what sunny i am afraid, that is what matters. let's move onto the new york times, and they mention how your police put under scrutiny because of these protests, we were talking about the ones in the uk but also in germany, france. joe questioned my for police forces not just in france. joe questioned my for police forces notjust in the united states but whether they behaved ethically when it comes to racism. —— joe, questions for many police. the french come in for criticism in that particular article in the new york times but as it also mentions, this is not something that is happening just in britain and united states. it is certainly not just just in britain and united states. it is certainly notjust happening in the united states was that this is now a cry for people who feel that they have been wet down, treated badly across the world, across europe, treated badly across the world, across europe , across treated badly across the world, across europe, across america. and i think it's a demonstration, a very clear demonstration of the strength of feeling sunny people have that they choose to take to the street in

such large numbers at a time when it is not recommended to do so. when people tried to maintain social distancing, while they wear masks. this is not something that people are choosing to do on a win because they have nothing better to do on a saturday afternoon. —— to do on a whim. this is a strength of feeling and it is being demonstrated in france, being demonstrated in germany, in britain, and it will continue to be demonstrated in the united states and i don't see what changes can be made in the short term to placate this situation. susie it may not be that protesters wa nt susie it may not be that protesters want change in the short term as first police forces go, it first needs to start that there is recognition of an issue and we're seeing that in parts of the united states. we just heard from the governor of new york who is going to institute changes there and other

governors around the of said police forces say will change. do you think in europe there is a recognition that the police forces have issues with racism, that they do need to confront their issues as well? humans are really bad at reacting well to popular uprisings. what is interesting is the way this has spread around the world. in 1381 when the peasants revolt again over the poll tax, word spread from where it began in essex in a day or so into ca nto n it began in essex in a day or so into canton so that they were simultaneous marches upon london from a couple of directions at once someone from a couple of directions at once someone wrote from a couple of directions at once someone wrote on a horse from a couple of directions at once someone wrote on a horse overnight, got across the thames somehow and managed to spread the word but it took a while. today in a time of social media, it gets around the world, and france, germany, in china, saudi arabia, it is in america, spreading like wildfire and gets around a lot quicker. we really should have learned by now to listen when there is a popular uprising to stop seeing it as a rebellion or write and understand it is a popular

movement and that there are ways of dealing with that and taking the heat out of it, and the primary one is to listen to it. in 1381, king richard the second came out and set i listen to what you're saying, i will give into everything a one of your demands, there will be massive social reform in england, and then he went back on it a day later and massive crackdowns, people were executed. but they denied it for a long time and eventually, all the demands of the peasants revolt were actually met, it took time and it happens with every popular rising, it is immediately denied and in the yea rs it is immediately denied and in the years to follow people realise that's what always should have been. it would be nice if we had a situation like this where were to spring quicker and people are thinking faster and we have all the evidence of history to know what is right from what is wrong and the best way of doing with these things is if we just listened early on, stop with the crackdowns, and just did what was necessary. as a

historian and myself, i enjoyed that little lesson. thank you. going back in history somewhat there. let's look at another story. the eye, downing street two banish his customers if they dare to disagree. we have seen the prime minister or government mr come out and make the statement and then to his or her rights, there has been a health adviser or expert taking the health questions. there has been a lot of questions, joe, hasn't there about how independent they are being whether they're the governmental line, whether they are just saying what are told to was up according to this story, they are now being told that they have to do what they're told, say what they're told, or they are out. that is what the story suggests and if it is true, it demonstrates to me that the government is taking an even stronger line in trying its very best to control the message, to control what gets out there, and ensure that its position is put

forward and no other position is given the oxygen to catch attention. and so they are hoping that the instructions they put out will be followed but more importantly than that, they are hoping that their interpretation of events and their interpretation of events and their interpretation of events and their interpretation of what has happened previously will go unchallenged. i don't think this is necessarily a party political thing. i imagine if any party were in charge, they would do the same thing. the question to ask of course is why are there dissenting voices? is it that they are following a path that is perhaps the wrong one? is it the way to a public opinion and the weight of scientific opinion against them? and if so, why is that not getting through? i guess we will not know that until various minutes are published and information is leaked perhaps we won't know until the official inevitable public inquiry that occurs at some stage in the future. susie the government has

denied this is the case and they promote the fact that the scientists are truly independent. what is the optics of this? well, the story says that actually, there is a nhs stores who has told reporters a story that a political special in visor —— adviser insight number ten asked the chief nurse ruth mae if she was going to support dominic cummings version of events over his trip to bernard castle. and when she said she would not support that version of events, she was going to repeat the kind of thing that the lockdown rules for everyone and that everyone should follow them. —— there is an nhs source. she was dropped from the briefing, whether that is true or not the government is denying it. despite whatjoe has just said, this is not just about the government getting the clear message, this is just about dominic cummings. if this is true, they are dropping scientific advisers and we haven't seen scientific advisers and we haven't seen professor van tan since he made

a very pointed decoration about the coming situation, dropping scientists from national briefings with massive viewing figures because they do not think that the prime minister's special adviser, a political appointee, not a civil servant, not a scientist, did the right thing. that is disgraceful, thatis right thing. that is disgraceful, that is just undemocratic. right thing. that is disgraceful, that isjust undemocratic. that has dropped out of the headlines, he is securing is positioned with info so i think they would argue otherwise. let's move to the japan times was up this is about zoom, very few heard of them three months ago but we are now zooming like crazy, certainly kids are as well for school but also the app is being tied up in china censorship and this is about claims that people, chinese activists, accounts in the united states have been interfered with by the chinese authorities who have gone too soon to tell them to take stuff down. joe

just asked this to us. zoom is one ofa numberof just asked this to us. zoom is one of a number of companies who has if you like encountered issues with this relationship with china. when the lockdown began, zoom was the victim of a number of different acts by all sorts of different people, zoom bombing became a rather unwelcome distraction for many people in their meetings, the suggestion here is that state actors from china interfering with zoom's process in order to ensure that certain people who are equal of the chinese regime are prevented from using the app and prevented from communicating. and susie, what have zoom said? zoom say that this is kind of acceptable really, what they haven't really said is made a qualifying statement about it, they have just sort of said that they use the location of people's ip addresses to block calls made by

china —based participants and a third who had previously held meetings with some china —based attendees and zoom said it declined attendees and zoom said it declined a request from patient to shut down the call when it was not in mainland china. that's all well and good if it is just hacking, but if these are normal zoom calls which happen to be about things the chinese government doesn't like, than it is not crickets and those of us who use zoom should do well to notice the fa ct zoom should do well to notice the fact that they are tracing our locations and are ip addresses and are prone to giving into government demands to do things as a result. quick look at the last paper hair, the daily mirror, queens party at the palace, the virus heroes saying the plan is to celebrate and reward all those who have been those everyday heroes in the nhs and in care homes. and will be rewarded with a palace garden party. joe one wonders when under that is when to happen, don't they? there is news that a 90—year—old woman has decided to

invite many hundreds of people around to hergarden invite many hundreds of people around to her garden struck me as rather a strategic error given the situation. i assume that the queen will wait until dr figure has phone and then everybody turning up will be screened, perhaps quarantine for 14 days within the palace before they are allowed in the garden. certainly i think some sort of formal recognition of the role of nhs workers the past few months by the queen and certainly other certain members of the royal family will be greatly appreciated. i'm sure if it happens it will be quite the shindig, maybe we will all get an invite as well, who knows. thank you very much joe an invite as well, who knows. thank you very muchjoe and susie for taking us through the papers. if you're in the uk, joe and susie will be back in just over half an hour to look at more of the stories being covered by newspapers and websites here. goodbye for now.

hello. there are some big thunderstorms in the forecast for this weekend. but it is not going to be raining everywhere all the time, in fact, there will be some sunny spells. in any sunshine, it will feel quite warm and pretty humid. but some thundery downpours are likely, all driven by an area of low pressure. you can see this swirl of cloud on the satellite picture. our area of low pressure has been spinning around across the bay of biscay. it's been throwing lumps of cloud and rain in our direction, a process which continues on through saturday. we can follow the different lumps of wet weather. this area of rain moving across northeast england through the morning and then up into scotland. i think it's going to stay quite grey and murky for some of these northern and eastern coasts. northern ireland should brighten up a little bit with some sunshine, but some showers. and then down across england and wales, we will see some sunny spells developing, but some very heavy downpours and thunderstorms breaking out here. a more persistent area of wet weather likely to push towards the southwest of england as we head through the afternoon.

and then you can see these scattered downpours and thunderstorms across parts of the midlands, wales and up into northwest england particularly. but it will be warm temperatures there for liverpool, for example, 23 degrees. the odd shower for northern ireland and some outbreaks of rain continuing across some parts of scotland, although i think northwest scotland will see a decent amount of sunshine. northeast scotland holding onto some of that coastal cloud, mist and murk. so, as we go into saturday night, we continue to push our various lumps of wet weather northwards and westwards across the british isles. there will be some clear spells, equally, some fog patches, i think it's likely to stay very murky for some of those eastern coasts of scotland and england. but a very mild night. temperatures as we start sunday morning between 11—14 degrees. then for sunday, well, really, it is more of the same. a lot of the cloud for these eastern and northern parts. elsewhere, some spells of sunshine, yes, but a scattering of showers, they will be quite hit and miss, but where they do prop up, they could well be heavy with some hail and thunder thrown

in for good measure. and it's another warm day as well with temperatures widely 21—24 degrees. a little bit cooler though where we keep the cloud close to some of those north sea coasts. now, our area of low pressure will still be with us as we head into monday, but it does weaken. it becomes quite flabby. not many white lines on the chart, you'll notice. not many isobars, so not much of a wind, but any showers that do crop up will be heavy and slow moving. and it stays unsettled, showery and rather humid throughout next week.

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