With two sides level on points at the top of the table. Good morning. Some of us are waking up good morning. Some of us are waking up to some low cloud and also some frost. But that will give way to a sunny day, albeit hazy at times. It will feel quite warm and the wind isnt going to be quite as strong. I will have all the details at 27 minutes past. Good morning. Its wednesday april 22. Our top story an raf plane carrying much needed items of protective equipment for the nhs has landed in the uk from turkey. It was due to arrive on sunday but suffered a series of delays. It comes as the government ramps up the hunt for a vaccine with human trials set to begin in oxford tomorrow. Andy moore reports. Here at last. The raf plane loaded with personal protective equipment thats so desperately needed in the uk. Its part of an 80 ton shipment that is said to include 400,000 gowns, one of the items in shortest supply. Ministers said this flight was due to arrive on sunday. No one has been able to give a clear reason why it was delayed. Just some of the thousands of people who have died with coronavirus. In fact, figures from the office for National Statistics revealed deaths in england and wales at a 20 year high. The daily figures for hospital deaths showed 823 fatalities reported yesterday, bringing the total to 17,337. Its now believed the peak of hospital deaths was on april 8, so the worst of the first wave may be over, but vaccines will be needed to stop the virus spreading again. Theres hope on the horizon from two trials in this country. The vaccine from the oxford project will be trialled in people from this thursday. In normal times, reaching this stage would take years, and i am very proud of the work taken so far. At the same time, we will invest in manufacturing capability, so that if either of these vaccines safely works, then we can make it available for the british people as soon as humanly possible. But the uks still struggling to source personal protective equipment made here. This car parts maker in nottinghamshire is reopening today producing equipment for ireland. I dont understand why its so difficult for people to be getting in touch with Companies Like ours to make products here in the uk. The ppe loaded in istanbul should be on its way to its various destinations as soon as possible. It will no doubt be much appreciated, but more, much more, is desperately needed. Andy moore, bbc news. Lets speak now to our Political Correspondent leila nathoo. There have been continuing problems with ppe. Tell us what the government is saying. It is one of the biggest issues that the government is currently under pressure on, how to protect managers up pressure on, how to protect managers up and stop the spread of coronavirus in hospital settings by giving staff enough ppe. There has been a bit of a row overnight about an eu scheme, which was basically set up earlier in the year, to try to source and bulk buy medical equipment, including ppe and ventilators. Different explanations over time from the government as to why britain wasnt involved in that scheme. Initially they said we were doing our own thing, then they said it was a medication mix up and we didnt get the e mail in time to ta ke didnt get the e mail in time to take part, and there was a statement yesterday saying, a senior Civil Servant said it was a political decision. That was denied by the government and swiftly retracted. I think this ros baxter decisions taken think this ros baxter decisions ta ke n early think this ros baxter decisions taken early on. Remember what the government has been saying is that supply of ppe, it is a Global Supply issue, there are supply bottlenecks as they try to import ppe and ramp up as they try to import ppe and ramp up manufacturing here. I think this latest row, although the government will be saying were still trying source as much as possible, it speaks of decisions that were taken early on and whether the government made the right choices in trying to get ahead of the current challenges that are now facing them. We know that are now facing them. We know that parliament will be sitting today and there are significant changes. Yes. Parliament has come back from its easter recess in a whole new world. There is now going to bea whole new world. There is now going to be a hybrid model on this so you only have a limited amount of mps actually in the chamber of social distancing rules. 50 mps maximum then you have 120 mps who can take pa rt then you have 120 mps who can take part via video link, so screens set up part via video link, so screens set up to allow questioning of ministers and viewing of statements. So we have got the first Prime Minister s questions this afternoon. Of course it wont be borisjohnson taking apart, it will be dominic ryan, the first secretary of state, he was deputising for him. Also remember, Keir Starmers first premises questions as leader of the labour party. A big event in any case, let alone in this new Digital World. Storm erik to see the pictures of what it will look like stop thank you very much. Well be speaking to the care minister, Helen Whateley at half past seven and the Shadow Health secretary Jonathan Ashworth willjoin us after 8 00am. And we have our normaljeep piece lot at 6 30am as well. If you have any questions send them through on social media. You have about 25 minutes to do that. President trump has said his plan to ban immigration into the us will last for 60 days and apply only to those seeking to become permanent residents. He said the measure would protect americans who had lostjobs because of the coronavirus. Peter bowes reports. An economy paralysed because of covid i9. The us Unemployment Rate has skyrocketed at a pace never seen before. 22 million americans have lost theirjobs over the past month. President trump says his prime objective is to ensure those unemployed americans get theirjobs back as soon as possible. It would be wrong and unjust for americans laid off by the virus to be replaced with new immigrant labour flown in from abroad. We must first take care of the american worker, take care of the american worker. He said immigration would be put on pause for 60 days for people seeking green cards, permanent residency in the united states. There would then be a review of the decision based on the Economic Conditions at the time. The ban will not apply to people entering the us on a temporary basis, farmworkers, those helping to secure us Food Supplies and workers responding to the coronavirus. Help is also on the way for more Small Businesses with a nearly 500 million package of measures to make it easier for firms to keep workers on the payroll during the economic shutdown which the president believes will soon be over. Ina in a separate development, the state of missouri is suing china. A lawsuit alleges that chinese officials were responsible for the enormous death, suffering, and economic losses they inflicted on the world. A crucial element to reopening the economy is coronavirus testing. Something the governor of new york has been urging the president to step up. After a meeting with mr trump at the white house, andrew cuomo said a deal had been reached to increase Testing Capacity in new york. To quantify that situation in the state of new york, we now do on average of about 20,000 tests per day. Our goal, which is very aggressive and ambitious, but set it high and then try, our goal is to double the 20,000 to get to 40,000 tests per day. Thats our goal and it was a very productive conversation. The governor and the president also agreed that new york no longer needed a Us Navy Hospital ship which was sent there to ease the burden on city hospitals. The ship, comfort, will return to its base in virginia in case its needed for other locations around the country. Peter bowes, bbc news, los angeles. Italy will announce a plan to gradually exit its lockdown by the end of this week. The Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has said the country could not give up its policy of maximum caution, but that they expect to begin the relaxation from may 4. Italy has reported more than 2a,000 deaths the highest recorded toll in europe. Spanish authorities have announced that children under 14 can accompany their parents to the pharmacy and on grocery trips from monday. Children in spain have not been allowed outside since the middle of march because of the countrys strict rules. The government has extended the nationwide lockdown until may 9 and said children still wont be able to go out and play. London mayor sadiq khan says the citys transport network will run out of money by the end of the month and may have to cut services unless the government steps in. A slump in passenger numbers has seen income from bus and tube fares plummet. He told the bbc that transport for london has been eating into cash reserves to keep running. It is ten past six. You are watching brea kfast. Companies across the uk have been working to manufacture ventilators for the nhs to help treat patients with coronavirus. The government asked for businesses to help just over a month ago. The project involves aerospace, technology and engineering firms, including the supercar maker mclaren. Our Business Correspondent theo leggett reports. The mclaren groups best known for producing sleek supercars and for being one of the most successful racing teams in formula one history. Now the cutting edge skills used to build one of these are being used to create thousands of these. They are trolleys for carrying medical ventilators, which will be used to treat patients suffering from covid i9. Treat patients suffering from covid19. Normally around this time of year we would be getting ready for our monaco package for all the upgrades on the car. What we do now is very different. So we are primarily building trolleys and helping out Small Companies who have small resource in order to build things. Mclaren is part of a consortium that includes some of the biggest names in the aerospace and automotive industries, such as and forward as forward as well as medical equipment firms. The idea is to ta ke medical equipment firms. The idea is to take ventilators like this one designed by an 0xfordshire company and another made by smiths group and another made by smiths group and produce thousands of them very quickly. So weve brought together the sort of pace of formula one, we have formula one teams involved, the Robust Manufacturing disciplines of Big Companies and the exact thing standards required of medical device manufacturer and that combination is why it has been a success. Mclaren is just why it has been a success. Mclaren isjust one part why it has been a success. Mclaren is just one part of the operation. It is using its expertise to make vital parts for ventilators themselves and sophisticated testing regs for use on the production line. And, of course, those trolleys. Less glamorous than the four wheeled machines that the company normally builds, but right now considerably more important. Theo leggett, bbc news. Netflix has seen a huge surge in new subscribers in the first three months of the year as lockdowns around the world keep people in their homes. The streaming service says it gained nearly 16 million new subscribers between january and march. But the firm said shutdowns have halted almost all of its filming of new projects. Have you seen tyger king hit . have you seen tyger kinghit . I have seen some of it. Have you seen the whole thing . I have. There is a bonus episode at the end. Whole thing . I have. There is a bonus episode at the endlj whole thing . I have. There is a bonus episode at the end. I can see why people are drawn in through it. It is the most was documentary in history. I suppose the doctor does help that. It is fascinating. They spoke to everyone except for carole. Anyway, onto more important things. Its 6 12am. Germanys handling of the corona crisis early mass testing and an effective lockdown has been the focus of international attention. Now, the world is watching as authorities begin to gradually ease some restrictions. And the country is relying on more testing and Contact Tracing to keep the outbreak under control. 0ur berlin correspondent jenny hill sent this report. Slowly, cautiously, germany is feeling its way back to life. Schools reopening for exams. Small shops back in business. At the same time, more testing and a focus on Contact Tracing. Every time someone tests positive, Public Health officials must track down anyone they could have infected. Translation of course it is not always possible to find everyone. We depend on the support and the memory of the infected person. They have to work with us, try to remember who they have had contact with. Its why the army is helping to test a more high tech solution. Its hoped a phone app could help identify potential chains of infection there are concerns about privacy and the technology is considered at least a month from being ready. In the meantime, germanys studying its own population. Looking for antibodies, the aim to establish the true rate of infection, but also to learn more about how immunity might develop. You also need to have a better idea clinically, if antibodies are detected, how does it really reflect in terms of protection . And if it reflects in terms of protection, how long does that protection last . And obviously since we are very early in the stage of the pandemic, we dont know that for sure yet, but this data will be coming in. Meanwhile, 0ktoberfests annual revelry has been cancelled. Public gatherings are still banned, pubs and restaurants still closed. Germany may have got its outbreak under control, but its far too soon, warn scientists, to celebrate. Jenny hill, bbc news. Lets take a look at todays front pages. Go on, then. The daily mirror reports that there are tens of thousands of protective visors sitting in a british warehouse, waiting to be shipped abroad after the government didnt buy them. Lets show you the front page of the metro. It looks at the launch of human trials for a coronavirus vaccine, which will begin in the uk tomorrow. And the daily mail looks at other ways the pandemic is affecting the Health Service reporting that thousands of cancer diagnoses are being missed every week because patients are not visiting their gp. Dont forget we will be talking to a gp in about 15 minutes time. If you have any questions, send them in. And this is the most read story on bbc news online the us state of missouri has filed a lawsuit against china accusing the country of deception over the coronavirus outbreak. Do you want to check some of the inside pages . Yes, you were talking about tiger king. This is the best excuse ever for being a couch potato if you are one of those people watching a lot of telemetry at the moment. In the daily mail, couch potatoes now have a perfect get out, its all in the genes. Is that why i dont do it very much . A largescale study in the uk say some people are hardwired to sit and watch television. Apparently those who was more than the average of two hours and 48 minutes a day have genetic works in common and do so in the same way that people spend a lot of time doing their leisure or exercise or whatever. Whether they sit in front of a computer or drive for long distances. So i have the sitting and you have the watching telly genes . Its part of the job, pa rt telly genes . Its part of the job, part of thejob. Telly genes . Its part of the job, part of the job. I just dont telly genes . Its part of the job, part of the job. Ijust dont know how you find the time. You can watch tv while exercising. Maybe you dont have as much time as i do. What did you notice on the roads . I noticed there might be more people back on there might be more people back on the roads since last week. There might be more people back on the roads since last weeklj there might be more people back on the roads since last week. I think you are right. These are increasing speed patrols as Senior Officers have revealed that average speeds on roads have increased by as much as 50 during lockdowns. This is superintendent andy cox, he talks about extreme speeders and other drivers thinking they can get away with going faster because the roads are empty. And some extraordinary figures, drivers of 140 miles an hour, average driving speeds up 10 . The maximum speed recorded in a 20 mile an hour zone was 73 miles an hour. So, those are pretty shocking figures, actually. Kent police says it has increased patrols on key routes, as has sussex, catching a writer going 150 miles an hour on the m20. Dme. A rider. Lots oftv productions have stopped filming but neighbours, the famous soap is returning. They are starting filming again this week. But what they are going to try and do is they maintain social distancing while they are filming. So no kissing, nothing intimate. What they are going to try and do is change the camera angles slightly to make it look like the characters are closer together than they actually are. Neighbours is back but all of the characters will be two metres apart. And this is only times, isnt it . The ice in the arctic is likely to disappear in summer in some years before 2050, evenif summer in some years before 2050, even if Global Carbon dioxide emissions are rapidly reduced. This is according to scientists and this is according to scientists and this is light reconstructions from the summer of 1979 satellite reconstructions, and last year, showing how much the sea ice has shrunk. In one thing people have been asking over the last few weeks is how terence is and how tony is. So here is an update on current committees 0k, hes well, he is being well looked after by his friends and neighbours and by age uk was that he is the fellow weeds of the Christmas Tree to during christmas. Tony is a bit more difficult. I speak to tony on most weeks. From a health point of view he is fit, healthy, staying at home as much as possible. But i spoke to him yesterday, ill be honest, he was a bit desperate. We think this happened overnight monday going into tuesday, quite a bit of the memorabilia, the pictures and the flags that have been around the memorial he looks after have been taken away or stolen. We dont know exactly what happened but a lot of thatis exactly what happened but a lot of that is now gone. Essentially i spoke to tony yesterday and he is in pieces about it. So he doesnt know quite what to do. I said i would do everything i can. So if you know anything, we dont know who has taken it, there are facebook groups in sheffield at the moment and people looking for them. Someone said they might have found one of the pictures tony had by the side of the pictures tony had by the side of the memorial in a bin in sheffield. If you know where they are, we dont wa nt to if you know where they are, we dont want to point any thinkers, tony isnt wanting to follow any of it up, hejust isnt wanting to follow any of it up, he just wants them back. Isnt wanting to follow any of it up, hejust wants them back. You can contact me here at breakfast if you want, but if you know anything tell me or other people. You can understand why they mean an awful lot to tony and he just wants to know they are ok, they havent been thrown away or disposed of or if somebody has got them. If you could give them back, that would be amazing for tony. As we spend our time indoors, its no surprise some of us are turning to our phones for entertainment. When 17 year old carer kia presented one of her resident with a special gift, she thought it was just a simple gesture of kindness. But a heart warming video of the moment she handed over the pillow has been viewed by millions online. After the pair appeared on breakfast yesterday, shes been inundated with messages of support from around the world. Today weve been to catch up with two people who are a little bit closer to home her grandparents. Hello i got you a present hey . I got you a present. Whats up, darling . Is a simple gesture that went a long way. 0h crying last year, dd veteran cam did d day veteran can lost his wife. His carer knew how much she missed her. She started working as a care home worker in preston last year and has already built a strong bond with ken and the other staff stop here and all of them really are like angels. They look after hours, we are not wanting for anything. Such a lovable plays, management is perfect, everything. But its just plays, management is perfect, everything. But itsjust as good when you have residence as good as ken. Now have a good deed has gone global. But the people most proud are slightly closer to home. Kia has lived with her grandparents linda and george, or as she calls them, nanna and pap, since she was six. She gives a lot of compassion for her age. But i have to remember shes only 17. Were so proud of her, really. She has really, really shown it with theirs. And she said its a question. But, what you did, you know, it made him so happy. Two weeks ago she moved into the care home to keep her grandparents and those she has a safe. She always made sure that me and george was ok first, got us sorted at the house. When she knew we were all right, she decided to do better for them. When she knew we were all right, she decided to do betterfor them. Do better for us, really. While linda and george didnt know about kias plans for ken, her kindness didnt come as a surprise. Emotion was unbelievable, what she did. And it was something that she just thought would do. Just simple from her. No suggestions from anybody, that. We didnt even know, did we . We didnt know into we saw it this morning. Thats what shes like. Yeah, just out of the blue. They miss kia every day but cant wait for her to come home for a hug. I am proud, unexpected, i think youve got a good head on your shoulders, and carry on doing what youre doing, youre doing a marvellous job. Well done, kia. Well done, kia, keep on doing what youre doing and well see you later. And so many of you sent messages. Thank you yesterday about kia. She is absolutely brilliant, 17, pretty young to be taking on response abilities like that. Its a lovely friendship between a 17 year old and a 94 year old and that crossgenerational friendship is beautiful to see. It has made millions and millions of people happy, they have commented on it and shed lovely stories. Shared. As we spend our time indoors, its no surprise some of us are turning to our phones for entertainment. Now, the video app tiktok has reported a 25 rise in viewers in the past month. But its not just about posting funny videos and the latest dance crazes. Sofia gala smith reports. From doing the latest dancers to delivering key messages, tiktok has provided nurses with a way to find humour in days that have can that can be overwhelmingly hard. Humour in days that have can that can be overwhelmingly hardlj humour in days that have can that can be overwhelmingly hard. I dont think there are any words for that, but to everybody, thank you. As part of the apps 250 million pledged to combat coronavirus worldwide, they have announced they are donating £5 million to the Royal College of nursing here in the uk. Tiktok arent the First Social Media Company to donate towards global Coronavirus Relief efforts, but tiktok are the first to donate such a big single sum of money to a British Organisation that is fighting on the frontline. The choice to give back to the nurses that have sent video views through the roof also comes as social Media Companies face pressure from the government to fight misinformation on their platform. We are honoured and humbled by the work nurses and healthcare workers and social care workers are doing. So we wanted to do our small bit to support them during what is such a difficult and challenging time. Last week, the culture secretary asked for social Media Companies to step up the game when it comes to fighting misinformation on their platform is about coronavirus, especially regarding 5g conspiracy theories. So what is tiktok doing to fight coronavirus misinformation . All users have a little link in the tiktok app that they can click on, it goes to a dedicated page that has information from people like the World Health Organization and the nhs. Thankyounhs has had over 330 million views. And even politicians have expressed thanks to the platform. Tiktok has had explosive growth for the last 18 months or so and a huge spike in the last month. This is the destination of choice to ta ke this is the destination of choice to take your mind off some of the distressing aspects of what is happening at the moment. I think politicians recognise this and this isa politicians recognise this and this is a great opportunity for them to get key messages to this age group ina get key messages to this age group in a place where they are receptive to this sort of messaging. Video celebrating the nhs have seen a 5000 increase on tiktok in the last month, and with no end to the lockdown inside, it looks like you may be seeing a lot more of these virus fighting nurses going viral. Some of those are just you just cant stop watching. I am an observer, thats as far as i go. Cant stop watching. I am an observer, thats as far as i gom is 6 28am. I just observer, thats as far as i gom is 6 28am. Ijust had a sneak peek at carols forecast. Warm temperatures on the way . Good morning to you. It is 4. 6 in braemar this morning, with some frost. Compare that to plymouth where it is nine degrees. Today, wherever you are were getting a lot of dry weather. It is going to be sunny and it will feel warmer than yesterday. Pa rt of sunny and it will feel warmer than yesterday. Part of that is due to the fact the isobars opening up, so that brisk easterly wind we have had over the last few days wont be quite as strong today. It will still be there, ghosts probably 25 miles an hourat be there, ghosts probably 25 miles an hour at best. Yesterday we were looking at 35 miles an hour. A stunning sunrise this morning as well. You can see in the highlands, and some cloud around which will quickly run away and also we have some frost. I cloud across South West England was spread into parts of wales, Northern Ireland, north west england and also southern and western scotland. Not spoiling the sunshine. These other gusts of wind you can expect in the black circles. Temperatures today ranging from 12 in lyric to about 20 or 21 as we sweep down towards the south in lerwick. As we head through the evening and overnight, we see some low carb forming across wales of the pennines, southern and eastern scotland. Another cold night, two in the north east with some frost, especially in sheltered glands, which should be an issue for the rest of us. Temperatures could hit 24, even 25 degrees. Glasgow 17 in belfast 15. As we head on into friday we start off once again with some low cloud, mist and fog along eastern areas which will burn away. Still a lot of dry weather around. Low cloud and drizzle coming in across shetland in particular. Temperature wise, ranging from nine all the way down to about 22 degrees. Glasgow and belfast like your temperatures are picking up. Into the weekend, the High Pressure is weakening and we mightjust have a weather front coming our way which could bring in rain to Northern Ireland and western scotland. 0ne rain to Northern Ireland and western scotland. One thing we will notice this weekend is it will be cloudier thanit this weekend is it will be cloudier than it has been during the week and temperatures will be that little bit lower. By no means are we entering the next ice age. Hello, this is breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. Its 6 31am. Well bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment but also on breakfast this morning. He was the uks first sikh a e consultant, who was described as the father of the Emergency Department. Well hear tributes to Manjeet Singh riyat, who has died from the coronavirus. Well be discussing the best way to stay fit safely with british cyclings chris boardman. Awar hero, a war hero, now he is my hero and he is the nations hero. And hes the one man fundraising machine well hear how captain tom moore will be celebrating his 100th birthday, and why it has become a community effort. Good morning. Human trials of a vaccine for covid 19 in the uk will start tomorrow as the Health Secretary matt hancock says the government is throwing everything at it. Its providing more than £40 million in funding to scientists in oxford and london. At yesterdays Daily Briefing, the Health Secretary matt hancock said a vaccine was the best way to defeat coronavirus. An raf plane carrying personal protective equipment for Health Workers has landed in the uk after days of delays. It was due to arrive here from turkey on sunday. The plane was carrying several tonnes of ppe, including much needed gowns and masks. As many as 95 of the most Vulnerable Children in england have not been going to school during the coronavirus crisis, despite emergency places being made available. The childrens commissioner for england says shes concerned the uks most Vulnerable Children may drop off social services radar because theyre not attending school. The government says its providing extra funding to councils and Childrens Charities to support vulnerable young people. It is that time of the day where we have a little chat with a gp to discuss some of the questions you have been sending in. Lets speak now to gp dr farrah sheikh, who joins us from manchester. Good to talk to you, as ever. Can we talk about the vaccine . What difference would that make to your life as a gp . It would make an absolute difference. At the moment we do not know when we can return to normal routines. If the vaccine is available and safe and going to Clinical Trials, i am available and safe and going to Clinical Trials, iam really welcoming theirs. In terms of who would get and when, would it be applied in the same way as the flu vaccine when it is vulnerable groups first . I think that is the most likely thing. Sometimes it can be incorporated into the seasonal flu vaccine incorporated into the seasonal flu Vaccine Programme incorporated into the seasonal flu Vaccine Programme and the more vulnerable members of society would be more likely to have an opportunity to take the vaccine up and everybody else might have a further opportunity at a later date. We will be speaking later on about whether or not we have passed the peak of the virus. What differences are you seeing with patients who are calling in and you are speaking to . Has it changed . Calling in and you are speaking to . Has it changed . It has. The first few weeks were very quiet and it was quite worrying. Recently, there has been a lot of information in the media and on the television to say a e attendances and gp attendances have decreased. In the past few weeks because of more information coming out, we have had more patients coming in who had been putting up certain things. If you have got things you are concerned about, particularly malls that had been changing all breast lumps, because we had not seen anything like that for a few weeks that we are starting to see them again. Moles. A lot of my consultations are taking place over the phone and using video, so that is a big change for me. We are having to adapt and keep the staff are safe as possible and also the general population. We are speaking to local surgeries to make sure they are well equipped. Staff members have been having to self isolate as well. We are trying to pull together as much as possible to pull together as much as possible to make sure the population stays safe. It is reported one in four adults feel lonely because of the lockdown are general careers and concerns about the coronavirus. Is that something people are talking to you about, the Mental Health side of the crisis . For me, when i have been asking someone about physical health, i had been mentioning the question about how they are feeling during this time. It is an unprecedented time, it really is. By making sure all our patients are adequately equipped for the weeks ahead, we do not know how long it will last for. We also have social prescribers linked to the surgery. A lot of surgeries have this initiative is that it is not necessarily if you have anything medically wrong with you but you might need help with shopping or just someone to chat to. If you do feel you need to be in contact with someone like that, contact your local surgery. Stacey has a question this morning. She says her one year old is due some immunisations. Is it safe for him to wait until it is over or will it be 0kfor wait until it is over or will it be ok for her to risk taking him to the surgery . I would strongly stress she should take him to the surgery. When you turn one, you have your mmr vaccine. Very serious conditions and these can be fatal. If you are due to have those vaccines may please do go to your surgery. Surgeries have been very strange and in not allowing any patients in with respiratory symptoms. 0ur clinics are respiratory symptoms. 0ur clinics a re really respiratory symptoms. 0ur clinics are really clean, we have strict Infection Control measures that are in place, staff are being trained to be able to check that when patients are coming in, they are being triage to make sure they do not have any coronavirus symptoms. I would stress she takes her son to have those vaccines. Has ppe worked its way down to your practice, the cagoule is . We do not have any of those out yet and we have no downs either. We have masks, gloves and aprons. We are sourcing advisors ourselves and eye protection. At the moment we are trying to make sure we have adequate supplies and we are working with local surgeries as well, so if needs be we can share equipment. We are trying to pull together as much as possible. There is a massive shortage across the whole nhs. Question from jonathan herber as well. Can you test positive, even if you show no symptoms . Herbert. Well. Can you test positive, even if you show no symptoms . Herbertm might be no symptoms have arrived at the moment. That is a possible situation. I am the moment. That is a possible situation. Iam not the moment. That is a possible situation. I am not sure why you would not be showing any symptoms, it might be you are stronger than anyone else and not having any of the physical signs like a cough or the physical signs like a cough or the temperature. Really interesting to see what is going on at your practice at the moment and the way things have changed in the last few days and weeks. Now some news about sport. In some ways. That is the vaguest interaction. It is about something not happening again. I do have some proper news about sport. We were talking about the meeting u efa we were talking about the meeting uefa were going to have. For the first time, european footballs governing body has admitted that some leagues may have to be cancelled this season. The dutch fa said it did not intend to finish the top division there after a ban on major events in the country was extended to september. There are two sides level at the top of the table az alkmaar drew level with ajax shortly before the league was suspended, with ajax only ahead on goal difference, so can you imagine if they are just handed the title now . Surely a controversial decision. Some of the european leagues are making plans to finish off their campaigns. The italian fa say their top division could resume in late may. In spain, the government says training could begin earlyjune but germany appear to be further ahead, with the possibility of bundesliga matches being played behind closed doors within weeks. We are all in training now in small groups, i think its around two weeks, and i think its quite a good thing for the bundesliga or, i think, for professional football that you somehow find a little bit a way back to normality. And having these games without supporters, but big crowds on television, i think will also do something very good for the community. The proposed sale of Newcastle United has hit another bump, with the premier league being urged to fully investigate the deal. The plea has come from another premier leagues major partners who are based in qatar. They hold the rights to show english matches in the region but they say the government in saudi arabia has allowed another broadcaster to stream games illegally. Its a saudi backed consortium thats planning to buy newcastle. Uefa are set to confirm the dates for the womens European Championship in 2022. The tournament has been pushed back a year, because of the coronavirus. Its being held in england and its set to start on 6th of thejuly, with the final at wembley on 31st. The intention is to use the same venues as originally planned. Barcelona are planning to sell the naming rights to their stadium for one year, to raise money for the fight against the coronavirus. Its been known as camp nou or the nou camp since opening in 1957. Proceeds from the auction will be used to Fund Research projects. A paralympian from sheffield has put his table tennis career on hold to go back to work as a doctor. Kim daybell, who was hoping to compete for Great Britain at tokyo 2020, is now back on a covid 19 ward, as sally hurst reports. Within the space of four or five days, i went from thinking i would be training full time to working full time in a bit of a kind of a crazy environment. But its been really, really tough. Just a few weeks ago, kim daybell was preparing to take extended leave from his part time Junior Doctor role and move back home to sheffield to train full time with the Great Britain Table Tennis Team his focus on tokyo 2020. Now hes given up training and is working full time on a covid 19 ward at a north london hospital. You cant switch off from it when you get home from work because its all anyones talking about. Its all thats on the news. Its everywhere. Ive just been glad that i can i can do what i can. I think being a doctor anyway is an emotionally challenging job. Kim is used tojuggling sport and medicine. Back in 2018, he was working as a student doctor whilst training for the commonwealth games. But the decision now to switch focus from the pa ralympics to the pandemic was simple. At the end of the day, its why you become a doctor in the first place. And in this kind of situation, if you cant step up and do everything that you can to help with the struggle, then i think you probably need to have a long sit down and think about why youre doing what youre doing. Hes got a lot of empathy for people. Hes pretty level headed as well and hes a very supportive character as well. He gets behind you and hes got these amazing qualities that would make him an outstanding in this situation. Ive just got the utmost respect for him. For the foreseeable future, kim is happy to sacrifice his sporting ambitions to look after his patients but he looks forward to the day when sport will once again become an important part of our daily lives. After all this is over, it will be athletes time again to get up and give the nation something to applaud and something to celebrate. And just before i go, anyone missing professional cycling you can go to the bbc sport website and the iplayer today, for the start of the digital swiss 5 a virtual version of the cancelled tour of switzerland, with riders tackling the course at home on a virtual route. I think that might catch on. I have enlisted you will to do a version of that. You have been doing some training. Idid that. You have been doing some training. I did some training, a full 20 minutes. What does your training consist of . Mental preparation at the moment is the phase i am in. You know professor greg white. He is taking part. He advises people on these huge, physical challenges. I spoke to him yesterday and he said to make sure i stocked up on pork pies and sausage rolls. In my emergency trip to the supermarket yesterday, i got some sausage rolls and ate them. You are already speaking to professor greg white. Louise said she was concerned that i had done no preparation for a 100 mile cycle on thursday. The inside. Yes, inside. He has some big names lined up. Lots of triathletes. Lots of names im not going to mention at the moment but i am really excited. It will be good fun. At that prep end today. Wine a day before the big push. Another ten minutes, i think. Final day. Holiday companies are being accused of breaking the law by refusing refunds for trips that have been cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak. Nina is looking at this today. Good morning. How are you . good morning. How are you . I am well. I cant stop thinking about pork pies and sausage rolls, i will have to take up cycling. There is no sinking feeling quite like realising a holiday youve saved for, looked forward to, isnt going to happen. Over the past few weeks millions of us have taken a deep breath and accepted the reasons why we cant go. Less easy to swallow is a delay in getting a refund or in some cases not getting the money back that you are entitled to. And you are entitled to that money a full refund within 14 days for a package holiday, and seven days for a flight. But as our Business Correspondent sarah corker reports, that hasnt been happening. Dream holidays on hold. Flights across the globe cancelled. The travel industry is now facing a massive backlog of claims due to the coronavirus lockdown. Holiday makers are fighting to get their money back. Tim and becka from belfast had their wedding in march cancelled. The hotel was sympathetic, the airline providing honeymoon flights to canada less so. We werent able to fly, obviously. We are still waiting for nearly £1,500 in refunds to reach us via air canada. Weve been offered flight credit, but, personally, we cannot accept that. Research from Consumer Group, which . Found that none of the uks 20 Biggest Airlines and holiday firms were refunding customers within the legal time frame. Some airlines and package Holiday Companies just arent offering refunds, while others are providing credit notes and vouchers, which wont be of much use if the firms later go bust. And its estimated that £7 billion worth of payments by uk customers are affected by this. The trade body airlines uk said. I cant use a credit note. In wigan, roy is trying to get £2,500 back from tui, for a cancelled holiday to barbados. The money should be back in my bank within 14 days not a refund in four weeks with a lengthy time after that to actually got hold of the money again that money could be far better of use to myself and other families in the same position far better use to us than it is sat in tuis bank. Tui uk said its working through requests as quickly as possible and proactively contacting customers. You may now kiss your fiance back in belfast, tim and becka had a virtual Commitment Ceremony instead. The couple said air canada has also offered them a partial refund. Sarah corker, bbc news. I love the virtual Commitment Ceremony but seriously, for so many people who have lost their holidays and potentially money. What do you do if its been cancelled . It is heartbreaking for some people and what which . Found is that some i offering proactive refunds and others like love holidays and tui are not. Budget airlines are saying expect serious delays if you want a full refund. A say they want the government to suspend current reels. They say these are exceptional times and if i accept credit notes that can be used for a holiday or eventually a full refu nd for a holiday or eventually a full refund that will give the travel industry some much needed breathing space. That is something the government has not ruled out. We would love you to get in touch with your experiences on this. Literally millions of people are being affected and it is one of those circles that is difficult to square at the moment. The truth is if we all got our cash back immediately some really good travel companies would simply go bust. But that is little comfort to some families at the moment who have lost a great deal of their income and they need that cash now. I know you will continue looking at it, but thank you very much. Captain tom moore broke all kinds of records when he walked 100 laps of his garden to raise more than £27 million for the nhs and in just over a weeks time hell hit another incredible milestone. But before the war veteran celebrates his 100th birthday hes got another mammoth task on his hands sifting though tens of thousands of cards from well wishers. Breakfasts john maguire reports. It may look like christmas, but this is much bigger than christmas. Its the morning delivery at captain tom moores local post office, a Himalayan Mountain of cards arriving ahead of his 100th birthday next week. Its overwhelming, the support that captain tom has from the general public. The whole country is behind him. Hes such a legend. Reminiscent of election night, this has become a military style operation. The cards and parcels are being taken to toms grandsons school, where volunteer staff are flat out. I think a lot of the cards are so heartfelt and it really shows the effort people have put in. I think he will really appreciate that. Im going to try and take pictures of as many as i can and show him to them because he will happily sit through and read them all. This shows that people really do care about this sort of things, especially in tough times. I think people really have joined together to make the effort for this. Well, these are the cards that were opened just yesterday afternoon. There are 3,000 cards here. But today weve seen 30,000 delivered. Who knows . They may even fill this entire hall. Its a wonderful story at a time where, frankly, everybody needed it. And its also a real reaffirmation of peoples kindness. And im a great believer that people are fundamentally kind. And this is just the most wonderful way to show it. We know that his record breaking fundraising for Nhs Charities has touched hundreds of thousands around the world from the old to the young such as melissa grace. She has angelman syndrome, a rare genetic disorder of the nervous system. Helped by her brother, jacob, she used her ipad to tell me how shed been inspired by the war veteran. I wanted to send captain tom a card to help him celebrate his 100th birthday, to show him that i think he is amazing and tomorrow will be a good day. Its a fabulous message to us all, the way he says never give up we can achieve more than we think. Hi. Hi, john. How are you . Good. And regan, with her mum, lisa, told me why shes raising money for captain toms fund and has organised thousands of children to send him Virtual Birthday cards. Regan, why do you think he should receive so many cards . Why do you think people should support him . Well. For my opinion, i never saw a 100 year old before because thats probably how i started his campaign, i said id never seen a 100 year old before and started making cards. Hes a war hero. Yeah, hes a war hero and now hes my hero and the nations hero. Thats a point. And hes carrying on walking. He reached his goal and then he carried on. So at least 35,000 cards and more than a week to go until captain tom moore clocks up his 100 years, this time, not laps. But as we know with this man, a total or a target is just a number. John maguire, bbc news bedford. Its remarkable. And theyjust look great, as well. Can you imagine how many cards are . They have done a brilliantjob many cards are . They have done a brilliant job and im many cards are . They have done a brilliantjob and im sure there will be more, many more on their way. The 30th of april, quite a few surprises lined up for him, i imagine. As we stay at home, its important to stay fit here on breakfast weve been getting regular tips from the queen of the home work out. Lets hearfrom diana moran, better known as the green goddess, as she explains her latest routine. Good morning, everybody. I hope youre well this morning. Lovely weather. Well, today im going to be looking at hips, bottoms, and the spine, and im really trying to keep our bodies supple and strong. So dont just sit there. Well get on up and see if you can do this with me today. So lets first of all just take that a bit of support with one of the chairs and just kick your leg forward and back. Forward and back. Forward, to the side. Down, up, down. And again forward, back, forward, back. Forward, to the side. Down, up, down. Thats good, cos its working the hips, loosening the hips, and also once again, strengthening those strong muscles. Those strong or they should be strong leg muscles here, the quadriceps. So now what were going to do is that Little Movement that i call bob and stretch. So bob bend both the knees, and then stretch back. Bob and stretch. Once again, you can feel that in the hips and also the tightening of the bottom muscles giving yourself a good butt there we are. And then, you know, theres a simple thing that we can all be doing perhaps while were talking on the telephone, or maybe were cooking sometimes just literallyjumping on one leg. Thats all you have to do. And thats helping to strengthen the spine and the other leg and also the leg muscles. Really easy stuff. And lets finish today with a good old stretch. So take yourself down, feet apart. Really bend down, bend forward. Hang on to that support. Feel the stretch all across your shoulders, through your bottom, through your legs. Tighten up those knees. Thats it. Thats really good. Shake yourself out and youre ready for yet another day. So keep fit and carry on there you go, hope that has got you going this morning. Absolutely. Heres carol with a look at this mornings weather. There are some really warm temperatures and stop right thats right, especially tomorrow. Today we have high cloud, as you can see in devon. Hazy sunshine to start with. For most of us today we are looking atafair for most of us today we are looking at a fair bit of sunshine. It will be dry and it will feel warmer than yesterday. Largely because there is not going to be as much wind. Still gusty at times. First thing this morning, we have some low cloud that will burn away quite quickly. You can see the extent of the dry weather. Some high cloud in the south west will travel into wales, north west england, Northern Ireland and southern and western scotland through the day, turning sunshine hazy. Temperatures not bad at all. 20 in birmingham. Still gusty winds but gusting to about 20, 20 five Miles Per Hour instead of 30, 35 as we had yesterday. Dry all the way up to lerwick and also belfast and liverpool. These are your temperatures. Highs of about 21 as we skip down towards cardiff. Through this evening and overnight, we will still have clear skies but we will still have clear skies but we will still have clear skies but we will see some low cloud developed for parts of wales, the pennines, southern and eastern scotland. Cold enough under those clear skies in sheltered glens for a touch of frost. This morning for example in braemar it was 4. 6. We could see something not too far off that tomorrow morning, as well. But as we go through the course of the morning, all this low cloud and frost will of course left. We are looking at a lot of dry weather, a fair bit of sunshine and light it winds. Sea breeze is developing later in the day across the english channel. Temperatures, while we could get up to 25 tomorrow, somewhere around the south east, central, southern england, but even so as we travel further north, 15 in stornoway, 15 in belfast, 22 in cardiff. Friday, we start off with quite a bit of low cloud, misty, foggy conditions and eastern areas. That will burn up quite readily and they will be another dry day, another sunny day for most of us. A bit of low cloud coming in across the Northern Isles and here, too, we can see some drizzle through the course of the day. Temperatures ranging from 13 in the north, 20 in glasgow, to 22 in london and cardiff. For saturday, we start off with a fair bit of cloud, especially in eastern areas. Low cloud. If you are stuck under that it will feel cooler. It will tend to burn back towards the coast. Dry weather on the horizon, maybe one or two showers with highs of 19. The headlines are coming up next. Good morning and welcome to breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. 0ur headlines today. Three days later than promised a plane load of protective equipment bound for front line workers arrives from turkey. The government promises more than £40 million towards research for a coronavirus vaccine. Human trials begin tomorrow. The Holiday Companies breaking the law by refusing refunds. 20 of the biggest travel operators and airlines are delaying, or refusing refunds for cancelled trips. Ill look at why theyre doing it, and where do you stand . As uefa warns some football leagues in europe could be ended early, the dutch fa says it doesnt plan to complete the season there with two sides level on points at the top of the table. Its wednesday 22nd april. Our top story. An raf plane carrying much needed items of protective equipment for frontline workers has landed in the uk from turkey. It was due to arrive on sunday but suffered a series of delays. It comes as the government ramps up the hunt for a vaccine with human trials set to begin in oxford tomorrow. Andy moore reports. Here at last, the raf plane loaded with personal protective equipment thats so desperately needed in the uk. Its part of an 80 tonne shipment thats said to include 400,000 gowns, one of the items in shortest supply. Ministers said this flight was due to arrive on sunday. Nobody has been able to give a clear reason as to why it was delayed. Just some of the thousands of people who have died with coronavirus. In fact, figures from the office for National Statistics revealed deaths in england and wales at a 20 year high. The daily figures for hospital deaths showed 823 fatalities reported yesterday, bringing the total to 17,337. Its now believed a peak of hospital deaths was on april the 8th. So the worst of the first wave may be over but vaccines will be needed to stop the virus spreading again. Theres hope on the horizon from two trials in this country. The vaccine from the oxford project will be trialled in people from this thursday. In normal times, reaching this stage would take years. And im very proud of the work taken so far. At the same time, well invest in manufacturing capability so that if either of these vaccines safely works, then we can make it available for the british people as soon as humanly possible. But the uk is still struggling to source personal protective equipment made here. This car parts maker in nottinghamshire is reopening today, producing equipment for ireland. I dont understand why its so difficult for people to be getting in touch with Companies Like ours to make the products here in the uk. The ppe loaded in istanbul should be on its way to its various destinations as soon as possible. It will no doubt be much appreciated but more, much more, is desperately needed. Andy moore, bbc news. Lets speak now to our Political Correspondent leila nathoo. Good correspondent leila nathoo. Morning to you. Then pressure good morning to you. There is real pressure from the government, particularly on the issue of ppe, isnt there . Absolutely. Ministers are doing all they can to get ppe to the front line. But there are still struggles on the front line. The row has broken out over night about another missed opportunity for the government to get ahead on supplies of protective equipment. There has been an eu wide scheme to bulk buy medical kit stop that started earlier in the year and a message from the government at the time was we are not taking part and we are doing our own thing. Then the message seemed to change. There was a communication problem led to the uk notjoining a communication problem led to the uk not joining that a communication problem led to the uk notjoining that scheme. We were eligible tojoin because uk notjoining that scheme. We were eligible to join because we are in a transition period. In fact it was a political decision denied by matt hancock. Then a statement from the senior Civil Servant was retracted. The row seems detailed but it speaks about there were points when the government could have gone ahead in this crisis, perhaps decisions that could have been taken. They always talk about Global Supply issues with ppe. They talk about the fact there we re ppe. They talk about the fact there were decisions taken earlier this yearfor were decisions taken earlier this year for the were decisions taken earlier this yearfor the government were decisions taken earlier this year for the government to get ahead. Pmqs is on today and i would imagine it looks a bit different to normal. Parliament is back from the easter recess. There are now new arrangements in place to help parliament abide by social distancing. 0nly parliament abide by social distancing. Only 50 mps will be allowed in the chamber at any one time and a maximum of 120 mps can ta ke time and a maximum of 120 mps can take part via video conference. This will be keir starmer, the labour leaders first Prime Ministers questions. He will not be facing borisjohnson, who questions. He will not be facing boris johnson, who is questions. He will not be facing borisjohnson, who is still recovering at chequers. Dominic raab will be deputising today. They will be in the chamber but it is a brave new Digital World in parliament. Thank you. We will be speaking to Helen Whately in 25 minutes. And the Shadow Health secretary Jonathan Ashworth willjoin us after 8am. As many as 95 of the most Vulnerable Children in england have not been going to school during the coronavirus crisis, despite emergency places being made available. The childrens commissioner for england says shes concerned the uks most Vulnerable Children may drop off social services radar because theyre not attending school. The government says its providing extra funding to councils and Childrens Charities to support vulnerable young people. President trump has said his plan to ban immigration into the us will last for 60 days and apply only to those seeking to become permanent residents. He said the measure would protect americans who had lost jobs because of the coronavirus. Peter bowes reports. An economy paralysed because of covid 19, the us Unemployment Rate has skyrocketed at a pace never seen before. 22 million americans have lost theirjobs over the past month. President trump says his prime objective is to ensure those unemployed americans get theirjobs back as soon as possible. It would be wrong and unjust for americans laid off by the virus to be replaced with new immigrant labour flown in from abroad. We must first take care of the american worker, take care of the american worker. He said immigration would be put on pause for 60 days for people seeking green cards, permanent residency in the united states. It would then be a review of the decision based on the Economic Conditions at the time. The ban will not apply to people entering the us on a temporary basis. Farm workers, those helping to secure us Food Supplies and workers responding to the coronavirus. Help is also on the way for more Small Businesses with a nearly 500 billion package of measures to make it easier for firms to keep workers on the payroll during the economic shutdown, which the president believes will soon be over. In a separate development, the state of missouri is suing china for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak. A lawsuit alleges that chinese officials were responsible for the enormous death, suffering and economic losses they inflicted on the world. A crucial element to reopening the economy is coronavirus testing, something the governor of new york has been urging the president to step up. After a meeting with mr trump at the white house, andrew cuomo said a deal had been reached to increase Testing Capacity in new york. To quantify that situation in the state of new york, we now do, on average of about 20,000 tests per day. Our goal, which is very aggressive and ambitious, but set it high and then try. Our goal is to double the 20,000 to get the 40,000 tests per day. Thats our goal. And it was a very productive conversation. The governor and the president also agreed that new york no longer needed a Us Navy Hospital ship, which was sent there to ease the burden on city hospitals. The ship, comfort, will return to its base in virginia in case its needed for other locations around the country. Peter bowes, bbc news, los angeles. Italy will announce a plan to gradually exit its lockdown by the end of this week. The Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has said the country could not give up its policy of maximum caution, but that they expect to begin the relaxation from the 4th of may. Italy has reported more than 24,000 deaths the highest recorded toll in europe. Spanish authorities have announced that children under 14 can accompany their parents to the pharmacy and on grocery trips from monday. Children in spain have not been allowed outside since the middle of march because of the countrys strict rules. The government has extended the nationwide lockdown until 9th may and said children still wont be able to go out and play. London mayor sadiq khan says the citys transport network will run out of money by the end of the month and may have to cut services unless the government steps in. A slump in passenger numbers has seen income from bus and tube fares plummet. He told the bbc that transport for london has been eating into cash reserves to keep running. Companies across the uk have been working to manufacture ventilators for the nhs to help treat patients with coronavirus. The government asked for businesses to help just over a month ago. The project involves aerospace, technology and engineering firms including the supercar maker mclaren. Our Business Correspondent theo leggett reports. The mclaren groups best known for producing sleek supercars and for being one of the most successful racing teams in formula one history. Now the cutting edge skills used to build one of these are being used to create thousands of these. They are trolleys for carrying medical ventilators, which will be used to treat patients suffering from covid 19. Normally around this time of year we would be getting ready for our monaco package, and all the upgrades on the car. What we do now is very different. So we are primarily building trolleys and helping out Small Companies who have small resources, in order to build things. Mclaren is part of a consortium that includes some of the biggest names in the aerospace and automotive industries, such as airbus and ford as well as medical equipment firms. The idea is to take ventilators like this one designed by an 0xfordshire company and another made by smiths group and produce thousands of them very quickly. So weve brought together the sort of pace of formula one, we have formula one teams involved, the Robust Manufacturing disciplines of Big Companies and the exacting standards required of medical device manufacturer and that combination is why it has been a success. Mclaren isjust one part of the operation. It is using its expertise to make vital parts for ventilators themselves and sophisticated testing rigs for use on the production line. And, of course, those trolleys. Less glamorous than the four wheeled machines that the company normally builds but right now considerably more important. Theo leggett, bbc news. Netflix has seen a huge surge in new subscribers in the first three months of the year, as lockdowns around the world keep people in their homes. The streaming service says it gained nearly 16 million new subscribers between january and march. But the firm said shutdowns have halted almost all of its filming of new projects. Thank you for watching bbc brea kfast. The latest coronavirus figures outline the human cost of the outbreak but there are some signs that the peak could be over. There was a steady rise in deaths in hospitals in england which seems to have peaked on april 8th, before falling. However, we may see a rise in deaths from the last few days, as more are recorded. This shows the number of people in hospital with coronavirus across england, wales and scotland. London appears to have peaked and is falling. In other areas such as the midlands, wales and scotland, the numbers are levelling out. Lets take a look at these figures now with karol sikora, professor of medicine at the university of buckingham, and sam monaghan, chief executive of mha care homes. Good morning to both of you. Professor, we know there were sadly 823 new deaths announced yesterday but looking at the graph we had there, i wide it like it and wider trends, where are we at the moment . I think we are coming out. There are three factors to look at. First of all is the number of new cases. That is definitely falling. The problem is it is masked by the fa ct the problem is it is masked by the fact that we are doing more testing, which is good but it means we get more cases. But if you calculate it, there is a trend downwards. The second thing is hospitalisation numbers. That is really going down. The nhs has plenty of Critical Care beds. It really has done remarkably well at opening up the nhs for covert patients. And then the third thing either deaths. Covid 19 patients. Sadly, although the debt represent personal human tragedies, the way we count them is varying. At the way we count them is varying. At the start we didnt include care homes and im sure we will hear about that. 0nce homes and im sure we will hear about that. Once you put in the care homes, you allow for weekend factors where the death certification gets a bit rocky, and you get more deaths ona bit rocky, and you get more deaths on a monday and tuesday, you will see it will go down as of the week progresses. 0bviously Vital Information to make a decision on how to get us out of this lockdown. 0bviously every single death is devastating for family and friends, but you think there is a glimmer of hope, do you . Im always an optimist, and its like that famous song, hotel california. You are probably not old enough to remember it in 1970. Probably not old enough to remember it in1970. It probably not old enough to remember it in 1970. It talks about, you know, you can check out at any time but you can never leave. It is a bit like that for governments all over the world. They dont know what to do. Who is not showing much leadership on how to get out, other than saying do it carefully. That is pretty obvious that we have to do it carefully. I would like to see something happen at the latest by the 4th of may, the monday. Lets start looking at what we can do because this is costing £2. 6 billion per day for britain. We cannot afford this. Now, obviously, if lives will be lost we have to do it, nobody is questioning that. But we have to get out of here. And i think the only way is by getting out, releasing young people, opening small shops and businesses, the garden centres, all these other things that we hear about. We have to get going. Round the world, there is huge contrast. Belarus, the president said the virus never existed, sweden carried on without lockdown, other countries are now coming out. We are a bit further behind in the pandemic so it is correct to wait. So far the government have called the right tune. Im a cancer specialist and no new Cancer Patients are coming through, it has dropped about 20 since last april. They will come through and the cancer will have spread. We have to get the nhs back to normal business for people not with covid 19 but for cancer and heart disease. We will speak about the situation in care homes in a moment. It is absolutely critical because, as you say, it is a delicate balance. Presumably you need to get it right so there isnt another peak later on. Professor, sorry, that was to you a. Sorry absolutely. It is really about. The nhs have done a remarkablejob about switching everything to covid. Great, but the problem is that Cancer Patients and Heart Patients i sort of left in limbo and because we are not seeing the numbers coming through, we note that the suffering, that court outlook, that will come over the next few months and years. We have to get to a Decision Point where we can say, ok, the numbers have dropped so much, one solution would be to use the nightingale hospitals. Lets open them up for covid patients, lets get normal hospitals, the general hospitals, back to making the diagnosis. Cancer operations have essentially stopped. We have to get them going again. I dont do surgery but i do radiotherapy and chemotherapy and thatis radiotherapy and chemotherapy and that is down. Once the flood gates opening, which i hope they will in the next few weeks, then there will bea the next few weeks, then there will be a huge backlog of Cancer Patients needing treatment that will flood the system and we have to get them through it and we have to do it in a timely way. So huge challenges ahead for us once we get over this. What we will get over it. There is no doubt we will. You talked about the pitch in care homes. Lets find that out from sam. You were listening carefully to the professor. Do you feel, now we are including care home figures, or some of them, there is a clearer picture of what you have been experiencing in care homes . think with the figures coming out yesterday, there was a greater sense that this is starting to match the reality we have been experiencing. But i think people need to appreciate we are still not getting clarity on how we are supposed to be counting the figures stop to day, the debtor from covid in care homes have been announced because those people died in hospital. The rest of the deaths we are trying to count is where people we have suspected, because they have been symptomatic of covid, but we have had no real clear guidance on how those will be collected and how that will be quantified over the coming days. Do you think the picture is worse than those figures suggest, from your experience and what you are saying . What we are seeing is about 60 to 70 increase on the death rate that we would expect around this time of year. The figures yesterday shall i kind of doubling in recent weeks in terms of the mortality rate that there has been through covid. I think it is too early. I wouldnt be as confident to be able to say we have reached any sort of plateau or peak because the data is so raw at the moment and we are not getting it through in a way we need to be able to properly match this. And because we havent had gps coming into care homes in terms of being able to certify deaths actually in situ, we have only been confirming the deaths and then negotiating and liaising with gps by phone and by video, it is very difficult to know the quantity we are talking about here. Can we also talk. Of course, we know people who have worked in care homes have also of course been affected by this. What is the picture . Are you getting. The people you know about, are you getting the ppe that they need . No. It didnt have to be like this. We have been asking for weeks and weeks now what is sure and steady supply of ppe to come through to our homes. The government supply chain hasnt been robust enough or consistent enough, so we are having to go out to market to purchase ppe and moving ppe around between our homes when we get outbreaks occurring. So we need that consistency and we need to testing. We need weekly testing so that we can assess who in our homes in terms of residents have got the virus, which of our staff, so we can get there was out of circulation. Because what we are seeing is some people who are presenting some symptoms id not actually been confirmed as having the virus, but others who are presenting symptoms are being confirmed, so we need far greater assurance through testing on a weekly basis that we have got the right people isolated and the right staff working with them. right people isolated and the right staff working with them. I am sure, professor, as sam was listening carefully to what you are saying, do you think, given what sam has said and the different elements to this, the different numbers and representations, different sectors of society, that makes it more difficult to say with assurance that we have passed the peak . difficult to say with assurance that we have passed the peak . I think the total numbers, the smooth total numbers, not just the total numbers, the smooth total numbers, notjust the daily bouncing around and the three day average and so on, and some very clever mathematicians in the Civil Service provide daily graphs that they put on the web and you can see there is a trend forming. It is really sad about the care homes because they are part of our Health Service in the broadest sense. They may not be nhs but they are health care for the nation. These people are really vulnerable. Testing has been one of the failures. The two things that i clear failures here. The failures. The two things that i clearfailures here. Ppe, we have heard about, and testing. Both for the virus and the antibodies. The testis the virus and the antibodies. The test is not expensive, it can be done. We havent ramped up the numbers. At the moment it is about 21,000 per day being done. We were promised 100,000 by the end of the month. That is less than a week away. We are not going to get there. And i think some better strategy has to be developed for getting us out of here. We all want to get out. People want to get out, children wa nt to people want to get out, children want to get out and go back to school. We have to develop a good strategy to get us out of lockdown now and take it publicly instead of giving it a secret in the govan. For that to happen do you think we need to see a significant drop in the daily death toll . When do you think that might happen . Again, i am a lwa ys that might happen . Again, i am always an optimist. I think by next week it will clearly be falling, and with the drop in hospitalisations continuing, that is the first thing to see. A drop in hospitalisations meaning less people going to hospital, less people in Critical Care, and therefore less deaths. It will come. I like to think by sunday of this week, this weekend, we will see a very convincing drop in the death rate. The smooth death rate. And also a drop in the incidences. It is going down, it doesnt look too great simply because we are doing more testing and picking up my cases, including in care homes, i hope. But i think we will get there fairly soon and, as i say, we have got to check out and we have got to get back to normal business both within the nhs and with the economy. Thank you both very much. We will put some of the points you have both mentioned to Helen Whately, the care minister, who isjoining us injust over ten minutes. We often hear about the need to protect the vulnerable throughout this crisis, but now concerns are being raised about whether children who need extra support are being kept safe. The childrens commissioner for england says shes concerned some of them may drop off the radar under lockdown, as theyre not attending school in term time or seeing as many people as they usually would. Our education correspondent Frankie Mccamley reports. Some are struggling. Some are really, really struggling. Jade not her real name has a child whos classed as vulnerable. They have been attending school for the last four weeks. If she didnt come to school, wed be clashing, arguing all the time, constantly. There wouldnt really be much of a relationship there, if im honest. Its structured, shes got a routine, she knows shes got support here. Shes safe here. Jade struggles to make ends meet, so school is a relief. When your kid comes to school, they get lunch every day. So you know you havent got to worry about that meal. I know it sounds silly, but you havent. From a monday to a friday, you havent got to worry about that meal. Now youve got to worry about that every day. There are all sorts of reasons that a child will be on a list classed as vulnerable. Some may have been allocated a social worker. For others, there could have been violence or abuse at home. So its essential for schools and support services to stay in touch with these children ultimately, to make sure theyre safe. But children and families are falling off the radar. This school has lost contact with a handful of children, despite phoning home and knocking on doors. To be honest, it gives me sleepless nights, worrying about those particular children. We are trying to work really hard with Childrens Services and with kind of the other schools in our locality to try and find out where those children are, to see who has been in contact with them, when was the last time they have been seen . Government data shows as many as 95 of the most Vulnerable Children have not been attending school during the coronavirus crisis. Some may be self isolating or living with Vulnerable People, but others should be attending. Most of the Vulnerable Children in this country are not going into school, despite the fact that schools are open for them. And what that means is theyre at home with potentially this kind of cocktail of secondary risks. Now, government needs to do everything they can to ensure they reduce the dangers that these families are facing during this time of crisis. The government says its providing extra funding to councils and Childrens Charities to offer support to vulnerable youngsters. But for children who rely on schools to keep them safe, some stuck at home could be facing a greater risk, hidden from those who are trying to protect them. Frankie mccamley, bbc news. Much to think about this morning. Much to think about this morning. Much to think about. Carol com you changed your picture just as i saw. Changed your picture just as i saw. I saw 14 ducklings yesterday. That is why i was so excited to see that. 14 ducklings. 0h, that is why i was so excited to see that. 14 ducklings. Oh, my goodness. Arent they just the cutest things . Look at them a real sure sign of spring. This picture was sent in by one of our weather watchers this morning and it was taken in wigan. The sun is shining on the ducklings, as well. It is shining in bedfordshire, as you can see. And for many of us, that is the forecast. It will be dry and sunny and feeling warmer than yesterday. High pressure is weakening but is still with us. The spacing of the isobars tells us as they open out it will not be as windy today. But we still have gusty winds. Just not feeling quite as cool down this east coast. The other thing we have this morning is high cloud across South West England, building through wales, Northern Ireland, north west england and southern and western scotland, turning the sunshine hazy. But not spoiling it. These were the gusts yesterday, about 35 by 40 depending on where you wear. Today it is more likely to be about 25, tops. You can see the temperatures ranging from 12 in lerwick, where there will be more at low cloud developing late in the day, to about 20, 21 as we sweep further south. This evening and overnight, more low cloud will develop three parts of wales, the pennines, southern and eastern scotland, and it will be cold enough in the north east in sheltered glens for a touch of frost. Features ranging from three in aberdeen and newcastle to about seven or eight as we push down towards london, cardiff and plymouth. Tomorrow morning, all that low cloud will lift quite quickly, it will burn away, and for most of us it will be dry and sunny and it will feel warmer stop we are going to lose that nagging easterly wind we had for the few days. Perhaps we will see a bit of a sea breeze developed along the south coast and temperatures tomorrow picking up. Somewhere in central, southern england, around west london, hampshire, bedfordshire, three parts of buckinghamshire, places like that, berkshire, could see as much as 23, 24, even 25 degrees. Belfast 15 and glasgow 17. As we head through friday, we still will start off with low cloud and eastern areas. That will burn away and we areas. That will burn away and we are still looking at a largely dry day with a lot of sunshine around. Northern isles could see some low cloud with spots of rain coming out of that. Temperatures in the north continuing to rise. 17 in belfast and 20 in glasgow. But in the south we are looking at about 22. As we head into the weekend, High Pressure is still in charge of our weather but just by the is still in charge of our weather butjust by the skin of its teeth. Then we have a weather front that looks like it will come in from the west on sunday and if it does it may well bring some rain across parts of Northern Ireland and also western scotland. But one thing you will notice about this weekends whether it is that it will be a little bit cloudier than it has been during this working week, and the temperature will also slip a little bit, but not by much. We are only looking at a two or three or 4 degrees slip. Im off to lead my cou nty degrees slip. Im off to lead my county is now back to you both you dont need to . When you Say Something like to the west of london, you say bedfordshire, and you think. Oops it is early in the morning. People will forgive you anything. If they dont, i will have them laughter hello, this is breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. An raf plane carrying personal protective equipment for Health Workers has landed in the uk after days of delays. It was due to arrive here from turkey on sunday, but landed in the early hours of this morning. The plane was carrying several tonnes of ppe, human trials of a vaccine for covid 19 in the uk will start tomorrow as the Health Secretary matt hancock says the government is throwing everything at it. Its providing more than £40 million in funding to scientists in oxford and london. At yesterdays Daily Briefing, the Health Secretary matt hancock said a vaccine was the best way to defeat coronavirus. President trump has said his plan to ban immigration into the us will last for 60 days and apply only to those seeking to become permanent residents. He said the measure would protect americans who had lost jobs because of the coronavirus. The us has the highest number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the world more than 820,000 and almost 45,000 people have died. We have got the care minister coming up we have got the care minister coming upfor we have got the care minister coming up for you shortly. Before we bring this to you, we bring you this news. His colleagues have described him as the father of the Emergency Department who was widely respected across the nhs. Sadly, earlier this week Manjeet Singh riyat died after being diagnosed with coronavirus. He was the uks first sikh a e consultant, and worked at the royal derby hospital. We can speak now to his friend drjagdeesh singh dhaliwal, who joins us from melbourne. Good morning to you. Thank you very much forjoining us. Just tell us a little bit about your friend and when you first met him. little bit about your friend and when you first met him. I met him on the first day of starting medical school. I wandered the first day of starting medical school. Iwandered into the first day of starting medical school. I wandered into the hallway and came across this incredibly warm chap, just very kind and very charismatic at that time. You could already see, building up the french at over five years in medical school. It has been a real shock for us asa school. It has been a real shock for us as a group of friends in medical school to hear of the death. He would have thought he would live till 120. To think he is gone is devastating. A lot has been made of the fact he is the first amd senior consultant, who is asian, in the uk. A e consultant, who is asian, in the uk. A e senior consultant, who is sleek, in the uk. For him, it was about being a doctor, being his own person. I would see things in that way. At the same time, of course, being a fellow sikh, we had that additional pride of seeing one of our community and that prominent position. We have. Our community and that prominent position. We have. Devastating for his colleagues working in the environment we know theyll working on at the moment. When you think of someone of his calibre, at that stage in his career, doctors are a real gold mine and treasure trove of information and experience. You act asa information and experience. You act as a source of information to patient care and inspirational role models for other doctors coming through. It is a tremendous loss for patient care and all of us who are his friends and colleagues. You have close contact with what is going on in the uk. You are in australia at the moment. Can you compare the way things are being sorted with regards to coronavirus in those two countries at the moment . to coronavirus in those two countries at the moment . I have spent most of my professional life in the uk. I am very proud to work in the uk. I am very proud to work in the us. It was simply for family reasons on my wifes side. I still praise some of the achievements of the nhs which we would like to have here in australia. Around coronavirus, as an expat, we do look back at what is happening in our home country and scratch our heads. Aspects around social distancing measures which were putting quite early in australia. We were talking to friends and colleagues in the uk and were confused as to why things we re and were confused as to why things were not happening. Here in australia, if you took a flight, you had two weeks quarantine you did not in the uk. Some of the quarantine measures had been stricter in australia. With ppe meant we did have concerns and now it is getting better. Mass testing is commonly available and we are being encouraged to test, test, test as much as we can. On monday, the commonwealth government, federal governments where they were able to relax things slightly but there is no way that can happen in the uk. Naturally questions arise. I have lost my friends i cannot help but be a bit angry. I lost my friends i cannot help but be a bitangry. I do lost my friends i cannot help but be a bit angry. I do wonder whether measures around social distancing, if they were applied early and having proper protection for health ca re having proper protection for Health Care Professionals would have made a difference. I know at the daily government briefing here in the uk there has been a lotta questions about the openness of airports and people coming into this country. A lot of questions. There has been quite a bit of talk this week about the High Percentage of lives from coronavirus in the bame communities. Would you like to see a bit more research around that . Absolutely. Bame, have a lot of people in caring professions anyway. Is it to do with genetics . Is it to do with risk profiles that bame people have . Thank you for talking to us today. I appreciate you coming in and spending time to talk about your good friend. Thank you for speaking to us from melbourne this morning. Lets speak now to the care minister Helen Whateley, who joins us from her constituency in kent. Good morning to you. I am not sure how much of that interview you are able to hear. We had just been talking about the a e consultant who has died. How many nhs workers have died with coronavirus . Every single death is a death too many. I dont wa nt to death is a death too many. I dont want to just talk about statistics and numbers, each life lost is of huge sadness and leaves a gap for family, friends, colleagues, eve ryo ne family, friends, colleagues, everyone who knew them. Coming to your question, we know 61 nhs workers have died and, at the moment, full care workers, a total of 15. We are looking to get more comprehensive data on that. It is important for us to know the number of people working in health and care who are dying because they are at the front line of this. Lets do everything we can to protect their lives. Of the 61, are they in a particular area, do we know, the nhs workers . I dont have geographical information about that. We have seen stories from different places in the country where people have died and we also need to understand how people are contracting coronavirus and whether it is work or other contacts. Obviously, recognise that if you are a Health Care Worker you are ina if you are a Health Care Worker you are in a different position from those who are isolating and able to work from home. I cannot say enough how much i appreciate and am grateful to ca re how much i appreciate and am grateful to care workers who are going into work and looking after people who so badly need their care. With regard to care workers and nhs workers, we had talked continually about ppe and what is going on. We know this raf plane has arrived in the uk from turkey. It is days late and isnt it embarrassing . The reality of importing ppe at the moment, you are in a situation where there is a global shortage and factories around the world are making ppe as fast as they can. What we had seen, whether with this delivery of previous deliveries, sometimes they get delayed and sometimes they get delayed and sometimes they get delayed and sometimes they do not turn up. Some deliveries have not arrived. The important thing is we are working to secure an excess of supply to make sure we have more than we need and at least what we need because it is so important to come back to health and care workers, to make sure they have the equipment they need for their own safety and also for the safety of the people they look after. A number of uk companies have been telling the bbc that offers will help full protective gear have been ignored, had they . There has been ignored, had they . There has been a tremendous response with regard to ppe supply and manufacture. Over 8000 companies have responded. Thousands of those offers for help have been reviewed and 3000 had been responded to in some detail. We are seeing a huge spectrum between some organisations who can make and supply large volumes, already do supply from china, and others who have started up china, and others who have started up within the last couple of days, offering help, for which we are grateful that do not have a solid supply chain and necessarily get equipment to the standard we require. It has to meet uk safety standards. It is really tremendous that we have had that response. The government is going through those offers but prioritising and getting supply from the ones we are more confident can deliver supplies that we need. The most important thing is to get in equipment that people need. You made the point people need this equipment. There are shortages. There are some reports that sam ppe has been shipped from british warehouses to places like germany, spain and italy, what is going on . It is an International Market in the supply of ppe and it is important that that is reciprocated. Where we have supplied things, things we do not have a shortage of, we must maintain supplies to other countries and we get supplies in return. For instance, when china had the peak of its epidemic in wuhan, we responded to the chinese request and supplied them with a small amount of ppe, which china has supplied us with many times over. It is a global shortage of ppe but it is also a Global Pandemic and all countries in the world need to get through it. somebody is watching this morning and they are an nhs worker and they are concerned they do not have equipment that they need to be safe to do theirjobs, they know things are being shipped out of british warehouses, that is quite difficult to hear, isnt it . We are taking in so much more ppe than the small amount we are importing. We are a net importer of ppe. Millions of items of ppe are coming to the uk each week to get to the front line. This morning we had a shipment of gowns from my anime and a plane landing from turkey. I am expecting millions of facemasks this week. From myanmar. Are some particular items, we are in short supply, it is really tight and we are doing everything we can to make sure it is what people need. Talking about what is going on in care homes, i do not know if you heard it but we were speaking to the chief executive of the charity mha care homes. He told us there are real concerns about the numbers of deaths in care homes. What we are seeing is about a 60 70 increase on the death rate that we would expect around this time of year. The figures yesterday show a kind of doubling in recent weeks in terms of the mortality rate that there has been through covid. I think its too early i wouldnt be as confident to be able to say we have reached any sort of plateau or peak. He says they have seen a 60 to 70 rise in deaths. How many people in ca re rise in deaths. How many people in care homes have died from coronavirus . I absolutely share his concern, im really worried about deaths in care homes. And while we are seeing a levelling off deaths in hospitals, i dont think we are seeing that in care homes. I think we are seeing the numbers going up which is why a huge amount of work is going on to support care homes to try to manage and prevent outbreaks of covid 19 in care homes. 1043 people were reported as dying in ca re people were reported as dying in care homes yesterday by ons but there is a care home there is alike in their data. I know the numbers must be higher than that. We are working to be able to publish data next week which will show a more accurate and timely picture. The problem we have at the moment with the data is that it doesnt account between people died in care homes and who died in hospital. The data it will be confusing because of that duplication. We are working to get data out next week which will give an accurate and more timely picture. One of the things he also said is that gps cannot go into care homes at the moment and so are members of staff are kind of having to give the information and register it deaths. What do you think of that happening . Im asking for gps and district nurses to be giving every possible support they can to care homes at the moment. We are dealing with a really difficult situation and looking after patients who are sicker than they usually would be, who in other circumstances might choose to be admitted to hospital but are not at the moment. As we heard from the interview earlier, people who are looking after residents who are dying. I am asking and have asked for doctors and senior experienced nurses to be giving extra support to care homes, whether that is remotely or when appropriate to be going in person in appropriate to be going in person in appropriate ppe. This is a really important moment where the nhs and ca re important moment where the nhs and care sector can and often are working really closely together. I have heard from care providers who say they are getting lots of support from gps but others who say they feel they need more support from the nhs to cope. Every single death is devastating for the persons family, their friends, the devastating for the persons family, theirfriends, the person working with them. But if you havent got a handle on the numbers, how can you make this better . What we can see from the overall picture is that we know that people are dying much more than usual in the care sector. We also have some figures about the number of outbreaks in care homes. Around a quarter of care homes in the country are reporting they have an outbreak. In some areas, particularly the north west, north east and london, that figure is more like 30 . We do know large numbers of care homes are trying to manage with an outbreak and that is where we are particularly focusing the support we can give, in those areas. I will not suggest for a moment that this is easy. There are nearly 30,000 care providers, and home care providers who are looking after people who can be overlooked and we want to support them as best we can, looking after some of the most Vulnerable People in the country who are at greatest risk if they catch the virus. Helen whately, ca re they catch the virus. Helen whately, care minister, thank you for your time this morning. It is 7 50am. We will be speaking to the Shadow Health ministerJonathan Ashworth at about 8 30am. Sally has also been looking at potential plans. Well, u efa looking at potential plans. Well, uefa have been talking about what might happen to some leagues across europe. Thats right. They had a massive meeting yesterday in which they admitted some of the league simply will not be able to finish. They have said that for the first time, that some of the leagues will definitely be cancelled this season. I want to speak to you about the dutch league. Something incredible might happen there. The dutch fa said it did not intend to finish the top division there, after a ban on major events in the country was extended to the 1st of september. There are two sides level at the top of the table az alkmaar drew level with ajax shortly before the league was suspended, with ajax only ahead on goal difference. So giving them the title now would surely have repercussions. Some of the european leagues are making plans to finish off their campaigns. The italian fa say their top division could resume in late may. In spain, the government says training could begin earlyjune but germany appear to be further ahead, with the possibility of bundesliga matches being played behind closed doors within weeks. Were all in training now in small groups, i think around two weeks, and i think its quite a good thing for the bundesliga or, i think, for professional football that you somehow find a little bit a way back to normality. And having these games without supporters, but big crowds on television, i think will also do something very good for the community. The proposed sale of Newcastle United has hit another bump, with the premier league being urged to fully investigate the deal. The plea has come from Television Company bein sport, one of the premier leagues major partners, whore based in qatar. They hold the rights to show english matches in the region but they say the government in saudi arabia has allowed another broadcaster to stream games illegally. Its a saudi backed consortium thats planning to buy newcastle. Two tottenham players have apologised for breaking the lockdown restrictions. Serge aurier posted a video on social media showing him and Moussa Sissoko training together and sitting beside eachother. He quickly deleted it. The pair said they recognised they werent setting the right example, and theyd be making a donation to Nhs Charities. And just before i go, anyone missing professional cycling can go to the bbc sport website and the iplayer today, for the start of the digital swiss 5 a virtual version of the cancelled tour of switzerland, with riders tackling the course at home on their training bikes. They are racing a course that some people might find familiar. They will basically be in lockdown, at home, pedalling away. Does that sound familiar . Exactly like you, sally and dan, and everyone else who is joining sally and dan, and everyone else who isjoining in in my idea that started small. It is called the big bike in, to support the big night in dentons toggle and it has grown. will come in right at the end for the glory stage. I will get you over the glory stage. I will get you over the line. I will get 100 miles done in an hour, i think. You are donating £1 for every mile. I will pit, i will donate £1 for every mile you cycle and for every mile that sally cycles. Pressure louise cant give all the names away but there are some big names are. Louise cant give all the names away but there are some big names arem will be very exciting. People who dont normally cycle together and from lots of different disciplines will be doing that. Holiday companies are being accused of breaking the law by refusing refunds for trips that have been cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak. Nina is looking at this today and lots of people have been getting in touch, havent they . They have. The only bike in my house has a stabilises and it is a paw patrol bike so i canjoin in. We were saying earlier how upsetting it is to have a holiday cancelled even if you fully understand why. But it feels like another kick in the teeth if youre desperate to get that money back and keep hitting a brick wall. The Consumer Group which . Says that up to £7 billion has been paid out in the uk on trips that are now longer happening. That are no longer happening. Unemployment is soaring, businesses are struggling and millions of workers are on furlough so understandably lots of people want that cash back. So what are your rights . Well, for package holidays, or where youve booked a flight and hotel from the same website, eu package travel regulations states you are entitled to a similar replacement holiday, a lower grade holiday with a reimbursement for the difference. Which . Found that while some companies are offering full refunds the likes of trailfinders, kuoni, responsible travel some big Companies Like loveholidays, and even the uks biggest travel firm tui, have not been proactively offering refunds. Its a similar story for the airlines. Flights are covered by whats called eu denied boarding regulations. Under these rules you are entitled to a reimbursement within seven days of the full costs of the ticket. Which . Says frustrated customers have told them how airlines are making it near impossible to get their money back. Lots have you have been in touch to say instead you have been offered vouchers. We spoke to tim and becca. Having faced the disappointment of having to cancel their wedding, they are now facing a battle trying to get the cash back from their honeymoon flights. We we re we were not able to fly, obviously, and we are still waiting for nearly £1500 in refunds to reach us via air canada. We have been offered slight credit but, personally, we cannot acce pt credit but, personally, we cannot accept that. We have been offered slight credit. Theyre not alone. Ffion in ayrshire once had £4000 back. Linda saved at £400 for a trip to the lake district. She has only been offered a credit note. Colin wants his cash back for a 5000 pantries. Polling has been offered a voucher to go to las vegas. Perhaps even more frustratingly, joe has been furloughed and once in £1700 back but says she cannot even get in touch with the travel company. Lots of you are saying similar. Martin is trying to get in touch with tui over a cruise but cant even contact them. Hundreds of people trying to get in touch because they want this cash back now. What about your contact with the companies, what are they saying . Tui have said they will provide a refund for customers but it will take some time, beyond 14 days. Loveholidays says its currently issuing credit notes but that its policy is under review. Abt has said the government segment need to suspend current regulations. These are exceptional times and we need to accept a credit note to give companies a bit of breathing space. It is a difficult situation. And its a difficult situation. The World Travel Tourism council estimates that a million jobs are being lost every day in the travel and Tourism Sector because of the pandemic. If you can afford to accept a credit note it would help them stay afloat. This could send some companies under. If you cant, or if youre anxious that you wont get your holiday at all keep asking for the refund, its your right. Itsjust going to take some time for obvious reasons. Ultimately, you could try a claim in the Small Claims Court but lets hope it doesnt come to that. Some nice weather on the way. Good morning. Good morning, we have blue skies this morning. You can see here in lincolnshire. Many parts of the uk are looking out of your window at skies like this. Dry and sunny and feeling warmer today because the wind will not be as strong as it has beenin wind will not be as strong as it has been in the last couple of days. We have some low cloud here which will be slow to clear across shetland. We also has some high cloud across South West England which were dressed in driven to wales, Northern England, southern and western scotland, turning the sunshine hazy but not really spoiling it. 21 degrees in cardiff, 16 in norwich. If you are exposed to the north sea coastline today with still the wind coming across the north sea, it will feel chilly but not as cold as it has done in the last couple of days. In lerwick, 12 the top temperature, stornoway 14, the top temperature, stornoway14, 13 newcastle and 21 in cardiff. Through this evening and overnight, low cloud will form across parts of wales, the pennines, southern and eastern scotland. In sheltered glens once again it will be cold enough for a touch of frost. A temperature range roughly about three degrees in aberdeen and newcastle to about eight in london. Also cardiff and plymouth. Strong april sunshine, this cloud will burn away quite quickly tomorrow, then a lot of dry weather, a lot of sunshine, sea breeze developing across the south coast and we are losing that nagging easterly so it will feel warm it for you along this east coast. But somewhere in central southern england, buckinghamshire, three, for example, bedfordshire, which is to the west of london you are likely to see 21. To the other side of london, we are looking at about 25. Ive got that wrong again bedfordshire is to the east of london a warm day tomorrow. Friday sta rts london a warm day tomorrow. Friday starts with mist and fog. In eastern areas. That will bend back towards the coast and eventually clear. We will see some sunshine coming through and one across parts of glasgow and also Northern Ireland. We are looking at about 17 to 20. 22 in the south stop dropping temperature in the south by a few degrees. And as we head into saturday, we still have a fair bit of cloud across eastern areas. Burning back towards the north sea coast and some will not lift. If you are stuck under it it means temperatures will be pegged back. For the rest of the uk it will be dry, afair for the rest of the uk it will be dry, a fair bit of sunshine, outside chance of a shower in the west and temperatures ranging from nine to about 19 degrees. The headlines are coming up. Good morning, welcome to breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. Our headlines today three days later than promised a plane load of protective equipment bound for front line workers arrives from turkey. The government promises more than £40 million towards research for a coronavirus vaccine. Human trials begin tomorrow. Good morning. The Holiday Companies breaking the law by refusing refunds. 20 of the biggest travel operators and airlines are delaying, or refusing refunds for cancelled trips. We for cancelled trips. Have a look at your questions. Its wednesday 22nd april. Our top story. An raf plane carrying personal protective equipment for Health Workers has landed in the uk after days of delays. It was due to arrive here from turkey on sunday, but landed in the early hours of this morning. The plane was carrying several tonnes of ppe, including much needed gowns and masks. Concerns have been raised about the number of deaths in care homes. Earlier on breakfast, we spoke to the care Helen Whateley she said the government is doing its best to support them. Im really, really worried about deaths in care and while were a levelling off deaths in hospitals, i dont think were seeing that in care homes. I think were the numbers going up, which is why a huge amount of work is going on to support carers and try and manage and prevent outbreaks of covid in care homes. Lets speak now to our Political Correspondent leila nathoo. So much concern about care homes and also about ppe as well. What is going on . You heard earlier there is still a global shortage of ppe but there is clearly a discrepancy between the government saying it can do or that its doing all it can to get ppe to the front line of the nhs and what work is on the nhs front line are reporting. It seems a bit hand to mouth at the moment. Clearly, the situation over the flight clearly, the situation over the flight from turkey. There are clearly questions to be asked about whether the government could have done more early on in the crisis to get ahead of this challenge. A row has broken out about an eu procurement scheme that was begun earlier in the air, that was bulk buying medical supplies, including ppe and ventilators. The government line has been changing on this, initially saying we had chosen not to ta ke initially saying we had chosen not to take part because we were no longer members of the eu although we we re longer members of the eu although we were eligible to, being in the transition period. Then there was an idea being suggested that we missed out due to a communication error. Then we had an extraordinary claim yesterday from a senior Civil Servant that it had been a political decision. That was denied by the help secretary matt hancock and then the Civil Servants statement was retracted. This does seem a bit of a rail that highlights whether they could have been decisions taken earlier on to get the government ahead of what is now turned into a major challenge, or in fact were there opportunities missed to leave there opportunities missed to leave the uk in a stronger position. Also parliament, sitting today, and as for everyone, there will be significant changes . for everyone, there will be significant changes . I think mps are very happy to be back, scrutinising the governments world but there have had to be major changes to the way the commons will be conducting its business. There will only be a maximum of 50 mps in the chamber any one time and an extra 120 can be accessing proceedings via video conference. Today we have the first pm qs with the labour leader said keir starmer, his first outing. He wont be facing borisjohnson but dominic raab, the first secretary of state. Dominic raab, the first secretary of state. Yo u , dominic raab, the first secretary of state. You, leila. As many as 95 of the most Vulnerable Children in england have not been attending their Emergency School places during the coronavirus outbreak. The childrens commissioner for england says shes concerned the uks most Vulnerable Children may drop off social services radar because theyre not getting their usual support during term time. The government says its providing extra funding to councils and Childrens Charities to support vulnerable young people. Theres a warning this morning that cancer and Heart Patients are being left in limbo while Health Services are diverted to tackle coronavirus. Professor karol sikora at the university of buckingham told bbc breakfast that weve got to get the nhs back to normal. Once the floodgates open, which i hope they will in the next few weeks, then theres going to be a very huge backlog of Cancer Patients needing treatment that will flood the system and weve got to get them through it and weve got to do it in a timely way. So, huge challenges ahead for us once we get over this but we will get over it. Italy will announce a plan to gradually exit its lockdown there by the end of this week. The Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has said the country could not give up their policy of maximum caution, but that they expect to begin the relaxation from the 4th of may. Italy has reported more than 24,000 deaths the highest recorded toll in europe. Spanish authorities have announced that children under 14 can accompany their parents to the pharmacy and on grocery trips from monday. Children in spain have not been allowed outside since the middle of march because of the countrys strict rules. The government has extended the nationwide lockdown until 9th may and said children still wont be able to go out and play. When 17 year old carer kia presented one of her residents with a special gift, she thought it was just a simple gesture of kindness. But a heart warming video of the moment has been viewed by millions online. You might remember, we spoke to her yesterday. She has been inundated with messages of support from around the world. Today, weve been to catch up with two people who are a little bit closer to home, her grandparents. Hello i got you a present hey . I got you a present. Whats that, darling . It was a simple gesture that went a long way. 0h crying last year, d day veteran ken benbow lost his wife of 71 years, and every night he slept with a framed photo of ada by his side. But 17 year old carer kia knew how much she missed her. How beautiful. Kia only started working as a carer home worker at thistleton lodge, near preston, last year, but shes already built a strong bond with ken and the other residents. Kia, well all of them, really, theyre like angels. They look after us. Were not wanting for anything. Such a lovable place, management perfect, everything. But its just as good when you have residents as good as ken. Now, her good deed has gone global. But the people most proud are slightly closer to home. Kia has lived with her grandparents, linda and george, or as she calls them, nanna and pap, since she was six. She does give a lot of compassion down there for her age, really. You know . But ive got to keep remembering she is only 17. But were so proud of her, really. Shes really, really shone it with this. And all she said, well it was it was a cushion. And i said, yeah, but look what what you did, you know, made him so happy. Two weeks ago, she moved into the care home, to keep her grandparents and those she cares for safe. She always made sure that me and george was ok first, and got us sorted at the house. When she knew that we were all right, instead of coming home from her shift, she decided to live there. She could do, you know, do betterfor them. Do better for us, really, not coming home. While linda and george didnt know about kias plans for ken, her kindness didnt come as a surprise. The emotion of him was unbelievable, what she did. And it was something that she just thought shed do. Just simple from her. No suggestions from anybody, that. No suggestions. We didnt even know, did we . No. She didnt know she just i didnt know until we saw it on this, this morning. Thats what shes like, isnt it . Yeah, just out of the blue. They miss kia every day, but cant wait for her to come home for a hug. Im proud, unexpected, i think youve got a good head on your shoulders, and carry on doing what youre doing, youre doing a marvellous job. Well done, kia yeah, well done, kia, keep up what youre doing and well see you later. A lovely relationship, isnt it . Absolutely lovely. She is 17 and doing an incredible job. Absolutely lovely. She is 17 and doing an incrediblejob. It is nice to celebrate people as well. Her entire family should be incredibly proud. I think may be seeing ken on the tv yesterday has prompted people to ask about terence. He is ok, he is being looked after by friends, new friend some of those, and by his neighbours and age uk oldham. On the tony side of things, i speak to a most weeks, i spoke to him yesterday. He is in a bit of a desperate situation at the moment. There he is, some pictures. Essentially, you might have seen this on social media but quite a bit of the memorabilia, the pictures that he looked after and some of the flags from the memorial have gone missing from that memorial. We think that happened overnight monday, possibly into tuesday. Tony is, ill be honest with you, he is in pieces about this because they are hugely of sentimental value to him, as you can probably understand. So its not the sort of thing we would normally do on breakfast but i promised tony i would do everything i could. If you do know anything, feel free to get in contact with me here. Were not looking to follow up on anything or point fingers, we just want to get stuff back to tony because it means an awful lot to him. So let us know if you hear anything, if you know if you hear anything, if you know anything. Try to get it back to the memorial. I think being able to get even some of that back would make a huge difference to tony, particularly at moment. Hes fit and healthy and staying at home as much as he can but this has had a big impact on him, so please help if you can. It is 8 11. As parliament reconvened yesterday with limited numbers in the house of commons, the government faced more criticism over the supply of ppe to Health Workers. The labour leader sir keir starmer said something had clearly gone wrong in the supply of gowns, masks and other potentially life saving kit. We can speak now to the Shadow Health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth. Hejoins us from he joins us from leicester. Hejoins us from leicester. Good morning, mr ashworth. Thank you for being with us on blue breakfast. We are hearing from the government saying they will throw everything at it and saying they will throw everything at itand ran saying they will throw everything at it and ran things up, talk about being ina it and ran things up, talk about being in a unprecedented situation. What have you made on the opposition benches of their efforts so far . One of the things that has concerned us as we often get or hear from firms getting in touch with us telling us that they have offered to supply ppe to the government, that they can provide ppe for ourfront to the government, that they can provide ppe for our front line to the government, that they can provide ppe for ourfront line nhs workers and our social care workers and they get in touch with the government in the way in which theyve been told to and dont hear anything back. We as mps also pass on these offers of help to the government as well. I think given this is a National Crisis and we know that doctors and nurses on the front line needs at this ppe. We know social care workers desperately need this ppe and we hear stories of them going without, i want us to mobilise our british firms. Lets get our production lines running in british firms, who can make this ppe. It may well be that some of these firms can only make small quantities of it but that doesnt matter because we need everybody, we need everybody doing what they can as part of this national effort. So we will keep passing on these details to the government. We will keep asking the government to get back to british firms. We are in the labour party huge supporters of the small and medium sized businesses in this country and we know that when we are in lockdown the impact on the economy. I think its absolutely vital we are supporting our Small Businesses because they are the backbone of our economy. Why do you think this is not happening it sits simply down to the scale of the operation . I think it is to do with the scale. I think its because if you are getting thousands of requests into government, they probably havent got enough resource to respond to everything. It is understandable but its why we are trying to help by passing on the requests as well. The government have looked at buying a lot of this ppe internationally but that doesnt a lwa ys ppe internationally but that doesnt always work. We know at the weekend the government said we had 400,000 gallons coming in from turkey on a flight gallons coming in from turkey on a flight the next day and it turned out that the flight wasnt coming in the next day. 400,000 gallons. They hadnt spoken to the turkish authorities at that point. So difficult is when youre trying to get this all on the international stage. A lot of it will have to come internationally but we have firms in this country offering to make this ppe, lets use our british firms, lets get our people to work making this ppe to safeguard our brave nhs and social care staff. Also an announcement yesterday at the Daily Briefing about 40 odd Million Pounds going to oxford and london universities who are working on a vaccine. This has been normally a five year process which has been squeezed into about four months, good news on the vaccine front . Tremendous news and if we can get a vaccine, that will just tremendous news and if we can get a vaccine, that willjust change everything. In the end, the vaccine is the way in which we defeat this virus. Until we have a vaccine, we either stay in a lockdown for months and months, which has huge implications for health more widely. At the moment, people are having their operations cancelled. People with cancer are not getting the treatment that they need. We know a lockdown has a huge impact on Mental Health outcomes. A lockdown to defeat singh is important but it also has other. It creates other health problems. So to get out of it you need a vaccine or a mass testing and tracing strategy. That is one of the other things we have been pushing the government on. Are you going to mobilise and extend testing wider in the community and are you going to have a tracing strategy based on using apps and mobilising a workforce to Contact Trace people . Without that, a lockdown is a blunt tool in defeating this virus. Important but blunt. We will see pmst today with keir starmer. Something has gone wrong with gowns, masks and life saving equipment, that was his quote in the last couple of days. I wonder what his ta ke couple of days. I wonder what his take will be when he goes head to head with the government today . He has spoken in the past and you have as well about making sure its an effort to try and get us out the other side of coronavirus, right across parliament. How critical will he be of the government today . think where the government are not doing as well as they should, its important we as the opposition asked questions. Its important we ask questions. Its important we ask questions about whats happening in our care homes. Yesterday, we heard the news that 1000 people have died in care homes. Weve always known our care homes and Nursing Homes we re our care homes and Nursing Homes were high risk populations, highly vulnerable to this virus. And in a way, i look at it like this, the nhs i think has done remarkable work in scaling up Critical Care capacity. In discharging patients, getting retired staff back in, we havent had the same detailed strategy for social care. I would say to the government, can we have a detailed strategy for social care, where you get ppe to staff and test staff properly and if you have residents in care homes coming down with covid 19, why not move them into some of these empty hospitals . We think there are hundreds of empty general hospitals, lets use them for residents from care homes because if we dont do that, we will see the death rate continue to increase in care homes in that shattering for so many families who have a loved one in a care home. On theissue have a loved one in a care home. On the issue of death rates, i know you have had a busy morning. We were talking to a professor who was talking to a professor who was talking about. His view is we have now passed the peak and well see, he says he is an optimist but he said by this weekend, he feels there might bea said by this weekend, he feels there might be a significant drop in the number of deaths. Do you share that optimistic point of view, that we are past the peak . I would be slightly more cautious, although it does look like the admissions and two hospitals are beginning to plateau. I think we will sadly see death rates continue to rise. The issue with care homes is, there is a ten day lag in the information that comes out. We dont get daily, a daily figure for the number of people dying in care homes. Ten days ago, i think there was about. I feel for what the next figure will be. I think it is urgent how the government. We need a proper plan to protect care homes and nursing and to protect staff who work in them with ppe and testing. As i say, if there are thousands of general and acute beds empty in hospitals, which we expect they are, the government dont update us on the figures, but lets move residents from care homes and to those beds for their own safety a nd and to those beds for their own safety and protection. If you are in charge at the moment, whether that be your main area of focus, and sorting of a care home situation . think so. We have always known that ca re think so. We have always known that care homes were highly, highly vulnerable. I keep saying,. The way in which the nhs leadership has set up new hospitals, has expended Critical Care capacity i got retired staff to come back has been really, really outstanding. There has been a really outstanding. There has been a really detailed plan. We have not had the same level of detail plan for social care. Thats what we now need. There is still time to put this in place, to support a population, an Elderly Population which are highly, highly vulnerable to this virus. Jon ashworth a Shadow Health secretary, thank you. Good to speak to. Captain tom moore broke all kinds of records when he walked 100 laps of his garden to raise. Sometimes its not worth mentioning the money, well, not whether it but it so much, £27 million for the nhs. Ina it so much, £27 million for the nhs. In a weeks time, he will hit another really important milestone. But before the war veteran celebrates his 100th birthday, hes got another mammoth task on his hands, sifting though tens of thousands of cards from well wishers. Breakfasts john maguire reports. It may look like christmas, but this is much bigger than christmas. Its the morning delivery at captain tom moores local post office, a Himalayan Mountain of cards arriving ahead of his 100th birthday next week. Its overwhelming, the support that captain tom has from the general public. The whole country is behind him. Hes such a legend. Reminiscent of election night, this has become a military style operation. The cards and parcels are being taken to toms grandsons school, where volunteer staff are flat out. I think a lot of the cards are so heartfelt and it really shows the effort people have put in. I think he will really appreciate that. Im going to try and take pictures of as many as i can and show him to them because he will happily sit through and read them all. This shows that people really do care about this sort of things, especially in tough times. I think people really have joined together to make the effort for this. Well, these are the cards that were opened just yesterday afternoon. There are 3,000 cards here. But today weve seen 30,000 delivered. Who knows . They may even fill this entire hall. Its a wonderful story at a time where, frankly, everybody needed it. And its also a real reaffirmation of peoples kindness. And im a great believer that people are fundamentally kind. And this is just the most wonderful way to show it. We know that his record breaking fundraising for Nhs Charities has touched hundreds of thousands around the world from the old to the young such as melissa grace. She has angelman syndrome, a rare genetic disorder of the nervous system. Helped by her brother, jacob, she used her ipad to tell me how shed been inspired by the war veteran. I wanted to send captain tom a card to help him celebrate his 100th birthday, to show him that i think he is amazing and tomorrow will be a good day. Its a fabulous message to us all, the way he says never give up we can achieve more than we think. Hi. Hi, john. How are you . Good. And reegan, with her mum, lisa, told me why shes raising money for captain toms fund and has organised thousands of children to send him Virtual Birthday cards. Reegan, why do you think he should receive so many cards . Why do you think people should support him . Well. For my opinion, i never saw a 100 year old before because thats probably how i started his campaign, i said id never seen a 100 year old before and started making cards. Hes a war hero. Yeah, hes a war hero and now hes my hero and the nations hero. Thats a point. And hes carrying on walking. He reached his goal and then he carried on. So, at least 35,000 cards and more than a week to go until captain tom moore clocks up his 100 years, this time, not laps. But as we know with this man, a total or a target is just a number. John maguire, bbc news bedford. Just wow its an amazing thing thats happening. His family talked about being speechless when we spoke to them earlier this week. It has been staggering. Thank you for being pa rt been staggering. Thank you for being part of that shall we have a look at the just giving. Part of that shall we have a look at thejust giving. Said about part of that shall we have a look at the just giving. Said about the numbers, 27 million, but very shortly it will go into the 28 million. We are talking about where we think its going to end but im not going to say because its his bed day and you imagine people might bed day and you imagine people might be donating money then. At his peak, he was doing 5 million in an afternoon. I think when it comes around to his birthday, there will be another boost. Lets not forget, it started with £1000, that was his target. He appeared on breakfast on good friday. And he might be number one on sunday. We live in amazing times, carol, and some warmth coming . Indeed, what an amazing total captain tom has raised, what a complete superstar. Looking at this weather watcher picture from bedfordshire but i couldnt find one. So i got to one of lincolnshire instead. Similar weather, blue skies and many of us is starting the day with blue skies. There has been some beautiful sunrises. Today is going to be and it will feel warmer than yesterday because the wind isnt going to be quite as strong. We had low cloud this morning and some frost, that is lifting. In South West England will spread through wales, north west england, Northern Ireland, southern and western scotland through the day, turning the sunshine hazy but not spoiling it. So still a dry day for the Channel Islands come across southern counties, wales, the east midlands and east anglia. Some gusty winds but much less so than yesterday. Northern ireland, Northern Ireland, Northern England and scotland also enjoying a lot of fine weather. Low cloud we currently have across shetland being quite slow to clear and to left. Temperatures 14 in stornoway, 20 or 21 as we sink down towards the south. Through this evening and overnight, we see the return of some low cloud forming across wales, the pennines, southern and also eastern scotland. Another dry night in prospect but a chilly one in sheltered glens, where the temperature will be low enough for a touch of frost. Temperatures in towns and cities ranging from three towns and cities ranging from three to about eight. We start tomorrow with this low cloud but we have strong sunshine, that will burn it off. Tomorrow, a dry day for the most of us. Sea breeze is developing along the south coast and the wind falling light. It will feel warmer along the north sea coast. Tomorrow could be the warmest day of the year, somewhere in Central England to the south east to the west of london could hit 23 25d. For belfast, you are looking at 15. Glasgow, 17. We start friday with some low cloud again in some eastern areas. That will quickly burn away. Then a lot of dry weather around. Thicker cloud building across the Northern Isles producing some spots of rain later in the day but temperature wise, going up in belfast by a couple of degrees to 17. Up again in glasgow, 24 step down to 22 as we push down towards the south. Into saturday, we start with a lot of cloud, especially in some central and eastern areas. That will burn back towards the north sea coastline but some of it will stick. If you are stuck under that, it will feel quite chilly. For most, a dry day, also a sunny day but a bit more cloud towards the west. Here you might see the odd shower, as you could do across the Northern Isles, where his it will also be a little colder. Temperatures of 9 degrees to 19. Sunday, we have a weak weather front that looks like it will come in from the atlantic and it may bring us some spots of rain across Northern Ireland and also western scotla nd Northern Ireland and also western scotland but there is still a lot to play for. One thing you will notice this weekend, it will be claudia and temperatures slowly slipping. Not going to suddenly turn cold, just colder than it is the moment. Some nice numbers, there. No ice age thank you, carol. Coming up to 8 30am. You are watching breakfast with dan and louise. An raf plane carrying personal protective equipment for Health Workers has landed in the uk after days of delays. It was due to arrive here from turkey on sunday, but landed in the early hours of this morning. The plane was carrying several tonnes of ppe, including much needed gowns and masks. Human trials of a vaccine for covid 19 in the uk will start tomorrow as the Health Secretary matt hancock says the government is throwing everything at it. Its providing more than £40 million in funding to scientists in oxford and london. At yesterdays Daily Briefing, the Health Secretary matt hancock said a vaccine was the best way to defeat coronavirus. We can speak now to professor robin shattock, who is the lead professor in one of the teams developing vaccines at Imperial College london. Good morning, thank you forjoining us. So many people will be watching this morning, thinking, when can there be a vaccine . There is no early a nswer to there be a vaccine . There is no early answer to this to tell us what stage where you are at. You are right, its not going to be as quick as people hope. The oxford team are starting their first Clinical Trials this week, we will be slightly behind, starting injune. But that original part of the process is to test that the vaccine is safe, and to look that it produces the right kind of immune response. Itll be awhile before we can do a Larger Community trials to check that the vaccine works, thats unlikely to really get going until later in the summerand really get going until later in the summer and early winter. Tell us how it works. You have a vaccine, and then what is the process exactly . You give some people this vaccine and see what happens . Yeah, in broad terms, that exacting what we do. But you start with low numbers of individuals because you want to be cautious and check its safe. Not that we expect there to be safety issues, but because it will be used in the white population, it has to be really very safe indeed. In the wider population. And we need to check that the type of response is what we will be predicting that the virus is causing the infection. You do not want to give people the virus. Absolutely not, these vaccines are not giving the virus themselves, it gives them a vaccine that exposes them to part of the virus to induce an immune response. So that when somebody sees the virus in the community, they are immune to infection. Im probably asking silly questions, but is it a bit like a flu vaccine . It is a bit like a flu vaccine, the technology is slightly more advanced than four flu vaccines which are, actually, the whole virus that has been inactivated. Most of the approaches are using just exposing the immune system to the protein on the surface of the virus, that spike that you see in the nice pictures that people show of the virus. Thats the part that the immune system needs to recognise and make antibodies against. And of course, safety is a huge issue. Side effects, you dont want people having them. We dont want that. We wa nted having them. We dont want that. We wanted to be tolerable. But we need it to induce a good immune response as well. We are excited that there are two candidates in the uk Going Forward , are two candidates in the uk Going Forward, and i think thats a testa m e nt forward, and i think thats a testament that uk vaccine science is really good. But i think it important to emphasise that there are no guarantees that these will work. We think they have a good chance of success, but luckily, there are many teams around the world working on other vaccines, and that really increases the chance of a several coming through, hopefully, being very safe and very potent. And what it is like, you say several teams around the world, do you share information or is it Sensitive Information . Some of the information is shared, some of it is sensitive, particularly when it comes from large pharmaceutical companies. At the bottom line is, everybody will wa nt to the bottom line is, everybody will want to compare these vaccines, so we will be comparing responses in assays that will allow you to compare immune response to someone ina compare immune response to someone in a trial in the uk to somewhere in a trial in the u s or everywhere else in the world. So scientific vigour will prove which ones will work. Normally, how long does it ta ke work. Normally, how long does it take vaccine like this to be ready and for people to have it on a mass scale . We are trying to do it faster than ever before. Normally this would be a eight to ten or more year process. Predictions are that a vaccine could become available later this year, potentially, within the uk. But to make a global solution, because you then have to make millions of doses, thats probably going to take a lot longer to have a robust process for doing that. And i suspect we wont see anything becoming available globally until well into next year. And there are so many unknowns, arent there . I think the flu vaccine changes slightly every year, is that the kind of thing you look at . The good news about this virus is that we see it is changing, there is very little change. Its a much more stable target. So that means in terms of the vaccine, we probably will not have to keep changing it but we will have to keep changing it but we will have to keep monitoring that. I suspect we will probably need an annual booster to keep immune levels to the point where they will be protected. These are going to be human trials, its got to take a pretty special person to volunteer to do this. We think all the volu nteers to do this. We think all the volunteers are heroes in their own right. We dont think the risks are high, but there is never absolutely no risk from being in any kind of clinical trial. And how do people volunteer, can you tell us . The trials are advertised, and people can look on the internet, and sign up can look on the internet, and sign up to be part of their trials. They do have to be in the right area where the trials are being performed, and because to start off with they are in low numbers of individuals, it does not require huge numbers. As the trials expand, they will be rolled out into other parts of the uk, and we will be looking for increasing numbers of volunteers. Thank you very much, and very best of luck with developing that vaccine. Obviously all of us will be very interested to know if and when its ready. Thank you so much indeed, professor. Important work, the world is waiting. And people have been volunteering, thank you to all of them who are doing that. As everyone has said this morning, and all of those who have asked about the vaccine, it is a complete and utter game changer once it becomes available. And the speed is amazing lots of you have been getting in touch today. The news that Holiday Companies are being accused of breaking the law and leaving people out of pocket because theyre refusing refunds for trips. Nina will be able to answer some of your quesitons in a moment. Ive got hundreds of questions its sickening when your holiday is cancelled, after you have been saving up for it. You can accept it is because of the virus but it is more tricky to accept when you do not get your money back. The rules are, if it is a package holiday and booked a website, you can get your cash back within 14 can 14 days, but if your flight is cancelled, it should be within seven days, but it hasnt been happening as you know. Dream holidays on hold. Holiday makers are fighting to get their money back. Tim and becca from belfast had their wedding in march cancelled. The hotel was sympathetic, the airline providing honeymoon flights to canada less so. We werent able to fly, obviously. We are still waiting for nearly £1,500 in refunds to reach us via air canada. Weve been offered flight credit, but, personally, we cannot accept that. Research from Consumer Group, which . Found that none of the uks 20 Biggest Airlines and holiday firms were refunding customers within the legal time frame. Some airlines and package Holiday Companies just arent offering refunds, while others are providing credit notes and vouchers, which wont be of much use if the firms later go bust. And its estimated that £7 billion worth of payments by uk customers are affected by this. The trade body airlines uk said. Carriers are facing a far longer than usual volume of refund claims to get through, and the current restrictions imposed nationally mean they are not able to bring in additional staff to deal with them. I cant use a credit note. In wigan, roy is trying to get £2,500 back from tui, for a cancelled holiday to barbados. The money should be back in my bank within 14 days not a refund in four weeks with a lengthy time after that to actually get hold of the money again that money could be far better of use to myself and other families in the same position, far better use to us than it is sat in tuis bank. Tui uk said its working through requests as quickly as possible and proactively contacting customers. You may now kiss your fiance back in belfast, tim and becca had a virtual Commitment Ceremony instead. The couple said air canada has also offered them a partial refund. Sarah corker, bbc news. Love to see their celebrations. So many questions, lets try to get to the bottom of a few. Cliff is being told he has to wait until november next year to get a refund for his cruise holiday thats when the credit note hes being offered expires. He says hes taking the travel company to the Small Claims Court. Is that the only way to get his money back . The Small Claims Court, really, you should see as a last resort. He is entitled to cash back, he can query the fact that he has given them a voucherin the fact that he has given them a voucher in exchange. There are other ways to get your cash back. We a lwa ys ways to get your cash back. We always talk about this, if you booked on credit card, there is something called the Consumer Credit act which means that your lender is jointly liable, so you can apply through that to get your cash back quicker, but you are entitled to that money, not just quicker, but you are entitled to that money, notjust a credit note. We have had so many questions in today, we saw you holding them all up today, we saw you holding them all up earlier michael emailed in he asks what would happen if you accept a credit note or voucher and then the Company Goes Bust . Where would you stand then . We have had a lot of e mails about that, businesses are precarious at the moment so you might be nervous about accepting a credit note, you should not be. If you are abta protected when you are booked, you are ultimately insured through the Civil Aviation authority. We saw it with thomas cook last year, it took awhile to some holiday makers to get their money back even though they had gone bust but it has been happening. If you booked on your credit card, you should be able get your cash back but also check your travel insurance, some of them will cover coronavirus. Elizabeth and her husband are in their 70s their trip to corfu has been cancelled and theyre being offered a credit note for future flights within three months. But they say they wont be travelling soon and cant afford to lose the money. Should they take the note . Its really tricky, isnt it . In one way, you can see it through the eyes of the travel companies because in the best will in the world, even if they want to refund the cash, they are suffering from the same problems we are, they have not got people in work, social distancing in offices, they cannot physically get the refunds out. There are estimates that 1 refunds out. There are estimates that1 millionjobs refunds out. There are estimates that1millionjobs are being refunds out. There are estimates that1 millionjobs are being lost every day in the travel and Tourism Sector every day because of the pandemic. If you can afford to take a credit note and delay your holiday if you cannot travel in three months, that would help those Companies Stay afloat, but some people cannot do it, lots of people struggling because they have been furloughed or businesses are not bringing in money, perhaps relying on benefits for the first time, we arejust going to on benefits for the first time, we are just going to have to be on benefits for the first time, we arejust going to have to be patient like in so many areas of life but thatis like in so many areas of life but that is a virtue that many people are running short of at the moment. Thank you for answering those questions, and thank you for sending them in, its clearly on a lot of peoples minds at the moment. For many of us at the moment, our one exercise each day is a much needed chance to clear the cobwebs and get outdoors. But it can be difficult to keep our social distance and ensure everyone stays safe. Now, a us Study Suggests that coughs and sneezes can travel much more than the two metres were recommended to stay apart from others while were out. Michael cowan reports. Much of our world is lockdown. Our movements severely restricted. We are allowed out for one form of exercise a day. Across the globe, countries are taking different approaches to exercise. In paris, authorities have stopped exercise outdoors, apart from walking, between 10am and 7pm. In spain, all exercise outside the home is banned, unless you have a dog, in which case you can take it for a walk. Japans Prime Minister says its ok to exercise outdoors, as long as youre alone. And in australia, exercise is permitted in your neighbourhood, and youre allowed to work out with one person. Scientists agree that the virus is spread through droplets expelled when an infected person coughs or sneezes. What they still dont know is how easily the virus can spread through breathing. When we exercise, we inhale and exhale much more, so could you be putting yourself and others at risk from exercising outdoors . To help answer that question is professor bert blocken. Hes been researching how droplets from your nose and mouth travel during exercise. His research hasnt been officially published in a journal yet, meaning other scientists havent evaluated it. Can you tell us, professor, what your Research Found . Yes, our research actually looked into the social distance, the distance that you need to keep when you are running fast or cycling behind another person. And found that two metres is plenty if you are cycling and running next to each other, or in staggered formation, more than enough. But if you want to directly run behind each other or cycle behind each other in the slipstream, then two metres is not enough. Professor blockens research assumes there is no wind in the air and suggests when you exhale while exercising, you emit droplets of breath that form what is known as a slipstream. It typically forms behind you. If you came into contact with droplets from an infected person, you could catch the virus. Professor blocken says exercise side by side or in formation is safer than walking behind someone. Chronic or regular exercise is an immune booster. It protects you against a whole load of chronic diseases, associated with chronic inflammation. Its also thought to help reduce the ageing of your immune system as well, it all makes a lot of sense now with the epidemiological evidence thats out there. Its a risk benefit analysis. So if you dont exercise, you are increasing your risk of getting lots of diseases long term. If you go outside, obviously, you have the potential to be exposed to the virus. But at the same time, you are boosting your immune system, so that is helping to protect you against the virus. Academics we have spoken to say there is no convincing evidence you are at a heightened risk from exercising outdoors. But research into this pandemic is still in its infancy. If youre going to exercise outdoors, you shouldnt do so if you have a cough, or a fever. And you must observe the World Health Organization guidance of keeping at least two metres from others. Michael cowan, bbc news. Exercise etiquette is an interesting one. I got sweated on by a jogger last week you came far too close. You keep reminding me of it as well sorry were joined now by olympic Gold Medalist and policy advisor for british cycling, chris boa rdman. Ican i can see you listening to that. Its important, isnt it, that we try and do exercise but we have to ta ke try and do exercise but we have to take all of this into consideration. Yeah, and take all of this into consideration. Yeah, and i think context is absolutely everything. Id just like to read you a quick quote from professorjohn edmonds for the London School of Infectious Diseases and tropical medicine. Banning exercise outdoors will have a negative negligible impact on spending the virus and a marked impact on peoples well being. That has been peer reviewed. Many cities have recognised that and are actively making more space, reclaiming road space so people can exercise more. Running the hypothesis of one scientist is how you get people a bit stressed doing things the wrong way, such as villages trying to ban people ride through. As long as you follow the same guidance for all of us, keep that distance, it is a good thing, it helps people stay who are staying isolated from months and during a crisis, it protects the nhs. The vast majority of people, whatever they are doing, doing it responsibly, it is a tiny minority who are causing issues. Not even causing issues, we think it will, but ultimately we keep apart from each other. I have changed my running route, iam mostly running at the moment because i live on the beach, im looking at it out the window now. There are some narrow parts but i thought, what would i do . And parts but i thought, what would i do . And i watched over the course of a week how we change the culture, not overly dramatic to say, the planet. And it is really quite heartening to see that everyone has got behind it. A lot of people, we have to remember, dont have gardens or space at home, they have kids, you cannot keep people locked in for months without giving them away to get a mental break. We have seen some parks have been closed, which for people who need them, is pretty difficult. Yes, and i think that is an understandable reaction, lots of people are coming here, we need to stop it, but now is the time when we are settling into this crisis, if you like, where you started to think, that was going too far, back it off. Lets make some rules, make it off. Lets make some rules, make it clockwise, give people some guidance on how to use the space. That also helps the police in placing it as well for anyone not following the guidance. In policing it. Its taking time to settle in but we have done it quickly. I am settle in but we have done it quickly. Iam really settle in but we have done it quickly. I am really supportive of the government advice from the start which has been very simple but very consistent. Take exercise once a day, stay apart from other people, andi day, stay apart from other people, and i think that is the way to go. should have been a bit clearer earlier, when i was talking about a tiny minority, i was talking about some of those cyclists particularly who have come under criticism going on really long rides posting on social media saying, i have done 70 miles, which does stretch those guidelines and cause issues. Being ina group, guidelines and cause issues. Being in a group, it doesnt matter how you travel, if you play football on a field, or gathering in a group for a field, or gathering in a group for a party, its just a field, or gathering in a group for a party, itsjust irresponsible people so the mode of transport is irrelevant, people doing bad things should not, they should follow the guidance that has been laid down. I think that is key, we are all people and following the guidelines. Im getting asked an awful lot, what is a reasonable amount of time . And i really pushed hard to try and not get into speculating or giving my opinion. Having said that, what i would say for me, if im going out ona bike, would say for me, if im going out on a bike, i had only done it twice in five weeks, i will go home to home, so i dont stop anywhere, i make sure i have supplies, and i know that if i had a problem, i dont have a car any more, my wife does, she could come and get me, so 0k. Does, she could come and get me, so ok. But i think thats why the government have not put time limits on it, they have said, be reasonable, once a day, dont put anybody at risk. You have only been out on your bike a couple of times, there are clearly people out on their bikes really enjoying it, and perhaps not accustomed to being on their backs that much. There is an advantage in some ways that there are not so many cars on the road. You have 1950s levels of traffic at the moment, so we are seeing people automatically saying, i have bored kids here, they cant go go to the park or play with their mates, they a lwa ys park or play with their mates, they always hated going for a walk, what shall i do . I have all the space, why dont we go out on the road and ride up and down . Thats got to be a good thing. Thats something we are starting to think about now. Other cities are as well, about when we emerge from lockdown, when we start to recover, do we want to go back to the normal that we had before, or do we actually want to use this space a little bit differently . They are starting to put measures in place, and thats pretty exciting because thats how you protect your nhs long term. Give people an option to travel in a different way and go out and exercise, and enjoy it. Another thing we talked about in the papers, you might not have seen it, there are reports of drivers going well over the speed limit, 140 miles an hour. So there is caution, that is obviously against the law for starters but there is caution to be taken as well, i suppose. The evidence there is, thats where the danger really comes from. You are never going to be driving a car at the moment, once i have been out to deliver a bike to somebody so they can get to work. I have been out in the car once. I saw the majority of people behaving excellently. But it only takes one person. You are never going to be more likely to come around a corner and see someone walking on the road, it happened to be running yesterday, there was a couple on the pavement so i went into the road to give them distance and a carcame into the road to give them distance and a car came the other way and the driver was really annoyed at me for being there. The speeding part of it, we really need to get on top of it. We are looking at that in Greater Manchester and london, well on top of it and penalising behaviour like that which is not just dangerous, but selfish. Chris boardman, thank you for your time this morning. Really interesting, and to pick up on what chris said, may be at the end of all this when we are looking back, the impact that physical activity has on your Mental Health, and how mentally as a nation we come out of the other side of this will be really interesting, a big topic of discussion. He makes a good point about people walking on the pavements, someone goes past them, with a car, we all have to be thoughtful. Just think of other people, one of those simple life things having a baby can be incredibly stressful for any woman, but its even tougher if your partner cant be there to support you. That was the agonising prospect facing ta ra Louise Spencer when the ambulance driving her to hospital couldnt take herfiance due to social distancing rules. But an urgent plea online saw a stranger come to his aid. And the story has a happy ending. Lets speak to ryan and baby jack now, along with Good Samaritan eamon ali afzal. Morning everybody, thank you for joining us. Brian, you have your gorgeous baby there. What happened when he was born, you couldnt go to hospital . No, the ambulance would not take me, the ambulance basically came, loaded up tara and when i askedif came, loaded up tara and when i asked if i could join, they said no, because of the coronavirus. The woman told me that i would have to get a taxi so obviously i spent the next 45 ministering to call taxis with no help. Then i posted a plea on to with no help. Then i posted a plea ontoa with no help. Then i posted a plea on to a local Coronavirus Support group, and luckily eamon, my knight in shining armour, came on and saved us. What time of day was this . This is one of the reasons it was so difficult. It was 1am so one oclock in the morning, someone you dont know comes and helps you, eamon, you are that person, wow did you see a note and thought, i will help this poor person . Yeah, well, i saw the post in the group, i didnt know i was up, but i was, sol thought i would help him out know i was up, but i was, sol thought i would help him ounm know i was up, but i was, sol thought i would help him out it was a stressful time, knowing that his wife was getting ready to give birth. He was very flustered, i was just trying to chat to him and calm him down. He was nervous anyway getting into a car with a stranger as it is. And then given the circumstances, at the moment, as well. I wasjust circumstances, at the moment, as well. I was just trying to circumstances, at the moment, as well. I wasjust trying to keep him talking and engaged in conversation. Ryan, anyone who has been in that situation that you are in, whatever circumstances that might be, where you are desperate to be somewhere else, your focus is you are desperate to be somewhere else, yourfocus is entirely you are desperate to be somewhere else, your focus is entirely on that, can you may remember much about that journey . that, can you may remember much about that journey . I cant remember anything not much. Honestly did you get there in time, is the question . Yeah, i did,. Tara was delighted to see you . Yes, she was over the main she wasnt expecting me to be there, i did call her, i did say, i cant get there, theres no taxes or anything, im really sorry. And then eamon came to your aid. Ryan was telling us about this group in blackburn which is really helpful, thats another thing which has come out of this virus, there has come out of this virus, there has been a really interesting Community Spirit in various places of people going over and above what they would normally do to help others that need their help. Can you hear me, eamon . Sorry, yeah. Sorry, i thought he was speaking to ryan there has been a lot of support from a lot of people. I have seen some amazing stories, and i think it has rubbed off on me, the creative spirit in blackburn has been fantastic. I have seen organisations like the Trussell Trust and blackburn youth giving out hot meals to thousands of houses, young people, there have been some amazing people, there have been some amazing people, working really hard and trying to support Domestic Violence cases, lawyers, there is a guy called shark who has started a live show, they go on live every evening without fail, theyjust try and lift spirits and talk about issues that people are facing during the lockdown. Some of the stories have been fantastic. And to be a part of thatis been fantastic. And to be a part of that is really nice as well. It really shows you how much of a community we have got in blackburn. Im sure there are other stories around the world, and there are, its really nice to see everyone coming together in unity in a time of meat. You are a Good Samaritan, dont you have a self in a time of need. You are a Good Samaritan, did you have yourself down is a Good Samaritan before that . did you have yourself down is a Good Samaritan before that . I dont know if you would say Good Samaritan. My family are always brought me up to help out people, i have all tried to help out people, i have all tried to help people wherever i could, whether its through work or personal life, helping a stranger, its always that i have been that kind of guy. Its not really something new or something that i think needs to be celebrated, but it is nice to get some recognition, i suppose. Good on you. Youll be able to look back on this and see the lovely way that ryan has been looking at his little sonjack. How is being a new dad . Amazing, very tiring, we didnt sleep much last night, which is why tara is not here. How is she and how is jack . They are both doing great, she is leaving because he wanted feeding all night. She is sleeping. Leaving because he wanted feeding all night. She is sleeping. Being all night. She is sleeping. Being a new dad, you have your hands full. Is it a new dad, you have your hands full. Isita a new dad, you have your hands full. Is it a bit difficult at this time with coronavirus as well around . Kind of. Just the fact that we cannot go out, and my parents and his grandparents cant meet him for three months. What are you doing, can they see him on video at least . I video called my mum and my aunty everyday just to the i video called my mum and my aunty everydayjust to the kids. i video called my mum and my aunty everydayjust to the kids. I wonder what will happen at the end of this. Eamon has helped you out in a really difficult situation, are you going to remain friends after this, after this . Yeah, definitely. Lifelong friend. Thats lovely. So what have you got planned, will you get together . We were chatting on facebook last night, saying how amazing this whole thing is, hopefully we can get together after the lockdown for a meal. Regardless, evenif the lockdown for a meal. Regardless, even if we dont get together, we will try and turn up forjacks birthday every year, same day he is being great now, ryan, have you been getting some sleep here and there . Little bits lovely to have you all on. Thank you very much, eamon, well done, i know lots of people are doing those sorts of things but its great to get an insight on how it works and the difference he made to jack and tara. And well done, ryan, new dad thats all from breakfast this morning. Charlie and naga will be back tomorrow morning from six. Have a lovely day. Goodbye. Good morning, its wednesday, im victoria derbyshire, with you until 11. Here are the headlines three days after it was promised, an raf planeload of protective equipment, for frontline workers, arrives from turkey. The care minister explains why it was delayed. Youre in a situation where there is the global shortage and factories around the world are making ppe as fast as they can. What weve seen, whether its with this delivery or previous deliveries, is sometimes they get delayed sometimes they dont turn up. The Government Faces fresh questions over the time it took tojoin an eu scheme, to source medical equipment for front line staff. There are real worries about Vulnerable Children in england during the lockdown, as official figures reveal only a tiny fraction of them have been going to school