as education secretary, saying he will not do a u—turn on these results and on the system that has been set up despite quite a lot of unease from teachers and teachers unions. this article of quual they have basically said that the us teachers have over marked and marked too high. —— you, as teachers, full i would dispute that this isjust because of covid—19. of course young people missed exams that we could see this coming and teachers were raising issues with the algorithm for some weeks and we onlyjust last week so the fallout in scotland, so you would have thought that we might have made sure that we were in a better position and scotland was la st better position and scotland was last week and we have not. as a consequence, a lot of young people are very upset today and i think the

real scandal here is that when you look overall it looks like poor young people have been downgraded where as rich young people have been upgraded and... i will bring christopher in on that point. moving to the front page of the guardian we can see now which says... it says the equality watchdog says it will intervene in the controversy over the results in england after stu d e nts the results in england after students from disadvantaged backgrounds were the worst hit, whilst private school pupils benefited the most. what you make of that? it is shocking, it's so against what this government is meant to stand for, it stands for levelling up and helping the so—called redwall seats the tories won last december and now it seems to be weighted against those high achievers in these more poor communities. boris johnson will achievers in these more poor communities. borisjohnson will be shaking his head, another blow to

him after shaking his head, another blow to hi m after less shaking his head, another blow to him after less than a year of being prime minister. i think the equalities watchdog getting involved will focus minds in the department for education and quual. this issue will not go away and it looks like it's heading towards it's heading will not go away and it looks like it's heading towards what may have happened in scotland will happen when they basically scrapped the grades and said they will go on teacher assessments but you have a big operating in grades. i here tonight that some universities won't allow for any shake—up, they have not got time because they are meant to have started and placed these universities by next month. there's no time left in the whole situation it is not a faiza christopher touched on this the pressure on gavin williamson. the daily telegraph says mr williamson's allies said he had the support of the prime minister and hit out at rival mps. one said as a former chief whippy would always have

enemies. how problematic will this be for him? it's a huge scandal. a lot of people, young people may not get into universities that they wanted to or do the things that they wanted to or do the things that they wanted to or do the things that they wanted to in their future and there needs to be some accountability. when you look like i said, this happened in scotland, we could see this coming and at least nicola sturgeon stood up in scotland and said ok we are listening, we are going to make this u—turn and we're sorry. what we heard today from gavin and boris johnson was that to dig themselves in and say no, this is the way to do it. and it's interesting as guardian article talking about the equalities watchdog stepping in because this disparity between what's happened in private schools versus state codes is not going to sit well with a lot of people. 4.7% increase in the numberof of people. 4.7% increase in the number of people going to private schools getting a a and a star. you

have to ask about who is in charge and the algorithm and gavin williamson needs to be considering hisjob, giving how many people this has affected in the country. christopher, what you think? do you think you need to consider his job? i'm sure he's thinking about it but it's hard to know what elsie have done once this algorithm appear to have gone wrong as appear to happen in scotland, they have increased the grades to what teachers thought which could inflate grades which has been alleged. the problem is it's much smaller cohort of students in scotland, it's much easier to do that across all of england. it's just, the scale of it is unenviable for gavin williamson. but it is on his watch. we can all remember when we got our results will either wait a tough day for anyone who got their

results. let's move onto front page of the daily express. big headline there, seeing... it is talking about there, seeing... it is talking about the increase in fines for those who refuse to wear face coverings, it will now be £3200 if you refuse to wear a mask and faiza this has come in at the same time as relaxed some of the restrictions around coronavirus when it comes to sport, beauty salons can do close contact treatments, that kind of thing. let's stick with the masks for now. do you think that this is going to change the game? certainly, when i came in today, i did not see that many people wearing masks. probably 50-50. for any others using public transport it has been a bit of a mixed bag. there's no question about whether people are taking seriously or not. the police are saying it's ha rd or not. the police are saying it's hard for them to go in and check and

e nforce hard for them to go in and check and enforce this law. so i guess it's another way to scare people. the masks really make a difference in one of the things i would say is that because of this government kept changing its mind on masks, even when they introduced it about a month ago, a day before, michael gove was saying we should not have the masks so this has been a lot of confusion. they are really going to have to make the point very clearly i'iow have to make the point very clearly now and i guess that's what this fine is about. what's interesting is that what we have found with a steep recession worse than other parts of the eu, i'm sure there are conversations going on in government about how to get the economy moving. and certainly opening up certain businesses will be affected by some of that and the trade—off between the economy and health. i have not had a chance to really look at what the scientific evidences for them

making the changes, especially on opening more businesses, but the scientific evidence has been there oi'i scientific evidence has been there on masks for some time and we should have had them in place for some time. christopher, you can go bowling this weekend if you want to. we broadcast around the world and different countries have been opening up at different times. is this the right time for these relaxations to come in here? this was delayed since august one, by two weeks and we're seen bowling alex, skating rinks opening. as well as beauty salons and tattoo parlours and barbers offering close contact service and treatment. there was a caddis and stick approach, there's no question and on one hand —— carrot and stick. let's get the economy going, wealth against health and solar going to double the maximum fine if you're not wearing a mask, £3200. i must admit if you had

someone see mask, £3200. i must admit if you had someone see put the mask on or you will face a £3200 fine, most people will face a £3200 fine, most people will put a mask on. having travelled around london it does affect behaviour, no question. it's meant to stop you infecting somebody else, that's the idea and that's the justification of it. i've heard anecdotally that within a hairdressing salon if you wear ppe it does not spread but when people go home to a confined space that's with spreads so the focus is on households. 0k, we only have a couple of minutes so i will move on move on quickly to the front page of the new york times. the campaign for trump quickly hits insult mode. talking about how nasty the campaign hit has become. how ugly things will get? 80 days until the presidential election. we know who the democratic ticket will be facing off against.

donald trump and mike pence. how nasty will it get? it feels like it will get very nasty. as souness kamal harris was announced as the vice president candidate, there was a pretty insulting video put out about us on donald trump osman twitter. certainly — — about us on donald trump osman twitter. certainly —— donald trump's twitter. certainly —— donald trump's twitter. he uses the word nasty like you did with hillary clinton and people have been asking him, it has been getting personal so quickly, is it because they are trying to deflect from other things and certainly trump's record on the economy in the us and certainly what has happened with covid—19, with the cases in case rises, they have got a lot to hide. they are using this personal approach to try and beat the democrats. we only have a minute left so i will move on quickly to the telegraph again because it's a story you wrote. so we must not ignore it. the union flag to adorn

projects in scotland funded by the uk. what's this about? you can if you like but in scotland you cannot. i interviewed the new scottish conservative leader and he talks about this idea of stamping the union flag logo on big ticket infrastructure that is funded by the uk government directly. it happens with the eu project, you see the flag on bridges and buildings and the idea is to do it on uk government funded infrastructure to show the people of scotland the value of being part of the union and the uk with england and not wanting to leave it. it will infuriate the snp probably. 0k, to leave it. it will infuriate the snp probably. ok, thanks to both eu for now. we will be back shortly. if you're in the uk, christopher hope and faiza shaheen will be back in just over half an hour to look at more of the stories being covered by newspapers and websites here.

goodbye for now. it's still been very humid today, but it's not been very hot across parts of the uk today. because we've had all these downpours developing, across parts of the uk today. because we've had all these downpours developing, some very heavy bursts of rain, particularly across southern parts of england. over the next couple days or so, it will be the southern half of the uk that sees most of these downpours, and again it'll feel on the humid side as well despite those temperatures dropping off a little bit further. further north, mainly dry with sunshine around at times, but there will be some areas of mist and low cloud coming in off the north sea. like we've had today, and that can be rather stubborn to move away, keeping it cooler as well. higher pressure across the northern half of the uk, that's why it's drier, but we have easterly winds bringing in the low cloud. clusters of cloud coming in from continental europe

or developing across southern parts of england into wales. that's where we see most of the downpours. continuing into this evening, they may ease off a little bit later in the night, but we may introduce more from continental europe. so, wetter in the south, drierfor the north, low cloud comes in bringing drizzle. it'll be a muggy night across the southern half of the uk like it has been of late. tomorrow starts off grey and misty, we will see sunshine developing in many areas. still the potential for more thundery downpours breaking out across wales, the midlands, east anglia and southern england. that cloud still sticking into the north east of england, some northern and eastern parts of england. quite warm for western scotland and north west england, with temperatures in the south east lower than today at 25—26 celsius. into the weekend we still have the area of high pressure in the north starting to move away, allowing the downpours that we see in the south to move northwards. saturday is very similar to friday, again it is wales, the midlands, east anglia, southern england that

are likely to find some heavy and thundery rain with the threat of localised flooding. further north, low cloud keeping it on the cooler side. temperatures won't change a great deal over the weekend but we are likely to find those showers still potentially heavy and thundery. moving further north into northern england, up to northern ireland, threatening southern parts of scotland. sunshine in between the downpours in the south, the top temperature 25 celsius.

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