philippa: i'm philippa thomas. welcome to "outside source."oe biden kamala harris are about to launch their bid for the whiten house, aent in delaware. the who warrants more than half of beirut hospitals are nonfunctional, as the blame game continues over last week's deadly explosion. >> o the ministers were awa it and they didn't do anything about it. and this is really a criminal thing. philippa: belarus authorities admit using live ammunition during protests over the election. the british economy falls into an -- into a recession, growth falling a record 20% in the first wave of the coronavirus emic. welcome to the program. joe biden, challenging donald trump for the presidency, has already made history by getting a black woman, kamala harris, as his running mate. we are about to see them frs the time on stage together is the official democratic team trying to tope trump from office. this is ms. harris heading to delaware for the formal introduction of the biden-harris tick. so where these days to be waiting for an in-person campaign event.

philippa: margarita, thank you.e will keep watching thipair the reports of police brutality on the streets and i prisons has been mounting, as we heard from mgarita. journalists and passersby caught up in the arrests. here is h one man released from detention described what ha>>ened to him. speaking foreign language] bbc1 i was arrested two days ago. i d nothing illegal. they told me to line the floor. -- lie on the floor. i did. they started to beat me. i did not resist. then i was beaten in the van as well. united nations spe by the repertoire on the situation of human rights in belarus. welcome to bbc news. how would you characterize what you are seeing. >> we are witnessing extreme violence, which isti unjed and unlawful. i'm very mucconcerned about reports of torture, ill treatment, during the arrests, in detention. the conditions of detention were described, the intention of the authorities with such a heavy-handed response to the protts is to make people understa that they should go home and stay home and nev

. ♪ philippa: hello, i am philippa thomas. welcome to "outsideource."er grows after thexplosion in beirut. three days of mourning have become -- begun. 16 port officials have been detained. >france's peter t visit. was mobbed by crowd -- france's president was the first rld leader to visit. he was mobbed by crowds at the port. pleading for him to help. mr. trump: i think the nra should move to texas and lead a good, beautiful life. i have told them that for a long time. philippa: the bank of engla won't be as bad as expected, but it wil last longer. we start the program in beirut, where in jt t last half hour, 16 port officials have be detained over tuesday's explosions. today, we have seen mounting anger directed atebon's political elite, anger witnessed president.e visiting french the blast injured more than 5000, killed at least 170, and le a quarter of a million homeless. the scene is one o utter devastation. you can see machinery being used clear the wreckage. this is what the port looked like, in june and today, after the explosion. monium nitrate

. —— philippa thomas.ramme about help covid—19 changes lives around the world. i am philippa thomas and this week we revisit some of the most powerful stories we have shared with you over the last 1a weeks. we will find out what happened to the sailing family who self isolated for months on an uninhabited island in the bahamas. hurricane season was in the bahamas. hurricane season was starting and they we re season was starting and they were preparing to leave. we will talk to the leading expert in spain who called the virus while treating covid—19 victims. she is now dealing with new outbreaks. starting with new outbreaks. starting with two covid—19 survivors who each spend weeks on ventilators in intensive care. we brought together brendan sheridan, in west yorkshire and brett breslow, spending his last day ata breslow, spending his last day at a rehabilitation centre in philadelphia to hear some of what they had been through. between the time i was in the coma and the time that i was too busy to get up

i'm philippa thomas, thank you for watching coronavirus: your stories. hello. there are a few scattered downpours as well and we will continue to see storms over the next couple of days, really very little change on the weather front. the air has become very stagnant across the uk and quite humid ever since the heatwave ended days ago in the south and central areas and we are seeing the same pattern day on day. clouds reform in the south, they come in from the south, moving northwards and bringing the threat of showers, downpours and thunderstorms. so, this is what the picture looks like this evening. you can see where the showers are, some of them quite small, only a few miles across, one minute it's dry and the next minute, the heavens open. some thunder and lightning thrown in as well. i think there will be a tendency for these downpours to drift northwards as we go through the evening and the overnight period. now, the temperatures overnight once again will be pretty high, 16 degrees in norwich and london, 14 in belfast, that'sjust an indication of how much

i'm philippa thomas. thank you for watching.loping across southern areas. sunday monday the low pressure and that potentially thunderous weather is still very much with us. in fact look at the blue across the northern areas. glasgow, edinburgh getting some rain, belfast too and look at these across the midlands and wales. all of this could be thundery as this slow—moving area of low pressure which has decided to park itself over us still churns away and drives our weather. not much change expected through the first—half of the week before this big low pressure comes our way which is expected to bring some unsettled conditions towards the end of the weekend into the weekend. as far as the week ahead is concerned, it's 00:27:57,193 --> 2147483051:50:43,312 looking very changeable 2147483051:50:43,312 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 on the weather front. this is bbc news, i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines... prince charles leads commemorations to mark the 75th anniversary of vj day, the day world war ii ended with victory over japan. we sa

i'm philippa thomas and this week we're looking at global hotspots.a kender has been gathering portraits of those who have died from the virus since she lost her own mother who was taken ill in her nursing home. she went into the hospital on may 31, it was the second time that she had gone. on may 20, she went for the first time and she had shortness of breath, rapid heart rate and a fever, but she was testing negative and i talked to the hospital staff and said, you know, this doesn't make sense, she has all the symptoms but you are telling me that she is negative and they said, "yeah, the tests are only about 70%—80% accurate, and you should expect her to switch to positive at any time." and she stayed at the hospital for a few days and was tested a few more times, each time she was negative and then they released her for a few days and then she went back on may 31. that was a sunday night and then at that point she was positive and admitted into the icu. and as she got worse, you to take some very difficult decisions about a ventilator, for example

i'm philippa thomas, thank you for watching coronavirus: your stories. hello once again.e detail for the next few days and then try to get a sense of the longer—term trends. there has been of late, despite all the headlines, some very pleasant summer sunshine with reasonable temperatures. but at the very same time, we've had incursions of really quite low level cloud, some of which has been very stubborn to shift. and then of course the headline feature has been the intensity of the thunderstorms brought to us thanks this area of low pressure slowly easing its way out of biscay, throwing its warm moist air up particularly towards the southern half of the british isles, which is how we start the weekend. a lot of cloud across the british isles. still that threat of heavy showers and thunderstorms across the southern half. further north, a little nose of high pressure settling things nicely across scotland, northern ireland, the north west of england, where we'll see some of the best sunshine. underneath the murk on the eastern shores of scotland, 16 only. inland in the hea

i am philippa thomas and thank you for watching coronavirus: your stories. hello there.eekend, but there's no sign of summer returning. the last 2a hours, it's been very wet across many parts of the country. some flooded scenes here in southern england, with an inch of rain falling in about an hour. there could be some flooding in northeast england in the morning as well with that persistent rain from overnight. that rain band will move southwards through the day, heading towards wales and the midlands. south of that, some sunshine triggering some heavy and thundery showers. the weather should improve for northern ireland and scotland, and later in northern england, with some sunshine. but for these areas, the winds will be much stronger, particularly windy around some of those north sea coasts, maybe blowing in one or two showers as well. a disappointingly cool day on friday. again, temperatures 15 to 18 degrees. now, the really wet weather that we're seeing across england and wales into friday is around that area of low pressure and weather front. it's trying to pull a

i'm philippa thomas. and this week, we're getting inside stories from scientists.e world health organization is warning there may never be a silver bullet to beat this coronavirus. but hopes for some level of vaccine protection are strong, with teams around the world working at unprecedented speed, with great intensity, to try to establish successful formulas. one of those teams is that the wistar biomedical institute in pennsylvania, working with the us company inovio and with groups from korea and china, to australia, to canada, to the british nhs. the wistar—inovio vaccine is a synthetic dna—based vaccine, a new type that isn't based on the live material that copies it, essentially fooling our immune system into believing covid—19 is present and needs to be repelled. the aim is to inject an artificially created version of covid's viral protein into the body as genetic information. that, it's hoped, will stimulate our immune systems to create their own defences against the virus that can do so much harm. leading this particular effort is doctor david weiner, he's

i'm philippa thomas. next, we look at the search for a vaccine.tion is wanting there may never be a silver bullet to beat this coronavirus, but hopes for some level of vaccine protection are strong. with teams around the world working at unprecedented speed, with great intensity, to try to establish accessible formulas. 0ne try to establish accessible formulas. one of those teams is that the wistar biomedical institute in pennsylvania, working with us company interview and groups from korea and china, to australia, to canada, to the british nhs. the wistar vaccine is a dna —based vaccine, a new type that isn't based on the live material that copies of it. , —— essentially willing the body —— pulling the body into thinking covid—19 is present and needs to be repelled. it hoped it will stimulate our immune systems to create their own defences against the virus that can do so against the virus that can do so much harm. leading this particular effort is doctor david weiner, is the executive director of wistar‘s vaccine and immunotherapies centre was t

and coming up, philippa thomas hears from people around the world about their extraordinary experiencesing the pandemic and how covid—19 has changed their lives. good afternoon.

i'm philippa thomas. thank you forjoining us for coronavirus: your stories. hello.. temperatures reach 36.4 celsius in london and some parts of southern england didn't drop below 20 celsius overnight. lots of sunshine around for many this afternoon, but not for all. there is much more cloud around, across the north—east coast of england and that may start to fringe parts of lincolnshire through the afternoon. also, coastal areas of cornwall could just hang onto more cloud throughout the day. this area of high pressure building to the north of the uk, it is generating more of a north, north—westerly wind, so a north—south split in terms of temperatures. the south is where we will see the heat, cool and fresh further north, also keeping an eye on this area of cloud in the north sea, as i mentioned, just fringing north—eastern and eastern coasts of england, cornwall as well, is likely to hang on to some more cloud, particularly the further south and west you are. fairly light breeze but that wind direction will keep it cooler for eastern coasts. this is where the heat

i'm philippa thomas, thank you for watching coronavirus: your stories. hello.r across the british isles. a lot of heat and humidity again and yet, into saint ives and a number of coastal areas, were plagued with low cloud and fog, and then, as the day wore on, so the thunderstorms popped off, and that prospect is there again, through thursday. hot and humid weather with that risk of thunderstorms, especially so, although not exclusively, across the southern half of the british isles, because this overall set up of the low pressure, with the heat from the continent and the moisture from the surrounding seas, is still the dominant feature. and we start with the temperature somewhere in the teens for many, if not twenty degrees in one or two spots in the southeast. and from the word go, there could well be some thunderstorms for central and southern parts of england, getting across the border into wales. quite a bit of murk there to the eastern side of the pennines, effecting some of the east and northern counties of scotland. best of the sunshine out west, later

i'm philippa thomas, thank you for watching coronavirus: your stories. hello there.s. nowhere got above 30. that's the first time in over a week we've seen that, so temperatures are falling now over the next few days and we'll have a north—south divide. southern parts of the country will feel most humid, with the risk of thunderstorms over the next few days, whereas further north, higher pressure will tend to bring a lot of dry weather with some sunshine. but there will be some mist and low cloud across more eastern areas. so, for friday, we've got lower pressure to the south, this weather front generating the showers and thunderstorms. higher pressure, though, across the north, higher pressure, though, across the north, which will bring the fine and settled weather, but we will start off with that low cloud and mist, across many central and eastern areas, which will tend to burn back to the coast through the day. best of the sunshine western scotland, northern ireland, northwest england, where it will feel pleasantly warm. northwest england, where it will feel pleas

for russ and philippa, their vineyard was their life.y lost staff and income and the two of them alone couldn't cope. it hits you. absolutely nothing we can do. so they had an idea. they put out a plea for help on facebook. 115,000 people read it and this is what happened. horn honks. morning. thank you all so much. hundreds of people offered to help for free. every day around 20 volunteers are turning up to carry out the work. it's hot and it's hard. why are you doing this? just to put a little bit back into the community, help somebody out. i thought it would be a nice way to give back, help out a local business. clearing leaves to leave grapes cleared takes hours of toil. we worked it out. you lot have got to pick half a million leaves. wow, i didn't know that! really? half a million? it'sjust something to help somebody, isn't it? help a fellow human being to make life a bit easier. and russ and philippa, well, they are almost speechless. it's like a big hug only 100 times better than a big hug. it's absolutely amazing that they've ju

philippa muscles a pin made of mikey the best race driver of all and the most challenge wired up by a woman. sets what i love. for right now. he won't be there ya comes from earth for come just one thing to mention it's a shit and cannot be seen and even shouldn't be in coffee or off for beaming strobes have been ahead of bush seems to me that often and from book on and on and my number. is in 1800 she was one of the hardest compared to those with my kids who was in formal suite on the church in the search for she heard them. continues must always feel they can trust almost cost no such concern as mountain time senshi move to raise the tramp injury and only what to call a long trip like tikrit also. thank . goodness for school now this is an addict in the from and on time it's to make to come and sure enough is enough for me. it was the only time woman's warm incense raising serious. do you remember straights if you want to see it crashed a little bit. or and but she did it took away a law and then. this school took me for a. clash with my number 2. which brought me this shocking expe

and ross and philippa we re bit easier. and ross and philippa were almost speechless. this.|j do have just come out and done this.” do not know if has changed the way people think. everyone isjust helping everybody. it seems that if you ask for help, so many people just saying, please, we're here. more volunteers are due in the coming days in what is proving to be a vintage year. duncan kennedy, bbc news. an awful lot of vines to pick. that shot from the air, you could see you they needed some help. a lot of people giving help. suitable weather on the isle of wight but not everywhere? after that exceptional heat that some of you experienced on friday this cooler this weekend but there is still sunshine around where that sun is out through today it will feel pleasant but temperatures have dropped and it will be a sunny week because of a good show the trend, let's stay here in nottinghamshire and will have a look at nottingham, notice the temperature trend here. keep things on the cool side for the next few days that the second half of the week, temperatures are set to c

and coming up, philippa thomas hears from people around the world about their extraordinary experiencesing the pandemic and how covid—19 has changed their lives. good afternoon. the prince of wales has led commemorations for the 75th anniversary of vj day, when japan's surrender ended the second world war. prince charles joined veterans and military personnel for a service at the national memorial arboretum in staffordshire. he paid tribute to the courage of those who fought, saying their service and sacrifice would "echo through the ages" and remembered all those who lives were blighted by the conflict. nicholas witchell reports. a lone piper at dawn, aboard hms belfast, marking the fact that 75 years ago this morning, the world awoke, finally, to peace. in the open spaces of the national memorial arboretum in staffordshire, a carefully choreographed commemoration attended by a0 veterans who fought in the 14th, sometimes forgotten, army against a voracious enemy in some of the most challenging of conditions. many tens of thousands of allied troops from many different nations lost their

were initially refused access to him his supporters believe he has been poisoned because of his philippa collectivities the russian doctor said earlier they had not found any. evidence of poisoning in that not only had been diagnosed with a metabolic disease caused by low blood sugar the outspoken kremlin critic was rushed to intensive care in on staff to falling ill on a flight to moscow prompting and merge and c. landing and let's get a closer look at how the situation unfold. this is the hospital alex scion of ali was taken to with a case of suspected poisoning and this is where he will remain for now. doctors here say novelli is too sick to be moved by the ambulance that was supposed to take him to germany for treatment. we would have but if you're regarding his transfer i think and this is what the doctors counsel decided that it's true early we have to completely stabilize the patient 1st be what you play and. they also say they found no sign that novell knew he was poisoned. with. the story. so far in the research that has been done no poison has been identified. it's a statement

and coming up, philippa thomas hears from people around the world about their extraordinary experiencesing the pandemic and how covid—19 has changed their lives. there's more uncertainty and confusion for hundreds of thousands of a—level and gcse students today. the exams regulator quual withdrew its advice for those wanting to appeal within hours of making it public. the government has been under fire since thursday's a—level grades were awarded with nearly 40% downgraded by quual. gcse results are due this week, having been assessed using the same algorithm as a—levels. here's our political correspondent peter saull. in ordinary times, they'd know what their next step would be by now. and the class of 2020 is facing more uncertainty. three days after the results came out, here, or so we thought, was the criteria for appealing. on this page of quual's website, students and teachers could find out what a valid mock exam looks like, but just hours later, the document disappeared. in a statement, the regulator said... "earlier today we published information about mock exam results in appe

and philippa thomas hears from people about how covid—i9 has changed their lives.hat's in "coronavirus: your stories", in half an hour, here on bbc news. good afternoon. manchester united says the club's captain harry maguire has pleaded not guilty after he appeared before a state prosecutor in greece of mykonos on thursday. after a disturbance at a bar on the island of mykonos on thursday. he has been cleared to fly home. the england defender — seen here leaving the court building — was one of three men arrested on thursday. in a statement, manchester united said the 27—year—old has pleaded not guilty to all charges. it is understood there will be a further hearing on tuesday. our sports presenter olly foster gave us more details. after two nights in police custody, harry maguire and those two other men appeared before this regional prosecutor in syros to face these charges that have been, these allegations that have been laid against them. worth reminding ourselves just what's happened over the last 48 hours or so. police in neighbouring mykonos, they arrested th

i'm philippa thomas and this week we're looking at global hot spots. on may 31, it was the second time that she had gone. on may 20, she went for the first time and she had shortness of breath, rapid heart rate and a fever, but she was testing negative. and i talked to the hospital staff and said, you know, this doesn't make sense, she has all the symptoms but you are telling me that she is negative, and they said, "yeah, the tests are only about 70%—80% accurate, and you should expect her to switch to positive at any time." and then she stayed at the hospital for a few days and was tested a few more times, each time she was negative and then they released her, for a few days, and then she went back on may 31. that was a sunday night and then at that point she was positive and admitted into the icu. and as she got worse, you to take some very difficult decisions about a ventilator, for example. well, my mom had always said that she did not want to be kept alive by a machine, so a true ventilator was not an option. where she ended up was what's called a

hello, i'm philippa thomas. welcome to outside source.or the first time in delaware. the who warns more than half of beirut‘s hospitals are "non—functional", as the blame game over last week's deadly explosion continues. all the managers of the port are now under house arrest, as well as ministers. they didn't do anything about

philippa agrees with the professor, you definitely need to maintain friendships by seeing people.nged, that is longevity in action. so we will speak to the prof on bbc two in the next hour. now the weather with carol. stone francis packed a punch yesterday, even last night gusts of wind recorded around the needles at 81 mph. today the winds will continue to ease and we are looking ata continue to ease and we are looking at a mixture of sunshine and showers. a much drier day than yesterday. you can see the swirl of cloud, this is storm francis pushing into the near continent. gusty winds are easing, and a transient ridge of high pressure building from the west which is settling things down initially in the west with the rain clearing away, and we are left with some showers and winds easing as we go through the rest of the day. temperatures today ranging from 13 in the north to 23 in the south, so feeling warm and it did yesterday. as we head on through this evening and overnight, we are still looking at clear skies. still a fair bit of cloud across the northern half of the country

our clerk is linda wong who is assisted today by grant philippa. we would like to thank -- [inaudible] -- sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. madame clerk? mr. clerk. i think that we need to make a motion to excuse supervisor ronen. i'd like to make a motion to excuse supervisor ronen. a second please? >> second. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. could i have a roll call vote? >> i'm sorry, could you clarify who is the second? walt >> supervisor walton: walt supervisor walton. walton aye. mandelman absent. yee aye. ronen -- sorry, we're excusing her. fewer aye. >> clerk: chair fewer, aye. supervisor mandelman? mandelman absent. you have three ayes. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. i believe supervisor haney is substituting today for supervisor ronen. thank you very much. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> yes, madame chair. due to the covid-19 health emergency and to protect board members, city employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and committee room are closed. however, members will be

hello, i'm philippa thomas. this is outside source. the rivals for the white house are blaming each otherfor stoking

hello i'm philippa thomas, welcome to outside source. anger grows at the goverment after tuesday's catastrophic explosion in beirut. three days of national mourning have begun — 137 people are known to have died, with thousands more missing or injured. 16 port officials have been detained. your anger is my source of optimism.

hello, i'm philippa thomas, this is outside source. donald trump's former chief strategist, steve bannon, has been arrested and charged with fraud and money the charges relate to a fundraising campaign to build a wall on the us—mexico border, we'll bring you the very latest from washington. we'll bring you the very and money laundering. the russian opposition figure alexei navalny, is unconscious in hospital after a suspected poisoning. stu d e nts students get their come . students get their come take = students get their come take i look students get their come take look pandemic

hello i'm philippa thomas, welcome to outside source. anger grows at the goverment after tuesday's catastrophic explosion in beirut. three days of national mourning have begun — 137 people are known to have died, with thousands more missing or injured. 16 port officials have been detained. your anger is my source of optimism. president macron is the first world leader to visit — mobbed by crowds at the port who plead with him for help. new york state's top legal officer sues to dissolve the powerful gun lobby the national rifle association, after an investigation into fraud. i think the nra should move to texas and lead a very good and beautiful life. and i told them that for a long time. africa is just a few thousand cases shy of one million coronavirus infections. and the bank of england says the uk's economic slump won't be as bad as expected but it will last longer. welcome. we start the programme in beirut, where in the last half hour, sixteen port officials have been detained over tuesday's massive explosion there. but today we've

hello, i'm philippa thomas. welcome to outside source. the democratic nominee for presidentjoe biden and his new running mate kamala harris are about to launch their bid for the white house. in the next hour, they'll be addressing an event together for the first time in delaware. the who warns more than half of beirut‘s hospitals are "non—functional", as the blame game over last week's deadly explosion continues. all the managers of the port are now under house arrest, as well as ministers. they didn't do anything about it, and this is a criminal. belarus authorities admit to using live ammunition during protests against the country's disputed election. britain's economy falls into a recession. new figures show uk growth fell a record 20% in the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. welcome. joe biden, who's challenging donald trump for the us presidency this november, has already made history by naming a black woman, kamala harris, as his pick for vice—president. within the hour, we're expecting to see them both on stage for the first

hello, i'm philippa thomas. this is outside source. protestors in belarus are told the european union stands with them, condemning the elections as fraudulent, imposing targeted sanctions. these elections were neither free nor fair and did not meet international standards. here in the uk, the brother of the manchester bomber‘s hearing gets under way with emotional testimony from victims‘ families. the african union has suspended mali's membership after yesterday's military coup. and pop star britney spears asks a court not to return her father to a role that gave him control over much of her life and career. hello. the diplomatic stand—off over belarus has escalated further, with the european union announcing today it will impose targeted sanctions. here's the european commission president, ursula von der leyen. we will sanction all those responsible for violence, repression and falsification of the results of the election. the people of belarus took peacefully to the streets and the authorities answered with violence. and this cannot