with me today to answer as many of your questions as possible about getting back to school is sian griffithsd education economics at the institute of education, which is part of university college of london. hello and welcome. perhaps no surprise there is an off a lot of questions about trying to get children back to school. let's start with one from nicola featherstone. who asks about children being interested in education. the fantasy of both... we will take a look first. you'll make some schools will be going back in late august. schools in leicester, they tend to go back in the last week of august and despite what has happened in leicester at the moment, they are still hoping to do that. no schools will be going back in early september. his ambition to see all children back in school full—time from september. i think the idea they go back before that is they would be very much the joy of the teaching unions and from teachers. they have been doing rote learning and keeping schools open for key worker children and vulnerable children. i think they deserve a summer holiday. your thoughts? i

. >>> joining me from toulouse, france, is sian griffiths, professor at the chinese university of hong kong and led hong kong's inquiry into sars in 2003. thank you so much for joining us, it is good to see you, good to have you on again. >> thanks. >> as of saturday, the united states has 61,352 new cases and we keep setting new records every day. what does that tell you about the situation we are in here? >> from an external perspective, it shows that you're not really in control of the virus. the epidemic is increasing, the numbers keep -- as you say keep breaking the records, which is a really unfortunate record to keep breaking. and it is a very serious situation because obviously covid is running rife, particularly in those states that show red on your map. >> it is hard to fathom, isn't it, how quickly states like florida and even west virginia now, louisiana, south carolina, are surging and so rapidly. what should states do to try to turn this back? >> i think they need to get public messages out, that this is a serious disease. this is a sense that it doesn't seem to matter if

and we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers sian griffiths, education editorpdate. now it's time for a look at the weather with tomasz schafernaker. hello. we'll have a few of these scattered across the country today — shower clouds — but most of the time sunshine, i think, for many of us. temperatures will hover around the low 20s in the south of the country and the high teens in the north. all in all, a pretty decent day. and a fine sunset on the way, as well, with plenty of clear weather. and then the clouds once again thicken across western parts of the uk and by the end of the night, heavy rain will sweep into some areas. in fact, it could be a really wet start to the day across northern ireland, the northwest of england and also northern wales. but the northeast of scotland there, i think a clear night and a dry start to the day. so tomorrow, an unsettled day across most of the uk. the winds will freshen across the south, as well. they could be up to gale force along some of these channel coasts and the southwest, too. but later in the day, the heaviest

with me are sian griffiths, education editor at the sunday times and dawn foster, writer and broadcasters to both of you for being with us. let's run you through the front pages. the sunday express says thousands of british holiday—makers have had their travel plans thrown into chaos after spain was dropped from the safe countries list. ‘costa del ouara ntine' according to the sunday mirror — as holiday—makers learn they will need to self—isolate for 1a days upon arrival back in the uk. the sunday telegraph says tens of thousands of british tourists in spain have had their holidays thrown into disarray with the new quarantine restrictions. the paper also features a new portrait of the the queen by miriam escofet. the mail on sunday has the duke and duchess of cambridge refuting claims in an new biography that they actively spurned meghan markle. and according to the observer — labour will this week be notified of a batch of potentially new legal actions over anti—semitism days after a warning was issued to the shadow cabinet about the devastating toll the crisis is taking on the party's

. >> we always appreciate your expertise, sian griffiths joining us from fltoulouse, france, thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> two republican senators have broken ranks with u.s. president donald trump after he commuted the prison sentence of his long time friend and ally roger stone. senators mitt romney and pat toomey both denounced clemency for stone, even though most other republican lawmakers have remained quiet on the matter. stone was convicted of seven felonies including lying to congress and witness tampering. the president on saturday doubled down on his action, defying what the attorney general said about the stone case. >> roger stone was treated horribly. roger stone was treated very unfairly. roger stone was brought into this witch-hunt, this old political witch-hunt and the mueller scam, it is a scam, because it has been proven false, and he was treated very unfairly. what i did -- what i did, i will tell you this, people are extremely happy because in this country they want justice. and roger stone was not treated properly. >> well, as you know, the stone case was pr

let's speak to sian griffiths, emeritus professor at the chinese university of hong kong and also ledong kong government's inquiry into the sars epidemic. she joins the hong kong government's inquiry into the sars epidemic. shejoins me from toulouse. thank you forjoining us. from toulouse. thank you forjoining us. i want to pick up on what vicki young said about people's behaviour, because what we have seen so far as it people know what to do and there is clarity in that message they tend to do it. yes and the science has changed, it has changed away from initial work, studies that were done looking at the flu virus and it behaves differently from the coronavirus, and over time all of the scientific evidence is moving in the scientific evidence is moving in the direction of saying if people we re the direction of saying if people were face coverings when they are in close proximity with each other, such as when they are in shops or public transport, that the person who may not know they are infective, if they were face covering they don't pass on the virus in the same way, it reduces