And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers li. Thank you. Ros this is outside source on bbc news for ourrs vien the u. K. And around the world. A were covering all of the coronavirus developments in britain. Here are the headlines. The u. K. Goveme has extended the lockdown for another three weeks. There is a significant increase in the spread of the coronarus. We d not want to ease up too soon, allowing ak second pea the virus to hit the british people. Ros people around the u. K. Are saying thank you to frontline clapping outside their windows and homes. It has become a weekly tradition. Asdonald trumpnnounced a plan to reopen plans to announce a plan to reopen the economy. Another 5. 2ha million peopl filed for unemployment. There is a story that the virus has come from a lab in china. It is 8 00 in the u. K. And people are at their windows and front doors applauding those on the front lines battling covid19. Letas take a look and tak listen. [applause] ros this is outside toms house on the news channel,eahe 99old who has raised millions and millions of pounds for the nhs. We can show you people clapping up and down the country. This isheourth time people across the u. K. Have been doing this at 8 00 p. M. Every thursday. Westminster has decided the lockdown will continue for another three weeks. They say it is too soon to relax any restrictions without risking increasing the spread of coronavirus. Wereill have pdates from the u. K. In a moment, and across the world, of course. First, lets start in the u. S. , where President Trump i expected to announce guidelines to reopen the u. S. Economy. Jobs in america continue to be st at a record rate. The statistics are staggering. Another 5. 2 Million People have filed for unemployment last week. A record 20 Million People have lost their jobs in the last four weeks. This gives you a sense of the surging unemployment. Economists now predict the rate will hi double digits. Marthaimble is a u. S. Labor statistician. Huge numbers. They are declining slightly. Is that a cause for optimism, or is it too soon. It is a little weird to be in a situation where were grateful that we only got 5 illion unemployment claims this week, but thatwhere we are. Its heartening to seeerhe nuoming down. That said, the number is not coming down nearly as quickly as many oould have liked, which suggests that economic pain is widespread and may be spreadg further. Ro i wanted to ask you, its a niche, detailed point, but it struck m the idea of many workers who rely on tips, those who work in ntrs and restau is it more difficult to get the help you need . Different states deal with tip work in different ways. Obviously, in the United States, we dont have a national system. We have different jurisdictions and different states. But for the workers who rely on tips, who may be doing cash work, it is going to be much harder to navigate the unemployment sysm. Ros thank you. Extraordinary numbers in the United States. Thank you for that insight. We will have plenty more on the situation in america and specifically in new york later. Welcome to our viewers here in the u. K. Joining our coverage across t world on bbc world news. We start our coverage now wit the u. K. , where we have just witnessed people clapping from their balconies. They will be clapping every thursday for at leaster three weeks w because earlier today, the government carr ad out review ofockdown measures and this was the outcome. We sti do not have the infection rate down as far as we need to. In other countries as in other countries, we have issues with the virus spreading through hospitals and care homes. The advice we have received is that any change to social dist measures now would risk a significant increase in the spread of the virus. That would threaten a set second peak of the virus and substantially increase the numbs of deaths. 14,000 people have died in the u. K. , more than 800 in just the past day. The number of confirmed cases in the u. K. Has passed 100,000 today. The government chief scientific advisor says there are some positive signs. The overall message is that cases are flattening and may be decreasing. This is probably the critical slide. This shows people in hospital beds with covid infection. Here you can see across many regions the numbers are decreasing. Ros the government has been guided on social distancing measures by sage, the scientific advisoryroup for emergencies. You can find their user data on the governments website. They have given advice on what easing lockdown measures would mean for the economy any relaxation would do more damage to the economy over the longterm. I want to be really clear about this. The advice from sage is that laxing any of the measur currently in place would risk both Public Health and the economy. Ros our correspondent Jessica Parker is in westminster. The threeweek lockdown coinuing. Any sense of how much longer th will go . I think the ministe very reluctant to put timelines on things, saying the situation is very dynamic. The data and the latest modeling to advise on what they think the next step should be. That is why we are on this three week cycle. It was t 23rd of march that Boris Johnson announced the radical lockdown measures, saying they would be reviewed in three weeks. That is what we hit this week. Asbe you hav outlining, the prime ministers deputy because Boris Johnson is still recovering from the virus himself s h deputy reviewed what we knew was likely toappen. It has been clear from wales to Northern Ireland a scotland that it would be too soon to lift the measures. We are set for another three weeks of lockdown. We are in a dangerous and delite moment. While there are signs that social distancing measures are working, there are indications that in some settings infections could still be increasing. In care homes and hospitals, for example. I think we dont know for the moment how long this could go on ut there is quite a lot pressure on prime ministers on ministers for the labour party to be me transparent about the exit strategy and how it plans to take the u. K. Forward. Ros thank you. Lets move on to europe. The head of the european commison has said europe offers a heartfelt apology for failing tugo offer esupport italy at the beginning of the outbreak. Italy has recorded more deaths than any nation but the United States. Yes, it is true that no one was really ready for this. It is also true at too many were not there on time when italy needed a helping hand at the very beginning. And yes, for that, it right that europe as a whole offers a. Heartfelt apol but saying sorry only counts for something if it changes behavior. There are still some who want to point fingers and blame, some who would rather talk like populistshan telling unpopular truth. To this i say stop. Have the courage to tell the truth. Have the courage to stand up. Becae this unionf ours will get us through. Ros italy responded b calling it important act of truth. You get a sense from the populist rightwing politician given to the eu, and thehe has government, part of the underlying message was to aim it at populists, that we have the courage to tell the truth and not distort the facts. It is a significant acowledgment from the most powerful person in brussels who has said we were not there at the time italy needed us. Ros some countries in eope want to ease restrictions on movement. In germany, shops are set to reopen next week and schoolsll eopen next month. Social distancing guidelines will remain. Angela merkel has recommended the use of face masks everywhere. Asylumseekers will be moved out of camps on the Aegean Islands later this month. No coronavirus cases have been reported from migrant camps on the Aegean Islands, but they have been in the camps on the mainland. Es far, greece has recorded over 2000 confirmed cnd 100 deaths. Here is a professor to explain why. The retail system was badly hit during the crisis. We did not have the luxury of waiting the government followed a very decisive approach, very professional, managerial approach from t s ort. Greece w of the first countries, rightto after italy impose a lockdown. It is about a monthince then. It w a heavy sequence of measures, but it is working. Mb the has flattened. Weh started wlose to 100 cases every day. Were down to 15. Less and less every day. The mber of deat has declined. The hospitals have been able to handle it. Ros stay with us. Coming up, what facebook is doing to stop tpread of coronavirus misinformation. Ros 99yearold british war veten captain tom moore has genished a chall, raising 18 million for charity. Captain tom moore was keen tt dongs properly on the final leg a journey that began as a family challenge. It has turned into something extraordinary. Ts a fantastic sum of money. We would never have imagined. Its unbelievable. People have been so kind. It began just over a week ago. The target, one hundred laps to mark captain toms 100th birthday at the end of the month. The family hoped to rai money for charity, and set what they thought was a bold target, 1000 pounds. A week later, they passe 18 million. D its no over. If people kp giving, captain tom keep walking. Lewis this is outside source b from t. The u. K. Government has extended lockdown for another three weeks. They warn that relaxing restrictions now would increase the spread of coronavirus. Ieists around the world are trying to figure out, once you have had coronavirus, can you get it again . Officials in south korea found 141 patients who recovered from covid19 have now retested posive for the virus. Reinfection would be the most concerning scenario. Relapse, where parts of the virus remained dormant and then reactivate. Inconsistent or false test results when first screened are the third possibility. I think most of those patients are a relapse case. I think the covid19 virus reactivates. That is why those patients demonstrate fever. Thats our summary from the test positive again case. We are investigating the cause of these relapse cases. Lewis the chinese city of wuhan has sparked hope of under covering the mystery of the origin of the virus. It is important to understand that ino orderevent the next one. But there are concerns that china is not sharing all the information the rest of the world wants to see. The meantime, speculation is right. One of the theories that has gained traction is that the virus came from a laboratory in wuhan, rather than from a rket as the chinese authorities claimed. A wild theory says that the chinese manufactured theirus as part of bioweapons research. The chinese authorities have denied that. But they have not ruled out the possibility that it came from a laboratory where scientists were doing research on bats with the coronaviruas an attempt to prevent a pandemic. The theory has spread so widely, at mr. Trump and other u. S. Officials have had to respond to it. Apparently, u. S. Intelligence is looking into this. According to reports, th have not found any evidence of an the issue of where the virus came from has become political not least beuse of donald trump. Lets bring in ros atkins to look at this. Hi. Ros hi, louis, good to see y. Explaining how the virus started matters medically and politically. We know it began, in wuh china, but we dont know how. President macron said ings happen there that we dont know about. The trump administratily has repeaturned to this, as you will see in this clip, starting with a question from a multiple sources are telling fox news today that the United States government now has high confidence that while the coronavirus is a naturally occurring virus, it emanated fr a lab in wuhan, that because of lax safety protocols and in turn was infected who later fected her boyfriend, who then went to the mart in wuhanbe where in to spread. Does that correspond with what mr. Trump i dont say that, but i will tell you that more and more we are hearing the story. There is an institute of virology just a halfmile away from where the wet market was. The United States government is working diligently to figurebu this out we really need the Chinese Government to open up. Ros e h a picture of the lab in question from a government website. According to the institutes website, its subjects of study it also houses a lab fors. S. Viru they also have developed different super labs around the world that study the most dangerous viruses. It is worth mentioning that such allegations are not unique. In february, there w a story trending on social media that the first covid19 patient was a researcher working at the lab, but the institute quickly denounced that rumor and said the researcher had left the lab yes ago, and no one working there was infected with covid19. Ros well, today we heard this from the Chinese Government. Iould like to remind you that who officials hav repeatedly stated there is not any evidence the new coronavirus was produced in a laboratory. Many believe the source has no scientific this story has no scientific basis. Ros evidence suggestst has a natural animal origin and is not a constructed virus. What about claimshat the animal virus was accidentally released by the lab . The Washington Post reported s. That two years ago, mbassy officials went to the lab several times and sent two official warnings back to washington about inadequate safety. Some have taken issue with this report. In thi tweet, he argues the point is theot biology shows a of remaining uncertainty. These open a range of plausible explanations that dont involve a lab spillover and substantial evidence indicates lab spillover is unlikely, albeit not impossible. He used this meme to make his point. W this virus started matters for how wetop the next one. It also matters to u. S. Politics and to chinas standing in the world, which is why today, it is at the center of Scientific Research and the information wars. While we wait to fi out how the obreak began, inevitably the space that leaves will be filled withuestions, speculation, and theories, some without any facts to go with them. Much more on wuhan lab on the bbc website, bbc. Com news. Lewis thanks for that, fascinating stuff. Theme of conspiracy theoriese because facebook has come under increasing pressure to stop the spread of coronaviruson misinformati. Users who read and sabre informatiot coronavirus will receive popup warnings like this. Fabook says it will start showing messages at the top of newsfeeds incoming week an there will be a link directing people to the World Health Organization webge where misinformation is debunked. This is in response to what t u. N. Has called the infodemic around covid19. Joe, this seemsxa to be anle of facebook upping its game. It has been forcedo. We have seen lots of different measures during this pandemic. Thirdly more than in previous situations, like the certainly morehan in previous situations, like the u. S. Election. Markg zuckerb said they have deleted hundreds of thousands of postthey deemed false o lifethreatening from the network. And they are offering information ckets at the top the newsfeed. Lewis a report was pretty criticalf facebook. Joe a damming report from a crowd funded activist network. Th spent a long time looking at facebook in six different languages and conclud that facebook was sitting at the epicenter of misinformation. They pointed to lots of examples of conspiracy theies thatave been prevalent and not taken down or downgraded. They looked at onbo black people being resistant to coronavirus. Of course, not true,ut it went ral. The other is that it is destroyed by chlorine oxide. Again, not true. Went viral. Anotheabout drinking saltwater stopping infection. Again, not true. There are still clones of that post on the Service Without warnings. Apparently, if you are spanish, italian, or portuguese speaking, you are moresiikely to see ormation on facebook. We have seen a lot. For example, whenever you go on the app,he first thing you will see is an nhs video. Likewiseon youtube, you see the World Health Organization at the top of the search results. Google as well. We are seeing social networks do a lot to try to stop some of the misinformation being spread. Lewis hank you. Before we go, lets take another look at these images. [applause] this is people across the u. Taking time out to thank health works across the country. We started our program half an hour ago with these pictures this is now the fourth time that the u. K. Has come out and applauded the staff working for the nhs and staff working forse emergencices, and everyone the battle against coronavirus in the u. K. A tradition of thanks to all those workers, not just in the u. K. , but around the world. That is it for me. You can get in touch with me on social media any time. I amewis jones and ts is outside source. Narrator funding for this presentation of rogram is provided by. Language specialists teaching spanish, french and more. Raymond james. The freeman foundation. Y by jd Peter Blum Kovler foundation; purs ericas neglected needs. 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