giles, inglorious technicolour after some technical problems earlier, quite a stark headline with thelth organization addressing the prime minister directly, don't live long down until contact tracing works. yeah, what you are saying is scientist similar to the economist there are no concerns emerging out of covid—19 emerging, you put 100 scientists in a room, you get 100 different views. i think the government will be encouraged by the death toll fallen to its lowest level i think today since the third week of march, and clearly, there are tough choices which have got to be made, but i think they think they are getting on top of the crisis. we need to get the economy moving again and there is a huge health cost of not getting the economy moving again, and you are seeing in the other papers reporting the government is grappling with its decision reducing social distancing from two metres to one metre or 1.5 metres. i don't think this. the government cracking on opening the economy and slowly trying to get things back to normal, i hate to use that word, but back to some kind of normali

, conversation with giles, which we did in conversation with the richmond theatre to raise money foridge if we would do it there. that doesn't require any rehearsal, it is just a conversation and that, perhaps, could be done at some point is that ever happens again. thank you very much, both of you, it has is there one in bernard castle?” think there is. it's called the whitham. looking like the home secretary's parliamentary seat. yes, something for everyone in bernard castle. theatre, music, art, dance, film, comedy. i say tests. thank you very much, both of you, it has been lovely hearing you in our headphones and yes, to everyone who works in the theatre industry i hope you are ok. does sound like there is going to be a five—point plan, but not necessarily loads of money, certainly not yet. david tennant and damejudi dench, thank you for joining us. thank you everyone for listening and we will be back with another episode soon. this is bbc news, i'm james reynolds. our top stories: texas and florida reimpose restrictions after a record number of americans are diagnosed with covid

, in conversation with giles, which we did in conversation with the richmond theatre to raise money forbridge if we would do it there. that doesn't require any rehearsal, it is just a conversation and that, perhaps, could be done at some point is that ever happens again. thank you very much, both of you, it has been lovely hearing you in our headphones and yes, to everyone who works in the theatre industry i hope you are ok. does sound like there is going to be a five—point plan, but not necessarily loads of money, certainly not yet. david tennant and damejudi certainly not yet. david tennant and dame judi dench, thank certainly not yet. david tennant and damejudi dench, thank you for joining us. thank you everyone for listening and we will be back with another episode soon. hello there. thursday was the peak of this current heatwave. a short—lived heatwave but, albeit, quite intense, with some high humidity. now, the heat was widespread but we saw the top temperature of 33.3 celsius, to be exact, at heathrow in greater london, making this the highest temperature of the year so far. but

new record here records go back well over 100 years 28 celsius in moscow as we go through thursday giles wanted to showers west of weather will be into the heart of europe that we're going to see more heavy showers there into poland will see the showers still getting down into rumania some very heavy rain also across a good pasta for ons certainly seeing some more thundery downpours across a good part of england and wales are going to see some localized flooding here as well hopefully things will quiet down as we go on through the next couple of days but still it's also some showers pushing in across the british isles still some west or whether they're making its way across denmark i would tools at least assad if you have 26 celsius in moscow so a little cooler 31 celsius in all slow the heat continues across a good pasta scandinavia will see pleasant sunshine there across the mediterranean temperatures here around the 30 degree mark or rather 30 degree much here across a good part of north africa heavy showers continue for much of west africa. join our global community they called it cr

>> i think that there are books that are about escape and that you can look to, books like lamar giles's "the lst day of summer." i think it's a brilliant book about young kids who are spending the summer in virginiao and sort of a who done it magical fantasy. e d i think it's important that we allow and creportunity for young people to escape and .o escape into worlds that are not like their o we can havsummer escapbooks, escapist books, that also sort of bump up against our reality. so there are books like "a song below water" by bethany c. morrow. land this is a fantasy no because i don't think we talk enough about fantasy and sci-fi. i think we livin a world that is sort of tching fantastic elements and sort of the future of sci-fi and what the world looks like as it constantly changes, andhis book is about sirens, right. this idea of the siren song and about two young women who use the siren song and how they used it to change their community. it's beautiful and it's brilliant. and then lastly, elizabeth acevedo's "clap when y land" and this isn't a book that's going to sort of cata

carlin also charged washington for altering a pair of leather breeches for giles and he also was a recipient of two jackets and waistcoats that carlin producted in 1861. carlin's account with washington, it's really one of many accounts that can tell us much about the material life of alexandria's enslaved population. so consider this a pause in a much longer and much-needed conversation that should condition. and i have more, if you want to know more. so we've explored the when, the where and the who. let's get back to the clothes themselves and explore what does it all mean. well, for most of the 18th century, colonists were striving to emulate british style in all things. we thought of ourselves as british subjects and we really wanted to look and dress like them, too. we utilized the same textiles, colors and fashion al cuts that were prevalent across the atlantic. however dedicated to british fashion colonists may have been, virginia's climate forced change. william hugh grove remarked that they affected london dress in all times excepting summer months. so they constantly adapted to wh

let's talk now to matt rooney, headteacher at st giles school for special educational needs children.f you. you had a carer before lockdown and i know that hasn't been able to happen, what has that been like for you? the carer hasn't been here for 1h weeks, it has been tough, confusing. i haven't had any breaks. we are not leaving the house, we don't go out. that sounds pretty stressful? leaving the house, we don't go out. that sounds pretty stressful7m leaving the house, we don't go out. that sounds pretty stressful? it is when you know the child does not understand what is going on, she has learning difficulties and excite dirty disorder. you can't tell her, don't touch people, don't touch this and the anxiety will be higher than usual. it will be hard to go back to normality. it is not that easy. do you see an end in sight when the ca re rs you see an end in sight when the carers will be able to come back to help you and give you some respite? not really. i haven't been able to get any guidelines, even if she ta kes get any guidelines, even if she takes her out, there is nowhere to

a completely different learning experience and it‘s been quite a task for you, giles parker, deputy headrgest amount of key worker children of any of the other primary schools in cardiff. how has that made things a bit more tricky for you? we needed to create this outdoor learning village. we have over 80 children coming back from our key workers. that's been difficult because of the capacity within the school, trying to make sure we make sure we see all the other children coming back as well has been a challenge. but we have had great support from community. 0ur parents have been on board. my staff have been fantastic in setting up staff have been fantastic in setting up the provision you can see today. you have dark clouds this morning, what will happen if it starts raining? we are a school in wales so we always plan for the wet weather! we have contingencies across the school. every outdoor learning part has an area inside with separate toilets. it's all colour schemes. all the children have a safe space to learn in and just enjoyed being backin to learn in and just enjoyed being back