this is bbc news. these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. more than £1 billion for catch—up tuition for pupils in england, but headteachers say it's a fraction of what's needed. the education secretary denies he's trying to do it on the cheap. we're looking at the interventions that we can actually deliver today, make sure that we're able to get the money on the table out to schools in order to support them, in order to be able to help our children while they're in school straightaway. what we're talking about is how do we use that money well? and i would say that investing in our children and young people and their futures must be our country's top priority. are you a teacher, parent or student? what do you think is needed to catch up on lost learning

and would you be in favour of the idea of a longer school day? i'd love to hear your thoughts — send those to me on twitter... opposition parties in israel have until midnight to reach an agreement to form a new government which could end benjamin netanyahu's 12 years in power. fears of meat shortages in some countries, as hackers attack the world's largest meat supplierjbs. the company believes the ransomware attack originated from a criminal group likely based in russia body cameras for ambulance staff in england after attacks by the public rise by almost a third in five years. and a terrifying moment for a teenager from california as she fights off a bear threatening her pet dogs.

hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. an extra eli; billion of funding has been announced by the government to help pupils in england whose education has been disrupted during the pandemic. the recovery plan, in addition to the £1.7 billion already announced, will include £1 billion for 100 million hours of tutoring and £250 million for teacher training and development. borisjohnson said the aim was to "support children who have fallen behind." but labour's education secretary kate green said plans don't go far enough and make "a mockery of the prime minister's claim that education is a priority". it's also been criticised by teaching unions who have said the proposals are a "damp squib" and "hugely disappointing". the amount announced is lower

than had been previously suggested with the education policy institute calculating a recovery plan would cost {13.5 billion. the epi also calculated the support was lower than in other countries, with catch—up funding so far in england worth £310 per pupil over three years. that's compared with £1,600 in the united states, and £2,500 in the netherlands. 0ur education correspondent, elaine dunkley has this report. this is our reception children here. there's all sorts going on. this is ash green community primary in halifax. how are we doing? some of the children have missed nearly a year of in school learning. we're re—going over things that they did in reception and in year one. so, simple things like holding your pencil correctly. got a nice firm grip, i point with my finger... the past few months have been about catching up in the classroom. yes, it's my handwriting, because i hadn't done that

much since lockdown, and it's gone a bit different since. i've been at home for such a long time, and i've got quite used to being at home. and when you came back to school, i bet you were a bit tired, weren't you, doing all these activities? yeah. tell me what that was like? yeah, as soon as i went home, i was pretty much asleep. some of the children are struggling with concentration and confidence. they now work in smaller groups, so teachers can identify any issues. a lot of them stopped believing in themselves. they've not had the basic skills that they needed to. for example, my class in year three, they've not had the year two knowledge that they need to succeed in year three. so they've gone further behind than what we thought they would have. there are lots of additional activities to help children learn and play, but there are even bigger challenges. it's important that when you go home, you feel relaxed and comfortable, and that they can talk to you, you can talk to them.

yeah? the school has a full time social worker. since children started returning to the classroom, his caseload has doubled. the children are coming in and they're disclosing arguments, fights, parents, carers, physical abusing them, emotionally abusing them. during lockdown, you know, it was a doorstep visit, or i asked to see the children from the living room window, or if they could bring them to the door. but that only goes so far. you know, you can't see physical bruises. any additional funding this school gets will be used to provide extra support. it's the second morning that she said she had no tea last night. here, they want more money for an additional social worker. today, the government in england is announcing £1.11 billion for tuition and teacher training. future government proposals could also include longer days. but this headteacher says schools need to be given the flexibility, and more funding, to decide on what is best for them. if you don't put that

time in to think, 0k, i want that child to be brilliant in maths, but before i do, i've got to make sure his family is ok, i've got to make sure that he's 0k emotionally, if you don't see all of that, then you're not going to get anywhere with these children. what you're going to end up with is people at the end of it who are going to say, "do you know what? did we actually give the best for these children?" well, we did the best that we could do with the means that we had, but the means we had weren't enough. 51 — what would 51 divided by 100 be? catching up won't be quick or easy. for schools like this one, at the heart of a community, there is a long road to recovery. elaine dunkley, bbc news in halifax. earlier i spoke to our chief political correspondent adam fleming who says these proposals have got caught up in the government's wider public spending plans. there will be a comprehensive spending review in the autumn when all the budgets and spending plans of all the government departments will be agreed with the treasury, usually quite a fraught process but one that

hasn't fully got started yet and i think the treasury is unwilling to spend huge sums of money on a particular department outside that process and so that is why we have ended up with something that, to the teaching unions, looks like a paltry sum of money compared to what was initially being talked about which was more than £10 billion on schools in england as part of this catch—up programme. so what you've got today is gavin williamson putting a brave face on it, saying he's doing as much as he can at this point in time to make a difference. i didn't and i don't think the prime minister or the chancellor did either, wanted to be in a situation where we are waiting for a comprehensive spending review to get money out of the door in order to be able to have a positive impact in terms of children's lives and that's why we've done this quite unprecedented intervention outside of the spending period where we are actually getting an extra £1.4 billion in order to drive this tutoring programme

and teacher quality programme forward. adam, how much money does labour think needs to be spent at this point? well, they're signing up to the think tank, the education policy institute, that you mentioned earlier on where they were talking between ten and £15 billion and also that is what the government's catch—ups tsar, the official who has been brought in to oversee this programme was discussing with the unions as recently as a couple of days ago and here is labour's shadow education secretary, kate green, talking about a whole load of extra things that labour would do with that extra money. there should be a range of measures and a package of support _ for children and young people. yes, more time for small group tutoring and for catching - up on lost learning, i but children can't learn well if they're worried, - if they're anxious, if they're not having time to play and develop, so we're also suggesting support l for extracurricular activities, l

play, drama, art and so on and, of course, putting in mental health support in schools so that - if children are struggling a little with their well—being, - there is someone on hand to help them. _ and, adam, gavin williamson this morning saying that there was, to quote him, a really strong case for a longer school day. where exactly is government thinking on that right now? that's an interesting question. this is another example of something that was talked about in quite a big way in the last couple of days. we were hearing that there was going to be a pilot scheme in hundreds of schools where maybe they would keep their doors open for an extra two hours a day so that children could do extracurricular activities. that has been watered down in the proposals published today and is now going to be a review into how the school day is structured and how long it is and we will have to wait a couple of months to see how that review concludes and it is interesting because gavin williamson is obviously very much in favour of that. he dropped lots of very strong hints about that

in his interviews this morning. you can imagine the treasury saying, that is quite an expensive thing to do. and also the teaching unions are split on that. some of the unions think it's a great idea and can really enrich children's lives. that's the word they tend to use. some of the other teaching unions think actually it's too much time away from children's families and more time in school is just not great for children's mental health whatever activity they're achieving. but that is something to keep an eye on and is going to get caught up up in the whole spending review process as well because it's easy to say have a longer school day but then you're into the issues of what do the children do and what resources does it take to deliver that? more comments. 0ne says to ask the government not to take money from its learning away from other education as further education will be rewarded for mac and fiestas,

one, teachers are exhausted. ask anyone on exam assessments how they can manage longer school days. two, how will companies provide extra tutoring that are quality assessed our congressional district government contacts. i understand that schools now have more control over how that money is spent on tuition and i will try to read out some more of those later and send them to me at the address below. 0pposition parties in israel have until midnight to reach an agreement to form a new government. the israeli centrist politician, yair lapid, has acknowledged that there are still "plenty of obstacles" as he tries to form a new coalition that would end prime minister benjamin netanyahu's 12 years in power. mr lapid's chances of success were given a boost when the far—right nationalist, naftali bennett, said his party would join the proposed administration. under the proposed deal, mr bennett, would be prime ministerfor two years and then hand over to mr

lapid. if no new government is agreed, israel could face a fifth election in two years. gil hoffman is the chief political correspondent for the jerusalem post. he joins me now from jerusalem. good to have you with us. before we talk about the premiership, the vote for the president is happening right now, isn't it quiet? bring it up to date. , �* i. ., now, isn't it quiet? bring it up to date. , �* ., ., date. yes, i'm coming you to hear from the can _ date. yes, i'm coming you to hear from the can assist _ date. yes, i'm coming you to hear from the can assist and _ date. yes, i'm coming you to hear from the can assist and i - date. yes, i'm coming you to hear from the can assist and ijust - date. yes, i'm coming you to hear from the can assist and ijust leftl from the can assist and ijust left the chambers from the parliament to this interview and they were getting to the last names of the alphabet from secret ballot one by one from the former cabinet minister and former president to the prize—winning educator and we will have her results in an hour or so. we will watch out for that. let's talk about the role of the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu who is also called the magician who is set

to retain power, namely a legal challenge has been rejected. is to retain power, namely a legal challenge has been rejected. challenge has been re'ected. is that effectively and h challenge has been re'ected. is that effectively and into _ challenge has been rejected. is that effectively and into his _ challenge has been rejected. is that effectively and into his publisher? l effectively and into his publisher? i can't think of any other them person who could pull a rabbit out of his hat. midnight tonight is the deadline for the opposition to form a government and the remaining differences are very small and irrelevant and i don't see anything standing on the way any more of replacing netanyahu. if standing on the way any more of replacing netanyahu. if a standing on the way any more of replacing netanyahu.— standing on the way any more of replacing netanyahu. if a deal, as we mentioned _ replacing netanyahu. if a deal, as we mentioned to _ replacing netanyahu. if a deal, as we mentioned to form _ replacing netanyahu. if a deal, as we mentioned to form a - replacing netanyahu. if a deal, as i we mentioned to form a government can't be worked out, israel could be facing its fifth election in two years. do you think that this deal between someone who describes himself as more right—wing than netanyahu and a centrist has got legs? can you provide some sort of stability and government? 50. legs? can you provide some sort of stability and government?- stability and government? so, first to clari , stability and government? so, first to clarify. if — stability and government? so, first to clarify. if no _ stability and government? so, first to clarify, if no agreement - stability and government? so, first to clarify, if no agreement is - to clarify, if no agreement is reached by tonight, there will be a 21 day period in which any member of parliament can form a government and there are a number of different

scenarios will come into play before an election would be initiated and as someone who has worked hard for it i would... regarding the second part of your question, it is netanyahu who is the slew that is bringing together the centre, left and right in an effort to oust him and right in an effort to oust him and he is not going anywhere. he will remain the leader of the opposition, the leader of the 0pposition, the leader of the israeli right and he will then, as long as the sidelines, keep them together, keep them in power regarding whether in it, because he is right wing, would not be able to accomplish anything, this would be a government that would focus on other things. it's going to focus on the economy like normal countries, and recovering from the pandemic and recovering from the pandemic and recovering from the pandemic and recovering from a long period of divisiveness inside israel that brings the right and the left and

centre together. you brings the right and the left and centre together.— centre together. you say that if there is a _ centre together. you say that if there is a unity _ centre together. you say that if there is a unity government, i centre together. you say that if there is a unity government, it| centre together. you say that if. there is a unity government, it is not going to be focusing on the israeli— palestinian conflict and does that mean for what you are saying that there would be a big shift in policy there? h0. saying that there would be a big shift in policy there?— shift in policy there? no, i don't think there _ shift in policy there? no, i don't think there will _ shift in policy there? no, i don't think there will be _ shift in policy there? no, i don't think there will be any - shift in policy there? no, i don't think there will be any policy - shift in policy there? no, i don't. think there will be any policy there to be honest. bennett is further to the right than netanyahu but he is not going to annex any land in the west bank and the politicians from the israeli left, they are not going to get to evacuate any part of that land in the west bank as they would like to. and anyway, and the palestinian side, they can't put their election they were. the first election and they are not in a place to be in a negotiating with israel and i'm not sure of the biden administration is keen to support an effort that is unlikely to be

successful.— effort that is unlikely to be successful. , ., , ., successful. interesting to get your perspeetive _ successful. interesting to get your perspeetive and — successful. interesting to get your perspective and we _ successful. interesting to get your perspective and we will _ successful. interesting to get your perspective and we will let - successful. interesting to get your perspective and we will let you - successful. interesting to get your| perspective and we will let you get back to the vote. the world's largest meat processing company has blamed a group based in russia for a sophisticated cyber attack. computer networks atjbs were hacked, causing some operations in australia, canada and the us to temporarily shut down. i'm joined now by our cyber security reporterjoe tidy. hello to you. what have you been hearing about this attack? has hello to you. what have you been hearing about this attack?- hearing about this attack? as you sa , is hearing about this attack? as you say. is having _ hearing about this attack? as you say. is having a — hearing about this attack? as you say, is having a massive - hearing about this attack? as you say, is having a massive impact l say, is having a massive impact already. the company says it should get operations back up and running but we are already seeing potential price rises already coming through. this is a massive company and is a brazilian company but it operates in 15 different countries around the world and meat—packing production lines, slaughterhouses, they have all been affected in australia, canada, but as the us that has mostly been hit by this multiple facilities having been shut down

with sat —— staff turning up and nothing to do. we don't know whether the attack has operated operational technology at that as the production side of business but it has most likely effect of the computer systems that are run by the back of operations in order to keep things like supply, auditing or customer servicing or the payment system is going and we saw that recently with a pipeline attack on the us again which affected fuel supplies across the east coast of the us and affecting panic buying, price rises and in that situation, the company closed down the operational side, the pumping of the oil, because they couldn't work out what needed to go where because the it side was damaged. it where because the it side was damaued. ., , where because the it side was damaged-— where because the it side was damaued. ., ,, ., , ., ., damaged. it does show yet again the abili of damaged. it does show yet again the ability of these _ damaged. it does show yet again the ability of these cyber _ damaged. it does show yet again the ability of these cyber attacks - damaged. it does show yet again the ability of these cyber attacks to - ability of these cyber attacks to impact on every area of life, including potentially the food that we are able to buy. why this particular company? shew; we are able to buy. why this particular company? we are able to buy. why this articular coman ? �* , ., , ., particular company? any thoughts on that? yes, particular company? any thoughts on that? yes. you _ particular company? any thoughts on that? yes, you are _ particular company? any thoughts on that? yes, you are right, _ particular company? any thoughts on that? yes, you are right, it's- that? yes, you are right, it's another one of these cases were run

somewhere group has decided to go for it notjust a big rich company that they can extort $4 million from but also a company that operates what you would argue is critical national infrastructure and so we saw that with a pipeline attack and that affected fuel supplies and this is affecting food supplies and what we are seeing now is a real move from the us government and the white house have already commented on this saying they are monitoring the situation and the fbi is investigating and they're trying to put pressure on these run somewhere groups to stop attacking things like this, companies that affect the way people live because of course, what they are saying is that although these are criminal gangs and operating in countries like russia where they are being allowed to operate freely without any fear of being arrested or in any way held to account, what they are doing and it remains to be seen that the pressure on russia to do something about this and the russian government has said that they are cooperating and talking with the us but they haven't said anything about whether the attackers are based on their country. attackers are based on their count . ., ., attackers are based on their count . ., ~ i. attackers are based on their count . . ~' ,, , attackers are based on their

count . ., ~ , . paramedics in england will be offered body worn cameras as part of a plan to reduce attacks on national health service staff. medics can press a button to start recording if patients became aggressive or abusive. data from the nhs england showed a 32—per cent rise in assaults a 32% cent rise in assaults compared with five years ago. anna collinson reports. why did i do that? from spitting, biting and verbal abuse to kicking, head—butting and punching. those in favour of body—worn cameras say they successfully document the abuse from workers can face. last year, the supermarket co—op introduced cameras following increased attacks on staff. i do need to speak to you both. and as you can see, quick things quickly turned violent here after a council officer fined two men for littering. i'm going to call the police. the two men were later convicted for assault.

it's three years since gary watson was attacked by a patient who was trying to help. —— he was trying to help. the paramedic�*s physical scars have now healed, but the painful memories are with him for life. i had quite bad injury so torn ligaments in my right shoulder, i had significant bruising to one side of my face, scratch marks, gouge marks, yeah, just bruises pretty much up and down my body really from eight minutes of violence. stories like gary's are unfortunately on the rise. data shows more than 3,500 ambulance workers were physically assaulted last year. that's a 32% increase over five years. but it is hoped wearing body cameras could help. at a glance, you may not even notice them, but nhs england is rolling out these cameras to all ten of its ambulance trusts in the hope that it will de—escalate potentially violent situations. it's after a successful trial

in london in the northeast. our staff are being assaulted assault i have increased dramatically over the last few years for the public and staff and so we need to have that method of recording evidence for prosecution and is also a good deterrent. if somebody sees the camera, they're less likely to be aggressive to our staff. some ambulance crews have expressed concerns about privacy. they have been told that they can choose to wear body cameras. services in wales and northern ireland have said they are also considering introducing them but the scottish ambulance service declined to comment. what will be your message to anyone who has lashed out at a worker? when you see someone in uniform, remember there is also a person wearing it. every time something comes down on radio, you do think is it going to be another one of those jobs? or is itjust going to be a normal day—to—dayjob? you just don't know. anna collinson, bbc news.

the world health organization has approved china's sinovac covid vaccine for emergency use. the who said it prevented symptomatic disease in 51% of those vaccinated and prevented severe symptoms and hospitalisation in 100% of samples. the vaccine, which has already been used in several countries, has been recommended for over 18s, with a second dose two to four weeks later. ryanair is calling on the transport secretary to open up international travel from all eu countries in the next revision of the uk s green list on 3rd june. the airline is urging grant shapps to abolish travel restrictions for everyone who has been fully vaccinated. new figures released by the office for national statistics shows that the number of covid deaths continued to fall — in the week up to the 21st may. let's get the details from our head of statistics, robert cuffe the number of deaths was 11,214 and

that was 3% below the five year average. that was 3% below the five year avera . e. that was 396 below the five year avera . e. " that was 396 below the five year averaee. " ., , that was 396 below the five year averaee. " . , ., average. there were 115 deaths that mention covid _ average. there were 115 deaths that mention covid on _ average. there were 115 deaths that mention covid on the _ average. there were 115 deaths that mention covid on the certificate - mention covid on the certificate that were registered that week and that were registered that week and that probably seems a bit high in the context of yesterday when we saw zero covid deaths reported for the first time the pandemic and these debts of the office for national statistics have a broader definition and they include suspected covid deaths and they are a fortnight ago. so hopefully, in a week or two, when we come back, we will see the numbers even lower than the hundred and 15 i have just mentioned. as for the fourth lowest we have seen announced during the pandemic back backin announced during the pandemic back back in last september when they went 100 just briefly for a week before they started to move back up and of course, these deaths reflect where the pandemic was about one month ago in terms of infections and the fact that deaths will keep falling hopefully for a couple weeks is going to be a different story to what we will be seeing four cases,

infections are people going into hospital because those numbers are starting to tick back up again. it's good news and we can celebrate it and hopefully will get better in the future but it does mean the pandemic is over. ., ., is over. that larger figure i mentioned _ is over. that larger figure i mentioned which _ is over. that larger figure i mentioned which is - is over. that larger figure i mentioned which is 396 - is over. that larger figure i i mentioned which is 396 below is over. that larger figure i - mentioned which is 396 below the is over. that larger figure i _ mentioned which is 396 below the five mentioned which is 3% below the five year average. mentioned which is 3% below the five yearaverage. it's mentioned which is 3% below the five year average. it's not that long since we were looking at deaths from all being well above average and those excess deaths we thought were down to covid and so the fact that those deaths are below the five year average, that again suggests that with covid, as far as that is concerned, we are very much going the right direction.— the right direction. absolutely. part of the _ the right direction. absolutely. part of the reason _ the right direction. absolutely. part of the reason we - the right direction. absolutely. part of the reason we are - the right direction. absolutely. | part of the reason we are seeing these debts going below the average is that it has been a milder winter for other causes of deaths such as flu because people haven't been in contact as much and there is also probably people who might have died this summer right now who died earlier because of the pandemic and so we will probably see a long

period of time when we are seeing fewer deaths every week than we would expect based on the last few years and that's the result of hopefully the pandemic being under control and also these after—effects from, as you said, scary number of deaths that we were seeing over december and january.— deaths that we were seeing over december and january. very much a 19—year—old man from singapore has pleaded guilty to sending online death threats to the brighton footballer neal maupay. derek ng de ren was arrested after the instagram posts were traced back to singapore by the premier league. he has been convicted of four counts of harassment. our correspondent nick marsh sent this update from outside the court. just behind me a short while ago here at the state court, derek ng de ren pleaded guilty to this string of abusive messages that he sent neal maupay last summer. he threatened the physical safety of him and his family. they were graphic, they were abusive messages.

now he's facing a hefty fine, up to £10,000 and possibly up to two years in jail as well. now, this couldn't have happened without a lot of collaboration between the premier league, brighton and hove albion and, of course, the singapore police because what often doesn't get mentioned, we know that a lot of premier league footballers face an enormous amount of abuse online, but a lot of this abuse actually comes from abroad. this is a global game, the premier league is wildly popular in lots of places around the world. now, i spoke to the premier league yesterday. they told me that they think the majority of this abuse actually comes from abroad. some estimates give it at up to 70%. we have seen the example of a successful collaboration here and the premier league welcomed it. they think it will serve as a powerful deterrent to tackling online abuse going forward. an activist in belarus has stabbed himself in the neck during a court appearance over charges of resisting police and setting up opposition social meda. it happened as pressure builds on dissidents to president lukashenko's regime. footage appears to show stepan latypov

collapsing after using what looked like a pen as a weapon. mark lobel reports. lying unconscious in a minsk courtroom. activist stepan latypov moments after reportedly stabbing himself in the neck after addressing the court. translation: he got - up and said police officers told me i would be put in the confinement cell. my relatives and neighbours would be prosecuted under criminal law if i do not confess. then he took something white in his teeth and started literally to cut his throat. everyone started screaming. police officers could not open the defendant's cage for a while, eventually he was rushed to hospital. like many world leaders, austria's chancellor is alarmed at the growing pressure on political prisoners. he spoke to the opposition leader svetlana tsikhanouskaya and promised more action

if things did not improve. translation: we should be open for further sanctions if necessary. l i think it's important that the sanctions should be as precisely targeted as possible to target the regime and not translation: we should be open for further sanctions if necessary. l the civil society, not the people. meanwhile, belarus's ally russia says it is planning they say the stable condition is stable and non—life—threatening. the president has added a travel ban from all citizens and opposition activists since his heavily contested election victory last august. showing that while he seeks to strengthen his gay rape on his disputed rule, his intent on providing little escape for those unwilling to accept it. mark lobel, bbc news. joe biden has become

the first sitting us president to commemorate the 1921 tulsa massacre — which was one of the worst incidents of racial violence in us history. the attack by a white crowd on a black community in oklahoma left at least 300 people dead. mr biden called on all americans to reflect on what he described as the �*deep roots of racial terror�* in the country's history. for much too long, the history of what took place here was told in silence, cloaked in darkness. butjust because history is silent, it doesn't mean that it did not take place. and while darkness can hide much, it erases nothing. it erases nothing. some injustices are so heinous, so horrific, so grievous, they can't be buried. some more comments from you on our

top story today. the catch up funding for schools in england and a suggestion from the education secretary for longer school days, something he said he supported. this measured says it is not about longer days, it is help needed, more staff training and equipment. i love teaching but the stress that comes with that, nobody seems to care about the children as well as staff. i am a special teaching assistant for special educational needs. another message says is the big hullabaloo the best for children or the effect on sax? children are resilient and can bounce back. is this girl protecting a place on a table? another message, as a student, i think gcses for your tens in the 2022 examination cycle should be cancelled as our ear has missed out on so much learning and it will be impossible to catch up and get the grades we should get. one more message. i do not think many pupils

would be happy with a longer school day. you may be right. thank you very much for the comments. please keep them coming in to me at twitter. we will see if we can fit if you have more questions n. the headlines on bbc news: more than a billion pounds for catch—up tuition for pupils in england, but headteachers say it's a fraction of what's needed. the education secretary denies he's trying to do it on the cheap. we're looking at the interventions that we can actually deliver today, make sure that we're able to get the money on the table out to schools in order to support them, in order to be able to help our children while they're in school straightaway. what we're talking about is how do we use that money well? and i would say that investing in our children and young people and their futures must be our country's top priority. opposition parties in israel have until midnight to reach an agreement to form a new government which could end benjamin netanyahu's 12 years in power.

fears of meat shortages in some countries as hackers attack the world's largest meat supplier, jbs. the company believes the ransomware attack originated from a criminal group likely based in russia. body—cameras for ambulance staff in england after attacks by the public rise by almost a third in five years. what are you going to do, run us over? no, i'm not going to move. a group of residents in oxford trying to enforce restrictions on cars by becoming human traffic bollards. paramedics in england are to be offered body—worn cameras as part of a plan to reduce attacks on nhs staff. medics can press a button to start recording if patients became aggressive or abusive. this follows a rise in attacks by members of the public on emergency staff. well, let's take a closer look at those figures. more than 3,500 attacks on ambulance staff were reported in the year 2020—21.

that's an increase of almost a third — 32 % — in five years. now, in a bid to reduce attacks, bodycams are to be issued to staff across england. this follows pilot schemes in london and the north east. and recordings from the bodycams can be handed to the police and could be used in court evidence. we'rejoined now by neil vann, he's a clinical team mentor with the west midlands ambulance service. in 2017, he was attacked while trying to treat a patient. thank you very much for talking to us at bbc news today. i do not like to ask you to relive what happened but we do need you to explain the incident in which you were attacked. it's quite a complicated incident, we were treating a patient in her house, and other people in the house were causing problems, we very politely ask them to step back so we

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so patients are not being recorded during the treatment. thank you for talkin: to during the treatment. thank you for talking to us- _ during the treatment. thank you for talking to us. good _ during the treatment. thank you for talking to us. good luck _ during the treatment. thank you for talking to us. good luck and - during the treatment. thank you for talking to us. good luck and thank l talking to us. good luck and thank you for everything that you do. there's outrage in italy after a sicilian mafia boss who was dubbed �*the slayer�* was released from prison after twenty—five years. 64—year—old giovanni brusca was behind dozens of murders, including the bomb that killed italy's most renowned anti—mafia judge, giovanni falcone, in 1992. sara monetta reports. the mafia boss has been released from jail after 25 years. the mafia boss has been released fromjailafter25 years. his the mafia boss has been released from jail after 25 years. his house belongs to someone else and people are afraid he could come back. i do are afraid he could come back. i do not think our— are afraid he could come back. i if not think our village can accept him back after all that he has done. he was one of the most ruthless mafia in sicily in the 80s and 90s. 150

in sicily in the 80s and 90s.150 murders, he confessed to, in including the killing of a 12—year—old boy. to all italians he is the man who murdered the anti—mafia judge, is the man who murdered the anti—mafiajudge, his is the man who murdered the anti—mafia judge, his wife and the three main of his security. the family members of those who were killed cannot rest easy.— killed cannot rest easy. today, i do not feel respected _ killed cannot rest easy. today, i do not feel respected by _ killed cannot rest easy. today, i do not feel respected by the _ killed cannot rest easy. today, i do not feel respected by the state. i killed cannot rest easy. today, i do| not feel respected by the state. the state should have guaranteed justice for us. if he had to be released because he served his sentence, he should have told the truth about the bombing because we know who the perpetrators were but we do not know who ordered it and he was there. i have not yet been told the truth so clearly i do not feel respected. he is free start to a law that the judge himself pushed forward, shorter sentences for bosses who collaborated with the police. he hoped the whole course a no strike

could be dismantled,... he hoped the whole course a no strike could be dismantled, . . ._ could be dismantled,... he took responsibility — could be dismantled,... he took responsibility for _ could be dismantled,... he took responsibility for 150 _ could be dismantled,... he took responsibility for 150 murders, l responsibility for 150 murders, among them policemen, magistrates, officers, everyone, and he was sentenced to 60 days for each murder? , ., , ~' ' murder? the people were killed 29 ears a . o. murder? the people were killed 29 years ago- this _ murder? the people were killed 29 years ago. this square _ murder? the people were killed 29 years ago. this square is _ murder? the people were killed 29 years ago. this square is dedicated j years ago. this square is dedicated to them. people here know that the fight against the market is far from over. his coming home is a painful reminder of the long way that is still left to go. there's increasing concern about the number of attacks onjournalists and human rights activists in pakistan, allegedly at the hands of the country's powerful intelligence services. last week one journalist was attacked at gunpoint, whilst last month a commentator survived a shooting in a park. the government denies the state is involved. secunder kermani reports from islamabad. watch the men around the car in the corner of the screen.

they are suspected members of the intelligence services in the eastern city of okara. they spot their target, bundle him in and drive off. the man they abduct disappeared for two weeks. this was their victim, shafiq ahmad, a lawyer and social media activist. and this is what he looked like when he was eventually released. before they'd even asked me a single question, he told me, they took off all my clothes and started beating me. they used leather belts and wooden sticks on my back, on my feet, they said we will throw your body into the river. he had been an outspoken critic of pakistan's government and powerful army. security concerns mean we have waited more than a year to tell his story. they asked me, what you post on facebook and twitter, who is really behind it? they asked me, who is funding you?

i said, no—one, it is my own ideology. pakistan is now a much more stable country than it was, say, a decade ago, but human rights groups say it's also becoming a more authoritarian one. they blame the current government as well as pakistan's military, which many believe has a powerful influence from behind—the—scenes in how this country is run. prime minister imran khan has denied there is any clampdown on freedom of expression whilst the army will not respond to the allegations. but prominent critical figures face very real threats. this commentator was rushed to hospital after surviving a shooting by an unknown gunman in april. and watch this journalist stagger out of his apartment in islamabad last week after men identifying themselves as from the intelligence services tied him up and brutally beat him. officials have denied involvement.

what most of the victims have in common, accusing the military of interfering in politics and manipulating elections, charges the army and prime minister imran khan reject. my greatest hope is for peace. even fleeing the country is often not enough. gulalai ismail had won awards for her activism but after joining a movement criticising the army's human rights record, threats forced her to seek asylum in america. her elderly parents still in pakistan, now face terrorism charges. the pakistani state authorities are giving collective punishment to ourfamily to teach us a lesson that if parents ever try to or dare to raise a daughter who will speak truth to the power for her basic human rights, for her community's basic human rights, then this will be the fate, not just the daughter will suffer but the parents will also suffer.

censorship in pakistan is not absolute. opposition figures do appear on local tv channels, butjournalists say they know what they can and can't say and what dangers they face. the united states is to halt oil exploration in alaska's national wildlife refuge. the move reverses a decision made by the former president, donald trump. drilling leases issued in his last days in office will be reviewed. the suspension has been welcomed by environmental groups. there are concerns that medical training resources in the uk are failing patients with black and brown skin. until recently, medical handbooks published as recently as 2014 only featured 3% of images showing conditions on the skin of black and ethnic minority people. this failing has left medical staff in the uk unable to diagnose common skin conditions on darker skin, which can sometimes have serious

medical consequences. our reporter breejohnson—obeng finds out more. am i invisible? this might sound ridiculous, but try searching online for a simple skin condition like acne or eczema and you'll be scrolling a while before you found skin like mine. and this isn'tjust online either. when looking through medical textbooks with thousands of pages, there are only 22 images of non—white skin. i started looking into this after waking up with a skin condition even my doctor couldn't explain. itjust made me wonder, is my skin not important? this time last year, i was struck by a one in three mortality rate syndrome called stevens—johnson syndrome. it kills one in three people. i had been prescribed a medication called carbamazepine following my wisdom tooth extraction. i now started flaring up with what i can only describe as a horrific reaction. this is what i looked like on day one. the following day, it had got significantly worse. oh, my goodness. and here, just a day after.

the marks were spread across your nose, completely under your eyes, more pus is coming from your lips and at this point, you'd been to the hospital how many times? twice to a&e. twice, ok. on what grounds did they ask you to leave? my symptoms didn't look severe enough to them. like that? like that. and they didn't ask you... they didn't even take my medical history. it was almost like i had to fight for my needs and for my pain. as soon as i stepped through those a&e doors, my bodyjust gave up and so they had to resuscitate me. it was only when i went to this third hospital where there was a consultant who looks like me and who could identify that this woman, a, is in severe pain but this is not how she looks normally. this is where we say representation matters. i think back and, i don't know, ijust... i feel failed, i feel failed, and i also remember the fact that it's notjust me.

there's a history of women who been turned awayjust because it doesn't look like what they recognise, it doesn't look like what they've seen before. if their curriculum doesn't account for what certain diseases look like on dark skin, then the fault isn't even with them, the fault lies in the fact that they haven't been told, they haven't been shown. someone definitely taking initiative is malone. hi, malone. how are you? hi, bree. how are you? during his second year of uni, he created the mind the gap handbook and it's the first of its kind. it shows a variety of conditions on non—white skin. it's now being used by the northeast ambulance service, the london ambulance service. it's being used in some gp practices, it's starting to reshape the way medical education is being taught. the work that we've produced is able to help them potentially even maybe to prolong people's lives. the british association of dermatologists was petitioned by over 5000 people in 2020 asking for an increase in diversity in training materials. we very much welcome the petition l which we felt was a very important|

student voice to highlight something that has already been _ concerning the british association of dermatologists for some time. j educational leaders need to ensure that diversity of patient _ population is embedded - into all of the education material, not just tacked on at the end. a group of pedestrians in oxford have been taking unusual steps to uphold the law. the residents are trying to enforce restrictions on cars — which were put in place to create low traffic neighbourhoods — by becoming human traffic bollards. our chief environment correspondent, justin rowlatt, reports. here's a question for you. when is a pedestrian, not a pedestrian? ..any aggro with the drivers, because we're bollards, and bollards don't say anything. when they become a human bollard. what are you going to do — run us over? i'm not going to move. i've got a place to be. can you move? car horns sound.

you cannot go down the high street. so this road is supposed to be blocked between 7.30 in the morning, and 6.30 in the evening. but the bollards aren't working, and nor are the number plate recognition cameras. so drivers know they can come through without being fined. which is why the oxford pedestrians association decided to step in. i don't feel anxious or afraid. ijust feel something has to be done, and i'm doing the right thing in the right direction. it's bizarre. i wouldn't have expected it. i'm not like normal vehicles. you didn't know that? oh, i can see you're not. oh, you're speechless now? yeah. yeah, so i'll be reversing down there in a second, thank you. one delivery man managed to bamboozle the activists into letting him through. you pay taxes for the council to go through here. not delivery though. yes, i'm an authorised vehicle, same as the county council, mate, the same as buses. i can go through the cameras. the delivery company dpd told bbc breakfast the response from their driver wasn't acceptable,

and it said it will brief all drivers again on the restrictions. but we will find out. the road closures here in oxford are part of a nationwide effort to calm traffic in our town and city centres. so what we're trying to do is to rebalance our streets, you know, to make them friendlier for pedestrians, to encourage people to be able to walk more short trips. and that actually helps free up space for people who need to drive, for people who are carrying heavy loads. but, rachel, freeing up space for pedestrians means taking space away from motorists, doesn't it? it means that very often they're the same person. very often there's a person who is driving to the local shop, who could walk to the local shop. not always. enfield in london is one of many english councils that has blocked roads and introduced charges to create new low traffic neighbourhoods, or ltns, during the covid pandemic. so, this low traffic neighborhood came completely out of the blue and it's made our lives impossible.

the restrictions here in enfield are similar to oxford, except you are fined £130 if you drive through. everywhere i've been going, i've been blocked from going down here. it's bloody ridiculous. sue sanders says she's never been involved in local politics before. i see it as undermining democracy. there's not been a proper consultation. we see the ltn as a fait accompli, as something imposed upon us. and i actually genuinely see it as alienating people from the green agenda. it's actually undermining the green agenda. we asked enfield council for comment, but it did not respond. hiya, guys. you know it's illegal for you to go through here? no, it's not, mate. it is. the truth is, if we want safe, clean cities, and to tackle climate change, we do need to coax some people out of their cars. and if they think they'll be

punished, most drivers do obey the law. justin rowlatt, bbc news, oxford. the psychological benefits of being around horses have been recognised by a growing number of therapists who work with people with mental health problems. now a horse therapy centre near lutterworth in leicestershire has been helping front line health workers recover from the trauma of caring for coronavirus patients during the pandemic. matt graveling is there for us this morning. this is harry enjoying his food here at the way of the horse project in leicestershire. he is not the only one. he is a therapy horse and as you can see here, we have got a number of other rescue horses which are also used as therapy horses, to help people with stress and anxiety. this organisation has seen a great deal more people, especially from the emergency services, coming forward wanting to use horse therapy to reduce their stress. so how does this work?

well, dina joins me now and she is the owner of the organisation. how do you use horses to do this? well, obviously, horses are a prey animal, and people don't always recognise that. they don't know that they are a prey animal and a prey animal has to be able to recognise the emotions that people are feeling because they would have to do that in the wild. so if i came here for a day, what would you have me do? how would i be interacting with the horses? so we will teach you an hour of theory to begin with, and we would use the theory and get the horses to help us to teach you how you're feeling. fantastic, thank you very much. well, that is the concept, let's meet a person who has actually been through this course. it is a 12—week course and it is also funded by the national lottery. angela is a councillor, how have the last 12 months been for you? very difficult. very stressful. i have seen, with people in terms of stress, anxiety

due to restrictions, repeated restrictions, lockdowns, fear, isolation, loneliness and so on. personal stresses, i've had personal stresses as well. there were times when we couldn't even go for exercise for more than once a day. so being out in nature is so important to our mental health. so tell me, what is it you have actually gained from the horses? i have gained an understanding of how to be present in the here and now and i have gained some techniques and strategies to help me limit and reduce my own anxiety through connection with nature, with the horses as co—facilitators who really do let you know who you are. they act as a mirror for your emotions. fantastic, thank you very much. as angela said, the horses are very sensory animals, they know where you are hiding and storing your stress and they are being used here in leicestershire to help you tackle it.

if you want more information, head to the website, it is the way of the horse project. a teenagerfrom california has decribed the moment she fought off a bear to protect her pet dogs. hailey morinico, who is 17, didn't hesitate when she saw the mother bear on the wall of her back yard with two cubs, fighting with her three dogs. home cctv shows hailey running outside, shoving the bear back, and rounding up her pets before running back inside. the teeanger sprained her finger but otherwise was unscathed. i run over to the bear and the first thing i think to do is to push the bear off the ledge it's standing on. do not push bears, do not get close to bears, you do not want to get unlucky. ijust happened to come out unscathed. two russian cosmonauts are performing a spacewalk outside the international space station. flight engineers, oleg novitskiy

and pyotr dubrov will are preparing the docking compartment for undocking and disposal later this year. the walk started just after five o'clock this morning and is expected to last until around midday. lets have a quick look at the live images, this is the first space walk. it is the 238th spacewalk in support of a space station assembly maintenance and upgrades. it is the sixth spacewalk of 2021. time for some tweets about our top story which is the news that the government is spending £1.4 billion and catch up funding for schools. this message says we have one teacher to a huge number of children, some teachers are leaving because of the stress, gave us funding and stop dictating how we

must spend. we know what the children's needs are, it is not a longer day, we need training equipment. thank you very much for sending your comments to twitter today. you're watching bbc news: now it's time for a look at the weather. hello again. yesterday was the warmest day of this year so far, the temperature reached 26.1 celsius in cardiff. today for some, it could be even warmer still. but we've got some thundery showers, mainly in southern areas as we go through the course of today. and it's courtesy of this area of low pressure, bringing them in, moving northwards and eastwards and as well as that, it's also bringing in some warmer air. a noticeable breeze today as well, more or less wherever you are. we have some cloud across the coastline of north—east england and eastern scotland, and if anything, we can report more of that across the course of today. as the showers push inwards, getting into wales, midlands, possibly clipping the south—east of england as well. in between, there will be some

sunshine, but clouding over in northern ireland. top temperatures, 27 in the south—east, possibly a little bit more, but widely, we are looking at the low to the mid 20s. through this evening and overnight, our weather front continues through northern ireland, wales into northern england, eventually into southern scotland and we see more cloud coming in from the north, more cloud generally, so it's not going to be a cold night. most of us staying in double figures. so we start off on a cloudy note through the course of tomorrow, but you'll find that the cloud will start to break up and more sunshine will develop. at the same time, our weather front pushes north, taking its rain with it, but this rain attending to peter out. we could see a few showers just clipping the south of england. temperatures tomorrow, not as high for most of us as today, but still more or less round about where they should be or slightly above. we are looking at 24, 25 in the south—east. now, through thursday night and into friday, we've got this ridge of high pressure building across us. a weather front trying to come in from the west.

so we start with just a couple of showers moving away from the east first thing in the morning, then a lot of dry weather, a fair bit of sunshine and rain, cloud building ahead of the weather front in the west. we can see some spots of rain getting into the west of northern ireland and the north of scotland later on. temperatures by then 12 to about 22. so more or less where they should be. and then as we head on through friday and into saturday and sunday, our weather front crosses us, bringing some spots of rain with it and on sunday a little ridge of high pressure builds, so the weather for the weekend is more changeable in that at times there will be some cloud, we could see some spots of rain moving across on saturday. there could be some sunshine too.

this is bbc news. the headlines at 11. more than £1 billion for catch—up tuition for pupils in england, but headteachers say it's a fraction of what's needed. the education secretary denies he's trying to do it on the cheap. we're looking at the interventions that we can actually deliver today, make sure that we're able to get the money on the table out to schools in order to support them, in order to be able to help our children while they're in school straightaway. what we're talking about is how do we use that money well? and i would say that investing in our children and young people and their futures must be our country's top priority. are you a teacher, parent or student? what would you like to see to help catch up on lost learning? and would you be in favour of the idea of a longer school day?

send us in your thoughts — send those to me on twitter... body cameras for ambulance staff in england after attacks by the public rise by almost a third in five years. new figures show covid—related deaths in england and wales fell to the lowest number since the week ending september 11. as israel votes in a new president — opposition parties say they're finalising plans for a new government that would remove the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, from office. a 19—year—old man from singapore has pleaded guilty to sending online death threats to the brighton footballer neal maupay. what are you going to do? run us over? no, i'm not going to move. a group of residents in oxford trying to enforce restrictions on cars — by becoming human traffic bollards. and a terrifying moment for a teenagerfrom california — as she fights off a bear threatening her pet dogs.

an extra £1.4 billion of funding has been announced by the government to help pupils in england whose education has been disrupted during the pandemic. the recovery plan, in addition to the £1.7 billion already announced, will include £1 billion for 100 million hours of tutoring and £250 million for teacher training and development. borisjohnson said the aim was to "support children who have fallen behind." but labour's education secretary kate green said plans don't go far enough and make "a mockery of the prime minister's claim that education is a priority". it's also been criticised by teaching unions who have said the proposals are a "damp squib"

and "hugely disappointing". the amount announced is lower than had been previously suggested — with the education policy institute calculating a recovery plan would cost £13.5 billion. our education correspondent, elaine dunkley has this report. this is our reception children here. there's all sorts going on. this is ash green community primary in halifax. how are we doing? some of the children have missed nearly a year of in school learning. we're re—going over things that they did in reception and in year one. so, simple things like holding your pencil correctly. got a nice firm grip, i point with my finger... the past few months have been about catching up in the classroom. yes, it's my handwriting, because i hadn't done that much since lockdown, and it's gone a bit different since. i've been at home for such a long time, and i've got quite used to being at home. and when you came back to school,

i bet you were a bit tired, weren't you, doing all these activities? yeah. tell me what that was like? yeah, as soon as i went home, i was pretty much asleep. some of the children are struggling with concentration and confidence. they now work in smaller groups, so teachers can identify any issues. a lot of them stopped believing in themselves. they've not had the basic skills that they needed to. for example, my class in year three, they've not had the year two knowledge that they need to succeed in year three. so they've gone further behind than what we thought they would have. there are lots of additional activities to help children learn and play, but there are even bigger challenges. it's important that when you go home, you feel relaxed and comfortable, and that they can talk to you, you can talk to them. yeah? the school has a full time social worker. since children started returning to the classroom, his caseload has doubled. the children are coming in and they're disclosing arguments, fights, parents, carers,

physical abusing them, emotionally abusing them. during lockdown, you know, it was a doorstep visit, or i asked to see the children from the living room window, or if they could bring them to the door. but that only goes so far. you know, you can't see physical bruises. any additional funding this school gets will be used to provide extra support. it's the second morning that she said she had no tea last night. here, they want more money for an additional social worker. today, the government in england is announcing £1.4 billion for tuition and teacher training. future government proposals could also include longer days. but this headteacher says schools need to be given the flexibility, and more funding, to decide on what is best for them. if you don't put that time in to think, ok, i want that child to be brilliant in maths, but before i do, i've got to make sure his family is ok, i've got to make sure that he's ok emotionally, if you don't see all of that, then you're not going to get anywhere with these children. what you're going to end up

with is people at the end of it who are going to say, "do you know what? did we actually give the best for these children?" well, we did the best that we could do with the means that we had, but the means we had weren't enough. 51 — what would 51 divided by 100 be? catching up won't be quick or easy. for schools like this one, at the heart of a community, there is a long road to recovery. elaine dunkley, bbc news in halifax. speaking to the bbc earlier, the education secretary gavin williamson justified the spending in the face of criticism that it doesn't go far enough. ididn'tand i didn't and i don't think the prime minister want to be in a situation where we are waiting for a comprehensive spending review to get money out the door in order to be able to have a positive impact in terms of children's lives and that is why we have done this quite unprecedented intervention outside of a spending period where we are

actually getting an extra £1.4 billion out in order to try —— drive this tutor and policy forward. meanwhile, labour have outlined their plans for investment in education — the shadow education secretary kate green said young people must be seen as a priority. there should be a range of measures and a _ there should be a range of measures and a package of support and yes, more _ and a package of support and yes, more time — and a package of support and yes, more time for a small group tutoring but children — more time for a small group tutoring but children can't learn well if they— but children can't learn well if they are — but children can't learn well if they are worried, if they're anxious, _ they are worried, if they're anxious, if they're not having time to play— anxious, if they're not having time to play and — anxious, if they're not having time to play and develop so we are also suggesting support for extra curricular activities, play, suggesting support for extra curricularactivities, play, drama, curricular activities, play, drama, art and _ curricularactivities, play, drama, art and so — curricularactivities, play, drama, art and so on _ curricularactivities, play, drama, art and so on and of course putting in mental— art and so on and of course putting in mental health support in schools so that— in mental health support in schools so that it— in mental health support in schools so that if children are struggling with their— so that if children are struggling with their well—being, there is somebody on hand to help them. our correspondent sean dilley is in hertfordshire this morning. let's talk now to jon skurr, the headteacher at university academy, keighley. morning. the head teachers voiced

their powerful describing of this is a damp squib. let's remind the audience what we are talking about for pupils in england. they have been around £1.7 billion in support measures announced at the height of the pandemic when people, parents were taking the children to school like fairfield school here and all over england were concerned about the amount of schooling i have been missed during the catch—up period and so what the government is announcing another £1.4 billion and much of that is going to be targeted towards tuition for the most vulnerable or disadvantaged children and there is going to be some of that money piped into teacher training. but it is an amount that has been described as not enough by the education policy institute who have estimated £13.5 billion is more the figure that is needed. the education secretary says that the government is still looking at a

range of measures including lengthening the school day and we can expect more measures when the autumn budget is later made this year. but it's in and out of money the government says will make a real difference and that the teaching unions say is not enough. is it clear how the money will be spent and distributed? brute clear how the money will be spent and distributed?— clear how the money will be spent and distributed? we are saying this mornin: and distributed? we are saying this morning that _ and distributed? we are saying this morning that that _ and distributed? we are saying this morning that that billion _ and distributed? we are saying this morning that that billion is - and distributed? we are saying this morning that that billion is for i and distributed? we are saying this morning that that billion is for 100| morning that that billion is for 100 million hours of tutoring. that works out to £10 per hour for tutoring and private tutoring doesn't cost £10 per hour. h0??? tutoring and private tutoring doesn't cost £10 per hour. how have they arrived — doesn't cost £10 per hour. how have they arrived at _ doesn't cost £10 per hour. how have they arrived at this? _ doesn't cost £10 per hour. how have they arrived at this? no, _ doesn't cost £10 per hour. how have they arrived at this? no, the - doesn't cost £10 per hour. how have they arrived at this? no, the mass l they arrived at this? no, the mass is a little bit confusing. what we need as journalists to understand is that the government is working through this in the background and this is the point that has been made by the unions is that their argument is that there is simply not enough money and all you can do is put it against gavin williams and's statement that is going to make a real indirect difference. another area where there will be more

clarity needed is that if it is targeted towards disadvantaged groups and those children and who decides who that is? those details are still to emerge.— decides who that is? those details are still to emerge. thank you very much. are still to emerge. thank you very much- let's — are still to emerge. thank you very much- let's get — are still to emerge. thank you very much. let's get the _ are still to emerge. thank you very much. let's get the downfalls i are still to emerge. thank you very much. let's get the downfalls of i are still to emerge. thank you very i much. let's get the downfalls of one head teacher. welcome and thank you forjoining us. are you clear at this point on how this money will be distributed? ~ ., this point on how this money will be distributed?— this point on how this money will be distributed? what are your faults on it? i've distributed? what are your faults on it? i've been — distributed? what are your faults on it? i've been trying _ distributed? what are your faults on it? i've been trying to _ distributed? what are your faults on it? i've been trying to do _ distributed? what are your faults on it? i've been trying to do a - distributed? what are your faults on it? i've been trying to do a lot i distributed? what are your faults on it? i've been trying to do a lot of. it? i've been trying to do a lot of reading — it? i've been trying to do a lot of reading and _ it? i've been trying to do a lot of reading and i'm still confused because — reading and i'm still confused because a concept around tutoring programme is fantastic if you can .et programme is fantastic if you can get the _ programme is fantastic if you can get the tutors and the problem i would _ get the tutors and the problem i would say— get the tutors and the problem i would say straightaway is of the quality — would say straightaway is of the quality of tutoring around the country — quality of tutoring around the country varies and depending where you are _ country varies and depending where you are located it will vary on the quality _ you are located it will vary on the quality you — you are located it will vary on the quality you can get. for our situation _ quality you can get. for our situation here, i would prefer my own staff — situation here, i would prefer my own staff to deliver it to the

people _ own staff to deliver it to the people because i know they will get hi-h people because i know they will get high quality delivery, the staff training — high quality delivery, the staff training every week to improve the delivery— training every week to improve the delivery and the quality of that can make _ delivery and the quality of that can make the — delivery and the quality of that can make the biggest impact on young people _ make the biggest impact on young people in— make the biggest impact on young people in our area and so the tutoring — people in our area and so the tutoring programme causes a bit of confusion — tutoring programme causes a bit of confusion. and the teacher training programme also. should we be made to make our— programme also. should we be made to make our current workforce more effective — make our current workforce more effective it — make our current workforce more effective it would have a bigger impact — effective it would have a bigger impact. we effective it would have a bigger im act. ~ ., effective it would have a bigger imact. . ., _ effective it would have a bigger imact.~ . ., _ ., effective it would have a bigger imact. . ., _ ., ., impact. we have obviously got to wait to get _ impact. we have obviously got to wait to get the — impact. we have obviously got to wait to get the fine _ impact. we have obviously got to wait to get the fine detail - impact. we have obviously got to wait to get the fine detail on - impact. we have obviously got to wait to get the fine detail on how the money will be distributed and what exactly will be used for. in the meantime, what is your assessment of your people's needs —— pupils's needs and how much they have fallen behind as a result of lockdown?— lockdown? young people have definitely fallen _ lockdown? young people have definitely fallen behind. - lockdown? young people have definitely fallen behind. as . lockdown? young people have definitely fallen behind. as an | definitely fallen behind. as an academy academy trust have worked hard to— academy academy trust have worked hard to resolve that very quickly and we — hard to resolve that very quickly and we know that literacy skills have _ and we know that literacy skills have not—

and we know that literacy skills have not progressed from backwards but we _ have not progressed from backwards but we have a lot in place and our home—school learning plan is very effective. — home—school learning plan is very effective, we know that that's the .ap effective, we know that that's the gap for— effective, we know that that's the gap for many of our disadvantaged students, — gap for many of our disadvantaged students, we have many back into the academy— students, we have many back into the academy and we worked very hard on that irut— academy and we worked very hard on that but there is going to be gaps in what _ that but there is going to be gaps in what we — that but there is going to be gaps in what we would have preferred to do is _ in what we would have preferred to do is that _ in what we would have preferred to do is that head teachers and academy trusts— do is that head teachers and academy trusts and _ do is that head teachers and academy trusts and local authorities to get the money so that they can work out best the _ the money so that they can work out best the plan for the schools in context — best the plan for the schools in context because each school is in a very different situation and in a different— very different situation and in a different location and will be affected differently by the pandemic. affected differently by the pandemic-— affected differently by the andemic. . , . ., pandemic. can you put a figure on the needs if— pandemic. can you put a figure on the needs if you _ pandemic. can you put a figure on the needs if you are _ pandemic. can you put a figure on the needs if you are to _ pandemic. can you put a figure on the needs if you are to get - pandemic. can you put a figure on the needs if you are to get what i pandemic. can you put a figure on l the needs if you are to get what you would like to do what you want? it’s would like to do what you want? it's hard to quantify that because it depends— hard to quantify that because it depends on the situation. we have already— depends on the situation. we have already invested a significant amount— already invested a significant amount of extra resources into increasing _ amount of extra resources into increasing our teacher numbers next year and _ increasing our teacher numbers next year and to — increasing our teacher numbers next year and to decrease our class sizes and to— year and to decrease our class sizes and to put— year and to decrease our class sizes and to put on a large number of

group— and to put on a large number of group intervention sessions that can trring _ group intervention sessions that can trring about— group intervention sessions that can bring about closing those gaps for students — bring about closing those gaps for students. financially, a bit of medium _ students. financially, a bit of medium size secondary school should be looking _ medium size secondary school should be looking about £150,000 to have a real impact— be looking about £150,000 to have a real impact on those disadvantaged students _ real impact on those disadvantaged students that have seen the gaps .row students that have seen the gaps grow over— students that have seen the gaps grow over the pandemic. and students that have seen the gaps grow over the pandemic.- grow over the pandemic. and the [on . er grow over the pandemic. and the longer school _ grow over the pandemic. and the longer school day _ grow over the pandemic. and the longer school day is _ grow over the pandemic. and the longer school day is not - grow over the pandemic. and the longer school day is not a - grow over the pandemic. and the longer school day is not a thing l grow over the pandemic. and the l longer school day is not a thing for now, but it's still a thing under active consideration. what would you think about that? i active consideration. what would you think about that?— think about that? i think the longer school day is _ think about that? i think the longer school day is very _ think about that? i think the longer school day is very confusing. - think about that? i think the longer school day is very confusing. our i school day is very confusing. our school _ school day is very confusing. our school opens very early, we have a breakfast _ school opens very early, we have a breakfast club for school, their interventions before school, we have interventions before school, we have interventions and extracurricular running — interventions and extracurricular running every after—school and i'm not sure _ running every after—school and i'm not sure how i could get more out of the current _ not sure how i could get more out of the current workforce. they are working — the current workforce. they are working long days, running all these extracurricular activities. school doesn't — extracurricular activities. school doesn't shut at three o'clock like has been — doesn't shut at three o'clock like has been promoted in some areas of the media, _ has been promoted in some areas of the media, schools run long into the evening _ the media, schools run long into the evening and — the media, schools run long into the evening and on top of that there is

additional— evening and on top of that there is additional enrichment activities and unless— additional enrichment activities and unless we _ additional enrichment activities and unless we have more staff, unless we take away— unless we have more staff, unless we take away some of the bureaucracy around _ take away some of the bureaucracy around our— take away some of the bureaucracy around our educators, we won't be able to— around our educators, we won't be able to extend the school day. we need _ able to extend the school day. we need more — able to extend the school day. we need more teachers qualified but that said. — need more teachers qualified but that said, in the first instance, it will be _ that said, in the first instance, it will be more appropriate to make the teachers _ will be more appropriate to make the teachers we have more effective and then focus _ teachers we have more effective and then focus on their training and development rather than bringing in more _ development rather than bringing in more practitioners.— more practitioners. thank you very much forjoining — more practitioners. thank you very much forjoining us. _ and if you're a teacher, parent or student and you have some views or background on this that you'd like to sahre — send us your thoughts — send those to me on twitter... paramedics in england will be offered body—worn cameras as part of a plan to reduce attacks on nhs staff. medics can press a button to start recording if patients became aggressive or abusive. data from the nhs england showed

a 32% rise in assaults compared with five years ago. anna collinson reports. i took them off you. when did i do that? from spitting, biting and verbal abuse, to kicking, headbutting and punching. those in favor of body—worn cameras say they successfully document the abuse front line workers can face. get off me. what are you touching me for? get out! last year, the supermarket, the co—op, introduced cameras following increased attacks on staff. why are you touching me? what did you touch me for? i do need to speak to you both. the cigarettes that you both chucked out of the car window. and as you can see, things quickly turned violent here after a council officer fined two men for littering. i'm going to call the police. the two men were later convicted for assault. listen, listen. it's three years since gary watson was attacked by a patient he was trying to help. the paramedic�*s physical scars have now healed, but the painful memories are with him for life.

i had quite a bad rotator cuff injury, so torn ligaments down my right shoulder, i had significant bruising to one side of my face. scratch marks, gouge marks. yeah, it's just bruises pretty much up and down my body, really, from eight minutes of violence, really. stories like gary's are unfortunately on the rise. data shows more than 3,500 ambulance workers were physically assaulted last year. that's a 32% increase over five years. but it's hoped wearing body cameras could help. at a glance, you may not even notice them, nhs england is rolling out these cameras to all ten of its ambulance trusts in the hope it'll de—escalate potentially violent situations. it's after a successful trial in london and the north east. sadly, they're needed, because our staff are being assaulted. assaults have increased dramatically over the last few years for the public on staff.

so we need to have that method of recording evidence for prosecution. and also, it's a good deterrent. if somebody sees the camera, they're less likely to actually be aggressive and assault our staff. some ambulance crews have expressed concerns about privacy, but they've been told they can choose whether to wear body cameras. services in wales and northern ireland say they're also considering introducing them, but the scottish ambulance service declined to comment. what would be your message to anyone watching, who has maybe lashed out at a worker like yourself in the past? when you see someone in uniform, you see the uniform, but there's actually like, obviously a person who's wearing it. every time a job comes down on the radio, you do think, you know, is it is it going to be another another one of those jobs, or is itjust going to be, you know, normal day to dayjob? you just you just never know. anna collinson, bbc news. new figures released by the office for national statistics shows that the number of covid deaths continued to fall in the week up to the 21st may. the number of deaths registered in the uk in the week ending 21

may 2021 was 11,214, which was 3% below the five—year average. robert cuffe is the bbc�*s head of statistics. there were about 115 deaths that mention covid on the death certificate that will that week. that week. that probably seems a bit high in the context of yesterday's story when we saw zero covid deaths recorded for the first time in the pandemic. these deaths from the office of national statistics have a broader definition and they include a suspected covid debts and also they were a fortnight ago and hopefully come in a week or two, will be coming back and seeing the numbers even lower. 1151 will be coming back and seeing the numbers even lower. 115 i have just mentioned is about the fourth lowest i think we have seen announced during the pandemic since back last september where they went below 100 briefly for one week before they started to move back up and of course, these deaths reflect where the pandemic was about one month ago in terms of infections and the fact

that deaths will keep falling hopefully for a couple of weeks is going to be different story to what will be seeing is a number of cases and infections got going into hospital because those numbers are starting to tick back up again and it's good news and we will celebrate and hopefully will get better in the future, but it doesn't mean the pandemic is over. ryanair is calling on the transport secretary to open up international travel from all eu countries in the next revision of the uk's green list on third june. the airline is urging grant shapps to abolish travel restrictions for everyone who has been fully vaccinated. a department for transport spokesperson said "testing post—arrival remains an important tool" to manage the risk of imported cases of covid—19, as well as allowing the identification of variants of concern. the health secretary, matt hancock, is among the speakers at a global summit in london, which aims to drive vaccine uptake in the fight against the covid. ministers say misinformation continues to pose one of the biggest threats to global recovery from the pandemic. it will discuss how to tackle

vaccine misinformation and amplify public health messages to improve vaccine confidence. labour has written to the political watchdog, the electoral commission, urging it to investigate two donations made to the conservative party from companies which had ceased to exist. the payments were brought to light by the website, business insider. the donations were made to the party in november 2019 and june 2017 by two separate companies. the conservative party said donations were "properly and transparently declared to the electoral commission". six people have been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a 14—year—old boy in birmingham on monday. the suspects include four men in their 30s, as well as two males aged 13 and 1a. a postmortem examination revealed the victim, who has not yet been formally identified, died from a stab wound to the chest. a 19—year—old man from singapore has pleaded guilty to sending online death threats to the brighton

footballer neal maupay. derek ng de ren was arrested after the instagram posts were traced back to singapore by the premier league. he has been convicted of four counts of harassment. our correspondent nick marsh sent this update from outside the court. the premier league said it hoped today's ruling would serve as a powerful deterrent to would—be abusers no matter where they are in the world. they thanked the singaporean authorities, as did neal maupay and brighton and hove albion, in securing this landmark conviction 7,000 miles away and the first of its kind outside of the uk. now derek ng,19 years old, pleaded guilty, as expected, today in court to sending these explicit death threats to neal maupay. he'll be sentenced next month and he can expect to receive a hefty fine of up to £10,000. he may also receive a jail term of up to two years. now, we all know how much abuse

is levelled at players on a daily basis from within the uk, but given football's global appeal, it's also clear that an awful lot comes from outside the domestic borders too. this is where things get tricky because the footballing authorities then need to enlist the help of foreign law enforcement agencies. they need police forces around the world to start investing their time, their effort and their resources into securing convictions like this. now today, they will argue that what's happened in singapore can serve as a bit of a watershed moment. they think it will be a sort of template in ensuring that online abuse, no matter where it happens in the world, can be tackled and people can be brought to justice. nick marsh, bbc news, singapore. opposition parties in israel have until midnight to form a new government that would end prime minister benjamin netanyahu's 12 years in power. israeli centrists say there there are still plenty of obstacles. but their chances of success

were given a big boost when the right wing yamina party said it would join a proposed coaltion — with ultra—nationalist naftali bennett standing as prime minister for two years before handing over to the centrists. failure to reach a coalition deal would likely lead to another election. and in the last few minutes, politicians have voted isaac herzog to be the new president of israel — a largely ceremonial position. earlier my colleague annita mcveigh spoke to the chief political correspondent for the jerusalem post, gil hoffman — and he told us if he think prime minister netenyahu can cling onto power. i can't think of any other rabbit that netanyahu could pull out of his hat. as you mentioned, midnight tonight is the deadline for the opposition to form a government. the remaining differences are very small and irrelevant and i don't see anything standing in the way any more of replacing netanyahu. but if a deal, as we mentioned in the introduction, to form a coalition government can't

be worked out, israel could be facing its fifth election in two years. do you think this deal between someone who describes himself as more right wing than benjamin netanyahu and a centrist has got legs? can it provide some sort of stability in government? so first, to clarify, if no agreement is reached by tonight, there will be a 21—day period in which any member of parliament can form a government and there are a number of different scenarios that would come into play before an election would be initiated, and as a political correspondent who's worked very hard over the last two years, i would add, god forbid. now, regarding the second part of your question, look, it is netanyahu who is this glue that brings together the centre, the left and the right in an effort to oust him and he's not going anywhere. he will remain the leader of the likud party, the leader of the opposition, the leader of the israeli right. and he will then, as long as he's on the sidelines,

keep them together and keep them in power, really. regarding whether naftali bennett, because he's right wing, would not be able to accomplish anything, this will be a government that will focus on other things, not on the israeli—palestinian conflict. it's going to focus on the economy like normal countries, on recovering from the pandemic and then recovering from a long period of divisiveness inside israel. that brings the right and the left and the centre together. you say if there is a unity government, it's not going to be focusing on talking about the israeli—palestinian conflict. does that mean, do we take from what you are saying, that there wouldn't be a big shift in policy there? no, i don't think there would be any policy there, to be honest, because naftali bennett, as you mentioned, is further to the right than netanyahu. well, he's not going to get to annex any land in the what you call judean sumeria, the biblical terms of the west bank. and the politicians from the israeli left that will be part

of the government, they're not going to get to evacuate any part of that land in the west bank as they would like to. and anyway, the palestinian side, theyjust cancelled their election. it was supposed to be their first election for president since january 2005. they're not exactly in a place to be negotiating with israel either, and i'm not sure the biden administration is so keen on facilitating an effort that's so unlikely to be successful anyway. in 2022, the queen will become the first british monarch to celebrate a platinum jubilee — and will have been on the throne for 70 years. it's been announced this morning that there'll be year—long platinum jubilee celebrations throughout the united kingdom, the commonwealth and around the world culminating with the platinum jubilee weekend injune — one yearfrom today — and an extended bank holiday. let's get more now from our royal correspondent nicholas witchell.

70 years on the throne is an amazing achievement. 70 years on the throne is an amazing achievement-— achievement. yes, another 'ubilee. they come — achievement. yes, another 'ubilee. they come around * achievement. yes, another 'ubilee. they come around every h achievement. yes, anotherjubilee. they come around every ten - achievement. yes, anotherjubilee. they come around every ten years | achievement. yes, anotherjubilee. i they come around every ten years and this one is marking the queen's 78 years on the throne and this little platinum jubilee weekend will be spread overfour platinum jubilee weekend will be spread over four days platinum jubilee weekend will be spread overfour days beginning one yearfrom today, so spread overfour days beginning one year from today, so on thursday the 2nd ofjune, the queen's birthday parade will take place all being well on horse guard and the first time back on horse guard since pre—pandemic times in 2019. then friday the 3rd ofjune, a service of thanksgiving for the queen's rain at st paul's cathedral, saturday the 4th st paul's cathedral, saturday the lith ofjune, the queen will attend the derby at epsom, always a highlight for her and a highlight of this weekend will take place on the evening of saturday the lith ofjune with a platinum party at the palace. this is what buckingham palace says about it. the bbc will stage a live concert from buckingham palace which will bring together some of the

world's biggest entertainment stars and they said that members of the public will be invited to apply to attend this special event and details were the palace for uk residents will be released in due course. that is in the evening of saturday the lith ofjune and on saps —— sunday the 5th ofjune, we will have a street party for a jubilee and so the big jubilee lunch will be taking place on sunday the 5th of june that is described as an opportunity to share friendship, food and fun with neighbours and then the final event of this platinum jubilee weekend on the afternoon of sunday the 5th ofjune, the platinum jubilee afternoon of sunday the 5th ofjune, the platinumjubilee pageant, described by buckingham palace is bringing together 5000 people from across the united kingdom and commonwealth against the backdrop of buckingham palace and it will combine street art, theatre, music, circus, carnival, costumes and celebrate the service that has been given by many people during her

majesty's rain. lots of fun for everyone and all starting one year from today. {lit everyone and all starting one year from today-— everyone and all starting one year from toda. , , from today. of course, she lost her husband recently, _ from today. of course, she lost her husband recently, it's— from today. of course, she lost her husband recently, it's not - from today. of course, she lost her husband recently, it's not been - from today. of course, she lost her husband recently, it's not been an l husband recently, it's not been an easy year for the royal family with the departure of harry and megan. obviously, they are looking forward to happier times next year with these celebrations. what are the signs of whether the queen is slowing down? how actively involved as she likely to be in this? i slowing down? how actively involved as she likely to be in this?— as she likely to be in this? i think she will be _ as she likely to be in this? i think she will be certainly _ as she likely to be in this? i think she will be certainly very - as she likely to be in this? i think i she will be certainly very apparent, she will he certainly very apparent, she will he certainly very apparent, she will he certainly very apparent, she will be attending most of those events or indeed all of those events that i have described but possibly not the street party lunch. but no, there has been some slowing down for several years, there has been some slowing down for severalyears, but there has been some slowing down for several years, but she is still very much engaged and certainly she and the palace will be hoping that this, as is customarily the case, be an opportunity for people across the united kingdom to show their continued commitment to and regard and affection for this particular

monarch, despite as you say, the difficulties and the fact that she lost her husband some weeks ago. but i think she isjust by lost her husband some weeks ago. but i think she is just by instinct, lost her husband some weeks ago. but i think she isjust by instinct, she will be very forward looking and she will be very forward looking and she will regard this as an opportunity for herself, for her family and indeed for the wider community to have a bit of a celebration. thanks, nick. have a bit of a celebration. thanks, nick- let's — have a bit of a celebration. thanks, nick. let's take _ have a bit of a celebration. thanks, nick. let's take you _ have a bit of a celebration. thanks, nick. let's take you to _ have a bit of a celebration. thanks, nick. let's take you to downing - nick. let's take you to downing street. talks are being held ahead of the visit from the foreign secretary who has called on nato to work together to tackle the threat of hostile states like russia. he is there and later on after the meeting, we are expecting, we are expecting to see pictures of the prime minister with... at the, they are right there. i was busy looking

down and not at the screen. but there you go, but as the meeting. they're going to go inside, have the talks and later we'll be hearing separately from boris johnson as talks and later we'll be hearing separately from borisjohnson as he will be talking with the 21st of june and unlocking, or otherwise of the lockdown and we want to get a definitive answer from him today but we will obviously get one of the down state street thinking the run. let's catch up with the weather. hello again. for many of us it will feel warmer than it did yesterday and is one of the sunshine we have thundery showers mainly in the south of the country and some of those could well be heavy, courtesy of this area of low pressure. it's also dragging in some warmer air and also today there is a noticeable breeze. we still have low cloud hugging the coastline of eastern scotland and north—eastern england and if anything, we will see more of that through the day and a weather front moves from the south with showers, possibly as far east of the south east of england.

in between a lot of dry weather, it will be clouding over in northern ireland with top temperatures of 23 and even to 27 and possibly more in the south—east. through this evening and overnight, of this band of rain continues to move northwards losing its intensity and it is going to be a cloudy night ahead and as a result, it's not going to be a cold one. these are the overnight lows for many of us, they're actually staying in double figures. hello this is bbc news with joanna gosling. the headlines: more than a billion pounds for catch—up tuition for pupils in england, but headteachers say it's a fraction of what's needed. the education secretary denies he's trying to do it on the cheap. we're looking at the interventions that we can actually deliver today, make sure that we're able to get the money on the table out to schools in order to support them, in order to be able to help our children while they're in school straightaway.

what we're talking about is how do we use that money well? and i would say that investing in our children and young people and their futures must be our country's top priority. new figures show covid—related deaths in england and wales fell to the lowest number since the week ending september 11. as israel votes in a new president — opposition parties say they're finalising plans for a new government that would remove the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, from office. a 19—year—old man from singapore has pleaded guilty to sending online death threats to the brighton footballer neal maupay. what are you going to do? run us over? no, i'm not going to move. a group of residents in oxford trying to enforce restrictions on cars by becoming human traffic bollards. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's chetan. good morning.

we'll start at lords, where the first test between england and new zealand has just got underway. james bracey and ollie robinson are making their debuts. it's the first time england are playing in front of a home crowd since 2019 because of the pandemic. the lord's capacity has been capped at 25%, meaning about 7,500 fans can be in attendance each day for the first international cricket of the summer. this is the first of two tests. new zealand won the toss and chose to bat. opener devon conway making his debut for the tourists, who with just over half an hour play are 29 for 0. jack leach dropped by england, no spinners included. no early wickets so far. gareth southgate says that not reaching the semi—finals of this summer's euros would be a failure. it's ahead of england's warm—up match against austria tonight. the 26—man squad was announced yesterday, which has four right—backs in it, including trent alexander arnold.

southgate says speculation that the liverpool player would miss out was way off the mark: again we're having to speak to trent last night to say, look, don't know where this is all coming from. it's nonsense. because people thenjump on it and say i've got an agenda or i don't like the kid. it is an incredible situation, really but, as i say, not bothered about it from my own point of view, but i do always think about the players. england host austria in middlesbrough tonight, wales face france, whilst scotland's game against the netherlands has been hampered by covid problems for both teams. midfielderjohn fleck is self—isolating after a positive test. the rest of the scotland squad came back negative. and the dutch have dropped goalkeeperjasper cillessen, saying he won't have enough time to get 100% fit after he also contracted coronavirus. a 19—year—old man from singapore has been found guilty of sending online death threats to the brighton footballer neal maupay.

in what's thought to be a landmark case, derek ng de ren was arrested after his instagram posts were traced by the premier league's online abuse reporting system. ng de ren has been convicted of four counts of harassment and will be sentenced on the 7th ofjuly. premier league chief executive richard masters said they hoped it would send a strong message of deterrence. the organisers of the tennis grand slams have pledged to work with players, the media and the tennis community to create what they call "meaningful improvements" after naomi osaka's withdrawal from the french open to preserve her mental health. the world number two said she didn't want to do post—match press conferences because of anxiety. venus williams, who lost in the first round, has been telling us how she deals with the pressures of facing the press. for me personally, how i cope, how i deal with it was that i know every single person that asked me a question can't play as well as i can and never will. so no matter what you say or what you write, you'll never

light a candle to me. so that's how i deal with it. but each person deals with it differently. some rugby league news to bring you this morning — leigh centurions' head coach john duffy has left the club after an eight—game losing run in the 2021 super league. duffy had been in charge since november 2018. his final game was the 40—16 defeat at hull kr on sunday. the british diving team for this summer's olympics has been announced in the last half hour. torn daley will be looking to finally add olympic gold to the world, european and commonwealth titles he's won in the past, as well as bronze at london 2012 and at rio fours years ago. the team also includes defending olympic champion jack laugher and dan goodfellow. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website.

including day one of that test between england and new zealand at lord's, new zealand at 29 without a loss early on in that one. i will be back with you in the next hour. i love that clip of venus williams. _ the next hour. i love that clip of venus williams. brilliant. - let's get more on the department for education's announcement of an extra £1.11 billion to help children in england catch up with learning they've missed during the pandemic. most of the money will pay for six million tutoring courses for disadvantaged pupils. the bbc has learned that a more expensive and ambitious plan was rejected by the treasury — and teachers' leaders say the settlement is "hugely disappointing". headteachers have said it's not enough. the chair of the education select committee, robert halfon, welcomes the money that has been pledged. i hope very much that this is the hefty starter from the government rather than the main course, because we do need a long—term plan for education properly resourced. i strongly believe in extra school

days, notjust foracademic catch—up, but for mental health, sporting activities and school supported by civil society. we need to look at the curriculum, especially post—16 to have more vocational education. and we need reform of the pupil premium as well to make sure that the long—term disadvantaged are helped most of all. i absolutely believe in a proper long—term plan for education to deal with the awful way that children will be left behind because most of them were not at school to look at reducing the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and others to ensure good outcomes for all our pupils. and yes, that has to be properly financed. i hope details come later in the year. i will continue to push for this. we do need radical solutions like longer, longer school days. but £3 billion is not to be, especially in the current climate enough.

hundreds of millions of hours of extra tuition is not to be sniffed out and will go some way, not all, but some way to help disadvantaged pupils. we're going to return now to the news that paramedics in england are to be offered body worn cameras as part of a plan to reduce attacks on nhs staff. medics can press a button to start recording if patients became aggressive or abusive. in 2017, neil vann was attacked while trying to treat a patient. he was knocked unconscious and off work for four weeks. he told us about the lasting impact the attack had had and what difference bodycams could make for emergency staff. you come back and you're scanning the room and surroundings far more, you're looking over your shoulder farmer, far more than should. my focus should be on the patient and the patient alone but you do find yourself thinking about the event and could this be again? it starts to make your consciousness and lately so you have to keep that focus on. from our perspective, people know they're being filmed, they're less likely to attack us, but also from a person protects effective, i would not have to keep reliving that event by repeating it to the police, the solicitors, the courts, we could havejust

to the police, the solicitors, the courts, we could have just handed to the police, the solicitors, the courts, we could havejust handed in the evidence and that would have shown everything that occurred. that was neil vann. _ we're joined now by richard webber, of the college of paramedics — the professional body for paramedics in the uk. it seems unbelievable that someone would hurt someone who is trying to help them, what is going on here? it help them, what is going on here? it is completely unacceptable what is happening for supper many of the people who assault paramedics and nhs staff are often under the influence of drink or drugs. obviously, completely unacceptable, but many of the cases happen in cases such as that or people have suffered mental health issues or have other illnesses that make them are not fully aware of what is going on around them. find are not fully aware of what is going on around them.— are not fully aware of what is going on around them. and so, 3.5 thousand attacks in one — on around them. and so, 3.5 thousand attacks in one year. _ on around them. and so, 3.5 thousand

attacks in one year. that _ on around them. and so, 3.5 thousand attacks in one year. that has _ on around them. and so, 3.5 thousand attacks in one year. that has a - on around them. and so, 3.5 thousand attacks in one year. that has a lot - attacks in one year. that has a lot of people who are getting traumatised on the job at this. do do think cameras are a good solution? i do think cameras are a good solution?— do think cameras are a good solution? ,, . , . , solution? i think cam is a very, very helpful — solution? i think cam is a very, very helpful in _ solution? i think cam is a very, very helpful in gathering - solution? i think cam is a very, very helpful in gathering the i very helpful in gathering the evidence. obviously, what neal went through as horrendous —— cameras are very, very helpful in gathering evidence. and then he had to go to court and give evidence but cameras are very helpful because they provide a complains of set of what exactly happened, does not open to interpretation, the camera can be shown in court and therefore, it saves the paramedic ambulance staff member having to through the exact explanation again and putting them through the trauma of what happened. we have not seen evidence that it will reduce assaults, and as you said, the assaults have gone up many times in the last five years. it is completely unacceptable. the other thing we would push for is a stronger deterrence, so often we find people go to court and then end “p find people go to court and then end up with —— don't end up a particular strong sentences and we would ask that the guidelines are reviewed, but rarely do we see people who see

the full sentence. haifa but rarely do we see people who see the full sentence.— but rarely do we see people who see the full sentence. how many cases do actually end — the full sentence. how many cases do actually end up _ the full sentence. how many cases do actually end up going _ the full sentence. how many cases do actually end up going to _ the full sentence. how many cases do actually end up going to court? - the full sentence. how many cases do actually end up going to court? i - actually end up going to court? i did not have the exact figures, you need to speak to the ambulance services individually to get those figures, but by all means, not all of them go to court and of those who do go to court, we have seen some cases where some quite significant assaults, staff have been off work for some time and any member of the public has assaulted them as a not received what we would think is an adequate sentence as a result. in adequate sentence as a result. in terms of deterrent, as you say, it is not clear at this point how much of it hadn't effectively cameras would have. i there other —— a deterrent effect of the cameras would have thought there other things you with think would be a good protection for the staff and a deterrent? . . deterrent? one thing is a de-escalation _ deterrent? one thing is a de-escalation training - deterrent? one thing is a de-escalation training so | deterrent? one thing is a - de-escalation training so training de—escalation training so training paramedics to recognise the signs, been able to diffuse difficult situations. there are clearly some situations. there are clearly some situations it is hard to diffuse, but sometimes talking a person down. also, we have quite a number of staff who work on their own and

where staff work together, your colour can keep an eye out for yourself, but it is becoming increasingly common that staff are being assaulted —— your colleague can keep an eye on you. we have had to start her spat on, threatened and it is unacceptable and we would ask this does not happen friends are people who see this, intervene and stop what is happening. what people who see this, intervene and stop what is happening.— people who see this, intervene and stop what is happening. what is the situation with _ stop what is happening. what is the situation with paramedic— situation with paramedic recruitment? i do not know where things like this have an impact on whether people want to stay in the service, whether they want to go when? being a paramedic is an immensely rewarding job, you help people at an immense time of need, and it is a very, very rewarding job. and it is a very, very rewarding 'ob. �* , , , and it is a very, very rewarding job. assaults, while they happen or not job. assaults, while they happen or rrot perhaps — job. assaults, while they happen or rrot perhaps as _ job. assaults, while they happen or not perhaps as common _ job. assaults, while they happen or not perhaps as common as - job. assaults, while they happen or not perhaps as common as they - job. assaults, while they happen or| not perhaps as common as they may seem to be. it is not an everyday occurrence, it does happen occasionally. it is completely unacceptable and i think that does make people worry about the job and a look to move into other

alternative appointments, but i am not sure it will put people off. it is a very rewarding job at —— other employment. is a very rewarding 'ob at -- other employment._ is a very rewarding 'ob at -- other emlo ment. ., ., . ,, employment. you said it has happened to ou, employment. you said it has happened to you. what — employment. you said it has happened to you, what happened _ employment. you said it has happened to you, what happened to _ employment. you said it has happened to you, what happened to you? - employment. you said it has happened to you, what happened to you? it - employment. you said it has happened to you, what happened to you? it has l to you, what happened to you? it has ha--ened to you, what happened to you? it has happened in — to you, what happened to you? it has happened in two _ to you, what happened to you? it has happened in two cases, _ to you, what happened to you? it u—s happened in two cases, usually inside centre drink or drugs, one was a mental health patient who lunged at me. —— under the influence of drink or drugs. no lasting damage or injury? no, i was a bit sore but a couple of days but i got up to carry on. we are there to help patients and that is what ourjob is. patients and that is what our 'ob is. . ~' , ., , patients and that is what our 'ob is. . ,, , ., , . the headlines on bbc news... more than a billion pounds for catch—up tuition for pupils in england, but headteachers say it's a fraction of what's needed. as israel votes in a new president, opposition parties say they're finalising plans for a new government that would remove the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, from office. new figures show covid—related deaths in england and wales fell to the lowest number since the week

ending september 11. there are concerns that medical training resources are failing patients with black and brown skin. until recently, medical handbooks published as recently as 2014 only featured 3% of images showing conditions on the skin of black and ethnic minority people. this failing has left medical staff unable to diagnose common skin conditions on darker skin, which can sometimes have serious medical consequences. breejohnson reports. and i invisible? this may sound ridiculous but try searching online for a simple skin conditions like acne eczema. for a simple skin conditions like acne eczema-— for a simple skin conditions like acne eczema. �* y ., ., , acne eczema. and you will not see skin like mine. _ acne eczema. and you will not see skin like mine. i— acne eczema. and you will not see skin like mine. i woke _ acne eczema. and you will not see skin like mine. i woke up - acne eczema. and you will not see skin like mine. i woke up with - acne eczema. and you will not see skin like mine. i woke up with a i skin like mine. i woke up with a skin like mine. i woke up with a skin condition that even my doctor

could not explain. it made me wonder, as my skin not important? there is last year, i was struck by a one in three mortality rate syndrome that kills one in three people. i had been prescribed medication following my wisdom tooth extraction and now started flailing up extraction and now started flailing up with what i can only describe as a horrific reaction. this is what i looks like on day one. the following date got significantly worse. oh, my goodness. and here, just a day after... anne sub spread across your face, more passes coming from your lips. face, more passes coming from your li s. �* ., face, more passes coming from your lis. �* ., . , . ., lips. and how many times had you been to hospital? _ lips. and how many times had you been to hospital? they _ lips. and how many times had you been to hospital? they said - lips. and how many times had you been to hospital? they said my i been to hospital? they said my symptoms _ been to hospital? they said my symptoms didn't _ been to hospital? they said my symptoms didn't look - been to hospital? they said my symptoms didn't look as - been to hospital? they said my| symptoms didn't look as severe been to hospital? they said my i symptoms didn't look as severe to them, i went twice. they did not even take my medical history. it was almost like i had to fight for my needs and for my pain. as soon as i step through those a&e doors, my body just gave step through those a&e doors, my bodyjust gave up and they had to

resuscitate me. it was only when i went to this third hospital where there was a consultant who looks like me and who can identify that their swimming, like me and who can identify that theirswimming, eh, she is in like me and who can identify that their swimming, eh, she is in severe pain, but this is not how she looks normally. this is where we see representation matters. i think back and i am... i don't know... i guess ifeel and i am... i don't know... i guess i feel failed. and i am... i don't know... i guess ifeel failed. and i think i also remember the fact that it is not just me, there is a history of women who have been turned awayjust because it does not look like what they recognise, does not look like what they have seen before. if any curriculum does not account for what certain diseases that look like on dark skin, then any fault is not even with them, the fault lies in the fact that they have not been told, they have not been shown. some are definitely — told, they have not been shown. some are definitely taking _ told, they have not been shown. some are definitely taking initiative is malone. hello, how are you? during his second year of university, he created the mind the gap handbook,

the first of its kind. it shows a variety of conditions on a non—white skin. it variety of conditions on a non-white skin. . variety of conditions on a non-white skin. , ., , , _ skin. it is now being used by the northeast ambulance _ skin. it is now being used by the northeast ambulance service, i skin. it is now being used by the i northeast ambulance service, the london _ northeast ambulance service, the london ambulance service. it is being _ london ambulance service. it is being used in some gp practices. it is starting — being used in some gp practices. it is starting to reship anywhere medical— is starting to reship anywhere medical education is been taught, any work— medical education is been taught, any work that we bridges is aiming to help _ any work that we bridges is aiming to help and potentially even to prolong — to help and potentially even to prolong people's lives. in to help and potentially even to prolong people's lives.- prolong people's lives. in the british association _ prolong people's lives. in the british association of - british association of dermatologists was petitioned by over 5000 people in 2020 asking for an increase in diversity in training materials. we an increase in diversity in training materials. ~ , . materials. we very much welcome the etition materials. we very much welcome the petition which — materials. we very much welcome the petition which we _ materials. we very much welcome the petition which we felt _ materials. we very much welcome the petition which we felt it _ materials. we very much welcome the petition which we felt it was _ materials. we very much welcome the petition which we felt it was a - materials. we very much welcome the petition which we felt it was a very i petition which we felt it was a very important student voice to highlight something that has already been concerning the british association of dermatologists for some time. educational leaders are needed to ensure that the diversity of patient population is embedded into all of the education material, notjust a tacked on at the end. bree the education material, not 'ust a tacked on at the end. bree johnson, bbc news.

the world's largest meat processing company has blamed a group based in russia for a sophisticated cyber—attack. computer networks atjbs were hacked, causing some operations in australia, canada and the us to temporarily shut down. a ransom was demanded. earlier we heard this update from our cyber security reporter, joe tidy. it's having a massive impact already. the company says it should get operations back up and running, but already we are seeing potential price rises already coming through. this is a massive company. of course, it's a brazilian company, but it operates in 15 different countries around the world and meat packing, meat packing production lines, slaughterhouses, they've all been affected in australia, canada. but it's the us that's mostly been been hit by this. multiple facilities seem to have shut down in the last couple of days, with staff turning up, thousands of staff with nothing to do. we don't know whether or not the attack has affected the operational technology, so the production line side

of the business. it's most likely it's affected by it. so the computer systems that are run back by the back end of the operations in order to keep things like supply auditing or customer service or the sort of payment systems going. and we saw that recently with a colonial pipeline attack on the us again, which affected fuel supplies buying. let's go to downing street where borisjohnson and at the head of nato, jens stoltenberg meeting. i nato, jens stoltenberg meeting. i had any pleasure of visiting the hms queen elizabeth off the coast of portugal last week and that is really unimpressive aircraft carrier demonstrating the commitment of the united kingdom to our common security, to our collective defence. we need that commitment because we live any more unpredictable world

with more global competition and therefore need to strengthen our alliance and that is exactly what we are going to do and i'm looking forward to welcoming you and all the other nato leaders are to our summit in brussels in two weeks' time where we will demonstrate our strength, a bold and forward—looking agenda, and demonstrate our commitment to standing together, the transatlantic bond. thank you so much.— standing together, the transatlantic bond. thank you so much. thank you, es. i bond. thank you so much. thank you, yes- i think— bond. thank you so much. thank you, yes- i think we — bond. thank you so much. thank you, yes. i think we have _ bond. thank you so much. thank you, yes. i think we have at _ bond. thank you so much. thank you, yes. i think we have at least _ bond. thank you so much. thank you, yes. i think we have at least one i yes. i think we have at least one question. yes. i think we have at least one cuestion. ~ . question. prime minister, the forei . n question. prime minister, the foreign secretary _ question. prime minister, the foreign secretary said - question. prime minister, the foreign secretary said he i question. prime minister, the i foreign secretary said he wants question. prime minister, the - foreign secretary said he wants nato allies to _ foreign secretary said he wants nato allies to stand — foreign secretary said he wants nato allies to stand up _ foreign secretary said he wants nato allies to stand up to _ foreign secretary said he wants nato allies to stand up to russia _ foreign secretary said he wants nato allies to stand up to russia and i foreign secretary said he wants nato allies to stand up to russia and its i allies to stand up to russia and its behaviour~ — allies to stand up to russia and its behaviour. what _ allies to stand up to russia and its behaviour. what are _ allies to stand up to russia and its behaviour. what are the _ allies to stand up to russia and its behaviour. what are the ideas i allies to stand up to russia and its| behaviour. what are the ideas that you will— behaviour. what are the ideas that you will be — behaviour. what are the ideas that you will be putting _ behaviour. what are the ideas that you will be putting forward - behaviour. what are the ideas that you will be putting forward on i behaviour. what are the ideas that| you will be putting forward on ways that russia — you will be putting forward on ways that russia can— you will be putting forward on ways that russia can be _ you will be putting forward on ways that russia can be confronted i that russia can be confronted without — that russia can be confronted without being _ that russia can be confronted without being provoked? i that russia can be confronted without being provoked? well, thanks. nato _ without being provoked? well, thanks. nato allies, _ without being provoked? well, thanks. nato allies, if- without being provoked? well, thanks. nato allies, if you i without being provoked? well, | thanks. nato allies, if you think about it, have been really outstanding in any way that they have come together to support, for instance, the uk over the salisbury

poisonings. you remember a lot of nato allies came together and expeued nato allies came together and expelled diplomats in sympathy with the uk for what happened. the assassination attempt, the killing in salisbury. but what we want to do is work together to protect and defend ourselves against cyber threats, against all of the kinds of intimidation that some nato members still feel on natomy eastern borders. we work together to protect against that. if you look at what has happened recently, the appalling and outrageous incident of the hijacking over belarus, i think nato members will be wanting to stand together in protest against what happened and to call for the release

of roman protasevich and his girlfriend from captivity and belarus. but stand together as part of the east is very much part of your vision 2020, isn't it question mark absolutely. bud your vision 2020, isn't it question mark absolutely.— mark absolutely. and nato 2030 a . enda, mark absolutely. and nato 2030 agenda. in _ mark absolutely. and nato 2030 agenda, in which _ mark absolutely. and nato 2030 agenda, in which we _ mark absolutely. and nato 2030 agenda, in which we are - mark absolutely. and nato 2030 agenda, in which we are going i mark absolutely. and nato 2030 j agenda, in which we are going to agree at the summit in two weeks' time, we address a wide range of challenges are where we have to work together on, for instance, resilience and protecting critical infrastructure on technology and maintaining our technology will edge any more competitive world, and strengthen our deterrents and reading ourforces, with more exercises and working closely with partners to train and build capacity because we believe that is one of the best ways to also fight international terrorism. i totally agree with body so that it is absolutely unacceptable what belarus are dead, the first landing of a

civilian air aircraft to a natal capital, athens to another nato capital, athens to another nato capital, vilnius. we want a pendant impartial investigation into wage concessions imposed by the united kingdom —— welcome sanctions. and to send a message that it has consequences when the regime is behave the way they did. i5 consequences when the regime is behave the way they did.- behave the way they did. is there an hinu behave the way they did. is there anything beyond _ behave the way they did. is there anything beyond sanctions, i behave the way they did. is there anything beyond sanctions, then, that nato— anything beyond sanctions, then, that nato can _ anything beyond sanctions, then, that nato can do? _ anything beyond sanctions, then, that nato can do? we _ anything beyond sanctions, then, that nato can do?— anything beyond sanctions, then, that nato can do? we have agreed a very strong — that nato can do? we have agreed a very strong statement _ that nato can do? we have agreed a very strong statement very - that nato can do? we have agreed a very strong statement very strongly| very strong statement very strongly condemned. i think the most important thing now is to make sure that those are sanctions that had agreed ifully that those are sanctions that had agreed i fully implemented and that those are sanctions that had agreed ifully implemented and i also know that other allies are looking to whether they can step up further. it has to be clear that when you regime like any regimen mince behaves in the way they did, violating basic international norms

and rules, we will impose costs on them and i also assure that the nato countries when they meet, this will be initially discussed. also as part of the response to a more assertive russia because this is part of the behaviour. we also see russia and belarus are working closely together. belarus are working closely together-— belarus are working closely together. belarus are working closely touether. . , . together. that is right. ok, thanks. thank ou together. that is right. ok, thanks. thank you very _ together. that is right. ok, thanks. thank you very much. _ together. that is right. ok, thanks. thank you very much. that - together. that is right. ok, thanks. thank you very much. that is i together. that is right. ok, thanks. thank you very much. that is the i thank you very much. that is the secretary general of nato meeting borisjohnson in downing street. condemning the actions of a forcing that plane to land in belarus and arresting the reporter and blogger roman protasevich. we will hear more about the easing of the lockdown if that happens from borisjohnson later. let's catch up with the weather with carol. hello again.

yesterday was the warmest day of this year so far, the temperature reached 26.1 celsius in cardiff. today for some, it could be even warmer still. but we've got some thundery showers, mainly in southern areas as we go through the course of today. and it's courtesy of this area of low pressure, bringing them in, moving northwards and eastwards and as well as that, it's also bringing in some warmer air. a noticeable breeze today as well, more or less wherever you are. we have some cloud across the coastline of north—east england and eastern scotland, and if anything, we can report more of that across the course of today. as the showers push inwards, getting into wales, midlands, possibly clipping the south—east of england as well. in between, there will be some sunshine, but clouding over in northern ireland. top temperatures, 27 in the south—east, possibly a little bit more, but widely, we are looking at the low to the mid 20s. through this evening and overnight, our weather front continues through northern ireland, wales into northern england, eventually into southern scotland and we see more cloud coming in from the north, more cloud generally, so it's not going to be a cold night. most of us staying in double figures. so we start off on a cloudy note through the course of tomorrow, but you'll find that the cloud

will start to break up and more sunshine will develop. at the same time, our weather front pushes north, taking its rain with it, but this rain attending to peter out. we could see a few showers just clipping the south of england. temperatures tomorrow, not as high for most of us as today, but still more or less round about where they should be or slightly above. we are looking at 2a, 25 in the south—east. now, through thursday night and into friday, we've got this ridge of high pressure building across us. a weather front trying to come in from the west. so we start with just a couple of showers moving away from the east first thing in the morning, then a lot of dry weather, a fair bit of sunshine around, cloud building ahead of the weather front in the west. we can see some spots of rain getting into the west of northern ireland and the north of scotland later on. temperatures by then 12 to about 22. so more or less where they should be. and then as we head on through friday and into saturday and sunday, our weather front crosses us, bringing some spots of rain with it

and on sunday a little ridge of high pressure builds, so the weather for the weekend is more changeable in that at times there will be some cloud, we could see some spots of rain moving across on saturday. there will be some sunshine too.

this is bbc news. the headlines: more than £1 billion for catch—up tuition for pupils in england, but headteachers say it's a fraction of what's needed. the education secretary denies he's trying to do it on the cheap. we're looking at the interventions that we can actually deliver today, make sure that we're able to get the money on the table out to schools in order to support them, in order to be able to help our children while they're in school straightaway. what we're talking about is how do we use that money well? and i would say that investing in our children and young people and their futures must be our country's top priority. are you a teacher, parent or student? what would you like to see to help catch up on lost learning? and would you be in favour of the idea of a longer school day? send us in your thoughts —

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good afternoon. an extra £1.11 billion of funding has been announced to help pupils in england whose education has been disrupted during the pandemic. the recovery plan, in addition to the £1.7 billion already announced, will include £1 billion for tutoring and £250 million for teacher training and development. borisjohnson said the aim is to "support children who have fallen behind." labour's education secretary kate green said plans don't go far enough and make "a mockery of the prime minister's claim that education is a priority". it's also been criticised by teaching unions who have said the proposals are a "damp squib" and "hugely disappointing". the amount announced is lower than had been previously suggested —

with the education policy institute calculating a recovery plan would cost £13.5bn. our education correspondent, elaine dunkley has this report. this is our reception children here. there's all sorts going on. this is ash green community primary in halifax. how are we doing? some of the children have missed nearly a year of in—school learning. we're re—going over things that they did in reception and in year one. so, simple things like holding your pencil correctly. got a nice firm grip, i point with my finger... the past few months have been about catching up in the classroom. yes, it's my handwriting, because i hadn't done that much since lockdown, and it's gone a bit different since. i've been at home for such a long time, and i've got quite used to being at home. and when you came back to school, i bet you were a bit tired, weren't you, doing all these activities? yeah. tell me what that was like?

yeah, as soon as i went home, i was pretty much asleep. some of the children are struggling with concentration and confidence. they now work in smaller groups, so teachers can identify any issues. a lot of them stopped believing in themselves. they've not had the basic skills that they needed to. for example, my class in year three, they've not had the year two knowledge that they need to succeed in year three. so they've gone further behind than what we thought they would have. there are lots of additional activities to help children learn and play, but there are even bigger challenges. it's important that when you go home, you feel relaxed and comfortable, and that they can talk to you, you can talk to them. yeah? the school has a full time social worker. since children started returning to the classroom, his caseload has doubled. the children are coming in and they're disclosing arguments, fights, parents, carers, physical abusing them, emotionally abusing them. during lockdown, you know, it was a doorstep visit,

or i asked to see the children from the living room window, or if they could bring them to the door. but that only goes so far. you know, you can't see physical bruises. any additional funding this school gets will be used to provide extra support. it's the second morning that she said she had no tea last night. here, they want more money for an additional social worker. today, the government in england is announcing £1.11 billion for tuition and teacher training. future government proposals could also include longer days. but this headteacher says schools need to be given the flexibility, and more funding, to decide on what is best for them. if you don't put that time in to think, ok, i want that child to be brilliant in maths, but before i do, i've got to make sure his family is ok, i've got to make sure that he's ok emotionally, if you don't see all of that, then you're not going to get anywhere with these children. what you're going to end up with is people at the end of it who are going to say, "do you know what?

did we actually give the best for these children?" well, we did the best that we could do with the means that we had, but the means we had weren't enough. 51 — what would 51 divided by 100 be? catching up won't be quick or easy. for schools like this one, at the heart of a community, there is a long road to recovery. elaine dunkley, bbc news, in halifax. speaking to the bbc earlier, the education secretary gavin williamson justified the spending in the face of criticism that it doesn't go far enough. i didn't and i don't think the prime minister or the chancellor did either, wanted to be in a situation where we were waiting for a comprehensive spending review to get money out of the door in order to be able to have a positive impact in terms of children's lives and that's why we've done this quite unprecedented intervention outside of a spending period where we are actually getting an extra £1.11 billion out in order to drive this tutoring programme and teacher quality programme forward. meanwhile labour have

outlined their plans for investment in education — the shadow education secretary kate green said young people must be seen as a priority. there should be a range of measures and a package of support for children and young people. yes, more time for small group tutoring and for catching up on lost learning but children can't learn well if they are worried, if they are anxious, if they are not having time to play and develop, so we are also suggesting support for extracurricular activities, play, drama, art and so on, and of course in putting in mental health support in schools so that if children are struggling with their well—being, there is someone on hand to help them. our correspondent sean dilley is outside a school in stevenage in hertfordshire this morning. the idea being suggested was 13.5 billion, it is 1.2 billion, adding on to 1.7 already announced. how will this be distributed and spent?

the majority of it is going to be earmarked over a three—year period to help with tutoring for the most disadvantaged pupils. we still need more clarity on who the most disadvantaged pupils are. there have been interesting debates on that in the past. you refer to the education policy institute to say that £13.5 billion by their calculations was close to what was needed. they didn't their argument is predicated on the fact that they say primary school pupils have lost two months of learning in reading, by their calculation, and three months in maths. it is also important to point out the institute for fiscal studies have done their studies, they found they possibly lost 5% of their entire school pro career. there were more omissions too ambitious plans

to spend ten —— there were more ambitious plans to spend £10 million but that has been rejected. gavin williamson was speaking to the bbc earlier today, williamson was speaking to the bbc earliertoday, he williamson was speaking to the bbc earlier today, he says this will have a real direct impact on pupils and £250 million is to be earmarked for teacher training and development.— for teacher training and development. for teacher training and develoment. ~ , ., development. when should we get clari on development. when should we get clarity on exactly — development. when should we get clarity on exactly how— development. when should we get clarity on exactly how it _ development. when should we get clarity on exactly how it is - development. when should we get clarity on exactly how it is going i clarity on exactly how it is going to be divvied up? i spoke to a head teacher earlier saying it is really important they need to know what they are going to get and what they can use it for. they are going to get and what they can use it for-— can use it for. indeed. i've been importing _ can use it for. indeed. i've been importing around _ can use it for. indeed. i've been importing around politics - can use it for. indeed. i've been importing around politics for- can use it for. indeed. i've been i importing around politics for many years now and i think the biggest known in the political sphere as you never quite know. there is a lot of pressure from head teachers and the union who have described it as a damp squib. there are details they say they need to iron out but of course all delivery of government policy is that has its foundations in how much money is available. the

answer to that is we don't know entirely by the government is saying they will continue to look at this and continue to look at measures including extended school days and we can expect more information in the autumn budget later this year. thank you very much. i'm nowjoined by dame alison peacock, who is the chief executive of the chartered college of teaching and trustee of teach first. welcome. thank you forjoining us. what do you think about these plans that have been outlined? i what do you think about these plans that have been outlined?— that have been outlined? i think the are that have been outlined? i think they are very — that have been outlined? i think they are very disappointing. i they are very disappointing. obviously schools need the resources to make the difference for our children and our teachers have worked tirelessly for months and months on end, our young people have suffered from not being able to be with their friends, suffered from not being able to be with theirfriends, not suffered from not being able to be with their friends, not being suffered from not being able to be with theirfriends, not being in suffered from not being able to be with their friends, not being in the community of school, and there is a real need to rev up the engines, there is a need to bring back the arts, the dance, the drama, the sport and of course support the academic attainment and we can't do

this without the resources. it is a very disappointing offer, i think. the education secretary was saying this morning it's not necessarily it, the conversations will continue, there will be the spending review in there will be the spending review in the autumn. but as things stand, that gap between the 13.5 billion that gap between the 13.5 billion that had been identified as being needed to get kids back to where they should be versus 3 billion that has been found in total so far, what does that gap look like? how can we measure it? what did they want to offer and what will be offered? 50 offer and what will be offered? ’ir someone offer and what will be offered? 5r someone who has been working free of charge for the government as their recoveries are, they were very clear that we need to make sure that we looked at all aspects of education, the full breadth. we know mental health is more fragile than it has ever been, young people are frustrated by all of these no

decisions and trailing in the press and then something else happens, young people themselves are saying they want to be given clear answers about what to expect next. it will be very interesting to see what the children's commissioner, the work she is doing at the moment, she has been touring the country asking children what they think and what would help them. it is really important that we listen because young people's voices were really muted during the pandemic. we are at the point now where we are back in school, school are still not normal, of course, but as school begins to become more normal, hopefully bubbles will be removed in the near future, we want young people to rediscover the joy of learning and the joy of being rediscover the joy of learning and thejoy of being in rediscover the joy of learning and the joy of being in school. essentially these resources were kind of promise to us, albeit without a figure attached to them, as a way of saying, look, we are going to build our schools back better than they were before and this feels quite disappointing. hopi

this feels quite disappointing. how cuickl this feels quite disappointing. how quickly would _ this feels quite disappointing. how quickly would you expect the money to start flowing through? time is of the essence. they need to catch up from what they have lost before but meanwhile, as you say, school still aren't fully back to normal and next year will start and presumably, as things stand, the curriculum for next year will just be things stand, the curriculum for next year willjust be back things stand, the curriculum for next year will just be back to normal with exams back to normal. will kids be ready for that? lital’eii. will kids be ready for that? well, in terms of _ will kids be ready for that? well, in terms of the _ will kids be ready for that? well, in terms of the money _ will kids be ready for that? well, in terms of the money flowing, i | in terms of the money flowing, i think the reality is the funding for teacher learning, that won't come to schools, that will be to do with national programmes. the funding for early years teachers which is speech and language, that will be to do with the research programme which is about improving teacher's capacity to extend children's language skills, so that won't be seen as cash in schools. the money for tutoring will be for schools to allocate to the service that is providing the tutoring. so actually there are a lot of strings around

all of this. i guess that starts to come on stream from september. the impact of 15 hours funding, which is what we are talking about, for our so—called disadvantaged youngsters, 15 hours of tuition. when we see headlines of millions of hours, that translates to approximately £50 per child and 15 hours of tutoring which sounds a bit different, really, doesn't it? do sounds a bit different, really, doesn't it?— sounds a bit different, really, doesn't it? ,, ~ , doesn't it? do you think kids will be back up _ doesn't it? do you think kids will be back up to — doesn't it? do you think kids will be back up to speed _ doesn't it? do you think kids will be back up to speed enough i doesn't it? do you think kids will be back up to speed enough for. be back up to speed enough for everything to go ahead as normal next year in terms of scheduled exams? ~ ., ,, ., , . . , exams? well, who knows about exams. of: ual have exams? well, who knows about exams. quual have signalled _ exams? well, who knows about exams. quual have signalled that _ exams? well, who knows about exams. quual have signalled that exams i quual have signalled that exams will run next year. everything depends on the progress of the pandemic. ouryoungsters depends on the progress of the pandemic. our youngsters have come back into school ready to learn, excited to be back. it is variable, so we are hearing of some youngsters finding it difficult to concentrate, self regulate, but they are certainly keen to be back with their

friends and be back in school. our teachers are incredibly expert at tailoring their provision to enable our youngsters to do the best they possibly can. i would hope, our youngsters to do the best they possibly can. iwould hope, i our youngsters to do the best they possibly can. i would hope, i think everybody in education would hope, that september would be an academic year that means that we feel we can open our schools fully and remove bubbles and do all of the things beyond the school day that we always do, the drama productions, the sport, everything else we always do, but we must be aware the teaching profession is under a tremendous amount of pressure and has been for many, many months. we have been trying really hard to do everything to the best of our capacity to support our young people, our staff, our communities, and this does feel a bit of a disappointing judgment today. a bit of a disappointing 'udgment toda . . ~ a bit of a disappointing 'udgment toda . . ,, i. a bit of a disappointing 'udgment toda . . ~' ,, , a bit of a disappointing 'udgment toda. . , . the headlines on bbc news... more than a—billion pounds for catch—up tuition for pupils in england, but headteachers say it's a fraction of what's needed. new figures show covid—related

deaths in england and wales fell to the lowest number since the week ending september 11. borisjohnson and nato secretary general strongly condemened belarus over the enforced landing of a ryanair flight before the arrest of journalist roman protcevich. it sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's chetan. will start at lord's where the first test has got under way. it is the first time england are playing in front of a home crowd since 2018. fans can be attendance each day for the first of the summer. i fans can be attendance each day for the first of the summer.— the first of the summer. i was so excited last _ the first of the summer. i was so excited last night, _ the first of the summer. i was so excited last night, i— the first of the summer. i was so excited last night, i couldn't i excited last night, i couldn't sleep. ifeel so lucky excited last night, i couldn't sleep. i feel so lucky to be excited last night, i couldn't sleep. ifeel so lucky to be here. just to be able to cheer them on as they come — just to be able to cheer them on as they come out and watch a few

wickets — they come out and watch a few wickets. �* . they come out and watch a few wickets. �* , ., ., . wickets. it's quite emotional. the trum ets wickets. it's quite emotional. the trumpets were — wickets. it's quite emotional. the trumpets were playing _ wickets. it's quite emotional. the trumpets were playing jerusalem | wickets. it's quite emotional. the i trumpets were playing jerusalem and it brought _ trumpets were playing jerusalem and it brought it— trumpets were playing jerusalem and it brought it home _ trumpets were playing jerusalem and it brought it home to— trumpets were playing jerusalem and it brought it home to me _ trumpets were playing jerusalem and it brought it home to me that- trumpets were playing jerusalem and it brought it home to me that this i it brought it home to me that this is the _ it brought it home to me that this is the first— it brought it home to me that this is the first occasion _ it brought it home to me that this is the first occasion where - it brought it home to me that this is the first occasion where there i is the first occasion where there are crowds— is the first occasion where there are crowds at— is the first occasion where there are crowds at lord's _ is the first occasion where there are crowds at lord's for - is the first occasion where there are crowds at lord's for so i is the first occasion where there| are crowds at lord's for so long. is the first occasion where there i are crowds at lord's for so long. it is fantastic — are crowds at lord's for so long. it is fantastic. really _ are crowds at lord's for so long. it is fantastic. really looking - are crowds at lord's for so long. itj is fantastic. really looking forward to the _ is fantastic. really looking forward to the day — is fantastic. really looking forward to the day the _ is fantastic. really looking forward to the da . . is fantastic. really looking forward to the da . , ., ., is fantastic. really looking forward to the da. , ., ., , to the day. the first of two test. new zealand — to the day. the first of two test. new zealand won _ to the day. the first of two test. new zealand won the _ to the day. the first of two test. new zealand won the toss i to the day. the first of two test. new zealand won the toss and i to the day. the first of two test. i new zealand won the toss and chose to bat. conway making his debut for the tourists who are 57 without loss as you can see. jack leach dropped by england, no spin is included and no early wickets so far. the british diving team for the summer's olympics has been announced in the last hour. tom daley will be looking to finally add olympic gold to the world european and commonwealth titles he has won in the past, as well as bronze at london 2012 and rio four years ago. the team also includes defending olympic champion jack laure and dan good fellow.

gareth southgate says that not reaching the semifinals at this summer's euros would be a failure. that is ahead of england's warm up match against austria tonight. the 26 man squad was announced yesterday which has four right backs in it including trent alexander—arnold. speculation he would miss out was way off the mark. we speculation he would miss out was way off the mark.— speculation he would miss out was way off the mark. we are having to seak way off the mark. we are having to s - eak to way off the mark. we are having to speak to trent _ way off the mark. we are having to speak to trent last _ way off the mark. we are having to speak to trent last night _ way off the mark. we are having to speak to trent last night to - way off the mark. we are having to speak to trent last night to say - way off the mark. we are having to speak to trent last night to say i i speak to trent last night to say i don't know where this is all coming from, it is nonsense. peoplejump on it and say i have an agenda or i don't like the kid. it is an incredible situation really. as i say, not bothered about it from my own point of view but i do always think about the players.- think about the players. england host austria _ think about the players. england host austria in _ think about the players. england host austria in middlesbrough i host austria in middlesbrough tonight. wales face france. scotland's game against another land has been hampered by coronavirus problems. one positive result but

the rest of the team from scotland were negative. i9—year—old man from singapore has been found guilty of sending online death threats to the brighton footballer in what is thought to be a land mark case. instagram posts were traced and he was convicted of four counts of harassment and will be sentenced on the 7th ofjuly. it is hoped it will send a strong message of deterrence. and some rugby league news to bring you. the centurions head coach has left the club. he had been in charge since november 2018. his final game was the 40—16 defeat at hull kr on sunday. that is all your support for

now. england have taken their first wicket, new zealand are 58—1. i will have more at 1:30pm. back to you, joanna. paramedics in england will be offered body worn cameras as part of a plan to reduce attacks on nhs staff. medics can press a button to start recording if patients became aggressive or abusive. data from the nhs england showed a 32% rise in assaults compared with five years ago. anna collinson reports. i took them off you. when did i do that? from spitting, biting and verbal abuse, to kicking, headbutting and punching. those in favour of body—worn cameras say they successfully document the abuse front line workers can face. get off me. what are you touching me for? get out! last year, the supermarket, the co—op, introduced cameras following increased attacks on staff. why are you touching me? what did you touch me for? i do need to speak to you both. the cigarettes that you both chucked out of the car window.

and as you can see, things quickly turned violent here after a council officer fined two men for littering. i'm going to call the police. the two men were later convicted for assault. listen, listen. it's three years since gary watson was attacked by a patient he was trying to help. the paramedic�*s physical scars have now healed, but the painful memories are with him for life. i had quite a bad rotator cuff injury, so torn ligaments down my right shoulder, i had significant bruising to one side of my face. scratch marks, gouge marks. yeah, it's just bruises pretty much up and down my body, really, from eight minutes of violence, really. stories like gary's are unfortunately on the rise. data shows more than 3,500 ambulance workers were physically assaulted last year. that's a 32% increase over five years. but it's hoped wearing body cameras could help. at a glance, you may not even notice them, nhs england is rolling out these

cameras to all ten of its ambulance trusts in the hope it'll de—escalate potentially violent situations. it's after a successful trial in london and the north east. sadly, they're needed, because our staff are being assaulted. assaults have increased dramatically over the last few years for the public on staff. so we need to have that method of recording evidence for prosecution. and also, it's a good deterrent. if somebody sees the camera, they're less likely to actually be aggressive and assault our staff. some ambulance crews have expressed concerns about privacy, but they've been told they can choose whether to wear body cameras. services in wales and northern ireland say they're also considering introducing them, but the scottish ambulance service declined to comment. what would be your message to anyone watching, who has maybe lashed out at a worker like yourself in the past? when you see someone in uniform, you see the uniform, but there's actually like, obviously a person who's wearing it. every time a job comes down on the radio, you do think, you know, is it is it going to be

another another one of those jobs, or is itjust going to be, you know, normal day to dayjob? you just you just never know. anna collinson, bbc news. the nato secretary general, jens stoltenberg, and borisjohnson have strongly condemened belarus over the enforced landing of a ryanair flight before the arrest ofjournalist roman protcevich. the two held talks at downing street where mr stoltenberg said it was clear that russia and belarus had been working together. both leaders described belarus's actions as "absolutely unacceptable" and that sanctions were needed to send a clear message to the minsk regime. nato allies, if you think about it, have been really outstanding in the way that they have come together to support the uk over the salisbury poisonings, a lot of nato allies came together and expelled diplomats in sympathy with the uk for what happened, the assassination attempt, the killing in salisbury. what we

want to do is make sure we work together to protect ourselves against cyber threats, against all the kinds of intimidation that some nato members are still feel our own nato's eastern borders. we work together to protect against that. if you look at what has happened recently with the outrageous incident of the hijacking over belarus, i think nato members will be wanting to stand together in protest against what happened and to call for the release of roman protasevich and his girlfriend. we release of roman protasevich and his airlfriend. ~ ., ., ~ , girlfriend. we need to make sure it is fully implemented _ girlfriend. we need to make sure it is fully implemented and _

girlfriend. we need to make sure it is fully implemented and how - girlfriend. we need to make sure it is fully implemented and how we . girlfriend. we need to make sure it i is fully implemented and how we can step up— is fully implemented and how we can step up further. when a regime like the way— step up further. when a regime like the way it_ step up further. when a regime like the way it was shame in minsk behaves, _ the way it was shame in minsk behaves, violating laws and rules, we will_ behaves, violating laws and rules, we will impose costs on them and i am also _ we will impose costs on them and i am also sure — we will impose costs on them and i am also sure that nato when they meet _ am also sure that nato when they meet this— am also sure that nato when they meet this will be an issue they discuss — meet this will be an issue they discuss. as part of the response to the unacceptable behaviour of belarus — the unacceptable behaviour of belarus but also as part of their response — belarus but also as part of their response to a more assertive russia because _ response to a more assertive russia because this is part of a behaviour, we see _ because this is part of a behaviour, we see russia and belarus are working — we see russia and belarus are working closely together. new figures released by the office for national statistics shows that the number of covid deaths continued to fall — in the week up to the 21st may. the number of deaths registered in the uk in the week ending 21st may 2021 was 11,214, which was 3% below the five—year average. robert cuffe is the bbc�*s head of statistics. there were about 115 deaths that mention covid on the death certificate that were registered that week. that probably seems a bit high in the context of yesterday's story

when we saw zero covid deaths recorded in the uk for the first time in the pandemic. these deaths from the office of national statistics, they have a broader definition, they include suspected covid deaths, and also they were a fortnight ago, so hopefully in a week or two, we will be coming back and we will see the numbers even lower. the 115 ijust mentioned is around the fourth lowest, i think, we have seen announced during the pandemic since back last september where they went under 100 just very briefly for one week before they started to move back up and, of course, these deaths reflect where the pandemic was about one month ago in terms of infections and the fact that deaths will keep falling, hopefully, for a couple of weeks. it's going to be different story to what we will be seeing in the number of cases or infections or people going into hospital because those numbers are starting to tick back up again. so it's good news, we should celebrate it, hopefully it will get a little bit better in the future, but it doesn't mean the pandemic is over.

tesla is recalling almost 6,000 vehicles in the us because bolts used in the car breaking system could be loose. the electric vehicle manufacturer says vehicles fitted with the loose caliper bolts could be subject to a loss of tyre pressure. the recall covers certain 2019 to 2021 model 3 vehicles and 2020 to 2021 model y vehicles. it doesn't currently affect tesla cars in the uk. the queen will become the first british monarch to celebrate a platinum jubilee next year — marking 70 years on the throne. this morning it's been announced that there will be year—long celebrations throughout the united kingdom, the commonwealth and around the world. events will culminate with the platinum jubilee weekend injune and an extended bank holiday. our royal correspondent, nicolas witchell spoke to us about what we can expect. anotherjubilee, they come round, well, every ten years. this one, as you say, marking the queen's 70 years on the throne and this, a special platinum jubilee weekend, will be spread over four days, beginning one year from today, so on thursday the 2nd ofjune, trooping the colour, the queen's birthday parade

will take place, all being well, and horse guards, the first time it's been back in horse guards since pre—pandemic times in 2019. on friday the 3rd ofjune, a service of thanksgiving for the queen's reign at saint pol�*s cathedral. saturday the lith ofjune, the queen will attend the derby at epsom, always the highlight, of course, for her. and a highlight of this weekend will take place in the evening of saturday the lith ofjune, the platinum party at the palace. now this is what buckingham palace says about it, the bbc will stage a live concert from buckingham palace which will bring together some of the world's biggest entertainment stars." and they say that members of the public will be invited to apply to attend this special event. details of the ballot for uk residents will be released in due course. so that's on the evening of saturday the lith ofjune.

on sunday the 5th ofjune, we have of course have to have a street party for thejubilee, so the big jubilee lunch will be taking place on sunday the 5th ofjune. that is described as an opportunity to share friendship, food and fun with neighbours. and then, the final event of this platinum jubilee weekend, on the afternoon of sunday the 5th ofjune, the platinum jubilee pageant, described by buckingham palace as bringing together 5,000 people from across the united kingdom and the commonwealth against the backdrop of a buckingham palace. it will combine a street arts, theatre, music, circus, carnival, costumes, and celebrate the service that has been given by many people during her majesty's reign. so lots of fun for everyone, and all are starting one year from today. of course, she lost her husband recently. it's not been an easy year for the royal family with the departure of harry and meghan. obviously, they are looking forward

to happier times, hopefully, next year with the celebrations. what are the signs and whether the queen is slowing down. i mean, how actively involved as she likely to be in all of this? well, i think she will be, certainly, very apparent. she will be attending most of those events, indeed, all of those events that i've just described to you. possibly not the street party lunch. but no, there has been some slowing down for several years, but she is still very engaged and certainly, she and the palace will be hoping that this well, as is customarily the case, be an opportunity for people across the united kingdom to show their continued commitment to and regard and affection for this particular monarch, despite, as you say, the difficulties, the fact that she lost her husband some weeks ago. but i think she is, just by instinct, she will be very forward—looking and she will regard this as an opportunity for herself, for herfamily and, indeed, for the wider community to have a bit of a celebration.

it is the hottest day of the year officially, northolt in london has already reached 26.6 celsius at 11:30am. that is 79.9 fahrenheit, so it is the warmest day of the year so far. if you want to know the last time the weather was this out, it was 252 days ago in september, so it is a hot day. let's get the latest from ben rich. it is the warmest day of the year so far, not for the first time this week. temperatures quite widely up into the 20s, but a little cooler for some north—eastern coast with some extra cloud, more of a breeze and cool down to the south—west where we have seen some showers pushing across wales. they will continue their journey northwards as we head through this evening and tonight. there could be the odd rumble of thunder mixing in, cloud filtering into the night, misty and tamaki for some southern coast and a mild if not muggy night. temperatures for some holding up at

15 degrees. we will see some sharing pushing northwards across scotland tomorrow, but many places here largely dry. further south, tomorrow, but many places here largely dry. furthersouth, likely die as well. i early cloud will tend to break to reveal some spells of sunshine. another very warm day across eastern areas —— likely die as well because of it will be cooler thanit as well because of it will be cooler than it has been. that's slightly cooler feel comes with as it were to be can come a little bit of rain at times, but it will be mostly dry. hello this is bbc news with joanna gosling. the headlines: more thani more than i billion more thani billion p more than i billion p a more thani billion p a catch up tuition for pupils in england, but head teachers say it has a fraction of what is needed —— £1 billion. the education sector day dies he is trying to do it on the cheap. taste education sector day dies he is trying to do it on the cheap. we are lookin: at trying to do it on the cheap. we are looking at the _ trying to do it on the cheap. we are looking at the intervention - trying to do it on the cheap. we are looking at the intervention is - trying to do it on the cheap. we are looking at the intervention is what l looking at the intervention is what we can deliver today, make sure we can get the money on the table out to schools in order to support them in order to be able to help our children while they are in school

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finalising plans of any government that would remove the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, from government. buckingham palace reveals a year—long plans to mark the queen's 70 years on the throne. let's get more on the department for education's announcement of an extra £1.1i billion to help children in england catch up with learning they've missed during the pandemic. most of the money will pay for tutoring courses for disadvantaged pupils. the bbc has learned that a more expensive and ambitious plan was rejected by the treasury — and teachers' leaders say the settlement is "hugely disappointing". headteachers have said it's not enough. earlier, i spoke to jon skurr, headteacher at university academy in keighley, to get his reaction. i've been trying to do a lot of reading last night and this morning around it, and i'm still confused because the concepts around the tutoring programme is fantastic if you can get the tutors. and the problem i would see

straightaway is the quality of tutoring around the country varies, and depending where you're located, it will vary on the quality that you can get. for our situation in bradford and keighley, i would prefer my own staff to deliver to the young people because we know they're going to get high quality delivery. the staff are training every week to improve their delivery and we know that quality, that's going to make the biggest impact on young people in our area, so the tutoring programme, the details around that have caused us a bit of confusion, and same with the teacher training program. surely if we were left to make our current workforce more effective, then we could continue to have a bigger impact. so we've obviously got to wait to get the fine detail on how the money will be distributed and what exactly it'll be used for. in the meantime, what is your assessment of your pupils' needs and by how much they have fallen behind as a result of lockdown?

i think young young people have definitely fallen behind. i know the community that i serve means that we have the issue of digital disadvantage and as an academy and an academy trust, we worked really hard to resolve that very quickly. we know that literacy skills, numeracy skills have not progressed at the rate we want them and, in some cases, have gone backwards, but we put a lot in place, so our home—school learning plan was very effective. we know that that slowed the gap for many of our disadvantaged students. we got many back into the academy and we worked really hard on that. but there's going to be gaps. and what we would prefer to do is head teachers and multi—academy trusts and local authorities to get the money to then work out the best plan for the schools' context, because each school is in a very different situation, in a different location and will be affected very differently by the pandemic. can you put a figure on the needs, if you were to get what you would like, to do what you want? it's hard to quantify that

because it depends on the situation. we've already invested a significant amount of extra resources into increasing our teacher numbers next year to decrease our class sizes and to put on a large number of group intervention sessions so that we can bring about closing those gaps in many students. financially, a medium secondary school or secondary school should be looking at probably about £150,000 to have a real impact on those disadvantaged students that probably have seen the gaps grow over this pandemic. paramedics in england are to be offered body—worn cameras as part of a plan to reduce attacks on nhs staff. medics can press a button to start recording if patients became aggressive or abusive. this follows a rise in attacks by members of the public on emergency staff. well, let's take a closer look at those figures. more than 3,500 attacks on ambulance staff were reported in the year 2020/21.

that's an increase of almost a third — 32% — in five years. now, in a bid to reduce attacks, bodycams are to be issued to staff across england. this follows pilot schemes in london and the north east and recordings from the bodycams can be handed to the police — and could be used in court evidence. let's stay with that. in 2017, neil vann was attacked while trying to treat a patient. he was knocked unconscious and off work for four weeks. he told us about the lasting impact the attack had and what difference bodycams could make for emergency staff. you come back and you're scanning the room and surroundings far more. you're looking over your shoulder far m, far more than we should. my focus should be on the patient and the patient alone, but you do find yourself thinking about the event and, "could this be it again?" and it starts to make your

consciousness drift slightly, so you have to keep that focus on. from our perspective, if people know they're being filmed, they're less likely to attack us, but also from a personal perspective, i wouldn't have had to keep reliving that event by repeating it to the police, the solicitors, the courts. we could have just handed in this evidence and the evidence would have shown everything that occurred. that is neil vann the representatives were paramedics believes there needs to be more deterrence. believes there needs to be more deterrence-— believes there needs to be more deterrence. �* . ~ deterrence. one thing we're talking about is deterrence, _ deterrence. one thing we're talking j about is deterrence, de-escalation. about is deterrence, de—escalation. sometimes talking a person died. we have quite a number of staff who work on their own and when staff work on their own and when staff work together, your colour can keep an eye out for yourself but it is

becoming increasingly common that staff are assaulted, not just physically assaulted, we have had a staff spat at, threatened —— your colleague can keep an eye out on you. if this does happen, we ask that friends are people intervene to stop this happening. what that friends are people intervene to stop this happening.— stop this happening. what is the situation with _ stop this happening. what is the situation with paramedic- situation with paramedic recruitment? i do not know if things like this have an impact on whether people want to stay in the service, whether they want to go in? being paramedics _ whether they want to go in? being paramedics is _ whether they want to go in? being paramedics is an _ whether they want to go in? being paramedics is an immensely - whether they want to go in? ea: “u; paramedics is an immensely rewarding job, you help people at a time of you get invited me to people's houses and it is a rewarding job and assault, whilst they do happen, are not as common as they're made out to be. i have been assaulted, most of my colleagues have, it is an everyday —— not an everyday occurrence but it does happen and it is unacceptable because of it makes people what about the job and are looking to move into other alternative deployments, but i'm not sure if it will put people off. it

has a very rewarding job —— other employments. has a very rewarding 'ob -- other employmentsh has a very rewarding 'ob -- other emlo ments. ., ., , employments. you said you have been insulted, employments. you said you have been insulted. what — employments. you said you have been insulted, what happened _ employments. you said you have been insulted, what happened to _ employments. you said you have been insulted, what happened to you? - employments. you said you have been insulted, what happened to you? it - insulted, what happened to you? it has happened a few times, they took it as i can think of most recently where people have had too much to drink or been under drugs. at one it was a mental health patient who just lunged at me. but was a mental health patient who 'ust lunged at me.— was a mental health patient who 'ust lunged at me. but no lasting damage, no lastin: lunged at me. but no lasting damage, no lasting injury? _ lunged at me. but no lasting damage, no lasting injury? no, _ lunged at me. but no lasting damage, no lasting injury? no, i— lunged at me. but no lasting damage, no lasting injury? no, iwas— lunged at me. but no lasting damage, no lasting injury? no, i was sorry - no lasting in'ury? no, i was sorry but if ou no lasting injury? no, i was sorry but if you did _ no lasting injury? no, i was sorry but if you did come _ no lasting injury? no, i was sorry but if you did come a _ no lasting injury? no, i was sorry but if you did come a bit - but if you did come a bit uncomfortable, but you get up and carry on, go ahead there to help patients and that is what ourjob is. patients and that is what our 'ob is. . ., . , , ., ., is. richard webber from the college of paramedics- _ opposition parties in israel have until midnight to form a new government that would end prime minister benjamin netanyahu's 12 years in power. israeli centrists say there there are still plenty of obstacles. but their chances of success were given a big boost when the right—wing yamina party said it would join a proposed coaltion — with ultra—nationalist naftali bennett standing as prime minister for two years before handing over to the centrists. failure to reach a coalition deal would likely lead to another election. and in the last few minutes, politicians have voted isaac herzog to be the new president of israel —

a largely ceremonial position. earlier, my colleague annita mcveigh spoke to the chief political correspondent for the jerusalem post, gil hoffman — and he told us if he think prime minister netenyahu can cling onto power. i can't think of any other rabbit that netanyahu could pull out of his hat. as you mentioned, midnight tonight is the deadline for the opposition to form a government. the remaining differences are very small and irrelevant and i don't see anything standing in the way anymore of replacing netanyahu. but if a deal, as we mentioned in the introduction, to form a coalition government can't be worked out, israel could be facing its fifth election in two years. do you think this deal between someone who describes himself as more right wing than benjamin netanyahu and a centrist has got legs? can it provide some sort of stability in government? so first, to clarify, if no agreement is reached by tonight, there will be a 2i—day period in which any member of parliament can form a government

and there are a number of different scenarios that would come into play before an election would be initiated, and as a political correspondent who's worked very hard over the last two years, i would add, god forbid. now, regarding the second part of your question, look, it is netanyahu who is this glue that brings together the centre, the left and the right in an effort to oust him and he's not going anywhere. he will remain the leader of the likud party, the leader of the opposition, the leader of the israeli right. and he will then, as long as he's on the sidelines, keep them together and keep them in power, really. regarding whether naftali bennett, because he's right wing, would not be able to accomplish anything, this will be a government that will focus on other things, not on the israeli—palestinian conflict. it's going to focus on the economy like normal countries, on recovering from the pandemic and then recovering from a long period of divisiveness inside israel.

that brings the right and the left and the centre together. you say if there is a unity government, it's not going to be focusing on talking about the israeli—palestinian conflict. does that mean, do we take from what you are saying, that there wouldn't be a big shift in policy there? no, i don't think there would be any policy there, to be honest, because naftali bennett, as you mentioned, is further to the right than netanyahu. well, he's not going to get to annex any land in the what you call judean sumeria, the biblical terms of the west bank. and the politicians from the israeli left that will be part of the government, they're not going to get to evacuate any part of that land in the west bank as they would like to. and anyway, the palestinian side, theyjust cancelled their election. it was supposed to be their first election for president since january 2005. they're not exactly in a place to be negotiating with israel either, and i'm not sure the biden administration is so keen on facilitating an effort that's

so unlikely to be successful anyway. several trans and lgbt campaign groups are crowdfunding a legal action against the charity commission, over the decision to award charitable status to the lgb alliance, a new charity campaigning for lesbians, gay men and bisexual people. they are mermaids, stonewall, and four other lgbt organisations, with the support of the good law project. they claim the lgb alliance is trying to roll alliance is trying to roll back legal protections for trans people. the charity commission has reissued a statement this morning saying that if an organisation meets the legal tests of public benefit, it will be entered on the register. in april — when charitable status was granted — more than £1 billion on catch up

tuition for pupils, but teacher state is a fraction of what is needed. borisjohnson and at the nato secretary general have a strongly condemned belarus on the first landing of a ryanairflight before the arrest of the roman part of h. attacks by the public rise by a sit third in five years on ambulance because,. there are concerns that medical training resources are failing patients with black and brown skin. until recently, medical handbooks published as recently as 2014 only featured 3% of images showing conditions on the skin of black and ethnic minority people. this failing has left medical staff unable to diagnose common skin conditions on darker skin, which can sometimes have serious medical consequences. breejohnson reports. am i invisible? this might sound ridiculous, but try searching online for a simple skin condition like acne or eczema and you'll be scrolling a while before you found skin like mine. and this isn'tjust online either.

when looking through medical textbooks with thousands of pages, there are only 22 images of non—white skin. i started looking into this after waking up with a skin condition even my doctor couldn't explain. itjust made me wonder, is my skin not important? this time last year, i was struck by a one in three mortality rate syndrome called stevens—johnson syndrome. it kills one in three people. i had been prescribed a medication called carbamazepine following my wisdom tooth extraction. i now started flaring up with what i can only describe as a horrific reaction. this is what i looked like on day one. the following day, it had got significantly worse. oh, my goodness. and here, just a day after. the marks were spread across your nose, completely under your eyes, more pus is coming from your lips and at this point, you'd been to the hospital how many times? twice to a&e. twice, ok. on what grounds did they ask you to leave? my symptoms didn't look severe enough to them. like that? like that.

and they didn't ask you... they didn't even take my medical history. it was almost like i had to fight for my needs and for my pain. as soon as i stepped through those a&e doors, my bodyjust gave up and so they had to resuscitate me. it was only when i went to this third hospital where there was a consultant who looks like me and who could identify that this woman, a, is in severe pain but this is not how she looks normally. this is where we say representation matters. i think back and, i don't know, ijust... i feel failed, i feel failed, and i also remember the fact that it's notjust me. there's a history of women who have been turned away just because it doesn't look like what they recognise, it doesn't look like what they've seen before. if their curriculum doesn't account for what certain diseases look like on dark skin, then the fault isn't even with them, the fault lies in the fact that they haven't been told,

they haven't been shown. someone definitely taking initiative is malone. hi, malone. how are you? hi, bree. how are you? during his second year of uni, he created the mind the gap handbook and it's the first of its kind. it shows a variety of conditions on non—white skin. it's now being used by the northeast ambulance service, the london ambulance service. it's being used in some gp practices, it's starting to reshape the way medical education is being taught. the work that we've produced is able to help them potentially even maybe to prolong people's lives. the british association of dermatologists was petitioned by over 5000 people in 2020 asking for an increase in diversity in training materials. we very much welcome the petition l which we felt was a very important| student voice to highlight something that has already been _ concerning the british association of dermatologists for some time. j educational leaders need to ensure that diversity of patient _ population is embedded - into all of the education material, not just tacked on at the end.

bree johnson, bbc news. the world's largest meat processing company has blamed a group based in russia for a sophisticated cyber—attack. computer networks atjbs were hacked, causing some operations in australia, canada and the us to temporarily shut down. a ransom was demanded. earlier we heard this update from our cyber security reporter, joe tidy. it's having a massive impact already. the company says it should get operations back up and running, but already we are seeing potential price rises already coming through. this is a massive company. of course, it's a brazilian company, but it operates in 15 different countries around the world and meat packing, production lines, slaughterhouses, they've all been affected in australia, canada, but it's the us that's mostly been been hit by this. multiple facilities seem to have shut down in the last couple of days, with staff turning up, thousands of staff with nothing to do. we don't know whether or not the attack has affected the operational technology, so the production line side of the business. it's most likely it's affected

the it, so the computer systems that are run by the back end of the operations in order to keep things like supply, auditing or customer servicing or the sort of payment systems going. and we saw that recently with the colonial pipeline attack on the us again, which affected fuel supplies across the east coast of the us, affecting, again, panic buying, chaos at the pumps, price rises. and in that situation, the company closed down their operational side — that's the pumping of the oil — because they couldn't work out what needed to go where because the it side was damaged and disrupted. a group of pedestrians in oxford have been taking unusual steps to uphold the law. the residents are trying to enforce restrictions on cars — which were put in place to create low traffic neighbourhoods — by becoming human traffic bollards. our chief environment correspondent, justin rowlatt, reports. here's a question for you. when is a pedestrian not a pedestrian? ..any aggro with the drivers, because we're bollards, and bollards don't say anything. when they become a human bollard.

what are you going to do — run us over? i'm not going to move. i've got a place to be. can you move? car horns sound. you cannot go down the high street. so this road is supposed to be blocked between 7.30 in the morning, and 6.30 in the evening. but the bollards aren't working, and nor are the number plate recognition cameras. so drivers know they can come through without being fined. which is why the oxford pedestrians association decided to step in. i don't feel anxious or afraid. ijust feel something has to be done, and i'm doing the right thing in the right direction. it's bizarre. i wouldn't have expected it. i'm not like normal vehicles. you didn't know that? oh, i can see you're not. oh, you're speechless now? yeah. yeah, so i'll be reversing down there in a second, thank you. one delivery man managed to bamboozle the activists into letting him through. you pay taxes for the council to go through here. not delivery though.

yes, i'm an authorised vehicle, same as the county council, mate, the same as buses. i can go through the cameras. the delivery company dpd told bbc breakfast the response from their driver wasn't acceptable, and it said it will brief all drivers again on the restrictions. but we will find out. the road closures here in oxford are part of a nationwide effort to calm traffic in our town and city centres. so what we're trying to do is to rebalance our streets, you know, to make them friendlier for pedestrians, to encourage people to be able to walk more short trips. and that actually helps free up space for people who need to drive, for people who are carrying heavy loads. but rachel, freeing up space for pedestrians means taking space away from motorists, doesn't it? it means that very often they're the same person. very often there's a person who is driving to the local shop, who could walk to the local shop. not always. enfield in london is one of many english councils that has blocked roads and introduced charges to create new low traffic neighbourhoods, or ltns,

during the covid pandemic. so, this low traffic neighborhood came completely out of the blue and it's made our lives impossible. the restrictions here in enfield are similar to oxford, except you are fined £130 if you drive through. everywhere i've been going, i've been blocked from going down here. it's bloody ridiculous. sue sanders says she's never been involved in local politics before. i see it as undermining democracy. there's not been a proper consultation. we see the ltn as a fait accompli, as something imposed upon us. and i actually genuinely see it as alienating people from the green agenda. it's actually undermining the green agenda. we asked enfield council for comment, but it did not respond. hiya, guys. you know it's illegal for you to go through here? no, it's not, mate. it is. the truth is, if we want safe, clean cities, and to tackle climate

change, we do need to coax some people out of their cars. and if they think they'll be punished, most drivers do obey the law. justin rowlatt, bbc news, oxford. a teenagerfrom california has decribed the moment she fought off a bear to protect her pet dogs. hailey morinico, who is 17, didn't hesitate when she saw the mother bear on the wall of her back yard with two cubs, fighting with her three dogs. home cctv shows hailey running outside, shoving the bear back, and rounding up her pets before running back inside. the teeanger sprained her finger but otherwise was unscathed. i run over to the bear and the first thing i think to do is to push the bear off the ledge it's standing on. do not push bears, do not get close to bears, you do not want to get unlucky. ijust happened to

come out unscathed. hospital soap holby city will continue into next year after 23 years, a statement from the bbc said it was part of a plan to create more diversity in programming. it thanked fans for its continued support of the series. the one o'clock news is coming up any few moments with ben brown, all the latest coming up for you then. we are expecting to hear from prime minister borisjohnson a little later so that will be hitting on —— happening on the news channel well. now it is time for a look at the weather with ben. good afternoon, it is the uk's warmest day of the year so far. beautiful scene there from a weather watcher in douglas on the isle of man earlier on. it has not been like that everywhere. more cloud bringing

sharon arena for the south—west of england, you can see that earlier from satellite and radar pictures, there has been thunder and lightning mixed in here. those showers will continue to move northwards any threads into wales. getting into northern ireland. a busy day out there, we also have a lump of low cloud pushing into the east coast of scotland and north—east england saw temperatures here a little suppressed. it is a touch cooler down to the far south—west as the shower straight through. down to the far south—west as the showerstraight through. in down to the far south—west as the shower straight through. in between, the best of the sunshine, those temperatures are well up into the 20s. as we head through this evening and tonight, we will continue to take this line of showers and push it further north, so across northern england, northern ireland, those showers getting into southern scotland by the end of the night. a lot of cloud filtering in as well, quite murky for some english channel coast, for a time. a mild and muggy night, 15 or 16 degrees the overnight lows for birmingham, liverpool. enterto overnight lows for birmingham, liverpool. enter to tomorrow, some showery and drifting out of northern

england and into scotland. even event will tend to fizzle. other spots starting on a largely co—do not come about that cloud will break revealing some spells of sunshine. they were mis—weather tomorrow will be across eastern england, 25, maybe 26 degrees. further west, a slightly cooler feel. 26 degrees. further west, a slightly coolerfeel. still 26 degrees. further west, a slightly cooler feel. still pleasant enough, though in the sunshine. into friday, the chance we could see some heavy, possibly sundry downpours into south—eastern and eastern parts of england. a frontal system bringing cloud and maybe some rain into the far west of northern ireland but in between some sunshine once again. there is temperature slightly lower, but still pleasant enough, high teens or 20s for most. the weekend weather chart is quite a complicated one. we have this weather front pushing in from the west. it will try to bring some epics of rain, but actually, overall, high pressure remains atjust actually, overall, high pressure remains at just about actually, overall, high pressure remains atjust about in charge. there will not be enough a lot of rain, many places will actually stay pretty much dry with some spells of sunshine. while temperatures will be a little lower than they have been lately, it will still feel pleasant

in any sunshine.

government plans to help schoolchildren catch up on education they've missed out on during the pandemic there'll be £1.1i billion for extra tuition for pupils in england who've fallen behind, but teaching unions call the plans a damp squib and hugely disappointing. we'll be live at westminster with analysis of the government's plans. also this lunchtime... the uk's latest coronavirus data looks encouraging — according to a leading government adviser — amid the debate on whether to end restrictions in england this month. body cams for paramedics amid a rising wave of attacks on ambulance staff. a four—day bank holiday weekend nextjune for the queen's platinumjubilee —

she'll be celebrating seven decades on the throne.