 8th ofjune, travellers will have to self—isolate for a fortnight, and could face fines of £1,000 if they break the rules. the government says the measures are being introduced to stop a second wave of coronavirus. victoria brown from abta told us tourists wanted to see more flexibility.
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if you look at what other countries are doing right now, they're talking about exit strategies, they're talking about a wider package of measures, to ensure that they're preserving people's health, but also thinking about the future, thinking about how we can emerge from this. and also, so that many people actually are thinking to the future and wanting to think about the holidays. they're not naturally, obviouser wanting to go on holiday tomorrow or the next few weeks, but actually beyond that, the future, people are wanting to think about the holidays. they want to have something to look forward to, and i think that's what we're asking for — a bit more forward thinking, a bit morejoined up thinking. our correspondent simonjones is at heathrow airport. interesting hearing from them there. the concern is now this knock—on effect this is going to have on businesses, but people are thinking how does this affect my holiday plans? the call from clarity we have just heard from abta there is very much reflected by the aviation
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industry. heathrow say any resolution needs to be workable. the owners of sta nsted resolution needs to be workable. the owners of stansted says if it increases for any length of time, it will cost tens of thousands of jobs and because the economy billions of pounds. the key questions for holiday—makers, are they likely to be able to go abroad this summer? to be able to go abroad this summer? to be honest, you would be pretty brave to book a trip abroad at this moment. even if you were to go to spain for moment. even if you were to go to spainfora moment. even if you were to go to spain for a couple of weeks, on your return, you would pay a price because you would have to stay at home for two weeks isolating yourself. the way this is going to work is you are going to have to fill out a form online before you come into the uk saying exactly where you are going to spend your quarantine here. if you don't do that you could be fined £100 and if you don't obey the quarantine you could face a fine of around £1000 here in england. we will see what the other nations are likely to do.
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even with lights resuming from places like heathrow, it is going to be very different. possible temperature checks and you might have to wear masks and gloves and it could take the industry years to recover from this. around 2,500 jobs have been lost after travel company specialist leisure group went into administration. the firm owned europe's largest coach holiday provider, shearings, as well as national holidays and country living hotels. the collapse is being blamed on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. more than 6a,000 bookings have been cancelled. anotherfirm which has been hit by the pandemic — in the the us — the car hire firm, hertz, has filed for bankruptcy protection. the company, which was already struggling with large debts, didn't manage to negotiate financial relief, after talks broke down. the company, which is one of the largest of its kind, was founded over a century ago. at least 97 people have been killed after a passenger plane crashed into the city of karachi in pakistan yesterday.
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the pakistan international airlines flight from lahore was carrying 99 passengers and crew, many of which were travelling ahead of the eid holiday on sunday. the exact cause of the crash is still unknown. our news correspondent saher baloch joins us now from islamabad. take us through exactly what happened. the flight was coming from lahore to karachi. the pilot said he was facing difficulty in operating the engines. he said both the engines weren't working and after that he was, according to details, ask to circle around the airport. just a minute before landing he lost touch with the ground and after that, the plane crashed in a residential area. so far, there are 97 deaths that have
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been confirmed and two people have remarkably survived in the tragedy as well. so far, the army has cleared up the residential area where the plane had crashed, and after that, the authorities had called an investigation and the report of the investigation will be received within a month. so far, this is what we have on ground at the moment. a new study suggests that an anti—malarial drug promoted by donald trump as a treatment for coronavirus may in fact increase the risk of death among infected patients. the research published by the medicaljournal, the lancet, shows that those who were treated with hydroxychloroquine had a higher risk of death and heart problems than those who were not. last week, mr trump said he was taking the drug himself. the goverment‘s plan to introduce a two week quarantine for all travellers arriving in the uk has been met with criticism from airlines and travel companies.
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in a moment, we'll speak to the chief executive of heathrow. but first, let's look at what the new measures are. from 8th june, all arriving passengers will be required to fill in a form and provide contact details of where they'll be staying. they'll then be required to self—isolate for 1a days. if they can't stay with friends orfamily, or in a hotel, the government will arrange accommodation. in england, public health officials will carry out random spot checks to ensure people are complying with the quarantine. if someone breaches self—isolation, they could face a £1,000 fine. this applies to people in england. enforcement rules in scotland, wales and northern ireland would be set by the devolved administrations. we can speak now tojohn holland—kaye, the chief executive of heathrow airport. ijust want i just want to first of all, you may be had for warning of some of these measures. what is your reaction to
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what will kick in on the 8th of june? if you think about what heathrow is experiencing today, normally, this would be the great heart of the getaway, with quarter ofa heart of the getaway, with quarter of a million people travelling through, today, there will be maybe five or six people. these are people who are maybe leaving the uk and going overseas. that is the situation well quarantine remains in place. there needs to be a plan for what happens next, so we can start to open up travel freely with the uk and other countries with a very low risk of a second wave of transmission. a second wave of transmission. a second wave of transmission would be devastating for the uk economy so we understand there needs to be some measures in place, but we do need to what comes next so that people can start to make their plans to reopen businesses. as we were hearing earlier, if people want to plan for their summer holidays, they know
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whether they can or not. is the quarantine plan, as it has been described thus far, do you think it is correct? that is a question for the government. they have got difficultjudgments to the government. they have got difficult judgments to make the government. they have got difficultjudgments to make as to how to keep the country safe from a second wave. we know this is in place for a minimum of three weeks, but what is the plan for what happens thereafter? we can't wait until the end ofjune until we find out what the rules might be for reopening borders. we should be planning for that now. i think the secretary has talked about air bridges where we would reopen travel with very low risk of transmission, and that sounds a very sensible approach to take, and that is something that could be plans now. we could identify what kind of rules would be in place, what kinds of transmission levels we would need to see in those other countries, what kinds of r levels we would need to
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see. that would allow airlines to start unfurloughing their staff, it would allow for imports and exports. a0% of all the uk's imports and exports go on passenger planes from heathrow alone. until we can get those passenger planes moving again, we can't restart the uk economy. those passenger planes moving again, we can't restart the uk economylj we can't restart the uk economy.” understand you are talking about the situation in the future. i wonder if you could concentrate at the moment on what is happening on a day—to—day basis at heathrow. how does the 8th ofjune, you have been bringing in temperature tax. how confident are you, i think you said a moment ago that five or 6000 people arriving at heathrow may be today, may be or monday. how confident are you that
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people coming through heathrow do not have covid—19? people coming through heathrow do not have covid-19? that is a question for the government...m not have covid-19? that is a question for the government... if i may, you have been carrying out the temperature checks, do you have numbers as to those people coming in... do you have figures related to that? the temperature checks that we have started the trial ofjust at the end of last week, it has only beenin the end of last week, it has only been in place for a couple of days and, currently, we are testing to see whether the technology works. the next stage would be to work with public health england on what happens if we identify someone who does have a heightened temperature. we are planning ahead so that we are ready to go quickly. public health england have been screening passengers coming off planes into heathrow and, typically, only half
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of those five or 6000 would be arriving passengers. of those, there have been one in three people who they have taken to one side as having concerns over whether they have the disease or not, and there has been a process that public health england have had in place to ta ke health england have had in place to take those people away and make sure they get the medical help that they need. even talking about how the travel industry more widely adapts to the new normal, whatever the phrase people are using. do you understand that some people, at the same time, realising that you have an industry that people are being encouraged back into slowly and carefully, in the haste to do that, the wrong decisions could be made? that is why we are supporting the government with the decision to bring in quarantine. only they can make the judgments about how to make the whole country safe. they made the whole country safe. they made the decisions about who is allowed to come in through the border and
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what kind of measures they need to have at the border. we are trying to plan ahead because this isn'tjust about the aviation sector. aviation is the lifeblood of the uk economy and has always led us out of recession as a country. unless we have a plan about how we're going to reopen trade with other countries, we can't protect the hundreds of thousands of jobs we can't protect the hundreds of thousands ofjobs across the uk that on aviation is. thank you for your time this morning. the chief executive of heathrow airportjust looking at how those new guidelines may kick in on the 8th ofjune. we will be talking more about that on the programme this morning. i think many people would have naturally resumed that holidays are on the back burner now. —— assumed. a moody sky this morning. i'm not sure if thatis
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sky this morning. i'm not sure if that is the same for everyone. it certainly has been very windy lately. is that going to continue? moody skies. big waves hitting some of the coastal parts of western britain today because it is still windy out there. it is also very wet for some of us as well, particularly in the west of scotland. elsewhere today, you may see some showers rattling through quite quickly on that brisk wind, but also sunny spells as well. it is windy out there and wet for some because of this area of low pressure passing through the north of scotland. as the week goes on, that clears away and high pressure builds back in from the south. things will settle down once again and the wind will be using as well. that is how the whole of the weekend is shaping up. let's see how things are looking today. very wet in western scotland, north
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of the highlands and west of the central belt. northern ireland, summer rain or showers this morning. for england and wales, the showers moving quite quickly west to east on the strong wind, but also some sunny spells in between. an indication of some of the wind gusts today. around a0 to 50 miles an hour in england and wales. a windier daily further you are compared to yesterday. northern ireland and scotland could well see gusts of 50 to 60 miles an hour. rough seas around western coasts. temperatures around about the mid—teens for many of us. tonight, we are going to see some further outbreaks of rain. northern ireland, parts of wales, northern england and into scotland. temperatures not going down to far overnight because it stays quite windy. in part two of the weekend,
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lots of cloud around to start the day, but rain begins to peter out. bright or sunny spells developing, and we will end up, tomorrow afternoon, just a little bit warmer than we are today. that is how the weekend is looking. we've spoken a lot in the last few weeks about the infection rate — or r—number — which is to do with how fast coronoavirus is spreading. if you're finding it hard to understand how the numbers work, here's an explainer. our lives right now are pretty much controlled by something called r0, also known as the r number. it tells us how many people will likely get infected for every one person who gets ill with coronavirus. if the reproductive number is two, then one person will probably make two others sick, and so the disease spreads. if it is three, then it will be around three. without a cure or vaccine, this r number guides every decision governments make to fight this pandemic. before changes were brought in to reduce the spread
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of coronavirus, its r number was between two and three, which is why it spread so quickly. the aim is for it to be less than one, and to keep it there, so health services can cope. but when r0 is less than one, we can't immediately switch back to how things used to be. each restriction that is lifted makes the r number rise — some more than others, but it's not clear how much. these decisions have to be made for everything, and the answers aren't clear. governments need to carefully balance this need to get countries moving again whilst still keeping the public safe. and we can now speak to andy preston, the mayor of middlesbrough, which the latest figures suggest, currently has a higher rate of infection. what do you make of this latest news with your area having a higher rate of infection? it is something we have known for a long time. clearly, we have to be careful. we have had a
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tighter lockdown locally. the police have been active and we have issued far more refined than other places for flouting rules. we far more refined than other places forflouting rules. we have closed parks and kept them close. we are behind london and lots of other parts of the country, just as london was behind madrid and other cities. i think things are flattening for us now. we are heading the right way, so we are cautiously optimistic. when you say you have more fines issued or more fines has been issued for people who are flouting the rules, what message isn't getting through for that consequence to be here? we went out and gave really clear messages to the public and, as you can imagine, across the country, the vast majority of people informed. everywhere, there is a significant minority that flout the rules, and put themselves in danger and put other people in danger. we took action like closing our parks
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and keeping them closed despite some issues there, and encouraging work with police to clamp down on people flouting the rules. what i am really pleased about is that middlesbrough has been selected to one of the 11 pilot places for track and trace. i was on a call with government yesterday. i am really optimistic that that is going to give us some local tools to use our local expertise to really contain the virus, stop it spreading and, hopefully, kill it off. one of the challenges the governance facing, the number of tracks and tracers that are being employed to help this, whether or not that will come about on the 1st ofjune. what practicalities are in place for you to say we can be an effective trial area? we have the support, we have a
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local mp who is a minister for local government, and we have an absolute passion to get our r number down, keep people safe and get ready to start prosper in. passion and drive is all very well, i can't imagine there are very many people who are at the forefront of new innovations who don't have that, but it is practicality. it is having people who are trained well and effectively. you have read the reports and you have seen that people don't feel they are getting the training. argue in a position to say i can guarantee we can be an effective trial area? i can absolutely guarantee that we will be an effective trial area. i can guarantee you we will be one of the best and i can promise you, anyone who is listening and watching, we will work with the nhs, scientists, and government and we will find great solutions that will allow the rest of the country to learn from us
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and benefit. when will it begin? we commence the process on monday with calls with the nhs, with government... i apologise, so, the track and trace in two days' time, on monday you will begin tracking and tracing? with how many people are you expecting to attract and trace? what i am saying is that the process of being a pilot study commences on monday. it commences with a local access plan. we have a national policy and national lockdown gets tightened and more relaxed. locally, we are going to have the chance to use our local knowledge to find local solutions to the virus. that starts on monday, so iam very the virus. that starts on monday, so i am very excited. you will forgive me for pressing on this point. the plans are in place, and there are lots of plans in place. when does it
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become a practicality? you are in a region which has one of the highest r numbers. the people of middlesbrough will be keen to know when you going to have people making phone calls, tracing, tracking and knowing that people who have had coronavirus are in the system. when does that happen? conversations follow on on monday. the precise dates that try and trace goes live in my town, i can't give you that because it is an evolving conversation. when will you have a date? i have a conversation on monday when we will get more information before we start planning. it's an event that's become embedded into our weekly routine — clapping each thursday evening to show appreciation for front line workers. the person who started the celebration says she feels it's had its moment. next week will mark
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the tenth clap for carers, and it could be the last. let's take a look at some of the weeks gone by. cheering and applause. pots and pans rattle. cheering.
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dr alex george is an a&e doctor who thinks the clapping is important morale boost for nhs staff. how are you? i'm doing all right. you were in a&e and has been on the front line all through this process. what does the thursday night, mean for you and your colleagues?m what does the thursday night, mean for you and your colleagues? it has been incredible over the weeks. i have found it lifts me massively during days and weeks that has been really tough. it is the coming together of the community. it is eve ryo ne together of the community. it is everyone showing support towards the nhs and has really lifted my moods. a few occasions, i have been able to
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step out the hospital and experience it, and a lot of us have been removed emotionally by it. it makes you feel like we are in this together and will get through it together and will get through it together —— been moved emotionally. also just in terms of morale for other people, because they feel like they are doing something to think people. but if anyone has a right to say has it had its time? the person who started it, it's a brave person ina way who started it, it's a brave person in a way to put that out there, isn't it? she is worried that it has maybe become politicised and little bit and is there a time to start thinking is it enough? when you hear that argument, what do you say? thanks so much to her for coming that argument, what do you say? thanks so much to herfor coming up with an incredible idea and we are grateful. it is brave because it is
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such a popular thing and i can see the point that people are making with concerns that it is becoming political and it is drawing attraction away from the fact that the nhs needs betterfunding, which i agree with completely. but it is more than that and i want to kind of keep away from the political stuff. what it means for the community as well... some people are vulnerable, shielding, and haven't seen anyone in the community at all. they step out on a thursday night and get to see their neighbours from a long distance. it is a moment of empowering this and togetherness which i think helps. i have seen a neighbour over the road from me who is out there and i can see the smile on herface, is out there and i can see the smile on her face, and is out there and i can see the smile on herface, and everybody has a wave. how are you? are you coping 0k? and it wave. how are you? are you coping ok? and it is that kind of togetherness i think helps people in the community. it is a difficult thing to say goodbye teeth. if it
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stops next week, i will be sad. —— to say goodbye to. it is affecting you and your colleagues, and jeroen welfare. there have been so many ups and gowns over the last few weeks —— your own welfare. we had to pull together as a team, both locally and across the country. some days, you come home and you think i don't know how we're going to get through this, it is awful. but you find the strength and get through it. we are making such progress which is fantastic and a huge thank you to eve ryo ne fantastic and a huge thank you to everyone who is following the social distancing. it makes a huge difference and we need to continue the progress that we are doing so we get through the other side. we are
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into a weekend. if you are going to be outside, please do follow social distancing because, ultimately, it prevents going back to where we were all that time ago and i don't want to back there. do you have a day off, doctor?” will take a day off later. i don't ta ke will take a day off later. i don't take a huge amount of time off. when i have down time i go for a cycle and chill out and watch netflix. you stay well. good to chat to you today. thank you very much. and of course we always say this, thank you for what you do. doctor alex george. it is interesting hearing that perspective. it means a lot, that thursday club. he is embracing the fa ct thursday club. he is embracing the fact that people talk about it. quite interesting. of course. headlines shortly.
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hello, this is breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. coming up before nine, we have the sport and weather. but first, a summary of this morning's main news. dominic cummings, the most senior adviser to the prime minister, is facing calls to resign after being accused of breaking lockdown rules.
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mrcummings is underfire for travelling hundreds of miles from london to county durham to self—isolate at his parents' home when he had coronavirus symptoms. durham police confirm they spoke to his family about self—isolation guidelines and reiterated advice around essential travel. a source close to mr cummings denies he broke any rules, claiming that the family stayed in a separate building. well, amongst those calling for mr cummings' resignation is the snp's westminster leader, ian blackford, whojoins us now. thank you for your time this morning. what is your view?” thank you for your time this morning. what is your view? i think it's quite extraordinary. of course, listening to laura kuenssberg on radio forjust a few minutes ago, she did say that number 10 were aware of what dominic cummings did at the end of march. this is a huge story and it really begs the question, when did the prime minister know about this? why has there been a cover—up? why haven't we been told about this? quite simply on the basis that whatever ——
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what everyone is doing by staying at home and protecting lives, why the prime minister's chief aide thought it was acceptable to drive hundreds of miles to be with his parents in durham, it simply isn't acceptable. and it does create this image that there is one rule for the return of there is one rule for the return of the powerful, and there is a different rule for everyone else. and i think rightly people are going to be outraged by this. dominic cummings should have done the right thing, he should have resigned. but now that he hasn't, dominic cummings must show leadership and remove him from office immediately. interesting use words like cover—up, huge story come out right. i put myself in the minds of people watching this morning who are hearing about a parent, a man and his wife, who had coronavirus symptoms with a four—year—old child, who needed that a child looking after. so if you're a child looking after. so if you're a parent listening now and your only option is to go to your own parents,
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for your child's safety and so you can get well, isn't that natural? of course a parent wants to make sure that their children are cared for, that's absolutely right. i think any pa rent that's absolutely right. i think any parent would want to do that. but naga, let's remember it was the prime minister went on national television and said we need to protect the vulnerable, we need to protect the vulnerable, we need to protect the vulnerable, we need to protect the elderly and we shouldn't be visiting parents and grandparents. so this is a clear breach of borisjohnson's on advice that was given to each and every one of us. let's pick up with the advice. if you are living with children, keep following this advice to the best of your ability. however, we are aware that not all these measures will be possible. what we have seen so far, children with covert appear to be less severely affected. it is nevertheless important to do your best to follow this guidance. there has to be a certain level of trust and understanding of situations. and
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this doesn't say, don't ask for help? it doesn't say drive 250 miles and it doesn't say take your children to your grandparents. the government have said the grandparents need to be protected. in many cases they will be self isolating. it is the height of irresponsibility. a lot of people will be saying, how is it that the chief advisor to the prime minister has been able to behave this way and getting away with it? let's not forget, there have been other senior figures through this whole saga that on the basis they broke the rules, had to go. niall ferguson had to go, catherine calderwood, the chief medical officer in scotland, had to go. but those were instances of visiting a second home and a relationship and crossing councils. this is not that? no, this is a most serious breach of government guidelines where should not have happened, took place. dominic cummings has taken his children to be with his grandparents in durham,
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breaching the rules on lockdown. rules that he has been the architect of in many respects. let's not forget he is on the sage committee responsible for giving the advice to government that the government then a cts government that the government then acts upon. he's not on the committee, is he? he the meetings. he is in the sage meetings and we know he has contributed to the debates that have taken place. but we now know from what has been said on the bbc this morning that the government in london have been aware of his four weeks. i have we not been told about this? why has boris johnson not recognised that this is something that will be seen by millions of people as being unacceptable, that if there is one rule for the likes of dominic cummings...? andi rule for the likes of dominic cummings...? and i would suggest that margaret jackson carlaw, the conservative party leader in scotla nd conservative party leader in scotland said they cannot be one rule for bosses and one rule for everybody else. many people haven't seen their parents or grandparents
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and they will be asking this morning, if it is all right for dominic cummings to do it, why isn't it all right for us? and of course it all right for us? and of course it is not a right. many people have made huge sacrifices in recent weeks. we have recognised the importance of getting this infection under control. what dominic cummings has done is undermine the public advice. if you have been told closer to the time this happened, would that make a difference? well, you know, when you see what dominic cummings wife said in her articles in the spectator and on the bbc, it is very clear that they have been economical with the truth. many people would take the view this is a very serious breach of government regulations that should come up with a resignation, and if it hasn't, with the resignation of then boris johnson should accept his authority, his position of leadership as prime minister, and sack this individual from breaching the rules. ian blackford, westminster leader of the snp, thank you. thank you. mike has all the sport.
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good morning. good morning. in terms of sport returning, that is what we are talking about this morning. it's early days, but so far the progress towards restarting the premier league season is encouraging. "as confident as we can be", is how the premier league put it. in an exclusive interview with our sports editor dan roan, chief executive richard masters, said they had momentum now, but they can't put a date on it. you have to have plans and you have to have a staging post. i said earlier on we have to be flexible. we are not going back to playing until we have passed through contact training and we haven't decided to do that yet. there will be plenty of time for reflection. we are very close to our european colleagues in germany, spain etc. it was a confidence building point if the germans can get there, they can put their league back on the pitch and on television, we're interested to
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see it. it should have been fa cup final day today. we've had a glimpse into dan walker's study this morning, as he gets ready for football focus later. dog winnie helping there, as floor manager. that's at 12 o'clock with dan and winnie. and it's part of a full day of special programmes dedicated to the fa cup. it all starts at nine o'clock, on the red button. as sport continues to look for a way back after coronavirus, silverstone and formula one say they're working out how they could stage a british grand prix injuly. but this would involve overcoming the new two week quarantine measures at airports, coming in next month, and also social distancing obstacles, which might prevent drivers racing, and it would all be, without the crowds watching. we can now speak to stuart pringle, managing director of silverstone. good morning. thanks for your time. you have been speaking to the government. how close do you think the british grand prix is right now
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to getting exemption from the new quarantine measures for f1 drivers and the teams? i think things are heading in the right direction. we do have a very constructive dialogue andi do have a very constructive dialogue and i certainly sense there is a will. we just need to find a way. we fully understand, we fully accept that this is a complicated situation, there needs to be clear explanation from our sport about what the solution is. we believe there is a technical solution. it is important we find one. this is not just about the 90 minute rice. it is about restarting the industry. we are world leaders in the motorsport industry and we need to get it restarted. that's why you argue that the sport should be treated differently with exemption because it is not just differently with exemption because it is notjust important for the sport for the whole industry and people's livelihoods? absolutely. we are very lucky. seven out of the ten formula 1 teams are based in the uk. most of them at silverstone. there are over a0,000 jobs in the supply
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chain that support the motorsport industry. and many of these businesses were stopped. whilst the 90 minute race at silverstone is the glamorous bit at the front, actually there is a very long tail here which is all aboutjobs, a significant contribution to annual turnover in this country. we need racing to restart. of course the sport has to produce the solutions and there cannot be any drain on the country. but don't forget, this is a sport that stood up immediately and help with ventilators for the national health service. it is a sport that can produce solutions, technical solutions, very quickly. if it does go ahead it would have to be behind closed doors. i would have that look? financially but it still work and be beneficial to stage the race with no fans there with no money coming in? yes, it would financially
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be worthwhile. we wouldn't do it otherwise. it is important of these businesses remain buoyant, including silverstone. motorsport is a sport thatis silverstone. motorsport is a sport that is fine on television without fans. of course it is better. silverstone has a unique atmosphere. we have such a loyal and knowledgeable fans they create a unique atmosphere. if we have to do it without fans, frankly it would be a bit like one or two... it does translate fine on television. and frankly there's an awful lot of fans out there looking for their sports to return on television. as you quite rightly have said, this is about starting to get a sense of normality back to us all. indeed. there have been record ticket sales. many grandstands sold out. this morning we have been talking about prepaid tickets and refunds in football. what is the situation regarding those fans who have prepaid to come to this race but
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won't be able to attend themselves? we have been in touch with our fans throughout this process. i must thank them. take this opportunity to pay tribute. we are three quarters of the way through giving refunds that have asked for them. but actually, two thirds of our fans have said, don't give me my money back, just make sure i have my seat next year. i want to come in 2021. that is the important race for them. anybody who wanted their money back, three quarters of them have it back already and the rest we are working through very swiftly. but the vast majority of people just want to come next year when hopefully we will haveitin next year when hopefully we will have it in a normal atmosphere. exactly what is happening in the football. more on that at half past nine. if the race wasn't able to go ahead, what would it mean to the future of silverstone and the british grand prix? well, we are having a terrible year, frankly. the gates have been shut since the end
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of march. we have no revenue coming into the business and not activity. and so, you know, this is not an easy time for our business. if we don't have a formula 1 race, that simply increases the size of the hole that we are in. that said, we area hole that we are in. that said, we are a resilient team. i have some incredible colleagues working incredibly hard to make sure that we can plot a chart out of this. there isa can plot a chart out of this. there is a huge groundswell of support in the united kingdom for motor racing. silverstone hosted the first ever round of the formula 1 championship 70 years ago and i have every confidence we will continue into the future. we have been on a slow road to rebuild our fortunes. future. we have been on a slow road to rebuild ourfortunes. and having climbed a very long letter it feels like we are going down a very, very long snake, which is pretty disheartening, but i am very confident we will get there. certainly having a british grand prix this year will aid that. thank you for your time. stewart pringle, the managing director of silverstone as motor racing attempts
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to make a comeback in latejuly, but a long way to go still. thank you mike. here's nick with a look at this morning's weather. very blustery the last couple of days. i am very blustery the last couple of days. iam hoping it is very blustery the last couple of days. i am hoping it is going to go away for obvious reasons, because i wa nt to away for obvious reasons, because i want to golf. it is going to go away eventually but it is still very windy out there today. some of us with a bright blue scart -- today. some of us with a bright blue scart —— blight... there are some showers to be had, some of them heavy and thundery. we are some of them heavy and thundery. we a re close some of them heavy and thundery. we are close to an area of low pressure, that is why it is windy across the uk. as the weekend goes on the white lines, the isobars opening up, the winds easing, low pressure moving away and high pressure moving away and high pressure m oves pressure moving away and high pressure moves back in. that settled things down particular by the time we get to the bank holiday. that is the overall picture for the weekend. todayit the overall picture for the weekend. today it is a blustery day. the persistent rain in western scotland,
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especially to the hills north of the central belt. eastern scotland seem brighter moments. outbreaks of rain. wet in northern ireland this morning, brighter this afternoon. rain this evening. for england and wales, showers will push east during the day. sunshine in between. the showers move through quite quickly on the strong winds. a0 to 50 mph in england. parts of northern england, especially northern ireland and scotland, 50 to 60 mph. big winds and rough seas along the coast. temperatures in the mid teens today. a few spots towards the east and south—east, flirting with 20 degrees. as we go into tonight, we are going to keep some rain going through parts of northern ireland, wales, northern england and scotland. the heavy rain towards the north—west will ease for a time. north—east scotland sees some clear spells as well much of the east and south of england. temperatures not going down too far. it stays busy.
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breezy tomorrow. the winds are going to be slowly easing. we start with cloud. patchy rain will gradually die out through the day. for some of us it turns drier and brighter and warmer as well. temperatures ageing up warmer as well. temperatures ageing upa warmer as well. temperatures ageing up a bit, and they will go up further helped by sunshine for the bank holiday. thank you. teaching unions are calling on the government... the devolved nations are taking different approaches to theissue are taking different approaches to the issue and many families say they are facing a dilemma over how to proceed. you may remember earlier this week we spoke to cathy rowland, headteacher at dobcroft infant school in sheffield, who shared her thoughts on how her school will reopen. shejoins us now, alongside patrick roach, the general secretary of the teachers' union nasuwt.
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good morning to both of you. if we can good morning to both of you. if we ca n start good morning to both of you. if we can start with you, cathy. you're a head teacher. there is a lot going on, a lot of advice coming from different places. as it stands now, how is it looking for you? the difficulty is there is a lot of very conflicting advice. seeing the sage report yesterday, we've been told schools should open based on scientific evidence. the evidence here would seem that the rates of infection for children would have, leave it until the 15th ofjune. we will have to look at this report that came out yesterday and see if that came out yesterday and see if that might influence when we do indeed open. the difficulty is that we have been told we should follow that evidence but the evidence would seem to suggest that actually we are rushing it too much perhaps, and it is really important we make the right decision for the children. i can understand why we need to get children back as soon as possible but we should only do that when it
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is safe to do so. just to be clear then, between now and the 8th of june, you are not going to get more scientific advice, you have seen it. you have the information that was requested. so what could change between now and then in terms of your decision—making? between now and then in terms of your decision-making? the difficulty is that literally the before kick him out yesterday and we need time. we are not ready at the school because we are still preparing some of the things in our risk assessment is to get us ready. we need time to reflect. it is really important we get this right. for the children, families and the staff. we are all desperate to widen the number of children coming back. that is the point. we have not closed yet. but when it is safe. each school has to make that decision based on itself. each building is different, the numbers are different. all schools are working incredibly hard to make sure that we can, when we do widen our numbers for children, we can do
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so in our numbers for children, we can do soina our numbers for children, we can do so in a way that is safe for all. patrick, it has been widely reported that the teachers union has been in talks with the government, conversations have happened and there has been friction with the teachers unions and the government plans before the announcements. how is it now? well, i think the reality is, as they had teacherjust said, the evidence is not conclusive. in fa ct, the evidence is not conclusive. in fact, it is adding to further confusion and anxiety for school leaders, for teachers and for parents as well. the government has produced some guidance for schools, albeit that of that guidance isn't particularly adequate. there is a lot of guidance, for example, for secondary schools, which is not yet available. that certainly has not helped the situation. schools are pulled between the proverbial rock and hard place in relation to a decision to reopen from the 1st of june. the evidence does not support that. at the moment schools are
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being asked to plan when they don't have access to local evidence in relation to how it would impact on the r rate of the virus. this is a public health question. the government closed schools back in march. it should be government responsibility to make the responsible decision about when schools should reopen when it is safe to do so. the department for education has said, and i quote, this cautious, phased approach for allowing a number of people back into the classroom, will continue to be informed by the best possible scientific and medical advice. what more can the government do in terms of moving forward? it has taken the scientific advice. well, i mean, what the government has said is it is waiting to make further announcements in relation to the relaxation of lockdown, which will happen during the course of next week. what the sage papers released
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yesterday actually said is that a cautious approach is needed, absolutely, but also that widespread community testing was also needed. when we are asking schools to make a decision to reopen, that widespread testing is not in place. no wonder parents are confused and no wonder teachers and staff in schools are also deeply concerned about rushing to reopen when it isn't safe for those in schools, but also for those local communities to do so. cathy, i see you listening and nodding to a lot of what of the unions were saying there. the one question that seems inevitable. i think everyone has agreed on it in a way. in the weeks, months, possibly years ahead, no one will be able to give a parent a guarantee that their child going to school is safe. i actually see patrick roach nodding. where does that get us? at some point schools
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are going to open. and there will have to be acknowledgement on all sites that with that will presumably, some form of risk. and isn't it a question of what line you pick? if you wait until the 15th of june we have the risk to children. that is what we have to consider. one of the things we read in the sage report is that where it has been successful in the countries there has been investment in facilities such as hand washing in the schools from the government. we asa the schools from the government. we as a school have had no extra money currently to put some of these measures in place. for instance, just something as simple as a lidded bean to put tissues in. each one is £10. that is a £100. that menace not seen much but you add these things together and it is a big drain on finances. it is important that we put in place but we are not there
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yet. it takes time. i understand what you are saying, that there will never be no risk, but if we can delay its slightly or certainly until all schools make contingency, until all schools make contingency, until they feel it is safe in their particular area, it is really important we do so. thank you very much, cathy rollins. a head teacher. i think we will check in with you again. there will be interesting decisions to be made in the next few weeks. patrick roach, thank you for your time as well. thank you to you for getting in touch as well with some of your thoughts. a couple of teachers have beenin thoughts. a couple of teachers have been in touch. a teacher teaching in a school right now the first thing they did yesterday —— where the children did yesterday when they came and was run to hug each other. a child sprained an ankle in the playground. the teacher wasn't going to leave her crying. another went to hug her after not seeing herfor ten weeks. she said, i wasn't going to push them away the last second. we are getting the of teachers.
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the practicalities are the things people are talking about. the head teacher costing about —— talking about the cost of a bin. where is that extra money going to come from if they are expected to have those procedures in place? the conversation will continue. lockdown is a historic event and it's one that people are trying to capture in some way or other. one idea is to have a photographer take a socially—distanced family portrait — on the doorstep of your house — to record these unusual times. in a minute we'll talk to a photographer and a mother who's had pictures taken. but first, let's look at some of those portraits. music.
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and we can now talk to the photographer who took those, caro weiss, and angela philbin who's had some portraits taken. good morning. you are with young clara, i see. good morning. you are with young clara, isee. hello good morning. you are with young clara, i see. hello clara, good morning. you are with young clara, isee. hello clara, lovely good morning. you are with young clara, i see. hello clara, lovely to see you. hi! tell us about the idea, how it all came about? are you speaking to me? you were speaking to angela there! sorry, i got you mixed up. isaid hello angela there! sorry, i got you mixed up. i said hello to clara, got that bit right! tell me how the idea came
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about? basically i am a wedding photographer based in glasgow. obviously weddings sadly aren't happening at the moment. sol obviously weddings sadly aren't happening at the moment. so i had to come up with a different idea. i had to adapt my business. and here, and soi to adapt my business. and here, and so i saw the idea of these doorstep photos comes from america. there is a lot of photographers out there taking these socially distanced photographs. on my evening walks i walked past some of my friends houses and photographed them outside their houses. i put a little post on facebook and suddenly this whole thing exploded. it got shared about 2000 times. now i have all these people getting in touch, would like me to capture this time in history for them. angela and clara, two very good smiling faces there. you are perfect for a family portrait. do you smile all the time? well, we've
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done quite a bit of smiling recently, trying to keep our spirits up recently, trying to keep our spirits up in this lockdown. we have been trying to have fun. what was it like having the picture done and what you happy with the results? oh, the pictures were absolutely fantastic. karo has done an amazing job. we seen it on facebook. we kind of thought, this is fantastic. captured history. you can share that with your families. angela, we are looking at the picture now. this is your picture. everybody has their hands in the air. what look where you going for? just trying to capture, we are going to have fun, we're going to get through this. it is great look back. you feel like you are in your own bubble sometimes. that said, people do feel they are in a bubble. what kind of mood are people trying to put a
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cross ? mood are people trying to put a cross? angela made very clear they wa nted cross? angela made very clear they wanted to have a bit of fun but sometimes if you want to capture what lockdown means to you, it is not necessarily that? yes, no, definitely. to me it is important that everybody can do whatever they wa nt that everybody can do whatever they want with these photographs. and kind of keep them, you know relaxed. i don't really direct very much. and i really like what happens in this little bit of time that i spent with all these different people. and that ican kind all these different people. and that i can kind of capture a little bit of their personalities with those photos. great idea. can we have a waving shot? all that time ago and i don't want to back there. photos. great idea. can we have a waving shot? thank you very much. it ta kes waving shot? thank you very much. it takes everything for me not to wave back. it does feel wrong, doesn't it?
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good morning. welcome to breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. our headlines today... calls for the prime minister's most senior advisor to resign after he's accused of breaking lockdown rules. dominic cummings travelled 250 miles to his parents' home when he had coronavirus symptoms — a source close to him denies any breach of the restrictions. a two—week quarantine for most people entering the uk — with fines for those who don't self isolate. 97 people have died after a plane crashed into homes in the pakistani city of karachi. the british grand prix will go ahead, the boss of silverstone tells us, despite the government's
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new quarantine measures. he's expecting some sporting events to be made exempt. good morning. in weather, the weekend is getting off to a windy start with heavy showers around. very wet in western scotland. slowly, through the weekend, the winds are going to ease. it will turn drier, sunnier and a little warmer, too. it's saturday may the 23rd. our top story. the prime minister's top adviser is facing calls to resign after being accused of breaking lockdown rules. dominic cummings travelled hundreds of miles from london to his parent's home in county durham, when he had coronavirus symptoms. durham police confirm they spoke to his family about self—isolation guidelines and reiterated advice around essential travel. a source close to mr cummings denies he broke any rules. jessica parker reports. dominic cummings dashing out of number ten in late march. a few days later, it was confirmed he had developed coronavirus symptoms and was self isolating.
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now it has emerged that, at around that time, he travelled from his london property to his parents' home in durham 250 miles away. there is clearly serious questions that number ten are going to have to address, not least because the readiness of members of the public to follow government guidance, generally, is going to be affected by this sort of story, but i don't want to rush to condemn without hearing the whole story. it's prompted calls from opposition parties for the prime minister's chief aide to resign or face the sack. the reality is that borisjohnson's most senior adviser blatantly breached the rules that millions of people have been trying so hard to keep. it is the case that his position is totally untenable and he needs to resign or borisjohnson needs to step up to the plate and sack him. labour is demanding a swift explanation from downing street.
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the explanation from a source close to mr cummings is that the journey was so that his parents could help with childcare whilst he and his wife, unwell with covid symptoms, stayed in a separate building. the source denied that mr cummings had broken lockdown rules or that police spoke to him. in a statement, durham constabulary said that officers had explained to the family the guidance on self isolation and essential travel. earlier this month, professor neil ferguson quit his role on the government's scientific advisory committee sage after the telegraph reported he had been visited by his married lover during lockdown. doctor catherine calderwood resigned as scotland's chief medical officer last month after making two trips to her second home. jessica parker, bbc news. we can speak now to our political correspondent helen catt. the lockdown rules apply to everyone. does borisjohnson have questions to answer himself about
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what he knew? i think there are certainly going to be growing pressure on him to answer this. so far, downing street haven't responded to this, but it has emerged that a small number of people did know dominic cummings was in durham. in normal times, this is normally an administration that is happy to tough out controversy. the government keeps telling us, this is a pivotal moment in the pandemic when they are really urging us to keep respecting lockdown rules. i think that might play into what happens later. earlier, the snp's ian blackford said there were questions to answer. on the basis of what everyone is doing to stay at home and protect the nhs and save lives, the chief aide thought it was
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a cce pta ble lives, the chief aide thought it was acceptable to drive hundreds of miles to meet up with his children's pet parents —— grandparents. it's does perpetuate the image that there is one rule for the rich and powerful and one wolf for everyone else. you should have done the right thing and resigned, but now that he hasn't, borisjohnson should remove him from office immediately. as you head injessica him from office immediately. as you head in jessica parker's him from office immediately. as you head injessica parker's piece there, sources say that dominic cummings did not break the rules and he was going to get childcare for his children. i think we will need to wait over the course of day to see what downing street is going to do and say over the course of this. we will have to wait and see. the boss of heathrow airport says the government needs to work out deals to allow travellers from countries with low rates of infection to come to the uk without facing quarantine. from june 8th, people arriving in the uk will have to self—isolate
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for a fortnight and could face fines of £1000 if they break the rules. the government says the measures are being introduced to stop a second wave of coronavirus. the chief executive of heathrow aiport, john holland—kaye, told us there needs to be more flexibility. we need to see from the government a plan for what happens next, so we can start to open up travel freely between the uk and other countries with a very low risk of a second wave of transmission. we completely support the government aim to avoid a second wave of transmission. that would be devastating for the uk economy. so we understand there needs to be some measures in place, but we do need to what comes next so that people can start to make their plans to reopen businesses. and, as we were hearing earlier, if people want to start planning for their summer holidays, they know whether they can or not. our correspondent simonjones is at heathrow airport. we heard there about what measures need to be in place and how the
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industry is going to adapt. this is a whole new view on how we take our holidays if we take them.“ a whole new view on how we take our holidays if we take them. if is the big question. to give you an idea of how heathrow is currently being affected, normally at this time of year at the start of the half term holidays, they expect to deal with around 250,000 passengers each day. today, they are likely to see around 5000 or 6000. because some clarity from the boss of heathrow has been echoed by the aviation industry and not least by potential holiday—makers as well. the big question, will be be able to go abroad at all in the summer? the reason people want to know is so that they can plan ahead, but the reality is that if you were allowed to travel, say, to spain for a couple of weeks, when you return to the uk, the price you are going to have to pay is that two weeks in quarantine. the way it is likely to
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work is that before you return to the uk or if you are coming here for the uk or if you are coming here for the first time, you will have to fill out a form online stating where you will spend those two weeks in quarantine. if you don't, you could spend a fine of £200. if you fail to respect that, you could face a further fine of respect that, you could face a furtherfine of £1000. respect that, you could face a further fine of £1000. travel certainly looking very different at the moment. the tourist season in greece is about to begin. our correspondent told us about the restrictions holiday—makers can expect. the new normal is the beaches are still quite empty, but after months of lockdown, greeks themselves were finally allowed back to the beaches and to the sea fronts a couple of weeks ago. the big thing coming up for them, though, charlie, is this weekend the islands reopen and people will be flooding there as of monday. but what about the rest of us? what about our summer holidays?
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greece will start welcoming back international tourists from the july 1st — that is from all over the world, except for countries which have a very high infection rate. sadly, that means britain at the moment. up until now, anyone arriving in greece had to do a two—week quarantine. that will be gone and greece will be open for business again. greeks really feel their government has handled this well, there is a sense of relief here in a lot of the people we have been speaking to. but also a sense of nervousness, because they want to continue to get this right. they want to continue with the success of keeping those infection rates low and those deaths low. the greeks are really embracing this chance to reopen, because tourism was such a mainstay of the economy here. around 2500 jobs have been lost after travel company specialist leisure group went into administration. the firm owned europe's largest coach holiday provider, shearings, as well as national holidays
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and country living hotels. the collapse is being blamed on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. more than 6a,000 bookings have been cancelled. anotherfirm which has been hit by the pandemic in the the us the car hire firm, hertz, has filed for bankruptcy protection. the company, which was already struggling with large debts, didn't manage to negotiate financial relief, after talks broke down. the company, which is one of the largest of its kind, was founded over a century ago. three more people have been charged with the murder of a law student in a drive—by shooting in blackburn. a total of five people have now been charged over 19—year—old aya hachem's death, after shots were fired from a passing car last sunday. her funeral is due to take place later today in lebanon. at least 97 people have been killed after a passenger plane crashed into the city of karachi in pakistan yesterday. the pakistan international airlines
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flight from lahore was carrying 99 passengers and crew — many of which were travelling ahead of the eid holiday on sunday. the exact cause of the crash is still unknown. we will get the weather with nick in around three or four minutes. let's return to our top story. back to our top story and the pressure the prime minister is facing this morning because of allegations that his top adviser, dominic cummings, broke lockdown rules. ed davey, the acting co—leader of the liberal democrats, is amongst those saying mr cummings should resign if he broke the government's lockdown restrictions. can you tell us what your position is and what you know so far? many people have made huge sacrifices to stop the spread of coronavirus. they have had to cancel things like weddings, not even able to go to funerals of some of their closest relatives. if some of the prime
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minister's own office, a private advisor, didn't abide by those same rules, that is extremely serious. if it is proved that he didn't follow the guidelines, then he has to go. he should resign, and if he doesn't resign, the prime minister should sack him. are you confident you know the facts? i have said it because you give someone a chance to make an explanation, but the explanations that are coming back from sources don't really wash. they are trying to suggest that it was about childcare. whilst everyone is sympathetic about the human need, and it was difficult for them, no one can suggest otherwise, but many other people have been in that situation and have had to try and find a way forward. clearly, the solution was not to drive over 250 miles to elderly parents who were vulnerable themselves. why did he
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not looked at local solutions, local authorities, the local nhs services? iam afraid, authorities, the local nhs services? i am afraid, so far, we have not had a satisfactory explanation. let's be clear, are you seeking a statement from dominic cummings to outline what he did in terms of the logistics, but also for him to justify, if he can, what she chose to do? is that what you are looking for? i think it should come from the prime minister. he is an adviser and basically a nswers prime minister. he is an adviser and basically answers to the prime minister. the prime minister has got to explain why his closest adviser looks like he breached the guidelines. if he wants to argue that a trip of over 250 miles from london to durham to take a child to
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elderly people for childcare, i am sure many people would be surprised that that is in the guidelines, because that was not what was being said at the time. it is worth reminding what the official guidance was at the time. anyone with symptoms should self—isolate at home and not leave for seven days, not even for essential supplies. but it is worth pointing out, and i sure you will be aware of this, that in amongst what are some difficult decisions for parents to make, in terms of official advice, it does say that if you are living with children keep following the advice to the best of your nightie, but we are aware that not all of these measures will be possible. —— best of your ability. a lot of people are having to make difficult decisions and sometimes in the grey areas surrounding this, people are thinking i will do the right thing for my children even if it sits
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slightly outside of what the precise restrictions are. do you have any sympathy for that? i have sympathy with anybody who has had this appalling disease. i know that you are having to make difficult decisions with children all the time. but the decision in the guidelines... the prime minister and dominic cummings explained that. with both parents at the same time... iam with both parents at the same time... i am not sure, with both parents at the same time... iam not sure, we will with both parents at the same time... i am not sure, we will have to find out if that was the case. did they look at alternatives which would enable them to stay isolated and not strive to the other side of the country? there are questions and, at the moment, the evidence doesn't really point very strongly to the fact that the guidelines were breached. there are so many more questions than there are answers at this time, but the question for you
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is is silence on this acceptable? no. that is why i'm entering the prime minister needs to make a statement. he is responsible for his special advisers. he needs to get an explanation. i am surprised that he didn't know at the time. i thought he would have known at the time, and did he sanction this? did he say himself to dominic cummings that this was ok? the prime minister is, i think, the person who should break the silence, and i think he should make a statement today. if he doesn't, the parliament is on a recess, he could be sure that the parliament would want to know a nswe rs. parliament would want to know answers. we have been asking our constituents to make incredible sacrifices. people have been through some really tough times in their personal lives, in their working lives. we have seen damage to the economy and so many deaths. it
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cannot be right for those at the top to breach the rules that they have put on the rest of us. thank you, the acting co—leader of the liberal democrats. that is so indicative of what it is like outside, the washing blowing really madly on the line. blue skies, very blustery out there. not all of us have the blue skies because it is bucketing down over parts of western scotland, and this is where it is a windy as well today because scotland is closest to an area of low pressure bringing the wind and rain. it is blustery across the uk. as the weekend goes on, the area of pressure moves away. things will be settling down. the wind will be easing as the weekend goes on and it will turn brighter and warmer across much of the uk, just in time for the bank holiday. it is very wet
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in western scotland, particularly as the hills north of the central belt. northern ireland seen rain or showers. drier and brighter this afternoon and sunny spells and blustery showers quickly moving west to east across england and wales this afternoon. they do move through quite quickly, these showers. some may be heavy and sundry. strong, gusty wins. some in excess of a0 miles an hour. they will be over 50 miles an hour. they will be over 50 miles an hour in some of the strongest gusts today. temperatures are down on yesterday but still close to 20 in the warmest parts of eastern and south—east england. it stays blustery tonight. the heaviest rains leave. north—east scotland sees some clear spells and some through parts of england and wales. perhaps still a few showers in
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wales. tomorrow, we start with showers. outbreaks of rain, especially in northern ireland, western scotland. deeper on in the day, it is harder to pick out the rain. a lot of it is dying out. a good deal of cloud but some sunny spells developing throughout the day and temperatures edging up a few degrees. that is the process that continues into the bank holiday. more in the way of sunshine and warmth by then. thank you very much. it's a bank holiday weekend, and with warm weather on the way, lots of us may be tempted to get out and about. but we're being urged to put safety first, such an important message, after beaches and parks were packed earlier this week. it sparked concerns some people weren't following social distancing rules. breakfast‘s tim muffett has been looking at the plans being put in place to ensure tourist spots aren't overrun. fresh air and a sense of freedom.
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this is my first time out. i have been in lockdown since early march, which is nine, ten weeks, and ijust decided this would be a good place to come because it's so open, and i feel relatively safe. i'm gloved, i'm masked — i'm free, i'm free! dunstable downs in bedfordshire, like so many places, seems so appealing. enjoying the outdoors is now allowed, and in england you can drive to a place of your choice to get some fresh air. but another message also remains in place — to stay at home as much as possible. this video was made by councils across lincolnshire, but in skegness this week, the closure of car parks, toilets and restaurants didn't put some visitors off. i've come from nottingham. seems pretty quiet considering, obviously, it's lockdown, so we're trying to do our best to social distance. at the end of the day, the government have said can do it.
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we've brought our own food so we can just sit and amuse ourselves, really, and not interfere with anybody. like other train operators, east midlands railway is grappling with social distancing. only 20% of seats can be used. we've got key workers we need to be able to provide a service to. it's really important that people who don't need to travel essentially stay away to allow key workers to use the services available to them. in warwickshire, you have to buy a car park ticket for some country parks in effort to control visitor numbers. west midlands police have released this video. this gathering needs to stop now, so if you can make your way out the cul—de—sac, that would be appreciated. thank you. a crowd of more than 100 people had to be dispersed. the biggest gathering this police force has encountered during the pandemic. particularly with a lot more young people now, this pressure to congregate is starting to grow, and that's got to be an area we've got to police carefully. enforcement is a last resort in this
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particular set of circumstances, but enforcement is going to be appropriate and i think we've shown with the over a00 fixed penalty notices issued already, we're not afraid to use that power. the rnli has warned there will be no lifeguards on any beaches this weekend. for many tourist resorts, it's a difficult but important message — please, save your visit for another time. tim muffett, bbc news. in brighton, stewards will be out patrolling the beach all weekend. councillor carmen appich from brighton and hove city counciljoins us now. we can also speak to dr ellie cannon, who'll be able to answer your questions on staying safe. thank on staying safe. you for your time. tell us what thank you for your time. tell us what is going to be put in place and how concerned are you and your authorities and local residents about somewhere like brighton being over run? we are putting some
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marshals in place who can basically look after the entrances to the beaches and point people to less busy parts of the beach if necessary. i am very concerned that we will be attracting too many visitors on wednesday and thursday this week. things on the beach looked almost dangerous because when we have so many visitors, you can't safely social distance, and groups of people were very close to each other. i am very concerned that we will be overrun and we won't be able to cope. what is the message you are getting from a residence in the area close there is a mixture of almost a fear, because no one wants this, no one wants coronavirus or to be ill, and maybe some resentments that people are intruding on their space?
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i don't think there's that much resentment. there is fear that people are worried. people know it isn't safe to be that close together, and, obviously, residents are still going out and getting for their daily exercise. and we are encouraging residents to continue to do that. obviously, in a safe way. we do have parks in the city that people can go to to take their exercise. i think, people can go to to take their exercise. ithink, by people can go to to take their exercise. i think, by and large, residents are with us when we are saying to people, please don't come and visit this weekend. it is worth saying, of course, devolved nations, there are different lockdown nations that are either coming into place or in place. it is always worth checking those. i don't know how many patients are asking you this, what am i allowed to do? lots of people are asking that because,
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obviously, we have had new guidance since the lockdown was changed in the last few weeks. it's quite simple. you can see one other person from another household as long as you are outside. you shouldn't be in somebody else's private garden or house. you have to stay two metres away from that person and anyone else that you see out and about. away from that person and anyone else that you see out and aboutm the real world, and i don't know what you are seeing with your own eyes, but people may be go out as a couple or a family and then they bumped into another family and they have a conversation, these things are inevitably going to happen. but how does that fit within what we know to be the restrictions? what we know to be the restrictions? what we know is that once you have got more than two people, your chances of transmitting the virus go up. that
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is why households are not allowed to meet other households, and we are keeping it'sjust meet other households, and we are keeping it's just to meet other households, and we are keeping it'sjust to one person in meeting another person. walking past to someone fleetingly, waving hello to someone fleetingly, waving hello to another family you see on the other side of the road, that is fine. in terms of meeting other people, you should only be meeting that one other person or going on a day tripjust with that one other person or going on a day trip just with your household. carmine, you are also the chair of the tourism committee of brighton and hove city council —— carmen. numbers are falling, but you want to maintaina numbers are falling, but you want to maintain a reputation, with brighton and hove being one of the main places to visit and enjoy? it is a difficulty and i have onlyjust taken over this difficulty and i have onlyjust ta ken over this portfolio, difficulty and i have onlyjust taken over this portfolio, so little didi taken over this portfolio, so little did i think that in my first couple of weeks of being chair of the tourism committee i would be telling
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people to stay away. obviously, we look forward to being able to welcome our visitors back as as soon as possible, as soon as the lockdown has been lifted and we are out of the other side of this coronavirus. but, at the moment, all of our attractions remain closed in line with government guidance, and very sadly i had to ask people to stay away at the moment. it is an interesting one to approach, isn't it? thank you very much, and do take care. at this time on a saturday morning, we say hello to matt. i don't know if you saw it, dtc the story yesterday? tomatoes in out of the fridge. you know scientists are a lwa ys the fridge. you know scientists are always looking into stuff. they
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started looking at whether you should keep tomatoes in or out of the fridge? definitely out. always? in all circumstances? you have to use them quite quickly. at the moment, you should be putting them on the windowsill, getting some sun to them. but always out of the fridge. is there a correct number of tomatoes to have in the home so you don't end up over ripening than? we can don't end up over ripening than? we ca n always don't end up over ripening than? we can always rely on you. a correct number of tomatoes? i don't know. a handful? i have no idea. however many you can eat. i tend to go for a full planet. let's move on from tomatoes. —— punnet. doctor, doctor,
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give us the news. what ingredients do you have? i've got some chickpeas, arm and butter —— service, almond butter. good to have you here today. you are cooking twice today. very, very busy. i am making a fill it with pickle and thenl making a fill it with pickle and then i am going to be making sweet potato with the sweet potato in the dough. and roasted vegetables, the ones, and chicken and a coconut sauce to go with that. going all out on the blouse and the drinks front today is helen mcginn. good morning. i have still got my
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slippers on. excellent. sloppy enough! you can still vote on what dishi enough! you can still vote on what dish i make at the end of the shell. go to the website for details and we will see you at ten. thank you very much. enjoy. i have actually been eating. i'm sorry. that did happen. it is something to do with talking to matt, isn't it? it makes you hungry. headlines coming up. hello, this is breakfast with charlie stayt
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and naga munchetty. coming up before ten, the sport and weather. but first, a summary of this morning's main news. dominic cummings, the most senior adviser to the prime minister, is facing calls to resign after being accused of breaking lockdown rules. mrcummings is underfire for travelling hundreds of miles from london to county durham, to self—isolate at his parents' home when he had coronavirus symptoms. durham police confirm they spoke to his family about self—isolation guidelines and reiterated advice around essential travel. a source close to mr cummings denies he broke any rules, claiming that the family stayed in a separate building. the government is facing more questions over its plans to introduce a 1a—day quarantine for people arriving in the uk. from june 8th, travellers will have to self—isolate for a fortnight, and could face fines of £1,000 if they break the rules. airlines and travel companies are worried it could damage their businesses even further. the government says the measures
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are being introuced to stop a second wave of coronavirus. at least 97 people have been killed after a passenger plane carrying 99 passengers and crew crashed into the city of karachi in pakistan yesterday. many were travelling ahead of the eid holiday on sunday. one of the survivors has described his ordeal, saying all he could see "was fire". the exact cause of the crash is still unknown. a new study suggests that an anti—malarial drug promoted by donald trump as a treatment for coronavirus may in fact increase the risk of death among infected patients. the research published by the medicaljournal, the lancet, shows that those who were treated with hydroxychloroquine had a higher risk of death and heart problems than those who were not. last week mr trump said he was taking the drug himself. those are the main stories this morning. when four—year—old ollie was admitted to hospital in april for a routine round of chemotherapy, it meant the family would spend
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the rest of lockdown separated. ollie's been in hospital in leeds, with his dad for nearly four weeks, receiving treatment for cancer, while his mum and little brother alfie are at home in pontefract, and are only able to see him via video calls. we can talk to ollie's dad james now, and his mum laura. i suppose seeing the two of you on our screens illustrates to us... so sorry, my cats just popped our screens illustrates to us... so sorry, my catsjust popped up. seeing you both on screen now in a way illustrates to us how difficult this time has been for you. it would have been pretty difficult for you anyway. james, lovely to see you there. and we cant see oliver behind you on the bed. how are you? most importantly, how is oliver? he is
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good, thank you. we are both ok. bit ofa good, thank you. we are both ok. bit of a rough night. but we got through it. he is doing all right at the moment. tell us a little bit about how it has been? people watching this for the first time. you have been literally at the hospital with your son now for, is it four weeks? yeah, just coming up to four weeks now. he went in for chemotherapy and stem cell transfusion. we arejust recovering now. i can only imagine, difficult as it is, it must be lovely when you are able to link up with the rest of the family? yeah, it is. probably do it a couple of times a day. you can imagine alfie wa nts to times a day. you can imagine alfie wants to talk a lot. he is spending
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time on his ipad and trying to pass time. he is busy right now. just do us the honours. give laura a wave. you probably can't see each other right now. but we can see you both next to each other in a funny kind of way. laura, hello. 0h, of way. laura, hello. oh, laura, obviously kids need their pa rents oh, laura, obviously kids need their parents and need the love and support of their parents. this must have been a really difficult decision to make. for anyone who is slightly confused as to why it needed to be made, you are only 16, 17 miles apart at the moment, aren't you? we are, yeah, that's right. we are literally 25 minutes down the road. so physically we are not that far away. but we haven't been able to see each other for almost four weeks now. how are you coping? it's been really difficult. we have
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managed to go by keeping a routine at home. we have been face timing a couple of times a day. we have been on the phone texting quite regularly, sending photographs. we have got a lot of support. we are very lucky. you have got little alfie as well, who is two years old. how do you explain, even to oliver as well, who is very young, how do you explain to them that they can't cuddle their brother and they can't see dad, or mum, vice versa? yeah. alfie calls oliver yaya. we just said that yaya is poorly. and he is in hospital. the doctors are looking after him. and yaya will be coming home when he is better. well, you have to cope any way you can. where are you getting your support from, laura? we have got an amazing group of family, friends and strangers. so we have a facebook page following
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oliver's journey. it's we have a facebook page following oliver'sjourney. it's called oliver'sjourney. it's called oliver's journey to beat neuroblastoma. there are over a thousand people on that page supporting us. anything we want or need, that will go on there. any thing we need, they are there for us, helping us in any way possible, whether that is physical resources like food and things, fund raising, raising awareness. it's been amazing. james, tell us a little bit about the treatment you are getting? you are full of praise for the staff there, the medics and the nurses who are looking after you, also under huge strain. you have got hopes, of course, for oliver's care now. what might happen? we arejust course, for oliver's care now. what might happen? we are just waiting for his county to come back up. then
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hopefully we can go home. he isjust struggling at the moment with... inaudible. we had a little bit of break up there. we had a little bit of a break—up there. obviously future plans forfor break—up there. obviously future plans for for treatment for oliver. we wish you all the best, of course, with whatever is next. laura, tell usa with whatever is next. laura, tell us a little bit about oliver. i was just reading my notes. i havejust seen the arm of a nurse, i'm assuming, who has —— who is holding the camera. but he is a little boy, and little boys, little girls, can be mischievous. what this i hear about the way he is using the s . about the way he is using the syringes? oliver has been very
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playful throughout his treatment, just like any four—year—old would be. he particularly enjoys squirting the nurses with the syringes. he fills them with water and they get quite wet. he is enjoying that. the nurses have been brilliant with them. they treat him like they would a child of their own. we can't thank them enough for that. it makes oliver feel loved and feel welcome. oliver feel loved and feel welcome. oliver —— laura, we wish you all the best. good luck and well done for coping and raising awareness of this. good luck to you all. apologies for the problems with sound there. do you know what? it is one of the features we have seen, how important technology is, to be connected. in other circumstances that would have been impossible. technology is working for us because mike can't be with us in the studio. he isa
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mike can't be with us in the studio. he is a couple of floors down. still lots to talk about. good morning. yes, good morning. we heard encouraging words from the boss of silverstone here on breakfast an hour ago. stuart pringle told us he's confident the british grand prix will go ahead in july, despite the government's new quarantine rules, for international travellers. he's hopeful that some sporting events will be exempt from the 1a—day isolation, that's set to be imposed from next month. i think things are heading in the right direction. we do have a very constructive dialogue and i certainly sense there's a will. we just need to find a way. we fully accept that this is a complicated situation and there needs to be clear explanation from our sport about what the solution is. but we believe there is a technical solution and it's important we find one. because this isn't just about a 90 minute race, this is about restarting an industry. we're world leaders in the motorsport industry and we need to get that industry restarted now. if it does happen at the end of the
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——july, if it does happen at the end of the —— july, it would like other sport to be behind closed doors. the premier league is optimistic that is can restart next month, with the progress so far, seen as encouraging. "as confident as we can be", is how they put it. the target had been the 12th ofjune, but chief executive richard masters told us they have to be flexible, so they're not putting a date on it, but he says the momentum is there, after this week's return to non—contact training, which they see as the first step. now we heard earlier that fans with tickets for the british grand prix, can get a refund. but the majority, so far, are not taking it in exchange for a seat at next year's race. and what about in football, with seasons cancelled and any that resume, doing so behind closed doors? what about fans who have paid up front for season tickets? legally they are entitled to their money back, but any payouts could jeopardise the survival of lower league football clubs. i've been taking a look. # allez, allez, oh, walsall fc... this is what ray and deborah pay for, the highlight of their week, taking their seats at their beloved walsall —
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but normally with the 3,000 other season—ticket holders. now that can't happen, they're owed a refund of £100 for the four remaining home games they now won't see. but along with the vast majority here, they want the club to keep their money. wejust think, well, we're not asking for a refund. it's helping the football club for the future. it's more about the community. and it's a family club, and it's a lovely, friendly feel when you come here on a saturday afternoon. it too much a part of me. it's part of us and part of our history. it's far more, worth far more than any refund the club might give us in the current circumstances. paying all their season—ticket holders back would cost walsall £100,000, money they can't afford to lose. so they've come up with creative ways of rewarding fans who don't ask for their money back. free tickets in the future, a discount at the club's shop. i have got one letter now requesting a refund, and that's perfectly acceptable, because people may well be short of money. but the vast majority are saying, keep the money, chairman, give me some discounts
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in the future. they simply care. that the club gets through this crisis, and we come out the other side. and if they can play a part in that, they'll do it. so it's a question of care. it's clubs like this we've seen buried, and it ain't going to happen here. walsall are certainly not alone. we spoke to a range of league two clubs, and the consensus is that while they will offer refunds to any season—ticket holders who want their money back, they'd far rather keep hold of the money for the good of the club and offer fans rewards when next season does eventually begin. i set up a good chat with season—ticket holders of several different league two clubs, and they all told me they wanted their clubs to hold onto their money from this season. for me, bradford city has invested a lot within the community, so for me it's about investing our time and giving back to the club as well. it's a two—way process. we enjoy the club, we love
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the football, and we don't want to be asking for money back if that's going to jeopardise it. the club hasn't done anything wrong. and this support is giving players, uncertain about their futures and unable to do what they normally do, a timely boost. yeah, no, what a great gesture that is as well, you know? any upbeat feeling, anything that's going to give us a chance to look towards the future, is a real inspiration, really. it's created a real unity across the board, because we are all in the same boat. and going forward with some of next season potentially behind closed doors as well, this unity will be even more important. with no income from gate receipts, league two clubs will have to come up with new ideas, like livestreaming of matches. it's a massive part of it. will it recover everything? absolutely not. but it will provide an absolutely vital channel for that, and we will be urging fans, perhaps that haven't watched a game, that aren't able to watch it a normal, live, stadium mode, to watch it from their laptop or mobile. all of the fans in our group video chat said they would pay to watch
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streamed matches, and they all said they would also buy cardboard or metal cut—outs of themselves, following the idea of german side borussia monchengladbach. in england's league two, walsall and orient say they are already working on prototypes for next season. if you can't be there, that's the next best alternative. we'll be providing those cut—outs, fans will soon be able to get their hands on that, if they're not physically there, they will be able to support it in their image at least. it would be quite nice to have a little webcam, maybe, in your cardboard cut—out or your metal cut—out, so you would actually get the view that you would normally get. that would be quite a good idea. the view is very different now for season—ticket holders like ray and deborah, but they are hoping that by sticking together, they will all have clubs to support until the day they're allowed back here once more. yes, fans and their clubs are really bringing together even closer links
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in these times of adversity. i also think, mike, great ideas with this thing in denmark, having little screens and you can watch virtually, can't you ? footballers in germany are finding it hard that they have got no fans to celebrate when they score a goal. but in denmark you have got fans on big screens, even away fans, all coming together and being of the match virtually via a video conference app, they can interact with the players at the time of the goal. it could make a big difference. thinking on yourfeet, bringing money into a club that desperately needs it. nick has the weather. last look at the weather on breakfast this saturday. blustery? in a word that's absolutely right. across the uk as well. and it is wet too, especially in western scotland. for the rest of the day there are showers to be had
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elsewhere. some sunny spells, especially across england and wales. brighter in northern ireland this afternoon. cooler out there. gusts in excess of a0 mph. northern ireland and scotland, in excess of 50 mph. more rain in northern ireland this evening, pushing back into scotland and northern england, a few showers into wells, clear spells too. temperatures are not going down too far. a lot of cloud to begin the day tomorrow. still some rain falling, especially in western scotland, but eventually this will die away. still breezy tomorrow. the winds are easing a bit as the day goes on. it will feel a bit warmer, helped by some sunny spells in the afternoon. the bank holiday will be sunnier across the board and warmer by then as well. thank you. have you ever met a meteorite hunter? no! they absolutely exist. take a
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look at this. all of those discovered have been in antarctica and justin rowlatt went to meet a meteorite hunter. do you want to find a meteorite? well, here is where to look. out on the antarctic ice. the pristine white surface makes meteorites easier to see. alexander gerst is part of a team hunting for rocks from space, which makes sense, because he spends a lot of his time up here. he is a former commander of the international space station, and has spent more time in orbit than any other european. but he is back on earth, searching for clues about the origin of our solar system. his boss on the ice gives me
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a lesson in how to find a meteorite. so, john has found more meteorites than anyone else. so we're going to simulate finding a meteorite. we've placed one on the snow over there, right? so we've been driving on the skidoo, we have spotted it over there, what happens next? well, the next thing we do, we walk over to confirm whether it's a meteorite or not. so you're not allowed to touch it, are you? we don't want to touch it. we're upwind of it, too. i don't want to drip my nose on it. no snot is the least of it. there are strict rules to ensure nothing contaminates the meteorites. yep, perfect. most meteorites date back billions of years, right to the birth of the solar system, so the research here helps us understand how the earth itself was formed and it could also protect our planet. everybody knows that the dinosaurs came to extinction because of a big, big asteroid crashing into earth. that was long ago. but nowadays still we have asteroids sitting earth, and sooner or later a bigger
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one is going to hit us. they are made, in principle, of the same stuff as some of these rocks that we find out that on the polar plateau. if ever one comes straight at us, and we realise that, we can only do something about that if we know exactly what it's made of. for astronaut alex, the rocks hold a personal significance. you see things coming from outer space, zipping past you into the earth's atmosphere, and that's a weird thought, when for the first time in your life, you see a shooting star from above. realising, hey, that thing just flew past me. so his antarctic trip kind of closes a circle. the astronaut has recovered the remains of shooting stars on earth, so we can understand our planet a bit better. justin rowlatt, bbc news. and we can now speak to planetary scientist, dr katherine joy, from
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the university of manchester. good morning. what a fascinating piece. i didn't even know somebody was doing that role. what use is it to know more about these beasts of asteroid, essentially, that land on our planet? yeah, it is an amazing job. we have about 60,000 meteorites in our collection and a0,000 have been found in antarctica. most of them come from the asteroid belt and they tell us about how the solar system formed, how the planets formed and indeed how the earth, the planet we are standing on, how we formed. it is very rare samples. —— some very rare samples, some of them from the moon. it provides us with interesting information. why is there so much information to be gleaned from antarctica ? there so much information to be gleaned from antarctica? antarctica is great. the rocks are easy to find. black stones from space sitting on the white ice. they get
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concentrated, they get moved across the polar plateau. we can go to some places on mountain ranges, and find hundreds of thousands of meteorites ina hundreds of thousands of meteorites in a small hundreds of thousands of meteorites ina smallarea. hundreds of thousands of meteorites in a small area. they are well preserved. there is no rain in antarctica. and so the rocks we collect are very pristine, maximising the scientific return we get from each stone. is there evidence of anybody ever being hit bya evidence of anybody ever being hit by a meteorite? there is some speculative evidence, yes, that people have been killed by meteorites. only one or two rare exa m ples meteorites. only one or two rare examples but they are potentially a risk. the earth is being pummelled by asteroids and comets throughout the past a.5 billion years. impact is low at the present day. but it is important we understand the flocks of meteors that are being delivered to the earth and where they come from so we can access the potential risk for the future, both to life and damage to building structures, through insurance claims and through damage to humanity. interesting
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talking to you. thank you very much. doctor catherine joy from the university of manchester. seven minutes to ten. he's been out of the limelight for the last decade or so, but now damon gough — aka badly drawn boy — is back with a new album. banana skin shoes features honest and personal tracks into what the last ten years have been like for him, overcoming family trouble, excessive drinking and depression. we'll talk to damon in a moment. but first, let's take a look at his new songs. # the time spent remembering the things we should forget # and not regret # but ijust wanted to wish you happiness # for the time that i was with you and the rest...# # show me some love # when the whole thing pops
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you'll be the sole survivor # i need your blood we can now talk to damon gough, aka badly drawn boy. good morning to you. how are you? good morning to you. how are you? good morning, naga and chardy. i'm good, thanks. i'm in my basement studio in charlton. the big picture of me, i take it everywhere with me it is in the album art book. charlie andi it is in the album art book. charlie and i were debating how many guitars you had in the room. you can't see there another 200 over there! listen, it's really good of you to talk to us this morning because this music, i suppose, as most music is, very, very personal, very reflective of what you have been going through over the past decade. quite a lot to put something like that out there?
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yeah, well it's a personal trait of mine and it always ends up tripping me up because i do wear my heart on my sleeve a lot and it gets tough to keep talking about that. i've been away for a while. the world has gone crazy, even before coronavirus. i've been through personal issues. banana skin shoes as a reference to me slipping up in life, mainly about the break—up in 2012 with my ex partner of 1a years and the two children we have together. i am now ina new children we have together. i am now in a new place with my wife now of eight years, roughly. we married two yea rs eight years, roughly. we married two years ago. we got a little boy. he was three on thursday. three years old. the album is about me slipping up old. the album is about me slipping up by old. the album is about me slipping up by coming back from it, it is triumph over adversity, that old ad eyes. i wanted to provide a positive antidote to the negative stuff that has been going on in the world for all of us in recent times, even before coronavirus. i am getting a lot of nice feedback that it is
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reading positive words, goodwill and kindness and stuff like that. so... that is a very good message to send out. i would that is a very good message to send out. iwould imagine that is a very good message to send out. i would imagine as an artist it must be lovely when you get that kind of feedback. i am just curious as to how you are during this period of time? a few artists we have spoken to have said that in a way they have been able to use the difficult times in some ways creatively. are you finding yourself inspired in whatever way because of the extreme circumstances we are in? in some ways. i've been so busy getting ready for the release of this album. i've been doing a lot of promotional work. it's a bit odd because the world is suffering out there. this thing is trivial, releasing music. but a lot of people have said it's important to keep going. myfan have said it's important to keep going. my fan base in particular, i've been doing live streams on the social network, and instagram,
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facebook, not as good as the bbc, they're inferior channels for yourself! it has helped me connect with people. that's been really rewarding because it is so immediate. even though we are removed physically from each other, it has been really rewarding. i'm just happy to be back doing what i do. you can only start with yourself in this world. if you are spreading something good to yourself, in the hope that it permeates through your nearest and dearest and beyond them, soi nearest and dearest and beyond them, so i have been busy with that. i think it's inspiring that the world has become such a challenging place for artists like me. i'm duty—bound to keep finding more positives, because what else can you do?” to keep finding more positives, because what else can you do? i am liking the beanie look. on a personal note, if and when we talk again, can you where the tiger suit? could you just wear that? that is a personal request from me. before we have to enter the conversation, i will wear it for you, of course... thank you. this country has got me
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through the last few weeks. i don't mind mentioning it. i got so obsessed with it with curtain and carry. i want to hang out with curtain. they do nothing but they are so resourceful. and your interview with them, i was googling, i wanted to see them, charlie and daisy cooper, talking for real. your interview at the time with them, charlie, was one of the best interviews i could find. just to give you some feedback. you probably never get any feedback. here is the feedback from me to you right now. you are welcome here any time! everything has changed completely. as soon as we can, lockdown is over, you are in the house. don't worry. that's why i said it, thanks! it works. nice talking to you too! now is much more important than you,
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charlie! right, forget everything i just said! lovely talking to you. keep making the music. this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. calls for boris johnson's most senior advisor to resign after he's accused of breaking uk lockdown rules. dominic cummings travelled 250 miles to his parents' home when he had coronavirus symptoms — a source close to him denies any breach of the restrictions, but others say he has questions to answer. clearly serious questions that number ten are going to have to address, not least because the readiness of members of the public to follow government guidance, more generally, is going to be affected. engine failure was reported shortly
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