This is bbc news, the headlines President Trump has ended negotiations with congress over a multi trillion dollar stimulus package to help the us economy recover from the pandemic. He says he will only resume talks after the election. A leading democrat says mr trump is putting himself first at the expense of the country. The senior white house adviser, stephen miller, has become the latest of over a dozen members of Donald Trumps inner circle to test positive for coronvirus since the president announced he had covid 19. Millers wife, katie, whos a spokeswoman for Vice President pence, tested positive for the virus in may. Several senior military officials are also quarantining. Out on the campaign trail, democratic candidate joe biden has offered a stark assessment of americas place in the world telling voters that the nation is in a dangerous place and issuing a warning that the forces of darkness are pulling the country down. Now on bbc news, tuesday in parliament hello again, and welcome to tuesday in parliament, as conservative mps warn ministers over lockdown rules. If we do not rethink the 10pm curfew, we could see bars, pubs, restaurants and breweries will call last orders for the final time. Will the Government Back britains boozers and breweries . Mps debate how to tackle the horror of gang killings. In the last two months alone, i have had to speak to three inconsolable mothers who have lost their children as a result of knife crime. And should statues of controversial figures from our past be taken down . We know more about colston since hes been pulled down
when he was there. To tell the truth, people dont know that colston didnt even live in bristol more than nine years. But first, labour has said that Financial Support must be provided hand in hand to communities facing local lockdown restrictions. The shadow chancellor, anneliese dodds, warned that what she called the governments failure to implement a functioning test, trace and isolate system had profound economic consequences putting businesses and jobs at risk. But the treasury minister, steve barclay, told mps the government was willing to listen and adapt its response to the virus according to the needs of the economy. He came to the commons to answer an urgent question from labour. So, when will the government finally be in a position to deliver support hand in hand with the opposition of restrictions. Not trailing them. Secondly, the response has been inconsistent. £3 million for lester, 7 million for Liverpool City Region an undefined funding
package for the northeast of england, nothing for Greater Manchester or the west midlands. So, which criteria determined the allocations of support to areas under local restrictions . Steve barclay told her what the government was doing. Many of the measures that we put in an initial response have been extended by my right honourable friend the chancellor, such as the package of loans, the tax deferrals, the pay to grow and these are universal offers to support businesses, irrespective of what they are in areas of acute lockdown or otherwise. The snp said restrictions had been targeted. I ask the minister what sectors of specific sports are being given forward, hospitality, events, tourism, culture and the arts in which the chancellor seems to suggest earlier that people should just go and get anotherjob, which is deeply offensive to many in those sectors. Failing to support and sustain businesses right now risks
putting those businesses over the edge in the chancellor would not be there for a recovery in the future. Bearing in mind with the secretary has said bearing in mind what the secretary has said about flexibility, will the government now accept that extension to for a june of 2021, which experts say could protect more than a millionjobs is absolutely vital to protect these companies . I dont agree with the honourable lady that the solution would be to extend indefinitely the furlough scheme, because i think that is keeping people with the expectation of a job that may never return and in doing so at a very significant cost. We need to support those jobs with a viable. We need to support those jobs that are viable. Will the chief secretary agree that the best way to help business is to let business get on with the job as free as possible from government control. When the treasury argue against further lockdown for business, scores
of tory mps cheer him on tens of thousands of businesses but the chancellor. Is it our duty to balance the books and what is the point of solving this problem by borrowing money . Is that the socialist way and what will be the point of the conservative government if we did that . Thank you, mr speaker. As a former chair of the public accounts committee, he is quite right on the importance of value for money and protecting the interests of the taxpayer and youll be well enough the interests of the taxpayer and he knows me well enough to know that i share that sentiment. Is it the treasurys assumption that these measure are only going to be needed for a short period in the vaccine will come and solve everything . As i think it is more likely that we are going to see some permanent changes to our economy and that is going to require for us to accept that there will be a significant Economic Transformation required . As far as the timing of the vaccine that the Prime Minister has set out, what has changed from march was perhaps initially looking
for a shorter period of time and that it is now clear that we will be leaving and that it is now clear that we will be living the coronavirus for a longer period of time for further than six months. Some conservative mps were unhappy about the 10pm closing time for pubs and restaurants. If we do not rethink the 10pm curfew, we could see bars, pubs, restaurants and breweries call last orders for the final time. Will the Government Back britains boozers and breweries and rethink the approach to the 10pm curfew . Well, mr speaker. My honourable friend is absolutely right that it is important that we do this in a targeted way, both in terms of our economic measures but also in terms of our Health Response to the pandemic. It is about getting the balance right and in respect of a 10pm curfew, it is worth reflecting that we are not alone that in that the netherlands and madrid, they have taken a similar approach and it is all about getting the balance right in ensuring that we do this in a targeted way. Last week, one of my constituents who owns a bridal store contacted me in desperation due to coronavirus restrictions in the northeast, brides to be can no longer take a relative or a friend to their dress fitting appointments, especially ultimately, this has led to numerous cancellations. To echo my honourable friend, will the ministry committed to echo my honourable friend, will the ministry commit to providing support for businesses like hers or will the government allow them to fail through no fault of their own . I think this is one of the sectors which is very emotionally hard hitting in terms of one can see the human distress and impact of the virus on cases like that. What is a Pivotal Moment in peoples lives, but also economic distress. Certainly not the case that the government letting businesses fail in that regard, the consequence of the pandemic in a particular sectors more acutely than others. Steve barclay. Mps on the Treasury Committee
were given an insight into the challenges facing the Hospitality Industry with new restrictions on meeting up and pubs a nd restau ra nts shutting at 10pm. Even before those restrictions were imposed, an Industry Survey painted a bleak picture. A quarter of our members said that they would be closing premises, for individual sites, there will be their entire business and for others it will be a significant proportion of their estate. When we asked the survey was done just before we latest round of restrictions comes only about a week and a half since it was published but it is already out of date. The anticipated number of additional redundancies by the end of the year was 560,000. So, that was out of the ones that were on furlough. We are doing that survey again and will share the data with the Treasury Committee when it comes out. The anticipation is that number will be far higher now as a result of the local restrictions the national constraints on working from home. On the curfew. Etc. A Health Minister has failed to rule out people having to pay for coronavirus tests under the governments proposed moonshot programme. The Prime Minister hopes millions of covid i9 tests including some giving results within minutes could be processed daily. But labour wanted to know if thered be a cost. We have real concerns about creating a two tiered system where some people have to pay. It undermines the fundamental principle of the nhs and will do nothing to stop the spread of the minister give us a definitive answer today . Are people going to have to pay to access the new tests, yes or no . Thank you, mr speaker. Thank you, mr speaker. I dont recognise the comments that hes making about the suggestion that there should be a two tiered system. What we have in place is a universal system where every body who has symptoms is able to access a test. And as he will well know, where we know that we have
particular risks like for those in the care home settings, there are also tests for those who dont have symptoms so we can pick up outbreaks early on. And a huge amount of resource and investment is going into developing new technologies for testing, easier testing, quicker tests and testing be done at a greater scale. This is all part of building up our Testing Capacity so we can suppress this horrid virus. The snp asked about existing Testing Capacity and the newly set up lighthouse labs. With covid 19, speed is of the essence but people are struggling to get a test due to limited capacity at the lighthouse labs. New labs were do to open in newport in august and loughborough last month, but both were delayed. As nhs labs or have to take on more testing, can the minister say what additional funding will be provided specifically to increase nhs lab capacity . Thank you, mr speaker. Well, the context of this is the huge increase in the Testing Capacity of our system where we have already seen going from the order of 2000 tests a day back in march two now well over 200,000 tests a day. And building up to 500,000 tests by the end of this month. And as of course she will know, the huge amounts of volume has been and its going to the nhs to support that response to covid 19. Over in the house of lords, peers were debating the regulations that brought in the rule of six limiting social contact indoors and outdoors in england. The minister said the rules had been changed to make them simple. My lords, i accept that there are seemingly many inconsistencies, injustices and perceived unfairness in rules like these. I have heard many of them already, probably everyone in this chamber has an instance where the rules do not seem to make sense. We cannot legislate
for every scenario. And the virus does not respect special circumstances however moving. But my lords, there is wisdom in simplicity and there is effectiveness in it being easily understood. But a conservative former cabinet minister argued the regulations were illogical. A rather dry, cynical, mathematical friend of mine pointed out that at a wedding there are two main predicaments. Each get 7. 5 friends. At a funeral, there is one body who gets four times as many friends. Now this may not be the most appropriate way of looking at it, but it has a certain logic. The noble lord raised many valid questions, including the contrasting rules between weddings and funerals. A friend of mine, a priest, is suggesting that there should
not be any split families over christmas. The host simply has to slaughter a turkey and stay at a humanist funeral. Watching mrjohnson on andrew marr on sunday where he spoke of the tension between the economy and the public health, which of course we understand, he came across as someone who is indecisive, late to act and failing to find a way to steer between these two options. The result being of course that we failed in both. Churchill said trust the people. Government has not done that. But if you dont do it, they stop trusting government, and that is what is happening. Of course we need rules, but we need sensible ones which everyone can see and which are enforceable. Lord bethell likened the debate to the sound of an elastic band being pulled as tight as it could go, but he said the bottom line
was that social distancing meant putting space between ourselves and the people we love. Where there was love, it puts in space. And that, my lords, is something i cannot apologise for, i cannot change it, i cannot find some form of words that transform sensible fact or in any way changes the grim realities of how we have to limit the transmission of this disease. Lord bethell. Youre watching tuesday in parliament with me, david cornock. Still to come, a special report from the welsh parliament. The government has been urged to do more to help girls and young women caught up in Gang Violence and the Illegal Drugs trade. The call came in a short debate in the second commons chamber, westminster hall, where a labour mp highlighted the abuse and exploitation used against girls and young women by male gang members. In the last two months alone, ive had to speak to three inconsolable mothers whove lost their children as a result of knife crime. These children were murdered by their peers. And as a mother to two Young Children myself, this is not something i can live with, ignore or accept. She was especially concerned at the involvement of girls and young women in whats known as county lines, in which Illegal Drugs are transported around the country. Girls running county lines are not in a gang, they are victims of the gangs. Girls and young women face different risks than males. They can experience rape and other forms of sexual abuse, physical abuse, online grooming in the form ofjob offers, direct threats of violence to them and their families to make them move or store drugs, weapons oi even cash. We need to look at targeted interventions to help the girls who are being exploited, groomed and abused. We need to continue to raise awareness with the authorities around the use of girls in county lines and other gang related activities. And we need the policymakers to change the language that they use in highlighting this issue. But most importantly, we need to continue to listen to these young women and girls and listen to what they are telling us. The girls in gangs or the girls who are victims of gangs are hidden, and i think its very right what the honourable member for vauxhaull said about the data. And if there was one thing that we would want the police to do moving forward, i believe, is taking down the details when they stop boys or young men in groups and there are girls there, take their details. They are usually ignored. People in positions of power must understand the problem and work tirelessly to address it. And although we must make sure that the girls are given the support they need to recognise unhealthy and abusive relationships, to get away from exploitation and get the right care to recover, we must also empower those girls. I want to reassure colleagues that tackling Serious Violence and the exploitation of girls and women is an absolute priority for this government. We have invested £119 million this year alone to provide extra Police Resources to drive down the scale of Violent Crime that we are seeing on our streets, to Fund Violence reduction units in the 18 force areas that are most affected by crime and violence and Fund Specialist county lines operations. We have also spent over £200 million on Early Intervention to ensure that those most at risk are given the opportunity to turn away from violence and lead positive and safe lives. Victoria atkins. The foreign secretary, dominic raab, has defended a proposed new law, the internal market bill, that would allow the uk to override part of the brexit divorce deal with the eu. He told mps on the Foreign Affairs committee that the uk was respected around the world as a stalwart defender of international law. Historically one of the values of the Foreign Office and of the uk government has always been the rule of law. The government for the First Time Ever has published its own legal advice on its own law, saying that it believes the law that it is publishing does not abide by international law. That seems a bit of a surrender of a key british value. I dont agree with that. I think its a precautionary defensive reaction to what the eu have been doing, and i have to say whilst of course there is the brexit
drama going on and were at the 11th hour of the fta negotiations, when i leave the uk and indeed im not talking about brexit, no one thinks that the uk is anything other than a stalwart, reliable defender of the International Rule of law. Dominic raab. To cardiff now, where the Welsh Government has said its considering forcing visitors from covid hotspots elsewhere in the uk to quarantine. It comes after borisjohnson rejected calls for a travel ban. The issue was raised during first ministers questions in the senedd. Weve called for action consistently on this issue since the summer. Can you say whether and when you intend to take action yourselves independently as a government . And in addition to looking at introducing quarantine as a solution, is consideration being given to making non essential travel into wales from a lockdown area illegal and subject to enforcement by the police . I would like to think adam price for that. I share his sense of disappointment at the Prime Ministers apparent conclusion. And i say apparent because although he gave an interview in which he opined on this matter, he is yet to reply to my letter to him of monday last week. And i think that is deeply disrespectful. Not to me, but to the senedd and to people here in wales. What i asked for in my letter was not a border solution, it was a solution that would have prevented People Living in hotspot areas in england from travelling to other places where the virus was not in the same place, whether that was in england or scotland or in wales. The welsh tory leader focused on the nhs. First minister, its been reported today that the list of people waiting for routine surgery in wales is nearly six times longer than a year ago. And one orthopaedic surgeon has warned waiting times for things
like knee and hip replacements could be three years. Is he right, first minister . Well, the member is right to point to the fact that coronavirus is having and has had a very serious impact on the ability of the Health Service to carry out activities that at any other time would have been central to the work of the national Health Service. That, im afraid, is inevitable. Its inescapable, and while the Health Service is working very hard to create the conditions in which as much activity as possible can be safely carried out while the Coronavirus Crisis continues, there is no escaping the fact that there will be longer waits for some procedures in wales than we have seen for some time. Mark drakeford. Back injune, a statue of a slave trader, edward colston, was thrown into bristols harbour during a black lives matter protest. The statue was later pulled out of the water and it will be placed in a museum, but its removal highlighted the debate about controversial monuments and what should be done with them. The chair of historic england, the body which advises the government on the historic environment, has warned mps on the Culture Committee that removing statues could lead to trouble. If you start. If you dont do that, our collective past is going to be just torn away, slowly, piece by piece, torn away. Our collective past is there. It represents a memorialisation going back, you know, hundreds of years. Decisions to place these statues is part of our historic fabric, just like our historic buildings. Built at a time, you know, which reflected the views and values of those
who lived at that time. If we start tampering with the historic fabric associated with our collective past because things are so contentious, then you start changing the basis on which you can actually understand it. And i think i understanding is really important. The mps also heard from other witnesses, including the mayor of bristol. It just feels to me people are talking past each other. What are statues for . Now, if we want them to be a means of telling history, and thats what some people are suggesting, then the next question is are they any good at it . Do they do theirjob . Because my next question
would be, well, i may want to use this tool for that job but if the tool does not do thatjob that i need to look to use a different tool. And i think we are running a country in a complex world that is prone to division and the twitterisation of human relationships on race that we have at the moment, if we have a tool thats actually not doing its job, and is actually further undermining human relationships then we need to ask questions about whether we need to think about whether that tool should be used for Something Else and whether we should bring new tools to do that job that we wanted to do. Well, i should have thought that they can be equally used to demonstrate in the case of colston, edward colston, for instance, you could demonstrate here was a man who did, he got involved with this terrible trade all those years ago, so we need a statue to point him out and say that these people went through that history and were at one point lauded. Would you agree with that . Well, i would struggle with that. I dont agree with that to be perfectly frank, for a couple of reasons. One is the statue has been up
and we know more about colston since hes been pulled down than when he was there. I will say the truth and people dont know that colston even lived in bristol for nine years of his life. The statue went up 170 years after he was born, alright, and people could probably not begin to tell you what Political Party he represented and thats not a party point by the way. I want to point that out. Im not making that point. People can say about colston. The statues have not taught us about his history or the complexities in his character. What people have taken is weve given him a place of honour and therefore he was a person that gave money to the city. My experience with statues in Public Places is that by and large people will pass them and dont notice them and they are part of everyones daily life. And as has just been said, its when they become a catalyst for the range of issues, that the object itself becomes worthy of notice. There are hundreds of statues. I mean, walking in regents park, i noticed that there were some greek goddesses perched up high looking as if they are giving benediction to passersby. I had not noticed them for 25 years until the colston issue
started. They are actually. The statues are notjust about issues themselves. The statues are about the location of works of art in public spaces and how that brings the issues to our attention. And i think the great thing about this conversation is that potentially we are talking about how statues in the future, not just in the past but in the future, should represent our hopes and our aspirations and ourfears. Elsie owuso. Thats it for tuesday in parliament. Thank you for watching. I do hope you canjoin me at the same time tomorrow for wednesday in parliament, including Prime Ministers questions. Until then, from me, david cornock, bye for now. Hello there. Many of us saw some rain at some point during the day on tuesday. And there were some big puddles out and about on the roads. For example, in the highlands of scotland with the wet weather here, and it wasnt just in scotland, the rain was pretty extensive and at its heaviest across north west england, where in rochdale, and in the Greater Manchester area, we picked up 42mm of rain. That was the wettest place in the country. It did bring one or two localised issues. Now, weve still got a few showers at the moment, then a clearer slice of weather, but further out in the atlantic, the next lump of cloud is developing, and this will bring rain late in the day on wednesday across many areas. Right now, weve got some rain across the north west of scotland. That rain will be with us well until wednesday to be honest. Southwards, a few showers coming down through the irish sea, one or two of those might be picked up in north west england, particularly around cumbria and north lancashire for a time. Otherwise, a slice of sunny weather for northern ireland, wales, and western england. Those sunny skies pushing eastwards as we go through the day. Some reasonable weather and much more in the way of sunshine compared with tuesday. Later in the day, we will see rain returning to northern ireland, wales and south west england, and along with the rain, it will turn increasingly windy from the south west late in the day, gusts of about 40 115 miles an hourorso around the coast and hills. That rain extends northwards, probably reaching southernmost areas of scotland for a time. Certainly were looking at a wet night wednesday night, and then the rain slowly clears away from eastern areas of england. A mixture of sunshine and showers follow from the north and west. It will begin to turn cooler across North Western areas. Temperature about nine degrees in stornoway, 11 in glasgow. But perhaps around 17 degrees or so for a time in london. That rain band should clear well to the south, but there is a small chance it could ripple its way back. Either way, on friday, it looks like we will see a mixture of showers or some lengthier outbreaks of rain, so it is staying on the
unsettled side, the air getting cooler for most of us, with temperatures dropping. Highs, 10 15 celsius. Into the weekend, we will be greeted with a northerly blast coming down, and that will make you feel quite chilly if youre out and about. It will also bring showers down to some of our eastern coasts and into the north of scotland as well. So, not entirely dry. It will feel quite cool in those strong winds in the east. A very warm welcome to bbc news. My names mike embley. Our top stories President Trump walks away from negotiations over a multi trillion dollar covid relief deal to support the us economy. Senior white house adviser, stephen miller, becomes the latest of over a dozen members of Donald Trumps inner circle to test positive for coronvirus. With coronavirus keeping the president off the campaign trail, joe biden tells voters that the us is in a dangerous place. And eddie van halen,
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