hour about the package over the weekend >>> overseas, the sunday times is reporting the uk national health service is preparing to roll out its oxford university astrazeneca joint covid-19 vaccine around christmas time. the times citing a private meeting between an nhs executive and mps where the executive said a vaccine soon after christmas is not an unrealistic suggestion adding that the nhs is planning to train thousands of vaccine staffers before the end of the year this is the vaccine candidate with trials kurtly on hold in the u.s., though they have resumed in most parts of the world. >>> and ant group won approval for the hong kong leg of its expected ipo the fintech joint is seeking to list in shanghai and hong kong a hearing with the hong kong stock exchange, a key part of the approval process, is also taking place today brian? >> some really good news there around a possible vaccine even by christmas time that would be huge bertha coombs, see you in a few minutes. thank you very much. >>> now to the markets and your money. get ready to hold on your next guest says the next couple of week

the daily express carries a warning from the uk's national health service that millions of missed gpe ‘a ticking time bomb‘. the paper reports that many people are said to be scared of catching coronavirus at the doctor's surgery. and the japan times features an image of pro—democracy protesters in thailand who are calling for reforms to the monarchy and military. just some of the front pages we have already. so let's begin. let to have you both with us, a lot of the papers especially uk additions featuring on focusing on the lockdowns across the country, the lockdowns across the country, the eye looking at the lockdown rebellion growing, and it's got a picture of the greater manchester mayor andy burnham. a lot of different issues we heard him speak today, early ron saying you will resist this move to the region into this third tier. a lot of different issues surfacing when we heard him speak there. yes, quite a performance there. if the chief concern says the only deputy health adviser said that going into tier three it simply won't work which is quite a telling statement, i'm not

and the british were giving weekly rounds of applause to the national health service. fost forward 7 months and the world seems to be going stir crazy frustrations at the ongoing restrictions economic uncertainty congress surging infection rates have driven some tempers to boiling point and the focus for this is off to those who don't wear mosques. the fall season which i don't think is ok. with her about. her. not. that i think. you got while government struggled to contain the virus new hardships have inflamed old tensions in this instance 2 passengers on the u.k. bus bubbly and physically abuse and apparently asian teenage girl for not covering her face. was. very different i have told her. the mosque has become a synonymous with the pandemic both as a symbol of protection and also a restriction science supports using the research shows they cut down the chances of transmitting and catching coronavirus and could reduce the severity of any infections but for some not wearing mosque means freedom from state intervention that seen few countries. get the virus under con

a very serious impact on the ability of the health service to carry out activities that at any other time would have been central to the work of the nationalis inevitable. it's inescapable, and while the health service is working very hard to create the conditions in which as much activity as possible can be safely carried out while the coronavirus crisis continues, there is no escaping the fact that there will be longer waits for some procedures in wales than we have seen for some time. mark drakeford. back injune, a statue of a slave trader, edward colston, was thrown into bristol's harbour during a black lives matter protest. the statue was later pulled out of the water and it will be placed in a museum, but its removal highlighted the debate about controversial monuments and what should be done with them. the chair of historic england, the body which advises the government on the historic environment, has warned mps on the culture committee that removing statues could lead to trouble. if you start... if you don't do that, our collective past is going to be just torn away, slowly, piece—by—piece, torn away. our collective past is there.

face widespread racial discrimination when pursuing careers in the national health service that's according to the evil college of physicians they surveyed almost $400.00 health care professionals and found that black asian a minority ethnic conflict is well less likely to be shortlisted than white counterparts with only 12 percent being hired after interview be a health care worker so that it's yet another case of systematic discrimination we've been experiencing race and discrimination for many years as nurses are actually being called racial names 5 patients are a lot of obstacles that medical health care professionals experience on a day to day basis these are often times due to unconscious biases and also just being around people who have not adequately track trained to understand different cultures if the stars member black or asian or minority ethnic member of staff raises a grievance against pertaining to racism they oftentimes will assign an investigator who has no idea how insidious racism and discrimination resents it so they do not understand and often times during those previou

first and foremost, for the sake of ourselves and our loved ones, but also to protect the national health servicen the new covid tiered restrictions for england. we‘ll bejoined by leading scientists, dr chris smith, a virologist at cambridge university and dr alan maryon davis, honorary professor of public health so send us your questions — you can use the hashtag bbcyourquestions or email them using yourquestions@bbc.co.uk let‘s just have a quick look at the commons. the government‘s efforts at tackling the spread of coronavirus will be debated by mps shortly — that‘s due to start at 2pm — with the health secretary matt hancock initiating it — addressing fellow mps. about the government‘s new tiered system across the uk to tackle the virus. a man in the united states has caught covid twice, with doctors reporting the second infection being more dangerous than the first. the 25—year—old from nevada needed hospital treatment after his lungs could not get enough oxygen into his body. our health correspondent anna collinson explains that this case is in the minority — but still very interesting for

it even changed his attitude towards britain's national health service.this is a political map that hasn't yet started yet. we could really see depending on how the virus treats the president, a real change. now, this president has not been one to shy away from using these opportunities to craft his own narrative, so it will be interesting to see how he moves with this one. guys? >> we will certainly be watching president president's health and the health response from the administration as well when he comes out of this. thank you, matt brad >> meanwhile, the house has bill is expected to hit a brick wall in the senate. majority leader mitch mcconnell has opposed the legislation as republicans push back against spending trillions more on pandemic relief. democrats and the trump administration have struggled to strike a deal, but talks do continue. you have to wonder if today's news will accelerate those talks. >> we thank you for being with us on this friday and watching "early today." i'm frances rivera. managing type 2 diabetes? you're on it. staying f

the course of the 2nd wave particularly necessary though to try and give a breather to the national health service which is coming under strain again it's coming under strain pretty much everywhere it's ahead of a bleak winter and crucially to provide a moment a 2 week moment for a sort of restart all reset of the ultimately failing now test trace and isolate system put in place by the government here in london of an eye watering cost of $15000000000.00 that up to now has been pretty ineffective it isolates. outbreaks and providing the sort of live accurate up to date data required to be able to deal with them in a localised way so that's something that he's hoping to do and in doing so taking this step that boris johnson here in england albeit advised by his own scientific advisory group had declined to do mark great food and the devolved ministration in wales going under pretty full scale lockdown now for 2 weeks starting on friday and concerns owners well in other countries across europe with the 2nd wave of infections. yes well you laid it out pretty graphically there barely a corner of europe

government saying the national health service is coping yet hospital and doctor services are all restricted so hospitals of they're not coping and maybe dollar a reference i suspect to the. i mean see some of the $1000000.00 says there's never been a safe vaccine and something not tested these days.

of public health local authorities governments and you know professional organizations the national health servicecan also convey information useful information rapidly and i think the on the whole as all excited people are willing to learn to adapt to absorb information so i think on the whole are connected society that we have now is probably an advantage to us relative to night a 19 more than a disadvantage i think however we could do something at a work of on making sure that accurate information is betrayed across social media that would be a good thing i mean the interesting this coming out of this conversation is all 3 of you are actually agreed on the fact that this is a long term thing that changes need to be made long term but that's going to have an impact said dr tony sparrow mention children i want to begin with you over a brooklyn. story in athens. it is going to be a generational change children and that has to have a long term impact the most sensitive pointing under look at the different parts of society seems to be a good schooling that and home schooling in particular because it

out with a pandemic secondly how do you read deal with the huge backlog huge backlog in the national health service that will be there by the end on the other one preaches of equal importance the other is how do we deal with the unemployment level and there's a tsunami we'll have fetters by a day in a nice for these things are all important because we've got to operate on all 3 fronts simultaneously and what i would do is i would run a training in employment law and scheme for small and medium sized businesses to get people into work and into cheating immediately and they would give a very heavy or longer term subsidy on wheaties and training course over the next 2 or 3 years so that you build that bridge between coming out of the pandemic and getting back into normal times and if you don't build the bridge the problems are going to go last before it can get better so those are going to be the 3 priorities and i think the elation both of the whales under the scotland is going to be determined largely by how people and the parties respond to the pandemic the n.e.a. chased by the low the economy and

got seriously ill and haven't survived because they didn't medical treatment, because the national health serviced clearing hospitals to allow space for covid—i9 patients. others, who were just worried about going into treatment, therefore they missed out on crucial diagnostics and scans and so on. and there is a growing view that you could almost get to a point of having as many deaths from people who didn't have covid—i9, but other causes, which were excess to what you would normally get, excess deaths is what we want to see in terms of the data, and that will take a little time to actually be fully appraised. henry chu, president trump's position has of course put covid right back front and centre, if it had ever gone away. we know 200,000 deaths, many more affected in the us? absolutely. and also, just looking around the world, one remarkable figure that stuck out to me this past week or two is the fact that in india, which is now number two in terms of the total number of infections, it went from 3 million and doubled to 6 million in barely a month. now, that is a remarkable figure. some of

government saying the national health service is coping yet hospital and doctor services are all restricted so hospitals of they're not coping and maybe dollar a reference i suspect to the. i mean see some of the 1000000 dollars says there's never been a safe vaccine and something not tested is dangerous when you don't know what the side effects are and then why it says hi alec can you ask them why the survival rates are being broadly advertise 99.6 percent survival rate would be good to know your thoughts and jake said can you ask if this cold and flu will kill more people than to influenza over the next decade and this the public hysteria justify the government's actions but then of course other people see a so i mean does the will great questions and form a divine insoles and leslie on says having lost an auntie to cope at 19 it breaks my heart to see people refusing to believe it's real and that of course in the week we have a little deaf to top 1000000 people and lesley sylvia taylor says brochure this week that they can still be us from scotland really insightful with clear explanatio

alternative to all of us working together, to stop it overwhelming us, to stop it overwhelming our national health serviceing lives if we possibly can. and the other thing i think it is worth remembering, not because it makes us feel all that much better but to give us a bit of perspective is we are not alone in this, scotla nd is we are not alone in this, scotland is not uniquely living through covid. in fact, many of our european neighbours right now are struggling with situations even more severe in some cases significantly more severe than the one we are currently facing. now, as i say that doesn't make what we are going through any easier, but it is a remind their is a global pandemic, it just remind their is a global pandemic, itjust happens that our generation is unfortunately the one having to live through it. we will get through it, i think that is the one thing we can be reasonably certain of, but the journey through it is and will continue to be really difficult for people and i think it is important for many to acknowledge that, and to acknowledge the very difficult sacrifices people are makin

and we made sure that at pace, we put in place the capabilities of systems than the national health serviceatment they needed throughout the period. the nightengales hospitals were built in record time and then the end, they did not need to be used, but we would've recredited if we had not put that capacity into place. —— regretted. there are two questions, how would we react and i'm really proud of a great deal that they did during the period. how well were we prepared is another question. clearly, were going to look at whether we should have invested more in contingent capabilities, but you have to remember, those are big political choices made by previous governments and those choices would've meant investing lesson to something else. it is always a question of priorities. you've talked about this before. during that period and immediate aftermath of phase one of the pandemic, there was briefing against you and your left government. what really happened was that like? i've been really clear several times that the briefing of that kind is really damaging. it is damaging to trust between o

he came out of it saying the national health service, britain's nationalized health system saved his life. he did not mince words. he thought he was that close. he seems a much more subdued man. johnson was this lively, funny, care-free guy, always telling jokes. always had a devil may care attitude. and also had been very relaxed about the coronavirus. he's probably closest to trump among world leaders. he had resisted any kind of social distancing, and the lockdown. he's come out of it much more attentive to social distancing, much more attentive to urging people to follow the rules. but he's also, everyone who has interacted with him feels like, he seems to be not a shell of his former self, that's too strong. but a paler image of a very colorful personality that he was. >> that's fascinating. complications from this virus can continue for months. you were saying, he's a milder version of himself, speaking of boris johnson. chris has been talking about long haul symptoms. they include brain fog, severe fatigue, pain, and so on. what does that mean for the president of the united s

remember in the first wave as we call it, the pandemic in march, it was all about stopping the national health serviceal beds are filling up in parts of the country and we are obviously approaching winter and that is going to bea approaching winter and that is going to be a key consideration for the government, if and when they make an announcement about a national lockdown which would be for a month, by the way, not two weeks if it happens. pressure as you say from other european countries, ireland has been in one form of lockdown for a while, switzerland, francejust re ce ntly a while, switzerland, francejust recently and other countries are taking more stringing measures so it seems like the pressure is building. not least in the other regions of the uk in northern ireland and wales. let's see what is actually announced and what unfolds. so it looks like borisjohnson is clinging oi'i looks like borisjohnson is clinging on to his tiered approach by his fingernails. jeffrey kofman, when we compare what is going on in europe in the us with what is happening in east asia, is the style of government, th