professor stephen reicher, thank ou them. professor stephen reicher, thank you very _ them.ational travel. stephanie, "my whole family lives in germany and i am desperate to see them. both my parents and myself will be fully vaccinated at the end of may so i really hope to see them again as they are not getting any younger. " on twitter, another one, "issue is notjust holidays abroad. many people have close family overseas and have not been able to see them for over a year. " a reminder this is notjust about holidays, at least when it comes to the use of covid passports when it comes to international travel, but very much about people who are desperate to see family members again. and we will be talking a little bit more about travel with paul charles and simon calder over the next couple of hours. do stay with us. voters across england, scotland and wales go to the polls on thursday. they're electing english local councils, the scottish parliament, the welsh senedd, the london assembly, police and crime commissioners and 13 directly elected mayors. and a parliamentary by—el

professor stephen reicher, thank _ seriously indeed.reicher, thank you so _ seriously indeed. professor stephen reicher, thank you so much - seriously indeed. professor stephen reicher, thank you so much for - seriously indeed. professor stephen reicher, thank you so much for your time, thanks for being with us on bbc news this afternoon. it's notjust in england that restrictions look set to ease. the devolved governments in scotland, wales and northern ireland have their own road maps out of lockdown. in a minute, we'll hear from our wales correspondent hywel griffith in cardiff, and our ireland correspondent emma vardy in belfast. but, first, to our scotland correspondent lorna gordon, who's in glasgow. i think you've got some breaking news for us from glasgow. yes. i think you've got some breaking news for us from glasgow. yes, the bbc understands _ news for us from glasgow. yes, the bbc understands people _ news for us from glasgow. yes, the bbc understands people in - news for us from glasgow. yes, the bbc understands people in sco

thank you very much indeed, professor stephen reicher. - it.palestinian militants fire more rockets at southern israeli cities. the pre—dawn raids on gaza were some of the heaviest since the fighting began a week ago. the us said it supports israel's right to defend itself, but insisted that both sides must ensure the protection of civilians. 0ur correspondent tom bateman reports. explosion. the israeli air strikes arrive before gaza's dawn. overnight, some of the most intense yet. it's bringing a devastating human toll. they are still searching through the rubble, after yesterday's raid on a single street left dozens dead. they pray for a miracle, and then it happens. all shouting. six—year—old suzy eshkuntana survives, trapped for seven hours. her mother and four brothers and sisters died. in the hospital, suzy is reunited with herfather, who's badly wounded. israeli artillery fire continues. israel says it's destroyed hundreds of miles of tunnels used by militants and claims to do everything to avoid civilian casualties in its strikes. meanw

that was professor stephen reicher speaking to me a little earlier.eks' time — under the government's new traffic light system. under the plans, only uk or irish nationals — or those with residency rights — will be allowed to return from a country on the red list, and they will be forced to quarantine in an approved hotel, at their own expense, for 10 days. if you're coming back from a country on the new amber list, you'll have to take a test and self—isolate at home for 10 days. a small number of countries with high vaccination rates or low levels of infection will be on a green list. if you've visited any of these, you won't need to quarantine — a long as you have proof of a negative test. as yet, no date has been set for a return to foreign travel in scotland, wales or northern ireland. fight night before we speak to simon calder, travel editor of the independent —— and before we speak to. let me read some out of your tweets, to give a flavour of what some people are saying. gavin, says travel is critical when opening on the 17th of may, and says a

crowd psychology expert, and adviser to the uk and scottish governments on covid—19, professor stephen reicherour response? we should take it | scrapped in june. what is your i response? we should take it with a little bit of a pinch of salt. he said it in the middle of an electioneering visit and clearly wants to tell a good news story. he qualified it by saying it depended on the data and how many infections there are and the state of things on there are and the state of things on the 21st ofjune. nearly two months away. if a week is a long time in politics, two months is an eternity in a pandemic. two months ago, in india, they declared the pandemic over, now they have 400,000 cases a day so things can change rapidly. the critical issue now is how do we bring infections down so the data does look good and we can relax things in two months' time. the really important issue is this. if we take this as a signal things are all over, if we relax and mix now, the paradox is it will push up infections and make it less likely we can be lax on the 21st ofjune. your expertise is in what we do, behavi

stephen reicher is professor of psychology of st andrews university, and he sits on the government'sest and trace system quickly— develop a test and trace system quickly enough, we didn't control our borders, many of these mistakes are still_ our borders, many of these mistakes are still going on. however, when it came _ are still going on. however, when it came to _ are still going on. however, when it came to the — are still going on. however, when it came to the specific claims about who was— came to the specific claims about who was lying and who was lying about _ who was lying and who was lying about who — who was lying and who was lying about who was lying etc, there were many _ about who was lying etc, there were many more — about who was lying etc, there were many more problems. a number of the claims _ many more problems. a number of the claims were _ many more problems. a number of the claims were simply inaccurate. going specifically— claims were simply inaccurate. going specifically to the question of the advice _ specifically to the question of the advice on — specifical