Including bbc research that suggests at least 130 thousand more people have died during the pandemic than official figures show. And well take a deep dive into track and track systems as the uk announces its ditched its existing plan in exchange for one created by apple and google. Welcome to the programme. Were going to start in the us where president trumps had a tricky twenty four hours. First the Supreme Court has ruled against his attempt to get rid of a programme that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants, who entered the us illegally as children, from deportation. Its called daca it stands for deferred action for childhood arrivals. It was created in 2012 by president obama in 2017 the Trump Administration tried to rescind it. Now the court has ruled 5 to 4 to uphold Lower Court Rulings that found that move unlawful. Chiefjusticejohn roberts described the administrations actions as arbitrary and capricious. This is the second Supreme Court ruling against the Trump Administration in a week. President trump tweeted. Its worth pointing out that he appointed two of those justices neil gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh and that ideologically it currently leans towards the republicans. These were the scenes outside the Supreme Court when the ruling was announced earlier today. Lets hear from one of the dreamers thats the name given to those undocumented youths brought to the us as children. Ive had daca since i was 15 16 years old. Its allowed me to go to college. Its allowed me to get a full timejob. That could have all been stripped away had the court decided differently today. Heres our north america correspondent Anthony Zurcher on the significance of the courts decision. Considering that donald drabek in 2016 ran on the fact that he would be able to remake the federal judiciary system in a conservative image, but conservative judges on these. Two very high profile cases of the Supreme Court go against him has to be discouraging. They were close decisions, both involved some conservative judges breaking over and siding with the more liberaljudges. In this particular case, this daca case, it was decided essentially in a technicality that the chiefjustice, john roberts, said that while the president does have the power to rescind this daca programme, the way he did it without crossing all the ts and dotting the is, without having properjustification, that violated a 19110 era law that says you have to explain your administrative actions and provide grounding for them before you can go and make them. Stay with us, because i want to talk about Something Else on the president s mind. The Trump Administration is making a last gap attempt to stop the publication of this book, the memoirs of former National Security adviserjohn bolton. A judge will decide in the next 2a hours whether the publication can go ahead next week as planned. But plenty of excerpts have already been published in the press. And they are not flattering for the president. John bolton says donald trump approached chinas president for help in getting re elected. Mr bolton writes, he stressed the importance of farmers heres john bolton being interviewed on american tv. You say that you were astonished by what you saw. A president for whom getting reelected was the only thing that mattered, even if it meant endangering or weakening the nation . Well, i think he was so focused on the reelection that longer term considerations fell by the wayside. Mr bolton has also accused mr trump of telling xi jinping that building internment camps for uighur muslims. Was exactly the right thing to do. Its worth noting that the Us State Department says china subjects people in those camps to. Heres some more of that interview. You describe the president as erratic, foolish, behaved irrationally, bizarrely coming cant leave him alone for a minute. He saw conspiracies behind rocks and was stunningly uninformed. He couldnt tell the difference between his personal interests and the countrys interests. I dont think he is fit for office. I dont think he has the competence to carry out the job. There really isnt any guiding principle that i was able to discern other than whats good for Donald Trumps reelection. As is customary for the president , donald trump has fired back on twitter. Hes called john bolton a i. The book is full of lies and and fake stories. He goes on, a disgruntled boring fool who only wanted to go to war. Never had a clue, was ostracized and happily dumped. What a dope the president also did the rounds of American Media talking up his own record. This was him on fox news. Nobody has been tough on china and nobody has been tough on russia like i have. Thats in the record books and its not even close. The last administration did nothing on either and then in terms of bolton, he broke the law. He was a washed up guy, i gave them a chance, he couldnt get Senate Confirmed so i gave him a non Senate Confirmed position where i could just put them there, see how he worked. Just to be clear, donald trump is claiming john bolton broke the law by publishing classified information, but no court has agreed with that assesment so far. This isnt the first time donald trump has turned on a former staffer. Hes also had more opportunities than most to do so. This is a graph from the american think tank, brookings. The red bars show the total turnover of executive staff during a president s term. Thats president trumps bar on the far right theres been a turnover of staff in 88 of positions thats the highest over the past a0 years. When former secretary of state Rex Tillerson said the president was undisciplined and didnt read briefing reports, the president responded by calling him. As dumb as a rock, and lazy as hell. President trump called his former defence Secretaryjim Mattis the worlds most overrated general, and said former chief of Staffjohn Kelly was in way over his head and couldnt keep his mouth shut. The former White House Press secretary Anthony Scaramucci has become a fierce critic of donald trump. And the president is now a fierce critic of him. Anthony scaramucci has been talking about what its like to fall out with the president. Here he is. Its trump employment syndrome. You try to like president trump. You end up working for him, you experience the blowback of the shrapnel, the litany of lies, and then you start various coping mechanisms. Anthony, there were gasps when i was reading that out, he is trying his best to block this publication forjohn boltons book, but already the juicy bits are out there, arent they . Yeah, it is. You know, that ship has sailed. They may be able to block the publication as a kind of last ditch effort, but with all of these reports getting out in the media, the most damaging details of john boltons book are going to be in the public. So theres not a whole lot they can do to stop that. In fact, maybe it is drawing more attention tojohn boltons book, i would be surprised if it tops the bestsellers charts, partially because of what the Trump Administration is trying to do in reaction to it. I want to get your reaction to another announcements, from facebook, they have taken on posts from the Trump Reelection Campaign because they violated the social networks policy against organised state. One is reported to complained of dangerous mobs of far left groups destroying our cities and rioting, including a red triangle upside down, the symbol for Political Prisoners in nazi concentration camps. Anthony, what is your reaction to that, and have we heard anything from donald trump on this . We havent heard anything specifically from donald trump, we have heard from his campaign. However, they said that the upside down red triangle is a symbol that antifa it self uses and that there is a right upside down triangle emoji on the facebook page. So if this were a controversial image, then they certainly didnt know about it. But i think what the significance of this is his showing that facebook may be starting to move towards regulating the trump campaigns postings a little more. If you remember, when twitter took down several of Donald Trumps tweets just a few weeks ago, facebook and Mark Zuckerberg and said, well, we dont really get into policing the speech of politicians. So this is perhaps a sign that facebook may be reversing course a bit. Anthonys on a very busy day for the Trump Administration. Stay with us on 0utside source. Still to come. As the uk announces its ditched its existing track and trace virus app plan weve looked at how track and trace is working or not around the world. The singer Dame Vera Lynn has died aged 103. Known as the forces sweetheart, she entertained troops on the front line during world war two. She never retired last month she became the oldest artist to reach the top a0 in the uk album charts. Heres historian dr helen fry on her legacy. I think her biggest legacy is raising the morale not only of the armed forces right across, and that includes not only in europe, but of course in the far east, she was out in burma and travelled to india and perform to the troops, but also the nation. You know, we struggled at a time when, particularly the early part of the war, you know, the nations survival was on the line and she gave hope, she gave that resilience. She was always sort of, if i may, the spirit of churchill in a way. You know, that strength that saw her through some of our darkest moments of that war. This is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. The us Supreme Court rules against the Trump Administrations bid to deport hundreds of thousnds of immigrants who were bought to the us illegally as children. Lets look at some of the days other news. Russias ambassador in germany has rejected as groundless accusations by German Federal prosecutors that moscow ordered the killing of a former Chechen Rebel commander last august. Earlier, prosecutors charged a Russian National with the murder of a Georgian National of chechen origin. The victim was shot dead in a berlin park. This picture has been released by the indian authorites it shows a crude weapon purportedly used by Chinese Forces in the fatal brawl along chinas disputed border with india on monday. The fight in the Galwan Valley left at least 20 indian soldiers dead and raised tensions between the two powers. The french president has been in london for ceremonies to mark the 80th anniversary of the Charles De Gaulle bbc broadcast that urged the people of france to resist the nazi invasion. President macron met borisjohnson in downing street, where they also discussed quarantine rules for people travelling to the uk from abroad. To date, over 450,000 people around the world have died because of coronavirus. But the bbc has found the pandemics real toll is far higher. Analysis shows that another 130 thousand people have died than would normally be expected if 2020 was any other year. This is whats known as excess deaths. Out of the 27 countries we looked at ecuador has seen twice as many deaths since the outbreak there began with a 108 rise in the mortality rate compared to other years. In italy, there was a 40 rise in the number of deaths, and elsewhere in europe the figures in spain and belgium were also disturbing. And 55 more people than usual died in indonesias capitaljakarta. Sofia bettiza has been there to find out more. A father buries his youngest son. A mother distraught. Three year old rafa i did not have coronavirus, but his parents say three year old rafa did not have coronavirus, but his parents say he died because of it. He had leukaemia. When his condition got worse, his parents raced to hospital. Translation it was around midnight, the hospital said he would need to be tested for covid 19 before he could be admitted anywhere. Another hospital told us there wasnt a childrens doctor on duty and a quick covid test they had were only being used for pregnant women. Rafas parents drove him to to three more hospitals that night, with no success. The next day, they eventually found a hospital that would accept him but he died before doctors could see him. Translation i still believe that if my son was given prompt treatment he would still be alive. Rafa is one of tens of thousands of people whose deaths are not officially counted as being caused by coronavirus but are still victims of this pandemic. Since the outbreak of the virus, lots of countries are recording more deaths than usual. You can see a bump in the graph here. These are called excess deaths. Now, many of these have officially been linked to coronavirus as you can see here in red. But that still leaves a huge number of lives lost, which are not accounted for in the covid statistics. Sofia bettiza their reporting. One of the countries we havent included in our analysis is india, because we dont have good enough data yet. Even before the pandemic only 70 of deaths in the country are formally recorded and only one in five deaths are certified by a doctor. So far, india has recorded more than 12,000 coronavirus deaths since the start of the pandemic. But that is likely only a small part of the overall picture before you count overall excess deaths in the period. Heres one epidimiologist in india to explain some reasons why the number of deaths in india has been relatively low sot the number of deaths in india has been relatively low. So the deaths reported in india are actually increasing over the last ten days. It has increased from 69 to around 78 . So that registration, its compulsory in the Registration System which is mandatory for any passing of any inheritance. Therefore, it is followed in most urban areas. Hoever, in rural areas, only 20 person pick it up, that is an improvement. As an epidemioligist, trained epidemiologist in the industry of california los angeles and working in india for a long time, i can tell you with certainty that we are not dismissing the numbers. We are not missing a major number of deaths related to coronavirus. However, there are reasons why we are having lower number of deaths. Number one, younger population, number two, we are still in the ascending phase, the early phase of the coronavirus epidemic in india. As we move forward, we will get the numbers. Currently, we are around nine per Million Deaths in india, which is much lesser compared to the entire world which is having around 200 plus deaths. So we will have increased the availability of data in the future, but more importantly, and this is my hypothesis as of now, indians might have had cross infection with the other types of coronavirus earlier, therefore, most people would have had probably immunity for even the novel coronavirus. On the future examinations might reveal this. Only future examinations might reveal this. In russia a Health Watchdog has reported that nearly 500 medics have died after contracting covid 19. Thats a big increase from just over 100 doctors, nurses and other Health Workers who were reported to have died last month. Russian Authorities Say problems in supplying protective equipment were a contributing factor. Sarah rainsford has more. First of all, after this head of the watchdog, the Health Watchdog here made this statement and talked about 489 medical workers losing their lives in this covid pandemic, the watchdog itself then backtracked and said that these were not official statistics. It was in fact citing an unofficial tally that was kept by medical workers themselves. I think even so, its very interesting that this watchdog, very official body, is keeping a very close eye on that unofficial tally. The official numbers for now are three weeks old. They took 101 medical records, having lost their lives so far. Even so, during this, there is a conference on line about medical safety. The watchdog head talked about serious shortcomings that there had been, particularly at the very beginning of covid 19 here in russia, talking about the dire shortage of ppe and saying, was there more that we couldve done to prevent medical workers dying . She said. The question and answer coming from this official was, yes, there was. There is a clear political context for this, just a week or so ago, russia basically declared victory over coronavirus. There seemed to be a stabilisation in terms of the number of cases being reported every day, and certainly the number of fatalities, specifically talking about here in moscow as the heart of the epidemic, but that seems to be because there is a whole raft of very important political dates coming up. First of all, the victory day parade on the 24th ofjune and then following that a key vote for president putin on constitutional reforms that allow him to stay in power for another two terms. It seems quite clear that the relaxation of restrictions that weve seen aimed at coronavirus terms over the past few days, much more people on the streets, much more things opening up, its very clearly linked to the political agenda here. So, theres a lot of concern that this opening up, whilst its very welcome, people were very frustrated with the lockdown here, could very well lead to another increase in cases very soon. The uk has announced a change of strategy in its efforts to track and trace covid 19. Its ditched its existing plan for a virus app in exchange for one created by apple and google. Track and trace is of huge importance because its seen as central to controlling the virus while lockdowns are eased and the uk is far from the only country grappling with how to implement it effectively. Ros atkins has more. Around the world, lockdowns are easing, and the new approach is taking centre stage. Tracing and quarantining every contact. We will have a test track and trace operation that will be world beating. We need that tool so we can open up the economy. But can track and trace deliver . And can we trust it . Time and again in march, we heard about flattening the curve. And in most countries, its happened. These are infection rates in the uk, italy and france. Because of graphs like these, lockdowns are being eased, but now attention is turned to controlling new outbreaks. The who is clear. So what is Contact Tracing . Well, this is about countries knowing who has the virus and who theyve been in contact with. But it comes in many forms. Some systems are digital, some manual, some both, some are voluntary like in australia, germany and singapore. Some, such as china and south korea, are definitely not. However you do this, there are major challenges. One of the reasons is personal data. Phones are being used to monitor proximity to other people and location. And the data is not always anonymized. China and south korea monitor the location of people who have the virus and their payment history, and they dont ask permission. Both have largely tracked the virus effectively. But south korea at least, there is awareness that this approach is unusual. Translation scary is the word for many people, unacceptably scary, whatever the Public Health benefits. Amnesty international has warned. Now, norway has suspended its app and germany has been on mindful of these concerns. Its app doesnt log your location, but there is an aknowleged tension here between protecting peoples privacy and how well the virus is tracked. Then there is the challenge of getting people to sign up, the more people, the more effective the system, but if you are a democracy getting most people to take part is hard. Singapore wanted three quarters of people to have its app, it got a third and not all of them are using it. One senior official says there is a trust issue. Australias target was a0 , so far its reached 25 . Though its success containing covid 19 does mean it has less need for the one. Less need for the app. The remaining challenges that you need an app that works. In moscow, a quarantine tracking app has been fining people for being outside when they werent. Australias app has struggled to get bluetooth connections with all contacts nearby, and then there is england. In may, the government said the government had a duty to download its app and it would launch after a trial. Now though, we are told this. And the uk government has announced its scrapping its first plan in favour of a version which collects less data. Its reasoning offers an insight into the issues around digital tracking. Which leads us to manual track and trace, in other words, tracking done by people. We know from ebola, smallpox, and hiv, this can be highly effective, arguably the most effective measure. Among the worlds most effected countries in this, brazil and in englands case, remember Boris Johnsons promise . Well, here is the new york times. We know in its first week, this system referred over 8,000 people with covid 19, over 5,000 of them handed over their contacts and around 30,000 of those contacts agreed to self isolate. Its a start, but like in many countries with high case numbers, its far from comprehensive. Contact tracing is billed as the bridge between now and a vaccine and for all the reasons discussed, we are still in the early stages of building it. Ross atkins there. Thats about it from the team here and outside source. You can of course get in touch with us. We would love to hear from you on twitter. Of course, keep up to date with all the news on our website. See you again soon, goodbye. Good evening. I think its time to i think its time to catch up with an old friend. I like the sound of that. Do you wa nt i like the sound of that. Do you want me to give you some clues for who have interview with . Yes. Journalistic legend, has worked with many mediums with television and newspapers. Quite a lot of tweets saying we should get out of the way and that you come back, its andrew neil hello to you hello to you nice to hear from you. We wanted to call you up and get your thoughts on the franco british relationship with this special day where everyone is thinking about Charles De Gaulle. Im glad you have. The franco british relationship is in pretty Good Condition at the moment. Brexit you would think might have derailed it but curiously, what is actually meant is that brexit has put to more ofa premium meant is that brexit has put to more of a premium on the bilateral relationship between london and paris before. And i expect you will see it develop a lot more in the months ahead regardless of how the brexit negotiations go. And much from our new south of france correspondent very shortly. On this episode of the coronavirus newscast. Hello. It is adam in the studio separately and is lower in the studio. But im going to say pounds wire instead. We will talk about Charles De Gaulles famous speech, 80th anniversary of it today. We thought we would talk about it to get a living french legend to recruit in their room. Honour, common sense and their room. Honour, common sense and the interest of the country we say that all freak frenchman wherever they be should continue to fight as best they may. Stirring stuff up. Also the third anniversary of the first ever episode of a podcast called brexitcast. That is why the palace said the president to london today. Did he not pop in and see you . He did not. Onto the news. The foreign secretary dominic raab has made controversial comments today when he is asked about the symbol that before doing of taking the knee whether its american footballers doing it a few years ago, and british footballers doing it in the last couple of days in solidarity with black class matters campaigners. Heres what dominic raab said when he was asked about it this morning. I understand this sense of frustration and restlessness which is driving the black lives matters movement. On this taking the neat thing i dont know, maybe its got a broad history that seems to be taken from game of thrones, feels to me like a history of subjugation rather than a history of subjugation rather than a history of emancipation and liberation. People feel differently about it so the natural personal choice. Would you do it . I take the need for two people, the queen and when the mrs, when i asked her to marry me. Interviewing the foreign secretary on talk radio this morning. Subjugation, game of thrones. On talk radio this morning. Subjugation, game of throneslj think its fair to say not that that most diplomatic choice of words from the politician who is after all our diplomat in chief. For several reasons. Number one this is an enormously emotive and sensitive subject and i think all politicians try to carefully be as sensitive be as sensitive as they can and have a bit of a laugh. Obviously not going to go down very well with lots of people. The second thing is that taking the knee is something that has been talked about notjust in the last couple of weeks, but a couple of years ago a huge storm in the us. President trump furious with Football Players for doing that as a protest about discrimination in the us. Also if you go back even further this is also a sort of modern echo of halep Martin Luther king sometimes prayed at protests ordering court trials and even further back there was abolitionism in the 19th century, very famous image of a slave on their knees that was a symbol of that fight at the time. To say those may be a whiter history here may be something about game of thrones, was obviously seem as disrespectful. Right at this moment
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