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this is bbc world news, the headlines the head of the world health organisation has said the impact of the coronavirus outbreak will be felt "for decades to come". the w—h—o's emergency committee was meeting to assess the pandemic, six months after declaring a global public health emergency. the uk halts any further easing of lockdown restrictions due to come into force in england. bowling alleys, ice rinks, and casinos will stay shut, and even small wedding receptions won't be allowed. a teenager arrested in the state of florida is suspected of having been the mastermind behind a major hacking attack targeting twitter. many leading users —— including barack obama, elon musk and kanye west had their accounts compromised.
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bringing us tomorrow. with me arejohn rentoul, chief political commentator and the independent and jo tanner, political strategist. tomorrow's front pages, starting with the telegraph leads on uk prime minister boris johnson's sudden decision to halt the further easing of lockdown restrictions in england — amid concerns of a second wave of coronavirus. that story also the lead for the mail — the paper focuses on possible plans for lockdown trade—offs — meaning some restrictions may have to be re—imposed if others are lifted. the times describes borisjohnson‘s decision to pause the easing of england's lockdown as ‘slamming on the brakes‘ — the paper also carries a picture of a swimmer in a west london pool, as the uk experienced its third hottest day on record. the i carries a picture of a packed beach in southern england — earlier today, brighton
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and hove city council asked people to stay away from the area as it said social distancing was becoming ‘impossible‘. britain‘s so—called ‘virus chaos‘ also the lead for the mirror — but the paper also claims prince andrew is in ‘alot of trouble‘ in relation to his friendship with convicted sex offender, jeffrey epstein. the prince has always denied the claims made against him. amid news about the concerns of a second coronavirus wave in england, the guardian has a picture of russian—born newspaper proprietor evgeny lebvedev, who‘s among dozens of new nominations for peerages announced by downing street so, let‘s begin. and, we will start with your paper. there is a picture of the prime minister here and that story about squeezing the break as he warns
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about a spike of further lockdown easing. this is coming as a surprise to many people today, isn‘t itjohn? yes, absolutely. all of our rival newspapers have gone with slamming on the brakes where they have acquitted the prime minister precisely with what he said was that we needed to squeeze the brake pedal, not sure if you‘re driving a car or pedal, not sure if you‘re driving a caror riding a pedal, not sure if you‘re driving a car or riding a at that point, got his metaphors in a right angle but, he was trying to give the impression ofa he was trying to give the impression of a gentle adjustment, not slamming on the brakes, but squeezing the bra kes to on the brakes, but squeezing the brakes to try and meet the challenge ofan brakes to try and meet the challenge of an increase in the number of cases. of course, that has sent shock waves around the country around this extremely hot day and people have been outside and enjoying the weather but it is going
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to bea enjoying the weather but it is going to be a long time before we get back to be a long time before we get back to normal. in the spring into focus the fact that business leaders say this move is a hammerfor them. absolutely, we had interestingly, it was only a few weeks ago that we had the prospect of workplaces needing to get ready. he had this discussion of shops opening and workplaces and businesses got ready for the two metre rule which then got moved to one metre and, you know, they drape put the stickers on the floor and information out and it changed a bit and so, businesses that had to adjust again and we had a lot of the narrative around the fact that the economy is struggling we need to get people back to work and so this is not really great timing because a lot of businesses have probably already been written off on the
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summer already been written off on the summerand were waiting already been written off on the summer and were waiting for people to come on september. and things might've been easy for a lot of people working at home. and the mood in the government that the infections were out and about more isa infections were out and about more is a real worry because many places are worried about going back to the office, they're worried about happens in their offices and there may businesses and big buildings that require lifts and becca take a considerable amount of time, if you get into a lift and there's more than two or three people, you are simply not able to socially distance at all. i think this is a real worry for business and i think this is the la st for business and i think this is the last thing the government wanted the blessing business wants and actually, really getting people back into work is going to be one of the biggest elements of actually getting the economy moving. yes, there is a
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big challenge there. looking at the daily mail, there is a warning there. get set to lose more freedom and it is talking about these new restrictions as well. but there is a focus on the trade—off that might be necessary , focus on the trade—off that might be necessary, do we socialise. staying with you, joe, but you make of the priorities that have been taken so far in terms of what is open and what is not? i think this is the big thing. schools are a big priority and it's one of the major mess ups around what happened with the issue of spain because lots of people took holidays and people that are returning, actually had a holiday booked and i was due to leave to go to spain and deliberately thought i would not come back until after the 15thjust in case there is an issue of quarantine and you put it to be quarantined in and kids cannot go back to school and kids have been
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disrupted enough and they need to get back into some form of routine and actually learn but most of us have been home—schooling, if you can call it that, know the reaper much been doing a pretty poorjob of substitute teacher and rather than any actual learning. and so, we cannot afford for kids to lose any more time, if that means quite frankly but i can't go and eat out andl frankly but i can't go and eat out and i shouldn't be using cops or going to the gym, well, fine. that is going to be what i need to do. however, we do need the economy to move as well. and so you are consta ntly move as well. and so you are constantly having the struggle and they are still worried about the risk of domestic violence, people that are locked on for too long. they're worried about the perpetrators being able to get away with it because there is no contact with it because there is no contact with anyone. there is also worry about people spending money, they're worried about the fact that the money is not moving around the economy and children that are
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already falling behind because of months away from school, they need to be getting back to those transitions to secondary school, transitions to secondary school, transitions to secondary school, transitions to primary school and does need to happen. i think this goes back to the fact that this is a massive jigsaw puzzle and pieces are consta ntly massive jigsaw puzzle and pieces are constantly moving. and each time you have under these pressures that we i'iow have under these pressures that we now see emerging and we now know what the pattern is going to be, we will get to the point of the narrative where we will be told, you did it, but you did not do it properly so we will take it away. the government are not saying that yet but i think that is was going to start to happen because we'll be getting more pictures of people not socially distance and when they're out and about. it is a bit like a jigsaw puzzle. or playing that game, django. you move one big and looks like all the rest of my fall down. and —— ginga. people are avoiding
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using public transport, for instance. that is the interesting thing. the daily mail, which is basically been supportive of the lockdown is suggesting that it is reporting that chris, the chief medical officer is very cautious in suggesting correctly that if children are to go back to school, they will have to impose over restrictions —— other restrictions over people elsewhere. and that may raise the question of whether we got the balance right here and i think thatjoe‘s the balance right here and i think that joe‘s absolutely right the balance right here and i think thatjoe‘s absolutely right in that is why i nominated her, much more important than children getting their education and that we get the
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economy back moving again. that is not an abstract thing. the economy is peoples jobs and livelihoods and we shouldn‘t be doing everything we can to save a small number of lives. it isa can to save a small number of lives. it is a very brutal thing that to say, but i suspect we have overrea cted say, but i suspect we have overreacted to the coronavirus and we need to correct that balance. you may be rated by the being a brutal thing to say, judging from joe‘s face, but maybe we can get a comment on that as well as a comment on the front page of the times also talking about lockdown being eased and brea ks about lockdown being eased and breaks being slammed on, but also tighter rules unmasks. masks have been quite problematic, haven‘t they for this whole conversation. yeah,
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and we all want to do our part some of the interesting things is that a few weeks after the ppe and the shortage of ppe, there was an event in the department of health and the secretary spoke about the fact that there had been new guidance issues because even the professionals are not using ppe correctly, apparently. and the great british public and i witnessed it myself, they do not know how to wear a face mask. it is fairly simple but i did see on twitter someone who recently had a cat that had the mask in different positions to shovels correct what was not. and a critical message to wear a face mask and wash her hands, but people we know and love not being able to do it very well, someone being able to do it very well, someone had the mask fell set across theirchin someone had the mask fell set across their chin that was achieving absolutely nothing and if so did actually say something to the person of which i don't think they appreciated me mentioning. but this
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is what the government want people to do, they want you to regulate each other, they want you to look at people that are not observing things properly and they want you to perhaps frown in the direction and see if they were then regulate their behaviour. but the reality is that the government announced that they had this whole thing about shops and the next place to wear a mask, they've now suggested that museums, galleries and cinemas and other indoor spaces where people are mixing, you're going to have to start wearing them and so, this is the facemask that is going to become a way of life, so if you have not invested already, but it is time to find the collision like because they are probably going to be there for the months to come. and learned to wear them correctly. that helps. john, let‘s look at the guardian with you. also talking about following the rules of lockdown. but, there is also a story about
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shielding being lifted. that seems to be going the other direction of everything else. yes yes, it does. since all only surprising priority and that people who are especially vulnerable were being shielded, they are told that they don't need to do that any more as of tomorrow. that seems to me that slightly strange, obviously, ithink that seems to me that slightly strange, obviously, i think it should be up to the individuals to decide whether or not they want to carry on the shielding. i suspect that this is more about removing the government's help in delivering food to shield people. in which case, i think it sounds like a very bad priority because, one, with one hand, borisjohnson priority because, one, with one hand, boris johnson is priority because, one, with one hand, borisjohnson is saying that if they have, the ability to enjoy yourself in restaurants and on the other, he is saying that we have got
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to squeeze the brakes and at the same time, he is saying that people who shielded can come out of their homes and start mixing the people again. and that does not seem to be very consistent message. what is its only to you, joe? this sounds like something i mentioned earlier, mental health is a really big issue and a significant priority and think the people that are shielding, it is been pretty rotten and actually, this is where the governments priorities very difficult to manage because as he said that this challenge by the economy and they wa nt challenge by the economy and they want to see people shielding and being able to get out and about again and play their part in societies see people that they care for and people that they care about seeing and participating in normal lives to some extent. i think the reality of what's going on is that that decision to release those people from shielding have been some weeks ago and it was set for this
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weekend, the challenge now is that they want the students to get out and about but they're probably going to be the first ones that are going to be the first ones that are going to be the first ones that are going to be slept with another significant lockdown. and they'll get a taste of freedom for the next few weeks and a blockbuster long so i think it is a case of they're going to need to enjoy it while they can. but that does also mean that things like face masks and stuff will be providing more protection for those people who are more vulnerable which is why we all need to observe those rules simply because those more vulnerable people, are often more vulnerable through no fault of their own. they have conditions that make them vulnerable. there to take medication that makes them vulnerable and they have been really badly treated in the sense of the way that the virus acts towards them, it is made them more vulnerable they've actually had to curtail their lives. in a really hopeless people can get out and about this weekend and i hope they
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can not be too scared, not be too worried about being back out in society. and at the same time, those people that i've seen not bring the facemask correctly, i hope they think a little bit about the impact of their actions because it's actually going to be those people go back first to being trapped in their homes which must be really, really miserable. sol homes which must be really, really miserable. so i hope that they get out and can do some the things of these two enjoy. certainly. let us talk about this other story, change ita talk about this other story, change it a bit, on teddy appearances. normally you would nominate joe, it a bit, on teddy appearances. normally you would nominatejoe, you told us that but what do you make of the other names on that list? they are quite curious list about, obviously, my proprietor is on the front page the guardian there. the very end candidate for an appearance
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but you‘ve got to look at who didn‘t didn‘t appearance, john brokaw, the former speaker, in the former labour deputy leader turned down and is going to be a controversy over claire fox who was a brexit party member of the european parliament who has had a very interesting political history in the revolutionary communist party and has never actually disavowed hers support for ira violence and that is going to cost them considerable controversy of the next few days. what you make of it was makelj controversy of the next few days. what you make of it was make i think the awkward squad as they became known, those that were very concerned about no—deal brexit, those that are became very concerned about the direction that boris johnson was taking in to see them actually getting elevated is a
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really interesting one because the challenge for the government, you have to remember the way it works, when you are putting through legislation, you have to get it through both houses and so actually he's having some of these people have been very outspoken critics, is very interesting. is it a part of a truce? is it a part of a peace breaking out? it will be a case of those individuals deciding how they're going to act when they are in the lord. and other people, have done an awful lot to further their position of women and seeing women and more prominent positions in business which is been a really successful campaign that she is been very involved with and obviously, we have seen other types of politicians, including boris johnson's brother who went into politics to become a minister and do a lot working in the university sector. so, they are always
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controversial and i am delighted to see davidson going into the lords. she is going to be a very interesting character and she's going to have a lot to say there it i think the big really interesting thing is that what they do and they get there. that is the thing we really need to watch. we've gotjust a few seconds for us to ask a question about our last paper. a very colourful picture in front page of the times and she looks like she is definitely during the hot weather, what you going to do with the hot weather this weekend —— enjoying. i wish i was her. yes, it was really hot. i do not know about swimming pools. i have tried to get into one, they are they. although that one must be. and so, it was too ha rd that one must be. and so, it was too hard for me today. and i‘m looking
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forward to this rain that the weather forecasters talking about. into a three words, but will you do with the hot weather?” into a three words, but will you do with the hot weather? i will try and get a tan. or the pursuit. get a little bit of sun. i think it would do us all good. and some ports are in fact open, and there is that picture in the times. it is of the papers, big thank you to you too. that‘s it for the papers. the latest from the bbc sports centre. spectators will not be permitted in the venues to watch live sports and ending the trial of admitting fans and the three test defence for at least two weeks. cricket, snooker and horse
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racing were picked by the government to test the safe reentry of fans into arenas as the east lectern restrictions, but a coronavirus role has commenced by mr borisjohnson into a has commenced by mr borisjohnson intoa u has commenced by mr borisjohnson into a u turn. on saturday, the first, you listen that we had hoped to open some of the high—risk settings and we are postponing those changes for at least a fortnight. that means coming to the 15th of august at the earliest, indoor performances would not resume, larger crowds will not take place. the premise made that announcement and around 300 fans were all watching inside the theatre in shipyard on the opening day of snookehs shipyard on the opening day of snooker‘s world championship. it would not continue behind closed doors from tomorrow. we‘re going to get through as we always do. and
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plan b is to revert from tomorrow behind closed doors. there is a chance and i am always the optimist that may be a return to the final is the earliest opportunity. in the meantime, i the earliest opportunity. in the meantime, lam the earliest opportunity. in the meantime, i am gutted with,, the teams have done an amazing job and for them, they must feel terribly deflated. but we have seen every safety guideline and i will not be changing and so we have a new guideline and will follow that as well. health and safety is paramount as we clear from the beginning and we will adapt to the circumstances and in the words of was pt barnum that's at show must go on. well, this show is going on. you can keep up—to—date with the action and the highlights from the snooker championship over on the bbc sport website. and the number of the plan test d efe nce website. and the number of the plan test defence permitting crowd entry was said to be at goodwill tomorrow,
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