Good morning welcome to breakfast with louise minchin and dan walker our

headlines for you six o'clock pupils in england may no longer have to isolate if a
classmate tests positive for covid under new plans to be announced later the prime
minister says he wants to lift almost all of england's restrictions in two weeks face
covering laws will be abolished but boris johnson and his advisers say they won't
ditch theirs i will obviously wear a mask in crowded places where you're meeting
people that you that you that you don't know i would do so particularly at this point
when the epidemic is clearly significant and rising good morning from liverpool
unlimited numbers coming through the doors and finally standing at the bar with
who you want for as long as you want it's a new chapter for hospitality but not
every business will survive to see it good morning from wimbledon where there
was bitter disappointment for the british teenager emma radakanu last night she
had to retire from her last 16 match she experienced breathing difficulties while
she was playing good morning from the first hampton court palace garden festival
since 2019 when that year it was a scorcher well it's not today we've got some
heavy rain here and the forecast for many of us today is a wet one we'll see some
sunshine and showers but even those could be heavy and thundery and it's breezy
in the south we've got it all i'll have more later in the program [Music] good
morning it's a tuesday the 6th of july our main story for you school pupils in
england could soon avoid having to self-isolate ever classmate tests positive for
coronavirus the education secretary is expected to outline plans to scrap the bubble
system later today last week more than 275 000 children had to stay at home after
coming into contact with the coronavirus case the changes are likely to come into
effect on the 19th of july the same day most other restrictions in england are due to
be eased here's our political correspondent damian gramaticus will hospitals be
able to cope it's a risk the prime minister is contemplating taking his desire is to
remove all covert restrictions across england just as infections are rising fast again
but boris johnson believes relaxing curbs now in the summer is preferable waiting
could be worse we run the risk of either opening up at a very difficult time when
the virus has an edge has an advantage in uh in the colder months or again putting
everything off uh to next year so um i do think it's a it's going to be a very balanced
decision what he envisages is no more social distancing no limits on how many can
visit your home or how many can pack restaurants bars and pumps theaters
nightclubs sports stadiums all open and full no more empty offices as the
requirement to work from home would end too but as a concern a third wave of
covid is underway with an average of more than 25 000 cases a day in the past
week and the number infected is doubling roughly every nine days his own chief
scientific advisor said now is the time to be controlling the virus we are in the face
of an increasing epidemic at the moment and therefore we need to behave
accordingly in terms of trying to limit transmission spread but the vaccination
program is blunting the pandemic the numbers in hospital and dying with covid are
relatively low it's the reason mr johnson believes he can go ahead and he wants to
remove the legal obligation to wear a mask too but the scientists are cautious
saying they will continue to wear theirs there was a really clear consensus that uh
under all circumstances some degree of further social distancing will be maintained
need to be maintained even after the the restrictions are lifted in law and that's been
part of the roadmap all the way through and that is widely supported by the
scientific views and today we'll hear more about the plans for schools here too the
government is hoping to lift restrictions to put an end to bubbles and isolation of
whole groups judging the cost is no longer worth the benefit damian gramaticus
bbc news draft legislation intended to tackle what ministers describe as a broken
asylum system is being introduced to parliament today the home office says the bill
will help prevent people who've passed through a safe country claiming asylum in
the uk a refugee campaign has warned that thousands of people who are currently
given asylum will be turned away in future our home affairs correspondent daniel
sanford has this report until the pandemic struck last year the number of people
claiming asylum in the uk had doubled since 2010 though if you look back over the
last two decades the number of applicants was still less than half what it was 20
years ago and the figure including dependence is significantly below the numbers
in germany france spain and greece the pandemic also triggered a change in how
people tried to get to britain with the number crossing the channel on small boats
rising sharply it was 8 500 last year and it's heading for an even greater number
this year the home secretary pretty patel says she wants to create a fair but firm
system that will break the business model of the people-smuggling gangs the
nationality and borders bill will allow the uk government to return people to a safe
country if they've passed through it on the way to britain campaigners say this will
result in thousands of valid claims being deemed inadmissible and call it a
shameful dereliction of duty the bill will also allow asylum claims to be processed
outside the uk potentially paving the way for controversial offshore centers for
processing applications daniel sandford bbc news a woman with a down syndrome
will attend the high court today to demand a change to abortion law a pregnancy
can currently be terminated up to full term in england scotland and wales if the
fetus has down syndrome while most other abortions can't take place beyond 24
weeks hardy kratos says the law discriminates against people who could have gone
on to lead full and happy lives aruna ayenga has more heidi krautha from coventry
has down syndrome she recently celebrated her first wedding anniversary with
husband james she lives life to the full well i like singing i like dancing i like
watching disney plus she's going to the high court seeking a change to the 1967
abortion act this allows abortion up to 24 weeks but if the fetus has a disability
including down syndrome abortion is legal right up to birth heidi says this is
discriminatory the reason why it's important to me and james is because we are
someone who has dancing to him and we want to say to the world that we have a
good quality of life her mother liz has encouraged heidi to be as independent as
possible she lives here in coventry heidi's legal team have crowdfunded 102 000
pounds to take on the government in a landmark test case i'm very proud of heidi
of her campaigning and i'll be supporting her along the way 3200 fetuses are
aborted each year because the child is likely to be severely disabled and 90 of
women whose fetuses have down syndrome choose to have an abortion some say
women in this situation need more time to make an informed decision we're talking
about a relatively small number of abortions every year that take place after 24
weeks these are incredibly challenging heartbreaking circumstances involving
often very very much wanted pregnancies where women have to make really tough
decisions and i think to imply that somehow those decisions are made flippantly or
casually is incredibly offensive to the women involved the case will run for the
next two days in london's high court aruna eienger bbc news and we will talk about
that a little bit more later here on bbc breakfast um germany is relaxing covered
restrictions on travelers from the uk and for other countries from tomorrow british
tourists will be able to enter the country even if they're not residents those who are
fully vaccinated also won't have to quarantine the owner of vauxhall is expected to
announce plans today to build electric vans at its elsmere port plants in cheshire the
investment said to be worth hundreds of millions of pounds would safeguard more
than a thousand factory jobs the future of the plant has been in doubt after
vauxhall's parent company stelantis scrapped plans to build its new astra model
there around a thousand more babies would survive each year in england if
maternity services were as safe as those in sweden according to a group of mps a
health and social care committee says a lack of staff and blame culture which
prevents lessons from being learned are significantly hindering maternity services
so we've got loads to talk about on the program today something else will be
mentioned you might see the news yesterday about the musical hairspray starring
michael ball and les dennis which is that they've had somebody in their production
team has either been pinged or tested possibly tested positive for coverage so
they've had to sort of cancel everything for a week to 10 days so they will be here
they will be here speaking to us about that i think michael's got a new tv show
about wonderful whales as well and we also have lots of people asking about today
um sally is at wimbledon today um and we can just having been out and about
today it's a shame that she doesn't she has got an umbrella but i think she doesn't
have a coat and she was at wembley very rainy she was at wembley yesterday she's
a wimbledon today of course today is the day the first semi-final of the euros italy
take on spain tomorrow uh it's england against denmark i was having this thought
right louise because i've listened to harry kane on the radio yesterday and i think
this is quite significant harry kane put this into context he said the reason why this
game is so important for us is that this might be my chance my last chance and
quite a few players in the squad last chance to ever play a game in a major
tournament at home because it might never be another euros world cup very good
quality or in in the uk so adding more significance to an already significant game i
had a layer of significance already but now it's just gone up a notch [Music] see the
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