Sky News Breakfast: India's COVID Crisis, today's headlines and weather

[Music] [Music] good morning it's seven o'clock you're watching the only breakfast show live from westminster and today new questions with more sleaze allegations front and center of the newspapers we're joined today by the transport secretary grant chaps and the shadow foreign secretary lisa nandy plus the former prime minister gordon brown will also join us a little bit later on this hour also coming up digital passport wallet and watch with spain ready to welcome british tourists back in june we'll talk to portugal's ambassador to the uk about when the country plans to open its stores and so great britain is the person that you're falling for telling the truth oh my god that's her this is actually massive or hiding behind their lives swipe left we speak to the hosts of catfish uk about the perils of online dating it's wednesday the 28th of april sky news witnesses pressure on cremation services in india and questions the accuracy of official statistics as covert deaths past 200 000. just tell me how many what's the problem with telling me how many just tell me how many have you registered today how many debts come clean labor demands answers as more reports emerge around the renovation of the prime minister's flat a shot in the arm a new study finds a single dose of covid19 vaccines can cut transmission of the virus by up to half [Music] singing to stay well queen's brian may talks to sky news about the mental health challenges of the pandemic i have times when i think you know life is actually over and i can't do anything that i need to do you feel like a caged animal i'm a terrible mother terrible wife slightly above average actress and tv bafta hopefuls will reveal this year's nominations and go through the likely winners with caitlin moran it's been the frostiest april on record and the month will close on a chilly note as well at last some range to talk about i'll have more details in about half an hour well very good morning to you we're starting with concerns that the true number of people dying from covid19 in india is being under-reported as the official number of people who've lost their lives passes 200 000 sky news has been to delhi where we've seen crematoria being extended to deal with demand in the last 24-hour period india has reported a record 362 757 new cases a further 3293 people have died in the country over the last 24 hours that takes the official number of deaths to 201 1187 a warning that this report from our special correspondent alex crawford starts on pictures of body bags at a makeshift crematorium and contains images that you may find distressing from the start so many families are suffering so many coronavare's deaths but amidst the grief there's growing anger and a building doubt that the reality doesn't match the official death figures this small crematorium in east delhi is working all hours to keep up the pyres are close together to try to fit in as many as possible and when we visited we counted at least 30 active pyres several ambulances arrived with more bodies this alone from one private hospital brought five dead in one door another ambulance driver from a separate hospital told us he'd been driving all day long i bring about 10 to 12 bodies every day he tells us many of the relatives said they waited hours to get a funeral space and they're convinced the tally of covert deaths is far higher than being admitted the league government says that 380 people are dying every day from corona but it's actually around one thousand more than one thousand what do you base that on how do you know we know we know because we we you know we visit many hospitals with our patients there is no beds available and in criminal area we search two or three but they are no space then finally we came here and we are waiting from the last two or three hours to get a space yes to get this piece yeah they're so busy the crematorium's being extended with another 100 spaces the biggest growing industry right now with most shops closed in the lockdown seems to be the graveyard business they told us there's a steady stream of funerals throughout the day so many people are dying and brought here he says daily at least 250 to 300 bodies are brought here we see it all the deaths are meant to be logged with the funeral officials so we inquired about the daily figures just tell me how many yeah what's the problem between me how many just tell me how many have you registered today how many deaths how many yeah how many applicants the answer didn't even match what we'd seen that hour 20 20 today even being conservative the figures are double and that's just in this crematorium with 18 other official sites in the capital many of the relatives are deeply suspicious 80 of the debts are due to the medical negligence here what i have i have realized we could have saved them but they were in hospital they did not get the proper care what they wanted and because of the lack of the oxygen lack of the medicines lack of injections people are dying here in neighboring states too there seems certain discrepancies about the death statistics our researchers in uttar pradesh counted at least 25 bodies waiting for funerals and about eight lit in gaziabad and a lot of angry relatives frustrated at the process the official insisted they had an average of six deaths and when our researcher questioned this he was told they'd been instructed to give that low number by higher authorities the indian government insists all figures are being faithfully recorded without interference how many of these deaths could have been avoided if different decisions had been taken alex crawford sky news in new delhi let's talk to the transport secretary grant shaps good to see you this morning look in in terms of india in real terms what are we as a country doing to help i suppose one of the biggest things that we've done in response to those heartbreaking uh images um is to have been the country to develop um to research and developed and then produce the uh the the vaccine that we all know is the oxford astrazeneca vaccine but they use in india i think under the name covey shield and that of course has been um produced and licensed by astrazeneca without them making any profit at all uh as a sort of service to humankind and that will be making some kind of difference now india is a very large country they have vaccinated 120 million people so far but the scenes are just horrific and it's a reminder that actually kovid is still raging around the world i was just looking at the latest figures that peaked at 820 000 in the last seven day rolling average that's the highest we've seen so although we're getting on top of it in the uk elsewhere the numbers are huge and britain's been sending out uh uh equipment including equipment which helps to make the oxygen from from air which is obviously one of the big shortages in india right now yeah i mean look in terms of vaccine procurement we know it's a it's a bit of a complicated story but i mean the united states are sending vaccines to india we're buying them from india at the moment we understand what we've ordered five million i mean with the country on its knees is is that the right course of action yeah well that's why i mentioned that um actually thanks to the oxford research and astrazeneca's approach and the way that this has been licensed uh unlike for example with other uh very successful vaccines like pfizer which are made for profit um the astrazeneca one and in india under the name cover shield uh is being made without profit and i guess in terms of assistance uh and being able to roll out large numbers uh that's probably way bigger than any other country's contribution to india because it's simply something which wouldn't exist without this country having invested in the r d and then made the decision to do it on a non-commercial basis so i think that will all help of course there's lots of other aid and assistance being provided as well uh including hundreds of pieces of equipment and very importantly the ability to actually make uh the the vital oxygen which is so missing from their uh hospital supply right now so not oxygen itself but actually um uh the the uh materials some called um uh oxygen concentrators uh which are used to create the oxygen so it doesn't then run out um look sticking with a covid situation where are we in terms of of international travel this summer you know spain says it wants us back in june uh greece yesterday saying they understand there could be some sort of of a vaccination certification from the uk coming in pretty soon portugal we know wants us back where are we what's happening yes of course both ways around the countries that are keen to have um are taurus back such the ones you mentioned and of course people are desperate to take a break actually more than people taking holidays i'm concerned to be able to rejoin families who you know may not have seen each other for for months or longer and that requires travel um having said that we need to be very cautious i just mentioned that beyond our shores we're seeing the highest levels of coronavirus that we have seen so far in the entire pandemic right now so we do need to make sure that we do this very very carefully we don't want to throw away the lock down we don't want to throw away our remarkable roll out in this country of the vaccination but um next in the next couple of weeks i'll come back on and i'll be able to tell you about which countries will have made it into uh the traffic light system and that green list in particular are the countries where you'll be able to go to without needing to quarantine on your return you will still need to take a pre-departure test and one test on your return i think people are getting very used to testing now not least because we provide testing uh up to twice a week for everyone in the country right now and so i don't think a test itself is a big deal ideally countries will be on the list where they don't need to go people don't need to quarantine on return but i can't give you that list today because we don't have that information yet from the joint biosecurity center how forgive me but how reliant is that going to be on vaccine passports when are they going to come in yeah so there'll be four factors actually that we'll be looking at so when we look at a country we'll be looking at their rates of vaccination we'll also want to look at the obviously the rates of coronavirus in that country um how many concerns there are about variations mutations of the virus in that particular place and how accurate we just saw in that india report how accurate uh we believe the reporting to be which is absolutely essential we sort of take it for granted in this country the reporting will be accurate and run independently in our case by the office of national statistics but that isn't the case everywhere we need to be able to always see that information so those are the factors and then in terms of vaccine certification i can confirm we are working uh on an nhs uh application actually it will be the actual app it will be the the nhs app that is used um for people when they book appointments with the nhs and so on uh to be able to show that you've had a vaccine or that you've had testing and i'm working internationally with partners across the world to make sure that that system can be internationally recognized so that's the way forward and actually i'm chairing a meeting of the g7 uh secretaries of state for the transport my equivalent from america and canada and all the other g7 countries next week on exactly the subjects i mean in terms of of the traffic light system have you got a date when you're going to be making that announcement what time table are you working to ah well the earliest possible unlock is the 17th of may so stage three of the unlocked so that we won't have international travel before that and we've said that will be the earliest date i have to say so far the data does continue to look good from a uk perspective notwithstanding those concerns about where people might be traveling to and making sure that we're protected uh from the disease being re-imported but specifically on when i'll be able to say more about it i haven't been able to do it a long time in advance because of course the situation changes the whole time with this pandemic uh but towards the beginning of may i will um set out which countries fall into the various different um categories so so not not long to wait now within the next couple of weeks okay look uh sleaze allegations all over the papers yet again this isn't going anywhere not yet anyway we need some some real clarity don't we as to what's been going on well i i hear um some of these claims made and in particular i hear the opposition trying to stir it up um and i do wonder whether it's because they haven't actually had much to say about the main issues of the day people talk about what did the prime minister say in these meetings i'll tell you what i never heard him make any of those comments what i did hear the prime minister say during this pandemic was um the speed of rollout of the vaccination program being proposed wasn't fast enough and he sent us and officials back to the drawing board when we came back with a proposed program for the vaccine rollout he set us back again because he still thought it could be faster and as a result of the prime minister's leadership what we've ended up with is one of the world's fastest vaccine rollouts and you could say the same of our ability to test which doesn't exist elsewhere or our ability to genome sequence uh the coronavirus of which we do around half the entire world's genome sequencing and those are things that have happened because of the prime minister's determination and things i've heard him say in meetings are the things which have got this country to this recovery so i'm afraid i think there's a fair amount of the opposition uh not wanting to talk about the success of things like the vaccine program and instead throwing all these accusations around forgetting perhaps that you know new labour spent what was it four hundred thousand pounds on uh number ten refurbishments um uh i think under under blair uh and uh and and for some reason now that you know if number 10 is refurbished which has to be at some point done because it's a working building as well as a home uh they're trying to just kick up all this innuendo forgive me in terms of the money we're not talking about refurbing the the sort of public areas of number 10 alba or number 11 in this case it's it's the the you know the flat itself for the prime minister and his fiance now did he get a loan from cchq i mean that seems to be a pretty basic question that no one can actually tell us at the moment well fortunately i think you you will get the answer to all of that in two ways first of all the cabinet secretary uh is actually undertaking a quick review and he's going to be able to actually set out what advice was given what order everything happened in and i'm sure he'll be able to clear all that up secondly the cabinet office annual reports and accounts report all the disinformation and thirdly the prime minister has already paid for it so this seems to me to be a bit of a sort of circular debate no matter what said the opposition are going to say oh no we we don't believe it and i have to say steve i do wonder whether it's just because they don't want to talk about um the success of uh the the vaccine program our ability to carry out coronavirus tests all the things which have directly led from the prime minister's leadership this last few months and uh i i don't know why they're so obsessed about this issue and the prime minister's already said that he's paid uh 100 for the refurbishments of the number 10 flat look can we just uh look forward towards the end of this year a little bit because i know you're you're keen to get um self-driving cars in essence on our on our roads now look technologically it's important economically and ecologically it could be important but is it safe yes it will be safer than people driving and if it's not then we won't do it is the answer and i just want to reassure people i've seen one two of the headlines today this isn't about the kind of cars that are already available this isn't about a self-driving tesla or something those would not qualify uh currently for um full self-driving capability uh instead this is about new technology new types of cars which would mean that for example in the uk we have about 17 or 1800 road deaths a year it's come down over the years since the 90s it's come down and down and down and then plateaued at about 17 to 1800 deaths a year and 85 of those deaths are driver errors so they their deaths come from primarily uh errors made by human beings because we're all human and i just think if we're going to ever drive that down lower and we can't turn our back on technology and not only that the uk is ambitious and we want to be one of the first countries to deploy technology that will help save lives so that that's what this is uh about and as you say you could also cut emissions uh be a a fantastic approach towards easing congestion for a whole variety of reasons but also critically uh be safer and and save lives grand chaps good to talk to you thank you thank you okay let's talk to our political correspondent kate mccann what do you think kate we got a bit more information there on international travel and how things might start to look in terms of holidays from the transport secretary particularly around the idea of a vaccine passport it's been something that's been discussed at length we've heard actually from foreign leaders talking about those discussions maybe a bit more openly actually than the uk government has so far grant chap's confirming what we thought was going to happen that the app that we all use at the moment the nhs tracking app that will become the vaccine passport app we'll expect more detail after that g7 meeting about how exactly that's going to work but it will be an internationally recognized system and as the transport secretary said already people do have to test before travel of course travel is banned at the moment so there will be some tweaks to that but it's interesting to hear him start to talk about the potential for us all to go on holiday which would be quite nice over the summer and of course you did touch on those allegations about the refurbishment of the flat you could clearly see there grant shot's trying to deflect away talking about how the opposition doesn't want to focus on the issues that the government has got right but i think at prime minister's questions today boris johnson will find it very difficult to avoid those questions from shakir stanley yeah indeed kate thank you now a single dose of certain covid19 vaccines can cut transmission of the virus by almost half that's according to a new study by public health england let's talk to our reporter aisha hazet who's in the newsroom for us this morning and it's interesting isn't it aisha if you're there let's get you in the wall absolutely the these this finding really highlights the fact that the vaccination program could be the key part in helping bring the pandemic under control now the research done by public health england looked at both the fisa biontech vaccine as well as the oxford they were looking at people who contracted coronavirus up to three weeks after receiving the first dose of their vaccine and what they found was that transmissibility reduced by 38 to 49 across households and they expect findings to be similar for people living in shared accommodations and and prisons as well now protection was best after 14 days from receiving the first dose and it was similar for people across various age groups as well now we've seen lots of other studies show that these vaccines really do help slash infection rates and the rates of hospital hospitalization so the next step the experts want to take and look into is whether two doses can help reduce transmission even more okay aisha thank you well let's have a look at the latest covert 19 figures for the uk for you the latest government figures show another 90 695 people have had their first vaccination 304 688 have had their second that means more than 47 million injections have been given out across the uk meanwhile there have been 2 685 new cases of corona virus reported that's an increase of 161 on last tuesday or yesterday we should say really shouldn't we 17 more deaths have been reported as well the total number of people who've died due to the virus is now 127 451. now still to come this morning at quarter to eight we're going to be talking to former prime minister gordon brown to discuss how internet access can be improved for young people in terms of their education and at 20 past eight will talk to portugal's ambassador to the uk for more on vaccine passports and the prospect of a summer holiday this year and tackling the stigma around hiv we'll talk to the wales rugby legend gareth thomas he'll tell us why he thinks more needs to be done to educate people about the reality of living with hiv that sort of quarter tonight now looking at some of the other stories for you this morning and u.s health chiefs have said fully vaccinated americans do not need to wear masks outdoors anymore unless they're in a big crowd of strangers the centers for disease control and prevention released updated guidance last night which added that there were some cases in which unvaccinated people could also go without a face covering in certain outdoor settings dr rochelle walensky explained why the cdc had made the change a u.s serial killer known as the torso killer has admitted to murdering two teenage girls in 1974. richard cottingham pleaded guilty to killing 17 year old maryam pryor and 16 year old lorraine marie kelly in august 47 years ago the 74 year old has claimed responsibility for almost 100 murders since he was imprisoned in 1981. arlene foster's future as dup leader and northern ireland's first minister is under threat after a rebellion within her own party the dup leader appears to have lost the support of the majority of the party in the stormwater assembly but insists she has bigger priorities stories on leadership come up from time to time and it's one of those times so we'll just deal with it and move on because i have bigger things to do including getting us through this covert pandemic including listening to the concerns of working-class communities britney spears will address a court in her long-running battle with her father today jamie spears has been guardian of the pop singer's financial affairs since 2008 the conservatorship allows mr spears to control his daughter's estate alongside a wealth management company despite her request for him to be removed from the role it's not been confirmed which issues spears wants to raise during her appearance with the status hearing set for the 23rd of june uh just a reminder that you can catch up on the day's big business news and interviews on the ian king business podcast which is available on the sky news app or wherever you download your podcasts now there are calls for more face-to-face therapy to help people with mental health problems as we come out of lockdown sky news has spoken to the queen guitarist the legend that is brian may who shared his own experience of how it feels to live in his words like a caged animal without the appropriate support salvia chowdhury reports i had some very dark times you know i have times when i i think you know life is actually over and i can't do anything that i need to do you feel like a caged animal dr brian may from queen calls himself a depressive the rock legend says he struggled mentally before and during the pandemic his first panic attack was while on tour with queen one of the things i do is an acoustic thing i do love in my life and i started strumming away but i was feeling something completely different i was trying to do the job but in my head i was panicking i was i was in this horrible place i could feel it not just in my head but in my stomach it was like it took hold of my whole body he's supporting mental health charity mind and their call for greater face-to-face therapy as the uk phases out of lockdown that sense of panic was much deeper for katie yelland in march 2020 she attempted to take her own life face-to-face therapy was off limits to her because of the first national lockdown the virtual calls just weren't enough i could sit there on a phone and i can fob you off because i've done it 10 million times before i know exactly what you want to hear what boxes that you need ticked what wasn't being seen was how badly i was deteriorating new research from mine shows the mental health of one in four people deteriorated during the pandemic as a result of remote therapy more than 60 percent of those surveyed said face-to-face services would have been far more helpful so they're calling on the government and the nhs to be more inclusive in their approach as we ease out of lockdown so that way those receiving help can make their own choices about what works best for them brian's experience during the past year inspired him and singer and west end star kerry ellis to rework one of their old hits [Music] covid edition the song called panic attack may have its roots in a dark place but its message is one of lights it gives people a reality of what has been going on but there is a there is a way of hope there is a root out of this that it is going to be all right [Music] supper chowdery sky news kerry ellis always puts a swelling first she's a lovely lady i have to say but now if you've been affected by any of the issues that we were talking about there then the samaritans are available for you 24 7. they'll listen to you without any judgment at all you can just talk to them plain and simple it's a free phone number 116123 or if you'd rather email it's joe at samaritans.org now let's see what the weather's going to do for you today uh isabella's standing but i have to say it threw it down around my house yesterday isabelle and it was wet this morning yeah i mean at last it's been such a dry month so at last some rain to talk about and we desperately need it let's take a look at where it's falling and what we've got in store for the next few days look forward to brighter skies the weather sponsored by qatar airways so we've got low pressure that's gradually been tracking south across the country which has been bringing some heavy rain in places some thundery activity as well particularly at the moment for example close to the dorset coast this low continuing to trigger bursts of rain today across the south and west gradually migrating towards the southeast later today otherwise it's a bright quite chilly picture with scattered showers but also some decent sunshine i should think a good portion of northern ireland and south and west scotland will miss the showers and see some sunshine but the north and east will see a scattering of showers possibly with some hail maybe a bit of snow over the hills you can see it's quite cold air only eight in edinburgh nine for newcastle come south it's cooler as well particularly where you have this rain and as i said not well not everywhere getting the heavy rain but there will be bursts of heavy rain around and that'll tend to track down into the southeast as we head through the day and overnight tonight and then pull away that'll leave us with a clear starry night tonight with a patchy frost and tomorrow one of those typical april days with sunshine to begin with the shower clouds bubble up and then there will be a few showers in many areas i think through the course of the day possibly a little bit wintery chilly as well temperatures of 8 to 12 and after a widespread frost on thursday night friday looks as though it'll be fine to begin with and again we'll see some showers gathering and that's really how it looks as we head into the bank holiday weekend as well some frosty starts but by day i think it should be largely fine just a few showers scattered around the weather sponsored by qatar airways isabel thank you still to come this morning we're going to be talking about a new report showing the extent of violence against women with the director of the group victim focus there are things we all take for granted as the rivers and tides flow the sun will rise the wind will blow and the earth will spin but are we now spiraling into a climate crisis which cannot be avoided no one can predict the impact that it's going to have close to the peak here this is really the moment it's true expected to be hit very hard indeed what can be done to reverse the spiral the daily climate show on sky news will look for the answers you know i love a challenge clearly and you can see from the state of me as well uh we only had another baby four weeks ago so not only have i um taken on an extra child i was taking on this this mammoth challenge of attempting in 10 months to go from or being retired for the last three years to trying to make a a winter olympic game to not only make the winter olympic games the plan is to try and and obviously win a medal i i don't go into anything just to to sort of do anything by half so the idea is by going i want to do it well and i want to try and uh achieve another olympic medal so um this all basically stems from a good friend of mine a girl called kaylee humphreys who's probably the most successful female bobsled of all time she's a canadian now competing for america um and she came across and just said look you should give it a go i've seen you've been training she'd been badgering me back in about 2014 15 to try and always say no no i'm a long jumper um but we've had all this time to to sort of twiddle our thumbs i guess if you like and and been sort of stuck not being able to do an awful lot so it just got me thinking well why not try i reached out to the british team they they sort of welcomed me with open arms and and here we are so the aim will now be to to make the beijing winter olympics uh and and try and go for a medal so so there's only one person in the history of the world an american who managed to win a winter olympic and a summer olympic gold medal that was with boxing and bobsleigh so nobody's ever managed to successfully do it from athletics and there's been a lot of crossover but nobody's ever won in both and and that's my plan i want to try and be the first first track and field athlete to ever make the the change over and actually and actually win and that would be an amazing thing nobody in europe's ever done it it's a big challenge but i'm i feel ready [Music] for the early risers for the knowledge seekers for the straight talkers the curious and the ones who want to be entertained backstage sky news entertainment podcast but wherever you are welcome to safety rage what's the day podcast for the ones who want to know more welcome to the all-out politics podcast for the story listeners sky news podcasts listen and subscribe for free now in the last few minutes the transport secretary grant shaps has confirmed to us here at sky news that the nhs app will be adapted to indicate whether a person has been vaccinated or had a recent negative covid test we are working on an nhs application actually it will be the actual app it will be the nhs app that is used um for people when they book appointments with the nhs and so on uh to be able to show that you've had a vaccine or that you've had testing and i'm working internationally with partners across the world uh to make sure that that system can be internationally recognized so that's the way forward and actually i'm chairing a meeting of the g7 uh secretaries of state for for transport my equivalent from uh america and canada and all the other g7 countries next week on exactly the subjects so the importance of that of course is it would in effect become a vaccination passport and if it is recognized by other countries then that would help us travel abroad in the summer when all this is allowed so it's an important step forward now violence against women and girls has been highlighted in recent weeks and months after the disappearance and murder of sarah everard now a new poll and it's it's a big one it's more than 20 000 women has found that 99.7 of all women have been subjected to violence once or more often including assaults harassment and rape well dr jessica taylor who's the director of victim focus which has created that report joins us now it's good to see you this morning are we reading this right 99.7 yep absolutely i think it is the kind of statistic that um we were expecting it to be that high um and there is a possibility that all of the previous statistics that you know sit this type of violence set one in three one and four one in five or even larger some reports put one in ten one in twenty um could potentially be down to methodological flaws that we have managed to uh address in this study which is why it's a lot higher so what have you addressed why why is this a more reliable figure so one of the things that we have learned in this type of research over the last couple of decades is that when you ask anybody really in the general population this applies to children and adults men and women if you ask them questions that use professional terminology like have you ever been subjected to sexual violence have you ever experienced domestic violence those types of questions generally people don't necessarily connect to them they don't relate to them they don't see themselves as ever you know having been subjected to those things so they could they'll they'll take no on a study like that so there was a study um in sweden um many years ago now probably about 15 years ago that wanted to explore the same thing but with children and actually found that when you talk in specifics rather than asking children have you ever been abused by your parents they ask things like you know have your parents ever hit you in the face have they ever kicked you if they have a spat at you if they ever choked you if they ever threatened to kill you and from that study they found that their data was a lot more accurate because children understood the specific events but didn't necessarily know what child abuse was so i wanted to test that with you know this sample with women and girls and instead of asking women and girls have you ever been raped or have you ever been subjected to domestic violence which are very broad terms that have a lot of stereotypes around them we instead asked um you know many items where we were quite factual and said you know have you ever been strangled have you ever been thrown down some stairs have you ever been kicked have you ever been sexually touched without consent you know um and i think that's why the data is so much clearer in this study i mean even i mean going through some of the details i mean even the figures of being thrown down the stairs i mean that sounds extremely violent as far as i'm concerned i mean even that figure was pretty high wasn't it yeah i think it was um 21 of women had been thrown down a flight of stairs in childhood so before their 18th birthday and i think it was around the same in adulthood around 22 percent of women had been thrown down a flight of stairs um in adulthood so yeah i mean um as you say even that is probably quite a bit higher than what people would expect but i think it is down to method when you are clear with people when you remove ambiguity you get better data and obviously we were extremely lucky that our sample size was so huge as well i mean look but you are looking at specificity by the nature of this you're looking at specific things whether it's you know being hit in the face or being spat on there are specifics here but when you look at the overall sort of picture of this it is displaying a sort of a sort of toxic childhood that a lot of of young women and girls are going through so how do we even begin to address this what do you want to see happen so the first thing i think that we need um as you said you know the statistics in childhood and adulthood especially for sexual violence so the examples you just brought up were in in a section of the study around physical violence but um it was actually more common for women and girls to be sexually assaulted and sexually abused in childhood and in adulthood than it was physical assault so physical assault sat you know sort of 30 50 60 percent whereas sexual assaults and sexual abuse in childhood sat at 80 82 87 and then in adulthood were around the same um rapes were at one in two and things like that so sexual violence was actually more common than physical rapes were racist rapes were 50 yes so our statistics found that i have it here i want to make sure that i am accurate um 51 of women reported that they woke up to their partners having sex with them or performing sex sex on them whilst they were asleep so um and for the majority of women um that had happened more than three times in a relationship so that's male partners performing sex acts on them or actually having penetrative sex with them whilst they were sleeping they wake up and that's happening um and then further than that um 55 of adult women said that they had been forced to have penetrative sex that they'd said no to so that's and again this is why instead of saying rape which a lot of women might not have said yes to them i thought well it wasn't really a rape maybe you know i wasn't dragged off into some bushes by a stranger instead we made it very clear and yeah absolutely it came out at one in two heck it really is a shocking study um i know you're sending it out to to all mps it'd be interesting to see what reaction we get from those over the coming days dr taylor good to talk to you thank you thank you now history is going to be made next month when a ship without any crew will become the first powered by artificial intelligence to cross the atlantic it's all part of the fight to tackle climate change our science correspondent thomas more reports from plymouth cutting through the waters of plymouth sound without any human control the mayflower 400 is completely autonomous with an artificially intelligent computer in charge and is about to navigate three thousand miles across some of the world's busiest shipping lanes to america with satellite maps of nearby ships and six onboard cameras it can spot hazards and stay around them so it's looking at all those positions and then it's scanning 12 miles around with its radar and then it's looking with its cameras and it's fusing it's like okay that is a radar contact and that's a picture of the thing i see on the radar and it's got a beacon on it that i can see through my satellites that says it's this kind of ship and it's going this fast in this direction and then using the radar and the cameras it sort of validates that it's like yep that's that ship and it is doing what it says it's doing i have to turn or speed up or slow down so that i obey the rules and cross the right way without humans on board there's no need for bunks toilets or a kitchen it's pure machine in future even cargo vessels are likely to have an artificially intelligent captain that takes over out at sea but this is a marine research ship the ocean covers 70 percent of the planet but just five percent has been explored it's so vast that much of it is beyond the reach of scientists until now inside the hull robotic instruments will test the sea water climate change is making the oceans warmer and more acidic putting marine life under pressure plankton the bottom of the food chain will be monitored and the ship will also listen to wales to gauge how many there are in the open ocean the ocean impacts us all far more than we may even realize you know it's not just the food that we eat it's our travel our trade and above all it's our climate as well the ocean regulates our planet to a huge extent it also produces half of the oxygen that we breathe so it is it's hugely vital we really need to up our game to start to have innovation like this and take advantage of the technology that's out there now it should take around a fortnight to cross the atlantic 400 years ago the original mayflower took early settlers to america its namesake is another pioneer sailing the seas on its own to check the health of the ocean thomas more sky news in plymouth and of course you can watch our daily climate show later on today at half past six and at half past nine here on sky news now new figures have revealed that around two million children in the uk have been digitally excluded from their own education over the last year well of course what a strange year it's been for for all children but a lot of it's been so reliant on internet access now a host of prominent faces including the former prime minister gordon brown are calling for a new digital inclusion strategy for britain and uh gordon brown joins us now good to see you this morning uh look what actually can be done in sort of urgent rapid terms to deal with this what get computers to children who don't have them there's 400 000 they don't even have a laptop or any form of computer then there's two million people that don't have access so you cut the charges that parents have to pay to get telecom access to the internet you give information free of charge across the internet like educational and health information and you make sure that those people have been excluded for more than a year are now included i mean it seems ridiculous that we're talking about this uh nearly in may 15 months after the pandemic started and we haven't solved this problem we can solve so many other problems like getting a vaccine but we haven't been able to solve this basic problem getting computers and access to kids whose education is really suffering and will suffer for years if we don't do something about this i mean how much of this is is based on uh you know an economic situation families that cannot afford the internet cannot afford computers and how much of it is down to the fact that you know for a lot of parts of this country internet access is patchy at best well there's an offcom report out this morning that says we've got 94 access so that's not the biggest problem we need to get to the last mile so to speak the biggest problem is that families cannot afford the computers they cannot afford to pay their telecom charges there may be a number of children in the family and they're all competing for access to the one facility and that means that some will lose out and so you know we're talking this morning about a digital uh passport about the government making it possible for people to digitally register and everything else for going abroad surely we can do something about the poorest children in this country and schools want this to happen teachers want this to happen parents want this to happen really we need changes often new regulations about social tariffs new regulations about making sure that information can travel free when it's educational information and of course making sure that children have the computers themselves we've got tim berners-lee the inventor of the worldwide web this morning saying this we've got martha lane fox there used to be digital champions saying this there's a chorus of people saying something really has to be done how much of this is responsibility of government do you think i mean obviously some of it is but but how much do we need private business whether it's you know manufacturers or whether it's broadband providers to actually step up and and have a sort of social responsibility here yeah i i'm un special envoy for education i've tried on numerous occasions to get all these companies together and to work as one but you know each of them wants their own world garden they will give access to certain people and we've really got to get them all to work together so we have different forms of reductions in prices offered by british telecom and virgin and so on it is so complicated that i think parents will find it difficult to understand it so the way forward is for ofcom to say come together we will make it possible for a social tariff to be introduced that means cheaper prices for families let's say families on universal credit with children who really cannot afford to pay these charges if at the same time they're paying for food clothes and everything else i mean it's interesting with sir tim berners-lee as you said the inventor of the internet who's who's turned around and said you know internet access is now a human right now i guess a lot of us could understand that now but that's that's happened quite quickly hasn't it that that reliance on the internet yes and it's happened particularly over the last year but it benefits those who've got the money to pay for it and it doesn't benefit those who haven't and if we're serious about every child having a the best possible chance every school people getting access to the educational information even if they're not at school then we really have to do something about this and take it more seriously i think the prime minister should chair a digital task force that makes it possible for every child to be connected and get schools involved in this as well so that even if we have to return to some form of study at home but even if we don't we've got access for these children at home well you mentioned the prime minister and it's not often we get to talk to someone like you who's had so much experience in in number 10 and number 11. um look what's your view on what's being what's being said at the moment and the questions over the the integrity in downing street well as you know i'd prefer to talk about access to the digital services and i would like to say something about what's happening in india because something could be done about that immediately but yes look um it's pretty clear to me that three things have got to happen if you're going to have proper standards in public life you need a register of gifts so any gifts the prime minister receives got to be registered got to be made public and so nobody is beholden to anybody else and gifts are all declared and clearly there were gifts involved in the refurbishment of this flag the second thing is you need a register of conflicts of interest it's clear that there are downing street officials who were in the private sector doing other jobs while at the same time being public officials supposedly serving full time in the public sector that can't continue you need a register of what's gone wrong and you need to say look you're either working for the government of the public interest or you're working for a private company you can't do both here and i think the third thing you've got to really be careful about is is obviously people reporting uh their lobbying activities i mean if the prime minister is lobbied for a commercial interest he's got to report it and so there should be a register of lobbying that makes it absolutely clear who was talking to whom about certain things including over the telephone because we cannot have this impression growing that some people have got access to government and other people don't it just seems completely unfair there are millions of people around this country at the moment who want to say something about something that's wrong they want sorted out by the prime minister they don't get this access but some privileged people do one law for an elite one law for the rest it's simply not fair i mean during your time in number 10 and in number 11 i mean there must have been people that you were having contact with people who had access to you because they were running a a huge corporation or or whatever it may be i mean they end up because of that having a louder voice don't they well you meet people but then you report that you've met them what seems to be happening here is that there's private conversations going on on the internet or going on in telephones and they're not properly reported you need to register all this in the public interest everything has got to be seen to be above board and no prime minister no minister should be seen to be beholden to someone who gives him money for this or for that or who's got special access for one reason or another that's all going to be above board otherwise people will lose faith and lose trust in the way the political systems work and i fear that scandal is going to follow this government as long as it is in power unless it does something to clean up its act look should in in your opinion and and it's great to talk to you now that you're you're you're away from all the the big offices of state because you think you've been because because you can be well look you can be a bit more frank can't you can be a bit more straightforward about this with with comments that the attributed to the prime minister around the pandemic and let the bodies pile high let it rip i mean it's denied that it is said but when you're in number 10 when you're in a meeting behind closed doors presumably yeah as prime minister you are much more frank about what's going on you would say things would you that that you wouldn't expect to be repeated anywhere else yeah but this is a matter of public policy i mean i think what people are really asking was that really the prime minister's view and was he slow in uh undertaking a lockdown because that was what he felt so i think he's got to clarify it this is not just your private comments about an individual or about some event that has happened this is about public policy and i think you've got to be honest and open with the government if that was your view let's let's hear that that was your view and then you change your view but i think there's got to be some honesty when it comes to the saving of lives look look this morning you know there are a million cases of kobe being reported every day now there's a hundred thousand people dying a week in india four hundred 000 people they suspect uh have died and and it's 15 months into this pandemic and surely we can get the equipment the oxygen the vaccinations to all the people in the world because nobody is safe until everyone's safe and these are the issues that i think the prime minister should be directing his attention to today okay well justin just in 30 seconds because we're almost off air but because you've pointed that out and it is important as you say do you think these other issues are at the moment at least a distraction i i think what we've got to talk about is saving lives but we've got to have good standards of government as well and i'm interested in this morning in getting an agreement between all the countries that can make sure that everybody is safe because we do something about the spread of the disease the mutation forgive me forgive me for butting in but what should what should saqir be focusing on then oh zakir will focus on i think getting to the truth of what's been happening because we need to know what the truth is okay gordon brown really good to talk to you this morning thank you very much indeed all the headlines coming up just a moment

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Published: Wed Apr 28 2021