johnson reluctant to get -- why is boris johnson reluctant to get rid of this man? >> i don't think it would be an exaggeration to say alongside boris johnson, dominic cummings is the most important man in british politics. i don't think many would dpute that. why is boris johnson holding on to him? mr. johnson is friends with him. he is a loyal boss and doesn't want to fire anyone. and as you were suggesting, mr. cummings is the man, the brains behind the success of the vote leave campaign, the brains behind mr. johnson's attorney -- election victory spree while he is the fabulous salesman, it is mr. cummings who does the detail , has the big vision and drive to get policies thro there is a third reason as well. this is important. if you think about mr. johnson's operation, the vote leave campaign revisited as we have discussed headed by dominic cummings, that is more than just about leaving the european union. it is a radical project for remaking u.k. and governing in a much better way. although lots of people say that project was kind of crazy given britain was t

britain has the highest official death toll in europe just by prime minister boris johnson is due to announce a limited relaxation of lockdown measures that have been in place across the u.k. for almost 7 weeks the country has recorded more than 31800 deaths related to cope at 19 prime minister johnson the contract of the virus himself and spent several days in intensive care in hospital although there is growing frustration that the strict lockdown rules most to stay at home orders are expected to remain in place. well they don't use alex for as whiting joins me in the studio now alex what are we expecting to hear boris johnson say well let's make it clear he is walking a tightrope here between those who want the relaxation to happen quickly and those who say it is too soon and he can't act quickly so i think whatever we will see it will be slow to be ground chill and it won't be that significant now already today boris johnson tweeted out the. new government logo which replaces the stay at home words with stay alert and this is to a lot of criticism including from those opposition

boris johnson wants to bea announced this. boris johnson wants to be a unifier and he has unified the trade unions and business owners and business leaders this evening, both of them saying there is not enough detail about how employers are expected to protect people at work and how people at work are expected to react if they feel their bosses are not doing enough to protect them. hopefully some of this will be sorted out tomorrow 500 page document. the daily telegraph is usually his biggest supporter, as tony just usually his biggest supporter, as tonyjust said. when he picks this up tonyjust said. when he picks this up will he be disappointed? he may feel that with friends like this he does not need enemies. there is one slightly generous caveat in that business will be happy to read what he has in mind because it is going in the right direction. a contrast to the handbrake we heard about in the daily mail. but there is a window of change. the telegraph do not want to be a complete outsider in this, that would look like hea

yet when boris johnson has been criticized for his handling of the pandemic across the u.k. what can you tell us about that yeah he has right from the beginning for being slow not taking it seriously photopia about shaking hands with people including those who had coronavirus missing crucial government meetings where he just didn't turn up and also being of course very slow to lock down the u.k. but as we know the rate the death rate in the u.k. with those links to the coronavirus pandemic has increased significantly and boris johnson himself being in intensive care because of that he's now been saying i'm back in charge i am back at the helm i am the man to look to for this i understand that there are those who do not want to undo what has been done but at the same time we have to look at reopening the u.k. and that is what i am planning to do and we're just hearing that boris johnson has also said that they're looking at reopening some of the hospitality industry provided that they can do so in a safe way as this goes ahead what else can you tell us about the situation reg

because boris cummings, because boris johnson stands by his friends. i am disappointed, in this instance, because i think it is for the country and the administration a bad decision. do you believe that a line has been drawn under the matter now? ifear has been drawn under the matter now? i fear not. people has been drawn under the matter now? ifear not. people have has been drawn under the matter now? i fear not. people have said to me, well, what are you going to do now question about the answer is, in short order, i will probably go away and shut up. but me shutting up will not be the end of the story because there is probably more to emerge. and so many people have expressed their concern about the manner in which mrcummings their concern about the manner in which mr cummings not only behave, admittedly in the interest of his son which is understandable, but the way he flouted his own rules. there are thousands of people all over the country who have had childcare problems, and i think a lot of people are going to find it very ha rd to people are g

he briefly served as a minister under boris johnson. he probably briefly served as a minister under borisjohnson. he probably thinks his mystic aerial career is not going anywhere now. might as well say what you think. —— ministerial career. others think borisjohnson is likely to be prime ministerfor five years and i don't want to get on the wrong side of him! everything we are hearing about the behind—the—scenes conversations is tory mps are not happy. there are old grievances about dominic cummings has not always been polite about mps and he sees them, he saw them as fairly useless during the brexit campaign, a lot of them. so there is score settling to some extent. but the idea that this is case closed as was hoped by the prime minister, i think when it came out in this press conference and said, itake out in this press conference and said, i take responsibility, out in this press conference and said, itake responsibility, i out in this press conference and said, i take responsibility, i will make the case, that has obviously

tensions between boris johnson and the chancellor are reported in the ft. it says treasury alarm over finances has led to rishi sunak pushing the pm to lift the lockdown. it also reports that pet prices soar as pandemic loneliness sparks a serious outbreak of puppy love. the telegraph says it's learnt that the prime minister is to scale back huawei's involvement in the uk's 56 network in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. the japan times looks at how tokyo will attempt to reboot the city's economy while preventing a second wave of coronavirus infections as state of emergency measures are eased next week. "let's all go on a british summer holiday" is the express‘s headline after the home secretary announced strict quarantine measures which the paper says could lead to a boost in uk tourism. but the sun's take on priti patel‘s announcement is "don't book yet, but ‘jet your hopes up‘" as the paper says talk of ‘safe corridors‘ could mean fresh hope for foreign holidays this summer. welcome to you both. starting with you, jasmine, the mirror in a j

prime minister boris johnson has been criticized for sending out confusing messages in his national address on sunday so has today's clarification in parliament removed the confusion i'm phil gayle in berlin and this is the day. our challenge is to find a way full with the preserves our hard won gains easing the burden of a lot of the public are very hesitant about loosing long. enough to also record results we shall introduce new restrictions that the u.k. pulled a recurring 14 days of so heist gratian prince national rivals but the country needs but this time is clarity of reassurance but at the moment both are in pretty short supply but our journey has reached the most perilous with a very bold roof could be disastrous. also on the day german horses and jockeys are the 1st past the post in europe horse racing has resumed here after a 2 month hiatus because of a pandemic it's and we're happy to be back on our horses and riding again and that the horses can race server their usual distances it's important that every business gets the chance to reopen and every athlete and every team want t

should they stay or should they go british prime minister boris johnson has replaced the nation stay at home slogan with the stay alert message the rebranding comes as johnson tries to sell britons on his plans to ease the lockdown but trying to balance restrictions while pushing people to return to work has proven confusing. i just floating his cars judson had a great opportunity to get a really clear sense of direction to even just say look we're not entirely sure of next step we're on them but it's at a very very bad thank you. right it's more easy to answer. people continues right now it's just a few people. believe it last night. johnson 2nd shot at outlining his latest plans to the nation came before the house of commons on monday our challenge now is to find a way for with the preserves our hard won gains easing the burden of the lock down i'll be counted to the house this is a supremely difficult balance to strike his roadmap for the country set out a 3 stage approach to end britain's lockdown it begins wednesday with a relaxation of limits on outdoor exercise and he's encour

johnson's right town man dominic cummings it seems though even if boris johnson to wear face the spanish inquisition himself he would really be keen not to change his mind and cling on to dominic cummings as long as possible but there are in fact 400 sir tory m.p.'s that really want to see dominic cummings walk the plank with all of this but the problem with them is that they are not able to form a united coherent campaign a coordinated one against him could be perhaps potentially because we are at the heights of lockdown and could also be because we are in the middle of the parliamentary recess as well the thought is that if they were able to be physically present in westminster they may be able to put more. on the prime minister to let his right hand man go the polls so are telling a slightly different story over the last weekend we've seen the government's ratings as well as boris johnson the prime minister's ratings completely go down as a result and that's why these 5 m.p.'s will really be trying to hold boris johnson on the government account so let's just write down these m.p.'s f

tensions between boris johnson and the chancellor are reported in the ft. it says treasury alarm over finances has led to rishi sunak pushing the pm to lift the lockdown. the paper also says that pet prices soar as pandemic loneliness sparks a serious outbreak of pupply love. the telegraph says it's learnt that the prime minister is to scale back huawei's involvement in the uk's 56 network in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. "let's all go on a british summer holiday" is the express‘s headline after the home secretary announced strict quarantine measures which the paper says could lead to a boost in uk tourism. and the mail reports on hopes that so—called virus passports and travel corridors could allow families to travel abroad this summer. nothing completely concrete at the moment. let start. welcome to you both again. yasmin, guardian and the mirrorand both again. yasmin, guardian and the mirror and thisjoint both again. yasmin, guardian and the mirror and this joint investigation. what do you make a big?” mirror and this joint investigation. wha

that's why is boris johnson? they mailed be wondering that. i don't think it would be an exaggeration to say that alongside borisjohnson, would be an exaggeration to say that alongside boris johnson, dominic cummings is the most important man in british politics. i don't think many people in british politics would actually dispute that. why is borisjohnson holding would actually dispute that. why is boris johnson holding on would actually dispute that. why is borisjohnson holding on to him? three reasons i think. firstly, mr johnson friends would say he is a loyal person. again, as you suggested earlier, mr cummings is more thanjust suggested earlier, mr cummings is more than just an adviser. he is the man and the brains behind the success man and the brains behind the success of the vote leave campaign. it was the brains behind mr johnson's election victory. it is often thought that while mrjohnson is the fabulous salesman that it is mrcummings who is the fabulous salesman that it is mr cummings who really does the details and has the big vis

he even wrote boris johnson residents died in april. he even wrote borisjohnson a letter asking him to explain a point that he made during prime minister's questions. prime minister's questions has gotten more news where these since sir keir starmer became the new labour leader. today saw him challenge borisjohnson labour leader. today saw him challenge boris johnson on labour leader. today saw him challenge borisjohnson on various points, but i think the most effective ones were the ones where prime minister is had to have the most difficulty, care home deaths. touching on the excess deaths, the fa ct touching on the excess deaths, the fact that there are some unaccounted, they might not have coronavirus down as the cause, but he is implying that it could be. now borisjohnson he is implying that it could be. now boris johnson referred he is implying that it could be. now borisjohnson referred to —— sir keir starmer referred to government advice, suggesting the government had played down the risk to care homes quite late into the cr

who together with boris johnson plotted to revolutionize british politics he's a non elected official but wields more power and influence the many people are comfortable with opposition m.p.'s are now calling for a full inquiry into all of the allegations against cummings at a time when trust in government has rarely been needed more needs barker al-jazeera westminster. well for more on this we're joined by nadine barber who's been following the latest developments a they me was remarkable really at that news briefing just a few hours ago just tell strongly the prime minister stood by he's a key adviser has that made that the tractor is go away are not oh certainly not barbara it's if anything it's in raged even more people i mean already in the last 24 hours the government has got the backs up of a large section of the media by claiming that there had been false reporting for example saying that durham police had not spoken to the family of dominic cummings and then durham police said actually we did speak to mr cummings his father about the matter and just a series of refusals to en

prime minister boris johnson and led on imaginable pain and now a bombed out health care system trying to cope with coronavirus joining me now via skype from sanaa is the u.n. high commission of the refugees yemen representatives on the buzz thank you so much on again off a coming on we've been covering it for years on this show yemen i have to tell you we're. speaking to you from a. country with the worst because it's a death toll from coronavirus maybe more than $60000.00 people dead but we shouldn't be complacent to stand about coronavirus striking yemen we had a really add on sand up with the situation in yemen. 5 years of conflict that left the population very weak with a lot of i don't you need to be 3.6 me young of scammony have been displeased bicycle seats and the very overcrowded at their site in makeshift dance most of the population do not have access to running watch or are therefore easy if you think of the stand seeing your eyes only sharon or 'd even washing your hands for a good early is it not a possibility in your man so we fear that they call an ambulance will sprea

johnson roger reverends roger how do you feel now boris johnson's sticking to the script but the story really won't go away when it well it's been an interesting session today and it covered a lot of other issues as well as dominic cummings of course they look at testing social distancing at measures to bringing down the law and all these things i think in the longer term we will see as being more important than the furore around 11 adviser so i think he's right to actually talk about the other things because when it comes to the end of this we can have a review of what's happened and also look at mr cummings behavior as a part of that review but right now i think the media of got their priorities wrong and the government needs to be tackling the viruses well the media be impressed by the way boris johnson is handling this you work closely with john so what's going on in his head of the moment well lot of things that i would say about boris isn't usually as a politician that he's actually very loyal to the people who work for him it's certainly something i've never experienced with oth

the daily mail was very excited when boris johnson won a big majority, not so excited now. i think it would only run a front page like this if it felt its readers we re like this if it felt its readers were white hot with anger about this. and i think they have taken the judgement that that is the feeling of the country. and of course, if they are wrong, and if dominic cummings can survive this and borisjohnson dominic cummings can survive this and boris johnson can survive without making any kind of change to his administration, then it is a huge blow to the sort of power and authority of the daily mail. so it is high risk on both sides. but everything we are hearing is that the anger is spreading. it is not just mirror and the guardian. it is scientist, tory mps, cabinet ministers, even bishops of the church of england have been angrily talking about how they feel cheated and disappointed. so the daily mail does seem to be on the right side of the moment. one newspaper which number ten will turn to, usually the first one it probably tends to, is the daily telegraph, which

boris johnson announces his plan to restart the economy. restrictions on movement will be eased wednesday. some shops and schools could open in june. in the u.s., president trump urges americans back to work while combating a coronavirus outbreak amongst white house staffers. vice president pence is self-isolating following his press secretary's diagnosis. and the european commission threatens to sue germany, while president ursula von der leyen issues a strong rebuke over the constitutional court's ruling on ecb bond purchases. hi, everyone. this is "bloomberg surveillance." i'm francine lacqua, here in london. tom keene eight, in new york. that therse remember terrible figure in terms of the unemployment we have in the u.s., as economies slowly reopen in europe, but very carefully. we figure out exactly what ideally is the time to reopen while at the same time saving lives. tom: i think the reopen thing is really germane this morning. i love how the french call it a move to "the confinement -- -confinement." in america, yesterday afternoo

all papers are leading on boris johnson's to conduct myself. all papers are leading on borisjohnson's speech. there are no direct quotes in the headlines on the prime minister's speech. compare that to the queen's speech. compare that to the queen's speech on friday, which had lots of quotes. there doesn't seem to be a single line that has captivated any of the headline writers. yes, that is true and it is interesting you should mention the green because this idea that the prime minister is entitled to make pretentious beaches to the country, rather than announcing things in parliament, which is his actualjob, might confuse people and make them think he is head of state. he is not an impact when he was challenged on this in parliament on wednesday, he told the speaker the reason he had told the speaker the reason he had to announce that on sunday rather than in parliament was that some of these measures people would be able to get going weather on monday. it appears the prime minister was under the impression he would come on television at 7pm

boris johnson has replaced the nation's stay alert message. the rebranding comes as johnson tries to sell britain's on his plans to ease the lockdown. but trying to balance free while pushing people to return to work has proven confusing. >> i just -- boris johnson had a greatpportunityty t to give a sense of directionon, even to s, look, we a n not sure ofof next steps. we are working on them. instead it came off veryry mode. >> it raised more e questions tn it did ansnswers. what the country needs right now is true e leadership. what boris johnson delivered last night was not that. >> johnson second shot at outlining his latest plans for the nation came before the house of commons on monday. >> our challenge is to find a way for that preserves our hard-won gains while in the burden of the lockdown. i will be candid. this is a difficult balance to strike. >> his roadmap for the country sets out a three stage approach to end the lockdown beginning wednesday with the relaxation on outdoor exercise. he is encouraging the healthy to go back to wo

to see him pellets go now to london boris johnson is in parliament he will be taking questions for the 1st time since recovering from the curb in 1000 facing questions from the opposition mr speaker when the prime minister returned to work a week ago monday he said that many people were looking at the apparent success of the government's approach but yesterday. tragically the at least 29427 people in the u.k. have now lost their lives to this dreadful virus that's now the highest number in europe it's the 2nd highest in the world. that's not success or apparent success so can the prime minister tell us how on earth did it come to this i mean it. mr speaker 1st of all of course every death is a tragedy and he's right to draw attention to the. appalling statistics not just in this country but of course around the world i think i would echo really you know answered his question what we've heard from professor david spiegelhalter and others that this stage at this stage i don't think that international comparisons and the data is is yet that to draw the conclusions that we want what i can

coronavirus here in britain it often falls to boris johnson's health secretary matt hangup to tell you how to live your life but he arguably has former not being trusted here is a story culture secretary accused at an official committee of misrepresenting the u.k. is far reaching inquiry into ethics in journalism the so-called never seen report there was sparked by u.k. media hacking of the phone never murdered teenager you're a new secretary of state and you stood up in the house of commons and you represent it's a prime levasseur in this position and i think you misrepresented his position well so and i've told you why because supply leveson fundamentally disagreed with the government's conclusion and those are my words that that there's a surprise leveson is words so why should i believe you today because everything i said then was accurate and i. and i represented. the position of his letter as a whole that he believed that the inquiry should continue and i was standing up to explain the dying thought that taking everything into account all the changes since since the leveson inqui

or related to the uk's following this saga, this body, boris johnson -- this saga, this drama, boris is facing a political crisis as he defends his top aide, dominic cummings over claims that he breached lockdown rules. >> i think he followed the instinct of every father. i do not mark them down for that. in every, that respect, he has acted responsibly, legally, and with integrity. he is now set to give his own public statement and answer questions. sebastian.is why is hisestion is biggest political problem to deal with since his election, this. why is dominic cummings so important. >> this is the guy who masterminded the vote leave can plane -- campaign. he's very much the ideologue who stands behind johnson. we have seen the prime minister waiver from his time as mayor of london to now in terms of what he stands for. this guy is the guy who has the views. but boris johnson would be a different man, he throws the whole weight of number 10 behind defending him. there is this statement in downing street, but what is so extreme and unique is that this is an unelected official. clear i

dominic cummings' actions and defense by boris johnson have wanted a massive public response. mps have been posting some of the messages they received. they're not likely to be more powerful than this. seven paragraphs of controlled fury. he writes, my wife died of covid-19 on march 29. hospital lockdown prevented me from seeing her for two weeks before her death. on the day she died, i could not be with her to hold her hand. i just sat by the telephone. i was not able to see her body. since then, i have stayed alone in the house, leaving only to collect her ashes and belongings from the undertaker i'm for food, and post a parcel of condolence cards to her sister. he goes on, in other words, under severe inso and emotional distress, i, like the vast majority of the population, have complied with your governments instructions in order to protect my fellow citizens. he gave the bbc his reaction'to mr. cummings explanation. >> i got the distinct impression that the law is different depending on which side of number 10 downing street you are. i felt there are different standards a

news that live from british prime minister boris johnson addresses the nation after 7 weeks of walked out but if anyone was expecting a rapid end to restrictions they'll be disappointed with the 2nd highest death toll in the world johnson's plan is cautious also coming up on the show. germany keeps a close eye on infection rates amid lucinda locked out measures while newly reported outbreaks in slaughterhouses put the spotlight on living conditions for contract workers are from eastern europe. nowhere to go and nothing to eat thousands have been left homeless in the kenyan capital nairobi after the government's flashed into their homes in the midst of a global pandemic. i'm claire richardson and welcome to the show britain's prime minister boris johnson a tonight unveiled a roadmap for exit in britain's lockdown and a televised announcement he outlined a cautious relaxation of some of the measures but encouraged everyone to carry on observing social distancing britain has the highest official coronavirus death toll in europe. and it's thanks to your effort and sacrifice in stopping th

should we be following up down when they don't want him to be any punishment if you don't follow it boris johnson defended his chief adviser saying cummings acted lawfully and with integrity in following his parental instincts the comments have been raised johnson's critics who accuse cummings of double standards over the lot down rules by every single person in the country decide to do these things but one person in the country boris johnson has staked his entire reputation authority on career in saying no no no what i really told me you did nothing wrong the government meant to be using this time to leave the country out of lockdown instead it's struggling to silence a scandal at the heart of power and me joins us now live from london me from mr boris johnson may have helped to put this controversy behind him but it's not going anywhere by the reactions this morning. but the government still struggling to silence the scandal at the heart of government as i finish my report with on monday but it's failing to do so because the anger the frustration of the chassis continues there are many

if boris johnson determined not to extend the transition. if borisjohnson tried to extend the transition, the politics would become impossible for him in terms of the house of commons, where i do not think the conservative party or his own mps would tolerate an extension. it would tolerate an extension. it would involve him, the person who delivered brexit and was elected to get it done, having to go back to the country and say i don't think this can be done, we have to go and ask the european union if we can signa ask the european union if we can sign a cheque to carry on following eu rules. politically it is not plausible so people need to adjust to the reality that an extension to the transition on either side is not going to happen. is that how you read it? i don't see there being a delay at this particular point. we will find out in a few weeks but they have stuck to their line that there will be no transition. what is interesting is if you thought that the other way, we just had priti patel setting out and confirming the quarantine rul

break the government guidelines and also in fact what boris johnson knew and where when boris johnson didn't give anything away in fact right from the start he was as robust in his defensive dominant cummings i think as it was possible to be today i've had extensive face to face conversations with dominic cummings and i concluded that in traveling to find the right kind of childcare at the moment when both he and his wife were about to be incapacitated by coronavirus and when he had no return it i think he followed the instincts of every father and every parent and i do a lot more came down for that. i had a dream so what is the reaction being. well it's early days kim but i mean if you look at political commentators and some politicians on twitter it's clear that a lot of people are quite surprised at how solid and how unequivocal boris johnson was that dominic cummings acted as he put it legally responsibly and with integrity why because there are a fair number of conservative m.p.'s right now getting very angry communications from their constituents who have been denied access deni

boris johnson at the liaison committee, and kept saying let's move on, let's move on. just saying that does not make it happen and i think one of the things that... yesterday we had a minister resignation but not have other ministers following suit. a minister in the government said, wrote a constituent saying that dominic cummings is criticising his actions, not going so far as saying he should quit but in defence of ten. sub papers have -- several papers have rebuked. this caused a lot of comment, and i think it really depends on where you stand politically and indeed about the sort of role of the bbc as an impartial deliver of news without making up your mind before coming on the programme to discuss issues. there are lots of questions about what it really means to be impartial andi what it really means to be impartial and i thought it was a really excellent episode and clearly there isa excellent episode and clearly there is a debate about whether it was to editorialize or not and i thought she got back i thought it was very clear that dominic cummings broke govern

on the 23rd of march, boris johnson announced lockdown restrictions. the last time dominic cummings was spotted in downing street before developing covid—19 symptoms was the 27th of march. he returned to work on the 14th of april and spent the intervening time at a family property near relatives in durham. the transport secretary, grant shapps, said yesterday that he had stayed put. but fresh allegations claim that, on the 12th of april, he was seen at a tourist hot spot, barnard castle, 30 miles from where he was staying. and in durham once again on the 19th of april, after he returned to london, although downing street denies this. grant shapps was pressed to explain the apparent contradictions. as i understand it, the most important thing here is that dominic cummings and his family remained locked down. they did not then, as i think some of these stories start to suggest, move around. i also understand that it is not true that he came back. he came back on the 14th of april. it is not true that he then returned to durham, i think there has been s

called martin hammond who was the head of eton college writing about boris johnson to boris johnson's parents in 1982 what is it about this u.k. prime minister that makes him think he is slightly in a parallel world to the rest of us where questions of accountability perhaps allegedly shouldn't be relayed to him. but that's been his life and it being successful for him so the you know the eating citation that were used charlie so you want to be welcoming rowley's prime minister in liking him despite being sacked twice from jobs for life once when he was a junior reporter in the times newspaper make you know quote of the time when he was a conservative opposition t.v. line of an affair he lied his way through the referendum campaign clear line he's proved. last year election but he just carries all these old blown to bulldoze a boris johnson he's always told the rules don't apply to him and it's successful so far but the anger amongst conservatives is that it always or not the late raucous action here so rarely on the left course they were attacked the koreans oras johnson but it is an

bottom line is boris johnson's best is not good enough and it's been far too little far too late and it's still not enough so about 3 or 4 weeks ago i was sitting in a clinic with a number of colleagues about to see cancer patients some of the most vulnerable patients who are at risk of infection high risk of of death of serious infection and. towards the peak of infection rates and we were going to see them without any personal protective equipment at all and we were sitting there looking at each other and. with no guidance with no government policy at that point we felt very much like we were putting our patients' lives at risk and a number of us were very concerned or raise these concerns and i'm very pleased to say our hospital responded extremely well and started to provide that equipment and our concerns were very well justified because within 3 days old that clinic i myself tested positive for the current virus and many many of my colleagues and we work in quite close quarters and and they basically we all went down like dominoes and the real real concern that a lot of us have

johnson was very clear that boris johnson was doubling down, he refused to apologise for the actions of his advisor breaking guidelines that many people around the country observed at great cost to themselves. it really came across as a prime minister who is so reliant oi'i a prime minister who is so reliant on one a prime minister who is so reliant on one advisor that even when that adviser breaks really critical public health advice from the government, he is not prepared or willing to let him go, so he looks incredibly weak and then there were other occasions as well on the commits may. at one point... let's move on to some of the other titles because they are concentrating on the liaison committee as well. daily mirror, why don't you do your duty. the prime minister would argue that this is a false argument because he says he believes what dominic cummings told him and he didn't do anything wrong. yes, and, i mean, two things that the prime minister said today, one was he said there we re said today, one was he said there were false media reports mother when he was actually asked

boris johnson acknowledges the new lockdown guidelines in england are more complicated than the previous message to "stay at home", saying he understands people will feel frustrated with the new rules. the uk government is to spend millions of pounds on accelerating the mass production of a vaccine, but the prime minister warns a vaccine may never be found. barack obama has launched a scathing attack on the trump administration's response to the coronavirus crisis. you know all those adults who you used to think were in charge and knew what they were doing? this pandemic has torn back the curtain on the fact that so many folks in charge know what they are doing. a lot of them aren't even pretending to be in charge. the italian prime minister admits the country's taking a calculated risk by easing a number of lockdown measures from next week. and a thank you for the music — abba's waterloo is named the greatest eurovision song of all time by bbc viewers. hello, and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we're covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain

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all from the poor and while boris johnson celebrates his new baby is government endangering lives in british hospitals cope and survive out in front line and they just don't dash when methodology tells us why clapping and charity for britain's national health service is just not good enough all the more coming up in today's going underground but 1st last time there was an economic crash major nations bailed out the rich this time around how can we stop the one percent from exploiting coronavirus to enrich themselves at the expense of the rest of us someone who predicted the $28.00 crash was economist dean baker he's the co-founder of the center for economic and policy research and he joins me now via skype from utah in the usa thanks so much jeanne for coming on millions with coronavirus hundreds of thousands killed do you see some policymakers actually using coded to pour money into financial services there's been 645000000000 of q.e. just here for the city of london certainly that is the case and i just try to be a little fair to them in the sense that i think it does make sense fo

i don't know that included boris johnson, therefore deceiving people. i don't know that included borisjohnson, to make them think they were in london rather than durham. at the bigger point, i don't care about their circumstances, they were pressing for catherine calderwood, the scottish chief medical officer, and for niall ferguson to jump, scottish chief medical officer, and for niall ferguson tojump, to go, to war, when they did something far less damaging, because they weren't infected. —— to walk. matt hancock said the police should be called in. now we have dominic raab, the foreign secretary, the facto deputy prime minister, saying that we should have sympathy for dominic cummings and his wife, it all makes me sick. i really think yourjob as the media is not to do this on the one hand, as the other, he may have broken the rules, he has broken the law, but is a fact! and then we should have a political argument about what that means. is not my job whether to determine whether he has determined the law, —— broken the law, on the question as

we began with boris johnson and in with his son.” that photo. we began with boris johnson and in with his son. i think as chris mason was saying to you earlier, james, you could not really make it up, the life of a day in the week or a week in the day of the life of boris johnson. week or a week in the day of the life of borisjohnson. within days are coming out of hospital having been close to death, he has kept his newborn baby. extraordinary amount of hairfora newborn baby. extraordinary amount of hairfor a very new newborn baby. extraordinary amount of hair for a very new baby. but it isa of hair for a very new baby. but it is a lovely photograph and i think we all need cheering up and new babies are quite good for that. perhaps not for the mother and father who are awake at night. thank you so much. that's it for the papers tonight. my thanks tojo and nigel. the film review is next. goodbye for now.

their fear was that boris johnson's ownjudgment dismayed. their fear was that boris johnson's own judgment was being questioned. today it will be dominic cummings answering the questions in the garden at number ten downing st and taking questions from journalists. it's notjust the u na nswered journalists. it's notjust the unanswered questions about where he went, when he went, and whether he feels he undermined those rules. i think they will be looking closely at the tone he adopts because at the beginning of this his friend said he didn't really care about this story and he didn't think other people cared about it. that has turned out to be very wrong. as my colleague jessica parker reports, there have been growing calls today for dominic cummings to resign. the questions keep coming. did you go to barnard castle, mrcummings? and cannot easily be waved away. boris johnson strongly backed his chief aide last night, saying dominic cummings had acted legally and with integrity. the prime minister appearing to consider the matter closed. very

boris johnson didn't welcome. borisjohnson didn't have detailed answers to the questions i just outlined that were set by keir starmer. should you have a dp will have a right to know exactly what has been going on in care homes? what i think it's really interesting is that obviously keir starmer is very forensic in the way he approaches premise of questions. i did a brief look at some of the quotes he was quoting, it does look likely you took them out of context, regarding the spread of the transmission and the guidance at the time. what the guidance said at the time. what the guidance said at the time was that, while there was no infection in the community, it is unlikely to spread at that time because the infection was not present at that point. it was also a caveat it and saying that they would be updating the guidance shortly. you plod a point i would like to make is that currently the opposition seems to be playing a form of politics and i have to stress that we are still in the middle of a crisis. it is not

johnson invite attempted coup leader one by doing to downing street as a freedom of information request revealed a secret unit in dominic grabs a foreign office to reconstruct a neo liberal that is a way of let's go straight to venezuela's capital caracas to speak to the world's most known oil rich nations foreign minister jorge who joins me now via skype thank you so much for being on the program once again obviously britain and the united states threatening china at the moment over hong kong but the murdoch wall street journal reporting that the u.s. government is threatening tankers from iran sailing to venezuela with sanctions what illegal threats have you received arguably illegal for importing one and a half 1000000 barrels of gasoline from iran and other supplies during coronavirus we already use the threats and the sanctions and maximum pressure from the usa because they won't allow a country a people to have their own democracy their own modern their own system and specially with too much oil and too much and natural resources which they need in the united states under a capita

we know that boris johnson to you and thanks for being with us. we know that borisjohnson is sticking by his senior adviser. your thoughts on his comments concerning mrcummings? thoughts on his comments concerning mr cummings? i'm not entirely surprised that he has stood by mr cummings, because boris johnson stands by his friends. i am disappointed, in this instance, because i think it is for the country and the administration a bad decision. do you believe that a line has been drawn under the matter now? ifear has been drawn under the matter now? i fear not. people has been drawn under the matter now? ifear not. people have has been drawn under the matter now? i fear not. people have said to me, well, what are you going to do now question about the answer is, in short order, i will probably go away and shut up. but me shutting up will not be the end of the story because there is probably more to emerge. and so many people have expressed their concern about the manner in which mrcummings their concern about the manner in which mr cummings not only

prime minister boris johnson's promise of a comprehensive road map for lifting the long down measures keeps the u.k. waiting as the death toll continues to rise that's as figures reveal those from poorer areas are significantly more likely to die from coronavirus. joins me now with the latest of all this so that shouting out what do you think then and for what they've said courage the u.k.'s look down actually look like and of course boris johnson is now back in action returning to that press briefing just yesterday on thursday after suffering from kovac 19 but his return very much. needed for the country as the public and politicians alike have really been waiting for an exit strategy the government to produce and publish an exit strategy of what post knocked down britain may in fact look like and boris johnson didn't give away all the answers but what he did do is set up a road map essentially giving the u.k. an idea of what it might look like in his words a menu of options of how to get the united kingdom back on track now a key driver of this wide ranging strategy is to keep the o

well while boris johnson the government stands accused of overseeing the underreporting of the u.k. coronavirus death toll the numbers of health workers killed have been tragically clear but why is the n.h.s. find it so difficult to get basic protection for its workers the n.h.s. europe's largest employer now depends on communist china even though a global pandemic was rehearsed for back into any 16 i'm joined now via skype from london by the co-chair of keep our n.h.s. public dr tony tony thanks for coming on before we get on to other issues fundamentally how is it that not keeping our n.h.s. public as a factor britain's response to coronavirus because that whole service with this 1100000 people a single. protects the public. and this has been undermined in the ways it isn't just senators and zeeshan the government has seriously understand that the n.h.s. so that it's always under pressure is always on the sunders they haven't seen the stance that it's huge numbers and sequences they don't have nots equipments and all of those things which make a mountain to be clear this is under

johnson this man has not been elected by anyone. there's in our constitution this not one provision that i would accept this fellow from asked president of venezuela so what they are doing in most of the country of the of the european union now britain out of the european union and united states is a coup. in venezuela they are recognizing a parallel government a fake government trying to impose it trying to get their companies to rebuild what they will destroy and to take the venezuelan oil gas gold etc it is absolutely unacceptable and specially for the diplomacy for of europe which is supposed to be so politically correct and so respectful from the international law they have destroyed international law they have ignored international law the charter of the united nations the rights of the venezuelan people the venezuelan constitution it's really outrageous and we just can see that at some point all of those governments will have to apologize to the world and to future generations for what they have done in the last years again t