now it s time for the coronavirus newscast. there have been so many words this week to describe the dominic cummings situation what was it the government used officially to describe it? entirely reasonable. yeah. entirely legal. yeah. then it moved on to it being about following instincts. hmm. and then it moved on a bit to. move on! yes, more sort of end of story. move on! and then durham police said might , and that was briefly the most used word on twitter in britain at one point today. and then there s the words the public have been using, here is emma barnett from 5 live with some of the words that have been on her daily phone in. foolish, furious and bored. more from emma later in the podcast, and plenty more words on plenty more subjects. but mostly about coronavirus. welcome to the coronavirus newscast. the coronavirus newscast from the bbc. hello, it s adam in the studio. and laura in the same studio for once, but two metres apart. and fergus in new broadcasting house, in a studio all to myself. aw! several miles away, but still with us in spirit. now, it s another one of those milestones, because the restrictions on our movements in england, certainly, get reviewed every three weeks. today was one of the review days, borisjohnson was at the downing street podium describing it all. some stuff we knew already, so some primary school classes going back in england from monday. yep. some shops reopen in england from the 15th ofjune. yep. dentists, if they can. yes, coronacasters who ve been taking a close interest in this, dentistry is on the way back in england at least. on the 8th ofjune, if they ve got enough ppe and can operate safely. and borisjohnson officially launched the start of barbecue season with your mates. here s how he did it. we will allow up to six people to meet outside, provided those from different households continue strictly to observe social distancing rules by staying two metres apart. at the moment, as you know, people can meet in parks, but not in private gardens. and this was a cautious first step, but we know that there is no difference in the health risk. so we will now allow people to meet in gardens and other private outdoor spaces. fergus, is this too good to be true? is it garden parties morning, noon and night in england from now on? this is the joy of six, adam! six degrees of separation! let s get into the detail here, so you ve got to be really careful when you hand over that charred sausage to your maiden aunt who you haven t seen for two months. and you ve also got to be really careful if one of your invitees says, i really need the loo. can they go in your house? and the answer, chris whitty said, yes, they can, if they re desperate, but they ll have to do a thorough clean afterwards. so this is a way you can get people to come in and clean your toilet for you. yeah, although i have to say, when i heard him say that, i kind of thought, don t people leave other people s bathrooms tidy anyway? maybe there s a cheap gender point to be made here. you don t use an antiseptic wipe to wipe down the surfaces. he said a thorough clean. and also there s a four nations thing here as well, because nicola sturgeon, the first minister of scotland, she actually said something slightly different at lunchtime today. yes, in scotland, actually, although overall the scottish government has been more cautious generally, actually, in scotland, the number, i think, will be eight people you ll be allowed to meet. but i think it s really important to know, whether it s eight or six. you still absolutely have to keep your distance to people. this is not meant to be a free for all. but it represents a very big move into phase three. remember, we had that sort of, you know, going for gold. anyone remember that? going for gold, that quiz show. we ve sort of gone from five, which was the terrible, sort of almost dreadful peak of the virus, we ve been in phase four, now phase three, which means the government has passed, confusingly, their five tests, throwing lots of numbers out there. but it s a big moment from monday in england and scotland and northern ireland and wales, although the the finer details are slightly different. it s a big deal that we re moving into the next phase. lockdown isn t over. but we ve taken quite a few big steps towards sort of something like new normality. and, fergus, this isn t the bubbles thing we ve talked about before, whereby maybe your parents could come round to your house and do your childcare for their grandkids, even though the prime minister did say it s an opportunity for people to see their grandparents and parents. yeah, people who may not have met up for a couple of months now, and it can be six people from different households. so it really is a big deal. and it s also, i suppose, adam, it s quite a big risk if people don t pay attention to it properly, because it is still the case, isn t it, that there are still lots of new cases? the r is still that crucial infection rate. that s still between 0.7 and 0.9. one, remember, is the phase, if it goes above that number, then it could start going out of control again. and you know, sir patrick vallance, who s the government s chief scientific adviser, still sounded very, very cautious about what s going on. there is not a lot of room to do things, and things need to be done cautiously, step by step, and monitored. and the tests and trace system needs to be effective in order to manage that. fergus, i thought he sounded actually quite gloomy there. is he doing that to just be like, hold your horses, everyone? we ve still got to be careful, this is to stop everyone barbecuing morning, noon and night? or actually, is there a bit of a problem here that actually the virus is not disappearing as fast as we would like from the uk? absolutely from chris whitty and patrick vallance, there were massive notes of caution that this shouldn t be seen as the start of, hey, barbecue season and we ve defeated this. and there s real concern that we could see another surge in cases. the indications are, in terms of hospital numbers, hospital admissions with covid, the number of people in intensive care with covid 19, all those figures are falling, but still something like 54,000 new infections in england alone each week. so the virus is very much still out there. and constantly they were reminding people, you ve got to maintain social distancing. right, we ve gone this long without mentioning the name dominic cummings, the prime minister s adviser, who has now admitted, said he drove to county durham to stay with his extended family, although he didn t necessarily stay with them, he was staying near them. in a different house. he drove to barnard castle, a nice town, a0 minutes down the road. and the police have been. i won t say, investigating it, they looked into it. they looked into it because they had reports and complaints from members of the public, and durham police, after all the political hoohah this week, it s been a huge political problem for the government all week, we got this afternoon a statement from durham police, which mps were joking about them having splinters in places that aren t necessarily that comfortable, because they were sitting on the fence to quite such an extent. however, actually, it was a very technical and detailed statement. basically, what the police said in terms of mr cummings leaving london to go to durham to get childcare on hand in case things all went wrong for him and his wife, they didn t have a problem with that. they said that that was reasonable, which was his case really all along on that central allegation. but they did say if they d happened to bump into him in barnard castle, they would have told him to go home. they would have said, i m really sorry, but here s your helpful reminder of the instructions or social distancing, and you should go back to yourfamily property in durham. but the way they said it is, well, that that might have been a minor breach, and therefore they re not going to take any more action. so if you like, there was kind of something in it for everyone, because this has been a furious political row, and people who have a real animus against him, and who were insisting that he should go and he should quit can say, look, well, they would have told him to go home if he hadn t, and on the other hand, for downing street, who are desperate to keep him and he s desperate to stay, then it said, well, case closed, move on, no retrospective action. if , might , minor , not . well, exactly! exactly. but i think. i mean, any kind of political brouhaha like this, there s a sort of anatomy of it in terms of the number of days that it plays. and it s not a game, i don t mean it in that way, but when you cover these kinds of stories over a period of years, there s always a sort of initial explosion of outrage, which there certainly has been this week, right? this is not a bubble story, as number ten sometimes tries to dismiss things, no question this has had big impact and people have been very, very cross. but we have also started to hear from some members of the public in the last couple of days, and i know from my inbox i always go on about, some people are i like, move on, the guy did a silly thing, he hasn t said sorry, but it s time to shut up about it. but not everybody feels that way in politics, really not. well, we were looking for a way to how can we gauge the public mood, as they say, on proper news programmes, and we thought let s speak to emma barnett, who does a 5 live phone in nearly every single day, she has her ear to the entire british public, at least the ones that call and text 5 live. here s her summary of just how it s felt being in the hot seat this week. it is safe to say, since brexit, we have not had such a large response on phone calls, on the text console, on email, on social media, to this story regarding the prime minister s senior aide, dominic cummings. and people have been split, but i would say that the overwhelming feeling at the beginning of the week was rage. people telling us their stories, the sacrifices they had made, that feeling that it was one rule for him, another rule for them. i heard so many stories of people who just haven t gone to their children or their grandchildren down the road who ve had covid and now feel like they could have done. we also heard just total confusion as to what this now meant for the rules, had they been following them right. we also heard people saying we re bored, move on, this is you, this is the media, this is somebody who was just trying to do the right thing for his family, what are you doing, why you keep going with this? and then at the same time, the minute you read those messages out, a whole load more came in saying, i pay for my licence fee, i want the right to talk about this. and unlike what the prime minister said in the liaison committee, move on, move on, move on , i don t want to move on, so i m going to talk about this. every time we tried to move on, we were brought back to it. and then, of course, with the people saying they were bored of it, that also included a group of people who felt that the bbc had its own agenda to keep going with it. i know it seems really obvious to say this, but yeah, public opinion isn t one thing. of course it s not. but it has changed over the last few days. and it s interesting what emma was saying there, that s kind of a reflection of the stuff, you know, the incoming. at the beginning, the vast majority of people were saying, i cannot believe this, i am appalled. and then as the sort of anatomy of the thing moves on and people start to say, yeah, all right, can you crack on now? but the political point is a real one. and i think there has been a fracture over this between the prime minister s team in number ten and the rest of the tory party. and i m not minimising the public‘s feeling about it, but from a political point of view, it s notjust going to disappear because it s really soured relationships between number ten and some of their employees. that s a problem even when you ve got a 80 seat majority, you still have to have your troops on side. because more than a0 conservative mps have said he should resign. publicly, and the number behind the scenes is a lot bigger than that. and a lot of people in the cabinet are really furious. four cabinet ministers said to me in one day on this. what day are we? i don t know! this week, that he should resign. one of them was practically could hardly speak, they said, i cannot tell you how angry i am. and it tells you a lot about this administration that they can have sort of cabinet rage, a0 members of their own party going public to say he should quit, and be like nah . and they they believe in downing street that the public mood has kind of changed and actually it won t be a long term problem. but, you know, i was going to say time will tell, but that s a terrible reporter s thing to say, so i won t! is it true, though. but then this afternoon we had this sort of. what should i call it? an episode at the downing street briefing where you asked a question. yes. to the two men who were stood either side of borisjohnson, chris whitty, the chief medical officer for england, and sir patrick vallance, the chief scientific adviser and. well, you know what? just listen to this, this is how it played out. durham police have said this afternoon they would have sent dominic cummings home if they d found him in barnard castle. if one of your most senior team wasn t paying proper attention to the rules, why should anyone else? and to the doctors, if i may, is that the kind of example that you want people to follow? well, laura, first of all, can i say, i ve said quite a lot on this matter already, and i also noticed that what the durham police said was that they were going to take no action and that the matter was closed. and i intend to to draw a line under the matter. as i said, i think yesterday to the parliamentary liaison committee, they re not taking any action, and i intend to draw a line under it. and i know that you ve asked chris and patrick. but i m going to interpose myself, if i may, and protect them from what i think would be an unfair and unnecessary attempt to ask a political question. it s very, very important that our medical officers and scientific advisers do not get dragged into what i think most people will recognise is fundamentally a political argument. if that s all right, laura. could we go now to robert peston of itv? got muted. some people thought that was incredibly controversial, laura. well, it s a bit strange because, well, for several reasons. number one, if a press conference is a press conference, well, then the people who are appearing at lecterns are there to answer questions. so, you know, iwould say that obviously. number two, it s not like professor chris witty and sir patrick vallance are somehow kind of weaklings who aren t perfectly able to. ingenues! yeah, exactly. they re not green to this business. they re both highly experienced professional people who ve done lots of those briefings and who have very helpfully, i think for the public, answered lots and lots of questions. and also, you know, this is about this next phase of the lockdown. it is imperative that the public‘s got faith in the people who are making decisions on their behalf, because it s going to be much more down to our own discretion because there isn t one blanket rule. and you know, therefore, how people in downing street who have written the rules behave is something i m probably sure that they would have a view on and who would have been perfectly able to say, actually, i don t want to get involved in politics, as they did a bit later, but i d urge everyone to follow the rules or, you know, whatever. but i just wonder if they d said to boris johnson, i ll do the press conference, but i m certainly not going to answer any questions about that. or if number ten said, we want you to be at the press conference, but we ll make sure you don t get asked about it. who knows? this will be the stuff of, you know.. memoirs. oh, yes. fergus, very quickly, day one of test and trace in england, how has it gone? just very briefly. well, as you say, day one of test and trace in england, test and protect in scotland. there were some teething problems. we were told in advance it wasn t going to be the full thing. some people, the people who ve been hired to do the tracing, said they couldn t log on. but it s out there. it s not the finished article. but there were more than 2,000 people they were going to be contacting and then they spend about an hour with each of them and then people who are their contacts, their close contacts, will get a text or an email saying you must self isolate, you must do your civic duty, as matt hancock put it, and self isolate for ia days whether or not you have any symptoms. and we will have to wait and see how many people comply with that. still very divided about whether i want to call or not, because the fomo of, i want to be part of it. but then there s. .. the fomo you ve got from self isolating for ia days. but you want the experience. it really means that, you know, from today it s more important than ever to really socially distance because you don t want to be in the situation where you think, oh, well, i did, i actually did was really quite close to that person in the office. if they then end up testing positive, they can think, oh, i did have that close contact with laura, so i better name her and then that s it. laura, you re off for two weeks. let s keep this to the theoretical. wise words. i mean, it s a reminder. it really matters. it really, really matters. emma barnett kindly reminded us that the last thing that stoked this much controversy was brexit. so let s bring that back. of course, long time listeners will know that this used to be a podcast called brexitcast before it became coronavirus newscast. and there s a very famous episode that s gone down in history where laura and katya adler, our europe editor, had a laugh about a very naughty news story from denmark. now, social media sensation meggie foster, who is the lip synching queen, has managed to dig up that episode. and here is what she did with it. no! so denmark s coming up to general election. and you know how these days, especially with populism on the rise, the idea for traditional politicians, is how do we get closer to the people? how do we get more and show that we re more in touch? so this danish politician, in order to try and make a name for himself. i know where this is going! ..said he wanted to go where the people were. and so he has an advertisement on a porn site or various porn sites. i mean, i m not quite sure. which one did you see it on? i can t actually tell you what it says. it basically says. let s just bleep this out. what is it say? what does it say?! vote for me and what? i can t remember, i can t remember. vote for me after you finished. no! so, he wants to put himself in the same. anyway. we re going to have to. he won t be posting a link! i have memories of that as me just saying, come on, let s get back to the serious stuff. i think that has shocked fergus. we ll spare your blushes. yes. we ll see you later. take care. then we ll say hello to the third person in that clip. it s katya adler. hello, katya. hello. i m good, thank you. and how are you? i had tojust push the chair away from me before i came across in the studio. and that makes me miss you all the more, adam. and but other than that, thank you. i m good. now, on to matters brexit related. it feels that quite a few things have happened in the last few weeks with like letters going backwards and forwards. the government in the uk published a paper about how the ireland protocol would work, but then i thought, has actually anything really happened, katya? so, it s yes and no, you know, it s one of those things where when you re on the inside, it feels like there s lots of stuff happening. but when you take that big step away, you say, look, i think all the predictions are, despite the fact that, you know, at the end of the ofjune, there s a big eu uk summit that, according to the withdrawal agreement, is the legal date by which the eu and uk have to say if there s going to be an extension to negotiations, an extension to the transition period or not. downing street says definitely not. so that s sort of a moment. but all predictions here in brussels, anyway, is that we re going to have another hot autumn. so a bit like autumn 2019 with a lot of last minute negotiations and each side thinking that the other will buckle under the pressure because when you say what s changed, i mean, people here in the uk, kind of political and civil servants types think they ve detracted from michel barnier, a bit of movement on a potential fishing deal, which is one of the big sticking points. has he. is there room for manoeuvre there? or is thatjust a bit of wishful thinking? so, it s sort of like deja vu again, not just that we re going to have a hot autumn, but, you know, it s again where michel barnier says something. he was talking about the maximalist approach that the eu is taking when it comes to fishing. butjust this week, he had a meeting with the eight coastal eu countries, that includes spain and france and the netherlands, and those countries, so it s the countries who are being more hard line. and they re saying to michel barnier, forget it. we don t want any wiggle room. we ve pretty much just want to keep those quotas for our fishermen in uk waters with this new agreement. and that is something that the uk said it absolutely won t sign up to. they re right at the other end. they say, look, we want to negotiate this year on year. so the two sides are still very far apart on that. ithink, though, that like when you talk to negotiators like outside the rooms, they can all see that there could be room for manoeuvre on fishing. there could be room for manoeuvre in the european commission here amongst the member states on those level playing field provisions, how it is worded and stuff like that. maybe the uk could give in a bit on governance, you know, whether it s one overarching agreement or a set of mini deals and maybe there s some kind of meeting ground there. but the mood music, because you mentioned, adam, you know those two letters from the two key negotiators, david frost in the uk and michel barnier here, were pretty, pretty tough sounding. but then i think we re back to the same musings that we had leading up to the brexit deal, which is how much that is said in public is aimed at a domestic audience, you know, standing tough, and how much is actually aimed at the other side? now, it s notjust that the political situation is different with a different government, with a whopping majority, it s also that the coronavirus crisis is so, so much bigger than all of this. but, you know, hopefully touch wood, it won t be forever, even though, you know, we are getting those. michael gove and the negotiator really put on the spot this week by mps, trying to sound like everything was going swimmingly, adam, were they? yeah. so this is the future relationship with the eu select committee. and like all select committees in parliament, it s done via video conferencing now. and david frost, the uk s chief negotiator, and michael gove, who s the chancellor of the duchy of lancaster, were in their office. i mean, to me, this look like an antiques collector s youtube channel. but actually, it is about the negotiations. and then michael gove got all kind of sport, which is not normally what michael gove does. not what you d expect. let s have a listen. and finally, are you still, i think, more than two thirds confident of a trade deal with the eu by the end of the year? i am a fan of aberdeen and queen s park rangers, so i m a natural optimist. don t quite understand that, but. teams that don t always do very well, so you have to be an optimist to support them. you know even less about football than i do? yes. because that s a low bar. katya, i m gonna let you go now because you re doing a radio a documentary. thank you. lovely to see you. bye. right, now, did you see the warning from charity shops today, laura? yes. they re worried that we re just all going, like, to bring an avalanche of stuff to them when we re allowed to go to them on june 15th. yes. and i was very cross the other day because, you know those clothing bins where you can go and put stuff in. yeah. and i passed one the other day and people had just been leaving stuff all over the pavement around it. yeah, i actually experienced exactly the same thing. let s chat now to janet patterson, who runs the save the children shop in stockton heath in warrington. hello, janet. hello. are you worried about the avalanche of quite rubbish stuff that could come your way? quite likely, yes. our usual donors are obviously very proud of what they bring. of course, yes. it s the thought of the door opening and everybody wanting to get rid of everything because there are queues outside the tips that have been opened. so you almost think that people think they re going to do the right thing by giving everything to the shop. i m not convinced that they are. do you feel that you ll be ready to reopen? i mean, like lots and lots of different businesses, you ve got loads of things to talk about, the complexity of second hand and how you move all of that. do you think you ll be able to do it and have both your staff and also the volunteers and customers actually feeling comfortable about it? well, that s is a big problem. i m a volunteer myself and we re lucky enough. we have 50 volunteers in our shop, which is a huge number. however, of the 50, only 15 or 16 of us are under 70. and that s where the problem is going to be, that a lot of the over 70s i think are going to be really wary about coming back to volunteer. going back to where we started about what is good to bring to the charity shop and not, i ve actually been having a tidy up in my house. i wanted to just run some things past you about whether this is stuff that you d welcome or not. janet, by the way, just as he gets going, if you feel that this is uncomfortable about anything that he s suggesting the children might like, just tell me and i can stop him! just tell the truth. i would not be embarrassed because there s stuff i want to get rid of. right, first of all, we ve got a blazer, blue and white stripes. i mean, i don t know what i was thinking when i bought this. it s in good condition, though. i didn t wear it very much because it s not actually very nice. would you be happy to accept that? we would, as long as it s not got, with all due respect, a dirty collar on it. and looks all. yeah, i probably wore that. and it hasn t got holes in it or a rip or anything like that, if all its buttons are there. next item. these are some old swim shorts, with a lovely watermelon pattern. right. shorts. would you take them? yes, i think we would. summer s coming. because i was worried that maybe they re a bit too intimate apparel. swimwear is ok. 0k. underwear is a bit, no thank you, we don t want it. this is a first. showing us your used trunks on national television. good luck with the reopening. finally this is a book about negotiating, it s quite good, would you want a book like that? yes, it doesn t all have to be paperback fiction, it s surprising how much nonfiction we sell. good luck with the reopening. thank you very much. thank you. i am impressed that she thought that she would accept your used trunks. they were clean, weren t they? of course they were. of course i ve washed them! ijust wanted to establish that before we go! thanks, everyone, forjoining us. and thank you for listening. we ll be back with another episode very soon. bye. this is bbc news i m lewis vaughan jones with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. anger across america: this is the scene right now in boston where hundreds of activists and police have clashed at protests over the death of george floyd. protests continue in minneapolis after the police sacked after he was filmed kneeling on the neck of a black man in minneapolis was charged with his murder. president trump offers his sympathy to george floyd s family he calls on protesters to hold peaceful demonstrations. a curfew is due to be imposed in the next hour. i spoke with his family today, terrific people, i think it is so bad for the memory when you see anything like that going on,
welcome to bbc news. i m lewis vaughan jones. our top stories: these are life pictures in the us. live. the us national guard has been deployed in minneapolis to help control unrest triggered by the killing of an unarmed black man by police. when you do not deal with these conditions of inequities and racism and white supremacy in a nation, these are the kind of things that happen. people write, that their language, that s their frustration. people riot. western countries condemn china s planned new hong kong security law, saying it threatens basic freedoms. targeting twitter president trump signs an executive order aimed at social media companies. easing the lockdown in england and scotland, where people can gather in groups from monday. welcome to bbc news. the us city of minneapolis is bracing for a third night of unrest, following the death of george floyd who was an unarmed black man who died as he was being held to the ground by police. the usjustice department and the fbi say they re giving top priority to their investigation into the killing. let s cross to live pictures we have been following over the last couple of hours. initially we saw a peaceful road test, people marching down busy roads, these are the scenes live on the streets on day three. dozens of protesters have smashed windows and offices. the minnesota governor, tim walz, said he s called in the national guard to help keep order. now, community leaders also called for calm after police fired tear gas at rioters and looting took place at some stores on wednesday night. you can see the rather chaotic scenes here again for the third night ina scenes here again for the third night in a row. there have been protests across the country as well, police being the main focal point of the protests. the police chief has apologised to the family of the victim, george floyd. you may have seen the video which showed him saying he couldn t breathe as a police officer now on his neck. four police officers have been fired. nada tawfik has more. america s long and painful history of police brutality has always been an open wound. chanting: don t shoot! in minneapolis, for the second day, demonstrators spilt into the streets after the death of george floyd their protests an outlet for the emotional trauma of watching unarmed black men die at the hands of the police year after year. chanting: george floyd! but as the night wore on, the peaceful chants were drowned out by violence. as the unrest spread, a rush of people began looting and vandalizing property. for hours at this store, crowds took down the aisles, stealing electronics and other goods. the anger turned into a night of fires that engulfed the lake street neighbourhood. it s unfortunate. it s sad. if people are there, truly there to honour the memory of the deceased and the family, this isn t how you do it. police said the 46 year old was arrested for allegedly using counterfeit money and had resisted officers, but video footage of the start of the encounter bore little resemblance to that official account, and then this moment which has left many sickened. a white police officer identified as derek chauvin knelt on george floyd s neck for more than seven minutes, even as he repeatedly said, i can t breathe. i cannot breathe! you are resisting arrest. new details are emerging about what happened once paramedics arrived. they found him unresponsive and without a pulse. for nearly an hour in the ambulance, they tried to revive him, but he was later pronounced dead at the hospital. chanting: we can t breathe! everyone! chanting: we can t breathe! yeah! activists are keeping up the pressure, calling for the immediate arrest of the four officers to face criminal charges. joining them was the mother of eric garner, a man who died under similar circumstances in 2014 in new york. the police officers come into our neighbourhoods. they brutalise, they terrorise, they murder our children, and we have done nothing. minneapolis is still smouldering from the chaos, and the city is preparing for more unrest even as george floyd s family calls for calm. nada tawfik, bbc news. so that has brought you up to date with how we got here. i want to take you back live now. these aerial shots of minneapolis, you can see that huge building on fire, fire trucks around there as well. this is note number three of these protests that have turned violent night number three of those protests that have turned violent. this is on the ground level, a separate shot on the ground of the chaotic scenes at the moment. police have fired tear gas. we have seen have fired tear gas. we have seen live pictures nearby a minnesota police station. lots of protesters. windows have been smashed, thrown stones at the offices, it is a chaotic scene. and this is exactly what community leaders hoped to avoid. there was calm throughout the day today, calls for calm throughout the day today from city officials, state officials, community leaders of wanting to avoid violence, avoid essentially a repeat of yesterday s violence and looting. that doesn t seem to have happened. you can see armed police there. the national guard reporting to try and quell this and calm this. it hasn t happened. a reminder, the point of these protests is because of the death of george floyd at the hands of four police officers. one police officer had his knee on his neck on the ground and he died. huge anger in the community. the four officers have been fired but there are calls now for those four officers to be arrested. that hasn t happened, but there are several investigations under way. federal investigation is under way. and we heard from officials earlier on that those investigations will happen as quickly as possible, they will be as thorough as needed, but that hasn t capped lots of community activists happy kept. a short time ago i spoke to dr bernice a king daughter of martin luther king and asked her if if people were happy with the fbi s investigation into the death of george floyd. well, as far as i m concerned, they can continue their investigation, but they have enough on probable cause to arrest the officers. that is the problem right now. and the frustration that people are feeling and the anger that these officers are still out there and they have committed a crime, regardless of what the investigators are saying at this particular point, it s very evident, looking at the video. so they ve been fired, but that isn t enough for you right now? no, no. i mean, firing does nothing. they could get theirjob back if there isn t a conviction. so firing means nothing. at this point, again, we need to see the wheels ofjustice rolling by having an immediate arrest. the mayor has called for that arrest, so many people have called for that arrest, people calling in unison there is enough probable cause to have these gentlemen arrested. an we have seen protests three days in a row. is it your sense that these protests will continue until an arrest is made, if one is? yes, because people are past the boiling point. we have been living under oppressive conditions as an african american community since we have been in this country. and people are fed up. i mean, they are at a tipping point and it is beyond boiling point. while i advocate always for the non violent way, i believe in it, i think it is the only way to a true, just, humane and peaceful society, the fact of the matter is. sorry to interrupt. given you have said that, what is your reaction, then, to what we saw last night? the violence and the rioting? what did you make of that? as i said, you know, i m focusing less on the rioting. i understand the pain from which it comes, i don t condone it, i don t support rioting. however, the conditions that have led to rioting is what the focus should be on, as opposed to merely just the riots. you know? in other words, peace comes through notjust the absence of the tension, but the presence of justice. and so if the wheels ofjustice are in order and the process goes, you will see less of that. and what you think your father would make of what s going on right now in 2020? i mean, he already said, he explained this in 1966, 67, when riots happened in los angeles. he said, look, when you don t deal with these conditions of inequities and racism and white supremacy in the nation, these are the kind of things that happen. people riot, that is their language, that is their frustration because we not addressing those things a nation. well, let s address some of those things now, then. what systemic changes do you think need to take place before we re covering another story like this next week, next month? well, let s be let s deal with reality first. something like this is probably going to happen again. but the energy now has to be that we organise our strength, as my father said, into compelling power to deconstruct and reconstruct the whole criminaljustice system, especially around law enforcement. our legal system and law enforcement system particularly in the south was based in keeping black people in check. and the use of this force and power has been used for generations. so we have to reconstruct our police department so police cannot get away with excessive force. there needs to be laws in place, there needs to be policies in place. we have to look at the whole structure and system around law enforcement and change it. it s going to take time to do that but we need to put our energy into that. and that presumably would require political leadership. what s your message to political leadership in the united states right now? well, you know, you can require political leadership or a groundswell of grassroots organising. most of the time it s grassroots organisations that puts pressure on political leaders. political leaders are oftentimes trying to be politically correct, whether they are republican or democrat or independent. there are very few elected officials otherwise. so it needs to be grassroots putting pressure on. they need to look at the way law enforcement is done in this country. bernice a king. let s bring you some live pictures now from minneapolis where it is dark but people are out. it has just it hasjust gone it has just gone iopm there. we will return if anything develops there. president trump has signed an executive order ta rgetting social media companies. he said companies including google, facebook and twitter had unchecked power to censor and restrict the views of users. it comes after twitter on wednesday tagged two of his posts as being misleading. the president had claimed that postal ballots would lead to voter fraud in this year s election. twitter reacted with this fact check warning, labelling donald trump s post as potential misinformation. mr trump has regularly accused social media platforms of stifling or censoring conservative voices. they have had unchecked power to restrict, edit, hide, alter virtually any form of communication between private citizens a large public audiences. there is no president in american history for so small a number of corporations to control so large a sphere of human interaction. and that includes individual people controlling vast amounts of territory, and we can t allow that to happen. we re joined from washington by daniel lippman, white house and washington correspondent for politico. thank you for being with us. we have an executive order by president trump here. could you expand very quickly and in the simplest terms, what is an executive order, and why is it slightly unusual? so, an executive order is something the president can order government agencies, his own departments, to review different laws and also try to change policy. but this is likely not to get past legally because he can t just likely not to get past legally because he can tjust rewrite laws that congress has written. and have them passed into law. so this is something that is more huffing and puffing because he is mad at twitter for fact checking some of his posts, versus something that will actually accomplish what he wants. thank you for putting that in contact for us. what is he trying to do, whether or not he trying to do, whether or not he succeeds? what he is trying to do is right now, there is a section of us law that basically immunises technology companies from facing lawsuits about content on their websites. it makes it very hard to sue facebook or twitter or google or something that you see on their website that is against you or mentions you or anything. so he is trying to wipe that protection away. the ironic thing is that if he is successful, and he is likely not going to be, that would make technology companies more likely to delete posts pretty quickly to not get lawsuits. a lot of those posts they might have to delete our tweeds that donald trump is posting where he is attacking various people and spreading disinformation. tweets. and spreading disinformation. tweets. and we had a note of caution at the beginning this is likely to be challenged. with this whole incident have much effect at all on the electorate? i don t think the average voter is going to cast their ballot for trumbull abidin based on these pretty technical issue trump or biden. silicon valley investors oi’ biden. silicon valley investors or employees go about this matter, but i think there are a lot of conservatives who feel they have been censored by technology companies or are trying to be politically correct. but i don t think the vast majority of voters are going to care. they are more concerned about the economy, you know, a0 million people have lost their jobs you know, a0 million people have lost theirjobs because of the pandemic and who has the best plan among candidates to bring back the us economy? thank you for that, daniel lippman. thank you. stay with us on bbc news. still to come. using the lockdown on england and scotla nd lockdown 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why? this is bbc news. the latest headlines: the national guard has been called in to quell new protests in the american city of minneapolis, following unrest over the killing of an african american man by police. these are live pictures of the protests under way now. the british foreign secretary, dominic raab, says he s going to make it easier for some hong kong citizens to move to the uk unless china reconsiders implementing its new national security law on the territory. the us, canada, australia and the uk released a joint statement saying the law, designed to criminalise acts of subversion, would curtail individual liberties. our correspondentjohn sudworth reports from beijing. as they arrived for the closing day of parliament, beijing s tiananmen square was quiet. there are no protests over lockdowns here. inside, china s president had a spring in his step, the virus under control is seen as vindication for him and for a system untroubled by messy democratic debate. there can be no starker illustration of that than this. a new national security law imposed on hong kong with 2,878 votes in favour and just one against. the fear that any anti china protest might now be classed as subversion has led to an international outcry, including this surprise announcement for the 300,000 hong kongers who hold british overseas passports. if china continues down this path and implements this national security legislation, we will change that status and we will remove the 6 month limit and allow those bno passport holders to come to the uk and to apply to work and study for extendable periods of 12 months and that will itself provide a pathway to future citizenship. the move will infuriate china, which insists its new law will target only a minority of violent demonstrators. translation: the decision adopted is designed for steady implementation of one country, two systems, and hong kong s prosperity. but china is slowly tightening control. as its parliament came to a close in beijing, hong kong s politicians were in disarray over another new law. if passed, it would make disrespecting china s national anthem a criminal offence. john sudworth, bbc news, beijing. borisjohnson has announced a further easing of lockdown in england. he said that from monday, up to six people from different households could meet outside. but he said people should still not meet up indoors, and should maintain social distancing even outdoors. meanwhile, police say his top adviser dominic cummings, who s been at the centre of a political storm after he was accused of breaking lockdown restrictions, may have done so in one minor instance. laura kuenssberg has this report. what will it look like on the other side? the reflections of a new reality slowly starting to appear. a different life after lockdown, as the rules begin to relax. the prime minister made it official today in england the next phase is on the way. i cannot and will not throw away all the gains we have made together, and so the changes we are making are limited and cautious. it s thanks to the caution we ve shown so far that all five tests are being met. that means from monday, as long as you keep your distance, some freedom will return. we will allow up to six people to meet outside, provided those from different households continue strictly to observe social distancing rules. these changes mean that friends and family can start to meet their loved ones, perhaps seeing both parents at once or both grandparents at once. and i know that for many people this will be a long awaited and joyful moment. this is not a click your fingers moment when suddenly things will snap back to normal, and moving safely into a different looking world depends on all of us still respecting the government s keep your distance rules, but could that be more complicated after the last few torrid days? there was an outcry when it was revealed that the prime minister s top advisor travelled from london to durham and made a 60 mile separate journey out of lockdown to the town of barnard castle. the police said today they would have told dominic cummings to go back to his family home, if they had stopped him that day, concluding there might have been a minor breach of the rules. if one of your most senior team wasn t paying proper attention to the rules, why should anyone else? and to the doctors, if i may, is that the kind of example that you want people to follow? durham police said that they were going to take no action, and that the matter was closed, and i intend to draw a line under the matter. you ve asked chris and patrick, but i am going to interpose myself, if i may, and protect them from what i think would be an unfair and unnecessary attempt to ask a political question. it s very, very important that our medical officers and scientific advisers do not get dragged into what i think most people will recognise is fundamentally a political argument. but the pressure on the prime minister won t disappear. nobody should be stopped from answering questions from journalists. but it s the prime minister here who s in issue. he s been too weak throughout this whole episode. he should have acted swiftly. if i d been prime minister, i would have sacked dominic cummings. we have now effectively wasted a week when we should have been concentrating on the safety of what comes next. political dramas pale, of course, next to the loss felt by so many and the true effects on the country that are emerging piece by piece. let s bring you some live pictures now from minneapolis where there are more protests, more violence and clashes have broken out between protestors and police. that huge fire rating there with our building. we don t know who started it or what the motives were. he you can see protesters still on the street. here. we have seen stand off between protesters and police earlier on. people holding up signs, people with their hands in the air. the national guard reported to try to quell any violence, to try to stop a repeat of what happened the night before, but they haven t been successful. it has not happened. this is now the third night of protest and clashes. this after the death of george floyd and a number of black man who died when he was being held on the ground by police. a police officer kneeling on his neck. he was saying he could not breathe but was not released. the four officers involved in that incident have all been fired and there is an investigation by the fbi, but no arrest have so far been made. arrests. we will keep you up to date with all the events there in minneapolis. do stay with us. for now though i m lewis vaughan jones stay with us. for now though i m lewis vaughanjones and this is bbc world news. hello. we know this spring has been warm. it s been very dry in some spots. and now news aboutjust how sunny it s been, with the met office saying provisionalfigures indicate that it s been the uk s sunniest spring on record. and with high pressure close by for friday into the weekend, most will stay sunny and dry, warm, very warm, even hot in some spots. in fact, friday, the flow of air around this high pressure as it moves north across the uk will favour parts of scotland to see the uk s high temperature of the day, close to 28 celsius. now, we start the day with temperatures for some in single figures, though they will rise quickly in the sunshine. any low cloud across parts of eastern coastal england will disappear, along with any misty low cloud around the murray firth in scotland. orkney brightening up, shetland staying mainly cloudy. but for most of the uk, it s sunshine all the way. it is now a prevailing east southeastly breeze. and that means that east facing coasts will see temperatures towards the teens rather than the low to mid 20s across the bulk of the uk, and, again, nudging the upper 20s in the hottest parts of scotland. temperature not the only thing high. uv levels as well. strong may sunshine. do take care if you re outside for any period of time. and pollen, moderate to high for many of us, as grass pollen levels are on the increase. now, friday looks like a fine evening, plenty of sunshine to end the day. again, temperatures will head down overnight, so if you do try to cool the house down overnight, we re expecting some spots, again, tojust dip down into single figures. and a largely sunny start to saturday morning. and again, just to show you the big picture, it s high pressure maybe just pushing out towards scandinavia, but it is still blocking weather fronts that would give us some rain otherwise from getting to us from the atlantic. so, on saturday, there may be a bit of patchy cloud developing here and there, the sun may turn hazy in some spots, but for most, it s a sunny story, a brighter one in shetland as well. still the breeze keeping some eastern coastal parts cooler than elsewhere. again, we re talking widely in the low to mid 20s. and then on sunday, again, some patchy cloud developing here and there, but for most places, it will be sunny, it will be dry, it will be very warm. just a hint of something cooler at the end of next week.
this is bbc news. the headlines: the national guard has been called in to help restore order in the american city of minneapolis which has now seeen its third night of violence and unrest. crowds have been protesting against the killing of an african american man at the hands of the police. the state governor said he took the decision following widespread rioting on wednesday. the united states, britain, canada and australia have issued a joint statement warning that china s national security law in hong kong would curtail individual liberties there. they said it raised the prospect of people being convicted of political crimes and would make existing tensions worse. president trump has signed an executive order targeting social media companies, after being angered by twitter tagging two of his posts as potentially misleading. the measures limit the legal immunity the companies have against being held liable for what people post on their platforms. for two and a half months, streets across the uk have been
this is bbc news, the headlines. disturbances broke out overnight in the us city of atlanta after a black man is shot dead by white police officers. his family s lawyer spoke officers. his family s lawyer spoke of his frustration. i don t even know what justice of his frustration. i don t even know whatjustice is any more and i have been doing this for 15 years. more than 100 people are arrested after a day of violent clashes in central london involving some far right activists. the uk prime minister, borisjohnson, right activists. the uk prime minister, boris johnson, orders right activists. the uk prime minister, borisjohnson, orders a review of the two metre social distancing role in england after calls to scrap it. remembering the 72 people who died in the grenfell tower fire. in london three years ago matt lucas and david walliams apologise for the use of blackface make up in the comedy series little britain. tourists start returning to venice as restrictions are eased, but locals demand limits on numbers. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. our top story there has been another night of unrest in the united states as racial tensions and anger at police brutality continue to grow following the killing of another black man, rayshard brooks, by police in the city of atlanta. police fired tear gas when protesters blocked a major road and set fire to a drive through restaurant where the killing of rayshard brooks took place on friday. one of the two white policemen involved has been sacked, and atla nta s police chief has resigned. atlanta is one of many us cities to have seen protests since the killing last month of george floyd by police in minneapolis. cctv footage of the incident shows mr brooks fleeing on foot from police after a scuffle with officers in the restaurant car park. local investigators claim that mr brooks had failed an alcohol test, and obtained one of the officer s tasers as he fled. moments later, he was fatally shot. in the aftermath, police fired tear gas when protesters blocked a major road and set fire to the restaurant where the killing took place, as protests continued late into the night. here s the latest from rich preston. and a warning, this story contains some distressing pictures. crowds got angrier through the night here in atlanta after news of the death of another black man at the hands of american police officers. that anger spilled onto the streets. the fast food restaurant next to the scene of the killing was set alight. major highways were blocked. police say mr brooks failed a sobriety test and resisted arrest. they say he was able to get one of the officer s tasers, and tried to use it against him. they responded with live ammunition. the killing comes amid a global wave of lack lives matter protest. the killing comes amid a global wave of black lives matter protests. the officer involved has been fired. while there may be debate as to whether this was an appropriate use of deadly force, i firmly believe that there is a clear distinction between what you can do and what you should do. i do not believe that this was a justified use of deadly force. the city s police chief has resigned, but it s unlikely that will placate these people who say racism is built into american society. the officers need to be arrested and it s not ok, it s not ok that every day i have to wake up and learn a new name, new hashtag, a new life that was lost because of the injustice that america has for a system that was built in the 1600s. i could say we wantjustice but i don t even care anymore, i don t know even what that is, and i ve been doing this for 15 years. i don t know what justice is anymore. is it getting them arrested, is it getting somebody fired, is it a chief stepping down? i know that this isn tjustice, what s happening in society right now. what young black people see is the continued drumbeat of injustice instead of a drumbeat towards justice. of course they feel disenfranchised. two or three of the motions that come from sustained oppression are apathy and despondency. around a third of people in georgia are african american. despite the black lives matter movement, they see american society as built against them and they fear for their future. richard preston, bbc news. here in the uk. more than 100 people were arrested during yesterday s violent demonstrations in central london involving far right groups. they were detained for offences including violent disorder, breach of the peace and possessing weapons. six police officers were injured. the prime minister described the attacks on police as racist thuggery. sean dilley has this report. thousands of people join protests, despite calls from police to stay at home. many were peaceful, but violent clashes soon broke out. police officers were attacked throughout the day as they attempted to keep distance between anti racism and far right groups. a barrage of missiles were launched at them. in whitehall, the crowd pushed their way through and tried to attack photographers. the prime minister, borisjohnson, condemned the minority of protesters on twitter. he said: the individuals that are basically putting the safety of our police officers and the safety of the public at risk will expect to face the full force of the law. people from a variety of backgrounds turned out as self proclaimed protectors of statues after winston churchill s monument was damaged last week. this protester told us he felt british history under attack. come on. i mean, he had some racist views but, at the end of the day, he led us through our darkest hour. i mean, i m from south london, i ve grown up with black people. we are all working class, live side by side. nobody here is an issue with blm. police are investigating this incident outside parliament. the memorial is to pc keith palmer, who was killed the 2017 westminster terror attacks. 0utside waterloo station, police stepped in to quell scuffles. across the day, six officers were injured, protesters too. this man, carried to safety by another protester. the violence in part of the capital contrast with other areas where protests were largely peaceful. sean dilley, bbc news. we can speak to a military veteran, colour sergeant trevor coult, who in 2006 received the military cross the third highest military decoration awarded to officers in the british armed forces. he was in westminster yesterday to protest peacefully. thank you for being with us, why did you go to those protests? what were you go to those protests? what were you trying to achieve given there is a health emergency, given the police and government had urged people to stay away. thank you. i went because ifiam stay away. thank you. i went because if i am honestly false reporting that has been happening in the media with what has been going on. yesterday was a day, a ring of steel around the cenotaph. we spoke to and got on with the police. they told us it was an illegal gathering, we knew that and we walked on. they were relaxed and then they went to the crowd. this involved police barricading off football fans. those causing the problems yesterday we re those causing the problems yesterday were certainly not veterans. the metropolitan police said this is going to get violent. they marched away peacefully. what happened next was uncalled for. i can assure you that it was a football fans yesterday actually were disgusted and they left. can ijust ask yesterday actually were disgusted and they left. can i just ask you why you felt the need to go there, as you say to protect statues, but the statues were already ordered up. the police say it is theirjob to protect statues, it is not yourjob. you are 100% right but if that is the case why did we see last week the case why did we see last week the police and watching people swinging off the cenotaph and trying to set fire to the union flag? at that in anywhere else in the uk, police officers would not let them burn ourflag. asking police officers would not let them burn our flag. asking why police officers would not let them burn ourflag. asking why did police officers would not let them burn our flag. asking why did you 90, burn our flag. asking why did you go, let me make this clear, the cenotaph, to veterans is as secret asa cenotaph, to veterans is as secret as a mosque is to immerse them, a synagogue is to a due. if they are being damaged, and the police, the most cctv to a jewish person. the most cctv to a jewish person. the most cctv to a jewish person. the most cctv road and they cannot identify the identify the people. the prime minister has condemned what he called racist thuggery, the home secretary has condemned what she called shameless scenes. you condemn that violence as well? 100%. that condemn that violence as well? 10096. that was nothing to do with football fans, nothing to do with veterans. i can assure you , fans, nothing to do with veterans. i can assure you, they were people who joined the demonstration, britain first and edl, scumbags who do not represent society, veterans and the values of football fans. it was disgusting. thank you. wow. thank you for doing that interview with us. in france there have been clashes between protesters and police in several cities. demonstrators are demanding an end to racism in french society. police fired tear gas after crowds threw fireworks and bottles. gail maclellan has this report. the demonstrations were most intense in the capital, paris, but also took place in marseille, nice and leon. in the capital around 15,000 gathered. they say the supposed glory of the republic doesn t apply to black people. rallies which started peacefully intensified. some protesters threw fireworks, bottles and paving stones with responded. 0fficials and paving stones with responded. officials say more than 20 people we re officials say more than 20 people were arrested, including 12 far right activist who draped a white wives matter banner from an apartment block. the global wave of protests against racism were sparked in america, and parallels were drawn to an incident here. the death of adama traore. to an incident here. the death of adama traore. .. what happened to george floyd is exactly the same as what happened to my little brother. people are dying. there are frequent allegations of excessive force. police say they will take a zero tolerance feed to racism and law enforcement and have banned restra i ns enforcement and have banned restrains voucher codes. police unions denied racism is rampant within the ranks. many people say once the fog has lifted, much will need to be done to address systemic racism in french society. boris johnson has ordered a review of the two metre social distancing rule in england. business leaders and some of mrjohnson‘s own mps have warned large parts of the hospitality industry will not survive if the rules aren t relaxed. the review will aim to be completed by the 11th ofjuly, the earliest date when pubs and restaurants might open in england. the recommended distance you should leave between you and other people varies from country to country. all four nations of the uk observe the 2 metre rule, as do spain and canada. it drops to one and a half metres if you are in australia, italy and germany. and then falls to a metre if you are in china, france or singapore. the official guidance from the world health 0rganisation says leave at least a metre between yourself and others to prevent the spread of coronavirus. but the uk government s scientific advisers say that being one metre apart carries up to 10 times the risk of being two metres apart. with me is our political correspondent, jessica parker with all that in mind,, this has been a difficult one for the government for some time now. but some pressure on borisjohnson and his cabinet to reduce the two metre rule. you probably heard this week borisjohnson has talked about keeping this two metre rule under co nsta nt keeping this two metre rule under constant review as he has come under pressure on the issue. he seems to have moved now to a formal review, the differences there is this date by which the review needs to report back to, july four, when hospitality begins to reopen. scientists as we have heard have been clear in england the further apart you are, the less likely you are to catch the virus. we will also hearfrom economists as the hospitality industry have made it clear that restau ra nts, industry have made it clear that restaurants, bars are concerned about the two metre rule. why? if you are two metres apart, you can fit fewer people into your venues, make less money and this industry has been hard hit by lockdown because business has had to shut for many weeks. this morning on sky, the home secretary was asked whether he supports the reduction. it should be introduced if the evidence indicates it should be. this is where we need to be careful. the public health position and the health of the economy go together. there is no point seeing them in conflict. if the government eased lockdown too quickly, moved to one metre without there being scientific advice backing that, you would end up with a second peak which would cause even greater economic damage. my message to the government is to be vigilant, be cautious, approach this in a structured way and publish the evidence so we can all see it. that is the labour opposition, some conservative mps putting pressure on borisjohnson conservative mps putting pressure on boris johnson saying conservative mps putting pressure on borisjohnson saying you do not need a review, just get on with it and drop the two metre row. iain duncan smith has questioned the need for a review. saying whatever distance you wa nt to review. saying whatever distance you want to go for, ultimately it is a politicaljudgment. boris want to go for, ultimately it is a political judgment. boris johnson might buy himself some time with this formal review but if we are looking at your life or for hospitality, there is not lots of time. it is a balance of risk ultimately and it is the prime minister s job ultimately and it is the prime minister sjob to ultimately and it is the prime minister s job to weigh that up. (pres) leading psychologists say the delay in getting children and adolescents back to schools here in the uk is a national disaster that is putting their mental health at risk. in an open letter to the education secretary, gavin williamson, signed by one hundred specialists in mental health, they say the isolation of lockdown is harming already vulnerable young people. and they urge the government to reconsider its decision and release children and young people from lockdown. today marks three years since the grenfell towerfire in london. to mark the anniversary, people in the uk are being urged to illuminate their homes with green lights to remember the 72 people who died. church bells will also sound across london. the grenfell united campaign group says the fight for safe homes and justice continues, as our correspondent rajini vaidya nathan reports. the faces of those who died in a tragedy which exposed some of the deep inequalities in our society. each story of loss is as painful today as it was three years ago. hesham rahman lived alone on the 23rd floor. his family say marking this anniversary during a pandemic is especially tough. we are still going the grieving process and the rest of the country right now is grieving because of covid, and people have lost family and friends ahead of their time and we are grieving with them, and covid brought a lot of bad emotions for us, especially for how things were after the fire because there were a lot of similarities, being glued to the tv, listening to the number of deaths rising every day. the fire began on the fourth floor after a ridge caught fire. after a fridge caught fire. a public enquiry blamed cheap combustible cladding on the building for its rapid spread. later the prime minister will deliver a message at a virtual memorial service where he will pledge to ensure a tragedy like grenfell never happens again. but a government target to remove flammable cladding on high rises by this month has yet to be met. about 2000 tower blocks in england alone are still potentially at risk. three years later, it s really frustrating that we re still talking about removing this cladding. it s just.the government keep making this announcement, but it materialising and actually happening is a completely different story. in one of london s wealthiest areas, some of its poorest weren t protected. grenfell tower has been described as a monument to inequality. what happened here three years ago is as relevant today as it was then. rajini vaidyanathan, bbc news. a uk government statement described the fire as a devastating tragedy , and said they re determined to ensure it can never happen again. the statement added: that s why we re providing £1.6 billion to ensure unsafe cladding is removed from high rise buildings as soon as possible, while also bringing forward the biggest legislative changes to building safety in a generation. we ll also shortly announce new measures to drive up standards in social housing and give tenants the stronger voice they deserve. let s get some of the day s other news. militants killed at least 20 soldiers and more than a0 civilians and injured hundreds in twin attacks in nigeria s borno state, on the country s northeast border, in the town of monguno, near lake chad. according to reports, the fighters were armed with heavy weaponry including rocket launchers when they arrived in the town, a hub for international non governmental organizations. chile, argentina, peru and colombia have reported a record number of covid 19 infections in the past 2a hours. argentina imposed strict quarantine measures nearly three months ago, but the number of cases has risen since it started easing restrictions. the worst affected country in latin america is still brazil, where 850 more people have died since friday. a swedish tv network has dropped a judge from its popular talent show after he repeatedly criticised the black lives matter movement. thousands of people had signed a petition calling for alexander bard to be sacked by tv ii. in one tweet, he said he was disgusted by the movement, saying it had become deranged. he also called activists self appointed victims and an idiotic lynch mob . one of the industries that s been hit hardest by the coronavirus lockdown is tourism. borders have been closed and people have been unable to travel so a holiday has been out of the question. in many places restrictions are now being eased but some, in italy, are calling for restraint as tim allman explains. venice is not open for business. at least that s the message these venetians want you to hear. a human chain and a giant banner stretched out over one of the city s famous canals. the people here calling for responsible tourism. an end to the mass invasion that comes every summer. visitors are already returning. the famous doge s palace has reopened its doors. but locals are calling for quality, not necessarily quantity. we hope to have, in the future, slow tourism. slow tourism. this is very important. it means not less tourism, but better, good organisation. this is the first thing. around 30 million people visit venice each year, a city with a native population of little more than 50,000. many only come for the day, bringing little income to the local economy. and residents say many neighbourhoods are being ruined by landlords who turn rental properties into holiday lets, pricing out those who live here. then there s the cruise ships. larger vessels were banned from parts of the city after this crash last summer. their absence and then the lockdown has meant cleaner waterways, a cleaner venice. but that s the dilemma. these people need tourism, but they don t want too much. are they protesting against the one thing that will get venice back on its feet? tim allman, bbc news. the stars of the uk comedy little britain have apologised for their portrayal of other races in their tv series. david walliams and matt lucas used blackface make up in some of their sketches. the show has been removed from several streaming services. with me is our correspondent, andy moore. what are they saying? these are some of the latest programmes to be reassessed in the wake of the black wives matter protest. little britain from 2003-2008 wives matter protest. little britain from 2003 2008 have been removed from 2003 2008 have been removed from bbc iplayer, netflix, britbox and so has come fly with me. in near identical tweets, matt lucas said david and i have spoken publicly about regret about playing characters of other races in recent yea rs. playing characters of other races in recent years. it was wrong, we are sorry. society had changed, his own views have evolved. he said he would not black up, make jokes about tra nsvestites not black up, make jokes about transvestites now. he said there was no bad intent there, just wanting to show off what a diverse bunch of characters they could play. now saying it was lazy for white people to get a laugh by blacking up. it was an enormous hit back in 2003-2008, it is not the was an enormous hit back in 2003 2008, it is not the only comedy show that has come in for criticism, fawlty towers, that came off the u ktv fawlty towers, that came off the uktv network, john cleese reacted angrily. he said we were criticising racism through satire. it was taken off air because a crusty old major made racial slurs against the west indian cricket team. it has been taken off for now and there may be some language and there are some people may find offensive. under the day of warm sunny spells for most of us and some showers. the cloud has been bubbling up and we have already had some rather persistent crouch near the north sea coast. that s because we still have the easterly drift coming in the north sea, with the most humid air sitting across it. stop in again for some areas through the course of sunday. for many of us, lots of dry, settled, warm weather with big showers growing. the shower sitting near the north sea coast could be stubborn and not clear away. elsewhere after lots of sunshine first thing, the showers bubble up and come through. not as lengthy for the south east. there will be some heavy showers, potentially midlands, east anglia, some isolated ones for northern ireland and scotland as the cloud burns back to the coast. 11 on the east coast, 22 or 23 in the highlands. there could be squally winds, frequent lightning, hail stones. another warm and humid night, is perhaps in patchy rain coming back into eastern parts of england and scotland. we are seeing the easterly breeze coming in, the low pressure still with us through monday, tuesday, wednesday, means a similar setup. but the detail where the showers will be is quite difficult. there could be more rain coming in during the night ahead into monday in north east england, scotland, elsewhere scattering of heavy showers, mostly towards the western side of the uk. some coastal areas with low cloud in the north and east. tuesday perhaps a reorientation, more widespread showers into the afternoon, heavy further east, all the time in the event sunny spells it will be warm, temperatures about where they should be for this time of year, the low 20s, unsettled and showery weather continues for most of the day. as ever, more on our website.
this is bbc world news, the headlines: disturbances break out overnight in the us city of atlanta after a black man, rayshard brooks, is shot dead by white police officers. his family s lawyer spoke of his frustration. i don t know whatjustice is and i have been doing this for 15 years. i don t know what justice have been doing this for 15 years. i don t know whatjustice is any more. more than a hundred people are arrested after a day of violent clashes in central london, involving some far right activists. uk prime minister borisjohnson orders a review of the two metre social distancing rule in england, following calls to scrap it. remembering the 72 people who died in the grenfell tower fire in london three years ago matt lucas and david walliams apologise for the use of blackface make up in the comedy series little britain. tourists start returning to venice as restrictions are eased,
the number of people claiming unemployment benefits in the ukjumps to its highest level in almost 2a years. the figures for april, the first full month of lockdown, show a 70% rise in claims, as the chancellor warns that unemployment will rise sharply. it is not obvious there will be an immediate bounce back as it takes time for people to get back to the habits that they had. the extent of the impact on human life has become clearer today with 55,000 excess deaths recorded in the uk since the start of march. more than 11,000 people have died in care homes in britain during that time as the goverment‘s criticised for not acting fast enough. 0ne positive effect of lockdown the biggest fall in carbon emissions around the world ever recorded. i m taking it, hydroxychloroquine. surprise and consternation as president trump reveals he s taking a maleria drug to protect against coronavirus despite no evidence it works. and how new technology is being used to help medics keep their distance. and coming up in the sport on bbc news. there has been six positive tests for coronavirus from three premier league clubs as the top flight prepares to resume injune. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the chancellor has warned that there s no guarantee the economy will bounce back immediately when restrictions are lifted. and he said there could be long term scarring on the economy, even once businesses are able to reopen fully again. his comments came as new figures showed the number of people claiming unemployment benefit in the uk last month soared to its highest level in almost 2a years. the office for national statistics says 2.1 million people claimed benefits last month. it shot up by more than 856,000, the biggest ever month on month jump, a rise of almost 70%. it s the clearest sign yet of the terrible toll that coronavirus is having onjobs, one which is set to deepen in the coming months. the total number of people reported to have died with coronavirus in the last 2a hours is 545. it means the official number of people across the uk who are known to have died with the virus is 35,341. here s our economics editor, faisal islam. they are not cutting jobs at this west midlands fittings factory for shops and libraries, just like the officialjobs numbers. but only 12 workers, one third of employees, are manufacturing the now in demand protective screens. the other 26 workers remain on the payroll, officially employed but at home with wages paid by the taxpayer. when you look at the alternatives, which is like redundancy or being laid off, then being on furlough is a really good thing. it gives business an opportunity to carry on with its workforce. the boss is grateful and unemployment has been kept down. the furlough scheme has really worked well for us. and if it wasn t for that, i don t know where we would be. the government s crisis jobs scheme have concentrated tens of billions into controlling unemployment but official jobs numbers will soon catch up with the pandemic crisis reality all round us. and other figures today did show how hard thejobs market has been hit. the 865,000 extra people claiming jobless benefits in april was a record monthly increase taking the claimant count forjobseeker‘s allowance and universal credit to 2.1 million. the highest for 2h years. in some regions nearly doubling. the number ofjob vacancies tumbled by a quarterly record of 170,000 to 637,000. so it will be harder to get a job. emma had been on furlough but last week she was told she had lost herjob as an office worker at an essex construction firm and is finding getting a new one difficult. to be receiving a letter to say i have been selected to be redundant is awful. petrifying. sorry, i can t help but get emotional about that. just thinking about it. i tried searching forjobs, i ve applied for tens if not hundreds of positions online. but due to being an office worker there s no offices open, no interviews being taken at the moment. it s a struggle to try and find something. across the economy thousands ofjobs that were furloughed, for example at the cafe rouge restaurant chain, are now under threat. hundreds have been lost at retailer debenhams and also in the transport sector at british airways and at the ferry company p&0. the government acknowledged a significant rise in unemployment cannot be avoided. i will not be able to protect every job in business and we are seeing that already in the data are no doubt there is more hardship to come. this lockdown is having a significant impact on the economy and we are likely to face a severe recession the likes of which we have not seen. the opposition said more needed to be done, especially for younger workers. we still have to be aware that the costs tend to fall on younger people, notjust because people have lost theirjobs but because they have not been able to move into the workforce. benefit numbers are surging and vacancies tumbling, just how far unemployment will shoot up is for 110w unemployment will shoot up is for now been limited by the government paying the wages of one out of three workers. that is a bridge for the livelihoods of 10 million people will not last. and now the chancellor whose schemes are built around the idea of a rapid bounce backin around the idea of a rapid bounce back in the economy says it is not obvious that that will occur. the pandemic has caused a globaljobs catastrophe even when lockdown is lifted it is when support is with john that the real picture will emerge. there has been a significant increase in applicants for universal credit. all happening so suddenly. for some who are now looking for work, it s the first time they have had to make a claim as michael buchanan reports cani can ijust can i just confirm can ijust confirm what your first job was? anotherjob loss and another person in need further in the last few weeks leslie piercy has spoken tojust the last few weeks leslie piercy has spoken to just about everyone. drivers, lots of restaurants and businesses, shopkeepers, particularly restaurants businesses, shopkeepers, particularly restau ra nts a nd businesses, shopkeepers, particularly restaurants and cafe is a lot of taxi drivers. some have lost minimum wage jobs a lot of taxi drivers. some have lost minimum wagejobs and others six figure salaries. lost minimum wagejobs and others six-figure salaries. a lot of people like stop progress want to go back into stockbroking because it is quite a high paid job. but some of those people are having to rethink their career as well. one particular gentleman i had had a very well paid job and so did his wife and he went to become a night porter at a hotel. leslie worked at a job centre in hertfordshire, it normally processes 60 benefit claims per week but recently they have been dealing with several thousand. helen collier has only worked here for three months, forced immediately to help the unfamiliar navigate the benefit system. i do think people who have been made redundant and have been long standing employees are confused as they ve never made a claim before and they are always the hardest but i feel they are the ones you know you re doing something good to help them. they re usually around 50,000 claims per week for universal credit but look at the impact of the lockdown. for two weeks claims running at ten times normal levels, 1.5 million applications in total in just one month. my mindset has never been to go on benefits, i ve just struggled and worked my way through it. carl is a boxing coach has no way to train and he turned to universal credit for help, the first time that he has been on benefits in decades. to me there was no option so decades. to me there was no option soido decades. to me there was no option so i do not feel guilty, ifeel i m eligible for it and working my way sincerely how to get out of it when it is over. the data today revealed the largest rise in applications in the largest rise in applications in the south west of england with the areas crucial tourist industry badly hit. and all hands on deck approach has allowed universal credit to cope with the surge in demand, most claimants have been thankful and hoping that the welfare system is a helping hand in a time of need and not a permanent, harder way of living. the extent of the terrible toll that this virus is having on human life also became clearer today. it s two and a half months now since the first person died of coronavirus in the uk. normally in that 10 week period you d expect on average around 100,000 people to die. the latest figures suggest there ve been an extra 55,000 deaths in the uk during that time this year all of them directly or indirectly related to coronavirus. just over 41,000 people definitely died with it that was what was recorded on their death certificates. the latest figures show more than 11,500 people in care homes have died from coronavirus since the beginning of march. from rugby, our correspondent alex forsyth reports. the scale of this pandemic is becoming increasingly clear. the number of deaths, still growing, although the rate at least now slowing. behind every figure, a face, every statistic, a human story. of those who ve died so far, more than a quarter were in care homes. this family run home in warwickshire had an outbreak last month. 0ne resident did die, but staff were able to control the spread of the virus, although managers say they had little government guidance or support. at that point, the measures weren t in place to protect the residents and the staff. the testing wasn t there, and we were very lucky, for management and staff, that it wasn t a lot worse. what about now, have things improved? i haven t seen much of a difference at the moment. we ve really made our own decisions and we still really haven t had much more from the government as to what else we should be doing. here, they re still waiting for all staff and residents to be tested, still saying support is too slow, concerns echoed by care leaders addressing mps this morning, who raised questions about testing, ppe and the national strategy. our focus at the start of this pandemic was clearly the nhs, and there was not a recognition in either the planning process that happened in 2016 or indeed in this current pandemic, at the very start of it, that the most vulnerable people were in care homes. some of our problems around transmission, no doubt, are relating to ppe, and very sadly, some of the deaths, too. this has been a health pandemic, and what we haven t felt in the care sector is that we ve had a health response. the health secretary again today defended the government s approach. despite claims to the contrary, he again said he had put a protective ring around care homes. from the start, we worked hard to protect those in social care. in early march, we put £3.2 billion into social care, half through the nhs and half through local authorities, and we ve repeatedly set out and strengthened guidance for infection control and support. across the country, the care system is complex, made up of local, national, public and private elements. the government has put more money and measures in place in recent weeks, but the criticism is still that the support is not always getting where it s needed quickly, and now some care providers say they are under financial pressure. this care home in north yorkshire is one of four where the owner, who is also a representative for the sector, says money is increasingly tight. with extra costs from coronavirus and empty beds. we calculate that we re going to be around £100,000 short in income, and that is the difference between our surviving and not surviving. the issue is, we ve got the nhs run nationally, local authorities running locally, that s why we ve got a problem with ppe, testing and finances, it s all a mess, basically. we need to make sure we plan and have it centrally, in my view, centrally organised. this crisis has exposed issues in a sector that has long been under strain. the calls now are notjust for continued short term support, but a longer term solution, too. alex forsyth, bbc news. the number of coronavirus tests carried out since the beginning of the outbreak has been inadequate, according to a group of mps. despite a recent surge in daily tests and the expansion of eligibility, the commons science and technology committee have criticised the government for failing to ramp up testing sooner. ministers have defended their strategy, saying that during the early period, it was right to prioritise those in hospital over community cases, as sophie hutchinson reports. a mobile testing centre in cornwall. the government has now promised eve ryo ne over the government has now promised everyone over the age of five with symptoms of covid 19 will now be tested. but today mps on the science and technology committee were highly critical saying that testing capacity had not been increased early or boldly enough. back in mid march this was the message from the world health organisation. we have a simple message for all countries. test, test, test. but three days before the uk announced it had stopped testing all suspected cases in the community. we will pivot all testing capacity to identifying people in hospitals who have got symptoms so we can pick them up early. in a letter to the prime minister mps said that they believed a lack of testing capacity had driven the government strategy. they criticised public health england forfailing they criticised public health england for failing to provide the scientific evidence used when deciding not to bring in mass testing. they said the cost of the ongoing lockdown was vastly greater then the cost of rolling out large scale testing and that by not regularly testing hospital staff and ca re regularly testing hospital staff and care workers vulnerable people had been put at risk. many care homes say they are still struggling to get all the tests that they need to ensure that staff are not infectious. we have been affected by it and seem to be coming through the west now but i think problems with the lack of testing was obvious as the lack of testing was obvious as the national picture shows. it is not safe and how they say they will roll it out to fibrils and everyone in the country, i do not think they have the capacity and we would rather have honesty from the government. at the briefing today the environment secretary defended the environment secretary defended the government testing strategy. so you would greet your strategy has been based on capacity instead of the science? we were building it rapidly from a very early stage and we have not got to the point this week that we can offer testing to anyone over the age of five with symptoms and that will be critical in terms of developing that track and trace capability. ministers say they ve recruited more than 20,000 contact tracers to identify infections and hotspots of the virus that one told the bbc that the tracker app was not yet working and will not go live until thursday. clearly there are ongoing challenges to the government testing strategy. 0ur chief political correspondent, vicki young, is in westminster. we ve heard a lot of criticism over the government s handling of testing and care homes how have they responded to that? this is about what went wrong and who might be to blame, but it s also about learning lessons and making sure it does not happen again, particularly i think what has happened in care homes. listening to some of those who have worked in the sector, you can hear their anger and frustration. they have said for a long time that they think that the health service and the care sector need to be much more integrated. we have heard that from various governments for years and years and it simply hasn t happened, and i think this epidemic really has exposed some of the flaws in the system. of course, the government is grappling with unprecedented times, but i think now, that long term aspiration, to integrate health and social care, has really become a very, very urgent problem that ministers are going to have to deal with. vicki young, thank you. this pandemic has had a positive effect on the environment. the biggest ever fall in the amount of carbon released into the world s atmosphere has been recorded over the past few months. at the height of the coronavirus lockdown, scientists discovered that daily emissions around the world dropped by more than 17%. the biggest fall was in china, which saw a drop in emissions of 24%. here in the uk, the reduction was 13%. but scientists are warning that this extreme reduction in greenhouse gas emissions could be temporary. here s our science editor, david shukman. all over the world, some stunning transformations, from choked streets in india becoming calmer and easier to breathe in, to the most famous landmark in china suddenly looking clearer. to the centre of paris, often polluted, now quieter and cleaner. the fight against the virus hasn t slowed down many economies, at huge cost. but it has also done wonders for the air and for the carbon emissions that are heating up the planet. a drop in traffic is a major part of that. here in the uk and globally. lower demand for electricity is also making a difference. along with the grounding of planes. fewer flights difference. along with the grounding of planes. fewerflights means difference. along with the grounding of planes. fewer flights means less carbon released into the air. it s a pattern seen around the world. the light and the shade here, the bigger the decline in emissions. in some countries, up again, but still a huge change. the fall in emissions, 1796, huge change. the fall in emissions, 17%, is enormous, we haven t experienced something like this before, as far as we can tell. it is driven by changes in road transport. now that china is out of lockdown, traffic there is building up, so emissions are rising once again. the carbon cut is not permanent. 0n emissions are rising once again. the carbon cut is not permanent. on some key roads, the traffic is starting to come back a bit as the lockdown is eased. but the impact of the different restrictions on the environment has been really striking. not only are those carbon emissions down, the quality of the air has got a lot better. different types of pollution have fallen dramatically. so, as the economy recovers , dramatically. so, as the economy recovers, will we see a return to the toxic haze hanging over our cities? experts in our pollution hope the crisis has shown what s possible. a very unfortunate natural experiment but it does really show us experiment but it does really show us that by changing the vehicles on our road, reducing the vehicles on our road, reducing the vehicles on our roads, or changing over to electric vehicles, we can immediately reduce air pollution, which is a very, very important message. many cities are now trying to encourage more cycling and walking, to help keep people safe from the disease and also to reduce pollution. their hope is that amid the nightmare of the virus, a greener future can be created. david shukman, bbc news. president trump has been criticised by medical experts after revealing that he is taking a drug to protect himself against coronavirus that is usually used to treat malaria. regulators in the us have warned that there s no evidence that it provides any protection from covid 19 in fact it may cause heart problems. it comes as the president called the world health organization a puppet of beijing , saying it had failed to hold china to account for the coronavirus outbreak. nick bryant reports. the white house is one of the most heavily protected buildings on the planet. guarded by secret service agents, ready to take a bullet for the president. but in the midst of this viral onslaught, can they protect donald trump from himself? last night, he happily made a stunning admission, that to fend off the coronavirus, he is taking an anti malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine, that his own government has warned against using for covid 19, out of fear of the fatal consequences. i am taking it, hydroxychloroquine. right now. a couple of weeks ago, i started taking it. because i think it s good, i ve heard a lot of good stories. and if it s not good, i ll tell you right. i m not going to get hurt by it. it s been around for 40 yea rs. hurt by it. it s been around for 40 years. this was the astonished response on fox news, a network that is ordinarily the president s cheerleader channel. if you are a risky population here, and you are taking this as a preventative treatment, toward off the virus, or ina treatment, toward off the virus, or in a worst case scenario, you re dealing with the virus, and you are in this vulnerable population, it will kill you. i cannot stress enough, this will kill you. butjust hours later, this stunning doctor s note from the president s white house physician. it noted that after numerous discussions with mr trump for and against the use of hydroxychloroquine, we concluded the potential benefit from treatment outweighed the relative risks. all of this is donald trump doubled down on his threat to halt us funding of the world health organization, which has been meeting virtually in geneva. the us president has bemoaned its repeated missteps, but its director general defended the global body. for all our differences, we are one human race. and we are stronger together. many medical experts say it s notjust the damage that donald trump could cause himself by taking this antimalarial drug, it s the example he s setting for others. in the midst of a crisis that s already claimed more than 90,000 lives, they fear the president is dispensing dangerous and potentially fatal medical advice. nick bryant, dangerous and potentially fatal medicaladvice. nick bryant, bbc news, new york. a teenager who was shot dead in blackburn has been described as the perfect 19 year old and a role model for other studets. aya hachem was walking to a supermarket on sunday afternoon when shots were fired from a passing car. three men have been arrested. 0ur north of england correspondent judith moritz reports. aya hachem came to blackburn as a child seeking asylum. her family saw it as a place of promise and safety, but she was killed on its streets. the teenager was walking to the shops on sunday afternoon when a gun was fired from a car driving past. aya was not the intended target, but she was in the bullets path and she stood no chance. she died soon afterwards. in herfew years in blackburn, aya made a big impact, giving back to the community which had helped her. she volunteered for charities which support children and those working with asylum seekers and refugees, and every part of this town took her to its heart. she s been praised by the catholic, methodist and muslim communities, and described as a role model. aya made her most remarkable progress at school, starting with nothing and working her way up to study law at university. we were really, really proud of her, because, arriving with little english, she in her year group made the most progress in the whole year, and we celebrated that, not only within our school community, but within blackburn with darwen, and we used her as an example of what was possible. she was kind, she was caring, she was compassionate. she was a friend to everybody. three men in their 30s have been arrested on suspicion of murder. aya s parents say they re devastated and determined to bring those responsible to justice. judith moritz, bbc news, blackburn. easyj et has easyjet has apologised to nearly 10 million customers after their details were accessed during a cyber attack. the airline said some customers had had their credit card details stolen but there was no evidence that they had fallen victim to fraud. easyjet is investigating the security breach. when someone dies here in the uk, the local council will step in and arrange their funeral if the family can t afford it or if there are no family or friends. they‘ re called public health funerals and there were 4,000 last year. but undertakers believe the number will be much higher now. 0ur correspondent angus crawford was given rare permission to attend one. a finaljourney. there is a very visceral fear i think in everyone about ending up alone. ..for albert roy sadler. links to family and friends, long broken, so no want long broken, so no one to follow the hearse. it causes you to look back and think, well, why, how did things end up this way? only one mourner today christina, from the council. people who might otherwise have been with us here today, roy s family and friends, are absent, and so it falls to us few here to pay our respects and to bid farewell to him. relatives, out of touch for years, care home staff in isolation. so, its left to strangers to say goodbye. he was born in october 1937, shortly before the second world war, but roy s was a tough childhood, and in fact he never got to know his mum, who passed away. the actualjob is to arrange the funeral, but a funeral is a farewell and it is a summing up. we have to have something to say it would be too sad not to. so, christina set to work trying to find loved ones, building a picture of the man and his life. they do come into your affection, little snapshots of their personality, that you think, oh, i would have liked them. you know, and so, you re not going along just with a lanyard on as a council worker, tapping your hand, going, when is this finishing so i can go to lunch? you re going to a funeral of someone you kind of know. i have at every single funeral, i have to say, cried. emotions do get hard when you walk into the chapel and you notice very briefly that no one s there. the funeral director, too. grief may touch her work every day, but these services are especially difficult. we re all human. i would like to think that if any of my family members or friends was in these circumstances, that a funeral director looking after their funeral would feel as passionately as we do. these are real people. they all had a life, or have a life, have a history, have a story. there is great poignancy in the fact that he has no friends or family here to mourn him. if relatives are untraceable, or simply can t afford to pay, often, the local council will step in. in fact, across the uk, last year, there were more than 4,000 public health funerals. but the warning is that the devastating impact of covid may mean many more in the months to come. on a personal level, i suppose there is almost sometimes a warning that, you know, don t take things for granted. things can go wrong, so, treasure those people who mean a lot to you, keep them close, and make sure your life doesn t go that way. would you please stand for the words of commendation and committal? it s nice to have got to know you sadly not when you were alive, but you seem like a nice man and i hope we did you proud at the end. amazing grace plays. for albert roy sadler, the journey ends. but thanks to christina, it doesn t end alone. # was blind, but now i see. keeping medical staff as safe as possible from the virus in hospitals is key. now, new technoloy is being tried out on the covid wards of one london hospital. it means doctors really can keep their distance, as fergus walsh explains. can we have a look at john s x ray, please? this is a ward round with a difference. those hand gestures are controlling a mixed reality headset. the doctor can bring up x rays and scans. thank you very much. and the rest of the medical team can stay in a non covid area, sharing a live feed of everything that he sees. it allows me to get up to date information from the rest of the team, even though they re not next to me. initially it felt a little bit bizarre and a bit odd. but actually if i compared it to the ppe and the visors and the goggles that i was wearing beforehand, it s probably more comfortable and to be honest, i forget that i m wearing it most of the time. john fell off a roof and fractured his spine. he was only found to have covid 19 after being admitted to hospital. his complex injuries require lots of expert input. itjust seems quite a good thing that you can have all those amount of people in the same room in one person, when there s this contagious thing that no one knows the beginnings and the ends of it. they re not only saving me, i m not passing anything onto anyone,
this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the uk s government defends the decision to make face coverings compulsory on public transport but admits the benefits may be marginal. on balance we are convinced that it certainly can t do any harm, we think it will do some good, and that s why it s a good idea to introduce. my concern and i d go so far as to say my anger is the delay it s taken, because this could mean more people having caught the virus in the community because there are some times where you simply can t keep a social distance, and this delay, i think, has been good for nobody. brazil overtakes italy as the country with third highest coronavirus death toll with more than 3a,000 deaths. two police officers are suspended in buffalo, new york state after videos show they were seen shoving an elderly white man to the ground. police say they have received hundreds of emails and calls from the public about a new suspect in the madeleine mccann case. dentists are given the go ahead to reopen next week in england but a survey suggests only a third say they can do so safely. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. the uk government has defended the timing of its decision to make face masks compulsory on public transport in england. from june the 15th, passengers travelling without a face covering could be fined. the british medical association says the rule should be extended to anywhere that cannot ensure safe social distancing. elsewhere, a new national helath service coronavirus contact tracing app which is at the heart of england s coronavirus track and trace programme should be in place by the end of the month, according to business minister nadhim zahawi. around the world, brazil has surpassed italy to become the country with the third highest number of coronavirus deaths, after the united states and the uk. meanwhile in france, the government s top scientific advisor has said the epidemic there is now under control. and in scotland, it s emerged that a coronavirus epidemic simulated by public health experts two years ago, highlighted potential problems, such as a lack of protective equipment. we start with this report from keith doyle. it does not seem that long ago that people wearing face coverings out and about were an oddity. now it seems perfectly normal. and from june 15 in england it will be obligatory on buses, trains, trams, ferries, and planes. loudspeaker: use a face covering while travelling. there will be some exceptions for children and disabled people, but the transport secretary said that wearing a face covering will be a condition of travel. the scientists have been very clear that they are struggling. they ve been struggling to provide the conclusive evidence on it. on balance, we are convinced that it certainly can t do any harm, we think it will do some good, and that s why we think it s a good idea to introduce. but as i say, there is no point introducing it if. the most important thing is two metres social distancing, so if you have two metres social distancing, then this is a marginal impact. in scotland, where face coverings are recommended on public transport, the government will consider making them compulsory. in northern ireland, they are recommended where social distancing isn t possible. and wales has not yet made any recommendations on face coverings. transport unions have welcomed the move, which they said is overdue, and the doctors union, the bma, has asked why the requirement isn t being brought in right away and that it should be widened to other areas where social distancing isn t always possible. voiceover: nhs test and trace will contact you to trace people you might have infected. the nhs test and trace scheme in england is key to controlling the spread of the virus. it s up and running with thousands of people in place to contact those who ve come in contact with the virus. voiceover: the nhs covid-19 app. part of this is a smartphone app which is being trialled in the isle of wight. the government says this should be up and running by the end of the month. the app will be up and running this month? well, it was running in the isle of wight and we will make sure it will be running as soon as we make as soon as we think it is robust. ok, ijust want to be cler, you said it ll be in place this month. it will be rolled out across the uk this month? i would like to think we would be able to manage it by this month, yes. the 14 day quarantine for most arrivals into the uk, which starts on monday, has caused a rift between the government and the airline industry. british airways did not take part in a meeting with the home secretary, priti patel, yesterday. it s thought agreement on air bridges, which would help the tourism industry, is still way off. keith doyle, bbc news. let s get more from our political correspondent iain watson. hello to you. many other countries have recommended or made it mandatory for people to be wearing face coverings long before now. why is it only now that in england to the government is saying you must wear face coverings on public transport? i think it is all about timing. effectively the lockdown will be eased further in england on june 15, so called non essential retail, department stores and so on, will open up. there is a feeling that it will open up. there is a feeling thatitis will open up. there is a feeling that it is likely that public transport, very few people using it at the moment generally speaking, but the usage will increase because my people have to go to work in those shops more people will be doing shopping, and it may be difficult to maintain the recommended two metres of social distancing in some circumstances. therefore, to provide people with some reassurance, face masks are being suggested by the government stopped i didn t think it a particularly ha rd stopped i didn t think it a particularly hard sell from grant shapps, the transport secretary, who introduced it. he said various times ina bbc introduced it. he said various times in a bbc interview today, this was no panacea , in a bbc interview today, this was no panacea, that it was way down the list of things that are important to keep safe, way behind washing your hands for example. and indeed the scientific evidence was marginal, that effectively there has been disagreement notjust that effectively there has been disagreement not just among scientists but behind the scenes amongst government ministers on when and if they should be introduced. people will be ultimately facing fines or are being refused the right to travel if they do not comply in a little more than a week. there has been widespread criticism on the timing of it certainly, certain groups, the british medical association, some of the rail unions have been pushing for this to happen much earlier when the virus was at its peak. the mayor of london, sadiq khan, has advocated this since march, and expressed his anger today that the government had delayed for so long. my concern and i d go so far as to say my anger is the delay it s taken, because this could mean more people having caught the virus in the community because there are some times where you simply can t keep a social distance, and this delay, i think, has been good for nobody. let s talk about the contact tracing app as part of the wider test and trace strategy here in england. the minister nadhim zahawi said last night, i would like to think we could manage getting the app up and running by the end ofjune. why has the government not managed to do it before now when so many other countries have? many other countries have and there has been a debate over the technology. some people say the government is insisting perhaps on having a centralised app, a bespoke app, so that it can more easily check people s medical records. there have been some concerns about personal security, but the government is trying to reassure people. it has been trialled on the isle of wight but has never left the isle of wight despite the government saying this was a successful trial. it didn t sound entirely like an announcement by nadhim zahawi, the business minister, last night. it sounds more like an aspiration to get this done by the end of the month. but the scientific and medical advisers are suggesting this is a bit more of an optional extra these days, that actually physical contact tracing is something which could be sufficient in itself. that said, we have had various people who have meant to be involved in contact tracing telling the bbc they have been given very little to do. the government s explanation is that as infection rates fall this is probably a good thing because there are fewer contacts thing because there are fewer co nta cts to thing because there are fewer contacts to be traced. on a more worrying front, a senior executive involved in the process intended to suggest in a webinar which was obtained by the guardian newspaper that we would not have a world class system in place until september. 0k, iain, thank you very much. iain watson at westminster. astrazeneca has doubled its manufacturing capacity and can now work on making two billion doses. after striking a number of deals that include two health organisations backed by bill and melinda gates. the new deals are aimed at guaranteeing early supply of the vaccine to lower income countries. astrazeneca s chief executive spoke to the bbc earlier about how any future vaccine would be distributed. we are actually working together. by the way, i think that competition is good. i mean, competition generates innovation and new ideas and makes people work fast. in that instance, we are not competing with one another, we are competing against this virus and there is a lot of collaboration that is ongoing across industry, so we can deliver several vaccines by the fall and before the end of this year. if you are in the uk and you want to know how many coronavirus cases have beenin know how many coronavirus cases have been in yourarea, know how many coronavirus cases have been in your area, find out by going to the bbc news website, where you can see how many cases and indeed deaths at there have been where you live simply by putting in your postcode or location. brazil has now overtaken italy to become the country with the third highest number of deaths from coronavirus, after the united states and britain. the brazilian health ministry said more than 3a,000 brazilians had lost their lives with covid i9. it reported almost 1500 deaths in the last 2a hours that s more than one death every minute. in italy which faced their outbreak much ealier the overall death toll from the virus is over 33,000 people. our reporter camilla mota has been to manaus the largest city in the amazon and an area with one of the country s highest death rates from coronavirus. a month ago, he was an uber driver. now he collect bodies. every day now he takes people on their finaljourney from homes and hospitals to the biggest graveyard in manaus. that s how fast things have changed here. the service collects bodies for those who can t afford a proper burial. in april they collected 793 bodies, almost four times more than the monthly average. today, he s on his way to the home of someone who died from covid i9. the man who died that day was 80. there was no funeral, his body taken straight to the graveyard. only two family members were allowed to attend. it s hard to say goodbye during covid i9. manaus has one of the highest death rates from covid i9 in brazil. the infection rate here is a still rising, with fears there aren t enough beds for the sick. as soon as a bed is made available, it s taken by a new patient. here they re using improvised parts to treat patients. doctors say its reduced time spent in hospital. many of these patients come from outside manaus. the capital city is the only place in the state with icu beds. for a population of almost 4 million, there are less than 500 beds. at the end of his shift, he has to disinfect everything van, boots and clothes. he s following the rules strictly, but he is concerned that others are not. like him, many brazilians are waiting with a sense of unease for the peak still to come. camilla mota, bbc news. there were emotional scenes at a memorial service in minneapolis last night to commemorate the life of george floyd, the 46 year old black man whose death at the hands of four police officers has sparked protests across the united states. a lawyer for the family told mourners that a pandemic of racism led to his death. thousands of people have demonstrated in american cities for a tenth consecutive day, the marches have been largely peaceful. jane o brien has more. # amazing grace.#. a moving farewell to george floyd from minneapolis, the city where he met his death. family members described him as a loving father, son, and brother. george was somebody who was always welcoming, always made everybody feel like they were special. everybody wants justice. we want justice for george. he s going to get it. the reverend al sharpton, a black activist, spoke the eulogy, but also urged protesters to seize the moment while the eyes of the world were watching to demand lasting police reform and confront racial injustice. what happened to floyd happens every day in this country in education, in health services, and in every area of american life! it s time for us to stand up in george s name and say get your knee off our necks! because of the coronavirus pandemic, the service was closed, but hundreds of people gathered at this makeshift memorial of flowers placed around the block where mr floyd died when a police officer knelt on his neck. it s still a crime scene, but it s also become a place for people to reflect and respond to the tragedy. this is supposed to be the land of opportunity and grace. look at this. i think this is so important, especially since i m from the suburbs. this has raised a whole new movement talking about black lives matter and how we really need to come together and address this issue. the service ended with eight minutes and 46 seconds of silence to represent the amount of time mr floyd was pinned to the ground and eventually stopped breathing. chanting: george floyd! what do we want? justice! when do we want it? now! his body will be taken to north carolina for a public viewing and then to houston, texas for burial. jane o brien, bbc news, minneapolis. well, the protests over george floyd s death have continued for a tenth day. they ve been largely peaceful. but in buffalo, new york, a video showed two police officers pushing an elderly man to the ground, seriously injuring his head. the incident was captured on video by a local reporter. it shows the man approaching police. one officer then pushes him with a baton and a second one pushes him with his hand. the two officers have been suspended without pay. the supreme court in the australian state of new south wales is being asked to decide whether to grant an emergency injunction to stop tens of thousands of people marching in sydney on saturday. the rally‘s in solidarity with campaigners for racialjustice in the united states. these are pictures from a similar protest in sydney, on tuesday. australia s prime minister, scott morrison, warned of the coronavirus risk involved in large gatherings. the government of new south wales argues that protesters will be unable to guarantee safe social distancing. a separate protest in melbourne is also being planned for saturday, despite threats from officials to fine the organisers. the headlines on bbc news. the uk government defends the decision to make face coverings compulsory on public transport but admits the benefits may be marginal. brazil overtakes italy as the country with third highest coronavirus deaths with more than 3a,000 deaths. two police officers are suspended in buffalo, new york state after videos show they were seen pushing an elderly white man to the ground. police say they ve received hundreds of emails and calls from the public about a new suspect in the madeleine mccann case. german detectives say they believe madeleine who disappeared in portugal in 2007 is dead, and are investigating a convicted sex offender who s in prison in germany. the businessman and praia da luz resident david jones says he helped to look for madeleine. david, thank you forjoining us today. take us back to that time because, of course, with this new thread in the investigation you must very much be thinking about the early days in the search. first of all, i will say that with this new news hopefully there will be some closure for the sony madeleine mccann family who need an answer, and that is the first thing that should be thought about. secondly, the mccanns have been held responsible by a lot of people for the disappearance of madeleine and againi the disappearance of madeleine and again i think this new news will clear that and that would be a clear thing. i live in praia da luz, i have lived here for 3h years now, andi have lived here for 3h years now, and i consider myself a very privileged person. it is a beautiful place. but it has had a lot of bad publicity. i have five children and they grew up here. i ve never thought of anything as dangerous about the place at all. it is the total opposite. i have done several interviews and what i want to do really defend praia da luz. yes, because the place, the location has unavoidably become associated with this case and of course that is not the full story of the place, but now it is back in the spotlight with this suspect in a german prison. it sounds, from what the police are saying, that he had quite a bit of notoriety in the area full stop from people you have been talking to, where they are aware of this individual? we get a lot of people go through here, a lot of characters. this is a very beautiful place and we get a lot of characters going through. i have a bar and restau ra nt, going through. i have a bar and restaurant, one of my businesses, andi restaurant, one of my businesses, and i do remember banning somebody who kind of fitted this character, but it was a long time ago and i can t remember his name. but, yeah, that happens down here. it happens anywhere in a holiday resort. but we had a lot of young people who are doing their gap year, working locally, very lovely people. and what happens is they will come to my barand what happens is they will come to my bar and the night that this actually happened, i came back, i was down by that marina, about four kilometres away, and i came back and the lights in my building were all out. i had toa in my building were all out. i had to a licence so they shouldn t have been out. i went out, i went in and asked my daughter what was happening, she was running the place. she said a young girl had gone missing. and everybody who was in the bar, they closed the bar and eve ryo ne in the bar, they closed the bar and everyone went looking. we went looking for the next week, i guess. i guess for people who live there who have a real love of this place, this community, as you do, clearly, david, you want closure, you want closure for the mccann family first and foremost, but you want closure for praia da luz. sadly, we do. it has gone on a long time. i am a father, i cannot imagine what it must have been like. also to have been blamed for the disappearance, the parents were blamed. that part of it seems to be taken away. they we re of it seems to be taken away. they were innocent, obviously. 0k, well, obviously the police investigation continues. thank you very much for talking to us, david. david johns, a long term resident of praia da luz in portugal. the death of george floyd at the hands of a white police officer in minneapolis sparked unrest across the united states and across the world. it revealed the deep racial divisions that still exist in the united states, and brought into sharp relief the disproportionate killing of black men by police officers in the america. but in the wake of george floyd s killing, questions of racial injustice resonate around the world, and how institutional and structural racism can be combatted is high up on the global agenda. to discuss this we can talk to author and activist layla saad whojoins us now from doha in qatar. thank you very much forjoining us today to talk about this. i was listening earlier to an interview that was on world service with the daughter of rodney king, and if anyone needs reminding about what happened to him in la, he was brutally beaten by four police officers who were acquitted by an almost all white jury. she said, officers who were acquitted by an almost all whitejury. she said, if your spirit is not disturbed by watching what happened to george floyd, that means you are part of the problem. she also said that more people who are not african american i fed people who are not african american ifed up and people who are not african american i fed up and that gives her hope. what are your feelings at this point, hopeful it could be different this time? we are absolutely seeing an uprising in protest, both in the us but also around the world at a level we haven t seen in a very, very long time. that definitely gives me a feeling of energy and hope and a feeling that something is changing, that the conversations are being held right now in a way they haven t before. i also know that myself and a lot of black people are cautiously optimistic because this has been going on for so long. george floyd, his murder is absolutely tragic and heinous, but he is just absolutely tragic and heinous, but he isjust one in absolutely tragic and heinous, but he is just one in a absolutely tragic and heinous, but he isjust one in a very absolutely tragic and heinous, but he is just one in a very long absolutely tragic and heinous, but he isjust one in a very long line of people who have been killed in this way, and so, yes, optimistic, hopeful, but also cautious. you say the conversation is changing, but a lot more needs to change than the conversation, of course. we have heard so much has been brought into sharp focus about the structural bias in so many ways against people of colour, that this white supremacy is in built to so many societies. how does that need to start to change? what needs to happen?m how does that need to start to change? what needs to happen? it is interesting because right now this movement we are seeing is being spiked by george floyd s murder but also in some incidents that have just happened. amy cooper, christian cooper, the murder of breanna taylor, and so on. these issues i what is causing this ignition, but many people are now looking at, how does white supremacy and structural races play out in other areas of our lives? health care, schools, politics. in companies and nonprofits. people are really having conversations across the board and thatis conversations across the board and that is what we have been wanting for a really long time, because if this conversation just ends with the arrest and conviction of these offices and we go back to the status quo, then nothing has changed. we need to look at it all. some companies have been called out. nikkei, for example, expressing its dismay at the manette nike, expressing its dismay at the murder of george floyd. but there are no african americans on their board. i noticed a petition yesterday saying that there must be greater teaching here in the uk of britain s colonial past. is that where change needs to happen, in the education sector first and foremost in your opinion? absolutely. i have studied in my schooling years with the british curriculum the whole time and i don t remember ever learning about colonisation. we learnt about the tudors and the stuarts, the vikings. we never learnt about a britain s colonising history and how it shaped the world and it is important to remember the events we are seeing now in the us and the racism that is steeped in their history, is not separate to britain s history. and so there must be a deep understanding from a very young age of the context within which we are having these conversations. otherwise people will think about racism in terms of these individual a cts racism in terms of these individual acts of violence, these consciously chosen acts of violence with no connection to that structural and institutional, historical events that have shaped what we see today. and we have heard many people say the duchess of sussex that iraq may people have said, the duchess of sussex among them, saying the worst thing people can say is nothing at all. people who say, i m not racist , what more can they do to show the solidarity and make a change? this idea that i m not racist , that is what keeps white supremacy in place. i think a lot of white people need to open up to the reality that while they may not have consciously chosen thoughts and beliefs around racism, they have been conditioned into this system of white supremacy that says that people who look like them are superior to people of other races. so it is really about getting the education down, about understanding how the society shapes how you see yourself and how you see people of other races, and how is your life. how are you able to move in your life in ways that are easier than people who are black and brown? because if we are relegating it to the bad ones, the opposite of the good ones is the bad ones, and if we say just get good ones is the bad ones, and if we sayjust get rid of those then we will have this post racial society, what we are not looking at is all of the myriad everyday ways that people who don t identify as racist racially aggressive black and brown people, and we are not looking at structural and systemic racism. so everybody is complicit in the system, everybody needs to take accountability for it and that sta rts accountability for it and that starts with doing that self examination. 0k, layla, really good to talk to you, and some really important points you raise there. the author and activist. thank you. dentists across england will be allowed to start seeing patients again from monday, but the british dental association says that shortages of protective equipment means many of them will remain closed. english health officials insist they re continuining to work with dentists on safety. dan johnson reports. phone rings. answering machine message: the surgery is now closed. empty surgeries and patients left in pain. normal surgery will not be resuming at this time. dentistry felt the lockdown more than most. despite the government s announcement. and now, there is a real struggle to reopen on monday. unfortunately there will not be any patients here. we are hoping that a week s time we might be able to start seeing some of our own emergencies and do some very basic treatment. normal dental treatment is not going to be happening for an awfully long time. this waiting room is going to be empty for months. and even then, ensuring the virus does not spread will have a huge impact. i would normally see between 50 60 patients on an average day. and what about now? now, um, when we start treating people and doing proper treatment with the drill, i think the most i will be able to see is five. only one patient will be in the surgery at a time, protective equipment will be repeatedly changed and there will be much more cleaning. so i reckon we re looking at 1.5 hours between each patient. we have literally just been given the guidance. it s given us less than one working day to get things in place. we have had to do all of this on our own, we ve had no help, no guidance. we re not expecting to see routine care patients for 2 3 months. we will be open on monday but it will only be for urgent cases. across england so many dentists say theyjust are not ready. we don t have key worker status. childcare is a massive problem. the biggest challenge has been sourcing correct personal protective equipment, ppe. patients will not be able to get through on the telephone because we re expecting to be very busy so, if that is the case, then just be patient. it is not a case ofjust getting a mask or opening the doors. we have to get policies in place. patients are ringing us up, they want to come in, we want to see our patients. i get to be a dentist today. so they have been left to treat themselves with only limited emergency care available. ahh. this was linda s attempt to do her own filling. ahh, it came out. so much need, so little capacity. we are going to come back to a very big mess. it is disappointing as a professional that those who are in charge of us give us so limited time. and a message, knowing that a message has gone out to the public which is really misleading. i have had patients shouting at me on the telephone, because they want to get their treatment finished. i wanted to leave dentistry, ijust thought, why am i bothering? what about the cost of all this? spiralling. ppe generally is up 1,000%. this treatment room is now an equipment store and fresh challenges keep coming. we have obviously got to prioritise people in pain but there are people out there who have paid for treatment, who are mid treatment, who need stuff doing, who will not get seen for months and months. and it is not that i don t want to, it s just that i want to see them in a safe manner. dentistry is nowhere near being back to normal and it is possible it never will be. dan johnson, bbc news. one in 1,000 people have coronavirus in community settings across england, the latest figures from the office for national statistics show. that works out at around 53,000 people and that new figure is considerably lower than their estimate from last week of 133,000 people. if it s going down, but if we showed the figures, it comes from a survey and there is a margin for error around them. so, we don t want to say they have halved in a week or can brown buy that much. there is a clear downward trend when you look at the figures that have been produced. you can see that in the graphjust behind produced. you can see that in the graph just behind them. produced. you can see that in the graphjust behind them. so, these are the last five weeks, where they have produced data. you can see the main estimate is the blue bar they are showing every week. it s going down, week on week. a constant trend. the headlines around them, it shows it could be higher or lower. we wa nt we want to give people a good news, but we would be remiss to not mention there are caveats? that s the big one, this week s figures 53,000, it could be high as 100,000. there is a big margin for error. you don t want to focus on any particular number. at the long term trend is reassuring. also, it s on households. they are going to homes, they are not catching prisons, care homes or hospitals. and it s a self administered swab, it s not easy to swap yourself. the true figures could be higher. that is the big takeaway, the genuine trend. what did we learn about non covid 19 deaths? we have all seen over the last two metro three months, the number of deaths across the uk have risen rapidly. most of that is due to covid deaths directly. between a quarter and a third are due to non covid deaths. the interest is trying to understand what is it, is it undiagnosed covid, is it the stresses and strains on health care system, or is it a victims of the lockdown? we have here today about people not getting to do with heart conditions. are people dying from conditions. are people dying from conditions that would otherwise have been treated? we saw the figures out yesterday, on testing. but these figures give us hints but not definitive answers. if you think about the answers you re talking about, it might take awhile before a failure to get screened turns into cancer deaths later down the road. you will not get definitive answers. we are seeing clear hints of is going on. the same old story, whenever we see a bad winter, with bad winterflu, whenever we see a bad winter, with bad winter flu, you see an increase in deaths attributed to alzheimer s. the difficulty in conveying your symptoms if you have a condition like that, it is possible that some of these deaths are attributable to undiagnosed covid in the very elderly and frail populations, but we are not getting exactly the number. the numbers that would enable you to make a trade off between the lockdown that is necessary to prevent further deaths. the headlines. the uk s government defends the decision to make face coverings compulsory on public transport but admits the benefits may be marginal. on balance, we re convinced it can t do any harm. we think it will do some good, and that s why we think it s a good idea to introduce. my concern, and i ll go as far to say my anger, is the delay is taken. because this could mean more people having caught the virus in the community. because there are some times you simply can t keep a social distance. brazil has overtakes italy to become the country third worst hit by coronavirus, with one brazilian dying every minute with covid 19. two police officers are suspended in buffalo, new york state after videos show they were seen shoving an elderly white man to the ground. the harrowing video of the last moments of george floyd s life have sparked the worst unrest in the united states for nearly 30 years. in 1993 another video of los angeles police beating a young man named rodney king caused similar outrage. sophie long has been talking to people who were there about what happened then and what, if anything, has changed. a warning, some of the images at the beginning of her report are distressing. i immediately knew what i was seeing. there was an unconstitutional, savage, brutal beating. and i said, we have a video tape this time. so i was, like, 0k. this is a no brainer now. it s on video. everything we ve been saying all this time, now it s on video. those of us that had spent years and years fighting against police abuse almost cheered because we said finally, it can t be denied now! but it was denied. when the acquittals came down, not guilty, not guilty. by the fourth not guilty i called my staff and i said get your children, go home, the city is going to blow. newreel: we are getting word this evening of some rock throwing by youths in south central los angeles. an already simmering fire exploded. stoked by racial and economic inequality, just as it has now. many thought the unrest would mark a turning point just as they do now. chanting: nojustice, no peace! we were hopeful the uprising would free us from the foot of policing on our necks but it didn t. most protesting for police reform recognise there have been steps in the right direction, but they say the mission of the lapd needs to change. until it does, this uniform will remain a symbol of persecution, not protection in most poor, black communities. until you go to guardian policing and provide safety for poor people, as opposed to persecution and mass incarceration, you are going to see riots every generation. nearly 30 years ago, the focal point of much of the rioting was here. not this time. now they re intensively protesting in affluent areas of los angeles, so even though the people of beverly hills and bel air, don t feel their pain, they will see it. but while the location has changed, and the faces and chants are those of a new, younger generation, the message is the same. we have a right to our rage. this time, we have black lives matter, we have a movement for black lives. we have brilliant organisers who are saying, you know what? let s make sure we move the work into spaces of white affluence, let s disrupt their spaces, let s notjust keep the pain and anger and rage in the black community, let s spread it out. then a young college student who became an icon, mark craig, says 2020 will be another important milestone. the energy this young generation has showed right now can definitely make change. i mean, they made the most powerful man in the world go inside of his bunker. that s symbolic. when this is all written and said, and the history books are written, that s what s going to be remembered. the protests in los angeles and frankly, around the country, is a rainbow protest. i ve been out with the protesters, i see who s protesting, and it s a whole new generation. and considering that i have been fighting the abuse of police on african americans literally for 47 years, i am inspired that there is a new generation ready to take up the fight. representative karen bass ending that report from our los angeles correspondent, sophie long. have you thought about brexit lately? the latest round of talks between britain and the eu on a post brexit trade deal marks the final opportunity for the two sides to move the process forward before a potentially make or break high level summit later this month. but has there been much movement in the talks? chris morris is here with the details. this was the fourth round of post brexit trade talks between the uk and the eu, which have been taking place remotely in the shadow of the coronavirus crisis. the coronavirus hasn t helped matters but it s not been the only reason these talks haven t made much progress. there s even no agreement on the structure of what they re trying to negotiate. the eu wants one comprehensive deal. but the uk sees that as an effort to keep it tied more closely than it wants to european institutions and ways of doing things. the uk argues there should be a series of separate agreements but the eu sees that as another example of the uk trying to cherry pick the benefits it wants, while avoiding obligations of eu membership. there are also specific issues on which negotiators seem to have hit a brick wall. what s known as the level playing field measures to ensure businesses on one side don t have an unfair advantages over their competitors on the other. particularly closely to eu rules on things like workers rights, environmental regulations and state aid or subsidies for business. then there s fisheries. the uk would like full access to the eu market to sell its fish there, but in return the eu wants full access for its boats to fish in uk waters. british negotiators say that has to change. and then there s the governance of any future agreement that s partly about how new agreements would be enforced, and about the role of the european court ofjustice. it normally takes years to do a trade deal but this process only has a matter of months left. remember, the uk left the eu on january the 31st and we re now in a transition period, when all the rules and regulations and payments stay the same, until the end of the year. but if no trade agreement is completed by then, the uk won t have any formal trading deal with its closest neighbours, which account for nearly half its total trade. to be agreed by the end of this month, and the eu says its willing to talk about an extension. the scottish and welsh governments are in favour, so is the northern ireland assembly. but the uk government has repeatedly ruled it out. so can any basic deal still be done? if there s political will to make concessions on both sides, then, yes, perhaps it can. the prime minister will get directly involved this month holding talks with the european commission president on how the negotiations are going. and high level political involvement can lead to progress. if it doesn t, businesses on both sides of the channel have just over six months to prepare for an abrupt change in the way they trade, at a time when many are already struggling to stay afloat. the economic challenges of covid could strengthen the case for compromise, or they could provide cover for those who favour a more radical break with the eu. spain and italy, two of the european countries hardest hit by coronavirus, are now beginning to emerge from lengthy and strict lockdowns. but are european countries anxious to open up for their tourist seasons and get flagging economies back on their feet acting too soon, and possibly risking a second wave? we can speak to two leading experts, carlo la vecchia is a professor of medical statistics and epidemiology, university of milan and jeffrey v lazarus is head of health systems at the barcelona institute for global health. thank you forjoining us. let s get a sense of what is happening with the virus in both countries, first of all. carlo canna what are things like in italy right now? well, as in other countries, the epidemic is under control, the number of deaths has decreased almost tenfold, probably more than tenfold if you ta ke probably more than tenfold if you take into account registration from the beginning of april two now. under control seems like quite a bold statement to make. do you feel confident in saying that? well, it s under control because of what i have said, the condition now, the new patients who infect a much less serious clinical picture. so the health service there is not overwhelmed. let s look at the situation in spain. what would you assess the status of the virus to be in the country right now?|j assess the status of the virus to be in the country right now? i would say it is a similar situation. in terms of under control, health care system has it under control. we are not overwhelmed, there are few new serious admissions, and almost no deaths on a daily basis. another question is the population, the population i would say is not fully under control in terms of respecting the control measures that the government has outlined, maintaining physical distance, using masks on transportation, and when they are not able to maintain those two metres. the health system is much better prepared under the control. therein, jeffrey, lies the conundrum for any country that comes out of its lockdown. how people will react, not everyone is going to react in the same way. one person s boundary and one person s interpretation of the guidelines may be very different from the next person. so, how much ofa from the next person. so, how much of a risk is there, do you think, of a second wave in spain? i m not sure i would call it a second wave. i think there is a risk of small, rolling outbreaks, like they have seenin rolling outbreaks, like they have seen in other countries, that have lifted containment measures. in south korea, someone goes into a discotheque and a day later there is 50 new cases. in israel, schools open and now thousands of people in quarantine. so we need to be extremely vigilant, because itjust ta kes a extremely vigilant, because itjust takes a super spreaders to see these small outbreaks re emerge. takes a super spreaders to see these small outbreaks re-emerge. carlo, what are your thoughts on that question, the risk of a second, wider outbreak, or, potentially, spikes within specific areas of the country? well, centrally, we will not be back to that a situation in march or early april. first, we have to end it this way, we are still not finished. we are still at about 70 deaths a day, we three have 370 cases in intensive care units. so, i think it will take a few weeks to end it this way. whether other ways are possible is unknown now. but there is something strange. because this is the first epidemic in history where a case has been defined on the basis of laboratory tests. and also, the definition in january was pneumonia and a positive test. now we have defined the cases as symptomatic subjects, with a positive test that makes all the estimates difficult. we still have a large numberof estimates difficult. we still have a large number of symptomatic cases in the population, and we don t know whether they may be able to spread it. i want to ask geoffrey, do you think there is a tendency, subconsciously or otherwise, for authorities to lean towards the most positive interpretation of the situation, because countries clearly wa nt to situation, because countries clearly want to open up to tourists?|j situation, because countries clearly want to open up to tourists? i do think there is a tendency. i mean, all governments, but i would say all of us, are looking for positive trends, are looking for success stories. and, of course, countries in southern europe, spain in particular, are particularly dependent on tourism. that does not mean that numbers are being falsified. but i think there is a tendency to airon falsified. but i think there is a tendency to air on the side of being positive, and i think that could be a good thing. at the same time, we have to have trust in our numbers, trusting our governments. so we need them to reminders that we are not out of the pandemic yet, not at all out of the pandemic yet, not at all out of the pandemic, but we have to be extremely vigilant moving forward. thank you both very much. the royal hospital in chelsea home of the chelsea pensioners has been hosting its annualfounders day parade this week. a more sombre and scaled back event than normal because of the coronavirus pandemic. like many care homes it s been particularly hit hard, with 10 veterans dying from the virus, and dozens more infected. our defence correspondent jonathan beale reports. earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. with an average age of 82, death is part of life for the chelsea pensioners but, with the coronavirus, it has hit this community of army veterans especially hard. he was one of life s gentleman. lockdown has prevented them from attending the funerals of friends but they still remember every life lost with a simple service in the grounds. for the chaplain, it has been particularly busy. my normaljob is to take funerals but we have had 18 in ten weeks ten through covid, eight other causes. and we have been unable to hold funerals here in the chapel. people have told me that this has been much worse than anything they ever encountered during many years of service. the royal hospital went into lockdown well before the rest of the country, and the 300 pensioners who live here they took careful precaution, including military discipline social distancing, but that did not stop covid from breaching their defences. monica parrott is one of the 71! pensioners who contracted the virus and recovered. she says she feels blessed. it was awful but what was horrible as well is the fact that you are a bit scared. you do start to think a bit negatively about what is going to be happening to you and, you know, you feel a bit sorry for yourself and having a little cry now and again, a big cry now and again. even in this crisis, they ve soldiered on. fouders day is normally their grandest of occasions, with most of the pensioners on parade, with family and hundreds of guests. this year it has had to be scaled back, with most pensioners watching from their windows. the royal hospital is better resourced than most care homes, with their own dedicated staff and even their own hospital on site, but that has not kept them immune from the virus. somehow, despite all our drills, it got in here and i think that is an illustration ofjust how difficult this disease is to deal with and hospitals, care homes all around the country have found that, despite their best efforts, it gets past the defences, and so the key is to have the procedures inside the place that contain it. that is what we have in place now. # we ll meet again, don t know where, don t know when.#. singing old songs, along with a bit of military dark humour have kept their spirits up throughout this crisis. they have even turned a lawn into an aptly named outdoor pub. while elsewhere the lockdown is now easing, they will still remain confined to base, but the pensioners too are looking forward to better times ahead. the upside is i have been in damnsite worse places than this and i ve been in trenches and and i ve been in sangers up in the hills of south arabia, at least here i get three meals a day and go to my bed at night and, best of all, nobody is shooting at me. have no fear, don t worry about it, we will meet again. # i know we ll meet again some sunny day.#. bravo, bravo. you re watching bbc news. rebecca jones will be with you from 11. now it s time for a look at the weather with sarah keith lucas hello. it was a fairly cool start to the day. we ve already had some heavy showers around. expect those showers to last over the next few days. so, a cooler, showery theme to the weather. also notice the winds are going to be strengthening, too. throughout today, and more especially into tomorrow, with low pressure driving our weather, sitting up towards the east here. lots of isobars on the map and plenty of showers rotating around that area of low pressure. so, sunny spells and scattered showers for most of us today. more persistent rain into the north of scotland later on. some of the showers, particularly parts of eastern england, could be heavy with hail and thunderstorms as well. fewer showers reaching the far south of england. not immune to the odd shower here, but a little bit drier. gusty winds, 35 or 45 mph, perhaps to parts of the irish sea, up to the north west of scotland, some of those costs could reach 50 or 60 mph at times. so, blustery winds, combined with heavy showers and more persistent rain pushing in across the north of scotland. temperatures out there today, somewhere between nine or 17 degrees, a lot cooler than it has been over the last couple of weeks. a little below par for the time of year. the heaviest of the showers and thunderstorms should fade away for a time overnight, but then we see the next area of rain working out of scotland, through northern ireland, northern england and north wales, too. clearer spells either side of that. quite a chilly night, with temperatures quite widely down into mid to single figures. saturday starts with low pressure very much in charge. you can see the real squeeze in those isobars, especially across northern and western parts of the uk. that s where you see some of the strongest winds. do be aware that, through today and into tomorrow, especially across the northern half of the uk, we could see gusts of wind up to 60 mph, enough to cause some disruption, particularly trees in full leaf. saturday, a few spells of sunshine through the morning. at heavy showers pushing their way south through the day. again, some hail and thunder possible, particularly across parts of eastern england. temperatures 11 or 18 degrees on saturday. not too bad when you do see the sunshine coming through. slightly lighter wind by the time we get a sunday. still some showers around, most likely around the east coast. fewer showers further west and still quite chilly for the time of year. in the east, temperatures only ten or 13 degrees, towards the south west we could see 19 celsius or so. as we head through next week, a few showers around. but generally a bit drier and lighter winds, too. bye for now.
this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the uk s government defends the decision to make face coverings compulsory on public transport, but admits the benefits may be marginal. on balance we are convinced that it certainly can t do any harm, we think it will do some good, and that s why it s a good idea to introduce. my concern and i d go so far as to say my anger is the delay it s taken, because this could mean more people having caught the virus in the community because there are some times where you simply can t keep a social distance, and this delay, i think, the pharmaceutical giant astrazeneca is to start producing a potential vaccine for coronavirus. it says it will be able to supply two billion doses of the vaccine. brazil has overtakes italy to become the country third worst hit by coronavirus, with one brazilian dying every minute with covid 19. two police officers are suspended in buffalo, new york state after videos show they were seen pushing an elderly white man to the ground. police say they have received hundreds of emails and calls from the public about a new suspect in the madeleine mccann case. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world, and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. the uk government has defended the timing of its decision to make face masks compulsory on public transport in england. from june the 15th, passengers travelling without a face covering could be fined. the british medical association says the rule should be extended to anywhere that cannot ensure safe social distancing. elsewhere in england, new figures out this morning give a clearer indication of the rate at which coronavirus cases are declining. the office for national statistics suggests the number of new daily cases in households in england has fallen to 5,600 a day. around the world, brazil has surpassed italy to become the country with the third highest number of coronavirus deaths, after the united states and the uk. meanwhile in france, the government s top scientific advisor has said the epidemic there is now under control. and in scotland, it s emerged that a coronavirus epidemic simulated by public health experts two years ago highlighted potential problems, such as a lack of protective equipment. we start with this report from keith doyle. it does not seem that long ago that people wearing face coverings out and about were an oddity. now it seems perfectly normal. and from june 15 in england it will be obligatory on buses, trains, trams, ferries, and planes. loudspeaker: use a face covering while travelling. there will be some exceptions for children and disabled people, but the transport secretary said that wearing a face covering will be a condition of travel. the scientists have been very clear that they are struggling. they ve been struggling to provide the conclusive evidence on it. on balance, we are convinced that it certainly can t do any harm, we think it will do some good, and that s why we think it s a good idea to introduce. but as i say, there is no point introducing it if. the most important thing is two metres social distancing, so if you have two metres social distancing, then this is a marginal impact. in scotland, where face coverings are recommended on public transport, the government will consider making them compulsory. in northern ireland, they are recommended where social distancing isn t possible. and wales has not yet made any recommendations on face coverings. transport unions have welcomed the move, which they said is overdue, and the doctors union, the bma, has asked why the requirement isn t being brought in right away and that it should be widened to other areas where social distancing isn t always possible. voiceover: nhs test and trace will contact you to trace people you might have infected. the nhs test and trace scheme in england is key to controlling the spread of the virus. it s up and running with thousands of people in place to contact those who ve come in contact with the virus. voiceover: the nhs covid-19 app. part of this is a smartphone app which is being trialled in the isle of wight. the government says this should be up and running by the end of the month. the app will be up and running this month? well, it was running in the isle of wight and we will make sure it will be running as soon as we make as soon as we think it is robust. ok, ijust want to be cler, you said it ll be in place this month. it will be rolled out across the uk this month? i would like to think we would be able to manage it by this month, yes. the 14 day quarantine for most arrivals into the uk, which starts on monday, has caused a rift between the government and the airline industry. british airways did not take part in a meeting with the home secretary, priti patel, yesterday. it s thought agreement on air bridges, which would help the tourism industry, is still way off. let s get more from our political correspondent iain watson. lets talk about face coverings, because there has been much talk about them, has there not? just tell me why they are being introduced in england now? the government say they are being introduced now quite simply for two reasons, rebecca. first of all, injune 15, simply for two reasons, rebecca. first of all, injune15, there will bea first of all, injune15, there will be a further easing of lockdown in england, when nonessential retail, department stores and so on, can open up, and secondly, that is assumed to mean there will be an uptick in public transport use. it has been very low at the moment, only around 5% of the normal travelling public taking two trains and buses. so if that demand increases, social distancing may become difficult, and that is understandable in some cities, therefore, a face mask may be helpful to stop the the spread of disease. so that is the government position, but i that it was interesting that we had from the transport secretary there, grant chaps, who is responsible for the implementation of this policy, and did not sound hugely enthusiastic about it. grant shapps. he said it could make a marginal impact if you contain social distancing, and it is way behind other things that can keep you safe, such as washing your hands. scientists say it is not a panacea. so i think there has been some disagreement between scientists and government ministers behind the scenes as to when or if this policy should be introduced. nonetheless, it will be mandatory and we could be facing finds from june the 15th of we do not wear facemask. some people have pressed for this to happen a lot earlier, including the british medical association, some transport unions, and the mayor of london, who said backin and the mayor of london, who said back in march she was actually very angry that the government had delayed for so long. my concern and i d go so far as to say my anger is the delay it s taken, because this could mean more people having caught the virus in the community because there are some times where you simply can t keep a social distance, and this delay, i think, has been good for nobody. interesting that sadiq khan was talking about a delay, but the government position was that it would not have been necessary to introduce mass earlier when the virus was at its height, because fewer people were public transport, you could maintain a difference, and that will be coming under pressure as lockdown eases. maintain a distance. ian, thanks so much. the bbc has just announced the new director general of the bbc. with me now as our media editor. who is it? rebecca, it is tim davie, the current boss of bbc studios, the commercial wing of the bbc. he is a member of the bbc board and was acting director general before tony hall got thejob. he beat acting director general before tony hall got the job. he beat a very tough list of four people, including charlotte moore, director of content, will lewis, a former newspaper editor and britain, who was a publisher in rupert murdoch s company in america, the uk boss of amazon. tim davie was a popular figure, charismatic, coming from a commercial background. he went to cambridge university and then joined procter & gamble, rose up to become vice president of marketing at pepsi, so he has had quite a commercial upbringing before joining the bbc. he was former director general mark thompson s first external appointment to the bbc and went on to run audio and music, so he is in charge of the bbc‘s radio stations before becoming director general. he is a charismatic and popular figure who has got lots of other roles. he previously worked a bit more children in need and was the chairman of comic relief, so he has a wide portfolio of positions. it will be interesting to see if he gives those up. and he has the support of the staff he works with. having said all that, tony hall, the current director general, whose term will end in september when tim davie starts, have the toughestjob of any director general in the history of the bbc, and tim davie sjob will be a hell of a lot tougher than that. i was going to ask you. what is in his inbox? you will run out of room on the paper! how the bbc is funded is just on the paper! how the bbc is funded isjust top of on the paper! how the bbc is funded is just top of the list, isn t it? yes, huge range of challenges. i can list some that we know about. director generals are generally remembered by how they remember to crises they could not foresee how they respond to crises. such as people getting into arguments with producers or the issue of gender pay, which has dominated the later stages of tony hall s range. i think you were to rank them, you would say there was a political challenge. he has to enter a very tough negotiation with a government that ina negotiation with a government that in a recent election made some pretty aggressive noises about the future of the bbc. that negotiation is about the future of the licence fee, which underpins the funding of the bbc. there is a huge discussion to be had about the commercial model of the bbc. we live in a global media landscape which is hyperinflationary, and for most of its nearly 100 years, the bbc dominated both news and entertainment. it does not in the way that it used to, so there is a question of whether tim davie will wa nt to question of whether tim davie will want to move to a new model. well it follow some kind of household charge, will they be more international revenue raised ? charge, will they be more international revenue raised? he is in the position to do that, having run bbc worldwide. then there is the matter of maintaining programme quality and the bbc‘s reputation for trust and impartiality, which it still rates fairly highly on around the world. that is a heck of a lot harder in an age of social media and critics of the bbc have a platform and can go viral by saying what they don t like about the bbc. so there is none of that stuff, the culture of the bbc, making sure it is truly representative, and it is also, above all, a job which combines the public facing, commercial and political challenges with editorial responsibility. the director general is this unique position, both in charge of the news operation and in charge of the news operation and in charge of the tv programming and all of that commercial stuff. so it is hellishly difficult. absolutely. don t go away, because the bbc has put out a statement which i would just like to show everyone. this is a statement from tim davie, the new director general of the bbc. sorry, i ve got to put my glasses on. so that is a statement from tim davie. no doubt we will hear from him later. you mentioned the challenges, amol. among them is attracting younger audiences whilst also not alienating existing, perhaps older audiences. you re absolutely right. there are two massive trends in global media which area massive trends in global media which are a huge challenge, even a struggle for the bbc. one is in the cost of content, which gets more and more expensive as american streaming giants massively inflate the cost, but the other is, what do you do about young audiences? the fact is, the bbc simply can t have the grip on younger audiences are traditionally hard, because they have elsewhere to go. the trouble is, for the bbc model to work, the licence fee, which is this universal theme which everyone has to pay if they own a tv, for it to work, it must give something to everyone, including young people. so finding a way of making an offer to these young people it makes them feel like the bbc is a big part of their life and with paying for it is going to bea and with paying for it is going to be a huge part of tim davie s tenure, however long it may be. it is also worth saying that something interesting about his appointment is that recent directors, tony hall, and his predecessor who did not last long because of the fall out of the jimmy savile affair, before him, mark thompson, have all come from a news background. tim davie was slightly different. he is a commercialfigure with slightly different. he is a commercial figure with a global outlook, and to a significant extent, his appointment by the bbc board, led by chairman sir david clementi, it s obviously a verdict on tim davie and his credentials, but also a verdict on what they think the coming challenge for the bbc will be. i suspect tim davie will go into number ten, downing street to meet with the prime minister in dominic cummings, perhaps socially distance, perhaps on zoom to begin with! but i suspect he will go in there and has to make a pitch about what he brings to the bbc which others don t, and i think it s pitch will be to them, do you wa nt it s pitch will be to them, do you want a bbc to be a global force, it s pitch will be to them, do you want a bbc to be a globalforce, do you want it to be a global power, a cultural institution that matters around the world ? cultural institution that matters around the world? if so, you need to liberate us to make more money. i think that will be the nature of his negotiation with the bbc. sorry, with the government. and i think it will play heavily. i think the thing he will call on is the fact he has this international experience and is all about generating revenue for the bbc. i would never pick you up on anything! it was a gentle operating! tim amol rajan, good to talk to you. the chief executive of the drug company astrazeneca has told bbc news his company will be able to supply two billion doses of a potential virus vaccine following two new deals. the agreements one with a firm in india and another backed by bill gates will allow it to double production. pascal soriot says they should know by september if the vaccine works: we are actually starting the manufactured now as we speak. we are not waiting until we get the results, and that is the reason that this is going to be shared with the organisations we are partnering with. we are actually working together. by the way, i think that competition is good. i mean, composition generates innovation and new ideas, and makes people work fast. in that instance, we are not competing with one another. we are competing with one another. we are competing against this virus, and there is a lot of collaboration that isn t going against industry, so we can deliver several vaccines. by the fall, and before the end of this year. brazil has now overtaken italy to become the country with the third highest number of deaths from coronavirus, after the united states and britain. the brazilian health ministry said more than 311,000 brazilians had lost their lives with covid 19. it reported almost 1,500 deaths in the last 21! hours. that s more than one death every minute. in italy, which faced their outbreak much earlier, the overall death toll from the virus is more than 33,000 people. our reporter camilla mota has been to manaus, the largest city in the amazon, and an area with one of brazil s highest death rates from coronavirus. a month ago, he was an uber driver. now he collects bodies. every day now he takes people on their finaljourney from homes and hospitals to the biggest graveyard in manaus. that s how fast things have changed here. the service collects bodies for those who can t afford a proper burial. in april they collected 793 bodies, almost four times more than the monthly average. today, he s on his way to the home of someone who died from covid 19. the man who died that day was 80. there was no funeral, his body taken straight to the graveyard. only two family members were allowed to attend. it s hard to say goodbye during covid 19. manaus has one of the highest death rates from covid 19 in brazil. the infection rate here is a still rising, with fears is still rising, with fears there aren t enough beds for the sick. as soon as a bed is made available, it s taken by a new patient. here they re using improvised parts to treat patients. doctors say its reduced time spent in hospital. many of these patients come from outside manaus. the capital city is the only place in the state with icu beds. for a population of almost 4 million, there are less than 500 beds. at the end of his shift, he has to disinfect everything van, boots and clothes. he s following the rules strictly, but he is concerned that others are not. like him, many brazilians are waiting with a sense of unease for the peak still to come. a uk government minister says a new nhs coronavirus contact tracing app should be in place by the end of the month. the nhs app was originally planned to be part of last week s launch of england s test and trace scheme, but the app roll out was delayed because more trials were needed. scotland launched its tracing scheme last week while northern ireland already had a contact tracing programme up and running. wales began its scheme on monday. i m joined now by michael lewis, professor of life science innovation at the university of birmingham, and non executive chairman of the developers of the uk s nhs patient healthcare app mygp. professor lewis, we are very grateful for your time. professor lewis, we are very gratefulfor your time. thanks professor lewis, we are very grateful for your time. thanks for joining us here on bbc news. test and is clearly a crucial part of the government has micro strategy. first of all, what is your understanding of all, what is your understanding of what progress is being made to roll it out in this country? test and trace. there are three components. it is test, trace and track, including an app. i am very concerned today. it was covered this morning, and they said the app would not be available until september or october. sorry to interrupt. the government have suggested it will be in place by the end of the month. i think a senior executive in the process has suggested that may not be until september.” process has suggested that may not be until september. i think he also said that. you asked him if it would be available for all of the uk. i think that was slightly dodged. my concerns are really that we work with mygp, which is used by 1.7 million people in this country to book appointments, get medicines delivered for free, and also do remote video consultations with gps, which has rocketed recently, and they are concerned about two things. they are concerned about the delays. they are concerned about the delays. they are concerned about the delays. they are also concerned about not being consulted about how the data is going to be used as well. you covered a piece where you said the data itself held in this track, test and trace app will be held for 20 yea rs, and trace app will be held for 20 years, which does concern people. the government has opted for a centralised system, which has to be built from scratch. that makes it slow and shows the problems, the multiple times we have had to test it on the isle of wight for a population of 90,000. first, what was available and still is now, systems produced by apple and google, big tech giants, big, decentralised systems. data is stored on your handset, not on a government website somewhere, and you can have it. places like france and switzerland have it. catalonia, just one region in spain, has it. south korea, singapore, australia. it is think possibly that we might not have this until after the summer holidays, when people are predicting a second wave, sojuly and august, that really concerns me. and when you think the uk on wednesday had more deaths in the uk then we had across the whole of the rest of the eu, we need to have systems in place now. baroness harding, dido harding, she needs all the tools available. given you make a very persuasive case for this, why has it not been taken up? you know what? back in march and april, we offered, at mygp, we send briefings to nhs x and matt hancock, and offered to help. we are not here to criticise. the whole tech community of the uk is here to help. but i think at the moment, we are not being listened to. we are on standby. we could take a step and try multiple parts, not just going on one. you heard from pascal from astrazeneca earlier. there are 23 vaccines in developing, so why is there only one app? that s followed multiple parts, and whoever gets to the finishing line first, let s go with that one so we have something. i m sorry, what you are saying is fascinating, but why do you think there is only one app in development? do you know what? it strange, isn t it? we have a centralised nhs system when we have opted for a central app with a central database. in opted for a central app with a central data base. in my opted for a central app with a central database. in my opinion, we should have gone on multiple tracks. like i said, there are 123 vaccines in development, and the government is paying for the imperial college and the oxford vaccines, so why not play multiple horses in the race for the best track and trace app? so we have the best tools available to test, track and trace. we have testing going on now. very good. now we need to do the tracking, and uses many digital technologies as we can. we are on standby to help. thank you for explaining that. you know there is an ethical debate, which you have touched on, around patient data, and there is a view of this information belongs to the patient and not the state, and i suppose perhaps there is the potential danger, if you have multiple apps and platforms, it makes your data less secure. we already share data. i mean, there is so much data apple and google have a nyway so much data apple and google have anyway about what you are doing, what you search on your internet browser, where you are, gps. i think that horse has bolted in terms of data. the thing which concerns me is, which i saw a couple of days ago, is that the government wants to hold the data for 20 years. and as pa rt hold the data for 20 years. and as part of the pandemic legislation they put in place in march, that data can be freely shared around the health care system with very little consent, so i am concerned about privacy, and concerned that if the privacy, and concerned that if the privacy issues not addressed, people won t take up the app, which is a problem. you need to get about 50-60% of problem. you need to get about 50 60% of people using the app to have effective system. and i think concerns about privacy will drive that down. i think we need to get something out, because we are already seeing 10 11 countries introducing measures back again, lockdown measures, because they haven t got a handle on the virus. we need all the tools we can possibly have to drive this virus down. professor michael lewis, really good to talk to you. thanks forjoining us. to the united states now. several videos of police brutality have emerged during protests of the death of the african american george floyd. this incident, which happened in buffalo, new york, was captured in a shocking video by a local reporter. it shows a 75 year old man approaching police. one officer then pushes him with a baton and a second one pushes him with his hand. the two officers have been suspended without pay. the man is a stable but serious condition. well, last night there were emotional scenes at a memorial service in minneapolis to commemorate the life of george floyd, the 46 year old black man whose death at the hands of four police officers has sparked protests across the united states. a lawyer for the family told mourners that a pandemic of racism led to his death. thousands of people have demonstrated in american cities for a tenth consecutive day, the marches have been largely peaceful. jane o brien has more. # amazing grace.# a moving farewell to george floyd from minneapolis, the city where he met his death. family members described him as a loving father, son, and brother. george was somebody who was always welcoming, always made people feel like they were special. everybody wants justice. we want justice for george. he s going to get it. the reverend al sharpton, a black activist, spoke the eulogy, but also urged protesters to seize the moment while the eyes of the world were watching to demand lasting police reform and confront racial injustice. what happened to floyd happens every day in this country in education, in health services, and in every area of american life! it s time for us to stand up in george s name and say get your knee off our necks! because of the coronavirus pandemic, the service was closed, but hundreds of people gathered at this makeshift memorial of flowers placed around the block where mr floyd died when a police officer knelt on his neck. it s still a crime scene, but it s also become a place for people to reflect and respond to the tragedy. this is supposed to be the land of opportunity and grace. look at this. i think this is so important, especially since i m from the suburbs. this has raised a whole new movement talking about black lives matter and how we really need to come together and address this issue. the service ended with eight minutes and 46 seconds of silence to represent the amount of time mr floyd was pinned to the ground and eventually stopped breathing. chanting: george floyd! what do we want? justice! when do we want it? now! his body will be taken to north carolina for a public viewing and then to houston, texas for burial. jane o brien, bbc news, minneapolis. in the past hour, the supreme court in the australian state of new south wales has granted an emergency injunction to stop tens of thousands of people marching in sydney on saturday. the rally‘s in solidarity with campaigners for racialjustice in the united states. these are pictures from a similar protest in sydney, on tuesday. australia s prime minister, scott morrison, had warned of the coronavirus risk involved in large gatherings. the judge said allowing the protest would defy the rulings of government ministers and the public health officers who advised them. one in 1,000 people have coronavirus in community settings across england, the latest figures from the office for national statistics show. that works out at around 53,000 people and that new figure is considerably lower than their estimate from last week of 133,000 people. i m joined by our head of statistics, robert cuffe. what does community settings mean? this is a survey of picking houses at random and asked them to take a swa b at random and asked them to take a swab and do the test subject is a survey of households you do not get prisons or hospitals so that is what is meant by community settings and england. it is giving quite a broad picture and what do these figures tell us about infections? that they are coming down, a clear trend, and in each of the five weeks there is a consistent pattern of decline so we can show it was figures to the audience. this is taking into account the easing of the lockdown. the most recent figures go from me 24 to the our streak in me which shows you exactly the time period. some as before the measures started to decline but some is after and what you see is the trained week on week a steady for to a rate of one and 1000 people in england currently having the virus. there s margin of error, if you scented to different households you would get different numbers and that is what the error bars represent circuit be a little higher or lower. the trend is downwards but it hasn t definitely halved by that much. we know the estimate of r are not consistent, they are telling us the rate of growth are shrinking and this is a direct estimate and together the suggested infections are going down but you would not say they are having. any other caveats? it is difficult to swab yourself so sometimes the tests can be wrong and it is could be underestimating the number of infections ever to a bit but the clear trend as downwards so the numbers we are seeing we have estimating and owned 5500 new infections every day in england and that gives you a sense of the size of the challenge that the context racers will face, maybe five and infections but the number of contact tracers we have should be up to that task, that is a possibility so the number of infections are within that range. what do we know about the number of deaths? overall they have been coming down and read see that particularly an covid deaths and all cause death but one of the big mysteries as the extra deaths above what we would expect at this time of year that are not covid, not mentioned on the death certificate and we have a new analysis from an office of national statistics saying a good chunk of the extra death is due to underdiagnosis of covid and very frail people and we see the artist number of non covid excess deaths and the very elderly and people in care homes and the biggest cause of death things like same as all associations with fidelity and you can imagine the difficulty of expressing your symptoms it doesn t tell us the exact number and so there are other possible reasons, it doesn t tell us they did percent of this is caused by underdiagnosis, just a good chunk. police say they have received hundreds of emails and calls from the public about a new suspect in the madeleine mccann case. german police say they believe madeleine who disappeared in portugal in 2007 is dead, and are investigating a convicted sex offender who s in prison in germany. our europe correspondent, gavin lee, has been looking at the public response to the police s latest appeal for new information. clearly it has made an impact in the last 48 over since this german equivalent of crimewatch was aired, 5 million people watched and they have had very useful information and still getting calls and the uk, the police saying they have had almost 300 calls, still getting e mails and calls, they have put up a £20,000 reward for information that leads to the conviction of the person or persons responsible for the disappearance of madeleine mccann who was taken from apartment five a behind me and 2007. we have been speaking to locals and residents here who say they knew this man, they recognise has pictures, christian b as he has been named. one of two images that have been published by german police saying that if anyone has information on this properties he has been using. one person said they were contacted by german police to ask questions about this man, they had him having about this man, they had him having a skimming argument with his partner and that he had been involved in any fight and aggressively acting towards another german man say they have no idea of his reported child sex convictions in germany. another resident said the better way of him to another property which we was used as a storage facility. when goods forestalling goods. suggestions she was a drifter but no active appeal from the police saying they should focus on the who are here 2007 who may have by chance photos on videos of the suspect with the cat he was driving to piece together more evidence. john mcgee is a columnist with the sunday independent in ireland. he was staying with his familyjust a couple of hundred yards from the ocean club resort in praia da luz when madeleine was taken. i wondered if you could take us back to that time and wonder how aware you wear that suspicious activity was occurring in the resort at that time. completely oblivious to it up until madeline disappeared. we were therefore a week beforehand and it was a sleepy little village, on the western fringe of the algarve which has been untainted by the worst excesses of mass to dozen and it was afamily excesses of mass to dozen and it was a family resort because of that. it was also pre season so at the time it was relatively quiet but we only became aware of something happening that night as we returning from dinnerand as we that night as we returning from dinner and as we prepared to get ready for bed there was lots of people frantically rushing along the streets and be saw them checking swimming pools and alleys and lanes and we didn t really know what was going on and thought that was initially the noise was quite loud and seem to have died down once and past our apartment and that was the last we heard of it. the next morning the reception area and the hotel had pictures of madeline and they had been hastily put together overnight and from then onwards and became apparent that something terrible had happened in the village and that a little girl had gone missing. within a matter of hours the bar and the complex where we we re the bar and the complex where we were staying became the media hub for the study and news teams from all europe descended. in those days and weeks after madeline disappeared tojuicy anything and weeks after madeline disappeared to juicy anything suspicious and weeks after madeline disappeared tojuicy anything suspicious did you see anything suspicious? as a journalist used but unusual things and we did see a couple of people acting suspiciously. in what way? just people that looked out of place and a certain environment. there was one particular person who later matched the identity photos issued by the metropolitan police and 2017. we saw people acting strangely and fairgrounds, one gentleman videoing children and a water park couple of miles away, we saw a van, a tote at pick speeding past on the way home from the restaurant on the night madeleine disappeared. tiny things but with the benefit of hindsight they stack up and you begin to wonder. i know you were contacted by the police, what did you say to them? basically when we returned to dublin we were not initially contacted dublin we were not initially co nta cted by dublin we were not initially contacted by portuguese police which i found rather strange so we felt compelled to give a statement to the irish police when we returned to dublin which we did which was then forwarded on to interpol. by then they were involved in the case. then when operation grange was set up we we re when operation grange was set up we were contacted by one of the detectives on the case and i had a quite extensive conscious position and made a few statement to the officer extensive conversation andi officer extensive conversation and i got the sense that they had come across this was an unusual investigation and that i got the impression that perhaps the portuguese police had slightly bungled the original investigation. basically we gave statements outlining where we were that night, the roots we took, where we saw the van speeding. we saw a van speeding, not necessarily the camper van, we saw a pick up truck speeding and this was a sleepy village so a pick up truck speeding down a hill at 10pm is rather unusual. we outlined our concerns about that and provided and so far as we could recall the details of the features of the people that we saw hanging around various times during the week before. sorry to interrupt, the clock is ticking and it is fascinating what you are telling us, i wanted to bring you up to date briefly and ask you what your reaction as to the latest development is someone who has been closely involved ? development is someone who has been closely involved? i have written about it a few times and to date it seems like the most credible suspect has emerged and there have been numerous suspects identified by detectives on operation grange but in my view this seems like the most likely suspect. you have to be very careful, the evidence against this person as circumstantial and that is why i think it is important that people who were on holiday at the time anybody in the village aren t friends on duke forwards and help with the investigation. thank you for talking to us. the latest round of talks between britain and the eu on a post brexit trade deal marks the final opportunity for the two sides to move the process forward before a potentially make or break high level summit later this month but has there been much movement in the talks chris morris has the details. this was the fourth round of post brexit trade talks between the uk and the eu, which have been taking place remotely in the shadow of the coronavirus crisis. the coronavirus hasn t helped matters but it s not been the only reason these talks haven t made much progress. there s even no agreement on the structure of what they re trying to negotiate. the eu wants one comprehensive deal. but the uk sees that as an effort to keep it tied more closely than it wants to european institutions and ways of doing things. the uk argues there should be a series of separate agreements but the eu sees that as another example of the uk trying to cherry pick the benefits it wants, while avoiding obligations of eu membership. there are also specific issues on which negotiators seem to have hit a brick wall. what s known as the level playing field measures to ensure businesses on one side don t have an unfair advantages over their competitors on the other. all trade agreements have them, but the eu wants the uk to stick particularly closely to eu rules on things like workers rights, environmental regulations and state aid or subsidies for business. then there s fisheries. the uk would like full access to the eu market to sell its fish there, but in return the eu wants full access for its boats to fish in uk waters. british negotiators say that has to change. and then there s the governance of any future agreement that s partly about how new agreements would be enforced, and about the role of the european court ofjustice. it normally takes years to do a trade deal but this process only has a matter of months left. remember, the uk left the eu on january the 31st and we re now in a transition period, when all the rules and regulations and payments stay the same, until the end of the year. but if no trade agreement is completed by then, the uk won t have any formal trading deal with its closest neighbours, which account for nearly half its total trade. by law, any extension to the transition period would have to be agreed by the end of this month, and the eu says its willing to talk about an extension. the scottish and welsh governments are in favour, so is the northern ireland assembly. but the uk government has repeatedly ruled it out. so can any basic deal still be done? if there s political will to make concessions on both sides, then, yes, perhaps it can. the prime minister will get directly involved this month holding talks with the european commission president on how the negotiations are going. and high level political involvement can lead to progress. if it doesn t, businesses on both sides of the channel have just over six months to prepare for an abrupt change in the way they trade, at a time when many are already struggling to stay afloat. the economic challenges of covid could strengthen the case for compromise, or they could provide cover for those who favour a more radical break with the eu. well here to discuss that is georgina wright from the institute for government. what is your understanding of how far the talks have progressed? we haven t had the place conference yet but i don t think anyone was expecting a breakthrough but both sides were hoping for progress. there has been some movement, negotiations on security and intimates but the stumbling blocks mentioned on fish and governance remain so at is crucial what happens over the next few months. what in of you is the biggest stumbling block on is it not possible to separate out? i think it is a series of quite substantial stumbling blocks because the uk point of departure is very different. typically an eu trade negotiation lasts between 18 months and six years, edward b numberfor the stage to be far apart at this point but it is notjust about trade, it is security and crucially there is no status quo to come back on at negotiations break down salt from one day to the next on 1st of january 2021 businesses will be operating any radically different environment and that is why prime minister and eu leaders are going to look at what is happening this month and decide what to do next. you could forgive leaders for perhaps having that isolates the off the ball in terms of the coronavirus pandemic, i wonder what your view is as to whether that will have any effect. it is interesting, the german ambassador to the eu yesterday speaking in brussels said obviously attention has been fully on covid at the moment, brexit is important and the eu relationship but he did not think you leaders would be intervening at this point because again it is still quite early. as the pressure mounts and particularly the uk to say to didn t wa nt to particularly the uk to say to didn t want to extend beyond the end of the year you can see more political intervention. a lot of analysts suspect no real movement until the summer so suspect no real movement until the summersoi suspect no real movement until the summer so i think everyone will be watching what happens. as you will be and! watching what happens. as you will be and i appreciate you do not have a crystal ball but what do you think realistically the prospect of a deal are? i think it is important to remember what both sides have said and at the beginning of the year they said that as a what to do and very little time but there is commitment to put it best foot forward and the uk government has said that as well so there are some things as you edge closer to that cliff edge that concentrates minds and the space for compromise becomes more but from the perspective of the eu they want to get a shorter sense of how far the uk is willing to go across different policy areas before really identifying how far to compromise. we have had four rounds of talks, i think the areas of compromise and becoming more apparent even if we are not in that negotiating room. we may know a little more because we know the chief negotiator michel barnier is due to make a statement in brussels shortly but for no thank you. dentists across england will be allowed to start seeing patients again from monday, but the british dental association says that shortage of protective equipment means many of them will remain closed. english health officials insist they re continuining to work with dentists on safety. dan johnson reports. phone rings. answering machine message: the surgery is now closed. empty surgeries and patients left in pain. normal surgery will not be resuming at this time. dentistry felt the lockdown more than most. despite the government s announcement. and now, there is a real struggle to reopen on monday. unfortunately there will not be any patients here. we are hoping that a week s time we might be able to start seeing some of our own emergencies and do some very basic treatment. normal dental treatment is not going to be happening for an awfully long time. this waiting room is going to be empty for months. and even then, ensuring the virus does not spread will have a huge impact. i would normally see between 50 60 patients on an average day. and what about now? now, um, when we start treating people and doing proper treatment with the drill, i think the most i will be able to see is five. only one patient will be in the surgery at a time, protective equipment will be repeatedly changed and there will be much more cleaning. so i reckon we re looking at 1.5 hours between each patient. we have literally just been given the guidance. it s given us less than one working day to get things in place. we have had to do all of this on our own, we ve had no help, no guidance. we re not expecting to see routine care patients for 2 3 months. we will be open on monday but it will only be for urgent cases. across england so many dentists say they just are not ready. we don t have key worker status. childcare is a massive problem. the biggest challenge has been sourcing correct personal protective equipment, ppe. patients will not be able to get through on the telephone because we re expecting to be very busy so, if that is the case, then just be patient. it is not a case ofjust getting a mask or opening the doors. we have to get policies in place. patients are ringing us up, they want to come in, we want to see our patients. i get to be a dentist today. so they have been left to treat themselves with only limited emergency care available. ahh. this was linda s attempt to do her own filling. ahh, it came out. so much need, so little capacity. we are going to come back to a very big mess. it is disappointing as a professional that those who are in charge of us give us so limited time. and a message, knowing that a message has gone out to the public which is really misleading. i have had patients shouting at me on the telephone, because they want to get their treatment finished. i wanted to leave dentistry, ijust thought, why am i bothering? what about the cost of all this? spiralling. ppe generally is up 1,000%. this treatment room is now an equipment store and fresh challenges keep coming. we have obviously got to prioritise people in pain but there are people out there who have paid for treatment, who are mid treatment, who need stuff doing, who will not get seen for months and months. and it is not that i don t want to, it s just that i want to see them in a safe manner. dentistry is nowhere near being back to normal and it is possible it never will be. dan johnson, bbc news. let s get some of the day s other news the us has imposed trade restrictions on dozens of chinese technology firms and institutions. washington has accused nine of them of being complicit in what it describes as china s campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention, forced labour and high tech surveillance against uighur and other muslims. in peru more than 5000 people have died from the coronavirus, making the country the second hardest hit in south america. there is a serious shortage of oxygen to treat patients, with relatives trying to source supplies. the government has declared the gas a strategic resource to be used in health care before industry. take a look at these pictures from norway. it s the moment a powerful landslide caused a house to topple over and others to be swept into the sea in the town of alta. it happened after hours of heavy rain. nobody is reported to have been hurt. hello. it was a fairly cool start to the day. we ve already had some heavy showers around. expect those showers to last over the next few days. so, a cooler, showery theme to the weather. also notice the winds are going to be strengthening, too. throughout today, and more especially into tomorrow, with low pressure driving our weather, sitting up towards the east here. lots of isobars on the map and plenty of showers rotating around that area of low pressure. so, sunny spells and scattered showers for most of us today. more persistent rain into the north of scotland later on. some of the showers, particularly parts of eastern england, could be heavy with hail and thunderstorms as well. fewer showers reaching the far south of england. not immune to the odd shower here, but a little bit drier. gusty winds, 35 or 45 mph, perhaps to parts of the irish sea, up to the north west of scotland, some of those costs could reach 50 or 60 mph at times. so, blustery winds, combined with heavy showers and more persistent rain pushing in across the north of scotland. temperatures out there today, somewhere between nine or 17 degrees, a lot cooler than it has been over the last couple of weeks. a little below par for the time of year. the heaviest of the showers and thunderstorms should fade away for a time overnight, but then we see the next area of rain working out of scotland, through northern ireland, northern england and north wales, too. clearer spells either side of that. quite a chilly night, with temperatures quite widely down into mid to single figures. saturday starts with low pressure very much in charge. you can see the real squeeze in those isobars, especially across northern and western parts of the uk. that s where you see some of the strongest winds. do be aware that, through today and into tomorrow, especially across the northern half of the uk, we could see gusts of wind up to 60 mph, enough to cause some disruption, particularly trees in full leaf. saturday, a few spells of sunshine through the morning. heavy showers pushing their way south through the day. again, some hail and thunder possible, particularly across parts of eastern england. temperatures 11 to 18 degrees on saturday. not too bad when you do see the sunshine coming through. slightly lighter wind by the time we get a sunday. still some showers around, most likely around the east coast. fewer showers further west and still quite chilly for the time of year. in the east, temperatures only ten or 13 degrees, towards the south west we could see 19 celsius or so. as we head through next week, a few showers around. but generally a bit drier and lighter winds, too. bye for now.
this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the uk s government defends the decision to make face coverings compulsory on public transport, but admits the benefits may be marginal. on balance we are convinced that it certainly can t do any harm, we think it will do some good, and that s why it s a good idea to introduce. my concern and i d go so far as to say my anger is the delay it s taken, because this could mean more people having caught the virus in the community because there are some times where you simply can t keep a social distance, and this delay, i think, a grim milestone brazil overtakes italy to become the country third worst hit by coronavirus, with one brazilian dying every minute with covid 19. two police officers are suspended in buffalo, new york state after videos show they were seen pushing an elderly white man to the ground. the bbc announces that one of its senior executives, tim davie, will replace tony hall as director general. he ll take up the position in september. madeleine mccann s parents say they re encouraged by the response to the latest appeal for information about the disappearance of their daughter. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. the uk government has defended the timing of its decision to make face masks compulsory on public transport in england. from june the 15th, passengers travelling without a face covering could be fined. the british medical association says the rule should be extended to anywhere that cannot ensure safe social distancing. elsewhere in england, new figures out this morning give a clearer indication of the rate at which coronavirus cases are declining. the office for national statistics suggests the number of new daily cases in households in england has fallen to 5,600 a day. around the world, brazil has surpassed italy to become the country with the third highest number of coronavirus deaths, after the united states and the uk. meanwhile in france, the government s top scientific advisor has said the epidemic there is now under control. and in scotland, it s emerged that a coronavirus epidemic simulated by public health experts two years ago highlighted potential problems such as a lack of protective equipment. we start with this report from keith doyle. it does not seem that long ago that people wearing face coverings out and about were an oddity. now it seems perfectly normal. and from june 15 in england, it will be obligatory on buses, trains, trams, ferries, and planes. loudspeaker: use a face covering while travelling. there will be some exceptions for children and disabled people, but the transport secretary said that wearing a face covering will be a condition of travel. the scientists have been very clear that they are struggling. they ve been struggling to provide the conclusive evidence on it. on balance, we are convinced that it certainly can t do any harm, we think it will do some good, and that s why we think it s a good idea to introduce. but as i say, there s no point introducing it if. the most important thing is two metres social distancing, so if you ve got two metres social distancing, then this is a marginal impact. in scotland, where face coverings are recommended on public transport, the government will consider making them compulsory. in northern ireland, they are recommended where social distancing isn t possible. and wales has not yet made any recommendations on face coverings. transport unions have welcomed the move, which they said is overdue, and the doctors union, the bma, has asked why the requirement is not being brought in right away, and that it should be widened to other areas where social distancing isn t always possible. nhs test and trace will contact you to trace people you might have infected. apologies that report. we will take you straight to brussels now, where the eu s chief brexit negotiator michelle barnier is giving us a news conference. we must all be vigilant and stay careful, but i am delighted to be with you again virtually or otherwise. mr barnier also thanks the interpreters for making this communication possible. you are welcome. he also says we help people understand each other. well, we hope so. from the start of these negotiations, our objective was to make parallel progress on all the subjects of our future relationship. there are many such subjects, because we are truly ambitious when it comes to this future relationship, and as i have said in the last round, for that to be possible, we needed to get rid of four serious areas of blockage and, for fishing, four serious areas of blockage and, forfishing, competition four serious areas of blockage and, for fishing, competition and a so called level playing field. these are two elements that are absolutely essential and cannot be separated out from trade. as we work towards a new economic partnership with the uk. secondly, guarantees and fundamental rights. we need this to establish police and judicial cooperation on criminal matters that is close and tight. third point, governance over a partnership. future partnership. this week, along with the uk delegation and david frost, we agreed that we have set a lot of time in our negotiating period for those four areas, and i would like to thank david and the two teams for the climate of mutual respect and the climate of mutual respect and the effort in the negotiations. both sides showed great respect for each other. they did very good work in these difficult circumstances, and i d like to pay tribute to the professionalism concerned. the professionals who were concerned. however, this week, i still have my responsibility under the aegis of our president ursula von der leyen. iam the our president ursula von der leyen. i am the eu negotiator, and my responsibility is to speak the truth, and to tell the truth, this week, there have been no significant areas of progress. starting with fishing. on fisheries, the uk have not shown any true will to explore other approaches the aunt zonal attachment for the sharing of quotas. any other approach is beyond zonal attachment. they continue to attach approaching to waters to an annual agreement, which is not even technical possible for us. the eu wants to create i would construct us. the eu wants to create i would co nstru ct a us. the eu wants to create i would construct a stable economic partnership. that has only been our desire. next point: playing field. economic fair play, trade fair play. no progress there either, despite the fact as i said this week we tried to focus on certain topics in particular, on subjects in particular, on subjects in particular that we thought were closer to reaching an agreement, such as things like the nonaggression measures when it came to social, environmental, climate related, tax and fiscal matters, and sustainable development. so no progress there. and then on governance, we are still a long way away from the framework we wanted, establishing legal links between our different areas of cooperation or a crosscutting government framework. finally, and law enforcement, judicial and police cooperation, we we re judicial and police cooperation, we were able to have a more constructive discussion on the issues of commitments arising from the european convention on human rights, but there are still important questions open as to how all of that would be reflected in the agreement itself. so, ladies and gentlemen, on these points as on others, all we ask for is for the political declaration to be respected and complied with. there has been no significant progress on these points, as i have said, not since the start of the negotiations, andi since the start of the negotiations, and i don t think we can go on like this forever. on top of that, the uk, as you know, have refused to extend the transition period, in other words, to allow for more time for negotiations. from our side, as indeed was already pointed out by president ursula von der leyen several months ago, we have always been open on our side, open to extending this period by one or two yea rs. extending this period by one or two years. it is possible and written into the agreement. our door is still open to that end. however, if there is nojoint decision still open to that end. however, if there is no joint decision towards such an extension, as we understand to be the case now, if there is no change, the uk will leave the single market and customs union and december and 31st. that is less than seven months from now. if we take into account what we have to have in terms of time to ratify an agreement, we have to have a legal text at the latest on october 31. and that leaves us about five months, give or take. and that leaves us about five months, give ortake. a and that leaves us about five months, give or take. a wee bit less, in fact. we have to use this time as efficiently as possible. indeed, last week, i had already proposed to david frost that we should accompany the next round of negotiations on all subjects through, as of the start ofjune, which will be the next round. end ofjune, which will be the next round, end ofjune, mark concentrated, focused work on the more difficult points. more concentrated, focused work. i hope this will give a new boost to the new 11 negotiation tables as such, and by the way, i also hope they will be able to start meeting face to face again by the end of june, when the next timeline is supposed to be. i think it will work better and be more effective, and easier. we still have roughly five months, and i will continue to obviously work with my team and keeping full transparency with the 27 member states and european parliament as well. to be clear, our lack of progress in this negotiation is not due to our method, but to the substance. we must stick to our commitments if we wa nt to must stick to our commitments if we want to move forward. we engaged in this negotiation on the basis of a joint political declaration that clearly sets out the terms of our future partnership. this document. this document, is available in all languages, including english. it is not difficult to read. good weekend reading, if! not difficult to read. good weekend reading, if i may say. a declaration was negotiated with prime minister johnson himself. it was approved by the leaders of the 27 member states at the european council in october 2019. it has the backing of the european parliament also. it is for us, and it will remain for us, the only valid reference, the only releva nt only valid reference, the only relevant precedent in this negotiation, that it was agreed by both sides. yet to after round, our british counterparts seek to distance themselves from this common basis. let me give you for concrete example, referring precisely to the text of the political declaration: first, prime ministerjohnson agreed in paragraph 77 that, i quote, given our geographical proximity and economic interdependence, ourfuture agreement must encompass robust commitments to prevent distortions of trade and unfair competitive advantages. this is what together we chose to call the level playing field. in this paragraph, the prime minister borisjohnson agreed to uphold the common high standards applicable in the union and the uk. at the end of the transition period in these areas, stated competition, environmental standards, employment, climate change and relevant tax matters. we are today very far from this objective. prime minister johnson agreed in paragraph 66 on civil nuclear cooperation 2019, our existing high standards of nuclear safety. we a re existing high standards of nuclear safety. we are very far from this objective. three, prime minister borisjohnson agreed in paragraph 82 that our agreement should cover anti money laundering and counterterrorism financing. we are very farfrom this counterterrorism financing. we are very far from this objective. four. borisjohnson agreed in paragraph 118 to base our future relationship on an overarching institutional framework which links between specific areas of cooperation. and we are once again very far from this objective. in all areas, the uk continues to backtrack on the commitments it has undertaken in the political declaration. including on fisheries, where we committed to use our best endeavours to conclude and ratify the new agreement byjuly one, 2020. it seems clear that we will not reach the target, considering our negotiations in this area are going for the moment considering how our negotiations are going at the moment. indeed, even in the rare areas where we saw some movement this week, such as the european convention on human rights, we still fall short of what we had agreed in the political declaration. and finally, as a reminder, the uk since the beginning does not want to talk about our cooperation on foreign policy, development and defence at all, even though we agreed this with borisjohnson in the political declaration. and to tell the truth on this point, defence policy, also as a former foreign affairs ministry my own country, i still understand why. we cannot and we will not accept this backtracking on the political declaration. and at the same time, we will request a full respect of the withdrawal agreement. on citizens rights, we continue to be extremely vigilant. there have been frequent exchanges of information between the vice president and the minister michael gove on this topic, regarding eu citizens residing in the uk. we are pleased to hear that 3.1 million eu citizens have already been granted residence status, and we are carefully monitoring the situation of more vulnerable citizens that have difficulties applying digitally. it is also important that eu citizens residing in the uk have access to social benefits in these difficult times. as for uk nationals residing in the union, in the 13 member states that, like the uk, have chosen constitutive system, we are working to ensure that procedures for applying for resident status are simple, easily accessible, and clearly communicated. in the other 14 member states, which have chosen a declaratory system, uk nationals will receive a physical document enabling them to prove their status. we also continue to be extremely vigilant with regard to the correct implementation of the protocol on ireland and northern ireland. the uk common paper published on may the 20th is useful. but there are still a lot of details to be centred if we wa nt to a lot of details to be centred if we want to move from aspiration to operation. in line with the legal treaty. furthermore, some of the objectives set out in this common paper, such as avoiding exit declarations and goods moving from northern ireland to great britain, are incompatible with the legal commitments accepted by the uk in the protocol. so we really need to work more on the technical details. only a precise and rigorous implementation of the agreement can create the confidence we need to build our future create the confidence we need to build ourfuture partnership. the 27 member states and the european parliament have been very clear about this, including in our negotiating mandate. translation: so, ladies and gentlemen, in the coming days, i will have an opportunity, the commission will be able to take stock with the member states, michel, and the european coordinating group. during the month ofjune, we will have a second meeting of thejoint ofjune, we will have a second meeting of the joint committee on the withdrawal agreement and its implementation, which will take place on june the 12th, implementation, which will take place onjune the 12th, and then we will have a high level meeting which we agreed to in the political declaration, mentioned several times, and this high level meeting will take stock of the status of negotiations. we will also need to set the precise date and practical modalities as we will have to do too for the dates and the modalities of the next round, probably, as of the end ofjune or beginning ofjuly. so as you can see in a short time frame, we are moving towards a moment of truth. we expect the united kingdom to respect its commitments under the already ratified withdrawal agreement and to respect the precise details of this political declaration, which will remaina political declaration, which will remain a basis of our negotiations. if that is indeed the case, and if we can ensure and maintain the mutual respect we have shown till now, if we can remain serene in our approach, and we always have been serene and patient on the eu side, adopting a calm but vigilant and determined approach, and we intend to remain like that. if we can maintain this approach, i believe that in the course of the summer, or the very beginning of the autumn, we will be able to find some common ground between the eu when the uk and we will be able to find an agreement for our future. we will take questions. nick, you have the floor. nick, press speak. that is what i am trying to do. i am trying to find the camera. thank you very much. hello, mr barnier. can you hear me? brilliant. iactually had a question about something you did not mention in your remarks, mr barnier, which is a state aid. this came up in david frost s letter to you quite prominently, and it is quite clear it is quite a big blockage in the level playing field side of the talks, and the uk is simply not going to accept the eu s state aid demands as they are. david frost called them egregious. in your reply to him, you listed state aid and did not save the uk would be bound by eu law after the end of the transition. but your own mandate and says that the envisaged partnership with the uk should mandate state aid rules. this is an area you are prepared to compromise on, can you do so without the state aid changing your mind a? changing your mandate. translation: i don t need to be reminded of my mandate. i know it well, and i don t need to be asked to remember what is in the political declaration on the subject. it was just mentioned, and state aid more specifically, in the agreement, in the declaration. it is a point clearly mentioned. i think it is the very first in that particular list, where it says that it is an area where, with the uk, we need to find a way to avoid an unfair competitive advantage. that is what it says in english. in all areas, advantage. that is what it says in english. in allareas, and in advantage. that is what it says in english. in all areas, and in this one in particular, that is my mandate. the aim of this is to find good mechanisms, robust commitments to go into the english text again to avoid such distortions of competition and to keep the rules of the game that are fair and competition rules that are fair, so ican competition rules that are fair, so i can confirm that it is a very difficult point, and indeed, we have a very firm position here. in terms of the spirit of the political declaration and this, well, this needs to be taken forward. in this round, as i said before, we try to go on round, as i said before, we try to goona round, as i said before, we try to go on a focus for other things like the non regression clauses, and i explain why. i said we were disappointed we had not made progress on it either, but this topic of state aid is still very much an issue at the top of the level playing field discussion, but we did discuss at this time. but clearly, we need those robust rules. a tool box that works. we will say goodbye now to our viewers on bbc world. in line with the sovereign rules of both sides when it comes to our respective legal orders. our respective legal orders. our respective sovereignties must be respected. the uk s obviously, which is why brexit must be there. it also hours, and the uk must accept ours. and we have to find some sort of equivalence on each side when it comes to level and type of regulation. is there a real risk of dumping? this is one area where there are real risks, but there are others as well wear the same sort of exercise needs to be found. it is not just ideology exercise needs to be found. it is notjust ideology or technocratic dogma. this level playing field, this fair play, economic and trade related fair play notion, actually cove rs related fair play notion, actually covers hundreds of thousands ofjobs that are at stake, and that s why eu member states are very firm on these matters. i will not go into the detail of discussions. i will not speculate where we will end up, but if this point i m trying to make can be properly understood and if boris johnson s commitment as he wrote them into ourjoint aid are respected, we will be able to agree on those robust rules the referred to. to bruno waterfield. you need to activate your might, bruno. your microphone. just press speak once more. where we will end up, but. yes, we can hear you now. thank you very much. sorry about that. mr barnier, ido want much. sorry about that. mr barnier, i do want to press you on something. your mandate says on state aid that state aid, eu law, union law and state aid, eu law, union law and state aid, eu law, union law and state aid must be applied within the uk. the law, eu law, must be applied. that seems to go beyond a robust mechanism and the political declaration. in your letter that you wrote in reply to david frost, you said the uk would not be bound by union law on the level playing field for the free trade agreement. can you just clarify whether you are still supporting the idea in your mandate that of state aid, union law must apply? thank you. translation: yes. you don t need to feel worried about putting pressure on me. don t be surprised if i am not unduly impressed at the question. or concern that the question. or concern that the question. i know my mandate, my terms of reference, which is subject to interpretation on the british side about respect for british sovereignty, as is my role in terms of trying to achieve common progress. i have taken account of that british concern, and i would suggest about their 70, i would suggest about their 70, i would suggest to the british side they need to take due concern about our sovereignty, which is non negotiable in all aspects of the internal market. so i have certainly taken account of this british concern, which i can understand in political terms, and it is in this spirit and in compliance with my mandate that i wrote this letter. so i think unless basis and in the spirit of the u mentioned. well, we are going to leave that news co nfe re nce well, we are going to leave that news conference in brussels now. what is the headline? i guess it is the fact that the two sides are still a long way off coming to an eu chief negotiator michel barnier saying there has been no significant area of progress after the end of the fourth round of talks on a post brexit trade deal. we have had a response from the uk s chief brexit negotiator david frost. he has said that progress in the talks with the eu was limited, echoing what michel barnier said there. but david frost said that the tone of those talks had been positive. he said that if further progress was to be made, the two sides needed to intensify and accelerate their work rate. let s cross now to the scottish gvernment‘s daily briefing, which is being led by the first minister, nicola sturgeon. iamjoined i am joined today by the chief co nsta ble of i am joined today by the chief constable of police scotland and bite professorjason leech are national clinical director. i will start by obligating some of the key statistics in relation to covid 19. at 9am that have been 15,582 positive cases, an increase of 29 from yesterday, a total of they hundred 95 patients are in hospital with confirmed or suspected covid 19, that represents a decrease of 26 from yesterday including a decrease of nine and the number of confirmed cases. we have to be careful reading too much into single day figures but nevertheless it is reasonable to point out this is the first time since the 30th of march that the number of patients in hospital has been a law than 1000 againa hospital has been a law than 1000 again a positive indication of the progress we are making. a total of 23 people last eight but an intensive care with confirmed or suspected covid 19 which is a decrease of 5 cents yesterday five since yesterday. a total of 3378 patients had been able to leave hospital. in the last 24 there was a 14 deaths have been registered of patients confirmed as having covid 19 which take to total number of deaths in scotland under that measurement to 2409. these numbers are not just measurement to 2409. these numbers are notjust statistics, they are individuals was lost as deeply felt by their loved ones so i want to send my deepest condolences to eve ryo ne send my deepest condolences to everyone who has lost a loved one to this virus. i also want to express my thanks as always to health and ca re my thanks as always to health and care workers, my thanks as always to health and ca re workers, your my thanks as always to health and care workers, your efforts are enormously appreciated and notjust by me and the government, by eve ryo ne by me and the government, by everyone in scotland. there are many other front line and key workers throughout helping the country throughout helping the country through this crisis and with the chief constable here today i want to ta ke chief constable here today i want to take the opportunity to say a special thank you again to police officers and staff who are working under real pressure at the moment but are doing an exceptionaljob for all of us. there are two items i wa nt to all of us. there are two items i want to come, the first concerns the economic impact of covid 19. i have just come earlierfrom economic impact of covid 19. i have just come earlier from the cabinet subcommittee on the economy where we noted the latest monthly report from a chief economist. that document which was published this morning provides a summary of scotland s key economic statistics. amongst other things it shows that in the first half of may almost one fifth of businesses and scuff are temporarily closed and that contributed to more than 750,000 people being followed on unable to work as normal. the report shows tolerable is down in almost every sector of the economy and it contains new modelling which takes account of the different phases for easing lockdown. on that basis the report forecast in more gradual economic recovery which may not see it return to precrisis levels fully number of years. the publication confirms the scale of the economic crisis we face and in doing that further underlines why government action is so important and vital continue to be sought. the scottish government has allocated £2.3 billion to help businesses and protect jobs and billion to help businesses and protectjobs and that is before me consider uk wide measures such as thejob retention consider uk wide measures such as the job retention scheme. consider uk wide measures such as thejob retention scheme. that support is helping to mitigate some of the economic impact and will continue to be vital as businesses seek to rebuild. i want to again given an assurance that the scottish government is determined to do everything we can to support that process of rebuilding and recovery. we will continue to do everything possible to protect your livelihood, thatis possible to protect your livelihood, that is important in the short term but also vital to help lay the groundwork for a sustainable economic recovery. that recovery will be helped by continued progress against this virus will stop if we have a setback in tackling the virus that will make the reopening of our economy all the more difficult for the second item i want to cover todayis the second item i want to cover today is anything elated to the first and it concerns becomes lockdown restrictions and particularly how i hope people will comply with them over this weekend and beyond. we had at the close of the first full week since we moved into phase one of our route map out of lockdown and eased some of the distractions. so far the vast majority of people have stuck by the new rules and a want to take the opportunity again to thank all of you who have continued to do the right thing. it is also clear that over the past week not absolutely eve ryo ne over the past week not absolutely everyone has done that. the chief co nsta ble everyone has done that. the chief constable may say more little about compliance and how the distractions will be enforced at necessary but i wa nt to will be enforced at necessary but i want to set out very clearly again today what the current rules are and today what the current rules are and to do that it wants to focus on what we are asking everyone not to do because it is that is by not doing the things we know aloes dividers to spread that will keep under control. to start you must not people from other households indoors. i know that may be a particular tip titian ona that may be a particular tip titian on a weekend when we are expecting poor weather a particular temptation. but i typically that is extremely high risk and we know this virus transmits much more easily between people inside than outside. if you are not willing to meet outdoors in all likelihood the rain then please do not meet up with people from other households at all andi people from other households at all and i cannot emphasise that strongly enough. i am and i cannot emphasise that strongly enough. iam not and i cannot emphasise that strongly enough. i am not exaggerating when i see that if you do with people from other households indoors you are putting yourself and you are putting them at risk of getting the virus and becoming ill without and potentially dying from it. i would ask you not pleased to take that risk. healthy desk of meeting outdoors as a law it is not absolutely zero that means if you do meet outdoors you must again within two metres are members of another household. you should certainly not be shaking their hands are hugging them difficult though that is and should not shout food utensils with people from other households or touch house officers they may also have touched because these are ways in which we know the virus spreads relatively easily. we are asking that when two households do meet up there should be no more than eight in total and there should be no more than eight in totaland a there should be no more than eight in total and a group. in addition you should not more than five miles for recreation and should not leave your face uncovered a few are in an enclosed space like a shop and public transport. winning a face covering helps you protect others and having others wear a face covering means they protect you. i wa nt to covering means they protect you. i want to make the general point that you should still be seen far fewer people than normal and still trying to stay at home as much as possible. basically if you start to feel your social life is returning to normal thatis social life is returning to normal that is not a good sign now. that message applies to everyone but it is perhaps particularly relevant to young people so i want today to make a special plea to all of you young people of scotland. many of you will be desperate to spend more time with pals after weeks of being a part and made even think that as young people you are made even think that as young people you a re less made even think that as young people you are less liquid to become seriously slow as a result of the virus and i know this from speaking to young people in my own life. but i want to be very clear, you are not immune from this virus, you can get it and it can be very harmful to you but even if you are not seriously affected you can still pass it on to other young people, they make then passed on to others radically to risk from covid 19 such as pins are grandparents and that could have tragic consequences so i would urge you to please not think about your own risk, think about the risk to your parents and grandparents and two friends p and are grandparents. do not take risks you could end up regretting and possibly grieving in the weeks ahead, please stick to the rules. also a brief word and a heartfelt wa nt rules. also a brief word and a heartfelt want to those who i know what to make their voices heard at this weekend and support of black lives matter and i want to aj you to make your voices heard, we all feel very strongly about this but i want to ask you to do so safely. and none more times i may well have been planning tojoin more times i may well have been planning to join a gathering more times i may well have been planning tojoin a gathering of support this weekend by coming together and mass gatherings are simply not safe, it poses a real risk to health and life so i would encourage you to read the statement issued yesterday asking people to protest in different ways. you can make your voice heard online, you can lobby elected representatives are make it to anti dissident campaigns but please try to stay within the rules antiracism campaigns and stay safe. if you are wondering whether it is ok to do something this weekend ask yourself if you are giving the virus and opportunity to spread and if you are in doubt about whether your plans are within the rules are not please are within the rules are not please are on the side of caution. above all else please remember that every single decision we take as individuals will help affect the safety a nd individuals will help affect the safety and well being of everyone. the progress we have made against this virus is real and i see that every day because i mean it and it is asa every day because i mean it and it is as a result of all of us of a lemming like sticking to these rules and that kind of collective effort will continue to be vital. i m confident you will continue to play your part i do want to thank all of your part i do want to thank all of you in advance for showing that solidarity with each other and doing that. i will hand over to the chief co nsta ble. that. i will hand over to the chief constable. good afternoon and as we enter earlyjune constable. good afternoon and as we enterearlyjune and constable. good afternoon and as we enter early june and the constable. good afternoon and as we enter earlyjune and the summer months i would like to start on a point stressed on a number of occasions which is underlining close bond between policing and the committees of scotland. trust has been forced many years and the police in scotland to take their authority and legitimacy from the people. it is testimony to the good judgment of the people of scotland and our police service during this national public health emergency they delicious up and anything has gone from strength to strength. the relationship at anything. the bible the bond will be tested during these difficult times and i know the role of the police policing at times exercises in the name of fellow citizens to protect us all will be subject to the best scrutiny and challenge and i welcome an open and direct and transparent conversation about policing, it is vital for democracy and fairness. like everyone i as chief constable and as a man was shocked and distressed by the death of george floyd in minneapolis and subsequent events that have transpired and continue to transpire and the us. racism in all its forms is utterly disgraceful and unacceptable. as with the first ministerl unacceptable. as with the first minister i also fully understand the desire of people in scotland to make their voices heard this weekend over racial injustice, the right to be held and protest and campaign is of vital importance and policing has a key role and enabling supporting such freedoms to be exercised fully and safely. i will duty and policing is to enable you to have your voice heard ina is to enable you to have your voice heard in a way that is safe for you and others. so please do this anyway thatis and others. so please do this anyway that is not risk spreading coronavirus. policing in scotland will help this regard. i know again as the first minister has alluded there are a number of planned events this weekend and we are in touch with some of the people involved in organising them to try to help them do that and a safe manner. ilg everyone to follow the regulations and guidance as the majority of people have thankfully done. to keep themselves and others are safe and prevent the spread of coronavirus. i would also detonate the comments of the cabinet secretary forjustice, because the threat of can advise a still with us people should not attend mass gatherings which posit clear risk to public health. please find a safe way to have your voice heard. i know the fatigue and strain many are feeling as the stay at home period continues, albeit with some restrictions are lifted as one that is felt amongst households and families across scotland. again as the first mass that has made the repeatedly the desire for easement to allow greater freedom as understandable. the small changes made last week following ten weeks of strict rules because sailing with particularly good weather and and my judgment left some people acting demob happy. gatherings and parks and beauty spots were concerning and policing made over 2000 separate dismissals over the weekend. at the same time we saw none coronavirus related crime returning to levels which are more in line with topical business as usual and in fact made over 1000 addressed last weekend, none of them and regard to breach of the coronavirus regulations. collectively that puts an acute demand on policing but i pay tribute to everyone working together to save lives. the majority of people continue to do the right thing because they know that as the best way to protect themselves and to stop the virus spreading and to reduce the chance of people dying. this weekend i do not think the way thatis this weekend i do not think the way that is to be quite as good but i would ask fundamentally that people do not travel to busy places and crucially emphasising the point the first minister has been very strongly today do not hold house parties or gatherings outdoors. the police service will take very robust action and that regard because we know that is particularly dangerous in regards to the spread of the virus. do not have house parties effort the rain comes on, do not get your friends round, it is not the time to do that, it is less than that putting lives at risk. i want to thank officers and staff for their commitment to public service, people giving freely of their own time, they have been working around the clock or officers and staff and special constables included within the police service of scotland to give help and advice and support communities the blade of scotland. it is essential that everyone sticks with it, essential they stick to the rules and do the right thing. fa do not then what of what is guidance may be brought into legislation and if that is the case police covered continue to act and a fair and proportionate manner. our approach will not change, we will always work with the people to do the right thing because we rely on consent and cooperation and we were like with courtesy but people take enforcement measures when necessary. | courtesy but people take enforcement measures when necessary. i greatly value the trust of a fellow citizens andl value the trust of a fellow citizens and i thank you for your four bins during these difficult days. for your forbearance. please look after yourselves and follow the rules.” wa nt yourselves and follow the rules.” want to reinforce briefly are some of the key messages you have heard from both the first minister and chief constable. amongst this complexity and response to the virus the virus itself is relatively simple. the enemy we face is unseen, it is everywhere, it is potentially anywhere. it is all around us each and every day, spread from one human to another and person to person. you get this virus from other people. the more people you come into contact with, the more likely you out to catch and spread the virus. we want to get back to a normal life as soon as possible but the only way we can do that is by sticking to the today. then we can progressively move out of lockdown. meeting up with other people has been the biggest change for a lot of us over the last week and i want to take this opportunity to domain you again, all three of us have done this that her reported it as that you only meet up outdoors and in small groups. eight is the largest group we want but we would like you to meet and smother groups because outdoors that is a sick of the lower risk of catching the virus, fresh and fewer surfaces to touch and it is much easier to stay physically distant from those around you. so now we have another weekend coming up, the weather is not going to be so good but please do not be tempted to go indoors and you might take an umbrella and a fleece with you to meet up outdoors but it will save you from the virus. remember the five things that have not changed at all throughout any of this renewal and recovery work, remember to wash hands with soap and water for 20 seconds. use hand sanitiser if you cannot. keep two metres apart from people outside your household and we are a cloth face covering a few place like public transport or a shop. avoid touching your face,, your mouth and nose if you sneeze or cough, this discount a handkerchief if you sneeze into it and clean all surfaces you touch regularly. doing all of those things but particularly the physical distancing. the spread of this virus and the doubles were continue to fall and we will be able to move through. important and very sound advice. i will move straight to questions, the first one from bbc scotland. i think you are expected to hear more about the regulations, the 40 day quarantine which i understan has been dyed until monday. there is a lot of concern from the airline and to that as an industry that this is an ill conceived policy, iwould industry that this is an ill conceived policy, i would ask you would react to that and also to the chief constable with the regulations being later and concerns. . . regulations being later and concerns. we are going to leave that use conference in scotland well nicola sturgeon has been outlining specifically what you should not be doing and she said it is not a good sign if you feel your social life is returning to normal. in the past have about the first minister of wales in the past half an hour, the first minister of wales has of wales in the past half an hour, the first minister of wales has announced an extension to the £500 bonus scheme for care home workers. the scheme will now include kitchen and other staff along with agency workers. over a month ago i announced to be with you making a special one off payment of £500 to all social care workers and recognition of the vital contribution they have made in helping wheels during this pandemic. this is a complex sector with hundreds of employers and both the private, public and independent spheres. we have had detailed discussions with the trades unions, employers and local authorities over the last few weeks to finalise the details of this payment so we can get the money to those who have made that vital contribution. we have also been discussing with the uk government tax and national insurance implications because we wa nted insurance implications because we wanted to make sure that every penny reaches the of our dedicated social ca re reaches the of our dedicated social care workforce. on the first point i am pleased to see that we have finalised this phase of the work so that we can begin to start making these £500 payments this month. the will be made to all social care staff giving direct personal care, in care homes and an homes themselves by domiciled it care workers and that will include personal assistance as well, employed by people under the direct payment scheme. we know that inside ca re payment scheme. we know that inside care homes, what goes on as a large household where a range of staff members developed close and valued relationships with residents and contribute to their care and well being. during this pandemic many kitchen and domestic staff have taken on a wider caring role to ensure continue to care at the time they have spent with residents is vital as visiting with families has been restricted. i am pleased to say that n recognition of the extender role they have played and all the detailed work which has gone on one of the past few weeks we are now able to extend this payment to those ancillary staff working in care homes. to confirm that nursing staff employed by care homes will also be eligible for this grant. that was the first minister of wales announcing the extension of the bonus scheme which has been given it to people and working in a care homes. before i had over two jane for the news at one i want you to look at these pictures coming to us from norway. this is the moment a powerful landslide caused a house to topple over and others to be swept into the sea in the town of alta. it happened after hours of heavy rain. nobody is reported to have been hurt, but a dog had to be rescued by helicopter and is said to be ok. now it s time for a look at the weather with sarah keith lucas. hello. it was a fairly cool start to the day. we ve already had some heavy showers around. expect those showers to last over the next few days. so, a cooler, showery theme to the weather. also notice the winds are going to be strengthening, too. throughout today, and more especially into tomorrow, with low pressure driving our weather, sitting up towards the east here. lots of isobars on the map and plenty of showers rotating around that area of low pressure. so, sunny spells and scattered showers for most of us today. more persistent rain into the north of scotland later on. some of the showers, particularly parts of eastern england, could be heavy with hail and thunderstorms as well. fewer showers reaching the far south of england. not immune to the odd shower here, but a little bit drier. gusty winds, 35 or 45 mph, perhaps to parts of the irish sea, up to the north west of scotland, some of those costs could reach 50 or 60 mph at times. so, blustery winds, combined with heavy showers and more persistent rain pushing in across the north of scotland. temperatures out there today, somewhere between nine to 17 degrees, a lot cooler than it has been over the last couple of weeks. a little below par for the time of year. the heaviest of the showers and thunderstorms should fade away for a time overnight, but then we see the next area of rain working out of scotland, through northern ireland, northern england and north wales, too. clearer spells either side of that. quite a chilly night, with temperatures quite widely down into mid to single figures. saturday starts with low pressure very much in charge. you can see the real squeeze in those isobars, especially across northern and western parts of the uk. that s where you see some of the strongest winds. do be aware that, through today and into tomorrow, especially across the northern half of the uk, we could see gusts of wind up to 60 mph, enough to cause some disruption, particularly trees in full leaf. saturday, a few spells of sunshine through the morning. heavy showers pushing their way south through the day. again, some hail and thunder possible, particularly across parts of eastern england. temperatures 11 to 18 degrees on saturday. not too bad when you do see the sunshine coming through. slightly lighter wind by the time we get a sunday. still some showers around, most likely around the east coast. fewer showers further west and still quite chilly for the time of year. in the east, temperatures only ten or 13 degrees, towards the south west we could see 19 celsius or so. as we head through next week, a few showers around. but generally a bit drier and lighter winds, too. bye for now.
the number of people with coronavirus falls in the second half of may, to one in 1000. it comes as the government defends making face coverings compulsory on public transport in england, from next week. on balance, we are convinced it certainly cannot do any harm. we think it will do some good and that is why we think it is a good idea to introduce. my concern and anger is that elliott has taken because this could mean more people having caught the virus in the community because there are sometimes we simply cannot keep social distance. we ll get the latest on that and the fall in infection rates. also this lunchtime: as protests continue in the us, pictures emerge of a pensioner