say some really jeremy hunt, in a position of some influence, would have been a better person than somef the people we have in charge, including dominic cummings, who is in —— and unelected man accountable to i'io —— and unelected man accountable to no one. he broke the rules, he broke the packed of this country. let's move voice from this story. the ft weekend. the headline here says finger points to china as australia suffers a state—sponsored cyber attack. that is not with the prime minister, scott morrison, has said but that is clearly what is being implied. because of the sophistication of the attack and the fa ct sophistication of the attack and the fact the ft reports that has been over many months and targeted governments and political organisations, business, education, so organisations, business, education, so given the sophistication and the range of the attack, they believe china is the culprit. it does make sense because this is at a time of ratcheting tensions between china and australia, after australia called for an investigation to the origins of coronavirus in wuhan an

we can speak to the former health secretary and now chair of the health select committee, jeremy huntparticularly about the test and trace system ? particularly about the test and trace system? i think we discovered one very important piece of information, which was actually from the person on before dido harding, the person on before dido harding, the professor from oxford university. he said there is a 48—hour window from when someone has symptoms to wend their contacts will start spreading the disease. what that means is you have to do the test within 24 hours and then ended next 24—hour is, you can then contact next 24—hour is, you can then co nta ct a ll next 24—hour is, you can then contact all their close contacts and tell them to self—isolate. that is the way you stop the disease in its tracks that is what happens in taiwan and korea. what was frustrating as the government and dido harding are not prepared to tell us how many tests are done within 24 hours. they say it won't help public confidence in the new system if they give us that data. but it is so important, so they hav

not give that concession to keir starmer, he gave it to the former conservative health secretary, jeremy huntited states, tens of thousands of people have demonstrated, mainly peacefully, across the united states for an eighth night following the killing of african—american george floyd in police custody. many defied curfews in several cities, imposed after violence and looting in some districts on monday night. here, chief constables from across the uk have issued a joint statement saying they "stand alongside all those across the globe who are appalled and horrified by the way george floyd lost his life". our diplomatic correspondent james robbins reports. in port last night, protesters lay on the ground, for the almost nine minutes george floyd, african american, was pinned down with a white policeman's knee on his neck. begging to be allowed to breathe, until he could not. it was a powerful reminder to america and the world what this is all about. with night—time cu rfews world what this is all about. with night—time curfews in place, police used tear gas to break up crowds, but violence

the government to all of the sacrifice of skilled nurses have made the former health secretary jeremy hunt said on twitter that he cannot believe the government would let down so-called brilliant and brave nurses but the department of health and social care denies that anything has changed by the end of july most final year students can qualify as registered nurses and start full time work increasing their pay those with hours to complete will be paid until september 2nd year students will return to complete their qualifications so they can qualify as quickly as possible which is always been the plan student nurse at a party and also told us that the sacrifices made by those like herself in the face of the pandemic are undeniable i've had 0 distance myself from obviously c.n.n. friends and family and i think absolutely of up to the end responded to joining the emergency register they've all made sacrifices to address the pandemic. obviously prior to where i can if they were living with people with house conditions they would hards have completely distance themselves from that and we've als

network if you will of that chain is then told to self isolate now the former health secretary jeremy hunt says that test and trace simply won't work if just a small number of proportions of those who are testing positive are traced or are contacted through the system but the current health secretary but hancock has been defending it and saying that the government's intention is for the rollout of a world class system today were able to publish some of the initial statistics about the 1st week of operation of n.h.s. test and trace and baroness harding will take us through these figures in a moment but i just wanted to put them in a bit of context they paint a positive picture as we will see when we go through the figures firstly remember that they represent just the 1st 7 days of this service and yet it's already had a huge impact the system is working well and as we've both said from the start we will keep improving it it will keep getting better and i think you'll see from these figures why we are confident that it will be world class but there are a number of other issues out of been ra

that was alleged to have taken place during that time as well the foreign secretary at the time jeremy huntthen put forward the ukase a recognition as for why though to be the interim leader of that but in court today the legal representative of my daughter's board of the p.c.b. said that even though there had been this proclamation had been made by the u.k. government the u.k. still continued to deal with venezuela it continued to have what it said full normal reciprocal diplomatic relations with that in mind as well they're also allegations that even though there are there was a statement that was made where it recognized white though it did not unrecognized maduro to be the president of venezuela which is going to be obviously the fundamental crux of their legal argument as well as that and of course this comes a time when the the. legal statements are also trying to push the u.k. into the bank of england rather as being playing a sort of stalemate on this at a time when there is a pandemic hitting a country which was already suffering a humanitarian crisis beforehand the stars yeah it's

whatever the government do all of the sacrifices for the nurses that made the former health secretary jeremy hunt said on twitter that he cannot believe the government would let down so called brilliant and brave nurses but the department of health and social care denies that anything has changed. by the end of july most final year students can qualify as registered nurses and start full time work increasing their pay those with hours to complete will be paid until september 2nd year students will return to complete their qualifications so they can qualify as quickly as possible which is always been the plan was true there's any pov and also told us that the sacrifices made by those like yourself in the face of the pandemic are undeniable i've had you know distance myself from obviously c.n.n. friends and family and i think that's really you know last up to the end responded to joining the emergency register they've all made sacrifices to watch out the pandemic. obviously prior to work and if they were living with people with health conditions they would hundreds of completely distance themselves

jeremy hunt, thank you for your time this morning. as well, perhaps enough rain to bring some flash flooding. parts of wales, the north midlands, south—west scotland, northern ireland most likely to have some of the most severe impact from these numbers if you catch one. they are possible just about anywhere. some misty low cloud hugging the costs, pushing on across central and eastern parts of the uk as big overnight on it. many of the jan personal diary away. —— many of the showers will die on the way. mist or mackie start tomorrow and a sunny spells developing. you could say murky across go to sea coast and colour elsewhere. elsewhere, some sunny spells but yet again, showers, thunderstorms, torrential downpours developing. this is bbc news, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the impact of lockdown hits ukjobs — new figures show a sharp drop in the number of workers on payroll. manchester united striker marcus rashford puts the uk government under increasing pressure to issue free school meal vouc

for the government to all of the sacrifices student nurses have made the former health secretary jeremy hunt said on twitter that he cannot believe the government would let down so-called brilliant and brave nurses but the department of health and social care denies that anything has changed. by the end of july most final year students can qualify as registered nurses and start full time work increasing their pay those with hours to complete will be paid until september 2nd year students will return to complete their qualifications so they can qualify as quickly as possible which is always been the plan well student nurse at a pardon also told us that the sacrifices made by those like yourself in the face of the pandemic are undeniable i've had to no distance myself from obviously c.n.n. friends and family and i think absolutely you know last of up to the end responded to joining the emergency register they've all made sacrifices so at the pandemic. obviously prior to what i can if they were living with people with house conditions they would hards are completely distance themselves from tha

for the government to honor the sacrifices future nurses have made the former health secretary jeremy hunt said on twitter that he cannot believe the government would let down so-called brilliant and brave nurses but the department of health and social care denies that anything has changed. by the end of july most final year students can qualify as registered nurses and start full time work increasing their pay those with hours to complete will be paid until september 2nd year students will return to complete their qualifications so they can qualify as quickly as possible which is always been the plan so the nurse any pardon also told us that the sacrifices made by those like herself in the face of the pandemic are undeniable i've had to no distance myself from obviously c.n.n. trends on family and i think absolutely you know last up to the end responded to joining the emergency register they've all made sacrifices to address the pandemic . obviously prior to work and if they were living with people with health conditions they would hards have completely distance themselves from that and w

hunt are still with us. joining the conversation author and nbc news presidential historian, michael beschloss. former chief of staff at the cia and department of department of justice, jeremyormer assistant united states attorney for the southern district of new york daniel goldman is with us, he served as majority council in the impeachment inquiry against donald trump. >> willy, i'm just wondering what room raider is going to do with daniel's. it appears to be a hurricane developing over his living room behind him. >> i was going to say, he's in our "morning joe" weather center with an update on the tropical storm goldman coming through. >> i'm confused. >> daniel, you can explain. >> is it a rock? >> it's ocean artwork. >> an ocean? >> this quick conversation hazlett us know we need to fix his audio. as we do that, i'm going to say the justice department filed for a temporary restraining order yesterday to prevent the tuesday release of former national security advisor john bolton's memoir. according to the filing the administration said bolton failed to complete the prereview for classified information, arguing the book should not be released until the review is comple