it was done at balmoral not where it is traditionally done at buckingham palace. normally the queen would have come to buckingham palace to meet with an incoming prime minister. yeah, anderson. i think we should give her a break. she is 96 years old. why would she get on a plane even if she was healthy to come to london. fair point. reporter: when actually the younger people could go up and see her. seriously. 96 years old. she has the right for them to come to see her in balmoral. and i would just say that as we were saying that she has been the thread of everyone s life in this country and the commonwealth and really in the fans of the british monarchy all over the world for the last 70 years. we are right now in a state of some political upheaval. we ve just had a new prime minister, her 15th, and i would also just say that, look. she is also a mother. she is a grandmother, she is a great grandmother, a family woman. and now it s time for them to be having their mome
Mzae to get here. Maze. President will be joining us as soon as we get here. Im the education reported at u. S. News. You are at the changing politics of k12 panel discussion. Thank you for being here. E w rankled a pretty awesome panelists tot discuss and answer your pressing questions, because theres nothing really going on in dc, right . I will leave the bio in your programs. I will run down the line. We have lindsey burke. She is the education policy director for the heritage foundation, which were those of you outside the beltway, it is a conservative think tank in washington dc. The president of democrats for education reform. Hes also a civil rights leader. Next in him is marty west, an education professor at Harvard Graduate School of education. He was also previously in education policy advisor to senator lamar alexander, the republican from tennessee, who is the chairman of the Senate Education committee. A quick housekeeping note. This is one of the first panels at ewa. Ewa2
The uk Health Secretary, matt hancock, has said a sharp rise in the number of new coronavirus cases recorded in the last 2a hours is concerning and urged young people in particular to be mindful of social distancing. The latest daily figures showed nearly 3000 new infections as our health editor, hugh pym reports. Bolton today, coming to terms with a sharp increase in coronavirus cases. Almost all amongst those aged under 50, with the infection rate now the highest in england. Joint action by the council and the government has resulted in new restrictions. Local people have been told only to use public transport for essentialjourneys and not to mix with other households, indoors or outdoors. Some are frustrated at another change in the rules. People make plans. We cantjust keep stopping our lives and going backwards. Its just confusing. I think its everyone, i dont think itsjust young people in general, ijust think its everyone. You cant put, you know, an age on it, really, i dont thin
New coronavirus cases on sunday, a new Civil Servants in global daily record. England are being urged by the government to return a rare and dangerous heat wave to work in their offices. Is hitting california. In a letter seen by the bbc, temperatures could hit 49 the government wants 80 degrees celcius in some areas. Of Civil Servants to be and, the bolshoi ballet at their workplace at least is back treading the boards once a week by the end of the month. After shutting down unions have described the governments attitude during the pandemic. As outdated. Our political correspondent, chris mason, has more. Usually vibrant, bustling, dynamic, and yet for much of the last six months many of our city centres have looked like this. Its time for that to change, says the government. The head of the civil service, sir mark sedwill, says the Prime Minister believes. This is whitehall, home to loads of government departments. Its actually relatively busy here today but still pretty quiet on wee
Its been a confusing day for british tourists, struggling to work out whether they will need to quarantine themselves when they get back from holiday. From today, scotland, wales, england and Northern Ireland are imposing different quarantine periods for travellers who arrive from portugal and greece. 0ur europe ccrrespondent gavin lee reports from southern portugal. Back to britain from faro airport this morning. Where youre going back to now dictates whether you have to self isolate. Theres been no clarity from the government as to what we were doing. Karen and mick are heading to birmingham. They dont need to quarantine, but they bought early tickets home because they thought they did. Obviously not very happy. We feel as though weve lost two days of our holiday. Its cost us an arm and a leg and. Were just very disappointed. As more and more british tourists return home, its clear to me how confusing many people find the new rules. For example, if youre an english traveller flying t