on the streets of america want social justice nominally speaking that's a positive message the problem is that message is translated into concrete political demands and when it happens if you don't agree with those goals if it's a mix. of become a battleground in the us. people of demanding the shutdown of a local plant. is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous. power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limit this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on where's the power in this country where's it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional participatory democracy is your power lie with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in very real ways.

this is boom box the one business show you can't afford to miss more in washington coming up there with. the hard way that is not a luxury item. as some nations have begun to reopen their economies a surge in cope and 19 cases has followed we take a spin around the globe and see which hotspots are seeing a coronavirus comeback plus we analyze how markets have reacted in the wake of the outbreak but could there be a darker horizon ahead and later the u.s. is no stranger to surging gun sales but how much of the pain demick driven the sector we have so much to get to so let's dive right in. there. and we lead the

program with renewed concerns about a 2nd wave of corona virus infections as the world health organization reported a record number of new cases sunday. yesterday more than 183000 new cases of quoted were reported to w 2 is really the most you know a single day so far. more than 8800000 cases 7 now been reported to joe and more than 465000 people have lost their lives some countries are continuing to see out about getting increasing cases and as some countries that have successfully selfless transmission are now seeing an absolutely. open there's were scientists and economists. there as we just heard this marks the largest daily increase since the start of the outbreak according to the w.h.o. brazil had the highest increase in new cases followed by the united states and india the w.h.o. director general also spoke about the need to maintain measures to limit the spread

of the virus while the world attempts to resume some sort of normalcy we continue to urge all countries to double down on the fundamental public health measures that we know work finding and testing suspected cases this works isolating and carrying seek works tracing and quiet and tuning contacts works and protecting health workers words and the same time these measures can only be effective if each and every individual takes the measures that we also know world to protect themselves and others. and with these increased numbers coming as academies continue to reopen or at least enter new phases of the reopening process let's take a global look at the spread of the virus with r.t. correspondent saya tavenner. so there's been a lot going on around the world you know in france and millions of students are actually returning to school germany is scrambling to contain an outbreak in one of the country's largest pork processing plant and health officials in south korea

announced that they're battling a 2nd wave of the virus and in india people in desperate need of treatment are being turned away due to overload in hospital capacities while good news coming out of new york city as about 300000 workers are expected to return to work next monday as this city begins a new phase of reopening and a look at the numbers here is where we are globally the u.s. still has the most cases followed by followed by brazil russia india and do you pay and the u.s. accounts for 20 percent of new global cases around the world now the big difference between this list where it lists the cases around the world is another list which is new cases that are coming around the world now the only difference between here and i'm going to have them continue list up here right now which is going to give

you a comparison of the top cases versus the u.s. cases coming up going to them do that right now see if you could compare if not we'll go back to it later but the difference between those 2 lists is that the u.k. is on this list with the number of cases blood with new cases coming out of that country they're no longer there instead chile has joined the list with new cases and right here there you go so u.k. is no longer on the list instead we have a chill day in the u.s. still has the most cases it was brazil but overnight u.s. went up on the list followed by india russia and chile and brand 5 states in the u.s. have actually also reached a new milestone here in the. as with seeing their highest 7 day average now in california in california the number of people hospitalized is the highest it's been

since to pandemic and on sunday the had the most new cases in a single day which is why we also saw california mandating that everyone wear a mask in public and then there is florida that that on saturday reported the most in a single day that that state has also seen in fact miami's mayor just announced that his city would not be moving into its 3rd phase of reopening because of the increase in new cases and then we have texas which has which saw a 37 percent increase of when you compare new cases compared to just 2 weeks ago in arizona which health officials are also warning could become the new take center of the pandemic which were to reach 85 percent of capacity of their i.c.u. patients and hospitals lastly south carolina broke its record with new cases reported on saturday now these same 5 states that have the record number of new

cases well they're also open way before the flood in the curve and before that enough testing and tracing infrastructure in place but in the case well california is just a little bit different of course the increase is contributed to the reopening of businesses way too early but there's also new outbreak said nursing homes but california has a lot more testing so more testing more cases of course then there's another trend going on right here in the u.s. the rising percentage of people who are testing positive for the riders a lot younger than before you know going from about a 65 in april to now they're under 30 now in some states which has been linked to younger people going out to restaurants bars and attending lots of parties without social distancing so although younger people. tend to recover a much better and are mostly asymptomatic by there's also a problem because once the younger people they become infected then they go home to their family members and then they infect the older population then you get older

people get the complication and and that's when the hospital stays go up but as of now brand the recent rise of cases among young adults could actually lower their threats that is until young people go to infect others then that's a completely different story brant r.t. correspondent saya temperature thanks so much for keeping us up to date. despite a record number of quote a virus cases u.s. equities are in the greenland so let's take a look at what's driving games with tobin's this c.e.o. of transformative research co-host christy i thank you both so much for joining us today i know kristie i want to start here we're seeing the largest single day increase in global clone a virus case on sunday according to w.h.o. but apparently the international financial market doesn't seem to even be worried what's going on here. well so i just mention this up taken in case it's seen worldwide comes as many of the previous restrictions and quarantine orders have now

been lifted so the markets are being really biased now and surging on the hope and optimism at the slightest hint of a good news at the slightest hint of reopening but it's not really reacting to any new bad news as it should be and most of it is due to central bank policy and seemingly unlimited amount of stimulus being poured into the market daily the fed balance sheet from 4 trillion dollars in march to 7 point 2 trillion just last week acting like a big keeping everything afloat so for traders it's actually kind of difficult to short to try to get going toe to toe with the fed now the market has completely decoupled from reality and this is this 40 percent rally from the march lows is really not support it it's coming when the u.s. economic health is at a low point when millions of people out of work. and bankruptcy is likely to continue as businesses camp for real then and disposable income is getting tight and i mean it really is a perfect recipe for the complete destruction of the middle class in the toe but i

wonder if some of that up here because we just saw jeremy grantham the investor who called the last 3 financial bubbles come out and say that this 4th bubble is the real mccoy and that long exposure should be at 0 and he actually said if you can muster it less than 0 what do you think of that do you agree and what you make of this statement. well 2 things i respect your me tremendously i've worked with him for years but he's always about 2 to 3 years early that's how germy work remember he came out and said in 2006 we were in a bubble you actually were in a bubble remember a bubble is just simply went higher prices create higher prices so we are in a bubble in the sense that you know we've never had stimulus like this we've never had fed money we've never had $1200.00 checks sent to people but if you look at history and jeremy will be the 1st one to tell you this is an event driven bear market over the last 200 years in germany has a bet been around i believe for 189 years you have these event driven markets to

dive and they bounce back and we've had many of them we've had a world wars we've had you know pandemics we've this is happened before the market is not disrupted from reality i'm sorry the market is doing exactly what the market has done for 200 years remember we're a measurement system looking up 24 months the stock market is not today's economy the stock market is valuing 24 months 18 to 24 months in the future and they are betting on a sharp recovery and you know why because you've never had just much money where i just watch stimulus we never had the the federal reserve say the worst case scenario can't happen we're not going to let it you had all of the other and you have you know a bear market to a bull market in 3 days what's unusual about that kristie what do you make of this . before the bubble where do you see as you agree with. i think we are literally at it's really difficult to call the top of the bubble when it's going to burst because he's right higher prices does just continue to drive higher prices and as

we just said the fed's money is just going to be a constant booming so even if investors think that this is a completely decoupled from reality it's really really difficult to go short because you never know when the just i inject my stimulus inject my policy and then you're just going to mean the market like what a let's let's not forget those senators are going to have to vote in election year are they going to not send more money are they not going to do more unemployment and we see more money at april that any monthly history of the united states can you believe it so yes fiscal monetary stimulus is the oxygen and interest rates are the gravity of financial markets and not simply dollar funding pressures of actually eased off and the health of the dollar has actually kind of been restored at this point is this going to last or are we waiting for the other shoe to drop a some would say. well. what you learned a long time ago like i want to want is for the dollar to go down something else has to go up right because it's

a they're going to change so when the dollar goes down in 30 that's good for francis energy because now we're going to have higher prices because it takes more dollars to buy $50.00 a barrel of oil right now we are still the cleanest shirt in a dirty laundry number one number 2 there's no question that down the road we're going to have issues about how much debt we have but the 3rd issue is you've got to do that in comparison to everybody else if you look at the euro you look at japan in a 25 year you know essentially recession slash depression china who else is going to have 85 percent of the world's transactions and be able to have liquidity of 25 trillion dollars a day nobody so until somebody can do that and china wants to do it of course but you know i want to look like like canada i want to look like you and i'm going to have so. you know the issue here is that yeah it's like it's like you know capitalism it's a really horrible system except when you compare it to everybody else and we're

sort of in that same situation right now it's all been you know flattery gets you nowhere around here but i do have a quick question for you which is not who are continuing to see lots of strength in tech during the pandemic the nasdaq is on a 7 day winning streak what are you telling your subscribers right now to look for when it comes to big tech. well in essence what has happened is we put a microscope on top of all business processes and a company like look at the auto dealers they use it i would only dollar stump people want to test drive cars now they've completely changed their business model all companies who are going to survive are going to have to become this digital budget but a little business process underlying everything they do and so the technology companies that enable that everything from a company like fastly which has just been on a tear recently which we're starting to you know talk about and recommend because there is no alternative now you know we used to say tina there is no alternative to

stocks now there is tina for digital out of an automation of your business there is no alternative if you don't have it you're going to be out of business and everybody understands that from the very top to the very bottom and that means you have to own microsoft you have to own you know docu sign you have to own companies that you know crowd strike to prevent you have to own all those to v.p.n. fortnight you have to have that it because there's no alternative and oh by the way they're selling for $25.00 to $30.00 times their revenues but their revenues are growing 30 to 40 percent so you get a discount that back at look you know a lot of them are too expensive we are buying some lower priced ones that have the same glide path but we're paying 5 times told them to submit the transformative research with co-host christine we can we do this all day thank you so much for that expert analysis. thank you. time now for a quick break but here because when we return the u.s. is no stranger to surging gun sales but how much of the pandemic driven the say we

have in-depth analysis coming up and as we go to break here are the numbers at the close. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. who dares thinks. we dare to ask.

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going on the shores in the summer i was in the police force to this hold. and welcome back while the crowd of iris pandemic has wreaked havoc across multiple industries some have seen an increase in sales over the last 3 months at the beginning we saw people cleaning supplies and even toilet paper become incredibly hard to find and as home orders continued hair dye hair cutting shears and electric hair clippers started flying off the shelves as a trim became necessary but a number of other industry have seen a surge in sales amid the pandemic ben swan has been following the numbers and filed this report. all gun sales this year have been absolutely surging in fact to the 2nd highest level ever on record in the u.s.

now the last time we saw a massive surge in gun sales was in 2013 that was right after the reelection of president barack obama and after the sandy hook school shooting but what makes 2020 different than 2013 is not only have we seen the 2nd largest surge in gun sales in u.s. history but a 2nd surge has begun just this month so let's take a look at this the 1st search took place at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic lockdowns at the same time that millions of americans began raiding stores grabbing up toilet paper and hand sanitizer in fact grabbing all that they could carry millions of other americans began buying huge numbers of handguns shot guns and ammo americans bought about 2000000 guns in march according to a new york times analysis of federal data it was the 2nd busiest month ever. for gun sales trailing only january of 2013 just after president barack obama's reelection and the mass shooting at sandy hook elementary school according to

monthly sales figures from the f.b.i. in many states estimated sales doubled in march compared with february in utah they nearly tripled and take a look at this in michigan which had one of the most strict responses to the lock down numbers there also tripled the international firearms specialist academy website saw a 50 percent rise in people taking online training courses during the pandemic the classes teach gun safety standards and how to identify specific gun models now none of this is too surprising considering the fact that in the united states anytime there is some kind of major event that stokes fear and concern among the public including about fear of their neighbors or fear of government overreach we suddenly see a surge in gun sales it's not terribly uncommon but again what makes this situation different is that while we did see a big surge in gun sales in the 1st part of this year as a result of the pandemic those numbers had begun to drop in april and may and then right around june began to spike again this time over protests 2 things here seem

to trigger the latest violence spree one the protests which devolve from peaceful to violent in some places as storefronts were destroyed and secondly warnings from president trump that he would deploy the national guard into the streets to put down protests calls from people across the political spectrum online many times came back to a simple statement looks like it's time to buy a gun during the last week of may firearm sales were up 78 percent over $21000.00 while the f.b.i. data for gun sales in june obviously has not been released gun stores are reporting massive numbers of sales including one store owner alone say 9 millimeter and 45 caliber handguns have been sold by the hundreds as well as home protection shotguns . and sales of a r 15 rifles have skyrocketed to the point where just keeping in the tory in the stores is a huge problem one other important note here many people think that when we see

these surges in gun buy across the country it's because you have gun owners who are going out and hoarding guns or buying up large amounts of guns to add to their collection or a cache of guns in their homes but that's not necessarily the case this year in fact one gun store owner says that 60 to 70 percent of all sales at his gun store are not from repeat buyers but from 1st time gun owners. and let's go ahead and bring in boom bust co-host ben swan to discuss this further now ben you actually kind of touched on it a little bit about government overreach on concerns and that nature but why does a pandemic spur gun sales i mean what do you see as the rationale here. yeah i think it's the same reason that people will run out and grab a bunch of toilet paper right why why would someone do that well because the fear is that we're going to run out and that if government locks things down i won't have access to be able to protect my family with getting them the things that they need what part of that fear also realized and what if it goes even further than

that what if people attempt to take from me what i've collected what if there is food rationing that's taking place and someone comes to take from me so there is a especially american idea here that says i have to protect myself and i have to protect my family because i can't count on someone else whether it's police or government to do so and gun sales spike when that happens you know how do these sales spikes due to social unrest which you touched on later in your piece there compared to previous situations that we saw in say ferguson missouri or baltimore maryland just a few years ago. you know it's i think it's different for a couple of reasons number one what's made this particular set of protests so i think starkly different than what we've seen in the past is the fact that they came on the tail end of these lock downs which we've never experienced before so you literally had months sprint where people were not allowed to leave their homes and felt like there was already a certain amount of government overreach and government control being pushed on to

them then you see the protests that taking place that what's fascinating about this is that the people who are calling to go ahead and buy guns come from both sides there are protesters who say we need to be armed because drums talking about sit in the national guard to stop us and then you have people on the other side who say hey police right now there's talk of defunding policing getting rid of police do protesters think they're going to come to my home and destroy my home and so you have both sides literally arming themselves because no one is sure where the actual order in society comes from and whenever there is fear of a lack of order in society more people say then i will have to create order on my own no ben there was a time when the gun lobby and specifically the national rifle association what kind of stoke sales as these types of situations would happen when you would see a mass shooting or when you would see not necessarily pandemic of a social unrest you would see this kind of stir but it appears over the last few years and i want to say specifically since the shooting at the moment douglas high school in florida they've kind of been very very quiet why is that. yeah i think

there's a couple of reasons for that i mentioned in the piece of the last time we saw this major surge in sales would go back to 2013 president obama was reelected the sandy hook shooting took place and then there was talk at that time of banning eyre 15 rifles and we saw this huge surge in gun purchases and ammo purchases because people were rushing out to go ahead and buy these weapons before they became illegal because it was also said dorrie would ban new purchases anything that you already own is already grandfathered in so you had a huge spike of people going out and buying these what has changed. though i think is that over the past couple of years we've had more of these incidents and yet the legislation has not come so i don't think people necessarily feel that same fear what's different here is we have never had to shut down because of a pandemic as for the n.r.a. i think that they have really gotten beat up since 20122013 have taken a more low profile position because the news and the p.r.

that they've gotten has been horrible for the boom bust because ben swan thanks so much for breaking all this down for us. my pleasure. and finally virgin galactic announced monday it has entered a partnership with nasa to develop a program intended to push for private missions to the international space station the richard branson backed space exploration company issued a series of tweets saying it would work with the johnson space center to identify those who would buy private missions as well as developing training packages for would be space travelers now this is not the 1st partnership between the 2 entities virgin galactic entered an agreement with nasa in may to develop aircraft for potential civilian use nasa has of course been working with private companies in recent years just last month musk space x. ended the agency's 9 year hiatus of manned spaceflight by delivering 2 astronauts to the i assess on the news of virgin galactic partnership the company's stock shot up as much as 15 percent at points throughout the day and that's it for this time

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welcoming our viewers from around the world live from central london this is r.t. u.k. . given. the significant food in the prevalence of the virus we can change the 2 metre social distancing route from the 4th of july. the u.k. prime minister called social distancing from 2 meters to be one metre plus as he announces the return of pubs restaurants dante addresses to get reaction of a medical expert as well as liberal democrat politician jonathan fryer. it's 4 years to the day since the u.k. voted to leave the european union trade discussions are still ongoing but what is

actually changed since the referendum we hear from both sides of the debate. as the opposition divides the u.k. government reestablishes the scrutiny committee on homes exports and it concerns the deals are going on checked we hear from a disarmament campaign of. course johnson has announced a further easing of the lockdown restrictions in england from july the 4th including a reduction in social distancing guidelines vote conditional and subject to change the prime minister said the new rules would help the country emerge from 3 months of national hibernation. given the significant form in the prevalence of the virus we can change the 2 metre social distancing rule

from the 4th of july. i know this rule effectively makes life impossible for large parts of our economy even without other restrictions for example it prevents all but a fraction of our hospitality industry from operating. that's why almost 2 weeks ago i asked our experts to conduct a review and i will place a summary of their conclusions in the libraries of both houses this week where it is possible to keep 2 meters apart people should but where it is not we will advise people to keep a social distance of one meter plus meaning they should remain one meter apart while taking mitigations to reduce the risk of transmission. or to take us through their changes announced by the prime minister of now joined by r.t. you casey certainly hi there isa so what does cutting this distance actually mean

for businesses. well this will come as a huge relief to the hospitality sector in particular with mr johnson with boris johnson making reference to the fact that. the hospitality industry has been the hardest hit during this period and also that it's been difficult for them to be allowed to reopen but this new use it will mean that restaurants bars cafes other venusians data transfer has been closed throughout this period will be allowed to open so long as patients keep that one meter distance and other measures are taken such as possibly making customers sit back to that call having them have cursed x. glass between different tables all of these measures taken to according to the government try to reduce the spread of any virus while a measure which those countries which those statisticians might have to implement is to take the names and contact details of all the visitors to that restaurants

and pubs and so on for the purposes of helping the government with their track and trace program that's something that could warry privacy and civil liberties campaign as well as johnson he was in the commons and to update the house as to these latest changes to the regulations. misspeak i can tell the house that we were also reopen rest grows and pops. all hospitality in doors will be limited to table service and our guidance would encourage minimal staff and customer contact we will ask business is to help and has test increased response to any local outbreak by collecting contact details from customers as happens in other countries and we will work with the sector to make you think manageable. so what other

restrictions are being that the jew she said had just been told that they can open it with proportions like devices can also open again where it's safe to those who are looking to visit family and friends you can meet with one household of as many people inside and outside you can overstay you can overstate stay over for a night it has to be the same family you visit each time you go you can't visit different members of the family hotels and camp sites can also be opened again as always facilities can show they're being kept clean libraries outdoor gyms and playgrounds can be reopened also places of worship of course we know that such as last temple synagogues and other places of worship have been closed they will be allowed a maximum of 30 people if it's safe to do so what aren't allowed to open nightclubs water parks indoor soft play areas not all of this applies to england it doesn't apply to scotland just yet but that person is nudists that is saying that to me too

will stay the course as long as their scientists advise them to do so it's still going but it's sort of thank you very much indeed thank you. and to discuss the implications of these new measures i'm now joined by rice abroad comes to and liberal democrat politician jonathan jonathan thank you for joining us how do you feel about giving your contact details to buy a pint not draw happy i have to say i think it's reasonable for people who want to book a table in a restaurant to give their details the who point about company into pub for a drink with friends it seems to me to be completely distorted if you then have to handle real details and where do those details go to. we already have enough of the big brother states in this country i think without adding this on top of the government that argue that it means they can quickly trace and localized outbreaks of coronavirus. well that's certainly what the government will say though i suspect

that many young drinkers for example will be as has been suggested in social media the calling themselves mickey mouse fred jones or whatever rather than giving their actual details because as we understand it there is no obligation to show any form of id so the system is very much. to be questioned and we do have to ask why is england doing this now when scotland is waiting for another 10 days also if it's safe not safe in scotland how is it safe in england once i got what i like to think i think it's good that we're the sensual distancing is going to continue and certainly staff in pubs and restaurants should be wearing visors as well as face masks i think we're coming out of knock down a bit too soon i understand why and i'm heart bleeds for businesses that are going to the wall because of what's happening but it looks the way the government is

doing is putting an awful lot of responsibility on individuals to act responsibly and unfortunately we've seen for example with how people rushed off to the beaches and to parks way before long before they should have done that that's putting too much responsibility in difficult hands about they are given that isn't it if it's this way or it's no pubs or restaurants and surely it's preferable to do it this way. well we should see if you know how it works and i suspect the whole thing will well actually fall apart and markoff may well happen i hope not but may well happen is that what what the government is secretly is that there will be a 2nd wave and they will discover that it's all happening far too soon and then more people will die and i think that must be the ultimate test is how can we stop more people dying there are still people dying in this country from coronavirus unlike in several of our european nations neighbors well as

a liberal and what do you think the government should do or do you think they should have all done it much sooner. when i think they either should have certainly brought down in much sooner yes and also made rules much clara and boris johnson has tended to from. an administration which is left which is these basically giving mixed messages of all sorts of what is possible what is not possible and leaving far too many loopholes i'm in this convoluted business about how you can meet people from one household to have a meal but not another house knows how on earth that the people going to police that they conned obviously therefore again i think it's really mixed messages and it's being handled very sloppily but the serious thing is the lockdown came in late and far too many people died who need not have done all of the prior think you very

much indeed for joining us or more on the change in social distancing out of the evidence behind it and i'm joined by academic and chemical pediatrician does a shun correction. thank you for joining us who were written about this in an academic paper is there any slips behind one meter or indeed to rate us. thank you whoa what we did. in the sense of. we just so times out. of the question whatever i want to shut down to the want to me to go it's not a funny date. and it's actually by some he's. got decades that i thought on the. morning that we're done. with the technology we have now are the doctors are over same doctors ok because i don't want to be a sense. so very definite me and say radical basis

for warning about. stephanie if we reduce safety. and increase likelihood of admission of crying about the scientists they understand all the say was behind what is happening but the public in there is we do a life they need life they need boundaries don't they even if it is a crude measurement that they can understand i agree and i guess the question is why would you go that measure i'm going to make sense to me when it's still valid today and i wind up in the context of soccer all of china 5 hours relaxation with potentially the same thing happening again from the confines of any relaxation we just have to be extra vigilant and we have to be extra actually aware of the spike might happen we might have stepped back to

introduce more strict measures in this or more accurate way but the only thing people. i think. what we should have a sense of the fact that hundreds of cars need to read which is something which part of and perhaps we can think about but it is talking about people going back to par maybe encouraging and developing our socializing activities that have proof about people who are just continuing to invest the balance is that you people who are higher. than what you are comparable to what actually happened while i was more resistant to have throughout that region over we have the benefit of the outdoor rather that are well documented out there i mean much of this is uncharted is it is a case of trying to ease the lock down and also clamp down on it again if the case a spike. in the case but i think when it comes down we need to.

more areas of the risk of my worry about. is that they are the highest risk areas but people congregate knowledge from those. quite loud and it's the time. of the very least they're going to be not they have what they want reform and after rethink how we socialize out. how to change but very briefly that we have to balance the risks again and also with the risk to the economy as well. yeah it's not just the public health this is ultimately a healthy nation it's part of the whole the economically productive in the long run and so we need to make sure that we forget about the value of 5 of our lives out that position correctly thank you very much and a few thoughts and. well as we mentioned the government has announced that

tonight's coronavirus press briefing will be the last of the daily events after that though we come less frequent. takes a look at how and lightning they've been or not and how long they might continue i've been in government is one thing but perhaps the u.k. government's coronavirus press briefings have shown you really can't have too much of a not very good thing let's go back 3 months ago when the virus was rapidly spreading the public were left in the dark and the media were fuming whilst the government was seemingly appearing to lack to have any direction or clarity so in an effort to seize control of the agenda and the virus downing street went for broke not just for the weekly or even twice weekly briefing but one every single day good morning everybody good afternoon good afternoon welcome everyone to the government's daily briefing good idea well no one could accuse the government of not being open honest and transparent. so it was agreed journalists could have another go with mixed results why didn't we order the kits weeks ago when this 1st emerged as

a problem why did we wage what he answered all the. time robert what was your 1st question exactly we haven't tried the only question i can't answer yet but i'm happy to be proved wrong. its objective was to stop the spread of the virus like you kind of but i think we're going to need to. as the weeks roll by set patterns and but even though certain things became standard like announcing the death because it didn't make it much easier there has been 300-034-9740 extension 00 tests carried out across the u.k. getting scientists on board was masterstroke they know what they're talking about get them to answer the difficult questions but it soon became quite clear that they weren't quite message but i can assure you that the desire not to get pulled into politics is far stronger on the part of the patrick in me than it is in the in the

prime minister is that the minister has all the scientists offering me advice. the advice that we gave was certainly took account of what testing was available. it was what was the best thing to do with the test that we had it didn't happen on stage either the chief nurse ruth mae was dropped just hours before a press conference for allegedly refusing to back the p.m.'s chief advisor dominic cummings and his little lock down trip to die or someone in number 10 decided it was better not to have too much of the science but even when ministers did take center stage there was a slight problem of saying too much on the record we will begin to pilot test track and trace only isle of wight today we formally launch n.h.s. test and trace of course we've been testing google in apple's product 2 and as we did this we found that it does not estimate distance well enough measuring distance

of course is mission critical to any contact tracing that things began to flag that a team was replaced by the be or even c.t. we can briefings were scrapped but even so junior ministers had very little to announce and i turn to the 1st slide please. the 1st line which brings me to something which many people have been eagerly awaiting news about and that's the return of light sport of course the ratings plummeted over 27000000 viewers at the height of the pandemic now down over 90 percent even boris johnson's owner parents has failed to grab the audiences and as we head towards a new normal it seems only a matter of time before this coronavirus sideshow comes to a close if anyone still watching tonight us child actress ashley r.t. . still to come this hour. it's 4 years a day since the u.k. voted to leave the e.u. as trade negotiations carry on but what's actually changed we hear from both sides

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welcome back the u.k.'s shadow health secretary has hit out at the government's development of a contact tracing out which has been seen repeated delays to the national says the scheme has wasted taxpayers' money on the r. misspeak of the sec's use they told us it was clearly show and will be ready by mid may experts warned him it wouldn't work he spent 3 months wasted 12000000 pounds and he's got nothing to show for it he's likely eric morcombe of the comedy he's been craving all the right notes just not necessarily in the right order well this follows a u. turn by the government on the apps development number 10 originally wanted to create a bespoke version of the application that centrally stored or patient data and didn't use the d. centralized template created by tech giants apple and google but it was revealed that patient data could have been stored for up to 20 years well last week the

government opted to use the apple google model instead saying it had always intended to work with them which the tech company denied health secretary matt hancock has defended the government's position. making sure that we use technology to its best possible effects is incredibly important and i would have thought that the shadow sector state would want to side with and support the efforts of all those including in the n.h.s. who are doing the work on this. their k. government is facing calls to reform its watchdog in charge of scrutinizing u.k. arms exports after it emerged the committee has been out of action for 6 months parliament's committee on arms export control is responsible for monitoring the u.k.'s arms exports but it's yet to be established after dissolving before last year's general election and many m.p.'s are concerned the public are being kept in the dark about u.k. arms trading while it remains the world's 2nd biggest arms exporter the shadow

minister for peace and disarmament has urged the commons leader to call for the committee to reform as soon as possible. there are currently many complex being balls around the world in which britain sells to one or more of the warring parties including the ongoing conflict in yemen there is mounting and legitimate concern over a number of existing licenses that would allow the potential use of british equipment such as rubber bullets for example in places like hong kong the united states and other destinations of concern the committee on arms export countries needs to be allowed to scrutinise these licenses at the earliest opportunity. or figures revealed by the campaign against arms trade show that last year britain sold 1300000000 pounds worth of arms to 26 of the 48 countries categorized as not free by the u.s. pro-democracy institution freedom house the u.k. was also found to have license at least 5300000000 pounds worth of arms to south saudi arabia since 2015 when it because when it began even bombing yemen the u.k.

government has faced a sharp criticism over its arms sales to countries like saudi arabia well last year a court ruling declared it unlawful and a supreme court case is pending while politicians and human rights groups and are calling for ministers to end the tear gas and rubber bullets exports the u.k. delivers to the u.s. well we've approached the government for comment on reestablishing the scrutiny committee and we'll let you know if it comes back to us meanwhile as previously said that the u.k. has among the toughest arms export controls in the world well oxfam's policy adviser on arms and conflict martin but butcher told me why having a committee to scrutinise u.k. arms exports is so important. the high court in 2017 noted that it was a crucial part of the machinery for making sure the parliament had oversight of government policy in practice and it has indeed proved that time and again over the

years so this is a vital committee where even when it was functioning we know it's been out of action for 6 months i mean the u.k. sold to many controversial countries involved in serious conflicts didn't it. it it did and the committee won't ever have the power to stop that but for example after the arab spring when the committee examined licenses for supplying to countries that were committing human rights abuses the government ended up canceling $150.00 of those licenses so it can name and shame and that pressure has an effect and that that happened with a conservative chair of the committee said john stanley under a conservative government so it's not a party political issue it's a scrutiny of government by parliament issue. and finally is 4 years to the day since the u.k. voted to leave the european union in the 2016 referendum prime minister barak's

johnson had previously claimed there's no reason why the outline of a bret's that deal cannot be completed by july that leaves downing street and fossils with just over a week to finalize any preliminary agreements the so-called level playing field of trade rules and standards as well as fishing quotas are still points of contention in the negotiations on june the 23rd 2016 britain voted to leave the e.u. a result that shocked political experts in the 4 years that have followed the u.k. has had 3 different prime ministers 2 general elections and a plethora of brussels based discussions but some would contend that not much has actually changed so 4 years on from rex it was the state of play or we put the issue up for debate with former independent m.e.p. andrew curry and perhaps that expert professor john ryan. it's created a lot of political turmoil it's paralyze parliament in the context of

a lot of guy who destroyed destruction ukase being weakened globally and we're split culturally because people still feel even after the brics it's happened and i still feel. aligned to some of the abderrahim previous positions and lot of people are still kind of mariah remain are in it mentality in action. and we've just been prime minister is we've got boris johnson who kind of. capitalized on what the brics a party did and actually start part of the tie the knot breaks it was successful in the end to naturally becoming prime minister. it's it has been a very very difficult process and this trade issue has always been a bit of a misnomer because any of the trade deals that you look tat have not been really appropriate for wa actually breaks it is been asking for oh let's turn to that and

to what do you think to that. well i think john is quite right it has been difficult but you know if it was one company and you were going to take over another company and then you found some you'll keep louise or directors have gone behind your back and look trying to stop it why we had a prime minister initially inmate who was not in favor of the bricks and we had a pro remain civil service and we had an ex prime ministers getting behind the back trying to encourage the e.u. not to give anyway it's not surprising we've had her renders time and some would respect the democratic decision but on the other hand in orphans we do have the e.u. who are desperately worried that if the if the u.k. does well others will follow so the e.u. are going to be thought in for its survival was the real problem that a very complex issue is actually wrapped up in. an oversimplified yes or no question well no i think in fairness you have to have the fundamental question was

rightly put do we stay or do we leave leave you leave it means you coming away from the european union's regulations and political. alignment i mean that's a fundamental question and i'll be back in just over half an hour of live coverage of the government's final daily coronavirus press briefing given by prime minister barak's chances. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to air force base in alaska where is that to say come on i'll show you what's the reason for any type of enhanced u.s. military presence in this area russia. what is it suddenly about the south china sea that makes it so that it 11000000000 barrels of oil.

take a look at this map who really owns what kind of says no it belongs to us india says no we claim that that belongs to us both of these countries have nuclear weapons capabilities there is reason for concern so that's why we're going to drill down on this story for you today right here on the news with rick sanchez where you know as we always like to say we do believe by golly it's time to do news again. it's fair to say many of the protesters on the streets of america want social justice nominally speaking that's a positive message the problem is that message is translated into concrete political demands and what happens if you don't agree with those it's. become a battleground in the u.s.

. people lived a month in the shutdown of a local plant for my yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous. power plant that was attempting to run the reactive beyond its operational limits this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on where's the power in this country where's it going is it moved. or is it more in the idea of traditional. people this case demonstrates that. police are losing funding stone relics.