these clips have been collected by microsoft, city, university of london and the university of oxfordilmed by people like robin. it really important that blind people themselves are the ones to do the recording of the things that are important to them, that they're the ones capturing these training videos, because they're people that are going to be using software to find the objects. so far, some 3,000 videos have already been collected, and the project aims to gather around 10,000 clips in total. because this a! can learn from just a handful of clips, users will be able to teach it personalised objects. that means being able to pick out your keys or your cane from other people's. sojust imagine if i could train it to say, "yep, robin's shoes", or, "those are robin's glasses". particularly when you've got family members leaving their stuff around as well, you know, is this my mug that i'm about to pick up or is it somebody else's? wow, that sounds amazing, i use apps every single day but i've never seen something that will personalise objects in my hand before. and this will be groun

these clips have been detected by microsoft city university of london and the university of oxford.le like robin. it wasn't really important that people themselves are the ones to do themselves are the ones to do the recording of the things that are important to them, that are important to them, that they are the ones capturing these training videos, because they other people that are going to be using software to find the objects. so far, some 3000 videos have already been collected. at the project aims to gather around 10,000 clips in total. because this ai can learn from personalised clips, it means being able to pick out your keys or your cane from other people's just imagine if ican train other people's just imagine if i can train it and say yes, robin's shoes or those are robin's shoes or those are robin's glasses. because you might have family members living things around, is this my mug oi’ living things around, is this my mug or somebody else's? that is amazing, i use apps every day but i've never seen something that would personalise objects in my hand before. and this wil

willie ojulu, is the chief inspector at langata women's prison, and just completed his university of londonw that i know of many guards in the united states who train to become a lawyer so they can give legal advice to the people they're guarding. it's pretty unique. >> willie ojulu: well, it sounds unique, but that's what happens here. you know, people are brought to prison as a punishment, but not for punishment. >> cooper: i've never heard it phrased that way. so your goal is not to punish them? but-- >> ojulu: but to help them improve on their life and manage their life properly, so that they don't get in conflict with the law. >> cooper: last year inside kamiti maximum security prison, there was a graduation ceremony the likes of which no one here had ever seen. 18 inmates, former prisoners and guards, received their university of london law school degrees. george karaba got his, and while he may spend the rest of his life in prison, he says he has been transformed. >> karaba: even if i do not get out of prison, i will still continue doing what i do. >> cooper: to see somebody you've h

coronavirus questions this morning are doctor mohammed and a clinical epidemiologist at the university of london. you're both very welcome. thank you very much for your time this morning. the first question is from wayne. on twitter. " in light of the increased transmissibility of this new variant, why hasn't the wearing a mask been made mandatory? if people can't wear one, wash and they have to wear a face shield?"|i think a high transmissibility is certainly a concern. we might need more stronger control mothers to reduce transmission. —— controlled measures. i do think we need more widespread mass clearing. regarding face shields, we know they're not as effective as masks, but of course if a person cannot wear a mask, they should provide some degree of protection. i agree that we certainly need more widespread mass clearing, particularly in light of events. countries who have done better in getting a grip of this virus, they tend to have had a culture of mass clearing. when there we re culture of mass clearing. when there were outbreaks? we've seen this in southeast asia, who have been far mo

coronavirus questions this morning are doctor mohammed and a clinical epidemiologist at the university of london this morning. the first question is from wayne. 0n this morning. the first question is from wayne. on twitter. " in light of the increased transmissibility of this new variant, why hasn't the wearing a mask been made mandatory? if people can't wear one, wash and they have to wear a face shield?"|j think a high transmissibility is certainly a concern. we might need more stronger control mothers to reduce transmission. —— controlled measures. i do think we need more widespread mass clearing. regarding face shields, we know they're not as effective as masks, but

these clips have been collected by microsoft, city university of london and the university of oxford,y people like robin. it's really important that blind people themselves are the ones to do the recording of the things that are important to them. that they're the ones that are capturing these training videos because they're the people that are going to be using the software to find the objects, and they might not line it up in the viewfinder very well. it might be obscured by another object, you know? it may be partially hidden because, you know, the machine learning behind it, the brain behind it will be that much smarter, and will give that much better — a more inclusive experience for people with a vision impairment. so far, some 3000 videos have already been collected and the project aims to gather around 10,000 clips in total. we developed a data collection app — it runs on an iphone, they can download it — and then we ask them to take some videos — so seven videos of at least five objects through the data collection app. that automatically gets uploaded, we check it... because

of the justice and liberties for all committee. in london, a professor of french and european politics at the university of college of london.nd in morocco, associate professor of international studies. a warm welcome to you all. i would like to begin in paris. one of the things that is confusing to somebody who doesn't understand the internal workings of france is instead of strengthening existing anti-terror laws and making this about a policing issue, say for example something they did in great britain, this law seems to be about protecting the values of the republic, the idea of secularism. i don't understand why the values of the republic need protecting in this way. can you explain what is going on here? >> it makes sense given how victims of terrorists, i.e. muslims, are treated. to answer your question, when we speak of french values, this is a loose term. what are we talking about? if you are talking about the motto of the republic, in that case, where is the freedom when muslims lose their religious freedoms and can't organize as communities? where is equality when muslims are facing structural discrimination, and

dr muhammad munir, and dr deepti gurdasani, who is a clinical epidemiologist at queen mary university of londononsider giving as many people as possible an initial dose of a coronavirus vaccine, rather than preserving stocks so there's enough for second jabs. both the pfizer biontech and oxford university astrazeneca vaccines require two doses to be fully effective. but the former prime minister said his idea would speed up the vaccination programme so the uk could come out of lockdown sooner. it's a thought echoed by the former director of immunisation for the department of health, professor david salisbury. if you look at the new england journal of medicine paper about the pfizer vaccine, you give one dosing to get 91% protection. you give two doses and you get 95%. so you're only gaining 4% for giving the second dose. with the current circumstances i would strongly urge that you should use as many first doses as you possibly can for risk groups, and only after you've done all of that comeback with second doses. professor david salisbury. we will have more on that story coming up. stay with f

international china strategist steve saying is director of the trying to institute as a way as university of london and he joins us from nottingham and joining us from hong kong is stephen vines a journalist and author who specializes in china's politics welcome to each of you stephen vines let me start with you today mccowan the hong kong have a lot in common but why are their views and stances toward democracy seemingly so different. a lot of it's to do with the history of the 2 places is as your report that we've just seen showed it's a very small place it has a very different history from hong kong but i think most importantly more or less now the majority of the people in macau come from the chinese mainland they're much closer emotionally and politically to the communist system that prevails on the mainland and indeed they haven't had the long tradition that there's been in hong kong by a long i mean a few decades of being part of a democracy movement having pressure on the austerity is to enhance the democratic governments of hong kong none of these things that happened in macau so you know

he is currently a lecturer at city university of london. paolo giordana is a physicist of four internationally best-selling novels including the solitude of prime numbers which is sold over a million copies worldwide. his acacia, how contagion works published in italy at the beginning of the coronavirus emergency as a mathematics of contagion has shared more than 4 million times and health shift public opinion in the early stages of the pandemic. sonia shah is a science journalist and a prize-winning author of pandemic, tracking contagions from cholera, to a bowls and beyond. a finals for the los angeles times book price in the near public library award for excellence in journalism. she's written for the "new york times", wall street journal, and many others. her ted talks are reasons we have not gotten rid of malaria has been viewed by more than 1 million people around the world. the most recent book is the next great migration, the beauty and chair of life on the move. she lives in baltimore. welcome to you all. select think you bryan. >>

she's a lecturer in politics at the university of london. the covid relief bill made its way to mar-a-lago where it presumably sits there unsigned. the president wants to give americans $2,000 instead of the $600. and democrats agree. so what is wrong with the president using these strong arm tactics to for those congressional republicans to give americans more aid? >> well, ken, as we know, this bill is a long time coming. throughout these last weeks of the process, there wasn't any indication from trump even to his closest aid that he was going to take issue with some of the compromises that had been made and that included on the amount of those checks. and the situation we have now is that that bill passed with a situation of great urgency, with unemployment benefits set to expire at the end of this month, with a government shutdown looming next week. so by disagreeing on this point, trump has really kind of blown up the bill at this really, really crucial moment of urgency. we saw democrats trying to push through the larger check amount o

tim, professor of politics at queen mary university of london. good morning to give. -- to you. i want to get a sense of what you think in the state of play and what these individuals are coming to this evening. boris johnson is making his way to brussels. we had the most controversial parts of the internal market bill be dropped. is this a positive? does this mean a deal is most likely by the end of the week? the i think the dropping of clauses in the internal market bill helps move to the middle. it does not necessarily have any direct effects on trade negotiations. it wasernal market bill, set by the joint committee which is the trade negotiations. there's quite a lot of debate over here among context as to whether that means a deal is more likely or actually helps clear the way for no deal as well. whichever the u.k. and eu go for in the end or have to settle for, they have to settle that. but, the difficult sticking points for the trade negotiations are apparently still there. annmarie: right. the same sticking points that have been here for nine months. the eu is

to talk about that, jonathan kennedy, senior lecturer of global heth at queen mary university of londonthank you for joining us. as we saw, vaccine hesitancy a huge problem in the u.s., clearly a problem there too. some 52% of italians say they will get the vaccine, only 41% of spaniards, so on. you argue there's a correlation between doubting vaccines and voting for populist parties. explain this for us. >> yes, so even before the covid-19 pandemic, we had a big problem in europe with vaccine hesitancy. and this was mainly around the mmr vaccine, measles, mumps, rubella. and a couple of years ago i looked at this phenomenon and i found there was a really strong correlation between countries in which there are a high level of votes for so-called populist parties and countries in which there's a high level of distrust in vaccines. you find countries like italy, france, and greece that have very high levels of distrust in vaccines, also have lots of support for populist parties. you also see the opposite. places like portugal, where there's virtual no -- a couple of years ago, virtually n

growing tension and in 2021 malcolm webb his era let's talk now to martin ploughed sees a fellow university of london and horn of africa analyst he joins us on skype from london multiplied welcome back to the news hour why did if he did why did the prime minister ahmed misjudged the situation so parentally. 2 reasons for this the 1st is that he thought that he had the force of the ethiopian federal 'd army behind him an air force 'd that the ground's couldn't possibly respond to and that he had with him also militia so he had a very powerful force and then from the north he had allies in eritrea who have also become involved in this conflict so he was essentially attacking from 3 directions from the north from the east and from the south and he thought he could crush that to graham's the 2nd one is that he is a pentecostalist and very much believe that positive thought is enough it will get you by so in a sense there were 2 reasons for this do you think the 2 greens will carry on pushing back and if they try to can they sustain that. i think that's a very difficult question to answer the indications

sent out is a fellow at the university of london and horn of africa analyst he says what started as a domestic crisis has grown into a full international conflict. the indications at the moment are that there is still fighting going on. how long that will continue for is impossible to tell but they did have more than 100 maybe 150000 men under arms and that the tradition integrate is to go into the hills and fight from the hills not to try to hold the cities so if they do that they have a long history of doing it and there's no reason why they could not continue the big question is what will suit don do because all their supplies of essential slike fuel and food and ammunition will need to come in from sudan can that be sustained will sister sudan allow that to be sustained that we don't know this is an international war you already have the eritreans involved the united states has made it clear that they believe the eritrean forces are involved. britain sort of off the record 'd accept that this is the case so do the european union so there's little kay little in little indication th

of coronavirus. we can talk now to dr naomi forrester—soto, a virologist at keele university. i'm also joined by professor robert west, professor of health psychology at university college londonet through, so if i could ask you to be relatively concise we can get in as many we can. coming to you first, naomi, paul asked where did the new genetic covid variant originate and how was it detected? that is a really good question. what we don't know at the moment is where it originated. we just know that it is around. we don't know if it originated in this country or whether it was brought in. it was detected because the uk has a really good sequencing capacity and they sequence a lot of these viral strains so they can keep a really good tab on what virus sequences are running around the country. robert, to follow up on that, how worried should we be about this new variant? well, these mutations are expected. at the moment, we don't know if the mutation is responsible for the increased infection rates, so we always need to be cautious, but at the moment there is no particular cause for alarm. robert, a question for you from sarah, and it is a question a lot of people are asking. i

. >> thomas gift the university of london, thomas, georgia very pivotal for dems and republicans to control the senate. is it about turnout again? and who can be relied on to come out to vote? >> well, robyn, i think if both democratic candidates were to win, that would represent a swing in georgia politics. i do think it's an uphill battle. in the past, republicans have shown up and they've generally outperformed them. another challenge for democrats there could be an unspoken reluctance to turn over the keys fully to one party. ultimately as you suggest, it's going to be a base mobilization game and a question of who wants it more. turnout will be lower during the presidential election on november 3 which means the electorate will be more conservative on the democratic side and more liberal on the republican side. >> it certainly does. in talking about that, team biden is talking up the need for a serious stimulus package and doing business with republicans in congress. we know that joe biden likes to champion his bipartisanship over the many decades he's been in congress. how likely is t

. >>> for more on this, let's turn to thomas gift from university of college london.hank you so much for joining us. i want to get to the covid relief deal, but first i want to start with what we were just hearing there about jim acosta, that tentative plan by members of congress to potentially force a challenge to the election on january 6th. so you've heard a source there saying to us, you know, it's an exercise in futility and feelty to trump. just a few hours ago in the early hours of this morning, the president tweeted about a big protest in d.c. on january 6th. he said be there. we'll be wild. now, january 6th, of course, the day that congress is scheduled to count the electoral votes. what do you make of this dismal echo chamber? >> well, it's really hard to know, jim. this is basically more of the same from donald trump. he's been disputing the election outcome since november 3rd, continues to do so right now. i still maintain this is largely rhetorical, but it is damaging because so many republican voters believe his unsubstantiated claims. it further erodes

joined by dr elisabetta groppelli, a virologist and lecturer in global health at st george's university of londonns about vaccines covering a very wide area. let mejust leap vaccines covering a very wide area. let me just leap in. vaccines covering a very wide area. let mejust leap in. kevin asks about people who had a confirmed positive test for cultic 19 and should they require a vaccine? is it a very good question and i dare say lot of people asking himself this question. essentially, yes, he should the vaccine because it is well known that protection will not be as robust and vaccines are known to be more powerful so even if you had some of their mild infection you might not have good antibodies so definitely go and get the vaccine. is the pfizer vaccine, and the other vaccines currently being assed by the british regulator, able to combat the virus if it mutates? their interest virological question because as we know that viruses do change and even if coronavirus mutates let's —— less than other viruses like the flu it is very crucial that we keep monitoring the genetic sequence of the virus

simon not after my father, but two japanese characters, si and mon, graduated from the university of the city of london in philosophy and was awarded a two-year course at oxford to get a masters in philosophy which he graduated from in one year. and a 21-year-old granddaughter, sara. so my enemy is my family. my whole thought process of world war ii is to kill jeez. and now i have three grandchildren, family in japan. i found that was the biggest learning experience that i could ever have. i wrote a book about that in 1988 called "a war and weddings." i don't like to promote myself, but that's a book that you could read on amazon. and i'm proud of them, i'm proud of the three american grandchildren, we're all the same, and my love for them. >> off to your right, sir. [ applause ] >> we have time for one last question, and we'll take that now, and then we'll hear from our choir and band, the very dramatic "battle him of the republic." afterwards jerry will be available to autograph copies of his book in the front lobby which are available in our store. our last question. >> thank you, sir, for your serv

. >>> joining me now with a perspective is judy norman, lecturer at university of college london. it was great to get you on the show. let's start with a multibillion dollar highly bipartisan bill. the house of representatives made themselves heard. now it goes to the senate. here the republicans must be forced to choose between the loyalty of the president, and the legislation that sets the defense policy for the country. how do you see it playing out? >> well, isa, this is a bill that has passed annually for the last 60 years. it's a very important bill for raising the salary for service members, for funding overseas operations. it really is a very key bill for the military. so it's one that does put republicans in a difficult position in terms of being forced to override trump's veto, but at the same time, this is just such a crucial issue, not only for the republican party but really for the country and the military more broadly, and most republicans will not want to be seen as voting against that measure. >> i think you're right because i remember hearing house minority leader

are professor linda bauld, who is chair of public health at the university of edinburgh, and also professor stephen evans from the londona and stephen, morning to you and thank you very much forjoining us today. linda, this first question is from christine for you. why is this virus spreading so quickly if we are wearing masks and washing our hands endlessly? should everyone be made to wear facemasks when they are outside or travelling if that would help stop the spread? well, that is a good question from christine. of course there is a lot of discussion about this new variant, how it spreads, but also generally the fact that we still have a high number of cases of covid—i9 in the uk. so, why is the virus still spreading generally? well, it is still spreading because of course people are still coming into contact with one another. even with the new, harsher restrictions, people still have to go to work, people are still using public transport, and because it is colder, we are in the winter, people are spending more time indoors. so that is the main thing. in terms of dealing with it, i mean, washing our hands is still e

university of exeter medical school. professor stephen evans from the london school of hygiene and medicine, always a joy to have you on bbche uk this afternoon. there's a chance of little bit of sunshine hear and there but also, notan not an especially cold night that this year and then into tomorrow, this year and then into tomorrow, this band of rain to start off across this band of rain to start off a cross m ost this band of rain to start off across most areas. eastern scotland, with this south—easterly flow coming off the north sea will see some quite persistent rain through the day. further west, brightness, quite persistent rain through the day. furtherwest, brightness, a quite persistent rain through the day. further west, brightness, a lot of cloud and some showers which will be heavy. 11 degrees for london, cardiff and plymouth. further north, highs of 7—8 c. towards the weekend, saturday promises something a little brighter. heavy rain and strong winds for sunday. this is bbc news. the headlines: the eu lays out plans to keep road and air travel running with the uk — in case there's no brexit deal. both sides s

head of the justice and liberties for all committee in london philip mallya professor of french and european politics at the university college london and in the moroccan city of a front in his armor sari associate professor of international studies at the university a warm welcome to you all and let's begin in paris with yasser at last he one of the things that is confusing to somebody doesn't really understand the internal workings of france is that instead of strengthening existing antiterrorism laws and make this about a policing issue say for example something that they did in great britain this law seems to be about protecting the name the values of the republic the idea of secularism i don't understand why the values of the republic need protecting in this way can use explain what's going on here. well if it nicholas sense it just the way to government is already in the 1st victims of terrorism abroad i.e. muslims or the suspect community of the holme we got in a connection to france a disastrous war is you know brother not over and to answer your question when we speak of french values this is a you know a loo

professor of risk and disaster reduction at the university college london david alexander full on to metropolitan police officer. while control 3 of here alexandra 7 start with with you david now does this highlight some of the issues surrounding the distribution of the covert 900 fax and specially at such an early a time in terms of hackers. well there are a hackers from many different things the electricity grid is hacked almost every day fortunately without success in most cases so hackers are now a fact of life in many aspects of what goes on in the financial industry hacking is very much a concern as are or forms of cyber crime so yes i think hackers are a risk and. this is simply one of many sensitive activities from which which have to be protected against hacking and therefore we have to increase our cyber defenses but that is a well known fact and has been widely discussed for a very long time now tell me which i want to ask you because in your article you say that happens are looking to target facts in a cold chain now i'm not going to lie i don't fully understand what that

joining me now with his perspective is professor of international politics at city university and visiting professor at london school of economics. indijit, thank you very much for being with us. so president trump heading back to d.c. to try to disrupt president-elect biden's certification, which is i believe mostly ceremonial. so what's the strategy from the president here? >> well, i think president trump has succeeded, if you like, in creating a very toxic political environment, one in which there are divisions, particularly within the republican party now, which he has really roiled up. and i think he's created a lot of confusion in many people's finds, particularly his voter base, about the election result itself. and i think this kind of construction of chaos and confusion is probably part of a broader strategy to try to overturn by any means which are available to him the election result of november 2020. and it shows really that president trump will stop pretty much at nothing to try to overturn that election result and people around him have been talking about a declaration of martial law. the rerun

if you've been exposed you could take this treatment scientists at the university of college london. at their hospitals they are performing trials on this to people who have just been exposed to coronavirus they're seeing if they could get some protection. when they get a direct antibody injection. they don't want this to be an alternative to a vaccine because it means that you know you wait until you get coronavirus now it's too late. results on these trials are expected to come in in the spring robin. currently the pfizer vaccine is authorized for those aged 16 and up will testing on children as young as 12. >>again back in october and is expected to take several months. the fda will have to decide when there is enough data to allow emergency use in the younger age group depending on the result of younger children may be enrolled for the study as well, but so far it is uncertain if those results on younger children will come in for the vaccinations to begin before the next school year. >>in the north a marine county has released new resources for people who are having trouble payin

of 100 people that got a job from 23,000 applicants. his brother, simon, but he was not named after my father but after two japanese characters. he graduated from the university in the city of londonafter a four-year course and philosophy. he was awarded a to your course at oxford to get a bachelors in philosophy. he graduated when. here and i have a 21-year-old granddaughter, sarah. so my enemy is my family. my whole thought process of world war ii was to kill japanese. and now i have three grandchildren in japan, family in japan. i found that was the biggest learning experience that i could ever have. >> i wrote a book about that in 1988. and i don't like to promote myself but it's a book that you can read on amazon. i am proud of them. i'm proud of the three grandchildren and my love for them. >> off to your right, sir. [applause] >> we have time for one last question, we will take that now and then we will hear from our choir and band, the very dramatic battle of the republic. afterwards, jerry will be available to autograph copies of his book in the front lobby. there are variable in our store. the last question. >> thank you, sir for your service. thank you very much for kee

these clips have been collected by microsoft, city, university of london and the university of oxfordoftware to find the objects. so far, some 3,000 videos have already been collected, and the project aims to gather around 10,000 clips in total. because this ai can learn from just a handful of clips, users will be able to teach it personalised objects. that means being able to pick out your keys or your cane from other people's. sojust imagine if i could train it to say, "yep, robin's shoes", or, "those are robin's glasses". particularly when you've got family members leaving their stuff around as well, you know, is this my mug that i'm about to pick up or is it somebody else's? wow, that sounds amazing, i use apps every single day but i've never seen something that will personalise objects in my hand before. and this will be groundbreaking for the visually impaired community. now we're going to talk about gaming, and specifically how accessible videogames rate. so paul, tell us about this next story, please. with the new next gen consoles now on sale, the ps5 and the xbox series x, q

of this. i'm joined now by professor danny altmann. he's an immunologist at university college london. c news. we've heard a lot of people warning the british government not to overpromise and under deliver, because of some of the things it has talked about during the course of this year in fighting the coronavirus, practicalities have gotten way of the optimism. are theyjustified to be so optimistic about the arrival of this first batches of the vaccine? i really think so. i think, through a ghastly year, we've all tried to keep our end up by doing a little bit of overpromising, and this time, i really think it is the real thing. i think it is the beginning of the end. and with each million people that get immunised and have a higher level of protective antibodies on board, like full—field 18 a bit more normal. this is a massive logistical operation, would be in any country in the world, and will eventually be in all countries of the world. i suppose britain has certain advances, comprehensive health coverage free at the point of need, things that remove some of the other obstacles oth

director of the clinical operation unit at university college london, thank you forjoining us. uing in brussels to try to secure an agreement, with two weeks to go before the uk leaves eu trading rules. he's also told a parliamentary committee that he wants to have a bill agreed by both houses before january first. our reality check correspondent chris morris is here. q1gove sounding a bit pessimistic? dealing with all of us so that we don't have to which is good because who knows what's going on, no one really knows what's happening. about three people on each side actually know what's going on in the room. and as you know, pretty much every day for the last couple of weeks, there has been a rumour that maybe there is going to be a deal tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and we are really in a glass half glass half—full stage of the negotiations and michel barnier saying good progress, mr gove saying the glass is half—empty, less than 50% chance, and so when he went to the house of lords, he's appeared between two before two select committees this afternoon and he said when is t

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i'll be joined by professor linda bauld from the university of edinburgh and professor stephen evans from the london deliveries to europe — except the irish republic — because of the travel bans. the firm says it's also experiencing delays to canada and turkey. meanwhile, the courier company dhl has stopped all package deliveries to the uk. the man who murdered british backpacker grace millane in new zealand has been named after a court order banning his identication was lifted. the courtjudgment also revealed 28—year—old jesse kempson has been convicted of sex attacks on two more women. in february, he was jailed for a minimum of 17 years for killing miss millane in his hotel room in auckland in december 2018. we're joined now by our correspondent in sydney, phil mercer. phil, what more do we now know? that court order banning the identification ofjesse kempson had beenin identification ofjesse kempson had been in order not to prejudice the other cases? jesse kempson has been revealed as a serial sexual predator. for the first time we can report that he was found guilty of raping another young brit

of spreading the virus. now scientists from university college london are trying to find ways of making singing safer. 0ur healthre more than a thousand years old but with the 2020 twist... ..a facemask. but what does that have to do with this? la. religion and science, two parts of professor lawrence lovett‘s life. he says that most of the evidence on face covering looks at coughing and sneezing. he wants to know what difference they make to singing. i think that singing in communal worship is incredibly important, it's an absolutely central part of worship. and if it's safe to do, then i will be the first person to do it. if it's not safe to do, i'm for certain not going to do it. this is where the choir stands in this synagogue. they are still allowed, but must be socially distanced. so they've limited the amount of music during the services here. across england, government guidelines for churches, mosques and temples say that the rest of worshippers cannot join in singing or chanting. i don't think any church leader ever thought they'd be in the position of standing in front of their congregation and saying,