Including bbc research that suggests at least 130 thousand more people have died during the pandemic than official figures show. And well take a deep dive into track and track systems as the uk announces its ditched its existing plan in exchange for one created by apple and google. Welcome to the programme. Were going to start in the us where president trumps had a tricky twenty four hours. First the Supreme Court has ruled against his attempt to get rid of a programme that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants, who entered the us illegally as children, from deportation. Its called daca it stands for deferred action for childhood arrivals. It was created in 2012 by president obama in 2017 the Trump Administration tried to rescind it. Now the court has ruled 5 to 4 to uphold Lower Court Rulings that found that move unlawful. Chiefjusticejohn roberts described the administrations actions as arbitrary and capricious. This is the second Supreme Court ruling against the Trump Adminis
The decision follows a surge in cases of coronavirus more than 800 in the past two weeks. A series of strict measures includeing the closure of schools and non essential shops will be introduced to try and contain an outbreak. Heres our health editor, hugh pym. Leicester city centre tonight. Pubs and restaurants which have been closed since lockdown in march all set to reopen on saturday along with others in england, but theyve now been told they cant. Its very disappointing. At the end of the day, weve been gearing up to reopening for this period. I mean, it was announced a couple of weeks ago, so whether its our colleagues, our suppliers, weve all been getting together, working out plans, working with health and safety about what were going to be doing, training staff, everything. And its just really disappointing. As well as an extension of existing restrictions, non essential shops will have to close from tomorrow and local schools on thursday, and theres advice to avoid non essent
Including bbc research that suggests at least 130 thousand more people have died during the pandemic than official figures show. And well take a deep dive into track and track systems as the uk announces its ditched its existing plan in exchange for one created by apple and google. Welcome. Thanks very much forjoining us. Were going to start in the us where President Trumps had a tricky 2a hours. First the Supreme Court has ruled against his attempt to get rid of a programme that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants, who entered the us illegally as children, from deportation. Its called daca it stands for deferred action for childhood arrivals. It was created in 2012 by president obama in 2017 the Trump Administration tried to rescind it. Now the court has ruled five to four to uphold Lower Court Rulings that found that move unlawful. Chiefjusticejohn roberts described the administrations actions as arbitrary and capricious. This is the second Supreme Court ruling against the T
Now on bbc news, its time for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. It is the job of the professional satirist to find the funny and expose the absurd in humanitys most serious endeavours. There are times where satire just doesnt work, should we be laughing at covid 19 or Racial Discrimination . Our guest today is a hugely successful writer and director of comedy on television and film, armando iannucci. Is there ever a bad time and place to be funny . Armando iannucci, welcome to hardtalk. Hello. Good to have you on the show at a very difficult time. Ijust wonder, with reference to coronavirus and Everything Else that is happening right now, do you need to be in a certain frame of mind to write, and in particular, to write funny . I mean, thats interesting. I mean, its good, ive got some structure to the day because were actually in the middle of writing a new series of avenue 5, which is the sci fi comedy we do for hbo, but on the other hand, that shows premise is about 6
Now on bbc news, its dateline london. Hello, and welcome to the programme, which brings together some of the uks leading commentators in hope that the coronavirus is in retreat. Not in the americas, though. North and south, nearly half of the worlds cases are there. The United States, which donald trump wants back to work, has a serious problem with covid 19, according the top official fighting infectious disease. Brazil, where bolsonaro has opposed a lockdown, now has the second highest number of deaths in the world. With me to discuss that, and some of the weeks stories that have received less attention, are Polly Toynbee of the guardian, a liberal newspaper, and jef mcallister, us born lawyer and broadcaster. And here with me still a safe two metres distant one of canadas finest exports, lyce doucet, the bbcs chief international correspondent. Good to see you again, lyse. I mentioned the distance between us because one of borisjohnsons changes was a reduction in social distancing to