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the daily mail leads on an investigation into the deaths of at least 15 babies at the east kent hospitals university trust since 2011. the express looks at rumours that the bbc is considering removing songs like rule britannia and the land of hope and glory from its last night of the proms, over concerns about racism. the front page of the yorkshire post features warnings from a charity report that radicalism and racism may grow in coastal and industrial towns as they slip into decline. so let's begin... a little flavour of some of our front pages. let's start our chat martin and kate. nice to see you both. we are going to start with the financial times and news of a vaccine but it planned by president
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trump potentially. kate, would you like to start us off? previously the one by astrazeneca and oxford university and donald trump a p pa re ntly university and donald trump apparently is considering bypassing the normal us regulations when it comes to vaccines to try and roll it out faster than normal. so it's talking here in this piece about astrazeneca has a study of 10,000 people where a larger study more like 30,000 volunteers and from this piece that usually the norm when they're doing the vaccine. tested on a small period of people. i'm not sure it's a smart move. there is a lot of anxiety around vaccinations andi lot of anxiety around vaccinations and i think you should try to bring something forward, the last thing you want to do is for people to try and lose confidence in the system. martin? i think it's clear they tried to pretend this virus didn't
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exist and made up by his enemies i think trump is trying to with covid—19 at least trying to get ahead of the curve. he's going to fail to read elected tried of a desperate on the eve of the republican national convention. the ceremony over for days and virtually which will be nominated or read nominated for the republican candidate for president for some interest in, he's literally about to end the next minute or so have another press conference at which it apparently he's going to announce that there is a plasma treatment. he's also going to authorise. it's a bit late in the day people might think and it's indicative of the fa ct think and it's indicative of the fact that an acceptance at last amongst the white house high command. and that means trump i guess, unless they sort out this issue he is not going to be president as of january issue he is not going to be president as ofjanuary 20. inauguration day. it's not the first time that we've heard of president trump talking about potential
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treatments. but i suppose he's going for fairly reputable, going treatments. but i suppose he's going forfairly reputable, going down the reputable avenue. not bleaching the syste m reputable avenue. not bleaching the system anymore. 0r other strange concocted which is spun into his head that morning in the shower. we know that these trials are ongoing. the question will be is it safe to use the question will be is it safe to use them? we've had a russian vaccine vaccine didn't weigh which was being discussed last week was that we know scientists around the world a re that we know scientists around the world are working on this. a number of studies and trials in all parts of studies and trials in all parts of the us and the uk across europe. trump knows that if he can announce and trumpet as it were, a vaccine and trumpet as it were, a vaccine and a cure, it would definitely help his reelection. the latest polls have been anywhere between eight and ten points down with two months to go before the vote. kate, at the same time you have to ask how much influence does he have over the fda? because at the fda who have to sign this off. well they will be under a
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lot of pressure but i don't think if the site is don't think it's safe they won't give it the authorisation to do so. then you might see trump setting off a whole number of tweets and as we used to say. i would be surprised if he can exert a lot of influence to make this happen quicker. america has got 170,000 deaths. the rate is absolutely huge. to get something first, it would fit in with his rhetoric of america being great was up and of america being great was up and of america being the best of the world. and then he could maybe go back to some of those that he likes to get out and use. we will see what happens with this. it mightjust be something that he's put out there and you're right, it could just be ahead of the republican convention. the timing fits very well. you have to wonder who he's speaking to don't you? because a lot of republican states are happy to go with his or
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rather, haven't taken the coronavirus as seriously. haven't put in those lockdown restrictions as strongly as other states. so you do wonder who he's appearing to hear. potentially speaking to democratic electorates. potentially. my democratic electorates. potentially. my think here is the vaccination in america is so significant that you need to be really, really careful with us. and make sure that you're presenting in oxford people that is truly safe. you don't want any, vaccination group to be able to make use of this politically. i think he's got to tread... we've had proof of concept. how have you both handled working from home because? it looks like it could be here to stay. very nice, i think. these are stories city employees for lasting switches to remote working. starting with a switches to remote working. starting witha numberof switches to remote working. starting with a number of major companies
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which have or are taking that view long—term. people like natwest and lloyds, standard life, ups, we are used to it now, i think. a lot of people are. i work from home anyhow. ijust haven't people are. i work from home anyhow. i just haven't left people are. i work from home anyhow. ijust haven't left home for the la st ijust haven't left home for the last five months. my kitchen has become my office must to the chagrin of my family. i'm a right pain in the back side, i'm in the way all the back side, i'm in the way all the time. but at is a way that so many are now living our lives. it's prove n many are now living our lives. it's proven that, something we were told it is impossible that you could work from home and be productive. it's not only possible it's entirely sensible. and you do wonder long—term, what the repercussions will be for. the office market in major cities. these huge office blocks that just aren't needed. because people can do the job better from home without the hour and a half commute each way. kate? yes
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even struggling to make that come back and be as vibrant as they once we re back and be as vibrant as they once were because you just don't have footfall. it's not just were because you just don't have footfall. it's notjust london which gets a letter focus but this is newcastle as well. some banking and financial offices closing down. some of the office space and its training people to work from home. i absolutely hate working from home. i really wa nt absolutely hate working from home. i really want to get back into the office all the time. i think it's great if it works for you but i spoke to people who've actually found it really depressing and are really missing being able to talk to colleagues. let's move to the front page of the metro. they have minors, raving idiots. martin? yes. the subject on this is ignoring as police break up hundreds of mass gatherings across britain. this isn't a surprise, is it? we are
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seeing things on beaches and parks and outside paths. and in certain areas, city areas and urban housing areas. it does seem to be that i think after five months people are just bored of it. they don't want to listen to warnings, too many people think that the virus is not as serious as it was or has been an issue that no longer applies to them. maybe they've had it, they've had the antibody and therefore can't be affected again etc. we are at the start of lockdown, it's just that people for it while at work powered bya people for it while at work powered by a government by fear, the warnings because of the necessity of taken significant action. but nothing last forever. human beings are sociable bees. we want to be in groups. just with other people. over a period of months, it's clear that it's going to be harder and harder to expect people to obey
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restrictions. even if the government and health experts tell us we should. kate? i do have some sympathy for the police having to attend these events and break them out. if anyone really wants to go into a gathering at a hundred plus at the moment it doesn't really feel perfectly safe. some of these raves are in the northwest and around the greater manchester area and that's pa rt greater manchester area and that's part of the country that subjected to these more stringent lockdown rules. perhaps some of these are happening and some of the areas where the virus is still quite prevalent. but it's very difficult and of course young people just want to go and enjoy themselves and have fun. but yeah, i think the police officers having to go to tend to these. i suppose the fine of £100 jumping up to £10,000 for organisers of these gatherings will be a deterrent, what do you think martin? we we re deterrent, what do you think martin? we were told last week about the fines going up to £3200 for the
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breaches of warnings and for people who are encouraging. let's see if these finds actually get imposed. because if they don't people get a laugh at them. and i'm afraid that people, a lot of people don't think the rules apply to them. and they don't also fear that they will be applied to them. and part of it is understandable. there are so many, only so many police, at 110. i do think it's difficult. and if people don't believe there's a real risk of being punished it's more likely they will continue to act in a way in which you might consider absolutely irresponsible. okay. we are going to turn to the front page of the new york times. small story at the bottom of the front page. black artists in britain push their own narrative. kate? interesting it's not in any front pages of the british newspapers that we have. but
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it's in the new york times. this is an art exhibition and it's celebrating the american civil rights movement. but a local group of art is that people then collected for why are we facing america when there's a story to tell about the black british experience was next they have instead decided to put in black lives matters banners and instead they are called the exhibition the 1—room only, being called from margate to minneapolis was up this is our living for the moment. things being developed in inspiration going. a local group felt unhappy with what they was seeing in this phase and said they wa nt to seeing in this phase and said they want to change it. and the gallery let them do that to try and discuss more of the british experience. i think it's a very interesting story. fascinating that it's being called out in the new york times.|j fascinating that it's being called out in the new york times. i suppose martin, there are a lot of people when you talk about civil rights you insta ntly when you talk about civil rights you i nsta ntly d o when you talk about civil rights you instantly do talk about the united
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states. some people say there is a lot of denial that the uk even has a race issue. the whole wind rush scandal which in the end boil down to an institutional government. that's a false analogy, false: we've had conflict over many years. there are a lot of ways that we could be seen as a are a lot of ways that we could be seen as a pioneering nation for inclusivity and a lack of discrimination. but in other ways we are as culpable as any other nation. i think we have to accept that is pa rt of i think we have to accept that is part of the black experience in the uk. speaking as a white, middle—class male, i don't know what it's like to be a black britain. but those people, black people i speak to have a very different experience. and throughout their lives they have to be more aware of things thatjust don't impinge on me at all. and
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that's the reality. i suppose it all comes down to education, isn't it? it's not part of the education system. let's end with the daily mirror. send your kids back to school. this borisjohnson's plea. kate. boris johnson is trying to get a grip on education and the a level debacle. he's putting himself forward as the spokesperson to say it's time for kids to go back to school in september. we have the warning, the advice from the chief medical officer woody today saying that it medical officer woody today saying thatitis medical officer woody today saying that it is safe to go back. and borisjohnson is that it is safe to go back. and boris johnson is hair that it is safe to go back. and borisjohnson is hair hammering that measures the home for a second time. lots of the newspaper are going to be carrying this story tomorrow. but you know, ithink be carrying this story tomorrow. but you know, i think a lot of this is 01’ you know, i think a lot of this is or isjohnson you know, i think a lot of this is or is johnson coming you know, i think a lot of this is or isjohnson coming back from his holidays and trying to show that he's in charge. williamson has absolutely horrid times people still wa nt absolutely horrid times people still want him to resign. he isn't a person that's leaving this back—to—school drive. it is the prime ministerfor the back—to—school drive. it is the prime minister for the which i spoke to mps today and they said bar is
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just really wants to show that he is in control of theirs. education doesn't matter to him. martin, final comment on this? as a parent of a ten—year—old and a 14—year—old who was had them home since march please, please, please can i get back to school for their own sanity and hours. they read need it, they really do. if it is now proven to be safe that they should go back that let's do it. more importantly, their education has suffered horrendously. there is no doubt about that. and that's notjust my kids that his kids up and down this country. the quicker they back—to—school the quicker they back—to—school the quicker they back—to—school the quicker they can learn properly, the better. we will end there. i shall see you again at 1130. for now though thank you very much.
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hey, welcome to click. hope you're doing okay. i don't know about you but this year has felt really quite long so far. we live in a world which is unrecognisable from even six months ago. and it's clear that we still have big problems to face. but let's not forget the global issues that we were talking about even before the pandemic. particularly climate change. possibly one silver lining from all this is a reminder that tech can and does solve some of our biggest problems was up on click we've been lucky enough to see some amazing tech. check that can change the world even revolutionizing. without
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would share with you some of our favourites for the past couple yea rs. favourites for the past couple years. i want to share with you fa cts years. i want to share with you facts that haven't fully understood until i met climate scientist ed hawkins last year. i know that our weather is getting worse and our receipt levels were rising and i knew that global warming was rising because we are emitting carbon methane at a runaway rate. but what i hadn't fully understood is this... simply reducing greenhouse gas emissions will not bring global warming under control. in order to stop global morning, warming we need to do something very drastic indeed. if we end up in a world were not increasing net zero that will stabilise global temperatures at the point which we do that. to reduce
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global temperatures we would need to somehow remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. now, there are already ways of capturing co2 at source. on its way out of power stations, for example. but this doesn't get it all by any means. what you need is something to pull cot back out of the air. what you need is something like this. it's called the artificial tree. the air passes through these filters which are made out of very special material. because the co2 actually clings to this material as the air passes over. once these filters are saturated with carbon dioxide this whole thing moves down into a container of water. where this particular material releases into
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the cot container. and congratulations, you've captured yourself some cot from the air. this is the brainchild at the negativity admission centre at arizona state university. we realised early on this and c02 problem we releasing c02 into the air and itjust stays there. it was very clear to me in there. it was very clear to me in the early 90s that sometimes in the early 2000 will have to stop admitting. he was the first scientist in 1999 to publish a scientific paper suggesting an option carbon from the air was a feasible way of combating climate change. the problem was, no one seemed to be listening. if you look at the climate change problem, in the 90s, we had mortals which told us the 90s, we had mortals which told us it's happening. where you couldn't really see it out in the real world except in a microscope. in the 2000 you could measure it. it was happening. in the teens now, you
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can see it happen even as a non—expert. climate has changed. in the next decade as it grows out of the next decade as it grows out of the noise, it becomes loud and clear and then starts to once it hurts people as they now would we do about a? close argues that since we are failing to meet our targets for lowering co2 emissions carbon ca ptu re lowering co2 emissions carbon capture from the air is now unavoidable. and now people aren't listening as technology has recently received commercial investment. we have put so much c02 in the air that we actually have to come back. so we call ourselves the centre for negative carbon emissions because we are actually thinking about having a. in this century and which we will have to take hundred parts per million back. now that's more c02 than that world has emitted in the 20th century. this was absolutely fascinating for top it really help me to think about the different
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approaches we can take to tackling the different aspects of climate change. as well as removing our emissions from the air and using greener energy techniques we can also reduce the energy that we use and reduce the emissions produced by certain industries. one of the big one is agriculture and meat production. in the past few months kate and laura have been looking at alternative to the food that we eat. at beyond meet in la they designed the next generation of meat substitute by analysing it at a cellular level. they then went hunting through the plant kingdom for enzymes, fats and proteins that behave in the same way as the elements of the meat. in this case extracted from peas, potatoes and with beet root for blood. i know it's not meet i'm going to taste it soon but just from it's not meet i'm going to taste it soon butjust from the it's not meet i'm going to taste it
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soon but just from the juice, it's not meet i'm going to taste it soon butjust from thejuice, it feels like a burger. as well as the visual appeal, scientists here use in ee nose to examine the components of aroma so they can be mimicked in the lab. i'm just going to do with the lab. i'm just going to do with the way you do a burger. straight on in was up it's losing all of my fingers. it's dripping down my hands. ina fingers. it's dripping down my hands. in a very burger like way. look at the amount of water we use 99% less water. you look at the emissions that we provided we are about 90% fewer emissions. lastly, on land and this is really important for the farmer, we use 93% less land. if you're a farmer and you have 100 acres you can now grow on seven acres of what you used to use all 100 for. there is still one major drawback for your average meat loving family, where a pack of fresh
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beef burgers may be priced around 1440 beef burgers may be priced around 14110 per kilogram to be on meat alternative is currently around £25 for the same weight. for many, switching to a meat free diet is partly about sustainability and partly about sustainability and partly about sustainability and partly about better health. but be on the marketing hype are these heavily processed foods actually achieving either goal? there is a lot of debate and uncertainty around if highly processed food is intrinsically bad for you or not. actually look at what has done to that food on the way to you and how much energy is added to it in the course of processing and how many pollutants are produced, that's an essential thing. there pollutants are produced, that's an essentialthing. there is pollutants are produced, that's an essential thing. there is still a long way to go to produce an effective meat substitute that is both delicious and affordable. but with a third of britain's already stating they eat a mainly vegetarian
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life it's a booming market attracting a lot of investment to design the perfect meat replacement. to make the whole food industry more sustainable we are also going to need to broaden our diets. so i've come here to copenhagen to visit ikea does research and development la bs ikea does research and development labs space ten to see what they have in mind. what am i having? today you are having our godless hotdog. a dog hotdog? we are having our godless hotdog. a dog hotdog ? we use are having our godless hotdog. a dog hotdog? we use carrots instead of sausage. we have poached in a mixture of apple juice and carrot juice. and then we dry them in the ove n juice. and then we dry them in the oven for about one and a half hours. sue there shrinking, they get this to be kind of texture to them. kind of like meat in a way. a lot of what we have come up with is plant —based because we know that turning to a
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vegan diet is simply the most sustainable thing you can do as an individual. but besides that we need some protein. there we have explored everything from insects, not only because the environment environmental friendly because they are delicious. we have explored microalgae or spell enough. the only chain challenge was karolina is it taste like algae. we really try to find ways of how can we make their taste good. we are going to start off with putting this puree of paste off with putting this puree of paste of pumpkinseed. we have just got up that on the bottom of the hotdog going to add the carrot and our beet root catch— up. going to add the carrot and our beet root catch-up. time for tasting. you like a? it doesn't taste like a
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normal hotdog. but it taste a lot better. the flavour of all the sauces, there is just better. the flavour of all the sauces, there isjust so many different taste. it's all intense. 0k, different taste. it's all intense. ok, it's been messy eating on camera but beyond the ingredients ikea is also hoping to reduce its carbon footprint. introducing hydroponic farming in all stores. this method creates the perfect environment for growing plants using their food waste as fertilizer. but we could all be getting a bit more creative with our waste, it seems. take left over ground coffee for a start. because you only use 1% of the nutrients in the coffee grounds when you make a cup of coffee we actually use some of our coffee grounds for short breads and others for growing oyster mushrooms. will there be caffeine in them, will they keep me away? i actually don't know. but i don't believe so. that's it for the
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