To our Financial Futures . The bank of england tells us what they think later this morning ill have the details. Unfinished business for Manchester United, as they march on in europe. They finally finish the Europa League tie, which started before lock down, and now play copenhagen in the quarter finals next week good morning from Windsor Castle where it will be open for visitors on thursday and friday throughout august but you will have to people. Drizzly this morning. We will see some sunshine today, the best of which in northern scotland. The details later in the programme. Its thursday, august 8. Our top story port officials in beirut have been placed under house arrest while an Investigation Continues into the massive explosion which killed at least 135 people. 5,000 people were injured and many more were left homeless by the blast, which its thought was caused by Ammonium Nitrate stored in a warehouse. Sean dilley has this report. A city in ruin, as authorities start to plan a colossal cleanup operations, rescuers continued to search for those missing. Volunteers among the workers. More than a quarter of a Million People were displaced and are now homeless as the blast tore through the city destroying buildings and property. The people of beirut are relying on a government they have little trust in. Clouds gathered near the citys port, drawn by these extraordinary scenes. These flashes are believed to have been caused by fireworks but then. It is thought to be one of then. It is thought to be one of the Worlds Largest non Nuclear Explosions at one tenth of the power of the hiroshima from during the second world war. Hiroshima bomb. 2750 tons of unsafe stored Ammonium Nitrate. Translation festival, the investigation must be a priority and its result must come quickly. Secondly, we have to intensify the search for victims under the rubble. Thirdly, we have two search for the missing people. Fourth, take care of the wounded people. Fifth, build shelters. The country is living a national crisis. Authorities are investigating allegations that a series of failures led to officials missing several opportunities to remove the dangerous chemicals and to prevent death and destruction. Instead, the material was left here to rot and explode. A number of beirut pot officials involved in the storage and guarding the material have been placed under house arrest as investigators trace six is history. Customs and port authorities told local media they made several attempts to make the Ammonium Nitrate removed but the letters to judiciary s were ignored. Until tuesday, the majority of lebanons food was stored in facilities like this, now flattened silos. Less than a month supply of grain is now left for the country. Investigators need to understand what caused tuesdays explosion and who knew what and when about the u nsafe who knew what and when about the unsafe storage of chemicals that claimed so many lives. Sean dilley, bbc news. A major planning shake up to boost House Building in england is being unveiled by ministers today. New homes and hospitals will be granted automatic permission to be built under reforms set out by the government. Housing secretary Robert Jenrick says the fast track plans will cut red tape and kick start the economy but critics fear they could lead to a generation of slum dwellings. Our Political CorrespondentJessica Parker is in westminster. Jessica, how significant are these announcements . Good morning to you. More announcement on housing. How significant are these . Potentially very significant. The government is talking about a Major Overhaul of the Planning System and this idea of designating land into three categories. One would be growth and thatis categories. One would be growth and that is we this idea of so called automatic planning permission. That does not mean any developer can turn up does not mean any developer can turn up in yourfield next does not mean any developer can turn up in your field next door to your house and Start Building a load of homes, what it does mean is Planning Commission meeting with design criteria and a category of renewal also designed to fast track development, mostly on brownfield sites and the third category is protected land with more stringent control. Areas of national beauty, local wildlife areas. The government is keen to emphasise, they are cutting red tape not standards. They wa nt to cutting red tape not standards. They want to build a beautiful and they save the community will be the heart of Decision Making when it comes to building new developments. They also say the Current System is rather sluggish and we have heard criticism of the system before but there is concern, the Housing Charity, shelter, they are worried about plans to impose a levy on developers. The impact on social homes, saying they are already in a desperate shortage. The local Government Association is also warning about any moves to move away from local control and they say that the idea the Planning System is holding up element is something of a myth and the labour party say this isa myth and the labour party say this is a Developers Charter that was the community sideline and create a new wave of slum housing. It is important to know, this is a consultation and not the final set of proposals and this is not the first government to pledge to deliver more housing or indeed an overall of the Planning System. The state overhaul. These can be deeply contentions and any plans to reform the system and potentially frustrate developments could be contentious as well. It is interesting, we are hearing an announcement today about housing and thinking about how the economy, whether people are in the frame of mind to be buying homes evenif frame of mind to be buying homes even if they are so desperately needed. So interesting as well, something that people are pointing to is how important housing has become too, when people have had to go home and spent a lot of time in their homes, how important it is to have a safe haven but people have a close eye on the economy, the impact on the Housing Market and something that Boris Johnson on the Housing Market and something that borisjohnson has repeatedly talked about is this idea of build, build, build the hope is that you can get the economy going, you can get people into work because of the huge potential for unemployment down the line. The social media sites facebook and twitter have removed a post shared by president trump, which they say contains misinformation about the spread of coronavirus. The post contained a claim that children are largely immune from the effects of the virus. Twitter responded by suspending use of an account belonging to the Trump Campaign until the posting is deleted. Aberdeen is back under lockdown restrictions this morning after a spike in coronavirus cases. Pubs, cafes and restaurants have been ordered to close and residents have been told they cant visit each others homes or travel more than five miles from where they live, unless its for work or education. There are now 5a cases in the area. More travel restrictions are being introduced in australia figures released on wednesday in france showed 595 new cases in 2a hours. France has the third highest death toll in europe behind the uk and italy. Toulouse has introduced new rules requiring face mask in its busy streets with paris and other cities expected to follow soon. More travel restrictions are being introduced in australia tonight as the country battles to reduce the number of new Coronavirus Infections. From midnight, anyone taking a domestic flight from the state of victoria to New South Wales will be forced to self isolate in a hotel for 14 days, at their own expense. Its the latest in a series of new measures to curb a sharp rise in cases in victoria. Fifty million face masks bought by the government in april will not be used in the nhs because of safety concerns. The respirators were supplied by the investment company, ayanda capital, and came with ear loop fastenings rather than head loops. The government says they may not fit tightly enough. Later well get an update from the bank of england on how they think the economy will recover after covid i9. Injust underan time, in just under an time, actually. Ninas here to explain what we might expect. It is seven oclock they will come out. Ill be optimistic that the bank of england is optimistic . That is the question. Every three months we get a report like this from the bank of england. Its theirjob to try and provide stability and growth for the economy for all of us. Today they will look at how we might recover from covid i9. So what are we looking out for at 7am. Its all about shapes. Back in may, the bank of england thought that over this year thered be a brutal dip in the economy 14 the sharpest in modern history look at this line it goes down and then comes back quite quickly. In a sort of v shape. Things have changed, though, havent they . Local lockdowns, disappointing pickup in spend, and the beginnings of the end of the furlough scheme. Experts think that later this morning the v shape might be revised things wont get as bad this year, but recovery could take longer into 2022. From a v to a swoosh. So the bank of england is expected to say we need to strap ourselves in for longer term pain. Could be worse though could be a u shape the economy shrinking and staying that way for a long time as it did after the crash ten years ago. What would that mean for businesses . Well, elizabeth makes mattresses near leeds they have weathered lockdown, helped by a rise in stay cations, but theyre worried about a second lockdown. I think, for the next five years, we will be more cautious. This came out of nowhere, no one would have expected it and we need to be flexible and we need to keep a strong eye on the future and on cash flow in case Something Like this happens again. We have learnt you have to be very flexible and staying involved in your business on a day to day, our two hour basis during a crisis like we have had and be ready to move quickly. And that could have implications forjobs. Back in may the bank of england predicted that unemployment would reach a peak of 9 this year, which translates as just over 3 Million People out of work. Yesterday the owner of crowne plaza and holiday inn said they are putting 1,500 staff at risk of redundancy. Whsmith warned of 1,500 job cuts. The latest in a rapidly growing list. Will the bank of england reconsider that figure today . We know that for things to pick up we need to feel good about spending and that isnt happening for everyone. Christine makes mattresses in the factory i have been careful with spending because up to now we have been really luckily, both my husband, myself, my son and my daughter. We have all been furloughed and gone back to work and i feel we have been lucky because it is not really affected us too much and it is just in case, just in case something happens again. Lots of people feeling like that. The other thing to look out for is Interest Rates. Theyve never been lower currently at 0. 1 and been that way since march. Theoretically lower Interest Rates means we are likely to save less and more likely to spend. Thats not really working, so could the bank be tempted to go even lower . Its unlikely to happen today, but the government hasnt written off going negative sounds strange, but that could mean being penalised for saving, to make sure everyone gets spending. Well break it down for you and have experts reaction after 7 00am. Asi as i was saying at the beginning, it is all about the shapes. At the beginning it was looking at spring next year but now experts are saying the recovery might take longer but the recovery might take longer but the deep will not be as low. Both are better than what we saw after the 2008 crash. So theoretically but it isa the 2008 crash. So theoretically but it is a very unpredictable situation. You will be busy from seven. Lets take a look at todays papers the daily mirror reports that some local councils in areas badly affected by covid i9, are developing their own Contact Tracing systems. The paper says that three councils in West Yorkshire are the latest to propose their own approach. The Daily Telegraph leads with a warning from private School Head Teachers who say that pupils face a life sentence if they cannot appeal against this years exam grades. A photo of an Army Helicopter dropping water on the wreckage of beiruts port, dominates papers front page. The guardian is leading with the same story. It says there were repeated warnings of the risk of an explosion in beirut, which were ignored. The picture shows a survivor being pulled from the wreckage. And in scotland, the press and journals front page has the headline city sent back into lockdown as it focuses on the measures reintroduced in aberdeen. Something we will be looking at in a little more detail later in the programme, what that feels like in practice, for People Living in aberdeen. How many animals do you think Sir David Attenborough has. Met . How many animals have been named after Sir David Attenborough . Named after him . What types of animals . The reason i am asking is a brand managers has been named. If theyre very large and robust vietnamese subspecies of brand managers named after Sir David Attenborough. What is its actual name . David . There are many that have been named. You should read this is in the telegraph. It says interesting things about the managers here. But its not the first one. Others include a flush belly frog from peru, a long beat echidna from new guinea, a goblin spider that isjust one echidna from new guinea, a goblin spider that is just one millimetre long and lives on horn island in queensland, and so David Leavitt at bra also has a type of tree in ecuador. How very flattering. And a crustacean, as well. So, today on saturday we will hear more from carol about the weather. Its going to be one of those weekends, i think. And you may have read about this. Dartmoor is one of those places where you are still allowed to do wild camping, so you can turn up to do wild camping, so you can turn up and put your tent up stop its quite unusual in england and scotland. But it has been banned now. Because park authorities are saying people were just being really irresponsible, they had one night in july where 70 tenths were erected in one place tents, 55 pits were dug and there was litter everywhere. The whole principle of the wild camping. I understand what it is. The idea is that you leave no trace of yourself being there. However different to normal camping . Its not on a campsite, you literally rock up anywhere, somewhere, but not at the moment because people have been making too much mess, frankly, which is a real shame. You have some tennis news . On august 31, the us open starts. Its obviously a huge event. There will be no cow, we know that. But its interesting looking at how the players are having to look after themselves. A lot of requirements as to actually they go about their own bubble. Some of the big stars will be playing, and they ta ke big stars will be playing, and they take on their entourage with them. They are being told which houses they can be in, the official ones they can be in, the official ones they can be in, the official ones they can rent. Above and beyond that there are only allowed three people in their bubble. I guess coach, manager, just three people in the bubble. That applies inside flushing meadows in the grounds, but also in their homes. The story here is the players themselves are having to pay for their own security. And this is for their own security. And this is for people to check they are adhering to the rules. So i guess spot checks when they are back at their places. For example, if one of their places. For example, if one of their entourage of the three people allowed, steps out of line and meet someone outside of the bubble, they get thrown out completely and had to leave the discernment. The player . Not the player, the individual. They are taking this very seriously have two leave the turn on. There are no ball boys or girls at the moment . Of the turn the tournament. We will see. Carol will have the weather for us ina carol will have the weather for us in a moment, but first we have to talk about this. It was described as a truly heart breaking case pc Andrew Harper was killed in the line of dutyjust one month after his wedding day. Last week his killers were sentenced for manslaughter but his mother, debbie adlam, says thats not good enough. Shes calling for a minimum sentence for people who kill Police Officers, called andrews law. Peter cooke has been to meet her. A mother grieving her son, still angry about his killers lack of contrition. We can see them bumping and patting each other on the back and patting each other on the back and celebrating like they had won the lottery. We were just devastated. Last august, debbie other limb had a knock