tonight at 6:00, the news continues streaming on cbsn bay area in the cbs evening news is next. captioning sponsored by cbs o donnell: tonight, nearly half of the country, including two of america s biggest states now reporting spikes in coronavirus cases. as some states press the pause button on reopening. a major american city warns it s on the precipice of disaster. and new c.d.c. guidelines from hosting cookouts to traveling for summer vacation, what your family needs to know. bolton bombshell: why the president s former national security adviser says the president s impeachable conduct went beyond ukraine. new details tonight as he blasts his former boss. breonna s law louisville bans no-knock police raids after breonna taylor s death. we speak to her mother about the new law named after her daughter. $1 million pension? why fired officer derek chauvin could collect $1 million, even if he s convicted. costly misconduct: a cbs news investigation into the minneapolis police department turns up a history of lawsuits, costing taxpayers millions. how some officers racked up multiple complaints and stayed on the force. back on the fairway: no fans and a silent tribute, professional golf marks a return in a changed world. and when is baseball coming back? cbs steve hartman and a young d t th thets i eng nor o donnel, repog fromat onnellod evening to our viewers in the wes and thank you for joining us. we re going to begin tonight with an alarming increase in coronavirus cases across nearly half of the country, including in two of america s largest states. texas and florida are now seeing their highest number of new cases since the pandemic began, even as they push forward with reopening. officials in houston say the area is nearing a disaster, and that they may need to use n.r.g. arena as a temporary hospital because of a record increase in infections. tonight the c.d.c. is warning the death toll from the virus could reach 140,000 by july 4, and so it is issuing new guidance, including for organizers of large gatherings. after two weeks of nationwide protests the centers for disease control now says anyone attending large gatherings, especially ones that include shouting, chanting, and singing should wear a face mask. the president is heading to west point tomorrow to deliver a commencement address to 1,000 cadets, just as he s planning to start holding rallies again next week. at president trump s urging, the republcan party is also ditching its plan to hold this year s convention in north carolina, due to restrictions the governor there has placed on large gatherings. the president will now accept his party s presidential nomination in jacksonville, florida, where he is expected to speak to a crowd as big as 15,000 people in an indoor arena. there s a lot of news to get to tonight, and our team of correspondents is standing by to cover it all. janet shamlian leads off our coverage tonight from houston. janet? reporter: houston opened to 75% today, as did all of texas, but it might not last. officials in this region are cautioning that they may need to order people back home and order this building, n.r.g. arena, which is next to houston s football stadium, as a covid hospital as cases surge in the nation s fourth largest city. a dire warning tonight amid a record week for covid-19 cases in the houston area and across texas. i m growing increasingly concerned that we may be approaching the precipice of a disaster. reporter: the outbreae as restaurants like the dunlavy reopen to 75% capacity. we re able to now have parties of ten. reporter: but restarting the economy is taking its toll, says lina hidago, a top elected official for five million people in harris county, which includes houston. we ve had the highest hospitalization number this monday. it s only grown from there. the numbers we re seeing are very significant. reporter: 14 states have seen a spike in coronavirus hospitalizations since memorial day, and the death toll is now expected to reach almost 170,000 by october. more than 50,000 additional deaths over the next few months. we ve already uncorked the genie. we got our wish, which was to end the home quarantine orders and now we re seeing people treat that as if covid-19 is no longer an issue, and that s far from the fact. reporter: the c.d.c. spoke publicly with its first tele- briefing in three months today, issuing guidelines which include bringing your own food and drinks to a cookout, waving at people instead of hugging, sanitizing hands after using ans instead of a hotel elevator. it comes as florida reported its biggest one-day jump in cases today, and a record high number in south carolina this week. oregon and utah are now delaying their openings a week after cases there continue to surge. and in the race for a vaccine, johnson & johnson today announced it s moving up human trials set for the fall to july. and those new c.d.c. guidelines today, they call for wearing a mask in all large gatherings. tonight here in houston, we re at what s called a code orange. that s an uncontrolled transmission of the infection. the hospitals still have room right now, norah, but they may not for long. norah. o donnell: janet shamlian in houston tonight. thank you. the president was out view today of at his golf club in bedminister, new jersey. he ll turn 74 years old on sunday and is preparing to host his first campaign rally since the pandemic began. weijia jiang is at the white house tonight. weijia? reporter: norah, president trump is eager to get on the campaign trail, but everyone who attends that upcoming rally has to sign a waiver agreeing not to sue the campaign or the venue if they contract coronavirus. president trump is defying c.d.c. guidelines recommending against large gatherings, barreling forward with plans to resume campaign rallies starting next week. and a republican convention in jacksonville in august, with delegates filling a 15,000-seat arena. r.n.c. officials have suggested they want a crowd-like setting without mandatory social distancing or face coverings. tomorrow, the president will be at the center of another packed event, delivering the commencement speech at the west point military academy. mon 1,0 cadel sociallytant for an outdoorion i defy new york s guidelines. graduation ceremonies are not allowed until june 26, with a limit of 150 people. a group of more than 500 west point alumni posted an open letter to the graduates, condemning the administration s use of force against protesters. they wrote, sadly, the government has threatened to use the army in which you serve as a weapon against fellow americans engaging in these legitimate protests. meanwhile, another former aide is taking aim at president trump. john bolton, who served as national security adviser, says in a new book, the president was concerned only with getting re- elected, and that misconduct in his foreign policy went beyond ukraine. the nation s top military leaders have also spoken out trps he was asked ifomment are i mean, if that s the way they feel, i think that s fine. i have good relationships with the military. reporter: cbs news has learned that the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark milley, was so upset about the episode clearing out protesters so president trump could have a photo op, that he considered resigning. milley said taking part in it was a mistake, a comment that took the white house by surprise. norah. o donnell: weijia jiang at the white house tonight. thank you. in kentucky tonight just days after what would have been breonna taylor s 27th birthday, the louisville city council has passed a new law named in her honor. taylor s death at the hands of police has received new attention amid the outcry over the death of george floyd in minneapolis. cbs jericka duncan sat down for an emotional interview with breonna s mother. say her name! breonna taylor! reporter: after heated protests and emotional pleas, louisville mayor greg fischer signed breonna s law today. under the new law, police will no longer be able to enter a suspect s home without announcing who they are, and they must wear body cameras. taylor s mother, tamika palmer. it means that she has saved someone else and that s one of thbig e use th shouldn t have happened to her. reporter: it was nearly three months ago, march 13, that police used a battering ram to enter taylor s apartment after midnight, believing it was being used by a drug dealer to receive packages. while the plainclothed officers contend they identified themselves, taylor s boyfriend says they did not, and he opened fire to defend himself against what he thought were intruders. he later called 911 with taylor in his arms after she was shot by police at least eight times. reporter: there s been a dramatic increase in the use of no-knock warrants over the last 40 years, mainly for drug- related crimes with a nearly 7,000% increase. seth stoughton is a law professor at the university of south carolina. if officers aren t knocking and announcing, the individuals inside may not know who is breaking down their door, which creates potential for error. reporter: the three officers involved in the shooting death of taylor have been put on administrative leave while the investigation is pending. this week, police released a puzzling, mostly blank incident report. in it, it lists breonna taylor s injuries as none despite being shot at least eight times by police. the department has since acknowledged the error. meanwhile, what happens next to those three officer involved in this case? well, that will be up to the state attorney general. norah. o donnell: jericka duncan, thank you. tonight, cbs news takes you inside the seattle neighborhood now known as chaz. that s short for capitol hill autonomous zone. the blocked off area was set up by protesters after days of clashes with police following the death of george floyd. the so-called no cop co-op has stirred up tensions in seattle and a threat from president trump. here s jonathan vigliotti. reporter: tonight a four- block area surrounding seattle s capitol hill police precinct free of cops and occupied by activists, people the president labels anarchists and domestic terrorists. the group set up a perimeter and declared it an autonomous zone four days ago. that s when, in an effort to de- escalate tensions withpoeit s a giving these protesterstheibox,t president threatenen troops. these people are not going to occupy a major portion of a great city. the threat to invade seattle, to divide and incite violence in our city, is not only unwelcome, it would be illegal. reporter: mayor durkin is calling it a peaceful expression of collective grief. the activists are demanding police reform and social equality. until then, they say, they re staying put. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news. o donnell: we turn now to a cbs news investigation. minneapolis police officer derek chauvin was accused of misconduct 17 times before the death of george floyd. the complaints aren t limited to chauvin. we ve uncovered a history of expressive force allegations resulting in millions of dollars in settlements. here s cbs jeff pegues with tonight s investigation. reporter: in 2012, zach king was leaving a minneapolis nightclub when he was stopped by the police. he had a handgun that he was legally permitted to carry. he said, hey, what s that bulge on your waist? i show him my hands. hey, i have a conceal and carry and that s my my gun, my weapon. and, like, six officers just came from out of everywhere and they got their knee on me, almost like george floyd. i couldn t breathe. reporter: king was hospitalized with a concussion, his face swollen with cuts and bruises. i didn t do anything to anybody. and i was violated. reporter: king sued the department, which argued he didn t tell them he had a gun permit until later. he got a $122,000 settlement. ultimately, who s paying the tab for those settlements? residents of the city of minneapolis. we ve seen a similar culture of abuse in other large cities across the country. reporter: since 2003, minneapolis has paid out $45 million in settlements. this year alone, los angeles has paid more than $6 million in settlements, chicago more than 14 million, new york, since 2015, more than $1 billion. zach king says it was officer joshua stewart who led the assault against him. since the incident, a cbs news investigation found nine more misconduct complaints have been made against him, none resulting in discipline. what do you make of that? it s pitiful. it s like, it s ridiculous. reporter: the minneapolis police department told cbs news that previous conduct and nature of current offense are factors that can be figured into discipline. king says not all police are bad. his little brother is a cop. they just need to be held accountable. if you sit back and watch a bad cop do bad stuff, you re a bad cop, too. reporter: minneapolis police still rebuilding its reputation after george floyd s death says the officer involved in zach king s case is still on the job, and if derek chauvin is convicted, he could still be eligible for a pension that could net him more than $1 million. norah. o donnell: jeff pegues, thank you. and there is still much more news ahead on tonight s cbs evening news. tee it high, let it fly pro golf returns. but if you get a hole in one with no fans around to cheer, did it really happen? later, on the road. many believe babe ruth saved baseball once. a young fan hopes he can do it again. and i recently had hi, ia heart attack. it changed my life. but i m a survivor. after my heart attack, my doctor prescribed brilinta. it s for people who have been hospitalized for a heart attack. brilinta is taken with a low-dose aspirin. no more than 100 milligrams as it affects how well brilinta works. brilinta helps keep platelets from sticking together and forming a clot. in a clinical study, brilinta worked better than plavix. brilinta reduced the chance of having another heart attack. .or dying from one. don t stop taking brilinta without talking to your doctor, since stopping it too soon increases your risk of clots in your stent, heart attack, stroke, and even death. brilinta may cause bruising or bleeding more easily, or serious, sometimes fatal bleeding. don t take brilinta if you have bleeding, like stomach ulcers, a history of bleeding in the brain, or severe liver problems. slow heart rhythm has been reported. tell your doctor about bleeding new or unexpected shortness of breath any planned surgery, and all medicines you take. if you recently had a heart attack, ask your doctor if brilinta is right for you. my heart is worth brilinta. if you can t afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. and sometimes, you can find yourself heading in a new direction. but when you re with fidelity, a partner who makes sure every step is clear, there s nothing to stop you from moving forward. sprinting past every leak in our softest, smoothest fabric. she s confident, protected, her strength respected. depend. the only thing stronger than us, is you. theand we want to thank times, the extraordinary people she s confident, protected, her strength respected. in the healthcare community, working to care for all of us. at novartis, we promise to do our part. as always, we re doing everything we can to help keep cosentyx accessible and affordable. if you have any questions at all, call us, email us, visit us online. we re here to help support you when you need us. take care, and be well. to learn more, call one eight four four cosentyx or visit cosentyx.com the wind in your hair. the feeling of freedom that drives us to go out and discover.. at chevy, we re committed to getting you there with confidence and peace of mind. that s why your chevy clean dealers commit to using enhanced vehicle cleaning measures with cdc-approved cleansers. if you need a new equinox, get 0% apr for 72 months or, four thousand five hundred dollars cash allowance on most models. you may even shop online and take delivery at home where available. so you can find new roads with confidence. o donnell: after three months of watching reruns, live p.g.a. golf has returned. as cbs jim axelrod reports, the broadcasts are a reminder of how much has changed. reporter: nearly three months after the p.g.a. tour suspended its season, and after a minute of silence in the memory of george floyd, this was the week the tour teed it back up and let it rip, covid-style: no fans, no stands, and plenty of protocols to protect everyone there. are you aware of sort of what a big deal this is culturally? 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good morning it sjune 1st. i m victoria derbyshire, welcome to bbc news. here are the headlines. primary school restarts for up to two million more children in england today but not everyone thinks the time is right what decision have you made about your child? if it doesn t feel right, we will halt it, we can reverse it, we can be dynamic about the way we bring children back. millions of vulnerable people in england and wales who were advised to stay indoors will be able to leave their homes for the first time in ten weeks if that s you, are you venturing out today? new rules on social gatherings come into force across the uk in england, six people from different households can meet up. fires near the white house as protests against the killing of george floyd, an unarmed black man in police custody, continue across the us. and thousands of people in the uk took to the streets yesterday in solidarity with the us protests. we ll hear the thoughts of choreographer ashley banjo and sayne holmes lewis, a youth worker. good morning. more than two million primary school children in england will be able to return to lessons this morning and there s also an easing of restrictions around businesses that can open and how we can meet up with friends and family. some scientists warn that lockdown measures are being lifted too fast. but the business secretary alok sharma said that the government was taking a very cautious approach. from today, all four uk nations will have guidelines in place allowing more than two people to meet outside. vulnerable people in england and wales, who have been advised to stay home since the lockdown began, will also be able to go outdoors again. shielding advice in northern ireland and scotland hasn t changed. the first phase in the reopening of schools has begun in england, with children in nurseries, reception, and years one and six allowed to return. and provided they meet safety guidelines, open air markets and car showrooms in england can also start to trade again. it comes as another 113 deaths were recorded in latest 2a hour period which brings the total number who ve died with coronavirus to 38,489. our first report is from danjohnson, who s been to meet some families preparing for their first day back at school in ten weeks. so you ve got your uniform already, jack? yes. time to getjack back to school again. ready! how do you feel about going back to school, jack? very, very, very, very happy. i ve never known my boy to be so excited. but he has always loved school. he misses his friends and he loves his teacher. so he s really excited to go back, yeah. i m a bit excited. five year old khadija is almost as enthusiastic. i do like maths and i am quite excited about maths. i m in two minds, but i think it s good for the children to interact more with their age group and also, they miss their teachers. they will find the playground s been fenced off to keep them apart. we ll start with three classes of five children in each and then slowly increase that. each of the year1 classrooms will have their own outdoor learning area. to create this sense of a bubble. it feels a bit like you re penning them in? ever so slightly, but i think it s more about keeping them safe. and the classrooms have been spaced in the hope of socially distant learning. their classrooms have changed quite a lot. we are going down from 30 children to five at first, then ten. a lot of children don t understand what a metre is, so telling them to be two metres apart is quite difficult. and it is normalfor them to come up and show you something in their book that they need help with. as social distancing will be difficult in that way. it ll be strange for them. that is why many parents don t share the confidence on show here. they wouldn t let us come back, surely, if it wasn t safe to do so, so i m confident this is the right time for them to come back. if it wasn t safe, it wouldn t be happening, but i m happy that the school will be doing things the best way they can. so, if they ve put certain things in place, i m happy for it to go ahead. but this is only happening in england and lots of schools won t go ahead. at least, not yet. we think it s currently unsafe. we don t think we should be going to this step. we want to see test, track, trace actually running, actually in place so we can see the number of cases are falling. we are also concerned that there isn t good enough advice about vulnerable parents, vulnerable grandparents or about vulnerable staff. but vulnerability can be defined by wealth as much as health. this is a poor part of london where many families have relied on school support during the lockdown. we re not talking about bringing 700 children back, we re taking it slow and steady and at any point with that plan, if it doesn t feel right, we will halt it, we can reverse it. we can be dynamic about the way we bring children back. and it isn t just a school rules changing. in england, you can now meet groups of up to six, the same as northern ireland. there is already eight in scotland, but i m just two households. wales is expected to make this same move today. those who ve been shielding across england and wales because of health conditions are now allowed out. social distancing is key, and what difference these changes make to the spread of the virus will be closely monitored. dan johnson, bbc news. let s look in more detail at how the rules vary across the uk: in england, groups of up to six people from different households can now meet outside. professional sport resumes today, with horseracing and snooker. people who had previously been asked to shield at home will also be able to go outdoors. in wales, people from two households are now allowed to meet outdoors. shielding advice has also changed, allowing more vulnerable people outdoors for exercise. in scotland, groups of up to eight people from two households have been able to meet outdoors since friday. advice for schools, shops and people shielding at home hasn t changed. and in northern ireland, there s no change to the rule that groups of six can meet outdoors. vulnerable people are being asked to keep following existing shielding advice. let s talk to our assistant political editor norman smith. just asking people, parents, if they are sending their kids back today, if they ve got toddlers, reception, year one, year six, some real agonising over non . i ve had nearly 2000 responses from mums and dads really having to think very carefully about the decision they make. i think the truth is we are going to see a really patchy and mixed response. some parents obviously deeply uneasy but i think what ministers are hoping is if you look at what happened in other countries when they opened schools, the first few days, a lot of parents did keep their children back but gradually, as children went about their daily school life and there wasn t an upsurge in infections and they seemed to be thriving, that tended to sort of build confidence and slowly, slowly, more parents send their children back and you sort of got a snowball effect, gradually the numbers in schools increased. that was the experience certainly in denmark, i know. i mean, allied to that has to be, i would think, a desire to try and make sure that test and trace is fully bedded in because they ve been all sorts of stories about a rather scratchy start, we haven t got the app up scratchy start, we haven t got the app up and running yet. also, the speed at which testing is done, obviously if you re going to have an effective test and trace system you ve got to get the test results back quickly. we are trying to move toa back quickly. we are trying to move to a 24 hour getting results back in 24 to a 24 hour getting results back in 2a hours but we are not there yet so there s still a way to go. but i think the hope is that gradually, pa rents think the hope is that gradually, parents will get, you know, more confident and that will lead to more schools being able to open and certainly, listening to alok sharma, the business secretary this morning, he was saying it was very, very sensitive moment and they had to be cautious. at this was his response when he was asked if they were moving too quickly, too soon? what i would say is that this is not a dash. these are very cautious steps that we are taking, they are phased and as you said yourself, this morning, we ve got primary school children in certain settings going back. we are reopening in a very cautious way outdoor markets. we are reopening car showrooms and we ve also set out in terms of other retail outlets which have been required to be closed, they will not be opened until the 15th of june. so it s right and proper that we do this in a cautious way. in terms of scientific advice, i mean, this is an issue that s come up over the last few days and we ve heard professor chief medical officers in the nhs, who has made the point that of course, scientific advice does differ but i think the key point is that what is the overall view from sage, the overall view from sage which of course is a scientific advisory group on emergencies which advises the government which advises the government on which some of the individuals you are referring to sit, the overall view is that we must do this cautiously, that is precisely what we are doing. and what they ve also said is that if people comply with the rules and the test and trace system is up and running which it has been since thursday, then there is a good likelihood that we will not reach the r value factor above one. the other interesting thing is the language we are hearing from ministers, there is no attempt to hector a strong arm teachers or pa rents hector a strong arm teachers or parents into going back to school. instead, the argument, the weight ministers are pitching this is about the welfare of the children come in other words, the damage done to children who have already been out of school for nine weeks or so, and particularly children from more disadvantaged backgrounds, where anecdotally, the evidence is they have not received the same sort of punctuation and support that perhaps children of more middle class families have and are therefore, all the progress that has been made in recent yea rs the progress that has been made in recent years in trying to close the attainment gap between better off and less well off children, risks reopening again. so they are trying to make this an argument more about what s in the best interests of children, rather than any in any sense trying to crank up the pressure on parents or teachers. thank you very much, norman. thank you for all your many messages, let me know what decision you have made regarding your own child if you are in england. 0ne viewer says 23 of the 30 in my daughter s class going back. another says neither of my children are going back, none of the year one parents in our school have opted to send their kids back today. i have so many of these. i will read some more throughout the morning. we will feed your thoughts into the conversation but let me know what decision you have made. police cars have been set on fire and shops have been looted in a sixth night of unrest across the united states. cu rfews are in force in nearly a0 cities, including the capital washington, as protests continue over the death of a black man in police custody. 0ur north america correspondent, david willis reports. shouting. this country is walking a fine and dangerous line. as a large and angry crowd gathered outside the white house, it emerged at one point at the height of the protests here on friday, president trump was ushered into an underground bunker by members of the secret service in the interests of his own safety. don t shoot, don t shoot! on several occasions in the last few days, demonstrators here have attempted to scale the walls. move back! and many were reluctant to conform with a newly imposed overnight curfew. as the president hunkered down, his presumptive democratic presidential opponent tweeted a picture of himself at the scene of one of last night s protests. joe biden promised to listen to the demonstrators and help shape the movement for reform. many protests have been peaceful and in minneapolis, where all this began a week ago, there was a moment when protesters and a national guard officer came together. shaking the hand. thank you. coronavirus elbow! nonetheless, george floyd s arrest on a minneapolis street corner and his frantic pleas for help have given rise to one of the most turbulent periods in recent american history. the white police officer pictured holding his knee to mr floyd s neck is due to appear in court later today. derek chauvin is facing charges of murder and manslaughter, but three other officers involved in mr floyd s arrest are still at large and there are growing calls for them to be brought to justice as well. donald trump has described these riots as domestic terrorism and blamed them on far left anarchist groups, but there are those who believe at a potentially pivotal moment in the struggle for racial justice here that without violence, their voices will not be heard. the president has called on state officials to deploy the national guard in cities where the violence has grown increasingly out of hand, but such is the extent of the crisis, he is facing growing calls to address the nation from the oval office. 0ur correspondent aleem maqbool is in washington for us right now tell us more about what s been going on. it s now about a quarter past fourin on. it s now about a quarter past four in the morning, isn t it? yes, i ve just four in the morning, isn t it? yes, i vejust got back four in the morning, isn t it? yes, i ve just got back from an extremely chaotic night on the streets in the american capital, six days of protests in minneapolis, george floyd died there. we ve seen the horrific video. here in washington it s the third night, certainly, the most chaotic of all. there have been pitched battles between security forces and protesters all night and after hours, it is finally starting to dissipate. nowjustice, no peace. these were protests against the killing of george floyd. but given the location, it was also a message to one person in particular. he needs to grow up, be a man, stop with the childish acts, the childish tweets, he needs to be a man. as night fell, the mood got angrier. i am here outside the white house, for the most part a peaceful protest but fires had been lit now. and the police keep firing gas into the crowds. and they fired other projectiles as well. and they were clearly on edge. it did little to dispel the impression police use unnecessary levels of force. at one point, charging our own cameraman. here we go. we got every right to burn it down. this is pain, right to burn it down. this is pain, right here, this is pain, this is the only way we can get it to them. they are not hearing us. it sjust words to them. they don t feel anything. and so for the president giving very little to those protesters to make them feel he is listening to them. his own supporters want him to come down harder on the protesters, that appears to be the sentiment that is winning the day at the moment. because there was no sense that the security forces on the streets today we re security forces on the streets today were trying to de escalate the situation. it was extremely confrontational approach. and given what this was all sparked by, and excessive use of force, that killed a man in minneapolis, a lot of people wondering how wise it is that the police keep on behaving this way towards the media and towards protesters across the country. thank you very much. thousands of people gathered in manchester, cardiff and london in solidarity with demonstrators in the united states. protestors walked to the american embassy in london and crowded together despite social distancing restrictions. they chanted black lives matter in reference to the civil rights campaign group. five people were arrested. and just after half past nine this morning we ll be looking at how black people in britain have responded to the death of george floyd, and to the outrage and protests which have erupted across the united states. the headlines on bbc news. lessons start again for some primary school children in england as the government begins to ease lockdown restrictions millions of vulnerable people in england and wales who were advised to stay indoors will be able to leave their homes for the first time in ten weeks there have been fires near the white house as protests against the killing of an unarmed black man in police custody, continue across the us. the big question then for parents in england are you sending your toddlers, reception, year i and year 6 children back to nursery and school today? mums and dads have clearly thought very hard about this, and there has been a fair amount of agonising for some. thank you for your many messages over the last 2a hours. 0ne viewer says he i m sending them back, i have to work i m a single parent and i have no choice. another reviewer says hello, my six year old daughter andi says hello, my six year old daughter and i have sickle cell trait so we are classed as vulnerable. i m just thankful i have my my daughter and one year old son can play in it. another bureau says i m endlessly arguing with my husband about whether or not to send out your six pack in, he thinks we should, i think we shouldn t. let me know what decision you did make. six year old. 0ne viewer says i was apprehensive about sending my daughter back, she was anxious to see her friends. we daughter back, she was anxious to see herfriends. we had an e mail saying the school did not have room for year six pupils, thankfully. and another bureau says my son is returning, year six, three hours a day, he s been on about returning and i m starting to feel anxious about it, i m also returning to work ina about it, i m also returning to work in a school but i know the schools will keep them safe, as safe as they can. it is however are of the unknown. thank you for those. reflecting some of your thoughts, there was so many of them. let s talk again to the headteacher of kempsey primary school in worcester who the last time we spoke, when the government first announced schools would be opening up to more pupils from june ist, told us she was ‘panic stricken . also mum of five, lucille whiting in suffolk who s not sending her six year old daughter freya back today. and dad of two ben anderson who is sending his five year old son arlo back today. hello, good morning to all of you. thank you so much for talking to us. are you reopening to reception, year one and year six children today? we are reopening on wednesday. we have two days of getting staff back in, some staff haven t been in for eight or nine weeks. going through the new procedures. looking at what we are doing for a start and end times of the day, generally just familiarising everyone with the new world that is primary school now. familiarising everyone with the new world that is primary school nowm was really struck the last time we spoke when you said you were a little panic stricken about the things you would have to put in place before these kids can come back. how are you feeling now? cameron, i will say i haven t had much sleep lately. much calmer. but i feel we have undertaken an extensive risk assessment that s taken days extensive risk assessment that s ta ken days and extensive risk assessment that s taken days and days and days and looked at every aspect of what we can do. i feel bad when the children are in school we will do the very best that we can for them. but it is still such an unknown. ifeel that when the children. the whole process of social distancing in a primary school is still quite a novel concept. will your children be safe ? novel concept. will your children be safe? yes, they will. yes. we will do everything within our power to make sure that the children who come into school are safe. let me bring in lucille. good morning. why aren t you sending your child back today? we already have had coronavirus, we came down with it, we started feeling unwell on the 24th of april. and we ve all actually been very u nwell and we ve all actually been very unwell with it for about six weeks now. when i say all of you, that s you, your husband underfive children, you ve all had 19 symptoms? yes. i ended up in hospital. i was sick so much i got dehydrated and had to go in for fluids. and then i ended up taking anti sickness medication for about three weeks, still taking it on and off when i have bad days. two of the children were very, very ill. and i think at the moment school is wonderful, absolutely wonderful, teachers, i think the of them. but we ve had a terrible fright, we are still experiencing postviral symptoms and i think it s more important at the moment to be together, particularly if i m still going to be home schooling three children. and i can only send one back in. you re not ready yet. when will you be ready, do you think?|j think will you be ready, do you think?” think we re going to monitor situation very carefully over the next fortnight, the next month. because of next fortnight, the next month. because of course next fortnight, the next month. because of course i want the children to go back in, it would be lovely for them to see their friends and obviously, the teachers are sending home lots of work, we are doing it every day, the home schooling aspect has been really, really good but we can home school them here and i work from home. sol home school them here and i work from home. so i can work around them. we are just going to monitor them. we are just going to monitor the situation over at the next month, see if the r rate goes up and make a decision at the end ofjune. that s really interesting, you will know gavin williamson, the education secretary says throughout the pandemic art decisions have been based on the best scientific and medical advice with the welfare of children and staff at the heart of considerations. the prime minister ‘s announced the five tests have been met and based on all the evidence we will move forward with her plan for a phased and cautious return of a limited number of pupils to primary schools. does that reassure you? not particularly. i think you ve got to wait to see what happens when the world reopens. to see, there might be a seasonal element to this, it might be like the cold and flu, it might start dying out over the summer months. but at the moment my children are still experiencing symptoms, i m still experiencing symptoms, i m still experiencing symptoms, i m still experiencing symptoms. i wouldn t potentially want to send my child in thinking we might still be infected, we might give that to other children, their grown ups. and at the moment, it feels a lot safer for her to be at home. understood. let me bring ben in, good morning. why are you sending your five year old son back today? why are you sending your five-year-old son back today? we felt really comfortable with all the information we were given from the school, we felt the school has gone above and beyond throughout this whole period of lockdown and putting steps in place to be able to make sure the return was a safe and comfortable as it is. it s very reassuring to hear parents like lucille saying if they ve got symptoms they are keeping their children away because that was obviously a big concern for us. is everybody going to be fit and healthy that s going on? we just thought from what we know of the virus and everything we ve heard about it, people who were asymptomatic would be staying away and those who were feeling fine and ready to get back into normal society will be doing that. we were just massively reassured by the school throughout the whole of last week, being sent pictures and updates of the areas they are putting in place, social distancing measures that will be there. we just felt very comfortable about sending our son felt very comfortable about sending ourson in. felt very comfortable about sending our son in. and how did he feel? he was very excited about going on, we we re was very excited about going on, we were concerned about that, for him it s the excitement, the social side of things, that was really important side of things for him. did you drop him off? yes. what was it like at the gates was everybody managing to social distance? they were. the school had a phased return, the three year groups going back in today, there were 15 minute increments between the groups. yes, the drop off points were very clearly marked. you were able to do that and it made, notoriously, you know what school gates are like, there s parents huddling around, having a chat after the kids have been dropped off, there was none of that this morning. very warm welcome from the teachers. lots of kids carrying lots of stuff, back after a few weeks but yes, the social distancing measures were in place. but the thing we were very cautious about and we spoke to the teacher very openly about this, arlo is five, in into your group with five and six year olds. you know, we know what those children are like, we we re what those children are like, we were concerned that maybe anyone getting a little bit too close, with the teachers pounce on them and tell them they cannot do that in the teachers reassured us, they would monitor that situation. they are not going to have everyone climbing over each other but given their age, they would just work within those boundaries. i can see the head teacher nodding as you were describing that. 0bviously you ve talked about that with your staff and you will over the next 48 hours before reopening on wednesday. what will you do if a couple of five year olds start hugging or a five year olds start hugging or a five year old falls over and needs a hug? the second scenario is one i ve been asked by parents and i ve said very clearly, if a child falls over and needs a hug, they will have one. at the end of the day, we are here to reassure children, to look after them and to love them. i m not going to step back and say to a child who is crying in the playground, i cannot pick you up. realistically, five and four year olds will hug and hold hands and do things like that, we cannot change that. but what we can say is explain to them and if we see them rushing to hug each other, we can gently say, or maybe divert their attention, we are also looking at lots of hand washing and doing things like that. but the reality is ina primary things like that. but the reality is in a primary school, particularly with the little ones, they don t understand social distancing and i ve been very clear with my parents about that. i mean, judging from the groups of young teenagers, i should say at the weekend, young teenagers older teenagers and some adults don t understand social distancing either! thank you all so much for coming in the programme and good luck to you all, we really appreciate talking to you this morning. good luck and thank you. thank you for all your many messages. really appreciate those. 0ne viewer, rachel, says i wonder if you re discussing the return of children to school where their children to school where their children with special educational needs could be included as of my son is in yearten, needs could be included as of my son is in year ten, attending a special educational needs school and he travels to and from school in a taxi with a driver with three piers for anything up to two hours depending on traffic. no one seems to have considered this kind of scenario. and another viewer reckons you are four times more likely to be hit by lightning than get this virus if you are under 14. only three out of 55 scientists are saying it s too risky but it s ok for you to wander around supermarkets with your toddlers where they will be exposed to more people than being at school. another viewer, key worker says my daughter could have been at school during lockdown but i kept at home, she will be going back until i feel she is safe. and julie says to be fair i ama is safe. and julie says to be fair i am a key worker, the kids have had loads of fun at covid i9 am a key worker, the kids have had loads of fun at covid 19 school, lots more sports activities and yoga aren t just lots more sports activities and yoga aren tjust doing artwork or whatever. they are all on separate ta bles whatever. they are all on separate tables and because of small class sizes they get more individual attention than usual. thank you for all of those. keep them coming in. wright commits 9:30am, let s have a look at the weather, lovely and warm across the uk. here is carol. the grass pollen levels are very high today across northern ireland, most of england and wales. a lot of dry weather and sunshine, the outside chance of a shower in scotla nd outside chance of a shower in scotland and northern ireland. temperatures ranging from 22 in belfast to 25 of 26 in wales, the midlands and the south east. through this evening and overnight, clear skies, still a lot of dry weather. a front coming in across the north west will introduce more cloud to north west scotland and eventually by the end of the night some splashes of rain. it will not be a cold night, these temperatures represent towns and cities, temperatures will be slightly lower in rural areas. a lot of dry and sunny weather again tomorrow. a weather front slipping in across northern ireland and scotland, bringing more cloud and spots of rain. the chair across the north of england. top temperatures are likely to be 27 or 28. hello, this is bbc news with victoria derbyshire. the headlines: lessons start again for some primary school children in england as the government begins to ease lockdown restrictions. millions of vulnerable people in england and wales who were advised to stay indoors will be able to leave their homes for the first time in ten weeks. new rules on social gatherings come into force across the uk in england, six people from different households can meet up. there have been fires near the white house as protests against the killing of an unarmed black man in police custody continue across the us. well, the white x police officer seen kneeling on the neck of george floyd will appear in court in the united states today charged with third degree murder. violence has erupted in cities across the us on the sixth night of protests sparked by mr floyd s death. curfews have been imposed in nearly 40 cities, but have been mostly ignored. and these were some of the scenes in london yesterday, where thousands of people joined a peaceful march and rally, as reaction to the death of mr floyd spread across the world demonstrations also took place in some other uk cities and in berlin and toronto. 0ur reporter shamann freeman powell is here. and the reaction, the anger, is growing across the globe definitely. i think people are exhausted. thousands of people marched in the us embassy over the weekend and hundreds more took to the streets of cardiff and manchester also. in response to what happened to george floyd. but this is not the first time we ve seen images of black people dying after coming into contact with law enforcement. many are drawing similarities with another video that went viral around six years ago a man called eric garner who died after being put in a chokehold by an nypd officer. so black people in the uk and across the world are wanting to show solidarity with the us but also want to highlight the institutional racism that they see in the uk too because i think to many george floyd s death represents yea rs of many george floyd s death represents years of frustration over socioeconomic issues in all aspects of society not just socioeconomic issues in all aspects of society notjust in the us but in the uk too and this is reflected when i scroll through my timeline, i know many people feel the same but my timeline is flooded with images of young black people in the uk being stopped and searched or tasered and beaten. although the people i speak to see the videos are necessary but they are difficult to watch. lets have a listen. i feel like if someone had personally attacked me. the image of a white male police officer kneeling ona a white male police officer kneeling on a black man s neck. there is an internal fire within on a black man s neck. there is an internalfire within me on a black man s neck. there is an internal fire within me that starts to burn like a furnace. and i get angry, i get mad and i want to do something about it.” angry, i get mad and i want to do something about it. i was disgusted. i still haven t been able to watch the full nine minutes. i think it is traumatic. the first thing i think is, what if that was my brother, my boyfriend, my husband, my dad? there is like a list of black people that had been killed. when we see things like this all the time, i think sometimes even as black people, even though we are shocked, we are also desensitised to it. in 2015 there was a period where there was just people die in literally every week and it was, i can t breathe, don t shoot, i got my hands up. the person i started to become at the end of that wasjust i started to become at the end of that was just angry. i started to become at the end of that wasjust angry. i think that is what is so corrosive and danger del we re what is so corrosive and danger del were dangerous but institutional racism, you can feel emotionally and physically hurt even though it happens to someone across the other side of the world. it is a system of oppression, something that is happens over time. it is scary, really. the idea of. grey mac stop and search in the uk seems to be specifically targeting black people. those that live in glass houses shouldn t throw stones.” those that live in glass houses shouldn t throw stones. i think it s important for them to know that they are not alone. every single black person, no matter where you are from, i think we do all deal with similar struggles. black people are never afforded the position to feel co mforta ble. never afforded the position to feel comfortable. so nothing will change. let s speak to ashley banjo choreographer, founder of diversity, who says watching the footage of george floyd s death has prompted him to speak out about what happened in the us and what happens in the uk. and sayce holmes lewis, who runs mentivity, which mentors young black men. he says he was stopped by the police only yesterday. good morning, both of you. ashley, tell us why you want to speak out. thank you, victoria. i think it s obvious why i want to speak out. i saw that footage for the first time a few days ago, and i felt sick to my stomach. i was upset, i was angry and if i m honest, i looked at george floyd and i saw my dad, really. it felt like all of these expenses, you know, being pulled over, being wrongly detained, questioned, listening to my mum and dad speak about who was best to go infora dad speak about who was best to go in for a business meeting because my dad was black and my mum was white, and all of these emotions got stirred up in me and i thought to myself, enough is enough, this is so blatant, so wrong and so inhumane, i couldn t sit and say nothing. so you ta ke couldn t sit and say nothing. so you take it personally, the death of george floyd? absolutely. i feel like there is definitely a personal element to it. i have been there and i have felt racism my whole life. i also know so many people, so many good and decent people and i m lucky to be an industry is hugely accepting, you feel it nowhere near as much as other industries and other lines of work. but from being a kid, i ve grown up, i ve had to think about the colour of my skin, it s just part of growing up black. when i saw what happened to george floyd, i thought to myself, you know, this is not acceptable. it s not right. let me bring in sayce. you mentor young black men. i want to ask you how you felt when you we re to ask you how you felt when you were strolling to your social media and you end up watching the footage ofa and you end up watching the footage of a black man gasping for breath as a white police officer kneels on his neck. i mean, to be honest, i avoided it for the first day or so, because these incidents are too, now and it s important to protect your mental health in that respect and i have had situations. i don t see videos of white people being killed by police circulating to the same degree and the fact this is circulating in this manner it is like it is designed to impact us and obviously the injustice around it, not getting the justice we deserve, it is disheartening and it makes me very angry. it makes me very angry because we don t get the justice we deserve. how can you be chosen third degree murder and second degree manslaughter when you kill in full blood? what has happened to you yesterday and looked down?” blood? what has happened to you yesterday and looked down? i was delivering food to people, friends who have lost loved ones from covid 19. i was taking food to people who had lost family members. i was stopped by the police after being out for literally 30 seconds. they racially profiled me and said i was a drug dealer and they wanted to search me and said i would be detained. they searched me and then searched my vehicle. but i decided to film the altercation just raise awareness around it. you cannot stop people without reasonable cause. i am an upstanding black man in the community who mentor is young people in the community. ashley, you have never spoken publicly before about your own dad s experiences of contact with white police officers in this country. have you been stopped by the police because of the colour of your skin, do you feel was yellow it s hard, because in my heart, absolutely. i have been profiled, i ve seen it happened to my dad, i have been in the car with my dad, i have been in the car with my mum and dad, and going up if we we re my mum and dad, and going up if we were driving home late at night coming to work in the studio, every so blue lights, i knew instantly that the colour of our skin had something to do with it, but at the same time, i know so many police officers, so i don t want this to be just a message of hate, i don t want this to be a message of anger at all police officers. i think there are loads of good police, but at the same time, we need to recognise the issues, we need to recognise that racism is real and there are people in positions of power that abuse that power and they use it in the wrong way, and i think george floyd is the absolute pinnacle of that at the moment. i want to ask both of you, i ll start with you, ashley, do you, i ll start with you, ashley, do you think it is not only the responsibility of black people the combat and fight racism?” responsibility of black people the combat and fight racism? i think it is the responsibility of everybody as humans, whether we are white, black, yellow, brown, whether we are british or american, it is everybody‘s responsibility to turn this around, but i think power itself to really change things doesn t actually lie with black people and that s why i think it s so important, you need to stand up and you need to be part of this. sayce ? and you need to be part of this. sayce? the issue is that police are supposed to stand for integrity and a lot of them or not. what they are doing with racial profiling and stereotyping people based on a minority, i think that me personally, this has to change, in dialogue with the police with rigorous training programme might with regards. you are working with them, sayce? yes, people talk about unconscious bias. this is conscious, this is based on your worldview and the stereotypes you ve seen. i do think we have an issue in our community, hence we are doing the work we are doing. however, we have to get into dialogue with white people, we have to have honest conversations about racism. we are told that doesn t exist, the issue we are facing is that we are looking to different facets of society to solve the problem of racism rather than the structural inequality. ashley, eric garner has been mentioned, there is also michael brown, no george floyd, is his killing the tipping point? does this feel different? this feels different to me. i can t think in my lifetime when so many people have stood together or stood up and been so kind of passionately united in one front. there are millions and millions of signatures on the petition for the george floyd murder, and i think. iwould petition for the george floyd murder, and i think. i would like to think this will be the tipping point, i really want to believe deep down that this will cause change. but i also know that the arrest of one officer, you know, the sort of sharing of a few hashtags will not be enough, we need to keep the momentum, need to keep standing for what s right and we need to change things because it s clearly broken. i think this incident has lifted the lid off and allowed people that probably wouldn t normally get involved in this argument to become activated and involved and that s what s important, you need to keep that. i can see sayce nodding in agreement. i really appreciated, thank you both. keep up the good work. let s speak now to psychologist dr bernard hosford. he wants to talk about the kind of collective trauma, if you like, when it comes to strolling through social media and seeing the kind of horror we saw with the killing of george floyd. hello to you stop good morning. tell us your reaction. the effect on people are witnessing the footage and what it might trigger in them. well, it can be no doubt whatsoever that witnessing these types of events causes trauma, causes psychological trauma. interestingly, there has been a statement put out by the american psychiatric association to that effect, the american psychological association bass president has said this a racism pandemic. but there has been ongoing and systematic research which is found time and time again that witnessing these incidents of racial violence causes psychological trauma, causes post traumatic stress disorder, it causes depression, causes anxiety. so what should people do if they are triggered, if they have those kind of feelings? i think there is two parts. 0ne of feelings? i think there is two parts. one part which is about what the individual can do and certainly, the individual can do and certainly, the individual can do and certainly, the individual should go and seek professional help, ideally from a psychologist or from a therapist who has a deep understanding of the types of experiences that black and minority ethnic communities face. 0ften minority ethnic communities face. often that might be black psychologist. there is the type of support they can get from within the community. if the person has witnessed trauma from somebody who is near and close to them, then there is certainly an argument that they should also seek legal advice, because it may well be that they have a personal injury claim if they have a personal injury claim if they have suffered a psychological condition as a result of seeing somebody who is close to them brutalised or victimised by the police. and we have to remember that in the uk, black people make up about 12% of individuals who have the force used against them by the police, but only 3% of the population. so this is an ongoing problem. it s not just population. so this is an ongoing problem. it s notjust the situation of george floyd, we have seen similar problems here in the uk, lots of times officers have been exonerated, cases like mark duggan etc. so i think it is something the community overall is very anxious about, not just the community overall is very anxious about, notjust the black community, i think it is the white community as well. the other part of the equation, is not what the individuals do, it is what society does. i would almost say that the police officers that have been found to do this type of crime, they should be brought tojustice swiftly, they should have the most severe penalties meted out against them so that the communities, so that everybody can see thatjustice has been done. 0ften that everybody can see thatjustice has been done. often in my practice, i see people on a lot less evidence than this tried and brought to justice for murder and other charges stop at thank you very much for talking to us, we appreciated. we appreciate it. car dealerships can reopen from today in england, after closing in march in line with government coronavirus advice. would be buyers will now be able to talk with sales staff while following strict social distancing protocols, and potentially able to test cars alone, so long as trade plates and the relevant insurance are in place. retailers will then follow strict guidelines when handing over cars, including ensuring that the vehicles, keys and anything else you may touch are disinfected. ben thompson is atjaguar land rover lancaster, in reading. hello, ben. good morning. welcome to reading, and this, one of the first non essential retailers that are getting to open. car insurance, outdoor markets some of the first. the rest of the retailer is set to open within two weeks. this place has all sorts of measures in place to make sure it is safe. when i arrived this morning i had my temperature taken, hand sanitiser and reminders about social distancing, keeping two metres away and all this sort of stuff, constant reminders about how people need to keep a distance by trying to get business back up and running. when it comes to negotiating that sale, you will do it through these plastic screens, also some things in place to make sure it is safe. good morning, neil. lots of things in place to get you to this point, talk me through the last sort of ten weeks. you haven t been able to open, can you sell cars at a distance? it s all about trying isn t it? we can t we have gone to great digital presence but i think you need a personal touch. great digital presence but i think you need a personaltouch. we have touched on some of the things you had to do to make the front of the shop safe but a load of stuff that s been going on behind the scenes? just keeping our team and our customers are safe. we have been really busy writing detailed risk assessments for every single site, this one included. once you have got out of the car it will be fully sanitised. we have our teams in groups. so if your car in one group you can t mix with the other. the biggest difference has been in the workshop, we have an empty bay, then a bay with someone working, then an empty bay, so we get great social distancing from our team of the workshop. if you want to try out a car, toa workshop. if you want to try out a car, to a test drive, normally you would have one of you guys in the car with you. what guarantee is that you get the oarabag car with you. what guarantee is that you get the qarabag if it comes back half an hour late, that s fine. get the car back? you can really absorb yourself in the car, is it right for me, do i want to talk to the sales guy about it? talking about positives, loads of businesses i ve spoken to have had to clearly make changes to the way they operate. but a lot of those things have been quite good for them, things they will continue to do long after long dinner is over. what has been like for you? we were always going digital here online as a future for our business and it s really accelerated here. today you can buy a car from start to finish, all you have to do is come and get it, we will even bring it to your house. we wouldn t have got there that quickly without this. we ve been really busy on those projects for the last ten weeks and we ll keep doing that. yes, the showroom is really important but the pre process can all be done online. quite clearly you have a lot of pent up demand, lots of people coming back after having not been able to come for ten weeks but are you worried about demand in future? who knows with mike we are optimistic, we have great cars, especially at jaguar land rover. i think we have a lot of demand and this whole moved to private transport now, not public transport, we have already seen the impact of that, people who are saying they wa nt that, people who are saying they want to buy a car, that has been doubling. it won t take long to get back to what you might call normal levels. so there you have it, one of the first nonessential retailers to open, customers already hear this money but i will talk to some of them in the next hour. find out what they make of the measures that have been put in pleas to keep them safe. more from me a little later. it s a big day for sports fans, with competitive action allowed to return in england from today. one of the first major events to take place is horse racing but things will be a little different to what we re used to. our sports correspondent katie gornall is at newcastle racecourse to tell us more. it is going to look and feel very different. it has been three months on hold but horse racing will be back today in newcastle. they are limiting numbers, a whole raft of social distancing and hygiene measures in place. you can probably see behind me a big fence, and the road into the course is closed, effectively a ring of steel around the racecourse. very few people are allowed in. those people who are going and have had to have the temperature is checked, had to com plete temperature is checked, had to complete an online course as well. earlier in the week, i came down here to newcastle to see behind the scenes some of the things they ve been doing. a strict one way system in place inside the course, the jockeys have had a whole new changing room built as well with different parts so that they can socially distance. jockeys will be wearing masks this afternoon. the only time they will not be able to socially distance is during the leg up socially distance is during the leg up onto the horse. then when they come out, it is going to be quite an eerie atmosphere, no spectators in the stands, no bookies on the track, but not even the owners have been allowed in some numbers have been very strictly limited. i think there is just very strictly limited. i think there isjust a very strictly limited. i think there is just a relief that racing has been allowed to come back. they only got the go ahead on saturday, there has been weeks of preparation, because the lockdown has been a big hit to their finances, a £15 million hole in their finances as a result of the lockdown and that s something i was speaking to martin cruddas about earlier. £50 million. i was speaking to martin cruddas about earlier. £50 million. it is about earlier. £50 million. it is a massive relief and it is not a relief notjust for a massive relief and it is not a relief not just for racecourses but there is about 20,000 jobs that are dependent upon the ecosystem of the industry and it s really important for the protection of those jobs that we are back up and running. it s really important the owners have the confidence that there will be opportunities for their horses to race to keep them in training. and we face a massive challenge, because during the summer months, we are an attendance income led business and we face a massive challenge in dealing with that but i m sure we will. so, a huge amount of interest as you can imagine on this opening race here at newcastle. it s a ten race here at newcastle. it s a ten race car, 12 runners in each and somebody owners out there have got horses ready to run. course you cannot furlough horses or trainers, they still need to look after the horses, the horses need to be exercised and fed so there was a vast amount of horses out there all desperate to race. this was so oversubscribed, they were told they had 369 entries, they had to whittle it down. a little disappointed owners but also a lot of excitement as well. i think within the racing industry they know financially they need to get back on track, is a huge industry directly employing around 20,000 people but indirectly supporting around 70,000 so they feel it is vital to get back on track and get racing again full to buy think also there is a sense of responsibility but also of opportunity for the sport. they know the spotlight is on them now in a way it hasn t been for a number of yea rs way it hasn t been for a number of years and they are desperate to show that they can put on the racing safely here today. it all starts at one o clock and we ve got perfect conditions! we will have the weather ina minute. conditions! we will have the weather in a minute. thanks, katie. one person acting says, yes, having seen the plans in place at the school i feel comfortable. llama manor says, no, i school i feel comfortable. llama manorsays, no, iwouldn t school i feel comfortable. llama manor says, no, i wouldn t allow it anyway, i think the government is rushing things through. here is the weather. if you have an allergy to grass pollen, the levels are high or very high today. a lot of dry weather and sunshine, the outside chance of a show in scotla nd the outside chance of a show in scotland and northern ireland, temperatures ranging from 13 in lerwick, 24 in glasgow, 22 in belfast, 25 or 26 in wales, the midlands and the south east. through this evening and overnight, some clear skies, still a lot of dry weather but a front coming in across the north west will introduce workload across north west scotland and eventually by the end of the night, some splashes of rain. it will not be a cold night, temperatures representing towns and cities, it will be slightly lower in rural areas. a lot of dry and sunny weather tomorrow, the weather front slipping in across northern ireland and scotland bringing more clout and some spots of rain. the chair across the north of england. tomorrow s top temperatures likely to be 27 or 28. this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. huge protests continue across dozens of american cities, as anger grows over the killing of an unarmed black man in police custody. there were violent clashes outside the white house. police fired tear gas at protesters and properties nearby were set on fire. talk about taking the gloves off, man. shaking a hand. despite some moments of solidarity, it s though to be the most widespread civil unrest america has seen since the assassination of martin luther king. lessons start 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from the edd on your unemployment benefits. we ll be here every day at 3:00 tu liveand on live stream tonight, new reporting on the former police officer, derek chauvin, charged in the murder of george floyd in minneapolis. what we did not know about a plea deal that fell apart. prosecutors confirming chow vin was negotiating a guilty plea to local and federal charges, so, what changed? as george floyd s brother appears before congress today, saying his brother did not deserve to die over $20. and what he said when asked if he believed his brother s killing was premeditated. also tonight, as we come on the air, the urgent hunt for a gunman who opened fire on a police station. investigators do believe the shootings are connected. residents ordered to shelter in place. and what authorities have just revealed tonight. after military leaders said the time has come to discuss changing names of u.s. military bases named after confederate leaders, tonight, president trump saying this will not happen, saying they are part of a great american heritage. and nascar late today revealing they are now banning the confederate flag. the coronavirus here in the u.s. alarming news tonight involving the spike in cases right now across more than 20 states. some hospitals told to enact emergency plans. and some authorities now talking about a potential for a stay at home order again. and the race for a vaccine tonight. tens of thousands of americans now volunteering to be injected with experimental vaccines. so, what could this mean about timing for a vaccine here in the u.s.? the voting chaos in georgia overnight. voters in lines well after sundown. some in line for six hours or more. what caused this and what does it mean with the presidential election just five months away? and there is breaking news tonight in the case of those two missing siblings. the discovery on that property and what their heartbroken grandparents are now saying. and we pay tribute tonight to a renowned debate coach, eight decades at texas southern university. tonight, right here, his students on what he would expect from them in this moment. good evening and it s great to have you with us on a wednesday night. we re back from houston tonight, where thousands came from all over to pay their respects to george floyd, his family, remembering him as a gentle man, a loving father, an imperfect man, but saying his name will now stand for the push for change, for justice. and tonight, what we did knnot know about the officer charged with murder now. how close was he to a plea deal, and why did it fall apart? and on capitol hill today, one of george floyd s brothers telling lawmakers, enough is enough. pleading with them to stop the pain of police brutality. breaking down, asking, what was his brother s life worth? we have learned prosecutors and that former officer, derek chauvin, were closing in on charges until the day before his arrest. chauvin now faces up to 40 years behind bars if convicted on all charges. and tonight, as we come on the air, an urgent hunt now for a man who opened fire on a police station. we have it all covered for you. we re going to begin with abc s alex perez in minneapolis again tonight. reporter: tonight, the stunning revelation, as prosecutors mulled charges against fired minneapolis police officer derek chauvin, he was angling for a deal to plead guilty on federal civil rights charges and to murdering george floyd. as prosecutors were walking up to the podium on may 28th, the deal had just fallen apart. another development that i could tell you about. unfortunately, we don t at this point. reporter: chauvin charged with third degree murder the next day, upgraded to second degree the following week. mr. floyd, what do you hope to tell the committee today? justice for george. you don t do that to a human being. you don t do that to an animal. his life mattered. all our lives matter. black lives matter. i just wish wish i could get him back. those officers, they get to l e live. for him to do something like that, it had to be premeditated and he wanted to do that. intentional? yes, sir. reporter: and tonight, those chants of the streets turning into demands for reform. minneapolis police chief faced with the possibility his department could be disbanded, unveiling his own plans for change today, revealing the department will no longer negotiate their current contract with the police union and new, real-time technology to track cops accused of misconduct and intervene. chauvin had 18 complaints against him, but was only disciplined twice. under the new rules what would have happened to someone like chauvin, who had all these complaints? we could have intervened much earlier, if there were problematic behaviors brought to our attention right away, we could have made appropriate measures. reporter: back on capitol hill, george floyd s brother demanding more accountability from officers. george wasn t hurting anyone that day. he didn t deserve to die over $20. i m asking you, is that what a black man is worth? $20? this is 2020. enough is enough. powerful testimony. we here the demonstrators behind you tonight, alex. and we know there s late word that one of the other officers who was charged in this case, thomas lane, we remember, he was on his fourth shift as an officer that night, a rookie, there s news on him this evening? reporter: well, david, according to jail records, former officer thomas lane was released from jail just a short time ago, late this afternoon. he posted $750,000 bail and has been released. you ll remember that s the officer who in court shifted blame towards the veteran officer on the scene that night, derek chauvin. now, as for the changes here at the minneapolis police department, the chief tells me, today was just the beginning. he expects to make several announcements in the weeks ahead. david? all right, alex perez, thank you. and as i mentioned at the top tonight, there is an urgent hunt at this hour for a gunman who fired on a police station in california, shooting a deputy in the face and then a body found a mile away, someone shot dead. authorities do believe it s related. that community put on lockdown. reporiglice oilng. reporter: police describing the shooter as a male in his 20s or 30s. they re urging residents to shelter in place. gunfire erupting early this morning around 3:15 a.m. in downtown paso robles. the pd is advising they can hear gunfire coming from the east side of their station. reporter: the gunman shot and wounded a sheriff s deputy in front of the station. taking gunfire. at the dmv! copy. taking gunfire on ninth street at the dmv. keeps shooting at us! gunfire is coming from a soh. reporter: around 7:00 a.m., police discovered the body of a man near an amtrak station less than a mile away from the police department. the victim was shot in the head from close range and believe the shooting is connected. within the past couple of minutes, authorities released a picture of the gunman. they say, without a doubt, he set out to kill police officers and this is the third time that members of law enforcement have been ambushed here in california in just the past couple of weeks. david? the scene playing out tonight. will, thank you. we have been reporting here on the growing pressure across this country, from demonstrators and supporters, to take down confederate symbols. tonight, late word nascar is taking action, banning the confederate flag at all nascar events. driver bubba wallace wearing a t-shirt i can t breathe in recent days. u.s. military leaders have expressed a willingness to discuss renaming bases named after confederate generals. but tonight, president trump says that won t happen. saying they are part of a great american heritage. here s our chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. reporter: president trump today firmly shot down the idea of changing the names of military bases named after confederate generals, tweeting, quote, my administration will not even consider the renaming of these magnificent and fabled military insulations. in case anybody missed his tweets, he dispatched his press secretary to read his words allowed. these very powerful bases have become part of a great american heritage and a history of winning, victory and freedom. reporter: it comes just after thannounced, the secretary of defense and the secretary of the army are open to a bipartisan discussion on the topic. around the country, signs of the confederacy are coming down. now nascar is announcing a ban on confederate flags at all event. tonight, racing star bubba wallace car will bear the words black lives matter. there are ten u.s. army bases named after confederate soldiers. among those calling for that to change is retired general david petraeus, who boat in the atlantic of the, quote, irony of training at bases named for those who took up arms against the united states and for the right to enslave others. he added, we do not live in a country to which braxton bragg, henry l. benning or robert repd lee can serve as an inspiration. acknowledging this is imperative. the president wouldn t answer questions today on his decision. while the white house makes an impassioned defense of bases named for pro-slavery confederate soldiers, the president has yet to propose any specific reforms of police practices in the wake of george floyd s death. on cop toll hill, republicans have tasked the only african-american republican senator to take the lead in coming up with a plan. we should all want to follow the lead as it relates, to, a, making sure we get something acomplained, and not just having pieces of legislation they are for show. reporter: the white house press secretary said today the president is working, quote, quietly and diligently, to come up with a plan to address the concerns of the protesters, but we have heard nothing specific. the ideaitg eye by most police officers. that s an idea that democrats and some republicans say would make it easier to hold the police accountable for their actions. david? jon karl live at the white house. jon, thank you. i want to get right to martha raddatz tonight, because martha, the army said the defense secretary was, in fact, open to discussing renaming military bases named after con fed rat generals, but you heard what the president said today, essentially saying this won t happen. so, where does it stand tonight? reporter: well, david, the decision is technically up to an assistant secretary of the army, but given what trump has said, that would likely be professional suicide. but as you know, it was just last week that secretarial of defense mark esper spoke out publicly against the president s threat to use active duty military to quell protests and there has also been a growing chorus of retired military officers blasting trump s decision-making, so, you can t rule out the base names changing, but for now, that seems unlikely, david. all right, martha, thank you. now, the news this evening on the coronavirus, the number of cases spiking in several states across this country. and there s news tonight on a potential vaccine. tens of thousands of ams volunteeo get injected wi penal horizon. so, what could this mean for any timeline for the rest of the country? here s matt gutman on that. reporter: tonight, the u.s. government saying tens of thousands of volunteers will soon receive injections with one of three of experimental vaccines. those injections are part of third phase of vaccine trials, the stage before possible approval. and dr. anthony fauci now saying there are no garn teens, but he s cautiously optimistic about at least one of them working. we could have a vaccine either by the end of this calendar year or in the first few months of 2021. reporter: moderna beginning phase three trials in july, followed by the university of oxford and astra-zeneca s vaccine in august and johnson & johnson in september. the goal, to test the vaccine s safety and effectiveness. that, as at least 20 states plus puerto rico seeing increases in new cases, and eight states reporting rising hospitalizations. in texas, hospitalizations jumping 40% since memorial day. officials there say it s too early to tell if that s because of reopening, the protests or both. and inlte te min o of icu beds. in mid-may, the projection for covid deaths was 600. right now, the projection is 4,500, correct. that s a pretty significant change. that s an alarming trajectory. reporter: david, the goal of a phase three trial is to determine how well a vaccine works. that s why they re casting a wide net, up to 90,000 volunteers. half of them will be given a placebo, the other half, the actual vaccine. it will be later determined how many show the presence of antibodies. david? matt gutman, thank you again tonight, as well. we re also following that developing headline in the case of two missing siblings from idaho. their step-father was in court today facing charges now after human remains were found on his property. and what the children s heartbroken grandparents said late today. here s marcus moore. reporter: tonight, the grandparents of two idaho children, missing since september, say their bodies have been found. but police not confirming they are the remains of 17-year-old tylee ryan and her brother, 7-year-old j.j. vallow, discovered during aer er iseart chad daybell s home, their mother s new husband. we are aware that those remains are the remains of children. reporter: daybell appearing today before a judge today via zoom, facing two felony counts of destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence. mr. daybell, do you understand the allegations on both counts that have been brought against you? i do. reporter: mom lori vallow already behind bars after refusing to tell police where the children were. lori? can you tell me where your kids are? reporter: the couple under a cloud of suspicion for months after a string of deaths in the family. marrying in hawaii weeks after daybell s first wife died. vallow s husband killed last summer by her brother, who later died himself. friends and family insisting lori changed after meeting daybell, a religious author. after lori s arrest, daybell telling us the kids were safe. is there anything that you would like to say to people who are concerned about the kids or concerned about you and your wife, anything at all you want to say to them? just grateful for any support. reporter: tonight, j.j. and tylee s family saying, we are filled with unfathomable sadness that these two bright stars were stolen from us, and only hope that they died without pain or suffering. lori vallow and her husband are both being held on $1 million bail and, david, daybell is due back in court in july. marcus, think. when we come back tonight, the voting chaos in georgia overnight. and severe storms coming tonight from michigan over to new york. we have the track in a moment. but when you have the chase mobile app, your bank can be virtually any place. so, when you get a check. you can deposit it from here. and you can see your transactions and check your balance from here. you can save for an emergency from here. or pay bills from here. so when someone asks you, where s your bank? 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this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i m mike embley and these are our top stories. britain s prime minister says he regrets the ‘confusion and anger‘ as his special adviser admits making long journeys during the anti virus lockdown. no, i don t, i don t regret what i did. as i said, i think reasonable people may well disagree. misses the scene live right now in hong kong where the hong kong chief executive carrie lam has defended china s security law, causing it fence against violent protest. calling it a defence. brazil s virus death rate overtakes the united states but the government is still refusing to lock down the country. the who suspends testing of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for covid 19, warning the drug could damage the health of some people. already struggling with a mass of problems, haiti battles covid 19 an aid worker tells us of shortages in vital equipment. hello. in an extraordinary press conference, the top adviser to britain s prime minister has given a defiant defence of his behaviour dominic cummings has been widely accused of flouting coronavirus lockdown rules. he says he doesn t regret driving his family hundreds of miles from london, at a time when his wife was showing symptoms of covid 19, to get help with childcare. here s our political editor laura kuenssburg. morning. the rule is unwritten, but it is real. advisers aren t meant to be the story. reporter: when ordinary people were obeying the rules and staying home, mr cummings. already, this is day four of headlines about dominic cummings. he s made a career out of trying to rewrite political convention. even for him, this was astonishing. using the downing street garden, normally reserved for world leaders, to explain, or to apologise, or perhaps fight back. sorry i m late. i know that millions of people in this country have been suffering. thousands have died. many are angry about what they have seen in the media about my actions. i want to clear up the confusions and misunderstandings. first, i was worried that if my wife and i were both seriously ill, possibly hospitalised, there was nobody in london we could reasonably ask to look after our child and expose themselves to covid. my wife had felt on the edge of not being able to look after hi m safely a few hours earlier. i was thinking, what if the same, or worse, happens to me? there is nobody here i can reasonably ask to help. i thought the best thing to do in all the circumstances was to drive to an isolated cottage on my father s farm. at this farm, my parents live in one house, my sister and her two children live in another house, and there s a separate cottage 50 metres away from either of them. my tentative conclusion on the friday evening was this. if we were both unable to look after our child, then my sister or nieces could look after him. i did not ask the prime minister about this decision. he was ill himself and he had huge problems to deal with. every day, i have to exercise my judgement about things like this and decide what to discuss with him. i thought that i would speak to him when the situation clarified over the coming days. on sunday 12 april, 15 days after i first displayed symptoms, i decided to return to work. my wife was very worried, particularly given that my eyesight seemed to have been affected by the disease. she did not want to risk a nearly 300 mile drive with our child, given how ill i had been. we agreed that we should go for a short drive to see if i could drive safely. we drove for roughly half an hour and ended up on the outskirts of barnard castle town. i felt a bit sick. we walked about io ism from the car, to the riverbank nearby. we sat there for about 15 minutes. we had no interactions with anybody. this is where it began. on the 27th of march, watch mr cummings running out of work. he d just discovered his wife had fallen ill. worried about child care, they drove that night more than 200 miles to the family s farm in county durham. mr cummings, the next day, developed severe symptoms, but his wife recovered and was able to look after their 14 year old. at some point, he told the prime minister he had gone north, but it s not known when. and on 12 april, having somewhat recovered and taken medical advice, the family went on that test drive, 30 miles away. and on the 13th, the family drove back to london. do you regret what you did? because many people in this country have made heartbreaking sacrifices in the last couple of months in order to stick to the rules that you were part of putting together. and many people may have listened to you and think you made your own interpretation. and do you understand for some people, it seems as if there was one version of the rules for you and one version of the rules for everyone else? no, i don t regret what i did. as i said, i think reasonable people may well disagree about how i thought about what to do in these circumstances. but i think that. i think that what i did was actually reasonable in these. in these circumstances. will the public tolerate his reliance on the small print? walking away, did he believe his explanations have got him off the hook? his boss wanted to make announcements about the next stages of easing the lockdown. but while he might still have looked unfamiliar with the details, he had to defend him still. good evening. you knew that your chief advisor had gone against the spirit of the lockdown rules, whether driving 30 miles to a local beauty spot when he was in county durham, supposedly to test his eyesight, or not self isolating straightaway when his wife had symptoms. dominic cummings would not express any regret about any of that this afternoon. do you? i didn t know about any of the arrangements in advance. we had a brief conversation in which i think dominic cummings mentioned where he was. but i have to tell you, laura, at that particular stage, i had a lot on my plate and really didn t focus on the matter. i do regret the confusion and the anger and the pain that people feel. i really did want people to understand exactly what had happened. and so that s why we had the statement and the very extensive questions that we did today. the prime minister is standing by his adviser, famed and feared for believing that rules are there to be broken. that s always come for big political danger for dominic cummings. now it couldn t be closer to home. laura kuenssberg, bbc news. in hong kong, carrie lam, the chief executive, has been defending china s new security law she s calling it a safeguard against violent political protests. she insists it is not a violation of the territory s autonomy and she s criticised international leaders who ve supported protesters resisting the legislation. national security legislation asa national security legislation as a matter for national security legislation as a matterfor a country, it s the case in any country. it doesn t matter the country has a unitary system or a multi party system or a federal system. now, legislation on national security is always a metal matter for the central authorities. so for overseas politicians making such comments, they probably are practising double standards. now, i think there is no one country that will allow an important matter like national security to be flawed in any way or to have a void in any way. this weekend, after months of quiet, there was a fresh surge of protests against that law proposed by the government in beijing that many think would radically change hong kong s unique status. opponents say it is a direct attempt to limit freedoms and silence critics. there have been another 800 deaths in the past 2a hours in brazil. the total number of infections now puts it second to the united states globally. but despite the crisis, president bolsonaro has played down the threat from the virus, and repeatedly argued that a lockdown would be unnecessary and harmful to the economy. i spoke to karabekir akkoyunlu who is is a political science professor at the international relations institute at sao paulo university. i pointed out that some people are surprised the country is opening up at this point, but president bolsonaro does seem to have a lot of support. brazil is a massive country, continent sized country so the picture is not the same everywhere but if we want to take a general look at it, it s country with deep structural socio economic and geographic inequalities in a country that has gone through a debilitating economic recession over the past five years. it hasn t come out of that crisis really before it confronted the coronavirus crisis. the economic crisis has made people poorer, rolled back social services, including the health services in various states. so it s no wonder that it s confronting the pandemic in such a severe way. it should have taken particularly proactive action because it was not positioned to tackle such a crisis in the first place in a very strong position and it needed seamless co ordination between different levels of decision making. instead, what we are seeing since the beginning of the pandemic, is crisis and division at every single level, whether it s the federal government level, whether it s the federal government and state governors. between state governors and the mayors. between the federal executive and the congress, or within the executive branch and cabinet of president bolsonaro himself. now, president bolsonaro seems to be playing to his solid support base, which is about 30% of the electorate percentage hasn t gone down, even though the president seems to have lost support from other groups and political actors who have in late 2018, but he seems to believe that any sticks to catering to his support base, 30%, he is going to come through this crisis relatively undamaged. and it s cost him, of course, his position has cost him three health ministers. does he have a point, though, that the economic risk as he sees it is more damaging than the health risk? there is no question that countries like brazil, as i mentioned, with deep inequalities, and which have suffered through economic crises recently, will have a major economic impact from this crisis, from the health crisis, but many experts believe the dichotomy of economy versus health is a false dichotomy, that you cannot really forsake the help of millions of people of people and expect for your economy to persevere, to go through the crisis. ina sense. forgive me, just one point i wanted to clear up with you if we have the chance very quickly, if you don t mind. the figures are pretty extraordinary in brazil. is it likely too the figures are not reliable, that the real figure is much higher? they are most probably unreliable in the sense that brazil is doing relatively little testing so real figures so realfigures are likely to be much higher. in fact, a recent study by the medicalfaculty at the sao paulo university, where i am at as well, estimated that actual figures might be some 15 times higher than what s announced. of course, it s a very vast country and different states are coping with the situation in better ways than other ones. the world health organization has temporarily halted the testing of the drug hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for covid i9 because of safety concerns. the drug, traditionally used to treat malaria, has been described by president donald trump as game changer in the battle against the virus. imogen foulkes reports from geneva. there are so far no known treatments or vaccines for covid i9, but there are many clinical trials of many different drugs to try to find them. one drug, hydroxychloroquine, is already in use as a treatment for malaria. some, among them president donald trump, think it could work against covid i9 too. he s even taking it himself. i m taking it, hydroxychloroquine. when? right now, yeah. couple of weeks ago, i started taking it, because i think it s good. i ve heard a lot of good stories. the world health organization has repeatedly said there is no scientific evidence so far that hydroxychloroquine can treat covid i9, let alone prevent infection with it. the who had been running clinical trials to test anecdotal reports that it might be beneficial. now, those trials have been stopped after a study suggested the drug could cause heart problems and might even increase deaths among covid i9 patients. the executive group has implemented a temporary pause of the hydroxychloroquine arm within the solidarity trial while the data, the safety data, is reviewed by the data we safety monitoring board. the who said the decision to suspend trials was a precautionary measure. now, it will gather more data on safety before deciding whether to continue testing. however, it said patients taking hydroxychloroquine for established reasons, such as malaria, should continue to do so. imogen foulkes, bbc news, geneva. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: the boy and the bear meet the italian 12 year old being praised for his cool handling of a very risky situation. in the biggest international sporting spectacle ever seen, up to 30 million people have taken part in sponsored athletics events to aid famine relief in africa. the first of what the makers of star wars hope will be thousands of queues started forming at 7:00am. taunting which led to scuffles, scuffles to fighting, fighting to full scale riot, as the liverpool fans broke out of their area and into the juve ntus enclosure. the belgian police had lost control. the whole world will mourn the tragic death of mr nehru today. he was the father of the indian people from the day of independence. the oprah winfrey show comes to an end after 25 years and more than 4,500 episodes. the chat show has made her one of the richest people on the planet. geri halliwell, otherwise known as ginger spice,‘ has announced she has left the spice girls. argh, i don t believe it. she s the one with the bounce, the go, girl power. not geri, why? welcome back. very glad to have you with us. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: the top adviser to the british prime minister has given a defiant defence of his behaviour after he was accused of flouting coronavirus lockdown rules. the world health organization has suspended testing of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for covid i9, after a study suggested the drug could cause serious health problems. a british couple is co ordinating efforts to help a hospital in haiti prepare for a spike in coronavirus cases which they believe could overwhelm the country s healthcare system. the country has just 60 ventilators for a population of 11 million and is ill prepared for the pandemic. the bbc‘sjon hunt has more. while in britain, we may be past the peak of the pandemic, in haiti, cases are rising sharply. at this hospital set up by a uk charity, they are having to improvise, making ppe out of raincoats and diy masks. uh.this is actually made out of a ladder. rob dalton is an a&e nurse from surrey, volunteering for the charity. i ve been working six days a week, sometimes too busy to to get to eat and things. there s so much to do here. they need all the help they can get. the preparation of the hope health action hospital is being co ordinated from crawley, in west sussex. the charity s founders say one of their biggest challenges is access to oxygen. there s no access to a ventilator at a hospital. there s only 15 20 icu beds for the whole country. so we are focusing more on provision of oxygen, but that can be a struggle. we ve invested to get a number of oxygen concentrators out to the country in the last couple of weeks, which just arrived over the weekend. the charity is also doing community outreach work to teach social distancing and promote good hand washing. you can have ten people living in a one bed house, which means that self isolating is just nearly impossible, and communities all function really closely together. with donations from the uk, they ve been able to set up an isolation ward for covid i9 patients and a triage system. the peak of the pandemic is due in haiti in the next two weeks. john hunt, bbc news. well, sandra lamarque is the head of mission for doctors without borders in haiti, speaking from port au prince earlier, she told me that the country is not prepared to fight this outbreak and is already facing an increasing number of virus related deaths. the country is not prepared to deal with an epidemic and outbreak of such proportions. so what we re trying to do, we ve just opened a hospital specialised in care for patients suffering from covid i9, and specifically for severe cases. we ve also helped public hospitals protect themselves with setting up triage facilities and isolation beds, but this is not enough and a lot more effort is required. and so called barrier measures, of course, very difficult even in countries with advanced health systems. in the slums of port au prince, it must be nearly impossible, and with that very porous border from the dominican republic. absolutely, haiti is one of the most densely populated countries in the caribbean, and especially in the slums, where we work the population density is extremely high. it s impossible for people to stay isolated, and it s nearly impossible to implement. people need to go about their business on a daily basis. access to hand washing facilities, access to sanitation is also extremely limited in this area. the situation at the border is another worry. every week, we estimate that 20,000 people cross the border from dominican republic to haiti, and a lot of them are importing the virus, u nfortu nately. at the border, there is no proper system in place to test people, or screen them for fever, or put suspected cases in quarantine. so, due to this, a lot of people are probably importing cases from dominican republic next door, which is at the moment the main cluster in the caribbean. it must be so difficult, i mean, you must have problems everywhere you look, don t you? the hurricane season is supposed to be particularly active this year, and i supposed none of this has stopped the gang violence. i think your hospitals are still dealing with gunshot wounds daily, aren t they? exactly, one hour ago we received four gunshot wounds in our emergency centre, in one of the most violent slums in port au prince, and over the last week we ve received a couple more as well. this is worrying because not only are we worried about covid i9 itself, we are worried about the continuity of access to healthcare for every pathology, for pregnant women, for gunshot wounds, for asthmatic people. and this is a worry, actually. last week, two hospitals, two prominent hospitals in port au prince, the capital city, had to close down because they did not have personal protective equipment for their staff, and they feared infecting their staff or other patients, so they had to close down, limiting even more access to healthcare for the population. and sandra, very briefly if you don t mind, what do you most need, and where are you going to get it from? can you get it? we mostly need oxygen equipment, we need personal protective equipment, and it s really hard to get them into the country, due to shortages worldwide. some doctors on the front line of the national health service here in the uk arrived as refugees. fergal keane has been to meet syrian doctors who told him they want to repay the kindness and generosity they ve received since they came here. dr ahmad alomar is a syrian refugee, now working at royal oldham hospital in manchester. here, he is checking on a patient admitted with a severe cough. arriving in 2014, ahmad and his family found safety in britain, and he brought precious skills. nurse: where s my chocolates? laughter. he has a presence that puts other staff at their ease. i ve only had one day off! having struggled with mass casualties in besieged aleppo, he is well placed to offer emotional support to colleagues. during these difficult times in syria, i ve learned how to cope with stress. i ve learned how to manage. when the covid pandemic started here, i realised that it would be a very difficult time, because nobody had ever had similar experience. more than half syria s health facilities have been destroyed or damaged. hospitals have been targeted by the regime and its russian allies. the british surgeon david nott, here wearing the colourful cap, trained syrian doctors in emergency surgery in besieged aleppo. it s left me with a broken heart, because there are so many millions of people as refugees now, and they need to go home, but they re too scared to go home. and it is a dreadful situation, that they re still u nfortu nately having to cope with. there is an irony in this, of course, in that you went there to help them. they re now here helping you. yes, it s true, absolutely true. and it s wonderful. here in aleppo, working under siege conditions, one of the young doctors he trained. ayman alshikh became a highly skilled trauma surgeon. now ayman is in manchester, a friend of dr ahmad, and studying for the exams that will allow him to practise in britain. he wants to repay the welcome and peace he has found here. i imagined our colleagues here, that they are suffering, they need help. they need any hand they can have with them. i can understand their feeling now, and it s really exhausting during these uncertain times. ahmad has found security here, and work he loves. but he yearns for home, a return he knows is impossible while the regime is in power. a doctor no longer able to help his own country helps save lives here. may i feel your hand, please? our good fortune, syria s tragedy. fergal keane, bbc news, manchester. americans have marked memorial day a chance for the nation to honour who died serving in the us military. the president visited fort mckendrick in baltimore. the historic battle site was actually an inspiration for the star spangled banner, america s national anthem. mr trump invoked that tune while honouring those on the front lines against the coronavirus. meanwhile, the man who will take on mrtrump in november s election also paid tribute. former vice presidentjoe biden left his home to make his first public appearance in two months, laying a wreath at a veterans park in delaware. that s it for now. when you so much for watching. hello. if you re looking for rain through this week, well, there is not very much in the forecast. but what i can offer you is plenty of warmth. in fact, during monday, to the south west of london, temperatures got very close to 27 degrees. we ll see more very warm weather over the next few days. on the satellite picture, though, you can see this stripe of cloud that s been working its way in towards the north west. not bringing an awful lot of rain, though. this is a frontal system, but one which is weakening very quickly, so really wejust have a band of cloud sitting in place across parts of england and wales through tuesday morning. maybe the odd spot of drizzle around, but generally speaking it ll be dry, just with a bit more in the way of cloud generally than we had during monday. conversely, for northern ireland and scotland, well, here we see long spells of sunshine. still quite breezy in the far north, and a little bit on the cool side here, i suppose. but, the further south you are, top temperatures getting up to 25 degrees. now, as we move through tuesday evening, our old weather front will still be sitting in place, but reallyjust a band of cloud at this stage. could be a little bit misty and murky for some coastal spots in the south and the west. and then we see some more cloud starting to work in towards parts of northern ireland. but generally it s a dry night, and not a particularly cold one, with lows between 7 14 degrees. so, during wednesday, high pressure still very much in charge. but this warm front here will be introducing more cloud, and maybejust nosing some rain into the western side of northern ireland and potentially the west of scotland. there is a bit of uncertainty about just how far east this rain will get. but, to the south of this band of cloud and patchy rain, well, that s where we have the very warm air. so temperatures down towards the south, cardiff, london, into the middle 20s celsius. not quite as warm as that across the northern half of the uk. but, as we move towards the end of the week, as this area of high pressure moves its way a little bit further eastwards, well, more and more of us get to feel the effects of some very warm air. and i think, on thursday, we will see plentiful sunshine across most areas. a bit more cloud across scotland, maybe just the odd shower across the northern half of the country, but the vast majority will be dry. but those temperatures up to 26 degrees there in cardiff, 22 in glasgow, but a little bit cooler for some of those north sea coasts. that s a trend that will continue on into friday. and as we head into the weekend, well, those temperatures stay pretty high for the time of year, and very little sign of rain for most of us.
this is bbc news. the headlines: britain s prime minister, borisjohnson, has said he regrets the confusion and anger caused by his chief adviser‘s long journeys across the uk during the anti virus lockdown. but he has reiterated his support for dominic cummings, who s insisted he didn t violate the rules and doesn t regret what he did. brazil has recorded the world s highest number of deaths from covid i9 in a single day. the latest figure was 807. only the united states has more cases, in total, but brazil s official figures are thought to be very much under estimated. president bolsonaro is still refusing to implement a national lockdown. hong kong s chief executive, carrie lam, has been defending china s new security law, insisting it would be a safeguard against legal process and would not violate the territory s autonomy. she criticised international leaders who supported protesters resisting the
this is bbc news i m reeta chakra barti. the headlines at 4: borisjohnson says there s ‘growing confidence the uk will have a virus tracing system in place by the start this is bbc news i mjane hill. of next month. the headlines. we will have a test, track and trace operation that will be world beating and, yes, borisjohnson says there s ‘growing it will be in place, confidence‘ the uk will have a virus it will be in place byjune1st. tracing system in place by the start of next month. we will have a test, track and trace operation that the engineering giant rolls royce announces 9,000 job will be world beating and, cuts because of the yes, it will be in place, it will be in place byjune 1st. impact of coronavirus. local councils urge the government to reconsider proposals to reopen primary schools the engineering giant rolls royce in england next month, announces 9,000 job cuts because of concerns about safety. because of the impact of coronavirus. more nhs help for local councils urge people with diabetes, as a study finds the disease the the government to reconsider proposals to reopen primary schools is linked to a third of coronavirus in england next month because of concerns about safety. hospital deaths in england. and arise captain sir tom moore the world war two veteran who s raised more than 30 million more nhs help for people for the nhs is awarded with diabetes as a study finds a knighthood. the disease is linked to a third of coronavirus hospital deaths in england. and arise captain sir tom moore the world war two veteran who s raised more than 30 million for the nhs is awarded a knighthood. good afternoon. the prime minister has said there is a growing confidence that the uk will have a test, track and trace operation in place by next month. borisjohnson said during prime minister s questions that the system would be ‘world beating and there will be 25,000 trackers. good afternoon. the prime minister has said he said this will help stop there is a growing confidence that the uk will have a test, the disease from spreading and added that 24,000 tracers had track and trace operation already been recruited. in place byjune 1st. let s look at the government s approach to testing and tracing so far. borisjohnson said during prime minister s questions that the system will be world 0n12th march, the beating and there will be 25,000 trackers. government moved away from community tests and contact tracing because of capacity he said this will help stop problems, as ministers focused the disease from spreading and added testing on patients with suspected that 2a,000 tracers had coronavirus in hospitals. already been recruited. health secretary matt hancock announced labour leader sir keir starmer on the 2nd may that an initial team pressed borisjohnson in the commons about the lack track and tracing of 18,000 contact tracers would be recruited by the middle of the month since the middle of march. as part of the government s virus response. we have growing confidence on 8th may, piloting that we will have a test, of a contact tracing app started on the isle of wight. track and trace operation that will be world beating. it s understood that more and yes, it will be in place, than 60,000 people have downloaded and used the app so far. the health secretary said that the app is due to be rolled out nationally within the next few weeks. but, yesterday, there was criticism from the commons science and technology committee over the government decision to reduce community testing early it will be in place byjune the 1st. on in its handling of the pandemic. the committee chair, conservative mp greg clark, said the government didn t get ahead of testing early enough . the announcement from boris johnson followed and what i hope very much is that questioning from the labour leader sir keir starmer about the lack notwithstanding the occasional track and tracing since the middle of march, but the prime minister difficulty of these exchanges, insisted the new system and i totally appreciate the role that he has to fulfil, would be effective. that he will support us as we go we have growing confidence that we will have a test, forward, that he will be positive about this test track and trace track and trace operation that operation and that we can work will be world beating. together to use it to take our country forward. and yes, it will be in place, that is what i think the people it will be in place byjune the 1st. of this country want to see. and to repeat the figure, since he has invited me to do so, let s cross to our political correspondent leila nathoo in westminster. there will be 25,000 trackers and they will be able to cope with 10,000 new cases a day. that is very very important. expressing confidence that all this because new cases currently are running at around 2500 a day. can be in place by 1stjune? they will be able to trace expressing confidence that all this can be in place by 1stjune? yes, i can be in place by 1st june? yes, i think borisjohnson the contacts of those new cases can be in place by 1st june? yes, i think boris johnson had can be in place by 1st june? yes, i think borisjohnson had to try and and to stop the disease spreading. provide some reassurance about this and what i hope very much is that testing, tracking tracing strategy notwithstanding the occasional difficulty of these exchanges, and there was an important new and i totally appreciate the role that he has to fulfil, commitment to get that up and running byjune1st, which is that he will support us as we go commitment to get that up and running byjune 1st, which is the date that the government had set for forward, that he will be positive a possible move into the next phase about this test track and trace of releasing some lockdown measures, operation and that we can work together to use it to take albeit with caveats. that is when our country forward. that is what i think the people some primary school classes in england are set to open, some of this country want to see. nonessential shops too. there have let s cross to our political correspondentjessica parker been concerns, particularly from in westminster. unions and councils that there has not been an effective tracking and soa so a commitment from the prime minister that this system will be in tracing policy in place so far so place on 1stjune, but still a lot how can they be expected to re open of questions about whether we re schools, that does replace the doing enough testing and whether we lockdown measures so local outbreaks have enough trackers. a slightly can be isolated. i think this number spiky exchange between borisjohnson of 25,000 traces was an important commitment for boris johnson to and keir starmer there. in of 25,000 traces was an important commitment for borisjohnson to make that they will be in place byjune spiky exchange between borisjohnson and keir starmerthere. in their third prime minister s questions. 1st. interestingly no mention of keir starmer said that the lack of app, which so far has been quite a test, track and trace had left a crucial part of this strategy, huge whole in the country s defences remember that is being piloted on the isle of wight, we heard from against coronavirus. borisjohnson pushing back upon that, saying they matt hancock that the app the the we re pushing back upon that, saying they were recruiting, what is referred to scheme would be up and running by asa were recruiting, what is referred to as a small army of contact tracers, the middle of may and here we are saying 24,000 already recruited and 25 thousand to be in place by early and all we have is that it will be rolled out. there is movement june. and of course earlyjune is the date that the government wants towards having the army of 25,000 to see certain year groups in traces being crucial to the primary schools start to return to operation that gets hopefully school, something that has been britain, or england at least out of referred to before is that having lockdown somewhat from june 1st. we proper testing in place will be are going to talk about that more crucial to provide the reassurance later. another thought, where are we that parents, teachers and unions need to see that happen. but in terms of whether parliament itself, or when it might resume what continued resistance to thatjune we might call normal operations? we first date, not least from a number of local authorities. but boris had an urgent question early this johnson saying that there will be a afternoon in the hybrid commons system in place for earlyjune. my which has been sitting part understanding is that what is now physically, part virtually, with happening is a slight distinguishing between this army of contact some making contributions by video linn and jacob rees mogg said mps tracers, 25 thousand set to be in place by early june tracers, 25 thousand set to be in will return on 2nd june. there is a place by earlyjune and this app, that has been trialled on the isle of wight. ministers have been less break coming up, a recess break and he intends to get it back to specific about when that app might business as usual, saying the be rolled out nationwide and they arrangement was only ever de seiped have been saying, in the coming to be temporary designed to be weeks. so you could see an approach where you have a number of contact temporary and social distancing measures will be in place. he simply placers in place and the app rolled out later. but in the last hour the then said there was a recognition then said there was a recognition the house cannot work effectively if shadow health secretary has written mps are not present in westminster. to matt hancock, the health 0bviously mps are not present in westminster. obviously the chats around the secretary calling for a number of corridors they re things, including the government to missing. the intention is to protect share plans on plans to increase ta ke share plans on plans to increase take up of the app and to dispel older mps or those with underlying privacy concerns about it and health conditions. the feeling is if confirm the system will be operational byjune first. schools people are being asked to get back to work, jacob rees mogg saying why area operational byjune first. schools are a significant issue, but of course test, track and trace seemed should mps be any different? thank you very much. just to tell you that very important for the wider easing of the lockdown restrictions going later in this half hour i hope to forward. thank you. we will hear more from jessica as we come up to speak to professor hugh pennington the downing street briefing. hugh pennington and that test, track and trace is emeritus professor of bacteriology at aberdeen university. he gave us his reaction system and he will explain more about the science behind that. and to boris johnson s announcement. the whole topic of schools also up it s taken a long time, as for world for discussion this afternoon. beating? we have been beaten by but first the economic impact of the other countries. we have been slow virus. getting it going. but it is good the engineering giant, rolls royce, is to cut 9,000 jobs news we have a lot of contact almost a fifth of its workforce because of the impact of coronavirus on the aviation industry. tracers, hopefully properly trained the firm says it s consulting before the end of the month. but it with unions about where the jobs is good news that we are moving that will go and whether factories need way, because it is essential if we to close, but many of the job cuts are expected to be in the uk. are going to get anywhere near our business correspondent simon gompertz reports. getting rid of lockdowns, we need the system working. can i try and engines powering airbus and boeing planes a pinnacle of british manufacturing, get, in terms of specifics, so when now in crisis because the planes themselves aren t flying. the prime minister says 24,000 tracers have been recruited, is that thejobs, many in derby, are some of the most the right sort of number, is that skilled and highly prized. what you would be looking at for a scheme that should be up and running though this is an international company, the heaviest ina scheme that should be up and running in a couple of weeks? well it is a blow will fall here. here in derby we understand this minimum number, because it is very is a very difficult day, labour intensive work, individuals it is a very difficult day for our employees have to talk to other individuals, all around the world. evenif have to talk to other individuals, even if it is by telephone. i don t but we need to get on and do this think we can rely on the app to the now because it is about creating all the work. it is what we call a sustainable business for the future, so that ultimately we can protect the jobs shoe leather epidemiology. personal that we will have left as a result of this. contact is important and somebody has to do the testing. i m not happy derby has most of the civil aviation about leaving the testing to the jobs which are in peril, people themselves. because they may including hundreds of apprentices and graduate trainees. unions expect nearly 31100 uk jobs not stick the swab up their nose to be cut here this year, with thousands more to be cut later. firmly enough and so on. so there a lot of work and we could miss cases. the rolls royce workshops of derby this virus is a tricky virus and have been producing record breaking engines for nearly 40 years. many people don t have symptoms and britain has been a pioneer they have to have symptoms to make in building planes and engines. sure they re not spreading the ever since, rolls royce has been virus. it is very labour intensive a linchpin of engineering here. and that number may turn out not to the company says it has been through lean times before, be enough. but on the other hand, lostjobs and won them back again. doing it on this scale for a virus, we have never done it before. we do there has never been anything like this. it on we have never done it before. we do itona we have never done it before. we do it on a smaller scale for other thousands of planes parked up around viruses and other bacteria. but we the world because of coronavirus, don t do it on this sort of scale and no need for replacements. you cannot make money nationwide. if you cannot sell the engines. the engineering giant, rolls royce, is to cut 9,000 jobs almost a fifth of its workforce and the crucial after sales service is badly affected. because of the impact of coronavirus even so, unions say the surgery is too much. on the aviation industry. they have been very happy to take the government s money to furlough the firm says it s consulting with unions about where the jobs thousands of workers at rolls royce. we won t simply allow them to walk will go and whether factories need to close, but many of the job cuts away when the going gets tough. are expected to be in the uk. we need to stand together as a nation and think let s speak to our business about what sort of economy we want and what sort of role companies correspondent simon gompertz. like rolls royce can play in that economy. simon, a big blow for employees, why we need the government to step up and understand that, of course, the announcement now? it is to to with long term support for our industry and aviation. with the impact of coronavirus. people knew they were working up a there is a big defence business which has been doing well plan to cutjobs, because of the the company say some affected staff dire impact there has been on may be able to move across. aviation around the world, so few but this huge retrenchment flights happening, thousands of from rolls royce is a warning planes parked up in the desert, or that the impact of this virus on jobs could be even deeper and longer lasting than feared. in little used airports. it is the simon gompertz, bbc news. view going forward of airlines that their fleets will have to be that let s talk to our business much smaller, they won t need so correspondent simon gompertz. many planes, that means cutting we know the devastating impact on so orders and cutting the maintenance many parts of the economy, but this contract, the after sales service particularly, i have a yigs is one of the i that rolls royce provides them and which accounts for half of their revenue. it is hard to exaggerate particularly, i have a yigs is one ofthe ii particularly, i have a yigs is one of the i i aviation. the importance of rolls royce to particularly, i have a yigs is one of the i i aviation. yes this is this country. it has a position at a gleaming jewel in the core of the heart of up with of world s most british industry, for it to be under advanced engineering industries, threat is a grievous blow, thatis advanced engineering industries, particularly for derby, where many that is providing these engines for of thejobs are. particularly for derby, where many of the jobs are. let me take you through the numbers. the company planes. it provides highly skilled, said 9,000 jobs are under threat and highly paid jobs. it supports tens the chief executive on the bbc of thousands of jobs from suppliers suggested that around do thirds of as well. these massive cutbacks will the losses would be in the uk. that is around 6,000 then. and the unions resonate across the country, but are talking about more than 3,000 they re particularly a blow for this year. so very quickly the derby, where there are most people company moving into redundancy mode, getting rid of people. and then based. the firm said it is talking there would be another tranche to unions about where jobs will go perhaps starting next year of a further 3,000. so huge numbers. not and whether factories will need to close. is there any sense there just derby, because there are 30 could be a reprieve if the lockdown locations involved in the civil sta rts could be a reprieve if the lockdown starts to ease earlier? it feels aviation part of the company and people in factories that perhaps unlikely. partly because the speed only have a few hundred employees at which they re moving to make will be worried that their whole these cuts, to drill down into the centre would be closed down. and this is tricky, because as you say numbers, 9,000 jobs to go. the chief it is such a specific set of skills executive of rolls royce gave it to and the hope when ever you talk to be understood in interviews that around two thirds of those were anyone within aviation and the likely to be in the uk. that means airlines world is that of course it is going to be badly hit, but in mostly in derby. now, unions are let s say two or three years, things may start bouncing back. from then, saying that they think the company where have those stills gone? is going to move quickly to axe skills gone? that is the worry and rolls royce is important for training and people start there and nearly 3,400 jobs and the remainder go elsewhere to work. it is an would come next year. pushing it up important resource for engineering. you talk about the bounce back and to around 6,000. the speed of it suggests there is not a huge amount in theory that could happen within months, but beginning from a much of wriggle room. when you have lower level. it is going to take a long time for airlines which have redundancies, there are been so strick on the start ordering possibilities of people perhaps moving. the defence side of rolls royce is quite successful and the planes which require rolls royce there could be opportunities to move engines. the chief executive there could be opportunities to move suggested it could take several there and perhaps there will be yea rs suggested it could take several years for that to get back up and running to the sort of level that we opportunities for voluntary redundancies as well. thank you. had only a few months ago. that is terrible. half of the business is the government has said it remains committed to children not just making the returning to school as soon terrible. half of the business is as possible, despite a number notjust making the engines, it is servicing them, what we call the of english councils expressing safety concerns about plans to reopen primary schools after sales service. i is a big at the start of next month. source of it is a big source of ministers are coming under pressure income and that is being drastically to reconsider proposals to reopen schools to some pupils from 1st june. reduced as well. thank you. 0ur education correspondent elaine dunkley reports. the government says partially reopening schools in england is about taking small a number of english councils steps in lifting the are expressing safety concerns coronavirus lockdown, but there is growing about the government plans to reopen opposition from some primary schools at the councils across england start of next month. over safety concerns. ministers are coming under pressure to reconsider proposals to reopen schools to some pupils from 1st june. 0ur education correspondent there are a lot of practical problems for schools in getting ready for this elaine dunkley reports. and the time scale is very tight. the government says partially but our main concerns reopening schools in england and the reason we is about taking small steps have given the advice we have to our schools, in lifting the coronavirus lockdown. is that we are not yet convinced but there is growing opposition that the government s five from councils across england around safety concerns. test are met. firstly particularly in terms the of the falling in the rate of there are lots of practical problems for schools getting ready for this, infections in the community, and you will be aware there has been the timescale s very tight. discussions that suggest the infection rate is higher in the the main concern and why we have north than london. given the reason we have given the plan to re open schools to children in the advice we have to schools reception, year one and year six on the first is that we are not yet convinced ofjune only applies to england. that the government s five tests are met. particular in terms of the falling the government says it is scientifically safe for schools to rate of infections in the community. reopen and has issued guidance. you will be aware that there have been discussions that the infection other parts of the uk rate is higher in the north will continue to keep schools closed. tan, say, london. than, say, london. it really depends on the view of employers, a lot of the plan to reopen schools councils are direct to children in reception, employers of teaching staff. year one and year six on the 1st their views are clearly important and i am not going ofjune only applies to england. to sit here and pretend suddenly on 1st june the government says everything will be it is scientifically safe at school to reopen and has issued guidance. uniform, i don t know. it is my hope, but these other parts of the uk will continue conversations need to continue and we need to listen to keep schools closed. carefully to the concerns of employers and staff. it really depends upon the view of employers. of councils are direct employers of teaching staff. liverpool, bury and hartlepool their views are clearly very are some of the councils that won t direct schools to re open from 1stjune. important and i m looking to sit others have written to parents saying it might not be possible for all primary schools to open. their views are clearly very if for some reason important and i m not going to sit the school did want here and pretend that suddenly come to continue to open, on the 1st ofjune, when the local authority was advising not to, everything will be uniform. i don t know. it would need to be very clear it is my hope. about its reasons for that decision, but these conversations need to continue and we need to listen why had they come to a different very carefully to the concerns decision from the local authority. of employers and staff. liverpool, bury and hartlepool are some of the council that will not direct schools reopen from the 1st ofjune. others have written to parents schools have become a sticking saying it might be possible point for the government. it was meant to be a national plan to get children for all schools to open. if, for some reason, in england back in the classrooms, the school did want to continue to open when the local authority but the decision on whether to was advising not to, re open is likely to be taken at a local level. it would need to be very clear about its reasons for that decision. elaine dunkley, bbc news. why had they come to a different decision from the local authority? schools have become a sticking point for the government. it was meant to be a national plan the government has confirmed to get children in england back there will be new checks on some goods entering northern ireland into the classrooms, but the decision on whether to from the rest of the uk reopen is likely to be as part of the brexit deal. the details are contained in uk proposals for implementing the ni taken at a local level. part of the brexit deal. 0ur correspondent chris buckler has the latest from belfast. northern ireland seemed in many ways emma knights, is from the national governance association to be the most difficult issue to work out in the prolonged brexit which advises school process, the objective of all sides was to keep the land border between governors and trustees. northern ireland and the irish good afternoon. what are you saying republic open, but that raised the prospect of checks to governors, or what are governors between northern ireland and the rest of the uk. well, in the proposals that the government querying with you, what should they have published today, they are do, who should they listen to? saying that there will be some checks on goods moving across the irish sea and that is governing boards are talking to because northern ireland, under the terms of school leaders and head teachers and brexit deal, will continue to follow some eu rules on goods and good products. executives as your own news pointed out, things change on a daily basis. food products. we are getting more and more s,o some infrastructure will be expanded, particularly at information. so governing boards and head teachers need to look at all so some infrastructure will be expanded, particularly at belfast port and at larne port in county antrim, in order to the sources of information and the facilitate some checks on goods. what the government is stressing official guidance from the is that the checks will be kept to a government and local authorities and minimum and that there will be unfetterred access that is the key particularly locally maintained schools. they re going to be looking phrase ministers have been using today at these issues in the round and for businesses in northern ireland to the markets in the uk. now, the reason why they are people are taking this emphasising that point is that unionists find any notion of checks, responsibility incredibly seriously. separation, any sort of trade they realise this is such an barriers between northern ireland important decision, not just for the and the rest of the uk to be very, very difficult indeed. pupils concerned, but for staff and actually for the wider community. of for example in the house of commons, sammy wilson of the democratic unionist course, everyone wants safety to be party told michael gove, the cabinet minister outlining these plans, taken seriously, there might be people watching who think, well, the that the withdrawal agreement, with its separation, country s been in lockdown for seven in unionist eyes, of or eight weeks, so they have had northern ireland from england, many weeks to think about this and scotland and wales would always be try to work out how schools could offensive to unionists like him. operate some form of social however, that said, the dup, distancing, no one has said it is easy, but there has been a lot of which is northern ireland s largest time to think about it. the government s ambition which they only published a short while ago is conditional on a number of tests unionist party, have given a cautious welcome to some of the being met, we are waiting to see government s commitments in the plan for the commitment of unfetterred access for northern whether these tests are met. but a lot of planning has been going on. ireland businesses to the uk, as they put and the school leaders have been doing that commitment that there will be no customs checks within the uk s internal customs market and that m m, school leaders have been doing that northern ireland will benefit from in in, day out, because every school trade deals the uk strikes after brexit. building is different and every the dup leader, arlene foster has community is different. how that seen said though the government most make those national or local guidance applies foundational principles unmovable. so unionists very keen to keep up in your school needs to be looked at the pressure on the government. as far as irish nationalists incredibly carefully. what are the are concerned, well their primary size of the classrooms? are there concern is to protect the economy of the island of ireland external exits? how much traffic can and sinn fein have said that there s no such thing you have in your corridors? how are as a good brexit for any part of ireland, that pupils going to get to school? there is still the way they look at it, isa but anything that can be done within pupils going to get to school? there is a huge number of factors to look at and people are working incredibly the framework, within the trade negotiations going on between the uk hard, nobody is hanging around and the eu need to protect the whole island of ireland as an waiting for things to happen. economic unit. so, these issues while they haven t everybody is concentrating on been in the headlines possibilities and what are the over the last few months, options and what is right for our for obvious reasons, pa rt options and what is right for our part of the country. so where is the are still very much there and we can expect to see the intensity of the talks, balance between, of course thinking the intensity of focus on these through all the factors that you issues connected with northern ireland and its economy and, as some would see it, have outlined, but also thinking, children are missing out on their its status within the uk. education and on socialising with as we build up children of their own age. how much to the end of this year, the idea is that the northern ireland protocol, longer can that continue? the part of the brexit deal that absolutely. the risk assessments relates to northern ireland will come in injanuary, whether or not that are being done by our head there is an over all free trade deal teachers and executives have to take into account all the risks that between the uk and the eu. young people and their families are facing. 0f for days, brazil has made headlines young people and their families are for its steady increase facing. of course, the issue of in daily deaths and infections. covid transmission is very high on the list, but you re righter there are other things that need to be it is now seeing a sharp escalation of the pandemic taken into are other things that need to be ta ken into account. with officials reporting more are other things that need to be taken into account. some children are fairing better than others. not than a thousand coronavirus related deaths on tuesday every household has good digital the first time that s happened. nearly 18,000 access. so trying to carry out people have died in brazil because of the disease. remote learning if you re not able with more, here s david campanale. to do that, from home, you re graves freshly dug in brazil s largest city, sao paulo. falling behind and we would like to but they have been made ready for a reason. reassure people that school leaders in the past 24 hours, two grim are thinking about those things too. milestones have been passed thank you. not only the most number of deaths, but also the highest number of confirmed new infections. with over a quarter of a million people with the coronavirus, the headlines on bbc news. only the united states and russia have recorded higher numbers of cases. borisjohnson says there s ‘growing it s a disease clearly confidence the uk will have a virus tracing system in place by the start not under control. of next month. the trajectory of recorded deaths is heading sharply upwards, the engineering giant rolls royce announces 9000 job cuts because of and experts say insufficient testing the impact of coronavirus. might mean the real infection rate could be 15 times higher. local councils urge the the government to reconsider proposals to reopen primary schools in england next month, because of concerns about safety. translation: we re losing the battle against the virus, that s the reality. the virus at this moment is winning the war. these days coming up, the holidays, i don t see them as holidays, but i see them as battle days, the organ donation system has the most important days changed in england today which it s hoped may save 700 lives a year. people are now presumed to have in the fight against the virus. consented for their organs to be given to others, the country s right wing president, jair bolsonaro, has dismissed unless they specifically opt out. the risks and compared this system is already used in wales, and will come into force in scotland later in the year. northern ireland still operates covid 19 to a little flu. despite the deaths, he still has the opt in approach. support for his strategy of opposing lockdowns, including among those the legislation is known outside his presidential palace as max and keira s law chanting chloroquine , maxjohnson is a nine year old the name of an antimalarial who had a heart transplant, medication that the brazilian after a nine year leader claims can be used old donor keira ball was killed in an accident in 2017. max s uncle is the bbc news against coronavirus. presenter rogerjohnson. this is his report. if you could have perfect it now looks like the president will child, it was keira. finally have his way on the drug, she loved life, people, animals, helped by his new interim health she just wanted to help minister and army general, anybody and anything. happy to take orders from his boss. keira ball was nine president bolsonaro says when she was killed in a car a new protocol will be signed which crash in devon in 2017. widens the use of the drug beyond just critical patients. this despite there being no evidence with her mum and brother seriously yet that it helps treat injured in hospital, or prevent covid 19. keira s father, joe, new federal guidelines recommend took the decision to donate that doctors prescribe antimalarial his daughter s organs. drugs from the onset of symptoms. meanwhile, nearly 400 miles away in newcastle, another nine year old, he isn t the only leader in the americas praising its theoretical use, but the trend of deaths max johnson, my nephew, and infections are facts that can t be argued with. had been waiting in a hospital bed for more than six months critical donald trump says he is now looking need of a heart transplant. max had developed dilated at closing us borders cardiomyopathy after to travellers from brazil. contracting a virus. david campanale, bbc news. his heart was failing. after a few months, you almost stop the organ donation system has expecting or hoping for a call changed in england today which it s hoped may save 700 because if you think too much about, lives a year. will the phone ring today? people are now presumed to have consented for their organs each day is a disappointment. to be given to others, i love you both. unless they specifically opt out. we love you too. this system is already used in wales, and will come into force in scotland later in the year. northern ireland still operates the opt in approach. a documentary crew was filming the legislation is known the work of the transplant team as max and keira s law at the freeman hospital where max s maxjohnson is a 9 year old who had operation took place. a heart transplant, after a 9 year thankful, very thankful. old donor keira ball was killed in an accident in 2017. thank you, people out there. max s uncle is the bbc news thank you. presenter rogerjohnson. keira s dad s decision was the gift that max s parents had prayed for. if you could have perfect he looked at her and thought, child, it was keira. she loved life, people, animals, she wants to help anybody do she just wanted to help anything, and that would be what she wanted. anybody and anything. so he said his decision was very easy. i think the humanity he has, it took a very courageous person keira ball was nine and a very caring person. when she was killed in a car crash in devon in 2017. so, you know, we are indebted to him with her mum and brother seriously injured in hospital, for having the strength and the love keira s father, joe, and the generosity of doing that. took the decision to donate his daughter s organs. meanwhile, nearly 400 miles away in newcastle, coronavirus has cut the number another nine year old, of donors across the uk and many operations max johnson, my nephew, have been put on hold. had been waiting in a hospital bed fun more than six months critical but, prior to the pandemic, need of a heart transplant. consent rates for donations had risen in wales since an opt out max had developed dilated cardiomyopathy after system was adopted there in 2015. contracting a virus. scotland is following suit. his heart was failing. after a few months, you almost stop today s change in england followed a newspaper campaign for which max expecting or hoping for a call became the poster boy. because if you think too much about, the public and government were able will the phone ring today? each day is a disappointment. to latch onto a personal story and personal progression that made i love you both. we love you too. the topic of organ donation very human and it allowed people to really empathise. a documentary crew was filming the work of the transplant team at the freeman hospital where max s it is not usual for recipients operation took place. thankful, very thankful. and donors families to meet, but, thank you, people out there. amid all the publicity, thank you. the balls and thejohnsons scheme together, both now that the new legislation, keira s dad s decision was the gift that max s parents had prayed for. known as max and keira s law, he looked at her and thought, she wants to help anybody do will encourage other families to share their wishes anything, and that would be if the thinkable should happen. what she wanted. it helps us massively so he said his decision with the grieving process to look at max and see the difference was very easy. that our beautiful princess has given to max. i think the humanity he has, to us, her life was not wasted. it took a very courageous person rogerjohnson, bbc news. and a very caring person. so, you know, we are indebted to him for having the strength and the love and the generosity of doing that. fiona loud is policy director at kidney care uk. coronavirus has cut the number she joins me now. hello, of donors across the uk shejoins me now. hello, good and many operations afternoon. hello. and i mean, that have been put on hold. but, prior to the pandemic, piece is so moving, no matter how consent rates for donations had risen in wales since an opt out many times you see it and reminds system was adopted there in 2015. you what a remarkable gift it is and i m sure you won t mind telling scotland is following suit. today s change in england followed viewers the reason you re involved a newspaper campaign for which max is because you had a kidney became the poster boy. transplant. yes, i ve seen that the public and government were able piece twice today and each time it to latch onto a personal story brings a piece twice today and each time it and personal progression that made bringsa lump piece twice today and each time it brings a lump to my throat, because the topic of organ donation very human and it allowed people of the enormous generosity and humanity and the love that is shown to really empathise. in the act of organ donation says it it is not usual for recipients all, why we are so pleased this new and donors families to meet, but, law has come in. for myself, i amid all the publicity, the balls and thejohnsons the balls and thejohnsons wouldn t be here without an organ donation. i spent five years on scheme together, both dialysis. that is difficult when you have a young family and they re just now that the new legislation, now hope starting school and you have to the new legislation, known as max and carer s law, spend three days a week in hospital. will encourage other families to share their wishes if the thinkable should happen. i was never call ed for a it helps us massively with the grieving process to look at max and see the difference that our beautiful princess has given to max. to us, her life was not wasted. transplant, but my husband came forward. it has given me a whole new rogerjohnson, bbc news. lease of life and led to me working with the charity, kidney care uk and we are delighted to be able to see this historic day and i m please i m one and a half million of the uk s most vulnerable people have been shielding here to be here to see it. i since the start of the pandemic, staying at home in self isolation wouldn t be without organ donation. and avoiding contact with others. graham satchell has been catching up with holly, you were involved in all the who is shielding in scotland because of her severe asthma. conversations with the government, she has set up an online support the consultation about this law, so group, which now has more here we are, the day is here in than a thousand members. england and it already exists in i mightjust get started and make some lentil soup and be productive. wales and will come into force in holly has been locked down scotland, now it is here it seems on her own for almost two months. strange to imagine there was ever a things are starting to get quite difficult. just everyday is the same. different system that, still exists in northern ireland. is there an but it is important to just keep argument for saying this isn t the some goals or else, you know, right thing to do for anyone? so it is difficult to just get lost in the abyss. a wee helicopter, budgie, here. yes, i was very much involved in the conversation, going to government and getting patients to come to parliament to tell their story and you can hear how inspirational it is these pictures are from april to hear what giving an organ means. when we first met holly. the british public are very general and she has severe asthma, so like one and a half million people across the uk, she is shielding. it means total isolation. generous and many don t get around to putting their name down. through i am hoping that it is ok that the consultation we had very, very i have got simba here. pretty much the only positive things and of course everybody has a choice. even has the face to face company i have. right to go in and opt out for let is simba there? yes, actually, he is here. theirfamily know right to go in and opt out for let their family know they don t want to bea their family know they don t want to be a donor e or. but we heard this since april, holly and simba have been busy. positive support for the fact that a hi there, how are you feeling today? yeah, not too bad. how are you doing? law like this stands to save and holly is having an online change lives for now and for the chat with katie. future. and now that there is this change, does it mean there needs to what have you got planned today? together they are running a self help group for those who are shielding and it now has be an increase in capacity in the system, if i use that word about more than 1000 members. with more and more peoplejoining, something so sensitive, because when it has been good to have different somebody sadly passes away, medics perspectives from other people need to move quickly don t they? yes when we are going through the same they do. in fact part of our thing, it makes us feel campaign has been to say it is the a wee bit less alone. right thing to do, but it is not the i will now show you only thing to do. we need to inside my caravan. this is where i sleep. continue with the education of the katie has a number of health public, part of our conversation conditions and has been shielding today, but also our nhs has been in a caravan at her parents‘ house since march. she has also found stretched through the covid pandemic has caused a big impact on staff and the online group a godsend. resources . has caused a big impact on staff and resources. we want to see those it is nice to see that i am not the only one going through this. people are worried, they are having things start to build back up to to reach out for services because of their mental health. fulfil the wishes for organ donation and we will be watching that and being stuck indoors all day, working with the policy makers and it is not great having to stare the nhs to see how that works and to at the same four walls. i have been keeping myself really push for the success in it. busy, making ear savers for the carers in my area. well, thank you very much. the royal college of psychiatrists has warned that there could be a tsunami of mental health referrals as this pandemic continues. i know for some people it is going to be hard arise captain sir tom moore! seeing their families and friends going out and doing more the world war two veteran who s whilst we are stuck inside. raised nearly £33 million for nhs charities during the coronavirus as time moves forward pandemic has been awarded a knighthood. and restrictions lesson for other and restrictions lessen for other the 100 year old said he was overawed with the special parts of the united kingdom, nomination from the prime minister. i think people in the shielding category will need a lot more john maguire has spent support if they are going to stick the morning with him. happy birthday to you! to what they are being told to do.. his story has been a real light, a beacon of hope i am so pleased that he in these dark times. is still there, holly, it is lovely to have that with the country and much companionship, isn t it? yes, it is nice to have something of the world on lockdown, a familyjoke saw tom moore, there to, you know. who had served as a captain sorry. in the second world war, pledge to walk 100 laps of his garden to celebrate it is important to have something his 100 years of life. his aim was to raise £1000 for nhs there to get a bit of comfort from. charities after he had been so well treated following a fall. it was lovely speaking to you again today, katie. as well as simba, holly now has as the steps increased, a small army of virtual friends his story spread around the globe who are all helping each other. and his fundraising smashed keep your spirits up! all targets into oblivion. graham satchell, bbc news. many called for a knighthood, and now that target has also been reached. now it s time for a look at the weather with nick. i am still tom moore. i think sir tom sounds very nice, hello, plenty of sunshine, very warm out there today. but inside nothing has changed, temperatures in the hotspots nothing has changed inside. reaching into the upper 20s celsius. just a bit of low cloud close to some of the coast of northern ireland, south west scotland, and for shetland, it is grey, the great and be good have lined up misty and cool here. to thank and pay tribute to him, just gentle breezes and again, including those from two of his passions plenty of warmth in the sunshine. motor racing and cricket. a fine evening out there. 0vernight we are going to bring i just want to send a huge congratulations on this in an area of cloud and some outbreaks of rain incredible honour on being knighted. through northern ireland it is so well deserved. into western scotland, and reaching parts of wales what you have done in bringing and the western side of england by the end of the night. together a nation, inspiring so many and temperatures not going down too and helping those that really need far, as you might imagine. it most, honestly, if you look at this weather system i am in awe of you. for tomorrow and think, yes, i would like some rain on the garden. you made us want to or get up it has been driest across southern areas and there doesn t seem in the morning and turn our be much on the way. televisions on to see how much as it moves east, across all parts, you had raised and how there is a chance of some heavy far you had gone. an amazing effort and i think and thundery showers in the southern flank of that in hard, hard times, the country parts of the east midlands, needs something like that to inspire them. east anglia and south east england. so i think what you have achieved but that rain then clears goes way beyond the money. to allow plenty of sunshine as the afternoon goes on. if you look at every household, it is just a touch cooler tomorrow, but still very warm out there. everybody knows who sir tom is now. no surprise that captain sir tom is as busy as ever. he will continue walking. he will also continue fundraising, this time for his newly formed captain tom foundation. that will focus on three areas bereavement, loneliness and mental health. well, my wife was in hospital for so many years and was on her own and one day she said to me, she said, if you didn t come and see me, i would be lonely. and that broke my heart, because this was an outcry. the inner thoughts of people. and with her were so many people, mainly ladies who had been there for years and not a soul had ever came to see them. the honourfollows a personal this is bbc news recommendation from the prime minister and has been approved i m reeta chakrabarti, by the queen. building up to today s coronavirus briefing from the government. captain sir tom hopes the headlines. she will perform the investiture when they resume. borisjohnson says there s growing confidence the uk will have i am in hoping that by then a virus tracing system in place i will be able to walk properly, by the start of next month. otherwise i thought, how am i going to manage in a wheelchair? we will have a test, and how do i get down on one knee? track and trace operation that will be world beating and, because if i get down, yes, it will be in place, i cannot get up. it will be in place by the 1st ofjune. maybe the queen will reach the engineering giant rolls royce out her hand to give me a hand. announces 9,000 job cuts because of the impact of coronavirus. i doubt it. it is worth a thought, though, isn t it? with every step, every million, local councils urge every wise word delivered the government to reconsider with humility and humour, proposals to reopen primary schools in england next month, he is an inspiration and now because of concerns about safety. a knight of the realm. more nhs help for people arise, captain sir thomas moore. with diabetes, as a study finds the disease is linked to a third of coronavirus hospital deaths john maguire, bbc news, bedfordshire. now it s time for a look at the weather with nick miller. hello, plenty of sunshine, very warm out there today. temperatures in the hotspots reaching into the upper 20s celsius. just a bit of low cloud close to some of the coast of northern ireland, south west scotland, and for shetland, it is grey, misty and cold here. just gentle breezes and again, plenty of warmth in the sunshine. a fine evening out there. 0vernight we are going to bring in an area of cloud and some outbreaks of rain through northern ireland into western scotland, and reaching parts of wales and the western side of england by the end of the night. and temperatures not going down too far, as you might imagine. if you look at this weather system for tomorrow and think, i would like some rain on the garden. it has been driest across southern areas and there doesn t seem be much on the way. as it moves east, across all parts, there is a chance of some heavy and thundery showers in the southern flank of that part of the east midlands, east anglia and south east england. but that rain then clears to allow plenty of sunshine as the afternoon goes on. it is just a touch cooler tomorrow, but still very warm out there. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. borisjohnson says there s ‘growing confidence the uk will have a virus tracing system in place by the start of next month. we will have a test, track and trace operation that will be world beating and, yes, it will be in place, it will be in place byjune1st. the engineering giant rolls royce announces 9000 job cuts because of the impact of coronavirus. local councils urge the the government to reconsider proposals to reopen primary schools in england next month, because of concerns about safety. more nhs help for people with diabetes as a study finds the disease is linked to a third of coronavirus hospital deaths in england. and arise, captain sir tom moore the world war two veteran who s raised more than £30 million for the nhs is awarded a knighthood. we will talk about the test, track and trace system in a little while, but first he is the sport news. first here is the sport news. good afternoon. liverpool are back in training, as the premier league clubs continue to return for non contact sessions, with social distancing rules in place. the club tweeted, the boss and pep are back at melwood . and these are pictures from this morning s session at watford s training ground, a day after they returned three positive tests for covid 19, which included one player. most of the squad were there, but some players have opted to follow individual programmes at home while they wait for reassurances about the protocols involved in team training when it comes to the spread of the coronavirus. manager nigel pearson has stressed he won t force the group sessions on anyone who is uncomfortable. there were six positive tests in all among premier league clubs, burnley‘s assistant manager ian woan among them. that number from 748 tests is less than 1% and it s being seen as good news. however, it s accepted that protection from the virus cannot be guaranteed at the moment. as a medical person, my view on it is if you are looking for a completely risk free environment for football to return, it will not return in the near future. if you are looking for a sport to return with minimal risk, then i can t think of a sport that you are doing more to reduce the risk involved for them to be able to return to the sport. league one clubs have been meeting again this morning to try to come to an agreement over the rest of the season. as you d expect, the clubs aiming for promotion are keen to carry on playing including wycombe wanderers, who are outside the play off places only on goal difference. continuing the season from a competitive point of view, we were ready. the longer the time goes on now, the more difficult that s looking, both logistically and financially, and some of the clubs, you know, it s going to be a real wrench for them to continue, but as wycombe, we are ready for whatever is decided and we hope this is really soon. and women s super league and championship teams are assuming their seasons are over, according to sources at several clubs. manchester city were leading chelsea by one point at the top of the table when matches were halted. there ll be no final decisions until the clubs have given their views to the fa in a formal consultation process. it s understood the joint wsl and women s championship board would then decide how to determine final placings. some england cricketers will return to training tomorrow. up to 18 bowlers will take part in individual sessions at seven venues across the country. there will be a physio at each ground and social distancing rules in place these pictures are obviously from before the lockdown. batsmen and wicketkeepers will also be back in individual training from the 1st ofjune. around 30 players in total centrally contracted and from the county system will be invited to take part. there ll be no cricket in england or wales until at least the beginning ofjuly because of the pandemic. the president of french horse racing s governing body has reacted angrily to the news that some courses could be forced to close again. it was only nine days ago that the sport re started from behind closed doors, but government approval has been withdrawn from areas still affected by the coronavirus outbreak. they include paris and the east of the country, so next month s french 2,000 and 1,000 guineas could be moved from longchamp to deauville. edouard de rothschild of france galop said it was inexplicable and irrational . racing will be able to continue in normandy, the south and the west. it s been confirmed that the ridelondon festival of cycling has been cancelled. it was scheduled for the weekend of the 15th and 16th of august. as well as the four mass participation events planned, there were also two professional races organised. running for seven years, the festival has been credited with inspiring hundreds of thousands of people to take up cycling. more details on all of those stories on the bbc sport website, but is for now. the prime minister has said there is a growing confidence that the uk will have a test, track and trace operation in place byjune1st. borisjohnson said during prime minister s questions that the system will be world beating and there will be 25,000 trackers. he said this will help stop the disease from spreading and added that 211,000 tracers had already been recruited. hugh pennington is emeritus professor of bacteriology at aberdeen university. hello, good afternoon. hi, jane. what the make of this announcement? is there enough in place to have this up and running byjune the 1st, do you feel? time will tell. it has taken a long time. as for world beating, we have been beaten by several countries. we have been very slow, in my opinion, getting it going. but it is good news that we have a large number of contact traces. i hope they are properly trained before. but it is good news that we are moving along that way because it is essential if we are going to get anywhere near getting out of lockdown and opening schools, we have to have the system in place working. you will understand all of this so much better than me. can i just get some of the specifics? when the prime minister says, 211,000 traces have already been recruited, is that the right sort of number, is that what you would be looking at for a scheme that should be up and running ina for a scheme that should be up and running in a couple of weeks?m for a scheme that should be up and running in a couple of weeks? it is an absolute minimum number because it is really very labour intensive work. individuals have to talk to other individuals, even if i telephone, and i don t think we can rely on the app to do the work for everybody. it is what we used to call and still call shoe leather epidemiology. personal contact is very important and summary has to do the testing as well and i m not happy about leaving the testing to the people themselves. they may not stick the swab up their nose firmly enough and so on. there is a lot of work involved and this is done properly. this virus is a really tricky virus because it goes under the radar and many people don t have any symptoms, they have to be tested to make sure they are not people who are sparingly virus. but it is labour intensive. that number may turn out to not be enough. 0n the other hand, doing it on the scale for a virus, we haven t done it before, we do it on a smaller scale for other viruses and other bacteria. but we don t do it on this sort of scale nationwide. and there are different part of the country which have different degrees and problems. it will be very interesting to see how it works out in practice. we don t have the same number of traces per head of population in liverpool and manchester where the virus is still a bit busier than in london? where the virus has peaked a while ago. these are issues that it would be nice to hear the detail on before making any more comments on whether the numbers are enough. and the fact that you mentioned other countries have been doing it and started earlier, is your sense that we look and learn? we look at best practice from other countries and can draw countries from there? does that go on? i hope so. other countries have been quite successful in notjust getting the virus numbers down and getting the virus numbers down and getting the virus numbers down and getting the number of cases down, but virtually eliminating the virus. a good example is new zealand. they we re a good example is new zealand. they were lucky because they had a relatively small number of cases, but they arrived from the north and the south island and they had a very draconian lockdown. but they have managed to track cases and are very good at tracking cases in outbreaks. this virus is notjust happen across the population, it happens in particular settings where people gather together and the virus gets about ina gather together and the virus gets about in a . they have had weddings and the virus has spread there. other countries have done well, apart from countries like south korea and china itself. i think it is wrong to be sceptical about china. 0k, they were more draconian in some ways because of the nature of the logical system there, but we can learn lessons from how they did it too. it is so interesting, the international comparisons, and you mentioned new zealand. now, how fair a comparisons, and you mentioned new zealand. now, how faira comparison is that? by which i mean, look at the massive difference in population. more people live in london than live in the whole of new zealand. is it just london than live in the whole of new zealand. is itjust a little bit easier to do their because of their relatively small chelation? absolutely. relatively small chelation? absolutely. their relatively small population. they took it absolutely seriously. and they took it s easy to eradicate the virus and get rid of it altogether. they took it seriously. they have a good health system and the communication has been very good. watching the prime minister at her press conferences and so on, it is quite instructive how you get the message across to the public to follow the kind of public health advice that is being given in a very. and new zealand, they are not soft people. they would resist anything that they regard as being silly as much as any other country in the world. you have to get them onside, which is what has happened in new zealand. likewise, china, wuhan where the virus started, has a population bigger london, and they have managed to sort it out there too. although with the caveat that they can do things that we just wouldn t dream of doing and they have cut wuhan from the rest of the country and all that kind of thing. but there are lessons to be learned from all of these international examples as to how to do this contact tracing, hunting the virus down, that is what is. if you want any hunting analogy, where you hunt it down and i suppose hunting is a bit unfashionable, but you stop the virus spreading by putting the people who are infectious, basically, into self isolation for a week or a couple of weeks. and by that time, the virus has gone away. really interesting to talk to you. thank you very much, professor hugh pennington. the nhs is to offer more help to people living with diabetes, after a study found the disease was linked to a third of coronavirus deaths in english hospitals. there will be video consultations with medics, a new helpline and weight loss programmes after clinicians found that higher blood sugar levels and obesity increase the risk of dying from covid 19. 0ur health correspondent dominic hughes reports. living with diabetes is hard at the best of times, but forjanet carroll, who has type two diabetes, coping with the fear of covid 19 is adding an extra level of stress. i am not sleeping of a night, i am restless, and just not going out. it is like being in a stephen king novel at the moment. it is frightening, it really, really is. janet s concerns are reflected in a new study indicating diabetics are at increased risk of death from covid 19. this applies to type one, which most often develops in childhood, and type two, which affects mostly old people and is associated with weight gain, poor diet and a lack of exercise. but while high blood sugar levels and obesity add to the risk, age is far and away the biggest risk factor. older people are more likely to die of the infection. age is the dominant, dominant factor here. so actually, people with either type one or type two diabetes below the age of a0 are at very low risk. and over the period of time that we have studied, we didn t any recorded deaths in people with type one diabetes or indeed type two diabetes below the age of 20. the charity diabetes uk says that as we begin to cautiously resume our lives, people living with the condition want to know how they can protect themselves. as lockdown eases, more people moving back to work, it is important that the government looks at the data and uses this evidence to drive its guidance and policies around how people with diabetes can stay safe, whether that is at work or at home. and equally what is important is that people continue to get all the advice and support they need. the nhs in england is encouraging diabetics to stay on top of their condition using video consultations with medics, a new nhs helpline and weight loss programmes. meanwhile, medical experts are looking at whether the risks for those who have diabetes are so great they should consider shielding themselves like other vulnerable groups. but the isolation that could cause could lead to more harm than good. dominic hughes, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news. borisjohnson says there s ‘growing confidence the uk will have a virus tracing system in place by the start of next month. the engineering giant rolls royce announces 9000 job cuts because of the impact of coronavirus. local councils urge the the government to reconsider proposals to reopen primary schools in england next month, because of concerns about safety. for some days, brazil has made headlines for its steady increase in daily deaths and infections. it is now seeing a sharp escalation of the pandemic, with officials reporting more than 1000 coronavirus related deaths on tuesday the first time that s happened. nearly 18,000 people have died in brazil because of the disease. with more details, here s david campa nale. graves freshly dug in brazil s largest city, sao paulo. but they have been made ready for a reason. in the past 2a hours, two grim milestones have been passed not only the most number of deaths, but also the highest number of confirmed new infections. with over a quarter of a million people with the coronavirus, only the united states and russia have recorded higher numbers of cases. it s a disease clearly not under control. the trajectory of recorded deaths is heading sharply upwards, and experts say insufficient testing might mean the real infection rate could be 15 times higher. translation: we are losing the battle against the virus, that is the reality. the virus at this moment is winning the war. these days coming up to the holidays, i don t see them as holidays, but i see them as battle days, the most important days in the fight against the virus. the country s right wing president, jair bolsonaro, has dismissed the risks and compared covid 19 to a little flu. despite the deaths, he still has support for his strategy of opposing lockdowns, including among those outside his presidential palace chanting chloroquine , the name of an antimalarial medication that the brazilian leader claims can be used against coronavirus. it now looks like the president will finally have his way on the drug, helped by his new interim health minister and army general, happy to take orders from his boss. president bolsonaro says a new protocol will be signed which widens the use of the drug beyond just critical patients. this despite there being no evidence yet that it helps treat or prevent covid 19. he isn t the only leader in the americas praising its theoretical use, but the trend of deaths and infections are facts that can t be argued with. donald trump says he is now looking at closing us borders to travellers from brazil. let s talk about something com pletely let s talk about something completely different for a few minutes. eight inspirational young people from across the uk are being recognised with rotary young citizen awards this week. throughout the week we ll be talking to all the winners all of whom are under 25, and have been singled out for their outstanding contribution to their communities. this year s awards include the first ever rotary young citizen sporting hero award. that is going to 14 year old will sears. will has been a keen sailor since the age of ten, but last april, suffered a stroke and as a result, now has epilepsy. but despite this, he has been determined to get back to competing in sailing championships. willjoins us now from bournemouth. hello, will, hi. hi. congratulations on your award and i are assuming thatis on your award and i are assuming that is yours behind you, so explain what you sale and where you sail it. this is my boat doris. it is an rs terror and i have been saving it for about two years. i sale it all around europe basically. all around europe? my goodness. i gather once you fell ill, some people suggested that you may not be able to sail any more and it would be very it sounds like you persuaded a lot of people and prove them wrong. explain exactly what you did. you have been beating at a high level, haven t you? yes. what have you been competing in? it i have been competing in? it i have been competing in? it i have been competing in the national and international championships. with help from salability, my roald dahl nurse, cat, and my sailing club in christchurch. that is down in dorset. where are the competitions and ready saletells all about it.|j have been out sailing in sweden and when i was there, they were about 100 competitors and icom overall, came aath. even though i did have a seizure on the second day. and overall. that is absolutely remarkable. that is one of the reasons that you were nominated for this award. what did you think when you heard that you had been given this award? i was really overwhelmed and humbled to have been chosen. i am really grateful to the school for nominating me and the rotary club in christchurch. what is next for you? what is the next challenge? my next challenge is to go to germany for the world championships next year. and when people sometimes say to you, take it easy, don t overdo it, you, take it easy, don t overdo it, you have got a lot to content with, ta ke you have got a lot to content with, take things gently, what do you say to people like that? this is clearly your passion, isn t it? yes, ijust say i have got it for life, it is my passion and i want to continue following it. good for you. quite right too. brilliant. that is so lovely and sorry we cannot speak a little bit longer. many congratulations and keep up the amazing work out on water. thank you very much indeed. we ll come to us from bournemouth. could be a lot more to come from him in the years to come. today could be the hottest day of the year, with temperatures possibly touching 28 degrees in some parts of the uk. 0ur colleague sarah is in weston super mare. i don t want to rub this in, sarah, but the last timei rub this in, sarah, but the last time i spoke to viewer on a lovely beach as well. you are doing something right and i am something wrong! it is beach day! we cannot manage the 28 degrees here, but we are round about 23 degrees. i had a quick look earlier and we do appear to be about the same as the south of france and slightly warmer than venice, so i am not complaining. the nice weather has certainly brought people out here in spite of these restrictions that are still enforced. the esplanade here and on the beach, well, the people have ditched their coats and picked out t shirts, shorts and some have even brought swimming suits out. if you look at the beach at the moment and at the grand appear, you can see the beachis at the grand appear, you can see the beach is really busy at the moment and people are trying to socially distance and have got various bits and pieces. we have girls here sunbathing and have been sunbathing all day. if you look at the grand, the grand is completely shut. this is one of the main attractions and is one of the main attractions and is completely shut. you would normally have thousands of visitors on there and enjoying the odd ice cream or two. some of the concessions along the esplanade here are open. the fish and chip shop is open for takeaway only, lots of people have wondered by with ice creams this afternoon and you can obviously get hold of some of those. and authorities are welcoming day trippers and can travel a couple of hours and enjoy the beach and go home. they say there is nothing here or nowhere here to stay. in fact, as we talked about last week, none of the facilities in terms of toilets and that sort of thing, none of those are open either. the authorities here are saying, do come if you conform away again at the end of the day. bear in mind there are no facilities open. but if you are thinking and thinking about staying here. don t do that, none of them are open. when they are open, they will welcome you back here with open arms. lovely to see the sun, but thank you very much, sarah. wise words. day trippers only, that is the advice from tourism bosses for now and of course, nice there it is to look at the beach, we still have to look at the beach, we still have to social distance. now it s time for a look at the weather. hello, another one day to day. tempered is boosted by the sunshine. here is a view from surrey earlier from an actually named aptly named weather watcher. not a record to four may, 29 degrees. temperatures are high could be recorded in parts of yorkshire, east midlands, east anglia as well as south east england. we have a flow of warm aircoming south east england. we have a flow of warm air coming our way from the south and plenty of sunshine. a sunny afternoon across northern england, northern ireland and scotla nd england, northern ireland and scotland than we have had recently. some cloud may be hugging some of the eastern coast of northern ireland, south west scotland and it is grey and misty across shetland, holding temperatures down here. further west in over round it could get to 22 and 2a in scotland. high temperature and wales. which is not the only thing that is high, uv levels as well. that means to take ca re levels as well. that means to take care in the strong may sunshine. a fine, very warm evening and for most it will be dry overnight. we do have a weather system coming from northern ireland and into scotland and parts of wales and west and england with patchy rain as the night goes on into the morning. if you look at that and think you would like some rain on the garden, especially in the driest parts in the south, there isn t much rain tomorrow, but there is a chance in the late morning that east anglia, east midlands, heavy and funder showers before the chance of that donations during the afternoon and most of us in the day were some sunshine again. it is cooler, but still very warm. there is a more active weather system coming in on friday night and then we see the winds pick up a lady area of low pressure and a boundary pushing across the uk. not much at all for those gardens in the south of the uk. heavy downfalls into northern ireland and scotland in the west and showers for wales and western parts of england with strong gale force wind is. these are some of the gusts, and parts of scotland will have 60 to 65 mph gusts. saturday is pretty much a repeat performance of friday and sunday we could still see a bit of rain in scotland in particular. but some others are turning dry on sunday and into next week, it looks to be turning a bit warmer again. this is bbc news, i mjane hill. the headlines: borisjohnson says there s ‘growing confidence the uk will have a virus tracing system in place by the start of next month. we will have a test, track and trace operation that will be world beating and, yes, it will be in place, it will be in place byjune1st. the engineering giant rolls royce announces 9,000 job cuts, because of the impact of coronavirus. local councils urge the government to reconsider proposals to reopen primary schools in england next month, because of concerns about safety. more nhs help for people with diabetes, as a study finds the disease is linked to a third of coronavirus hospital deaths in england. and arise captain sir tom moore the world war two veteran who s raised more than 30 million for the nhs is awarded a knighthood. good afternoon. the prime minister has said there is a growing confidence that the uk will have a test, track and trace operation in place by next month. borisjohnson said during prime minister s questions that the system will be world beating and there will be 25,000 trackers. he said this will help stop the disease from spreading and added that 211,000 tracers had already been recruited. let s look at the government s approach to testing and tracing so far. on 12th march, the government moved away from community tests and contact tracing on 12th march, as ministers decided to focus testing on patients with suspected coronavirus in hospitals, care homes and prisons. on 26th march, england deputy chief medical 0fficerjenny haries said at the daily briefing that although the government still carried out some contact tracing and testing, in high risk areas like prisons and care homes, that is not an appropriate mechanism. a contact tracing app was piloted on the isle of wight on 8th may. it s understood that more than 60,000 people downloaded and used the app. health secretary matt hancok says that the app is due to be rolled out nationally within the next few weeks. and as we ve heard, today the prime minister announced in the commons that a test, track and track system will be in place by 1stjune. labour leader sir keir starmer pressed borisjohnson in the commons about the lack track and tracing since the middle of march, but the prime minister insisted the new system would be effective. we have growing confidence that we will have a test, track and trace operation that will be world beating. and yes, it will be in place, it will be in place byjune the 1st. and to repeat the figure, since he has invited me to do so, they will be 25,000 trackers and they will be able to cope with 10,000 new cases a day. that is very very important. because new cases currently are running at around 2500 a day. they will be able to trace the contacts of those new cases and to stop the disease spreading. and what i hope very much is that notwithstanding the occasional difficulty of these exchanges, and i totally appreciate the role that he has to fulfil, that he will support us as we go forward, that he will be positive about this test track and trace operation and that we can work together to use it to take our country forward. that is what i think the people of this country want to see. let s cross to our political correspondentjessica parker in westminster. interesting that the prime minister mentioned the day of 1stjune, because of course this is the date that people are talking about for some schools possibly to re open. is there a link there? i think there is almost certainly a link there, june 1st, the date the government put forward for some years within primary school to possibly seeing a staggered return, so receptions and yea rs one staggered return, so receptions and years one and six. but we have seen a number of councils in england, because it is just applying to england, raising concerns about whether that is too soon and unions representing teachers have been raising a safety issue and one key question is whether a proper testing regime will be in place for the return of some primary schools in england. boris johnson making return of some primary schools in england. borisjohnson making this announcement today that there will bea announcement today that there will be a system up and running onjune 1st. what will the system be? it is important to distinguish between the fa ct important to distinguish between the fact you have this army of contact tracers and you have the nhs app and borisjohnson outlining figures saying there would be 25,000 contact tracers in place and they will be able to do 10,000 a day. in terms of app that is being trialled on the isle of wight, ministers have been less clear about when that will be rolled out nationwide. you could see the contact tracers in place byjune 1st and the app later. there will be of course pressure on the government and the ministers to make sure whatever the system is that it works effectively, provides that reassurance that some people want to see, in order to see schools return. all right, thank you very much for now. we will be speaking about schools specifically in the next couple of minutes. hugh pennington is emeritus professor of bacteriology at aberdeen university. he gave me his reaction to boris johnson s announcement. it s taken a long time, as to world beating, well, we have been beaten by a few other countries by having such a system running. we have been slow getting it running. but it is good news we have that large number of contact tracers. i hope they re properly trained before the end of the month. it is good news that we re moving that way, because it is essential if we re going to get anywhere near ending lock downs and opening schools, we have to have the system in place and working. you will understand all of this so much better than me, can i try and get, in terms of specifics, when the prime minister says 211,000 tracers have been recruited, is that the right sort of number that you would be looking at? it is a minimum number. it is labour intensive work, individuals have to talk to other individuals, even by telephone, i don t think we can rely on the app to do all the work. it is what we used to call, or still call shoe leather epidemiology and somebody has to do the testing as well and i m not happy about leaving the testing to the people themselves, because they may not stick the swab up because they may not stick the swab up their nose firmly enough and so on. there is a lot of work involved and unless it is done properly, we will miss cases, because the virus isa will miss cases, because the virus is a tricky one, it goes under the radar, many people don t have symptoms and they have to be tested to make sure they re not spreading the virus. it is very labour intensive. that number may turn out not to be enough. but doing on it on this scale for a virus, we have never done it before. we do it ona have never done it before. we do it on a smaller scale for other viruses and other bacteria, but we don t do it on this sort of scale nationwide. hugh pennington there. the government has said it remains committed to children returning to school as soon as possible, despite a number of english councils expressing safety concerns about plans to reopen primary schools at the start of next month. ministers are coming under pressure to reconsider proposals to reopen schools to some pupils from 1st june. 0ur education correspondent elaine dunkley reports. the government says partially reopening schools in england is about taking small steps in lifting the coronavirus lockdown, but there is growing opposition from some councils across england over safety concerns. there are a lot of practical problems for schools in getting ready for this and the time scale is very tight. but our main concerns and the reason we have given the advice we have to our schools, is that we are not yet convinced that the government s five test are met. firstly particularly in terms the of the falling in the rate of infections in the community, and you will be aware there has been discussions that suggest the infection rate is higher in the north than london. the plan to re open schools to children in reception, year one and year six on the first ofjune only applies to england. the government says it is scientifically safe for schools to reopen and has issued guidance. other parts of the uk will continue to keep schools closed. it really depends on the view of employers, a lot of councils are direct employers of teaching staff. their views are clearly important and i am not going to sit here and pretend suddenly on 1st june everything will be uniform, i don t know. it is my hope, but these conversations need to continue and we need to listen carefully to the concerns of employers and staff. liverpool, bury and hartlepool are some of the councils that won t direct schools to re open from 1stjune. others have written to parents saying it might not be possible for all primary schools to open. if for some reason the school did want to continue to open, when the local authority was advising not to, it would need to be very clear about its reasons for that decision, why had they come to a different decision from the local authority. schools have become a sticking point for the government. it was meant to be a national plan to get children in england back in the classrooms, but the decision on whether to re open is likely to be taken at a local level. elaine dunkley, bbc news. leeds city council have said it will be impossible for all schools in the city to adhere to the government s timetable of reopening byjune1st. jonathan pryor is the council s executive member for learning, hejoins me now. good afternoon. good afternoon. you are saying not all schools could manage it by that date, that was made said before borisjohnson talked about tracking and tracing by the start ofjune, does that announcement change anything for you? i think it could potentially change things if that comes to fruition. but what we have seen from the government, they make announcements about where they are with a number of things and those announcements don t come to fruition when the date comes. so frankly i will believe it when i see it. when the date comes. so frankly i will believe it when i see itm you and fellow council members had confidence that was really going to happen and that was going to be a way of keeping tabs on who has coronavirus and therefore keeping other safe, would you then say to head teachers, do you know what, children need to go back to school, they have been out too long, do your best to re open onjune1st. they have been out too long, do your best to re open onjune 1st.|j they have been out too long, do your best to re-open on june 1st. i still think there would be factors that head teachers need to take into account. 0ne head teachers need to take into account. one thing we have said to head teachers is they all have different cohorts of pupils and teachers who may be shielding, because of preexisting conditions they may have. all schools have different layouts and their agent so social distancing is different. so it would be treat to have tracking and tracing in place, there are a huge number of factors that are individual to each school. so i think the blanket approach does not work at all. so, but some will. do you think some could? 0n work at all. so, but some will. do you think some could? on that date? potentially, there is a chance that some schools may want to begin the ball rolling on it. from a lot of schools i have spoken to, i don t think it will be a huge number and not as much as the government wouldn t. we want to get children back to school as soon as is safely possible. but that is the key, when it is satisfactorily possible. the government choosing an arbitrary did does not help. what are head teachers saying to you, what are their concerns why they say we can t meet that deadline. two examples in leeds, one primary school, where every class roo m leeds, one primary school, where every classroom can be accessed from outdoors and every class of 15, as the government said, can queue up outside to eper the. there is another school down the road where there is one entrance to the school and the school is on a busy road with a pavement and you would have the entire school queueing outside. that is not practical. those differences between schools shows that the government have not thought it through. we say to heads, we trust yourjudgment, it through. we say to heads, we trust your judgment, if you re it through. we say to heads, we trust yourjudgment, if you re not ready to open on 1stjune, then don t. we are not putting any pressure on them to open and a lot of schools will be pushing that further back. so the example of the school that you gave where it might be possible, because it opens out, there is a door opening out, are you encouraging those schools to try to come back? because children have been off for a very long time now haven t they, that is vital education and such social interaction with kids of their own age. they have, but that social distancing is just one factor that schools need to consider. they need to consider also their staffing levels, for the protection of vulnerable staff and to factor in the testing and tracing and over all asa the testing and tracing and over all as a country we need to reach a point where we have a lower in febgs level and a infection level. point where we have a lower in febgs level and a infection level. how worried are you about children and how long they re going without education? hugely worried of course. but it is important to remember that schools have been open in the past two months, looking after vulnerable children and the children of key workers and children are still working from home and doing a lot of pastoral work and it is not the same as being in school of course, but children s safety is important, not just their education. thank you. the headlines on bbc news: borisjohnson says there s ‘growing confidence the uk will have a virus tracing system in place by the start of next month. the engineering giant rolls royce announces 9,000 job cuts, because of the impact of coronavirus. local councils urge the government to reconsider proposals to reopen primary schools in england next month, because of concerns about safety. the engineering giant, rolls royce, is to cut 9,000 jobs almost a fifth of its workforce because of the impact of coronavirus on the aviation industry. the firm says it s consulting with unions about where the jobs will go and whether factories need to close, but many of the job cuts are expected to be in the uk. our business correspondent simon gompertz reports. engines powering airbus and boeing planes a pinnacle of british manufacturing, now in crisis because the planes themselves aren t flying. thejobs, many in derby, are some of the most skilled and highly prized. though this is an international company, the heaviest blow will fall here. here in derby we understand this is a very difficult day, it is a very difficult day for our employees all around the world. but we need to get on and do this now because it is about creating a sustainable business for the future, so that ultimately we can protect the jobs that we will have left as a result of this. derby has most of the civil aviation jobs which are in peril, including hundreds of apprentices and graduate trainees. unions expect nearly 31100 uk jobs to be cut here this year, with thousands more to be cut later. the rolls royce workshops of derby have been producing record breaking engines for nearly 40 years. britain has been a pioneer in building planes and engines. ever since, rolls royce has been a linchpin of engineering here. the company says it has been through lean times before, lostjobs and won them back again. there has never been anything like this. thousands of planes parked up around the world because of coronavirus, and no need for replacements. you cannot make money if you cannot sell the engines. and the crucial after sales service is badly affected. even so, unions say the surgery is too much. they have been very happy to take the government s money to furlough thousands of workers at rolls royce. we won t simply allow them to walk away when the going gets tough. we need to stand together as a nation and think about what sort of economy we want and what sort of role companies like rolls royce can play in that economy. we need the government to step up and understand that, of course, with long term support for our industry and aviation. there is a big defence business which has been doing well the company say some affected staff may be able to move across. but this huge retrenchment from rolls royce is a warning that the impact of this virus on jobs could be even deeper and longer lasting than feared. simon gompertz, bbc news. the uk s rate of inflation has fallen to its lowest level for nearly four years, due to a slump in fuel costs and energy prices. data from the office for national statistics showed inflation at 0.8% for april compared with one and a half percent for march. marks & spencer has reported a 21% fall in its annual profits. m&s saw an improvement in its food business but profits dropped by more than a third in its clothing and home sectors. the retailer told investors that it had taken a £52 million hit to profits because of coronavirus. the government has confirmed there will be new checks on some goods entering northern ireland from the rest of the uk as part of the brexit deal. the details are contained in uk proposals for implementing the ni part of the brexit deal. let s get some more detailfrom our ireland correspondent chris page. people watching might have also forgotten about this, but explain therefore what we are learning today? i m sure we re learning something, but i think chris is probably having a little trouble hearing us. i will try again. what do we know about these brexit developments? now let s i think we can hear chris. this is a little peculiar, i m told there is a very big delay on the line and that may be the problem. chris, i don t know why it is so large, but explain then what is being said about goods into northern ireland from the rest of the uk? yes, that s right, northern ireland seemed in many ways to be the most difficult issue to work out in the brexit process, the objective of all sides was to keep the land border between northern ireland and the irish republic open, but that raised the possibility of checks. in the proposal it is government have published today, they are saying there will be some checks on goods moving a across the irish sea, because northern ireland, under the terms of brexit deal, will continue to follow some eu rules on goods and food products. some infrastructure will be expanded, particularly at belfast port and at larne parts in cou nty belfast port and at larne parts in county antrim to facilitate checks on goods. what the government is stressing is the checks will be kept toa minimum stressing is the checks will be kept to a minimum and there will be u nfetterred to a minimum and there will be unfetterred access, that is the key phrase ministers have been using, for businesses in northern ireland to the markets in the uk. now, the reason why they are emphasising that point is that unionists find any notion of checks, separation, placing of trade barriers between northern ireland and the rest of the uk to be very difficult. sammy wilson in the house of commons told michael gove the cabinet minister outlining the plans that the withdrawal agreement with separation of northern ireland from england, scotla nd of northern ireland from england, scotland and wales would be offensive to unionists. but the dup, which is northern ireland s largest unionist party, have given a cautious welcome to some of the government s commitments in the plan, for the commitment of u nfetterred plan, for the commitment of unfetterred access of northern ireland businesses to the uk and that there will be no customs checks within the uk s internal market and northern ireland will benefit from trade deal it is uk strikes and brexit. arlene foster said the government must make the foundational principles unmovable. so unionsts keen to keep up the pressure. for irish nationalists, their concern is to protect the economy of the the island of ireland and sinn fein have said that there is no such thing as a good brexit for any part of ireland, but anything that can be done within the framework, within the trade negotiations going on between the uk and the eu need to protect the whole island of ireland as an economic unit. these issues, while they haven t been in the headlines in the past few months are still there and we with connect to see the intensity of the talks, the intensity of focus on these issues connected with northern ireland and its economy and as some would see it, its status within the uk as we build up to the end of the year and the idea is that the northern ireland protocol, the pa rt the northern ireland protocol, the part of brexit deal relating to northern ireland, will come in in january, whether there is a free trade deal between the uk and the eu. thank you, chris. got there in the end! the nhs is to offer more help to people living with diabetes, after a study found the disease was linked to a third of coronavirus deaths in english hospitals. there will be video consultations with medics, a new helpline and weight loss programmes after clinicians found that higher blood sugar levels and obesity increase the risk of dying from covid 19. 0ur health correspondent dominic hughes reports. living with diabetes is hard at the best of times. but forjanet caroll, who has type 2 diabetes, coping with the fear of covid 19 is adding an extra level of stress. not sleeping on a night, restless, and just dare not go out. it s like being in a stephen king novel at the moment. it s frightening. it really, really is. janet s concerns are reflected in a new study indicating diabetics are at increased risk of death from covid 19. this applies to type 1, which most often develops in childhood, and type 2, which affects mostly older people, and is associated with weight gain, a poor diet, and a lack of exercise. but while high blood sugar levels and obesity add to the risk, age is far and away the biggest risk factor. older people are more likely to die of the infection. age is the dominant, dominant factor here. so actually people with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes below the age of 40 are at very low risk. and over the period of time that we studied, we did not see any recorded deaths in people with type 1 diabetes or indeed type 2 diabetes below the age of 20. the charity diabetes uk says that as we begin to cautiously resume our lives, people living with the condition want to know how they can protect themselves. as lockdown eases, more people moving back to work, it is important that government looks at this data and continues to use this evidence to drive its guidance and to drive its policies around how people with diabetes can stay safe, whether that is at work or whether that is at home. and equally what is important is that people continue to get all the advice and support they need. the nhs in england is encouraging diabetics to stay on top of their condition, using video consultations with medics, a new nhs helpline and weight loss programmes. meanwhile, medical experts are looking at whether the risks for those who have diabetes are so great they should consider shielding themselves like other vulnerable groups. but the isolation that would cause could lead to more harm than good. dominic hughes, bbc news. arise captain sir tom moore! the world war two veteran who s raised nearly £33 million for nhs charities during the coronavirus pandemic has been awarded a knighthood. the 100 year old said he was overawed with the special nomination from the prime minister. john maguire has spent the morning with him. happy birthday to you! his story has been a real light, a beacon of hope in these dark times. with the country and much of the world on lockdown, a familyjoke saw tom moore, who had served as a captain in the second world war, pledge to walk 100 laps of his garden to celebrate his 100 years of life. his aim was to raise £1,000 for nhs charities after he had been so well treated following a fall. as the steps increased, his story spread around the globe and his fundraising smashed all targets into oblivion. many called for a knighthood, and now that target has also been reached. i am still tom moore. i think sir thomas sounds very nice, but inside nothing has changed, nothing has changed inside. the great and be good have lined up to thank and pay tribute to him, including those from two of his passions motor racing and cricket. ijust want to send a huge congratulations on this incredible honour on being knighted. it is so well deserved. what you have done in bringing together a nation, inspiring so many and helping those that really need it most, honestly, i am in awe of you. you made us want to or get up in the morning and turn our televisions on to see how much you had raised and how far you had gone. an amazing effort and i think in hard, hard times, the country needs something like that to inspire them. so i think what you have achieved goes way beyond the money. if you look at every household, everybody knows who sir tom is now. no surprise that captain sir tom is as busy as ever. he will continue walking. he will also continue fundraising, this time for his newly formed captain tom foundation. that will focus on three areas bereavement, loneliness and mental health. well, my wife was in hospital for so many years and was on her own and one day she said to me, she said, if you didn t come and see me, i would be lonely. and that broke my heart, because this was an outcry. the inner thoughts of people. and with her were so many people, mainly ladies who had been there for years and not a soul had ever came to see them. the honourfollows a personal recommendation from the prime minister and has been approved by the queen. captain sir tom hopes she will perform the investiture when they resume. i am in hoping that by then i will be able to walk properly, otherwise i thought, how am i going to manage in a wheelchair? and how do i get down on one knee? because if i get down, i cannot get up. maybe the queen will reach out her hand to give me a hand. i doubt it. it is worth a thought, though, isn t it? with every step, every million, every wise word delivered with humility and humour, he is an inspiration and now a knight of the realm. arise, captain sir thomas moore. john maguire, bbc news, bedfordshire. week, it looks to be turning a bit warmer again. congratulations to him again. now it s time for a look at the weather with nick miller. hello, plenty of sunshine, very warm out there today. temperatures in the hotspots reaching into the upper 20s celsius. just a bit of low cloud close to some of the coast of northern ireland, south west scotland, and for shetland, it is grey, misty and cool here. just gentle breezes and again, plenty of warmth in the sunshine. a fine evening out there. 0vernight we are going to bring in an area of cloud and some outbreaks of rain through northern ireland into western scotland, and reaching parts of wales and the western side of england by the end of the night. and temperatures not going down too far, as you might imagine. if you look at this weather system for tomorrow and think, yes, i would like some rain on the garden. it has been driest across southern areas and there doesn t seem be much on the way. as it moves east, across all parts, there is a chance of some heavy and thundery showers in the southern flank of that parts of the east midlands, east anglia and south east england. but that rain then clears to allow plenty of sunshine as the afternoon goes on. it is just a touch cooler tomorrow, but still very warm out there. hello this is bbc news. the headlines. borisjohnson says there s ‘growing confidence the uk will have a virus tracing system in place by the start of next month. we will have a test, track and trace operation that will be world beating and, yes, it will be in place, it will be in place byjune1st. the engineering giant rolls royce announces 9,000 job cuts because of the impact of coronavirus. local councils urge the the government to reconsider proposals to reopen primary schools in england next month, because of concerns about safety. more nhs help for people with diabetes, as a study finds the disease is linked to a third of coronavirus hospital deaths in england. and arise, captain sir tom moore the world war two veteran who s raised more than £30 million for the nhs is awarded a knighthood. more about schools and whether they can reopen, but right now it is time for the sports news with jane. good afternoon. liverpool are back in training, as the premier league clubs continue to return for non contact sessions, with social distancing rules in place. the club tweeted, the boss and assistant manager pep linders are back at melwood . and these are pictures from this morning s session at watford s training ground, a day after they returned three positive tests for covid 19, which included one player. most of the squad were there but some players have opted to follow individual programmes at home, while they wait for reassurances about the protocols involved in team training when it comes to the spread of the coronavirus. manager nigel pearson has stressed he won t force the group sessions on anyone who is uncomfortable. there were six positive tests in all among premier league clubs, burnley‘s assistant manager ian woan among them. that number from 748 tests is less than 1% and it s being seen as good news. however, it s accepted that protection from the virus cannot be guaranteed at the moment. as a medical person, my view on it is if you are looking for a completely risk free environment for football to return, it will not return in the near future. if you are looking for a sport to return with minimal risk, then i can t think of a sport that s doing more to reduce the risk involved for them to be able to return to the sport. well, despite those reassurances, wigan s 2013 fa cup winning captain emmerson boyce says he can completely understand why some players are reluctant to return to training. he also fears there is still a real danger of catching covid 19. we know how you catch it, we don t know the long lasting, if there is going to be a second way. there are still lots of questions that need to be answered regarding the government s side of it and all of the testing. so you know, from the virus of this, it can shut down the whole world. that is how serious this virus is. asking footballers to go back is a tough one, because football is a contact sport and i think there will be a lot of opportunities and chances for people to catch it. so we are in a risky situation. women s super league and championship teams are assuming their seasons are over, according to sources at several clubs. manchester city were leading chelsea by one point at the top of the table when matches were halted. there ll be no final decisions until the clubs have given their views to the fa in a formal consultation process. it s understood the joint wsl and women s championship board would then decide how to determine final placings. some england cricketers will return to training tomorrow. up to 18 bowlers will take part in individual sessions at seven venues across the country. there will be a physio at each ground and social distancing rules in place these pictures are obviously from before the lockdown. batsmen and wicketkeepers will also be back in individual training from the 1st ofjune. around 30 players in total centrally contracted and from the county system will be invited to take part. there ll be no cricket in england or wales until at least the beginning ofjuly because of the pandemic. it s been confirmed that the ridelondon festival of cycling has been cancelled. it was scheduled for the weekend of the 15th and 16th of august. as well as the four mass participation events planned, there were also two professional races organised. running for seven years, the festival has been credited with inspiring hundreds of thousands of people to take up cycling. that s all the sport for now. i ll have more for you in the next hour. let s talk a little more about schools. let s talk a little more about schools. the government has said it remains committed to children returning to school as soon as possible, despite a number of english councils expressing safety concerns about plans to reopen primary schools at the start of next month. ministers are coming under pressure to reconsider proposals to reopen schools to some pupils from first june. as we have been hearing, a lot of people aren t happy at all about the possible safety implications. michelle cooke is a child behavioural specialist and the co founder of purple parenting, an organisation which provide support and advice to families. shejoins me now. michelle, hello, good afternoon.- there. children have been out of school for a long time now. that s a big gap in their education, they are seeing theirfriends, not physically, what is your take on when the right time is to get them back to some sort of normality?” think as soon as possible. i question whether the 1st of june think as soon as possible. i question whether the 1st ofjune is a bit soon, just because it doesn t feel like there is enough in place to fully say that children would be safe going back. but more about that kind of emotional side for me is securely given the years that are going back first. it is how they will make sense of what school will then become. how very different it is going to be. how they will manage to be able to socially distance. and i know that it is not clear what that will mean yet, within a classroom, but for children, particularly reception and year one, they are just so tactile and neat cuddles and to socialise with their friends. it is about sharing and everything else. they need cuddles. that will be difficult to do in cuddles. that will be difficult to doina cuddles. that will be difficult to do in a classroom environment. do you mean it would be slightly easier to do for older children and it is back to front? should older children be going back to school before the very little ones you are talking about? i wonder whether it would be, to be honest. they would have more understanding of what would be expected of them and they are just more able to follow and understand those rules, really. if social distancing has to be in place for a very very long time, though, we are a long way off having a vaccine, there may be some parents watching thinking, oh my goodness, we cannot wait for ever, and i am desperately could see a back to school. when is the right time? how does anybody know? i certainly don t know. i think we have to be guided by places that are already starting to get children back to school and looking at how that is working, what is working well and how they can bring that in here. i think at the moment it is just that there are so many unknowns and a lot of parents are very anxious. do not get me wrong, i would love for schools to be open and to go out and see children and i would love to get them back in and be really enjoying all of that social side of it and learning that they get through school. but i think a lot of parents are very anxious about how that is done in a way that can support safety issues and also meet those emotional needs to make sure that children understand what is happening, how they can make sense of it and be able to get on board with sense of it and be able to get on boa rd with new sense of it and be able to get on board with new rules and how that new look of school is to be. yes, you keep talking about the new look of school, that is interesting for little people, but what about the specific things that parents are saying that getting touch of your organisation, purple parenting, what are their big worries, the practical stumbling blocks they have? even practicalities like dropping their children off at school, for a lot of children, particularly after this period of time, it will be quite ha rd period of time, it will be quite hard getting back into school. whereas normally children would be able to, teachers and assistants and people would be able to go and support a child if they were struggling to leave their parents, even things like that at the moment wouldn t be able to happen. because of the social distancing rules, you mean? yes. even little things like that are going to be stumbling blocks for some parents and that anxiety and how they are going to get there children to physically cross that playground and go into school is a consideration. ok, okon and my goodness, there is much more we could talk about was thank you for very much for now. michelle cook, the co founder of purple parenting. the organ donation system has changed in england today which it s hoped may save 700 lives a year. people are now presumed to have consented for their organs to be given to others, unless they specifically opt out. this system is already used in wales, and will come into force in scotland later in the year. northern ireland still operates the opt in approach. the legislation is known as max & keira s law maxjohnson is a nine year old who had a heart transplant, after a nine year old donor keira ball was killed in an accident in 2017. max s uncle is the bbc news presenter rogerjohnson. this is his report. if you could have perfect child, it was keira. shejust loved life, people, animals, shejust wanted to help anybody and anything. keira ball was nine when she was killed in a car crash in devon in 2017. with her mum and brother seriously injured in hospital, keira s father, joe, took the decision to donate his daughter s organs. meanwhile, nearly 400 miles away in newcastle, another nine year old, max johnson, my nephew, had been waiting in a hospital bed for more than six months in critical need of a heart transplant. max had developed dilated cardiomyopathy after contracting a virus. his heart was failing. after a few months, you almost stop expecting or hoping for a call because if you think too much about, will the phone ring today?, each day ends in a disappointment. i love you both. we love you too. a documentary crew was filming the work of the transplant team at the freeman hospital where max s operation took place. thankful, very thankful. thank you, people out there. thank you. keira s dad s decision was the gift that max s parents had prayed for. he looked at her and thought, she wants to help anybody do anything, and that would be what she wanted. so he said his decision was very easy. i think the humanity he has, it took a very courageous person and a very caring person. so, you know, we are indebted to him for having the strength and the love and the generosity of doing that. coronavirus has cut the number of donors across the uk and many operations have been put on hold. but, prior to the pandemic, consent rates for donations had risen in wales since an opt out system was adopted there in 2015. scotland is following suit. today s change in england followed a newspaper campaign for which max became the poster boy. the public and government were able to latch onto a personal story and a personal progression that made the topic of organ donation very human and it allowed people to really empathise. it is not usual for recipients and donorfamilies to meet, but, amid all the publicity, the balls and thejohnsons came together. both now that the new legislation, known as max and keira s law, will encourage other families to share their wishes if the thinkable should happen. it helps us massively with the grieving process to look at max and see the difference that our beautiful princess has given to max. to us, her life was not wasted. rogerjohnson, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news. borisjohnson says there s ‘growing confidence the uk will have a virus tracing system in place by the start of next month. the engineering giant rolls royce announces 9,000 job cuts because of the impact of coronavirus. local councils urge the government to reconsider proposals to reopen primary schools in england next month because of concerns about safety. cyclone um fam, the first super cyclonic storm in the bay of bengal for 20 years, has made landfall in bangladesh and india. it s been categorised as an extremely severe weather system, with winds gusting up to 115 miles per hour the equivalent of a category five hurricane. the cyclone system is around 300 miles in diameter, here you can see it making its approach up the east coast of india. these pictures are from that east coast. millions of people have now been evacuated from parts of india and bangladesh. but the mass evacuation has been complicated by coronavirus, with the authorities trying to limit the number of people in each shelter. yogita limaye has been following the story from mumbai. the india weather department said that about a hour and a half ago the cyclone hits the coast, a set of islands that are spread across india and bangladesh. it will proceed in what they say is a north east direction. india s weather department say the five weather districts in west bengal will be worst affected, but the worrying thing is that the densely populated of calcutta is in the path of the cyclone. it weakens slightly from eight super cyclone, but it is still capable of causing extensive damage. the weather forecasters say it can uproot trees, it can cause damage to homes. we are already seeing some pictures of devastation come in. but it will be a while before we can assess whether there has been any loss of life or whether everyone s been able to move to safety. the other big concern is storm surges. weather forecasters say the surge of sea weather forecasters say the surge of sea water could be as high as 16 feet, of course, there are hopes that this forest that it has hit first put to some extent mitigate the devastation that that could wreak. but flooding is a huge cause of concern in both india and bangladesh right now. how challenging has it been to evacuate people in the midst of a pandemic? both of these countries are used to cycling is developing every single yearin cycling is developing every single year in the bay of bengal. so these processes for evacuation and sanding and alert are very well set. but this year they have had to do it with the coronavirus outbreak and the s disaster virus chief said that a shelter that can only accommodate 1000 people, they can only put half that number there for social distancing measures. in bangor they are saying they are trying to put plastic sheets and shutters open so they can separate people over and they are distributing masks and soaps as well to try and reduce cramped shelters. schools and other buildings have been converted into additional cyclone shelters this time around. mental health experts are reporting an increase in the number of young people dealing with anxiety, loneliness and other mental health issues as a result of lockdown. 30 organisations have now written to the prime minister, urging the government to take steps to reduce the long term impact of coronavirus on the mental health of young people. i am joined now by sam rowe the founder of the academy of hard knocks which aims to cut youth crime and reoffending with fitness and mixed martial arts. and by 15 year old jack clegg who uses the academy. i hope you can both hear me 0k. i hope you can both hear me ok. sam, explain what you are able to do during lockdown. are you able to provide any services? hello, we are not able to provide any services whatsoever. martial arts is one to one and we have to do pad work together or grappling on the ground together and we cannot do that, with social distancing. ifind a lot of the young people frustrated and full of anxiety, getting depressed and they feel trapped in their own houses. i d give them little circuits to do, but it is not the same as a one to one training. so you can do a little bit of that sort of thing online, can you? and thatis sort of thing online, can you? and that is as much as you can do, i guess. i give them advice over the phone and give them a circuit they can do on their own at home. but they need that one to one reaction and interaction that they are not getting. of course, absolutely. jack, lovely to talk to you, how are you doing? i am ok, thank you. you are missing everything that sam provides, i guess. yes, it is not the same, really, is it, locked inside? and what is your situation? have you been? you are at home and you are once a day going out. have you are once a day going out. have you been able to get into your local park at all and trying to i bit of exercise? does that help? it helps a little bit, but it is not the same as reaching up with your friends and doing whatever. not the same at all. how much help have you had from sam and from the academy since you have been going there? how has it really helped you? sam helped me out a lot with my anger and everything, so if you have had a bad they at school, you have had a bad they at school, you can go to the academy with sam and let youranger you can go to the academy with sam and let your anger out on the bag or with sam or whatever. and if you are having a tough day at the moment with the lockdown, what do you do?” am lucky because i have got a boxing bag in the back garden, so i cant lose my temper on the bag, but it is not the same for everyone else, is it? i have got a few lads who are actually taking their punching bags to public areas to get that out of them. they can t hang it up in a one bedroom flat. i have a lad who put it over his shoulder and runs it over the local woods, hangs it up on a tree, that is his warm up to get the woods, he hangs it up on a train punchesitin the woods, he hangs it up on a train punches it in the woods. sam, what are your longer term concerns about the younger people but you help?‘ lot of them are going back to square one, ifind many lot of them are going back to square one, i find many are lot of them are going back to square one, ifind many are back to lot of them are going back to square one, i find many are back to square one, i find many are back to square one where they started when the start of the course, they feel trapped and are depressed in their own houses. it will take a lot to get them to come back and some of them were so scared to go out of the house will stop a lot of them were scared up to go out of their house before the lockdown and this has heightened it. they are isolated and it has impacted on them with their mental health, and it is through the roof. it is going to take a lot to get them to actually come back into society and integrate back into the group. that is absolutely heartbreaking to hear you say that they have literally gone back to square they have literally gone back to square one. they have literally gone back to square one. i they have literally gone back to square one. i mean, they have literally gone back to square one. i mean, when things get back to a little more normal, whatever that is going to look like, where are those kids going to go apart from to see you again? what resources a re apart from to see you again? what resources are going to be out there for them? there aren t any resources , for them? there aren t any resources, that is the thing. we struggle with the day to day fights and we have opened when warwickshire and we have opened when warwickshire and we have one in london. there needs to be slight mine of the country all over the country. they need things to do after lockdown and we will have to integrate back into society and a lot of them are scared of their own shadow and scared of knife crime, a virus, so we are creating a generation of young people who are anxious, scared, depressed, lonely, frustrated and full of anger.” mean, jack, are you scared of the iris? cani mean, jack, are you scared of the iris? can i ask you that? me in particular, not really. it is quite scary with what is happening and thatis scary with what is happening and that is quite scary. you sound like you are dealing with things as best you are dealing with things as best you can and as you say, you have got a garden to go out into which is a little glimmer of light. but what about some of your friends that you talk to, do keep up with your friends and what they say about how they are of feeling? yes, like, as i say, we text each other and it is not the same. if they are upset or whatever, they cannot go out and go and meet one of their friends and talk to them or have a hunger whatever, because of the virus and you cannot go out to see people. they don t have a boxing bag like me, so they are all sat inside in bed staring at the ceiling doing nothing. lots of them are just breaking the lockdown and social distancing because they cannot cope with being inside on their own and they are used to going out and meeting up their friends and i they are used to going out and meeting up theirfriends and i know they shouldn t, but what are they going to do? yes, that is a heartbreaking picture you paint. thank you so much for everything you do, sam, and all the best you, jack. jack and sam, thank you very much indeed. now it s time for a look at the weather. hello, another warm day today. temperatures boosted by the sunshine. here is a view from surrey earlier from an aptly named weather watcher. close to 29 celsius. not a record for may, 29 degrees. notjust london, temperatures this high could be recorded in parts of yorkshire, east midlands, east anglia as well as south east england. we have a flow of warm air coming our way from the south and again, plenty of sunshine. a sunnier afternoon across northern england, northern ireland and scotland than we have had recently. some cloud may be hugging some of the eastern coast of northern ireland, south west scotland and it is grey and misty across shetland, holding temperatures down here. further west in northern ireland it could get to 22 and 24 in scotland. high temperature and wales. which is not the only thing that is high, uv levels as well. that means to take care in the strong may sunshine. a fine, very warm evening out there, and for most it will be dry overnight. we do have a weather system coming from northern ireland and into scotland and parts of wales and western england with patchy rain as the night goes on into the morning. if you look at that and think you would like some rain on the garden, especially in the driest parts in the south, there isn t much rain tomorrow, but there is a chance in the late morning that east anglia, east midlands, heavy and funder east midlands, heavy and thunder and showers before the chance of that donations during the afternoon and most of us in the day were some sunshine again. it is cooler, but still very warm. there is a more active weather system coming in on thursday night into friday and then we see the winds pick up and an area of low pressure and a weather front pushing across the uk. not much at all for those gardens in the south of the uk. heavy downfalls into northern ireland and scotland in the west and showers for wales and western parts of england with strong gale force winds. these are some of the gusts, and parts of scotland will have 60 to 65 mph gusts. saturday is pretty much a repeat performance of friday and sunday we could still see a bit of rain in parts of scotland in particular. but some of us are turning dry on sunday and into next week, 01:59:29,315 > 2147483052:36:29,373 it looks to be turning 2147483052:36:29,373 > 4294966103:13:29,430 a bit warmer again.