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this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. uk prime minister borisjohnson sets out his plans to help the economy recover from the coronavirus pandemic, with a focus on accelarating infrastructure projects. the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus across the globe has now passed the 10 million milestone. police in scotland have named the man shot dead by armed officers during a knife attack in glasgow as 28—year—old badreddin abadlla adam, who was from sudan. anger on the streets of india over police brutality, after the deaths of a father and son in custody. people in poland are voting in a closely fought presidential election that could result in significant curbs on the power
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of the nationalist government. and. . .you can't always get what you want. the rolling stones threaten president trump with legal action for using their songs at his rallies. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world. stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. borisjohnson is promising to speed up major building projects to help the economy recover from the coronavirus pandemic. he wants to accelerate the construction of schools, hospitals and roads. the construction of schools, labour says the government's response to the crisis has been too slow and is putting jobs at risk.
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also, home secretary priti patel has confirmed that new tougher lockdown confirmed that new, tougher lockdown restrictions may have to be imposed again in leicester because of a surge in the number of cases of coronavirus. as coronavirus cases in the us pass 2.5 million, states including florida and texas reimpose restrictions. and across the globe, cases of coronavirus has passed 10 million. more on those stories in a moment, but first, i've been speaking to our political correspondent nick eardley about the prime minister's plans for the uk economy. what borisjohnson is going to say on tuesday is that building quickly will be at the heart of his strategy. big infrastructure projects, as he calls them, shovel—ready projects, which can get going almost immediately. and he will use the example of what happened during the coronavirus pandemic and say, we built hospitals in a matter
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of weeks, we got all these ventilators on—stream within a matter of weeks, if we can do that, remove some of the red tape, we can do it for major infrastructure projects as well, things like schools, roads, more hospitals. it all comes as the lockdown across the uk is eased next saturday. in england, we will see pubs, restaurants and the like start to reopen, it's happening slightly later in scotland and wales, slightly earlier in northern ireland. this morning, the home secretary, priti patel, has been talking about some of the potential risks but also some of the potential benefits of getting things open again. well, i think it's right that we are all conscientious about concerns of another wave. i've spoken about this very publicly previously around measures at the border, in fact, air travel, in particular. we have to be very conscientious about the risk of a second wave. i think nothing would be more
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damaging for our country and our economy if we do have a second spike, a second wave, which is why we're taking a very measured approach. it's measured, pragmatic and responsible and it's also guided by much of the science advice from sage. many of the advisors across other government departments and across those individuals advising government centrally. that was the home secretary talking to andrew marr this morning. there are huge questions to be answered in that speech, though, ben. we saw the biggest fall in the economy in historyjust last month. there are massive questions about employment, when the government's furlough scheme is wound down over the next few months, big questions about whether employers will start saying to employees, look, we kept you because the government was helping us, but as that help runs out, we're going to have to let you go. and labour is extremely concerned about this, their priority, they say, is making sure that jobs are protected. they're warning this morning that if that doesn't happen,
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you could see unemployment in this country on the same levels as you saw in the ‘80s under margaret thatcher. have a listen to the shadow business secretary ed miliband. you know, we've already got 2.8 million people claiming unemployment— related benefits. i fear thatcher levels of unemployment. and yet, the government can't carry on supporting that number of jobs, 9 millionjobs. it is not going to be 9 million. it's not going to be 9 million. and here's the thing. you've got to have a bridge between the end of the furlough and a properjob creation programme, and so there's two things that are problematic at the moment. one is the precipitate decisions on the furlough, and secondly, why in goodness' name are we not having a budget this summer? we've got potentially the worst economic recession in 300 years, and the treasury is deciding they're not going to have a budget. let's have a budget that creates those jobs but don't leave people falling into an abyss between the end of the furlough
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and those jobs being created. so, ed miliband for labour calling for an emergency budget but there is this big speech from the prime minister on tuesday and it's a big week for the government? it absolutely is, and it's about the government after a challenging few weeks, where it looks like it has been reacting to events, it's going to try and shape them and say, "here's our plan, we've got it ready, we know "what we're going to do with the economy." there has been criticism that the treasury has not been more forthright in its long—term economic plan to bounce back from this crisis. this is an attempt to do exactly that and to set out those plans. i think there could be big changes coming in government has well. coming in government as well. we know that there are plans to restructure some of how the system works. that may well happen in the next few days as well. all part of borisjohnson, after a period in which he has seen a lot of criticism, a number of u—turns.
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and he's been talking on the mail on sunday today about the health of the economy, also about his own personal health, having had coronavirus and been in hospital with it, he says he's fit as a butcher's dog. if you look at the front page of the mail on sunday this morning you'll see the prime minister doing press—ups in his office in downing street. not something i can remember seeing before from a british prime minister. we have seen them running but never doing press—ups. it's part of borisjohnson‘s character, he's trying to persuade us all that he's absolutely fine, there were some questions over how fit he was after his very serious bout of coronavirus. i suspect that the prime minister is also hoping that some people will take those pictures as a bit of a metaphorfor the british economy as well, saying it will be back on its feet soon, too. but as i say, big questions still need answering in the coming days. coronavirus infections across the united states have passed
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two and a half million, with record numbers of cases reported in the states of florida and texas. the surge in cases in southern states comes after businesses were allowed to re—open in recent weeks. restrictions are now being reimposed. it's also affected the election campaign, as tanya dendrinos reports. another day, another record. more than 9,500 new coronavirus cases in 2a hours in florida, 600 more than the record set on friday. republican states like florida and texas had been keen to push ahead with the reopening of their economies early, but with a surge in cases, some of those decisions have been reversed. last drinks were called in florida, a bitter pill to swallow for those who feel they did all the right things. we did everything. our staff were wearing masks, we had sanitising stations, we did weekly tests, we limited occupancy. we did everything that was asked.
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it's a tough conversation to have with everybody, that, you know, we won't be able to provide them with a place to work. on friday, bars were also ordered to close in texas, with restaurants required to limit their indoor capacity. certainly share everybody's concern about what is going on, but we didn't think we had got to that point that we would go backwards like that. nationally, the us registered its largest single day increase of the pandemic, with more than 16,000 new cases on friday. more than 125,000 people have now died of covid—i9, the grim figure far higher than any other country when it comes to officially recorded deaths. tanya dendrinos, bbc news. an mp has called for a local lockdown in the english city of leicester after more than 600 coronavirus cases were recorded in the first half ofjune. labour's claudia webbe said the area has what she called
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"a perfect storm" of poverty, ethnic diversity and existing covid—19 cases. the department of health says it is supporting the local authority and has deployed four mobile testing sites. the home secretary priti patel was asked about suggestions that leicester may face a local lockdown on the bbc‘s andrew marr show. well, that is correct, and we have seen, we've seen flare—ups across the country already over recent weeks, and just in the last three or four weeks in particular, there was the example of a flare—up in one particular hospital over infection control. of course, that is why we have a new mechanism, a joint biosecurity centre, which is very much geared up, it has been developed to address local flare—ups. but there is going to be a leicester lock down? so, there will be support going into leicester. over the weekend we have been explaining some of the measures, the support on testing, resources that will go
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into the local authority as well because with local flare—ups it is right that we have a localised solution in terms of infection control, social distancing, testing and many of the tools within the public health england space that will come together to control the virus and to stop the spread so that we can get on top of the infection. the mayor of leicester, peter soulsby, said more data was needed on how the outbreak was developing in the city. i spoke to the health secretary, what, ten days ago now, and have subsequently had a number of discussions with the chief medical officer and others and have consistently said to them that we need the data. we, and you, need to know what is happening on the ground in leicester and it's not helpful, really, just to talk about outbreaks or to suggest that there needs to be a citywide lockdown. we need to know what the real situation is on the ground here in our city and only then, together with the government, can we decide what intervention is needed. joining me now is claudia webbe,
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the labour mp for leicester east. thank you very much for being with us. thank you very much for being with us. do you think there needs to be a lockdown in leicester? all the evidence seems to be suggesting that there is a particular problem. we have seen ten days ago now as part of the government daily briefing, the announcement that leicester had a particular problem. that was done without notice or information provided to the local authorities, and ever since, there has been that announcement, there has been an intensity of support in terms of trying to get to where the problem is and how to address and contain the problem. so, like many leicester residents, i am absolutely concerned about the increase in coronavirus cases in the city, and particularly concerned about the reality of the location of that increase happening in my own constituency of leicester east. we've had four test centres
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110w east. we've had four test centres now concentrated in and around the constituency. even sits matt hancock made that announcement without warning and notice, there has been at least five schools in my location that have had to close because of teachers testing positive. there have been the local supermarket having to close because of positive testing there. and there's been food processing plants that have had to close, and these are processing pla nts close, and these are processing plants where many of my constituents will be going to work. so, all of the conditions seem to allay itself to now that we have a situation where we are ten days on from that and in initial announcement of a problem, ten days on, and there doesn't seem to be a positive progress that says that we are now safe, we a re progress that says that we are now safe, we are now in recovery, we are 110w safe, we are now in recovery, we are
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now moving forward, and therefore, we cannot trust, and i cannot trust, what it is that the government are 110w what it is that the government are now saying, because they are briefing all over the place in terms of briefing the possibility of a lockdown. i don't think we should ta ke lockdown. i don't think we should take that risk, i think we should put lives first, and therefore i believe absolutely that we need to protect the residents, protect lives and we need to install a local lockdown if that is what it needs. how would that work? just explain how you would have a local lockdown geographically? are you going to mark off an area of the map in terms of the number of streets that would be locked down, what sort of lockdown would it be? would the authorities be telling people to stay at home, what kind of lockdown? well, those dynamics and those decisions are not mine. in effect, the government are the ones that have the power to indicate this. they have been saying in response to
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the notion that they were easing lockdown that they would be able to implement local lockdown is if there was a problem. in reality, i think they are going to have to go back to they are going to have to go back to the notion of the lockdown implemented towards the end of march, where you're requiring people, where you follow the data, follow the evidence, and you're requiring people in that location to resort to staying within the confines of their immediate family, keeping two metres apart, washing hands regularly, and so on. but the reality is, you cannot carry on with business as normal when you've got a greater incidence of infections, greater incidence of infections, greater than what we had prior to the announcement of the lockdown backin the announcement of the lockdown back in march. the problem, though, with a local lockdown, surely, is that it with a local lockdown, surely, is thatitis with a local lockdown, surely, is that it is different from a national lockdown when everyone is doing the same thing, if you have one specific area of the country, or of the city,
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thatis area of the country, or of the city, that is locked down, then you could have all sorts of people passing through, coming and going, and it makes it difficult? well, these are questions that need to be put to the government because in my view, they've been reckless in easing lockdown too early. when they were questioned about how they would deal with local outbreaks, they gave some vague response that they would have to implement things like local lockdown, give local authorities the support they need. actually what they've been doing is giving leicester bows and arrows to address a major pandemic problem. this is ridiculous, they have not given, i don't believe, the efficiency in terms of the resources or the data, they've not given the analysis that is required to get it down to a granular level of detail in terms of postcodes, for example, and that information only came as late as thursday just gone, information only came as late as thursdayjust gone, and that is some
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eight days or so after matt hancock first publicly announced this national... can i just first publicly announced this national... can ijust ask first publicly announced this national... can i just ask you? first publicly announced this national... can ijust ask you? it is reckless in my view. you say reckless but your own party leader, sir keir starmer, broadly welcomed the package of easing of restrictions that were announced by the prime minister in the commons a few days ago, sir keir starmer said he welcomed it and you're saying it is reckless? well, in reality, what we've been saying as labour all along is, the government has been too late in lockdown, too late in personal protective equipment, to late in test, track and tracing, and in fact they have been deliberately giving false information about test, track and tracing in the first place. they've got an app that doesn't work and they're putting far too many lives at risk, they were too many lives at risk, they were too late in responding to the fact that african asian minority ethnic communities are disproportionately affected by coronavirus, and this is why ina
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affected by coronavirus, and this is why in a city like mine, where the minority make up the majority, this is why taking these risks is reckless and this is why it's important that we pin the government down to seriously look at what is happening, that already, before we've even got to the 11th ofjuly, we've even got to the 11th ofjuly, we've already got a city like leicester where all the conditions of poverty, high levels of inequality and so on, exist, and yet we haven't even got to the 11th of july, where the government has said that they will ease lockdown even further, in a reckless fashion. i think we need to take action to protect lives and that is why i'm calling for the notion of a local lockdown, because we haven't got a cure to this virus, and yet we've got incidence of infection that are higher than what the government, even the government, say is a cce pta ble even the government, say is acceptable at a national level. it is not acceptable to use my
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constituency of leicester east as a test bed and it's not acceptable to use the people of leicester as a testbed for the government's failed policies. thank you so much for being with us, claudia webbe, the member of parliament for labour in leicester east. in australia, the state of victoria will make coronavirus testing mandatory for all people returning from overseas trips. victoria has seen a spike in the number of covid—19 cases, while the rest of the country has managed to contain the virus. earlier this week, the authorities said that a third of travellers were refusing testing. under the new state regulations, returning travellers staying in quarantine hotels for two weeks will have to stay for an extra 10 days if they refuse testing. two illegal street parties have been broken up by police during another night of unlawful gatherings in london. dispersal zones were put in place in clapham common and tooting bec common to clear crowds causing "significa nt disruptions" on saturday night.
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the zones allow uniformed officers extra powers to order people to leave the area and not return. the police said the unlicensed music events are unlawful and unregulated and officers will close them down. police have named the man who was shot dead by armed officers during a knife attack in glasgow on friday. he was badreddin abadlla adam, a 28—year—old asylum—seeker from sudan. six people who were stabbed, including a police officer, are being treated in hospital. voting is taking place in poland in the country's delayed presidential election. andrjez duda, a close ally of president trump, is hoping to win a second term to carry on his conservative agenda. his main challenger is the mayor of warsaw, who's seen as more liberal. the orginal ballot was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. the bbc‘s adam easton is in warsaw and following developments.
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here in warsaw and across poland, people are voting in a presidential election. this election is important because in poland, the president has the power to veto legislation. that is why is nationalist the power to veto legislation. that is nationalist government that the incumbent is re—elected for a second five—year term. duda is seen as the guardian of the government's policies. president duda is seen as the guardian of the government's policies. some of those are very popular policies, for example its very generous welfare benefits to families, senior citizens and tax breaks for young people, which is extremely popular. but on the other hand, some of their policies are very controversial. they have been criticised by the european union and by the opposition, the politicisation, for example, of the public media and of the judiciary. also the vilification of the lgbtq rights, which have been widely criticised by the eu among others. ifan criticised by the eu among others. if an opposition candidate were to be elected, and one of the main
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challenges is the liberal mayor of warsaw, rafal trzaskowski, challenges is the liberal mayor of warsaw, rafaltrzaskowski, he could block controversial policies such as the ones i've mentioned which would put a brake on the government's ability to actually carry out its programme. since the early days of the lockdown, more than 111,000 rough sleepers across the uk have been given temporary shelter, many of them in hotel rooms. but as hotels in england prepare to re—open next weekend and those in other parts of the uk await permission to do the same, that means more upheaval for homeless people. hywel griffith has been to meet some of them. well, we're full capacity at the moment so we've over 95 people...
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normally bustling with backpackers, cardiff's youth hostel has a new purpose. since april it has been housing many of the city's homeless, brought in during the pandemic. it is run just like a hotel. people come in and drop their keys off. the rooms have their own beds and wash facilities — a shower, basin — and they have a tv. homeless since the age of 12, sara has spent the last month here. she says it has given her the stability to stay off heroin, and start to think about life long—term. i am used to street life, i'm used to having people around and that. before i never wanted a place — never — and now i can't wait to have a flat. you know, it's a shocking thing, hearing myself saying what i want. the welsh government says it is determined people like sara won't go back to the street and will be able to go into housing, giving councils more money for long—term accommodation. but putting a roof over someone's head isjust one part of the challenge. many people who normally sleep rough don't have a regular income and, during lockdown, money has been even harder to come by. graham has been staying at the youth hostel, too, but walking across the city to beg. he admits he's still
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struggling with addiction. i have to earn my money because otherwise i'm going to be sick and stuff, you know. basically, i come up here to feed me and my girlfriend, obviously, in our habits and in our stomach. back at the hostel, i meet a man who believes coming munir, who believes coming here has saved his life. he, too, wants a home — his greatest fear would be returning to the streets. munir sings. now i'm 55. how can i sleep in the streets? with this jungle — people, the gangs? if you slept this period on the streets, we are dead — all of us. the pandemic has turned many lives upside down, but it's also created a rare opportunity to help some of our most vulnerable.
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hywel griffith, bbc news. john carlos, one of the two american athletes who gave the black power salute on the medal podium at the 1968 mexico 0lympics, is leading a call to abolish the ban on athletes making political protests at the games. the former us sprinter joined current american athletes in sending a letter to the international olympic committee requesting the rule be scrapped. carlos, a bronze medallist, was expelled from the mexico games along with the champion, tommie smith, after they raised their fists as the us anthem played, to protest against racial discrimination. the rolling stones have said that donald trump could face legal action if he continues to use their songs at his campaign rallies. the band is working with the performing rights organisation the bmi to stop the unauthorised use of their music. the trump campaign used the song you can't always get what you want
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at last week's rally in tulsa in oklahoma. now it's time for a look at the weather with nick miller. hello, for some of us today, if you can put up with the wind, there'll be sunny spells. you may catch a shower, you may not. but for others, there'll be some persistent and, at times, heavy rain as well, so big weather contrast across the uk, just depending on how close you are to this area of low pressure. through parts of scotland, northern ireland, north—west england, this is where it's looking wettest today. brighter skies the further south you are, isobars close together. it is going to be a blustery day and windier than yesterday. so this is how it looks, then, on into the afternoon. it's wettest in northern ireland in the west, north wales for snowdonia, into north—west england, especially the pennines,
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lake district, western and northern scotland. this is where we'll see most of the rain. as for winds, these are your gusts — many of us, 30 to a0 miles per hour. parts of wales, northern england, northern ireland, southern scotland could be approaching 50 miles per hour. butjust pick out one or two showers running across southern england, south wales, the midlands into east anglia, but there will also be some sunny spells and a few spots here creeping into the low 20s. nowhere near that, though, where you are so wet from snowdonia, north—west england, into northern ireland, western and northern scotland. eastern parts of scotland, north—east england, plenty of cloud. you may well see a bit of patchy rain occasionally, but there will also be some drier spells. just 1a, the top temperature in belfast and glasgow today. so into tonight, we will keep
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the rain going where the day has been so very wet. by the time it winds down tomorrow, the rain into the higher parts of cumbria, lancashire, for example, may well be over 100 millimetres. this is why there is a risk of seeing a bit of flooding or some disruption. as a result, overnight temperatures around ten to 13 degrees. it stays windy tonight and into tomorrow, maybe not quite as windy tomorrow, but make no mistake, it will still be very blustery out there for the time of year. we will see some more rain where it's been so wet for monday, it doesn't look like anybody will be getting into the 20s. now, as we look at the picture into tuesday, low pressure from the weekend pushing off towards scandinavia. more weather fronts just creeping in towards the southern half of the uk will bring cloud and a chance of seeing a bit of patchy rain. so some rain at times in the week ahead.
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now passed ten million. the past month has seen four million new infections. covid—19 has killed close to half a million people. there's growing anger in india over the deaths of a father and son in police custody in the state of tamil nadu. their family says they were beaten and tortured after their arrest, accused of violating a virus curfew. people in poland are voting a presidential election that's being closely watched across europe. the president can veto legislation, so were an opposition candidate to win, it could curb the powers of the nationalist government. the rolling stones have said that donald trump could face legal action if he continues to use their songs during campaigning. as restaurants start to plan to reopen —
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