let's speak now to brian berry who is the chief executive of the federation of master builders.calling for reforms in the planning system for some years and we have got a housing crisis in this country and we should be building 300,000 homes a year, but we are in building 200,000. anything that speeds up the planning process to increase the supply of housing is welcome news. but we particular want to get more local house—builders involved. but we particular want to get more local house-builders involved. but i suppose the worry for environmentalists and people like shelter who i mentioned is that you might end up cutting corners in terms of the planning process. well, there is automatic approval as the secretary of state has said, we need to see the details. there will be guidelines in terms of quality of design and that is really important. we wa nt design and that is really important. we want to see the details of that. in terms of our countryside, the proposal is to protect areas of outstanding natural beauty and the green belt, so that should give some reassurance. i would a

brian today. my apologies for having to deal with a pee hangry pete hegseth. pete who has not had a mcif you have fin. pete: there is no greens, fruit, blue berrieslast week was the democrat convention. this coming week we have the republican convention. and lots of topics have come up. one of those being covid-19,obviously. the country is looking for leadership on that issue. the biden camp and the trump administration having very different perspectives on that. joe biden, in particular, weighed in on abc, there is a big interview that's airs this sunday night on abc news. we have a clip of him talking to david muir about the possibility of of a second shutdown and whether or not he would be willing to shut the country down a 60 time. let's listen to what he had to say on that. >> if you are sworn in come january, and we have coronavirus and the flu combining, which many scientists have said is a real possibility, would you be prepared to shut this country down again? >> i would shut it counsel. i would listen to the scientists i would be prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives. we cannot get the country moving until we control the virus.

a little earlier, we spoke to brian berry from the federation of master builders and got his reaction reaction to the announcement. need to see the dei there we need to see the details of this. there will be guidelines in terms of quality and design, that's really important, so we want to see those details. in terms of our countryside, the proposal is to protect area of countryside, the proposal is to protect area of outstanding natural beauty in the green belt, so that should be some reassurance. i would also like to see what the measures are in terms of resourcing planning departments because that's an issue as well, insolent and the planning abdication process. but what the government seems to be saying is, in trying to speed up the process, rather than watering down the of design. classified documents from within the british military raise fresh concerns about whether uk special forces may have killed unarmed civilians when they were fighting in helmand in afghanistan in 2011. the material was disclosed as part of a court case, following a bbc panorama investigation. the programme