therese: exactly.ng equals in the, serves at the pleasure of the queen, but also his cabinet. backroomn we saw dealing among theresa may's cabinet is that there was some infighting. isis johnson's cap that behind him, a colossus within the conservative party, so i don't think there's any risk of him losing that support. but if he were to be incapacitated, there would be an almighty scrum or who takes over. at the moment, we said it is dominic raab, but i don't believe anybody thinks that is a medium-term solution to boris johnson not being able to make decisions and run the country. then there is a broader question of how much work he is able to do from the hospital that -- bed. that leads to questions about transparency and how much the public is being let in on the state of the prime minister's health. michael: the most important questions for britain's about this is how this affects the fight against coronavirus. johnson's government was criticized for a slow reaction, now ramped up. is it operating

we're not here to talk about what therese is doing, are you or therese going to appear at a daily pressout to make a point, which is i don't like tokenism, 0k? i don't like the idea that somebody should just appear at a press conference or in a media interview because they are women. so, they shouldn't be there just because they are a woman, but you have a remit for elderly people, for the disabled, for those from a bame background, for the lgbtq community, a massive group of people who are being impacted by covid—19, and you think it would be tokenism for you to appear at one of those press conferences? i'm not saying that at all. what i'm saying is the excessive focus on what gender somebody is rather than what they do does a disservice to women, but i think we should be focusing on the right people to present at the press conference. clearly... is that not you, though? are you not the right person? the major issue at the moment is health, and so i think it's right that the health secretary is doing a lot of the press conferences and explaining the specific health issues. liz truss. t

therese: that is a very interesting question.the ratings, johnson got a boost after the election, a boost after brexit, and initially, there were a lot of doubts about how the government was handling the coronavirus crisis. ,hey then responded to those the criticism. there are daily news conferences. the prime minister took over responsibility. his tone very much changed, and i think public responded to that and were very supportive of the isolation measures. that doesn't mean that those approval ratings will necessarily continue. i think there have been huge questions around the inability to organize fast testing, and particularly about the shortages in protective equipment facing the health care workers, which is directly putting them at risk simply because the viral load you have in hospitals is higher than what most of us would have, , so going out in the street the doctors and nurses that don't have protective equip and are at higher risk. i think the government were very supportive of the nhs, know how hard the nhs is worki

already have the infection in then, albeit this morning we heard from the work and pensions secretary thereseent's approach to testing.” who defended the government's approach to testing. i think we have been well prepared, weather had been deficiencies we have sought to address them, make changes, we recognise that both still gaps in things like our capacity to test 100,000 people, the target set by the health secretary, we are working with the nhs and the private sector to reach that capacity. the other keyissueis to reach that capacity. the other key issue is the issue around numbers. the numbers we get at the moment, you mentioned the 0ns figures due 9:30am, they are not very good because they are a week in arrears, we get the hospital numbers davis at we can see what is happening, they are only published weekly, and they are heavily in arrears so the last set of figures related to the week up to march 27. 0n related to the week up to march 27. on top of that they are not even definitive figures for care homes, they relate to all deaths in the community, not specifically care homes. they

let's speak now to the work and pensions secretary, therese coffey.is the system dealing with what is unprecedented demand at the moment? our it systems have stood up to the challenge, we have stood up to the challenge, we have been working daily since the start of this to make sure we can build the capacity but we have also directed a lot of civil servants to make sure we can process claims so that people can get the financial support that they need quickly. for those people who don't want to wait the amount of time that we would normally pay universal credit, they have been able to get an advance of the money so they can get cash up front if that is what they need. can you give us up—to—date figures for the number of people who are claiming universal credit at the moment? it's about 1.4 million people and 200,000 people have also claimed other more historic benefits like jobseeker‘s allowance or employment support allowance. are you worried about those people contacting us this morning saying that they are fearful of falling through the gaps, are no

decisions that were made in russia this week was seeing how it started to dealing with that 1000 and therese ways to try to keep the country safe so we can all return to normality as quickly as possible. pharmaceutical firms worldwide are working flat out to develop vaccines and treatments for covert 19 and in russia patients who've recovered are hoping doctors by donating their blood plasma with antibodies for transfusions one of the 1st don't talk to us through how it works. but i'm going to be needed i became a donor 2 weeks after i was discharged from hospital as far as i know there was the time when the concentration of fan type bodies in my blood had reached its peak i received a call from the hospital and they asked if they could pass my personal data to another medical institution then a team of medics from school if i saw skiing came to take my blood for testing 4 days after i learned the results were good enough to be a donor. the procedure itself is rather simple and takes about an hour during this time you're surrounded by medics who are monitoring your condition it's not scary i

there's a scripture that jesus quoted, he said a nation will be judged by how they therese the least that means if you don't take care of the poor and low wealth, you're actually putting the rest of the population at risk as well. that's something we need to hear very clearly. >> dorothy, when i think back to the last financial crisis and of course this is very different than that but if you went into the last financial crisis with some wealth, with assets, with good credit and if you kept your job, you came out a lot better. so it took us three and a half, four years to largely recover unemployment-wise and in terms of wages, but for those who went in okay, they came out much better and wealth inequity was increased. there doesn't seem to be anything in our phase three, this last $2 trillion bill that went through, that fundamentally addresses that issue. it's a status quo bill. >> that's exactly right. i think what reverend barber is saying and what many of us are saying is that these deep inequalities existed prior to the coronavirus pandemic and the relief package and the bailout

seem more reliable and retractable because they were chemicals and not alive like viruses are but therese was a shift. we are the onlynd place where stage therapy was used in the soviet union. gettingoldiers were wounded on the battlefront and suffering infections. they were getting viruses on their wounds and in some cases it's working. and since the fall. of the sovit union some of those people came to the united states and scientist tried to bring phage therapy and to american medicine and it's been very slow you can't be 100% sure the viruses you are using are going to kill the bacteria that you want to cure but there is some progress and there is a major trials going on now in treating people with infections from burns and so on. the ideas instead of one chemical you have a virus and you can dohe lots of things with viruses. can engineerdo a them so if the bacteria start to evolve a resistance to them you can do experiments with the viruses and get them to evolve to do a better job or maybe you can put an extra gene in there to break up the thick film but bacteria can form and there'

, theresence of a frontier presence of the frontier determined american character throughout time becauserontier did sort of two things. the frontier was where you could go to start over again. if everything went wrong, if everything just fell apart, right, you could go to the frontier and remake yourself. and there is a bunch of stories sort of wrapped up -- andrew jackson is replete with this. born in north carolina and winds up going to tennessee and making his fortune. same thing with andrew johnson, worn in raleigh and he runs off to tennessee and becomes a political figure in tennessee. the frontier was this over.art if i thinkmatter this is right or not. willing to take risks. the other thing -- i have mentioned this a couple of times. the presence of the frontier made us rugged and tough. frontier was where you could go to prove yourself. the front tier was where you could go to get away from the luxuries of life in 1824. you could go to the front and chop out trees, no one would do it for you. if you went to the frontier you better take care of yourself or you will be in a world

host: i would point viewers to the story that therese was referencing on the front page of "the new yorkes." top white house advisers warned trump administration officials in late january that coronavirus could cost americans. peter navarro is the highest level alert known to have circulated inside the west wing when the administration was taking its first steps to confront a crisis that had consumed china's leaders. the lack of immune protection or existing cure or vaccine would leave americans defenseless in the face of a full-blown outbreak on u.s. soil, mr. navarro's memo said. he came during a period when mr. trump was playing down the risk. mr. navarro said the administration faced a choice about how aggressive to be and contain the outbreak, saying the human and economic cost will be relatively low if it turned out to be a problem along the lines of the seasonal flu, but he went on to emphasize the risk of a worst-case pandemic scenario should not be overlooked. that story on the front page of "the new york times." that will do it for the first section of the washington journal to

i think therese coffey said 8 million beds of detective clothing had been distributed so far, a tiny distributed to the nhs. i guess the bottom line is you have to move to a situation where much more intensive resources are put into testing and equipment for staff and residents in care homes and there is also a question about the numbers, can much more to date numbers and what is going on in care homes? the latest figures at the moment relate to april three, a fortnight ago. there is quite a lot of ground to make up. thank you norman, you heard right, it went up tenfold from march 27 to april three, 20 in that first week and then up to 217, you were right. thank you very much, norman. elizabeth says my daughter—in—law works nights in a dementia care home, last week she had to attend to an elderly lady who was having breathing problems. the ambulance was called and she was taken to hospital, where she sadly died. my daughter—in—law phoned her manager, she did not know if she could have picked up the virus because shatner ppe. she did not want to go in for her next shift because there