this is bbc world news. the headlines... one month after the devatstaing blast in beirut, rescuers in lebanon continue to search in the rubble for possible survivors after some signs of life were heard on thursday. controversial former australian prime minister tony abbott is appointed as a trade adviser to the uk. critics say he is a homophobe, misoygynist and climate change denier. there's quarantine confusion in the uk as scotand and wales impose new restrictions but there's no change for england and northern ireland.

elsewhere in the uk, lockdown restrictions are to be eased in the north of england. in west yorkshire, lancashire and greater manchester, the changes will come into force, but not bolton. at ten o'clock, there'll be a full round up of the day's news. first, philippa thomas hears from people around the world about their extraordinary experiences during the pandemic and how covid—19 has changed their lives. welcome to coronavirus, your stories, a programme about how covid—19 is changing lives around

the world. i'm philippa thomas and this week, we're looking at education, weather ‘s been a enormous of people over the past six months. as country after country went into lockdown, millions of schools closed their doors. those that were able to took their teaching online. now, in many places, we are in back—to—school season places, we are in back—to—school season and this week, we hear stories about how the pandemic has already transformed teaching and what it feels like when going back to the classroom is not an easy option. later, we'll speak to an american intern here in the uk whose campaigning for students like herself who are immuno compromised, and most at risk for going back on campus. first, to teachers with two very different stories about how they've adapted during the pandemic. peter is a science teacher in remote rural kenya who took home the global

foundation teacher prize last year. jamie frost is a london teacher who isa jamie frost is a london teacher who is a finalist for that award that seer. jamie, if i can come to you first. here in the uk, covid has meant remote teaching. how has that been for you? we been able to continue lessons to a degree, but we've done our best to try and maintain the usual routine of a school day. the lessons are normal times, we encourage having as many live meetings as possible. i went i'm teaching from powerpoint, i can still use those, i just i'm teaching from powerpoint, i can still use those, ijust have to annotate virtually. i can still speak to students and stuff. so it's been very different, but it's been interesting how it's all been some ways become the new normal. it's just become relatively normal. peter, i think your story is

different. how has the coronavirus change the way you teach?” different. how has the coronavirus change the way you teach? i can say it has had a very limited impact. as a teacher, we are used to going to class and teaching face—to—face, but right now it's not happening. teachers can agree with me that face—to—face teaching is very important. i can see that teaching science is not very easy at the moment, because you need the practical aspects. you need to have students around with you. you are not putting them in groups. that's one of the challenges we are experiencing. it's not possible to achieve that. not having students in many ways, they mist their friends because every day, they were

interacting with them. they are not able to have access to counselling and free meals either. jamie, there's clearly a different story between the two schools. the fact that pupils are social beings, that must make a difference for the stu d e nts must make a difference for the students you're teaching too. must make a difference for the students you're teaching tool must make a difference for the students you're teaching too. i had some of the same problems as peter. the fact that we don't have the face—to—face interaction, it's still much more difficult without being able to see them face—to—face. i've been trying to organise at least weekly students just to check on their welfare in such, and catch up with them. it has been more difficult, and when the student can't see each other because they have to isolate in their houses, i

know they communicate via social media apps and such. in a similar way they would when they come to school anyway. it's just not the same andi school anyway. it's just not the same and i think students would be incredibly glad when they can come back to school and have that normal interaction between each other.|j interaction between each other.” wa nt to interaction between each other.” want to ask you a bit more about how you teach. jamie, even before the pandemic, you were something of a whiz with virtual teaching. tell us a little bit about that. yeah, so i have a platform that's used by several thousand schools. also an example of the video. it's been played a lot during the pandemic, because the certain software i developed that helps pupils in terms of teaching... you have the teaching courses and teachers have been using my slides. some have been making

youtube videos, which have been great. there's also the example of that i use it an awful during my teaching, so that allows me to connect with my students —— an awful lot. i've been trying to adapt my technology since the lockdown so i can support students better. i might set a paper during lessons, but via my platform. i can basically settle my platform. i can basically settle my computer and see live the answers coming in so i can identify what question students have misconceptions with. you can imagine how helpful that's been during the lockdown, so i they can see live without me having to reflect what they do. i can still get the same results without seeing the students

visual. peter, you are in a very rural area of kenya. getting online is not that easy for students. tell me about the way you're trying to use technology. students don't have access to the computers, even in my old schools. we didn't have the facilities. what i'm doing right now is, i support the idea, but is a process. the students are not in school, landing should still take place and is not limited. i give igive them i give them affordable mobile phones and then at the same time, i give them weekly internet bundles because they have to be connected. without that, you cannot connect to them. at the same time, apart from the phones and bundles, i co—operate with other teachers to give them continuous

online mentorship because that's very important for them to know how to use these mobile phones, how to, what my colleague has said, a very nice website which they can use off—line. most of the time, we don't have internet around here. the other thing that i do as part of this programme is we also help parents and guardians with teaching tips. my owi'i and guardians with teaching tips. my own father, most of the things i learned, i learned from my parents. my own father was a teacher. learning can take place at home, not just at school, therefore it helps balance the guidance with teaching tips. they can also help their children learn about practical aspects of and life skills while at home. jamie, i wonder if you got any reflection on what peter said.”

have a very lucky situation in terms of availability internet and such. i think it's how we can best use resources we have to support stu d e nts resources we have to support students in that completely holistic way. one report that's come out in the uk this week says that what the pandemic has done is shown that those who are better off have done better from education. those who are better off have done betterfrom education. more resources at schools, at home, etc. those were worse off socially and economically, and may have lost as much as three months of education. i suppose that's a worry for the whole teaching community. absolutely. i think it's so imperative that we make sure, and if the government responsibility to ensure all stu d e nts responsibility to ensure all students have a device with reliable

internet that they can access education. they have so much power from education, we have to make sure every student has the kind of appropriate access to it. peter, i'd like to know more about what's been happening to your students. how'd would you say the pandemic has affected your community? the community has been affected, everyone has been affected. we used to go to school and we had that routine. you know, you wake up, you teach, you interact with students, and then with the other teachers. but right now, that's not happening. ican but right now, that's not happening. i can say that that has had a psychosocial effect on us and our students and the community. currently, ministers they stay at home with parents, and keep them active, young people like being active, young people like being active and interactive with others.

this has led to boredom. i'm sorry to say that we have seen cases whereby this has resulted to things like drug abuse and teenage pregnancy. even as teachers, we fear some students might not be able to come back to school when they reopen. i hope it happens soon. right now, that's not happening, because most of our students come from different homes. this city has food shortage. some parents are trying to teach their children, i can say this is the time when they are appreciating the importance of our teachers. they are now seeing the great work that the teachers are doing. ican

the great work that the teachers are doing. i can say that that's why i'm so doing. i can say that that's why i'm so happy with the initiative being taken so happy with the initiative being ta ken by so happy with the initiative being taken by the minister of education and the government to ensure they come up with a solution on how to ensure to be safe in schools. when the schools reopen, the students are safe and their teachers are safe and learning continues. one silver lining, ican learning continues. one silver lining, i can say is a parent, pa rents lining, i can say is a parent, parents really appreciate teachers having seen much more of what they do. jamie, afinal having seen much more of what they do. jamie, a final thought from you. do you think education really has changed forever? i think certain practices i think would change will come back into teaching. i think schools have been incredibly reliant on technology in the uk. already, this is my first day of school, and we are discussing how we will reuse that technology more even though we are in school now. certain things like parents meetings online now,

and certain aspects of our lesson, we can still use the same technology. there will be certain things that will be back to normal, but certainly, i think there will be a great reliance on technology as we come back. peter and kenya's rift valley and jamie frost here in london, two of the many ingenious and inspiring teachers around the world determine told not to let the virus stop them. you're watching coronavirus your stories a programme about how covid—i9 is changing so many lives around the world. i'm philippa thomas and this week, we are looking at education. it's back—to—school season for so many students. but what if you want to keep studying online because you're clinically vulnerable? you feel like going back to school could actually damage your health. 19—year—old cameron lynch is just finishing damage your health. 19—year—old cameron lynch isjust finishing an internship here in london with

disability rights uk. she's due to continue her education back home in virginia in the united states, but worries that after months of online learning, physically going back to school could pose a serious risk to her health. when she spoke up about this, she realised she's not alone. cameron has been telling her story. i have type one diabetes, a form of muscular dystrophy because by myositis and celia ‘s disease —— celiac disease. returning to campus for fall celiac disease. returning to campus forfall is celiac disease. returning to campus for fall is dangerous for my health, andi for fall is dangerous for my health, and i believe that i'm not necessarily given the same opportunities as my able—bodied peers in order to take the same classes and have the same graduation track as i am supposed to. so i have been trying to make sure that i still get the same educational opportunities as my other peers and to make sure that i am not falling

behind in my work and trying to do the same for for other students with disabilities as well. tell us about the letter that you wrote. you put it on social media and what happened? so in june, iwrote it on social media and what happened? so in june, i wrote a letter talking to my college age peers about how their use of social media broadcasting, they didn't care about the isolation or the pandemic and were continuing living their lives was impacting my mental health because i was still in complete isolation, still haven't seen anyone for a couple months. so it was very hurtful to me to watch my friends go about their lives, and i didn't expect this to happen, but i had maybe a0 other college students with disabilities or with autoimmune conditions reach out to me, telling me how much my letter means to them and how they felt less alone. so i then turned this into a support group for immunocompromised college stu d e nts to

group for immunocompromised college students to have able to talk to and have someone who understands their frustrations. can you give us an idea of the range of disabilities or vulnerabilities that the students you were talking to or dealing with? there's 50 of us in the group. we have a very wide range of commissions. we have some students who are in wheelchairs, there's a lot of students with diabetes, similarto lot of students with diabetes, similar to myself. but we kind of have a lot of autoimmune conditions. and right now, this week in many countries, there's a lot of talk about going back to school and it's seen about going back to school and it's seen as a about going back to school and it's seen as a physical thing. moving back onto schools, campuses, but for you, do you feel the conversation simply overlooks you ? you, do you feel the conversation simply overlooks you? yes, i would say so. i would say there are very few schools who have acknowledged their immunocompromised students, or even acknowledge the presence of us

and acknowledging this is a very difficult time for us. we've been in com plete difficult time for us. we've been in complete isolation for five months now. and it's not an option for us to go back to school. there's a lot of narrative about choosing to go back and not choosing. if i could choose, i would back and not choosing. if i could choose, iwould be back and not choosing. if i could choose, i would be back on campus at my school in a heartbeat, but i don't have that decision. that was already made for me by my health and by my doctors, so i am staying at home. and my biggest concern moving forward is i'm worried that students who are still at home are getting left out of the conversation and out of communities, so i'm trying to increase awareness for the mental health students with disabilities because i know that a lot of them are feeling completely isolated and com pletely are feeling completely isolated and completely alone, so how can we make sure they feel cared for and still feel like their universities or colleges still know who they are? and what would make enough of a

difference? what specifically are you asking for? is it more classes to be available online? yes. so i think there has been confusion of what i'm asking for. i'm not saying i want all classes to be only available online. i'm just asking that we have the same opportunities asa that we have the same opportunities as a classes that able—bodied stu d e nts as a classes that able—bodied students have. so if the class is only offered in person, we obviously can't take that class. i'm just asking for them to consider us and consider us in their decision about classes and having them available to us, even if we're not on campus. we know they can do it. it's not beyond their jurisdiction. know they can do it. it's not beyond theirjurisdiction. they did in the spring when they shut down campus, and they have continued to show that ifa and they have continued to show that if a student were to get covid—i9, they can continue their classes online from quarantine, so why can't we do that from the beginning? student years are often meant to be

the best years of their life. yes. yes, andi the best years of their life. yes. yes, and i think there's a rhetoric around college as these are the best four years of your life, you will never have the same life again. i think it's very damaging for mental health students who aren't able to live that life. to begin with, disabled students don't get the same kind of college experience that normal college students get, so this rhetoric of this is the best time you'll ever have, these are the best days of your life, that's not necessarily true for everyone. we have to fight to even go to college in the first place, so it is hard to hear that i will never be as happy asiam in hear that i will never be as happy as i am in these four years when i'm still sitting at home trying to maintaina still sitting at home trying to maintain a sense of healthiness and trying to just take my classes and

do my internship. doesn't expose that and provide an opportunity, you area that and provide an opportunity, you are a great example of a student with disabilities, clinically vulnerable speaking up. and getting others to hear you. yes, i think definitely, as much as this pandemic has been stressful and has been kind ofa has been stressful and has been kind of a very terrible time to have disabilities, has given me a community. i've met so many students who also have disabilities who i kind of felt alone before and having to fight for my rights at school and having to do all of this. i've been able to help other students realise that they're not alone and that they have a sense of community still, evenif have a sense of community still, even if it is a virtual sense, and they've already talked about one day after a ll they've already talked about one day after all this is over meeting up and finding a way to connect in person. so i think it's definitely given me a community. it's also

given me a community. it's also given me a voice and it's given me a passion through this project. i started an instant my internship at disability rights uk which has given mea disability rights uk which has given me a great left arm to work for change in the uk. i'm able to be a voice for young people with disabilities, because we're often forgotten about in the media. i think that it's really important to bring awareness that people like me still exist in the world. we're still exist in the world. we're still people. not only on the bolts —— not all young adults are out partying with their friends. there are still people like me who are still scared and need to take it very seriously. what you say to young adults in that situation? there'll be a of people who are watching who are alone and may be struggling in an the way you described the pillow i would say that you are not alone. there are a

lot of people out there who are still having to take it seriously and still in your position, and know that eventually this will be over, and you will be stronger for it. young people with disabilities are fighters. we know the meaning of life and we know from a younger age, our own health, what it takes to survive, which sounds dramatic. we have a greater sense of empathy i would say. so use that to your advantage. how can you speak up for what you believe in and speak up for what you believe in and speak up for what you believe in and speak up for what you need? because a lot of times we have to fight for everything. how can we make it so that the people who are younger than us that the people who are younger than us won't have to fight as much or as hard? cameron lynch on the dilemma

for clinically vulnerable students like her who want to pursue their learning without damaging their health. i'm philippa thomas. thank you for watching this week's coronavirus your stories. hello there. the weather over the next few days is looking fairly quiet, really. there will be a lot of cloud around, a little bit of patchy rain, but probably not amounting to a great deal. some occasional sunny spells breaking through the cloud from time to time. let's take a look at the satellite picture. the area of cloud that's coming in through the weekend is actually just here, just to the south of greenland. as it moves across the atlantic, it is going to be we getting, but nevertheless, we'll probably get some patchy rain from that, particularly across northwestern areas. so, saturday morning, showers from the word go across northern scotland, some of those is still quite heavy and blustery. it turns cloudy through the day across northern ireland, probably northwest of both england and wales, with that patchy rain working in. i think elsewhere, there will be often quite a lot of cloud

in the sky and a few bright or sunny spells coming through. some areas, though, will stay dry. spells coming through. southern england, parts of eastern england and parts of eastern scotland not looking too bad. second half of the weekend, again, there will be a lot of cloud around with some patchy rain developing across parts of england and wales. this time, the rain could actually affect some more eastern areas as well for a time. in scotland, with the wind direction, actually, the central parts will probably stay dry with some bright or sunny spells coming through. —— essential belts. into the early part of next week, low pressure continues to run through the north of the uk. windy conditions here, weather fronts crossing the country, but this warm sector will be bringing us some milder air as we go into the early stage of next week. rain at times start the day on monday. the rain always heaviest across the north and west of the country. notice how that rain tends to weaken as it gets towards wales and northern england. probably towards the southeast, it stays dry. eventually it will start to turn a little bit milder, and that milder air will be with us again through tuesday. it might well be milder,

but it's not necessarily drive for everyone because across some of our western coasts and hills the area becomes a little bit more on tuesday, moist, a bit more humid. we will see some of that cloud move in. could begin to bring some patches of light rain or drizzle across western areas, but where the clouds break we see sunshine coming through, but it will feel a good deal warmer. temperatures moving to 23 or so in the london area. that mile there is still loitering to the south of this cold front. 0n still loitering to the south of this cold front. on wednesday, the front very week will bring rain across southern scotland, northern ireland, into the far north of england and wales. to the north of the uk, it will start to turn a bit fresher, but with more sunshine. in the south, probably quite a bit of cloud but again, with the sunshine comes out, temperatures still into the low 20s. as we delve deeper into next week, thejet

20s. as we delve deeper into next week, the jet stream 20s. as we delve deeper into next week, thejet stream continues 20s. as we delve deeper into next week, the jet stream continues to bring low pressure as to the north of the uk. however, as we get towards next weekend, we may well see more of a dip in thejet stream that may develop low pressure with cloud and rain. lots of uncertainty about the evolution of the forecast as we get towards next weekend. for the time being, there is often going to bea the time being, there is often going to be a lot of cloud around. generally, temperatures drifting a little bit closer to average. as we headed to next weekend, summary, the next few days looking cloudy. it will be dry for everyone this weekend. there will be some rain around. most of it will be quite light and patchy and there will be biased to the north, with occasional bright sunny spells coming through. that's your latest weather, bye for now.

tonight at ten, the government admits different quarantine rules across the four home nations are causing confusion.

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