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with me iain anderson, executive chairman of the independent lobbying consultants, cicero, and the broadcaster, penny smith. tomorrow's front pages, starting with. .. a starting with... different team you're going to see, a different team you're going to see, the mail on sunday which leads on the prime minister's planned to unveil biggerfines on the prime minister's planned to unveil bigger fines for those in england who break cyber self isolation rules. they're describing the plans as draconian. that story, also the lead for the mirror, which focuses on the part of the prime minister's plan which calls for people on low paid income is to receive a £500 lump sum if they have to self—isolate. the sunday telegraph carries the same story, and suggests borisjohnson could announce tighter nationwide lockdown restrictions as early as tuesday — in an attempt to combat the second wave the times points out that fines for not self—isolating will start at £1000, but could increase to £10000 for repeat offenders — the paper also carries a picture of revellers in newcastle enjoying
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a night out before the introduction of local lockdown restrictions in addition to the introduction of fines forfailing to seld—isolate, the observer carries a picture of supreme courtjustice ruth bader ginsburg who's died at the age of 87 — the paper describes her as a feminist lodestar. so let's begin... ican i can see in my screen, always a shame not happy here with me in person. it will not stop us. the mail on sunday, as with many of them, looking at this striking headline, £10,000 fine for leaving the house. i know, there we are, your end. this is if you test positive. you have to stay in the house, you're locked in for two weeks. it will be £1000 if you go out. it could be £10,000 if it is an
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egregious offence. i don't know what they consider to be that. this is all that test entries. surely this is about and tracing. are we good enough yet? are we good enough to actually do the testing and tracing and actually make a difference? u nless we and actually make a difference? unless we do that, then this is just pointless. we have also got to have more police officers. really expecting police officers to spend their time, instead of going in dealing with other things, going and checking whether someone is at home with neighbours. perhaps seeing i'm sure my next—door neighbour has gone out when they shouldn't. i don't know why they've got a voice, the problem happened. what on earth. is this going to happen? is it going to work with mac as penny highlights,
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there is two promises, the ethical dimension and the practicalities of it. i'm not going to attempt any's impersonation but, look, i completely agree. who is going to e nforce completely agree. who is going to enforce this stuff. the mail on sunday piece makes it pretty obvious. the government advisers are saying to borisjohnson obvious. the government advisers are saying to boris johnson the obvious. the government advisers are saying to borisjohnson the uk has one of the worst records in terms of public behaviour. nothing to do with the test and trace peace, but people are just not being the rails. you could say that is because people are really confused. about all these different rules that have come into place over the past few months. but the real question, these £10,000 fines that you may get. —— like the
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syste m fines that you may get. —— like the system they put in place of people arriving back into the uk, who's actually been in enforcing whether or not people have been taking self isolation or not. this is going to be very difficult to do. the sunday times also has this. a little more detail coming out. quite rightly raising some questions there. the whole issue of sort of who is going to get onto this, whether the police can deal with it, we were talking covid marshall is only a week ago, perhaps we can get volunteers to go oi'i. perhaps we can get volunteers to go on. i will put mountain home on —— the sunday times
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piece people like chris whitty are, the mail on sunday's words, they have the prime minister in the grip. the sunday times has a very different take. it is basically saying that boris johnson different take. it is basically saying that borisjohnson is going to reject this idea from the past two days of a circuit breaker. a two or three week period to try and stop the spread of the disease. we are going to know on monday or tuesday whether he is backing the scientists are backing the business community more. it talks about a furious they say there are a million jobs at
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risk in the risk and. these are all at riskjobs. risk in the risk and. these are all at risk jobs. there's risk in the risk and. these are all at riskjobs. there's the other side as well with the 4 million are low incomes and benefits. are they going to get a special payment of £500 to self—isolate. this is the other problem. it might also be the reason why this is endemic in place, which is poorer because of the fact that they cannot afford time off. they are working jobs where you cannot do it from home. they have to go out and if they don't, they have not got enough money to be able to feed theirfamilies. that enough money to be able to feed their families. that seems to be a much more important thing to be doing for them. the sense that there's a carrot and stick approach as mentioned in some of the papers. 0n the one hand the risk of the fine but encouragement to stay home what money to help you but actually, it talks about people on the lowest incomes who quite rightly are being prioritised but as we've furt over these weeks, it is people like builders and people self—employed, who have access to none of that who
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may will be the people are tempted to go. i will have to go in because nobody will help me. this is to be fairto the nobody will help me. this is to be fair to the government, this does appear to be where they are thinking about targeting this £500 bonus or whatever it will be called. these are the people who are not in desk jobs, cannot do the job on the line, and they have to go to work, that a place of work. they're looking at targeting some of this but through all of this, this money coming through does suggest that there is some kind of lockdown ahead of us. that is what they are suggesting, the london mayor really is starting to argue now for significant restrictions in terms of our ways a life in london, so something is coming forth that we just don't know quite what it is.
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we should point out the cartoon tucked there in the sunday times —— we'll know it's lockdown says the petrol pump attendant when dominic cummings. the petrol. we won't pass comment on that. the other issue in the sunday, —— the sunday people, the sunday, —— the sunday people, the headline here, save us from another care home catastrophe —— is the focus understandably on how the nhs and the care sector will cope with any second wave? and that was because more than 15,000 residents died in what we are now calling the first wave. they are saying we need weekly tests for staff. weekly tests we re weekly tests for staff. weekly tests were promised and they still haven't delivered. i also think that we forget sometimes when we talk about figures, it is always quite difficult. it is just a figures, it is always quite difficult. it isjust a number —— in actualfact, i was reading the
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difficult. it isjust a number —— in actual fact, i was reading the story about a woman who went to see her husband in a care home. by the time she mashed up, she barely had enough time to see him and he burst into tea rs. time to see him and he burst into tears. —— massed up. he was confused. these were already people are facing difficulties, many with dementia for example. not being able to see your loved ones, this is what keeps them going. penny, as you say, behind all of the statistics are much more powerful stories. the focus of all of these, as we have been saying, all of these articles, is the decision that has been made about what happens next. in the sunday telegraph, as well as looking at the options open to boris johnson, tucked away as a headline —— brady leads tory rebellion over emergency covid powers. if bit of struggle over how these changes are being brought in. this is the heart
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of the politics on this. this is a really important story in the sunday telegraph. basically, leader of the conservative backbenchers, the 1922 committee, graham brady, basically thinking the government has got ahead of itself with all these emergency powers. everything we have just been talking about for the past five minutes, £10,000 fines, restrictions on our life, he is basically saying that this is potentially not the right way to go. when the government passed the loss earlier this year, the coronavirus act, which allowed them to take away a lot of the liberty we have been just to in this country, those powers we re just to in this country, those powers were time—limited. coming up in the coming weeks, mps have to go and whether or not to extend those powers or not. just give in the way that conservative backbenchers are
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feeling right now, which is really very nervous. . . feeling right now, which is really very nervous... and indeed some of the right—wing media, the mail, the times, the spectator have started to ask much harder questions of the performance of the johnson government. this is a really critical moment for the performance of borisjohnson critical moment for the performance of boris johnson and his team. critical moment for the performance of boris johnson and his teamlj know we will do lots more coronavirus in the next error but, penny, we must find time to move on to the observer and finish with this wonderful striking picture of ruth bagehot ginsberg who sadly died at the age of 87 —— ruth bader ginsburg, a key figure in american politics and the us supreme court. she left a statement with a fervent wish you wouldn't be replaced until a new president was installed. 0bviously she was a massive warrior for gender equality will stop she
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was described as a feminism star of the us supreme court. i want to see if you have the commentary set in the past. that the pedestal upon which women have been placed is all too often, upon closer inspection, revealed as a cage. 0ne too often, upon closer inspection, revealed as a cage. one particular enjoyed —— something i asked when therejudges on the enjoyed —— something i asked when there judges on the us supreme court, and when i say there are nine, people are shocked, but there have been nine men and no one has ever raised a question about that. such a sort of spiky character and so such a sort of spiky character and so well loved, because she could really read the mood of many people in the nation. this reading to a massive political row brewing. can add to what penny said, she is an absolute trailblazer, changed people's lives, created so much of the equal rights legislation that other countries have followed. but
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yes, right into the politics, remember it is the president that nominates the supreme court and it is only the senate, not the house of representatives, only the senate, by a simple majority, that can vote on that presidential nominee. the republicans, having resisted by rick 0bama's attempts —— barrick 0bama —— they want to create a conservative majority, 6—3 in the supreme court. suddenly it is right at the heart of the us presidential election campaign. just a final thought, 30 seconds or so, do you think trump is going to try and squeeze this replacement through pretty quickly? he is going to try. hopefully there will be other people who will prevail. ijust will be other people who will prevail. i just wanted will be other people who will prevail. ijust wanted to lead with one final... so many quotes, i could
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have chosen so many. fight for the things you care about but do it in a way that will lead others to join you. wonderfully pit. the notorious art beat gee as she was called. —— notorious rbg. clearly it had a massive impact on so many peoples lives. that picture on the observer a real cracker. that's all we have time for this error. we will be back at 11:30 foura time for this error. we will be back at 11:30 four a look at tomorrow's papers. before that, it's time for click.
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hey, welcome to click, hope you are doing 0k. it's been a big week for me, look where i have been. yes, on my first train for six months. and look who i went to see, only my good friend lara lewington, who is smaller than she looks on tv, i had forgotten. true, but that picture doesn't help. it was really lovely to see you, and maybe next time i will get the train to you. and if i do, i might be needing this. laughs. right, now, i have been looking at this on your social media feed and if i am honest i am still having trouble processing it in my head even now. i don't blame you, my husband bought it for me as a romantic gift — you would have thought after lockdown he would be sick of the sight of my face, but it seems not, even if the dimensions are a bit strange. somewhat, who said romance is dead, hey? but inspired by that i have
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come up with my own, so i have made my own version on a budget, so... that's me, isn't it? there we go. laughs. nice — it is more flattering than mine. well thank you, no worse i guess, no worse. now listen, if you are going back to work you may have to wear a mask either on the journey or in the office. for some people at work in bigger offices, all they have to do is maintain a safe distance from their colleagues if they can. yes, butjen copestake has been to see how computer vision is being used to help keep people apart, both on the commute and in the office. during the pandemic we have seen innovations in ways to monitor people's movement and activities to help stop the spread of the virus. this includes using drones like draganfly, that can pick up on people coughing. and this system from cameo, which detects whether or not people are wearing masks.
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cameras, data and computer vision software are used to ease the process of returning to work, including a first of its kind system in one of london's busiest train stations. here at st pancras international station they are using something called digital twin technology to help monitor people's movements around the station. and they can determine from that different ways to encourage people to move apart during the commute. a digital twin is an up—to—the—minute replica in digital form of a space, including the people in it. the entire station was scanned by 0penspace before the pandemic, working with the department of transport and innovate uk. 30 bespoke cameras equipped with 3d cameras are dotted around the station with another 20 on the way. flat against the surface of the ceiling, they are separate from the current cctv system. so we have got 3 cameras working in this part of the station, one above our head and two along
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this line, and we've meshed those cameras together so they can give us a continuous view of movement across the concourse here. so what makes them different to the cctv cameras? these are much more precise cameras. these are cameras that are able to specifically pick up the movement of people to a certain level of accuracy, so we can then process the data within our digital twin. this is the first time anywhere in the world a digital twin is managing the real—time movement of people in a train station, and the first system of this kind making operational decisions about social distancing. people pop up red or green depending on if they are two metres or more apart. all the data is anonymised in keeping with gdpr. video data is combined with wi—fi ticketing information and the team has access to huge amounts of pre— and post—covid movement data to help develop the software. station staff can then steer people to areas which are clearer, redirect lifts and escalators and provide staff at hotspots to encourage social distancing.
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from the train to the office, a different kind of system is implemented here using pre—existing cameras. the second home co—working space saw a reduction in users since the start of the pandemic. now they have introduced an alert system for staff to enforce social distancing. the data from two of the cctv cameras here in this co—working space is being analysed in the cloud by an artificial intelligence engine that is able to determine how many people are in the space, the distance they are keeping, how long people are staying distant, and even if people are talking, singing or sneezing. you can act on it quite quickly, you get alerted, i get alerted on my phone, so if there was a crowd congregating i can split it up quite quickly, so we have a one—directional system but if people were bumping into each other than we'd definitely looking at rerouting people into a different way. apart from distance
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which is the most obvious one, there is also a whole slew of more nuanced behaviours, including everything from what people are engaged in, all of which has different effects on the particulates and the spread of the particulates. are they wearing masks or not, how long are they spending in each other's presence? so it is a very rich picture of covid—safe behaviour. all around the world companies are taking advantage of advances in computer vision. computer vision company numina tracked the paths of where people are walking to better understand where hotspots are. the images are immediately stripped of any human characteristics and made into boxes with simple labels like pedestrian, car and bus. back at st pancras there are plans to embed robots into the digital twin system next. they could be used for cleaning and then diverted to help police social distancing, saving workers from further potential exposure to the virus. theatre has had a particularly tough time of it since march
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and until actors can tread the boards again, technology is seeing whether it can fill the void. but can it really provide the excitement of a live performance? marc cieslak has disappeared down the rabbit hole to find out. marc: we're late, we're late for a very important theatrical date. however, in order to follow alice down the rabbit hole for an adventure in wonderland, all we have to do is log in to a video chat call. are you all ok? alice, a virtual theme park is actually an immersive theatre show, which due to the covid—19 pandemic, the audience experiences from the comfort of their homes via the video chat platform zoom. it's the result of a collaboration between theatre companies, creation, big telly, and fox dog, partnering with tech outfit charisma.ai.
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we have built an animated version of the cheshire cat that the audience talk to. you are now ready to go further into wonderland. and before the show, they can chat to it, flirt with it. it's been asked out on dates a couple times. the second thing we do is, we've really pushed zoom into sort of videogame territory. we have taken the tiles that everyone is used to in videoconferences, separated them out and dropped them into a 3d games engine. you can wave to all to the other members of the audience just before you zoom down the rabbit hole into wonderland. i think for us, we started experimenting really early into lockdown. two weeks into lockdown, we did a production of the tempest. we discovered that it's really exciting, when it really comes to life, is when the audience is live and can be seen live too. it is performers and audience live and you have moments where you can see each other. a lot of our shows pre—lockdown
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were inserts to fit locations, moving around, giving the audiences, small groups, little challenges to do. it is as much live film or live gaming, and i think what the pandemic has created is this sort of opportunity put real people into a digital world. few industries have escaped the effects of the covid—19 pandemic. theatre has been badly hit. what theatre is about, it's about physically being with other people. it's about being shoulder to shoulder with somebody. it's about having the freedom to laugh, the freedom to cry. you know, theatre is fundamentally a shared experience. and the phrase we keep hearing is the theatre industry has been "decimated" — that's the buzz phrase my industry at the moment, and you know what, it's right. it's calculated that theatre is worth £1.28 billion in annual ticket revenue. the uk's government has now allowed indoor performances with social distancing to start again.
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but to make money, theatres often rely on packed houses which aren't possible with social distancing regulations. a handful of theatres in the west end are planning to reopen soon. in some venues, like this one in south london, have started performances with reduced audience capacities. this has still left thousands of people working within the theatre industry out of work. can the technology we use to conduct video meetings really help this struggling sector? so, our director's in northern ireland, we have a performer in ireland, and other performers scattered all over the country. everyone is at home so they have green screens up. we've had to very rapidly kind of learn the best rehearsal processes to have for that. theatre folk are fond of saying "the show must go on", but with so much technology involved, getting through a performance without any glitches can be very difficult. we test, we guess, we second—guess and we put in redundancy. we put in double servers,
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we put in two internet connections into the actors‘ homes. we put in backup plans for the live actors. you can have more tea if you answer my riddle. and in some ways, that ability to improvise that a human has is so brilliant in a production like this. until theatres fully reopen again with performers physically sharing a space with their audience, it looks like online solutions might be one of the few ways to keep theatrical professionals employed. these are strange days where sometimes it feels like we have all ventured through the looking glass. and that is the magic of live theatre. that was marc and that's it for the short cut this crazy performance. the full version is up now on bbc iplayer. as ever, you can keep up
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with the team on social media, youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter at @bbcclick. thanks for watching, don't have nightmares, and we will see you soon. bye! hello. the first half of the weekend was dry, sunny and warm for many of us and sunday promises more of the same. more dry weather, more warm sunshine, but there will be some exceptions, down towards the south still the potential for one or two showers. you can see on our early satellite image this swirl of cloud, low pressure across western europe, that's thrown a few showers to the channel islands and the south of england and it could be one
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or two more of those around to the day ahead. also a lot of cloud across a good part of scotland, the northern and eastern coasts and the central belt and then down the eastern side of england. that low cloud of mist will retreat towards the coast as the day wears on, so many spots will brighten up with sunshine but for the northern coast of scotland and certainly 0rkney and shetland, it will stay likely quite great start to the day. for many other parts of scotland it will brighten up though with sunshine. a fine day for northern ireland, 17 degrees in belfast and the north sea coast of england staying dry, cloudy and cool, — still a bit breezy for the south but with quite a lot of sunshine and getting up to 23, 2a, 25 degrees. that breeze will be easing all the time and the winds falling light through sunday night into monday. that will allow some patches of fog to develop across some parts of england and wales. not as much fog further north where it will be a rather chilly night and temperatures for some spots down to single digits.
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so monday morning will have areas of cloud and fog across some parts of england and wales — that will clear fairly quickly and then we see lots of sunshine from a bit more cloud rolling into northern ireland in western scotland through the day, with outbreaks of rain into the northern and western isles. another warm day with temperatures getting up to the 20s but from tuesday and into the middle part of the week, things begin to change quite dramatically. low pressure will take control, frontal systems bringing outbreaks of rain and brisk winds at times and also we will start to tap into some much cooler air, temperatures are going to take quite a tumble. a bit of uncertainty about how long that cooler spell will last but you can see the temperatures dropping as we move through the coming week and we will start to see some outbreaks of rain and some brisk winds at times.
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