to the country s covid victims. 500,000 covid victims and a 500 red flowers have been put on at the beach there in copacabana. koko banner copacabana has been the scene of so many parties, festivals, football celebrations, rock concerts, but today a very sombre note at the copacabana beach in rio as brazil enjoys this harrowing coronavirus that has caused so much death and devastation in that country. the mayor of greater manchester andy burnham has accused the scottish government of hypocrisy, after it banned nonessential travel from scotland to manchester. mr burnham says he will be demanding compensation. it is double standards, it is hypocrisy. they had done to us exactly what they complain that the uk government does to scotland. i will be writing to