gregor orjason will say about _ variant in scotland?t the indian variant. the point about island communities is a good one. we have had the ability to travel to and from ireland now for the past few weeks, and we have not seen that having an impact in terms of the virus on islands. we will monitor that carefully. with islands, travel and tourism there is already permitted. people don't tend to pop to the islands just because there was a public longer opening hours than on the mainland for obvious reasons. i don't mean to be facetious there, but we want people to stay safe if they staycation, we want anyone who travels to the islands to do lateral flow testing before they go so that if they have the virus they can change their arrangements, so that all of the proper mitigation in terms of travel and how people behave on the islands, we are satisfied as we can be that what we are doing there is safe and cautious, but all of this, of course, we will continue to have to keep under review as we move to the next stages of this. which one of y

talked about giddens in 1850 when charles darwin writes on the origin of species and this monk named gregor mendel is breathing peas and he starts to notice they have inherited traits so from the beats of darwin to the properties of mendel's peas we come up with this notion that there's some entity that is eternal that hands-down genetic information and eventually turns out to be this nucleic acid. some molecule in our system calleddna . and we don't know watson and crick, they figured out the structure ofdna . that has four letters and it's like a coding machine and just like a microchip but it's a molecule. so with those four letters, there's 3 billion pairs of them in our human genome and that determines that i get gray hair at a certain point. it codes all my genetic information but the thing about it is , and in 2000 we were able to sequence the human gene. as you said, that's called thehuman genome project . everybody thought that was amazing. they put it on the cover of time magazine but the thing is that really didn't do much. all we got to do was read the genes. put a little saliva

there is a peak called gregor peak which looks out over toward the delta and that is pittsburgh and antiochhe distance and you can see the water of the delta and if you have good eyes. you can see how brown the hills have gotten and this is the diablo range that we see beyond the two communities and i will take you over to the east bay hills and you could see it is just as brown. there is a way to measure this. it is important to the story. the number one reason why we are dealing with these red flag warnings in may is not solely because we have this offshore wind event. if this were typical year, we would not be looking at these fire weather concerns but this is how untypical this year is. we will gauge something called the energy release component in the grasses and twigs and trees and that is a measurement of how much energy is stored in those fuels should a fire get started. you can track it throughout the course of the year and there is a scale here that goes from 0 to 100 but that gives us some perspective. by the time we get into august but really, september, right there, that was th

we're joined by gregor gilligan from beijing.ure to have you on the show -- the white paper is out, is 564 pages. why is it so long? greg: it's long because we want to be specific about what is going right, what needs to improve, and offer suggestions to make that happen. david: let's go with your three policy priorities. greg: we are focused on dealing with the covid challenges, trying to manage bilateral statutes, and then also how we can get our arms around the new themes which include the reasonably new foreign investor blog, being proposed -- which involves dual circulation, and how american business can fit into that in a way that achieves national treatment. david: since you brought it up, the foreign investment law, that's a great topic. if i remember correctly, that started in january of last year. has it actually improve the way business is conducted? one of the reasons i was brought up was to improve all these different things. what is the update there, from your perspective? greg: in china, law is passed and then it's

again for listening and bearing with me through that update, we will move on to questions now and gregora white police officer in minneapolis. mr floyd's death sparked global protests against racism. here, the labour party has promised to continue campaigning to tackle racial injustice. we're joined by the shadow women and equalities secretary, marsha de cordova. tell us more about labour's plans to tackle racial injustice one year on from the killing of george floyd. good afternoon and thank you for having me on today. for labour, we take the issues of structural and institutional racism seriously and thatis institutional racism seriously and that is why we have committed to ensuring that we will introduce a race and equality act that will tackle once and for all the structural inequalities that exist across our society, and the work for that begins now with having those conversations across the country with individuals, with business and with individuals, with business and with civil society to understand some of those real deep—rooted issues that need to be addressed. one of the thing