we then move on to the university of british columbia hospital sends legalization dr eric desk he has seen a steady stream of patients asking about the potential benefits of cannabis. the last week alone i've had a 12 year old come and talk to me about cannabis and i've had an 85 year old come and talk to me about cannabis all the 12 year olds we don't recommend you plan smoking put materials of any kind this person was an athlete and we told him about the harmful effects on their lungs please think about these potential consequences . in medical social economic and legal terms canada has seen a range of changes since legalization and the old black market for marijuana might soon be history. consumption has increased by over 25 percent and october is set to see beer and wine suppliers offering new products in pews through t.h.c. . and then even gigantic greenhouses like this one might struggle to meet demand. as a father of 2 teenage girls i'm a bit very devoted legalizing cannabis from my point of view it's a free ticket to get the stuff for them how do you see that. to be very hones

steven taylor from the department of psychiatry at the university of british columbia and author of many-19 effect on mental health and published a book just months before the coronavirus outbreak called "the psychology of pandemics", preparing for the next global outbreak of infectious disease. dr. taylor, good to see you. thank you for being with us and i appreciate you getting up as early as you did this morning into brawl british columbia. talk to me about what you knew would come to pass if we had a serious infectious disease and i say what you knew because you wrote about this before we have coronavirus and i'm assuming you have no foreknowledge that would hit us and how do you believe that has come to pass? >> well, i knew a pandemic was coming. i didn't think it would be coming so soon after the publication of the book. but pretty much everything that we've seen today has been seen in previous pandemics. the rise of anticipation of anxiety and hospital surge of people worried that they might be sick and racism and panic buying. but what is different about this pandemic is this is

children's hospital and a clinical assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at the university of british columbia. thank you for coming back on with us. we talk a lot about trying to keep kids safe from coronavirus once they are back in the classroom, but what about their mental health? we want them physically to be okay. but mentally this is a conversation that parents have to be having with their kids as well, right? >> absolutely. and, you know, i've been trying to advocate quite a bit for the knowledge that prior to the pandemic schools themselves were a cause of stress and de-stress. we know prior to the pandemic kids were more likely to die with suicide or present with psychiatric emergencies during school months and days and we know that prior to the pandemic schools had two large class sizes, there wasn't enough funding for under-privileged kids. all of this existed before the pandemic so schools are a cause of stress with all of those issues. when we add the pandemic, of course, we know we're adding more stress. >> and we got new data from the cdc this week that was stunning and

the university admissions service, u—cas, says the number of british students who've already acceptedlmost 3% on this time last year. nearly 359,000 students have confirmed their choice of university so far, including more than 7,500 who've found a place through clearing. 0ur education correspondent, danjohnson, has more details. you got an a? yes! oh, well done. a for achievement... oh, my gosh! ..means many students taking places as planned. but with the agony of some of these calculated grades comes the question of what next. i've never failed anything, actually. i'm not used to not getting into places. i think that's why it hit me so hard this morning when i opened it. abbie was one of those left disappointed. we've all been downgraded. i haven't got into uni because of it. and i'm supposed to be going to durham, and now i can't. so, i've got to look over options, i've got to appeal, go through clearing, resit my exams and we haven't been learning since march. leila also received unexpected marks. so, one grade above, but one grade below, so i was like, and ucas had crashed and no

the university admissions service, ucas, says the number of british students who've already accepted st 3% on this time last year. nearly 359,000 students have confirmed their choice of university so far, including more than 7,500 who've found a place through clearing. 0ur education correspondent, danjohnson, has more details. you got an a? yes! oh, well done. a for achievement... oh, my gosh! ..means many students taking places as planned. but with the agony of some of these calculated grades comes the question of what next. i've never failed anything, actually. i'm not used to not getting into places. i think that's why it hit me so hard this morning when i opened it. abbi was one of those left disappointed. we've all been downgraded. i haven't got into uni because of it. and i was supposed to be going to durham, and now i can't. so, i've got to look over options, i've got to appeal, go through clearing, resit my exams and we haven't been learning since march. layla also received unexpected marks. so, one grade above, but one grade below, so i was like, "i don't know what it means."

everyday lives you might think that robots though are likely exempt from asians of racial bias seems not the case british university studies suggest machines aren't immune to prejudice. the presentations of fertility and machines and our future with them are defrosted for the white racial frame their whiteness a proxy for how we perceive as a status and potential. landing suggested will that supply really i was hoping to see you again if you could use your brain to try a little role in the community and get in the mix all the century if you do 35 years old you. can. you mind if i ask you a personal question thank you no wait is your operating system is initiated. hello i'm here. very serious you're the best thanks mr big dollar and beautiful i. love you. in cases where this is true suresh honest it's wide and it could have dangerous consequences for human that tend not to perceived whiteness of a i don't make it one difficult for people of color to advance in the field.

of grades were marked down. the university admissions service, ucas, says the number of british students who've already accepted me last year. nearly 359,000 students have confirmed their choice of university so far, including more than 7500 who've found a place through clearing. 0ur education correspondent, danjohnson, has more details. you got an a? yes! oh, well done. a for achievement... oh, my gosh! ..means many students taking places as planned. but with the agony of some of these calculated grades comes the question of what next. i've never failed anything, actually. i'm not used to not getting into places. i think that's why it hit me so hard this morning when i opened it. abbie was one of those left disappointed. we've all been downgraded. i haven't got into uni because of it. and i was supposed to be going to durham, and now i can't. so, i've got to look over options, i've got to appeal, go through clearing, resit my exams and we haven't been learning since march. leila also received unexpected marks. so, one grade above, but one grade below, so i was like, "i don't know what it means." and ucas had cr

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as the total number of coronavirus cases tops 25 million — india sees a record rise in 2a hours. why coronavirus may ruin plans to get british universitydents back in class before christmas. tens of thousands of anti—government protestors have again taken to the streets of minsk for a third sunday, angry at the re—election of the belarusian president alexander lu kashenko. there've been clashes with riot police trying to stop them entering the capital's main independence square. steve rosenberg reports from minsk. in minsk, they headed to independence square. protesters keeping up the pressure on alexander lu kashenko. but this time the police were waiting for them and moved in. there were chaotic scenes. some protesters were detained, others tried to free their comrades. we found sasha wandering alone, completely confused. "where's my husband?" she says. "the police took him, but where is he?" "was he in here?" no reply. further down the avenue, there were more scuffles, and more riot police taking up positions. today's protest feels very different from the protests on previous sundays. as you can see, a lot more police, much tighter

transportation of more than a 1000000 africans as part of the triangle trade helped build the british economy the bank of england lloyds of london and some universities have acknowledged their links to the slave trade so how much should britain pay is a way of compensation when brew. and ended slavery the government compensated slave traders with a share of $20000000.00 pounds or $21000000000.00 in today's money that money did not go to the slaves british traders made $60000000.00 pounds or about 10 $1000000000.00 from the sale of almost one and a half 1000000 african slaves the value of all slave related industries amounted to 11 point one percent of britain's g.d.p. by $1800.00 which would be 336 $1000000000.00 in 2019 when just a reminder while slaves were transported to the americas on the route back to britain they took back to back oh sugar and cotton just one more number for you from a u.s. perspective the roosevelt institute estimated up to toil for trillion dollars could serve as the baseline for black reparations in the 21st century. so there's not time pat can let's bring in said hennery bankrolls he's vice chancellor of the university of

people who are sent in had a very nuanced views of the situation, so you had stephen he was sent to the british zone to be in charge of library is and universities 30s and he had lots of german friends and he saw it as his chance to create bridges again by people who had been separated and had been in touch for several years and to make sure that the people in germany were given some sort of authority now. people going in there could not know who are the people who really had fought against hitler, because everyone claimed they had been in the resistance. so that was partly the role of these cultural figures, to discover who really had had an anti—nazi voice both in the lead up to the war and during the war and try to make sure that they were the people leading the country and it was not always successful, but it was not always successful, but it was in many ways a laudable effort. thank you very much for talking to us thank you very much for talking to us this evening. the exams regulator 0fqual has set out the criteria for how appeals of gcse, as and a—levels in england can be made on the basis of mock assessment results. because of coronaviru

baba pictures produces in markets hollywood movies and that's just a little slice of the fast ali baba universe. the british technology expert jamie bartlett observes a similar trend taking shape on u.s. based platforms. google and facebook and the same ones you always hear. no longer are just search engine platforms all social media platforms or video sharing platforms they increasingly will branch out into other areas amazon is no longer just a seller of products it's also a provider of all sorts of mazing web space the most highly valued companies in the world have long been platform businesses the top ranks are occupied solely by american and chinese companies microsoft apple amazon google and facebook china's front runners are all the above are intense and. the only german company to even make the top $100.00 is as a.p. ranked 58th in the world. but some german companies are trying to catch up in the summer of 21000 fashion retailer salon dot opened its new headquarters in berlin twice a month on boarding day when they welcome all the newcomers. there are 200 today alone 200 out of 14000 accounting. fo

with some promising early results from the university of oxford among others it also has a scheme for for a lot of workers that has helped about 9000000 british workers stay afloat during the crisis so a couple of hours of hope there is the. yeah it's due to in does not tobe or is there any reason to hope that things will improve by that to be honest it really doesn't look like the finance minister richie soon when he was announcing these figures and asked the british people to prepare for more hardship and more job losses so that's what the government thinks is going to happen in the autumn so it's not looking too good experts also think that and unemployment figures won't return to their pre-crisis levels for another 2 years north even at the estimates i thought are very hard to make during a pandemic you know i'm wondering gee does this all have to do with the pandemic were the brics play a role here well there was a time when not a day would pass without us talking about. just because the coronavirus is overshadowing everything doesn't mean that it's gone away so britain at the moment is in a transition period it has officially left the e

ounce then there is a vaccine developed by the british swedish company astra zeneca which we discussed earlier and they're working with the university of oxford and they're doing their study based on a chimpanzee study now that vaccine is now in phase 3 trials in england india brazil south africa and the u.s. and if their trials are successful which and they're extremely aggressive in their trials so they're expected to start delivering emergency vaccines as early as october then we have the. institute of my logic products now they're developing as c. a vaccine which the state owned chinese companies see you know far put into clinical trials now their target chairman they announced earlier this month that a vaccine could potentially be ready for public use by the end of 2020 now pseudo farms also testing a 2nd vaccine now this one is developed by the beijing institute of biological products and they're expected to be ready by the end of this year and then we have the private companies biotech now they have launched phase 3 trials in brazil and indonesia now they're expected to be available by march of next year 2021 lastly there is the

lives must return to london with renewed feeling of universal opinion in the country and bankrupted itself fighting itself to death of the nazis. and so british authorities say that it was the exhaustion of them power and the bankruptcy of the mother country that led to the realization that the simply no way the british could keep this enormous empire in chains the moment to come to head back home to a land of rationing drizzle low light and leave the exotic plagues of india behind . after decades of crushing any movement towards indian independence postwar britain had not had the will or the might to fold on to its calm. there was massive demonstrations across india. and there was. an awareness that the the lead of the film struggle could call strikes and protests which would paralyze the country. seizing the moment of british weakness 3 leaders spearheaded the push for independence. you are allowed nehru mohammad ali jinnah and 100 gandhi. at 1st they shared the goal of a free and united india one country one people regardless of religion. thousands of national pride. the great time to hear the message of gandhi leader of the demands for in

everyday lives but you may think robots are likely exempt from accusations of racial bias it's not the case it seems a british university study suggests the machines aren't immune to prejudice. their presentations i think our. future with them are directed through white racial their whiteness proxy for how perceived they see this pancho. villa land suggested the last place really i was hoping to see you again if you could use your brain to try a little role in the future and get in the mix all the century if you do 35 years old you. can. you mind if i ask you a personal question thank you please wait as your operating system is initiated. hello i'm here. you're the best fakes mr bean and beautiful. piece of bread this is jim's our racialized is white that it would have dangerous consequences for he was there not the perceived whiteness of i make it more difficult for people of color to advance in the field. to worry about a while from now there's the news this hour my name's kevin owen here in moscow but more of the headline news in just a couple of minutes on the breaking news this hour is more reaction to the developm

that shock in the english city of souls very they survived but a british woman exposed to the chemical dye and butter konkani a is a senior clinical lecturer at the university of exeter medical school he says the types of chemicals associated with previous incidents are extremely destructive. most of these poisons are of the neurotoxin variety there are basically no agents used in industry and when you recognize them you make them super potent and what they do is they are tracked your breathing your neuro transmission and it can occur paralyze you make you are unable to function and sectarian get coma and the idea is it happens very suddenly so sometimes these chemicals bind either very well certainly with your receptors in your body or not receptors and then all you have to do is hope and pray that my new receptors are generated and that we can keep you alive whilst new get new you know receptors are generated to allow you to function again it's a very fine and difficult balancing act that we have to undertake sometimes people survive with difficulties sometimes people do not survive well before this incident snowball may have been voicing his support for

going to leave it that way not to tell it to the profession of psychology the state university neal thank. you so much for having. now the british government is reassuring parents meanwhile are concerned about their children catching the coronavirus when youngsters do return to school soon officials are pointing to research that only one percent of covert patients needing hospital treatment have been teens or younger and nearly all had existing conditions to tell if the rate is relatively low 2 with 6 children dying compared with 27 percent mortality rate across all age groups in britain the prime minister boris johnson insists though that schools are safe i think the crucial thing is that pupils get back to school next week and in the succeeding days all scientific advice is that schools are safe it's absolute crucial that people understand that this farm risk to the well being of our children from not going to school then there is from i'm afraid from the disease but there are concerned parents that do disagree claiming the government is essentially experimenting with children's lives. i don't have any confidence because nothi

month for a vaccine being developed by british pharmaceutical giant a astrazena andd oxford university. ifif all goes wewe, japan would receive its first supply of the vaccine sometime between january and march. officials say the deal would see the country receive 120 million doses. >>> japan confirmed more than 1,500 new coronavirus cases on friday, that includes record highs in osaka and okinawa, which saw 255 and 100 infections respectively. so far, more than 46,000 cases have been confirmed across the country, more than 1,000 people have died. >>> three more countries ratified the u.n. treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons on thursday. the 75th anniversary of the u.s. atomic bombing of hiroshima. ireland, nigeria, and the small island nation of nuee bring the total ratifications to 43 of the 50 reqequired for the pact t to take effect. the irish representatative to t u.n. said rivalries between nucleaear-armed states are increasing the risks posed by the weapons. >> ireland will use every opportunity to reiterate that nuclear weapons are inhumane, indiscriminate, and beyond any possible legal use. >> e eye near ju's u.n.. representati

william one last question a british study has found singing is no more of a covert $1000.00 risk than talking it says a volume is the most important risk factor that's the universityof bristol the results as they found that aerosol mass produced rose deeply with an increase in volume of singing or speaking by as much as 20 to 30 percent or 30 times rather. can you comment on that. a little dubious about that study saying. involves more volume we will spread the war with singing i think i've never been to a choir concert that's for sure of. where you're looking ahead is there anything positive you can leave us with we're working on that actually everybody around the world is working on the axes we have actually is now in final stage clinical trials we hope life fingers are crossed that they will work and then we can start distributing this vaccine around the world i think is there also across william schaffner thank you very much for joining us there from nashville. there aquarium's time now to answer your questions on the coronavirus our science correspondent has been holed up in his home office since the beginning of the crisis. can certain preexisting conditions

tens of thousands of british students, who've now got higher exam results after the government's u—turn yesterday, have spent the day scrambling for universitys. but with many courses already full, some students remain unsure about their academic futures. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are sian griffiths, the education editor of the sunday times, and polly mackenzie, the chief executive of demos. welcome back. let's have a look at some of the other front pages that have come in now. according to the metro, the education secretary, gavin williamson, is managing to cling onto hisjob, as a—level students scrambled for university places and gcse pupils faced more uncertainty over their exam results on thursday. the i reports that borisjohnson rejected the minister's offer to resign, while senior conservatives call for regulator quual to be abolished. the daily mail says gavin williamson has enraged tory mps with a desperate bid to shift the blame for the exams fiasco, in an attempt to cling on to hisjob. the daily telegraph reports universities have told the uk government they will n

crisis perhaps much more than other universities, we've still faced lots of challenges, but things working with groups from china and korea, to australia to the british synthetic dna vaccine that isn't based on the live material, but copies it, essentially fooling our immune system into believing that covid—i9 is present and needs to be repelled. the aim is to inject an artificially created version of covid's viral protein into the body as genetic information. that, it's hoped, will stimulate our immune systems to create their own defences against a virus that can do so much harm. leading this particular effort is dr david weiner. he is executive director of wistar‘s immunology centre. he has worked before in the fight against deadly viruses, from sars and mers to zyka. he's been talking about how this one feels very different. since it's happened upon us so fast, and we're really learning on the fly, we're essentially building the aeroplane to control this while we're trying to take off and control it, and that's an enormous challenge. we don't know much about its background, where it came from and then how to protect against that. but we are learni

know the chalk in the english city of seoul sri they survived 3 british women exposed to the chemical died of herat pantani a is a senior chemical lecturer at the university of exeter medical school he says the types of chemicals associated with previous incidents are extremely destructive most of these poisons are of the mirror box in variety they're basically no agents used in industry and when you recognise them you make them super potent and what they do is they are tracked your reading your mirror transmission and they can per hour lies you make you are unable to function and sent you into a coma and the idea is it happens very suddenly so sometimes these chemicals bind the rosalee with your receptors in your body or not receptors and then all you have to do is hope and pray that my new receptors are generated and that we can keep you alive whilst new to you you know receptors are generated to allow you to function again it's a very fine and difficult balancing act that we have to undertake sometimes people survive with difficulties sometimes people do not survive. in other world news thousands of israelis are again rallying outside the official resi

of the british labour party. >> why is it that joe biden is the first and his family ever to go to a university?why am i the first candidate in a thousand genations to be able to get to the university? >> my ancestors worked in the coal mines don't come after -- don't come up after 12 hours to play football. >> the people that work eight hours in the ground, then come up and play football. >> hello, everybody. >> biden dropped out of the race. even then, he knew it wout. not be his l >> there will be other opportunities for me to campaign for president. >> 20 years later, he ran again and lost to barack obama. but what began as a rivalry turned into a partnership. obama said he always wanted biden to be the last person in thee room when ths a big decision to make. after two terms as vice president, there was talk of hig runninn in 2016. but the death of his son bo changed his plans. unfortunately, i believe we are out of time. the time nessary to mount a winning campaign for the nomination. >> if the biden's political currency is embas -- is empathy, it comes from knowing grief which may mean 20

universities. huge amount of pressure on students right now and pressure on the government calls in the british newspapers for the education secretary to resign. this, the daily mail, is a boris johnson government supporting new hampshire. real situation for boris johnson and his government. he's standing by his he heducat separately. his senior advisor, dominic cushing, was asked to resign. they won't see him sacking the institution. >> we're seeing a similar situation in the u.s. and around the world. exams for these kids going into university having to be canceled because of this pandemic. very frustrating. max foster in newbury, england, bringing us that live update. thanks. >>> still to come, not all democrats see eye to eye. can the party unite for the common goal of beating donald trump? unsupplements...memory neuriva's clinically proven ingredients fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. take the neuriva challenge with our money-back guarantee! we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. i remember setting up shipstation. one or two clicks and everything was up and running. i was printing out lab

shock in the english city of souls but now they survived but a british woman exposed to the chemical diet. but i've hung around here as a senior clinical lecture at the university of exeter medical school and he's joining us by skype from bath in the u.k. thank you very much indeed for being with us i understand that you were linked to the investigation into the recent novacek poisoning so let me ask you in terms of the poisons that can be used for this type of thing how long do poisons normally stay in the body. it depends on them most of these poisons are of the neurotoxin variety there are basically no agents used in industry and when you cannot use them you make them super pollutant and what they do is they are tracked your breathing your neuro transmission and it can hurt our lives you make you are unable to function and checked you can get calmer and the idea is it happens very suddenly so sometimes these chemicals bind it very well certainly with your receptors in your body you're not receptors and then all you have to do is hope and pray that new receptors are generated and that we can keep you alive whilst new jet new you know receptors are generated a

as the total number of coronavirus cases tops 25 million — india sees a record rise in 2a hours. why coronavirus may ruin plans to get british university

of the soviet rule or later british. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest bundy's and in a slow he is an associate professor at the university of southeastern norway as well as author of russia's geo economic strategy for a greater eurasia and in budapest we have george samuel he is author of bombs for peace nato is humanitarian war.

of the british labour party. why is it thatjoe biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university?,000 generations to be able to get to university? my ancestors who worked in the coal mines in northeast pennsylvania and who'd come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours... the people who would go to work eight hours underground and then come up and play football... hello, everybody. biden dropped out of that race, but even then knew it wouldn't be his last. there will be other opportunities for me to campaign for president. and 20 years later, he ran again and lost to barack obama. but what began as a rivalry turned into a partnership. obama said he always wanted biden to be the last person in the room when there was a big decision to make. and after two terms as vice president, there was talk of him running again in 2016, but the death of his son, beau, changed his plans. unfortunately i believe we're out of time, the time necessary to mount a winning campaign for the nomination. if biden‘s political currency is empathy, it comes from knowing grief, which may mean 2020

of the british labour party. why is it thatjoe biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university?k in 1,000 generations to be able to get to university? this my ancestors who worked in the coal mines in northeast pennsylvania and who'd come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours... the people who would go to work eight hours underground and then come up and play football... hello, everybody. biden dropped out of that race, but even then knew it wouldn't be his last. there will be other opportunities for me to campaign for president. and 20 years later, he ran again and lost to barack 0bama. but what began as a rivalry turned into a partnership. 0bama said he always wanted biden to be the last person in the room when there was a big decision to make. and after two terms as vice president, there was talk of him running again in 2016, but the death of his son, beau, changed his plans. unfortunately i believe we're out of time, the time necessary to mount a winning campaign for the nomination. if biden‘s political currency is empathy, it comes from knowing grief, which may

the future of thousands of british students is up in the air amid a scandal over how their exam grades were determined the results are critical for entry to university and many received lower grades than expected after exams were scrapped due to the pen demick to add insult to injury there have been mixed messages over the appeals process whereby students can have their grades reconsidered with a level examinations cancelled nationwide grades were based on teachers predictions they were then adjusted on the basis of a school's overall track record as lead to 39 percent of a level results being downgraded from the predictions state schools especially from poorer regions were disproportionately affected by the downgrade with private schools enjoying a boom and high marks and the whole fiasco has sparked students to protest across england hundreds of students held a demonstration in central london demanding the resignation of the education secretary gavin williamson think is the system of being classist exams regulator says there was no evidence of bias in the system and prime minister boris johnson defended the results calling them robust we spoke to