hong kong, human rights abuses of activists across the board. there are so many activists across the board. there are so many things to criticise about china. the assumption has been for a long time that we've just played with them and ignored those things. for the sake of our economic benefit. and i think there's possible upside to a different approach to china does say that you can only reap the benefits of participating in the global economy if you're also willing to stand by these multilateral rules around the rule of law. the question is whether we left it too long and china's reached into africa, neither has enough heft this really could be a kind of generational cold war. where we're not even certain that a divided west, with the us pulling away from its european allies, has the strength or unity to stand firm. some really big thoughts. i'd love to say let's move on to something more positive, but i can't. let's look at the metro, going back to coronavirus. we need clarity when it comes to should or should we wear masks. we had rishi sunak last week delivering his statement without a mask, while he was serving at a restau ra nt. mask, while he was serving at a restaurant. here he is wearing a mask, but the health secretary, matt hancock, is not. where are we with these masks? there are examples, we've seen michael gove several times going to buy a sandwich in the shops, not wearing a mask. of course, he said it's good manners to wear a mask, the day before boris johnson confirmed that masks would become compulsory. mandatory. not just on public transport, but in indoor spaces. then, of course, that example reading surfaces and the government says, " not necessarily impressed, " because the implication is you are zipping in and out with very limited contact with people. i think it's as simple as this, if you're going to impose compulsory mask to people, you really do need to get your story straight. otherwise, people will raise lots of question understandably with ministers having their own interpretation. you also have, thanks for the clarification, but you also have the situation with schools and offices. potentially all schools and offices. potentially all schools returning in september, people being encouraged to go back into the office, the situation is slightly different when it comes to the benefits of wearing masks. we're being told that because we spend so much time with the people we share office with or school with, there's no point in wearing a mask. it feels like the council of despair, basically, if you are infected you will get infected whatever you do. nonetheless, i think a lot of offices, if people would prefer to wear a mask, that's their choice. which is obviously a big shift, because wearing masks is kind of weird and creepy and anti—social in normal times. it denies normal human interaction. i think one of the huge challenges that the government hasn't tried to address is enforcement of this. it's all there about to say they are mandatory, that sounds as if people will go around checking days, but actually, there aren't enough police to do that. it will fall to security guards, and shop assistants themselves, and most of the main retailers have said they don't want to enforce these things because people sometimes will wear a mask to get past security guards and then ta ke get past security guards and then take them off in the shop. not put it on their nose, all sorts of things. actually to expect kind of retail assistance on very low wages to be telling people, and potentially putting himself at risk with the kind of people who go around defying the rules in order to ta ke around defying the rules in order to take personal hygiene risks. it's not really clear that this is enforcea ble not really clear that this is enforceable at all, so as asa said, actually leading from the front by trying to make this a kind of socially acceptable thing for everybody to do is really all they can do. let's see what happens tomorrow. let's move on to the financial times which is talking about apple. the company has been told it will not have to pay islands 14 billion euros in back taxes. this is after it won an appeal of the european union's second highest court, overturning a ruling from 2016. yes. this came after the european commission decided that ireland allowed apple to pay such a low rate of tax in its view, that it was almost... state aid, because it was so curiously low. the suggestion it was navigations of a sweetheart deal. the commissioner has been making lots of waves, someone who's a real asher, —— basher. accounting messianism 's and multinationals —— accounting mechanism. they won, but thenit accounting mechanism. they won, but then it was overturned by the court. i think apple is understandably very pleased. it understands that if you are going to take advice, get the detail right. otherwise you will be rather embarrassed. now they are having to say as a result, they will have to rewrite their understanding on the rules on what tax is a cce pta ble on the rules on what tax is acceptable in the system. they need to learn from this. nicely done there, asa. we need to move on. the guardian is looking at labour offering to deal anti—semitism legal action. they are poised to make a formal or positive. we've seen them try to get a grip on the problem of anti—semitism and leadership in way forward. what you of that? cheers farmer said one of his primary objectives was to give competence to alljewish people that the labour party was safe for them —— keir starmer. he is taking every opportunity to do so. he fired rebecca long—bailey over a controversial tweet and he is now going to issue an apology. the government is reporting to those people who were whistle—blowers in the bbc pam or anna documentary —— bbc panorama. have to take a kind of complaint about the labour party forward. he will now apologise to them. it seems to be part of a wider settlement, because the key themes for him and the party is to have a sense of unity about this and drive those with more clear anti—semitic views away from the party. ending on the image, i must admit i woke up this morning to loads of tweets. this happened overnight. this is where in bristol, the slave trader edward colston's statue was pulled off overnight. we had mark quinn, the artist, put up an image of the protester there and you can seejen read below her statue, really quite a powerful impact and a powerful statement for bristol. because it has been authorised by the council, brister dome at bristol may have had their own plans. —— bristol may have had their own plans. paul lead, just briefly. bristol said it was up to the public. this comes with its own story, and i think it's beautiful. i think it should stay. this is the kind of history we should be proud of. asa, would you be happy for this to stay? it is very, very striking. you can see jen to stay? it is very, very striking. you can seejen reid, a black lives matter actavis, in front of the statue. -- actavis. we sell that, -- we saul the community behind the removal, very much for that by all means of. that will be interesting to see what happens next. that was put up overnight as asa was saying, without permission. we will see what eve ryo ne without permission. we will see what everyone else will make of it. thank you so much, i know you will be back to me and an hour's time for the next tap through some of the other papers. for the time being, thanks to you. hello. grey has definitely been the order of the day for wednesday. the uk stuck under a coherent blanket of cloud. a lot of moisture in the atmosphere in general, making things misty and murky too, particularly across our higher ground and around some of oui’ coasts. this is anglesey a little earlier in the day. and it's those western hills and coasts i think that will continue to struggle with lingering cloud on into thursday — all because we're pulling a lot of moisture across the uk from the atlantic. the actual warm weather front that brought rain to some through the course of the day will continue to pull away eastwards. overnight, still a lot of cloud lingering around, however. that cloud will make for a very mild night. in some spots, temperatures will drop down no lower than 14—15 celsius. a little more in the way of wetter weather for the northern isles after some decent sunshine here, actually, for the day wednesday. thursday doesn't look too promising first thing, but look at the change in contrast to wednesday. we do start to see the cloud opening up across eastern wales, central and eastern parts of england, and the north—east of scotland could fare very well here. in fact, thanks to something called the foehn effect, our temperatures could shoot up to 21r—25 celsius and make it the warmest spot in the uk. western scotland, much cloudier, much cooler. we have a cold weather front approaching here, and that will slowly sink its way south across scotland and northern ireland eventually fringing into northern england through friday. to the north of the front? you guessed it, cooler air, just 15 celsius there in stornoway. to the south potentially our warmest day of the next few, 25—26 possible where we see a bit more in the way of sunshine. the front continues to track its way south—eastwards as we go into the weekend. the exact timing of that front pulling away into the continent a little open to question. it looks like the front will bring some thicker cloud across england and wales, and maybe the odd shower on saturday. further north, showers for western scotland but a lot of sunshine — but generally a somewhat cooler feel to proceedings than perhaps we'd expect at the time of year. as for sunday, just the risk of that front stalling through the early part of the day across the far south—east. so, potentially some wetter weather here for a time. it should, i think, brighten up as a day pans out. looks like there will be some showers across north—western scotland again. our temperaturesjust pegged back a shade. this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. as coronavirus cases continue to soar in the us, dr anthony fauci describes efforts by some in the white house to discredit him as "bizarre". indonesia sees its highest daily toll in deaths due to coronavirus. we ask if the figures tell the whole story. tensions rise over huawei. china warns of retaliation against the uk for its ban, as the trump administration takes aim at the firm itself. and a look at what's behind the recent heatwave in the siberian arctic and how that's affected weather in other parts of the world.
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