You are watching bbc news now lets recap on todays downing street briefing, led by the chancellor rishi sunak. He was joined by angela maclean, the governments deputy chief scientic adviser and yvonne doyle whos the medical director of Public Health england. The chancellor spoke about the government scheme that began today to keep staff on the payroll, even if the pandemic means they cant work and he took questions both on business measures and on the continuing concerns surrounding the supply of personal protective equipment for front line medical workers. Good evening from downing street where i am joined by professor let me start by addressing the issue uppermost in peoples minds. Personal protective equipment, ppe. This is an international challenge, that many other countries are experiencing. Alongside the efforts of British Businesses, and our embassies around the world, we are working hard to get the ppe our front line nhs and social care staff need. We have appointed paul deigh
Welcome to bbc news, the latest on the coronavirus pandemic. We will be talking about the shortage of protective equipment and indeed, the fa ct protective equipment and indeed, the fact that there is no sign of an early end to the lockdown itself. More warnings from hospitals in england over shortages of protective equipment. Supplies of gowns are very low in some areas. The government insists a big consignment will arrive from turkey as soon as possible. A total of 16,509 patients have died in hospital in the uk after testing positive for coronavirus. Thats up from aa9 from the day before. No hurry to lift the lockdown. Borisjohnson tells cabinet colleagues that stopping a second peak of coronavirus cases is now his priority. Were expecting the official Daily Briefing from the government at 5 00pm. This afternoon, well be hearing from the chancellor rishi sunak and well bring you that live. The governments furlough scheme to keep staff on the payroll despite not working goes live. Th
Close to old media, to a lot of different places in old media not just broadcast licensees. So need to be careful to balance. Theres no balance here. It says requires on air identification of the sponsors of advertisement. So does that mean you are a no . There are already both fcc rules and fcc rules regarding these sorts of things. So all the mouse print and the quick fast talk at the end of ads cover all of that. We just came to more than a billion dollars, probably two to 3 billion of outside ads from these undisclosed sources. So this is not a matter of, its not an issue in front of the public. Its here. Its right now. What about you, ms. Clyburn . I will look forward to working with you if there is anything that we have or have not done, or that you identified as deficient. We moved a long way in moving information that stations were previously keeping on premises to the airwaves. It may be opportunity for investigative work and the like of more clear. Again, if there is anything
I supported the emergence of that new understanding and the Supreme Court made it the law of the land in the Helen Mcdonald decisions. In 2008 and 2010. Of that pair of decisions demolishes the slippery slope theory of those who oppose basically all firearms regulation on the view that once we permit any new firearms regulation at all, we will be inviting the government stepbystep to come ever closer to disarm the people. Leaving only the police and military with firearms. With heller and mcdonald on the books, Supreme Court in its own words took certain policy choices off the table. Thereby cleared the path a reasonable regulations to be enacted without fear that those policy choices would either open the door to unlimited government control, or be imperiled by exaggerated interpretation of the Second Amendment. As Justice Alito put in mcdonald, theres no longer any basis for such doomsday proclamations. Justice scalia speaking for the court and heller said at the end of his opinion.
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