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Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. First, britains foreign secretary, dominic raab, has rejected calls to ease the coronavirus lockdown, stressing that the outbreak is still at a delicate and dangerous stage. The government is coming under pressure to relax the social distancing measures, amid concern about the damage they are doing to the economy. Mr raab, who has been standing in for...

Fall in patient referrals how lockdown could sound the death knoll of thousands of high street shops with independent, family run businesses hardest hit. This is bbc news and tributes are paid im reeta chakrabarti. To the bollywood actor irrfan khan, the headlines at 4. 30 the Prime Minister is back who starred in Slumdog Millionaire and life of pi, at work in number 10, who has died at the age of 53. After he and his fiancee Carrie Symonds announced the birth of their son this morning. Hell tak...

And tributes are paid to the bollywood actor irrfan khan, who starred in Slumdog Millionaire and life of pi, who has died at the age of 53. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. We start in the us where the economy is shrinking at the fastest rate in more than a decade, as figures from the last quarter show the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on economic activity. There was a 4. 8 cont...

And thats all i can say, because they were just so, so special. The lockdown has led to the biggest drop in retail sales on record they fell more than 5 last month. The Rohingya Refugees rescued after being stranded at sea for many weeks virus fears meant they were repeatedly turned away from shore. And going down the drain how pubs are having to pour away their booze, amid fears they could remain closed until the end of the year. And in sport on bbc news. No cricket before the ist ofjuly the ec...

Livelihoods are at risk because of the pandemic. After weeks of separation, why switzerland now thinks its safe once again, for their elderly to hug their grandchildren. Welcome. The us is the Worlds Largest economy. Today we learnt that in the first three months of this year, it shrank at an annual rate of 4. 8 . The country has introduced lockdown measures to slow the spread of coronavirus, which has killed more than 58,000 people there. As you can see from this graph, the us economy has suffe...

Good afternoon. Well have the latest government briefing from downing street on the coronavirus pandemic, led today by the Health Secretary, matt hancock. That is in about half an hour. But first, ministers say theyre confident of hitting their target for the number of daily coronavirus tests, after the Prime Minister said the uk is past the peak of the outbreak. The government had pledged 100,000 tests a day by the end of april, with more than 81,000 taking place on wednesday. The target was 10...

Good morning, after a showery end to the week it looks like our weather will settle down a little for the weekend. Nothing too warm to come just yet, we will save that for the end of the week ahead. More details a little later. Its saturday 2 may. Our top story the us authorities have approved the use of an anti viral drug which they believe may help to treat covid 19. Its called remdesivir, and is already used on ebola patients. Here in the uk, the government says it has beaten its target of 10...

The search for a cure. We report on the worlds biggest study of potential treatments, involving thousands of patients. More evidence today of the devastating impact the pandemic is having on the high street, the business community, and the wider economy. And, the Prime Minister and his partner have been celebrating the birth of their baby son. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news, the chairman of the Scottish Football League has insisted dundee were not offered any sweetener to change their vo...

If youre from a poorer urban area, say new official figures. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. First, the uk government says it has hit its target for 100,000 coronavirus tests per day, with the British Health secretary matt hancock saying it was an incredible achievement. The target was set less than a month ago whenjust 10,000 daily tests were being carried out and the government wa...

And the british Prime Minister and his partner are celebrating the birth of their baby son. Hello. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. We start in the us where the economy is shrinking at the fastest rate in more than a decade. Figures from the last quarter show a 4. 8 contraction but economists are warning the worst is yet to come. Some positive news the White House Health advisor Dr Anthony Fauci is talking of promising data from the trial of an ...