andy verity, bbc news, coventry. high street — this time at debenhams. 2,500 jobs are being cut. the retailer says it's looking to slash costs after sales slumped during the coronavirus lockdown. it comes four months after debenhams went in to administration, but the firm says it has no plans to close any additional stores as part of the restructure. the us democratic presidential candidatejoe biden has chosen senator kamala harris as his running mate — the first african american woman on a major presidential ticket in us history. if he's successful, she'll join him in the white house as his vice president. 0ur north america editor jon sopel is in washington. so, she's making history — who is kamala harris? yes, well kamala harris is the senator from california. yes, well kamala harris is the senatorfrom california. before that she was the states attorney general, the most senior law officer. before that, district attorney foster she has a storied success and she is tough. joe biden knows that because in the debates

that is quite honest, you know, verity.ted you, have you found it some days more difficult than others, having the therapy affecting that? up until a couple of weeks ago, i was still getting out and running, i carried on with the couch to 5k app, i think i got on with the couch to 5k app, i think igot up on with the couch to 5k app, i think i got up to week six. but the chemo in the past couple of weeks has taken its toll in the past couple of weeks has ta ken its toll and in the past couple of weeks has taken its toll and i have not been as well. so, you try and balance it out a bit. i obviously take elvis out a bit. i obviously take elvis out for walks, i walk to the hospital to get my blood checked, i walked to and from chemo yesterday. so, for the time being, walking, at pace, is where i am at in terms of fitness and capabilities. but i'm really keen, as soon as i can, to carry on running and to get my fitness up to where i wanted to be. it's one of the best medicines we have both for us physically and mentally, and i k

andy verity, bbc news.ben thompson is talking to local businesses in high wycombe. what have people been saying to you, ben? yes, you're absolutely right, diners here, making the most of the chancellor's eat out to help out scheme this lunchtime, helping them to regain some of the business they lost during lockdown. here, the council has allowed them to put chairs and tables on the pavement for the first time, all an effort to get them back up and running. you might think it is large business best able to help with a recession. they have deeper pockets, bigger budgets. but it is local business year that has been telling me smaller firms year that has been telling me smallerfirms are year that has been telling me smaller firms are able to be more nimble. they can change what they do and adapt to the new normal. one big concern they have is the ending of that fellow scheme, knowing when is the time to bring those staff back in. is there enough demand locally to ta ke in. is there enough demand locally to take

floods are no verity in northern and eastern afghanistan. they leave hundreds of dead every year. brent: let's go to india now where schools have been closed for months as part of efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic . that has exposed inequalities in india's education sector. classes have moved online, but many students are not able to access lessons due to poor internet conductivity. for children with disabilities, the struggle is much harder. >> he looks closely at the colors of his toy building blocks before he starts playing with them. he can only see toto somextent large objects and colors. he was born with a neurological disorder -- visual impairment -- and has trouble with fine motor skills. the nine-year-old studies in the second grade of a government school along with children without disabilities. the school does not provide him with a special educator or the crucial resesources he needs to study. as a result, he is almost entirely dependent on his mother for hihis education. that is challenging enough. now the shutting down of schoo during the covidid lockdown h

here is andy verity with more on the slump. to say the recession is off the charts wouldn't quite be accura. u can just about keep it on your chart if you do one that looks like this. efover on theis the global financial crisis, at the time, the worst slump in 18 years. and you can see this line toclosese is what we have just and through. overall, the u.k. economy shrank by an unprecedented 22%, slightly smaller drop in spain but more than twice the size of the recession in the united states. philippa: there is some good news. the u.k. economy grew by more but we won't know until at least next month how sustained that here is katie prescott on white the u.k. hrt been hit ularly badly. katie: economists say there are several reasons, we went into lockdown later than other countries, so thesees fig represent the eye of the storm. we are also really dependent on the services sector for things we can't do when we are in our homes. some are arguing as well that thu.k. has taken longer to get the virus under control than other countr

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that people who live to see another day so i think this is a moment for really ain't really sort of verity and the politics of it is inevitable their time is up i don't believe this mythical class can afford can renew itself ever again for we need to live through it see it right crucial times ahead for the lebanese people in this common heiko them and about the thank you very much indeed for your contribution to the program. thank you too for watching you can see the program again and its time by visiting our website dot com for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot goal for with inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter. for me and the entire team here in doha i phoned up. the latest news as it breaks there is increasing pressure for nandan to turn its back on the asia and the u.k. it's finding itself corp's between the palace with details coverage israel's missed opportunity on testing and tracing is now being seen as part of a wider political failure. from around the world human rights groups say that at least 12 people have been either killed o

day however sean hannity had an exclusive interview with president trying to trump downplay this verity of the virus calling it a corona flu with 0 pushback from sean hannity interview almost 400000 views on facebook and 1700000 on you choose. the criticism over fox news is covert coverage does continue to matter but it seems the network has little to worry about. president. in australia it's a different story leading the calls to bring murdoch and news corp under control the 2 former prime minister malcolm turnbull and kevin rudd while in office both tried to appease murdoch but since being ousted which they partly blame on negative coverage in the murdoch press they've gone public on the perils of news corp's influence kevin rudd has written an op ed during the pandemic on the company's proton anti china agenda and last year he described the murdoch media as a cancerous growth on australia's democracy. and former news corp reporters are also speaking out anthony klann spent 15 years on the inside of the australian he quit last year citing serious misgivings over the paper's editorial

conditions that can influence the severity of coded 19 outcomes but does viral load also affect some verity. when i began looking into this i quickly realized that there's still no clear answer to this question partly because the amount of virus in a patient's body changes from day to day as the disease progresses we know from other diseases that that high viral loads are linked to infectiousness but do they also affect disease severity in covert 19 well the information coming out of the studies is kind of conflicting a recent a fairly large scale one for example found a clear link between mortality and high viral load in hospitalized patients and even suggested it could be used as a tool for stratifying patient risk but other studies that have measured viral loads in for example children who had very mild forms of the disease found they were generally carrying even more virus than adults who develop severe forms of the disease and then there are the studies showing that that asymptomatic or precint dramatic adults can also have very heavy viral loads so so after hours of reading this is ho

here's our economics correspondent andy verity.d car dealership in yorkshire closely manner what has happened in the wider economy. —— closely mirror mac. april and may saw sales plummet in full—blown lockdown, but has recently seen a surge as in full—blown lockdown, but has recently seen a surge as customers who had recently seen a surge as customers who had been waiting weeks to buy have now turned up. the big question is, will it last? it is a bit of a weird one for us, because we had a really bad time during the lockdown, obviously, but then coming out of the lockdown, we have been absolutely flying. so touch wood and may continue, but yeah, we have been doing record numbers, and wejust hope it does continue. latest indicators suggest that, in spite of ongoing social distancing, consumers did step up their spending as lockdown lifted. payments from as recently as july showed household consumption are down by less than a tenth of the end of last year. in may, the bank expected the economy to end the year on doubling down 1496. t

will strengthen potentially to a category 3 before slamming into the coasts of texas and louisiana verities the. cover up north. all open and that is around there. and. hopefully this repair for the flooding druther based on the parent's right to the center reactive on its states of emergency have now been declared in many low lying communities as the national guard deploys troops and equipment to prepare for what could be a major hurricane both the state and no stranger to powerful storms they are in the words of the mayor of houston battle tested and ready to throw pandemic into the mix and things become more complicated many residents are being told to keep wearing masks and practicing good hygiene they're also being asked to stay with friends and relatives if they need to evacuate gathering large numbers of evacuees in shelters is say authorities something they'd like to avoid actually a hotel motel location is a good type of location when a back you a ship or evacuating during a pandemic remember. just because a hurricane is coming to texas does not mean that kobe 19 either has or is g

conditions that can influence the severity of coded 19 outcomes but does viral load also affect some verity. when i began looking into this i quickly realized that there's still no clear answer to this question partly because the amount of virus in a patient's body changes from day to day as the disease progresses we know from other diseases that that high viral loads are linked to infectiousness but do they also affect disease severity in covert 19 well the information coming out of the studies this kind of conflict in a recent fairly large scale one for example found a clear link between mortality and high viral load in hospitalized patients and even suggested it could be used as a tool for stratifying patient risk but other studies that have measured viral loads in for example children who had very mild forms of the disease found they were generally carrying even more virus than adults who develop severe forms of the disease and then there are the studies showing that that asymptomatic or precint dramatic adults can also have very heavy viral loads so so after hours of reading this is ho

as a result of racial help to verities.hen we have an epidemic of people living those people, blaming those black people, blaming those brown people for dying and higher rate as opposed to thinking about our system as opposed to thinking about what policies can be changed, as opposed to thinking about why is it that black people, black and in particular die at higher rates from colon cancer because we are more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage? what is happening in our society that is cauausing so much black death? why is black death so normal? how can people allow black ople to contininue to die of police violence, die of cancer day in and day out, year in d year out, and not be outraged? that is why people have been demonstrating for months. and d ey will be d demonstrating for years until this country takes black life seriously. to go, before we talk about what is happening in kenosha, the police shooting of jacob blake, what is happening in portland, what is happening throughout this country, the issue of white su

lags ye last year, the county purchased three facilities from veriti health. >>> and now, last week, students stopped by the school to pick upstarter kits with ipads and essentials to start the year off strong for school to begin this week. they were hoping for a strong year for the students, but we are starting off the day with some strong temperatures. kari, they are here to stay for now at least, right? >> yeah, we are going to have some hot weather continuing in the forecast, but at least we are not dealing with storms this morning. all of that moisture that caused the storms now rolling to the north of the bay area. so the humidity is going to gradually drop as we go into the next couple of days, but now we are left with the smoke sparked by the wildfires due to the lightning that we had and so unhealthy air quality going to continue today for the inland east bay, and especially in santa clara valley with that time, and thick plumes of smoke moving by, and we will have the excessive heat warming ramping up today starting at 11:00 this morning and continuing to 9:00 this evening

andy verity is our economics correspondent. tell us more about what they are saying.icult time, also for the staff. the administrators are going to be appointed later today, we haven‘t heard you that will be. some interesting comments from martin long, the chief executive of dw sports, who assenting it is the government which has forged their business to close. we are saying they were mandated by the government to close down because they had high fixed costs and zero income, and it was difficult to carry on with our business model with the limited support we have been able to gain, he says. in a way he is suggesting that either he wanted bigger support from the government, or without that support they exhausted all other options and couldn‘t find a buyer, then concluded it was better to save what bits of the business remained viable than for the whole thing to go under. referring to high fixed costs a nd go under. referring to high fixed costs and zero income being the reason why they are now in this position can apply to so many companies, cant it? is this likely to

andy verity, bbc news.'s in high wycombe town centre. he has been speaking to local businesses and workers this morning. it is so interesting what we heard in the report. about how the economy has peered over the last quarter, andindeed has peered over the last quarter, and indeed the first half of the year. all the questions here in places like this is what happens next, when will business be able to bounce back? and what and local authorities on those businesses do to make the most of an economic recovery? we know the economy started to pick up on me and then more strongly in june started to pick up on me and then more strongly injune as businesses we re more strongly injune as businesses were able to reopen, but big questions about whether we as consumers feel confident enough about the economy to go out and spend again. we know there are schemes supporting restaurants, the chancellor's it out to help out schema drinker trade in high wycombe this lunchtime, but by questions about what happens next. melan

andy verity, bbc news.ief economist at bny mellon investment management — hejoins me now. good afternoon to you. what do you make of this? is the bank being a little bit optimistic? i'm not so sure. to be honest, ifind it hard to fault the bank with this. if anything, iam probably to fault the bank with this. if anything, i am probably a little bit more optimistic than them! they are saying it will take to the end of next year to get back to precrisis levels of spending, i would hope we get there by the middle, to the start of next year. that quickly, because it start of next year. that quickly, because ... it isn't start of next year. that quickly, because it isn't quick, to be honest, that's still, remember, the economy has shrunk by about a quarter in the first half of this year. what you are effectively saying is we are only going to open up saying is we are only going to open up the economy at a quarter per quarter if you like, from here and that's not particularly quick so i don't think it's a ludicro