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germany has been relying on testing, tracing and new mobile phone technology to reduce the number of new coronavirus infections. more than 15 million people in the country have downloaded a tracking app which automatically notifies users if they've been in contact with an infected person. jenny hill has sent this report. welcome to frankfurt airport. please remember to keep your... this is germany's largest airport. just a few weeks ago, it was almost at a standstill. now, well, this country's back on the move. but how to stop the virus spreading too? germany's testing more. 500,000 tests last week. here at frankfurt, for a fee, they are on offer to travellers, too. anyone can turn up here for a test. you get the results within three hours or around seven hours, depending on how much you are willing to pay.
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let's give it a go. three to five people test positive here every day, they tell us. many have no symptoms. so, really young travellers and especially those below 40, usually they have nothing or slight symptoms that they did not link with covid—19. tracking infection is important too. at every cafe, bar, restaurant, you have to leave your contact details and, for the last month, germans have been able to download a tracing app. every time i, or rather, my phone, comes into close proximity with someone else and their phone, it keeps a record. now, it won't tell me who they were or where we met, but, if within 1a days, they test positive and tell the app, i'll get an automatic warning. around one in five germans have downloaded the app. for privacy reasons, their data stays on the phones. the authorities can't see it. so it's unlikely to put sylvia out of work. she's the human version, speaking to those who've tested positive and tracing those they might have infected.
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so many contacts. it was awful, you know! there were so many. after the shutdown, it was less and less and less. germany's got used to masks, distance, caution. but as this country embarks on a very different holiday season, experts worry. too easy, they say, to leave those cares behind. jenny hill, bbc news, frankfurt. and we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers penny smith and iain anderson — that's coming up after the headlines. time for a look at the weather with nick. hello. however h owever reversal however reversal in south—east england after saturday's sunshine and heat. the midlands, east anglia and heat. the midlands, east anglia and across england, expect rain to
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start the day. south—west england, many of us here and across the midlands and parts of east anglia brightening up in the afternoon but the rest of the uk, sunshine, chance ofa the rest of the uk, sunshine, chance of a shower in scotland, most staying dry and temperatures for the most pa rt into staying dry and temperatures for the most part into the high teens. i have and i attended a monday, a call night to come. temperatures falling widely into single figures, still the chance of catching a shower or two in scotland and indeed here on monday, too. sunday, a few showers, much of england and wales are staying dry though some cloud building after a sunny start. well intojuly building after a sunny start. well into july and temperatures may building after a sunny start. well intojuly and temperatures may need to the high teens. —— temperatures in the high teens.
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hello. this is bbc news with me, martine croxall. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment with penny smith and iain anderson —
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first the headlines. russia's ambassador to the uk rejects allegations his country has interfered in british politics or tried to steal coronavirus vaccine research. i do not believe in the story at all, there is no sense in it. councils in england now have new powers to close shops, cancel events and shut outdoor public spaces to manage outbreaks of the virus. the veteran american civil rights leader and long—serving congressman, john lewis, has died at the age of 80. eu leaders struggle to reach an agreement on a 750 billion euro economic recovery package to repair the damage done by the coronavirus pandemic.
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hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the broadcaster penny smith and the corporate communications specialist iain anderson. welcome to both, lovely to have you here. tomorrow's front pages, starting with... the sunday times reports that the chinese social media giant, tiktok, has shelved plans for a global headquarters in britain, amid a mounting economic war between london and beijing. the sunday mirror carries a picture of princess beatrice on her wedding day, but questions the whereabouts of her father, prince andrew. photos of princess beatrice‘s big day also make the front page of the mail on sunday. but the paper leads with revelations that a leading contender to become the next head of the civil service was investigated for bullying staff and misusing expenses. the sunday express says mps are warning that a report into alleged russian meddling in uk democracy, due to be
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published next week, mustn't be used to sabotage brexit. and borisjohnson has ruled out another nationwide lockdown — that's according to an interview given to the sunday telegraph. so, let's begin. with a wedding picture. hewitt is on the sunday mirror. beatrice wedding shock, where's dad 7 sunday mirror. beatrice wedding shock, where's dad? prince andrew fails to appear on official photographs. it has taken everybody a bit by surprise, penny smith? yes, i think it has, of course it is one of those things where... is a special day like that, for example, where you are walking down the aisle with your daughter and you are nowhere in existence. mind you, it isa nowhere in existence. mind you, it is a lovely picture of the queen and prince philip and of course that outfit, i was just thinking prince philip and of course that outfit, i wasjust thinking i have seen that outfit somewhere before and it was when she was making sir tom more sir tom, the 100—year—old who was so chuffed to meet the
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queen, so we will see more of that outfit a bit later on, and i think it is something like the first time in 235 years that there has been a very quiet, secretive royal wedding. yes, and you can understand why, i suppose, you can understand why the individual snaps prince andrew isn't there, but whether he was or wasn't, attention is going to be paid to it,. yes, of course, and that is the point. sorry, penny, iwas trying to get back to to join in. point. sorry, penny, iwas trying to get back to tojoin in. i know you can do it all on your own, but let's, ian. iain anderson. he was certainly at the wedding, that has been confirmed by the royal family. but since he gave that infamous interview on newsnight just at the back—end of last year, he has pretty much been kept away from public
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view. these are very public pictures, they are all over the front pages of the sunday's, tonight and it is hardly surprising, really. a lovely detail though in the copy about how this was a covid—19 secure wedding. there were only 20 people allowed to be there, so the royal family actually is following the rules that everybody else has had to be following through all this. beatrice looks extremely happy in this photograph, penny, but it will be in her mind as well at all of this stuff about her dad will in some respects overshadow it. of course it well, but then i suppose if we extrapolate out from that and go 0k, if we extrapolate out from that and go ok, so this is the royalfamily and dad isn't going to be in any of the pictures, the pointers it was never going to be anything else as soon never going to be anything else as soon as we never going to be anything else as soon as we had all those about allegations, then it was always
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going to be difficult and plus, of course, it is extra difficult because of covid—i9 and there are people up and down the land who are adapting and changing things. she looks great, actually, with her prince charming, as he has been called. she does. let's move on. let's look at the sunday telegraph. johnson, we will not need another national lockdown. then it goes on to say in a subheading that the prime minister has likened a shutdown to the nuclear deterrent, saying a i certainly don't want to use it. correct me if i'm wrong, but it is not much of a deterrent because we have already used it. we certainly have already used it. we certainly have and when you read the detail of the piece, and you know, this is a big scoop from the political editor of the sunday telegraph. it really isa of the sunday telegraph. it really is a must read for everybody tomorrow morning because he doesn't just go into the question of lockdown or the prime minister's inclination not to take us into another lockdown. i mean clearly
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there is an interesting debate there because all the way through this government has been saying we have been going by the science and the chief scientific officer has been pretty clear over the past few days that we may have to lockdown, at least on a local level, again. but the rest of this interview is packed full of mrjohnson's style, he really is trying to reboot his premiership. he is talking about a whole package of policies, banning legal aid for those who have been refused british citizenship or lost their citizenship. boosting the 56 network, now that the deal not been done with huawei. and a really interesting one actually. potentially lower university tuition fees for those studying engineering and science, and may be higher ones for those who are studying art subjects, and that idea is clearly in the head of his chief adviser,
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dominic cummings, who thinks that we should probably go faster with science and arts. yes, he has made that abundantly clear, hasn't he? penny, the idea that we are not going to have another national lockdown is quite a claim to make, but having said that of course local councils now do have these new powers in england to make localised closures. which isjust what i was going to say. i mean, the point is this or something bet right at the beginning was actually mooted, wasn't it? that there might not be, that there might be just a little local lockdown is, as there have been for example in leicester. the problem with all of these things is about people actually trying to get back to some sort of normality and just feeling how on earth can anything, any business actually set out its stall and it doesn't know whether it sets out the stall and then gets told to close it down
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ain? then gets told to close it down again? that is the problem and we keep on saying we have got to make people feel safe that they can go to the shops, so we have got to wear masks, and i come back to this. i just think the messaging has been robbed. the word safe. safe is difficult. safe is not what life is about. i know that coronavirus is ha rd about. i know that coronavirus is hard and everybody does. but the thing is, is there such a thing as safe ? thing is, is there such a thing as safe? he also said, the prime minister, a couple of weeks ago, we have got to get used to it and to taking risks again, but risks are one thing, recklessness is another. yes. sorry, iain anderson. that is very much in it. you know, we are certainly ina very much in it. you know, we are certainly in a place right now where businesses, and i look at my own businesses, and i look at my own business in central london, you know, in the middle of cities are being hollowed out right now. you see this in london, in birmingham,
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you see this in manchester, you know, a lot of people are just not travelling into cities and this balance of how you strike this balance of how you strike this balance between getting people, not to return to work necessarily because people have been working pretty much hard all the way through this process, but get business and get the economy moving again because you know, we have heard it from mr johnson, we have heard it from president trump, we have heard it from other countries as well, that frankly if we were to lockdown again the economic carnage that would be piled on top of what we have just seen piled on top of what we have just seen for the past four months would be just incredible. you would think after a ll be just incredible. you would think after all these weeks, i would have got a better system is making sure that you didn't speak across each other. i apologise. that you didn't speak across each other. iapologise. let's that you didn't speak across each other. i apologise. let's stay with you, iain anderson, for a second. tell us about this bios secure bubble. england is going to release its cricket players from it and suddenly it is on the sport pages of
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the telegraph. yes, this is a fascinating piece. obviously, in the past week, joffre archer got himself into a bit of trouble in the west indies test. he broke the bubble, as it is called. players in teams allowing sport to kind of get back to normal again, had to form these kind of bio secured bubbles, where temperatures are constantly taken, the only remainder of the team makes all the food and where they have beenis all the food and where they have been is entirely controlled. what these pieces really suggesting is in between the west indies test and the next series, the england players are going to be allowed to spend time outside the bubble and it looks like, and actually to be able to do this they are going to have to get approval and sign off from the government, so it is not a slam dog as yet, but the question in many
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people's mines will be, if you break the bubble, are you actually putting the bubble, are you actually putting the whole series injeopardy? the bubble, are you actually putting the whole series in jeopardy? mixing your sports metaphors there, really, with your slam dunk and cricket. we are so with your slam dunk and cricket. we are so attuned tonight, penny, i am talking over you, i am saying what you wanted to say... well, with the slam dunk, the cricket, the whack of wood and leather or whatever the hell it is. leather on willow. i knew it was something like that. i know, all these bubbles is all terribly confusing, isn't it? you can genuinely understand why people in wider society arejust can genuinely understand why people in wider society are just constantly saying, iam not in wider society are just constantly saying, i am not sure if i'm allowed to do this and then just thinking, oh, cani to do this and then just thinking, oh, can i be bothered to look it all 7 oh, can i be bothered to look it all no, oh, can i be bothered to look it all 7 no,| oh, can i be bothered to look it all up? no, i won't, oh, can i be bothered to look it all up? no, iwon't, iwilljust... are we risk taking or being sensible? that's just wash our hands and put a mask on. i have never consulted a government website as often as i
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have since march the 19th and very useful it is as well, but it changes every few days, so you have to keep across it and know what you're doing and know what you're talking about on the sunday times, tiktok time plans for global hq in britain. do you use tiktok? i am asking penny. no, but i do know of it. i do know people are on it all the time, but probably people who are significantly younger than me. it is one of those things, isn't it? 800 million users worldwide, it is one of these short video sharing sites and people have been made millionaires through it and the thing is we knew this was going to happen. as soon as we heard that huawei was going to be stripped out in the short or long—term, but there are disputes about how long this is going to take, but we knew then because beijing warned us there would be repercussions and so there was a suggestion they were going to be 3000 jobs created because tiktok was going to have its global
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headquarters here. well, surprise surprise, not. they are now not going to do that. this is because tiktok is a, i didn't realise tiktok isa tiktok is a, i didn't realise tiktok is a chinese site, if that is what they are called. also, i see that £50 billion of future investment from china is also at risk with some universities, for example, with banking and money coming from there. but i don't know if iain anderson would agree, but this is not unexpected. yes, there was bound to be some kind of quid pro quo. the chinese government said as much, didn't they? that is right, and this is probablyjust the start of it. so this is about a chinese company that was going to make an investment in britain. the sunday times piece talks about potential reprisals for a major british names like jaguar land rover, 6laxo smith klein, that
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have got a heck of a lot of trade in china as well, so this mayjust be the start and actually one of the things that i can say is that china has become my new brexit in terms of the stuff that goes across my desk. are we now shaping up where we will form to kind of distinct blocks where you do business with china or you do business fundamentally with america and there's not going to be a lot of crossover in between. that is kind of a loss of the conversations i am saying right now, that this isjust conversations i am saying right now, that this is just the start of something i think even greater to come. let's stay with the sunday times and this story, work is running dry, as 484 apply for 2—mack precious pup vacancies. where is this pub? this is pub is actually in wimbledon, where i am sitting right
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now, in west london. i know the pub incredibly well. do you now can't? that is letting the cat out of the bag! so i was kind of surprised to see that in the paper tonight, but yes, 484 people have applied for two jobs, it is £9 an hour, the rate that they are paying and you know, it really shows that people who are currently looking for employment are going to have to fight incredibly ha rd going to have to fight incredibly hard to get themselves back on the jobs ladder. and we haven't seen this, and this number is absolutely incredible, i mean literally within a few hours of the pub owner posting the job, all those applications had appeared. we haven't seen this kind of thing in this country since the 19805. of thing in this country since the 1980s. and penny, very highly qualified applicants, he has got his
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pick of the crop, hasn't he?|j qualified applicants, he has got his pick of the crop, hasn't he? i think he says a bit later on in the article that the quality was so high that he employed six people. he had former air stewards, former restau ra nt former air stewards, former restaurant managers, really highly qualified people and these of course are people who had been perhaps furloughed and then lost theirjobs. the thing is, we know that at the moment, this is all looming as well because obviously furlough is going to end and also some companies are using covid—i9 to restructure and so there will be more and more of this. your heart goes out to all the young people who are desperately wanting to start a career and a career as something which appears to have no future at the moment, for example, in the hospitality sector. let's look at the financial pages of the mail0n look at the financial pages of the mail on sunday. a mortgage fear if you had a lone holiday. people who
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took this, penny, were told their credit rating wouldn't be effective, but that does look like that isn't the case. how funny. when i first read about the fact that you could ta ke read about the fact that you could take a holiday, a lone holiday, and this is for loans for all sorts of things, i immediately thought, yes, i wonder if that really is true that it won't affect your credit rating. so these are people who are going to go and negotiate changes, for example, in you know, you go and look for better deals. this isn't somebody who is necessarily not kept up somebody who is necessarily not kept up with mortgage repayments, to someone up with mortgage repayments, to someone who hasn't kept up with other repayments. they took a bit of a holiday because they were told it is going to be ok, and now all of a sudden they are finding it is remarkably difficult and the thing that makes people really hot under the colour is one, feeling like you have been lied to and secondly feeling, hold on a second, didn't the taxpayers bail out the banks in the taxpayers bail out the banks in the past? just saying! just asking for a friend! people will feel like
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they have been duped. iain anderson. well, maybe. there is some good news out there at the minute, which is that people are doing the right thing and you know, we are beyond hearing from the banks that the vast, vast majority of people who have ta ken a vast, vast majority of people who have taken a payment holiday are hearing just this week that over 80% for one at the banks have started to pay back again. now, that is good news, but you are right, if people are starting to pay back then they shouldn't be punished for taking that payment holiday. if that option was there, it was government backed and it was taxpayer backed, then people should be able to get that back on the property ladder and be able to access credit again if they have been trying to do the right thing. but there is some good news.
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asl thing. but there is some good news. as i say, i am hearing people really are, the majority really are trying to pay the money back. penny smith and iain anderson, thank you very much. that is it for the paper is this hour. we will all be back again at 11:30pm for another look at the papers. goodbye for now. hello. let's see what the weather is up hello. let's see what the weather is up to over the next week or so. at the moment, we are going through a bit of a transition period from the really warm, humid weather we had across southern parts of the uk too much pressure conditions spreading right across the country and some sunshine as well. but it has certainly not been the case over the weekend so far. we have had for cloud across many parts of wales, northern england, outbreaks of rain as well and it is actually a weather front that is separating the retro—
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cool air front that is separating the retro— coolair in the front that is separating the retro— cool air in the north from that warmer, humid air that has been sitting across southern parts of the uk. but be fresh air is going to win, that this is what it looks like on sunday morning. the weather front is straddling the surf south of the country here after a wet, early sunday and you can see the sunnier skies, and just a hint of north—westerly winds here with a few showers blown into scotland. this is the fresh atlantic air spreading across the uk, temperatures back into the teens, at least mostly across the uk. still may be nudging up across the uk. still may be nudging up to 2! also in some of the southern cities. 0nce up to 2! also in some of the southern cities. once the fresher air establishes itself, we have high pressure building in and that means a settled start to the week, so high pressure over the uk, light winds, probably a glorious start to the day with a bit of hair where the cloud, which tends to bubble up during the course of summer which tends to bubble up during the course of summer afternoons, and temperatures will rise a little bit, despite the fact we have got that fresh atlantic air. 22 in london and
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around 17 for belfast and glasgow. not much change changes into tuesday, high pressure is still there, but you can see a sneaky little low weather front just approaching the very far north—west, so approaching the very far north—west, so that here is a sign of things turning a bit more unsettled, at least across this portion of the atlantic. at this stage on tuesday, the weather is looking fine, we have got high pressure, light winds, pleasa nt got high pressure, light winds, pleasant temperatures, 22 in the south, 18 in liverpool and we will probably match that in glasgow as well. back to that little area of u nsettled well. back to that little area of unsettled weather in the north, just to be north—west of us. it is actually going to swing into north—western parts of the uk by the time we get to early on wednesday, so time we get to early on wednesday, so that does spell potentially some rainfor so that does spell potentially some rain for northern ireland, almost certainly western and north—western scotland. the borders southwards probably getting away with it, so here it is looking drive. i suspect even some sunshine as possible in belfast as well, but i think most of the array will go into the western
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isles. so for that, with a south—westerly flow, temperatures might creep up again in the south of the country up, up to around 24 degrees. towards the end of the week, this is the pressure pattern in isobars. not really much going on with the weather, so probably not going to be an awful lot of change in the weather across, at least, much of the country as we go through the rest of the week. on the whole, particularly further south, it will be bright and relatively warm, really pleasant summer weather. but then towards the end of the week, and into the weekend, we will see yet another area of low pressure approaching us and just how close it nudges towards us will depend on what the weekend is going to look like, but at this stage it looks as though next weekend may turn a little more unsettled. let's summarise that, a dry start to the week, mid week will probably have some unsettled weather, and then u nsettled some unsettled weather, and then unsettled by next weekend.
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