manchester university has stated they think as many as half there‘s international students will not comeot come which is very worryingm would be, not least forfinances not come which is very worryingm would be, not least for finances for manchester university. what about the situation for british kids who wa nt to the situation for british kids who want to study abroad?|j the situation for british kids who want to study abroad? i cannot speak on that but i do know from the experience in scandinavia, where the universities opened before us, in norway for instance, they have cancelled incoming and outgoing student exchanges because they do not want to increase the risk of the virus spreading from one country to another. in this country, independent sage has suggested that quarantine measures should be both supportive and strict. you cannot expect students coming from china, india, malaysia or wherever to just turn up at the airport and go to the campus and then isolate themselves for two weeks without contact with the outside world. i see that harvard university is not allowing any student

university clearing line. good afternoon, you're through to manchester metropolitan university clearing line.ing they still have a place. this university says it will honour offers made last week and those for students who now have the grades. the legal situation, i don't think, is entirely clear, but my understanding is if you were made an offer and you'd met that offer, the universities will be obliged to admit those students. that is right, fair and proper, and that is certainly what we are doing at manchester met. i think it's more challenging if you haven't had an offer but you want to apply now through clearing on the basis of the teacher assessed grades. i think that situation is less certain. he says students need to weigh up their options. talk to your school or college, talk to the universities, but, really, do we really want students to put their life on hold you know? they've been through a lot over the last few months. universities say they'd like to be more flexible, but they need the government's help. here, they'd like to offer more places for teachers to train, at other unive

universities. here at manchester metropolitan university they say that they will be able to meet all their promiseshoping to be able to extend some of their courses. i'm seen a letter that universities have sent to ministers and their asking for extra leeway on courses for a letter that universities have sent to ministers and their asking for extra leeway on courses where numbers are traditionally limited such as medicine. here they would like to see more places to train teachers. they will go on with some tense negotiations between universities who want to help where they can and ministers trying to keep a grip on the situation. branwenjeffreys, many thanks. 0ur chief political correspondent vicki young is in westminster. — is anyone in government taking responsibility for this situation? there have been a lot of apologies, i'm not sure if that will do anything to make those pupils feel better about the turmoil they are now in. but the education secretary has spent the day trying to explain why it went so wrong and it is pretty clear that he blames the exam regulator for coming pretty clear that h

university and i've been working for this for a very long time. trying to keep calm and focused, but medicine courses are full. good afternoon, you're through to manchestering line. all universities were taking calls today — students checking they still have a place. this university says it will honour offers made last week and those for students who now have the grades. the legal situation, i don't think, is entirely clear, but my understanding is if you were made an offer and you'd met that offer, the university will be obliged to admit those students. that is right, fair and proper, and that is certainly what we are doing at manchester met. i think it's more challenging if you haven't had an offer but you want to apply now through clearing on the basis of the teacher assessed grades. i think that situation is less certain. he says students need to weigh up their options. talk to your school or college, talk to the universities, but, but really, do we really want students to put their life on hold, you know? they've been through a lot over the last months. universities say they'd like to be more flexible but they need the government's help. here, they'

one of them we spoke to a few at theas pamela university of manchester in the united kingdom.med and respiratory virology and has done important work on medicine as well. morning isgeist this a great fear and you are certainly qualified to address the fear. in new zealand, the virus returned on a measured basis, but at chapel hill, the university of north carolina has made an abrupt shift because the virus just simply won't go away. i don't want to talk about a second or third wave, but is it delusional to believe that you can get social again once you get control of cases and deaths? guest: good morning. that weit is vital don't let ourselves be controlled by the fear of this virus. certainly, the virus is still with us. there is no doubt about that. we see spikes of cases were ever locked down been relaxed. i think what we have to do is learn to live with the virus. we have to learn out of take measures for ourselves, keep ourselves in each other safe. can live int we lockdown forever just can't happen. >> -- tom: are we asking too much? are we trying to find a medical perfe

it takes that long to get the supply chain back up and running, cardiff only opens today, manchester university. if you don't use it, you will lose it, so anything that encourages people to come out and know that we are covid secure, we are consummate professionals at keeping people safe in small spaces, that is what we do, we sanitise ourselves, it is safer to come out to a restaurant than to have people gathering at home, and it is just driving that message home. the idea is that this is a quiet time for restaurants but that will be the period over which the furlough scheme begins to taper. how confident are you, long term, of getting over the hump and getting back to full health in september?m september it is a tricky one, because what i think and what many of my fellow restaurant first thing is that there will be other regional lockdown so there will be a number of bumps on the road until there is a vaccine, and we as businesses just need to know, the budget for these dips in income and keep our heads down and get on with it. september, i think there will still be local closures for whateve

universities hold their places? an example of a student who missed an 0xford or cambridge or manchester grades by one and gets overturnedou on? and other universities prepared to have higher numbers of students? that is the key question and the second one is, if these appeals are broad, and many are put through, which i hope they will be, with the government stop the cap on inverted places and fund additional places? do not know the a nswer additional places? do not know the answer but they seem to be important questions. the welsh government has announced that students will be able to appeal their a—level grades if there are evidence that they should have received high grade. the minister said that all appeals will be free. thousands of british holiday—makers have arrived back in the uk after a last—minute dash to avoid quarantine rules. travellers from france, the netherlands and for other countries would have been subject to 14 days suffers latent after concerns of a rising trend of rice cases abroad. —— coronavirus cases abroad. there were long queues at calais early this morning as people scrambled to get back to t

. >> sreenivasan: leblanc is the president of s.n.hu.a private, nonprofit university in manchester, newhampshire. the scol is lowering tuition for students normally on campus start from $32,000 to $10,000, while remote learning continues, and has committed to permanently reduce tuition to $10,000 in the years to come. all-incoming freshman are thceiving a full-ride scholarship for r first year. leblanc says the school planned to lower tuition in 2023, but the pandemic prompted the >> this recession, and this level of unempyment dwarfs the st recession, and we see enormous need for new,va inve models at a lower, more affordable cost.it so, the schools probably won't feel much pressure to change, they'll get back to normal. they'll say whew, that was aer prettyble period, but we're back to the kind of way we always were. but there are probly fewer than 50 schools, out of 4,000 that fit that category. i think r everybody else things are up for grabs. >> sreenivasan: s.n.h.u has a relatively small campu the largest univerys, but it is enrollment because more thanst 130,00ents attend online.

universal end comes in due course. growing out of a multimedia project unveiled at the manchester international festival in 2017 and completed8, last and first men is a hauntingly elegiac work described by its creator as a film that straddles the border of fiction and documentary, a meditation on memory and failed utopia contextualised through the literary mode of science fiction. all right, well, never thought i'd be saying the last mission before mars, and yet here we are making less preparations for the long journey. thank you. the future of mankind, or rather womankind, is the subject of proxima, the story of an astronaut preparing for a lengthy stint on the international space station in service of a forthcoming mission to mars. eva green is sarah, a french astronaut whose presence is not immediately welcomed by matt dillon's mike, who considers her little more than a tourist. but during the gruelling training procedure, sarah proves that she's more than a match for any man whilst also wrestling with the demands of motherhood and the prospect of saying goodbye to her daughter. written and directed by alice winocour, who

universities hold their places. so an example of a student who missed an example of a student who missed an oxford or cambridge grades or manchestersay that they will have them and are the universities prepared to have higher numbers of students? so that is the key question. i suppose the second question. i suppose the second question is that if these appeals are broad and many of them are put through which i hope they will be, will the government stop the cap on university places and fund additional places. i don't know the a nswer to additional places. i don't know the answer to that but those are the important questions. if, as it seems possible that the appeal system will be able to right the wrongs. what is your advice to students at the moment? look, as teachers and head teachers, we are pragmatic people. we are desperately trying to get stu d e nts we are desperately trying to get students on courses, as all head teachers are doing, to get them on courses teachers are doing, to get them on courses that they can do through clearing under the roots and i'm sure schools are been successful without and i'm hearing stories of un

that if you were made an offer and you've met that offer then universities would be obliged to adhere to it. that is what we're doing at manchesterit is more challenging if you have not had an offer but want to apply to clearing on the basis of the teacher sat grades, i think that situation is less certain. he says that students need to weigh up their options. talk to a school or college, talk to the universities but do we really want students to put their life on hold? they've been through a lot in the last few months. today, a promise from the universities minister. students that have taken a different course from the one they are now eligible for be that their primary offer or insurance, are eligible to change their mind and reverse their decision. however i think the first port of call must be talk to your institutional university and think about what is right for you. since results day a lot has happened and some students have already compromised. a warning today to universities in england, students from poorer areas must not be the losers. this is a serious risk and i think all of us are determined to try to prevent these u

the director for the national center for disaster preparedness at columbia university and he's joining us on skype from manchester in connecticut good to have you with us thank you very much indeed for joining us on al-jazeera if i understand it correctly let's talk about the russian vaccine 1st of all find a sense of correctly that it has russia has lodged phase one and phase 2 of the testing but it hasn't given any details of this how much can people actually trust this vaccine. i think not very much is the short answer to that question but there seems to be a lot of smoke and mirrors with this kind of press release debut anyway because it does look like from what i've read that they are going into additional trials and just licensing kind of the use for some front line responders in highly vulnerable populations which is still very problematic for a backseat that has not been there only tested but also seems to be deployed very differently than what's being sort of celebrated and lauded from the press releases and the announcements being made as we were just talking about there's a lot of nationalism a lot of

emma alexander from jodrell bank at the university of manchester joins us now. good morning.erseid meteor. what time should we be looking out for them tonight? any time. you would even get them during the day if we could see them. the best time is after midnight, when the earth is turning into where the debris is. there is a complication of the moon will be rising later and that can drown meteor out a bit. in general the early hours of the morning. the meteor showers what is happening. so, as you said, the earth is passing through the debris of comet swift tuttle. as comets pass through, they leave a trail of stuff behind them. if you remember a re ce nt behind them. if you remember a recent comet, that was visible to many people, you can see the long tailand when many people, you can see the long tail and when the earth passes through that debris, that gets left behind, the meteoroids, the space rocks will go into the atmosphere and as they enter the atmosphere, they will burn up and can get up to over 1,000 celsius. they're very hot and very fast and burn up about 50 miles

universities as fake athletic recruits. more than 50 people are facing charges over the scheme. the captain of manchesteron the greek island of mykonos. he's due to appear in court later this morning. our sports correspondent olly foster has the details. yes, the world's most expensive defender is spending a second night in a greek police cell. the club this morning confirming that their captain was fully cooperating with the greek authorities. we know that harry maguire and two other british men were arrested at around midnight last night after an incident on the greek island of mykonos. the greek police said they were called out to an altercation between two groups, they had to break up a fight and it was then that three men rounded, they claim, on one of their officers, verbally abusing and assaulting him. the three men were then escorted to a local police station. it's then that the police claim that upon arrival, they strongly resisted, pushing and hitting three police officers and that one of the detainees then tried to offer money to avoid any further action. the police then opened a file on this

also a ban on large gatherings schools and universities are going back to online learning and people must stay within 5 kilometers of their homes. manchester in the north of england turns to clear courts a major incident as it deals with more infections and that means there will be a central command structure to deal with the situation and enabling agencies involved to ask for more resources media outlets had already been reporting the u.k. prime minister boris johnson is looking a perspiring plans to ease restrictions as he tries to avoid another nationwide lockdown jonah hole has more now from central london. hopes that the worst of the covert 1000 crisis may be behind the u.k. this autumn appear to be fading infection rates are rising for the 1st time since may not to the heights of a pandemic in april but nevertheless going up and the government has warned it may have to go further than the localised restrictions in place to control local spikes where they happen there are reports that the prime minister boris johnson has commissioned a plan for a london wide lockdown including restrictions on movement in and out of the m 25 ring road

university. localised coronavirus lockdowns continue across northern england with greater manchester declaring a major incident as cases rise it puts the region on an alert level similar to terror attacks or natural disasters and he joins me now with more on this so why has the local authority taken such a drastic step. what we've been seeing in the greater manchester area in the northwest of england has been an escalating transmission rate to particularly in areas like blackburn oldham which are close to manchester and as a result of that these emergency measures being put in place people over the weekend not being allowed to visit in large numbers with each other for example to visit each other particularly in each of those homes and so as a result of that the look at the result of those rising rates this i'm a major incident has been 'd that the cat now the great amounts to combine authority have said that this actually helps them it boosts their capabilities in dealing with coded 19 what exactly is a major incident well it's usually declared in response to a terror attack or a natural disast

that if you were made an offer and you've met that offer then universities would be obliged to adhere to it. that is what we're doing at manchesterad an offer but want to apply to clearing on the basis of the teacher sat grades, i think that situation is less certain. he says that students need to weigh up their options. talk to a school or college, talk to the universities but do we really want students to put their life on hold? they've been through a lot in the last few months. today a promise from the un, iversities minister. today, a promise from the universities minister. students that have taken a different course from the one banner eligible for be that their primary offer or insurance are eligible to change their mind and reversed their decision. however i think the first port of call must be talk to your institutional university and think about what is right for you. since results day a lot has happened and some students have already compromised. a warning today to universities in england, students from poorer areas must not be the losers. this is a serious risk and i think all of us are determined to try to prevent the

manchester. that is why it requires an urgent intervention and that is why i am considering the legal route. however the government points out there are more and more students from those backgrounds going to universityad up university now. nick gibb will head up the task force, one of the longest serving ministers in government, but i dare say he has not faced such a big challenge. and thursday is gcse results day. an easing of the lockdown takes place in england today, after being postponed from the 1st of august. businesses including soft play centres, casinos and bowling alleys can open, and indoor weddings with up to 30 guests are now permitted. but the changes don't apply in the areas under tighter local restrictions. vivienne nunis reports. newly lengthened lashes after a long wait. close contact beauty treatments are available again. and customers here were quick off the mark. so exciting, it's been like christmas eve, we are alljust so excited to get back to work, get back to doing what we love doing and making our clients happy with lashes and brows again. so we're just over the moon. since opening a couple of hours ago, this salon has already had five clients through the doors, and they're

university of cambridge. thanks very much for being with us. -- via thanks very much for being with us. —— via biologist. —— virologist. the headlines on bbc news... manchesterto an alleged altercation with police on the greek island of mykonos. uk tourists who've been on holiday to croatia, austria and trinidad and tobago now have to isolate for 14 days when they get back. hundreds of thousands of people in north west england are told not to socialise with anyone outside their household to stem coronavirus infections. it is actuallyjust approaching 20 past two. the russian opposition leader and one of president putin's fiercest critics, alexei navalny, is being treated in hospital in germany after a suspected poisoning. mr navalny collapsed onboard a plane after drinking a cup of tea at the airport. jis supporters believe it had been laced with poison. russian doctors said they found no trace of any poison. damian mcguiness reports from berlin. after days of stalemate, kremlin critic alexei navalny has arrived here, at the charite hospital in berlin. on thursday, he collapsed into a coma on an internal flight to moscow. russian doctors say they found no evi

freedoms and universities may be at risk because a survey shows that academics feel they need to censor themselves. coronavirus lockdowns continue across northern england with greater manchester declaring a major incident as cases rise it puts the region on an alert level similar to terror attacks or natural disasters he said and he joins me now with more on this so why has the local authority taken such a drastic step. what we've seen in the northwest of england in particular around the grace manchester area rises in the rates of infection when it comes to smaller towns places like black burn an older and that region seeing that escalating transmission rate we saw a number of measures brought in just before the weekend with people's ability to meet and to gather in large numbers being restricted and with regards to the greater manchester combined or 30 they said that an announcement of a major incident is actually a boosting their capabilities to help them get to grips they said they learnt from places like leicester and how they handled the spike in the number of cases what exactly does a major incident constitute though it is usually declared in response to a terror attack

manchester, new hampshire, famous for its ice cream... and not, it seems, adam sandler. >> sandler: a cherry seinfeld and not a sandler! that's disgusting. >> alfonsi: when it was time for college, he went to new york universityand-up clubs at night. he worked hard at it, hitting this stage at comic strip live more than 500 times. >> sandler: when you go to the bathroom, public bathrooms are never fun. you know, you always go in there with the same deal. take one piece of toilet paper and put it there, another piece over there, and then you pull down your pants and a gust of wind knocks the left piece down. ( laughter ) >> alfonsi: what were you making when you-- >> sandler: oh, money? >> alfonsi: --came in here to play a set? >> sandler: i think it was ten bucks a night, ten bucks. that was good. didn't care. >> alfonsi: stand-up is how adam sandler discovered what would become a trademark of his act-- >> ♪ the bar mitzvah boy, bar mitzvah boy. ♪ >> alfonsi: --using the guitar to sell his jokes. ♪ ♪ >> sandler: you know what i'm saying? >> alfonsi: playing the guitar was sandler's solution for intense stage fright. ♪ ♪ >> sandler: i was so nervous every time. then i'd get up there and i wouldn't remember wha

universal end comes in due course. growing out of a multimedia project unveiled at the manchester international festival in 2017 and completedn and documentary, a meditation on memory and failed utopia contextualised through the literary mode of science fiction. all right, well, i never thought i'd be saying the last mission before mars, and yet here we are making less preparations for the long journey. thank you. the future of mankind, or rather womankind, is the subject of proxima, the story of an astronaut preparing for a lengthy stint on the international space station in service of a forthcoming mission to mars. eva green is sarah, a french astronaut whose presence is not immediately welcomed by matt dillon's mike, who considers her little more than a tourist. but during the gruelling training procedure, sarah proves that she's more than a match for any man whilst also wrestling with the demands of motherhood and the prospect of saying goodbye to her daughter. written and directed by alice winocour, who co—wrote the brilliant mustang, proxima is a quietly engrossing tale of a woman following her dreams of the stars whil

university place. this is not a few young people, thousands of young people in greater manchester.eporting injustice on an individual basis, but what are they telling you the legal grounds could be some sort of appeal? i would be looking to legal grounds under the equality act because that enterprise in law the fair treatment across all groups of people. what has happened here is 0fqual have used a weighting that discriminates against larger institutions and those institutions tend to be kids from a working—class backgrounds, kids from black and asian communities, inner—city areas and i think because of that it is discriminatory on those grounds against those young people. they did not apply the same weighting to smaller school sixth form colleges. i believe this system that has been usedis i believe this system that has been used is inherently discriminatory against young people who go to those larger colleges and they tend to be a more inner—city, working—class areas and that is why i i'm considering taking this legal action and i'm looking at the moment to the grounds of which w

had since the university scandal a few years back — before they decided to change the system to make it more 'meritocratic'. and we can talk tojessica now at her home in greater manchester students, it must have been pretty bizarre to see that coming and actually being real life. definitely, my characters and stuff we nt definitely, my characters and stuff went through a very similar experience to what many students have gone through this year. all of the disappointment and the heartbreak after not getting into the place that you want, or not getting the grades that you need to move on getting the grades that you need to move on to your next step in feeling so move on to your next step in feeling so out of control with that. because it really was, it really did feel like it was out of our control. you said it did feel like that, take us through what has happened with your own grace will stop so, on results day, i was awarded a*, a*, v and i needed search results to get into st andrews but my english was downgraded. but as a a few days ago since we got the other results, i have managed to get three a and another a which means i should be able to get into st andrews unive

university and i've been working for this for a very long time. trying to keep calm and focused, but medicine courses are full. good afternoon, your through to manchesteraring line. all universities were taking calls today — students checking they still have a place. this university says it will honor offers made last week and those for students who now have the grades. the legal situation, i don't think, is entirely clear, but my understanding is if you were made an offer and you'd met that offer, the university will be obliged to admit those students. that is right, fair and proper, and that is certainly what we are doing at manchester met. i think it's more challenging if you haven't had an offer but you want to apply now through clearing on the basis of the teacher assessed grades. i think that situation is less certain. he says students need to weigh up their options. talked to your school or college, talk to the universities, but, really, do we really want students to put their life on hold you know? they've been through a lot over the last months. universities say they'd like to be more flexible, but they need the government's help. here, they'd