will legalise abortion in argentina for top sweeping quarantine sweeping quarantine sweeping quarantine measures have been introduced in italy. the total of deaths are 366. most of them in the lombardy area. travel restrictions have been in put in place there. it cuts off more than half of the population. like a scene from a nightmare that italy is now living. sealed inside, a 62 year old man, fallen to the virus. he s been contained. the outbreak hasn t. he s transported to hospitals, stretched to the limit. this is the human cost of a disease that has taken hold so fast, infecting, then inca pacitating within days. translation: it s really is very difficult. we re exhausted. we ve got so many patients, a lot more than the number we re used to managing. we are having to move some patients to another hospital just so we can cope. medics say corridors are being used for intensive care units, and one of the world s best healthcare systems is near breaking point. the surge in cases has now prompted the most drastic restrictions here since the second world war. italy s financial capital, milan, is bare, virtually locked down, along with 1a provinces. a quarter of the population, quarantined. everyone returning to the uk from the area must now self isolate. italy s second city, usually teeming with life, is hushed, access in or out strictly limited. schools and universities are shut until april. cinemas, pools and nightclubs, too. the prime minister talked of a crisis. translation: we are facing an emergency, a national emergency, taking exceptional precautionary measures, and we are facing it with great awareness. venice is part of the restricted area, one of italy s tourism jewels, deserted by a mixture of quarantine and fear. as we drove north from rome, we expected tighter controls. but there are none. we are coming into the start of modena now. part of the new exclusion zone. you can see there s no total lockdown. there are no police roadblocks, for example. it s too big an area to control in that way. but people are being asked not to leave or enter. we are going to turn around now, because otherwise there is a risk of entering the new quarantine zone. at the vatican, decades of tradition were broken, as the pope made his sunday blessing by video stream, rather than at the window, to a st peter s square usually filled with thousands. faith that this will pass is sorely lacking. mark lowen, bbc news, northern italy. what what 544 what 544 people have now been diagnosed with coronavirus in america. most of those are in washington state. relatives have been trapped inside under quarantine. chris buckler reports. more than a dozen patients at this care home have already died and dozens of others have been confined to their rooms inside a building that s at the centre of america s deadliest outbreak of the coronavirus. and some, like susan hayley, are showing symptoms of being infected. it feels like prison, it feels like there s a gun to our head. susan s daughters aren t being allowed to visit her for their own health. they ve only been able to see their mother by standing outside the closed window of her room. i feel like the worst daughter in the world. i really do. because i can t help her. i m sure that most every person that s in there will test positive, but it s a wait and see. a lack of availability of testing kits has hindered america s response to what has become a health crisis. as the number of cases rises, so does the concern. the authorities admit they that haven t been able to test everyone that s showing symptoms. in reality that means they believe hundreds, if not thousands, are carrying the virus here in the greater seattle area. this is a city that s beginning to feel stalked by covid 19. businesses, schools and universities have told people to work from home, but every day thousands gather in places like seattle s famous pike place market and while they re encouraging people to wash their hands, that can only do so much. i think shutting down schools is a good idea, but i don t really know how much you can prevent the spread of it in a city like seattle. the majority of deaths so far have been linked to the kirkland life care centre. but carmen can t go in and her mother can t leave. she s trapped in this petri dish and that s waiting for her to be sick enough to take her out of here again. containment is clearly a concern but contagion is a deep fear for all the vulnerable living here. chris buckler, bbc news, seattle. and epidemiologist and professor at the school of public health was stop i asked him for his reaction to the us response so far. you need to diagnose everybody but at this point you have multiple clay multiple cases all around the country. just know where they are and what extent it is spread in our communities. you need to diagnose everybody who is infected with the virus who can potentially transmitted to others. at this point, we have multiple cases we had a reportjust now about a care home, i d like to look at the us and its prison population. of course, the us has the largest prison population in the world, many people in crowded conditions, what concerns might there be about an outbreak in that system? prisons push people into passive epidemics, whether it is to be alkalosis, hiv, hepatitis c, prisons are notorious for being institutional amplifiers for infections. think of what we re talking about, men and women in close without proper ventilation and infection control, with a healthcare system that in many states is privatised. it means that prisons in the united states will be one of the grand zeros of the outbreak. if an infection gets in, it was spread quickly and not just affect prisoners but corrections officials, staff and family and communities. what steps might be taken to protect homeless people? that is another very good question. have a very large problem with homelessness in the united states and in many cases, where possible, they are put into crime. facilities like homeless shelters which are again group settings in which infection control is nearly impossible. it s not clear that anyone has really thought about how to handle both of those two populations that are extremely vulnerable in the community. and also ensuring they get the care they need and protecting themselves and the people around them from infection. is another category people i d like to briefly touch on and that is people without regular income or healthcare. they might be tempted to carry on trying to carry on going to work even if they feel unwell might have served them submitting those of the virus. what might be done for them? we need to institute some kind of sick pay fund or sick leave fund, both in terms of the people who don t have it as a matter of their daily employment but also for people in the gig economy who might be ill but drivers or delivery people i work as home health aides. we need to figure out ways to compensate people so they don t have to make the decision between putting food on the table for the children all staying away from work to protect them from a virus. red seb tape erg erdogan is holding holding talks in brussels to discuss the migrant situation with eu officials. the boys there has been days of tension over ankara s decision to let migrants enter the european union. four suspects are set to go on trial on monday in the hague over the downing of passenger plane and a mh downing of passenger plane and a mh 17. downing of passenger plane and a mh17. three russians and the a ukrainian are on trial. at least six people have died into avalanches in the austrian alps. police say five people were swept away in the country s mountain range. victims are believed to be checked nationals. a six victim, a police officer, was struck in the country s south while on a training exercise. a man has been shot dead by police in westminster in london following an incident which is not being treated as terror related. officers from the metropolitan police remain at the scene of the incident which occurred around 11:30pm on sunday. road closures were in place as police investigations continue. newly inaugurated president of argentina argentina promised he would send a bill to congress to decriminalise abortion. it was met with counter demonstration with those advocating women s rights and what the president s bill to present succeed. the mass attracted hundreds of people in front of the lady of lujan in buenos aires. the message from the church was clear: women s rights are important to us and we are here to care for you. translation: we condemn abuse in all its forms, sexual and psychological, whatever the situation, in the family, at work, at school, on the street or in the church. but there was an important proviso. translation: with the same passion that we state this, we also state there be no case for the termination of human life as set out in our national constitution. abortion is illegal across much of latin america. in some, including argentina, it is only allowed in the case of rape or where the mother s life is at risk. in some, it s outlawed in all circumstances. only three: cuba, guyana, uruguay, have legalised abortion. but argentina s new president alberto fernandez has promised to change that, describing abortion as a matter of public health, saying the state has a duty to protect women and that individual choice should be respected. that hasn t gone down well with some. translation: given this new position from the president, we re here to rise up, to fight today on a special woman s day. translation: it s wrong because it goes against god s law and life. if the bill passes, argentina will become latin america s largest country to legalise abortion, but that might wishful thinking. an earlier attempt failed, thrown out by the senate after intense campaigning by religious groups. but there s a growing voice in argentina advocating for women s rights and the freedom to choose. as the church held its mass, they covered too outside the city s largest catholic cathedral. the green handkerchiefs a symbol of argentina s pro choice movement. translation: all women should take to the streets for greater equality in the workplace and living conditions and because of the way the femicide exists and for the legalisation of abortion. the president s bill is due before congress this week but in a staunchly roman catholic country, getting it past lawmakers won t be its only challenge, changing the views of many argentines will be much, much harder. rich preston, bbc news. in afghanistan, president ashraf ghani has rejected a call for a post moment of his inauguration ceremony set to ta ke inauguration ceremony set to take place later on monday. his opponent abdullah abdullah has reportedly offered to postpone his own rival inauguration if mr garney does as a result the pair have been long term political rivals but last month he was a struff ashraf ghani. the feud is threatening to derail the recently agreed deal between the delavan and the us over troop withdrawals. talks are due to start with mr garney‘s government this week. stay with us on government this week. stay with us on bbc news. still to come. what goes up must come down. melbourne s annual birdman rally tests the laws of gravity. the numbers of dead and wounded defied belief. this the worst terrorist atrocity on european soil in modern times. in less than 24 hours then the soviet union lost an elderly sick leader and replaced him with a dynamic figure 20 years his junior. we heard these gunshots in the gym. then he came out through a fire exit and started firing at our huts. god, we were all petrified. james earl ray, aged 41, sentenced to 99 years and due for parole when he s 90, travelled from memphis jail to nashville state prison in an eight car convoy. paul, what s it feel like to be married at last? it feels fine, thank you. what are you going to do now? is it going to change your life much do you think? i don t know really. i ve never been married before. this is bbc news. the latest headlines italy sees a sharp rise in the number of deaths from coronavirus as one quarter of the population is in partial lockdown. in the us, the number of infections has also risen with 544 cases now confirmed. 22 people have have died. officials have now decided that the cruise ship the grand princess, that has been stranded off the court coast of san francisco will be allowed to doctor. i have been speaking to a mother and daughter who are on the ship. they explained what they had been told about their upcoming arrival. so, we just got an announcement that once we do get to oakland, the first people that are going to get off are people who are critically ill, and secondly, the california residents, so ourselves. once we get to oakland we are actually going to be relocated to an army base, the travis army base, and once we are actually at our relocation then we are going to get tested there. and further isolation. what are conditions like onboard at the moment for you both? it s still pretty good. we re still getting fed. we have been able to get out on our balcony and talk to some of our balcony mates. the morale has been pretty good. i think people are just kind of ready to get off the boat. yeah, some people in the inner rooms got a chance to get some fresh air today, which i think is great, if i was trapped without a balcony i would probably lose my mind. what do you both do all day? we watch movies or tv shows. we have been doing a lot of scouring the news, trying to find out some information. we have taken a couple of naps today. and when you talk to the other passengers, you said some in the inner rooms had had a chance to get some fresh air. what are your conversations like? do you share information? yeah, so, the people next to us are from georgia and they are actually going to get back to georgia when we get to oakland, they are going to transport them back to georgia, it is about 100 miles away from where they actually live, so best of luck to them. hopefully they can get home as soon as possible. we are just going to show our viewers some pictures of the time when the helicopter landed some testing kits on the ship. did you manage to see that helicopter dropping the kids? we did, we did. it was pretty exciting. and one of the concerns that the outside world has is that only a small number of people aboard the ship have been tested so far. of course, you will be tested when you get to land, but are you concerned that testing should have started earlier? i don t know, i think it is important for us to get tested, obviously, it took a while for them to find the test results of only the 46 people that were tested, so i think they are doing the best they can. in the situation that we are in. yeah, it is hard with the incubation period, to really know whether or not it would have made a difference if we had been tested two days ago or two days away. are you both prepared for potentially quite a few days in quarantine once you get off the ship? no, i don t think we are prepared for that! they said it would be 14 days. we. we don t know what to expect. we don t know what it is like right now. we re really comfortable with our room. it could be completely different. we will see what is in store for us. leanne higgins and kaylee higgins, fascinating to talk to you both. thank you. for more on the coronavirus out break head to our website. alternatively you can also download the bbc news app. there have been clashes between protesters and riot police and the mexican capital of mexico city following a huge march on international women s day did it the demonstration called for more action to tackle the high levels of gender based violence in mexico. on monday, millions of women will participate in a national strike to bring greater attention to the issue is our correspondent reports. as our correspondent reports. mexican women have plenty of reasons to protest. at least ten, in fact. the number of murders of women which take place every day. anger has reached a boiling point. the march began peacefully in mexico city, for the most part. tens of thousands of women took the opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder and show their frustration at what they see is a lack of action by the government of andres manuel lopez obrador. gender based violence against women has long been an issue in mexico, but recently it has been spiralling out of control. translation: women are disappearing, they are raped, they are mutilated, they are burned, they have been found in water systems. and why? for breaking off a relationship? i don t think that s fair. me and my colleagues here are demanding an end to all types of violence and we re calling on all women to take care of themselves, to look each other. some marched over the general failure to protect mexico s women by successive administrations. others cited specific cases. yet everyone shared the movement s basic slogan, not one fewer. translation: there are many women in a situation of violence, because due to a lack of resources, of care, the victims are not able to go out onto the streets and cry out. we are crying out. what do we need? for the media to know that this is notjust one femicide case. there are many more. the main criticism aimed at the movement is at its more radical fringe. a group of feminists reached the main square and threw paint at the national palace, clashing with riot police, who responded with tear gas. there was also a clash with conservative anti abortion campaigners, who had turned out to oppose the march. such is the depth of feeling over the gender based violence in mexico that the chance of confrontation was always likely. now mexican women will follow this demonstration with a national strike, in which millions will stay away from work and school under the hashtag #adaywithoutus. unless the brutal killings of women are tackled soon, it looks set to become an annual event. marches have been held to mark international women s day around the world. in chile there was a huge rally in santiago dementing abortion rights and an end to violence against women. across pakistan there were marches in cities despite violent counter protests. and in paris, women joined ina protests. and in paris, women joined in a maori war dance while donning the blue overalls of the chronic rosie the riveter. now a symbol of feminism. the authorities in columbia say they busted an animal smuggling ring out of the country. rescuing thousands of native turtles. according to officials, a sniffer dog found the totals as part of a routine exhibition routine inspection. they were said to be worth a quarter of $1 million on the black market and we re million on the black market and were to be smuggled out to the united states and japan. the annual bird man rally has been taking place in melbourne. an event where people dress up, build home made hang gliders and then throw themselves off a jetty in a usually fruitless attempt to fly. every year on the banks of the yarra river, they set out to prove the old adage that what goes up most definitely comes down. this is a place where hope springs eternal, despite all evidence to the contrary. i wouldn t say i m fat, but i m very short for my weight. i ve got massive disadvantages when it comes to flying, it s not actually possible. i think i m going to go forjust a really fun leap or something, i m not really sure. just see whatever happens. oh, no, he s going sideways! competitors are awarded for distance and believe it or not altitude. they also get marks for entertainment value, which is just as well, all things considered. it s still as scary as ever, when you jump in, it doesn t matter how many times you ve done it. it was very exciting, i m still a little bit like. squawks. it was a lot of fun, i enjoyed it a lot. it is said insanity is doing the same thing again and again, and expecting different results. tell that to the birdmen and birdwomen of melbourne, who still believe one day they will fly. anyone tempted to sign up next year? a reminder of our top story. sweeping quarantine measures have been imposed to curb the coronavirus outbreak in italy. have been a sharp rise in the number of deaths. most victims are in the wealthy lombardi area. travel instructions restrictions have been imposed there and in other regions in there and in other regions in the north of italy. hello. recent days have brought a real mix of weather it s that sort of time of year and we will continue in that vein in the days to come, so if you do not like what you are getting on one day, hang on and it is sure to change. we start bright and crisp with a little frost around perhaps for some eastern areas, even that will change because the weather system towards the west of the british isles creeps its way ever further towards the east. initially spreading a veil of cloud across western areas after a bright enough start, a couple of showers running ahead of the main rain area. after lunchtime the rain will be all over northern ireland, by mid afternoon it will be over western scotland, western england and much of wales too. out east, you will lose your sunshine but you will stay dry until later on in the day. temperatures maxing out at around 10 degrees. part of the problem is that once it starts raining, because we ve not got one system but two, it may well continue to rain and there are concerns from the met office who have issued yellow warnings already for the intensity of rain across parts of wales and indeed the north west of england, because on tuesday some of that rain keeps on coming on what will be a blustery day across the british isles here. the wind gusts for you, you can see widely 30, 40, perhaps 50mph in the exposed locations. the air is coming from the atlantic and if the cloud should break across the eastern side of england, in particular, perhaps 14, 15, 16. reaching in the norfolk area you could look at 17 degrees. exceptional for the time of year. that weather front taking time to pull away but notice that the isobars almost run straight through the weather front, so there s no great change in the airmass. as the front slips away, the sunshine comes out across the greater part of england and wales. plenty of wintry showers across the higher ground of scotland on another breezy sort of day, but, as i say, the wind is coming from the south west so we will keep it feeling relatively springlike and mild across the south with temperatures 11 14, much chillier when you get the showers in the heart of scotland five, six, seven degrees only here. into thursday, we will push this weather front down and across the southern half of the british isles, and that i think that will really freshen things up. plenty of wintry showers again across the higher ground of scotland, a couple of showers in northern ireland, but once the rain slips away from the southern counties of england then essentially a dry fine day, but that bit fresher. we return to the temperatures we saw on monday and we get them again on thursday. from covid 19 over the last 24 hours in italy. the worst affected region is lombardy. 366 people have now lost their lives of the country for the widespread restrictions are enforced in northern italy affecting more 60 million people. officials have now decided that the cruise ship ran princess which had been stranded off the coast of california would be allowed to dock near oakland ness san francisco on monday. there are more than three people on board. near san francisco. argentina has held it large open air mass that would protest against a bill that would legalise abortion in the country. president alberto fernandez who came to power in december promised last week he would send a bill to parliament to decriminalise abortion. it remains a controversial subject across latin
and the taliban says it s reached a deal with the us to end 18 years of conflict in afghanistan. lyse doucet will be here to tell us if this really could be the deal that does it. 2,000 news cases of the coronavirus in china this monday. and while the authorities say the infection rate is falling, the world health organisation says we can t know if it s peaked. the data also appeared to show a decline in new cases. this trend must be interpreted very cautiously. trends can change as new populations are affected. it s too early to tell if this purported decline will continue. every scenario is still on the table. reported decline. this is a live map from johns hopkins university, it shows cases around the world. there are now more than 70,000 cases in mainland china, and over 1,700 people have died. most of those deaths are in hubei province. these pictures are from chinese tv. this is a new temporary hospital in wuhan which is the capital of hubei. the reality for many people there may well be very different. this is unverified footage posted on social media apparently showing another hospital in wuhan. and the restrictions on people in hubei are only increasing. 60 million people have been ordered to stay at home. one person per household is allowed every three days to get food. this person has to get a temperature check before receiving a food delivery. and you can see here people are developing innovative ways of exercising at home this fitness trainer has started her own online class. the chinese authorities are now considering postponing the annual session of parliament which due to begin on march 5. and while they make that decision, they ve already been hosting a world health organization delegation. this is who spokesperson margaret harris. so, it s at the stage where we need to look at what s happened in china and consider all the evidence. as you know, there is a mission right now. we are not giving much information about that, we are letting the scientists get on with their work with their counterparts. but the idea that there is to have a really full, free, and frank exchange. look at what has worked, look is not worked, and what can be done differently. and also what needs to be applied to the rest of the world. across the border in hong kong, there are 58 confirmed cases. and there are shortages of hand sanitiser, face masks and toliet paper as people stockpiling. this is the scene outside one supermarket in the mongkok district of hong kong earlier. men armed with knives robbed a delivery man of hundreds of rolls. martin yip was there. ijust went inside, and requisites have stalled around 1 2,000 toilet rolls is still empty. although, according to my family and others are turning today, fortunately the other thing that was on panic buying just a week ago rice is now back on shelves. it s reasonably stock here, so some good news here. test reasonably in stock. thank you very much for your time. there are so very much for your time. there are so many elements to the story now, help us step back a little and judge where we got to on this crisis.|j think you re quite right the number of cases in china do seem to be declining. there s been a little bit of uncertainty over that because the way the chinese had to change the way the chinese had to change the way they retort to make a reported clinical cases. and i suppose that was because they were getting somewhat short on agents, but i don t know if that s for certain. so it is looking good from the point of view of hubei province. the problem is what s happening elsewhere at the world. at the moment, the rest of china appear to be decreasing in cases day by day. there s appears to be 5-25 cases day by day. there s appears to be 5 25 cases a day internationally if you exclude the diamond princess cases. but the big concern is that just as we are starting to get a handle on the wuhan cases that another focus might kick off and we might start dust might start seeing uncontrolled person to person transmission elsewhere. and if that does happen, that could be the precursor of a global pandemic, which would involve many cases all over the world. but as yet, that is not inevitable. things are looking reasonably good at the moment, but we mustn t be overconfident. and are you satisfied that whatever realistic measures can be taken are being taken to prevent a pandemic and emerging? it s difficult to see what else they could do, the chinese could do at the moment. i suspect they have implemented control measures which would be at the least difficult, if not impossible to enforce in most western countries. and ifor one don t enforce in most western countries. and i for one don t really know what else they could do to do more to prevent the spread of this infection. and to be clear, any expectation of a vaccine or something that could help in the long run will take an awfully long time to arrive? well, i ve heard varying estimates of this. at the earliest will be probably at the end of this year, maybe early next. now it s possible that the disease itself would burn itself out during the summer, as sars did. but i suspect not, i suspect that it will, if anything, come back in the winter at the end of this year. and if that is the case, then hopefully it will not be long until we have a vaccine and enough vaccinations to protect oui’ and enough vaccinations to protect our most vulnerable people, the elderly and our health care workers. professor, we thank you for your time. the french parliament is discussing government proposals on pensions. it s a moment of huge political importance, because there have been weeks of protests and strikes about these reforms. emmanuel macron wants to introduce a single system to replace a variety of different arrangements. some see it as an attack on their rights. these are protesters in paris today. unions say the pension reforms will force millions to work beyond the current retirement age of 62. this is the lower house of the french parlliament. president emmanuel macron wants the package approved before next month s nationwide local elections. 0pposition politicians aren t keen they‘ re tabling thousands of amendments to frustrate the government s timetable. and i mean thousands over 40,000. the rolling transport strikes that crippled paris in december and january have subsided, but the more radical unions are now planning sporadic days of action. here s the view of one bus driver on these reforms. translation: the impact would be to lower the level of people s pensions. already many pensioners are living in absolute misery, and this law would make things even worse. it s not acceptable. for some, the issue goes beyond pensions. here are some university students. they are not just about i want a good pension, they are about, i want a good life, i want a life with dignity. i want a life where i m not continually euro by euro. it s neverjust a reform a pension reform. it s also just a general move towards some society that we don t want. for the government, the pressure from the street has clearly diminished to some degree. here s the view from one minister. they re pretty determined. and i think the main enemy is maybe emmanuel macron, the president. but also, there s a bit of an insurrection or flavour the demonstrations. they could actually question the modern democracy as it stands. many presidents before emmanuel macron have tried to reform france s pension system, all have failed. this is the current approach. france puts 14% of its gdp into pensions it s the third biggest spender on pensions among developed nations. greece and italy are ahead, in case you re wondering. the french system is complex. there are 42 different types of pension schemes with different retirement ages and benefits. so while the country s legal retirement age is 62, people with special regimes such as sncf train drivers and metro drivers are able to retire from as early as 55. these special regimes were brought in to compensate people with physically demanding or dangerous work. the special status for rail workers was created in 1920 when conditions were tough it s still hard work, but some argue not as hard as it was in 1920. and these special schemes bring down the average age of retirement in france to 60. the european average is 63. president macron has promised he will not change the legal retirement of 62. but he does want to streamline the 42 different schemes into one universal pensions system. it would mean fewer people being able to take early retirement. this would drive up the average retirement age closer to 62. here are the thoughts of hugh schofield in paris. anne elisabeth moutet in paris. so this is a complicated but important story. help me understand the process, tell me about these 40,000 amendments? of 40,000 amendments have been tabled by both the opposition on the left and on the opposition on the left and on the right. they know perfectly well that if you follow normal procedure in the house, it is absolutely impossible to conclude the debate and pass the law in three weeks as the president likes. so what happens is when they vote, the president will have to ram this through to a specific article known as article 49.3, meaning there is no vote a single vote, not on amendments. and if the government loses the majority, the government is then in danger of having to be changed. but if the government passes, then the bill is not discussed and it is passed through. when i say not discussed, there s time for discussion going on into the night in the next few nights. but that also means a defeat for the government, the 49.3 is a sort of last resort in french politics and a lwa ys last resort in french politics and always has consequences on the prime minister or the president who has used it. so that s what they really want. meanwhile there s another conference going on which is probably more important because it isa probably more important because it is a conference not about the impossible but the possible. it s about the financing of pensions, between the three partners who actually manage the system, once we got the system going again, and that s the bosses, the unions and the government. they are looking at what is feasible considering the pot in itself, how do you finance all this? that is supposed to end in april. and underneath all this, is it president macron‘s belief that this is simply too expensive, france can t afford to carry on this way? to some extent i think yes, because you had eight people paying the pension of one pensioner in 1946, when the pay as you go system was created. now you have two. that is not viable. there are simple ways of reforming and i believe that mr macron is the top bureaucrat. the french civil service built something that looked up to be wonderful techno corporate side, but it is a really, gated side in which they both wanted to make the age of the pension viable and he wanted to change the system. and it is always difficult, i used to have an old editor who told me that you cannot tell snow white and cinderella in the same story, and that s what he s been trying to do. that s a good message, i ll remember that one. good to speak to you as always, we ll keep you lookjust a close eye in how that plays out in paris. stay with us on outside source still to come. the eu is wanting to bring in tougher rules and penalties on firms that fail to curb hate speech. we will give you an update on that. the us secretary of state, mike pompeo, is making his first official visit to africa. he s already been to senegal, where he discussed security, and angola, where he praised the government s anti coruption drive. his next stop is ethiopia, where he ll meet the prime minister, as well as representatives of the african union. the bbc‘s kalkidan yibeltal sent us this report from the ethiopian capital addis ababa. ethiopia has been a key us partner in fighting terrorism, particularly in tackling the threat of al shabaab. but his visit comes in the time when the us is seeking to reduce its military presence in africa. also on the agenda will be the $5 billion us renaissance dam, which is currently under construction in western ethiopia, and causing conflicts with another us ally, egypt. the us and world bank are mediating talks to find a solution, but compromise does not appear to come easy. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story. two planes carrying hundreds of us citizens from a coronavirus hit cruise ship injapan have arrived in the us. the ship, with some 3,700 passengers and crew, has been in quarantine for two weeks. here s the other stories from the wc world service. bbc world service. the speaker of the us house of representatives nancy pelosi has been warning european officials against allowing the chinese firm huawei to build 5g communications networks. she s told officials in brussels said it would be like putting the chinese state police in the pocket of everyone who uses the information highway. the authorities in ireland are warning the public to stay away from a so called ghost ship, which washed up on rocks near cork on sunday. the mv alta became disabled south of bermuda in 2018 and has been drifting without a crew for more than a year. mark zuckerberg was in brussels today, meeting top european commissioners to discuss facebook‘s plans for regulation and tax. but he got a hostile reception from a top eu chief, industry commissioner thierry breton, who warned that big tech firms face tougher rules and penalties in europe, if they fail to curb hate speech and disinformation. chiyo robertson joins us. quite a pack agenda for both? the facebook boss was in orjust brussels today. central to that plan was his idea of having a single global regulator, a single policy for all online platforms. he also wa nted for all online platforms. he also wanted technology firms like facebook to be given much more flexibility in experimenting, the board he used, with technologies for moderating online platforms. this plan was firmly rejected by the industry chairman, saying it simply was not enough. he also came down ha rd was not enough. he also came down hard on them saying that if facebook failed to get its act together that when it came to things like monitoring harmful content and disseminating disinformation, he would find them by the end of the year. did they talk about tax? that s a subject that always comes up. that s a big problem with us tech firms, because they make huge amounts of revenue in europe and they don t pay that much tax, according to european governments. they want to be taxed more. france has proposed a digital tax, but france had to put that on hold in the uk is working out how to do that. in the meantime, mark zuckerberg said he wanted to work with the oecd. that s the body trying to harmonize global taxes, and he said he wanted to harmonize global solution, an interesting line because it is contrary to what america wants. the us has always said these tech firms should be taxed at home back in the state. speaking of tech firms and tax, speaking of amazon, jeff baeza as has been giving away a lot of money but not to the tax? that s correct. when the world s richest man pledges money to help fight climate change, it must be a big song. putting it in perspective, he s promised $10 billion to fund work by scientists, activists and other groups. and he will begin handing money out from that fund over the summer. but mr ba eza that fund over the summer. but mr baeza is worth $130 billion, it is eye watering. that s roughly 8% of his worth. it s also worth remembering that in the last three months, amazon made revenues of around $87 billion. so he s been under intense pressure from customers, politicians, employees who have been protesting to do more after his business doesn t contribute to a lot of packaging, vehicles driving around delivering those packages. they basically put him under pressure in the last few yea rs him under pressure in the last few years to do more to help combat climate change. thank you very much indeed. let s stay with business stories. travel restrictions on those living in china are having a major impact on the global travel and hospitality industry. chinese people make up one in eight of tourists globally. our global trade correspondent dharshini david has been finding out how one uk attarction has been hit. the birthplace of sir winston churchill, and a stunning example of baroque architecture. blenheim palace, just outside oxford, would normally attract 50,000 visitors in february. but this time, demand is down as travel restrictions in china hit. in the last two weeks it will be quite significant, this would have been a busy period for chinese new year tourists and we expect across february to lose 5,000 chinese visits, about 10% of the natural february audience. it s a similar story in the historic university town a few miles away. the blend of heritage, culture and access to luxury shopping that makes this area so attractive to chinese tourists. over 400,000 visited the uk last year. but that s dropping sharply. one property here told me it typically sees 50 customers a week from china for its walking tours, now it s not seeing any. nearby the plough inn, shot to global fame when the chinese president xi and former prime minister david cameron stopped by for a pint in 2015. as the coach parties followed, the pub was bought by a chinese investor, earning him a slice of the £10 billion tourists spend in the uk every year. a draw here is sitting at the same bar with a plate of fish and chips as their leader. that s what it is. they wanted to emulate the leader. they take all the selfies and it s just so i suppose they can go back home and say, we ve done it, we ve been there. in recent weeks it s been, the last three weeks, zero. no chinese tourists at all. it s just one of those things. i hope this virus then gets sorted out pretty sharpish, we can get back to seeing more visitors. even bicester village, a shopping spot for tourists looking to avoid high import taxes on luxuries at home, feels unusually quiet. its owners refused to comment, retailers here confided sales are down sharply. with bad weather not helping. two million people across the uk rely on tourism for a living. the virus that is exerting a high human cost thousands of miles away, is having a considerable financial side effect here. let me update you on the latest political drama in westminster. this is a andrew sabisky a self styled superforecaster and a man whose apparent views on eugenics, race and women mean you wouldn t need to be a superforecaster to predict that giving him a job as a government adviser would cause problems. and so it s proved and he s just quit. here he is tweeting in the last few hours. earlier today, borisjohson‘s spokesperson refused to say whether the prime minister condemned posts under andrew sabisky‘s name. see what you think of them. mr sabisky was appointed by mrjohnson‘s main adviser dominic cummings who put out a job ad calling for misfits and weirdos tojoin him in trying to shake up government. indeed he d been posting on mr cumming s website. or at least a user called andrew sabisky posted in 2014. in that post, he says. in a comment on a different website, what appears to be the same user claims black americans had a lower average iq than white people and were more likely to have an intellectual disability . and in another post, a user with his name writes. in 2016, mr sabisky suggested to schools week that the benefits of a drug that might help brain function, but that can also prove fatal, are probably worth a dead kid once a year . stay with me there s more. there was another tweet in 2019. mr sabisky says selective quoting is the issue, many other suggests that s the least of his problems. the opposition labour party wanted him gone. caroline nokes says. as for the government environment secretary george eustice said it was a. which indeed it was was but they said nothing and then mr sabisky resigned. but they said nothing and then so but they said nothing and then his role in the govei no so his role in the government will no longer continue. for more background on that, visit our website. it is worth adding if you wa nt website. it is worth adding if you want further context particularly on coronavirus, you can also find the online as well the stop in a few minutes, we ll be hearing about what has potentially been a huge moment for afghanistan, the taliban is saying it has an agreement with the americans which could bring to an end their 18 year conflict. we will run you through what that agreement looks like and assess the chances of success. see you in a minute. good evening. storm dennis has of course been wreaking havoc in parts of the uk over the last couple days, but the storm as a whole has actually been affecting the weather across a much, much wider area, even down to the mediterranean. a satellite picture to show you the extent of the storms, this massive curl of cloud here, you can argue it is all part of the same weather system, part of storm deadness driven by a powerfuljet stream. it has also meant that very warm air has also meant that very warm air has been spreading into some southern parts of europe, recently for example with temperatures in france being in the high 20s in a few spots. some of that warmth spreads into the central areas of europe, different air currents associated with storm dennis interacting with mountainous regions in europe, which has meant that in poland, around about midnight, the temperature was hovering around 17-18dc. so temperature was hovering around 17 18dc. so all sorts of weather phenomenon associated with that one storm that has been sitting across the north atlantic and bringing ferocious weather to the uk. we still are feeling the effects of the storm for tuesday across europe. lots of mild air spreading across the continent and even colder air expected in helsinki and moscow, around seven celsius. this mild pattern will continue into wednesday as well. in fact a new weather systems a re as well. in fact a new weather systems are expected to brew in the atlantic, but not as severe as the recent storms that will be heading towards the uk and bringing some u nsettled towards the uk and bringing some unsettled weather, or whether. to that south, we have places like spain and portugal enjoying some fine conditions. central cities of europe are above average for the time of year, temperatures 12 celsius in paris and warsaw, still above the average. if you want something sunnier, portugal is the place to be. in fact as far as the i can see, it is the weekend, and the weather conditions will be very pleasant. moving into the low 20s. we often talk about the weather travelling from west to east for the united states, and that has been the case the last couple weekends running. we ve seen a powerfuljet strea m running. we ve seen a powerfuljet stream blowing out of the us, being driven by a big different tobacco temperature contrast. you can see the forecast hitting the arctic regions, lower air creating a powerful jet stream. but there s colder weather on the way. major us cities like new york will see cold conditions, same with chicago and even miami, a little cooler in the next few days. here back in the home, we have forecast coming in the half hour. still looking unsettled for the next few days with spells of wind and also heavy rain. hello, i m ros atkins, this is outside source. you know about this boat quarantined injapan you know about this boat quarantined in japan that you know about this boat quarantined injapan that has hundreds of cases on board of coronavirus. rupert wingfield hayes has more. the quarantine is supposed to end on wednesday, passengers have been told if they were tube test negative they could go home. but with 99 new viral cases confirmed today, the overwhelming suspicion is the quarantine is not working. the centre of this crisis is this province hubei. and according to evidence the pressure on hubei is enormous. there are reports of people held individual camps in china for having beers or wearing veils. in the tele band has reached deal with the us. not that simple as we will go through it later. this cruise ship the diamond princess has the largest cluster of coronavirus cases outside of china. it s docked in yokahama injapan. 99 more cases have been confirmed today, taking the total past 400 cases. there were over 3500 people on board. but some have left. over 300 americans were flown home overnight. 14 tested positive despite testing negative a few days earlier. but not all americans on the diamond princess have left. this passenger has opted to stay quarantined. even assuming some of the infections were acquired during the quarantine, we don t know how they were acquired, and. but it is certainly possible they were acquired by people who were not following the rules of the quarantine. for example, while we don t have access to the decks to see how people are behaving during their open deck time, we do have access to our balcony, and throughout the quarantine period, we have seen people on their balconies speaking with each other within feet of each other separated by the barrier between the balconies, but with no real sense that they should be staying away from the person on the other side of the barrier. certainly the quarantine system on board the cruise ship has not been a success. the process began in yokohama on the 3rd of february. that was after a passenger who disembarked in hong kong tested positive. by the 5th of february, hong kong imposed a quarantine on all visitors from mainland china. at least ten people on board had tested positive. by the 7th of february, when the uk was evacuating its citizens from wuhan 61 people on board had tested positive. as of today, there are 454 cases on the ship. this manila bulletin article says that 27 filipino crew are among that total. here s more from the american passenger we heard from earlier. we have been 14 days either within the cabin itself or occasionally out on the balcony, and the process that was quickly established following the institution of the quarantine was the crew bringing meals three times a day, we get a choice of both lunch and dinner, and they drop them off. they handed it to us at the door, again, like i said, wearing gloves and plastic aprons and a mask and with hand sanitizer in their possession. interesting quote from one doctor in this new york times article. talking of the risk move people back to the us.. but this approach is still going on right now. rupert wingfield hayes has more. the quarantine is supposed to end on wednesday, passengers have been told if they were tube test negative they could go home. but with 99 new viral cases confirmed today, the overwhelming suspicion is the quarantine is not working. because of that, the journey home for those left on board is now looking a lot more complicated. australia now says it is sending a fight to evacuate its nationals. but when i spoke to one of them, she was not enthusiastic. we re finding the thought of being put on a plane with unknown people who haven t been tested yet and potentially getting the infection right then after we ve already completed two weeks of almost two weeks of quarantine not ideal. japan meanwhile is starting to feel the effects of the virus spread. next weekend is the emperor s birthday, a celebration that usually gathers crowds of well wishers. today, the whole event was cancelled without warning. the bbc has seen documents that appear to give an unprecedented insight into how china monitors thousands of uighur muslims who ve been held in a network of internment camps in the far western xinjiang region of the country. personal aspects of the daily life of individuals have been listed in painstaking detail, such as how often they pray, whether they wear a veil or how their family members behave. china has always denied any religious crackdown, and says the measures are aimed at preventing terrorism. our diplomatic correspondent james landale reports. for two years now, the bbc has reported on camps like these in western china. a vast network of high security facilities where about1 million uighurs and other minorities have been detained without trial. now we can report in more detail than ever on how and why they are detained. the chinese authorities call the camps vocational re education centres , where uighurs are brought to learn chinese and communist party doctrine, supposedly a way of preventing extremist terrorism. but a leaked document suggests these camps are part of a huge crackdown on religious practice. the 137 page spreadsheet sets out in huge detail why more than 300 uighurs from one particular county in xinjiang province were considered for detention. some were detained because they had applied for a passport, had relatives abroad or even because they had unintentionally landed on a foreign website while searching the internet. others were held because they used to grow a long beard or used to wear a veil. others because they had a minor religious infection . the document was passed on to this woman, an uighurexile living in amsterdam, who decided to make it public. translation: of course i am worried about the safety of my relatives and friends, but if everyone keeps silent because they want to protect themselves and their families, we will never prevent these crimes being committed. the document is hard to verify 100%, but experts who have examined it told me they believe it is genuine. the entire internment campaign and the reasoning behind it reveals a very detailed and in itself internally consistent worldview, one which we might liken to the ideology of a medieval witch hunt which is highly fearful of anything religious. but china insists these are what they call vocational education centres . in a statement, the country s embassy in london said they were designed to tackle terrorism and religious extremism, and the only trainees were those convicted of unlawful or criminal acts. james landale, bbc news. every day it would be to be a story some world. on the face of it, a moment of huge importance for afghanistan. the taliban says it s agreed with the us to end their 18 year conflict. the announcement was made in doha where talks have been going on for over a year. we think the deal will be signed later this month but that a seven day partial truce will come sooner than that. the afghan government s chief executive officer, abdullah abdullah, has hailed this as a new chapter for his country. but, and it s a big but, violent clashes between taliban fighters and afghan government forces continued this weekend. this is view of the un secretary general in new york. it is my hope that discussions will be productive in leading to a reduction in violence, especially violence toward civilians. reducing violence is critical to build confidence and support for the peace process that leads to a lasting political settlement and a permanent ceasefire. this conflict dates back to 2001 and the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in new york and washington. the taliban, then in power in afghanistan, refused to hand over osama bin laden who d masterminded the attacks. the us launched air strikes and drove the taliban from power. by 2004, a us backed government was in place. but the taliban s resistance remained. ten years later, in 2014, nato ended its combat mission, leaving the afghan army to fight the taliban. the us continued its own scaled back presence. but from here the taliban regained momentum and seized back some territory. and its insurgency continued. by 2018, the taliban said it would meet us officials to try to find a road map to peace . but it refused to speak to the afghan government, which it dismissed as american puppets . then last year, the two sides seemed close to an agreement. america announced it would begin to withdraw troops. but days later, president trump said the talks were dead after the taliban admitted killing a us soldier. now, here we are with an agreement. we think. but there are doubts, the main one being how can you have a deal if the afghan government s not been involved. this is meena baktash, head of the bbc‘s afghan service. at the moment, people from the taliban s negotiating team, as well as american officials have been speaking about ending the negotiations and finalizing a document as an agreement. as well as agreeing on seven days reduction of violence. but the point is that we do still not have any details of a delegation from the afghan side. you have to remember that taliban are not speaking to the afghan government directly. they say that they will speak to all afghans. for more analysis of what s actually been agreed, i ve been speaking to the bbc‘s chief international correspondent, correspondent, lyse doucet. we have to believe it is one step away from war towards peace but there is a very long road ahead and many detours may be. this is not really a peace deal. this is an agreement between the united states for a phased and conditional pull out of its troops in exchange for taliban security guarantees including it will not allow afghanistan to be a haven for extremist groups again. the hard work for the real peace will be when the afghans sit and talk and they still should pave the way for that. will the taliban even talked to the afg ha n will the taliban even talked to the afghan government? that is part of the commitment. if they want and this is their driving ambition to get all us troops out of afghanistan, we will see if it goes down to zero or if we have an understanding that there will be some counterterrorism forces they are, that they want that and to do that they have to meet a commitment which is they will speak to an afg ha n which is they will speak to an afghan delegation. again there will be semantics also will not be the afg ha n be semantics also will not be the afghan government as a government which will go to oslo perhaps after the deal is signed. but there will be people from the afghan government in that allegation but it is officially known as a government from the islamic republic of afghanistan. in the tele- band taliban as we know was in the idea ofa taliban as we know was in the idea of a strict islamic state for afghanistan. has it given up on that idea or does that still believe he should pursue that by all means? that is the big question. a million afg ha n that is the big question. a million afghan east question this and there isa fear afghan east question this and there is a fear they have not changed much at all. the taliban so they have changed and are not the same taliban which ruled as you just put it out with very harsh and a severe hand in the 1990s. but the big question is have the taliban changed as much as afghanistan has changed? the afghanistan has changed? the afghanistan up to date as my women simply not as doctors or teachers, they are cabinet ministers and ceos and human rights activists and leading institutions in the government. will the taliban accept that? all the taliban say is that they will allow women to work and will allow women to be educated and use this phrase women choosing their life partner in other words not be forced into arranged marriage but they would not be allowed to be president. but everything will be done according to islamic law. but which islamic law was meant islamic law of asia or of saudi arabia or of iran. there are some huge uncertainties and therefore deep fears. and the taliban will be tested. stay with us on outside source, still to come. itv‘s love island will air tonight for the first time since the suicide of its former presenter caroline flack. the 40 year old was found dead in her flat in london on saturday. lucy manning reports. caroline flack, the day before she died. a valentine s day spent with some of those who loved her. just a day later, she took her own life. friends now remembering the happier times they had with her. it s the return of the flack. the tv presenter, the host of love island, had a job full of glamour and excitement. but in the months before, she had faced serious allegations a court case her agent called a show trial, accused of assaulting her boyfriend, she was due back in court in a few weeks. he wasn t supporting the decision to charge her. when caroline flack appeared here at highbury magistrates‘ court, the court heard that she told police when she was arrested that she wanted to kill herself. many of her close friends think this case should never have happened, one writing on social media, you were so poorly, you needed help. instead, they put you in a cell. but prosecutors believe it s important to pursue domestic abuse allegations. undoubtedly, they felt they had enough. i think they had a 999 call recording, a body camera worn by the police. they would have had other evidence. they have to take domestic abuse seriously because we as a country have said we should take it seriously. itv had replaced caroline flack as the presenter of love island until after her trial. it said it was devastated about her death, but has faced some criticism about the way it treated her. and the media has also been blamed. downing street said online companies must go further to remove u na cce pta ble content, and there are calls for greater press regulation. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is. the coronavirus. two planes carrying hundreds of american citizens from a cruise ship injapan have arrived in the us full of the ship having over 3500 cat crew and personnel on board. quarantined for two weeks. let s bring you up to date on brexit. here is some wire copy from reuters. that europe adviser is this man, david frost. he s spent the day in brussels, setting out the uk s plans for a trade deal with the eu. he made those comments at a lecture to students. all this is a matter of some importance of course, but the uk government says it was a private lecture and only invited one journalist from a news agency. remember, the uk left the european union at the end of january, but it s in a transition period where it effectively continues to trade like an eu member. that period ends at the end of this year. a new trade deal is needed for then. and we await the start of the negotiations. here is adam fleming. they are writing michel barnier‘s mandate, the detailed set of instructions that will be given to the chief negotiator. in private, france is leading a sort of countries who are trying to get that language toughened up so there are more constraints applied to the uk in return for that being ambitious free trade agreement that both sides say they want to do. we will see what they end up with when it is published and approved officially honorably in the middle of next week. adam mentioned france wanting to toughen up the eu s position. the french foreign minister is certainly talking tough. translation: i think that on trade issues and mechanism for future relations as we are going to start on, we are going to rip each other apart but that is part of a negotiation. elvire fabry is a senior researcher on trade policy at the jacques delors research institute in paris. i asked her what she made of the french foreign minister s comments. i think at this point there is not much surprise. we know that he is reflecting in a way the french position very clearly in position put forward by the president at the beginning. he dashed his priority is the european agenda. he wants to preserve the unity of the 27 and preserve the unity of the 27 and preserve the unity of the 27 and preserve the single market regulatory ecosystem. now, we don t have the detailed negotiating position from either side yet, but we do know the broad outlines. the eu has repeatedly told the uk it can t get the kind of free trade deal it wants if it doesn t abide by eu environmental and social standards things like chemicals regulation, food labelling and subsidies for companies. the uk has repeatedly ruled out that kind of alignment. here s the bbc‘s norman smith explaning the uk government s position. borst also has made it clear that he does not want to be hemmed in by existing eu rules and he regards thatis existing eu rules and he regards that is counter to the whole point a bra kes that is counter to the whole point a brakes and he wants the freedom to diverge from those regulations. so it is very hard to see how this will be anything but a very bruising process. the argument in the british government is you have cut those sort of dealfor other government is you have cut those sort of deal for other countries like canada and japan where they are not stuck with eu rules and is a simple free trade agreement and walking out of the same for britain? let s hear again from elvire fabry on whether the two sides will be able to brige the gap between them. at this stage, it is difficult to see what could be the common ground. when we consider the draft and the white lines that have been put forward and that need to be finalised by next week, we see that on the uk side, the willingness from borisjohnson to really on the uk side, the willingness from boris johnson to really concretize the brexit with regulatory autonomy concretely makes a very shrinking leeway for the negotiation of the second phase. and what it means on the eu side is i think that in the stage on the eu side, it is very clear that they have taken for granted that willingness to diverge from eu regulations but what it means then the way european approach is less they have a deep challenge to manage that divergence and rather that they starting point today is more that they consider the uk as a third country relying in a way already on wto terms theoretically of the starting point of the negotiation and what we need is to move forward from that initial point. which is a very different point. which is a very different point of view on the negotiation. and so it means at the moment we need to look forward is precisely that ground for negotiation. but we see that we can expect to have two months of very confrontational declaration and point of use at least. and before we move from a theoretical brexit to a more realistic brexit. flooding has hit a number of areas around the uk, after a weekend of extreme weather brought by storm dennis. one woman has died, and hundreds have been flooded out of their homes. and the water is still rising. almost 200 flood warnings remain in place around the country, with towns close to the river severn of greatest concern. here are some pictures i have come in hereford, rescue workers travel in boat and floatation craft to get people stranded in floods. these pictures are also from hereford, taken by melissa jane williams and carmelo garcia, showing just how badly flooded some of the areas are. here s some footage from worcester. if you look closely, you can see a couple waving to the helicopter out of the second floor window of their flooded out house. here s some pictures from wales showing cars strewn down a street, a house on the edge of collapsing into the river, and more flooded houses. there are also seven severe flood warnings in place, including areas in hampton bishop, upton upon severn, and uckinghall and that means there s a danger to life. phil mackie has been at upton upon severn. ifi if i had ifihada if i had a pound for every person i had heard say they have never seen the river this high, i would be a rich man. the environment agency has confirmed the river has never been higher. in hundreds of years, more than 6.5 metres, 20 feet. they have no close to the wide bridge here to traffic. have told pedestrians and cyclists the police shouting at them to get off and are being told it is not safe. this not the only part of the uk where there are real concerns this evening. the british government says its so far deployed five kilometres of flood barriers and environment agency staff have been providing on the ground assistance. here s the environment secretary george eustice. we have 1000 environment agency staff out in the field helping people prepare for the floods come helping them to evacuate some where of that is necessary and are monitoring things very closely in particular the river severn talents such as shrewsbury and to experian other areas looking at closely because water levels are to rise and some of those catchments. because water levels are to rise and some of those catchmentsm because water levels are to rise and some of those catchments. if you re watching in the uk on bbc news channel, find more information on the website. goodbye. hello there. after a stormy weekend, monday gave us the opportunity to assess some of the devastation that storm dennis brought us. in parts of south wales and the south western midlands, we saw over a month s worth of rain in just 48 hours and there has been some severe flooding as you are well aware of. it does look as though it will stay pretty unsettled for the rest of the week. tuesday packed with plenty of isobars on the chart, and this mini weather front will enhance showers, so sunny spells and blustery showers once again. showers from the word go on tuesday with some heavy and hail and thunder and then as we go through the afternoon we see these organised bands of rain pushing through the north of england, the midlands and down into south wales just where we don t need it. it will be a blustery afternoon, but particularly as this front moves through we could see gusts of wind in excess of 50 mph. ahead of it it stays relatively mild and behind it somewhat cooler conditions to follow. there will be a spell of wet weather to clear the south east through the night and then we see this brief ridge of high pressure building through the start of wednesday. for some but not for all, so wednesday could be the best day of the week in terms of drier, bright weather, particularly the further east you are. there will be lighter winds and more in the way of sunshine. further west, it could start off quite promising but we are not expecting it to last with the cloud arriving and wet and windy weather set to return by the end of the afternoon and here it is. as we go through wednesday night into thursday, there will be yet again a feed of wet weather through northern ireland into scotland and perhaps northwest england for a time. a south westerly flow however means a milder start to thursday with temperatures around 6 9dc. we start off thursday with a northwest southeast divide and not for the last with the wet weather will sweep south and east by the middle of the afternoon and tend to linger across eastern and south east england. behind it, scattered showers and with any elevation some of those could turn increasingly wintry with highs of 8 11. move out of thursday into friday again a brief ridge of high pressure builds but again not for long. another area of low pressure will move in as we go through the day on friday, so starting off dry and bright and maybe the south east should stay quite quiet for the end of the working week, but there is more wet and windy weather to come. and this sets us up as we head into the weekend. i wish i could tell you there is a change on the way, but as you can see, we are seeing one area of low pressure bringing yet more wind and rain across the country, only however to be replaced by yet another pushing in from the atlantic. so as we head towards the weekend, unfortunately it could be the third wet and windy weekend in a row with further spells of heavy rain and gales certainly an issue. it looks at the moment as though the heaviest could be further north and west. so it stays pretty unsettled. what about further ahead ? unfortunately we are really stuck in repeat mode because looking ahead to the 6 10 day period, we see another area of low pressure moving in, a brief ridge of high pressure builds but not for very long as the next low continues to move into the atlantic so the story remains the same. and that means we get some cooler spells replaced by milder air and then cooler air and milder air again so a real roller coaster in the feel of the weather as well as that wet and windy weather set to return. take care.
brazil now has the fourth largest number of confirmed cases in the world in the last 2a hours 14,919 new infections were recorded. and 14,919 new infections were recorded. how some pa coping and how some parts of the uk are coping with more visitors and the challenge of social distancing. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we re covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. uk cabinet minister michael gove has rejected criticism of the government s plans to get some children back to school in england. he s insisted having a limited number back, with social distancing, will be safe. the number of daily deaths in the uk dropped to 170 in the last day, the lowest since the day after the lockdown began. it comes as the government pledges £84 million to help accelerate the work of vaccine programmes. for a second time, the former us president, barack 0bama, has criticised donald trump s administration s handling of the coronavirus crisis. in an online address to graduating college students, he said it had revealed that many in the us administration aren t even pretending to be in charge . the italian prime minister, giuseppe conte, has admitted that his country is taking a calculated risk by rolling back lockdown measures from next week. and in spain, a further 87 deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours. that s the first time that number has been below 100 since the lockdown began there. we ll have more on all those latest development in a moment. but first this report from our political correspondent, vicki young, on the political row in england over the planned reopening of schools. could this be what primary schools in england look like in a fortnight? in denmark, pupils are put into small groups with one teacher and kept apart. it is a model the government is suggesting here, but many teachers and parents want to know whether it is safe. none of us, none of us can guarantee that anyone will be entirely free unless effectively they re perpetually imprisoned in their own home. therefore what we need to do is make sure that people are as safe as possible and, in any widespread understanding of the word, schooling for a limited number of children with social distancing is a safe environment. but some councils, like liverpool and hartlepool, say earlyjune is too soon to reopen the gates. labour wants more information. what gavin needs to do, the education secretary, is publish the science to why they re making the decision now and ensure there is testing and tracing, which he promised yesterday would be available. but they don t have the staff in place they said they needed to have the tracing, so testing and tracing and isolation is really important to tracking the virus. schools in wales will not reopen on the 1st ofjune and may not restart at all before the summer in scotland or northern ireland. some parents think england should take the same approach. valerie brooker lives in surrey and has two daughters and she thinks it s too soon to go back to school. my youngest has asthma. she is on two inhalers. charlotte has full on learning difficulties and she has had pneumonia when she was five years old. i don t want her getting a second bout of pneumonia. it s just not viable. i don t want bronwen unknowingly coming home and passing the virus. she might be a carrier. children rarely become seriously ill from coronavirus. less is known about how they might transmit it. teaching unions have quizzed government scientists and some are reassured. critically, are teachers and other staff in schools at a greater risk than if they were returning to other professions? that was the key information, they are not at greater risk as teachers and other people in schools, and that was a very significant moment for me in allowing us to be able to say, let s start planning even more carefully to open our schools, which were already open, to more pupils and students. the government is promising a cautious approach, based on scientific advice. 0ur chief political correspondent, vicki young, reporting there from westminster. a deal has been stuck with the drugs firm astrazeneca to mass produce a coronavirus vaccine being developed by oxford university, if it s proved to work. the uk business secretary, alok sharma, praised the work being done by scientists in britain to try to find a successful vaccine at today s downing street briefing. the speed at which oxford university has designed and organised complex trials is unprecedented. imperial college are also making good progress, and we will be looking to move into clinical trials by mid june, with a larger scale trial planned to begin in october. so far, the government has invested £47 million in the oxford and imperial vaccine programmes, but today i can announce an additional £84 million of new government funding to help accelerate their work. this new money will help mass produce the oxford vaccine so that, if current trials are successful, we have dosages to start vaccinating the uk population straightaway. the funding will also allow imperial to launch phase three clinical trials of a vaccine later this year. i can also confirm that, with government support, oxford university has finalised a global licensing agreement with astrazeneca for the commercialisation and manufacturing of the oxford vaccine. this means that, if the vaccine is successful, astrazeneca will work to make 30 million doses available by september for the uk as part of an agreement of over 100 million doses in total. the uk will be first to get access. we can also ensure that, in addition to supporting people in the uk, we are able to make the vaccine available to developing countries at the lowest possible cost. the number of coronavirus deaths in spain has fallen below 100 for the first time since before the country entered lockdown in mid march. the head of emergency health centres has welcomed the news, but warned there is still a danger of a second wave of infections. despite the fall in the death rate, spain s government has decided to extend the nation s state of emergency for another month and to keep strict restrictions in place in cities such as barcelona and madrid, sparking protests from many in those regions. we can speak now to infectious diseases doctor alejandro garcia, who is in madrid and has been working on the front line there from the very beginning of the crisis. thank you forjoining us. is it too $0011 thank you forjoining us. is it too soon to say that spain has defeated this first wave of the virus? it is too soon to say that. i think we are heading in the right direction, but definitely we have to be very cautious with the next steps. looking at your hospital, can you see a difference now in the number of patients admitted with coronavirus? yes, definitely. the last week of march was absolutely terrible. all hospitals in madrid we re terrible. all hospitals in madrid were overwhelmed, and some hospitals had to be set in place, and that relieved a lot, and icu were at 300% capacity of now, we have seen an improvement, and we are around the normal numbers for academics. how are the medical staff in your hospital? you must all be exhausted. yeah, that s the word that we used a lot when we talk amongst ourselves exhausted. both physically and mentally, it s been really tough couple of months here. at least we think we are seeing the light at the end of the first tunnel, hopefully the last one, but we don t know. interesting phrase, the first tunnel, because you know there are protests against the lockdown. what is your opinion about those protests ? is your opinion about those protests? social distancing and lockdowns have been the only real measure that have affected how the virus has hit our country and mainly old europe and the whole world, so taking away the measures too soon, i think it would be not a wise thing to do. on the other hand, we always have economics that really are starting to be an issue for a lot of people who have lost theirjobs and don t have any incomes for a couple of months and they are starting to really struggle, so i think we have to have a little bit of caution, but also start thinking about moving forward a little bit. for any viewers who have been to spain, they know it is a tactile country. you can meet a stranger and, within a second, he has his hand on your shoulder is a sign of friendliness and companionship. 0ur spanish people getting used to the fact they might have to keep a social distance for more than a year a vaccine has been found ? for more than a year a vaccine has been found? yeah, that s going to be quite tough. we are a really close society, and that s going to be hard for us, but i really think most people have taken this into their heads, and they have seen people suffer, they have seen our health andi suffer, they have seen our health and i really believe social distancing after this will take place and we will comply pretty well the use of masks, i believe it will be mandatory from next week here in spain in all public spaces. dr garcia, thank you. israel has sworn in a new unity government, led by prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his former rival, benny gantz. it ends the longest political crisis in the nation s history. law makers in the knesset formally approved the three year coalition government. mr netanyahu vowed to push on with controversial plans to annex large parts of the occupied west bank. the afghan president, ashraf ghani, and his rival, abdullah abdullah, have signed a power sharing deal, ending months of political uncertainty. the deal sees mr ghani remaining as president, while both men will choose an equal number of ministers. mr abdullah will lead peace negotiations with the taliban, should they get under way. india has extended its coronavirus lockdown for another two weeks until the 31st of may. however, some restrictions have been eased. offices can work, with staggered business hours. and shops have been allowed to open, with a limit on customers. there have been more than 90,000 coronavirus cases and almost 2,900 deaths in india. footage has emerged of the prime minister of belgium getting the cold shoulder from healthcare workers. sophie wilmes visited saint peter hospital in brussels on saturday. but some staff used the occasion to express their opinion about the government s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, turning their backs on her ministerial car as she arrived. the former us president, barack 0bama, has again strongly criticised donald trump s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying those in charge don t know what they are doing. he was speaking at a virtual graduation ceremony for high school students in the united states. 0ur north america correspondent, david willis, has more. class of 2020, this is for you. in the age of the coronavirus, this is what it means to come of age. graduation ceremonies, a rite of passage for youngsters here, now virtual rather than actual experiences. the future for those graduating more uncertain than at any other time in modern history. this star studded televised event had as its keynote speaker the 44th president of the united states, and he was withering in his criticism of his successor‘s handling of the crisis. more than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they are doing. a lot of them are not even pretending to be in charge. since leaving office injanuary, 2017, barack 0bama has largely avoided criticism of his successor, although earlier this month, in remarks leaked to the media, he was heard describing the trump administration s handling of the coronavirus pandemic as a chaotic disaster . and trump has now gone after his predecessor, accusing him of acting improperly in the investigation that led to the prosecution of former national security adviser michael flynn. before 0bama spoke, the president posted a doctored clip from the film independence day, intended to show that he was vanquishing not interplanetary invaders but the coronavirus. trump s presumptive democratic opponent in november, joe biden, says it is all part of an attempt to deflect criticism from the administration s handling of the coronavirus crisis. but, to the man who was biden‘s boss back then, the graduating class of 2020 has the ideal opportunity to change the political status quo. and all those adults that you used to think were in charge and knew what they were doing, turns out, they don t have all the answers. a lot of them aren t even asking the right questions. so, if the world is going to get better, it is going to be up to you. barack 0bama says he intends to hit the 2020 campaign trail hard in the hope of unseating donald trump. the differences between them, both in substance and in style, could hardly be more stark. david willis, bbc news. the italian prime minister, giuseppe conte, has admitted that his country is taking a calculated risk by rolling back lockdown measures from next week. the country s daily death toll from covid 19 has now fallen to its lowest since the 9th of march. mr conte said that there could be another rise, but the country could not afford to wait any longer. donna larsen reports. italy s wait is almost over. from monday, day to day freedoms will slowly resume, and by 3rd june, there will be even greater movement, such as domestic and international travel. but the process comes with a warning. translation: we are facing a calculated risk. to put it frankly, we know the contagion curve may rise again. preparations are taking place across the entire country. beauty salons and shops can resume trade on monday. gyms and swimming pools will open on 25th may. cinemas and theatres will follow in mid june. but measures must be taken to make sure people are kept as safe as possible. translation: we must accept the risk, otherwise we will never be able to start again. we should wait until a vaccine is discovered and distributed, but we can t afford this. italy has suffered immensely during the coronavirus pandemic. more than 31,000 lives have been lost the third highest total in the world. the rate of new infections has now dropped, providing a pathway to start opening up the country. the world s largest church is also opening on monday, after a weekend of deep cleaning. a diluted chlorine solution was used to protect the 16th century marble. worshippers will be welcomed back to st peter s basilica, but numbers will be reduced as the church adapts to a new way of life. donna larsen, bbc news. an afghan journalist and refugee locked down in one of europe s migrant camps in greece has been investigating conditions there during the coronavirus crisis. early action by the government has kept infection rates low and there have been no deaths in the camps. but, as said reza adib reports, fear of the virus has had a profound effect. for two months, i have been investigating camp conditions and fear of the virus has spread like wildfire. this is my home, malakasa camp near athens. the camp is in quarantine for 14 days. no one is allowed to go out and no one is allowed to go out and no one is allowed to go out and no one is allowed to come in. he hasjust tested positive together with his family and friends he is told to quarantine in this disused schoolroom, but no taps inside they have to share with their neighbours. they are not happy as it risks spreading the virus. at the medical centre, people are turning up worried they might have coronavirus. this is mrs recchi me. she says has a health condition. she says she has a sore throat. then i hear about an eight year old girl who is in hospital with covid 19. she lives here with her mother in a place called the teahouse. mrs brahimi also lives here. the teahouse is home to 23 families. later, people from the teahouse or tested, seven are positive, including mrs brahimi. from my camp, i speak to the great migration minister. the international organisation of migration, the malakasa camp, organisation of migration, the mala kasa camp, they organisation of migration, the malakasa camp, they have not told us there is such a problem and i m happy to arrange a cheque. the un alter national organisation for migration says it provides site management support for the greek government who are responsible for malakasa. it says it has installed five showers and five taps. the world is worried about a second wave of coronavirus infection, but action is needed now to improve conditions in europe! migrant camps. that was said reza adib reporting from malakasa camp, near athens. for viewers in the uk, you can see more on that story on coronavirus crisis: europe s migrant camps on panorama, in the uk on bbc one at 7:30pm tomorrow. the mayor of brazil s largest city, sao paulo, says the health system is close to collapse as demand grows for emergency hospital beds to deal with coronavirus cases. bruno covas said the city s public hospitals had reached 90% of capacity. brazil now has the fourth largest number of confirmed cases in the world. there have been 15,662 deaths and 233,142 confirmed cases. more than 89,000 have recovered. despite the alarming numbers president jair bolsonaro has attacked lockdown measures as a tyranny that would fuel hunger and misery . we are bringing you pictures of anti lockdown protests in sao paulo, one of the biggest cities in the western hemisphere, and you can see people dressed up with the brazil flag, unwilling to social distance. they believe any lockdown measures imposed by local authorities should end. so how is brazil coping with the rapid rise in cases? dr marcelo kalichsztein is working on coronavirus intensive care wards in rio. how is your hospital coping with coronavirus patients? my hospital as more serious cases than we have ever seen more serious cases than we have ever seen before. from sunday, it starts to overflow with patients, and now in our hospital we have more than half of our capacity treating patients with coronavirus, confirmed patients. and more than half of them are on the icu. it is a very, very difficult disease, because we are learning through the disease. in the university, we study a lot of situations that we put in practice, but now that we to be studying every day on a daily basis to be updated and given the best practice to our patients. are the patients that use the mainly older people? yes, most of the patients who are admitted to icu our older people, or younger people with obesity. it is the biggest risk factor we have found in oui’ biggest risk factor we have found in our series of cases. most of the deaths, more than 85% of the deaths in our hospital are people older than 80. you know, of course, that president bolsonaro has been against a lot of social distancing measures. has his policy had a direct impact on your work or has his policy had a direct impact on your work 01’ on has his policy had a direct impact on your work or on the admission of patients, do you think? well, we know that social distance is very important to protect our public health system and our private health system against the impact of the coronavirus in admissions in hospitals. but brazil is a very poor country, one of the poorest countries. some people need to work ona countries. some people need to work on a daily basis to bring money home. it s a very difficult decision to make, of course, and we are according would social distance. i asked my parents, my patients, to stay home, don t go out, we know that, for some parts of the population, this is impossible. brazilian people used to be very happy people, and they are changing a lot their way of living. they are using masks that we used to see in china on the films, and we never think about using that, and everyone is using masks, it s the law in my city to use masks in public spaces, so we city to use masks in public spaces, so we change a lot our way of living, even outdoor with jair bolsonaro. people are very concerned with that. if they say, let s go out, let s go work, most of the people that can make social distance, they are doing that. doctor working on the coronavirus boards in rio dejaneiro, thank you so boards in rio dejaneiro, thank you so much. there is more on our website. this has been the first weekend of eased lockdown restrictions in england and staff at the lake district national park in cumbria say they found some people trying to camp overnight and others returning to their second homes neither of which is allowed. but people in england are now permitted to drive out to take their daily exercise. our correspondent claire marshall reports from the dorset coast. the chalk cliffs of the dorset coast and its most cherished landmarks, lulworth cove and the limestone arch at durdle door. what a place to come after a lockdown. around 2500 people have made the trip here today. way up on yesterday, and later in the week the weather is only going to get better. the owner, who has had to furlough 140 workers, says even before the lockdown was relaxed, people were trying to come here. of course now they can come, the police don t have any power to stop them. if we hadn t opened, they would be on the roads walking around anyway. they are doing what they can to keep people safe but you cannot get around geography. this perfectly shows the problems that lie ahead, hundreds of thousands of people normally come to this beach but this is the only route in and out. look how hard it is to social distance. people are doing their best to stay away from each other. it is such a release after so many weeks cooped up. they have handled it really well, you know, having the one way system here and there is obviously a lot of people here, the sun is shining but i feel really safe and just happy to see families having fun. still, some are worried by what they see. the peacock family drove an hour and a half to get here. we spoke to daughter ellie and mum jane. it s nice to get out of quarantine but i think, yeah, it s going to peak again because of everyone isjust going to go mad and go anywhere they can. it s lovely to get out but i m quite shocked as to how many people are here and how they are not paying attention to the social distancing. i find that quite annoying, to be honest. it is like being in tesco s. in other parts of england, people were back on the beach in southend in essex. and up in the peak district, car parks were full for the second day. local authorities are still asking people to stay away. in scotland, wales and northern ireland, the lockdown rules have not been changed but people in england are making the most of the relaxation. claire marshall, bbc news, dorset. nature lovers in the finnish capital, helsinki, have had a rare treat. a family of white tailed eagles has established its nest there. it s a unique occurrence, as there are no records of the birds ever nesting in such an urban environment in europe. just a few decades ago, the species was on the brink of extinction. time for a look at the weather with ben rich. hello there. there is some warm weather and some wet weather in the forecast for the next few days. the warm weather will become quite widespread, but i think most of the wet weather will be found across the north of the uk. it is going to turn very warm for a time, particularly in the south, before cooler and windier conditions arrive by the end of the week. back to the here and now, this is the satellite picture, a pipeline of cloud ploughing into northern and western areas, bringing some outbreaks of rain through today. over the next few days we will see various frontal systems bringing more areas of cloud, some of which will be rain bearing, but it is to the south of those areas that we are going to start to tap into some increasingly warm air, temperatures really are going to climb by the middle of the week. those temperatures actually already on the way up, it is a pretty mild night in prospect, eight, nine, ten, 11 degrees, some rain continuing to move across northern areas, the rain pushing out of mainland scotland tomorrow morning, becoming confined to the northern isles. northern scotland should brighten up, northern areas likely to stay pretty cloudy with a spot of drizzle and some more persistent rain coming into the west later on. it will be quite windy across the north of the uk particularly, further south breezy with some hazy sunshine and it will be warm, warmer than today. highs of 24 degrees, temperatures well up in the mid to high teens, even in northern areas. into tuesday, similar fortunes really, a lot of cloud, showery rain across the north, further south some spells of sunshine and that is where we will have the highest of the temperatures, around 25 degrees in the capital. as we move out of tuesday into wednesday, this area of high
a place for taiwan? brazil s coronavirus death toll has risen to 16,118, with more than 240,000 cases, making it the fourth worst affected country in terms of confirmed infections. on sunday the mayor of brazil s biggest city, sao paulo, warned that the health system was close to collapse. 0ur south america correspondent katy watson now reports from sao paulo. the death toll is still climbing and the president is still in denial. jair bolsonaro remains intent on putting politics before the pandemic, once again flouting global health guidelines at a protest on sunday, even if he was finally wearing a mask. translation: it s priceless for politicians to have a spontaneous demonstration like this one, coming from the heart, from the soul of the brazilian people who want freedom, democracy and respect above all. amid growing criticism over his handling of the coronavirus crisis, mr bolsonaro is sticking closely to the minority of brazilians who still think he s doing a good job. he and his fan base are convinced brazilians need to get back to work, despite the signs proving otherwise. translation: it s not the right way to do isolation. this has never happened before in the world, just closing everything down and seeing what happens. not even scenes like this can convince jair bolsonaro to change tact. people are dying and health systems across the country are collapsing, and these next few weeks are only expected to get worse. the state with the highest number of cases is sao paulo. the business capital already has a death toll bigger than that of china, and authorities have warned, the health system is struggling. sao paulo residents have been quarantine with nearly sao paulo residents have been in quarantine for nearly two months now, with businesses, schools and public spaces ordered shut but, as the weeks have gone on, social distancing has slowed. statistics show that fewer than 50% of residents are still respecting the rules. in some parts of sao paulo city, shops are reopening. authorities, they say, are turning a blind eye. the mayor, on sunday, called on residents to do their bit to improve brazil s chances. translation: it s difficult to believe that some prefer to subject the population to a game of russian roulette. the indifference to death is unseemly. it s a crime of responsibility. traffic jams have returned, despite authorities‘ efforts to dissuade people from commuting. many brazilians argue they have to work. millions of people who work in the informal economy and depend on daily wages are struggling. the country is running out of options to tell people to stay at home, at the time when it is needed the most. katy watson, bbc news, in sao paolo. earlier i spoke to dr paulo lotufo a professor of medicine at the university of sao paulo, and asked whats happening with the lockdown in brazil. in brazil, the lockdown is partial, it s not working exactly as in other countries, so you have social isolation, that is partial, and most problems in brazil that you are fighting, against the coronavirus and against the federal government. president bolsonaro is fighting against the national health system. he fired the minister of health and he s denying the pandemic. today, he joined supporters in front of the presidential palace to get them to fight against social isolation. and what effect do you think that is having? so, it s a contradiction between the determination of the governors of the states who are doing a very good job, in sao paulo and rio de janeiro, to provide good social isolation. that is one point. the second point is that the federal government is not releasing the financial support for the poor people so for them it s very difficult to keep social isolation without financial support that was approved by the house and by the senate. and what effect is this having on the healthcare system at the moment? is it close to capacity? how worried are you? yeah. in other cities, manaus, belem, in the amazon rainforest, it s catastrophic. there is no beds for people who need care. the same for other cities in the north east, like recife, fortaleza, and rio dejaneiro is the same situation. here in sao paulo, until now we can t buffer all the demand which is very high. over at the main hospital, the hospital das clinicas, now has 2,052 beds with people under artificial ventilation, and three more community hospitals for people with covid 19. but we suppose that in the next ten days, you do not have more conditions to keep all the actual situation to support people who need critical care units. data coming in earlierfrom japan shows that the world s third latest economy has slipped into recession in the first quarter, putting it on course for its worst postwar slump as the coronavirus takes a heavy toll. it was widely expected but, in the first three months of this year, japan s economy shrunk byjust under 1% and, in the previous quarter, in the fourth quarter of 2019, it also contracted by some 2%, so the country is now officially in what s defined as a technical recession that s two consecutive quarters of falling gdp. this morning s figure wasn t as bad as what economists had expected but, if you look at the data closely, private consumption is down, exports are down as the global economy was in a lockdown, and there are concerns that in the second quarter of this year, the economy could be even hit harder, because from april tojune april is when the state of emergency was declared, forcing people to stay at home which means that people could not go out to spend their money. mariko, what is the government now expected to do to try and haul japan out of this? the government announced a huge stimulus package, worth $1.1 trillion, last month that s 20% of japan s gdp. one of the largest in the world. but there are complaints from citizens that they have not actually received the cash handout, and that they have to fill out pages after pages of forms in order to get the support from the government. but economists say that they will eventually get the money that they have been promised and, injune, the government is planning to announce more stimulus package as well, but there are concerns that is not going to be enough to help the economy, because of the economy was already hit by that hike in sales tax, or the vat, back october last year so people were already reluctant to spend money and, of course, now that they have been staying at home they have stopped spending money even further so we have been hearing quite a lot of bankruptcies and job losses as well. let s get some of the day s other news. india has extended its lockdown until the end of the month. however some restrictions have been eased. 0ffices can open with staggered business hours. and shops have been allowed to open with a limit on customers. there have been more than 90,000 cases and almost 2,900 deaths in india. healthcare workers in belgium turned their back on the prime minister as she visited a hospital. sophie wilmes arrived by car at the saint peter hospital in brussels on saturday. some staff turned away to show what they thought of the government s handling of the pandemic. new york state governor andrew cuomo has undergone a covid 19 test live on tv. mr cuomo said he wanted to show how quick and easy the process is. a doctor dressed in full ppe conducted the nasal swab test. the governor said he didn t experience pain or discomfort. he told new yorkers there s ‘no reason why you should not get tested.‘ in the uk, the number of deaths dropped to 170 the lowest number since the lockdown began. but numbers are usually lower on sundays than other days of the week due to a lag in recording. the news came as the row between the government and teachers intensified over plans to reopen schools in england. ministers have admitted it is impossible to completely eliminate the risk of contracting coronavirus but insists that a school would be extremely unlikely to be the source of an outbreak. a canadian military display jet has crashed in a residential area in british columbia. one person has died and another is in hospital. the plane went down shortly after take off from kamloops airport, near vancouver, and burst into flames. one person ejected from the plane and landed by parachute on a roof. cbc news reporter megan batchelor had this update from vancouver. this happened in the interior of reddish colombia. this happen in the interior of british columbia, just about right in the middle. it s about four hour drive east of vancouver. what we know is that the snowbirds that s the canadian forces aerobatics team this plane took off from the airport in kamloops, shortly after 11 o clock this morning and fairly close to that takeoff time is when the plane started to take a nosedive. we know from witness video at least one person ejected from the plane. that plane ended up then crashing on a nearby house and burst into flames. we have seen footage too of a parachute on that house. we now know too that one person was killed in this accident and another person is in hospital. that person who was killed is captain jenn casey, she is the snowbird s public affairs officer. we know the pilot is the person who was injured, and we know that those injuries are being considered not life threatening. certainly a lot of questions about what has happened here. there is going to be a very extensive investigation that s going to be launched, but certainly a tragedy that has a lot of questions left to be answered. why were the jets flying? what was the occasion? the snowbirds are an aerobatic air team. they usually take part in airshows in the us and in canada. they are an arm of the canadian forces, and have been a canadian icon for decades now. and they actually were recently taking part in a coast to coast tour that they were calling 0peration inspiration, and this was meant to be a salute to canadians as we cope with the covid 19 pandemic. this was a thank you to those on the frontlines, and they started in nova scotia on canada s east coast earlier this month, and they were set to do a show in the interior of bc this afternoon, before wrapping up the tour later on this week closer to the west coast. so this crash unfortunately had a lot of witnesses, knowing that the snowbirds were going to be in town, and that they were going to be taking to the skies, shortly today, and so a lot of people really saw this and this is affecting a lot of people too, because this was meant to be something to bring hope and inspiration to canadians and unfortunately this is now clouded in tragedy. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: on board with the united states space force as it begins a military mission into space. this morning, an indian airforce plane, carrying mr gandhi s body, landed in delhi. the president of india walked to the plane to solemnly witness mr gandhi s final return from the political battlefield. ireland has voted overwhelmingly in favour of gay marriage. in doing so, it has become the first country in the world to approve the change in a national referendum. it was a remarkable climax to what was surely the most extraordinary funeral ever given to a pop singer. it has been a peaceful funeral demonstration so far, but suddenly the police are teargassing the crowd. we don t know why. the prelaunch ritual is well established here. helen was said to be in good spirits, butjust a little apprehensive. in the last hour, east timor has become the world s newest nation. it was a bloody start for a poor country, and the challenges ahead are daunting. but for now, at least, it is time to celebrate. this is bbc world news. i m lewis vaughan jones. the latest headlines: the mayor of brazil s biggest city sao paulo has warned that its health system is close to collapse because of the impact of coronavirus. he called on residents to start respecting social distancing. official figures from japan show that the world s third largest economy has gone into recession as a result of the impact of coronavirus. health officials from around the world are meeting online at the world health assembly to decide how the world should tackle the crisis. but taiwan, which is seen as one of the places that s been most successful at combating the disease, has not been invited. china, which considers taiwan as part of its territory, has blocked the island s attendance since 2016. in recent weeks, there has been pressue from the us, and the eu, and several other nations to include taiwan as an observer. 0ur taiwan correspondent cindy sui gave us more details from taipei. despite the intense lobbying effort and unprecedented international support, taiwan still has not received an invitation from the who to attend the world health assembly starting today. even though it is a virtual meeting and many would argue that taiwan could easily be included, it doesn t look like it will be. and the main reason is because despite the fact that taiwan was able to attend as an observer from 2009 to 2016 under the previous administration, which had accepted the concept of 0ne china that both sides would be able to define what that means beijing is very much opposed to the current administration which rejects that concept. beijing sees the current administration as pro independence, it doesn t trust the aministration and sees this issue not at all as a health issue but as a national dignity and national sovereignty issue. so it does not want to give the image that by allowing taiwan to attend the who, it s actually supporting taiwan and giving a nod to taiwan as being seen as a separate country. and so, taiwan has been very successful in how it has combated the coronavirus, talk us through how it has managed to do that. indeed, taiwan has done an amazing job according to many experts and here you can see people are still going about their business, going to work, going to school. there has never been a lockdown here. and the reason for this is because it acted very, very quickly. it took decisive action, including border controls, travel restrictions, and proactively testing and finding potential cases in the hospitals as well as at the airports with all of the thermometers set up there. and also in doing very efficient contact tracing and very strict isolation and quarantining. so because of this, the number of cases has basically flattened at a little over 400, and only seven deaths. so it has one of the lowest incidence and death rates in the world. it is precisely because of their success that there was renewed hope this year that taiwan could be included in the who as many people here in taiwan and especially the government believes, no one should be left out of the who. it believes that taiwan s expertise in fighting viruses such as coronavirus could benefit the world. israel s new unity government has held its first meeting. but it may also signal the start of a process to annex portions of the west bank and strain tensions with palestinians. rich preston has this report. binyamin netanyahu is israel s longest serving prime minister but one fighting off an attack. 0n but one fighting off an attack. on sunday, he goes on trial for corruption and bribery. charges he denies. joining forces with his political rival, benny gantz, was a gamble and cost of the support of many of those in his party. those whose backing he may need when his trial gets under way but it has also put him back on centrestage, securing him another 18 months in office and giving him the chance to get one of his great projects under way the annexation of the disputed west bank, an extension of israeli sovereignty. thousand make hundreds of thousands of settlers, our brothers and sisters will always remain in their places as part of any permanent agreement for peace. it is time our palestinian neighbours as well as people enter this government recognise this. the trash as well as people in this government. international law says jewish settle m e nts international law says jewish settlements are illegal. binyamin netanyahu says his plan will bring pizza step closer. piece. plan will bring pizza step closer. piece. it could and the process of a two state solution. it is for the stability and the basic international rules, and laws. the weekend will be one of the toughest in binyamin netanyahu s toughest in binyamin neta nyahu s korea. toughest in binyamin netanyahu s korea. invigorated with a new term in office but facing court on allegations. rich preston, bbc news. in afghanistan, bitter political rivals, president ashraf ghani and abdullah abdullah, have finally agreed to share power again. the two had been at loggerheads for months following last year s disputed general election, just as they were after the poll in 2014. but this time there is the added complication of covid 19 and a recent surge in taliban violence. anbarasan ethirajan reports. every day, war weary afghans pray for peace, more so in the past few months. the country has been battling the twin threats of the taliban and coronavirus. the brutality of some of the recent attacks claimed by the is group have shocked even this war torn nation. people were in disbelief when newborn babies and nursing mothers became the target. all this happened amid a bitter dispute over who won last year s presidential election. at last, some hope, as the wrangling political rivals say they have reached a deal. mrghani will remain president, but his rival, abdullah abdullah, will get to choose half the cabinet. translation: today is a historic day for afghanistan. afghans have proven that they are committed to their national interest. with common thinking, we have shown that without the mediation of international friends, we can reach a fundamental solution in a reasonable way. mr abdullah, who complained of widespread fraud in the election, will now lead peace negotiations with the taliban, should they get under way. he says the political unity marks a new beginning. translation: given the situation that existed, reaching the political agreement was not an easy one, because the views were very different. but, with god s help and for the benefit of the country, a big step was taken, because instability was not in afghanistan s interest, and could have plunged afghanistan into crisis. but the deal is not without controversy. a former vice president, abdul rashid dostum, who was accused of ordering the torture and rape of an opponent, has been made a marshall in the afghan army. mr ghani appears to have accepted the bitter pill to avert a political crisis turning into a civil war. the agreement came after a lot of pressure from the us, which threatened to cut off $1 billion in aid to afghanistan. for now, much needed political unity seems to have been achieved. the leaders are aware that any fallout would only benefit the taliban. you may well remember president trump s decision to start the united states space force. the youngest branch of the american military, it officially launched last december. now it has begun one of its first ever missions, sending a top secret space plane into orbit. the bbc‘s tim allman reports. seven, six, five, four. this is no ordinary rocket launch. it is something a little bit historic. taking off from cape canaveral in florida, this is a mission for united states space force. there was plenty of symbolism one of the first to ta ke symbolism one of the first to take place in the agency was established by president trump and it is happening in the middle of a pandemic. enter this challenging time, it has never been more clear the importance of first responders in our society and i would like to add offence to the men and women in uniform. on board the rocket, the x 47 b, a top secret space plane. 0ne kept top secret space plane. 0ne ke pt m ostly top secret space plane. 0ne kept mostly under wraps by the pentagon. we have been told it will carry out a number of experiments including attacks on the impact of radiation on the seas. mysterious yet versatile. it is a really interesting machine. it is a reusable spacecraft. it flies without crew and can be rapidly reconfigured to coast a wide variety of experiments. previous missions have lasted up previous missions have lasted up to two years and more experiments will take pace this time than ever before. the ongoing mission of united states s pa ce ongoing mission of united states space force has well and truly begun. tim allman, bbc news. that s it from me. you can find me on twitter. this is bbc news. hello. there is some wet weather and some warm weather in this weather forecast. first, most of the wet weather will be found across the northern half of the uk. further south, it ll be largely dry, and quite widely it ll become very warm for a time around the middle of the week. the end of the week will feel a bit different. it ll be cooler, windier and more unsettled for all of us. now, you can see frontal systems which will be pushing across northern areas over the next few days, bringing cloud. yes, this cloud producing some outbreaks of rain, but it is to the south of those frontal systems that things will turn increasingly warm and increasingly sunny for just about all of us by wednesday. but, as far as monday goes, some rain to start off across northern scotland. that will increasingly become confined to the northern isles. the north of the mainland will brighten up, with some sunshine. we will see quite a lot of cloud persisting across southern scotland, north west england and northern ireland. patchy rain here, which could become heavier from the west into the afternoon. further south, some spells of hazy sunshine. it will be a breezy day, quite a windy one, actually, across northern scotland. but as far as the temperatures go, well, 18 degrees in aberdeen, 17 in belfast, but a high of 24 across some parts of south east england. now, as we go through monday night into the early part of tuesday, we ll see more splashes of rain at times across northern ireland, northern england and scotland. some clear spells further south, but look at those overnight temperatures 11,12 degrees the minimum values for some. so a very mild start to tuesday morning. again we see a lot of cloud across northern areas, with some patchy rain at times. it s likely to be quite misty and murky for some of these western coasts, as well. further south and further east, that s where we see the best of the sunshine and, once again, the highest of the temperatures. 25 degrees looks likely in london by this stage. now, as we move into wednesday, high pressure firmly in charge for the middle of the week, these frontal systems being held at bay for the time being. so i think wednesday is going to be the sunniest day of the week, even northern ireland and scotland brightening up by this stage. the exception shetland here. you ll hold onto a lot of cloud, some splashes of rain, temperatures topping out at around 9 degrees. further south, though, a high of 27 degrees is possible. now, things do change for the end of the week. we could see some thunderstorms breaking out on thursday. it turns windy for all of us on friday, with some rain at times, and by this stage it ll feel a bit cooler. this is bbc news. the headlines: the mayor of brazil s largest city, sao paulo, says the health system is close to collapse as demand grows for emergency hospital beds to deal with covid 19. he said the city s public hospitals had reached 90% capacity. almost 3,000 people have died in the region from coronavirus. official figures from japan show that the world s third largest economy has gone into recession. as a result of the coronavirus crisis, the country is on course for its worst economic slump since the second world war as a result. the government has already announced a trillion dollar stimulus package. a canadian military displayjet has crashed in a residential area in british columbia. one person has died and another is severely injured. the plane was part of the snowbirds demonstration team. it was taking part in a cross country tour to salute canadians working to fight the coronavirus.
hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we re covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. first, the number of coronavirus deaths in spain has fallen below a hundred for the first time since before the country entered lockdown in mid march. the head of emergency health centre has welcomed the news but warned there is still a danger of a second wave of infections. despite the fall in the death rate, spain s government has decided to extend the nation s state of emergency for another month and our madrid correspondent, guy hedgecoe, explains why. the prime minister has said he wants to extend the state of emergency, the legal framework that allows him to keep the lockdown in place. he wants to extend that for at least another month and he will go to parliament this week and on wednesday we expect a vote in parliament and we will find out whether or not he will be able to extend that state of emergency for another month. the feeling at the moment is that it is likely but there has been increasing opposition to the handling of this crisis. it has been difficult for him to get these extensions to the state of emergency. alejandro garcia is an infectious diseases doctor in madrid. he s been working on the frontline there from the very beginning of the crisis. he s been telling me why he thinks it s too soon to ease the lockdown. i think we are heading in the right direction but definitely we must be very cautious with the next steps. looking at your hospital, can you see a difference now in the number of patients admitted with coronavirus? yes. definitely. the last week of march was absolutely terrible. all hospitals in madrid were overwhelmed. and i see you were at three hundred% of capacity. right now we are seeing improvement and are around the normal numbers. how are the medical staff in your hospital? you all must be exhausted. yeah. that is a word we used a lot when we talk among ourselves. exhausted. both physically and mentally it has been really tough few months here and at least we think we see the light at the end of the first tunnel, hopefully the last. there are protests against the lockdown, what are your opinions about those protests ? your opinions about those protests? social distancing and lockdown has been the only real measure that has affected how the virus has hit our country and many others in europe and the world. so relieving the measures to soon i think would not be a wise thing to do. the uk government says it s confident that children and teachers will be safe under its plans for schools in england to open to more pupils next month. the number of daily deaths in the uk dropped to 170 in the last day, but the number of officially recorded deaths is still the second highest in the world at 34,636 people. our chief political correspondent vicki young reports from westminster. could this be what primary schools in england look like in a fortnight? in denmark, pupils are put into small groups with one teacher and kept apart. it s a model the government s suggesting here, but many teachers and parents want to know whether it s safe. none of us, none of us can guarantee that anyone will be entirely free, unless effectively they re perpetually imprisoned in their own home. and therefore, what we need to do is to make sure that people are as safe as possible, and in any widespread understanding of the word, schooling for a limited number of children with social distancing is a safe environment. but some councils, like liverpool and hartlepool, say earlyjune is too soon to reopen the gates. labour wants more information. what gavin needs to do, the education secretary, is publish the science to why they re making the decision they re making now, and ensure there is a testing and tracing which he promised yesterday that on the first ofjune that would be available, but at the moment we ve not seen any evidence that they can provide that, they haven t got the staff in place they said they needed to have the tracing, so testing and tracing and isolation is really important to tracking the virus. schools in wales will not reopen on the first ofjune and may not restart at all before the summer in scotland or northern ireland. some parents think england should take the same approach. valerie brooker lives in surrey and has two daughters. she thinks it s too soon to go back to school. my youngest brownwen, she has asthma, she s on two inhalers. charlotte, she has full on learning difficulties, and she has had pneumonia when she was five years old. i don t want her getting a second bout of pneumonia. it s just not viable, i don t want bronwen unknowingly coming home and passing the virus. she might be a carrier. children rarely become seriously ill from coronavirus. less is known about how they might transmit it. teaching unions have quizzed government scientists, and some are reassured. critically, are teachers and other staff in schools at greater risk than if they were returning to other professions? and that was the key bit of information they are not at greater risk as teachers and other people in school, and for me that was a very significant moment in allowing us to be able to say, let s start planning even more carefully to open our schools, which were already open, to more pupils and more students. it will be huge logistical challenge, but the government believes schools can be made extremely safe, and with scientists warning that we could be living with this virus for a long time, they think it would be very damaging to keep children out of the classroom indefinitely. vicki young, bbc news, westminster. there ve been protests in brazil s largest city, sao paulo, demonstrating against lockdown restrictions. they support the president, jair bolsonaro, has argued repeatedly that social distancing will only wreck the economy. it s a view at odds with what the sao paulo mayor is thinking. bruno covas says the health system is close to collapse as demand grows for emergency hospital beds. brazil now has the fourth largest number of confirmed cases in the world. there have been more than 15,000 deaths and over 233,000 confirmed cases. despite the alarming numbers, presidentjair bolsonaro attacked lockdown measures imposed by state governors. i ve been getting reaction from dr marcelo kalichsztein in rio. social distancing is important to secure our health system against the effect of the coronavirus. but brazil is a poor country and some people need to work on a daily basis to bring money home. it is a very difficult decision to make. of course, we support social distancing. i asked my parents and my patients to stay home and not go out but we know that for some people and some part of the population it is impossible and brazilian people used to be a happy people but we are changing the way of living a lot and we are using masks. we used to see them in china and never thought about using that but now everybody is using masks, it is obligatory, law in my city. using masks in public spaces. so we have changed our way of living a lot, although even with the president saying what he says. the people are very concerned about that. he says let s go out, let s work but most of the people who can make social distancing, they do that. israel has sworn in a new unity government led by prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his former rival benny gantz. it ends the longest political crisis in the nation s history. lawmakers in the knesset formally approved the three year coalition government. mr netanyahu vowed to push on with controversial plans to annex large parts of the occupied west bank. india has extended its coronavirus lockdown for another two weeks until the 31st of may. however some restrictions have been eased. 0ffices can work with staggered business hours. and shops have been allowed to open with a limit on customers. there have been more than 90,000 coronavirus cases and almost 2900 deaths in india. footage has emerged of the prime minister of belgium getting the cold shoulderfrom healthcare workers. sophie wilmes visited st peter hospital in brussels of saturday. but some staff used the occasion to express their opinion about the government s handling of the coronavius outbreak, turning their backs on her ministerial car as she arrived. the governor of new york andrew cuomo has undergone a covid i9 test live on tv. mr cuomo said he wanted to show how quick and easy the process is. a doctor dressed in full ppe conducted the nasal swab test. the governor said he did not experience pain or discomfort. he told new yorkers there is ‘no reason why you should not get the test.‘ in south africa no one has been able to buy alcohol or cigarettes for the last seven weeks as part of its coronavirus lockdown. health experts say the measures have helped reduce crime and injuries allowing the police and hospitals to focus on tackling the virus. but critics argue its playing into the hands of criminal gangs, and damaging a fragile economy. 0ur africa correspondent andrew harding reports from johannesburg. patrolling the dark streets of johannesburg, south african police trying to enforce much more than just the lockdown. they ve spotted a woman with something in her hand. could she be selling cigarettes? she is bundled into the van. the sale of cigarettes and alcohol is now strictly prohibited here. well, this is how south africa s new prohibition is being enforced the police on the streets at night, seeking out anybody dealing or carrying alcohol or cigarettes. it is a deeply controversial part of this country s lockdown. the south african government says its prohibition is working, that by restricting alcohol, they re reducing public violence and keeping hospital beds free for coronavirus patients. but the ban is also fuelling organised crime. these schoolchildren are now selling contra band cigarettes on behalf of powerful gangsters. these people are quite scary, are they? yes, they are very scary. they carry guns around. they can t trust anyone. do you feel ashamed of doing this criminal activity, or do you think this is a stupid law? i feel ashamed. it s not ok. you d rather have a properjob. exactly. as for bootlegging, it seems like everyone is at it now, kitchen gin being distilled for sale in the suburbs, and home brewed pineapple beer the only source of income now for a mother of three who lost herjob because of the lockdown. what would happen to you if you were caught? the police, if they can catch me, they d put me in the jail. are you afraid of that? yes, i m afraid, because my kids who can look after my kids? and those who aren t breaking the new law are in danger of going out of business. in the stunning wine lands around cape town, dozens of vineyards are going bust, and thousands of workers losing theirjobs. and then there s this. 7 million litres of beer are being poured down the drain, to clear a nation s clogged breweries. another unintended consequence of south africa s divisive coronavirus prohibition. andrew harding, bbc news, johannesburg. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: an online meeting for the annual world health assembly, and big questions about the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. this morning, an indian air force plane carrying mr gandhi s body landed in delhi. the president of india walked to the plaintiff solemnly witnessed mr gandhi s final return from the political battlefield. ireland has voted overwhelmingly in favour of gay marriage. in doing so, it has become the first country in the world to approve the change in a national referendum. it was a remarkable climax to what was surely the most extraordinary funeral ever given to surely the most extraordinary funeral evergiven toa surely the most extraordinary funeral ever given to a pop singer. it has been a peaceful funeral demonstration so far, but suddenly the police are teargas in the crowd. we don t know why. the prelaunch ritual is well established here. helen was said to be in good spirits, but just a was said to be in good spirits, butjust a little apprehensive. in the last hour, east timor has become the world s newest nation. it was a bloodied start for a poor country, and the challenges ahead are daunting. but for now, at least, it is time to celebrate. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: spain records it lowest death toll since it began its lockdown. just 87 people died from the virus in the last 2a hours. the british government insists that it is safe to start a phased reopening of schools in england from the beginning of next month. in afghanistan, bitter political rivals president ashraf ghani and abdullah abdullah have finally agreed to share power again. the two had been at loggerheads for months following last year s disputed general election, just as they were after the poll in 2014, but this time there is the added complication of covid 19 and a recent surge in taliban violence. anbarasan ethirajan reports. every day, afghans pray for peace, more so in the past few months. the country has been battling the twin threats of the taliban and the coronavirus. the brutality of some of the recent attacks claimed by the is group have shocked even this war torn nation. people were in disbelief when newborn babies and nursing mothers became the target. all this happened amid a bitter dispute over who won last year s presidential election. at last, some hope, as the wrangling political rivals say they have reached a deal. mrghani will remain president, but his rival, abdullah abdullah, will get to choose half the cabinet. translation: today is a historic day for afghanistan. afghans have proven that they are committed to their national interest. with common thinking, we have shown that without the mediation of international friends, we can reach a fundamental solution in a reasonable way. mr abdullah, who complained of widespread fraud in the election, will now lead peace negotiations with the taliban, should they get under way. he says the political unity marks a new beginning. translation: given the situation that existed, reaching the political agreement was not an easy one, because the views were very different. but, with god s help and for the benefit of the country, a big step was taken, because instability was not in afghanistan s interest, and could have plunged afghanistan into crisis. but the deal is not without controversy. a former vice president, abdul rashid dostum, who was accused of ordering the torture and rape of an opponent, has been made a marshall in the afghan army. mr ghani appears to have accepted the bitter pill to avert a political crisis turning into a civil war. the agreement came after a lot of pressure from the us, which threatened to cut off $1 billion in aid to afghanistan. for now, much needed political unity seems to have been achieved. the leaders are aware that any fallout would only benefit the taliban. the demolition of the national theatre in albania s capital, tirana, has led to ugly clashes between protesters and police. activists and actors staging a sit in were dragged away by police before the 81 year old building was flattened. the controversial works are part of plans to redevelop the city. albania s prime minister, edi rama, said no one will stop the transformation of tirana. health ministers from around the world are meeting online for the who s annual world health assembly. representatives from all 194 member states meet every year to decide on global health priorities. the covid 19 pandemic will of course be top of the agenda. there will be questions about how the outbreak got to this point, with over 4.6 million people infected globally and over 313,000 deaths. our global health correspondent tulip mazumdar has more. the world health organization is facing immense pressure over its handling of the covid 19 pandemic, with the us president leading the charge against the agency. the us is the who s biggest single donor, but last month, president trump withdrew funding and launched a blistering attack on both the who and china. had the who done itsjob, to get medical experts into china to objectively assess the situation on the ground, and to call out china s lack of transparency, the outbreak could have been contained at its source, with very little death. the who did get teams into china to work alongside chinese officials injanuary and february, and says since it was first alerted to the outbreak, china has shared crucial information, which has helped other countries prepare. founded in 1948, the world health organization s goal, both then and now, is ensuring the highest attainable level of health for all people. it works on a wide range of life saving programmes, from mass vaccination campaigns to sounding the alarm when international health emergencies hit. but it is just an advisory body. it doesn t have the power to enforce or compel countries to share information. now, at this year s world health assembly, there are calls to give the agency more powers, with who inspectors able to go into countries at the start of outbreaks and carry out independent investigations. the big challenge with outbreaks is that no country wants to have one. every country wants to deny it s there, and every country wants to play down deaths. if there is some emerging pathogen in their country. they re supposed to notify the who within 24 hours of this. so this would be an extension of that, to actually have who s international mission investigate the origins of this. representatives from 194 countries who are meeting virtually this year will also consider calls from the eu, the uk, australia, new zealand and others for an international review of the global response to the pandemic. another thorny issue at the meeting is likely to be around taiwan, which has been praised for a very successful response to the pandemic, but is banned from attending because china and the un doesn t recognise it as an independent state. there will also be renewed calls for equal access to vaccines against covid 19, once they are developed, for all nations, rich and poor. the us state of georgia was one of the last states to go into lockdown and one of the first to begin reopening. governor brian kemp s decision to lift many of the restrictions on businesses and kick start the state s economy came earlier than many public health experts recommended. it was even condemned by president trump. there hasn t been a surge in covid 19 cases in georgia since the reopening, but for many, fears of a second wave remain. so what has it been like going to work under these circumstances? jillian yeskel is a hairdresser in the suburbs of atlanta. she returned to work last week. i asked her what it is like to be back. so is like to be back. far, it s been great. you know, so far, it s been great. you know, when we were first allowed to reopen, i had a lot of questions and a little bit of questions and a little bit of anxiety, because we were the first state. so initially i decided to take two extra weeks, to make sure that i was able to order the appropriate ppe, disinfectants and sanitisers, and also to make sure that i could follow our state boa rd of sure that i could follow our state board of cosmetology‘s guidelines, and just be prepared to open our doors.|j understand you are a colourist at the moment. by definition, thatis at the moment. by definition, that is a really close up job. you have to get close to your client. what kind of protection are you putting in place, for them and for you? yes, so u nfortu nately we a re them and for you? yes, so unfortunately we are in close contact. so with that being said, we are making shorter social distance with other clients and other stylus as much as possible. we re also making sure the clients are wearing them ask, in their entire service, right from when they walk in the daughter when they walk in the daughter when they leave, and that every stylist is also wearing a mask. you know, also disinfecting after every client and sanitising as much as possible. seeing a stylist, hairdresser, isa seeing a stylist, hairdresser, is a real morale boost for people in normal times, let alone in a lockdown. what has it been like for your clients to come back and see you? it has been definitely very exciting. you know, as a stylist, we love to catch up and talk. i have definitely been probably one of the first people that my clients have seen since quarantine, so it has definitely been very interesting, for sure. have you had to rescue any bad home made hair cutting or styling jobs?|j don t want to throw anyone under the bus, but yes. i would say i have definitely had some interesting at home colouring services go on. as far as rescuing, sure, yes. but, like isaid, it rescuing, sure, yes. but, like i said, it has been interesting, for sure. nature lovers in the finnish capital, helsinki, have had a rare treat. a family of white tailed eagles has established its nest there. it is a unique occurrence, as there are no records of the birds ever nesting in such an urban environment in europe. just a few decades ago, the species was on the brink of extinction. a reminder of our top story: the number of coronavirus deaths in spain has fallen below 100 for the first time since it entered lockdown in mid march. the head of the emergency health centre has welcomed the news, but warned there is still danger of a second wave of infections. stay with bbc news. hello. there is some wet weather and some warm weather in this weather forecast. first, most of the wet weather will be found across the northern half of the uk. further south, it ll be largely dry, and quite widely it ll become very warm for a time around the middle of the week. the end of the week will feel a bit different. it ll be cooler, windier and more unsettled for all of us. now, you can see frontal systems which will be pushing across northern areas over the next few days, bringing cloud. yes, this cloud producing some outbreaks of rain, but it is to the south of those frontal systems that things will turn increasingly warm and increasingly sunny for just about all of us by wednesday. but, as far as monday goes, some rain to start off across northern scotland. that will increasingly become confined to the northern isles. the north of the mainland will brighten up, with some sunshine. we will see quite a lot of cloud persisting across southern scotland, north west england and northern ireland. patchy rain here, which could become heavier from the west into the afternoon. further south, some spells of hazy sunshine. it will be a breezy day, quite a windy one, actually, across northern scotland. but as far as the temperatures go, well, 18 degrees in aberdeen, 17 in belfast, but a high of 24 across some parts of south east england. now, as we go through monday night into the early part of tuesday, we ll see more splashes of rain at times across northern ireland, northern england and scotland. some clear spells further south, but look at those overnight temperatures 11,12 degrees the minimum values for some. so a very mild start to tuesday morning. again we see a lot of cloud across northern areas, with some patchy rain at times. it s likely to be quite misty and murky for some of these western coasts, as well. further south and further east, that s where we see the best of the sunshine, and once again the highest of the temperatures. 25 degrees looks likely in london by this stage. now, as we move into wednesday, high pressure firmly in charge for the middle of the week, these frontal systems being held at bay for the time being. so i think wednesday is going to be the sunniest day of the week, even northern ireland and scotland brightening up by this stage. the exception shetland here. you ll hold onto a lot of cloud, some splashes of rain, temperatures topping out at about nine degrees. further south, though, a high of 27 degrees is possible. now, things do change for the end of the week. we could see some thunderstorms breaking out on thursday. it turns windy for all of us on friday, with some rain at times, and by this stage it ll feel a bit cooler. this is bbc news, the headlines: some of the european countries worst hit by coronavirus have reported encouraging drops in the daily number of fatalities. in spain, the number has fallen below a hundred for the first time since before it imposed nationwide restrictions. italy has also reported its lowest figure since it entered lockdown. the uk government has insisted that primary schools in england will be safe when some pupils return at the beginning ofjune. but a leading minister acknowledged that risk could not be eliminated. teaching unions have safety concerns, in particular over how teachers and children can maintain social distancing. the mayor of ezell‘s largest city says the health system in this city is close to collapse as demand grows for emergency hospital beds to deal with covid 19. he said the cities public hospitals had reached 90% capacity. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk.