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BBCNEWS Breakfast June 19, 2020

Just a short term fix or a long term trend . Its back to the dayjob, for marcus rashford. He returns to the pitch for Manchester United, in the premier league tonight, at the end of a week, in which his campaigning forced a government u turn. A cloudy and dont start but sunshine around this weekend. Your full fore ca st sunshine around this weekend. Your full forecast later on breakfast. Its friday the 19th ofjune. Our top story primary and secondary schools in england are to get a £1 billion boost to help children catch up on months of lessons that were missed during lockdown. The government pledged that a third of that cash will go towards a special tutoring programme for pupils from the poorest homes. Critics say the plans lack detail and that nursery pupils and some over 16s have been left out. Dan johnson reports. Extra maps delivered on line to help kids catch up. Mathematics. It is really happening at this Primary School but now many more pupils will get this one on one support. School but now many more pupils will get this oneonone support. You dont know when to put your hand up and say i know the answer. Because it is one to one, you do not have to be scared of saying what the answer is. At times like this, during the pandemic, you can still learn a lot of stuff and an you can keep up. So you are hoping to get better at mathematics . Yes. And you do not have to worry about people thinking why is he asking that question . Hundreds of billions targeted at those falling behind. It is run by a charity using volunteer tutors. You cannot completely take the place of traditional teacher but we have seen promising start from the tutoring we are offering with pupils saying they are offering with pupils saying they are re engaging with their learning and replicating what they might get in the classroom and giving them individual support with they can ask questions. Most children still have not made it back to school after three months of disruption so what about summer . Will that be more time they spent at home . And then september, what is going to look like and you get more children back into these buildings. Will there ever be an assembly again in a hall like this. Teachers now have money and some freedom in spending it to try and answer those questions and to work out how to get every child back up to speed. You have to be realistic and think that they have bigger gaps in their learning but also how can we plug those gaps if those children, say for example, can only come back 15 at a time. I think there is a place for tutoring to help and support us. But there is of the come about exactly who gets this, how often and for how long. This funding is for one year and thus not cover preschool or post 16 education. It has been widely welcomed but with warnings it may not be enough. Dan johnson, bbc news. Our Political Correspondent nick eardley in in westminster. The education secretary will be talking to us later. But what we need is detail . What we know so far is £350 million is going to be for the most disadvantaged kids to get tuition. The other £650 million will be for head teachers to apply for for either one on one or Group Tuition in the next Academic Year. There have been some concerns about the fact that it does not cover kids in early years nor children who are 1618 in early years nor children who are 16 18 and what is on offer for them . It is also about whether this is about money. There will be some questions, given the size of the challenge and real concerns that some children are falling behind, whether this money is enough. I suppose the biggest question of all is how this is all going to happen and how youre going to get children back to school in england when the new year starts in september. Still huge questions over that. The Prime Minister sang again this morning he will do everything again to get children back in september but many of the challenges are still going to be there, tory mps are still knocking on his door saying you need to reduce to a one metre rule, like they have done in Northern Ireland, to make sure you get more children into classrooms. I should point out, this money is for england. It will be money for scotland, wales and Northern Ireland as well, slightly different approaches around the uk to how you tackle this massive issue of making sure children do not hold behind. Say, we will bring it all up later with the minister. Some children in Northern Ireland could be back in school before the end of august, and theyll only have to keep one metre apart. Can you explain it for us . Northern ireland is, as you say, the first of the uks nations to make a significant change to that two metre social distancing rule. Whenever schools return here, which will be on the 24th of august, the requirement for pupils will be one metre. For adults and teachers, it will be two metres. They made that decision in a meeting yesterday. They say it will enable most schools to bring back all peoples on a full time basis instead of perhaps a couple of days a week to start with. Teacher unions though are sceptical and say schools will not have the space to do that and education will be farfrom normal come space to do that and education will be far from normal come august and they are looking for more clarity. That was part of a range of measures the storm want executive have announced. Churches allowed to hold services, headdresses and barbarous opening on the sixth ofjuly. Stormont. Labours heavy loss in the last general election the worst since 1935 was the result of a toxic culture, organisational failures and the leadership ofjeremy corbyn. Thats according to a new report by the Labour Together group which includes different wings of the party. Iain watson reports. Thank you very much. Jeremy corbyn leadership, brexit and that he not seem credible, some of the reasons labour lost according to a new report. The Labour Together, including the parties, leader ed miliband and the shadow minister lucy powell have spent nearly six months analysing the reason for the defeat. Some of it will make grim reading for labour supporters. They say mps and activists have told the labour strategy was in in inadequate and factionalism affected the partys inadequate and factionalism affected the pa rtys performance. Inadequate and factionalism affected the partys performance. But that is not the really bad news. The reports asa not the really bad news. The reports as a newly doubled not in itself improve their fortune. Traditional voters have been drifting away so by 2019, it was easier for the conservatives to pick off some seeds labour had held since the war and a further 58 constituencies are vulnerable to small conservative advance. The report declares labour has an electoral mountain to climb and it contains a stuck warning for sir keir starmer, unless he makes fundamental changes, labour could have further to fall. Iain watson, bbc news. Australia is under a serious and ongoing cyber attack by another country, thats according to its Prime Minister, Scott Morrison. He declined to say which country might be responsible but said that all levels of government had been targeted. Our sydney correspondent Shaimaa Khalil can tell us more. Lovely to see you but worrying news and lots of speculation about which country or who is behind this and what data has been accessed. Good morning. Yes, ithink what data has been accessed. Good morning. Yes, i think the Prime Minister was really clear about the scale and the nature saying all levels of government, Political Health educational organisations have been targeted by this sophisticated state cyber actor and he said this was effectively a state sponsored operation because of the scale of it, the nature of the targeting and also because not many countries are capable of such operations. It was not clear is why Scott Morrison chose this moment to make this announcement. The attacks have been going on for a few months. He made a similar announcement last year. And he refused to name names. He did not mention the word china but he was asked about china and he refused to reply. We know the relationship between canberra and beijing has been quite tense in the past few months since australia asked for an investigation into the coronavirus. Ageing sense of an as imposed tariffs on australian products and he would not name names but we do know that its a very powerful trading partner and australia have had tense relationships for quite some time 110w. Relationships for quite some time now. Thank you for taking us through that. A Police Officer has been shot dead during a routine traffic stop in new zealand. Another officer was seriously injured during the incident in auckland. The shooter fled the scene in a vehicle. Local media is reporting that two men have since been arrested. People of south Asian Heritage are more likely to die from coronavirus after being admitted to hospital in the uk, according to a major new study. Data from 260 hospitals across england, wales and scotland showed that patients with south asian backgrounds were 20 more likely to die than white patients. The research, published in the lancet medicaljournal, suggests that high levels of diabetes are partly to blame. One of the things we have officially been encouraged to do is to get on oui been encouraged to do is to get on our bikes more. Cycling is big business right now. Cycling shops have been booming. Ben is on a cycle superhighway in london, with all the Safety Measures in place and luminous tops stop he will be seen and also he is told or so, you are off your bike this morning. We have come inside because it is absolutely not cycling whether this morning. Carol will tell us about all that later. Good morning. Were talking about cycling because sales are booming for all sorts of things, bikes, bicycle equipment and that is because many of us are avoiding public transport in the wake of coronavirus stop so much so it means that in many cities you cannot get hold of a bike. New figures monitor just the market for cycling will be worth £1 billion over the next two yea rs. Worth £1 billion over the next two years. A huge increase. What are we buying . Mountain bikes, commuter bikes, hybrid bikes to get us to the office or whatever you work but sales of a bike are up by 88 . They give you a bit of a burst because you plug them in beforehand. To make it happen and make it safe, councils have been encouraged to spend some of the money from Central Government on things improving cycle lanes or making it easy for people to get around the city. Is it all that easy . We speak to a transport research now. Rachel, the whole idea of this is we are on two wheels and not on for. Good news for the environment and for our health but will be keep doing it after lockdown is over . I hope so but it would need support from central and local government. This cycle track was built in 2016. Before that you had to cycle on the road and that will not keep people cycling. What did councils and government need to do to make cycling more attractive . There are temporary cycle range but they need to become a permanent . Exactly. We need more support so local authorities contained in these into permanent infrastructure and create Strategic Networks that are safe for everybody, whether you are old, young middle aged for everyone. And being able tojoin up is important. In london it is a bit easier but if you are in a neighbouring city, you might live in one town and cycle into a different city and the provision will be very different . Cycling and walking need to be the same, they need to be strategic and joined up and thats so important. You dont want to go from one part of the country to another and everything is different, it should be the same high standards. When all this is over you would hope people carry on but what needs to change, what needs to be the fundamental thing that makes us finally ditch the car or getting to work . Fundamentally its about safety, people dont want to walk and cycle in the road with lots of traffic, we need protected infrastructure and quiet neighbourhoods so people can feel safe to jump on the bike with their kids. Its about creating this world class their kids. Its about creating this world class infrastructure, were still quite a long way away from that but we used to have a quarter of people cycling to work in this country that can happen again. The roads at the moment are particularly quiet, theres no School Traffic, many people are working from home that can, what happens when the cars and the buses and the School Traffic comes back . Its not going to be nice and quiet like this morning. Exactly, and i did research thinking what is people who habitually use public transport to go to work before the virus jump in their cars if they could . We could see 1 million more cars on the streets at peaktime, and million more cars on the streets at peak time, and thats bad for eve ryo ne peak time, and thats bad for everyone bad for people who use the car, we need people on their bikes and cycling and walking for short trips and most trips are short, it is possible. Nice to you, thank you, professor from the university westminster. Not cycling whether this morning but not determining many down here, it has been quite busy here, a cycle lane built and being expanded across the capital but as always, provision right across the country is very different and as we were hearing, depends on where you live and your cou nty depends on where you live and your county and whether there is a joined up county and whether there is a joined up approach. We will talk more about this through the morning and hopefully the weather may improve. Fingers crossed. See you soon. Ben, we will see you soon. Thank you very much. Lets take a look at todays papers. Most of the papers this morning feature pictures of Dame Vera Lynn, who died yesterday at the age of 103. The daily express dedicates its whole page to the forces sweetheart and quotes dame veras assistant, saying that the queen was very, very sad on hearing the news. In its top story, the daily mail says the governments decision to change the way its coronavirus tracing app works is an embarrassment and a damaging u turn. The guardian leads with a review into labours performance in last years general election by party group Labour Together. The paper reports the campaign was a picture of dysfunctionality, toxicity and drift, according to the guardian. And wales online leads with the news that all non essential shops will be allowed to open from monday. The copy says that the welsh first minister, Mark Drakeford, is expected to ask people to stay local within five miles for at least another two weeks. We will be speaking to him later this morning. There are a lot of differences between the various parts of the uk, and we will try to give you a clear outline today. We will speak to significant figures from wales, scotland. Northern ireland as well. In connection with schools, we are talking to nick gibb, and that is specific to england. Lots of information. Lots of pictures in the paper that have caught my eye, you have a text one . I find them so sad, these reports a report from the British Red Cross that says four out of ten people from their survey feel lonelier since lockdown. It goes on to say a third say that they have not had a meaningful conversation in the last week. At various stages in lockdown, people are feeling happy because theyve got a certain amount of co nta ct, because theyve got a certain amount of contact, but i think there remains a lot of loneliness and when you hear statistics like that, certain groups of people are very much still feeling it and the impact on that, which is the important point, is really significant. A lot of that comes down to shielding, doesnt it . Those of us who were for treatment enough not to have to shield will, say, miss a hug, hugging my friends, but at least im able to be in contact with them but its general chitchat, because if you are shielding, 2. 5 million are, youre not going out or youre going out at times when it is perhaps more quiet and you can avoid the risk of contacting people as well. Ive had lots of friends who have said if they are passing people who are shielding on the road, they are striking up a conversation, which makes it a bit nicer. One of the things that has confused me, i dont know if you can answer this, i saw this lovely picture in the times a tropical screech owl and band belly dowel and a snow read owl. Isnt it fantastic . They are at the Scottish Owl Centre in west lothian. The snowy owl centre in west lothian. The snowy one owl centre in west lothian. The snowy one here, with the open mouth, it isnt yawning or crying out, a p pa re ntly it isnt yawning or crying out, apparently it is doing it to cool down. A lot of animals do that. I have spent time researching this and i cant find any evidence of it. If anyone knows it is a fact that owls do that to cool down, i would like to know. I think i have do that to cool down, i would like to know. I thinki have heard that before, i am to know. I thinki have heard that before, iam by to know. I thinki have heard that before, i am by no means an expert on owls but i think it is true i will lay it down for you we will find out more through the programme stop. Focusing on education in england this morning, speaking to the education said. If you have questions about schooling, maybe your kids go back next week for the first time, maybe they are already m, first time, maybe they are already in, this is about extra tuition packages being brought in so if you have thoughts about the practicalities around school and how it might work in september, let us know this morning. Well be remembering Dame Vera Lynn throughout todays programme, hearing tributes from friends and colleagues in the Music Industry, and her charity. But for the generation who lived through the second world war, dame vera was so much more than just a singer or a celebrity. John magui

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