let's look at the decision making end of this and cross to courtney shepherd from ucas.. he says, my daughter is now on the fence about going to university in the next academic year. what advice do you have? how many of the people getting in touch with you are likewise on the fence? yes, we've had lots of facebook lives recently where we've spoken to thousands and thousands of students and taken their questions and lots of students are in that same position where they are considering their options and wondering what they should do. the advice that we have is the reasons for going to university when students initially chose their choices will still be mostly the same, when we get out of the situation that covid has introduced, so the advice that we would give to students is to get all of the information that they can so find out what the plans are for the summer, speak to some students through the ucas website. current students, find out what it's like at university and then when they are ready and they've got all the information available to make that decision, it's bett

that was a professor of climate change science at the ucas university of east anglia speaking to us earlier now that's brief you on some of the other coronavirus developments global confirmed cases are project 5000000 and the death toll is more than 323000 brazil has confirmed the record rise in daily deaths from the disease 1179 people died from the virus on tuesday alone south korean high schools have reopened after being shut down for 2 months hundreds of thousands of older students have returned to the classroom under strict hygiene controls and britain's aerospace manufacturer rolls royce says it's cutting at least $9000.00 jobs a 6th of its overall workforce because of the fall in global travel. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world in burundi voters are going to the polls in a crucial presidential election that could see the 1st democratic transfer of power in decades the vote is taking place despite fears of political violence and the corona virus and. at least 11 people have been killed in 2 separate gun attacks in afghanistan in one g

the latest round of talks on the ucas post breaks that relationship with the e.u. have ended in style much just weeks ahead of a key summit the in news chief negotiator michel down here said he was no longer optimistic that a new trade deal would be agreed before the end of the transition period on december 31st. hong kong protest has been jailed for 4 years as the 1st and only person to play guilty to rioting during last year's unrest protests broke out of concerns about reduced autonomy from mainland china report released on friday cleared hong kong police of any wrongdoing in the turmoil. and the corona virus has raged bangladesh has huge migrant camps which has more than a 1000000 rohingya refugees traces of 19 have been confirmed both within the camps and in the local population nearby officials say the patients are being treated in isolation and people who come into contact with them aren't you. or she is a growing in china of a 2nd wave of the corona virus clusters of cases where the suffers have no symptoms have been reported in will happen where the virus

we're alsojoined by courteney sheppard who is customer experience manager at ucas. to answer our questions. we begin straightaway with a question from rachel, and i will start with you, sir steve, if classes are to be virtual as the government going to subsidise this by letting universities reduce fees? the answer is no, the government is not going to do that. the minister has said that as long as we can guarantee the standard, the quality of the education experience, that it is roughly the same, not identical but roughly the same, not identical but roughly the same as in traditional delivery then fees should not be reduced. what you will find, rachel, is that every university in the country is currently working out how to deliver high quality lectures, and they are the real problem online, because you can't put so many people in a lecture theatre, but the rest of activity, laboratories, library work, seminars, tutorials, they will be donein seminars, tutorials, they will be done in person in most universities, soi done in person in most universities, so i don't thi

ucas my doctors union says almost half its members say they've been having to provide their own personal protective equipment of the 16000 people the british medical association spoke to 48 percent say they've either had to source their own p.p. easy or they've relied on donations and 65 percent of those surveyed said that they feel either partly or not at all protected from coronavirus infection in their place of work and the b m a's clear on who it thinks is to blame for that it's a damning indictment of the government's abject failure to make sure health care workers across the country are being supplied with the lifesaving kit they should be. from the nurse and health campaigner naomi bennett told me that a lot of her colleagues are enduring psychological pressure because they feel i'm protected these days it's not really bad just recently i've actually had to invest in my own protection and might have gone online and sourced some arts because. one of the trusts i was worked in was encouraging us to reuse. the requip men so i just fell to safeguard myself. to worry and really not be

uca plate itself out in the pandemic where you have more enlightened and fact-based driven leadershipf the state and local level. san francisco come when the first cities in the country to actually have shut down to be able to flatten the curve and using the results of that now. if you extrapolate that out to the politics and the public policies, we could start to advance social justice public-policy agenda all over the country in these different pockets or even more than pockets where we have is the american majority that is rooted in a in a more social justice, social justice, injustice and -- [inaudible] >> i think just and on like one tidbit. were i live in oklahoma is one of the reddest states in the country. and when you look at the county map, there's this little blue dot in the northeastern corner, and that's the county where i live, cherokee county, and my state representative is a democrat in a house of republican, super majority. republicans have been trying -- he's actually up for reelection right now, matt meredith. they are trying in all their power to crack that hold, b

they can and now called into the office of national statistics leading up to the 24th of april the ucas death toll was almost $30000.00 that and would suggest that in that time as sids and that has elapsed that in fact until now the death toll could be significantly higher than that and in that same week leading up to that period 6000 people have died in camp alone the week before that it was at 3000 so all of these figures suggesting that the numbers are perhaps a bit significantly higher than initially thought when it comes to those who have died are testing positive for kind of it 90 now the government also released the daily death toll figures those $693.00 for the united kingdom we've also seen revelations coming out with regards to bars johnson we know that he made that claim that he had visited a hospital and shaken hands with everybody but now a subgroup of say the scientific advisory group for medicine is a very real and it was at the very same day that officials had cited the public shouldn't be shaking hands should avoid shaking hands that would appear that it was the same da

we will be working with ucas and the government to make sure that happens.the chance to return to work. the country's president, muhammadu buhari, has also introduced an overnight curfew. well let's go live to our nigeria correspondent celestina olulode, who is currently in london. explain how the lot and is being lifted what had if measures are still in place? so children won't be able to return to school yet and places of worship remain closed. across the country, there has been a total of 87 deaths and just under 2600 confirmed cases. how has the lockdown affected nigerians? well, of course it depends on who you talk to, really, so the nigerian medical association say that this easing of restrictions is too premature, that it is important to remember that 50% of nigeria's population live in poverty and so many nigerians that i have spoken to have told me that they need to get back to the work now, so that they can keep putting food on the table. one other thing thatis food on the table. one other thing that is important to remember is that is important to