Had their first day back at work. Donald trumps former campaign manager, Paul Manafort has been released from prison and is under house arrest because of coronavirus concerns. And well look at lebanon, which has reimposed its lockdown because of a surge in cases. Welcome. The European Union has been setting out proposals for a gradual resumption of travel and tourism, as the industry tries to survive following the coronavirus lockdowns. Heres the eu commissioner margray ta vestager outlining the measures. First, we need to carefully reopen borders within europe. So we have adopted guidance for Member States on a gradual, coordinated lifting of restrictions of the Free Movements in europe. Second, people need, of course, to be able to travel between european countries. So we are giving guidance on how to gradually reopen transport links without risking the health of travellers or transport workers. Third, travellers and workers need to know that the places that tourists visit that they are safe. Hotels, restaurants, beaches, other tourist sites they need to be run in a way that minimizes the risk of passing on the coronavirus. Tourism normally accounts for 10 of the eus economic output. And these plans involve countries working together to gradually remove travel bans and then border checks. Germany has announced there will be a gradual easing of its border controls, starting from 16 may when its border crossings with france, switzerland, and austria will be opened. For more on the german governments position, heresjenny hill in berlin. We heard from Angela Merkel today who i think it and her love of the european project and the internal market is very keen to start reopening border is thatjennys position is that it is not simply a matter of what the infection rates are like in neighbouring states but what measures are in place. He so she says there is no point in opening a german border a neighbouring company, country if the restrictions are not identical across the borders. Germany has had come the middle ofjune it will left border restrictions as a number of those caveats are met and of course chief among them is how well the neighbouring countries are doing in keeping the outbreak under control. Another country that has a huge interest in reopening its doors to tourists is greece. Heres the greek minister for tourism. We will safeguard the health of both our population and our visitors by ensuring that, depending on the agreements that we made with other countries and on a european level, that we can use either tests or other means to limit the risk of spreading the virus. So their strategy is testing, and on a grand scale. Before the pandemic greece used to receive around 30 million foreign visitors a year. Its going to be a huge underaking to ensure tourism there this year does not spread the virus. For more on how the new eu travel guidelines will actually work in practice, heres our europe editor katya adler. Public health and National Borders in time of crisis that is up to eu members to decide for themselves what happens. And it will be the same when it comes to tourism. Each eu country will decide for itself when to open its beaches and its borders to european tourists. Brussels can only advise, and the advice today was slowly, slowly, yes, european economies like the uks have been hard hit by covid i9, and tourism is an important part of the economy. Especially for mediterranean countries like spain and france. But the Commission Advises that nobody should open for tourism unless theyve got very good testing and tracing capacity for covid i9, and unless there are strict controls on transport, accommodation, and leisure activities. And like with all of the lifting of lockdown measures, if there a new spike in infections, then travel restrictions can be reintroduced pretty quickly. So basically, dont pack your summer swimsuit just yet. Good advice there. The uk has been told it is facing a significant recession by the chancellor of the exchequer, rishi sunak. According to the office for national statistics, the economy shrank by 2 in the first three months of this year, and that only includes the first few weeks of the coronavirus lockdown. Heres our economics editor, faisal islam. At Denroy Plastics in bangor, northern ireland, they are happy to help the National Efforts on personal protective equipment. But what they really want to be making is aeroplanes. And with empty industry order books, they now face further pressure from the threat of a travel quarantine. I think the Aerospace Supply Chain in general are all looking at their strategies, they are reviewing how that will be in the future. They are trying to estimate what that might mean, in terms of the capacity they have to provide. I think it would be naive to suggest that everyone will get through this. Unfortunately, there will be casualties. It is the extreme situation in Industries Like this that have led to this economy wide number the british economy shrinking by 2 in the first three months of this year. The last time the economy performed that badly was the financial crash at the end of 2008. In fact, since modern records began, there have only been four other occasions where weve seen a worse economic decline over three months. And economists forecast that the Current Quarter will see a hit much, much worse off the historical scale, all but confirmed by the chancellor. As you know, recession is defined technically as two quarters of decline in gdp. Weve one here with, you know, only a few days of impact from the virus. So it is now, yes, very likely that the uk economy will face a significant recession this year, and we are in the middle of that as we speak. When you get across the country, empty streets, empty offices, empty skies, and empty shopping centres. You get a shrinking economy, the start of a recession that is down to the pandemic and the shutdowns. But the economy was already stagnant when the virus hit. And the idea that coming out of this, all the lights that were switched off in the economy to protect our health will suddenly be turned back on that is looking rather hopeful now. Some people in england returned to work today, after the government relaxed lockdown restrictions. Workers who cannot do theirjobs from home were allowed to go back to work, but were advised to avoid public transport where possible. In london the number of people using the tube before 10am was about 7 higher than the same time last wednesday. So, there were only slightly more people travelling compared to the previous week, but compared to one year ago, the number of journeys was down by about a third. Not all public transport was quiet however. These pictures are from stratford in east london. People spilling off a bus on their way to work, far more people than social distancing would allow. The transport workers union, the rmt, says the government has not done enough to prepare englands transport system. As some people returned to work, borisjohnson travelled to parliament for Prime Ministers questions, where the leader of the oposition, sir keir starmer, accused the government of failing to protect people in carehomes from covid i9. From sunday the Prime Minister said that we need to rapidly reverse the awful epidemic in our care homes. But earlier this year, and until 12 march, the governments own advice was, and im quoting from it, it remains very unlikely that people receiving care in a care home will become infected. Yesterdays ons figures showed that at least 40 of all deaths from covid i9 were in care homes. Does the Prime Minister accept that the government was too slow to protect people in care homes . Prime minister. No, mr speaker, and it wasnt true that the advice said that. And actually, we brought the lockdown in care homes ahead of the general lockdown. Sir kir starmer took issue with that response. In fact he wrote a formal letter to the Prime Minister, quoting the advice he was referencing, saying ministers need to be accurate with the information they give. And asking borisjohnson to return to parliament to correct the record. Our uk Political Correspondent rob watson joins us live from oxford. The Prime Minister wrote back that though it seemed to be as subjective opinions on a very important subject. And the Prime Minister where he wrote back basically saying so where he wrote back basically saying so far so good we have been working constructively with the opposition but we feel this one was taken somewhat out of context and said essentially this was the advice thats fine being and there would be updates but i think it is an interesting one and it shows a great deal of sensitivity on the government government for obvious reasons and the issue and an awful lot of people are in care homes in the uk, i think it is about half a million and a think because more people are dying and care homes than in hospital is this becoming a big focus of debate and the reason why it matters for the government is by and large that the opinion poll suggests that ratings pull at that Prime Minister is holding up pretty well and wanting to give the government a benefit of the doubt but an opinion polls suggest there was concerned how other issues have been handled such as testing, protective equipment and also pulls suggesting some concern. So if there is another area people feel the government was not handling things so well it would start to potentially chip into the confidence that so far people as shown the government anything that is why it is such a sensitive issue. There needs to be confidence in the government when people are being encouraged to return back to work and how was the update with that especially on public transport . |j think especially on public transport . think it is a bit of that next picture and we had seen on the bbc some of those pictures of people being rammed on buses and tubes and it is nothing like what it is normally as we all know and it is a mixed picture across the uk because of course outside of london Something Like two thirds of people do not use public transport, they go by car. So it is a pretty mixed picture. As always, thank you. Lets move to the us, where Donald Trumps former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, has been released from prison due to coronavirus concerns. Manafort is serving a seven and a half year term for tax and bank fraud offences. He will now complete his sentence under house arrest. Katty kayjoins us from washington. Paul manafort, he was initially charged and imprisoned, we were all over this and the headlines, just remind us what was happening there and what happens to him now. He went to prison injune of 2018 and when was one of the high profile people caught up in the Robert Mueller investigation caught up into donald trump off potential links in the campaign and he eventually pled guilty to fraud because of lobbying that he had done, undisclosed lobbying for a pro russian entity and ukraine. He was sent to prison for seven and half years and he was released and will be back home just outside of washington, dc and northern virginia. This is causing some controversy because the us bureau of prisons owned guidelines is that prisoners are eligible for release because of covid 19 if they have served half of their sentence 01 have served half of their sentence or only have 18 months left and he does not follow either of those guidelines and no one else from his prison has been released so there is some criticism this is politics at play here and of course this is somebody who donald trump would have liked to have released really. Somebody who donald trump would have liked to have released reallym comes liked to have released reallym co m es after liked to have released reallym comes after the Us Department of justice move to drop charges against Michael Flynn. That also, you remember, got a criticism that it was political and that the attorney general through those charges out. That has now been challenged by us districtjudge who is saying and raising the prospect there could be an counter to the attorney generals attem pts an counter to the attorney generals atte m pts to an counter to the attorney generals attempts to try to get Michael Flynn out but president obama is the president who weighed in on this most notably and he said there is a question about justice and most notably and he said there is a question aboutjustice and the independence of the america just system because of the dismissal of the Michael Flynn case. He has not weighed in on the Paul Manafort case but critics of donald trump are putting that to into the same sort of bracket. Thank you. Stay with us on outside source, still to come. We all know birds and bees spread pollen but what about moths . We explain the vital role they play at night. Scotlands first minister Nicola Sturgeon has disputed data which suggests care homes are the setting for a much higher proportion of deaths from covid 19 in scotland, than they are in england. I want to challenge this, that the death toll in care homes is double in scotland what is elsewhere in the uk. I do not believe that is the case, and i would point again to the study that has been published this morning that actually suggests that the disparity is down to underreporting in the rest of the uk, and that scotlands figures, which i think are more in line with the international examples, are accurate whereas, according to this study, the numbers dying in care homes in england and wales is double what the official figures are showing. So i would reallyjust caution people against the conclusion that, twice now in the chamber, it has been articulated. Because i really dont believe that is true, i think if there is a disparity here, it comes from a problem because i really dont believe that is true, i think if there is a disparity here, it comes from a problem in reporting elsewhere. This is outside source, live from the bbc newsroom. Our main story. The eu sets out plans for a phased return of travel across europe, as it tries to kick start a Tourism Industry that has been decimated by the pandemic. This virus is affecting countries in quite different ways, and of course governments are responding in different ways too. Its why every day on outside source we try and bring you updates from as many places as possible. Lets bring in ros atkins and to do that. Hi ros. Thank you very much indeed. If you have been watching in the last couple of weeks you will know the biggest single issue in this crisis is how countries are seeking to ease their lockdowns without causing a spike in cases. And im going to start in lebanon to illustrate how hard this is going to be. The government there has now re imposed its lockdown because of a new rise in cases. As you can see, shops, restaurants and hair salons had been allowed to re open. Now theyre being told to close again. I should say the lebanese governments approach through this crisis has been effective the countrys death toll is below 30. But as with many other countries the government is trying to both save lives and the economy. And this is even more pressing in lebanon where the economy was already in a perilous state. Carine torbey is in beirut. Lebanon has started a four day shutdown that would expire by sam on monday. This is a setback for the country that was, just days ago, writing zero new infections and was easing the lockdown, and preparing for a gradual return to normal. Now things have worsened, and there are renewed fears that things might go out of control again in case of an outbreak. There is also sort of a blame game happening here. On one side, the government is saying that many in society are not being as vigilant as they should, and they are not observing the necessary safety measures. On the other side, there is anger towards some of the lebanese who have recently returned from abroad, who have tested positive. And a group among home have not respected the requirements of isolation. Next to saudi arabia where a lockdown has been announced for the eid holiday in a couple of weeks. Already ramadans been heavily disrupted. This was the grand mosque in mecca holding night prayers for the first night of ramadan. That was in april and normally youd see hundreds of thousands of people gathered for this. But not in 2020. Now these new restrictions on the eid holiday will run from may 23 to may 27. And of course these are normally times of great celebration at the end of ramadan. Those celebrations will still happen but not as they normally would. Its another example of how mindful governments are being of the virus surging back. China next and of course it was first to tackle this virus. And first to try and ease restrictions while controlling the number of cases. And already in china were seeing the kind of localised lockdowns that are likely to become a feature of life in many countries. Jee leen is a city in the east of china jelin is a city in the east of china its shutting down its transport links after a new cluster of coronavirus cases thats connected to one man. No one in the citys population of four million can leave unless they have tested negative. Heres more from our china correspondent stephen mcdonell. Its been traced back to a clean up in a large Police Station its been traced back to a cleaner in a large Police Station a Police Station with special weapons police, with traffic police, hundreds of officers. And you can imagine why the authorities would be worried about the virus getting into a population like that. Now it is unclear how the clean up was originally infected, but one theory is that it possibly came from the clothing of Police Officers who have been at the front line, in terms of doing coronavirus testing. Either way, what this shows you is that the Chinese Government now has an attitude that, if the