Someone came out. He had information of a prisoner, came out. He had information. In some cases somebody goes into to something and the person he comes out and he says ive seen westerners. We had some cases of syrian prisoners been released escaping, seen westerners. Unfortunately, a lot of this wasnt realtime. Most of the time its like a hollywood movie. They slipped through our fingers. We have been in the location a week or two ago. We didnt have definitive realtime information until the hostages began being released. When you talk about fbi its a Law Enforcement thing for them. When they debrief hostages theyre more interested in putting together a case against the hostage taker as opposed to finding the hostage takers trying to get a solution. A problem for People Like Us is that we saw the government, the government and the agency as an iceberg. We dont with so few people above water, above ground and they interact and interface with the other agencies so we did know what was goi
It comes ahead of an announcement next sunday which will set out its next steps. The phone app to track and trace people with covid 19 will be piloted this week on the isle of wight, and rolled out nationally across the uk later this month. Russia reports a record one day rise in Coronavirus Infections, with more than 10,000 people testing positive. Is there a Coronavirus Crisis in iraq . 100 have died, but few believe the official figures. The race to find a treatment a trial for a promising new drug to treat coronavirus is under way in southampton. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are former conservative adviser, mo hussein and the Political Writer and academic, maya goodfellow, the and academic, maya goodfellow, front pages. We guardian. The front pages. We start with the guardian. Ministers talking about using Health Passports for people to return to work. The i focuses on d raft return to work. The i focuses on Draft
Good morning, after a showery end to the week it looks like our weather will settle down a little for the weekend. Nothing too warm to come just yet, we will save that for the end of the week ahead. More details a little later. Its saturday 2 may. Our top story the us authorities have approved the use of an anti viral drug which they believe may help to treat covid 19. Its called remdesivir, and is already used on ebola patients. Here in the uk, the government says it has beaten its target of 100,000 coronavirus tests in england per day but that includes 40,000 home tests being posted out with the results yet to be processed. John mcmanus reports. A moment of hope. Dane hardwick hugging his partner after spending five weeks being treated for the coronavirus at thameside General Hospital. His life, like so many others, saved by an nhs working at near full capacity. But with 27,510 people in the uk now having died with coronavirus, other families are grieving. This is 60 year old Deliver
For you to look at here. Right. What do you think this one may be . Well, its an aerial shot, isnt it . I dont know some kind of oilfield, ill go for. Thats what it looks like, but this is actually the car park of disney World Florida during lockdown. No cars, no mickey mouse, no mini, it does not look like a theme park at all. These pictures are taken by a Company Called planet. Theyve put loads of cubesats into orbit around the earth and our collecting photos of what is going on all the time. I remember we saw planet back in 2014, i think, just when they were getting started, and they were hoping to spot daily changes on the surface of the earth with these images. Thats right. And as technologys moved on, so has their technology. Their near constant surveillance gives us insight into how the world is changing, covering everything from deforestation to refugee camps in myanmar. During the covid 19, crisis these images can provide surprising insights into how the pandemic is impacting
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the political commentator, jo phillips and the Political Editor of the sunday mirror and sunday people, nigel nelson. Tomorrows front pages, starting with the sunday telegraph. It reports on the governments aim to reopen primary schools at the start ofjune. That story shares the front page with a picture of borisjohnsons newborn son. The mail on sunday has the same photo splashed across its front page. Wilfred johnson being cuddled by his mother, carrie symonds. The sunday times focuses on the debate over Strict Lockdown rules for the elderly. The British Medical Association is arguing for restrictions to be relaxed for Healthy People over 70. The sunday express looks at the Prime Ministers plans for getting people back to work post lockdown. It says the government is drawing up 11 new rules to help make the workplace safer. And finally, the sunday mirror cont