The headlines the british socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has appeared in court in the United States after being charged with helping the late paedophile and financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse underage girls. She has previously denied wrongdoing, as well as any knowledge of epsteins crimes. Texas is making the wearing of a face mask compulsory across much of the state, as covid 19 infections continue to rise. Coronavirus cases in the us have risen by nearly 55,000 in the past 2a hours, the largest daily increase in any country in the world. One of hong kongs leading pro democracy campaigners has fled the territory following chinas introduction of sweeping new security powers. After britains offer of a pathway to citizenship for holders of a National Overseas passport, beijing has called on the United Kingdom to stop interfering in its domestic affairs. Now on bbc news,
the week in parliament. Hello there and welcome to the week in parliament. Coming up in the next half hour, borisjohnson promises to build, build, build to boost the uks economy after coronavirus. But the labour leader reckons the plans are nothing new and the governments got one more opportunity to stop mass redundancies. Next weeks Financial Statement could be the last chance to save millions ofjobs. But the Prime Minister remains positive. We are the builders, theyre the blockers. Were the doers, theyre the ditherers. Were going to get on with it and take this country forward. Also on this programme, the governnment announces that up to 3 million hong kong residents are to be offered the chance to settle in the uk. The education secretary announces
plans to get all of englands children back to school in september. And one mp reflects on how her life might have been different. My mum, who has regularly said, katherine, ive been saying since you were two youll either be a stripper, a social worker or a scientist but first, Boris Johnson was in bullish form as he set out what he called an ambitious post coronavirus recovery plan. In a speech in the west midlands, the pm vowed to use this moment to fix longstanding economic problems and promised a £5 billion new deal to build homes and infrastructure. It was also confirmed that the chancellor would deliver an economic update onjuly 8. Critics argued there was little new in the plans or the funding. At pmqs, the labour leader reckoned there had been one striking line in borisjohnsons speech. The Prime Minister said, we know that the jobs many people had injanuary are not coming back. I fear that this is the equivalent line to the line in the prime
ministers speech of march 12, when he said, i must level with you. Many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time. And we know what happened next. Thats why there needs to be a laser like focus on protecting jobs. So how manyjobs does the Prime Minister think yesterdays announcement will protect . Mr speaker, i think he first of all might pay tribute to the work of this government in protecting 11 million jobs throughout this crisis. He might draw attention to the fact that we have supported huge sectors of the uk economy at a cost of £120 billion. And im not going to give a figure for the number ofjob losses that may or may not take place, but, of course, the risk is very, very serious, as he rightly says. But that is why were proceeding with the new deal, the fair deal for the british people
which will be notjust massive investment in our National Health service, £34 billion in our nhs, £14 billion more into our schools, but an investment in infrastructure going up to £100 billion. We are going to build, build, build and deliver jobs, jobs, jobs for the people of this country. But keir starmer said what had been announced had amounted to £100 per person. Not much of this announcement was new and it certainly wasnt much of a deal. Meanwhile, as the Prime Minister was speaking, airbus announced 1,700 job losses, easyjet, 1,300 job losses, tm lewin and harveys, 800 job losses. Thats just yesterday. And there was nothing in the Prime Ministers speech for the 3. 2 Million People in hospitality or the 2. 9 million in retail. Next weeks Financial Statement could be the last chance to save millions ofjobs. Will the Prime Minister start now by extending the furlough scheme for those parts of the economy that
are still most at risk . Borisjohnson said the package hed announced was worth £600 billion of investment, but the best thing would be to get people back to work and get the virus under control. The best thing, actually, that the opposition could do is stop equivocating and doing one thing one week and one thing another week and decide that they emphatically support ending the lockdown, they emphatically support kids being back in school rather than being bossed around by the unions. Mr speaker, we are the builders, theyre the blockers. Were the doers, theyre the ditherers. Were going to get on with it and take this country forward. There was not a single penny for scotland out of what was supposed to be a reset speech from the Prime Minister yesterday. This was a speech devoid of action, devoid of ambition and devoid of any support for the most vulnerable in our society. There will be plenty of wonderful things that we want to do with him, working with him, working with the Scottish Administration to improve transport and other infrastructure across the whole of the United Kingdom, including scotland. Borisjohnson. Well, the reality of coronavirus job cuts was brought home to people in wales, when airbus announced 1,700 job losses in the uk. It was later confirmed thatjust over 1,400 of those would be at the firms factory at broughton in north wales. A total of 15,000 jobs are to be cut globally. The Company Hopes to avoid compulsory redundancies. At first ministers questions, Mark Drakeford pledged to stand by the firm. I want to be absolutely clear that the Welsh Government will do all we can to support the company and its workforce in these very difficult times. But the Global Nature of the Current Crisis in aviation means that local solutions will not be sufficient by themselves to ensure the future of this important, strategic industry. I am absolutely furious and, frankly, upset. For months now, i have been telling the uk government that they must intervene to support jobs in the aviation and aerospace sector. Honestly, ive heard nothing back. This is an industry that had furloughed jobs. This is not the fault of the company, nor its workforce. We may find ourselves in a situation where there will be some airbus jobs that will be lost, and obviously our priority must be ensuring minimising the number of those jobs that are lost here in wales, and so to a certain extent, theres an element of competition there. Mark drakeford said the plant at broughton had always had to compete with other sites in europe, but it was at the leading edge of production, efficiency and health and safety. Meanwhile in Northern Ireland, there was a funding boost for the health service. Its to receive almost £90 million as part of a £250 million reallocation of funds. The so called monitoring round reallocates unspent money within stormont departments. The total also includes £12 million for Free School Meal payments for children over the summer months. These allocations help our public services, including the health service, they assist in economic recovery and they protect the most vulnerable in our society, including children entitled to Free School Meals and the homeless. Scotlands first minister announced that face coverings will become mandatory in shops in scotland from july 9 as coronavirus restrictions are eased. Nicola sturgeon also said the two metre physical distancing rule would be eased for some premises onjuly 10. Back in the commons, in an attempt to kick start at least one bit of the economy, mps fast tracked legislation to allow pubs and restaurants in england and wales to turn pavements, terraces and even car parks into outdoor areas. Under temporary measures, pubs and restaurants would be able to apply for pavement licences more easily so they could put tables and chairs outside. The law would cut the time to receive approvalfor a licence from an average of 42 working days to just ten. The application fee would also
be lowered to £100. But some mps had concerns about bad behaviour. The business secretary told mps he wanted to see businesses bounce back from a period of enforced hibernation. 127,000 pubs, restaurants and cafes, employing around two Million People, are the lifeblood of our high streets and town centres. Social distancing guidelines significantly affect capacity to accommodate customers. Food and Beverage Service activity has fallen by nearly 90 in the last quarter. The bill introduces a temporary fast track process for pubs, cafes and restaurants to obtain local Council Permission to place tables and chairs on the Pavement Outside their premises. This measure with seven days notice allows an enormous amount of off sales, which is already causing havoc in my constituency, with people defecating, urinating and leaving problems in parks. People talking about fake glastonbury. This is going to cost a lot of money to my borough, to police. We are not party poopers, but we dont want the other kind of pooping either, so would the secretary of state make sure there is some provision in this to allow councils to have some discretion where particularly there is a problem with a licensed premises causing anti social behaviour . I cautiously welcome the governments move to lift restrictions on people visiting pubs, cafes and restaurants, although, like many of my constituents, i remain anxious about how this can be achieved while maintaining social distancing guidelines. This virus remains far from beaten, and i am dismayed about the mixed messages from the government about how people should conduct themselves in the face of what is still a major threat both to our health and the economy. Labours shadow business minister wanted to look at the wider context and particularly the furlough scheme, which will end by october. We are not asking the impossible of government, but what we are saying is look at what other countries are doing. Whether its spain or italy or new zealand or france or germany,
they are taking a sectoral approach to the furlough. They are saying that there are specific sectors that are more affected by the Public Health measures, and therefore the economic measures have to match that. Ed miliband there. Well, any hopes of going to a pub or bar in leicester were dashed when the Health Secretary said people in the city would have to continue with the tighter restrictions for at least two weeks due to a surge in coronavirus cases. Unfortunately, while cases in most parts of the country have fallen since the peak, in leicester, theyve continued to rise. The seven day infection rate in leicester is 135 cases per 100,000 people, which is three times higher than the next highest city. Nonessential retail and schools would close and the relaxation of shielding wouldnt go ahead. Labour thought the government had been slow to respond. The Prime Minister talks of his whac a mole strategy to suppress local outbreaks. We were alerted to the situation in leicester 11 days ago, and now we have got from the secretary of state tonight the whac a mole strategy. But doesnt he agree that if we are as a nation to ease from lockdown smoothly, that those areas who do see flare ups will need greater speed in response . Otherwise we risk no moles getting whacked. If were going to rely on local authorities and local Public Health officials to manage this outbreak, we need postcode based data so that outbreaks on a street, on an estate, in a ward can be picked up very early and dealt with and preferably broken down by ethnicity. That data is available to directors of Public Health in local councils who have signed a Data Protection record, and im committing to the house to publish it at as local a level as possible
so that everybody will be able to see and analyse that data. Matt hancock. The Prime Minister announced that up to 3 million hong kong residents are to be offered the chance to settle in the uk and ultimately apply for citizenship, following china . S introduction of new National Security measures in the former british colony. Hong kong police have made their first arrests under a new anti protest law, including one for possessing a Pro Independence flag. More than 300 others were detained at a banned rally. The law targets secession, subversion and terrorism with punishments up to life in prison. Borisjohnson said the change threatened freedoms and breached thejoint declaration between the uk and china agreed at hong kongs handover. We made clear that if china continue down this path we would reintroduce a new route for those with british National Overseas status to enter the uk, granting them limited leave to remain with the ability to live and work in the uk and thereafter to apply for citizenship and that is precisely
what we will do now. Afterwards, the foreign secretary made a statement. Today, i have the depressing but necessary duty to report to the house that the enactment of this legislation imposed by the authority in beijing on the people of hong kong constitutes a clear and serious breach of the joint declaration. Beijing has ripped this treaty up in the foreign secretarys face in full view of the international community. No amount of shiny new planes can disguise the fact that this is a humiliating affront, both for Global Britain and for the foreign secretary personally. I remain deeply concerned that while this announcement is to be welcomed, his counterparts at the treasury see Chinese Investment as a central plank of the uk recovery and that the governments approach remains deeply confused. For too long in relation to china, we have had no strategy at home and no strategy abroad. The basic difference is that we believe that freedom of expression and peaceful protest supports social stability, where as the Chinese Government thinks it undermines social stability. Surely all countries and all institutions must understand that this is a moment where we have to pick a side. Either you can be on the side and stand with hong kong and the joint declaration or else you choose to stand with the Chinese Communist party. Staying with china, the government saw off for now at least a measure designed to stall the involvement of chinese firm, huawei, in the uks telecommunications network. Several senior conservatives have already warned that the firms involvement in the uks next Generation Mobile Internet Network poses a security risk. Huawei insists its independently of the Chinese State and a world leader in 5g. In the lords, a crossbench or independent peer put forward an amendment to a telecoms bill preventing companies from using uk Telecommunications Infrastructure to facilitate human rights abuses. If companies supplying our leasehold infrastructure with Internet Services are also abusing human rights, our infrastructure therefore becomes a tool in that abuse. My lords, the notion that we can carve up a Digital Company into the parts which are abusing human rights, the parts which are not is absurd. But the minister argued this bill wasnt the right place for the proposed change. We dont believe the amendment will achieve the aims of the noble lords who support it. And secondly, i absolutely understand that is not your lordships intent but that it will wreck we believe the purpose of the bill mainly to facilitate the provision of fibre broadband to leasehold properties, starting with the blocks of flats and perhaps i should repeat at this
point that this bill is about broadband, not about 5g. At the end of that debate lord alton withdrew his amendment, but warned he would come back if progress wasnt made. The education secretary, Gavin Williamson set out plans to fully reopen schools in england in september telling mps it was critical that children are able to resume their education. Limits on class sizes will be scrapped, while all schools will be supplied with testing kits if pupils or staff show symptoms of coronavirus. Schools will continue minimising contact between children, including through grouping Children Together in bubbles and encouraging older children to distance. At a minimum, this will mean keeping year groups in schools and colleges separate. In these challenging times, we are committed to ensuring the nations children have not just a safe education, but also an excellent one. From september, we are asking schools and colleges to return to a broad and balanced curriculum. We expect exams to go ahead in the summer of 2021. Labours new shadow education secretary welcomed some of the measures, but said. For too long, the government has been asleep at the wheel. The announcement today comes just three weeks before the end of term. And an immense amount needs to be done to prepare. A senior official in the secretary of states own department as one of the attainment gap could widen by as much as 75 as a result of the crisis. The new shadow education secretary, kate green. The Prime Ministers decision to appoint the chief negotiator in the brexit talks, david frost, as the new National Security adviser came underfire in both the commons and the lords with borisjohnson accused of politicising
a key whitehall role. David frosts appointment was part of a wider shake up at the top of government, which saw the current National Security adviser, sir mark sedwill who is also the cabinet secretary and the countrys top Civil Servant standing down. Answering an urgent question from labour, the minister for the Cabinet Office michael gove defended the move. He is now the uks brexit negotiatior, shaping our future relationship with the eu and covering issues from trade and tariffs to security and defence corporation. As nsa, david frost will help to deliver this governments vision for britains place in the world, supporting the Prime Minister in reinvigorating our National Security architecture and ensuring we defend our interests and values across the globe. But labour questioned the appointment. The first duty of any government is to keep people safe. In carrying out that duty, any government should have objective and at times challenging advice from its National Security advisers. It is why making a political
appointment takes this government into such dangerous territory. Weak Prime Ministers take advice only from those who agree with them. A former Prime Minister also questioned the appointment. I served on the National Security council for nine years. Six years as home secretary and three as Prime Minister. During that time, i listened to the expert independent advice from National Security advisers. On saturday, my honourable friend said we must be able to promote those with Proven Expertise. Why then is the new National Security adviser a political appointee with a no Proven Expertise in National Security . We have had previous National Security advisers, all of them excellent, not all of them necessarily people who were steeped and the security world, some of whom were distinguished diplomats in their own right. Sir david frost is a distinguished diplomat in his own right and is entirely appropriate
that the Prime Minister of the day should choose an adviser appropriate to the needs of the hour. David frost is to be made a peer but their was disquiet about his appointment in the lords too including from the first ever National Security adviser. Since mr frost has not, as far as i know, worked on defence or security or Intelligence Matters in the way each of his predecessors have done, how is mr goves dictum about all of this is to be read in the light of mr frosts appointment . The minister in the lords said he was sure david frost would display his skills. The governments been accused of only implementing the spirit of recommendations from a review into bias against ethnic minorities in the Justice System in england and wales. Labours david lammy who carried out the report forformer Prime Minister David Cameron wanted all thirty five of his recommendations implemented. The minister insisted action was being taken. So the position now is that 16 recommendations have been completed, two have been rejected and 17 are in progress. Of those 17 in progress, 11 will be completed within 12 months and six thereafter. Let me close by saying this, madam deputy speaker. Enormous progress has been made, particularly in respect to the functioning and fairness of prison. The government needs to go further than my review went. Not cover up for those recommendations it ignored. Change will only happen when you look in the mirror honestly. Change will only happen when you tell the truth. Change will only happen when we recognise that black lives matter. Do not take the Community Involved for fools. The government has seen attempts by some of its own and Opposition Mps to make changes to its immigation bill. The proposals will see the end of the Free Movement of people into the uk from the European Union when the brexit transition period expires at the end of the year and paves the way for a points based system. But during detailed debate a former conservative cabinet minister led calls for immigration detention to be limited to 28 days saying those being held were more often victims not villians. I have heard case at the case of people who have suffered human trafficking, torture, rape, forced prostitution, and modern slavery. Many are damaged people whom the world has dealt a very, very rough hand. And what do we do when they come here for help . We lock them up for an indefinite period. 97 of people currently in detention are Foreign National offenders. They have committed some of the most serious and heinous disgraceful crimes. Crimes like murder, rape and child abuse. But by implementing an arbitrary time limit on immigration detention,
this could make it much more difficult for these offenders to be removed from our country. 0pposition mps had there own demands for changes. Several wanted the system allowing unaccompanied asylum seeking children to be united with Family Living in the uk to remain unchanged. Consider the case of a 14 year old stuck in the awful camp whose older sister or whose aunt may be living here and could care for them. If the home office loses, ignores or refuses that great request for a transfer to the uk to join family, there will be nothing that the child or the family or anyone else can do. That is wrong. It is plain to see that despite them talking a good game, the government proposals mean there is backsliding on earlier requests made to the house, it means fewer safety routes for children to get to family
here and that means more children risking dangerous and unsafe routes. The government stance is for traffickers and people smugglers and a disaster for children. 0thers called the bill as it stood damaging. If however instead we accepted this jigsaw of amendments, which we have before us, we could turn that bill on its head and it could become a positive and welcoming piece of legislation. Which would value people who come to this country and make a contribution. Christine jardine. Finally, six months after the general election, westminsters new mps are continuing to make their first or maiden speeches in the commons. These are traditionally more personal contributions, focusing on an mps constituency and background. Katherine fletcher, the mp for south ribble, shared her story. My mum, the woman who said, no, you cannot go and knock on and go out and play, you have to do this next practice paper for your exams. My mum, who regularly said katherine, ive been saying since you were two youll either be a stripper, a social worker or a scientist. Well, mum. Laughter. Given i have a biology degree, and the nature of modern politics, theres a very good chance ill be all three. Thank you, mum. Youre right about the exams. Katherine fletcher. And that career advice brings us to the end of the the week in parliament, but dojoin me on Bbc Parliament on monday night at 11 for the start of the New Westminster week. But for now from me, alicia mccarthy, goodbye. Good morning. Were halfway through 2020. Its supposed to be through the middle of summer
but the weather is very un summerlike, unfortunately at the moment. As you can see through thursday afternoon, across the midlands and south east england, we had a rash of showers and some of those were heavy and thundery with it as well. We did close the day on thursday with a window a finer weather out to the west, but look what is waiting in the wings. More cloud and more rain on its way, an area of low pressure will push in over the next few hours, bringing some heavy rain with it and if we look out into the atlantic, we can see that it is fairly extensive and will have a Conveyor Belt of wet and perhaps pretty windy weather for this time of year. It will, however, be a relatively mild start. Double digits with the wind direction coming from the southwest with more of a humid feel developing across the country. Some of the rain through Northern Ireland and western Scotland First thing in the morning will be quite heavy. Were going to see a couple of inches of rain maybe more to Higher Ground as we go into the afternoon and it starts to pep up across wales as well. So, this is a snapshot into the afternoon, scattered sharp showers
through the northern isles. Central and southern parts of scotland will see heavier rain, particularly the further west you are, the rain easing a touch into Northern Ireland with some heavier bursts across wales and southwest england. Maybe the midlands and the southeast of england staying largely dry for much of the day, and if that happens, 21 degrees will be the high. We will see more wet weather feeding in particularly through Northern Ireland, southern scotland and Northern England and it will stay pretty breezy to the south in particular. And because that wind direction again from the southwest, it will drag up some pretty humid air with it, so, despite the cloud, you will notice the feel when youre stepping outside. Some of that rain fairly persistent through Northern Ireland, southern scotland, and in northwest england and wales, and just like last weekend, pretty windy with it and unusually windy for this time of year with gusts in excess of potentially 30 miles an hour. We do manage to get a few breaks in the cloud and there will be very few and then temperatures will likely peak at 22 or 23 degrees. That humidity will start to ease for the second half of the weekend as the wind direction changes to more of a northwesterly. So, a cooler source but weather will start to dry up at the beginning of next week. Take care. Welcome to bbc news, im Lewis Vaughan jones. Our top stories us prosecuters charge the british socialite Ghislaine Maxwell with grooming young girls for her former boyfriend, the convicted paedophileJeffrey Epstein. She pretended to be a woman they could trust. All the while, she was setting them up to be sexually abused by epstein, and in some cases, by maxwell herself. Texas makes wearing a face masks compulsory across much of the state, as covid 19 cases continue to soar. We speak to one of hong kongs leading pro democracy campaigners, who has fled the territory following chinas imposition of a new security law. The British Government lifts covid 19 quarantine requirements, but only for arrivals in england from some countries,
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