shyama perera and david wooding, thank you very much for being with us here on bbc news.s — journalist and author, shyama perera, and david wooding, the political editor of the sun on sunday. goodbye for now. hello. before we start looking ahead with our forecast for the next few days, i'm just going to take take a quickjump back into april because april 2020 was quite exceptional. it turns out to be the sunniest april on record, many of us seeing 50% more sunshine than we typically would. it also, though, was very dry. the april showers were few and far between. the darker the brown on the map, the drier it was, some parts of northern england seeing less than 20% of their monthly rainfall. and dry weather will play a large part in our forecast for the week ahead. looking at the chart behind me, you might think, "ooh, "there is a weather front to the south, don't they "normally bring rainfall?" well, yes, but not that much today for southern areas. just a lot of cloud, i think, across southern counties of england and south wales. the more significant rain today is likely

a short time ago we spoke to david wooding, political editor for ‘the sun on sunday‘ who spoke to boris experience in hospital. we all realise how serious it was. but it is only when you look in the eye and sit down in his office and retail shoe in graphic detail that you realise what a nasty and pernicious disease dangerous this is. it is just another influenza. it is attacked a man in his 50s and can attack any others. how did he sing to you? add a news conference he was a little breathless at the beginning because of the walk to the runway. what do you think of his physical condition? i have interviewed him several times both as london mayor and as an mp andi both as london mayor and as an mp and i noticed quite a change in him. ido and i noticed quite a change in him. i do not know how deeply this has affected him but there was something different about him. his emotions looked a raw and he was clearly aware of just how looked a raw and he was clearly aware ofjust how close he came to death. there was a mixture of elation at the birth of his son and enjoy but also of seriousness and

can i turn to david wooding?rguson and north of the border catherine calderwood. so the public could be forgiven for thinking there is one rule for us and one rule for the rest of them, and even aides may be thinking there is one rule for us but one for the downing street aides. what is different about dominic cummings and other people who have resigned in senior positions over their movements? david, thank you. look, ithink positions over their movements? david, thank you. look, i think what most people would probably be thinking what if this is, what would idoin thinking what if this is, what would i do in this situation? i have got a young child, my wife is unwell, i am worried about the ability to support the child as a father. do you then end up saying, we will take the best possible option in order to provide the ongoing care for that child, and therefore go to where there is a network but not go inside the house? that is obviously the question they have to ask. i would draw this distinction. it wasn't visi

to the pressure to open too soon, but do so in a way that considers we are still not out of the woods. davidfollowing that science and data, in illinois and elsewhere, there is an indication people of color are particularly vulnerable. we have spoken with dick durbin, your senior senator from illinois, who pointed out there's a significant issue with african-americans, but even more , perhaps, with latinos. what are you doing about that? lt. gov. stratton: we are seeing the disparity in the data, and i'm grateful that in our illinois department of public health we are sharing the statistics and the data related to health disparity. specifically as a relates to covid-19. it goes back to your original question about where our week and the path we are on and why it is so important to follow the science and the data. we know that if we open too soon, it will be people of color impacted the most. it will hit our communities first. percentdies say updated -- up to 80% of essential workers are of color and are not able to stay home. they are in grocery stores, they are city workers, their postal se

dom wood and david simon are the visionaries in a group that otherwise has washed away. >> simon did rent numbers for may. you know, they may not have come in fully >> one minute just to refresh, there's a sears at one end, a jcpenney at the other, in between a lot of gamestops and gaps, okay j. crew. >> right does that help >> right, there's not going to be anything. >> i'll be silent. >> you're hearing me >> well, we'll get webex in here and i'll find out what david is thinking i don't know >> restaurants -- this note today on qsr and yum, st eshgst takes them to buy. how much of your business can you minimize where the consumer spends inside. 95 on yum. we've seen -- you saw this 59-page memo out of mcdonald's yesterday. cleaning the bathrooms every 30 minutes. limitations on water fountain use. it will get interesting. >> that made me want to go there. of course we have a synopsis i love mcdonald's. whatever you can do to make it so you can drive through wendy's has great drive-through. chipotle has the chipot-lanes. any restaurant you've been to in new york any restaurant you've

henry david-thoreau self-quaranteself-quarantined ie massachusetts woods for two years, an experimentshakespeare penned king lear, mcbeth, and antony and cleopatra. so isaac newton was stuck at home when he developed the theory of gravity. newton, shakespeare, or lear didn't have this to worry about: home-schooling, or job loss, either, like most of us mere mortals. but if we conceive our isolation as an opportunity, like they did -- >> 75 rides on the peloton. >> reporter: -- even the smallest thing might empower us to feel a little less alone. so many of you have sent us the ways you've been coping with the lockdown, from sketching to baking to quilting. carrie fisher pascuale has been typing her way out of isolation. >> you know, a lot of people are feeling robbed, and they're feeling trapped right now. they're feeling so cut off. but there are certain things that you're never cut off from. you know, your spirit, your hope, your ability to encourage other people. >> reporter: she's making greeting cards, using old photographs. she types uplifting captions on them like "better toget

when the french prime minister saw wood row wilson's 14 points said god was content to give us 10. david lloyd george was asked to evaluate his own performance and he said i don't think i did so bad seeing as i had in a policy yeen on one side of me and jesus christ on the other. wood row wilson was the first president to take american ideals and apply them to the old world. there's that problem. a lot depends on what you think caused fundamentally caused the war. if you're the french prime minister, it's the aggression, the -- there's something inherent in the german character. it was him who was the mayor of the french neighborhoods who had argued for fighting on. to david lloyd george's mind it's a question of power, that germany grew too quick, too fast. although they were allies during the war, they had different definitions of what they thought they were doing there and different ideas of the ways to solve it. in world war ii many of the same problems are there. what do you think is the fundamental cause of the problem? until you answer that question, you can't look to solutions. s

happens when the dividends get tossed in the wood chipper it's clearer when you teach with examples we recently had the new c.e.o. of western digital on the show, david geckler, straight shooter. the storage company is doing pretty well. company has a fantastic flash memory business. i greatly admire their tech no, ma'am angie, always have i asked about it he didn't exactly say it was safe, he didn't say it was at risk >> on the dividend we'll have more to say about that in the future, jim. i'm only i think on day 13 or 14 here >> if you listen to the whole interview, you might have felt sanguine about the dividend situation especially given the healthy demand for western digital's product. then when the company reported last week, he confirmed business remained strong. next quarter period did more earnings and revenue growth. all sounded pretty darn good right up until he announced western digital was suspended its dividend which was kweelding cloyielding% at the time helping people get fixed income i'm not questioning his decision it just wasn't very fixed. item moves like this are incredibly upsetting for investors. i found it advising we had a wh