Cummings various i think weve got another favorite is Dominic Cummings asking questions about him that breaking lockdown roles he says he exercised his better judgment at his discretion rather sweats 1st and 2nd was if i dont lie to the story broke i think the problem with his filing it so he knew. He was interested in it was when it was public he was already did it when he was public he was interested you didnt ask him anything before that. You just knew so. As i said before we spoke about it in the week after it happened like hartmann but in the in the in the in the days following. We were both in bed ill we had a few conversations on the phone. For a long time. Well so they set a spoke to him about it that i told them about that but to be honest that was like the least of the things you would think my movements were not part of and really part of a conversation we were talking about Health Message the governments been putting out there do you do say you dont regret what you are john you think you acted we were regular vaccines we talked about treatments we were talking about you know hundreds of very important things and we did not spend a lot time talking about me and while i was in my own circumstances whats going on is very important things with tracing perhaps taking off in a big way in the coming weeks people will be asked to isolate the public Health Message will never have been more critical perhaps do you think public adherence to those instructions will be we could all stronger as a result of your recent activities well i i hope i hope it wont affect this and i have and i hope. That now the people know what actually happened in that some of the full stories that have been circulating and driving a lot of people understandably mad and. About it that i hope that people will realize youve stood up the central story in this allegation that you drove a very long way from home when everyone was told to be at home if there was more leeway in these instructions than we thought why didnt you tell everyone about that well. We did with Great Respect gary from that distance and from us that the question with with Great Respect its not just a simple matter of the regulations the regulations describe various acts exceptional circumstances where it may not be possible to follow the rules it doesnt say you must stay home it will circumstances it says that there are some circumstances in which you wont be able to follow these rules but it seemed to me that i was in such an exceptional circumstance and i was trying to juggle balance all of these very complicated things. We staggered do you say that when the message was so clear stay home is the fact that the problem is i cant do his job without you that the guidance says if youre living with children im reading out the actual guidance if you have the children keep following this advice to the best of your ability however we are aware that not all these measures will be possible what weve seen so far is the children corona appears to be less severely affected its never less important to do your best to follow this guidance now you know its and you know as well as i do that there are that the deputy chief medical officer is discussed theres 3 vociferous about it if youve got small chill if youve got a child thats 4 years old and neither of you can look after him the guns doesnt say you just got to sit down so i think as ive said i think i think im a reasonably in one of these so given all these the circumstances in the Different Things are to try and weigh up jason gross oh i know youve blamed the media for this mess that you got the government into. Do you accept you for whatever legal nicety you may have to say that you havent broken the letter of the regulations youve driven a coach and horses through the spirit of them and that that is why people are so cross about it i dont agree i think that thats not good no i dont agree so let things let what i think lets go think you actually mean you you left london with your wife you had coronavirus symptoms completely against the regulations you are pinto an achievement and you decide to go for a drive on a weekend when few yards from here the foreign secretary that we can return is to stay at home and save like you wont for god you sat by you went for walk in the world i mean you may or may not have a way of justifying this to yourself and possibly that may raise some legal loophole but you poke in the spirit of him you. No i dont think that. Just just to correct one thing when we left my wife did not have a cough shes not have a fever those the 2 symptoms that were mentioned she was ill she thrown up. But we didnt as i said before we didnt know whether or not she had covert or not and secondly secondly secondly as a surgeon or youre on the walk in the woods was on was on private land i didnt leave our property to go for a walk in the woods and thats perfectly reasonable own behavior stopped on the way back from casa barnard yeah i was driving i was driving back from from from bonnet castle. And my child the fully rolled was in the car seat in the back he said dad i need to go to toilets we pulled into the side the road he jumped out with my wife i dont think i dont think any reasonable person would say the that i behaved that that thats but behavior you plainly had a tough time i dont think anyone would argue with that but theres lots of other people who have a tough time are i mean id like to finish we we had a letter today from andrew and sarah and well share. Their daughter going and son in law live 10 miles from them and theyve got 2 children they came down with koby and they said imagine our 1st question living so near and yet not being it or being out to help it was a big sacrifice that we made and they feel like mugs now dont they want you to resign did you offer to resign when you saw the finest i. Know i have not offered to resign. Did you say to it no its not im not considered. As i said i think you know i think its reasonable to say. That other people would have behaved differently in different ways in the in this whole situation but as i stress i was trying to balance lots of lots of competing things i mean if i hadnt worked here for example then you very you could very easily say that its ok i could just have stayed in in an isolated cottage for weeks afterwards but i was involved in lots of things involving crucial questions of vaccines trying to get scientists involved in the efforts trying to get money moves trying to get regulations moved out of the way and i thought i thought that if i could return to work then i should seek to returns work and i would stress that i took expert medical advice before i moved to to just say you know and i actually went through the whole history that the details of what ive just told you i went through on saturday the 11th on day 15 so it is at a 14 or 15 a column and whatever but anyway its safe to say 40 and so so you know such a society the 11th well they fourteens rights to took medical advice as they 14 symptoms and i was told than the youre clear to i said can i go back to work monday tuesday and i was told yes given what youve explained you are not a danger to the public now and you can safely go back to work at higher childcare so given that i thought that i ought to try to go back to work and try and do what i could in this emergency ok. And over. Well coming how many miles is it from your house for half will follow darren and part of possibly want. You know when most is and its roughly a half hour drive. So there are people without gardens never mind access to private land and would lend you havent made unnecessary car journeys at that for more than 2 months now theyve been following rules that you helped fortune create so whether public stupid enough to follow these rules to the letter rather than looking for loopholes like he did. No force for that were not stupid to to to to follow the rules and i wasnt looking for loopholes i was looking to try to do the best that i could in a complex situation where i was trying to weigh safety of my child with trying to get back to work and a lot of difficult decisions to make around that how does the op shop to buy cars have anything to do with the safety of your child or your work because a explains ive been very ill on the sunday the 12th a sense of my wife white lets pack up the car go back. And i think cleared by doctors to go back to work and she said and i think it was perfectly reasonable. You know a few days ago you could barely stand up you said that your eyesight was weighted it seemed to be weighed it. Shouldnt just embark on a 270. 00 whatever it is mile journey and then end up finding health way through that you actually can drive thoughtful. You know we should we should get in the car and make sure see if you can actually drive the only way to avoid this bill that would have been just say well im just going to stay in durham which i could have done but i didnt think was the right thing to do so. It was you know the one has to make the. Ive been told by by by by expert medical advice that. I wasnt a change the public and that i could go back to work in number 10 downing street on the monday tuesday and therefore i was trying to do that in this in the safest way possible and i think that that was a reasonable thing to do that make any sense why do you have to make a half hour journey each way out of casa why not drive a little bit the way to london and then go back to what feeling. I mean to be i mean we didnt think about doing that to mix it to do notice we just we just thought ok lets was down the road and see how i feel. Thinking about it. I mean do i regret not just trying to drive to london see if i can do it here great taking a half hour journey to bought a console and sitting for 15 minutes as you say. As i said i think it was a reasonable thing to do i mean perhaps youre right and we should just have cracked on trying to do the whole trip and then and then to but the whole point was no i had been i had been extremely ill my vision have been a bit weird we were going to go back my wife said we should we should drive down the road and should see if you can actually drive and see if your vision is weird or if youre ok and i thought thats a good idea i should do and theres a stress ive been cleared to go back to work so it was the implication that i shouldnt be driving back to london or do with it or think is reasonable because i had spoken to a doctor about it and i had been cleared to come back to work if you mention your wife a lot if you and your wife felt that you had done nothing wrong why did both your articles and in the spectator from a she weeks ago make absolutely no mention of being and don. Because as as i said my my house in london was already and is now the subject of. Of some very unpleasant actions and why on earth would i mention another house that i was in where ive got 2 elderly parents and other relatives living there who now today also have a lot of unpleasant things going on around the house too but i think i was obliged to do that why write such a little while wifes rights are you so i dont tell them what to do you did whats right wanting you not right or i wrote a few sentences about a lot about. About what it was like to be with nary a nickel. Thank you mr cummings you said that you thought expert medical advice before attending to london from daryn did you think any thought to devise before making the initial trip. And no i didnt and were you confident or how could you be confident that you wouldnt be putting anybody else at risk by making the trip so the point to the point was. That i knew that i could get to a place that was complete i knew that i had a full tank of petrol i could drive to a place where it was completely isolated from every from everybody else i knew that if me and my wife could not look after a small child there was a 67 year old in a 20 year old 50 metres away that i could call and say we need help they are old enough to look after a child and it also young enough to be in the least risk category. If id stayed in london in a similar thing it it happened then id have had to get somebody else that and expose them to to change or. Or invite them into the house which would also expose them to danger the way that i did it seemed to me to be the safest thing for everybody in the circle in social sciences and in fact as it turned out i didnt have to put anybody in the house in danger because. Because alone we were both ill and i couldnt look after a 4 year old my wife could so i think is a stretch to think that in all the circumstances it was the it was the the most sensible thing to do. You mention you had a full tank of petrol when you left did you then have to fill up before you came back without another email. No we drove up and then we went back and then. Im pretty sure we call didnt feel that would patrol the way back but remember this is at this point. Ive been cleared to drop box work. So i dont think you know you in any in any way that that was breaking the rules its just important to be clear exactly how many stops youve made because youve disputed some of the accounts that have been reported on the way up i didnt i didnt stop at all and then on the way down the column be entirely sure but im like 95 percent sure that i still i did stop on the way back down filled up with factual but that but that mike you thought might be wrong right you 13. That is of course the Prime Minister is a dominant cummings who has been responding to increasing criticism and calls for him to resign actually having broken all breached lockdown rules to make a trip out of london some 400 kilometers while his wife was showing covered 900 symptoms he began showing covert 19 symptoms so lets bring in navy barker who is standing by for us in london navy so common it cummings very much does not regret what he did. No he doesnt need a believes that he acted reasonably he believes he acted illegally as well and according to the Prime Minister with integrity to he wanted to create a. Stream detail to try and explain some of the allegations that have been leveled against him over the past few days but i think there are a few takeaway messages from all of this although he said he didnt regret his actions he said certain things could have been reconsidered or done differently the 1st issue of let the Prime Minister know that he was planning to go up to the northeast of england at a time in which the governments main messaging was of course to stay at home and save lives the message that he had a direct involvement in forming the 2nd clear cut lesson to be learned from all of this is perhaps dominate coming as a man who is more used to being in the background of british politics should have come forward a few days ago and answered clearly as he has done now where he was at certain times during that 2 week period in which he went up to the northeast of england but of course all of this rests on what he says was an exceptional circumstance that the guidance according to the law should only be followed if it could be followed to the best of your ability thats what he confirmed and he felt under the circumstances given that his home in london was a potential target than he and his wife were possibly suffering from covert symptoms that he needed to be near family in the north east of england should there need to be any help for with with his 4 year old son so explaining in very much detail and accounts of what happened during that 2 week period under which hes been of course under immense scrutiny over the past few days and it does all come down to what he says are exceptional circumstances the press conference is still ongoing he said quite a lot to say but lets take a listen about his explanation of exactly what. No i dont i dont regret. What i did was as i said i think reasonable people may well disagree about how i. Thought about what to do in the in the in the in the circumstances but i think that i think what i did was actually reasonable in these. In these circumstances the rules make clear that if youre dealing with small children theyre not could be that can be exceptional circumstances and i think the situation that i was in was exceptional circumstances so nice just to clarify Dominic Cummings did leave london he didnt speak to the Prime Minister about the decision before he left while he was there he did make a 2nd trip to baghdad caso but he says this was all part of what he had to do. Can you explain for us why exactly that was. Well you know just to clarify when he was together with this wife and child in isolation in a farm property adjacent to where his parents and sister lived he made 3 journeys from the house the 1st was to hospital when his son was ailing he was hospitalized overnights and mr cummings was forced to drive to pick his son up because there werent any other taxis also he was spotted by members of the public together with his wife walking in woodland on what he said was land owned by his father and the 3rd journey was essentially a journey that was a journey all the way back to london where he having been ill a few days beforehand wanted to see whether or not he could actually do the big 45 hour drive so did a 30 minute drive initially in the direction of barnard consul a local beauty spot was spotted by a member the public they spent 10 or 15 minutes by the side of a river he said these young son needed to use the toilet and after that see deemed it safe enough to get in the car make the long journey back ensuring that long journey back he stopped briefly he said. He believed not he was 95 percent sure he stops to get petrol all the way back all of that seems to answer some of the allegations that have been leveled against cummings on sunday by 2 british newspapers eyewitnesses came forward and gave a statement saying that he had been spotted 1st in woodland and also neha bhatt a castle and his account here does seem to corroborate and explain that thank you that we will have to wait and see how the public life in london. Israels Prime Minister says his government will seize what hes described as an historic opportunity to and explore Palestinian Land in the occupied west bank and Jordan Valley and netanyahu made the comments to members of his right Wing Likud Party in the Israeli Knesset hes currently on trial for corruption charges force and joins us now from west with more harry so does this mean its full steam ahead with those plans for an exception. Well it certainly means that the message from netanyahu remains very staunchly in that direction despite whats been happening since he negotiated the Coalition Deal with his former rival mouth if any counts in which he assured that there would be no veto on that side of the government to netanyahu has plans to continue with the move towards an extension and from any time from july the 1st on would have the ability to bring it to vote in news really parliament the knesset a complicated get back to him at least when there are a few one is the fact the United States seems to have been dampening down such expectations since the visit it might compare here about 10 days ago the u. S. Secretary of state theyve been talking about the need for that to be negotiations ongoing with the palestinians under which process israel would be allowed to annex parts of the occupied west bank as far as the u. S. Is concerned so that was interpreted as a pretty obvious slowdown message coming from the u. S. Weve also had the palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas declaring an end to all forms of cooperation with the israelis as a result of what is already being announced on annexation nonetheless to his diehard new could poncy supporters today he was saying that this was an opt an opportunity that hadnt existed since the creation of the state of israel in 1948 but he wasnt going to miss it and then its reported hearing that the private session of those talks he said that the date was not going to change i that july the 1st date despite the fact the u. S. Itself that is not a sacred date as far as theyre concerned it is possible that there is some kind of wiggle room there because he talks about the process to make sation starting them how do you define a process is it necessarily mean that its somebody is declared on that day or not but. Certainly he is giving us a very strong message that is policy is unchanged despite the messaging thats been coming from elsewhere and of course a lot of it harry that all of this is happening while he is on trial for corruption charges just the other day a paid in court for the 1st time thats right yes sunday was the 1st day of that trial he made force an extraordinary assault on the whole israeli legal system really and the the establishment that he said was trying to engineer a left wing elitists to unseat him and his brand of right wing populism from tower in this country it seems clear that hes going to try to maintain 2 discrete orbits of this coming up soon months and years that he will deal with the trial and then he will go back to the governing i mean he did talk about the support that hed been given very clear support by is close ministerial allies who accompanied him to the court but other than that he really did concentrate on the priorities of his government about the economy coronavirus iran and indeed an exception among them thanks to that to her a force of their life from westerners them. I have some breaking news coming in now from the World Health Organization it has suspended a Clinical Trial of the malaria drug hydroxy car clean as a covered 19 treatment of a safety concerns of course the us President Donald Trump has said that he has been taking hydroxy kora claim to ward off corona virus despite Public Health officials warning that it may be unsafe theres been no definitive proof that it is an effective treatment an effect a recent study has found that it could actually increase the risk of patients with the disease that dying from it by taking hydroxy car claim so that is some breaking news that has just come in from the World Health Organization. Ok in other news india has resumes domestic flights with a government eager to get asias 3rd largest economy moving again on the same day though it announced its biggest jump yet a new corona virus infections almost 7000 are india correspondent elizabeth brunt of reports now from new delhi. It is the new normal that indian airports start sanitized passengers bags before they enter the terminal. The disinfectants praised just one of a number of new measures as domestic flights resumed passengers temperatures a check before and off to flying mosques a compulsory throughout the journey and some were taking extra precautions. And we have all. The. Passengers with symptoms will be tested or quarantined upon arrival but many states have set their own votes the Civil Aviation minister tweeted indian saw in the skies again but not everything went to plan 82 flights in and out of delhi were cancelled with little notice leaving passengers frustrated according to airport officials thats because several states said they wouldnt be able to accept flights whats that earlier agreed to. What the number of coronavirus cases rising the worst hit states of try and have agreed to only allow 25 arrivals a day after initially refusing to accept flights. The state of west bengals had flights cant land for another 3 days as it deals with the aftermath of. We just heard that my friend has been cancelled i didnt get any notification i didnt get it. I just heard it in the airport so im very. Im having her back home. Airlines are planning to resume about a 3rd of their domestic flights as the government tries to restart the worlds 5th largest economy. But the industry faces challenges the Supreme Court has ordered social distancing must be observed in airports and on flights forcing airlines to keep middle seats vacant and it said the government should be more worried about the health of citizens rather than the health of the airlines elizabeth pradhan al jazeera you daddy japans Prime Minister has lifted a state of emergency aimed at containing the outbreak shinzo are they says the spread of the virus is now under control measures had already been relaxed in most of the country and only tokyo and 4 other regions were still under restrictions japan managed to avoid a large scale epidemic reporting around 16000 confirmed cases and 840 deaths. More strictures being lifted in palestine after no new cases were recorded over the past day mosques and churches will reopen on tuesday and by thursday people will be able to go to shops and restaurants and workplaces in the Public Sector it will reopen the Prime Minister says or the reopening will abide by medical advice. From Tuesday Morning mosques and churches will be opened commercial stores industrial establishment restaurants and coffee shops will also be reopened and work at ministries and institutions will resume. For indias governing Party Candidates has been declared the winner of last weeks president ial election with nearly 70 percent of the vote every east india should be a well replace long time president pierre these are stepping down after 15 years in power the election was marred by allegations of fraud and harassment. Germanys top court has ruled that volkswagen must partially pay back car owners affected by its emissions cheating scandal 5 years ago volkswagen admitted to using software to cheat on diesel emission tests its engines were missing up to 40 times higher than the legal limit more than 11000000 cars worldwide are affected. This is all just there and these are the top stories one of britains most senior Government Advisors says he does not regret driving to his parents house while burreson was under a Strict Lockdown theres been calls for Dominick Cummings to resign after he traveled 400 kilometers to isolate with his family no i dont i dont regrets what i did was as i said i think reasonable people may well disagree about how i. Thought about what to do in in the in the in the circumstances but i think that i think what i did was actually reasonable in these. In these circumstances the rules make clear that if youre dealing with small children could be that can be exceptional circumstances and i think the situation that i was in. Exceptional circumstances in breaking news from the World Health Organization it has suspended a Clinical Trial of the malaria drug hijacks a carquinez a covert 19 treatment of a safety concerns us President Donald Trump has said he was taking hydroxy car crane to ward off corona virus despite Public Health officials warning it may be unsafe it has not been proven and effective treatment. Israels Prime Minister says his government will seize what hes described as an historic opportunity to annex more Palestinian Land in the occupied west bank and Jordan Valley its been netanyahu is currently on trial for corruption charges. India has resumed domestic flights with the government eager to get asias 3rd largest economy moving again but its happened on the same day it announced its biggest jump yes in new corona virus infections almost 7000. Russian masteries fighting for the libyan war law highly for how far have retreated from the front lines forces have suffered a string of defeats in recent weeks against the un recognized government. Governing Party Candidates has been declared the winner of last weeks president ial election with nearly 70 percent of the vote every day i should be a will replace longtime president pierre. Who is stepping down after 15 years in power stay with us here in algiers there are counting the cost is coming up next. Hello im adrian figure this is counting the cost on aljazeera a look at the world of business of economics this week brazils president s handling of the Coronavirus Crisis could see the economy slump to its worst performance since 1900. 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