brian cox in new york state, welcome to hardtalk. welcome. thank you, stephen.l, thank you for inviting us into your home so to speak via your laptop. you have been living in brooklyn, now you're in a cabin in new york state. new york state of course is at the epicentre of the coronavirus epidemic in the us. what has life been like for you? well, i haven't...because i'm a diabetic, i haven't been engaging in anything apart from — the person who has been doing wonders is my wife, she's been fantastic. she's done the shopping and done all of that, and she's very meticulous about gloves and masks and bacterial wipes. i mean, she does the whole bit. and ijust sit here kind of like some kind of sacred cow. laughs a sacred bull, i guess! a sacred bull, i beg your pardon, yeah! laughs. and you're laughing about it, but it is stressful, isn't it? oh, yeah, it's very stressful. we have our two boys with us and they're beginning to get the cabin fever. i'm not too bad. i'm quite reclusive. i spend a lot of time, you know, flitting between here and london, so i'm quite goo

brian cox, it has been a real pleasure talking to you on hardtalk. thank you very much.r interviews for the last three or four years and admire them enormously. well, that's a really lovely way to finish! thank you so much! i do appreciate that. hello there. we saw a big cooldown in the weather over the easter period. sunday, the hottest day of the year so far with temperatures up to 25 degrees celsius. that's more than hot enough to melt some of those chocolate easter eggs. by monday, though, temperatures certainly dropped away significantly for many of us. top of the drops, manston in kent, with things 15 degrees celsius cooler on monday. now, temperatures will be picking up over the next few days, but that said, tuesday morning starting on a cold note for quite a few of us, with some patches of frost developing where the skies stay clear for any length of time. and that said, across parts of eastern england and also the south, there's probably going to be a bit too much in the way of breeze and/or cloud to see much in the way of frost. high pressure still in charge of

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so hollywood star brian cox a great friend of this program loves the most famous lines from the declaration of arbroath which is a subject matter of a brand new film from wesley rev up. the mc impose a patrick doyle. and this program will look at the history the cultural significance and the political impact of scotland's very own independence declaration. but know 1st your tweet should e-mails and your messages and 1st stop as telly commenting on the the scene is the norm island which one of the hit show has had a viewership of over 500001 facebook telly said i'm not a great show you're shining a light on the complex situation in northern ireland fascinating indeed and make fabian and some other lanes talks about the the end. of the members of the northern irish assembly calling it fascinating and insightful gotten ross.

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brian cox will be looking at the solar system. dr he will be doing some lessons.h are saying as well. it is having somewhere to go. it a complimentary service. there are also things like teacher talks, where you can go and ask questions if you are struggling a bit in terms of what the curriculum is doing at the moment. it is like a huge service to help while children are schooling at home. today you can get back to school with the girls. presumably if you are working, there are times when you need then to be working on their own. absolutely. my husband is also working from home, so husband is also working from home, so he can take over when i am on conference calls and things. in the holidays we did not stop. we worked on basic comprehension, using the workbooks. from today, hopefully, fingers crossed, they can understand what to do and do a little bit more independently. i think day by day we will just independently. i think day by day we willjust build on that really.” independently. i think day by day we willjust build on that really. i am looking at your timet

i have professor brian cox because we are all trying to improve ourselves at home and he is going toinister returns to downing street with the government under increasing pressure to explain how they‘ll ease the lockdown. it‘s next up for review on 7th may. as we‘ve been hearing this morning, spain has become the latest european country to ease its restrictions. let‘s talk to dr margaret harries who‘s from the world health organization. good morning. are very clear specific guidelines that the who has produced that countries can follow when it comes to the easing of lockdown? yes indeed we have. in fa ct a lockdown? yes indeed we have. in fact a lot of our work recently has been on developing exactly those things. there are essentially six things. there are essentially six things that need to be in place. you need to know where your transmission is, you need to have a sense that it has come down and you know when it is. the second thing you need to do is. the second thing you need to do is have the ability to track, trace and isolate and quarantine. so yes it is great you know work t

brian says brad to it. i'm not contradicting you. i'll do that later. when come straight from oftentimes we talk about reform and a wooden middle east cox road reform its apple and oranges. take for example, saudi arabia. a reformed absolute monarchy is a reformed absolute monarchy. not a democracy. it seems our conversations in congress cost the political spectrum and in usaid and so forth with regard to what is reform versus what is understood by people in the region are two different things. and when the class occurs between the two different definitions they can make things a lot worse. >> i'm going to ask -- >> could i -- in terms of what role does, can the united states play, i think it's very important to understand that any kind of intervention, i think those spaces should be treated but the way they are treated is very important because anti-western-ism is so much ingrained in clinical islam or fundamentalist interpretation, or even a month secularist. any kind of intervention by the u.s., by european union are by european countries is going to be deemed as problematic. that's why those kinds of interventions in terms of creating those spaces

thomas rutledge of charter communications, brian roberts of comcast, john malone of liberty media, dexter goi, michael combs of sprint. also, pat esper of cox communications, and jeffrey story of centurylink. they are doing an incredible job. if you look at other continents, if you look at europe, they went a different route -- a much different route, we were talking about that you little bit ago, and they are having tremendous problems. other countries are having problems. other continents are having problems. but with business at a level that nobody has seen before, on the internet, it is holding up incredibly well. and they expect that to continue no matter what happens. no matter how much more it gains. they are setting records. let me update you on the distribution of needed resources and supplies. we have a lot of numbers. i will let mike pence speak to that, but we are giving massive amounts of medical equipment and supplies to the 50 states. we also are holding back quite a bit. we have almost 10,000 ventilators at that we have ready to go. we have to hold them because the surge is coming and is coming pretty strong. and we want to