extraordinary stories from the past. but for now from me and the rest of the witness history team, it s goodbye. good afternoon. it s the 1st august, summer holiday season in full swing but, unfortunately, the settled summer sunshine has deserted us, not only for today but for the week ahead. this is a fairly typical story of what s happening out there. there is a little bit of sunshine around but quite a lot of cloud at the moment and you can see also some showers. it s a weak weather front that s drifting its way steadily south and, actually, we could see those showers turning thundery in the far south east by the end of the day. the best of any brightness will come with the best of the warmth, probably, but it s a quiet story. there s not that much in the way of showers around further north, so a good deal of dry weather out there. temperatures, though,
to coronavirus restrictions. from today, employers will have to pay 10% of their furloughed workers normal salary, while the government will continue to pay the other 70%. from the 1st august, the employers contribution rises to 20%, with the government s contribution reducing to 60%. with me is our business presenter ramzan karmali. this has been a life saverfor this has been a life saver for many people. this has been a life-saver for many eole. , ., this has been a life-saver for many eole. , . this has been a life-saver for many v-eole. , . . ., people. yes, and it has cost a lot of money. people. yes, and it has cost a lot of money. the people. yes, and it has cost a lot of money, the estimate - people. yes, and it has cost a lot of money, the estimate is - people. yes, and it has cost a lot of money, the estimate is £66 i of money, the estimate is £66 billion. the government would say it has supported 11.2 million jobs since last year. it was a massive undertaking. they
running that car, that pays for quite a lot of hire cars if you really want to do those long trips and do not want to be charging. that is before we and do not want to be charging. that is before we get and do not want to be charging. that is before we get out of scooters that are going to be probably whizzing around at some point. cue forjoining us. thank you for. the uk government is starting to wind down its furlough scheme, despite pleas for the changes to be postponed. currently 1.5 million britons are having nearly all of their wages paid by the treasury because they can t work due to coronavirus restrictions. from today, employers will have to pay 10% of their furloughed workers normal salary, while the government will continue to pay the other 70%. from the 1st august, the employers contribution rises to 20%, with the government s contribution reducing to 60%. i m joined now by jackie steadman, owner of the independent travel agent travel time world. thank you very muc
to wind down its furlough scheme despite pleas for the changes to be postponed. currently 1.5 million britons are having nearly all of their wages paid by the treasury because they can t work due to coronavirus restrictions. from today, employers will have to pay 10% of their furloughed workers normal salary, while the government will continue to pay the other 70%. from the 1st august, the employers contribution rises to 20%, with the government s contribution reducing to 60%. our businesses outbound international travel, family reunions, that has not happened, and we only make money when we actually get people on planes. we have had no revenue, the furlough scheme has been absolutely vital to keeping our staff. to say that we did not expect to be in this position 12 months later, we were hoping that by this summer we would be opened up, we are
serious people, had access to sarin. there was a lot of intelligence reporting about it. the white house can say anything they want about it but that is a fact. that they had access to sarin. so when the incident took place, the one thing they didn t do is they didn t consider the possibility that this group could have been one of the people involved. they went right away to the notion it had to be assad and the world s press went with him, including the american press. in fact, they didn t have much of a case. not surprising to hear the white house is strongly disputing your report. we received this statement from the director of national intelligence spokesman sean turner. quote, the intelligence clearly indicated that the assad regime and only the assad regime could have been responsible for the 21st august chemical weapons attack. there is no evidence to support mr. hirsch s claims to the contrary and the suggestion there was any effort to suppress intelligence is simply false. h