laura, we know that if there's a resumption it will be behind closed doors, but greg clarke's lettergesting a longer—term impact. well, exactly, he has stressed that well, exactly, he has stressed that we don't know how things are going to pan out, that he has said that it thatitis that it is hard to foresee the crowds returning to matches any time soon. crowds returning to matches any time soon. now, we knew already that the rest of the season wouldn't have crowds, that he is clearly looking to next season as well and we know that a premier league are preparing themselves for the possibility of playing the entirety of next season behind closed doors. greg clarke also announced a £75 million cut to the annual budget and warned that the annual budget and warned that the worst case scenario would be similar cuts for the next four years because of changes to the whole football ecosystem. yeah, and the impact that would have on the various project they have. this is all leading up to a council meeting, isn't it, later this month? where are we at with project restarts? the premier league

we will try to sort out the technicals and talk to greg clark ina the technicals and talk to greg clarkireland. from today, groups of up to six people from different households are allowed to meet outdoors in northern ireland. it's the latest example of the widening gap between the lockdown rules of the four uk nations. a cross—party group of mps has written to the prime minister to stress the importance of england, scotland, wales and northern ireland working closely together during the pandemic. andy moore has this report. from today in northern ireland, up to six people from different households can meet outdoors. in england, only two people can meet up. in wales and scotland the message is still to stay at home. it's a sign that the easing of lockdown is happening at a different pace in different parts of the uk. the northern ireland executive says sports like tennis and golf can also now resume. we are told that outdoor activities are able to be accommodated because the virus doesn't spread as easily outdoors as indoors. and so we have been told that we will revisit this issue agai

now, greg clark also told the council that they have made a £75 million cut to the annual budget ando forecast a worst case scenario and for £300 million deficit over the next four years. the former manchester city defender julian lescott says he can understand why some players might be worried about finishing the season. it involves your family and it is a different ball game. to say to players, you are going to play the games, risk contracting the virus and then take it home to your family members, your wife and children, thatis members, your wife and children, that is when it gets a worrying verdict to apply. i don't think the decision is as easy to take once you know you could be infecting loved ones. wolves are the latest premier league clu b to wolves are the latest premier league club to call their players back for training. the squad and management will be tested for covid—i9 later this before individual training programmes abiding social distancing guidelines start next monday. there will be no nfl in london this year. four regular—season games were due to take place at the

be consulted and there will be another meeting of the medical working group but clearly greg hart dominic clark'shart dominic clark's morning is coming at a pivotal moment in british football future. let's stay with this, a little earlier i spoke to the two time premier league winner, former manchester city defender, joleon lescott, who is now a player liason at the club. i started by asking him about the objections from some clubs to playing in neutral stadiums that there is no way an outcome of this being resolved with every club and player and manager and owner of being happy so we need to get that into our mindset and realise that but in terms of the neutral ground it is like saying the disadvantage is for both teams. i understand that and if you look over this season you might have played that team at the home ground and they might have fans there but at this moment in time you need to be realistic and know that fio need to be realistic and know that no one has chose this and no one has created this scenario for it to happen this way so we just have to do what is needed at this season is to

we will speak to greg clark, chair, house of commons science committee about this.: welcome back to "bloomberg markets: european open." european markets under pressure, down 0.7%. big news out of astrazeneca, they have received $1 billion on the u.s. to develop a vaccine that will help fund the development as production facilities for that vaccine. the drugmaker has the capacity to make a billion doses, and has supply agreements for 100 million. joining us to talk about this and broader issues around the u.k. handling of the coronavirus is greg clark, chair, house of commons science committee. and of course former u.k. business secretary. good to have you on the program. astrazeneca suggesting the u.s. billionnt will give $1 in terms of ramping up capacity for vaccine production, should it be successful. what is your understanding of what u.s. funding means, because -- and other circumstances, the u.s. is pushed up the queue. tot is your understanding as what that funding would mean? greg: i do not have any visibility on that particular been int the u.k. has talks,

there was another kind of story on that front page of the daily telegraph talking about how greg clarksecretary, one of the chairs of the select committee wants to see if the two metre rule can be relaxed, certainly in time forjune the 15th to be able to allow more businesses to be able to allow more businesses to trade, to allow more activity to ta ke to trade, to allow more activity to take place, but actually, we did a survey at cicero, we got it earlier this week looking at public attitudes across the four key european countries, and the vast majority of people, 85 or almost 95% of people think that we are going to be social distancing for at least 12 months, or until we get the vaccine. there is a sense of, you know, this is going to be the way we live for some time to come. put a hold on all of those weddings and other celebrations, there will be a large number of people. let's have a look at the facetime weekend —— ft weekend. this is amidst fears that unemployment could rise by 2 million by the second quarter of this year. it's going to be badly needed this, isn't it? yes. i th

and in sport, the fa chairman greg clarke has admitted it's hard to see crowds of fans returning to footballatches any time soon. good afternoon and welcome to the news at one. six weeks into lockdown and many of us want to know when we can return to work as normal. we don't have a date for that, but the bbc has seen details of the new workplace rules being proposed by the government to help businesses when their staff do eventually return. employers would need to stagger start times and limit the amount of desks and equipment that needs to be shared. employers should consider providing ppe, or barriers if the two metre social distancing rules can't be observed. in other developments, small and medium—sized businesses in the uk are able to apply for loans of up to £50,000 today, in a scheme backed by the treasury. this afternoon, the prime minister will host a global online summit aimed at raising more than £6 billion to develop vaccines and treatments for covid—19. with more details on the plans for the workplace, here's our economics correspondent, andy verity. this manufacturer in fleckne

greg clarke also went announced a budget cut, and warned that there could be similar cuts for the next be some way of a consensus as to how football should resume. former spurs boss harry redknapp wants the season to be completed, but knows that some teams will have little motivation to see out the campaign. i would like to see it finish. liverpool deserved to win the title, no doubt. the teams in the championship need to come up. you see, the big problem, how many players have the appetite right now to come back and finish the season? liverpool players, sheffield united i may be in liverpool players, sheffield united imay be ina liverpool players, sheffield united i may be in a position to get at the top six, leicester. if you are in the bottom six in the premier league, you are quite happy to say, listen, let's call it off now, because if they get relegated, all them players who are down there struggling, they would have a 30, 40, may be a 50% cut in wages if they get cut next year, so they will not want that to happen. unless they are going to win the league like liverpool or do som

greg clark. we are now quite far behind, i'm afraid. you are muted, greg. is that better?had a lot of scientific advice. do you see it yourself? good to see you, greg. idon't do you see it yourself? good to see you, greg. i don't actually read scientific papers, except in exceptional circumstances. but i do get the direct digest from sage, which as you know is co—chaired by chris whitty. they give me the cream of that advice. so you get a summary. from reading the advice, can you explain why we have in this country a policy of two metres social distancing when the world health organization recommends one metre, and countries that have a very good track record in controlling covid, such as hong kong, singapore, australia and germany, specify either one metre or 1.5 metres. you are making an important point and one that i have made myself many times. the advice from sage remains at the moment that there is a considerable reduction in risk at two metres. my own hope is that as we make progress in getting the virus down and reducing the incidence, that we will be able to reduc

government's response coming from other quarters now the commons science and technology committee chair greg clarke is regular letter to the prime minister and laying out his criticisms for their handling when it comes to testing i've got a look at some of the contents of that letter mr clarke says that catechise been inadequate and the government only reached their own targets at the end of april he also emphasized that rather than the government trying to increase capacity based on their strategy they did it the other way round they were at risk placing their strategy on how much capacity they said had and he said that this was also inadequate issachar also saying that the relied on a small number of labs instead of involving wider parts of the community of society including the public private sector universities private labs so on he also took issue with the fact that most of the testing has been done in hospitals and not in the public you all with it and the public community it's a you also criticized other public bodies as well not just blaming the government saying that public bodies that hav

greg clark, thank you for your time.hat the government gets? that‘s right. some of the documents still haven‘t been produced, there seems to be a bit of a time lag. the government did produce some documents from sage today, but some of that was redacted, we could not see what was in it. what the government is saying is, we have to keep contact details confidential, but apart from that, where there is excellent advice to ministers, where ministers are being followed by the science but have not yet made a decision, that section is redacted, because they don‘t want to send a confusing message to the public, the public not be able to take it all in! so what they are saying is, they wa nt in! so what they are saying is, they want the clarity of message at a difficult time, and that message may be in some ways die looted if they we re be in some ways die looted if they were to give people advice on which ministers had not yet acted. there is some other interesting stuff from these documents, i think we are probably going to he

the committee chair, conservative mp greg clark, said the government "didn't get ahead of testing early announcement from boris johnson followed questioning from the labour leader sir keir starmer about the lack of track and trace since the middle of march. the prime minister insisted that the new system would be effective. we have a growing confidence that we will have a test, track and trace operation that will be world—beating and, yes, it will be in place, it will be in place byjune 1st. just to repeat the figures, since he's invited me to do so, there will be 25,000 trackers, they will be able to cope with 10,000 new cases a day and that's very, very important because currently, new cases are running at about 2500 a day. they will be able to trace the contacts of those new cases and to stop the disease spreading. and what i hope very much is that notwithstanding the occasional difficulty of these exchanges, and i totally appreciate the role that he has to fulfil, that he will support us as we go forward. that he will be positive about this test, track and trace operation and that w

the committee chair, conservative mp greg clark, said the government "didn't get ahead of testing earlythere will be 25,000 trackers and they will be able to cope with 10,000 new cases a day. that is very very important. because new cases currently are running at around 2500 a day. they will be able to trace the contacts of those new cases and to stop the disease spreading. and what i hope very much is that notwithstanding the occasional difficulty of these exchanges, and i totally appreciate the role that he has to fulfil, that he will support us as we go forward, that he will be positive about this test track and trace operation and that we can work together to use it to take our country forward. that is what i think the people of this country want to see. let's cross to our political correspondentjessica parker in westminster. soa so a commitment from the prime minister that this system will be in place on 1stjune, but still a lot of questions about whether we're doing enough testing and whether we have enough trackers. a slightly spiky exchange between borisjohnson and keir starmer

defense secretary mattis, general jeff flake clark -- general jeffrey clark, anita burrell,h cdc, greg hundreds of hospitals, the hospital risk managers association. the hospital risk managers association, i told them the mask supply was going to collapse, this was a risk. nobody listened. texas governor rick perry. state texas rep bills adler. by the way, bill zedler got it. dozens of reporters. i have done this for 13 years. nobody listened. my conscience is clean. amnave been working on this d issue for 13 years, nobody listened. i am not going to take any of this what you are trying to do. rep. guthrie: i don't know what i am trying to do, i am just trying to figure out who you talked with. we do need to figure out the strategic move forward. a lot of stuff comes from china, a lot of pharmaceuticals. this is something the committee needs to dig in moving forward. i am not sure what you are accusing me of trying to do. i apologize if i offended you. rep. eshoo: the gentleman yields back. my colleagues would agree that the description of mr. bowen, he is a force of nature. he hasn't

greg clark has. you only write a letter of that length if you have quite a bit to say.ly shouts his mouth. there is praise him for the government's anyway the scientific committees were established, some criticism there was not more is about who was on them. the real criticism comes about testing and this is not just criticism comes about testing and this is notjust a thing about looking back at what might have happened and perhaps doesn't matter now, because the committee make the argument there was a really slow u pta ke argument there was a really slow uptake in expanding testing capacity. there is criticism in the english context of public health england, the body responsible at the start for a loss of the testing. public health england have responded pretty sparkly, saying we do what we are asked to do but it is for the government to direct the big strategy. what you are beginning to get down in public now is a bit of a blame game going on about who was responsible for what and when. you might think why does this matter now is make it matters now in terms of how an