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well, economic inequality there as well, andl economic inequality there as well, and i think that the mass unemployment that we are seeing in america, the coronavirus pandemic has alsojust really america, the coronavirus pandemic has also just really heightened this —— the social inequalities that exist and have existed in america for a very very long time. that's why this situation has fled up quite as badly as it has. it's always rumbling under the surface here, and it's interesting to see how it plays out politically in the general election because joe biden of course is the democrat running against donald trump later this year and he himself has made some clumsy comments on race during this campaign and has a history of working with segregationist senators which he's apologised for, but equally, he is associated with barack 0bama and his presidency ends the african—american community have generally seemed to get behind joe biden. this has sort of long—term
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consequences commander also goes back way into america's past, which is why it is so extraordinary to see it playing out so vividly at the moment while the world is going through the crisis that it's going through. absolute. i don't know if either of you saw president trump walking to the presidents church after his speech last night, it was pretty incredible to see in the washington post carrying the story behind that it says that the attorney—general apparently personally ordered law enforcement officials on the ground to clear the streets around where president trump spoke on monday by basically using spoke on monday by basically using spoke canisters, riot shields, batons against peaceful protesters just to clear the area. i mean, the white house is denying that there's any correlation between the two, but the timing is quite suspect, isn't it, stephen? yes, it does slightly strained to suggest that you have the use of quite extraordinary force
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against priests and useful protesters who coincidentally donald trump needs to do a photo at the same place and we are being asked to believe that these are interconnected. the interesting contrast is something richard nixon did in the wake of rights in the 70s over the vietnam war where he went and spoke with protesters, very strong contrast to donald trump who goes and has a press conference. let's move the daily telegraph. the front page, we owe it to the victims to impose quarantine. this is again the story that's been carried the last few days about this plan to quarantine people arriving in the uk. now apparently the home secretary has said that printing people arriving in the uk is crucial to preventing a second coronavirus peak. the critics are wondering, laura, why it wasn't crucial preventing that first peak. welcome exactly. at the moment, what we are seeing our questions being
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asked why it has taken this long to impose a quarantine when we had to hundreds of people flying into the uk in february and march without any sort of stringent checks being imposed, but the reason this is because such an argument is that you have the hospitality industry, tourism industry, airline industry all resisting this plan by the government to require people to self—isolate for two weeks after returning from abroad into the country or arriving here in the country or arriving here in the country for the first time, because they say that that will obviously put off anyone from coming here and have profound impact on the economy. so there is this internal row, and it's interesting that the telegraph piece has sort of come from a joint open union piece that's been written bya open union piece that's been written by a pretty patel, the home secretary and the transport secretary, clearly, the government are trying to appear united on this issue. their main message in the
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piece in the newspaper tomorrow is that this quarantine is really necessary to avoid a second peak, which is something that the government are very nervous about because we know that the are number of the reproduction number is very close to one, and then moment that goes above one, lockdown measures will have to be restricted and tightened again, so they are tying it to that, and the argument that if we act quickly hirsch and on the short—term, and the term, the tourist industry hospitality industry airline industry will do better, so it's about short—term term paying for long—time guinness admit they're trying to make today. let's move onto the independent. stephen, 25,000 move from hospitals to ca re stephen, 25,000 move from hospitals to care homes without routine testing, this according to figures released by nhs england. the whole ca re released by nhs england. the whole care home issue has been raging over the last few weeks.
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yes, this has been the issue the government hasn't been able to get away from our questions about exactly why so many people have died in care homes and who exactly is to blame for that happening, because they care homes in many ways to be isolated environments, they are seems to have happened, and the stray goes into some detail about how is people are discharged from hospitals without necessary precautions being taken over whether or not they have coronavirus and that caused her to spread within ca re that caused her to spread within care homes. this is going to be a big issue in the inquiry in the coming weeks and months. laura? yeah, this issue is not going away for the government, and i think when there is a big public inquiry, there is going to be one of the first questions that the government has asked. why were so many elderly vulnerable people discharge from hospital into care homes, and also
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massive questions as to why there we re massive questions as to why there were not enough personal protective equipment for those working in care homes. i very much felt as though the government was focused on protecting the nhs which has been their message, and in order to protect the nhs and have enough capacity for people in a lot of cases were either left undiagnosed which are hotbeds for this pandemic and have suffered really, really badly. let's go back to the daily telegraph and talk about what happened today with mp5. pictures of members of parliament cueing socially distancing cueing outside the commons chamber as they waited to cast their vote on the future of proceedings in the house. you are both politicaljournalists. what did you make of this, stephen, you first of all? well, it was pretty ridiculous, really. we all got very used to having to queue at the weekend whenever we've got a spare moment for shops, but i think my
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overall reaction was kind of funny to see people who really ought to be here answering their constrictions works, scrutinising legislation cueing up, i think it was quite funny to think about what it would be like in the rain. that i thing was very much the reaction of most mps in the queue was slightly ridiculous. laura, the axis of this is not democratic because about a third of mps are shielding and not able to make it to westminster because, you know, they are vulnerable. that's just not fair. they are not able to vote. how does that work? exactly. and that's the serious point. so were pretty farcical, the whole thing just looked like a complete shamble. there were also images of mps all bunched together in this moment where they weren't able to socially distance. yeah, the point you make is that there are a lot of mps who fall under the vulnerable categories and they felt as though they couldn't come into parliament and
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vote. that's not a very modern parliament and it sort of shows quite a macho way of thinking on the surface of this that no one seems to think about potentially pregnant women that may not be able to come m, women that may not be able to come in, the elderly, those who have to ca re in, the elderly, those who have to care for vulnerable people at home. it doesn't really make any sense, and given that this electronic voting system was working reasonably well, i don't really understand the reason for bringing mps back, especially when the government is trying to encourage people to keep to social distancing rules and to work from home where possible. it has been possible for them to work from home. i honestly cannot understand having looked at this all day why jacob rees—mogg, understand having looked at this all day whyjacob rees—mogg, the leader of the commons has chosen to plough on with this very controversial and slightly ludicrous plan. let's move on very briefly to the eye, the biggest crisis eunice —— you know commit serious toys to? we are
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talking about a funding crisis which will hit every area of academic life and left to swept in social bubbles, possibly the things that they care about the most, no pub crawls in first virtual. .. this about the most, no pub crawls in first virtual... this doesn't about the most, no pub crawls in first virtual. .. this doesn't sound like a lot of fun for students are for universities, stephen? yona know. in the big promise that if you area know. in the big promise that if you are a student looking at this coming may think well why don't i do for herfor a year when i might be able to see my lecturers, make friends, thatis to see my lecturers, make friends, that is quite a lot of money for universities to go without. in international student numbers are not good to recover, this is a big financial problem for universities and that is a big problem for many, many towns and cities throughout the uk. laura? yes, exactly. and they think one of the big problems as you are not getting this money from overseas. if students are not able to fly here and work and attend university, on a very human level, it's not very much fun turning up
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for precious weekend being constricted to small social bubbles, but if you don't like who you are in a bubble with them in a large part of university is the academic side, but let's be honest from a lot of young people go to university for the life experience to make friends and to have fun. it doesn't really sound like much fun at the moment. so hopefully for students it does get better. i do feel sorry for starting unit versed in september, thank you both of you forjoining us. it's been good to have you and good to talk through some of those front pages ahead of tomorrow. we of course will have more papers uk audiences with stephen and laura in just over half an hour time. now, thanks for your company, goodbye from us. hello there, the time to reach 27
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celsius in hampshire on tuesday, but that was the last of the very warm days for probably white sometime. the next few days at least will be feeling much cooler, thanks to a northerly wind. more cloud and some wet weather around as well. that rain certainly arrived in scotla nd well. that rain certainly arrived in scotland during tuesday — knocking attem pters scotland during tuesday — knocking attempters back as well. a cloudier weather, together with the rain, is continuing to push its way southwards overnight. many areas by the end of the night will have had some rain, the exceptions really being towards the southeast and east anglia where it is good to be a little chilly in the countryside and probably drying off later in the night for northern ireland and western scotland. up some cloudier skies for wednesday in england and wales. some outbreaks of rain as well, could be little heavy at times. across northern ireland, largely dry, little bit of sunshine and missing most of the showers across western scotland, where temperatures may make 18 degrees in glasgow, much cooler with the showers in eastern scotland and across the rest of the uk and attem pters across the rest of the uk and attempters quite a bit lower than they were yesterday. continuing that
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cooler theme through the rest of the week, because pressure is lower across scandinavia where we once had high pressure. instead, high pressure we are treating out into the atlantic. it's not close enough to the uk, and it means that we are drawing down a northerly wind which will feed and that cooler air and continue to feed in some showers. perhaps a longer sponsoring to clear away from the southeast of england early on thursday morning, and then a little bit of sunshine but on the whole, pretty cloudy skies and further showers which could be heavy at times as well. if anything in that northerly wind can attempters may be even lower on thursday, typically 14—15d or so, quite a bit cooler than it should be at this time of year. so this weather is quite a change from what we have seen for a long time. those cooler northerly winds pick up again on friday. we will blow down some heavy showers from the north from attem pters showers from the north from attempters across a vending lens, south wales may get up to 16—17d, but for northern scotland, weird struggling to make double figures. as we head into the weekend, we no longer have high—pressure close to
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the uk. instead, we are dominated by low pressure, and it's quite a deep one as well. it could bring some unusually windy weather to some northern and western parts of the uk, at least for a while on saturday, some risk of gates. even without the strong winds, it will feel cool in the cloud with some showers, and longer spells of rain.
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this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. president trump is facing widespread condemnation, for his handling of the unrest, in dozens of american cities. violent clashes between police and protesters continue, after the death of a black man being detained by police, but the president issued this warning. if a city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then i will deploy the united states military and quickly solve the problem for them. mr trump's likely rival in november's election comes out swinging. joe biden accuses the president of ‘fanning the flames of hate'. plus, a report confirms that black, asian and minority ethnic people

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