tv The Papers BBC News September 20, 2020 10:30pm-11:01pm BST
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tomorrow's front pages starting with. .. the telegraph reports on a government warning that britain is in "the last chance saloon" to avoid tougher lockdown measures. it also reports on the battle of britain and the fly—past. the metro says england's chief medical officer chris whitty is expected to warn that the nation is heading in the wrong direction as concern mounts over a second wave. the mirror says chris witty is expected to appear next to the prime minister and the governments chief scientific adviser, sir patrick vallance, as they warn the country faces a "very challenging" winter ahead. the guardian reports london could be the latest area to get regional restrictions, with the city's mayor meeting counsel readers tomorrow to discuss the situation. the express
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follows the same team, saying the government is looking at the worsening data to see how to manage the spread of the virus in the months ahead. so let's begin... great to see you. polly, i wonder if you could kick us off. were going to start with the metro and this may hurt a bit. yes, i guess it is the sort of play and what doctors say to you before they take blood, for example, and there is no question that if we have to return to lockdown, the economic harm is going to be devastating. the country a sort of fumbling its way back to growth, lots of people returning pa rt growth, lots of people returning part time from furlough, for example, and if the health situation means we have to close down all of that progress, it's going to hurt a
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law. so this is an understatement. the reality, as the paper sets out, we still don't know exactly what is going to happen. as we go through the papers, will see they all have a slightly different take on it. the suggestion is that chris whitty at a press c0 nfe re nce suggestion is that chris whitty at a press conference yet to be confirmed tomorrow at 11am will be outlining either tough new restrictions or outlining a plan to have tough new restrictions if more of us are all of us don't play by the rules. giles? yeah, boris johnson being against the second lockdown — clearly you will see this phrase repeated across the paper today about the last roll of the dice —— i've been struck by the difference in people with some of the different
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social distancing in pubs. in london it is lax and out of london people are being more diligent. the politicians are putting up the scientist and the express tomorrow to deliver the stark warning to try and take the politics out of this. staying with the subject, let's turn to the front page of the daily telegraph. giles, could you explain, why do you think it is things are a little more lax in the capital? hearing from sadik khan and's spokesperson tonight, he is taking things very seriously. there's been times we have not spoken to number ten for months during lockdown. which is concerning. this is a huge dilemma, london is to some extent the economic powerhouse of the country, where many of the major
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industries are... you are seeing this sort of issue of people saying london is two weeks behind other parts of the country but it may have to have stronger measures. i suppose it for sadiq, he is trying to get ahead of the curve. i have notice a disparities across london when i've been going out. polly, the front page of the daily telegraph carries a line and picks up on this element there is a bit of a split. you've got richey soon act worried about the economy and matt hancock wants to keep everybody safe, but rishi sunak wants to hold fire and see whether the role of six has worked.
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it is incredibly difficult, this disease, one of the most difficult features is that it has an almost two—week incubation create. you have to wait two weeks to see if it is going to work from pulling the lever. in march the government —— the numbers would accelerate so quickly they would feel obliged to pull more labourers, does that mean they? does mean we may overreact now? —— more levers. it is difficult to find exact answers within the data. that is why, in the end, this comes into political judgment data. that is why, in the end, this comes into politicaljudgment about saving lives and livelihoods. recognising that lives are tied up with peoples livelihoods as well. we are starting to lose lives in the nhs and have them throughout this because people are not able to access normal nhs services. those sabine reopening. if we have to
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reposition our hospitals to cope with another wave, there will also be implications there. it is fiendishly difficult. what is troubling is the sense the cabinet is not unified around this. they are not managing to our successful conversations between each other about the trade—offs. you get the sense in some of the papers that someone has had a briefing from rishi sunak about how we will wait for two weeks and someone has had a briefing from the hillside saying we are definitely going to be closing down unless people stick by the rules completely —— from the health side. meanwhile the home secretary doesn't really understand the rules oi’ doesn't really understand the rules or whether we're going to enforce them. that confusion doesn't give them. that confusion doesn't give the public confidence. the headline there is a last chance saloon, but not until the end of september. is that mix —— it's that mix messaging again. there is a split cabinet,
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unprecedented times and no scientific consensus on what is going on. you are right any sense that we have had these localised and regionalised lockdown switch make perfect sense. the government is trying to avoid a national lockdown. it does lead to some confusion in messaging. damned if they do, damned if they don, to some extent when you are looking through it. the treasury are looking through it. the treasury are pushing hard against the national lockdown and matt hancock seems to be airing more towards that way. today you had the hospitality industry warning that another millionjobs will go if industry warning that another million jobs will go if we do industry warning that another millionjobs will go if we do go into a second lockdown. lives and livelihoods are linked. a very difficult decision. you mention the cabinet split and that's the headline on the front of the i. they
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talk about sir graham brady and sir ed davey wanting to change the coronavirus act. polly? the coronavirus act. polly? the coronavirus act. polly? the coronavirus act went through when we we re coronavirus act went through when we were all a bit rabbit in the headlights early in the year and it only has to be reviewed after six months. parliament allowed these extraordinarily far—reaching powers to go through that have enabled us to go through that have enabled us to pass rather mangled, garbled legislation with no scrutiny, seemingly without having been read by the department. a whole range of people saying they want to change it at that six month review process so that those laws have to be reviewed every month. to make the government more accountable for how they are handling these things. the regulations there passed through this had been hugely long and complicated. so many list of exemptions. they have even included the word mingle in legislation, that is unclear if it has ever been used
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before without any certainty of what it means and if we are allowed to do oi’ it means and if we are allowed to do or not. it is right that parliament now ta kes or not. it is right that parliament now takes a stronger role, which graham brady and others are arguing for. you can keep the politics out of it, can you, giles? no, i do agree with polly. it is right there is greater scrutiny of parliament. i was the all the stuff is done at breakneck speed. hopefully we will not end up back in that situation, but it feels that now we have more time to analyse these things. therefore it is a situation that has got to be kept constantly under review. you will never keep everyone happy and there will always be people complaining about what is going on, but it'sjust right and that was what parliament is there today. —— that was what parliament is there today. — — that that was what parliament is there today. —— that is. that was what parliament is there today. -- that is. polly, what if you make of the circular star emphasising this is all down to testing going wrong? —— circular
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storm. keir starmer. it has been a com plete storm. keir starmer. it has been a complete mist and ifind it hard that the government says we have a world beating system. we have seen some commentary suggesting that it was an enormous surprise kids going back to school might have costs and levels and asked for a test, but nevertheless... —— corpse and sniffles. if we want to reopen the economy, you have to have a test and track system for people who suddenly developed a cough in the middle of the night, for example... laughing let's let you sort out that call. if ican turn let's let you sort out that call. if i can turn to the front page of the telegraph —— the daily telegraph. prince charles warning we have a
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bigger problem on our hands. he is saying the corbyn pandemic shouldn't act as a wake—up call, global warming being an issue close to his heart, he is saying that climate change will end up dwarfing corbyn 19 is change will end up dwarfing corbyn 19isa change will end up dwarfing corbyn 19 is a huge global emergency. interesting timing during the speech. —— covid. greenhouse emissions went down, people were using cars, so emissions went down, people were using cars, so you emissions went down, people were using cars, so you did see a reduction in c02 emissions. admittedly that was short lived. he said this is a massive turning point and if we don't act now could be catastrophic consequences. polly, in quantity due to the picture story on the front of the daily telegraph —— i'm going to take you to the picture
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story. 80 years on from the battle of britain, did you catch that today? yes, we heard it go past. it is one of those moments you can't help but be moved by. just remembering the extraordinary contribution made to defend these islands at a time of war. i thought, you know, the whole process was and is just important we have some kind of forms of ceremony and reminder of what holds us together at a time like this. it was nice for not to be marked per about whether the labour party care about our veterans and felt like a moment of national unity. giles, final comment on this? yeah, i'm totally with polly on this. it is notable, there are so many commemorations because of social distancing, but is incredibly
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important point in the history and a turning point in the second world war. tragically, nearly 1500 british lives were lost. great that we can do it but also incredibly sad. that's it for the papers this hour. giles and polly will be back at 11.30 for another look at the papers. hey, welcome to click, hope you are doing 0k. it's been a big week for me, look where i have been.
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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 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.
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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. 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
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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 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?
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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. from the train to the office,
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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 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 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.
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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 and until actors can tread the boards again, technology is seeing whether it can fill the void. but can it really provide
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the excitement of a live performance? marc cieslak has disappeared down the rabbit hole to find out. 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—i9 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. 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,
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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 were in 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.
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few industries have escaped the effects of the covid—i9 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 in 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. 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
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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, we put in two internet connections into the actors' homes. we put in backup plans for the live actors. you can have more tea
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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 of this crazy performance. the full version is up now on bbc iplayer. as ever, you can keep up 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!
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in many places over the weekend it felt like summer with temperatures as high as 25 degrees. the new week gets off to a summary star as well. it will not end that way. things through this week are going to become much more autumnal as this band of close to work its way in our direction for this area of clouds wa nt to direction for this area of clouds want to bring some outbreaks of rain but also separates the relatively warm airwe but also separates the relatively warm air we have had lately from some somewhat colder air which is going to head our way, sweeping in from the north—west as we head through the coming days. in the shorter term, to monday morning, some mist and fog, low cloud could affect parts of england and wales. that will tend to clear as we go
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through the day and it should be largely dry and sunny. sunny out there on sunday across north—east england. scotland brighter, centring on to aberdeenshire, temperatures up to around 90 degrees. progress in scotla nd to around 90 degrees. progress in scotland and northern ireland, more cloud, more of a breeze, a touch cooler at 16—17. as we had the mundane to tuesday, extensive cloud across the west of the uk, the first signs of outbreaks of rain. heavy to the far north and west. a relatively mild may in the south compared to some we will have later in the week. —— mild night. the archer in the us, but for northern ireland and scotla nd but for northern ireland and scotland decor cloud and outbreaks of rain. —— the odd shower in the west. ahead of that band of cloud and rain, it is still relatively warm. we could get to 25 degrees towards the south—east corner. that warmth will not last. through
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tuesday into wednesday morning we see this band of rain, the weather from pushing further south and behind it is the when switch things turn much colder. for wednesday morning scotland and northern ireland starting the day at 5—6 . 16 in south—east england. even here it is going to turn cooler through wednesday, as this frontal system moves its way through. they will bring some rain in places through wednesday but see how the temperatures drop. it stays much cooler by day and night as we head towards the end of the week with further wind and rain at times.
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