wary about the health risks as he said rally reports next from london well of course the united kingdom england wales and england in particular has decided to open the doors of schools in the in the country however not everyone seems to be going along with that plan here in northwest london this girl's school has decided not to open its doors as have many others it would also appear that local authorities as well disagree at least 18 councils including lancashire council have decided not to advise schools to open today and there are a number of unions as well who are advising teachers and schools not open but also interesting leigh and most importantly sage is the scientific advisory group for emergencies which have been acting as the main government's advisors throughout this crisis have also warned against opening schools too quickly for fear of a 2nd peak we are really concerned that the liberal being too busy across the country as a whole is too high a movement to open the schools now the prime minister johnson has announced 5 tests that must be passed in order for different areas of the country

teachers and educational are still wary about the health risks artie's easterly reports the united kingdom england wales and england in particular has decided to open the doors of schools in the in the country however not everyone seems to be going along with that plan here in northwest london this girl's school has decided not to open its doors as have many others it would also appear that local authorities as well disagree but also interesting lee and most importantly sage of the scientific advisory group for emergencies which have been acting as the main government's advisors throughout this crisis have also warned against opening schools too quickly for fear of a 2nd peak you know really concerned that a little being to be across the country as a whole is too high a moment to open the schools now the prime minister boris johnson has announced 5 tests that must be passed in order for different areas of the country to reopen once more but as far as some teachers are concerned the decision to reopen classrooms should be left and the risk assessment for that should be left down to the schools themselves

the united kingdom england wales and england in particular has decided to open the doors of schools in the in the country however not everyone seems to be going along with that plan here in northwest london this girl's school has decided not to open its doors as have many others it would also appear that local authorities as well disagree but also interestingly and most importantly sage the scientific advisory group for emergencies which have been acting as the main government's advisors throughout this crisis have also warned against opening schools too quickly for fear of a 2nd peak you know really concerning the level of being to be across the country as a whole is too high a moment to open the schools now the prime minister johnson has announced 5 tests that must be passed in order for different areas of the country to reopen once more but as far as some teachers are concerned the decision to reopen classrooms should be left on the risk assessment for that should be left down to the schools themselves every individual will have to. assess the sea for students for teachers the staff

in the united kingdom, england and wales, we have policing by consent. in the u.s. your police are very much armed. in the uk it's by exception. very few officers are armed. the system that you have in the usa came very much from the uk and from the dutch. so an element of community policing was part of that process which we adhere to strongly in the uk. in my book it's very clear that in the usa you run your service very much around democratic representative principles, whereas in the uk it's functional, it's procedural, it's very bureaucrat, but that helps. we only have 43 police forces in england, wales. in the u.s. you have something like 18,000 police agencies, which is a huge amount. but in both countries, police unions are extremely strong and they wield a lot of power. and therein lies part of the problem. in the u.s., again, officers can move between precincts and police forces without any checks on their previous behaviors or conduct. there are so many similarities, but there are huge differences. first amongst those is, first, in the uk, police is by cons

chief medical offices of england scotland wales and northern ireland has been to downgrade the united kingdom from 4 to 3 now the 2nd look at what all of these different numbers mean so a level of 5 would represent the most severe and serious critical stage of the crisis where the n.h.s. would have been under threat of being overwhelmed without past that we were in stage 4 which was where the transmission level was high perhaps even rising exponentially level 3 represents a drop in the transmission level. possibly the spread of the virus is no longer exponential level 2 is where the transmission rate is lower level one is where this country every country wants to reach which is when corona virus has essentially been stunt out completely now one fact one measure for measure and this is the so-called r. rate which is the re infection rate which allies is how many people on average it's catching the virus so if for example the our rate is above 3 that means that on average every person who has coded 1000 is giving it to 3 other people which represents an exponential spread if however that number

united kingdom for today. often cloudy with spells of rain that could be lengthy and heavy at times. some of the heaviest bursts of rain in the west. wales and north—west englandt of us very wet with temperatures between 14 and 18. for most of us. once the rain has moved south, this particular area of low pressure will deepen and move back and influence our weather for six days. we have rain moving into england and wales. on thursday some of the heaviest rain could be in north—east england. it could turn very wet here for a time. and increasingly as we go through the next few days, when the rain does come, it will become heavy. thursday is a windier day and will feel more humid as well. for friday, we have got further bands of rain pushing north. probably the heaviest coming into the south. a chance of thundery down pours and may see some localised flooding. the less rainy weather in the north—west. that continues into the weekend. saturday, is a day of sunshine and heavy thundery showers. the showers could be intense and the he heaviest in wales and south—west england. humid and highs up to 24. but staying unsettled. this is bbc news, the headlines... the fun

heart of the united kingdom for today. 0ften cloudy with spells of rain that could be lengthy and heavy at times. some of the heaviest bursts of rain in the west. wales and north—west englandn. but i think they're be the lucky few. for most of us very wet with temperatures between 1a and 18. for most of us. once the rain has moved south, this particular area of low pressure will deepen and move back and influence our weather for six days. we have rain moving into england and wales. on thursday. some of the heaviest rain could be in north—east england. it could turn very wet here for a time. and increasingly as we go through the next few days, when the rain does come, it will become heavy. thursday is a windier day and will feel more humid as well. for friday, we have got further bands of rain pushing north. probably the heaviest coming into the south. a chance of thundery down pours and may see some localised flooding. the less rainy weather in the north—west. that continues into the weekend. saturday, is a day of sunshine and heavy thundery showers. the showers could be intense and the he heaviest in wales and south—west england. humid and highs up to 24. but staying unse

united kingdom. we are looking at an unsettled day. often cloudy with spells of rain that could be lengthy and heavy at times. some of the heaviest rain in the west. wales and north—west englandce the rain has moved south, this particular area of low pressure will deepen and move back and influence our weather for six days. we have rain moving into england and wales. some of the heaviest rain could be in north—east england. it could turn very wet here for a time. and increasingly as we go through the next few days, when the rain does come, it will become heavy. thursday is a windier day and will feel more humid as well. for friday, we have got further bands of rain pushing north. probably the heaviest coming into the south. a chance of thundery down pours and may see some localised flooding. t less rainy weather in the north—west. that continues into the weekend. saturday, is a day of sunshine and heavy thundery showers. the showers could be intense and the he heaviest in wales and south—west england. humid and highs up to 24.

wales and northern ireland significantly so. these numbers start to tell a story about a deadly pandemic wave that hit broadly similar countries in very different ways, with the united kingdom and englando the way in which the uk population is structured, the presence of mega cities like london in our population, but there are questions about the speed and effectiveness of the initial government response, particularly as regards care homes, questions that might need to be answered more speedily than the government wishes to. faisal islam, bbc news. the welsh government has announced that people from two households will be able to form one extended household from next monday. the first minister mark drakeford said the change would enable many families to be reunited for the first time since march. pupils at most schools in wales have returned today with limits on class sizes, and staggered start times and breaks. 0ur wales correspondent hywel griffith has the latest. drive—through drop—offs, just part of the new order at this community school, with just one year group and they are attending. each pupil will have three days here between now and the end of term. inside, classrooms include

you look at the united kingdom right now, scotland hand s -- scotland has zeroed out new cases, ireland has essentially zeroed out new cases. but an explosion in cases in england and wales. scotland locked down before london did and said we're not buy thing game boris johnson is saying we can get some vague herd immunity target. and it's paid off for them. here in new york, we're in day one of phase one of easing out of our lockdown. and if you look at the data, the lockdown has really worked. and if you look at brand new data that's come out just in the last roughly 48 hours, a survey of the entire world shows that lockdowns around the world have so far spared half a billion lives. half a billion. >> half a billion, 500 million people? >> actually, more. 538 million. >> infections or deaths? >> deaths. >> whoa! that's sort of an impossible number to contemplate. >> in other words, by taking this on, with an all-out lockdown approach, country after country, we have spared infections and deaths all over the planet. this would have been a far worse cataclysmic event if we hadn't taken the events we have so far. so now the next real issue is, how are we going to sustain an