we learned in sierra leone that it possible. we learned in sierra leone thatitis possible.at it is possible to use a number of local interventions, calling them stay at homes. that allowed testing, tracking and isolating systems to catch up in towns and cities. professor calu m catch up in towns and cities. professor calum semple from the university of liverpool, also a member of the government's sage advisory group, thank you for talking to us on bbc news. professor paul hunter is a professor of medicine at the university of east anglia and he joins medicine at the university of east anglia and hejoins us now. welcome. from what you have heard, how concerned are you? i think we didn't hear anything new today. what the cmo and the chief scientist david ware gave a very clear summary of what the situation is for people who haven't been following the daily statistics. absolutely, the key m essa g es statistics. absolutely, the key messages are that still only a relatively small proportion of the population seem to have had the infection to date, and therefore any talk of herd

in sierra leone by about a quarter and so the impact of that in the long run was then very very serious and what about in the case of coronavirus looking beyond africa where there are already problems but what about in higher income countries of the lower income countries around the world. yes similarly our expectations over what has been happen what we've been hearing on the great by everybody is that women are trying not to access to health services that they can consider non-essential and so take a contraceptive methods this has gone down the other thing that happened in high income countries is that there was for example in the u.k. a shift stuff and closing down services and active service is all services that were considered not essential like special house so sexual health clinics close as they best off and go work on the cope it was and g.p.'s not seeing people face to face doing 10 minutes and consultations limited really and women's access to contraception and so we will be seeing the fallout of that no doubt 9 months from now and we're talking about millions potentially of ex

the world i mean many african countries only have a beer or some once of public service some why sierra leone not at all which is why the ball spread so rapidly a few years ago. in in western africa so each each point on their trying will have to see each side has to be the address and into we see that in reinvesting in basic healthcare. it's the absolute. a purty. we're going to see it. future appeared to mix. in a sense repeated however that scenes are not the solution a weapon the solution how so lie on each of these 3 points of in socialized a ripple through the destruction truck wars in this investment in basic you know just very briefly america since you are speaking to us from los angeles and here are the greatest chronicler of it sir history i better ask even though tens of thousands upon tens of thousands are being killed in your country by covert what ever made of the air this incarnation of the civil rights struggle the black lives matter protests raging across the united states look after bernie sanders concession to joe biden. tens of thousands of young activist ideal that's eart

and their determination and they're hungry for that so nice a strong title north and good in sierra leone the rest is transformation from midfield work force to on field leader was vital to byron's travel success can mend your short kimmage running the engine room the future looks bright as well. by a young and ambitious quality pairing for the heart of midfield i think i also get on well together. that applies more or less to the team as a whole they're all by anybody. we haven't come over and i mean the friends that are on the same page everyone's fantastic you have a lot of them come into training time and it's just a great bond funds the flick has nurtured a spirit of togetherness in a squad notwithstanding reformers from back to front 5 and swept the board thanks to their consistent collective endeavor and many of these players are still young. but it is now bringing. commish we're talking about players who can turn out for another 8 years at the highest international level in cahoots who served to find office but. it sounds like the start of a new buyer an era one he can now help sh

the world i mean many african countries only have a beer or some once of public service some why sierra leone not at all which is why the ball spread so rapidly a few years ago the in in western africa so each each point on their trying will have to see each side has to be. addressed and into we see that in reinvesting in basic healthcare. it's the absolute. the purty. we're going to see. future appeared to mix. in a sense repeat the pattern they had seen so not the solution they were a weapon the solution how so lie on each of these 3 points of in socialized a ripple through the destruction truck wars in this investment in basic you know just very briefly america since you are speaking to us from los angeles and here are the greatest chronicler of it sir history i better ask even though tens of thousands upon tens of thousands are being killed in your country by covert what you are made of in this incarnation of the civil rights struggle of black lives matter protests raging across the united states look after bernie sanders in-session to joe biden. tens of thousands of young activist ideal

in sierra leone by about a quarter and so the impact of that in the long run was then very very serious and what about in the case of coronavirus looking beyond africa where there are already problems but what about in higher income countries of the lower income countries around the world. yes similarly our expectations over what has been happening what we've been hearing on the great fire really is that. women are trying not to access to health services that they can i consider not essential and so the uptake of contraceptive methods is has gone down the other thing that happened in high income countries is that there was for example in the u.k. a shift stuff and closing down services and active service is all services that were considered not essential like sexual health so sexual health clinic placed as a vest off and go work on the kind of it was and g.p.'s not seeing people face to face doing 10 minutes in consultations limited really women's access to contraception and so we will be seeing the fallout of that no doubt 9 months from now and we're talking about millions potentially

and now i ask why do i have to go back to school and what's worse during the a bola crisis in sierra leone another example of a long term school closure school closures led to a sharp increase in adolescent pregnancy so these can really be devastating to students you have something we've talked about earlier this week on the program that limiting the amount of encounters that children and young people have with the authorities can cause all sorts of problems we talk about africa that globally children are missing out on education all over the worlds. it's absolutely true at the height of the epidemic more than 1500000000 students around the world are out of school it's an unimaginable number and even though some are coming back now there are many that still remain out a lot of kids don't have access to good information technology in low and middle income countries fewer than a quarter of homes have access to the internet and so imagining delivering effective online learning effective distance learning is just impossible and that kids who lack access the most of course are the most vulnerab

tube nuts and that's a saying the situation in mali needs regional solutions ecowas did it in sierra leone liberia and recently that's definitely one point of view and i would be remiss if i didn't share a comment from. the opposition leader and in monte had a warrant for those in charge right now for the military take a lesson. that i ask you to remain vigilant remain vigilant i would like to say this and it is a clear and firm message that no one no one i mean no one will be given a blank check. we let the 5 people died a military came to finish it don't let them make the same mistake as the previous one. we're getting to the near near to the end of our show some go to ask each of you to very briefly in one sentence a give us your predictions for what's going to happen you can be short term or long term let's start with fatima. oh i think what you want i think i would hope for a. conference on the but ignition of the francis. will that thing that the military they have to have an. inclusive bar on the problem is i'm hoping that the international community will be able to national what th

working in the ask why do i have to go back to school and what's worse during the a bola crisis in sierra leone another example of a long term school closure school closures led to a sharp increase in adolescent pregnancy so these can really be devastating to students you have something we talked about earlier this week on the program that i limiting the amount of encounters that children and young people have with the authorities can cause all sorts of problems we talk about africa that globally children are missing out on education all over the worlds. it's absolutely true at the height of the epidemic more than 1500000000 students around the world are out of school it's an unimaginable number and even though some are coming back now there are many that still remain out a lot of kids don't have access to good information technology in low and middle income countries fewer than a quarter of homes have access to the internet and so imagining delivering effective online learning effective distance learning is just impossible and the kids who lack access the most of course are the most vulnerable

thirds during the epidemic and then similarly and in liberia by how off by 50 percent and i mean sierra leone by about a quarter and so the impact of that in the long run was then very very serious and what about in the case of coronavirus looking beyond africa where there are already problems but what about in higher income countries of the lower income countries around the world. yes similarly our expectations over what has been happening what we've been hearing on the great fire really is that women are trying not to access to health services that they can i consider not essential and so the uptake of contraceptive methods has gone down the other thing that happened in high income countries is that there was for example in the u.k. a shift staffan closing down services and active service as well so this is that we consider non-essential like sexual health so sexual health clinic placed as a vest off to go work on the kind of it was and g.p.'s not seeing people face to face doing 10 minutes in consultations even into really and women's access to contraception and so we will be seeing the fa

2 things during the epidemic and then sending only added liberia by half by 50 percent and in sierra leone by about a quarter and so the impact of that in the long run was then very very serious and what about in the case of coronavirus looking beyond africa where there are already problems but what about in hiring come countries of the lower income countries around the world. yes similarly our expectations over what has been happening what we've been hearing on the great fire really is that. women are trying not to access health services that they can consider nonessential and so the uptake of contraceptive methods is has gone down the other thing that happened in high income countries is that there was for example in the u.k. a shift staffan closing down services and active so this is all services that were considered not essential like sexual health so sexual health clinic closed as a test off and go work on the cope it was and g.p.'s not seeing people face to face doing 10 minutes in consultations limited really and women's access to contraception and so we will be seeing the fallout o

come friday that west the weather eases a cross between afonso eases over towards liberia toward sierra leone dry weather coming back in for a time you can see more showers there into nigeria and the camarade across the heart of central africa we will see some big downpours maybe just to the west of the rift valley some heavy showers there over towards lake victoria somewhat weather in the forecast here across southern africa some heavy downpours there across the eastern side of the country that rain really popping up as you go on through the next couple of days and there is the risk of some localized flooding kemal dervis and thank you for that we'll see if it's in an excuse out 1300 out g.m.t. and still ahead for you though in this bulletin calls for justice and accountability in iraq the hundreds killed by security forces in the past year protests hundreds of refugees a funny lot on to the greek mainland thousands more will follow and support peter will have action from major league baseball as the playoffs begin. well about half an hour when the president of the united states speaks out t

african governments have much less to spend on things like health education and infrastructure in sierra leone for instance the lives of more than 2000 children could be saved every year if these practices were stopped and the money reinvested. let's bring in our guest in geneva junior davis is the lead author of the report from the united nations conference on trade and development in capetown solution idaho is a senior research fellow at the institute for global dialogue a south africa based think tank in london when a curiae is the africa executive director at one a global movement campaigning to and extreme poverty welcome to the program junior you are the lead author of the report just give me what was your 1st reaction when you saw those staggering figures. no thank you for inviting me i mean yes they are staggering figure was the motivation for this report really it was to i basically come to be a tool of going and and recent initiatives to tackle a less a financial flows both at the multilateral and domestic levels in africa. and we wanted to try to improve and have a better understand

thirds are in the epidemic and then similarly added liberian by how off by 50 percent and i mean sierra leone by about a quarter. say the impact of that in the long run was then very very serious and what about in the case of coronavirus looking beyond africa where there are already problems but what about in higher income countries of the lower income countries around the world. yes similarly our expectations over what has been happening what we've been hearing on the great by really is that. women are trying not to access health services that they can i consider not essential and so the uptake of contraceptive methods is has gone down the other thing that happened in high income countries is that there was for example in the u.k. a shift stuff and closing down services and active service is all services that were considered not essential like sexual health so sexual health clinic placed as a test often go work on the cove it was and g.p.'s not seeing people face to face doing 10 minutes in consultations limited really women's access to contraception and so we will be seeing the fallout of t

working in the ask why do i have to go back to school and what's worse during the a bola crisis in sierra leone another example of a long term school closure school closures led to a sharp increase in adolescent pregnancy so these can really be devastating to students you have something we talked about earlier this week on the program that i limiting the amount of encounters that children and young people have with the authorities can cause all sorts of problems we talk about africa that globally children are missing out on education all over the worlds. it's absolutely true at the height of the epidemic more than 1500000000 students around the world are out of school it's an unimaginable number and even though some are coming back now there are many that still remain out a lot of kids don't have access to good information technology in low and middle income countries fewer than a quarter of homes have access to the internet and so imagining delivering effective online learning effective distance learning is just impossible and that kids who lack access the most of course are the most vulnerabl

working in the ask why do i have to go back to school and what's worse during the a ball a crisis in sierra leoneanother example of a long term school closure school closures led to a sharp increase in adolescent pregnancy so these can really be devastating to students you have something we've talked about earlier this week on the program that i limiting the amount of encounters that children and young people have with the authorities can cause all sorts of problems we talk about africa but globally children are missing out on education all over the world. it's absolutely true at the height of the epidemic more than 1500000000 students around the world are out of school it's an unimaginable number and even though some are coming back now there are many that still remain out a lot of kids don't have access to good information technology in low and middle income countries fewer than a quarter of homes have access to the internet and so imagining delivering effective online learning effective distance learning is just impossible and that kids who lack access the most of course are the most vulnerabl

so a lot of inspiration comes from that, and from my motherland sierra leone which is in west africa.nts and to create caftans and just resort wear. whenever you're out and about, you're happy and colorful, and just being a showstopper. - listen, when you started this in 2006, as i say with the start of the show, we would say, "let's talk about it." we had no idea we'd be talking about these things, the pandemic, and protests. you had no idea that you were building this platform that would help young emerging designers survive when the outlook is something that no one can map out at this point. so congratulations, claire, on all you've done. sai, thank you so much for joining us. that caftan is beautiful. i'll have to reach out to you very soon on that. good luck with everything. claire's site is "fashion bomb daily." her book "the bomb life," by the way, it is also available now. coming up, it's easy to fix a fashion mistake. you just don't wear it again or you bury it in the back of the closet, but for some people a decision made based on a trend can be life altering. this story of