here comes alok sharma.ness secretary alok sharma with professor stephen powis and sarah albion from the health and safety executive. alok sharma:: i'm joined the health and safety executive. alok sharma:: i'mjoined by professor stephen powis and sarah albion. first i want to update you on the latest data from the coronavirus response. 2 million tests for coronavirus have now been carried out in the uk,. 226,463 people have tested positive. that's an increase of 3403 cases since yesterday. 11,605 people are currently in hospital with coronavirus, up from 11,465 the previous day. sadly, of those tested positive for coronavirus across all settings, 32,692 have now died. that's an increase of 627 fatalities since yesterday. this is of course devastating news for families across the united kingdom. we all need to stay alert and control the virus. i wa nt to stay alert and control the virus. i want to remind people of the details of the next phase of our fight against coronavirus that will be set out this week. w

alok sharma, the business secretary. that is it from me.ual for a sitting president to be rebuked by a predecessor, but mr obama said the pandemic had shown that those in charge don't know what they're doing. our washington correspondent david willis sent this report. class of 2020, this is for you... in the age of the coronavirus, this is what it means to come of age. graduation ceremonies, a rite of passage for youngsters here, now virtual, rather than actual experiences. the future for those graduating more uncertain than at any other time in modern history. the world is yours now. this star—studded televised event had as its keynote speaker the 44th president of the united states, and he was withering in his criticism of his successor‘s handling of the crisis. more than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally, torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they're doing. a lot of them aren't even pretending to be in charge. since leaving office injanuary 2017, barack obama has largely avoided criticis

we heard from alex sharma yesterday at the coronavirus press briefing and he said basically the uk isowing everything it can at trying to find a vaccine for covid-19. two programs are working and some are working better than others. the first one is the oxford university one. that's progressing well. clinical trials have started. over 1,000 participants have gotten their vaccine a week ago or so. that's going well. the same time we have imperial college london who's also doing well in trying to find a vaccine here. their clinical trials expected to start around june. now, the oxford university trials, they have signed agreement with the government as well as with the as tra accident ka, the huge pharmaceutical giant, licensing agreement, if a vaccine is successful then the uk will get 30 million doses of the vaccine by september. now, some of the newspapers here are already running with that, getting peoples' expectations up. 30 million by september with agreed plan for 100 million doses. the ceo has said that they should know by june/july whether these trials have been successful. bu

and i here in london have very close contact with the secretaries including matt hancock and alloc sharmats for example. i think there is totally a cold war mentality. we are living in the third decade of the 21st century, but those people still believe in old days, when they were fighting the cold war. china is not former soviet union. i think china and uk... we are united by common interests then divided by other differences. i am very confident about this relationship. ambassador, we have to end it there, but i do thank you very much indeed forjoining me here on hardtalk at this difficult time. liu xiaoming, thank you very much indeed. my pleasure. skies have threatened rather than delivered many showers today. the garden has been a nice place to be. until spring just now. for part two of the weekend tomorrow, high pressure in control for much of the uk but still if you showers breaking it. the greater chance tomorrow catching one than today. a bit of patchy light rain in places. that is the case is going to deny is the cloud increases. where we have seen some showers today across nort

and then step 3 no earlier than july the 4th and again if only to do it says a lot sharma the business secretary given the government's coronavirus press briefing there live in downing street he reiterated the government's 5 virus alert levels and spoke of the plan to get those who called to work from home back to work now let's return to our correspondent shadier who's been listening to this and before him we'll talk about the chancellor let's go back to what he had to say about the future all the furloughs scheme yes absolutely so vicious to knock the charts now he extended that further less came by an additional 4 months take it well to the end of october which essentially means by that point the government would have stepped in for an additional 8 months until the end of july there would be no changes whatsoever. then from august to october the scheme will continue for all sectors and regions of the u.k. but with greater flexibility to support the transition back to work employers currently using the scheme will be able to bring furloughed employees back part time. and we will ask

uk business secretary, alok sharma, praised the work being done by scientists in britain, to try to findtoday's downing street briefing. the speed at which oxford university has designed and organised its complex trials is generally unprecedented. imperial college are also making good progress and will be looking to move into clinical trials by mid june, larger scale trials due to begin in october. so far, the government has invested £47 million in the oxford and imperial vaccine programmes. today i can announce an additional £81; million of new government funding to help accelerate their work. this new money will help mass—produce the 0xford vaccine so that if current trials are successful we have dosages to start vaccinating the uk population straightaway. the funding will also allow imperial to launch phase three of clinical trials for this vaccine later this year. i can also confirm that with government support oxford university has finally finalised a global licensing agreement with a company for the commercialisation and manufacture of the oxford vaccine. this means that if the vac

and i here in london have very close contact with the secretaries including matt hancock and alloc sharmaxample. i think there is totally a cold war mentality. we are living in the third decade of the 21st century, but those people still believe in old days, when they were fighting the cold war. china is not former soviet union. i think china and uk... we are united by common interests then divided by other differences. i am very confident about this relationship. ambassador, we have to end it there, but i do thank you very much indeed forjoining me here on hardtalk at this difficult time. liu xiaoming, thank you very much indeed. my pleasure. hello there. well, we may have had to wait right till end of april, but yesterday's storms were quite impressive. the radar picture shows just how widespread those showers were, nowhere immune from seeing several downpours through the day. but some of the showers were particularly impressive. from this mammatus cloud — the sign of very active convection in wiltshire — to pea—sized hail falling from those thunderclouds in buckinghamshire, and further

hello, i'm babita sharma.rs in the uk and around the world. we're covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. world leaders from 30 countries pledge $8 billion to help develop a coronavirus vaccine at an online summit. president of the eu commission calls it the start of unprecedented global co—operation. the partners are many, the goal is one, to defeat this virus.

i'm babita sharma. we're covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. the us renews its attack on the world health organization and china over their response to the coronavirus pandemic. there was a failure by this organisation to obtain the information that the world needed, and that failure cost many lives. all along, we have acted with openness, transparency and responsibility. new symptoms to look for — if you think you may have coronavirus in the uk — a loss of smell or taste. and ten weeks on from one of the world's most stringent lockdowns — bars, restaurants and hairdressers begin to open again in italy. welcome. the us has launched a scathing attack on the world health organization — at its annual meeting of the member states. us health secretary alex azhar said the who had failed to obtain the information that the world needed — which cost lives in the pandemic. have a listen. in an apparent attempt to conceal this outbreak. at least one member state made a mo

the uk business secretary, alok sharma, praised the work being done by scientists in britain to try tocessful vaccine at today's downing street briefing. the speed at which oxford university has designed and organised complex trials is unprecedented. imperial college are also making good progress, and we will be looking to move into clinical trials by mid—june, with a larger—scale trial planned to begin in october. so far, the government has invested £47 million in the oxford and imperial vaccine programmes, but today i can announce an additional £84 million of new government funding to help accelerate their work. this new money will help mass—produce the oxford vaccine so that, if current trials are successful, we have dosages to start vaccinating the uk population straightaway. the funding will also allow imperial to launch phase three clinical trials of a vaccine later this year. i can also confirm that, with government support, oxford university has finalised a global licensing agreement with astrazeneca for the commercialisation and manufacturing of the oxford vaccine. this means

i'm babita sharma.ments here in britain and globally. countries agree to an ‘independent inquiry‘ into the world health organisation‘s response to the coronavirus pandemic. that‘s as president trump ramps up his attack on the organisation. they have to clean up their act. they have to clean up their act. they have to do a betterjob. they have to be much more fair to other countries including the united states or we will not be involved with them any more. we would do it a separate way. millions around the world have lost theirjobs —

street news conference on the government's coronavirus strategy was led by the business secretary alok sharma. it followed the announcement by the chancellor rishi sunak that the uk scheme to pay wages of workers on leave because of coronavirus will be extended to october. let's listen to what the business secretary had to say. good afternoon. i'm joined today by professor stephen, national director of nhs england and the chief executive of the health and safety executive. first i want to update you on the latest data on the coronavirus response. 2,007,146 test for coronavirus have now been carried out in the uk, including 85,293 tests carried out yesterday. 226,463 people have tested positive. that's an increase of 3403 cases since yesterday. 11,605 people are currently in hospital with coronavirus. but from 11,465 the previous day —— up from. sadly, of those tested positive across coronavirus across all setting, 32,619 have now died. not an increase of 627 fatality since yesterday —— that's an increase. this is devastating news for families across the united kingdom. we all need to stay ale

has sharma says that the economic impact of india's markdown will be felt for a long time because of its humanitarian failure with my parents less willing to return to the cities and is a big problem al jazeera greater noida. one of the most senior scientific advisors to the british government has resigned after breaching the coronavirus lockdown rules he helped create for ferguson. neil ferguson years of leading voice on the scientific advisory group later emerged that he was visited as a home by a woman once the lockdown came into place or than 30000 people have died in the u.k. making it the worst affected in europe. prime minister johnson's 1st a grilling about this during his 1st appearance at prime minister's questions since he recovered from 19. at this stage i don't think that international comparisons and the data is is yet that to draw the conclusions that we want what i can tell you is that at every stage as we took the decisions that we did we were governed by one overriding principle and aim and that was to save lives and to protect our n.h.s. mr speaker the argument tha

dedicated vaccine facility and also a new raft of funding as outlined by the business secretary out sharma i can also confirm that with government support oxford university has finalized a global licensing agreement with astra zeneca for the commercialization and manufacturing of the oxford vaccine this means that if the vaccine is successful astra zeneca will work to make $30000000.00 doses available by september for the u.k. as part of an agreement to do $100000000.00 doses in total. the u.k. will be 1st to get access and we can also ensure that in addition to supporting people here in the u.k. we're able to make the vaccine available to developing countries at the lowest possible cost but here's where the government's messaging gets a bit confusing because the oxford university astra zeneca tie up has been talked about as being able to pump out 100000000 doses of vaccine by september when u.k. citizens being 1st in the queue but as far as we're aware no vaccine actually exists yet and writing in the mail on sunday the british prime minister boris johnson warned everyone that the path of

i'm babita sharma. we're covering all the latest developments and analysis here in britain and globally. pressure mounts on the uk prime minister over the handling of his top advisor‘s trip across the country during lockdown. nearly a0 of his own mps have called for dominic cummings to go — and a junior minister has resigned. asa as a government minister, you must be willing to defend the government policy and with the government are saying, and i was not able to do that so i felt the only option left to me was to resign from government. applause. after a two month coronavirus closure — the new york stock exchange, reopens its trading floor. june 15th has been labelled a ‘european d—day for tourism' — with many countries starting to relax their borders then. greece is allowing domestic travel to its islands from today — we're there, with a special report. and some none—coronavirus news — we'll look into new research on why the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was so catastrophic. welcome. calls for

hello, i'm babita sharma. this is outside source on bbc news for viewers in the uk and around the world. we're covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. world leaders from 30 countries pledge $8 billion to help develop a coronavirus vaccine at an online summit. the president of the eu commission calls it the start of unprecedented global co—operation. the 4th of may 2020 will mark a turning point in ourfight against the coronavirus. millions of people in the uk will soon be asked to track their movements as part of a new contact tracing app. the government want to roll it out later this month. italians have gone back to work for the first time since the country imposed a national lockdown two months ago — but the economic and social impact is yet to be measured. scientists have discovered a microbe that completely protects mosquitoes from being infected with malaria. we'll speak to the lead scientist about just how significant this is in controlling the disease. welcome. th

the business secretary, alok sharma, has announced that the drugs company astrazeneca will make 30 millioncoronavirus vaccine by september if it's proven to work. the vaccine is being developed by a team at oxford university and is currently part of a clinical trial. the government has put an additional £81; million towards accelerating trials and mass production of potential covid—i9 vaccines. the scottish government has announced it will begin testing contact—tracing technology in three health—board areas from tomorrow. it's the first step towards an extended test, trace and isolate approach to be rolled out across scotland by the end of the month. anyone testing positive will be asked to isolate and a system used to identify and contact people they have been close to. leaders of some of the largest councils in england have appealed to the government for emergency financial support to prevent them becoming insolvent during the pandemic. the county councils network says that without a £5 billion income guarantee, many non—essential services will have to be cut. there could also be an impa

i'm babita sharma. we're covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. countries agree to an ‘independent inquiry‘ into the world health organisation's response to the coronavirus pandemic. millions around the world have lost theirjobs — and many more are likely to. we assess the economic fallout from coronavirus. more than 11,000 people have died in care homes in britain since the start of march — the goverment‘s been criticised for not acting fast enough. and millions are evacuated from coastal areas in india and bangladesh, as cyclone umpun approaches the bay of bengal. welcome. the head of the world health organisation has defended its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. the who has been sharply criticised by the united states and will be the subject of an independent inquiry. here's who chief dr tedros. i thank member states for adapting the resolution which calls for a deep evaluation and response. that including the performance of the who. as i said yesterday, i

be up and ready by the summer of next year we've also just heard from the business secretary out sharma in the daily news briefing that another $100000000.00 worth of cash is going to scientists at oxford university and imperial college oxford university has just signed a deal with astra zeneca the pharmaceutical company it's a deal is being kind of in the in the offing for a few weeks now but finally got a signature to it which would mean that if they come to the development of a vaccine that they would produce $100000000.00 doses $30000000.00 of those doses would go towards the u.k. citizens they would get the 1st dibs on them essentially before the rest could go to other countries around the world and this this development is what i'm talking about september for this it's interesting messaging being this though because we have also heard from. boris johnson the prime minister in an article that he has written for the mail on sunday a british newspaper saying that the quest for a vaccine is still there still a lot of work left to do want it perhaps still a long way off and even he say

for his sharma says that the economic impact of india's knock down will be felt for a long time because of its humanitarian failure but my quince less willing to return to the cities and is a bit proud of al-jazeera greater noida orthopathy. the head of the world health organization is urging countries to boost investment in health care not only to fight the pandemic but to prepare for the next one as we work on responding to this pandemic we must also work harder to prepare for the next one now is an opportunity to lay the foundations for resilient whole systems around the world which has been ignored for too long that includes systems that systems to prepare. prevent and respond to emerging genes if we learn anything from 9 to him it must be that investing in health now will save lives later. south korea is also among countries lifting restrictions its containment of the virus has been widely praised let's take a look at some of the details soon after the 1st infection was confirmed in january testing kits were quickly approved and patients isolated mobile tracking apps and drive thro

because sharma says that the economic impact of india's markdown will be felt for a long time because of its humanitarian failure with migrants less willing to return to the cities and is a big problem al jazeera greater noida. deaths in latin america have passed 15000 health experts warn it several weeks behind europe with the peak still to come brazil is the worst hit country with more than 8500 deaths in mexico has the 2nd highest number of deaths in the region at just over 2700 deaths in ecuador more than 1600 indigenous communities of fled to the amazon rain forest fearing they could be wiped out by the pandemic and despite being one of the 1st latin american countries to shut down peru has had more than 1500 deaths and cases have doubled in the past 10 days. from mexico city out as it was john the home and reports on how latin america's criminal gangs are talking up their efforts to fight the virus. he's about to be punished for heading out during quarantine. but not by the police by the m s 13 gang you know salvador they've been taking action against violators of coronavirus cu

been abandoned in this case of the very individuals who will build own future prosperity may his sharma says that the economic impact of india's knocked on will be felt for a long time because of its humanitarian failure with my quince less willing to return to the cities and is a big problem al jazeera great annoyed a lot of party. more votes carrying ring of refugees have arrived in bangladesh from in ma some have been transferred to a small island described by human rights activists as a health hazard now meantime jim has the story. just weeks after hundreds of broken government eugene's who'd been stranded at sea were rescued off the coast of southern bangladesh another boat this one carrying around 50 people was allowed ashore on saturday. seen in this video shown by a local news outlet are believed to have been on one of 2 fishing trawlers that have been adrift at sea for months this was after their families had to pay ransom money to traffickers on a bigger boat and that bigger boat is still potentially off the coast of cockers are and these traffickers are still holding potentia

abandoned in this case are the very individuals who will build our own future prosperity for his sharma says that the economic impact of india's mark dam will be felt for a long time because of its humanitarian failure with migrants less willing to return to the cities it is about brand of al-jazeera greater noida of the. iranian mosque so found a way to hold services during ramadan even though they closed people in tehran can go to drive in religious ceremonies after if that's the evening meal breaking the ramadan sassed organizers say between 400 and $500.00 cars come to the theme park where families can watch religious films and speeches. israel's defense minister has approved the construction of thousands more settler homes in the occupied west bank around $7000.00 us rebuilt in the effort settlements south of bethlehem the homes are illegal under international law are a force that has the reaction from western. it would if it went through be a major expansion of the go on block or in and around bethlehem south to the south of bethlehem reportedly about an extra 100 hectares of land

business secretary alec sharma says it will have 65 million pounds of funding. today marks the first meeting of the world health organization's governing body since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. europe and australia are likely to push for information into origins of the virus. the white house is repeatedly blaming beijing for the pandemic. and while way is accusing the u.s. of using private security up its ownef dominance of the tech industry. move up saysys the the global supply chain. they report one semiconductor has stopped accepting orders from the chinese tech diet -- tech giant. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and @quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am ritika gupta. this is bloomberg. francine? francine: ritika, thank you so much. now, don't bet against the american economy, that is according to fed chair jay powell. he says the u.s. economy will recover from the coronavirus pandemic, but it can take longer than expected, and dependent, of course, on the vaccine. chair powe

should be looking at from a legacy point of view in loose houses then in april business secretary alex sharma met amazon and e bay to discuss price gouging on their sites after reports of hand sanitizer selling for $360.00 pounds the retailers claims thousands of listings have since been removed while emergency laws have been passed in the us and france but the idea stalled in the u.k. as the business department is not in favor of laws on price control there is probably going to be people within government who all are going to be of the belief that the market will fix itself but we've seen plenty of times in the past about just doesn't always happen sometimes the government doesn't need to intervene of course where you can probably also see plenty of areas where there is available perhaps the government believes that there's sufficient stock available in these outlets which are selling these items at reasonable prices which will effectively push aside those trying to make a quick pounds at the expense of people who need these basic goods but again as long as that continues to be the case as l

dedicated vaccine facility and also a new raft of funding as outlined by the business secretary out sharma i can also confirm that with government support oxford university has finalized a global licensing agreement with astra zeneca for the commercialization and manufacturing of the oxford vaccine this means that if the vaccine is successful astra zeneca will work to make 30000000 doses available by september for the u.k. as part of an agreement to do a 100000000 doses into. the u.k. will be 1st to get access and we can also ensure that in addition to supporting people here in the u.k. we're able to make the vaccine available to developing countries at the lowest possible cost but here's where the government's messaging gets a bit confusing because the oxford university astra zeneca tie up has been talked about as being able to pump out 100000000 doses of vaccine by september when u.k. citizens being 1st in the queue but as far as we're aware no vaccine actually exists yet and writing in the mail on sunday the british prime minister boris johnson warned everyone that the path of getting t

for his sharma says that the economic impact of india's marked on will be felt for a long time because of its humanitarian failure with migrants less willing to return to the cities and is a big problem al-jazeera great annoyed a lot of put the. unemployment in south africa could hit 40 percent because of the current virus outbreak the government began easing restrictions on friday in attempt to save the country's battered economy but many have already lost their jobs or can't yet return to work south africa's economy was already in a recession before private 19 struck well pandemic is forcing businesses to come up with creative ways to help the reopen we're also enforcing social distancing one restaurant in amsterdam is experimented with this solution small greenhouses for people to dine in if it up to 3 guests and are served by which the staff wearing masks at the netherlands restaurant association is warning many businesses will collapse even if restriction is eased soon restaurants will stay closed until at least may the 19th. workers in the u.k.'s national health service are being

should be looking at from a legacy point of view in loose houses then in april business secretary alex sharma met amazon and e bay to discuss price gouging on their sites after reports of ham sanitizers selling for $360.00 pounds the retailers claimed thousands of listings have since been removed while emergency laws have been passed in the us and france but the idea stalled in the u.k. as the business department is not in favor of laws on price control there is probably going to be people within government who all are going to be of the belief that the market will fix itself but we've seen plenty of times in the past about just doesn't always happen sometimes the government doesn't need to intervene of course where you can probably also see plenty of areas where there is a veil ability perhaps the government believes that there's sufficient stock available in these outlets which are selling these items at reasonable prices which will effectively push aside those trying to make a quick pounds the expense of people who need these basic goods but again as long as that continues to be the case a

i‘m babita sharma.and with the government are saying, and i was not able to do that so i felt the only option left to me

for his sharma says that the economic impact of india's mokdad will be felt for a long time because of its humanitarian failure with migrants less willing to return to the cities it is about brand of al-jazeera greater noida of the. then india's capital a 70 percent increase in the price of alcoholic drinks is not reducing some long queues the so-called corona tax in delhi is aimed at preventing large crowds outside alcohol shops police used battens to disperse hundreds of violating social distancing measures when the government eased 6 weeks of october on monday. somalia's president is promising a thorough investigation into a plane crash in kenya 6 people were killed when the aircraft carrying medical supplies to somalia went down on monday the somali aviation authority says it was a terrible accident and the plane was not shot down as some had suggested. still to come here on al-jazeera well look at why one native american community has some of the worst infection rights in the u.s. . and in sport one of the major football leagues in the world is set to return to action details with

hello, i'm babita sharma. a coronavirus vaccine at an online summit. the president of the eu commission calls it the start of unprecedented global co—operation. the 4th of may 2020 will mark a turning point in ourfight against the coronavirus.

his sharma says that the economic impact of india's knock down will be felt for a long time because ofits humanitarian failure with migrants less willing to return to the cities and is about al-jazeera greater noida of the. the pandemic has struck particularly hard in the largest native american reservation in the u.s. more lives have been lost in the navajo nation than in the rest of new mexico and the state has one of the highest infection rates nationwide of 00 brunell's explains why. in late march a navajo tribal member learned she had been exposed to corona virus and sought testing at an indian health service or i.h.s. hospital they earned me away and told me that i didn't have. that nightmare around me i am started to run feelers. and the next day the body started there it was. excruciating like every bone in my body was hurting all the way down to my. anger with very very bad headaches or a big a return to the i just hospital but they refused to admit her or her 66 year old mother who was also ill they turned us away until was come back until it gets worse a not that quite yet l

i'm babita sharma. to the coronavirus pandemic. there was a failure by this organisation to obtain the information that the world needed, and that failure cost many lives. all along, we have acted with openness, transparency and responsibility. new symptoms to look for — if you think you may have

be enough time to make sure that the workplace is safe enough to do so that's something that alex sharma the business secretary touched on just earlier today at the daily press briefing and he says it's a duty of the employers to make sure the workplace is safe if an employee feels unsafe they should talk to their employer and if that doesn't produce a result they should of course contact the health and safety executive or indeed the local authority and we have made sure that we are providing additional funding to the agency for precisely that reason. and as promised yesterday the government has now published their workplace guidelines for keeping the up place secure it includes asking employers to put up screens or barriers between employees in order to keep them separated in the workplace it also advises that workers be placed into fixed teams or workplace partnerships so that each employee only physically works with a reduced amount of people at any one time a back to back or side to side desk arrangement is also recommended in the office in order to avoid people sitting face to face

i‘m babita sharma.navirus. more than 11,000 people have died in care homes in britain since the start of march — the goverment‘s been criticised for not acting fast enough.

should be looking at from a legacy point of view in loose houses then in april business secretary alex sharma met amazon and e bay to discuss price gouging on their sites after reports of pam sanitizers selling for $360.00 pounds the retailers claimed thousands of listings have since been removed while emergency laws have been passed in the us and france but the idea stalled in the u.k. as the business department is not in favor of laws on price control there is probably going to be people within government who are going to be of the belief that the market will fix itself but we've seen plenty of times in the past about just doesn't always happen sometimes the government doesn't need to intervene of course where you can probably also see plenty of areas where there is a veil ability perhaps the government believes that there's sufficient stock available in these outlets which are selling these items at reasonable prices which will effectively push aside those trying to make a quick pounds the expense of people who need these basic goods but again as long as that continues to be the case as lo

should be looking at from a legacy point of view in loose houses then in april business secretary alex sharma met amazon and e bay to discuss price gouging on their sites after reports of hand sanitizer selling for $360.00 pounds the retailers claimed thousands of listings have since been removed while emergency laws have been passed in the us and france but the idea stalled in the u.k. as the business department is not in favor of laws on price control there is probably going to be people within government who all are going to be of the belief that the market will fix itself but we've seen plenty of times in the past about just doesn't always happen sometimes the government doesn't need to intervene of course where you can probably also see plenty of areas where there is a veil ability perhaps the government believes that there's sufficient stock available in these outlets which are selling these items at reasonable prices which will effectively push aside those trying to make a quick pounds the expense of people who need these basic goods but again as long as that continues to be the case a

and china tensions let's welcome ra uchir sharma. what do you think, ruchir.his is where things are ramping up with china and the united states and china and hong kong, too? >> exactly so when i was on your show last time a couple of weeks ago i was talking about the fact that what this crisis has done is accelerated many trends that were already underway before the crisis rather than sort of turning the world upside down adding that this is exhibit a of that this is on the other side of the indication of that a series of things that have happened over the last 24 to 48 hours to suggest that. i'm not sure when this law gets implemented or if it gets implemented. i think that in general the biggest story here is that these tensions are sort of just getting ramped up. as we head into the election, we have to have much more of this, even if there's not immediate action, even on the whole realistic story. these are all long processes these aren't events. but i think that the direction is clear and obviously new sort of element for all of us investors to consider a

that was alec sharma speaking in the house of commons.vey. sorry about the broken transmission. we were just talking about those millions of people who are falling between the cracks of government support and what more could be done for them. well, there are two or three groups. first, those people who change jobs between february and march and who weren't on their new employer's payroll by mid—march. they have held the limit had no help at all. the so—called new starters. i wrote to the chancellor about help for these self—styled blue new starters. 0ne the liberal democrats to extend that. we also worried about the hundreds of thousands of self—employed people who are not covered, they are not getting anything even in the chancellor's existing scheme. so we will keep campaigning, we have had the success on the first scheme for employees. but it doesn't go far enough for the self—employed and for those new starters. it is worth emphasising that these are unprecedented times, that these are unprecedented times, that any chancellor faced wi