Start your Monday Morning. A little bit of rain for some, even some Thunderstorms Mist and rain to start your Monday Morning. Good morning, its Monday 2nd september. One or two word 0fsted Inspection Grades for englands schools are being scrapped with immediate effect. Last year an inquest found an 0fsted Inspection had contributed to the suicide of primary headteacher Ruth Perry, leading to widespread calls for change. Headteacher Ruth Perry, leading the government said the overall grades werent fair or accurate, but the change was criticised by the conservatives for removing a vital indicator for parents. Heres our Education Editor Branwen jeffreys. After an inspection, Caversham Primary was but yes, its this. A relief, really, that no other Head Teacher will have to go through what ruth went through. So from today, overall Inspection Grades are scrapped, like good or inadequate. School inspection standards remain the same. And from september 2025, there will be a new Report Card for
Protesters chief executive terry lamb house a return to stability crediting a strict new security law imposed by beijing. And the winners of whats often called the alternative nobel prize are not simply take a look at almost full activism by this years white livelihood. And in soccer yet another trophy for buying munich this time dog month so when the german super cup. Out his welcome to the Program European Commission President also on the line says the e. U. Has begun legal action against the u. K. Government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson for violations of the brigs it Withdrawal Agreements she made the announcement earlier in brussels lets hear what she had to say. This draft bill is by its very nature a breach of the obligation of good faith laid down in the Withdrawal Agreement moreover if adopted as it is it will be in full contradiction to the particle of Ireland Northern island. The deadline lapsed yesterday. Problematic provisions have not been removed therefore this morning
A high stakes game of poker because what Boris Johnson was Prime Minister is trying to sort of could jolt push and blackmail the e. U. Into the into the position that they say ok rather than have this bill that will create the endless trouble in Northern Ireland and was the keeping the borders between the republic of ireland and all of ireland open trade flowing and all those important things rather than sort of get into that dangerous zone we will give them the trade deal it seems a bit far fetched but more or less along those lines of thinking seems to be going in london and the youth is calling their bluff and saying ok were not going to play that way because well take you to court over this you have to take the spec we will not engage in those sorts of games and you diplomats make it quite clear if the internal market builders incriminated bill is not taken back by the end of the is not going to be a trade deal coming into force a bigot in london do you agree or is this all just ta
Facetoface talks in months, but the warm greetings mask deep divisions over a virus recovery fund. Plus we have to be tired of this, because i am tired of f it. Forchor u. S. Cities brace another weekend of violencnce as street crime leaves hundreds injured or dead. Correspondent in sports, lewis thelton is at practice at hungarian grand prix. Anchor thanks for joining us. New flareups are prompting new lockdowns as the coronavirus continues to ravage the world. Record 237,000 infections were reported in the last day. Restrictions have been reimposed in israel and the philippines, as well as more state in india, which has become the third country to record more than one million confirmed covid cases. The other two, are brazil, which now has more than 2 million cases, including its president and over 76,000 deaths, and the u. S. That is where more than 3. 6 Million People have been infected, 77,000 in the last day. Nearly 139 thousand people have died, including 948 reported thursday. T
Continues on a global scale. A worldwide their market, the 11 year bull run here is over. The dow is heading to the 22,000 level. A month ago it was 29,000. It is the fastest selloff in history. The s p will hit bear market territory at the open today, down 20 from the february high, the same story with the nasdaq. More money is still moving into safe treasury securities pushing the yield down to 0. 69 as of right now. The latest news on the virus brings its impact home to all of us. Sport dramatically affected. The nba has suspended the season indefinitely. A few days ago they banned reporters from locker rooms. Now the whole sport is shutdown. The Seattle Mariners will not be playing any home games. The early baseball season is in question. There will be an announcement later on the nhl. Social distancing is apparent across the country. You can see it and businesses are feeling it. Theres a long list of conference and meeting cancellations that is barely hurting airlines, hotels and