it is the cbi gallery, -- china, burma, india. a gigantic struggle was taking place in the asian mainland. our own purpose and our british allies was to fly supplies over the homeland mountains from and get to china to keep forces in the field. we called this entire theater china burma india. what we have here is a nice relief map of what it was like to fly the hump. taking off from somewhere in india or burma and then flying over the himalayas to get supplies and to china. flying over the himalayas is not these his flight the world. it would be difficult for modern aircraft. it was really difficult for 1940's vintage aircraft. there is a big downdraft as you press the mountain. there was also a road. keeping the road open was one of the principal points of the war in the theater. you see a bit of our photograph here. these are called switchbacks. it is such a tall gray, you cannot just drive up the mountain. you go back and forth and back and forth. one mile could be seven miles in driving, depending on how many times you had to

when i was at the cbi for six years, i... and i would say well done to her for that.g by, by retail, high streets. it is one of those things that covid have taken an existing trend and fully accelerated that, and that is working from home, people not wanting to commute, people who can be productive at home. i do nothing it means they have set themselves... you get an area of socialisation, especially in the young, you get a lot more of the team together. it is not saying, we are going to have everybody at home forever, and i think some of these copies were upset you can work from home forever are fine, but it don't think they mean when he 47 —— naming 24—7, 365, they mean partly. and it would be, ina way, they mean partly. and it would be, in a way, better if the government and employers promoted a weight in which you could be structured to get the best out of the home working environment, the best out of the social intercourse negotiated by the workplace and the best environment to get anything else, sol workplace and the best environment to get anything else, so i v

and we have a choice example of one here in our cbi gallery. there's so many aspects well-known and people know d-day and heard of omaha beach. what many of them no longer know is the war that was fought in china in which tens of millions of chinese were killed and which americans fought on the side of the chinese against japanese aggression, so i really like this p-40. i love this flying tiger up here. i think it really brings this entire gallery together. we have a display case here of the effects from the battleship. the japanese navy was essentially destroyed in the court of world war ii but only a few battleships survived. we have here the flag. this would be the vice admiral's flag. binoculars, the standard japanese navy jumper, the uniform, the double buckle boots. if you are interested in artifacts of the second world war i know we've been talking here about the narrative we provide. in terms of artifacts we have a choice collection of artifacts. i mentioned that as this war dragged on it seemed to be getting worse, ever more violent. a

now, it comes after the big business group, the cbi, said some city centres still felt like ghost townsout the impact on city centre economy, businesses. yesterday, we heard that pret a manger, the sandwich chain, was cutting thousands of jobs. manger, the sandwich chain, was cutting thousands ofjobs. it has traditionally relied on sales to commuters and office workers. but the decision facing individual businesses around returning to offices is far from straightforward. another business group told me that considerations include trust in public transport, whether or not schools are back and childcare is available, and reduced capacity in offices themselves. those premises might also need expensive adaptations, to be safe. if government wants to support and incentivise businesses to bring people back into the workplace, they should be taking steps to allow businesses to discount covid—related improvements to their premises from their tax bill, for example. they should be putting in place a support package as well for city centre businesses that have been so heavily affected by declines i

customers, municipalities, to do with things like inequity in recycling, unfair arrangements due to cbilonger being a great place holder. cpi no longer being a great place holder. we have been moving those contracts to a more favorable position. we have high confidence there. the company posted a great corner. we reinstituted our cash flow guidance. which was in the range of our original guidance. 5% board approved a dividend, our 16 year in a row where we have raised the dividend. strength and resiliency of the business and business model. we are on track to continue to serve customers. people are showing up every day, doing a great job. there is a lot of good news here in the corner. i think there is resiliency in american business. vonnie: you operate and 41 states, puerto rico, basically nationwide. malle u.s. plays like a with the coronavirus, how have you had to adapt in states that are closing down, reopening? used to people are grinding it out every day. dayservice we provide is a in, day out essential business. they are conditioned to show up every day, they continued to do it

we have heard the business group, the cbi, saying that city centres are like ghost towns, so some anxietyy long, one of the killers of pc andrew harper has decided to lodge an appeal, sorry, an application for leave to appeal his manslaughter sentence. pc harbour‘s mother has responded and she says, my family andi responded and she says, my family and i totally respect anyone‘s right to appeal their sentence, we live in afair to appeal their sentence, we live in a fair society, but this news coming on the very last day he had to put in his appeal is in the another kick in the stomach that leaves us all feeling offal. we will recover from this as we have to do, but my thoughts today are absolutely with my heroic son who gave his life trying to protect others and those responsible for his loss will not live rent free in my head. new figures show that leicester had the most covid—19 deaths of any local authority in england and wales injuly. there were 24 deaths in the city that month where covid—19 was mentioned on the death certificate, according to the office for national statistics. the f

you are talking about the director—general of the cbi saying town centres are becoming like ghost townsd breakfast —— on their lunch and brea kfast, and breakfast —— on their lunch and breakfast, she has said she has had to target online sales. there are opportunities out there but it is tricky. with the bulk and i'm thinking someone could enjoy that for his porridge. someone with a new haircut? you are watching bbc breakfast. still to come. it's been closed for the longest time since world war ii, and today, after 165 days, we'll be live at the british museum as it reopens. we'll be discussing that shortly and bringing you the latest news. now let's get the weather with carol. we could be twins. we couldn't! i am going to start by telling you about hurricane laura. it is making the news and it is making landfall. it is affecting parts of texas and louisiana. this is a powerful category four macro hurricane, at the top end. category five is the most powerful hurricane you can have. this is only seven miles an hour of being a category five. it will bring some torrential rain, devastating

we have had a warning from the business group the cbi that the city centres are turning into a ghostment wants to stress the positive benefits of going back to work but there will be a lot of nervousness and for many offices, getting back to anything like full capacity with social distancing still required will be very difficult. it's unlikely we will see a return to pre—coronavirus levels of office working any time soon. the authors of the largest—ever study to examine children treated in hospitalfor covid—19 have said it is "vanishingly rare" for young people to die from the virus. the report, published in the british medicaljournal, identified which children were more likely to need critical care support, including newborn babies under a month old, young people from a black ethnic background, or children who are obese. our science correspondent pallab ghosh has more. this is the world's largest study of patients with covid—19. but it confirms that the overwhelming majority of those aged 19 or under don't get severe symptoms. the study looked at 70,000 patients who were admitted to

more importantly, well then caroline i getting there for the cbi. have picked a bitterfight to get on the front page with. —— well done to carolyn. pushing the time back. she will not win. at the end of the day, what is happening is a fundamental change in the workplace. both geographically, and operationally. geographically, it is changing because people are saying i actually, we don't need these big offices any more. what is more, we are going to be using the lunch bars and the sandwich wires in the gyms

now, it comes out of the big business group the cbi said some city centre still felt like ghost townso have, and warned about the impact on city centre economy businesses. yesterday, we heard that the sandwich chain pret was cutting thousands of jobs. it the sandwich chain pret was cutting thousands ofjobs. it has traditionally relied on sales to commuters and office workers. but the decision facing individual businesses about returning to offices is far from straightforward. another business group told me that considerations include trust in public transport, whether schools are back and child care is available, and reduced capacity in offices themselves. those premises might also need expensive adaptations to be safe. if government wants to support and incentivise businesses to bring people back into the workplace, they should be taking steps to allow businesses to discount covid related improvements to their premises from their tax bill, for example. they should be putting in place a support package as well for city centre businesses that have been so heavily affected by declines i