it s goodnight. after multiple racist incidents involving uk police officers newsnight learns that the initiative set up to tackle racism in policing in england and wales is now facing allegations of racism itself. some ethnic minority staff who used to work for the unit tell this programme they believed they were seen as troublemakers or difficult . i was treated differently my white colleagues by a lack of support when the workload increased. i increasingly felt my voice and at times might lived and professional experience were being ignored. we ll ask the chair of the body tasked with oversight of the programme where this leaves the police race action plan. also tonight south africa grants diplomatic immunity to world leaders attending a conference in august. president putin himself has outstanding arrest warrants for war crimes, so will he now turn up injoburg? the message is that south africa would have been showing is that it prefers its relationship with mr puti
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The us buys almost the entire worldwide stock of remdesivir, a drug shown to speed the recovery of covid patients. Life under lockdown how the residents of leicester are coping after shutting down a second time. And the man who should have been englands first black player the campaign for a statue of jack leslie. Someone came down to watch him. They werent watching his football. They were looking at the colour of his skin, and because of that he was denied the chance of playing for his country. Coming up in the sport later in the hour on bbc news, england play their only warm up match ahead of next weeks test series against the west indies against each other. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Thousands of people have come out to demonstrate in hong kong in defiance of new anti protest laws imposed by china. Police used water cannon on the crowds and made more than 180 arrests, including seven under the new National Security law imposed by beijing. In the last half an h
Jobs. A star studded list featuring the likes of ed sheeran and coldplay call on the government to do more to protect the uks live music venues. They won the fa cup back in 2013, but now we can athletic have become the first English Football Club to go into Administration Since the coronavirus pandemic Wigan Athletic. I will be there this morning getting a reaction. Get ready for some big downpours today, especially across parts of england. And over the next few days the wind is set to get up once again. I will have all the details hereunder. Here on breakfast. 0ur our top story is that schools in england will be told to stagger break times, Group Children into bubbles and focus on core subjects when they return to the classroom in september. This is according to guidelines expected to be published by the government today. The plans are based on reducing contact rather than social distancing and will be set out by the education secretary, Gavin Williamson. 0ur education correspondent d
New security law in the territory which led to mass protests. Could we see an extension of the countries we can travel to . Dozens more could be exempt from the governments quarantine rules to allow people to go on a foreign holiday. Over the castle on the hill. A star studded list, featuring the likes of ed sheeran, sir Paul Mccartney and annie lennox call on the government to do more to protect the uks live music venues. Hello, good morning to you and welcome to bbc news. Im Annita Mcveigh and you can get in touch with me about any of our stories today on twitter. Schools in england will be told to stagger break times, Group Children into bubbles and focus on core subjects when they return to the classroom in september. The government is expected to confirm safety plans based on reducing contact, rather than social distancing. For gcses and a levels, most pupils will be expected to continue with all of their intended subjects. Attendance will be compulsory, with the threat of penalty