This is bbc news. The headlines early results from two more Coronavirus Vaccine trials have produced an immune response without any serious side effects. One was carried out at Oxford University, the other at chinas academy of military medical sciences. Further work is needed to assess how long lasting any immunity would be. Theyve been described as hopeful and potential game changers. President trump has threatened to send federal Law Enforcement personnel to more American Cities to tackle anti racism demonstrations, which he claims are the work of anarchists. Democrats, Civic Leaders and Civil Liberties groups have called the officers actions in portland deeply disturbing and unacceptable. The Actress Amber Heard has told the high court in london that her former husband, johnny depp, threatened to kill her many times. She is giving evidence as part of the actors libel action against the Sun Newspaper for calling him a wife beater. He denies the allegation. Now on bbc news, monday in parliament. Hello again and welcome to monday in parliament. As tensions rise over hong kong, the foreign secretary warns china. I would just say this, the United Kingdom is watching and the whole world is watching. Englands chief nurse explains what happened after a downing street adviser allegedly broke lockdown rules. It is indeed true that i was dropped from a briefing but that happens to many of my colleagues as well. And peers try to ban smoking at pop up pavement cafes. The outside is the new inside. We need to make sure that people are protected there as well. But first, the foreign secretary has confirmed that the uk will suspend its extradition
treaty with hong kong immediately and indefinitely. An arms embargo in place against Mainland China will be extended to hong kong. Dominic raab also said he had grave concerns about human rights abuses taking place against uighur muslims. Some mps wanted him to go further, accusing china of genocide. The uk decision was prompted by the new National Security law which makes it easierfor china to punish protesters and reduces hong kongs autonomy. A law the foreign secretary said was a clear and serious violation of an international agreement. China has accused the uk of brutal meddling in its affairs, but dominic raab said the new law could see hong kong cases tried in courts in Mainland China. I have consulted with the home secretary, the justice secretary and the attorney general and the government has decided to suspend the extradition treaty
immediately and indefinitely. And i should also tell the house that we will not consider reactivating those arrangements unless and until there are clear and robust safeguards which are able to prevent extradition from the uk being misused under the new National Security legislation. Mr speaker, there remains considerable uncertainty about the way in which the new National Security law will be enforced, i would just say this, the United Kingdom is watching and the whole world is watching. Labour welcomed the approach but said it must mark the start of an ethical approach to foreign policy. Like him, our quarrel is not with the people of china but the erosion of freedoms in hong kong, the actions of the Chinese Government in the South China Sea and the appalling treatment of the uighur people is reason now to act. We will not be able to say in future years that we did not know
and i urge him to work with colleagues across government to ensure that this marks the start of a strategic approach to china and the start of a new era. The snp also welcomed the announcement, but had questions. On the subject of the extradition treaty, this is not something to be celebrated, the breakdown of a criminal and cooperation will make the fight against organised crime which is prevalent in hong kong and london harder. So what comes next . Will it be a case by case basis or an arrangement to deal with that pressing problem because it is and will remain a pressing problem. On extradition, the approach we have taken, i set it out quite deliberately, we are suspending, not just wholesale terminating, we are suspending the extradition treaty arrangements so that it is clear that they could be resuscitated in the future but i also made very clear, we would need to have clear and adequate and robust safeguards to protect against the potential abuses that we see in the National Security legislation before they can even be contemplated. The world is watching and what we are seeing is absolutely horrific. There was the drone footage over the weekend. Last week it was the interception of shipment of human hair. I know that genocide is a term of law and the foreign secretary is right to be cautious about its use, but it would make an enormous difference to tackling the issues as far as chinese provinces are concerned if he would admit from the despatch box that are now a growing number of evidence to say that is absolutely what is happening. In relation to the definition of genocide, the real challenge here ive worked on war crimes well before becoming a member of this house is that the question of intention and how to describe to it. The reality is that as important as that is and it does bring with it legal implications which do
help the accountability, the reality is it can also distract from the fact that we are increasingly confident and there is a strong case to answer as i think the Chinese Ambassador was unable to do yesterday. On the systematic human rights abuses. And frankly with the legal label on it is to me secondary to the plight of the victims who are suffering under it. The secretary of course repeatedly states that the term genocide is a legal term and we need international courts, to apply this but when it comes to the un and china, the un is a busted flesh. Can i ask the foreign secretary whether he would consider convening an independent inquiry for us to collect evidence to see if genocide is taking place in china . Whether it is the pictures of uighur children who have been separated from their children of the horrifying footage of uighurs in chains being herded off the train into the camps, or the news that the Chinese Government is selling the hair of uighurs on the internet,
many of these things and im sure the foreign secretary will feel this deeply, are reminiscent of the darkest moments of 20th century history. I share his concern about the hearing echoes of what we hear in some of those reports. With what we have seen in the past. We of course, he is right to say we need to use every potential lever that we have to try and positively moderate or change the behaviour china. I also think that we need to be realistic about the size and scale of china and whatever the debate in this house, the likely appetite in disposition not just for europeans and north america but the other countries and the united nations, well be our strongest when we unite people together. What can he do to reassure Chinese Students of chinese origin of this country that they can feel safe here . Can i say im very grateful to the honourable gentleman for raising this point . And i my statement made clear that we value the contribution of travelling chinese, that they make both touristically but also in terms of university. I think it is also timely to make that point to the british chinese
community here who are some of our most hard working, productive and socially engaged members of our communities, how welcome they are and that we will have no problem in this house or on the side of the government speaking out on any racism against them. They are credibly important members are communities and society. Dominic raab. The Health Secretary has welcomed the latest news on a Coronavirus Vaccine developed by Oxford University. Trials involving just over 1000 people show the injection led to them making antibodies and t cells that can fight coronavirus. The findings are promising but it is still too soon to know if this is enough to offer protection and larger trials are under way. The uk has already ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine. In the commons, matt hancock updated mps. Today, oxford published a very encouraging report in the lancet showing that its phase one and two trials are proceeding well. I can report to the house that the trial showed that the oxford vaccine produces a Strong Community response in patients in terms of both antibody production and t cell responses. And that no safety concerns have been identified. This is promising news and it takes us one step closer to finding a vaccine that could potentially save lives all around the world. He said another solution was to develop treatment to combat the viruss effect. And he had news there as well. We have preliminary results from a Clinical Trial of another treatment known as sng ooi, created by a southhampton based biotech firm. Initialfindings based on a small cohort suggested it may reduce the chance of developing severe disease substantially and could cut hospital admission time by a third. The data still needs to be Peer Reviewed and we are supporting a further large scale trial, but these preliminary results are a positive sign. Labour described the news on the oxford vaccine as encouraging and exciting. But we also have to understand that there have been many false storms before in the history of Infectious Disease however. So what happens if a vaccine doesnt become available . He moved on to the tracing programme saying that nationally, 71 of contacts were being reached, well below the 80 needed for it to be effective. A lower proportion of contacts are identified in the most deprived areas. We still dont have an app either. Despite his promises, we have whitehall sources now briefing that he has a tendency to overpromise and only sometimes deliver. Laughter. What an unfair and wicked thing to say about the Health Secretary. Which bit of all of this is actually world beating . I think his tone on that of sniping from the sidelines ill beholds the enormous effort on the previous work he did to support these things are across party lines. The secretary of state reminded us of the importance of a vaccine and i was interested to hear on the radio as i drove into Parliament Today representatives from the Drug Companies saying we might have a vaccine by october and a University Dr telling us today is a great day. Does the secretary of state agree . I am cautiously optimistic. The team is optimistic, and myjob is not to speculate on the likelihood of the oxford vaccine coming out. It is to make sure that should it come out, we are ready. The snp also wanted more information to be made available locally so contacts of the infected people can be traced. Postcode information
was actually insufficient, so by what date can he guarantee that every single director of Public Health in england will receive the identifiable details of all new positive cases on a daily basis . If they have signed a date of protective agreement, today. I have real concerns about social care being overwhelmed if there is a second surge with hospitals having to very quickly discharge people into the community as we have seen with the first way. Can you please tell the house what further measures and packages and support will he announce for social care . Of course it is important to support social care as well, as we have financially throughout this right from the start. And in terms of the discharge from hospital, the first vast majority were discharged into the community with care packages. Matt hancock. Youre watching monday in parliament with me, david cornock. Dont forget if you miss our daily
round up, thanks to the wonders of modern technology, you can catch up via the bbc iplayer. Now, how much say should Parliament Get over future trade deals after brexit . That was one of the key arguments as mps debated the trade bill. An International Trade minister said entering into International Agreements was the governments prerogative and resisted an attempt to give the commons more say. This amendment would give parliament veto rights over our negotiating objectives. To quote the Constitution Committee in the other place, who reported on this in 2019, this would impinge inappropriately on the governments prerogative power and limit the governments flexibility in negotiations. I agree. And as this house will know, there are already rigorous checks and balances on the governments power to negotiate and ratify new agreements, through the constitutional reform and governance act, which the honourable lady from the front bench. Shes fond of heckling, mr deputy speaker, but she voted for the constitutional reform and governance act. I will give way to my honourable friend. Thank you very much, mr deputy speaker. I concur entirely with what hes saying. Is it not the case that if we allow further parliamentary scrutiny, we wont get the best deal from these negotiations . And, at present, this is the westminster style democracy, with the greatest parliamentary scrutiny of trade deals. My honourable friend, mr deputy speaker, is absolutely correct that our scrutiny offer compares very favourably with australias and new zealand and is at least as equal to canada. Labours Emily Thornberry doing the heckling there. Labour were worried the nhs could feature in any trade deal. The Prime Minister told us he favours a social insurance system in his Daily Telegraph article, so when ministers tell us not to worry about the nhs, it simply wont wash. Statements alone are worthless. Its very simple. The detailed text of all agreements must include cast iron commitments because its notjust the Prime Minister who wants to hand over our nhs to the health care corporations, its his friend, the us president. And its in the us negotiating objectives, which refer to full Market Access for us products. And the snp also saw a threat from the united states. We know that the us administration, for example, has made clear it wants the uk to lower its food and Animal Welfare standards. This new clause, new clause 7, includes a ban on the importation of food which is produced to standards lower than that in the uk. We also know that the us and other countries have far lower Animal Welfare standards and adopt practices which are illegal in the uk for health
and environmental reasons, including chlorine washed chicken, hormone fed beef, the use of various pesticides and gm crops. None of this is a great surprise to anyone in the house. And we believe that the quality of scotlands food and drink produce, and indeed food and drink produced elsewhere in the uk, and their standards are essential to maintaining our established International Reputation in those areas. Stewart hosie. The chief nursing officer for england has confirmed to mps that she was dropped from a number ten press briefing following the revelation that the Prime Ministers chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, had travelled to durham during the lockdown. Ruth may was giving evidence before the Public Accounts Committee and was questioned about why she had not appeared at the downing street briefing after a newspaper report said it had been because she felt unable to defend the actions of mr cummings. There were reports that you were dropped from a briefing on the 1st ofjune. Is that report correct . Thank you very much, chair. And thank you very much for holding this today. It is indeed true that i was dropped from a briefing, but that happens to many of my colleagues as well, and that is a regular occurrence. What i have to say is that i was also asked to attend another briefing later in june, but i got stuck in traffic for that one. Was there any particular reason that you were dropped . Were you preparing for that briefing before you were dropped . Yes, i prepare forall of the briefings like i prepared for this briefing, so, absolutely. Its important to prepare for briefings. So you were ready for it, and yet you were dropped. Why was that . I dont know why i was dropped, chair. I do know that i was prepared to go to number ten at a later date. Were you, at any point in that preparation for that press briefing, being asked to defend the actions of one of the Prime Ministers senior advisers . As in all press briefings, we talk about a lot of these preparation questions and, yes, of course, i was asked about lockdown and rules to lockdown, yes. What are your views about lockdown and the actions of Dominic Cummings at that time . I believe that, in my opinion, the rules were clear and theyre there for everyones safety and they apply to us all. Do you think thats the reason that you were dropped from that briefing . I dont know why i was dropped from the briefing. Im afraid youd have to ask other people for that. So they didnt even give you the courtesy of an explanation after youd done the work, preparation, for what can be quite a grueling session, especially
if you dont do it every day . I dont have a reason as to why i was stepped down. But as ive said before, people are stepped up or stepped down at short notice. I know my colleagues have been stepped down, so it isnt unusual to be stepped down. Now, more than three years after the Grenfell Tower fire in london, which killed 72 people, the commons has heard that thousands of people are still living in buildings wrapped in inflammable cladding. But the housing minister told mps that tough enforcement action is on the way for owners who fail to remove the cladding. We are taking action with the biggest reforms of building and fire safety in nearly a0 years, through the building safety bill, which we are publishing in draft form today. To tackle the most urgent problems, weve made available £1. 6 billion to remove unsafe cladding systems, so there should be no excuse for further delay. Weve made progress. Over two thirds of high rise buildings with the most dangerous grenfell type acm cladding have either been completed or they have started their remediation. With more than 1,000 buildings already having applied to the Building Safety Fund, its clear that the {1. 6 billion will not be anywhere near enough to remedy all high risk residential buildings still with dangerous cladding more than three years after the Grenfell Tower fire. And the government has had to find ways to fit a potential £15 billion liability into a {1. 6 billion funding pot. Will the minister commit to release more funding, in line with the select committee recommendations, and ensure all fire safety defects in every high risk residential building are addressed, allowing residents to live safely in their homes without fear of bankruptcy . By the 20th ofjuly, i can tell him that wed received 1,378 completed registration forms for the Building Safety Fund. We expect that money,
made available by the chancellor in this fiscal year, to be fully allocated by march, so that those buildings which most need to be remediated and where the people involved, the owners, were not able to act quickly, can be helped. Weve always made it clear, mr speaker, that we expect a significant proportion of remediation costs to fall on the shoulders of those responsible for the original work or the building owners, certainly not on the leaseholders. Shadow minister, mike amesbury. Thank you, mr speaker. While we finally welcome the publishing of the draft building safety bill today, the departments own figures highlight the fact that 246 buildings are still wrapped in grenfell style cladding and thousands more are cladded in equally flammable materials. Minister, how will the measures outlined in the building safety bill
speed up remediation while increasing the size and the scope of the Building Safety Fund . Minister. Thank you, mr speaker. 72 of buildings which had acm cladding have had that cladding removed. I refer the honourable gentleman to the adjournment debate taken by myself with the honourable lady, the member for Bethnal Green and bow, when i said that tough enforcement action is on its way for those owners responsible that are not taking action to remediate their buildings. I look forward to working with him as the building safety bill passes through this house and the other place, to make sure that we have a good bill, fit for purpose. This governments committed to doing so. I trust he will be as well. A campaign in the lords to ban smoking outdoors in pubs and restaurants in england, using the new pavement licenses, has failed. Instead, peers back a last minute government compromise requiring venues to offer smoking free areas. Some peers criticised labour for refusing to support a cross party amendments introducing a blanket ban, but labour said it would have had unintended consequences. Smoking kills both smokers and those exposed to second hand smoke. Thats why we secured, and now the vast majority of the public enjoy, smoke free restaurants, pubs and other public places. This is not a ban on smoking outdoors. Our amendment only applies to the new fast track licenses, which allow premises to put furniture on the pavement to alleviate capacity restrictions caused by coronavirus. Because of covid 19, the outside is the new inside. We need to make sure that people are protected there as well, in terms of their health, for staff serving them, for families, for unborn babies of pregnant women. I have to say that i am disappointed that the party which, in government, with a bit of prodding, introduced the ban on smoking and pubs has now, in opposition, retreated from that bold approach on Public Health issues. Im very disappointed that it cannot support amendment 15 and i know that disappointment is shared by many noble members. But he promised to back the governments proposal. Given the position of the labour party, the cross Party Alliance so skilfully constructed by the noble baroness has gone as far as it can, and therefore i am prepared to settle for and support the government amendment. And i hope that others who share my view will feel able to do the same. Whilst i fully sympathise with their reasons for tabling this effort, im afraid we cannot support the present draft. The moment as it stands may have enormous and unintended consequences. It does not clarify that the prohibition of smoking should apply to the area covered by smoking licenses. And without the definition of smoking, may unintentionally ban e cigarettes. One labour peer did put his name to the cross party amendment. Pavement licensing should not be a catalyst to increase smoking in public places, putting people at greater risk of ingesting second hand smoke when theyre enjoying a drink or a meal. The minister said the government had recognised the mood and introduced some changes. This means customers that want to choose to sit in smoking and non smoking alfresco dining areas will be able to do so. My lords, the governments position means all businesses eligible for pavement licenses can share the benefits of this new fast track
licence whilst ensuring provision for non smoking seating. Now is not the time to prevent businesses from catering to their customers. Now is not the time to use the temporary provision on pavement licenses to ban smoking outdoors. Now is the time to support our Hospitality Industry and ensure all businesses eligible for pavement licenses can share the benefits of this new fast track licence. Lord greenhalgh, bringing us to the end of monday in parliament. Thank you for watching. I do hope you canjoin me again at the same time tomorrow for tuesday in parliament. Until then, bye for now. Hello. This week started off on a fairly dry settled note for most places, but we will see weather fronts
approaching from the atlantic, bringing some outbreaks of rain in through this week. Now, tuesday will start on quite a chilly note. We will see the cloud building through the day and that will bring some rain later on to parts of Northern Ireland and scotland courtesy of this weather front approaching here. Further south, High PressureHolding Onto Things so its a dry picture of it to sit across the book of england and wales. Under clear skies, quite a chilly start. Temperatures in the mid single figures for many of us first thing tuesday morning, a few early mist patches. In fact temperatures could be as low as around 3 4 degrees in the coldest rural spots. After that fresh start, there will be some long spells of sunshine through the morning. Later in the afternoon, cloud will tend to build so that sunshine at times a bit hazy, cloudier skies later on in the afternoon. Some rain working into the northern parts of Northern Ireland, the Western Isles as well. 1 2 showers around for the north east of scotland too. Now, temperatures across scotland and Northern Ireland between about 14 18 degrees. England and wales typically around 18 21 celsius, a little below par for the time of year. Heading into tuesday evening and overnight into wednesday, we will continue
to see this weather front in the north bringing rain, quite heavy at times, to Northern Ireland and parts of scotland as well. For england and wales, its going to be dry, but with the cloudier skies, it wont be quite as chilly as it has been over the past couple nights. Into wednesday, outbreaks of rain continue at times for Northern Ireland and for scotland. Later in the day, a few of those showers could just push into parts of Northern England and north wales as well, but further south across england and wales, we should have a dry day and with some sunshine, it will be a little bit warmer. So temperatures up to about 23 degrees down towards the south east. Were typically looking at the mid to high teens further north across the uk. Looking towards the latter part of the week, and this waving weather front will push its way gradually southwards and eastwards, bumping into higher pressure across the near continent. It will be fizzling out, but we could still see some outbreaks of rain thursday particularly across western parts of england and wales too. Theyll be followed by some fresher, brighter conditions of sunshine and scattered showers across parts of scotland, and temperatures
will range between about 16 22 degrees on thursday. Then things continue onafairly unsettled and a showery theme as we look through friday and into the weekend for many of us, as well. Thats it for now. Bye bye. Welcome to bbc news. Im mike embley. Our top stories we start with the global race to find a vaccine to halt the pandemic. Here in the uk, scientists at Oxford University say the vaccine theyre developing appears to be safe and does trigger an immune response. The uk government has already ordered 100 million doses of it. Heres the bbcs fergus walsh. 3131197. So much is riding on this. Could the oxford vaccine help end the coronavirus pandemic . More than 9,000 volunteers have received the jab in the uk