and develop and therefore avoid the need for a mandatory lockdown? its almost a mirror image of the conversation we were having earlier, coming into the weekend of the 13th of march, the government had not reacted quickly enough because the disease was further advanced than the government believed and we believe. there was no appetite to take it any further. of course, in theory it would have been possible to deliver the stay at home message is an advisory rather than mandatory message but there was some evidence emerging, again some other anecdotal, that having advised people to stay away from crowded indoor spaces like pubs and so on that they wouldn t. i don t know whether it was a focus group, i seem to remember one of the number ten team saying is what we re hearing that if you meant us to stay away from the pubs you would close the pubs. so it seemed necessary to impose mandatory lockdown given how quickly the disease was moving in order to minimise that risk. lard orde
good afternoon. the g7 group of nations, including the us and the uk, are calling for humanitarian pauses in the fighting in gaza, to allow more aid in and more civilians to leave. the united states has also said israel should not re occupy gaza after the war is over. on the ground, israel says its troops are now in the heart of gaza city, fighting hamas which is classified as a terrorist group by the uk government and which killed more than 1,400 people in israel a month ago. the hamas run health ministry in gaza says israel s bombardment there has now killed more than 10,500 people. live now to yolande knell injerusalem. yolande. soa so a lot is happening diplomatically this lunchtime and also inside gaza, where the israeli military extended for an extra hour its four hour window where it allows people from the north to head to the south. because so many people have been making thatjourney because so many people have been making that journey today. because so many people
To still be here and were still fighting so while he is still fighting, we still fighting. Also, the latest in our collection blind date series, and this morning one labour and one conservative politicians sit down and took in. So for all our couples have got on but will politics get in the way . People are looking at me, talking about the community. I was in wilkinson is buying something about the other day and people said, i cant believe you are in wilkinson i said, i have to put things in my bin. I dont have people to put things in my bins hello, welcome to the programme. We until iiam. Hello, welcome to the programme. We untiliiam. We hello, welcome to the programme. We until iiam. We are live until iiam. So much coming up today on the show. We will be talking about the political song that you arent allowed to hear and why. The latest on the tickets for the one love concert in manchester to remember the victims of last weeks attack. And of course we have our latest in the series el
Tonight, with extensive fog the hills. Clearer skies are times. Eastern scotland and North Eastern england, touch of frost here. But temperatures mostly above freezing. Another fairly temperatures mostly above freezing. Anotherfairly dull temperatures mostly above freezing. Another fairly dull day. Extensive low cloud and craig first thing in the morning, patchy rain and drizzle. A Few Cloud Breaks East of wales, north east england, east of scotland, but for most, stick with the cloud. Wetter in Western Scotla nd the cloud. Wetter in Western Scotland later on. But once again, temperatures above where they should be for the time of year. As for the weekend, prepare forsomething be for the time of year. As for the weekend, prepare for something more winds to re. All in all, it turns colder. Not quite as cold and snowy as Eastern Europe but some of you may see some snow by thursday. See you in half an hour. Hello, this is bbc news with nicholas owen. The headlines at 8. 30pm. Labour has a
Groundbreaking events 100 years ago. And you cant get green. Bicycles with friends. Today is the 30th Anniversary of the crackdown in beijing one of the most prominent critics of the Chinese Government since that time is the chinese artist ai wei wei whos lived here in germany since 2015 he creates works on a monumental scale and right now a museum is staging a monumental exhibition of his works. Its the biggest retrospective of ever seen in europe the new exhibition and dusseldorf shows his most important works of recent years. Including 60000000. 00 Sunflower Seeds out of porcelain each one handmade an individual but they all seem to
dissolve into one mass an emblem for Chinese Society everything is art everything is politics is an exhibition that delivers on its name. In the last years i way way has gone from a dissident chinese artist to an International Celebrity the cameras crowd in to get his picture but he counters with his own lens his own view when i moved to germany many exp