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officially passed 40,000 — the world's second highest tally behind the united states. but the number of deaths and infections has been slowing in recent weeks. president trump has said a stunning set of employment figures is evidence the us economy is on its way back from the hit it took from coronavirus. two and a half million newjobs were created or brought back. a 75—year—old man is assaulted by police in new york state, as the protests over the death of george floyd, continue. the european union's chief brexit negotiator, michel barnier, has accused the uk of ‘backtracking' on its commitments, over future relations. however the government's chief negotiator, david frost, said the latest round of talks had been "positive in tone".
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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the political writer and academic, maya goodfellow — and the deputy political editor at the daily mail, john stevens. let's take a look as some front pages of tomorrow's newspapers. the daily telegraph reports german prosecutors are investigating whether the prime suspect in the madeleine mccann case was responsible for the abduction of a missing german girl eight years later. according to the times, sunday trading laws in the uk will be suspended for a year and cafes and pubs will be given fast—track approval to serve food and drink outside under plans to boost the economy. the daily mail says borisjohnson is drawing up a "‘great recovery bill‘ to slash red tape and help get the economy moving again. the guardian reports ministers are under pressure to rethink rules on face masks after the world health organisation advised that simple
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coverings are inadequate for the public and said that over—60s should wear medical—grade masks. the yorkshire post carries an exclusive interview with the outgoing archbishop of york who says he hopes the nation's new—found compassion over the covid—19 pandemic will help to heal deep divisions caused by brexit and the 2016 vote to leave the european union. the financial times reflects on reflects on the latest figures on the us economy — it says stocks rallied and treasuries slid sharply after us employers unexpectedly added 2.5m jobs, surprising investors and fuelling hopes that the biggest economy was beginning to recover fromits coronavirus shock. and the independent picks up on donald trump's comments abour george floyd — as he spoke to the media about the us ecenomy — saying he hoped mr floyd was "looking down" and "saying this a great day". let this a great day". us begin. john and maia, hello again. let us begin. john and maia, hello again. we will start with the times
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newspaper. plans to open shops all day on sundays. john, that is half of the story. notjust opening shops on sundays it is telling pubs and cafes they will get almost immediate approval to open up a cafe style society in britain and we will get to eat on tables in the streets. yes. this is the idea of the government will want to get the economy moving again. they are trying to come up with ideas but what they can do to help businesses. 0ne what they can do to help businesses. one of the ideas is at the moment larger stores at the supermarkets can open six hours on a sunday and they want to look at for a year getting rid of that restriction so that they can open all day long. i think there are two problems with that. they will have opposition on both sides. it will help both the tory mps who believed sunday is a special day and would like to keep it that way you have the chance they would rebel and on the labour side, you would have concerns that this could lead to people having to open on sunday when they don't want to and it there could be concern from
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the trade unions. so even though this may be popular among some ministers, the reality of trying to get it to parliament might actually be quite tricky for the government. it is and very idea to open shops on sunday to make sure people don't cram into that six hour period in which they might normally have to cram in given the current trading laws 7 cram in given the current trading laws? yes. as john says, the question is whether it will actually get to parliament, questions about health and safety for the staff involved and also pay and conditions. if you're asking people to work longer hours, on a sunday, when he used to be once upon it you would have doubled the rate of care oi'i would have doubled the rate of care ona would have doubled the rate of care on a sunday which i think is not the case for a lot of professions now. but also we be thinking about this slash across the papers is a lot about this economic recovery and incredibly important thinking about the economy and people'sjobs incredibly important thinking about the economy and people's jobs and livelihoods but also puzzling to me at this time that it is splashed
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across the front pages on the same day the uk sadly and unfortunately has become the second country in the world to pass this 40,000 deaths threshold around coronavirus. that means that 40,261 people have died in the uk. the ft amongst others project that figure to likely be higher. and i think that is incredibly worrying and also for people have lost their loved ones but also whirring in terms of how this easing a lockdown is being treated. in the past 24 hours, it was announced today that 357 people died, which is more than the combined deaths across the whole of europe. so yes we should be thinking about the economy and people's livelihoods and ability to live decent lives, but we also need to be thinking about the fact that the uk has a catastrophic outcome so far and there is still a lot to be concerned about in terms of the
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coronavirus spreading around the country and people safety around that. we will pick up on the economic expect and sell the papers by quickly, while on the idea of the opening, it is all very well on a nice sunny day, but we don't have all that many sunny days. what happens if you get to september and we have a right injuly and august? who would be sitting outside huddled under space heaters? it is a major problem for the uk in the cafe culture, never having taken off despite being willing that it will. it isa despite being willing that it will. it is a big problem which is often don't have the weather for it. i would urge people to put on a coat and stay outside because i really wa nt and stay outside because i really want this to be something to happen more so want this to be something to happen more so i can go and sit in the cafe at night. would you take that advice, john? put on a coatjust to sit outside in the cafe it no matter how much rain hail, sleet, thunder, fire, lightning they might be?|j might fire, lightning they might be?” might be slightly less enthusiastic
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and maia. being outside in the rain. we will pick up on what maia was talking about about the economy. we will move to your paper. the daily mail. your headline, poorest budget to fire up the uk written by your colleague. yes, sorry for my colleague. yes, sorry for my colleague jason. he's colleague. yes, sorry for my colleaguejason. he's talking about what boris johnson colleaguejason. he's talking about what borisjohnson is planning to do next month. so obviously with the coronavirus and a lot of it comes to government have been responding to what is happening in the health service. and care homes. i think this is the prime minister approximate king to get on the front foot. and he announced a series of changes next month for the government to look like it is planning for the next step about the economic recovery. so the story jason has what it is about how the prime minister is asking his ministers to come with ideas about how they can change the law. and wrap it all together in a big bit of legislation that they are bringing the great recovery bill. some of the ideas are things like could you change the law to make it easier for
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cafes a nd restau ra nts a nd change the law to make it easier for cafes and restaurants and bars to have seating at tables outside but also other things like how do you do social distancing when we come back and could you change the rule so you only need fewer than 12 people on a jury only need fewer than 12 people on a jury so they are able to socially distance in the box forjurors. so he's challenging the ministers to come up with something that we can do to help businesses as we come out of this crisis. i was struck reading this now. the great recovery bill. it sounds like he wants us to remember the great reform bill. of the 1800s, which gave more more britons the vote. the potential suggesting there that naming this would be a significant change to the way people in britain live in would get more freedom. we look at any of the small print to it, is it matching his name? great recovery bill? i think when talking about the economy and moving forward, i think
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we really need to be thinking about not making the mistakes of the past and not reproducing this very unequal economy that we had going into coronavirus that is meant so many people have really struggled. i think we should be thinking about a numberof think we should be thinking about a number of different things, when it's making sure that the quality of jobsis it's making sure that the quality of jobs is good and the pay is good and the conditions are good but actually if we are thinking about the economy come i would also look at it to other things that are happening right now. both in the uk and around the world. one is in the uk, looking at people of colour disproportionately had been dying from coronavirus and at the same time as you have these anti—racist process going on and the reason for the protest, we know that is that the protest, we know that is that the killing to george floyd by police officers, the protesters are remembering people like breanna taylor and tony mcdade and eric garner in the uk. people like jimmy milbank and charles. people who should be household names and known
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for what happened to them and how they were killed but are not. the other reason i think the protests are happening is tied up with this racialized inequality at the heart at the coronavirus too. so the reason i mention this in relation to the economy is that if are thinking about the coronavirus, more work needs to be done on this. but we can look at the fact that the coronavirus doesn't discriminate by society does. if we are thinking about things like poverty and overcrowded housing disproportionately people of colour in particular black people in the uk who are bearing the brunt of that. disproportionately affected. so when we are thinking about any kind economic recovery actually those protest and what is happening around the coronavirus in terms of inequalities are not should be divorced. 0ur inequalities are not should be divorced. our economy is in class and racialized. if we are thinking about any kind of change to our society to have a more equal society, racialjustice needs to be at the heart of the and i don't
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think these conversations should be divorced from the very important protest that are going around around the world in the uk. let me pick up on the question are we thinking about a great change in our society. let's look at the next newspaper. the fda continues talking about the economy. no sign of summer budget. —— the financial times continues. let's pick up on that question. when you look at the great recovery bill, as it is called, i don't know who name did that, when you look at the idea of a budget, do you get a sense that this would radically change the way that we live in britain or do you get a sense this is a government simply trying to make economic measures in order to make sure the country gets to the year? when boris johnson was talking about things he is finding this week, he was saying about how one think he is concerned about how one think he is concerned about is young people come his way was that young people if they end up
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out of work, it is concerning that they might stay out of work for a long time. he was saying the priority is for this recovery will be looking at what we can do to help young people. and i think he actually revealed inadvertently or may be inadvertently one of the big measures that we are expecting to get announced next month come him saying he wants all the young people to have the guarantee of a chance of an apprenticeship so i think he is very concerned that we make sure we don't forget young people and this, but the ft story is about how managing expectations next month come expecting some sort of fiscal in the event. we talked about maybe having a budget, sounds like it will bea mini having a budget, sounds like it will be a mini budget. that chance later trying to dampen expectations it will be any big thing in there. but a lot of smaller things, things you can bring again in the shorter term. rather than massive infrastructure projects that take years and years to come together come looking at what you can do in the short amount of time and can help you now which
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will have an impact in the next 12 months. stuff like rather than building a new bypass, could you look at adding in cycle lanes come extra walkways, what investment can you do to make a difference to the economy now? let's look at the guardian newspaper. it has the story, they do bho advice over 60s to wear medical mask, which maia is in contradiction with. —— the who advice. yes. the world health organisation urging ministers in the uk to actually take a different approach and perhaps a more widespread approach thinking about the facemasks that we do where at the facemasks that we do where at the moment, the government say it will be compulsory to work on public transport from the 15th ofjune. actually saying that over 60s and people with underlying health condition should be wearing them a nyway condition should be wearing them anyway which is what world health organisation the same. i think this is concerning and i think the who it is concerning and i think the who it is important they listen to because the who it was has been saying
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months ago that test and trace isolate was key to containing the virus. here in the uk, where we have one of the highest death rate in the world, almost 40,000 people have died. that figure is likely higher. something that is not the headline on any of our newspapers. which i find a little puzzling. but actually, that advice wasn't heated and he should have been. so not in terms of this, isolate strategy, we heard from the private company dealing with that that will come into force in terms of a widespread wave likely until september or october. and the reason that matters is because we need to be thinking about our strategy and local councils have those people who can do that test trace and isolate strategy. they should have been doing earlier. they have been a lot of mixed messages from the
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government about facemasks. i'm struck when i walk around london that you don't actually see that many people wearing face masks on the street. in comparison to the pictures we have seen from other countries. we are not really a facemask country at the moment, are we shall i think we are not but that is something that might change. the story is about how the government has been very careful to say that when talking about public transport that people should wear a face covering rights of been a facemask. so they have been saying you can use a scarf, they had instructions on the website about how you can turn a t—shirt into a mess, my mum was kindly made me sell a fabric mask to wear in public transport. this is the who actually saying that that may not be good enough for over 605. in saying that for some over 605, rather than just using a face covering, you should be using something that is a medical grade ma5k. i guess the question then will be there we actually have enough of tho5e be there we actually have enough of those in this country for people to
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wear. we had the 5hortage5 those in this country for people to wear. we had the shortages of ppe. if you are saying that people should be wearing medical grade ma5k, rather than something they made them5elve5, i'm not sure that there will be enough of those. i'll ask the next question to maia. if you have that ma5k made by your mum, bringing to it to us. we will move to the daily telegraph. localised lockdown5 loom a5 to the daily telegraph. localised lockdown5 loom as the our rate rises. the potential for manchester and liverpool being sealed off? yes. this is really actually it will have to be localised lockdowns. something other countries have done and although they have different structures of government, germany has a federal structure, and so you can see how that will operate, actually this i really think has to be managed by local authorities that are able to take this forward and had the resources to do so importantly. and because already there is concerns about different parts of the country that the our rate rising and as i mentioned this
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test and trace isolate strategy is not yet up and running. we don't really have sufficient enough picture in terms of the data and i think this will be happening with necessarily going to happen around the country but different parts of the country but different parts of the country but different parts of the country will have stricter measures than others and this already major concerns around schools, i live at the primary schools, i live at the primary school teacher. the anxiety and the worries about going back to school and a lot of schools not being equipped to do that in a lot of schools left to head teachers making the decision. which is not a great way of doing it. they need to be localised strategies where this is all connected up so people feel they know exactly what they need to do and have confidence in that because at the moment, the messaging has been unclear and at the moment, the messaging has been unclearandl at the moment, the messaging has been unclear and i think there needs to bea been unclear and i think there needs to be a more coherent strategy and across the country, but also devolved to local levels. thank you. john, did you get it?” devolved to local levels. thank you. john, did you get it? i would not put it on. but here it is. that is fanta5tic. congratulations to your mum for sending that. you get the
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next question. staying with the daily telegraph also green light. couples have been agony i have an easy way to get a quick divorce. yes. something the government has been talking about for a while. how to make the verse allows ea5ier. been talking about for a while. how to make the verse allows easier. if it is to make the verse allows easier. if it i5a to make the verse allows easier. if it is a no fault divorce come getting all tied up and done within 5ix getting all tied up and done within six months. look5 getting all tied up and done within six months. looks like mp5 were vote on this on monday and it will come into effect in july on this on monday and it will come into effect injuly if it is approved. but there are concerns about some mp5 about coming injuly it is really bad timing. their concern that a lot of couples may have been struggling to the coronavirus cri5i5 have been struggling to the coronavirus crisis and so they are worried that if he comes and now you could suddenly 5ee worried that if he comes and now you could suddenly see a spike in people wa nted could suddenly see a spike in people wanted to get divorced. people might have been agony for three months yelling at each other over the washing up. what a quickie divorce bea washing up. what a quickie divorce be a relief for some people?” washing up. what a quickie divorce be a relief for some people? i say let people get divorced if they want to. i feel like throwing it out of
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this process is not good for anybody involved. people have a pretty good idea if divorce is the big stepjust like anything is, so people will know the best. our final paper. it picks up on the question you asked earlier. is britain going to change of the country. this question is about the archbishop who was about to retire and his call on social ca re to retire and his call on social care saying it is time for social ca re care saying it is time for social care workers to get paid more. what the archbishop is really saying is he says make sure the people are paid fairand at he says make sure the people are paid fair and at the bubble gum i believe the average wage for a care worker is a pound 26 an hour. so if you really think about our economy come how difficult it must be to survive. that's £8 26. making it very clear they are not low skilled workers. if you look at the statistics around 80% of care workers in the uk are migrants. that number rises to 59% in london. so if we are thinking about moving forward it is also things like the
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government plan immigration rules which would make it near impossible for those people to come to the country. so is this being about pink additions come it is about how we value people as well. what the archbishop says is that really pushing the government encourages them to recognise the investment like the kind of investment that happened after world war ii when nhs was established by labour government is incredibly important in the way forward and so i think this is sort of reads as it we will go down that path of austerity again which damages the poorest the most.l final thought. do we saw people calling low skilled workers and really in that again that people are key workers and look at wages finally? it is one of the ideas people will talk about that interesting to see if that does change in the long term. do we actually finally tackle the social ca re actually finally tackle the social care crisis? many governments have 5aid care crisis? many governments have said they are going to do and then end up pushing it into the long gra55. le55ie the government manages with this now. especially after the
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last few months of the social care sector has struggled. thank you both. and thank you to your mum, john. it's been a pleasure. it will be back soon but for now that is it from us. goodbye. —— they will be back soon. hello. this is your latest sports news. chelsea women have been officially named as champions for this season. the women's super league was cancelled last month. now league positions have been decided on average point5, which means chelsea, who were second, go above manchester city. both teams qualify for next season's champions league. liverpool are relegated and replaced by aston villa from the championship. we had a fantastic year beating arsenal and man city en route to the
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title. every player would love to have finished the season, we fully support the decision taken by the league and i think it was a fantastic campaign and man city and arsenal both had wonderful 5ea5on5 and pushed u5 arsenal both had wonderful 5ea5on5 and pushed us all the way. we are really grateful today. nfl stars are just some of the names from the world of sport, calling for more action to tackle racism in society. amid the global prote5t5 held since the death of george floyd — several players, including super bowl winning quarterback patrick mahomes — have appeared in a video calling on the league to condemn raci5m and the oppression of black people. nesta mcgregor reports. i am george floyd. i am breeonna taylor. i am ahmaud arbery... some of the most recognisable names in the nfl, all choosing to go today by a different name. those of black american men and women killed other and women killed either while in police custody
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or by white citizens. american football stars with a message to the league's owners. we, the national football league, condemn racism and the systematic oppression of black people. the nfl has tweeted in support of the movement, but these players colin kaepernick once broke protocol by kneeling during the national anthem in 2016. he hasn't played a game since. for some, the journey for equality should be set from the very top. you don't have to read between the lines. we need to vote this president out of office. he is a huge part of this problem. it is a problem that we have had for decades, but from the day that he entered office — before he entered office — he has, you know, sought to divide the country, he has sought to stoke this racial divide. what happened in minneapolis two weeks ago has developed into far—reaching, deeper conversations.
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however, if the reaction is new, the issues are not so. when i first saw the video, i wept. for decades, no one believed black americans when they said that the police harassed them and used excessive force. not all blacks are criminals, not all whites are racists. not all cops are bad, and ignorance comes in all colours. so let's get smart and deal with this issue in a positive way. reignited by the death of george floyd, this battle is one past generations hope future generations won't have to deal with. nesta mcgregor, bbc news. rugby union's premiership season will resume on the 15th august, assuming it is safe to do so. no matches in england's top flight have been played since the 8th of march, due to the coronavirus shutdown.
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but clubs have now been cleared to start non—contact training. our rugby union correspondent chrisjones told me how the teams will be preparing. it is a step in the right direction at last, we've been been something in a limbo in rugby union for the last few months, players not knowing when it was safe to return to training and no day in the diary for the english membership. but 22 august is their target, and the other premiership has the target of 15 august. so clearly things are happening, players can now return to the early stages of training, and can look forward to the resumption. there are still a fair few questions to answer — how will rugby players be able to do contact training safely? is there a testing programme in place like we've seen with the premier league? we haven't got answers on that front yet, so a fair few more steps to take you would imagine before rugby is safe to resume. but certainly some positive noises at last. cricket finally. and sir geoffrey boycott has announced his retirement from the commentary box. the former yorkshire and england batsman has confirmed the news
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on social media saying... that's all the sport for now. well, it's certainly not going to feel like a day injune out there on saturday. certainly not compared to what we had last week, when temperatures were in the mid to high—205. saturday is going to be a blustery one with further showers. and low pressure is firmly in charge of our weather. you can see the clouds circling around the area of low pressure very close to scotland, and actually through the early hours, we're seeing a band of cloud and rain slipping southwards across the uk, accompanied by some pretty strong winds. it's the weather front that's linked to this low pressure, and this low pressure will hang around through most of saturday and then by sunday it looks as though it's going to clear away. but through the early hours,
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we've got a band or more persistent rain stretching from the north, moving due south. it does look as though the south of the country is actually going to wake up to some sunshine, but look how that cloud, that rain—bearing cloud slips southward through the course of the day, so i think most of us will catch at least a little bit of rain. but the chances are that during the afternoon the skies will clear across more northern parts of the country and the sun will come out. but it's across the south, middle of the afternoon, where we'll probably have most of the cloud and the outbreaks of rain. now, the wind arrows you can see here, those are the gusts of wind, and in places they're in excess of 40 mph, perhaps even up to 50. 50 mph in gusts isjust about gale—force, and that's a strong wind for the time of the year. certainly whipping those trees around. now, the temperatures in the sunshine in the north will probably peak at around 19 degrees, for example in the lowlands of scotland. but further south, we are talking more like the low or the mid—teens, and it is going to feel nippy in those gusty winds. and the showers will continue into saturday night and the early hours of sunday,
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but there is an indication that that low pressure and its weather front will drift a little bit further towards the east during the course of sunday. so, yes, sunday on the north sea coasts blustery with showers, but even here, they will eventually fade a little bit later on in the day. and i think for most of us, overall, sunday is looking better, particularly the further west and the north you are. so, again, another fine day in glasgow. and the outlook actually shows that the weather will be stabilising itself as we go through next week. perhaps not all that sunny and not all that warm, but at least those winds will die down. that's it from me. bye— bye.
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this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm james reynolds. the sick man of europe — the official coronavirus death toll in britain passes 40,000. a surprise 2.5 million jobs return to the us economy, and president trump invokes george floyd's name to welcome the figures. hopefully george is looking down right now and saying there's a great thing that's happening for our country. it's a great day for him, it's a great day for everybody. police officers who pushed over an elderly man are suspended. the rest of their unit resigns in protest. and people have again taken to the streets in the us as minneapolis votes to ban police from using chokeholds.
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