positive boris johnson struggles to get hold of basic protection for doctors in a pandemic response characterized by washington as catastrophic coming up on the show just as a taxpayer stepped in to help the banks back in 2008 we will work with the banks to do everything they can to be paid that favor and support the businesses the people of the united kingdom in their time to do even the british government's daily press briefings on coronavirus reveal a moral bankruptcy of capitalism we talked to the president of the u.k. faculty of public health we use that phrase to characterize the response to a previous epidemic as the tory government stands accused even by a tory media of lethal incompetence disinfo mation and lies and will coronavirus destroy sleepy joe biden as john says of beating donald trump while the antibodies found his democratic establishment threatens to risk their lives rather than perspire on tomorrow's wisconsin primary we trace how today's politics is shaped

from beyond the biosphere and how november's election could be determined by an ancient american see a little more coming up in today's going underground but 1st after the u.s. a medically supported by the russian military slammed boris johnson's response to the corona virus pandemic britain faces the prospect of millions now infected because the prime minister's aborted a herd immunity policy for more let's go straight to the former president of the u.k. faculty of public health professor john ashton who joins me now via skype from denton the yorkshire dales john thanks so much for coming on so jump officials have used the lack of ventilators to a contrast of the country's responses to coronavirus this week we're supposed to get 30 new ventilators manufactured with much trumpeting by miss sadie's and mclaren will they make a big difference to what we're now facing here in britain i'm afraid the desperate shortage of ventilators has to be considered alongside the faily it's hasta shortage oh. p.c.r.

machines i understand slopes the personal protective equipment and i also understand that there's now an emerging issue about oxygen supplies for ventilating people even if we had the ventilator so. this all goes back to the failure to get a grip on this emergency right at the beginning when it became apparent that something was happening very serious at the end of january beginning of february when the prime minister failed to convene and sheer kerber of the emergency committee for governments because what should have happened at that point was to take stock to get the right people around the table not just a narrow segment of science and to look and say what was likely to be coming down the track if they didn't they would have put systematic testing in place they would have ordered all the stuff that we're not sure so of and they would have realized

that in order to take the public with you our list journey into the under were this rich real restrictions on freedom in a liberal democracy that they would have to be open and transparent and all these things they failed to do so we're in a really bad place as the numbers of deaths are now climbing very steeply and will continue to do so over the next few weeks what you say all that bad or a strong office is briefing that the reason maybe we didn't get the information was that china was giving us disinfo mation that china has be their big factor here and will face a reckoning they could be concerned a pariah state is nothing about your ventilator numbers and lack of oxygen today this is the fault of beijing seems to me what's coming out of downing street i think it's very sad that we reached a situation where the failures of our own governments are being just. ignored and

not learnt from the lessons learned from and rather hitting out in all directions and i think at the very beginning of this it seems as though the chinese les have been slow to recall what was going on the numbers initially from december and into january may not have been reliable but more recently and particularly since the world health organization became involved with china the charities have been demonstrating really quite extraordinary leadership they've been sharing our line globally all their treatment protocol xolair lessons learned if only we would wake up and listen to what's been going on elsewhere and copy best practice that's the way they've been behaving here rather depending on theorists rather than seeing what works in other parts of the world i'm guessing on enduring yes and following the advice of the director general of the w.h.o. to test test test and then act on the testing on social media certainly we've seen

pictures of chinese medics dressed in their personal protective equipment what do you make of warnings of disciplinary action now being given to national health service staff if they dare to talk to the media about their lack of equipment is there any clinical reason for the british government or n.h.s. england to be giving such warnings the problem we interface is that the failure to be open and transparent and test and share the data with the public coupled with a really poll communications strategy means that there's a failure of trust the breakdown of trust between the public and the governments ironically what we're going to finish up with is law repressive and possibly totalitarian measures from a government that really sees itself as a libertarian government as a result of not taking people on that cheerily in agree. together as

a partnership oh wait a minute you have a senior position in public health in this country is there really no clinical reason why the authorities here should be threatening doctors and nurses were talking to journalists it's been a great tradition in this country going back to the origins of the national health service that doctors and other critical stuff could speak out in public if they were concerned about matters that affected their patients and the public so it's very worrying to see this these traffic trends in recent days where we've heard various stories of critical stuff being disciplined for speaking out about the shortage of personal protective equipment even the tory media in this country is now asking questions of there are government the government they supported do you think it's lies or do you think it's incompetence for instance when one of johnson's ministers robert general said. we don't have the religion and the right

chemicals to test people and then the chemical industries association denied claims that there were shortages in is there johnson government lying or are they just incompetent i think it's very interesting development that the newspapers that normally are firm supporters of the conservative party are now beginning to criticise the government this is a public health emergency this is not a party political matter but what we've got is a government this has laid terrible mistakes and is now covering up those mistakes by yes lying or at least being economical with the truth and restricting the history i mean this whole story of herd immunity totally preposterous notion that seem to be conjured up out of thin air even if that meant many more deaths would occur that if we were taking trigger. you know public health

measures of testing isolating quarantining tracing and really putting a lid on it as the government finds it hard to say those very simple words sorry we got it wrong we need to learn now from our experience and get it right as we go forward into this most acute part of this crisis well doctors and nurses seem to be defying the authorities here telling them to not talk to the public they're showing pictures of their much poorer protective equipment contrasted with that found in china what about hospital cleaners what about cafeteria workers there was a cap of 15 percent on testing i understand that's being lifted on all spittal stuff how important will it be to test what was recently called low skilled workers by the home secretary pretty patel here it's very important bio security and the

protection against this virus is certainly a stroke as its weakest link cleaners are fundamental to bio security in a clinical environments i'm sorry to say that in this class written society of the united kingdom we tend to think that the only important people are those are the true the doctors and the nurses and the cleaners and look courses and these are the stuff you know don't really matter very much but they are absolutely central to getting on top of this how significant then is the public private partnership dimension to this health service pursued by the tony blair the gordon brown government the major government may government cameron how as significant because simon stevens of course the boss of n.h.s. england used to be a boss at the us health company united health known for scandals patrick vallance senior adviser here used to work at j.f.k. another scandal that. the national company pharmaceutical company well many of us

have been worried about this progressive privatization of the national health service. from the beginning my own view is that it has a role at the margins but not much more than us and we see how difficult it is to caroll to organize so lobel are ways every think that's needed when so much of this is lower provided by private companies who will only do things you know really if it's written into the contracts and they're being paid for it if you take public health itself local public health teams no longer have their own community public health nurses who you could use to deploy it outbreak like this in an epidemic to do the concept tracing i think when this is all over that one of the things that leads to kommersant this is a fundamental reappraisal of the role of the private sector in the national health

service but do you think ahead of any future public independent inquiry regardless of what judges church has a do you think people in whitehall in the civil service let alone in government departments are already shredding documents about coronavirus i tell you from my time when i was a regional director of public health and we had the b.s.a. the scandal. you know the police were crawling all over white all over richmond ause trying to find out what had happened in meetings who'd said watts and there were certain very scared officials because of the way in which a lot of the decisions have been taken you know that's 20 years ago now and there's so much lorries on computers and hard disks but when this is over. really i think before then the police need to be securing the evidence. so what will

inevitably become a very serious a low running inquiry it's a who got it wrong and what shouldn't be happening at after this is that the guilty and the negligent should be rewarded for their guilt and negligence with knighthoods and dame ships and all rest of the regalia which is how the british tend city with these matters and just finally the fragmentation right now today do you think there will be people who die because of coronavirus and you can trace their deaths to the fragmentation of the n.h.s. not envision the toll arguably by the architect one of the architects and are in van well i'm very certain that there are already deaths that were avoidable not least among the 3 or 4 doctors that have so far died because they didn't have adequate personal protective equipment i'm very sadly we're going to see much floor of the us as this crisis unravels i should just also us for those watching who have

private health insurance in britain already the insurers are a rewriting policy is to exclude coronavirus do you think there might be calls to nationalize the health insurers the private health insurance subsidized by the government enjoys like bupa after this crisis is over well you know bloopers always been an anachronism when you look at a charity then you have to ask some basic questions like who is better to think if it's run as a charity and over the years that paid a small proportion of medical consultants have made an enormous or learns of money out of the boop arrangements and the other privates private hospitals the service which masquerade as charities i think in the 2nd world war we brought together the private hospitals the voluntary hospitals and the poor hospitals and crafted them into the national health service which. yes. that's likely to happen of deaths

in homes in this country because it's largely private it's it's all over the place but this is all. we need a national service as well as a national health service reza john ashton thank you very much we always invite the head of on the show to after the break we talk to professor lewis dartnell who is always warned that a pandemic was a more immediate threat to the human species than climate change about how earth shakes out global political history all the more coming up about to have going underground. do you believe in miracles would seem democrats to you after the joe biden surge on super tuesday for them the fear of the bernie sanders candidate may now be contained however this is far from over taking on trump no easy task.

welcome back well while successive major nation government failed to prepare us for a viral pandemic one scholar always claimed a virus could be the biggest threat to the human species u.k. professor lewis dartnell though i caught up with sky his new book origins how the

earth shaped human history traces the way ancient geology may have helped determine that it is boris johnson and donald trump who make today's life or death decisions about coronavirus i started by asking him how he always understood the threat to humanity posed by pandemics yes so might my last book the knowledge is a thought experiment it's all about how you could go about rebuilding everything from scratch if there's been some kind of reset button that's been pushed how do you make and do all the things that we just take for granted and our modern everyday lives and they can seat as a premise up thought experiment i magine some kind of hypothetical apocalypse some kind of global pandemic or an asteroid strike or something like that but the end of the day the knowledge is a book isn't about the apocalypse is not about the end of the world it's about our world and how we got here and how we built it and how our civilisation runs behind

the scenes to provide everything that we take for granted in our lives and i think the reason this is a person at the moment is the pings were taken for granted are starting to show a little bit of a crack of a wrinkle and people going to supermarkets are finding shelves or running bare so i think we're all starting to ask ourselves where does the stuff come from where is it may. how is it put together what is it infrastructure and supply chains that are normally completely invisible how do they actually work and. so that's what i explore in the knowledge well going back to today in your new book origins we have of course an official opposition i'm not sure of jeremy corbin when he criticize the government over the response of the pandemic realizes your new book says that

without 320000000 year old coalfields germy corbin's party might not even exist you're going to have to explain the what i've been looking at with this new book is all the ways that the planet itself that we live on different features of the earth have had a guiding influence and deep and profound effect on our human story so everything from what drove our evolution as incredibly intelligent apes in east africa through thousands of years of the history of the rise and fall of different civilizations and empires and then right up as you say right up to the modern world of current affairs and the headlines you read we don't use paper over breakfast or in politics and how people choose to vote there is a very clear planetree fingerprints in political maps i give an example of this in the united states and how you can trace out the outline of

a ancient sea floor and where people are voting for either democrats or republicans in the u.s. and there's another very very clear discernible signal of geology of the rocks beneath our feet in british politics as well and if you look at the political map where people have voted for the labor party in the most recent election and looking back over the decades the labor votes tend to correlate very very strongly with the rocks and if you're feet that are 330000000 years old on and on the face of it this makes no sense right. people aren't geologists they're not digging in their back garden and going are but the rocks beneath my back garden are 50000000 years old that means i'm going to vote for the tories rather than for the labor i want to be lefty and i've got to be conservative but what has happened has

no direct effect but what has happened is there's been a long chain of cause and effect with one thing leading to the next reaching back through tens of millions of years of our planet's history and then the recent sentry's in decades of human history and culture and social and politics and for this particular patent for the labor vote rocks that are 330000000 years old were laid down during a chapter of earth's history called the carboniferous this is when all the coal fields were laid down something broke in the recycling system on planet earth 300000000 years ago and trees grew vigorously and fell over and died but refused to rob a millions of years trees refused to rot and built up these huge that seems of what's affectively fossilized forest fossilized sunshine that we here in britain realize

the beginning of the industrial revolution we could dig up o's underground forests throw them into oftenest is and power us into the modern age of industrialization and the final step and a chain of cause and effect is that the labor political party grew out of the trade unions of course and most notably the coal miners trade unions that's the final political layer laid on top of all these deeper strata of geology and planetary causes and arguably of the miners' strike was one of the big flashpoints against their liberalism in the eighty's the civil rights struggle in the us a. if you talk about you over say you'd expect a rosa parks to refuse getting up in the bus in montgomery alabama because of where she was 75000000 year old rocks if you look at the analogous

situation in the united states and there's a very distinctive crescent and arc of democratic votes in counties reaching right across the southern states cutting what across the sea of red of otherwise republican areas of the of the southern states of the u.s. and that matches very very closely with 75000000 all blacks as you say rocks laid down in the cretaceous chapter of earth's history and in that period of our past sea levels are much much higher and the ocean laptop run through the middle of the center of north america and so rocks laid down at that period were thick sediments of sea floor model that have been buried and re exposed so that today those cretaceous rocks on this particular are and was realized in the early eighty's hundreds of those cretaceous rocks when they give you when they break down

into soil give you a very very rich fertile soil programmer in cash crops like cotton and unfortunately that period of history growing cotton around the colonies meant slave labor people were thrown into chains taken from africa forced to work on plantations in and in the colonies of the americas and even today off of the hundreds of years of history and the civil war and mancipation from slavery in the civil rights movement the greatest density of black african-americans still they have a long lap band of cretaceous age rocks if you look at the map that i show you. in the book in origins and the city of montgomery which is where rosa parks refused to give up her seat to a white gentleman on the bus 1000 to 55 that city is smack right in the middle of this band of pretentious

a trucks is again that none chain of cause and effect from whole a texan culture and social a genie back through to geology and resources and the earth's past climate that is deep explanations steve would be earth underlying everything we read about in history and these correlations with plate tectonics if they're there for civil rights and for different struggles of workers around the world they're also there for how we came to exist as a species i mean it's not just rivers where rivers cross you talk about something far deeper literally in the earth's core yes so plate tectonics and specifically the ripping open of the skin of the earth the cracking open of earth's crust or the great east african rifai it was that tectonic landscape and climate fluctuations were living there over the last 45000000 years that drove

our evolution from harry tree swinging ape like creatures into hairless naked like people upright homan in human like species and specifically it was that chaotic fluctuating environment in the rift valley based africa they drive our evolution to be so exquisitely intelligent and when there was a human migration or hominid migration from east africa given of course right now we're in the midst of a global pandemic we still don't know today why for instance the previous on. migrations reason africa disappeared as they went into the middle east we don't know today what wiped out the neanderthal species we don't know today what is it we don't know i mean there are all these theories of competition with homo sapiens

could it have been pandemics there right when we encountered as we migrated in dispersed around the world we encountered our sibling species when crack encountered the neanderthals when counted other hominid species around the world and we know now that we bred with them or is not entirely clear yet is why the and told then died out why did hemans why did homo sapien and why did we prevail where is neanderthals fell into extinction and what's likely to be the case is that we simply outcompete japan we were more intelligent more culturally capable had better language skills but a tool use the neanderthals at least then the theory is not that it's a it's a pandemic i'm just going to ask you we've started by dogging about the fact that the british labor but he could possibly have been influenced by the geology of this country 320000000 years ago you also in the book talk about choke points in

maritime routes as important today as they were so many years ago when we get back to normal again if there isn't a step change also do you think that geopolitics will continue to be descended to him and influenced by what happened hundreds of millions of years ago obviously tony blair was a labor leader it was a war in iraq iraq is where it's a concentration of oil produced by geology yeah absolutely so so for hundreds of years of our history it's not just been a choker fee of a land importance of where rivers flow or where mountain ranges block people moving it's also been the children of the scenes of particular chokepoints and straits. constrain where ships can sail it makes them vulnerable during the straits and at the moment one of the most geopolitically critical spots on the planet is the straits right in the mouth of the arabian gulf or the persian gulf where

a huge amount of oil flows inside oil tankers and the geopolitical concern in recent years has been that a state like iran might choose to block that strait that they could declare that they put mines in that strait annex no longer safe oil tankers to go down and that would have an enormous economic and political fallout and once we start getting squashing down an up point line of crude oil which is the lifeblood of how our world works today professor lose garden thank you and keep. professor lewis dartnell speaking to be there and his book origins out the other shaped human history is out now that's it for the show we'll be back on wednesday for the finale of this season of going underground when we speak to legendary filmmaker john pilger about global injustices being hidden on the mainstream media coronavirus coverage until then wash your hands and join the on the ground on you tube twitter

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our viewers from around the world live from central london this is r.t. u.k. . the prime minister remains in hospital some 10 days after testing positive for corona virus that's as the chief medical officer tries to allay fears about some tests not being fit for purpose. 16 residents in a care home in florence go in just over a week or 2 of the strongest testing positive for the bars and says it is not just vulnerable immigration detainees stuck in solitary confinement which of course he's also blame on code that 90. first person charged under the new virus legislation has their conviction quashed after police misinterpret the one we hear from

a lawyer who helped overturn the case. labor's duty to secure stomach gets out of the government's handling of the outbreak as we look back at how history might judge his pretty just as we get reaction from a former m.p. . the prime minister remains in hospital after he was admitted last night you 2 persistent coronavirus symptoms and that's as it emerges the antibody tests ordered by the government to detect immunity among those who've had the virus don't actually one look on the cases and he joins me now with the latest so he said bring us up to speed with today's developments well we've been seeing today is the announcement of the latest figures when it comes to those who have died sadly as a result off to testing positive for 19 that number has risen in the u.k.

by 439 the total now stands at 5373 people who have sadly lost lives although power the slight ever so slight glimmer of hope is that this is the 2nd day running that the daily. it all has fallen and so doctors and pharmacies will be hoping that perhaps the u.k. is turning the corner a low of course it's way too early to be drawing any conclusions but it all is taking place as we know the prime minister himself boris johnson has tested positive for code of 19 a little over a week ago but last night he was admitted to hospitals and thomas's hospital just across the river from the houses of parliament and from downing street where the prime minister was self isolating previously government figures saying that the prime minister had a comfortable might in hospital though some sources say that actually his condition is worse than perhaps is being initially led for where we're being led to believe by the government now mr johnson may not physically be there at the helm but he has

been utilizing like zoom which he's been doing cabinet virtual cabinet meetings with and also the video conferencing up now being rolled out for parliamentarians in the wider sense for m.p.'s to be doing their work to spite the fact of course that they're all isolating and working from home and he said what about number ten's plans for testing well we heard last week that the government had ordered a number of tests testing kits and some of those tests themselves having tested positive for being infected with one having coded 19 and so that was delayed it's now emerged that those tests won't work where cases are a cincinnati or have all the patients have mild cases they won't show up as positive and will only work in the most extreme cases or where the symptoms are the

strongest and 6 witty the health advisor saying that it's not surprising at this stage that those tests don't work as smoothly as with heart. you've got to remember this is a new disease to which we have had absolutely no knowledge at the beginning of january and inevitably with we're feeling our way to some extent i am very confident we will develop antibody tests whether they be based or dipstick based over the next period i'm very confident of that but i you know the fact that we have not in our 1st pass in the 1st things that people produced got ones which are highly effective is not particularly surprising to anybody who understands how tests developed i would expect those to continue to improve both on the potential on the dipstick side and definitely on the lab side so sir chris witty the chief medical officer there and we understand that the government are now saying that rather than buying tests from companies they're going to work alongside them in

order to find the best solution thank you very much for the 16 residents in the care home in glasgow died in just over a week while 2 of the staff have tested positive for the virus all who died at the burlington ct care home had underlying health conditions but none had tests for co the 19 as they are only for those admitted to hospital in one it's emerged that local authorities are still waiting for data on vulnerable people in need even though the government is already given supermarkets the same information concerns data held on one and a half 1000000 politically vulnerable people who can't go out in any circumstances information was shared with the likes of tesco and same groups to ensure they are provided with essential but some local councils are still unable to access this information promised by the government despite repeated promises from government that councils would get comprehensive information about people

being shielded most councils are still only getting partial or incomplete data we don't know who has requested support whether they need food or medicines urgently or whether they have any dietary or religious requirements. amid previously concerns over the use of the information at all health secretary matt hancock a said that data protection laws do have an opt out for national emergencies like this one and the government says that it is a hearing to all the relevant legislation we are working with food retailers to make sure home deliveries and click can collect can be prioritized for the most clinically vulnerable who are isolated and the current a national emergency sharing information will make a real difference to protecting vulnerable individuals and all information will be shared in strict accordance with data protection laws it's also been revealed that vulnerable immigration detainees with underlying health conditions are said to be placed in what amounts to solitary confinement for at least 3 months in an attempt

to tackle the outbreak some of the detainees at brooke house immigration removal center received a letter from the home office requesting them to stay in their cells for the next 3 months that's according to the guardian face to face contact should be avoided well gatherings and other activities are burned and the only access to fresh air and exercise will be arranged as the regime alone was in response the home office said that those measures are in place to protect staff and detainees. the high court ruled just last week that the home office of taken sensible cautionary measures in relation to coronavirus and immigration detention facing the law and public health guidance and these measures are in place to protect staff and detainees during these president to times public protection is paramount which is why we are working to maintain law and order and protect the public from high harm individuals this is why the vast majority of those currently in detention are foreign nationals offenders. for more on this i'm now joined by immigration lawyer jacqueline

mckenzie jacqueline thank you for joining us. the government argues that sort of confinement is all about saving lives degree without. no we don't agree with that it's all we know of a number of people who are still to change who we would determine to be quite low risk not just on our own measures but by measures that we give psychological assessment of the things that accompany people in detention centers things that come to them from prisons all from doctors that so we show that a lot of these people are at risk and we think the more that would be to release people i mean in that sentence that you know that people are high year foreign nationals. people aren't for a national event because they can register at that time but the whatever criminal sorry if i just sort of drop it if the government does release detainees there's no guarantee they won't spread the virus further or indeed be a risk to themselves well i mean of course but it depends on where you release

people. are they talking about releasing people to their families i mean obviously there's considerations for those damned if that's that's not what the government is saying or whatever agent if the government was state of the public health and therefore we're not releasing these people for those reasons and that would be a different thing but what this say is that these are people who are dangerous criminals and everything absolutely no evidence that all of them are and where there is evidence that they're not then wessling the humane thing well of unhappy people locked up in solitary confinement for 24 hours a day. 3 months which by things cruel and inhumane i think that's the bond way to go about this detention center is able to tackle this outbreak with a ready for. why didn't anybody anywhere in the world was ready for this outbreak to be very large is that now that we know what it is and now that we know some of the issues the need to socially isolate i mean it's as much an issue for the people

who well that we've really seen the number of deaths among us workers and the n.h.s. workers in care homes etc you know lots and lots of people are at risk but i think it's wrong to have people who could be living room in the community with their families in their own homes as is the effect in some of these cases to have them in solitary confinement and just a final thought the home office is saying that the numbers in these immigrations terms it isn't actually for them since january. well particularly so it's kind of at 19 and i would say half of results of the legal action brought by tension action and the lots of concerns raised by another of a number of the people immigration law is family members or n.g.o.s etc i think the government has to respond it's and people have been released them that has been the right thing to do when they're in self isolation or in isolation rather with their family members. and i think that that the that the humane thing to do so some of

the the the litigation that was brought by those organizations was successful in that government has responded and people have been released the west saying the government needs to go for mckenzie thank you very much of the for joining us live here on r.g.p. . people across the country have been caught flouting the social distancing regulations over the weekend with many lapping up the sun in public spaces big groups took part in some bathing and cycling despite government warnings to stay home this seems others are being forced to be disobedient just to stay afloat artificially it would stash the investigates. that. there's still plenty of cars on the boat and still many moderate like to write the government's latest book is just a dramatic drop so why might that fear that if we maintain the look too long there

will be a rebellion against because. we're younger generations of. where are we it's our future. in order to help her own life expectancy older people whose life expectancy may not be very hard very you know any of them some experts even think the economic impact of the virus could kill more people than the actual disease but why is that but those government bailouts the crap the headlines the chance a promise to strengthen the safety net with a package of measures for businesses companies staff and the south employed over 300000000000 pounds in loans for companies paying 80 percent of full time workers pay for 3 months say firms rather than fire and 80 percent of profits to the south employed capped of course if you look at people who make the majority of their own things from self employment this scheme will cover 95 percent of them. of the

people that it does not cover that last 5 percent those above the income threshold that we set their average incomes are about $200000.00 pounds so we think what we have done is reasonable proportionate unfair. but to knock admitted some workers wouldn't be covered by his own estimate that's over a 1000000 people those who switched jobs just before the announcement recently south employed those whose company chose to let them go rather than take the government cash and given a 3 month wait for it it's easy to understand why the only place for workers to go is universal credit and the number of people applying for those benefits has rocketed to nearly a 1000000 that's in comparison 210-0000 claims the department for work and pensions would normally expect in a 2 week period the system's at breaking point thousands on able to get through an all for around 100 pounds a week those employed by companies aren't even safe the coronavirus business

interruption learned scheme has the government underwriting up to 80 percent of interest free loans given to companies over the next 12 months but banks are thinking differently denying loans entirely or imposing sky high interest rates of up to 30 percent this is happening to thousands of people across the nation i'm having a thousands of messages coming into my inbox and instagram people just at the wits end and really people's mental health jordon this time the having to homeschool to have to deal with the that. 90 they're having to look after their houses and watching their businesses getting gunned down with no income so that fact that governments have to take action now it's no good in june it's needed now or we all go bankrupt. and for the average worker of course the bills gas electricity food over maine the same in terms of government assistance those with mortgages can now get a 3 month holiday they will still have to pay off the missed payments down the line

and renters can't be evicted for 3 months there after that it seems anything. yes these changes could create the virus made speed in the system but if the government thinks they are home and don't tell them they might need to make some substantial changes until then many people really think this is a bit in the house might just be a graph such ever starts to u.k. . still to come to this. rescue takes over as leader of the opposition we discuss his predecessors a legacy and talk to a former in the future with a. do you believe in miracles would seem democrats do after the joe biden surged on super

tuesday for them the fear of the bernie sanders candidate see may now be contained however this is far from over taking on trump will be no easy task. this is a story of women women with troubled histories and complex court cases you know some of us did really believe. i was out there. were not. the person that. the cheesiness of the day are considered the most dangerous of criminals she's in a still. all the off 23 hours of the day tell me that it's not enough punishment it will do women on death row. the world is driven by shaped by one person.

who dares thinks. we dare to ask. the 1st person to be charged under the government's new coronavirus legislation. had a conviction overturned after it emerged police misapplied the law read the new was arrested newcastle central station last weekend for failing to give authorities a valid reason why she was travelling she was approached after being spotted

loitering between platforms suspected of not having a ticket and $5660.00 pounds by court last monday but the act she was charged under only covers those who are potentially infectious but to new it was approaching question for a particular offense it separate to the more recent past for police to enforce the u.k. lock down such as closing non-essential shops or gatherings of more than 2 people in there was also kept in custody in one awaiting a hearing and was sent back to her cell after refusing to identify herself british transport police has since apologized on the barrister who looked into the case and helped overturn it kirsty brimelow told me earlier that the case was rushed through without much due diligence this story featured in the newspaper and was subsequently i guess probably within 24 hours is the case was taken back to court and that conviction was set aside but this is a situation where this woman spent 2 nights in police cells in custody issue was

unlawfully detained they had no power to do that she was centrally in a cool it's in her absence and again berlin no steps taken by the district judge to ascertain whether she had any mental health issues whether there was anything else going on with her such as autism even a language barrier and all this happening within alice in court and she ended up criminalized. labour's new leader secure starman says the government has made mistakes in its handling of the corona virus outbreak he's called on number 10 to publish a lockdown extra strategy and to set up vaccination centers nationwide when a vaccine is created the new leader also valid to do more to tackle anti semitism within the party an issue that plagued his predecessor. a man who never seemed destined for leadership jerry corbin with the petrol

backbencher campaigner born in the sight of his own government under blair and brown. there are 600. demonstrations in cities all around the world every country every continent everybody no one has a chance to turn the sunday. shows on iraq reportedly defied his own party with over 400 times while tony blair was in power. but after labour's disastrous results in the 2015 general election led to the then leader ed miliband stepping down there was a surprising hat in the ring for his replacement. from virtually unknown is gaining momentum quickly transformed him into a household name and in a surprise to practically everyone he won by a landslide. however his popularity with the

overall membership didn't exactly translate to popularity within his own party like when a general. at the moment i would say we wouldn't. but then along came bracks. colvin had historically been skeptical of the european union. but the campaign exposed an inability to feign to xians that would turn his new front bench against him. 'd voted no confidence. 'd 'd on the leadership challenge i don't think we've been strong enough i don't think on leadership collectively i don't think our leadership has been strong enough. to say really proven defied his critics and went on to beat his rivals getting a larger my. and before. 313 fun

i told her i would think what began the most left wing manifesto in living memory. i'm very proud to resent our manifesto for the many not the few thank you very much i bought the labor central used to call my jewish m.p.'s expressed concern over some corbin's our lives there was less. but despite the differences labor left head for the left when theresa may announced a snap election in 27 c i have just a meeting of the cabinet where we agreed to the government should call a general election to be held on the 8th of june. but she underestimated a man who proved to be a hit on the campaign trail by backing bricks in railing against austerity like a tory campaign on the rabble and his party denied me a majority and came labour's largest vote share since tony blair. doubling

themselves to government in waiting labour's polling numbers remained in the late thirty's and early forty's through the rest of the year. but the party's honeymoon period wouldn't last forever. there was another issue that just refused to go. and it became a crisis for callings leadership. by the time bracks it came to a head and 2090 many had become frustrated by labour's perceived lack of direction when it came to leaving europe. does that mean you are backing away from the idea of a 2nd referendum is becoming less of a priority for you know we're not backing away we believe there must be a consummate republic vote deceive people feel that's what they voted for we have now resigned. from the you don't. spend.

fighting the people within it good morning very nice to see you and goodbye until early to make the call we will negotiate a credible lead the other for you secondly we will put that alongside remain in a referendum i would have dropped a neutral start the traditional northern labor hawkers but it votes to leave felt betrayed. and went to reason may wish to place by breakfast here boris johnson you seem to his message might resonate. snuffle action was called labour's message couldn't be more of a culture we've got to do in order to ensure that whatever the outcome of. the trade relationship continues with you or. when it came to the manifesto called approach we can rewrite the rules of our economy to work for the many. things you know the wealthy and the powerful who tell you that's not possible. the future.

but it seems the public didn't trust him to deliver so much to so many people the straw that broke the camel's back was anti semitism and his perceived failure to address our government will protect every community. against the abuse they receive on the streets on the trains and. it all added up to disaster in the polls traditionally we call them the red state safe strongholds in these areas but what we saw the trajectory was they were turning from red to pretty throughout the morning and as the red wall fell the curtain came down on labour's most radical leader. and i will not lead the party in any future general election campaign. well to look at the party's future i'm joined by former labor m.p.

5 al rashid fight al good to see you will history will history be kind to call been . well i think i think if you look at well 1st well thank you for having me tonight and it's a very exciting time for the little party as well we are moving towards a different direction and we seen lots of different people going into the shadow cabinet as well and you know one of the you know one of the at milligan's policeman for nearly a year i think it's a very good move in terms of when it getting the business leaders back into the labor party as well exciting time to say so your therefore saying the stomach is the right man for labor. absolutely you know i have supported a star in this leadership campaign and i personally believe that the combination of leader and leader we have now is being needed for a long time and i think that angela arena has a deputy leader she's

a quick campaigner as well and you know she will get involved in the liberal leave waters in the northwest and try to get all those liberal workers back and i think it's a great combination and it's a very exciting time for the little part but can a london based lawyer and indeed knight of the realm that remain really win over those former northern heartens i think we need to move on from perhaps it now or it has been done and you know we have left the european union to negotiating the deal with the european union i think this is the time for bringing the liberal values back into on the table and talk about those liberal values and speak to those people who left the. issue over the last year and to. get them back and i think the best person for the job that's what it should be it's not about you know it was from london who is doing what i think it's

a great you know it's ever going to cause brett's a completely overshadowed now by coronavirus what about saddam's approach to this working with the government part criticizing failings on testing. well i think i think if you look at you know the job of the opposition is to criticize or constructively criticize the government and making sure that the government is doing things which is right for our country right for the people and that's what you know opposition should continue to do but obviously it has to be very constructive which gets dummer so that we will support the government in this corner wires and we will keep the dialogue going at just a final thought will start to be able to tackle issues like anti semitism and as an issue that's hardly been resolved the common core been going absolutely i'm very confident that he will resolve this issue once for all and very much needed for our party to get back as ever she thank you very much indeed for joining us live here

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