And the overwhelming of the nhs. Globally, there are now more than three million confirmed cases of coronavirus and the World Health Organisation says the pandemic is far from over. Its important that we understand, at this point in time, four months into a global pandemic, a large proportion of the population still remains susceptible. And where is kimjong un . Rumours are circulating as north koreas leader hasnt been seen in public for over two weeks. Welcome to this edition of outside source. Im Lewis Vaughan jones. We start with the news that the number of confirmed cases of covid 19 around the world has now gone past three million. Thats according to the american based Johns HopkinsUniversity Coronavirus data base. Almost a third of those cases have been in the us and there have been a similiar number confirmed across europe. The total number of deaths stands at more than 200 and 8,000. One person to have recovered after contracting the disease is borisjohnson. Today the uk Prime Minister was back at work. In his first public appearance since leaving hospital, he warned against lifting the lockdown too quickly. I know it is tough, and i want to get this economy moving as fast as i can but i refused to throw away all the effort and the sacrifice of the british people and to risk a second major outbreak and huge loss of life and the overwhelming of the nhs. Lets remind you how the Prime Ministers health has recovered since he was diagnosed with coronavirus a month ago. He first developed mild symptoms, including a continuous cough and a High Temperature on march 26th, and so was advised by the chief medical officer to take a test. Here you can see the Prime Minister with the chancellor rushi sunak taking part in a clap for National Health service and care staff on march 26th in downing street. And here you can see him a day later on march 27th announcing on twitter that hed tested positive for covid i9. A week later, on april 2nd, this was the Prime Minister on the steps of number 10 clapping again for nhs workers. A few days later on april 5th, he was admitted to St Thomas Hospital in Central London and spent a week there, including three nights in intensive care. He was given oxygen after suffering breathing difficulties but was not placed on a ventilator. On april 11th, the Prime Minister used this video appearance to thank nhs staff for saving his life in intensive care. Over the last couple of weeks, hes not had any official government work while recovering at his country residence, chequers, although last week he did speak to the queen and President Trump. I want to show you a graph of the daily reported deaths from coronavirus in hospitals around the uk. And you can see theres been another drop in number of deaths in the last 2a hours to 360 so the trend suggests the uk is coming down from its peak. You can see its been a bumpy progress down to where it is now. Well also need to wait and see what happens over the next few days as the numbers from the weekend tend to be under reported. The total number of confirmed dead from coronavirus is more than 21,000 a devastating figure that doesnt include deaths in care homes. Lets speak to our Political Correspondent chris mason at westminster. Chris, good to see you. So a strange combination here, we have the numbers seemingly passed them peak in the uk, seemingly coming down, but a Prime Minister warning that we are still in a huge danger. Yeah, thats right, so symbolically, psychologically a big moment this morning as Boris Johnson psychologically a big moment this morning as borisjohnson returned home, return to his workplace in downing street. He has been convalescing at his country retreat in buckinghamshire just outside london, since he was discharged from hospital. I think what was quite striking, listening to the Prime Ministers words this morning was yes, there was a caution that ran through what he said because he was emphasising the need to maintain the current restrictions due to remain in place until the end of the first week of next month, so for the best pa rt week of next month, so for the best part of a fortnight, but did begin to talk about, in very broad terms, how things might eventually start to be liberated, how things might slowly begin a very, very long journey back towards normality. But i think what you get a sense of, and this is the challenge for governments around the world, there is one thing imposing variations on a lockdown, clearly they are massive and involve a restriction of liberty for people they have never experienced before, but there is a blanket effect of that, which means you impose it and there it is. Unpicking it and trying to work out how you do that in a way that is seen to be fair, that is seen to be economically judicious, seen to be fair, that is seen to be economicallyjudicious, but crucially doesnt cause a second spike that could overwhelm our Health Service is massively, massively complicated, when the advice they are receiving from their government departments, from scientists, from modellers is inevitably sometimes contradictory, confusing, there is different advice being whispered into the ears of leaders. That is inevitable. So a colossal responsibility on the shoulders of the government here in the uk and around the world at the moment. Chris, just very briefly, when are we expecting to hear any kind of plans for how the uk does withdraw from the current lockdown . There was a suggestion from Boris Johnson this morning that within a couple of days we might be able to get something but i suspect that will probably be a plan about a plan. In other words, a sense of what could happen if the data suggests that is feasible in a couple of weeks at that first point where the government is obliged to decide and set out what its going to do next. But it could be very, very gradual, the expectation is that it will be very, very gradual, and crucially as well it will all depend on where the data is at that point to work out how much headroom, blu ntly, point to work out how much headroom, bluntly, there is, in terms of Hospital Capacity to allow some loosening with the expectation that after that there could be a further rise in cases. 0k, we will see when and if we do get that plan about a plan. Thanks, chris. The United States is approaching an unwanted milestone, close to confirming one million cases of coronavirus. Far more than anywhere else of course, four times as many as the second most affected country, spain, though obviously the us has a far higher population. More than 50,000 people have died from covid i9, again, a devastating figure but we should point out the rate of death is actually lower than in the worst affected countries in europe. The debate in the us right now is over when and how to ease the dozens of individual lockdown orders issued by states and cities over recent weeks. Businesses have already been allowed to reopen in a number of states, across the south and elsewhere, with colorado and montana among the latest to ease restrictions on monday. In minnesota, some factories and offices have been allowed to re open. Jacob frey is the mayor of minneapolis. Well, many of the restrictions still will remain in place, and in minneapolis, as things are getting warmer and our parks are seeing an influx of people, we are actually providing even further restrictions than we previously had. But the right strategy is not an all or nothing approach. The right strategy is to listen to the epidemiologists, it is to listen to the scientists, it is to listen to the scientists, it is to look at the data and then determine areas where you are able to open safely, with precaution. On the east coast, the state of new york is the worst affected, more than 17,000 people have died in new york city alone. The current lockdown there runs for two more weeks. The Governor Andrew Cuomo struck a cautious tone earlier. We all have to be smart about it. As we said, there is no light switch when you flick a switch and everybody goes back to doing what they are doing. We have to take these circumstances into consideration, learn the lessons, move forward and be smart, because if you are not smart, you will see that infection rate go right back to where it was. Lets speak to katty kay. Katty, good to see you, hugely confusing picture across the us, some states like new york still in others really not. Yeah, as President Trump has described it, america is a puzzle, a beautiful puzzle, he said, and it is this kind of jigsaw puzzle if puzzle, he said, and it is this kind ofjigsaw puzzle if you like of different entities. Take new york, for example. New york is notjust a state doing things differently, things are being done differently within the state. You heard Governor Cuomo saying there will be areas of u pstate n ew cuomo saying there will be areas of upstate new york, pretty rural, have much fewer cases, where they will start opening some businesses, manufacturing for example, construction going to start opening up construction going to start opening up and there is more rural areas, but then the downstate areas, which includes new york city and long island, many more cases. Thats going to happen later. And that picture if you like is multiplied right around the country, where you have some ten or ii right around the country, where you have some ten or 11 states starting now to open up businesses, starting to open up parks, but some of those states where they have opened up over the course of this weekend, they have seen record numbers of people flooding the beaches, in california, in georgia, in florida, where they opened up state beaches over the course of the weekend, people werent respecting those social distancing rules, anxious to get time out on the beach and enjoy the sunshine, but i think that is a kind of warning sign to statess governors, when you open up, it is not easy to control people and how they will behave, and of course that then brings about the risk you have a spike in cases again. Yeah, a difficult balance, isnt it . Thank you for that, katty. President trump is due to hold a press conference later on. Earlier, the white house cancelled a briefing by its Coronavirus Task force that was scheduled to take place around the same time and said that particular format wont return until later in the week. This, of course, follows the condemnation that greeted President Trumps suggestion at thursdays briefing that it might be possible to look into injections of disinfectant to treat coronavirus. Larry hogan is governor of the state of maryland and a republican. He told cbs news it was critical the president stuck to the facts. The mixed messaging, i have raised concerns multiple times about conflicting messages. We had hundreds of calls on our hotline in maryland, people asking about injecting or ingesting these disinfectants, which is, you know, ha rd disinfectants, which is, you know, hard to imagine that people thought that was serious, but people actually were thinking about this, was this something you could do to protect yourself . Straight back to katty. These comments from President Trump, made last week, but still following him around, and therefore it seems, i dont know, is there a link between those comments, the fallout from that, and the cancellations of the usual briefing . It is the on again, off again briefing, today now back on again, so we were told there would be a briefing, then we were told about three hours ago no, the briefing was off, and then about an hour ago the white house said there would be a press co nfe re nce white house said there would be a press conference in about an hour and a half time. You look at the leadership, you would expect some kind of clarity on the existence or not of a press briefing today, you are getting a chaotic not a clear picture. The president suggested there should be some sort of ingestion of disinfectant, which should be has been roundly criticised not just by should be has been roundly criticised notjust by the usual critics of the present but also supporters of the president. Over the course of the weekend we watch the course of the weekend we watch the president s twitter feed as we so often do, and he was critical of the familiar outlets, washington post, new york times, nbc, cnn, of those are the usual go to is, but you also have a president criticising fox news and wall journal, which are two conservative publications traditionally more supportive of the president , the president attacking them on twitter too and i think that tells you a lot about the kind of feedback he has been getting for those comments about disinfectant and why that has been roiling the white house over the course of the last few days, leading to today where we will have a briefing or not, now it looks like it will be a press briefing by the president , so he will be taking questions and we will be watching those. Whatever form that briefing ta kes we those. Whatever form that briefing takes we will of course bring you here on bbc news. Thank you, katty. Stay with us on outside source, still to come the leader of north korea king john has not been seen in public for more than two weeks. Inevitably king john and has not been seen in public for more than two weeks. Inevitably rumours are circulating king john. The issue of ppe personal protective equipment remains a burning issue in the uk. Heres an update on the situation in wales. As of today, we have provided more than 56 million pieces of ppe to our nhs and to local authorities for onward distribution to all social ca re onward distribution to all social care settings in wales. We have provided that from our central stores, and to thousands of places where the nhs operates across wales. Ppe to hospital, pharmacies, Emergency Dental clinics and as far as social care is aware, we are going twice a week to stores for onward distribution to social care settings. This is outside source, live from the bbc newsroom. Borisjohnson is back at work after recovering from coronavirus. He says now is the moment of maximum risk for the uk. You may be aware of the rumours swirling about the health of north koreas leader kimjong un. Needless to say, given how hard it is to get any reliable information about north korea, extreme caution is advised on every aspect of this story. Ros atkins has been looking into it. Good to see you. The reporting around the health of kimjong un began in the middle of last week. Cnn reported that he was in grave danger after surgery, according to a us official. One msnbc anchor katy tur tweeted that nbc news had spoken to two us officials who said the north Korean Leader was brain dead. She then deleted the tweet out of, she said, an abundance of caution. More broadly, the story has maintained momentum. At the weekend, readers of tmz saw this kim jong un reportedly dead. So what we can we say with any certainty . First some good advice from apsjean h lee of ap. She says. What sourcing do we have . In the case of nbc and cnn, both have long records of reliably sourced journalism but we cantjudge their sources in these cases, as theyre not named. In the case of tmz, well, it references Media Outlets in china and japan but says it hasnt confirmed the reports. So lets look at all the key questions. First do we know kimjong unis dead . No. Definitely not. Next do we know kimjong un had heart surgery . Well, we know the south korea based website daily nk has reported that that had happened based on a single unnamed source. The south korean government has questioned whether the hospital it said would carry out heart surgery. Translation ive never heard of kim jong uns visit there, and since it isa jong uns visit there, and since it is a regular health clinic, this is not a place for a medical procedure. Next is north korean media behaving differently . No, says bbc monitoring, which is watching north korean tv and websites. In fact, north korean media is still publishing reports of mr kim sending letters and the like. Is there anything different happening in north korea . Heres a spokesperson for the south Korea Unification Ministry again. Translation there is nothing we can confirm on chairman kim jong uns health, but as the National SecurityCouncil Standing committee has said, it confirmed there is no Unusual Movement in north korea. That stance is still valid. Next does the fact weve not seen or heard from kimjong un mean anything . This is the last time kim jong un was pictured in the state newspaper on april 12, attending a meeting of the politburo the day before. We know he missed high profile events such as his grandfather kim il sungs birth anniversary on 15 april and a 12 april session of north koreas parliament which isnt really a parliament, but thats a different story. State media also failed to report a 14 april weapons launch that would usually dominate coverage had kim been present. All of which may suggest something is wrong. But remember, this is a guy who back in 2014 didnt appear for a0 days, then reappeared with a cane. And we still dont know what happened then. And listen to this from Professor Robert kelly. North Korean Leaders have actually done this kind of thing before. I think on the outside we tend to see that and say what is going on, and partly is because we see so little about what is meaningful behaviour from north korean elites. As i mentioned before, you have trolling or playing with us, north Korean Leadership figures have missed events and we have said, have they been exiled, liquidated, and then they show up three or four weeks later, so if kim were to pop back up in two or three weeks, that actually wouldnt be that out of the o