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good morning. welcome to breakfast with rogerjohnson and sally nugent. our headlines today: a £700 million plan for british border checks at the end of the brexit transition period, but labour accuses the government of complacency. donald trump wears a face covering in public for the first time during the coronavirus pandemic. norwich city are the first to be relegated from the premier league. confirmation of their drop came after another loss. they haven't picked up a single point since the league restarted. england collapse, losing five wickets for 30 runs late on day 4, making the west indies favourites to win the first
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test in southampton. the remarkable story of british pilot stephen cameron who spent two months on life support in vietnam with coronavirus and is now on his way home. good morning. it is going to be a warmer day for us today. most places will be dry with sunny spells. rain into the north—west of the uk later on. join me laterfor all the details. good morning. it's sunday 12th july. our top story: the government is to spend more than £700 million on increased security and border checks in preparation for the end of the brexit transition period at the end of the year. there'll be 500 new staff, and new inland border posts where existing ports have no room to cope with the extra checks that will be required. here's our political correspondent iain watson. dover is the busiest channel port. it will be on the front line of new regulations from the end of the
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year. when the bread the transition period comes to a close, new checks will be necessary. there are new facilities built inland. uk will phase in its new system over six months. eu countries will begin checks on our experts from january one. getting ready for life outside the eu customs union doesn't come cheap. the government will spend £470 million on new customs facilities such as border control coasts and a further 235 million on it and staffing, including the recruitment of 500 more border force staff. government ministers haven't said exactly where —— when the new facilities will be ready. the trade secretary has expressed concerns about the lack of necessary infrastructure at uk ports, and she wa nts infrastructure at uk ports, and she wants assurances from government collea g u es wants assurances from government colleagues that a new customs system here in the uk will not be delayed any further than july next year.
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labour is accusing ministers of being complacent in their post brexit preparations, and the party claims there is a growing sense of chaos in the government. government ministers argue they are an unprecedented investment to keep our borders secure. iain watson, bbc news. let's get more on this now with our political correspondent nick eardley. £700 million. give us more detail and where it will be spent. remember the days when we used to speak about nothing apart from brexit? despite all the focus being elsewhere, this has been going on behind the scenes, with the brexit talks continuing, and this is all part of making sure that we are ready for leaving the transition period at the end of this year. 470 million of that cash you have been speaking about will be for new infrastructure, things like ports to make sure that cheques can be done on anything coming into the uk and then there will be another 230 million which will go on getting
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new staff in place, we think there will be about 500 new border staff needed, and a new it system to make sure that everything is fine. there are some concerns in the government that ministers are being a bit slow on this. they haven't quite got up to pace with exactly what is going to pace with exactly what is going to be needed to make sure it is all a smooth process. as you had there, instead of all coming in at the one time, it will be phased in over six months, and labour are saying they think the government is not on top of it. it is an attempt to persuade us or we will be ready. and are we going to hear more details tomorrow about a new points based immigration system? priti patel is tipped to tell us more about that. we know there is going to be this australian filesystem where you earn points based on the skills you have and what you are contributing to the country. a couple of things i think we will find out tomorrow about special schemes. 0ne we will find out tomorrow about special schemes. one will be for nhs
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staff from other countries who will come to the work for the health service, there will be an easier route for them to get in. likewise for people who have studied in the uk, a special scheme that comes into allow you to stay for two or three depending on the qualifications you have to build up the points you need with a better job have to build up the points you need with a betterjob or earning a bit more money. as i say, i think we will hear a bit more over the next few weeks about how the uk is getting ready for brexit. the government wants to persuade us all that everything is in place to make sure the end of the transition is smooth, whether we get the deal or not. thank you very much. president trump has worn a face covering in public for the first time since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. as infection rates reached record levels this week, donald trump seemed to heed the advice of his advisors and experts and wore a mask despite previously saying he would never do so. 0ur correspondentjohn mcmanus has the story.
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an unexpected change of direction. president from wearing a face mask in public for the first time. although he recently said that he thought he resembled the lone ranger when he donned a face mask, he originally refused to wear one.” originally refused to wear oneli think originally refused to wear one.” think wearing a face mask is a great president, by ministers, dictators, kings, queens, i don't see it for myself. a change of heart comes at covid—i9 tightens its grip on the us. so far there have been 135,000 deaths from the virus with 3.2 million cases and the us is the worst hit country. the numbers just keep on rising. florida is one of those state struggling to contain the virus. after attempting to open in may, the state ordered bars to close again at the end ofjune. in arizona, there has been a steady rise in the use of artificial breeding machines in intensive care units. it's bars and clubs have also
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been closed again. while in texas, several hospitals say their coronavirus awards are at or near capacity. in orlando, the world is reopening its parks on saturday. magic kingdom and animal kingdom. decisions over face coverings are contentious in the us although many of donald trump owns a bot is regarded as a personal choice and not something to be imposed by the state. many their president is trying to tread a fine line.” state. many their president is trying to tread a fine line. i think it isa trying to tread a fine line. i think it is a great thing to wear a mask. i have never been against masks but ido i have never been against masks but i do believe they have a time and a place. other world leaders are already leading by example. some more reluctantly than others. all eyes will now be on mr trump to see if his mask will be a lasting feature. john mcmanus, bbc news. 0ur north america correspondent peter bowes says that until now, the president has refused to wear a face covering in front of the cameras, but said he was expected to wear one in hospitals.
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well, there has been a lot of pressure on the president to wear a mask like pretty much everyone else is being encouraged to, especially in recent weeks. indeed, in some american cities, it is compulsory if you go out in public, even out in the open air to wear a mask such is the problem with coronavirus, the growing problem in cities like the one i'm in right now, in los angeles. but the president has steadfastly refused at least to be seen in public wearing a mask. there was one occasion when he was out and about, it was a private visit we understand, and one or two pictures did emerge that he was wearing a mask. but, generally, he has become known for a president who did not want to wear the mask, and he explained repeatedly why he believed it wasn't necessary, that he is tested for the coronavirus frequently, so are the people around him, and he practices social distancing with those officials he works very closely with. so he didn't feel it was necessary, apart from today when he was visiting this hospitaljust outside of washington, when he said
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a couple of days ago, in a hospital setting, he said, he didn't want to be responsible for perhaps infecting other people, and of course that is one of the big reasons we are asked to wear masks, is to stop us infecting others, and it seems that the president has now heeded that advice. thousands of people staged a demonstration in tel aviv last night, protesting against economic hardship and what they say is the israeli government's mishandling of the pandemic. the event was organised by small businesses, self—employed workers and performing artists' groups angered by government coronavirus measures. israel has seen a spike in infections with nearly 1,500 new cases reported on friday. one of india's most famous bollywood stars, amitabh bachchan, has tested positive for coronavirus and has been admitted to a hospital in mumbai. in a tweet to his 43 million followers, he asked anyone who had come into contact with him
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in the past ten days to get tested. officials say the 77—year—old is in a stable condition. an airline pilot from north lanarkshire who contracted covid—19 in vietnam and spent more than two months on life support in a hospital in ho chi minh city is on his way home. doctors gave 42—year—old stephen cameron a 10% chance of survival in a country that has recorded no official covid deaths. alexandra mackenzie reports. he had only recently arrived in vietnam to work as a pilot for vn among airways. it is thought to have contracted covid—19 on a night out in ho chi minh city at the end of march. the case attracted much media attention because in vietnam, the number of coronavirus cases is below 400. there were no registered deaths. the 42—year—old from
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motherwell spent more than two months on a ventilator. there were few critical patients, so he was treated by the country's top clinicians. but stephen, his face has been blurred in this hospital footage, had multiple complications. my footage, had multiple complications. my friend craig was told by the foreign commonwealth i office had a 10% chance of survival, so he expected the worst. you start to do things you expect somebody to do if i was coming home in a box. however, after ten weeks, doc woken from a coma and he dared to think about home. the odds say that i shouldn't be here, so i can only think everybody here for doing what they have done, and i go home with a happy heart, but they sad one because i am leaving so many people here i have made friends with. stephen is on the road to recovery. he lost weight and muscle strength
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and suffered fatigue and depression stop there was also a debate about who would pay the medical bills. he is now on his way home and an emotional reunion is expected with friends and family in motherwell. alexandra mackenzie, bbc news, glasgow. incredible story! he's raised over £30 million for the nhs, had a number one single with michael ball and been given a knighthood. you all know who we're talking about now — of course, it's captain sir tom moore. well, now he can add being a member of the england football squad to his long list of achievements. david beckham has named him as the honorary captain of the lionhearts, an initiative honouring inspirational people who've gone above and beyond during the pandemic. let's take a look at what happened when david met sir tom. david. captain sir tom, thank you for having me here today. i am very excited about meeting you and it is
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a real pleasure for me to be down here to personally say thank you and also to present you with a little present from the england team. very kind of you, and i am delighted to receive that honour from you, especially from you. thank you very much indeed. gorgeous. fantastic, isn't it? captain sir tom! never in any doubt! let's take a look at today's front pages. the sunday telegraph reports that taxes and red tape will be slashed in towns and cities across the uk next year under plans by the chancellor, rishi sunak, for a post—brexit and post—coronavirus economic revolution. almost all the front pages feature a picture of 1966 world cup winner jack charlton, who has died aged 85. the observer describes the former leeds defender and republic of ireland manager as a true giant of english football.
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the sunday express leads with one of our main stories this morning — a pledge from the government that it will "seize back control of its borders" by the end of the year, whatever the outcome of the brexit negotiations. shall have a look at what is inside our papers this morning? there is a great story on a slightly sporty theme. this is in the telegraph. this is about the train tim vaughan, tom racehorse trainer who has moved his stables basically hire up a hill because... altitude training. exactly! it is exactly that. he is preparing for major tournaments, they have 800 metres up a slope at his farm in calgary in wales where there is plenty of air and sunshine to basically give the horses a clear airto to basically give the horses a clear air to breathe... have to finish running up the hill to get home. he is saying, people thought i was mad. i spent four years analysing
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it. neither horses inhaling as clean airas you it. neither horses inhaling as clean air as you possibly can. it is the moisture in the environment that holds the allergens and affects the horse's respiratory system. there is a story here which many of us will identify with, from our youth, particularly with theme tunes, which have become so familiar. yes, minister, grange hill... did you like that? but now you can skip the info, so you go straight to the meat of the programme. this says it's damaging a tv tradition — the theme tune. there is black beauty, doctor who... classic theme tunes. get in touch until is your favourite theme tunes. do you always skip intro?
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sometimes. but we have seen stuff on netflix like money heist, which has a really nice theme tune, but you get into the habit of skipping it after a while because you think, i've heard it. iskip i've heard it. i skip every time. that's the great thing about this programme — you can't skip the theme tune. you can't get anything, can you? that's the inside of the sunday papers for you this morning. i think the weather might be slightly improving over the coming days. here's darren with a look at this morning's weather. that's a beautiful picture behind you. it's great, isn't it? someone has enjoyed an amazing sunrise. looks like they've been camping. that's the scene on what's going to be a decent day for much of the country. temperatures will be higher than they were yesterday. the only fly in they were yesterday. the only fly in the ointment is this whether front that will be arriving across north—western areas later in the
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day. 0therwise high pressure will be in charge once again. underneath the high—pressure, habitually first thing. it's going to warm up in the sunshine. there will be some patchy fair weather cloud, always more cloudy towards the northern isles of scotland. cloudy through the afternoon in northern ireland, and the sunshine turning hazy in scotland, but we could make 20 degrees around the murray firth and aberdeenshire. 18 at best in northern ireland on 23 or 24 towards the south—east of england, they were warmer day across the board. a fine evening across england and wales, but the rain will push across scotland. further rain overnight moving away from northern ireland, patchy rain moving into england and wales. a lot more cloud around tonight. temperatures are going to be much higher than over the last couple of nights, typically 11 or 12 degrees, because we've got this whether front that's arriving in the north—west and slipping slowly further southwards on monday across the uk and pushing that high—pressure a little further away.
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so there will be much more cloud on monday. some patchy rain heading its way down into northern england, particularly into wales and perhaps the south—west. eastern areas dry. a little sunshine coming into the north, but even here it's quite cloudy. a few showers as well. not bad temperatures, possibly 20 degrees in eastern scotland with the highest temperatures in the south—east, where we may see the best of the sunshine, 24 degrees here. that will bring a little rain across south—eastern parts of the uk, nota across south—eastern parts of the uk, not a great deal. another one arriving into the northwest on tuesday, but we will be in between weather fronts really, and tuesday, but we will be in between weatherfronts really, and cooler and fresher and are heading away on tuesday as well. the north—westerly breeze, not particularly strong, but againafair breeze, not particularly strong, but again a fair bit of cloud on tuesday. some sunshine coming through now and again. some showers, not many of those. it will cloud overin not many of those. it will cloud over in northern ireland, and we will see patchy rain, especially later in the day, but those temperatures are a bit low on tuesday, so we are dropping the
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temperatures in the north—westerly breeze — 16 or 17, similar numbers to yesterday in scotland and northern ireland, highs of 20 in the south—east. 0ver northern ireland, highs of 20 in the south—east. over the week ahead i suspect there will be quite a lot of cloud across the uk. not much rain, it has to be said. a drier week ahead. some sunshine coming through now and again, and the highest temperatures will be in the south—east. back to you. we've started something about tv theme tunes and flicking over them. a p pa re ntly theme tunes and flicking over them. apparently the number of all time was doctor who. pauline says m.a.s.h. and was doctor who. pauline says m.a.s. h. and another one, was doctor who. pauline says m.a.s.h. and another one, game of thrones. here's another one. now, it's time for the film review with anna smith. hello and welcome to the film review
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with me, anna smith. i'm filling in for mark kermode to review this week's releases. first up, spaceship earth, a fascinating documentary about eight people who locked down for two years for a science experiment. as i am ready to enter, i take my last breath of this atmosphere in two years. we were pioneers. we were the first biospherians. how can you prepare yourself for a journey into the unknown? the biosphere 2 is a collection of huge geodesic domes built in the arizona desert, home to an entire ecological system, including rainforest and an ocean. we called it biosphere 2
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because biosphere1 is the earth. in 1991, the eight biospherians went to live and work there. they reckoned we might all have to relocate to mars one day so they wanted to give it a dry run. under the glare of the press spotlight, the experiment suffered from controversy when the team added to the oxygen supply and allegedly brought in items from the outside world. i don't want to talk about it. the film—maker matt wolf is just as interested in the positives of the story and in the history of the group behind it. using current—day interviews with the team alongside archive footage, he paints a picture of fiercely intelligent forward—thinking radicals. they formed in san francisco in the 19605 and they practised communal living but they were far from stereotypical hippies. they built a ship themselves so they could travel the world and experience different ways of living, persuading rich philanthropists to fund their projects. the future is here. wolf's documentary doesn't get deeply personal in its line of enquiry,
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but it certainly gets you thinking about sustainable community living in the threatened world. this topical watch is available on demand now. a lot of people don't know about organised crime in the south because it is not that organised. what's with the cones? i thought the randomness of it might throw off a cop. i guess that is smart. you might recognise the comic actor clark duke from hot tub time machine or the office, an american workplace. he has now turned director and his first film is a crime thriller called arkansas. are you going to sell us the gun or not? no, i am not. because in your line of work, guns is as likely to get you killed as to protect you. what line of work is that? rangering. based on the novel byjohn brandon, it also stars duke as a drugs runner called swin who is sent to arkansas to play sidekick to a gruff dealer called kyle.
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liam hemsworth is solid as the pragmatic kyle, while duke has quirky comic charm. in the tradition of directors likejon favreau, duke gives himself a very attractive on—screen girlfriend, played by eden brolin, daughter ofjosh, though she is given a kind of kooky edge for this. would either of you boys like to call me sir? you can if you want. i won't think is corny. we are going to go to traffic drugs across state lines, sir. the appearance ofjohn malkovich adds gravitas, and there is a nice role for vivica a fox, too. though vince vaughan fared less well in a role that demands slightly confusing flashbacks. am i going to die? most likely. the biggest problem with arkansas is its pacing. this long film often feels plodding, and following the novel's episodic structure only drags things out further. it is also very grim. violence is dispensed with a sense of gloomy inevitability as the pair get in over their heads and try not to cross
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their mysterious, anonymous boss. but it is still a promising calling card for duke as a screenwriter. his monologues are engaging while clearly influenced by a certain quentin tarantino. say thank you. thank you. you're welcome. it's out on digital onjuly 13. shall we go, or..? yeah. 0k. now to colombia for litigante, a drama about a lawyer who is trying to juggle a stressful court case with a young son and a dying mother.
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director franco lolli casts his own mother in the role, along with his cousin, carolina sanin, in the lead role. both put in authentic performances as a loving but bickering pair, and vladimir duran adds a touch of levity and a glimmer of hope as the love interest. it is a slow burning but well observed character piece. litigante is out on curzon home cinema now. also out on curzon home cinema is in her hands, the story of a brilliant young working—class pianist who is discovered playing piano at a train station by the director of the
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paris conservatoire. it is a neat idea with a strong cast, including kristin scott thomas as a strict piano teacher. jules benchetrit is charismatic in the lead role, but i found it hard to shake the knowledge that he is an actor who has been trained to play the right notes rather than a truly gifted
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classical pianist, which is what the whole story hinges on. and the formula of the big contest that happens to clash with important family events feels very familiar indeed. if you want to watch one formulaic musical drama with kristin scott thomas this week, i would actually make it military wives, out on dvd now. keep going, keep going! # looking from a window above. # like a story of love. go on. # can you hear me? # came back only yesterday. # i'm moving further away. # want you near me. # all i needed was the love you gave. # all i needed for another day. # and all i ever knew.
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# only you.# inspired by a true story, it features scott thomas on imperious form as an officer's wife who clashes with the choir mistress, played by sharon horgan. so... no, go ahead. 0k. thanks very much, lisa. the pair must resolve their differences in order to take the group of wives all the way from the military base to the royal albert hall. with no artistic pretensions, this film from full monty director peter cattaneo is enjoyably predictable and hits all the right notes with crowd—pleasing scenes of female bonding and sometimes harmonious singing. they sing out of tune, baby cries. finally, a blast from the past. the 1986 comedy ferris bueller‘s day off is out on blu—ray now. the 1961 ferrari, 250 gt california. less than 100 were made.
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my father spent three years restoring this car. it is his love, it is his passion. it is his fault he didn't lock the garage. matthew broderick stars as the precocious teen who skives off school for a wild ride around chicago with his girlfriend and his best friend. this blends vicarious thrills with wise guy comedy and farcical episodes. it is hilariously dated in parts, and in other parts plain hilarious. an energetic slice of escapism from high school movie masterjohn hughes. thanks for watching the film review with me, anna smith. stay safe and we will be back next week with more viewing treats. if i was bleeding out of my eyes, you guys would make me go to school. this is so unfair. jeanie, please don't be upset with me. you have your health — be thankful.
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hello. this is breakfast with rogerjohnson and sally nugent. good morning. since the start of the pandemic, donald trump has consistently refused to wear a face covering despite growing pressure from his advisors and experts. but yesterday, after coronavirus infections reached another record high in america, president trump wore a face mask for the first time in public during a visit to a military hospital. let's talk about the significance of this now with the political reporter of the hill, julia manchester. good morning to you, julia. thanks very much indeed for staying up to talk to us. 0ver very much indeed for staying up to talk to us. over here, the pictures of president from wearing his face mask are everywhere. it has been the reaction where you are? they have been everywhere here in the us. it
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isa been everywhere here in the us. it is a very significant moment because throughout this entire pandemic, president trump has refused to wear a face mask at least in public, and it was the first time he did it. we know that before he said he would wear one know that before he said he would wearone ina know that before he said he would wear one in a hospital, and he did wear one in a hospital, and he did wear one in a hospital, and he did wearone in wear one in a hospital, and he did wear one in the halls of walter reed medical centre, to see those pictures of him walking through the halls. however, he didn't wear one when he arrived outside of the medical centre, so it is definitely baby medical centre, so it is definitely ba by ste ps medical centre, so it is definitely baby steps for president trump in terms of wearing a mask, but we don't know if he will wear one going forward in public for now. this is also sadly a record—breaking week in the united states for infections. do you think president trump has had a change of heart, or do you think his advisers have told him that he has to do this now? it is hard to tell because, remember, president trump, we have seen cases climb over the past couple of months since march, really, in different parts of the
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country. and now you are seeing them happen in more southern state, florida, texas, arizona for example, and now you are starting to see those cases climb. however, him wearing a mask right now, like i said, it is in a hospital so it is a different scenario, he hasn't really been visiting the hospital amid the coronavirus pandemic, so that is different. it is interesting because on friday he travelled to miami, south of where i am here in florida, and he essentially did not wear a mask either despite the fact that the county mayor has made a mandate. it doesn't seem like it will be a change of heart going forward. it seems like in that particular insta nce seems like in that particular instance it was just something that was absolutely radical in that very moment. julia, as you said, you are in florida at the moment, we can see you are in orlando this evening. disney has reopened, the disney theme parks are reopening. we are seeing pictures now are people walking into the park wearing masks,
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children wearing masks, staff wearing masks. why have they taken the decision to do that at this time, and how successful do you think that will be? it is hard to tell. i saw some early pictures of the disney theme parks opening up only looked different compared to what it normally looks like at this time of year. the parks essentially looked more like ghost towns, really. but i think they are essentially opening up because we are seeing a lot of businesses here in the florida area trying to push for a return to some sort of normalcy, and you are seeing that in disney, they are opening up and guests, employees have to go through temperature checks, it is mandatory to wear a mask, there is no more park hopping between the parks. you have to stay there. it is not your normal disney experience. i think this might be an example of a theme park trying to grapple with the new normal going forward, how do we keep
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our guests and our customers safe? we don't know when it will end. julia, thank you very much. that is julia, thank you very much. that is julia manchester in florida for us this morning. so, that's the picture in america. let's find out now how covid—19 is affecting the rest of the world. we're joined by the virologist dr elisabetta groppelli. she is in salisbury this morning. doctor, good morning, and thank you for taking the time to talk to us on bbc breakfast. in this country, different nations of the united kingdom, we are seeing restrictions being eased at different speeds, maybe people are starting to think we are past the worst of it. what is a situation like in other places at the moment? the pandemic is obviously affecting the entire world, but we are not at the same stage of the pandemic at all. we are seeing europe being hit quite early in respect of the rest of the world, and we have seen how successfully
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some countries have responded, and we can look at that, the uk have responded at least reasonably in flattening the curve and keeping the numbers down. if we look further afield and look at the entire world, i think we have got a very much mixed situation, and i think i would like to point out one success story. again, we have new zealand, they seem to have had a fantastic way of knowing what was going on and implementing measures to stop transmission and actually get to eliminate the virus. but there are quite worrying numbers and the situation involving, for example, in india, which is the subcontinent, more thanjust india, which is the subcontinent, more than just a single state of course, and where there are very particular realities, but actually allow the virus to transmit very well. at the moment, also the testing doesn't seem to give us a really i —— good idea of what is going on, the virus is there and the situation is going to unfortunately get worse before hopefully it will
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improve. interestingly, although in this country, it seemed people who we re this country, it seemed people who were slightly older were perhaps more susceptible and affected more badly than other age groups. that is not the same in every other country, is it, which is hard to understand, really. yes, this is part of the coronavirus, and also what we are learning, and pandemics do not come with an instruction manual. we are still learning. yes, in higher income countries, there is a large population of over 65, and this is a good thing, but we have learned to make —— it makes them much more susceptible, not only to disease, but the severe disease and death. if we look at africa continent, actually the population is much younger, and therefore, it seems we are not seeing this number of deaths
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simply because actually the age group are not there, and therefore it might be pressure that is a milder situation. it might be pressure that is a mildersituation. however, there it might be pressure that is a milder situation. however, there are situations a little bit in between, like in india, we are not only we have learned about age, we learned about the presence of pre—existing medical conditions like diabetes, for example, or vascular diseases, that actually are again quite a severe risk factor, and therefore, as the situation develops, i think we need to look at all of these things and then learn to build a proper picture that is going to reflect not only the individual countries, but actually the interaction of this virus with the human body. we have seen pictures this morning of president from wearing a face mask for the first time in public, having previously saying he didn't want to do that —— resident trump. just explain how important face masks are. it is not so much a case of you protecting
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yourself, is it? you are protecting other people from what is coming from your mouth, the droplets that come from your respiration. absolutely. again, it has been a learning curve when it comes to masks and face coverings, we have learned quite a blot in the past few months. yes, the concern from the scientific community is certainly that the masks are to prevent the spread, and this is quite important because we now know that a person can be infected without knowing, without symptoms, which is great for the person, but that actually means that they can still transmit the virus, and therefore, wearing a mask at the source prevents this truck kind of transmission. and also, now we are very much looking at a different scenario, a different context. the message is there is not anymore more stay—at—home but start going out and start finding a way of leading with this virus and maintaining social distance is
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sometimes not possible. therefore, masks are one of the measures that we can implement to prevent a transmission. it has been pointed out, they are not a silver magic bullet at all, but they are certainly one of the measures that we must implement and take it on board individually and as a country, because it can help. thank you. that is the situation with face coverings. thank you for taking the time to talk to us morning. we can give you a sneak preview now of what you need to know about what happened yesterday. jane is here. good morning, jane. good morning, jane. good morning. it's another important day at both ends of the premier league table with clubs aiming to either seal a place in europe or, at the bottom, avoid the drop! there are nowjust two places left in the relegation zone after norwich became the first side to seal their fate for next season. alex gulrajani reports.
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the referee's with all confirmed norwich city apartment time in the premier league up. and it has been on the card long before they grabbed all four goals for west ham at caro road. the site has lost 24 league games this season, including all six since the restart. 4—0 defeat west ham sealed a rather predictable relegation. we need to beat the odds again, when the dust settles, we have to say the outcome was more or less, be just what was expected. west ham, though, adds further to safety. six points from the drop zone, as i watford. although they had a tougher task for three points. dwight gale giving newcastle the lead at vicarage road. two penalties from troy dini, though, rescued the winter watford, but the current points tally be enough for safety?
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if four points are enough, then we have been lucky. if not, while we are still in the hands, let's keep winning and grinding the results out. write another next team in their sites. one more win for graham potter's side should see them safe, but it wouldn't come against manchester city. sterling scored a hat trick and 5—0 win to keep brighton over their shoulders for just another week or so. alex gulrajani, bbc news. meanwhile, in last night's other games, liverpool bossjurgen klopp was left frustrated as burnley became the first side to take points from the champions at anfield this season. jay rodriguez cancelling out andy robertson's opener to secure a 1—1 draw. liverpool need to win their remaining three games if they want to break manchester city's premier league points record of 100. and chelsea boss frank lampard admits he was concerned by their 3—0 defeat at sheffield united who are now into the top six. david mcgoldrick with two of the goals, leaving them four
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points below manchester united and five off the top four. before every match yesterday, there was a minute's silence held forjack charlton. the 1966 world cup winner and former republic of ireland manager was remembered up and down the country after passing away aged 85. a great north—east man, and i have had the privilege, i have had many beers with him over the year. on days like today where you lose somebody as great in the game as wattie was to all football people, great buyer, great manager, great sense of humour, you can only obviously pass all our condolences to his brother, of course, and of course his immediate family. now, on to cricket. england have a lot of work to do today if they're to salvage
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a victory in their first test against the west indies. the hosts will resume on 284/8, that's a lead ofjust 170. now, england batted with more determination than in their first innings and zak crawley top—scored with 76. but they lost five wickets for just 30 runs late in the day to leave the west indies favourites to go one up in the 3—match series. it isa it is a shame to give a few wickets back at the end, but they bowled well to be fair to them. there are still plenty of runs on the board for us tomorrow. is there still a belief that you can do it? it will ta ke belief that you can do it? it will take a very special bowling performance. with two batsmen at the moment who can both that, if they above 200, it will be a very good chance. even now, ithink above 200, it will be a very good chance. even now, i think we have a chance. lewis hamilton gave yet another master class in wet weather driving during qualifying for today's styrian grand prix in austria. despite struggling to see in the treacherous conditions,
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hamilton was more than a second quicker around the red bull ring than max verstappen. mclaren's carlos sainz was third and valtteri bottas in the other mercedes will line up fourth on the grid. horrific conditions there, but it is due to be wet again we think later on this afternoon for the grand prix. we know hamilton is good in the wet. fingers crossed he will do well. that is fantastic. those pictures are incredible. fantastic! a bit ofjeopardy, though, with the driving. you see how good he really is. absolutely. yeah, he is brilliant. there is someone else who knows all about the wet weather. but it will not be wet, willard, darren? look at this weather picture. isn't it amazing? we have had some amazing ones and in the morning of the sun coming up. it is lighting up the clouds, it looks like there will ease some alta cumulus out there, that fluffy cloud quite high up,
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about 10,000 feet or so. it sets the scene on what will be a nice day for many parts of the country. it will be warm in the sunshine, temperatures higher than they were yesterday. this whether front from the atlantic will arrive later today, but high—pressure is dominant elsewhere. it's been a chilly start, but warming up quickly. a lot of sunshine around with patchy fair weather cloud here unfair. cloudy for the northern ireland of scotland, and it will cloud over in northern ireland, patchy rain in the afternoon. sunshine turning hazy in scotland, but making 20 degrees around the murray firth and aberdeenshire. 18 at best in northern ireland. 22 to 24 across the midlands and south—east of england. more cloud further north. that patchy rain in northern ireland heading its way to scotland this evening and overnight, and eventually into northern and western england and wales. a lot more cloud
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tonight, and as a result temperatures will be higher than over the past couple of nights, typically 11 or 12 degrees. tomorrow sees a bit of a different look to the weather. the high—pressure is squeezed away is that whether front thatis squeezed away is that whether front that is bringing the rain down from the north—west heads further south into england and wales. this is what's left. you can see how patchy that rain is. it's mainly running into the hills of north—west england, into wales and south—west england. to the north, a lot of cloud. some sunshine and some showers too. but a cloudier picture on monday. still decent temperatures. where we stayed dry in the south—east, they will have the best sunshine and the highest temperatures on monday. eventually that whether front will bring some rain in the evening and overnight. thenifs rain in the evening and overnight. then it's gone for tuesday. another one from the atlantic into northern ireland, but on the whole between two weather fronts on tuesday. but the air is cool and fresher. temperatures not as high on tuesday.
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there is the first whether front, the rain heading into continental europe. you can see there's a fair bit of cloud around and a few showers here and there. a lot of places will be dry. some rain coming to northern ireland later on. but those temperatures will be lower on tuesday. 16 in belfast, 17 in newcastle, highs of 20 in london. those are the temperatures we had yesterday, but cooler than today. 0ver yesterday, but cooler than today. over the week ahead, near—normal temperatures — nothing much better than that, except maybe in the south—east of england. 0n the whole it looks much drier week ahead, but i suspect there will be a lot of cloud. not as much sunshine as we are going to see today. make the most of it. thanks very much. now, it's time for click with spencer kelly and lara lewington. theme music plays
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welcome to click. i hope you're doing 0k. last week lara ventured into her garden. this week we've both been let loose into the outside world. how was it for you? it was great. i've been on an electric bike, and managed to not fall off, unlike the last time. how as it for you? i have to say, i really enjoyed filming out and about again. anyway, as we start to move toward some sense of normality, one of the things that was delayed during lockdown was non—emergency surgery. in england nhs had to free up 12,000 beds for covid—19 patients, and that meant the delay of surgery. two million operations.
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that means people waiting for things likejoint replacements have been left in pain and the nhs has been left with a huge backlog of surgeries which could reach 10 million by christmas. so how is that going to happen, and what can people do while they are waiting? trying to be the fittest old—age pensioner in the country. 80—year—old brian lewis has been waiting for a hip replacement in his home near manchester since the lockdown began. like millions of others, brian was on the list for elective surgery before coronavirus, but, since march, everything is on hold. he could cope with the pain for a few months and has been doing zoom calls with his physiotherapist, but now is finding it very difficult. it has completely from here to there, the pain used to be in the hip and now it is the whole leg, i have these muscles in my leg that can move, i have always been a very fit guy, like, you know, but... this excruciating pain.
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i have reached the stage now where the deterioration has been so great, and the last three weeks i have been put onto a stick. doctors around the country are looking at ways they can remotely assist the thousands of patients that are waiting forjoint surgeries. this includes the creation of new apps and tools that can monitor them in new and detailed ways. welcome to our lab. fantastic. whoever you are, wherever you are. this free app provides access to some of the orthopaedic therapies a patient could expect to have in person. downloading this app is a great way to make recovery from your surgery. it's part of a service called my recovery that allows surgeons to monitor their patients at home. the coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the team's work to design more advanced ways to generate useful patient data for doctors. these are infrared cameras, and they are all tracking, triangulating off of these dots. so these are typically used
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in the computer game industry or the film industry. using datasets from analysis labs around the world, they are training algorithms on millions of data points to create a new camera system that could one day be used with a simple smartphone camera connected to the internet. this would recreate the sophistication of a fully fledged gait analysis lab in anyone's pocket, enabling a surgeon to have the ability to confidently assess range of motion in the patient‘s knee post surgery without anyone having to leave home. because of the vast amounts of training the algorithm has gone through, it can accurately identify the anatomy and range of movement to a degree similar to wearing a morph suit in an expensive gait lab. we are particularly interested in human motion capture, so we've taken lots of inspiration from the gaming world. what we're doing is a very accurate version of this using artificial intelligence to accurately measurejoint function. so, for a surgeon, can this technology, through a smartphone camera, tell a surgeon if that patient‘s leg is straight after surgery?
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one of the hospitals advocating the use of these tools is in wrightington. birthplace of the modern hip replacement, the team here want to see more daycare surgeries to shorten the time people spend in hospital and help clear the backlog. there is an app in development, a specific version of the my recovery app, to support the day case patients. you can get a lof ot information just by talking but in some cases you have to have a lot of examination, some system to be able to measure the range of movement of a joint accurately, which would be of benefit. artificial intelligence could be used in other ways to clear the backlog of cases. c2 ai, an approved user of the nhs dataset, is aiming to prioritise patients based on their operative risk and physiology in order to rank them in order of priority. they have identified 14 key variables that correlate the risk of mortality and will be able to look at the whole country's
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surgical backlog at once. if you had a patient, ould some people feel neglected if a! is doing this? i think people would want to know there is a logic to it, and if they are waiting behind people it is because they have a greater need. rather than being done in an inefficient manner, it is being done with a reason. there are large numbers of patients on the list, with comorbidities, for example, which might mean they are at higher risk. artificial intelligence could be used to scan that data and come up with a list of patients that fit a certain category, a certain priority, rather than, you know, clerks having to go through that, or, indeed, clinicians having to go through all that data to try and prioritise patients. i think the algorithm could be more sensitive and useful than somebody, because they will do the pain thing, you know, one to ten, the old—fashioned thing. whereas the algorithm can take so many other things into account that a human being can't take into account. brian and millions of other patients
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who signed up to elective surgery still have many months to wait, but using patient data and powerful computing systems can help the process and get them in and out of hospital faster. here in the uk, things are opening up. but we are still being told to only get public transport when it is essential. and that has led to a surge in sales of e—bikes. the leap has been unprecedented. in may, as an example, we sold more bikes than we did in the entire year in 2018. a decent e—bike can easily cost well over £1000. and there are hundreds of brands to choose from. but the vast majority of them run on tech from just one manufacturer. the number of bosch—powered electric bikes in the uk would be somewhere between 60 and 80%. but the difference between e—bikes is how they are powered.
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some have hub drive motors which track your pedal rotations and power the bike's wheels. today, though, i am using an even smarter crank drive bike. this uses a torque sensor to respond to how hard i press the pedals, so i've got my high—vis, i've got my hat and i have my bike — let's go. wow — i can feel the power. this suddenly feels so light — i can't believe i am going uphill. hitting 15.5 miles per hour — that is the legal speed limit for e—bikes in the uk — was pretty effortless, too. some countries do have higher speed limits for pedal assist bikes, but if you've seen cyclists putting in zero legwork at all, they are likely to be using a throttle system. these are less common and in most eu countries you need special registration and insurance to ride them legally. i was excited about the fact
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that this could go faster but i didn't think i would have the confidence to do it. actually, once i got going, the weight of it made me feel so much more confident. why do they have to speed limit it? but all this comes a pricetag. £4706 — pretty shocking really. spencer has been looking at a far cheaper solution. you might like the idea of a e—bike, but you may only have a perfectly nice bike already. the good news is you can retrofit your bike to make it electric using a conversion kit like this. switch is a new front wheel with a 250—watt motor in the middle. it also comes with a powerpack and a pedal sensor. this isn't cheap, but it is cheaper than an e—bike, and the price you pay is also your time, which will be dependent on how confident you are at taking off wheels, tires and brake discs. if you think you are going to get
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stuck then you can pre—book a support video call. obviously i only called them to generate the service, and not because i am a completely clueless dingbat. switch say they will make these kits to fit any size of bike, that basically you discuss with them what you need and they will build the wheel to order. and there is a special adaptor for a folding bike like this one. it is a bit fiddly, but to be honest i did find it perfectly manageable — and that is saying something, because it is me. a tyre and a new wheel. top e—bikes use a crank driven system. this is a hub driven system. this magnetic sensor monitors how fast the pedals go around, and then it takes that into account along with things like acceleration to try and work out how much power to deliver. it is not quite as seamless an experience but is a lot cheaper and a lot lighter. but you do have to accept
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that there will be some extra cables on your frame after this, and a powerpack attached to the handlebars. assuming that won't upset your chi or your aerodynamics too much, you switch it on, select your power assist level and you are ready to go. first pleasant surprise — it wasn't a complete disaster. being a total novice, i did expect it to be harder than it was. secondly, it is outrageously fast. i can't actually have it on the highest setting, not on the flats — it is just too fast. i hardly touch the pedals and i am away. the only thing is that the power assistance doesn't always behave itself. sometimes cutting out when i need it, and sometimes kicking in when i am not even pedalling. switch say the problem is most likely the pedals sensor not being perfectly aligned, and in fact a new design of sensor is going to be available
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in a few weeks. if you do want to return your bike to a normal non—electric, you can take the powerpack off, which will leave it only about one kilogram heavier than it was before. although i think that is enough exercise for one lockdown, don't you? wheee! that's it for the short version this week. the full version is brilliant and waiting for you on iplayer right now. you can find us at: thanks for watching, and we will see you soon. bye— bye.
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good morning. welcome to breakfast with rogerjohnson and sally nugent. 0ur headlines today: a £700 million plan for british border checks at the end of the brexit transition period, but labour accuses the government of complacency. donald trump wears a face covering in public for the first time during the coronavirus pandemic. norwich city are the first to be relegated from the premier league. confirmation of their drop came after another loss. they haven't picked up a single point since the league restarted.
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england collapse, losing five wickets for 30 runs late on day 4, making the west indies favourites to win the first test in southampton. the remarkable story of british pilot stephen cameron who spent two months on life support in vietnam with coronavirus and is now on his way home. good morning. it is going to be a warmer day for us today. most places will be dry with sunny spells. rain coming into the north—west of the uk later on. butjoin me later for all the details. good morning. it's sunday 12th july. our top story: the government is to spend more than £700 million on increased security and border checks in preparation for the end of the brexit transition period at the end of the year. there'll be 500 new staff and new inland border posts where existing ports have no room to cope with the extra checks that will be required.
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here's our political correspondent iain watson. dover is the busiest channel port. it will be on the front line of new customs regulations from the end of the year. when the brexit transition period comes to a close, new checks will be necessary, and where existing ports are too cramped, new facilities will be built inland. the uk will phase in its new system over six months. but eu countries will begin checks on our exports from january 1. getting ready for life outside the eu customs union doesn't come cheap. the government will spend £470 million on new customs facilities such as border control posts, and a further 235 million on it and staffing, including the recruitment of 500 more border force staff. but government ministers haven't said exactly when the new facilities will be ready. in a leaked letter, the international trade secretary, liz truss, has expressed concerns
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about a lack of necessary infrastructure at uk ports, and she wants assurances from government colleagues that a new customs system here in the uk won't be delayed any further than july next year. labour is accusing ministers of being complacent in their post—brexit preparations, and the party claims there is a growing sense of chaos in the government. but government ministers argue they are making an unprecedented investment to keep our border secure. iain watson, bbc news. let's get more on this now with our political correspondent nick eardley. nick, some criticism that these plans may be a little late in the day? yes, good morning. fewerthan six months now until we leave the eu, and you are right, there is some concern in the labor party that ministers haven't quite got on top of this, this hasn't been in place sooner. you heard in that piece, the cabinet minister has raised those concerns privately as well, that by not having a full border check in
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place untiljuly not having a full border check in place until july next not having a full border check in place untiljuly next year, a year from now, six months after the end of the transition, could see increased smuggling or challenges from the trade organisation, the body that oversees global trade. there are some of those concerns, but i think what this is about, what we will see more of in the next few weeks is the government trying to persuade us all that despite having most of the focus on the coronavirus crisis, they are also still thinking about brexit and wanting to make sure that they have all the necessary infrastructure in place over the next few months. we also extending to hear more details about the new points —based immigration system tomorrow, aren't we? yes, that's right. also parts of this getting us ready for the end of the year, the transition period ends. i've known for a while now it will bea i've known for a while now it will be a points —based system where different things like skills or salary can win you extra points, and we are going to find out about a
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couple of different schemes tomorrow as well one for nhs staff, people coming to work in the uk from abroad, and one for graduates, people studying in the uk, giving them a chance to stay here after they finish their studies. but as i say, it is part of trying to get the country back, thinking about brexit. those are talks about the future trade deal going on in the background for the last few weeks, there has not been a breakthrough yet, but what you are going to hear from ministers over the next few weeks are the plans of whether we get deal or not. thank you very much. president trump has worn a face covering in public for the first time since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. as infection rates reached record levels this week, donald trump seemed to heed the advice of his advisors and experts and wore a mask despite previously saying he would never do so. 0ur correspondent john mcmanus has the story. an unexpected change of direction — president trump wearing a face mask in public
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for the first time. although he recently said that he thought he resembled the lone ranger when he donned a face mask, he originally refused to wear one. i think wearing a face mask as great presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens — i don't know. somehow, i don't see it for myself. the president's change of heart comes as covid—19 tightens its grip on the us. so far, there have been 135,000 deaths from the virus. with 3.2 million cases, the usa is the worst—hit country, and the numbers just keep on rising. florida is one of those states struggling to contain the virus. after attempting to open in may, the state ordered bars to close again at the end ofjune. in arizona, there has been a steady rise in the use of artificial breathing machines in intensive care units. its bars and clubs have also been closed again. while in texas, several hospitals say
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their coronavirus wards are at or near capacity. but in orlando, disney world reopened two of its four parks on saturday — magic kingdom and animal kingdom. decisions over face coverings are contentious in the us. many of donald trump's own supporters regard it as a personal choice and not something to be imposed by the state, meaning their president is trying to tread a fine line. i think it's a great thing to wear a mask. i've never been against masks, but i do believe they have a time and a place. other world leaders are already leading by example, some more reluctantly than others. all eyes will now be on mr trump to see if his mask will be a lasting feature. john mcmanus, bbc news. thousands of people staged a demonstration in tel aviv last night, protesting against economic hardship and what they say is the israeli government's mishandling of the pandemic. the event was organised by small businesses, self—employed workers
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and performing artists' groups, angered by government coronavirus measures. israel has seen a spike in infections with nearly 1,500 new cases reported on friday. one of india's most famous bollywood stars, amitabh bachchan, has tested positive for coronavirus and has been admitted to a hospital in mumbai. in a tweet to his 43 million followers, he asked anyone who had come into contact with him in the past ten days to get tested. officials say the 77—year—old is in a stable condition. an airline pilot from north lanarkshire, who contracted covid—19 in vietnam and spent more than two months on life support in a hospital in ho chi minh city, is on his way home. doctors gave 42—year—old stephen cameron a 10% chance of survival in a country that has recorded no official coronavirus deaths. alexandra mackenzie reports. he had only recently
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arrived in vietnam to work as a pilot for vietnam airways. stephen cameron is thought to have contracted covid—19 on a night out in ho chi minh city at the end of march. the case attracted much media attention because in vietnam, the number of coronavirus cases is below 400, and there were no registered deaths. the 42—year—old from motherwell spent more than two months on a ventilator. there were few critical patients, so he was treated by the country's top clinicians. but stephen, whose face has been blurred in this hospitalfootage, had multiple complications. my friend craig was told by the foreign commonwealth office i had a 10% chance of survival, so he planned for the worst. so he gave up my apartment. he only start to do things that you would expect somebody to do if i was coming home in a box. however, after ten weeks, doctors woke him from the coma and he dared to think about home.
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the odds say that i shouldn't be here, so i can only thank everybody here for doing what they have done, and i go home with a happy heart because i'm going home, but a sad one because i am leaving so many people here that i have made friends with. stephen is on the road to recovery. he lost weight and muscle strength and suffered fatigue and depression. there was also a debate about who would pay the medical bills. but he is now on his way home and an emotional reunion is expected with friends and family in motherwell. alexandra mackenzie, bbc news, glasgow. incredible story. he's raised over £30 million for the nhs, had a number one single with michael ball and been given a knighthood. i think we know... we do! of course, it's captain sir tom moore.
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well, now he can add being a member of the england football squad to his long list of achievements. david beckham has named him an honorary captain of the lionhearts, an initiative honouring inspirational people who have gone above and beyond during the pandemic. this was the moment they met. let's have a listen at what happened when david met sir tom. david. captain sirtom, thank you for having me here today. i am very excited about meeting you and it is a real pleasure for me to be down here to personally say thank you and also to present you with a little present from the england team. very kind of you, and i am delighted to receive that honour from you, especially from you. thank you very much indeed. fantastic. brilliant, isn't it? he looks very well, which is always good to see. he looks great, yes. for months, people have been working from home following official government guidance to stay at home
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as much as possible. but yesterday, we received the clearest indication yet that the advice may be about to change. boris johnson urged people to go back into work if they can during an event filmed by downing street, where members of the public put questions to the prime minister. let's take a look. i want people to go back to work as carefully as possible. i think it is very important that people should be going back to work if they can now. they are taking the stay at home if you can. i think we should now go back to work if you can, but it is very important that people should try to lead their lives more normally, and i want to see more people being able to feel confident to use the shops, use the restau ra nt, to use the shops, use the restaurant, get back into work, but only if we all follow the guidance. that was the prime minister speaking
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yesterday at a people's prime minister's questions event. downing street said the prime minister made the comments, and the official guidance remains unchanged, so that basically means work from home if you can. it is not straightforward for everyone perhaps to go back to work. what if childcare problems or health issues make that a tricky prospect? to talk about employment rights, we're speaking to kate palmer, an employment law and hr specialist. and we'll also hear from bethany shirley, who is campaigning for paid maternity leave to be extended during this coronavirus period, and is on currently on maternity leave herself. good morning to you both. kate, what are your concerns of at the moment, as we look like we might be at the point of the advice changing zone? yes, absolutely. it is interesting to see there is a varying approach and opinions towards returning to work. some employees are desperate to get back. there are those
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understandably who are concerned, and it kind of relate and centres around three primary concerns. 0ne being one public concern about health and safety, returning to the workplace. also commuting to the workplace, particularly as the transport network gets busier, and also, as you said, childcare issues which become more prevalent and prudent concern as we move into the summer months. what if you are —— let your employer says, we want you back at work in the office or wherever, and you are not comfortable with that for whatever reason? where does it sit and who has rights here? yes, it is very context dependent, very specific to the case. the first thing the employer and employee should do is sit down and have a really open and honest and socially responsible discussion about why the employee is concerned about returning. if an employee has
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reasonable belief that there is an imminentand reasonable belief that there is an imminent and serious threat to their health and safety, they are protected in law and they are protected in law and they are protected by, if they are put at detriment or they are potentially dismissed by raising a health and safety concern. they are protected and employers should absolutely tread with caution, and a similar scenario for the childcare issue as well. an honest and open discussion about the exploration and employee has done to secure childcare and whether they are acting reasonably, and again, they are protected in terms of the employing be definite employer being too forceful. it is a really sensitive situation. it's not a lwa ys really sensitive situation. it's not always that simple. what one person regards as a threatening environment someone might be comfortable with. it's a grey area. it's those
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pertinent words, reasonable belief — absolutely. that is grey and difficult. all one can advises that those decent and honest discussions occurred between employer and employee. in many scenarios the employer can allay scenarios and assure employees that the measures they have implemented deal with that fear, that worry and anxiety, and often they can be allayed with a really good conversation. you are off on maternity leave at the moment. how do you feel about going back to work? i am having to extend my maternity leave and take the unpaid portion of maternity. in the uk only the first nine months is paid in the final three months are unpaid, and the main reason i'm having to take that unpaid leave is for childcare reasons at the moment —iamto for childcare reasons at the moment — i am to secure childcare and therefore unable to return to work. why is it so difficult to get
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childcare at the moment? before the pandemic childcare settings were struggling anyway. now, after prolonged exposure and increase capacity, many struggling to survive in closing. with us still having social distancing from grandparents, grandparents may be able to look after older children and distance from them, but when it comes to babies and toddlers that need personal care, nappies changing, need to be wiped and fed, they can't socially distance, so therefore if we stick to the letter of the rules, they are currently not allowed to look after them. how has your employer been with you? are you happy to take this extra time off, and what will you do at the end of that? i am now returning to work in october. i'm using a variety of unpaid leave and all my annual leave. my employer has been very supportive. they have put in a numberof supportive. they have put in a number of measures to help parents. however, the guidance is changing
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all the time, and when you are on maternity leave, you have to give eight weeks' notice to change your return to work date, and with the measures changing all the time, my employers are due to end, i think in september — so we can't react as quickly as we like to. so to provide security and to know what's happening for me and my daughter, i've had to take that unpaid. kate, just a final one. if this comes to a head and the employer and employee just can't agree on a way forward, can you be fired? potentially. it very much is dependent on the case. what i would say is that dismissal, that exit from the business, should bea that exit from the business, should be a last resort. hopefully in advance of that an option under compromise has been arrived at. but dismissals are happening out there, where employees have been obstructive in the employer ‘s' view, and they believe they are acting unreasonably, but that is a
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last resort and few and far between, and hopefully in the interim a compromise can be arrived at under way forward. there are lots of options, as bethany touched on, that the employer and employee can agree to, and that's more conducive to a working relationship in the coming months as well. potentially there is an option... just a final months as well. potentially there is an option. .. just a final thing. it looks like you are desperate to say something. yeah, there are lots of options for people to take but many women are feeling they have no option but to quit theirjobs when it comes to unpaid leave for maternity leave. some employers are great and being helpful. some are not. and a lot of womenjust can't find childcare. they are suffering from mental health issues. their entire support system is removed. if we don't do what we can to support maternal employment now, in 2014 it was found that a 5% change to the maternal employment rate because the economy £750 million a year. that's
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such a huge cost that could be mitigated if we implement measures now to mitigate that. surely prevention has got to be better than cu re prevention has got to be better than cure when it comes to maternal mental health and the subsequent impact on children. bethany, shirley and kate palmer, thank you very much for talking to us this morning. thank you. here's darren with a look at this morning's weather. how is it looking? good morning. we've seen an improvement from what we had last week, certainly. we had sunshine so far this weekend, and if anything today will be warmer than yesterday. most places will be dry with spells of sunshine around as well. we got high pressure essentially in charge of the weather. that's a bit of a novelty. the fly in the ointment is this weather system coming in from the atla ntic weather system coming in from the atlantic that will arrive across north—western areas later on. already we are seeing some cloud pushing its way into northern
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ireland. a lovely picture around belfast there. that cloud will tend to increase in northern ireland and through the afternoon we will see patchy rain coming from the west, but elsewhere a good deal of dry weather and a lot of sunshine. quite cloudy for the northern isles, the sunshine turning hazy on the rest of scotla nd sunshine turning hazy on the rest of scotland as the high cloud tends to build. but some patchy cloud for england and wales. probably not a great deal of that. across the border it will be warmer. could make 20 degrees and murray firth and aberdeenshire, 23 and 24 in the midlands and the south—east. more cloud through the evening comes into scotland, bringing some outbreaks of rain and drizzle. that wetter weather pushing down into england and wales later on in the night. because there's a lot more cloud around tonight, it will be quite a lot warmer than it has been over the past couple of nights or so, but tomorrow's weather looks little different. we are seeing this high pressure being squeezed by this weather front bringing rain down from the north—west, and it contains
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of cloud, so much cloudier picture really, i think, for tomorrow. we've got this patchy rain and drizzle moving down across northern england into into wales and eventually the south—west, perhaps into the midlands too. behind it the cloudy skies remain. a little sunshine but if you show is particularly into scotland. still decent temperatures on monday, and probably the highest in the south—east, where it's going to be dry for most of the day, and there will be some sunshine for awhile here. during the evening, that rain —— weather protects the rain into the south—west. between two weather systems on tuesday. it's slightly cooler and fresher air. they will be a fair bit of cloud around on tuesday. some sunshine, a few showers, but temperatures i think will be lower on tuesday, back down to 17 to 20 celsius. that to you. thank you. for generations, scouts have spent their summers camping outdoors, toasting marshmallows
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on fires and canoeing across lakes. it sounds idyllic. sadly, during the pandemic, groups across the world are missing out on the things they enjoy the most. however, they are a resourceful bunch, the boy scouts — and the girl scouts, of course. not to be defeated, the scouts have tried to recreate the fun with a huge digital summer camp this weekend. our correspondent robert hall is with a family taking part in their garden injersey. morning, robert. i bet you were in the scouts, weren't you? yes, i was, actually. weren't you? yes, iwas, actually. iwas weren't you? yes, i was, actually. i was in the cubs and the sea scouts for a bit, but we were in london, so there wasn't a lot of sea. a lot of families will need coffee, because it's been a long night, notjust in jersey, not just it's been a long night, notjust in jersey, notjust in the uk, notjust europe but around the world. the scouts have been keeping in touch via social media right through the
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lockdown because that's the only way they could stay in touch. however, this is probably the most challenging thing they've attempted yet. you are about to hear, there are literally about 100,000 plus scouts around the world that have joined in with this, so let's get a taste of what they've called the great big indoor weekender. friends, shared experiences in the great outdoors — the threads that run through scouting, particularly at this time of year. summer 2020 has a very different feel. campsites and buildings are empty and silent. scalp meetings suspended. friends forced apart. —— scalp meetings suspended. friends forced apart. but this weekend they are pitching their tents again rather closer to home. the call has gone out, and well over 100,000 scouts have answered it. in
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countries around the world, they are setting up camp inside and outside their homes — a virtualjamboree with online challenges to match. this is my stay—at—homejungle. i will be sleeping in it this week. ben and annabel have pitched their tentin ben and annabel have pitched their tent in theirjersey front garden. they, like thousands of other young people, have experienced the stresses of lockdown.” people, have experienced the stresses of lockdown. i haven't been able to see my friends. i spend a lot of time outdoors, so it's been weird being in the house a lot, and i've really missed seeing lots of people. it's definitely been tough, going from seeing people every day and scouting nearly three times a week to not seeing anyone at all, and it's been even harder because my workload from school has increased.
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higher, i higher, lam higher, i am from victoria in australia, and we are making campfire desserts. we have the most yummy marshmallows. this is our midnight snack. we were also planning to have a midnight feast, but we too tired. the key to this is a feeling of mutual support. scouts may be thousands of miles apart, but there are new friends to be found, along with help and advice. it's so good we can get together like this and take part in these activities. i know for a lot of you it's been hard staying indoors and away from our friends. if the lows are outweighing the highs, ask for help. it's not a weakness. we all need a hug and help carrying our worries from time to time. it's been a long day, sitting
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in front of my electric campfire, worming up. -- warming up. the virtual campfire is over, the tents and duvets are being packed away, but those scouting threads are being discovered just when they are most needed. i'm looking at the contents of that plan and feeling better than when i arrived. you are the commissioner here. what did you think about this when you got a phone call to say they were going to do this? the great big indoor weekender — i thought it was a fantastic idea. we've done something similar locally in terms of trying to get the scouts online around a campfire, so a fantastic idea to bring everyone together. how tough has lockdown been for you? what's been the ha rd est been for you? what's been the hardest part? i think it's trying to do the activities. generally it is easier when you've got someone next to you who can help you do the folding or what you are going to do.
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do you get stir crazy, shot at home, and at the start, when you couldn't go out at all, was that hard? yeah, i was used to being able to go to the park and see my friends. what about you, megan? was it hard? yes. the hardest part was working at home when my dad was at work and my mum could only help one of us and we didn't get all our school work done. did you get cross, one or two days? yes! it's a great idea, isn't it? at least for a couple of days it brings everybody back together. how challenging has it been to keep scouting going and active in the island? it has been difficult - i won't say it hasn't. but the leaders have been amazing. they've got to grip with new technology they may be haven't used before, like zoomteams
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or teams. i think actually we could come out of this quite well. will you go on using technology? absolutely. whether it's for engaging with all the young people orjust for meetings between adults and for the administration side, it certainly makes things a lot easier, andi certainly makes things a lot easier, and i think it's changed people ‘s perception of how they do things. thank you very much. i'm going to go away and eat a bacon sandwich now. but before i go, one interesting point. jersey is about to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the year the germans arrived, the beginning of the occupation, in 1940, and when they arrive, uniformed organisations like scouting couldn't happen. it's interesting that in a way we are back where we were 80 years ago with scouting not underground but still managing to meet and keep that spirit going. absolutely. and create a fantastic fry up.
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they are looking after that bacon very carefully! keep your hands off it — i know! the andrew marr show is on bbc one at 9:00 this morning, and we can talk to andrew now. who's on the show today? michael gove in charge of remaking britain's borders after brexit, i have labour's rachel reeves, the spokesperson, i have the new prime minister in the republic of ireland andi minister in the republic of ireland and i have nicholas sturgeon, the first minister of scotland as well, and the key scientist on the airborne transmission of covid floating around in the air —— nicola. a busy hour at nine o'clock. thank you very much. sounds great. stay with us. the headlines are on the way.
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hello. this is breakfast with sally nugent and rogerjohnson. good morning. here's a summary of today's main stories from bbc news. the government is to spend more than £700 million on increased security and border checks in preparation for the end of the brexit transition period at the end of the year. there'll be 500 new staff and new inland border posts where existing ports have no room to cope with the extra checks that will be required. but labour has accused the government of being complacent in its plans for the end of the transition period. president trump has worn a face covering in public for the first time since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic despite previously insisting he would never do so. as infection rates reached record levels this week, donald trump seemed to heed the advice of his advisors and experts and wore a mask during a visit to a military hospital.
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america has seen a record—breaking number of new infections in the last 24 hours with the death toll now standing at nearly 135,000. thousands of people staged a demonstration in tel aviv last night, protesting against economic hardship and what they say is the israeli government's mishandling of the pandemic. the event was organised by small businesses, self—employed workers and performing artists' groups, angered by government coronavirus measures. israel has seen a spike in infections with nearly 1,500 new cases reported on friday. one of india's most famous bollywood stars, amitabh bachchan, has tested positive for coronavirus and has been admitted to a hospital in mumbai. in a tweet to his 43 million followers, he asked anyone who had come into contact with him in the past ten days to get tested. officials say the 77—year—old
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is in a stable condition. time for our daily gp appointment now. let's talk to dr rangan chatterjee. good morning to you. lovely to see you this morning. lots of different stories coming up about coronavirus over the last couple of days. one of the things we have been talking about a lot is the return of people to gp surgeries. are they confident to gp surgeries. are they confident to come back in? what is your experience? good morning, sally. lots of things changing over the past few days and weeks. i think it really depends. i think people are coming back in, people are getting the advice they are hearing, they are aware the general practice is open, it has always been open for help, and i just open, it has always been open for help, and ijust expect to change in the coming weeks. but of course some people anxious at the moment and i
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would people if they are concerned about their health and have any anxiety, do phone your gp practice and get advice so they can guide you through that. we are seeing gyms and swimming pools are starting to reopen. how important is that for physical fitness and also for mental health as well? that is a really good point. i have to be honest, so many people i know, so many of my patients are so happy to hear that jim is an pools are going to be opening shortly —— gyms. for many of my patients, it is more about their mental health. of course physical health benefits but people have struggled over the past few months, it has been incredibly strength —— stressful, a lot of anxiety, and a lot of people use physical activity to help them deal with that. the reality is it is very individuals. yes, some people have thrived on having extra time to go for a walk. other people have not. they found
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thatis other people have not. they found that is not the kind of activity they enjoy and they really miss the community they get at the gym all the regular swim. i think it will be a really, really positive step for many of my patients for sure. what advice would you give to people who wa nt to advice would you give to people who want to go back to the gym or the pool but are a little bit nervous? what do they need to be aware of?” think the government are giving gyms an pools clear guidance on how to reopen. so i think each gym, each pool will have their own guidelines on what you have to follow, there will be adopting social distancing measures, that is what we will see, booking systems, what we have to do isi booking systems, what we have to do is i encourage people to go out, get active, get into the gym and get to the pool, but follow the guidance that you are given by your local gym or your local pool. how much of a problem are you seeing with people who have perhaps, over the last few
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months, because they have not been able to go out and exercising the same way, how many people are using that had gained weight? we hear about the corona stone. are using a lot of that? yes, i have actually. i have seen patients, you see on social media, everyone is talking about cove and i think it is really important that people understand what is going on here —— covid—19 related. i don't think we should make people feel guilty, people shouldn't feel ashamed about this. let's be really clear. we have gone through and are still going through an incredibly stressful and anxiety inducing time research has shown about 80% of us change our eating behaviour in response to stress. about 46% of us eat more around 30% less. it is an inevitable consequence that the stress, many people will turn to food. ending we have to be really compassionate about that and say, it is ok during
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this time that you use that, and a lot of people i think... the government are clearly saying they are going to take obesity and excess weight seriously. now, what does seriously mean? my concern is how they will deliver this message. telling people off, telling people they just need to telling people off, telling people theyjust need to take more personal responsibility without understanding the drivers of people's eating behaviour, i think is very shortsighted. we tried that for 20 yea rs shortsighted. we tried that for 20 years and it hasn't worked so well. i think people who actually work with patients and have successfully helped them lose excess weight, if thatis helped them lose excess weight, if that is what they want over a period of time, shame, making people feel guilty, it never really worked. when we think about weight gain, first of all, i said that people need to take the pressure off themselves, but a lot of the focus is always on what
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should be eating, and actually, i think we need a lot more focus on why we are eating in the first place. i mention stress, but the last two months, people have been bored. we used to turn to food when we we re bored. we used to turn to food when we were hungry, to fill a hole in our stomach. but now we often turn to food to fill a hole in our hearts. when we are bored, when we are lonely, yes, when we are stressed, when we are tired. what we do? we turn to food. if you are stuck at home for a few months and you have food in the cupboard, it is likely at some point you are going to be eating it. sleep is another big factor, which a lot of people don't think about. people are beating themselves up and they really don't need to about what they have been consuming. when you haven't slept well, and many patients have come in the last few months and told me they are really struggling to sleep, they are nervous, stressed, they have anxiety about the state of the world. this impact your sleep. when you haven't
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slept well, the following day hunger hormones go up and the hormone for feeling full goes down. you always feeling full goes down. you always feel hungry and you never feel full. iimagine, feel hungry and you never feel full. i imagine, sally, you work in media, iimagine you i imagine, sally, you work in media, i imagine you to early mornings, and sometimes you haven't properly slept well before you come in, and i am guessing you are not craving healthy whole foods, fruit and vegetables. we don't crave that. we crave sugary... you speak the truth! this is so true. when you get up very early in the morning and haven't slept well, what you want is starchy, carb, sugary things to eat straightaway. there is my final question. how do we fix this? what do we do? how do we fix this? a lot of research i have been mentioning is because over lockdown i have been diving into this for my next book on weight loss because i think a lot of the guidance out there is misleading and is overly reductionist for the what we need to do to fix this is we
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need to think about movement, not for burning calories, and that is a whole other slideshow which we could talk about because there is a lot of evidence showing us that actually it is not what we call... if you burn 300 calories in the gym, it does not necessarily mean that overall your calorie expenditure has gone up by 300 calories, we make up for it and compensate. how do we fix this? we need compassion, we need to stop judging people, we need to help people feel good about themselves so they actually want to make those changes. and i would say think about physical activity as a way of making yourself feel good, not as a way of burning off calories. that sounds like a plan to me. lovely to talk to you this morning. in my case, go for a you this morning. in my case, go fora run, but you this morning. in my case, go for a run, but then don't go to the biscuitjar. that is the difficult bit, isn't it? the running is fine. it isjust the toast and jam. toast and jam!
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let's catch up on sport. good morning. let's see what is going on in the world of sport. talking about norwich this morning, because sadly, they are down, jane. yes, the first to go. the battle to avoid the drop in the premier league is intensifying and later aston villa, who're seven points from safety, play crystal palace. bournemouth, who havejust one point more in 17th, take on leicester. they'll both be hoping to avoid the same fate as norwich. a 4—0 thrashing against west ham means they are the first team to be relegated. michail antonio scored all the goals, moving west ham six points clear of the bottom three. norwich, however, will be playing in the championship next season. 0f of course we are disappointed and i feel really sorry, especially for our supporters, everyone connected with the yellow shirt at the club, and because we need to beat the odds
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again, and when the dust has settled, we have to say, ok, the outcome was probably more or less just what was expected. watford manager nigel pearson has warned his team they‘ re not safe yet. that's despite two troy deeney penalties helping them come from behind to beat newcastle 2—1 and move six points clear of the bottom three. brighton remain 8 points above the drop, but raheem sterling and manchester city didn't help their goal difference. the england forward with a hat—trick as city won 5—0 to seal second spot. liverpool need to win all three of their remaining games if they're to beat city's 100—point premier league record. it's afterjay rodriguez cancelled out andy robertson's opener as burnley drew 1—1 at anfield, becoming the first team to take points off the champions at home. and chelsea boss frank lampard admits he's concerned by their 3—0 defeat at sheffield united, who are now into the top six. david mcgoldrick
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with two of the goals, leaving them four points below fifth—placed manchester united. and one line into us from brazil, which has the second—highest number of coronavirus cases. one of the country's biggest derbies, between chapecoense and avai, has been cancelled just hours before it was due to start. that's because 14 people from one of the clubs tested positive for covid—19. to the bio—secure bubble in southamton, —— southampton, where a late batting collapse has left england's cricketers facing a real fight to avoid defeat on the final day of their first test against the west indies later. they lost five wickets for just 30 runs, meaning they'll resume their second innnings on 284/8 this morning — a lead ofjust170. here's our sports correspondentjoe wilson. 0n ona sunny on a sunny saturday, west indies captain would have told his team they could take wickets. be patient.
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look into his eyes. of course he meant it. it was tough work, though. conditions were good for batting and england were all good with that. odd burst of energy fine. slowly they gave england a solid start. and all the early graft meant england could then expand. is that crawling on his way to 76. a similar idea from joe denly but into the hands of jason holder. the west indies seemed happy to celebrate with full hand—to—hand contact. but with ben stokes batting like this, england boz mclean would surely take care of itself. that is about as good as it gets. hold on. the outcomes holder. one captain dismissing the other again, an exceptional game within the game. stokes out for 46. and how quickly things can shift. now, crawley out. joseph, the bowl and capture, and just behind the batsmen, look at the reaction of the west indies captain. it was only just reaction of the west indies captain. it was onlyjust beginning listen to the stumps. bolding! next with
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donbass... the stumps. bolding! next with donbass. .. another one for gabriel! and then the match suddenly turned towards the west indies. england by mclean is far from towards the west indies. england by mclean is farfrom comfortable. any result is still possible. joe wilson, bbc news. lewis hamilton gave yet another master class in wet weather driving during qualifying for today's styrian grand prix in austria. despite struggling to see in the treacherous conditions, hamilton was more than a second quicker around the red bull ring than max verstappen. mclaren's carlos sainz was third and valtteri bottas in the other mercedes will line up fourth on the grid. what a tricky day. the weather is obviously incredibly difficult out there for all of us, and a lot of there for all of us, and a lot of the time you can't even see when you are going. i had one moment, the before the last, maybe a plane,
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which definitely had my heart in my mouth. and finally, we saw at the start how norwich were relegated from the premier league for a third time in seven seasons, but of course there were no fans in the stands. there were a few, however, on the big screen at carrow road, watching the inevitable happen. one fan with his head in his hands. this is the fifth time that norwich have been relegated from the premier league. that's a record, but one i don't think they'll relish. a few handcla ps a few handclaps there are, but eventually thumbs down from the fans. they will be playing in the championship next season, but their championships are great to play and very exciting football. some consolation after being relegated... iam not consolation after being relegated... i am not sure they want to hear that this morning. even the dog looked disappointed on that zoom call. coming from someone who follows stoke city, we would be delighted to be at the championship! i must ask you, we be at the championship! i must ask you , we were be at the championship! i must ask you, we were talking earlier about
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this article in the telegraph today, talking about streaming services and how, because you can skip the theme tune. quite often with a tv programme you are missing the best bit. certainly, lots of them have iconic theme tunes. what is your favourite one for yesteryear? i know what you mean, because i definitely fast forward, but one that always makes me happy is probably the friends theme tune. no—one told you life was going to be this way, did they? we will be there for you, don't worry. i think we may be showing our age a little bit with the ones we picked. lots of people have been in touch, game of thrones, mash... black beauty... that was my favourite. here's darren with a look at this morning's weather. maybe a theme tune as well! good morning!
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i was going to give you a clue, a pudding, but you didn't need it. very good, very good. blue skies today, blue skies in southampton for the test match. no sign of any rain, and for most places, it will be a dry day today, warmer than yesterday. the fly in the ointment is whether frontier that will arrive into the north—west it will eventually bring some rain. for most of us thunder high pressure, that means not of sunshine. what a cold start this morning, not so much across northern ireland where we see the cloud already beginning to push in here, and that cloud will steadily increase through the day and into the afternoon, we will start to see a bit of rain coming in from the west. dry weather elsewhere. more cloud across northern part of scotland toward the northern isles. sunshine will be hazy across northern and western areas of the most of the cloud will be quite high cloud. it will be warmer than yesterday, 20 degrees in the murray firth. 22 to 24 for
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england and wales. in the sunshine which continues into the evening. further north, the cloud thickening, rain coming into scotland and across northern ireland late in the night. that tumbles into england and wales. much more cloud around tonight that means temperatures will be higher than they were over the past couple of nights. typically 11 or 12 degrees. there is more cloud coming our way tomorrow. a high pressure is getting squeezed a little bit by that weather front, bringing the rain down from the north—west. there may not be a great deal of rain. that is a weather there, essentially, bringing some rain onto the hills of north—west england, the south—west of england in the midlands as well. to the north, a little bit of sunshine, quite cloudy. a few showers around. temperatures are not too bad. sunshine in eastern scotland, the highest averages in the south—east of england where it should stay dry for most, if not all of the day. we will get some rain even here in the evening or into the night on that weather front. another one coming evening or into the night on that weatherfront. another one coming in
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to the north—west on tuesday. for many parts of the country on tuesday, in between two rain areas. we have cool and fresh air on tuesday, so temperatures will be a little bit lower. the first weather front heading into continental europe, the next one coming into northern ireland later in the day, bringing some patchy rain. elsewhere, a north—westerly breeze, a lot of cloud around, sunshine at times. a few showers but not that many. temperatures will be lower. back to 16 or 17 degrees in scotland and northern ireland with a high this time around 20 celsius in the south—east of england. that is it from me. back to you too. thank you very much. great singing. fantastic. we're here on the bbc news channel until 9:00 this morning, and there's plenty more still to come on the programme. we'll be checking in with the first wave of tourists who flew to spain this weekend to find out how foreign holidays will look this summer.
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that is making usjealous that is making us jealous already! this is where we say goodbye to viewers on bbc one. thank you very much indeed for watching. take care. goodbye. social distancing? no thanks. masks? prefera bly social distancing? no thanks. masks? preferably not. bolsonaro has never cared for guidelines, dismissing them each step of the way. but when
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it comes to drugs against coronavirus, it's the only horse he has backed. 0n the day he got covid—19,jair bolsonaro has backed. 0n the day he got covid—19, jair bolsonaro took this picture of him taking hydroxychloroquine. he said he was feeling better, so it must be working. like his friend up north, jair bolsonaro doesn't care if the drug isn't recommended for covid—19, nor that there could be serious health risks for those that take it when they don't need it. it works for him, he says, so he promotes it. and pharmacies here have felt the impact. ever since pharmacies touted the drugs to poz benefits, medications more often used to fight malaria in the amazon or skin conditions like lupus, demand has soared. authorities had to introduce a prescription for the drugs to try and control them. translation: we had lots of people looking for it. many wanted to stock up looking for it. many wanted to stock up at home, but we don't allow that.
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even so, there was such a big demand for it. the price of the drug has gone up too. there's been a huge boom. while jair bolsonaro has made sure drugs can be offered to patients with even the mildest symptoms, many health professionals so it's a dangerous path to go down. they are telling me — people come to the emergency room asking for the drug before we even examine the person. and this is how this message has penetrated — it's another virus. it's an information virus. it has penetrated an synchronised millions of people to believe that there is a silver bullet when we all know there is not. the newspapers say until - bolsonaro minimised the pandemic, encourage social contact and is now ill. he has watered down a law on wearing face masks, and even ill, he
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is pushing to reopen the economy as soon as possible. sick or not, he is singing the same tune — for now. in the middle of a pandemic, the health ministry has been sidelined. two health ministers, both doctors, have gone, because they bat global health recommendations. the man now in charge temporarily is an army general whose biggest move so far has been to get the military to boost production of hydroxychloroquine. but those who backed the president repeat his mantra — the people need to work, and that the collateral damage of the virus cannot become bigger than the virus cannot become bigger than the disease itself. a lot of people talk about science, science, science, but science means medicine, medical science — it means social science as well. so we have to have all those things together, because a solution that's perfect for europe, maybe it's not the best solution for brazil. maybe we need to find a solution in the middle ground
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between them. the problem is brazil's president is coming up with his own solutions that few people believe in. the countries in the middle of a crisis, and it feels little is being done. music. you know, we are driving, and we see may be a police officer or a cop car pull out. our first reaction may be a police officer or a cop car pull out. 0urfirst reaction is — oh, god, is today the day? there was, like, a visceral reaction
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when a lot of people saw the george floyd tate and a lot of people took to the streets. there was a lot of outrage, and still people are marching and things like that, but for me, sometimes i get a little frustrated, because i don't know if things are actually going to change. i think things are actually going to change. ithinka things are actually going to change. i think a lot more people are taking the time to educate themselves now, which is good. once again, ijust hope that it's going to have a lasting effect rather than — let's put it on a t—shirt, you know what i mean? can i ask you about the organisation? i think the initial inception of it was what we were marching behind, but after a while, the leadership and things have morphed a bit, and i think now it's a multilayered thing with feminism and lgbtq, and i think the focus needs to be refocused.
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this is the message we've been trying to get out through our music the entire time anyway, and now, with these incidents, it's given us this springboard for this platform to send out our message. this is the first time we saw in dc a majority white crowd chancing "black lives matter". how did you feel about that? it was very emotional. i was working on a piece similar to this one, and! working on a piece similar to this one, and i became part of the process. it was very emotional seeing all the cultures and people up seeing all the cultures and people upfor seeing all the cultures and people up for one cause, and just to see eve ryo ne up for one cause, and just to see everyone standing up and fighting for what was right was a beautiful
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thing. i don't think it is unusual for me and a lot of other people to feel sceptical about this, only because, like i said, it's happen throughout our community for so, so long. but the one good thing about this time is we have so many incredible allies — corporations in different businesses who in the past may not have been as vocal. the times are changing. a lot of corporations are saying, hey, let's caterto changing. a lot of corporations are saying, hey, let's cater to this movement. it's a trend now. add that's why i feel like the black lives ma movement has become a trend. at first it was about changing the situation at hand, but now it's about trending. we support people ‘s rights and everything like that, and hoping to gain more
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customers and more money. and that's just how america is — it's always about money.
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good morning. welcome to breakfast with rogerjohnson and sally nugent. our headlines today: a £700 million plan for british border checks at the end of the brexit transition period — but labour accuses the government of complacency. donald trump wears a face covering in public for the first time during the coronavirus pandemic. england's cricketers face a battle this morning to avoid defeat on the final day
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of their first test. it's after a late batting collapse saw them lose five wickets for just 30 runs against the west indies in southampton. also this morning, the remarkable story of british pilot stephen cameron who spent two months on life support in vietnam with covid—19 and is now coming home. good morning. it is going to be a warmer day for us today, most places dry with some sunny spells and some rain coming into the north—west later on. join me later for all the details. it's sunday 12th july. our top story. the government is to spend more than £700 million on increased security and border checks, in preparation for the end of the brexit transition period at the end of the year. there'll be five hundred new staff, and new inland border posts where existing ports have no room to cope with the extra checks that will be required. here's our political correspondent iain watson. dover is the busiest channel port.
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it will be on the front line of new customs regulations from the end of the year. when the brexit transition period comes to a close, new customs checks will be necessary, and where existing ports are too cramped, new facilities will be built inland. the uk will phase in its new system over six months. but eu countries will begin checks on our exports from january the 1st. getting ready for life outside the eu customs union doesn't come cheap. the government will spend £470 million on new customs facilities such as border control posts, and a further 235 million on it and staffing, including the recruitment of 500 more border force staff. but government ministers haven't said exactly when the new facilities will be ready. in a leaked letter, the international trade secretary, liz truss, has expressed concerns about a lack of necessary infrastructure at uk ports, and she wants assurances from government colleagues that a new customs system here in the uk won't be delayed any further than july next year.
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labour is accusing ministers of being complacent in their post—brexit preparations, and the party claims there's a growing sense of chaos in government. but government ministers argue they are making an unprecedented investment to keep our border secure. iain watson, bbc news. let's get more on this now with our political correspondent nick eardley. nick, some criticism that these plans may be a little late in the day? absolutely, sally. gone are the days where we spoke about brexit every morning, but there is still a lot going on behind—the—scenes, and big questions still to be answered about exactly how it is all going to work. so no matter what, at the end of the year that transition period where things basically say the same comes to an end, and labour are worried that the government doesn't have all its ducks in a row, that all the plans are in place for if there isn't a deal. we have had some cabinet ministers, as you heard in
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iain's piece there, too. so today they have said they are going to put a lot of money, £700 million, into making sure that infrastructure is ready at ports. there is a new it system to deal with customs checks and employ new staff to make sure this can all be managed properly. the thing we don't know is where it is all going to be in place, given that the clock is ticking towards the end of that transition period, i suspect many will want to know more detail about exactly what this money is going to be spent on. talking about details, we are expecting to hear more on the new points—based immigration system. absolutely, from the home secretary. we have known for a while now that there is going to bea for a while now that there is going to be a system where different things get you different points if you want to move into the uk, things like your salary and how skilled yourjob is, areas where there are shortages. a couple of areas where there are going to be schemes
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announced tomorrow to help people getting a bit easier. one is for health care staff to come and work in the nhs, the otherfour graduates who are studying in the uk or who have studied in the uk so they can stay after their studies either for two years stay after their studies either for two yea rs if stay after their studies either for two years if they are an undergraduate who gets a masters degree, or three years if they got a phd. but all these details about exactly what our post brexit relationship with the rest of the world is going to look like i think will become a lot more important over the next few weeks. nick, plenty more to discuss. thank you very much indeed. president trump has worn a face covering in public for the first time since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. as infection rates reached record levels this week, donald trump seemed to heed the advice of his advisors and experts and wore a mask — despite previously saying he would never do so. our correspondentjohn mcmanus has the story. an unexpected change of direction — president trump wearing a face mask in public for the first time.
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although he recently said that he thought he resembled the lone ranger when he donned a face mask, he originally refused to wear one. i think wearing a face mask as i greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens — i don't know. somehow, i don't see it for myself. the president's change of heart comes as covid—19 tightens its grip on the us. so far, there have been 135,000 deaths from the virus. with 3.2 million cases, the us is the worst—hit country, and the numbersjust keep on rising. florida is one of those states struggling to contain the virus. after attempting to open in may, the state ordered bars to close again at the end ofjune. in arizona, there has been a steady rise in the use of artificial breathing machines in intensive care units. its bars and clubs have also been closed again. while in texas, several hospitals say their coronavirus wards are at or near capacity.
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but in orlando, disney world reopened two of its four parks on saturday — magic kingdom and animal kingdom. decisions over face coverings are contentious in the us. many of donald trump's own supporters regard it as a personal choice and not something to be imposed by the state, meaning their president is trying to tread a fine line. i think it's a great thing to wear a mask. i've never been against masks, but i do believe they have a time and a place. other world leaders are already leading by example, some more reluctantly than others. all eyes will now be on mr trump to see if his mask will be a lasting feature. john mcmanus, bbc news. our north america correspondent peter bowes says that until now, the president has refused to wear a face covering in front of the cameras, but said he was expected to wear one in hospitals. well, there has been a lot
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of pressure on the president to wear a mask like pretty much everyone else is being encouraged to, especially in recent weeks. indeed, in some american cities, it is compulsory if you go out in public, even out in the open air to wear a mask such is the problem with coronavirus, the growing problem in cities like the one i'm in right now, in los angeles. but the president has steadfastly refused at least to be seen in public wearing a mask. there was one occasion when he was out and about, it was a private visit we understand, and one or two pictures did emerge that he was wearing a mask. but, generally, he has become known for a president who did not want to wear the mask, and he explained repeatedly why he believed it wasn't necessary, that he is tested for the coronavirus frequently, so are the people around him, and he practices social distancing with those officials he works very closely with. so he didn't feel it was necessary, apart from today when he was visiting this hospitaljust outside of washington, when he said
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a couple of days ago, in a hospital setting, he said, he didn't want to be responsible for perhaps infecting other people, and of course that is one of the big reasons we are asked to wear masks, is to stop us infecting others, and it seems that the president has now heeded that advice. one of india's most famous bollywood stars, amitabh bachchan, has tested positive for coronavirus and has been admitted to a hospital in mumbai. in a tweet to his 43 million followers, he asked anyone who had come into contact with him in the past ten days to get tested. officials say the 77—year—old is in a stable condition. now, a remarkable story. an airline pilot from north lanarkshire who contracted covid—19 in vietnam and spent more than two months on life support in a hospital in ho chi minh city, is on his way home. doctors gave 42—year—old stephen cameron a 10% chance of survival in a country that has recorded no official coronavirus deaths. alexandra mackenzie reports.
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he had only recently arrived in vietnam to work as a pilot for vietnam airways. stephen cameron is thought to have contracted covid—19 on a night out in ho chi minh city at the end of march. the case attracted much media attention because in vietnam, the number of coronavirus cases is below 400, and there were no registered deaths. the 42—year—old from motherwell spent more than two months on a ventilator. there were few critical patients, so he was treated by the country's top clinicians. but stephen, whose face has been blurred in this hospitalfootage, had multiple complications. my friend craig was told by the foreign commonwealth office i had a 10% chance of survival, so he planned for the worst. so he gave up my apartment. he started to do things that you would expect somebody to do if i was coming home in a box.
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however, after ten weeks, doctors woke him from the coma and he dared to think about home. the odds say that i shouldn't be here, so i can only thank everybody here for doing what they have done, and i go home with a happy heart because i'm going home, but a sad one because i am leaving so many people here that i have made friends with. stephen is on the road to recovery. he lost weight and muscle strength and suffered fatigue and depression. there was also a debate about who would pay the medical bills. but he is now on his way home and an emotional reunion is expected with friends and family in motherwell. alexandra mackenzie, bbc news, glasgow. holiday makers have been jetting off this weekend, after the government eased restrictions, meaning travellers do not have to quarantine for two weeks when they return from certain countries, including spain.
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we are all going to get in the holiday mood in the next few minutes, whether we are going away or not. to find out how they've been welcoming back tourists we're joined now by sue aspey, who owns a bar in malaga, and by the journalist michelle baker who is based in benidorm. then we are going to talk to a couple of lucky folk who are already on holiday. thank you both are talking to us this morning. sue, your bath as we opened in malaga. give us an idea of some of the precautions you have had to put in place to meet social distancing. the ta bles place to meet social distancing. the tables are somewhat further apart than they would normally be, and other than that, there isn't a great difference, really, in our particular bar. we have had to remove tablecloths and cushions so that we can sanitise all the tables and chairs as people have left ready for other customers. we have got
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sanitiser gel for everybody to use as they come in. it is pretty much as they come in. it is pretty much as normal, really. and have you been busy so far, since you are able to reopen? certainly not busy. we opened on the 23rd ofjune, and it was very, opened on the 23rd ofjune, and it was very, very slow. it is just beginning to trickle up now, nothing like a normaljune, but in the circumstances, people are coming with families, children, etc, so hopefully things are getting a little bit to the new normal. michelle, you have lived in benidorm, i believe, for more than 30 years. you know this area like the back of your hand. in the last 24, 48 hours, what have you seen? are you starting to see people arrive? we are, but i have to be honest, they are mostly spanish tourists. they love benidorm as much as the brits do. i went out last
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night into town, there are very few brits in resort at the moment. but we are seeing a gradual trickle, and hopefully mid week next week when one of the major tour operator starts to fly in, it will get a bit busy. and in terms of what you're seeing, as every body wearing masks? i believe i'm correct in saying that you are supposed to wear a mask outdoors in spain, aren't you? yes. we have created a platform called benidorm for ever, so you can follow what is happening, we have a high rate of people who come every year, several times a year, they want to know the rules surrounding the masks. if you can't stay 1.5 metres from the nearest person, you do have to wear a mask, and from the nearest person, you do have to weara mask, and it from the nearest person, you do have to wear a mask, and it is entirely obvious when you are out and about in town who is spanish and who is not, because the spanish do generally wear a mask most of the time, and the brits don't, because they are just not used to it, so thatis they are just not used to it, so that is how obvious the divide is at the moment. but you don't have to, it is not obligatory here. and we
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have been hit quite badly in the uk by coronavirus, spain was badly hit at the peak. what is the situation in spain now to the best of your understanding? i believe that there is an outbreak in catalonia, which is an outbreak in catalonia, which is more the other side of barcelona, and that it is being contained. and another one i think somewhere near galicia. here in andalusia and around malaga, there are very few cases, but they are all completely under control. the andalusian government are reviewing the situation on a daily basis to make sure that if anything does need to be done to keep people safe, then they will employ whichever measures are needed. and, sue, what would life be like for you on a typical
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day ina life be like for you on a typical day in a normal year right now? i imagine right now it would be bonkers busy? we open at 9am every morning throughout the year, and normally we would be busy from the moment that we open until we close ten, 11 in the evening. at this time of year, we would constantly have customers occupying the tables eating, drinking, enjoying themselves. so obviously it is a lot quieter now, but we are hoping that it picks up and that everybody stays safe and well. and michelle, if the tourists don't come, is there a worry in benidorm for the future of some businesses that? the future of most businesses, we rely 100% on tourism, so if the tourists don't come, it is disastrous. we need the tourists back here. but of course we wa nt to tourists back here. but of course we want to feel safe. once they get here, they are safe. every single bar has hand sanitiser, you wait to
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be seated, the tables and chairs are clea n be seated, the tables and chairs are clean between customers. around the summing pools at hotels, they have to limit numbers to a certain amount to limit numbers to a certain amount to ensure every body has their space. at the moment that isn't a problem, there is hardly anybody here. we will be lucky to reach 30% capacity. typically you can have 45,000 people on the beach in benidorm. last sunday we had 25,560, which sounds like a lot, but there isa which sounds like a lot, but there is a lot of social distancing, we have individual pods in place anybody has their own space, nobody can put a towel next to you. so it is super safe once you get here. if you can brave the plane, once you get here, you can have a great time. anna may is that you can count the number of people on the beach! —— i am amazed. yes, they have monitors counting them on and off. fingers crossed that you have a good summer ahead. thank you. so how do people who have headed abroad feel?
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we're joined by alison and paul steele, who travelled to spain on friday. good morning to you both, on your balcony in the sunshine. i'm going to pick up on something michelle was just saying, if you can brave the plane. how was your plane journey? it was fine, the airport was really quiet. there were a few bars open, but once we got on the plane, you sat in your seat and if you wanted to go to the toilet, you press the button and they come. it was fine, we kept our masks on, it was only two and a half hours, so it wasn't too bad at all. did you have any reservations, either of you, about flying abroad at this particular moment? i think we would if we weren't staying in an apartmentjust on our own with friends, i don't think we would go to a hotel, and where we are staying is very quiet. so we were 0k? where we are staying is very quiet. so we were ok? yes. and how have you
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had to get yourselves ready for this? how have you prepared for your time there? we has obviously have to bring a lot of masks, we went for a little walk yesterday and every body has got their masks on. we spent the whole day on the beach yesterday, and everybody was just staying out of each other‘s way. it is a bit surreal, everybody wearing a mask, but it isn't bad at all. how far in advance did you book your holiday? was at last minute, or have you been wondering if you would be able to go? we did it in about november, because we come here every year, so we do feel very lucky that we have managed to actually get here. we didn't believe it until we got here, we didn't think whether it was going to go ahead, but we are here and quite happy. and now that you are there, are you able to do the things that you have been planning that you would normally be able to do? yeah, it is fine, we've been able to go to
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the bar, everything is the same as it is normally. they wash the chairs and table when you have been, and when we went to the supermarket, the only difference is that you have to put gloves on and you sanitise when you go in, and that is about the only difference, really. it isjust like being at home. and make us really jealous, what is like being at home. and make us reallyjealous, what is the weather like? it is a bit overcast and cloudy today, but it was beautiful, and yesterday was absolutely... we have only been here a day and we are already a little bit brown. how long are you staying? we are going to stay for two weeks. we wish you a nice holiday. you never know, they could be a lockdown and you would stay for a couple of months! joking aside, we wish you a lovely holiday, and thank you both very much indeed for talking to us. alison and paul steele on holiday in alicante. should we see if we are going to be working on our towns here. here's darren with a look at this morning's weather. good morning.
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it is not quite the heat of spain, but it is going to be warmer. most places will be dry, and the sun will be out. it isn't going to be sunny everywhere, in the north—west we have this weather front moving in slowly from the atlantic, and it will eventually bring some rain, but for most of us we are under an area of high pressure, which is why we have the sunshine. we have also got a bit of cloud, this lovely picture was taken by a weather watcher in cumbria, it looks very pleasant there. there is some cloud coming in from the atlantic, a lot of it is quite high, sunshine hazy, but more across the far north of scotland, the cloud increasing in northern ireland, mostly light rain coming in from the west during the afternoon, still dry across much of scotland, making 20 degrees around the moray firth into aberdeen, 18 at best, 19 possibly now in eastern parts of northern ireland, but 24 in the south—east of england. here we have a sunny end to the day, but more cloud coming in, notjust across northern ireland but in scotland
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this evening, bringing rain that will continue through the night before sinking down into northern parts of england and north wales. a lot more cloud around tonight so it won't be as chilly, temperatures typically 11 or 12 degrees. but tomorrow may look a little different from today. we have a high pressure getting squeezed away to the south is that weather front takes some rain down into the uk, and it is going to bring down much more cloud, quite a cloudy air for monday. the rain is mostly affecting the hills of north—west england into wales, eventually in the south—west and into the midlands, but to the north of that, we are going to find a lot of that, we are going to find a lot of cloud and one or two showers. some sunshine in eastern scotland and it will feel quite warm once again. towards the south—east we get some rain later on in the day, and temperatures here hitting 23 or even 24 degrees. that whether front will ta ke 24 degrees. that whether front will take some rain towards the south—east later in the day, another one coming in from the atlantic, but we are between two weather fronts,
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soa we are between two weather fronts, so a lot of dry weather around, but cooler and fresher air, temperatures not quite as high on tuesday. then this rain coming into northern ireland later in the day, but otherwise a few showers around but not very many. a fair bit of cloud, still quite a cloudy airstream, sunshine at times but we are back to seeing temperatures like they were yesterday, 16 or 17 degrees in scotla nd yesterday, 16 or 17 degrees in scotland and northern ireland, a high of 20 towards the south—east of england. looking ahead through the rest of the week, not a lot of rain around at all, much drier than it has been over the last few weeks, but temperatures only around average, a fair bit of cloud, but some sunshine at times too. darren, thank you very much, see you later. from transport staff to shop workers, there are many people who have kept the country running throughout lockdown. but that has often put them at risk. dozens of bus workers are known to have died with coronavirus — it's one of the professions that has been hardest hit. our transport correspondent tom burridge has been speaking to the relatives of two of those
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who lost their lives. the tributes to arnie naylor and reg halstead — two of more than 50 bus drivers killed by coronavirus. at the moment, i am grieving. it's going to take a long time. and he's going to be really missed. having to lose somebody like that, and be away from them as one of the most heartbreaking things. it was typical of both men to keep working, even when furlough was an option. when the furlough came, he didn't even put his name forward, even though he was at risk, with diabetes. i have a big regret that i didn't just tell him to stop working. it just wasn't worth it and it never will be worth it. i wish i could go back in time and tell him that. people like arnie and reg made
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essentialjourneys possible as the virus spread. but covid now got them both. i spent his final half—hour with him, so they let me be with him while he passed. which was traumatic, to say the least. yeah, we couldn't even give him the funeral that he deserved. danny o'hanlon remembers what it felt like to drive at the height of the pandemic, when many measures to protect drivers weren't in place. very, very nervous in fact. i've got to go out and drive, and am i going to feel, you know, are people going to come up to me, talk to me? you are wanting to try and avoid any situation like that that you could. for a significant period of time, drivers were driving around without any sort of protection. ollie's dad reg fell ill with covid in early april.
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i believe he took his own hand sanitiser in, in his work bag, and he didn't have a mask or any access to a mask. he believes his dad was let down. one of the things that my dad took an awful lot of pride in in hisjob was his responsibility to look after the people that he worked with. it's a travesty that the company weren't able to do the same thing for him. reg, in the yellowjacket, worked for arriva. the company described him as a popular and hard—working man and said his death was a massive blow for everyone at his depot in southport. arriva said it always followed the government's public health advice, and the safety of employees and customers was its overriding priority throughout the pandemic. for arnie, a drive—past in his hometown of chorley. his wife yvonne wonders why face coverings weren't compulsory in england earlier on. it does make me sad when i see the buses now and they are all
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in masks and i think, why did you not do that before? why did you not say no, you cannot get on the bus unless you wear a mask? bus drivers did a vitaljob during the pandemic, but many, like reg and arnie, paid the ultimate price. tom burridge, bbc news. tributes there to arnie naylor and reg halstead, two bus drivers who have died during the coronavirus pandemic. it is 27 minutes past eight. seven—year—old timothy madders is described by his mum as a very thoughtful boy. during lockdown he's been thinking about others who might be feeling lonely or bored, and timothy thought of the queen. so he created a wordsearch puzzle especially for her and sent it off to her at windsor castle to keep her busy. we all need to fill our hours, don't
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we? and the queen was evidently very grateful — timothy received a letter from the royal household thanking him for his effort. we can speak to timothy and his mumjo from their home in billericay now. good morning to you both. good morning. timothy, what made you think of the queen? why did you do this for her? well, i do actually know lots of people who are older than me and stuff, so ijust thought, one of them was the queen, andl thought, one of them was the queen, and i might as well make it for you. and i thought when it went to the queen, it might be quite special, and a few days ago i got a reply, and a few days ago i got a reply, andl and a few days ago i got a reply, and i was very quite whoo and excited, unhappy, really, that she had enjoyed it. and what did the reply say, what did say in your letter? actually it isjust next to me just here, so i can read it out
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if you want. we can have a look! dear timothy. the queen wishes me to write and thank you for your kind letter and for that puzzle you have created especially for her majesty. your thoughtfulness is greatly appreciated, and the queen hopes that you too are keeping safe and well in this current situation. i am to thank you very much indeed for writing as you did at this time. lady in waiting, timothy madders, that's what it says. brilliant. jo, when we invite young people on the programme, we often ask the parent to come on as well in case they get tongue—tied and don't want to speak. do you feel slightly redundant? you have got no questions to ask him any more, because he has told you the whole story! you must be proud as punch. he has made a lot of people very happy during lockdown his word
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searches. we have got the original word search. we will put it up on the screen. it is the happiness word search that you sent to the queen. what is the hardest one to find? jolly, i think. what is the hardest one to find? jolly, ithink. because what is the hardest one to find? jolly, i think. because that was a trick one. there is one that is j—o—l—l—y, but there is also one that i spelt incorrectly, so somebody might circle that one, but later, you would find jolly. its gone! i had found the tricky one halfway down on the right—hand side, but can we put it back up so our viewers have got half a chance to find the real jolly viewers have got half a chance to find the realjolly on there? and did you put words in this word search that were designed to make the queen feel happier and a bit morejolly?
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the queen feel happier and a bit more jolly? yeah, most of them were. like we got happy and smile and hug, so happy words which would really please her. timothy, our editor today, james, can we put it up one more time, sorry to ask. he has much better at word searches than i am, and he has found jolly, third one in from the right on the top row coming down? brilliant. well done to him! timothy, i am down? brilliant. well done to him! timothy, iam interested down? brilliant. well done to him! timothy, i am interested to know, you haven't just been timothy, i am interested to know, you haven'tjust been sending word searches to the queen, have you? you have sent them to other people. who else have you sent them to? after the queen, i thought there are a few other people who either have corona and are recovering and they could come home, or are just and are recovering and they could come home, orarejust a bit and are recovering and they could
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come home, or are just a bit lonely. it was originally for the queen, but thenl it was originally for the queen, but then i sent it to other people again. they really liked it. one of them gave me a crossword about baby animals, i think. them gave me a crossword about baby animals, ithink. also, recently, in fa ct, animals, ithink. also, recently, in fact, yesterday, yesterday morning, i made a different word search, a welcome home one for our friend keith who nearly died of coronavirus but now this week he has recovered so much he might be able to come back home. sol so much he might be able to come back home. so i made a welcome home one. he must be so pleased. can you imagine if you are keith and you get that? it will make it all worthwhile. timothy, in terms of, you have not been to school very much, how tough is it ben? has it been hard? it's been good, it's been
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nice having home—schooling. yeah, it's been ok. has munn been doing that? yeah. is she any good? she needs to be ye he looks like you're the best home—schooling people ever. it is lovely to meet you. we are grateful to you, timothy, for coming on. you are seven years old, to remain people, aren't you? yes, seven years old. i had my birthday in april. we wish you well. i'm glad you had a nice birthday. you must be incredibly proud, j. if we have a va ca ncy incredibly proud, j. if we have a vacancy on incredibly proud, j. if we have a vacancy on the sofa, i know he will be the favourite person to get the job. he is absolutely wonderful. well done, timothy. star of the
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show. what a fantastic boy. timothy, we salute you. clever boy. a little flush of jane on we salute you. clever boy. a little flush ofjane on sport, just a moment ago. a little hint that she was coming next. we have herfor real now. good morning. not as good as timothy is that word searches, but 0k at sport. we start in southampton where a late batting collapse has left england's cricketers facing a real fight to avoid defeat on the final day of their first test against the west indies. play starts in just over two hours. they lost five wickets for just 30 runs, meaning they'll resume their second innings on 284 for 8 — a lead ofjust170. here's our sports correspondentjoe wilson. on a sunny saturday, west indies captain would have told his team they could take wickets. be patient. look into his eyes. of course he meant it.
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it was tough work, though. conditions were good for batting and england were all good with that. odd burst of energy fine. slowly they gave england a solid start. and all the early graft meant england could then expand. is that crawling on his way to 76. a similar idea from joe denly but into the hands of jason holder. the west indies seemed happy to celebrate with full hand—to—hand contact. but with ben stokes batting like this, england's lead would surely take care of itself. that is about as good as it gets. hold on. them out comes holder. one captain dismissing the other again, an exceptional game within the game. stokes out for 46. and how quickly things can shift. now, crawley out. joseph, the bowler and catcher, and just behind the batsmen, look at the reaction of the west indies captain. it was onlyjust beginning listen to the stumps. bowled him.
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next with donbass... another one for gabriel! and then the match suddenly turned towards the west indies. england's lead is far from comfortable. any result is still possible. joe wilson, bbc news. the battle to avoid the drop in the premier league is intensifying and later aston villa — who're seven points from safety — play crystal palace, while bournemouth, who havejust one point more in 17th, take on leicester. they'll both be hoping to avoid the same fate as norwich. a 4—0 thrashing against west ham means they are the first team to be relegated. michail antonio scored all the goals — moving west ham six points clear of the bottom three. norwich however will be playing in the championship next season. of course — no fans in the stands — but there were a few on the big screen at carrow road, watching the inevitable happen. one supporter with his head in his hands. this is the fifth time that
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norwich have been relegated from the premier league and that's a record — but one i don't think they'll relish. of course we are disappointed and i feel really sorry, especially for our supporters, everyone connected with the yellow shirt at the club, and because we need to beat the odds again, and when the dust has settled, we have to say, ok, the outcome was probably more or less just what was expected. watford manager nigel pearson has warned his team they‘ re not safe yet. that's despite two troy deeney penalties helping them come from behind to beat newcastle 2—1 and move six points clear of the bottom three. brighton remain eight points above the drop — but raheem sterling and manchester city didn't help their goal difference. the england forward with a hat trick as city won 5—0 to seal second spot. liverpool need to win all three of their remaining games
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if they're to beat city's 100 point premier league record. it's afterjay rodriguez cancelled out andy robertson's opener as burnley drew 1—1 at anfield, becoming the first team to take points off the champions at home. and chelsea boss frank lampard admits he's concerned by their 3—0 defeat at sheffield united — who are now into the top six. david mcgoldrick with two of the goals, leaving them four points below fifth place manchester united. lewis hamilton admitted he couldn't see where he was driving at times in qualifying for this afternoon's styrian grand prix in austria. here's why. treacherous conditions at the red bull ring, but he gave another masterclass in the wet, qualifying on pole. hamilton was more than a second quicker than max verstappen. mclaren's carlos sainz was third and valtteri bottas in the other mercedes will line up fourth on the grid. what a tricky day. the weather is obviously incredibly difficult out there for all of us, and a lot of the time you can't even
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see when you are going. i had one moment, the lap before the last, maybe an aquaplane, which definitely had my heart in my mouth. he is so good in the wet weather, hamilton. thank you, tricky conditions! it is nearly 20 29. —— 20 for generations, scouts have spent their summers camping outdoors, toasting marshmallows on fires and canoeing across lakes. sadly during the pandemic, groups across the world are missing out on the things they enjoy the most. not to be defeated, the scouts have tried to recreate the fun with a huge, digital summer camp this weekend. our ‘akela' robert hall is with a family taking part in their garden injersey. morning, robert, how's it looking there?
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it's looking good, i was just visualising roger in his cub scout uniform! i've had my breakfast now, a bacon butty, whether the nicest things about camping is breakfast. add bacon butty is brilliant. a large amount of coffees. back to the present, we will hear from this group ina present, we will hear from this group in a moment orjust one part of this huge operation, a huge global operation to try and bring scouts together at the end of the time which has been hard for young people. a lot of talk of the stress they have been under, in some cases real mental issues as a result of not done and what scouting is trying to do is break through, get young people together again, on the internet, in thisjoint people together again, on the internet, in this joint exercise. let us get a taste of what they are calling the great indoors weekender. friends, shared experiences in the great outdoors — the threads
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that run through scouting, particularly at this time of year. summer 2020 has a very different feel. campsites and buildings are empty and silent. scout meetings suspended, friends forced apart. but this weekend they are pitching their tents again rather closer to home. the call has gone out, and well over 100,000 scouts have answered it. in countries around the world, they are setting up camp inside and outside their homes — a virtualjamboree with online challenges to match. this is my stay—at—homejungle. i will be sleeping in it this week. ben and annabel have pitched their tent in theirjersey front garden. they, like thousands of other young people, have experienced the stresses of lockdown. i haven't been able to see my friends. i spend a lot of time outdoors,
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so it's been weird being in the house a lot, and i've really missed seeing lots of people. it's definitely been tough, going from seeing people every day and scouting nearly three times a week to not seeing anyone at all, and it's been even harder because my workload from school has increased. hi, i am from victoria in australia, and we are making campfire desserts. i have carefully made a fire. we have the most yummy marshmallows. this is our midnight snack. we were also planning to have a midnight feast, but we were too tired.
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the key to this is a feeling of mutual support. scouts may be thousands of miles apart, but there are new friends to be found, along with help and advice. it's so good we can get together like this and take part in these activities. i know for a lot of you it's been hard staying indoors and away from our friends. if the lows are outweighing the highs, ask for help. it's not a weakness. we all need a hug and help carrying our worries from time to time. it's been a long day, sitting in front of my electric campfire, warming up. the virtual campfire is over, the tents and duvets are being rediscovered just when they are most needed. you don't need a campfire this morning, it is so nice here. you are the commissioner here, you get an overview. what did you think when they run you and said we are going
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to try this? i thought it was a fantastic idea. an opportunity to get people together all online, it has been very difficult during the lockdown period in terms of socialising and people's mental health has been affected because they cannot get together and be social. having something that brings eve ryo ne social. having something that brings everyone together, virtually, online, absolutely fantastic. megan, lockdown, we are lucky here, things have relaxed a bit, lockdown was hard, wasn't it? what did you find the hardest part? they hardest part wasn't saying family and trying to see our friends. you cannot see your granny? no. did you speak to your friends on the phone?” granny? no. did you speak to your friends on the phone? i spoke to the people on the phone. was that enough or not the same? not the same, because we are still at the house.
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no people, just people out there on the phone, cannot see the smiley faces. what about you, how has it been for you? it's tough on a much better now that we can see our friends in our family, even if we do have to social distance. at least we can see them and talk to them. what do you think about this as an idea, doing this virtual camp?” think it is a great idea, you feel you are part of the camp, even if you are part of the camp, even if you are part of the camp, even if you are not setup right next to somebody else, everyone is still doing it at the same time and everyone is doing all the same activities, you can then share them with all your friends. we had ben and annabel on my report that talking about how hard it has been for them, talking about the use of zoom, we know it has been so useful in so many ways, can you see scouting, if and when we come out of this, in the period where we are still dealing with the pandemic,
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keeping to social media, keeping a different way of doing things? yes, absolutely. the likes of zoom or teams has been vital in keeping eve ryo ne teams has been vital in keeping everyone together and allowing people to connect through scouting. it is going to be part of the transition when people cannot meet face—to—face still and even afterwards, i think it will be a huge part in terms of making sure people stay connected and communicate. whether it is for meetings between the leaders and young people, or whether it is people having to meet as adults to help scouting in whatever fashion they need to. thank you for letting me into your campsite. just before we go, apologies if people hear this again, the channel islands were occupied during the second world war, this is the 80th anniversary when the germans arrived, and they banned all uniformed organisations, including scouts. they were not allowed to meet but the movement kept going because they met in their homes in
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secret plan. anyway, there's a parallel, scouting under pressure, unable to meet on finding a way round it. anyway, that it from a small, sunny campsite here in jersey. thank you, robert, it looks glorious. we were talking in the introduction about scouts and camping and canoeing, in my experience, ours was on the trent and mersey canal, capsizing drill was not pleasant. was it not sonny? not sonny, you might bang your head ona not sonny, you might bang your head on a shopping trolley. great fun, a great organisation. sounds indelicate. —— idyllic. this is where we say goodbye to roger, who is going to read the news for the andrew marr show, which is on bbc one at nine o'clock. let's speak to darren for a look
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at this morning's weather. good morning. it has been quite chilly for camping out. two celsius in wales and northern ireland. warming up in the sunshine, a warmer day than it was yesterday, a lot of dry weather, some sunshine as well. underneath an area of high pressure, keeping it fine and dry for most of this country. a weather front sneaking in from the atlantic to bring some rain and towards the north—west. a little bit of cloud coming in ahead. a lovely weather watch her picture from cumbria. some patchy cloud here, mostly high cloud coming our way, sunshine is a bit hazy. we will see more cloud for the northern isles of scotland. northern ireland the change comes in where we get cloud, some patchy rain arriving from the west in the afternoon but to the east coast, 19 celsius. a warmer day across the board, highs of 23, possibly 24 in the south—east of 23, possibly 24 in the south—east of england. sonny and to the day for much of their wealth. north, more cloud and rain notjust for northern
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ireland, that would just amble its way down into northern england and north wales. there will be a lot of cloud on tonight's as a result, it is going to be warmer than it has been over the last couple of nights, temperatures 11 or 12 celsius. tomo may look different, we are seeing high pressure getting squeezed away by the weather front will take some rents southwards across the uk but dragging down some cloudy air for all parts of the uk. some patchy rain coming down into england and wales, affecting western air is overly high ground. scotland and northern ireland brightening up, a lot of cloud still here, one that you shower as well. some sunshine for eastern scotland, 19, 20 celsius. higher temperatures towards the south—east and east anglia where we should get a little bit of rain arriving towards the end of the afternoon, if not into the evening. the weather front should be moving away by the time we get into tuesday. another weather front arriving from the atlantic, heading towards northern ireland on tuesday.
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for many of us, a dry day, the air feeling quite different, cooler and fresher air on tuesday, temperatures will not be as high. many places will not be as high. many places will be dry, if you showers dotted about here and there. a limited amount of sunshine, cloudy on tuesday, across northern ireland likely to find some rain, especially during the afternoon. the temperatures will be lower on tuesday, back to the numbers we had yesterday. 16, 17 celsius in scotla nd yesterday. 16, 17 celsius in scotland and northern ireland. only 20 celsius on tuesday in england. we will stick with the numbers on tuesday well into the weekend. the week ahead looks like it will be much drier than the last couple of weeks or so, not much rain, limited amount of sunshine, barely cloudy but for many parts of the country it will be dry. enjoy the sunshine the rest of the weekend. that is all from me, back to you, sally. thank you for your company this
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morning,. as singing in public places has been suspended due to the pandemic, a group of choristers have come together to to raise funds for struggling choirs while singing is banned in cathedrals. a total of 269 vocalists filmed their individual vocal parts from their bedrooms and living rooms. let's take a look. # echoing what you say # shining out what you are # out of dark, into your light # we will sing for you at the end of each day # we'll sing forever, sing for you # in all things we do in the eve of our lives # we'll sing forever, sing for you #.
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wasn't that gorgeous? i'm joined now by ashley grote, master of music at norwich cathedral. good morning. how did you come up with this idea? good morning. this has been a wonderfully exciting collaboration between our music department here and also the threads of care forjohn those who are doing tremendous work through the emergency fund to raise money for cathedral choirs at this time of crisis and offer much—needed support. we really felt it would be wonderful to get choristers from across our nation's cathedrals together, to sing together as one voice if you like, separator in their own homes, to give that powerful message that singing is so important in our cathedrals and so important in our cathedrals and so important to the lives of these young people into the lives of the many thousands of people across our country who come to our cathedrals will stop as i say, we wanted it to bea will stop as i say, we wanted it to be a really powerful symbol and a very good way of permitting this
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excellent cause. actually, looking at what you have achieved there, there has to be the biggest zoom i have ever seen. how technically difficult was it to organise? i must give all the credit to our organist, ian. receiving 269 videos from choristers across the country and editing them together, the order in the video to create this amazing result. we were fortu nate to this amazing result. we were fortunate to have the support of this year's to bbc young choristers of the year, and aled jones and elizabeth watts. we are fortunate to have such great support. what has the impact of the lockdown been on choristers? on choristers themselves, i think it is very important not to underestimate the huge impact this has had on their lives. the boys and girls who sing in cathedral choirs, singing is absolutely fundamental part of their lives and they have been unable to do that together since march and
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first so many other reasons, cathedrals are struggling financially and many music staff, many of the adult singles in this cathedral choirs have had to be put on the government fell a scheme and it is uncertain as to when our cathedral choirs can resume —— government furlough scheme. we are keen to get back to singing safely are seen as we can. what does the future looks like the choirs?” think this is important to remember this is a living tradition and that is clearly represented on the screen by the stewards in 50 or more faces of young boys and girls he represented so much of the future of music making and musical culture in this country —— mark 250 faces. i feel strongly this will not die out. it is facing a testing time, both financially and in terms of the huge gap that we've had enough to fit his. the research that is going on
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now is very welcome that the government are doing so that we can go back, as soon as we are able to, to oursinging and go back, as soon as we are able to, to our singing and do that confidently, knowing that everyone is safe and we can carry on this great tradition and welcome back all those who have been unable to sing for such a very long time. actually, thank you very much. we are going to stay with this story now. we can speak now to soprano elizabeth watts and chorister ben who perform on the song. good morning to you both. morning. what was it like taking part in this and doing your job what was it like taking part in this and doing yourjob in an unusual way? it was a privilege and an honour to be part of this project. it was great fun to receive this music, this great tune and think what it would be like together and all these wonderful choristers all joining together, ifell all these wonderful choristers all joining together, i fell honoured to be involved. then, what was this expense like? i imagine you are missing singing and the company of the other choristers that you sing
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with? it has been sad not to be able to be with them. this was a really good thing because people have not been able to hear us, so have we have been giving up more music which is always nice. ben, what makes it special being part of acquire? and makes you feel like you are doing something important because a lot of people like hearing us and it gives them much chance to worship in a different sort of way, it feels nice to be able to make other people happy. elizabeth, i imagine that is something that you are feeling as well, you probably feel that you are missing the reaction of people who hear you and your voice. yes, not a great one for performing without an audience. ijust started a run in the west end and then the pandemic came and it ended. this is the first
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bit of thing i've done since the pandemic. it is great to be reaching an audience at last. how did you feel at the very start when everything went into lockdown, musicians were bound and singing had to stop? it was a great shock, i think. and very nervous about when it is all going to come back and what state everything will be in, when this is all over. with the cathedral choirs, we need to ensure that they have a future. i was a chorister at norwich and i'm not sure i would be doing what i'm doing now if i had not had the opportunity. we need to ensure the opportunity. we need to ensure the future of cathedral choirs and of the arts and singing in this country, it is one of our spiritual life bloods and we need that to keep going. in what ways, other than this, can they be supported?” think, you know, if you are interested in music, there is the just giving page for this song, to
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help raise money for things. we need money, we need people to get behind the arts, to support their theatre for years. in terms of this project, go to thejust for years. in terms of this project, go to the just giving page on help the cathedral choirs, it is so important to the young people involved. ben, how much are you looking forward to the day where you can get back with the other choristers and sing together? i'm so excited, it will be so nice to see other people again. what of the most? just singing in the building, because it is such a nice place to because it is such a nice place to be in and it makes our voices sound nicer. how have you managed to keep in touch with the other choristers during this time? we have been doing car magazine calls once a week and we have been doing quizzes. we also had a baking competition and the winner with an —— was an organ being
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played by dippy the dinosaur. thank you very much to elizabeth and ben. that's all from breakfast today, but i'll be back here tomorrow from six. enjoy the rest of your day. goodbye!
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