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Transcripts For BBCNEWS Breakfast 20200814

Bowling alleys, and small weddings all able to resume this weekend. And in sport, theres not much social distancing here but after five months away, its finally safe, for rugby unions premiership to return tonight. Ive been to see how its been going in training. Well meet the sisters who kept their world war ii codebreaking a secret from each otherfor decades as, ahead of vj day, theyre honoured for their efforts. Good morning. It is a mixed day to day. In the south with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Drier towards the north. The heatwave is gradually starting to ease. All the details throughout the programme. Its friday, august 14th. Our top story. People arriving in the uk from france, malta and the netherlands will be forced to self isolate for 14 days from tomorrow, following a late night announcement by the government. With up to half a million british tourists thought to be in france alone, the deadline could see a rush to ports and airports over the next 2a hours from holiday makers desperate to avoid quarantine. Our news correspondent Caroline Davies has more. The uks second most popular holiday destination will, from saturday, become more complicated to visit. France joins the list of countries where any uk visitor must self isolate for two weeks on their return. Were announcing that there will now be quarantine brought in for a number of other locations now, including france, holland and some others. And thats because weve absolutely worked so hard to make sure were keeping our numbers down here, we cant afford to reimport those cases from elsewhere. The Foreign Office is now warning against all but essential travel to france. And that also applies to monaco, malta, the turks and Caicos Islands and aruba. The new measures kick in from 4am uk time on saturday. If you do decide to travel, youll face a 14 day quarantine when you return. As for why now, the department for transport says theres been a 66 increase in newly reported cases per 100,000 people in france since last friday. For the netherlands it was up 52 . France has responded. The frenchjunior European Affairs minister tweeted that there will be a reciprocal measure. These measures are anticipated to hurt the Tourism Industry on both sides of the channel. Those with holidays booked are now weighing up whether to go or cancel, while many visitors in france face a race to get back to the uk. Those that run the eurotunnel have already said they dont have the capacity to bring everybody home in time. Were already pretty much fully booked tomorrow. This is peak season, summer holidays, people are returning on friday night to get back home. And so we just havent got the space to take everybody who might suddenly want to come up to the coast. So what were saying to people is, amend your booking online, make sure there is space before you travel to the terminal. The Foreign Office hasnt advised uk visitors to leave immediately. But those who wish to avoid two weeks of self isolation on their return, now have less than 2a hours to get home. Caroline davies, bbc news. Bens outside St Pancras International station which is home to eurostar. Good morning. So, we know there has been a lot of people looking at the website of trying to get back home to avoid quarantine . Yes, youre absolutely right. What a busy 2a hours it could be. Less than 2a hours it could be. Less than 2a hours for people there, up to half a million british tourists currently in france right now. They have not got that much time to get back to avoid those rules that come into force at four oclock tomorrow. We have already heard from eurotunnel, the company that brings people and cultures, buses and cars through the eurotunnel. They have said, dont turn up on the french side of the channel if you do not have a booking oi channel if you do not have a booking or havent amended your existing booking. People felt may be a little bit safer being able to stay inside their car or vehicle while making that crossing. We have also heard from some of the feral Ferry Company suggesting that if you are getting to the Ferry Terminal right now might be ok, but many will be driving through france, so it will ta ke driving through france, so it will take them some time to get to those channel ports to get back to the uk. Here, as you said, home to eurostar, expected to be pretty busy. Those Services Already under some pressure as people find they have fewer options to go away this summer. Remember too that advice from the Foreign Office changing, so it it means it is avoiding advising against all but essential travel. If you did decide to travel and ensure that quarantine, your travel insurance may not be valid. Big questions too if you were due to go there. We will try to answer some of those later with travel expert simon calder, about what it means for things Like Hotel Bookings and if you have got an existing flight, for example. Because no flights are expected to operate, those hotels are open. It is unlikely you will be able to get a refund. At this point in the morning, with less than 2a hours until the new measures come into force, lots of questions and likely to be lots of travel chaos. Thanks very much. Casinos, beauticians and soft play centres in england are among the venues being allowed to reopen from tomorrow, as the government further eases some of the remaining coronavirus restrictions. Indoor theatre, as well as live music and performances, can also resume with socially distanced audiences but theres a warning of a significant increase in fines for those breaking the rules. Jessica parker has more. Bowling alleys, skating rinks, casinos and a soft play centres can reopen from tomorrow, as can indoor performance venues where audiences are socially distanced. Wedding receptions of up to 30 guests will be permitted, and the piloting of having spectators at a small number of Sports Events can resume. Beauty salons will also be allowed to offer treatments like facials and eyebrow threading, although alongside hairdressers, people providing Close Contact Services are now being told to wear a type two surgical face mask, in addition to a visor. Its after two weeks ago borisjohnson postponed the easing of measures in england for at least a fortnight, because of concerns about infection rates. With those numbers creeping up, our assessment is that we should now squeeze that brake pedal, in order to keep the virus under control. But the government says the situation appears to have levelled off, although the changes wont apply in areas where local restrictions are in place, including large parts of the north. Meanwhile, fines for people who repeatedly dont wear face coverings in places where theyre mandatory, could be doubled for each offence, up to £3,200. And there are new on the spot fines for those hosting illegal gatherings like raves. Senior government sources say that penalty could go up to £10,000. Jessica parker, bbc news. Lets speak to our Political Correspondent nick eardley, who is in westminster. So, we heard the borisjohnson quote a moment ago about squeezing the brake pedal. Government scientists we re brake pedal. Government scientists were talking about how we were on the edge of how far we could go with the edge of how far we could go with the easing, and that was recently too, yet we have announcements about easing . Yeah, absolutely, charlie. Good morning. The view in the government a couple of weeks ago is that there were some warnings about an increase in number of positive tests that were coming back. They now think it has levelled off, so they can kind of take their foot off that brake pedal ever so slightly and open up some more of these venues and open up some more of these venues that had been closed. There have been huge warnings about the future of things like a theatres, casinos if they didnt get a chance to open pretty soon, which i think well be weighing heavily on the minds of ministers as well. There is that view that things are levelling off when it comes to the number of new cases of the virus. So the government is hoping that this measured approach will work. But as you say, there is also the warning that when schools start to go back in england next month, potentially you could see some more increases, not just because you could see some more increases, notjust because children are out and about, but because some people would be going back to work as well. There is also a warning from the government of that if there is another increase, some of this could be reversed. Talking about alevels from yesterday as well, what we now know from looking through these statistics is that students from schools in the most deprived areas are the ones who have had their grades most down graded. These are statistics from the breakdown of where those schools are. So where is the governments position on that . The government is still insisting this was a robust system, that is fair. I have got to say, i think some of the pressure will increase in the next few days. There are some tory mps worried it gives a really bad impression if, you know, private schools are getting far more advantage from this that perhaps colleges and further education establishments, as these figures seem to suggest. Labour are saying that the government should be prepared to completely change its mind and adopt a model similar to the one that was eventually taken up in scotland, which saw teacher recommended grades embraced in full. Ministers in england seem really relu cta nt to ministers in england seem really reluctant to do that. We know education secretary Gavin Williamson has talked about devaluing some of the results. Like in scotland, there isa the results. Like in scotland, there is a lot of pressure on the government over this and it doesnt seem to be going away. Thank you. People in wales will be able to join together with four additional households to form one larger social bubble from next weekend. The move, announced by the first minister, coincides with plans to allow up to 30 people to attend a meal following a wedding or a funeral indoors, if social distancing can be maintained. A further 90 million doses of two more experimental coronavirus vaccines have been secured by the uk government. It means britain now has six different vaccines on order. Heres our medical correspondent fergus walsh. There are nearly 30 coronavirus vaccines undergoing Clinical Trials, and well over 100 more in laboratory development. The uk is said to have one of the biggest one of the worlds biggest stockpiles. Advance orders have been placed for 340 million doses of six different vaccines. Most require two doses, but there should be enough for everyone in the uk to be injected five times over. Most vaccine trials end in failure, even though that look promising at the early stages. So the government is hedging its bets, hoping that one of the candidate vaccines it has bought will be successful. We dont know if any of these vaccine formats that weve acquired will actually work. There are no licensed vaccines for any human coronavirus. So our priority is to ensure that we have sufficient vaccine for the populations in the uk who are most at risk from coronavirus infection. The latest deals are for 30 million doses of the vaccine being developed by a belgian company, jansen, and 60 million doses from the us biotech novavax. This there are roughly four technologies being used for coronavirus vaccines, and the uk has deals covering each of them. None of the costs have been revealed. By the end of the year there could be at least half a dozen different coronavirus vaccines in Clinical Trials in the uk. Members of the public are being encouraged to register interest online, because without medical volunteers, we wont know if any of the vaccines actually works. Fergus walsh, bbc news. Heavy rain has caused flooding and disruption across the south of england, with a train becoming stranded and a major road closed. Part of the m25 in surrey has been shut and the met office has issued yellow thunderstorm warnings for the next four days in much of england and wales. Hundreds of traps are being set in the us state of washington to catch a potentially deadly intruder. A giant insect, known as the murder hornet, has been seen in the area. Their sting can be fatal to humans. There is one there. There are some more. In japan they kill around 30 to 50 people each year. But the real threat is to honey bees. Living up to its gruesome name, the murder hornet will attack bees and devour the content of their hives. Do you know, just seeing at the close up like that, that will give people a bit of a worry. Its not very nice. Lets take a look at todays papers. The mirror is leading on the news that music venues, theatres and kids play centres can re open from saturday, as lockdown restrictions are eased further. As a level students complain of being failed by the governments marking system, the daily telegraphs splash focuses on claims by the exam regulator that some teachers submitted implausibly high predicted grades. The guardian says the poorest pupils have been hit hardest by the a level result downgrades, warning that the equality and Human Rights Commission could intervene. And bbc news 0nline has a special report marking 50 years since a group of black british activists known as the mangrove nine won a Landmark Legal battle against the met police. Two things have grabbed my attention. Middlemarch, the author of middlemarch, do you know off the top of your head . No. George eliot. Now does it click . If i had said george eliot, actually, it is mary and evans. Im ashamed to know i didnt know george eliot boss mike real name. So many women authors at the time used male mail the pseudonyms so their work would be taken seriously. So what is happening is, as part of the reclaim her Name Campaign initiated by baileys to markets womens prize for fiction, loads of books are going to be released which were under mail pseudonymss with their real names. So youve got a phantom lover by violet paget, known as vernon lee. Indiana by george sands. Its brilliant. Its really good. Also, when you are picking food in the canteen, you go to the bbc canteen for your lunch or breakfast, if the vegetable lasagne was placed right next to the meat lasagne, fewer people would choose the veggie lasagne. Researchers are experimenting with customers at Cambridge University college canteen. They are part of the vegetarian lasagne further away, at least 1. 8 metres away. Socially distance. And sales rose by 40 of the veggie lasagne when it was further away from the meat dish. I dont know what to say about that. We are talking a lot about winners and losers at the moment. I was this for a winner . A 300 to one horse triumphs. Apparently a horse has made racing history. Thats how extraordinary this is. The longest odds when ever recorded in britain and ireland at 300 to one. 0nly its second outing on the track. The horse is known as he knows no fear. That is the name of the horse. And was so un fancied going into the race, that the owner didnt even attend the race. And didnt even bet on it. And apparently the horse had done very badly on her debut. At the start of the real time betters, sometime during the vetting, it dropped to 999 to one. Did anybody win big . We know there was a midlands punter, they say, who placed a £10 bet at 300 to one. So there you go. 300 to one £3000 for a second time outing. Brilliant. 18 minutes past six. We were talking a lot about this yesterday, when students got the results. As the anger and disappointment continues over the downgrading of some a level students, borisjohnson has insisted the exam assessment system is robust. Nearly 40 of entries were marked down by exam boards to ensure this years results werent significantly higher than previous years. Lets speak to our education correspondent, dan johnson, who joins us from the university of hulls Clearing Centre. Good morning. You were there yesterday and you witnessed some of the heartbreak of some of the youngsters who are front and centre in this. They know what they thought they were going to get and they find out something very different. So, we move on to the universities and the questions about, will people get places anyway . What pictures can you paint for us today . Absolutely. That next phase, those stu d e nts absolutely. That next phase, those students are looking at their next step if they didnt get what they we re step if they didnt get what they were predicted and are not able to make the move they want to. This is the sort of place where it is now happening. University campuses have been some of the quietest places in the last few months because theyve been through the lockdown. There havent really been people here at all. Life returned yesterday through the clearing process. This is the university of hull campus. That has become a call centre, the main library, which will be live again from nine oclock this morning taking calls from students who did not get their predicted grades, asking what they can do instead, can they still get onto the course they wa nt they still get onto the course they want to, can they get onto a different course . Can they now come and doa different course . Can they now come and do a course here if they were planning to go somewhere else . Lots of different options. It is notjust about the students who missed out yesterday. There are others who may have done better than expected and can therefore go on to a different course that can sometimes be traded up. Lots in the air. It was described as a game of hungry hippos with lot different universities grabbing at each other and working out what the best thing to do is. They have got a marquee set up for visits they will be hosting today for people making last minute decisions, so they can come and see something of the campus before they decide to make their next move and live here. There are about 80,000 places expected to be given through clearing over the next few weeks. That is a big increase from last year and the year before. All sorts to play for, even if you did not get what was predicted yesterday. Thank you, back with you throughout the morning. The number of coronavirus cases in the United States has surpassed five million, according to figures from john hopkins university. It means the us now accounts for more than a quarter of covid 19 cases worl

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