when this is bbc news with the latest headlines. an angry backlash from social care leaders over borisjohnson‘s suggestion that "too many" care homes didn't follow procedures during the coronavirus pandemic. for the government to be critical of the sector and infer that any of the losses and problems are a result of social care is a massive untruth. the point the prime minister was making is that nobody at the time knew the correct procedures because we didn't know the extent of the asymptomatic transmission that was taking place. hundreds of thousands of homeowners in england will get grants of up to £5,000 for energy—saving improvements. at least three pubs in england which reopened their doors on saturday for the first time

in months close again after customers tested positive for coronavirus. in australia, the city of melbourne is ordered back into coronavirus lockdown and the state border between new south wales and victoria will close in the next few hours. a leading uk scientist says everyone should carry a face covering when they leave home in order to tackle coronavirus. and the duchess of cornwall tells the bbc that missing her grandchildren has been the worst part of her lockdown experience. hello. a very good morning to you. welcome to bbc news. i'm annita

mcveigh. our top story — care home charities have accused borisjohnson of insulting those who work in the sector, after he said some homes "didn't follow procedures" during the pandemic. downing street has said the prime minister meant that no one knew what the correct plan of action was at the start of the crisis. the deaths of 20,000 care home residents have been linked directly to coronavirus in england and wales. this is what mrjohnson had to say during a visit to a train factory in east yorkshire yesterday we discovered too many care homes didn't really follow the procedures in the way they could have, but we are learning lessons the whole time. 0ne one of the most important things is to fund them properly, so we are putting another 600 million into covid compliant care homes, but we are also looking at ways in which the care sector long term is organised and supported.

responding to the prime minister's comments, the business secretary alok sharma also said ‘nobody knew the correct procedures‘ that should have been followed in care homes at the start of the pandemic. he was speaking to brea kfast‘s dan walker this is really important, because you are saying you have been learning over the last few months about this virus and how you should deal with it in care homes, and while you're doing that, we are live ata while you're doing that, we are live at a care home this morning, and there are people there who have been living at the care home for three months while you have been learning, and they have been doing that to protect the vulnerable people they ca re protect the vulnerable people they care for. and last night and this morning, they heard the prime minister, the most senior politician in this country, say that if they had followed the guidelines, they would have saved more lives. what do you say to them this morning?” would have saved more lives. what do you say to them this morning? ijust repeat what i said earlier, firstly to thank them for everything that they have done. as i said to you at they have done. as i said to you at the start of this, they have done a brilliantjob the start of this, they have done a brilliant job under incredibly difficult circumstances, but i think the point the prime minister was making was that nobody at the time knew what the correct procedures we re knew what the correct procedures were because we didn't know the

extent of that asymptomatic transmission that was taking place. nobody knew that at the time which is why we put in place the guidance and support in terms of getting ppe to care homes, that is why we made sure there is a proper testing regime and why we provided further funding. no one is suggesting that ca re funding. no one is suggesting that care homes haven't done a greatjob in really difficult circumstances. alok sharma. we can speak to our assistant political editor norman smith. let's look at the precise languor chair. the clarification from the government as to what the prime minister said. the prime minister was pointing out that nobody knew what the correct procedures were because the extent of a symptomatically and was not known at the time. the prime minister said too many care homes didn't really follow the procedures. he didn't say in that initial statement that no one knew what the correct procedures were. so does this clarification really cut the mustard with a lot of people? it certainly doesn't convince care home bosses or providers, they are pretty clear

about what they think mrjohnson said when he said that they had failed to follow proper procedures, in effect blaming them for not following government guidelines on dealing with covid. number 10 has sought to finesse that comment by saying that he was actually talking about asymptomatic infections, and no one really knowing what procedures to follow. but there is no mention of asymptomatic infections in his initial statement, andi infections in his initial statement, and i think anyone reading his words will form their own conclusions about what the prime minister was saying. and certainly the fear of some in the care sector is mr johnson is in effect preparing his arguments for the looming inquiry into coronavirus, where of course ca re into coronavirus, where of course care homes i'm going to be at the absolute centre, because many people believe that the government bluntly let down care homes by allowing patients to be discharged into care homes without being tested to see whether they were covid positive, and that led to an acceleration of the spread of the disease in care

homes. they're not providing testing for care homes, that wasn't announced until april the 28th and didn't get under way until the middle of may, well after the virus had spread in care homes. so the issue of care homes is going to be absolutely central to any inquiry, and asi absolutely central to any inquiry, and as i say, many care homes, their bosses seem to think that mrjohnson is in effect just bosses seem to think that mrjohnson is in effectjust setting out some of the arguments he is likely to deploy when that inquiry takes place. so if we follow that line of thought, does it suggest that the government is feeling particularly uncomfortable about its response to ca re uncomfortable about its response to care homes, how it handled the situation there, testing, requests for ppe, in relation to any future inquiry? it is curious. in public there is a refusalfrankly inquiry? it is curious. in public there is a refusal frankly to apologise. never mind what the prime minister's words mean, butjust for the offence caused to care workers, many of whom are on very low pay,

working very difficult circumstances, putting themselves at risk. so there has been no public apology. i suspect in private there must be a good deal of anguish just by looking at the simple fact of what happened, namely around 25,000 patients were discharged from hospital into care homes without anyone knowing whether any of their work covid positive. in retrospect, that would seem a significant mistake. similarly, the failure to roll out testing much more rapidly in care homes, that too in retrospect would be a mistake, but that will be for the inquiry, but i would think privately ministers must reflect that they threw everything at the nhs and not nearly enough at ca re at the nhs and not nearly enough at care homes. 0k, norman, thank you for that. mark adams is the chief executive of community integrated care, a health and social care charity. the charity looks after thousands of people with a variety of conditions from dementia, learning disabilities, mental health needs

and so on. thank you very much, mark, forjoining us today. i have already heard you speaking in very impassioned terms about your response to what the prime minister had to say on the care sector's handling of coronavirus. and you have said you think at best his words were clumsy and cowardly, and at worst, mark? kafkaesque in terms of rewriting history, i guess. so you think the government is trying to shift blame? the interview that he obviously heard earlier, i think the quote that i also used was from 0 rwell‘s the quote that i also used was from 0rwell‘s 1984 novel, which basically 0rwell‘s1984 novel, which basically says, who controls the past controls the future, and who controls the present controls the past. and i think what we saw yesterday was the attempt of the prime minister to slowly start to reinvent history, which is completely unfair and

untrue, and damning to the sector. do you in any way accept this clarification from the government that the prime minister was pointing out that nobody knew what the correct procedures were because the extent of asymptomatic transmission wasn't known at the time? do you accept in any way that he may have spoken clumsily, or do you think this is an attempt by the government to correct what he said?|j this is an attempt by the government to correct what he said? i think at best he was clumsy and cowardly by effectively picking on a sector that the vast majority of these front line care workers are on minimum wage, many without sick pay, and for him to brush over the government's failings and blame the social care sector was, as i say, at best clumsy. i think in reality it was probably an indication of how the prime minister personally thinks, andi prime minister personally thinks, and i think that when he got back

and i think that when he got back and he had the temperature taken by his pr advisers, he realised that he scored a bit of an own goal, and i think the revision bore no relation to what he originally said. the people you work within the care sector, what has their response been to this? how have they been affected by what the prime minister has said? you have shown this morning examples of care homes who have been utterly selfless, leaving their families, putting their own health and lives at risk, to care for our parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters. and that in reality is the social ca re and that in reality is the social care sector. it is so often the cinderella of the health and social system, it is unregarded, it doesn't get the recognition or reward for what it deserves. and yesterday and last night and this morning, calls on the feedback from not just last night and this morning, calls on the feedback from notjust our own team but from the sector as a whole has just shown absolute dismay

and what the prime minister said. for arguably the most important person in the country to be utterly damning abouta person in the country to be utterly damning about a sector that has worked so hard is frankly awful. does the prime minister owe all of the people working in the sector an apology? notjust an apology for yesterday's comment, but the way in which the whole crisis has been managed from the beginning to the end. for them to talk about asymptomatic people potentially spreading the virus, it is fine if you are testing people. but we didn't actually start doing testing until late in may in social care environments, and even then only once. you can catch the virus at any time. we need testing weekly, and if we could, twice weekly. so itjust doesn't stack up. we are in a situation where we have been failed on ppe, we have been failed on funding, we have been failed on

testing, and then we are suddenly having the blame shifted to us. mike adams, chief executive of community integrated care at, thank you very much for your time today. thank you. australia's second biggest city, melbourne, has been returned to lockdown for the next six weeks. people have been told they'll only be allowed to leave their homes for work, school, exercise, providing care and essential shopping. the state premier of victoria, daniel andrews, said they were imposing these restrictions after a record daily rise in coronavirus infections. the cusp of a second wave, second wave, what people want to call this, is entirely irrelevant. we have to be realistic about the circumstances that we confront. we have to be clear with each other that this is not over and pretending that it is, because we all want it to be over, is not the answer. it is indeed part of the problem. a very big part of the problem.

0ur correspondent shaimaa khalil is in sydney. mr andrews saying there is an unsustainably high number of new cases, so tell us more about those details, the figures and about this new lockdown and how it compares to the original lockdown, shaimaa. they are looking at a different challenge right now, and he did say in his press co nfe re nce right now, and he did say in his press conference that right now we are ina press conference that right now we are in a more challenging, precarious and potentially a more tragic position than we were a few weeks ago. up untiljune, we were looking at days where there were no new cases in victoria, in melbourne. fast forward a few weeks, we now have 700 active cases. nearly 200 in the past 24 hours alone. and that is why mr andrews is just saying that this is an unsustainable number of the rise in cases for there not to be that push back into the lockdown.

soa be that push back into the lockdown. so a definite step back for victoria, for melbourne, but a really necessary one. this is going to apply to melbourne, it's going to apply to an area north of it. so 5 million people are now expected to stay home in grade three restrictions, which means not going out unless they are going out for essential shopping or schools, only for senior students that is, because the school holidays have been extended for other students, and if they are caring for someone. people have been urged to work from home, and if they couldn't, they can go to their places of work. but really start language from daniel andrews there, blaming complacency, blaming people who broke the rules when restrictions were eased. it is interesting that he wouldn't commit to the phrase second wave, he said we are on the cusp of something really bad, but if you look at the trajectory and how bad it got and how quickly things got worse within

melbourne, if something doesn't change and it doesn't change quickly in terms of how they can control the spread, i think health authorities are worried that they could be looking at a second wave of. so you are saying that he is blaming people who have been complacent and broken the rules, and it is a stark warning for anywhere else that is coming out of lockdown, easing restrictions, that this is potentially what they are looking at if they don't abide by those rules, so in the case here, an additional six weeks of restrictions. that's right, and it is also a stark warning for the rest of australia, because other states have still been successful in controlling the virus and maintaining new cases at a very low number. stark warning for new south wales as well is about to close its borders for the first time in a century with victoria in a few hours, and if people don't follow the rules, and specifically he was referring to family members for

example who weren't feeling well testing for covid—19 and hadn't waited for the results and socialised only to come back positive and spread the virus. so it isa positive and spread the virus. so it is a reminder really for the rest of the country which has so far fared better than many other countries around the world, that this could happen anywhere that people are not careful. 0k, shaimaa khalil, in sydney, thank you very much. the headlines for you at 60 minutes past nine. social care leaders have strongly criticised borisjohnson, after he suggested "too many homes" didn't follow procedures during the coronavirus crisis. hundreds of thousands of homeowners in england will get grants of up to £5,000 for energy—saving improvements. at least three pubs in england — which reopened their doors on saturday for the first time in months — close again, after customers tested positive for coronavirus. hundreds of thousands of households

in england are to receive grants of up to £5,000 for energy—saving home improvements like insulation. it's part of a wider three—billion pound "green investment" by the government, which aims to create thousands ofjobs across the uk in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. our environment analyst roger harrabin reports. insulating homes gives a triple benefit. it saves on people's bills, it cuts carbon emissions from heating and crucially, as the uk heads toward recession, it creates thousands ofjobs for tradespeople crawling in attics and measuring draft—proofing. england can't reach its climate targets without a major refit of housing stock, but until now, the treasury has been reluctant to help because it means transferring cash from the public purse to private bricks and mortar. now the jobs factor has swayed its opinion. from september, homeowners will be able to apply for vouchers of up to £5,000 for workers certified by an approved builder. the treasury says more than half of the £2 billion allocated will go to the poorest households

which will pay nothing. the uk has the most energy—inefficient housing stock in the whole of western europe and one of the worst fuel poverty rates. to make all 30 million uk homes energy efficient will require investment from the government of at least £18 billion. labour approves of the investment but says it doesn't do enough to help people in cold rented homes. it also says the programme must be carried on year after year to keep the jobs and increase the emissions savings. roger harrabin, bbc news. let's get a reaction to this. we can speak now to the green party mp, caroline lucas. and i'm alsojoined by luke murphy, the associate director of the ippr — the institute for public policy research, a centre—left think tank. caroline lucas, first of all, are you happy with this? it is certainly the right issue to be focusing on.

many of us have been saying for yea rs many of us have been saying for years that the government should be looking at housing retrofit is an excellent way of creating jobs in every constituency, getting emissions down, getting fuel bills down. i think the worry is, is £3 million enough, and if you compare it with similar kinds of programmes in france and germany, it is a drop in the ocean compared with what they are spending. but crucially as well i think on the delivery mechanism there are real questions as to whether or not a voucher system will get us where we need to be. this has to happen fast, notjust for the jobs reasons, but because of the climate reasons too. just before i go to luke, can i pick you up on the concerns around vouchers? what do you mean, will it get us to where we need to be? what i mean is, will people, even if they are offered a voucher with money, still go to the trouble of clearing out their lofts to get this insulation put in? all of the evidence we have is that it isn't the finance alone that stops people insulating their homes, it is the fact that it is quite a bother, to be quite honest, because you have

got to clear your loft, have people in your home and so forth. so when we are looking at what will actually drive this forward, we need local authorities in the driving seat because they are trusted in local communities. we need to do it on a street by street basis so you get that buzz, so people recognise what is happening in their neighbours' home in cf your bills coming home and they will want the same thing. i think it is more complex than just applying for a voucher. luke murphy at the ippr, what do you make of what you heard about the government's plans so far? it is certainly a positive announcement, it isa certainly a positive announcement, it is a positive first step. as your correspondent said, it is good for jobs around the country, it is good for lowering carbon emissions, and it will lower energy bills too, but it will lower energy bills too, but it really must be the first step in a broader investment for green recovery. research has shown it looks like there is a £30 billion investment gap between what we need to be investing as a country and what we are investing now in order to meet our climate targets. so this

is only a tenth of that, and we are also facing the biggest jobs crisis ina also facing the biggest jobs crisis in a generation. and if we are going to face these dual crises ofjobs in the climate crisis, this needs to be a first step, not the last word from the government on green investment. are these the types of green jobs that you want to see, luke? because if people are retrofitting houses, public buildings, schools, for example, that comes to an end. it seems like a finite programme, or am i wrong on that? do you think you could envisage those jobs, i wrong on that? do you think you could envisage thosejobs, that i wrong on that? do you think you could envisage those jobs, that sort of activity, going on a rolling basis? we need to be doing retrofit year on year for at least the next decade, if not longer, sol year on year for at least the next decade, if not longer, so i wouldn't worry too much about them being too finite. this is one of the issues around what the government has announced. if they have announced one year of announced. if they have announced one yearof funding, announced. if they have announced one year of funding, that is positive, but it needs to be a multi—year programme, and if they

are going to give the private sector the confidence to invest in these schemes as well, and ensure that those jobs are created for the long term, they do need a long—term plan, and as caroline hasjust said, part of that is notjust investment, it is also stronger regulation, so you have said those strong private market signals to the private sector so market signals to the private sector so that they have the confidence to invest because they know this is a market that will create jobs and create a return in the long term. caroline lucas, labour has been highlighting concerns about the rental sector in all of this, and whether it might eventually be included. is that something that you echo? absolutely. we know that many people are in the private rented sector, and we also know that that sector, and we also know that that sector has some of the leaky as tom's, some of the greatest people living in fuel poverty. so it is crucial that that sector gets included as well. right now it feels like we have just got the very basic outline of the scheme. what we need to do is fill in the detail is fast, because this is incredibly urgent. and luke, obviously we await to hear

more from the chancellor tomorrow, but do you hope that this is just the start of a much wider scheme encompassing many more areas of national life? absolutely. our research has shown that you could be creating 1.6 millionjobs, and the government committed to the new investment package that was put forward last week, and that is what we are hoping for on wednesday, so notjust the we are hoping for on wednesday, so not just the investment we are hoping for on wednesday, so notjust the investment in housing energy efficiency, but also in electric vehicle charging, tree planting, carbon capture and storage, these are all things that we need to create across the country but also go a long way to tackling the climate crisis as well. luke murphy from the ippr, and caroline lucas, green party mp, thank you very much. several pubs in england have temporarily shut down again after customers tested positive for coronavirus. at least three pubs announced their closures —

just days after they were allowed to re—open on saturday. andy moore has more details. the opening of pubs in england on saturday was a major step in the easing of lockdown. here in soho, there were big crowds on the streets to mark the event. at thousands of pubs up and down the country, there were much more modest celebrations. but now some pubs are having to close their doors again just days after reopening. the lighthouse kitchen and carvery in burnham—on—sea in somerset was one of them, after a male customer tested positive. the pub posted a message on its facebook page saying, this isn't the message we wanted to write so soon, but the lighthouse will be closed due to a customer testing positive to covid—19. we are slowly getting through our list of customers that were in the pub on saturday. all our staff are going to be tested, and we will reopen again when the time is safe to do so. other pubs such as the fox and hounds in batley, west yorkshire, have had

to post similar messages. the pub said it will be deep—cleaned and opened again in soon as possible. the village home pub in alverstoke, gosport, told its customers they didn't need to isolate unless they were contacted by official tracers. they hope to open again on saturday. this is the best thing since sliced bread. any group of people going to a pub in england now have to leave a contact number, so that should make it easier to trace customers who have been to a pub that needs to be closed down. andy moore, bbc news. around 550 jobs are being axed at daily mirror and daily express newspaper publisher reach as part of plans to cut costs. the group, which also owns many regional newspaper titles, says it's cutting about 12% of the workforce aimed at saving £35 million a year following a cut in advertising demand. however it says it's planning

to invest more in its digital operations amid an increasing shift towards online news. everyone should wear a face covering when they leave home — to tackle coronavirus — according to one of the uk's top scientists. professor sir venki ramkrishnan from the royal society said there was evidence that a facial covering protects both the person wearing it, and those around them. the uk government currently advises people to wear face coverings in places where social distancing isn't possible. i think evidence is building that masks are a very useful tool. you can call them face coverings, but you know what i mean. they're very a very useful tool, because they stop the droplets that emerge from our mouths when we breathe and that is one of the primary routes of infecting someone else with coronavirus. and the problem with coronavirus is you don't know when you're infectious. you become infectious long before you know it. sometimes you never show symptoms and you recover, but throughout that time, you have been

infectious for several days. so i think if it is used broadly by the public, that is to say with a high degree of compliance, we have a good chance of reducing the rate of transmission. now why is this important? it's important because we're trying to open up the economy, we're trying to get people out into public spaces, restaurants, etc, shops especially, public transport, and so if we want to do that without constant fear of new surges, you just had on your programme, some pub had to close, we know leicester went into lockdown again. that is very disruptive, both economically and psychologically and if we can avoid that by taking a simple

precautionary measure to reduce the likelihood, it is not a 100% thing, but it will reduce the likelihood of it happening, then why not do it? i mean people were not used to wearing seat belts in cars a few decades ago and now it's essentially normal to do that, because we recognise its value. now it's time for a look at the weather with carol kirkwood. hello again. it is mixed fortunes with the weather today, some of us seeing some rain and some of us seeing some rain and some of us seeing brighter skies, but all of us having light winds than the last few days. you can see the rain coming in across wales and northern ireland, the north of england, and the other side of that band of rain, a mixture of sunshine and some showers. heading on through the evening and overnight, a band of cloud and rain sta rts overnight, a band of cloud and rain starts to think southwards, leaving clear skies with just a few showers, so it will be cooler in the north.

there will be some in the south, particularly the south—east where it will feel quite humid. tomorrow we start off with all this cloud and rain, pulses of rain running on a weather front, so a rain, pulses of rain running on a weatherfront, so a grey rain, pulses of rain running on a weather front, so a grey day in southern areas, but brighter skies as we push further north. here there will be sunshine but also showers, and a temperature range tomorrow, 12 in lerwick, around about 20 or 21 in london.

good morning, this is bbc news. the headlines: social care leaders have criticised borisjohnson after he suggested too many homes didn't follow procedures during the coronavirus crisis. hundreds of thousands of home owners will receive vouchers of up to £5,000 to improve their property's energy efficiency. at least three pubs in england which re—opened on saturday have had to close again, after

customers tested positive for coronavirus. in australia, the city of melbourne is ordered back into lockdown and the state border will close in the next few hours. a leading uk scientist says everyone should carry a face covering, in order to protect themselves and others against coronavirus. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here'sjohn watson. ure calling it the spat at spurs. the tempers were frayed? yes. good morning. 0ne incident dominating the headlines — the argument between son and hugo lloris at half time. managerjose mouinho praised them for it. you might be surprised to learn spurs were actually leading at the time. thanks to giovani lo celso's deflected effort that went down as a michael keane own goal. then came the most interesting action of the night —

which says a lot about the game — hugo lloris angry with son and a perceived lack of effort. the two had to be pulled apart but settled their differences ahead of the second half as tottenham held on to win. i asked the players to demand more from each other, i asked the players not to be passive, don't accept what the others were giving, to get more from each other. i was asking them. everything from that, and i'm really happy because now i understand that the players can also have that mentality. different kind of drama as 0xford reached the league one play 0ff final beating portsmouth 5—4 on penalties after they drew both legs of their semifinal — cameron brannagan the coolest man in the ground scoring

the decisive spot kick. they will play wycombe who drew last night with fleetwood, but were 4—1 up from the first leg. and are nowjust one wil away from reaching the second tierfor the first time. we've had some fascinating insight to the demands of being an elite cricketer in particular from england's opening batsmen dom sibley who's been really honest over how he felt he needed to lose weight. this is him on the left during the tour of sri lanka in march and how he looks now on the right ahead of england's first test against the west indies which starts tomorrow. he says hes lost 12 kilograms — that's almost two stone. and he's been really candid about how he feels he needed to make a change. in sri lanka, ifelt a little bit, for the first time in my career, i felt a little bit self—conscious about my physique and my weight and during lockdown when we couldn't improve anything sort of cricket—related, it was an opportunity for me to improve that side of my game.

i've had taps on the shoulders before and haven't done anything about it when i was younger and i think it was probably a bit overdue me having that sort of little, you know, a bit of a wake up call. and lastly — what would you do with £403 million? that's the sum being paid to american footballer patrick mahomes after he signed a new contract with the kansas city chiefs. he took them to the super bowl last year and has now committed to the nfl franchise for another ten years. it's the most lucrative contract in the history of american sports. it's £40 million a year. £2.3 million for each game he plays — providing he plays every game over the length of the 10—year contract. not bad. 24 now. great to have that

assurance that the next ten years are suitably catered for.|j assurance that the next ten years are suitably catered for. i know you're trying to breakt are suitably catered for. i know you're trying to break t down for me, even then it is still mind—boggling. me, even then it is still mind-boggling. it is a crazy amount of money. we talk about the contracts given to footballers here, but that is over a shorter period of time, two, or three but that is over a shorter period of time, two, orthree years, a ten—year contract and that amount of money, it isjust ten—year contract and that amount of money, it is just staggering. ten—year contract and that amount of money, it isjust staggering. thank you. the nhs is failing women with medical complications who need late term abortions, according to nhs doctors and abortion providers. the british pregnancy and advisory service says it has to turn more and more women away, because there aren't enough trained doctors or hospital facilities to treat women at risk of haemorrhage during their pregnancy or who have conditions like epilepsy which means they need

to be seen in a hospital whilst having a termination. the bbc has seen evidence which suggests that some women are trying to end the pregnancies themselves. this report by charlotte hayward contains some content that you might find distressing. making the decision to have a late term abortion isn't easy for many women. emily is one of them. we are not using her real name and she doesn't want her face to be shown. i literally had less than a day, on the last day of the procedure would have been too late for me to do it. now the british pregnancy advisory service has exclusively shared figures with the bbc showing they're turning women away, because of a lack of trained doctors in surgical abortions. if you make abortion care difficult to access, it doesn't go away. it just goes underground and becomes dangerous. last year, emily, like hundreds of thousands of women across the uk, wanted an abortion. at the time, i was 18, i had a gut

feeling that i was pregnant. after like 18 to 19 weeks, i was, it was very overwhelming. emily had to wait around a month for an appointment, because there weren't any available locally. by the time she was scanned, she was much further along than she thought she would be. i literally had less than a day. 0n the last day of the procedure would have been too late for me to do. if it end up having to have the baby, even then i... because of not just the financial situation, because of like my age and like... like my mental health and stuff, i couldn't do it. the legal limit in scotland, england and wales for abortion is 23 weeks and six days. in northern ireland it is a little bit different. if i missed the deadline, i... i don't think i'd still be living

around this area if i'm honest. because of the relationship that i was in. my ex—partner went off on me, he gave me so much abuse, because if my ex—partner had found out i was pregnant and that i was giving it away to like somebody else, that could have caused me danger. i attempted suicide, because he found out. emily was able to get the legal abortion that she wanted, but not everyone in her position is able to get an appointment. new figures from the british pregnancy advisory service show that it is having to turn away more and more women each year. in 2019, it wasn't able to find appointments for 27 women, up from 2018 when it was 26, up again from 2016 and 17, when it was 23. they showed us some of the notes that they have for women who they have had to turn away. client is 19 years old, at university and

feels this is the wrong time to start a family and that she is not in a position to support the child. has suffered seizures and been hospitalised. campaigners believe that these numbers may well be higher, because women can also access abortion services directly through the nhs. ed dorman is a gynaecologist in

london. he performs abortions up to the legal limit. now it is no longer common practice in most nhs hospitals. there are just a handful of sur swrons, probably —— surgeons, probably only four or five within the nature nhs who can provide late abortions. sometimes ed has to turn women away, because they haven't got the availability. i find it distressing, because so many of the women that end up being turned away are the women who are in most need. it is terribly sad. you can't talk about abortion without sometimes raising the live debate about viability, is that something you think about, about babies being able to survival being born at 23 or 24 weeks. one day i maybe doing an operating list with a number of quite late terminations of pregnancy

in the morning and i maybe on the labour ward in the morning and i maybe on the labourward in in the morning and i maybe on the labour ward in the afternoon, looking after somebody who may have ru ptu red looking after somebody who may have ruptured her membranes at 23 weeks and be delivering a baby that is much wanted and everything is put in place to optimise the care of the mother and baby. in 2015 an abortion task force was set up and a specialist path way was supposed to be established to help women with underlying medical conditions get access to legal late term abortions. but nothing has changed. for many people, they don't want to discuss abortion. but if you make abortion ca re abortion. but if you make abortion care difficult to access, it doesn't go away, it goes underground and becomes dangerous and as a result

girls and women die. this is what we see in africa and asia. it is important that we convey the message that unless we provide high quality services and the ability for women with these complex medical problems to access late abortions, that we are going to have to face a preventible tragedy. but not eve ryo ne preventible tragedy. but not everyone would agree. his patterson is from the charity life. we have 3d images that shows us the life inside the womb. there are alternatives to abortion. this adoption, which is... a valid option and something that people could consider. we also know there are services for different practical support. so we offer free baby clothes and supplies to anyone who needs it. there is a lot of help

and support available. it is sad that not everyone knows about it, because it is there if you look for it. we got in touch with nhs england who said that: emily bravely spoke us to about her experience, but she was one of only a handful who would, because of the stigma associated with abortion.|j felt like alone, because not like, as much as like my dad tried to understand it, he obviously couldn't, because he wasn't in the situation, he was just there to support me and like the same with a lot of people. and i couldn't really talk to anyone about it, because like, i know that everyone's opinion on it was split. if i didn't speak to my dad and my best friend at the

time, i... i honestly don't know... how i'd be. will the women who come after emily be able to get the access after emily be able to get the a ccess or after emily be able to get the access or support they want in the future? we can speak now to dr patricia lohr, who's medical director at the british pregnancy advisory service. thank you forjoining us today. to be clear for thank you forjoining us today. to be clearfor our viewers, thank you forjoining us today. to be clear for our viewers, tell us about the sorts of circumstances in which women are seeking these late term abortions. thank you very much for having me. so, the people that we are talking about in this particular piece are those who have a range of serious medical conditions. so it may be diabetes thatis conditions. so it may be diabetes that is out of control, epilepsy, and the one that was specifically mentioned in your story, which we are seeing more and more, is where the placenta is growing over a

ca esa rea n the placenta is growing over a caesarean section scar and that presents a high risk of haemorrhage at the time of delivery and sometimes the need for extreme surgery. so these are in some insta nces surgery. so these are in some instances women who hadn't anticipated having an abortion, but who, because of medical circumstances, decide that, orare told they need one? absolutely. and we are seeing that more and more and the high caesarean section rate we see is contributing to that. many of the paints we see were —— patients we see were spending to ing to continue the pregnancy, but have come to learn the impact on their health, if they continue the pregnancy and have the baby. why then are we seeing the situation as outlined in the report, where some women can't access a termination and what sort of impact i wonder whats the pandemic —— what impact the

pandemic has had? as you heard, we do place a number of women into hospital settings for their abortion. clinics are typically free standing and we don't have access to a lot of other services women might need if they have a condition that is serious. we are thankfully able to place about 1,200 women a year into a hospital. but we have to tell somewhere between 25 and 30 women a year that we cannot find a place for them and that means for those women that they have to continue their pregnancy and of course many medical conditions will get worse during pregnancy and as i discussed previously, something like where the placenta is growing over the ca esa rea n placenta is growing over the caesarean section scar, that can present serious complications at the time of delivery. it has been really interesting to see what's happened during the covid pandemic. we have seen the number of people presenting

for abortion in the second trimester decline and the number of women we have had to place in hospital has decreased. however, we have seen some services close in nhs hospitals during the pandemic, most of these second trimester surgical abortion procedures are provided under general anaesthetic and hospitals have had to use machines for ventilator and some surgical lists have been sacrificed and that has included some for termination of pregnancy. you say that you have seen the number of women presenting for these late abortion decreasing during the pandemic. as we have seen, you know, in the case of so many areas of medicine, fewer people coming forward, to seek various procedures, so what's happening to

those women, are they all seeing their pregnancy through or do you fear, as was suggested in the report, that some women are trying to end or terminate their pregnancies themselves? so, we don't entirely understand the reasons why the numbers have dropped, but we understand from the patients who do come forward they have lots of concerns about travelling during the pandemic, of course during the lockdown they were unable to travel and they were fearful of coming into health care settings. for those individuals who we have had to place for a hospital care, there are often having to travel long distances anyway, because there are few hospitals in the nhs that perform these procedures. so that this is compounded during the pandemic, where people a worried about travelling. and in many cases, later surgical abortions are performed over two days, which means that not only does a person have to travel,

often a far distance, but they may need to find a place to stay overnight between the different stages of the procedure. that is challenging in the context of a pandemic, when hotels are closed. thank you. if you've been affected by any of the issues we've been talking about sources of information and support are available at bbc action line, that's at bbc.co.uk/actionline. today marks 15 years since 52 people were killed in series of coordinated terror attacks, targetting commuters in london. usually, survivors and relatives of those who died, gather at the various sites to remember those who died, before gathering at the july seventh memorial in hyde park. this year though, social distancing

rules mean the commemorations have to be held online, and i'm joined by two survivors who will be taking part, sudhesh dahad and georgina ferguson. thank you forjoining us this morning. 0n thank you forjoining us this morning. on what must be a really difficult day, of course for you. you were on the piccadilly line train that was bombed near russell square, just six metres from the bomber. you were in the same train in the carriage behind him. tell us more about how you would normally be marking this anniversary? good morning. yes, so normally we would all meet up in the various sites. so kings cross, russell square, edgeware road, tavistock square, which ever site you were affected by. we would meet at 10 to 9 or 10 to 10 in tavistock square, to...

yeah, to commemorate that moment. and then we would normally all congregate in hyde park at the permanent memorial and the permanent memorial, we have a... service of about half an hour to 45 minutes consisting of survivors, orfamilies of victims meeting, saying a few words about what the day means to them and sometimes we have some public official there is as well. we have a choir singing a few songs as well and a minute's silence. and today instead, how will you mark the day, georgina? sudesh and a group of people, survivors and bereaved have come together to create a video, which will be on youtube at 12

o'clock today and, yes... which will be on youtube at 12 o'clock today and, yes. . ij which will be on youtube at 12 o'clock today and, yes... i think we can let our viewers see a clip of that now. let's do that. thank you. 0n that now. let's do that. thank you. on this day in 2005, 52 innocent people were murdered in a co—ordinated terrorist across across london. no one who was in london on 7thjuly 2005 will ever london. no one who was in london on 7th july 2005 will ever forget what they experienced that day. no one wants to be part of a 7/7 community. if not for a twist of fate, the bereaved would be with their loved once and we were would be watching someone else'sjourney. once and we were would be watching someone else's journey. 7th july 2005 is a day london will never forget. the targeting of londoners on our public transport system was an act of unspeakable evil. multiple times over the past couple of

years... a bit of the film that the two of you have made. why did you decide to take this approach and make this film? well, for many of us, even though we might have the most loving and supportive families, friends or colleagues, there is no substitute for the understanding that comes from that shared experience that we'd all been through. and the pandemic has had fairly mixed effects on our community. some have seen it as positive. some less so. but a lot of people have felt increasingly isolated. so, because the families and survivors want to come together on the day, to share that... to share a moment with the people who understand that day better, we wa nted understand that day better, we wanted to do something to help facilitate the coming together of the families and survivors. so this

was our best effort to try and do that. and georgina, you didn't come forward as a survivors until the 11th anniversary. we know a lot of people walked away from those scenes and didn't present themselves, or have never presented themselves as a survivor, how important has that community of fellow survivors been to you over the last few years?m has been good. it was the tenth year icame has been good. it was the tenth year i came forward. i didn't go to any memorials until the 11th year. so, i have really, it's been great to be able to share that experience with people over the last four years and this process of making this film has been really good, a good experience for me, because i have got to know people that... a bit better, which... i people that... a bit better, which. .. i didn't. people that... a bit better, which... ididn't. betterthan people that... a bit better, which... i didn't. betterthan i people that... a bit better, which... i didn't. better than i did before. so, yeah, it has been quite

nice for me for that reason. so that it has been helpful to share these experiences and express these experiences and express these experiences perhaps in a different way and sudesh, the same question to you, how important has that community of survivors been to you? it has been critical. 0ver community of survivors been to you? it has been critical. over 15 years, some of the survivors, my fellow survivors have become my best friends and we have all seen each other go through... other experiences. so births, deaths, marriages, and we have all shared those moments since then. so they're almost like a second family and you will see people in the video that would be broadcast at 12 o'clock today, you will see other survivors and saying exactly the same thing, how critical that community is to

their... to their well being and feeling less alone. that is on youtube did you say? yes. at noon? yes. thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with us on this 15th anniversary of the 7/7 attacks. the duchess of cornwall has said that missing her grandchildren has been the worst part of her lockdown experience. she's made the comments on radio 5 live's emma barnett show, which she will be guest—editing later this morning. listeners will get to hear the duchess speak about her family and the charities she supports. n.w it's time for a look at the weather with carol kirkwood many of us saw some beautiful sun rises, but there is rain on the way.

for all of us lighter winds and you can see that in the pressure chart. look at the wide spacing of the isobars and we have two fronts. this one across scotland producing showers and this one producing heavier rain. this front will produce these showers and in between some sunshine. whereas we have rain moving across northern ireland getting into northern england, parts of wales, the midlands, eventually into eastern england. but it will be preceded by showers. in the south the more likely you are to see sunshine. temperatures from 11 in the north to 21 in the south. through this evening, this front sinks south, taking the cloud and rain wit. some of the rain will still be heavy. but some clearer skies for northern ireland, northern england and scotland, with still a few showers. so here it is going to be cooler. still feeling humid in the south. wednesday sees our front

still draped across the south. but it will produce rain and cloud and you can see the cloud from hull to liverpool. the rain on and off all day. some of it will be heavy at times. for northern ireland, northern england and scotland, you are more likely to see sunny intervals. up to 18 degrees in glasgow. 0n intervals. up to 18 degrees in glasgow. on wednesday and thursday we have these front and we are going see some rain. 0n we have these front and we are going see some rain. on thursday, here is all the cloud again across wales heading to all points south with this rain. but move north of that and we are back into sunnier skies, with some showers at times, yes, there will be areas of cloud moving around as well. then it changes and we have this ridge of high pressure coming or way friday into the weekend. so things settle down,

there will still be a few showers. but more sunshine with highs by then up but more sunshine with highs by then up to 21.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. an angry backlash from social care leaders in the uk — over borisjohnson's suggestion that "too many" care homes didn't follow procedures during the coronavirus pandemic. it isa it is a chronic failure of government leadership when we have had a litany of mistakes since the beginning of the crisis and we should be getting an apology from the prime minister for that. i think the point the prime minister was making was that nobody at the time knew that what the correct procedures were because we didn't know the extent of the asymptomatic transmission that was taking place. in australia, the city of melbourne is ordered back into coronavirus lockdown and the state border between new south wales and victoria