Good morning welcome to breakfast with
charlie state and
naga manchester uh headlines today fears
that there could be delay in lifting
lockdown in england as cases of the
indian variant
double in a week there are calls for 40
specialist
surgical hubs to be set up to tackle a
colossal backlog
of non-urgent operations good morning
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increasingly warm and sunny through the
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good morning it's friday the 28th of may
up to three quarters of new
covert cases could be linked to the
indian variant this according to the
health secretary matt hancock there are
concerns the increase in infections
could delay plans to lift all
restrictions in england on june the 21st
our correspondent james reynolds has the
latest
in bolton the race between the vaccine
and the variant
is fought at the pace of an average
british queue
in recent weeks up to several thousand
people a day have waited patiently
for their turn to be jabbed in this town
the indian variant
is hitting those who haven't been
vaccinated
the number of cases of the indian
variant in england has more than doubled
since last week
rising to almost seven thousand
according to the health secretary
up to three quarters of new uk covert
cases
could be linked to the variant the worst
affected areas in england
continued to be bolton bedford and
blackburn with darwin
seven other areas in england each have
more than a hundred confirmed cases of
the variant
the critical thing to watch is the link
from the number of cases
to how many people end up in hospital
the increase in cases remains focused in
hot spots
and we're doing all we can to tackle
this variant wherever it flares up
the prime minister said we may need to
wait for the lifting of all covert
restrictions
but he added that there was nothing
currently in the data from england
to suggest that the easing couldn't go
ahead as planned
the next two weeks then may be crucial a
decision
is expected in mid-june james reynolds
bbc news matt hancock is
also growing undergrowing pressure over
the deaths of thousands of care home
residents
prime minister's former advisor dominic
cummings accused him of lying
early on in the pandemic about care home
residents being tested
for coronavirus after leaving hospital
but mr hancock says
allegations are unsubstantiated and
untrue
our political correspondent damian
gramaticus has more detail
the health secretary has been under real
pressure now for two days ever since
dominic cummings is evidence
to parliament on wednesday when he
accused the health secretary of lying on
multiple occasions
particularly about that subject of care
homes
and the claim he said that matt hancock
had made that people being discharged
from hospital were
all be tested for covid before returning
to
care homes matt hancock has said that
the claims that he lied were
unsubstantiated
and untrue but what we had last
night on the question time program on
bbc
was nadra ahmed the head of the the
chair of the
national care association she said that
the
claim mr hancock had made last year that
a protective
ring had been placed around care homes
was
not true she said absolute rubbish if
there had been a protective ring
she said well then there would have been
a plan in place to protect those
vulnerable people
mr hancock was questioned about this and
what he said to journalists
yesterday uh was that there had been
a testing program was being built he
said
he admitted the capacity didn't exist at
the start of the pandemic to test
everyone
because it took time to put in place and
he said he worked hard to do that but
what all of this i think shows is the
the fallout from dominic cummings is
evidence
heaping pressure on matt hancock damien
grammaticus there
surgeons are calling for specialist hubs
to be set up in england to help tackle
what they call the colossal backlog
of non-urgent operations that have been
postponed because of the pandemic
in march around 5 million patients were
waiting for surgery that's the highest
number
since records began the government says
it is working to accelerate the recovery
of services our health correspondent
laura foster has more
when the pandemic began hospital trusts
had to cancel
non-urgent surgeries such as hip and
knee replacements
so there were enough staff and resources
to look after patients with covid19
but since then waiting times and lists
have only grown
14 months on from the first lockdown
latest figures show
almost 5 million people are on the
waiting list
more than four hundred thousand of them
have been waiting for more than a year
well these are the worst waiting time
figures ever recorded
and we all understand that stuff
uh had to be put on hold whilst there
was the pandemic
but now the pandemic is beginning to
recede we need a
serious approach to getting into this
backlog
the college says the answer is to spend
a billion pounds a year over the next
five years and to carry out operations
not at local hospitals
but at dedicated hubs that way these
hubs would still function
even if there was another wave of covid
or indeed another pandemic
the college argues people are willing to
travel further
if it means surgeries happen sooner
laura foster
bbc news residents in glasgow are
expected to find out later whether the
city will remain in level three of
scotland's coveted 19 restrictions city
has been under strict measures for 270
days
while the rest of scotland has seen
restrictions ease
in recent weeks first minister nicolas
sturgeon has said there are reasons to
be optimistic about the situation
manchester united football club says
it's disgusted by the abuse that some of
its players have received
online following their loss in the
europa league final earlier this week
one player marcus rashford said he'd
been sent at least
70 racial slurs let's go to our porter
film account who's uh outside old
trafford forest this morning phil so
this is now uh part of a police
investigation
what do we know so far
well greater manchester police charlie
have said that they are investigating
a number of racially aggravated slurs on
social media directed towards numerous
manchester united players now of course
this is
as you mentioned after the loss in the
europa league final on wednesday night
and by midnight on wednesday marcus
rashford
had tweeted that he'd received at least
70 slurs by that point just a few hours
later
on social media and yesterday he tweeted
i'm built for criticism of my
performance
but can't accept some of the racist
taunts that have been directed towards
him now the club here has said
that it has zero tolerance to any form
of racism the police are now going
through these posts to see if
any of them or some of them might
constitute a hate crime and they've also
said that
those people who've been posting them
could face long-term implications to
their personal
and professional lives and that maybe
after marcus rashford yesterday said one
of the things that disgusted him the
most
was that some of these comments seemed
to come from somebody who was a teacher
their profile on twitter made clear that
they were a teacher
now the department for education says
that it is looking into that
and facebook which also owns instagram
has said that it's removed a number of
posts but
for years now of course it's come under
mounting pressure to do more
about abuse online and this club has
also added to that pressure
this morning uh phil separately i
understand marcus rashford has been
speaking to former u.s president barack
obama tell us a bit more about that
yeah just if just in case you thought
that marcus rashford couldn't get any
more influential
here he is now talking to barack obama
this was a zoom meeting ahead of a new
book that
barack obama is bringing out it was
moderated by uh
june sarpong and a lot of this zoom
meeting involved
the former president heaping praise on
marcus rashford who is of course
at just 23 years old marcus i think is
way ahead of where i was at 23. i was
still trying to figure it out
for me being in in sports i just knew
that my life could change
very very quickly and if i wasn't like
mature enough for
you know a certain level in in my own
head then it makes
stuff like fame and bits like that even
more difficult
when you look at the history of big
social movements
and big social change it's usually young
people who initiate this
if you give someone a helping hand at a
young age they'll go on to do
things that you know even they didn't
think or believe that was
achievable to accomplish
so that was just a short clip there from
a much longer
zoom meeting and they also talked about
the similarities
that they have between them the fact
that they were both brought up by single
mums for example the fact they've both
been involved
in community work but you heard at the
beginning there barack obama saying that
marcus rashford
is way ahead of where he was at that age
that of course
from a former u.s president phil thank
you very much
measuring the amount of squashed bugs
flies on your car after a journey may be
able to help scientists better
understand
insect populations in the uk so a new
app is asking the public to gather the
information to identify where certain
species are thriving and where others
are in decline here's our chief
environment correspondent justin roloff
insecta geddon is how the global decline
in insect populations has been described
by some scientists
one case study in germany suggested that
been
a 75 percent decrease in numbers
over 27 years take the humble housefly
you may not like them but like many
insects they're one of the foundations
of the whole food chain if we lose them
we'll lose lots of other species too
but there's actually very little data
for many insect groups and species
even here in the uk which is where this
new app comes in
the hope is that in the hands of a small
army of citizen scientists
it will generate more accurate figures
for insect populations
it's simple to use you clean your number
plate before you go on a journey
then when you arrive at your destination
you use the app
to photograph the bugs squashed on a
section of it using a
splatometer grid you get when you
download the app
the results they become part of the
nationwide survey justin rolat
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