then there is the other question on judgements placed on women who need to have caesa rean judgements placed on women who need to have caesarean sections. a lot of women die in childbirth and all that matters is a safe baby and safe mother and there is still way too much of a stigma that since you did not have a proper birth if you need a caesa rean, you not have a proper birth if you need a caesarean, you need interventions and need to be supported through that. the fact that there is a natural birth with iran else is a failure and incredibly toxic and i think some of that narrative was present far too many of the midwest in this particular trust. —— the natural birth with everyone else. the daily telegraph, lynn is looking at tess and trace. i promise we would come back to tests and trace and its call handlers, they have been... talk us through the findings of this report into what they have been up to. this is the national audit office report and it really is

talking about the call handling itself. of cases. and if ijust look up itself. of cases. and if ijust look up the piece, forgive me, it is... the national audit office are normally called on to do these watchdog reports particular when so much money is being spent on this scheme. £22 billion spent on this scheme. £22 billion spent on this scheme itself. but call handlers spentjust1% of scheme itself. but call handlers spent just 1% of their time working, apparently. and £22 billion has been thrown at this scheme amid efforts to effort a lockdown essentially. and so a lot of these providers, it was outsourced. they said there wasn't proper scrutiny spent to prevent conflict of interest. and about 18,000 call handlers were employed in may but they utilisation rates as they call it were just this

staggering 1%. some workers said that they were told to watch netflix with one describing being paid four point £5,000 without receiving one single call. what do you make of it, polly? where is the fault line with this particular story, how did they spend just i% of their time working? they recruited a lot of people but without a system to actually funnel cases to those people and get them trained and working properly. i think there's too systems of the problems here. the first is that backin problems here. the first is that back in the beginning of march, we basically closed on tests and trace instead of trying to expand it because of a view that once a pandemic reaches a certain level, you can't possibly keep up and even though the world health organization was suggesting and strongly advising eve ryo ne was suggesting and strongly advising everyone to carry on with tests and trace, almost all other comparable countries were also continuing to

try and expand their test and trace. we waited for a good six weeks before then in may going we should get this whole test and tracing up and running. and we could all forgive it being a bit messy in the early days of course. but this level of messiness i think is a charitable in large part to the desire to build a entire venue system particularly with the private sector. i have no permit all with the private sector being involved six —— extensively in public services. but we went straight to that kind of calling up outsourcing companies asking if they can hire 18,000 people instead of trying to build out from existing public health networks within local authorities and i think that is a cultural problem that our very kind of tech savvy kind of health secretary and a very sceptical view about the value of local government, they're just boring people who do they're just boring people who do the bends. they want to do something big, national, sexy with an app. and actually if you had taken gokul public health teams and expanded

them, you would have had a much more effective test and trace system. taken local effective test and trace system. ta ken local public effective test and trace system. taken local public health teams. we still see local teams using head teachers or as we still see local teams using head teachers oi’ as we were still see local teams using head teachers or as we were discussing before are having much better success than these anonymous call handlers. it states that human touch is missing, that knowledge of the local area that is so crucial. polly, lynn think is so much. loving the christmas tree in the background, lynn. and at sewing machine, polly, also very nice and festive. we will be back in half an hour's time and will have longer to look through the next edition of the papers. thanks for joining look through the next edition of the papers. thanks forjoining us for now though. hello, i'm tulsen tollett with the latest from the bbc sports centre — where arsenal finished their europa league group stage with a 100% record by beating

dundalk 4—2 in dublin. mohamed elneny scored the pick of the goals for the gunners at the aviva stadium. eddie nketiah, joe willock and folarin balogun also scored. rangers secured a seeded place in monday's last 32 draw by beating lech poznan 2—0 in poland to top their group. cedric eatten and yanis hadgee with the goals. elsewhere — tottenham's victory over royal antwerp means they finish ahead of the belgians at the top of group]. in group g, leicester's win over aek athens sees them through first. and celtic, despite winning 3—2 at home to lille, finish bottom of group h. but for all the results head to the bbc sport website. france's victor perez leads after the first round of the season ending dp world tour championship in dubai. he sits one clear on five under as patrick reed and tommy fleetwood also battle it out for the race to dubai title, the biggest prize on the european tour. watching the opening day's

action was ben croucher. in the race to dubai, under the shadows of the skyscapers, a sprint finish we re timing can be everything. victor perez honed his craft near dundee but a long way from home but out on his own at 5 under. on the west coast of scotland robert mcintyre honed his skills. the rookie of the year last year put his putter to good use with an opening 68 to sit a shot behind perez. he is joined by matthew fitzpatrick and erik van rooyen of south africa who nearly doubled his career earnings with victory in the uae and enough to put a anyone's face. tyrell hatton and tommy fleetwood are in contention as well with fleetwood the european number one in 2017 and inching his way back up the leaderboard with the win earning him second race to dubai title.

he will have to pry it from the hands of patrick reed, the series leader with a bogey free to under 70 means this race is set to go right down to the wire. ben croucher, bbc news. to cricket where the hobart hurricane's accounted for reigning champions the sydney sixers on the opening day of the men's big bash league in australia. the world's top—ranked batsmen dawid malan will be featuring for hobart soon as he's been self—isolating in his hotel after his match winning performances for england in their t20 series win over south africa. he's been giving joe wilson an insight into the reality of cricket during covid. dawid malan is a man in demand. his recent outstanding batting means he finds himself leading the all—time t20 rankings. he finds himself representing hobart hurricanes in the big bash but a fortnight of quarantine first in perth. in this hotel room. not too bad. i made the bed specially for this as well really well done, greatjob. but that is sort of the root and i have the gym equipment

in a corner here and the people in austria have been fantastic giving me the equipment and i have a trainer out of the room that is too heavy for me to move in. and with the new rules and regulations from the western austrian government, no one is allowed to help get him into that is stuck outside of the moment. so they are actually sending me a treadmill tomorrow for me to construct myself. while this kind of view awaits in tasmania, cricket proceeds more or less everywhere. so let's try and keep track with map. many of the best in 20 players are currently in australia. lots of them have just spent weeks in bubbles in india, england's one—day series with south africa was abandoned when the bow secure bubble burst and in a new year, there will be an england test series in its for lockup. more quarantine. travel is normal but confinement is not. two young england players wary of bubbles, tom banton and tom curran,

decided to go home rather thanjoin the big bash. the ecb's ashley giles says other mental health screenings will happen before upcoming tourists and dawid malan welcomes that. especially when i started you just think i'm a tired and not playing well and there is no real awareness when you are actually feeling really burnt out and you felt mentally drained and the pressure that comes with playing international sport with county cricket, scrutiny of the year under now with social media commentators, everyone has an opinion these days. 4—5 years ago people didn't really realised. dawid malan hits a peak at 33 and even in twenty20 it's all about timing. chase that success but not at any price. joe wilson, bbc news. to formula one now and his mercedes team have announced that lewis hamilton has been passed fit to drive at this sunday's abu dhabi grand prix. that's after he tested negative for covid—i9 following a period of self—isolation. the world champion missed last week's race in bahrain after a positive test the week before.

onto snooker and ronnie o'sullivan has beaten robbie williams to progress to the quarter—finals of the scottish open. the world champion made short work of it for a four frames to one victory as he looks for a third title at this event. and finally tonight something that wayne rooney, ellie simmonds and andy murray all have in common. they've won the bbc‘s young sports personality of the year award. and joining that list this year is diver andrea spendolini—sirieix. the 16—year—old edged out borussia dortmund footballer jude bellingham and paralympic skier neil simpson to win. spendolini—sirieix won her first solo international gold medal in the women's iom platform at the fina diving grand prix in the german city of rostock in february. and for all the latest on the opening round of the women's us open golf that is ongoing in houston head to the bbc sport website but that's all the sport for now.

hello again. although skies across the uk on thursday were almost uniformly grey and drab, skies like these overhead in llangollen were pretty commonplace across the country. there were, however, big temperature contrasts from place to place. in the west, we had some milder atlantic air moving in. whereas across central and eastern england along with the whole of scotland, we had much colder continental air. in the west, temperatures reached double figures, it was actually quite mild, io—ii celsius. but across central and eastern england and scotland, temperatures were more typically around 5—6 celsius. we only managed to get 4 in dalwhinnie in the highlands of scotland. so, there were some big contrasts. those contrasts were driven, really, by this weather front that's been bringing rain eastwards over recent houi’s. and it's, as well, been one of those nights where the milder air has been pushing in. temperatures for some have actually been rising throughout the night as well. so, for most of us, friday will get off to a relatively mild note but across eastern england, eastern scotland, there

will still be some rain around. in fact, the rain will linger in aberdeenshire pretty much all day, bringing a risk of some localised flooding. but i suspect there will for a time in the morning be some low cloud for north east england and eastern scotland with some hill fog patches around. now, the skies do try to brighten up from the west but there will be plenty of showers coming through later on in the day. that milder air pushing into pretty much all of the uk though as we head towards the afternoon. so, temperatures will be lifting across those central and eastern areas. the weekend — well, we've still got low—pressure loitering on the weather chart. that will continue to bring some rain for a time across scotland. the rain quite slow to ease across eastern areas of england — none of it particularly heavy, mind you — but later in the day, we'll start to see a ridge of high pressure building in from the west and that means that we should see more in the way of sunshine for northern ireland, for wales, for western and central southern areas of england. now, that sunshine isn't going to hang around too long because the ridge is going to move away to be replaced by the second half of this weekend by low pressure. that low pressure will be bringing

south—westerly winds. so, again, we should see some milder air sloshing its way in across the uk. now, sunday promises to be quite a windy day. we may well even have gales for a time around some of our western coasts. there will certainly be a lot of rain around as well, and even as the rain clears, showers will follow on. temperatures though on the mild side, reaching a high towards the south west of 13 celsius. that's your latest weather.

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