tonight at ten — a £30 billion package to stave off mass there's a £2 billion "kick—start" scheme to create thousands ofjob placements and get young people into work. i urge every employer, big or small, national or local, to hire as many kickstarters as possible. and firms will be paid £1,000 for each employee brought back from furlough and kept on until at least january, but labour says that's not enough security. it should have been the day when the millions of british people worried about theirjobs and their future prospects had a load taken off their shoulders. and in august, 50% off meals on certain days, worth up to £10 a head,

to boost the hospitality industry. we all like a drink, we all like to eat out, so i think it will persuade people to go out. we'll have full details of the chancellor's measures laid out in the summer statement. also tonight... more evidence that coronavirus can be spread by tiny particles in the air, so airborne transmission can't be ruled out in crowded, closed or poorly—ventilated settings. on day two at the high court, the actorjohnny depp strongly denies slapping amber heard when they were married. and, testing the new rules — england host the west indies at the first international cricket since march. and coming up in sport on bbc news... the 2020 ryder cup is postponed for a year because the coronavirus pandemic means the event cannot be staged safely with spectators present.

in the wake of the pandemic, has prompted the chancellor to unveil a series of measures amounting to £30 billion. he set out the details in his summer statement to the house of commons. rishi sunak said firms would be paid £1,000 for each employee brought back from furlough and kept in employment until at least january next year. for the under 25s there's a £2 billion kick—start scheme to create thousands ofjob placements, and get young people into work. stamp duty has been temporarily abolished on property sales up to £500,000 in england and northern ireland. there'll be a £2 billion green homes grant to make homes more energy efficient. vat will be cut from 20% to 5% on food, accommodation and attractions from next wednesday until the middle of january. and this august there'll be 50% off meals in participating restaurants, worth up to £10 a head,

from monday to wednesday. 0ur political editor laura kuenssberg looks at the chancellor's measures. radio: good morning, it's six o'clock on wednesday the 8th ofjuly. where we live, now a place to work. where we travel, now full of abandoned platforms. a different look where we spent our money, where we shopped still often shuttered up. the reality — millions ofjobs are at risk, so where the decisions about the economy are made... reporter: good morning! ..the chancellor might be forgiven for glancing nervously at the cameras. speaker: chancellor of the exchequer. rishi sunak‘s words today awaited far and away from this chamber. people are anxious about losing theirjob, about unemployment rising. we're notjust going to accept this. people need to know that although hardship lies ahead, no one will be left without hope. the government will not keep paying

the wages of millions of people whosejobs have been on hold past the autumn. leaving the furlough scheme open forever gives people false hope that it will always be possible to return to the jobs they had before. so today we're introducing a new policy to reward and incentivise employers who successfully bring furloughed staff back. a newjobs retention bonus. 0ur message to business is clear — if you stand by your workers, we will stand by you. perhaps as much as 9 billion for businesses who make it. a cut to stamp duty and, for parts of the economy shuttered by the crisis, a big cut in vat. the bestjobs programme we can do is to restart these sectors and get our pubs, restau ra nts, cafes a nd b&bs bustling again. so i've decided for the next six months to cut vat on food,

accommodation and attractions. complete with, for the first time, an offer to entice you to spend. for the month of august we will give everyone in the country an eat out to help out discount. but the chancellor has his eye on a lot more than helping you with a holiday meal deal. it is an unambiguous choice to make this moment meaningful for our country in a way that transcends the frustration and loss of recent months. it is a plan to turn our national recovery into millions of stories of personal renewal. he can offer... hello! ..but the chancellor can't know if business will really bring back all of their staff. is that what you ordered? no! can he tempt you back to the still empty spaces where much of the country makes its living, and will coronavirus roar back to ruin his plans? the very first thing the chancellor must do is prevent additional economic damage due to the slow

public health response of his government. as we've seen throughout this crisis, the failure to match soaring rhetoric with meaningful action has consequences for people across our country. politicians can try to lure the economy back to life, but it's business that will really determine how far the economy falls. companies are going to be faced with making hard decisions about laying people off, knowing that recovery is going to take time. you think about the hospitality industries, think about tourist businesses, in many respects they are going to be facing three winters. they've come through the winter, there's not much happening for them today, and we are going into the winter later on this year. they need support right through to the spring of 2021, and if not, they are going to be making people redundant. i don't think this meets the moment. we have got an historic economic recession, and that's linked to the climate change challenge. then there's going to be the challenge of brexit.

this is a massive challenge for our economy and the liberal democrats would like a much bigger package. for now, the tories are willing to borrow and spend in a way that labour might be more comfortable with, but a different tory chancellor put a marker down. interest rates will not stay low forever and eventually we will need to bring back our national debt under control in order to sustain a recovery and continue to create jobs and to keep taxes low. closed doors have cost the economy dear. jobs disappearing day by day. the chancellor promised big cheques to prevent the worst, but today was about how to spend, not about how to pay. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, westminster. many businesses have been struggling with a difficult decision on what to do with their furloughed employees in the months ahead. thejob retention bonus scheme is offering to pay £1,000 to employers for each furloughed employee brought back, and kept in work

until the end of january, although the employee must be paid at least £520 a month. the chancellor also pledged a £2,000 payment to firms for every young apprentice taken on in the next six months. 0ur political correspondent alex forsyth has been assessing reaction in the east midlands. for some businesses the doors are still shut. the trampolines sadly still at this park in north nottinghamshire. caught between leisure and indoor sport, this is a sector desperate to get going again, not least for the sake of the staff. i'm excited to get back open but then there is also the dread of what if we can't open? employees here are all on the furlough scheme, welcome support, but that ends in autumn and unless this business can open soon even the promise of a bonus for every job saved might not be enough. it would be nice to have but it would be difficult and definitely keeping everybody on the books, would be really hard to sort of do. we've got between 20,

25 members of staff here. hopefully we don't have to get to that situation where we are letting people off and things, but it's always a possibility, which is quite sad. being open is key. that's it, that's what we want to do. so many businesses have been hard hit. high street names already shedding jobs. retail, hospitality, often sectors that employ young people, many now struggling for work in a tough market. like jack, unemployed since lockdown put paid to his planned job at a lettings agency. jobs are being added two to three days before on job sites and they've gone already. he would be eligible for the government's new scheme, subsidising six month placements to get young people working, with so many worried about unemployment in the long term. so that six months would have been a perfect stopgap. i was only hoping to only be a month or two out of it and here i am four orfive months later, nearly. so it's a real worry in my case that even i could be long—term unemployed and i've not been out of a job since 1a! skills, training, study,

all part of today's attempt to stem unemployment, particularly for this generation. there was extra money for apprenticeships, but some want more, fearing new work placements without more skills support won't lead to more long—term jobs. anyone that undertakes an apprenticeship is going to have some fantastic skills at the end of that and i don't feel that a six—month placement on minimum wage without training would be doing justice to our economy, really. some do feel secure, even in these tough times. leon and matthew's hgv training has been on pause but they believe there will still be demand for their skills. i'm feeling confident, if i'm honest. i don't think i'm going to be affected that much. they're still making us feel secure and that we've got a job to go back to. for many, though, the future is uncertain. crucial will be whether the government's plan will be enough, not only to save some jobs but create others. no small challenge. alex forsyth, bbc news.

so the hospitality and tourism industries, among the hardest hit by the pandemic, are being given a helping hand with a temporary vat cut, and a half price voucher scheme next month. but will it boost those businesses still struggling, and will it encourage more people to spend their money? 0ur correspondent sarah corker has been talking to people in manchester. the lunchtime rush in manchester city centre. 0utdoor space is helping to keep customers apart. but for some places, socially distanced dining just isn't financially viable, so the government's eat out discount is designed to boost trade and entice customers back. i dare say we all like a drink, we all like to eat out, so i think it will persuade people to go out. and it will persuade you, even though you've been on furlough? even more so, yeah, i reckon. would that persuade you to go out and eat? not me particularly because a lot of my family still need to be shielding, so it's a bit... not ok with us.

the eat out to help out discount means people can get up to £10 off per head if they dine out between monday and wednesday in august. it doesn't include alcohol, and businesses can sign up via a government website. they then claim the money back and the funds are back in their bank account within five working days. this cafe owner told me the extra support would make surviving this year more likely for many traders. it's really good to incentivise people to go out and spend within the industry. hopefully it will give the industry are really good boost, a really good boost, and small businesses can thrive as opposed to just get by. and from next wednesday, vat will be cut for six months. some hospitality bosses, though, say the government could have gone even further. i think it's to be welcomed that there's a vat cut down to 5%. i don't know why they didn't make it

0%, that's what was really should be called for. a lot of paperwork, but hopefully it will be passed on to the customer and people will be able to dine out cheaper and not regard it as such a big expense. for those venturing out tonight, it is still a very different dining experience. manchester's famous nightlife, nowhere near back to normal, but these measures are music to the ears of the uk's 3.2 million hospitality workers. sarah corker, bbc news, in manchester. the furlough scheme, which will end in october, was the biggest state economic intervention since the second world war. so what will the chancellor's new measures cost, and how will the treasury pay for it all? our business correspondent dharshini david has more details. big numbers for a big plan. the message on rishi sunak‘s twitter feed was clear. but is it enough to stop the clock from turning back to the 1980s?

those lost years of mass unemployment and hardship. at present the government is paying the wages of 9.4 million employees, and that of 2.7 million self—employed people. as those schemes are wound down the challenge is to prevent that turning into massive lay—offs. but the current plans cost £70 billion. the package replacing that is worth less than half as much, at most £30 billion. he is hoping he's incentivised businesses and consumers and workers themselves to pick up the slack. it's a gamble but it's a change that had to happen. you need to move and move gradually to different things, so supporting people into newjobs, helping young people into newjobs rather than just keeping the whole economy in aspic, which is what the previous set of decisions were really all about. some help has been targeted at the under—25s.

one in four of them are currently on furlough schemes. but potentially the biggest sum of all, up to £91; billion, has been earmarked for staff who are retained of all ages once these schemes end, as a bonus. but the actual number depends on how many are kept on. now, some say this could merely defer lay—offs. potentially push out, delay, that spike in unemployment, which some economists fear could top 9%. so, there could be much work yet to be done in that autumn budget, in particular on job creation. we may also learn more in the autumn about how he intends to fund all of this. it's not just about jobs. today it was also revealed that the government has poured an extra £49 billion into public services to help fight this crisis, including 15 billion on ppe. that makes it even more likely that the spending shortfall

could top £300 billion this year. so we may have to see changes to tax, or even benefits like pensions to plug that gap. borrowing may not be enough. it's easy to be popular when you're splashing the cash. less so when you're asking for it back. for the chancellor, the toughest choices may lie ahead, and that's even before we talk about the risks of a second wave. dharshini david, bbc news. let's talk a little more with our business editor simonjack. let's talk a little more with our business editor simon jack. we let's talk a little more with our business editor simonjack. we have been through lots of the measures here and wondering first of all how has it all been received and what, for you, is the biggest area of concern? i think it has been widely welcomed, vat cut, tick, lots of people asking for that, extra help forjob creation for people asking for that, extra help for job creation for younger people asking for that, extra help forjob creation for younger people. but the central question, the spectre that haunts this economy is how many of the 9 million people who are furloughed will have a job by

the end of this year? that is a stark calculation for business. are they prepared to shoulder an increasing burden of the furlough cost, have it withdrawn at the end of october, continue to pay wages until the end of january, of october, continue to pay wages until the end ofjanuary, all to get a £1000 bonus? maybe the sums don't add up and i think rishi sunak, when he said it's not all about economics, it is how we respond, we have a moral duty, i think he recognised in stark economic terms the carrot at the end of that process is probably not big enough for business to bite. 0k, simon, many thanks. simon jack, for business to bite. 0k, simon, many thanks. simonjack, our business editor with the business perspective. what about the political context? 0ur political editor laura kuenssberg is at westminster. when we look at the political rationale behind this statement, laura, what is your reading of that? this is a really big moment. at any other time this would be seen as an absolutely enormous, gigantic, whopping price tag for any government to put into the economy

and a pretty strange thing for a conservative chancellor to have announced. but you know, we are not in normal times. 0ne cabinet minister said to me tonight we have to sow the seeds to bear the fruit and today confirmed, for the time being, coronavirus has brought in an era of big government spending and big government intervention in the economy. but there are two really important things to bear in mind. right now with interest rates at rock bottom for the foreseeable future there is no immediate political clamour to decide to say how and when all this money is going to be paid back. that's a complete transformation of the economic debate we had a few years ago. but that time will come and there are private shivers on the tory backbenchers about spelling that out and we won't know any detail of how the chancellor plans to pay this back until the budget in the autumn. the second thing to understand is, although the chancellor is willing to write enormous checks, you won't find a single mp in westminster who isn't still worried that potentially

a big number of their constituents may lose theirjob. —— cheques. despite the scale of the interventions and all of the chancellor's words in the commons, it is clearly the case that unemployment is going to go up and what has happened here today is not a radical set of moves being unveiled by a government intent on transforming the economy for the better. it is a series of expensive measures by a treasury trying to manage the hardship that is coming down the tracks. and giving the uncertainty about the virus itself, one thing we can be sure of tonight, this is very unlikely to be rishi sunak‘s this is very unlikely to be rishi suna k‘s last words this is very unlikely to be rishi sunak‘s last words on this very difficult subject. laura, once again, many thanks. laura kuenssberg with her analysis at westminster. moving on to some of the day's other news. the lives of many women have been ruined by three separate medical treatments, because officials failed to listen to concerns about safety, and often dismissed the complaints as "women's problems". an official inquiry looked at the impact of an epilepsy treatment, pelvic mesh implants,

and a pregnancy test no longer on the market. the health secretary for england has offered a full apology to those affected, and promised that lessons will be learned. 0ur health correspondent sophie hutchinson reports. some of the ten of thousands of women and their children harmed by three medical treatments. for years, sometimes decades, they were dismissed and ignored when they raised serious safety concerns, according to today's review. we have never encountered anything like this. the intensity of the suffering. the fact that these conditions lasted for decades. and the sheer scale that these interventions have done to women and their families. pelvic mesh, once considered the gold standard, and used to treat thousands of women for urinary incontinence. but the review said, however rare, the catastrophic nature of complications meant it should only ever be used as a last resort.

those who have suffered said hearing that had been very emotional. one minute i feeljoy that this is actually being done and the next i'm amongst all the other women who are just very tearful because we have been through so much to try and help the women of tomorrow. sodium valproate is an epilepsy drug believed to have harmed 20,000 children in the uk over the decades after they were exposed to it in the womb. the review agreed with campaigners that women were still not being warned of the dangers and each must now be contacted and told of the risks. it'sjust been such a long journey. i've only been involved in this ten years. you know, there are parents that have been campaigning about this for 20, 30 years. and all of us have had tears in our eyes when we have heard the recommendations. and the drug primodos, a home pregnancy test used in the ‘60s and ‘70s, its manufacturer bayer has always denied women's claims that it caused

disabilities in unborn babies. today, for the first time, the review said it should have been withdrawn from the market 11 years earlier than it was because of the evidence of harm. to think that an independent review had finally actually documented that there were regulatory failures and that the drug should have actually been taken off the market in 1967, for us that is a result that we could only dream of. the review says the health system has been flying blind. that it doesn't know how many women and their children have been harmed. it said a database needs to be set up to track individual patients and the treatments they have received, and it is recommending financial aid and recompense for victims. it says a patient safety commissioner needs to be set up who's answerable to parliament to listen to people's concerns. we need to take action and that's why we're taking forward some of the recommendations immediately,

and we will consider all of the recommendations in full. but after decades of fighting to be heard, many of these women finally feel they've had a breakthrough and now have their eyes firmly on the government to ensure there is real change. sophie hutchinson, bbc news. the metropolitan police has apologised to the team gb sprinter bianca williams, for the "distress caused", after she and her partner were stopped and handcuffed on saturday. she accused scotland yard of racial profiling, after she was forced to leave their baby son for 45 minutes during a search. the metropolitan police commissioner, dame cressida dick, said two reviews had found no misconduct by her officers, but the met has referred itself to the police watchdog. the world health organization says there's emerging evidence that coronavirus can be spread by tiny particles in the air. it said that airborne transmission

could not be ruled out in crowded, closed or poorly ventilated settings, and that may have an impact on guidelines for indoor spaces. the latest official number of people reported to have died in the uk after testing positive for covid—19 in the past 24 hours increased by 126. it brings the total number of deaths to 44,517. 0ur science editor david shukman reports. the coronavirus can spread easily, and that seems to happen in three different ways. social distancing is so important for staying safe.