If youve just got or are about to get your results wed love to hear from you. Are you happy or not with your grades . Are you going to appeal based on your mocks results or do you think you might need to take the exams in the autumn . Do get in touch at Annita Mcveigh on twitter or use bbcyourquestions. Elsewhere more bad news for the travel industry as tui the worlds biggest travel company says its lost over a billion dollars from march tojune. Coronavirus cases surge across much of europe with germany, france and spain all registering a Record Number of infections. A major Study Suggests that almost 3. 5 Million People in england may have already had covid 19 far more than the 270,000 confirmed cases. Investigators are working to identify what caused a Train Derailment in aberdeenshire in scotland in which three people died. And coming up this hour warnings of severe thunderstorms are in place across much of the uk after record setting high temperatures. Hello and welcome if youre wa
As White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner defends President Trumps handling of the covid crisis some people have chosen to play politics with the pandemic President Trump opted not to politicize it and help people get whatever health they need. Jp morgan and Goldman Sachs dumping almost 13 billion worth of shares across sectors in total. So lets just talk a little bit about the headlines. Theres a key focus on renewed lock down risk in many European Countries and the fact that germany has stepped forward and said that its going to quarantine those arriving back from spain has added another level of complexity but when you look at the market, theres no evidence that that is holding back Risk Appetite this hour we see the ftse and the cac 40 all in positive territories. The impact of potential travel restrictions is royaling the Airline Stocks and those other stocks that are effected by limited travel opportunities you have other sectors also a little bit weaker. Having said that, look
Across europe heavily struggling with the impact of the coronal irish coronavirus pandemic the economy in germany for example shrank by 10 percent france by 14 and spain by more than 80 but no contraction was as bad as the one in britain where the economy tanked by 20. 4 percent in recent months. Barras johnson visited a building site this week a trip and of boosting confidence in his countrys flagging construction sector. But theres no plastering over the cracks of the u. K. s battered economy. Figures released on monday showed that british g. D. P. Collapsed by a massive 20. 4 percent between the 1st and 2nd quarters of 2020. That is the worst of europes Major Economies a substantially more damaging drop than that suffered by germany and countries like italy france and spain. Those figures are from the time when britain was in a very strict phase of lock down. The economy has since reopened and there have been signs of a modest recovery the hope johnson is clinging to. Obviously we d
This man, unsuccessful in his long quest for the white house, yet having an outsized influence on American History. We are in henry clays parlor. Let me introduce you to jim klotter, 25 years now as kentucky state historian. Thanks for being with us. Glad to be here. Why henry clay . Why is he relevant to americans living in our time . I think a couple of counts. First of all, his famous comment, i would rather be right than be president , still speaks to us. Its a clarion call to people doing. Whether were in politics or Something Else, to do the right things. He also said, you know, that in a sense, that the politicians need to remember the country and sacrifice for the country. I think that is still something we need to remember, as well. The man known as the great compromiser. A man that forged compromises that not only kept the nation together, but were constructive. Those kind of things i think are the things we need to remember about henry clay, as well as all the things that he
Bringing a warning from the world health organisation. 16 million. Buy one, get one free deals will be banned and junk food adverts restricted as the uk government tries to tackle obesity in england. Britains chief rabbi has accused twitter and facebook, which owns instagram, of lacking responsible leadership in their response to anti semitic posts from the grime artist wiley. The memorialforjohn lewis is under way in washington. Politicians and the public will pay their respects to the late civil rights leader and us congressman. And the rescuer gets rescued how a st bernard found herself in trouble on englands highest peak. Hello, and welcome. We start with the uncertainty facing tens of thousands of british holiday makers following the governments abrupt decision to impose a two week quarantine on people arriving in the uk from spain. In the past hour, the Uk Foreign Office has confirmed its also advising against all nonessential travel to the canary and Balearic Islands in addition