following riots over the killing of george floyd. a police officer sacked for his death has been charged with murder. clashes have also taken place between demonstrators and police in boston and atlanta. president trump has called on people to obey the law. brazil has reported nearly 27,000 cases of covid 19 in the past 2a hours a new daily record. it s now surpassed spain in the total number of virus deaths, with the fifth highest figure in the world. president jair bolsonaro says the spread of the virus is inevitable and the economy should be reopened immediately. the uk government has announced changes to the scheme that covers the wages of furloughed workers affected by the coronavirus lockdown businesses will have to start paying contributions, from august. wales‘ first minister has announced plans for relaxing restrictions there. hywel griffith reports from cardiff. too fast or too slow? the journey out of lockdown can feel exhausting. from monday, louise and her family will be able to meet relatives here in pontypridd with no limit on the head count, but they can t travel more than five miles, so family in the midlands will have to wait. i think they re making changes according to people s behaviour. as we can see, people are getting lockdown fatigue and i think people are breaking the rules and being maybe irresponsible, so i think it kind of makes sense in a way to be pragmatic. the changes in wales are meant to depend on data rather than a set of dates. the number of new coronavirus cases has gone down, but the rate at which the virus is spreading hasn t. staying local and not sharing facilities with other people we think remain sensible, precautionary steps when the r rate in wales is no better today than it was three weeks ago. shops have been told they may be able to reopen in three weeks, but some feel left in the dark. sian has several businesses here. she is anxious for pontypridd to recover after flooding earlier this year, but she s frustrated. i think the longer we are dragging ourfeet and we re not given any kind of clarity, it s going to harm. it s going to harm businesses, it s going to harm people s mental health. we are behind and it s causing issues. the welsh approach is unapologetically cautious. no plans have been announced for schools, as change comes one step at a time. hywel griffith, bbc news, pontypridd. now on bbc news our world. new york has been the epicentre of america s coronavirus outbreak, with nearly 30,000 deaths in the state so far. as the virus took hold in march, doctors and nurses from across the us answered new york s call for help. this is the story of four of those on the frontline, told through their video diaries as the crisis unfolds. a warning this programme contains scenes some viewers may find may find distressing. new york city has been the global epicentre of coronavirus. the president said this is a war, i agree with that. this is a war. people have died here than in any other city in the world. there has been times when i have walked out of the er and said to myself, what in the er and said to myself, what in the world has just happened? the er and said to myself, what in the world hasjust happened? things got so bad that the governor of new york pleaded for help. got so bad that the governor of new york pleaded for helplj got so bad that the governor of new york pleaded for help. i am asking healthcare professionals across the country, please, come help us in new york now. this is the story of some of the nurses who answered the call. and the besieged new york doctors fighting to stop their city being overwhelmed. i saw the row of ambulance stretches waiting to be triaged and empathy to myself, we re losing, we re losing. come here! come here. i come here! come here. lam christina ferguson and in a week, i will be heading out to new york to help in the bronx at one of their hospitals. i m travelling with a coworker of mine and having the skills, critical ca re mine and having the skills, critical care for me, er for him. we decided let s do it! this is the first time i have ever gone on an assignment such as this. it is a little bit different going into the epicentre ofa different going into the epicentre of a pandemic. this is one of my suitcases. i was therefore september 11 so naturally it feels like i should go back. to be a part of this and to help out in any way i can stop i have seven bags, there is the insta pot. i was thinking about some of the things i was backing up. as a nurse, this is we went to school for. this is what we do. going to new york for the sole crisis is basically like that, it s like throwing yourself into this situation. you don t think twice about it, you re just going. situation. you don t think twice about it, you rejust going. here situation. you don t think twice about it, you re just going. here we are at our favourite lake, my daughter and i do a lot of out your staff, and it is something really going to miss. but i would like to ta ke going to miss. but i would like to take these moments to think about the things i can come back to. take these moments to think about the things i can come back tolj take these moments to think about the things i can come back to. i do have my trunk packed, all of the medical supplies that we were donated to, ready to hit the road. so today has come, it is a five hour drive, and reality is sinking in that we are on our way. drive, and reality is sinking in that we are on our waylj drive, and reality is sinking in that we are on our way. i have my sleeping beauty and her best friend. i have some conflict about bringing her along but i don t want fear to steer me away from what i want to do and men who have had many conversations. we willjust take it one day at a time. some gorgeous views, it s kind of serene all of the same time knowing that once you get out of these mountains and into the city, there is no telling what is going to be waiting there for us. there is always some fear going into such a traumatic environment but the moment i walked into the er, it s go time. 0n on march the 13th, new york city recorded its first covid i9 at f. i m not sure how big this can be. within a month, or had died from the virus than at 9/11. i never really ever imagined in my life i would see the density of human suffering stop we will never think about healthcare in the same way. new yorker doctor eric is working at an emergency covert hospital that has been set up on staten island. an emergency covert hospital that has been set up on staten islandlj go has been set up on staten island.” go to people that i don t remember the days of the week anymore, i don t remember how many days i ve been doing this. ijust count it like coronavirus day 67, or something. new york has been through a lot and this is certainly testing us a lot and this is certainly testing us to our limits. i think we are well hopeful this is going to get better. it s been a marathon. we have been acting like it is a sprint. it s as if we were immediately post hurricane. except the problem is, it was like the hurricanejust the problem is, it was like the hurricane just came, hit the coast and then moved away. then we could start recovering. imagine a hurricane sitting over your city for 50 days. vacations have been deferred, birthdays have been deferred. we re doing is basically sleeping and coming work and dealing with the coronavirus. so, i have finally made it to my hotel room. a cute little kitchen. there is my famous insta pot. nancy isa there is my famous insta pot. nancy is a critical care nurse who will be working in the same hospital as doctor choi pena. working in the same hospital as doctor choi-pena. i let my daughter this morning but i m sad to leave her but i know she is in good hands. here is the bathroom, this is where the action is. make up, hair, i don t know what. a shower. it looks kind of cosy to me and i think i m going to be very happy here over the next eight weeks. christina and derek will be working in the bronx. there is our hospital. the borrower with the highest death rate in new york. we came two days early to get a tour. a lot of sick people. they are coming in quick. that right there is exactly what you think it is. they are about to take a truck away from the hospital. by early april, the situation in new york is so april, the situation in new york is so bad that refrigerated trucks are being used as makeshift bogs, and mass graves dug to deal with the number of bodies. so, it s the morning of my first shift. didn t really sleep very well last night. i m working a 12 hour shift today and tomorrow. so, i m just keeping my fingers crossed for the best. alrighty, wish me luck. this is my first shift and all day today we have been going through testing and honestly everywhere is just go time. we are doing the best we can. i heard the other day that if you can work in the bronx er, you can work anywhere. so, hopefully we get through these 13 weeks with my sanity intact. so wejust get through these 13 weeks with my sanity intact. so we just finished oui’ sanity intact. so we just finished our shift today, trying to decontaminate and disinfect everything. she is already taking off her shoes. laughs don t lose this now. we keep everything in a bag separate. don t lose this now. we keep everything in a bag separatem don t lose this now. we keep everything in a bag separate. it is unlike anything i have ever seen before. to see so many critical patients coming in at one time. the ambulances were non stop. it seems like every two or three minutes, there was an amulet coming in. there are other cases where you know the situation is not going to end well. whenever i see it to this degree, it is almost as though death is sitting on some of these patient‘s soldiers whispering in their ears. there s been times when i walked out the door and said to myself, what in the world has just happened? time to get out of here. nancy has been assigned to work in want of her hospital s pop up intensive care units. so firstly. which have been created to do with the overflow of covid 19 patients. created to do with the overflow of covid-19 patients. time to go back. no rest for the weary. with the pep-up no rest for the weary. with the pop up icus, the issue is the lack of access to equipment we need to ta ke of access to equipment we need to take care of the patients. the nurses are spending a good majority of their time running around hospital trying to find supplies. i think all of the nurses are doing the best that they can but it definitely stressful. it was busy, it was definitely an experience today. i got in there and they were so today. i got in there and they were so shortstaffed that they tried to give me four icu patients, which is kind of unheard of. usually two is the norm, three is a lot. but four, there was no way. so we will see how it goes. i am on for another 12 hour shifts tomorrow. i m just going to ta ke shifts tomorrow. i m just going to take some strength to get myself upstairs. it has become all consuming. i m getting reminded by my family to ta ke getting reminded by my family to take small breaks, especially when i m my kids. when i m at home, there is almost like this guilt that i am not still there. there is much more fighting to do. there has been a lots of absentee fathering unfortunately. i got up early to put my son to bed last night and the thing he was sad about yesterday was that he doesn t get to see me, which breaks my heart. he s going to remember me not being that more than the pandemic and the virus and that hurts. it s definitely something that leans on me and affects me, and affects them. after i get my scrubs on and my compression socks, every nurse should wear compression socks. we are at high risk, the virus is everywhere. no matter how many times we wash our hands, honey times we sanitise, the risk is very high. i have a scrub. right now, we have 40 people from our agency picking up the work for the nurses that are out sick. there are more of us working in the er right now than the regular employees. it is extremely busy, it isjust a employees. it is extremely busy, it is just a constant flow stop one after the other after the other. an ambulance brought in an elderly person, about 15 minutes, 20 minutes later, they were out in a body bag. they come in alert, and then it is mind blowing how fast theyjust go. after this is over and the healthcare workers don t get the therapy they need to process the stuff, i think the statistics are going to be high with suicide attempts. with healthcare workers, so attempts. with healthcare workers, so there is something we really have to watch out for. as somebody who works in psychology, i know that it isa works in psychology, i know that it is a possibility. well, we just finished our first three days in a i’ow. finished our first three days in a row. i am wiped out, i am tired. you don t realise how much it takes, wearing all of this ppe. my head feels like it is £100 heavier on my neck. it has been a long night, it is after midnight, we have been here since noon and it is time to hit the road, decompress and. shower! shower. nancy hasjust finished a shift on a covid unit. where all of the patients are dependent on a ventilator. generally, just people that are in that unit are not likely to survive. since this whole virus situation started, there has only been two patients who have made it out of the unit and survived. that is very, very little. the age range was pretty great. there was a patient there who was 26. which i thought was really eye opening because it just further thought was really eye opening because itjust further reiterates how the covid back virus affects everyone. but this young girl, she is still there and still fighting for her life and it is sad. home, sweet home! time to get these scrubs off. my feet are killing me! it has beena off. my feet are killing me! it has been a long day. pants, they are going to go into the basket. i think now people are exhausted and i think people just want respite. i think the nurses want to get back to what they were doing, you know, before this happened. with the units have been turned so upside down. but i think at this point people are just ready to quit. quit the covid crisis, i mean, not theirjob. you know, as a nurse, we give all of our energy to others and keep none for ourselves. i think that is why we are always tired. across the city in the bronx, the virus is highlighting stark inequalities. you have the projects, lower income housing, a large immigrant population. we are seeing mostly impoverished individuals, you see the black latina community as well. these are essential workers, you know? they are bus drivers, theyjanitors, they are bus drivers, theyjanitors, they are those that deliver food, deliver mail. and so, while many people are able to quarantine themselves or they have the luxury of working at home, essential workers don t have that opportunity. so it gives them an increased chance of being exposed to the virus. black and latina new yorkers are dying at twice the rate of white residents of the city. after developing symptoms of fatigue and a headache, christina has been sent home from the hospital.” and a headache, christina has been sent home from the hospital. i was crying. i was just more scared because i didn t want to be, like some of the patients that we ve seen, i mean, i get really, really sick. and today, she is going for a test. if it is positive ijust hope that i have built up some type of immunity. i m pretty nervous. i m hoping it s not but ijust feel like a truck hit me and my muscles hurt. any symptoms right now? just fatigue and a headache still. and my stomach. tilt your head back. all the way back, as far as you can. i will! all right, you re all done. the way back, as far as you can. i will! all right, you re all donem ta kes 24 will! all right, you re all donem takes 24 hours to know the results so takes 24 hours to know the results so that is going to be really hard to sit and wait on the results. so if things for me get really bad, to where i have to go in the hospital, derek has graciously told me he will ta ke derek has graciously told me he will take care of chloe and the dog. if it gets really bad and i don t make it gets really bad and i don t make it out of the hospital, then chloe andi it out of the hospital, then chloe and i have had the discussions about, you know, where she would go and who she would go with. and who she would go withm christine attests positive she will be one of the growing number of infected nurses. and some are becoming gravely ill. if christine attests positive. when i was training in brooklyn there was a nurse there who worked the night shift and she kind of hazardous reputation of being a battleaxe and obviously i grew to love her and knew that she had the biggest heart in the world. and i was told today bya in the world. and i was told today by a colleague that she is in critical care in the icu on a ventilator with coronavirus. and this is. symbolic of a lot of the banks and the hurt that happens with healthcare workers because we are not only watching patients die but you re also hearing about colleagues that are suffering and so, it feels like an attack on all fronts and it feels like it is a personal attack and a professional attack and it is ha rd and a professional attack and it is hard sometimes i think to see past that and to get through that because it is really acute stress and it feels like it is unravelling a lot of our lives as healthcare workers. that is the most challenging part is that these patients are kind of a loa n that these patients are kind of a loan and the families are not able to be there. kind of loan. there was a gentleman that i was caring for and he was just was a gentleman that i was caring for and he wasjust not in a good way and i was holding his hand and i was like i am going to get some coffee and i will come back and i came back with a coffee and he was dead. yeah. he died. so, iwas gone maybe 15 minutes. and there was nobody with him. so it was sad. and i felt, to some extent, like i did a disservice because i was not there andl disservice because i was not there and i went to get coffee. so, um, i hate that. um, i hate that more than anything. and then after that experience, you just flip back into nurse mode, you know? now you have tojust do what nurse mode, you know? now you have to just do what you have to do. well known er doctor here in to just do what you have to do. well known er doctor here in new york a battle to save the lives of so york a battle to save the lives of so many others. took her own life after weeks of treating patients with covid 19. she died in virginia sunday. when i heard about doctor breen, i wasn t surprised, it is tragic and in the same day we heard about an ems technician who also killed himself and ijust think it is the tip of the iceberg. the other day i was talking to a tech who was responsible for putting the bodies and the bags and he said that is all idid, day and the bags and he said that is all i did, day after day. i would put a body in a bag, take it downstairs and then there was no room downstairs, they were just everywhere. that is when the trucks came. they would fill it up with 55 bodies and it would leave and then another truck would be right there and they would fill it up and he said it was horrible. i said you have to talk to somebody about it. it will never go away. the end of a really long and hard week. ijust finished the zoom memorial service for a colleague, doctor lorna breen. lorna was a former colleague and friend. and last sunday took her own life. you know, her family says that it was related to the stress of coronavirus and that really hurt. in addition, the head nurse but i think i mentioned in one of my previous diaries passed away last week as well. a nurse manager that i know also passed away. and an intensivist downstate where i trained also passed away. so last week really, for me, was the worst week of this. it really did feel like a war. and any other event you would stop, you would be with people. tough week. i hope next week is a little bit better. by early may, hospitals are finally starting to see fewer admissions and fewer deaths. and new york is beginning to ease lockdown restrictions. it has been a crisis and a painful one. but we are coming out of the other side. christina s coronavirus test was negative but she and her daughter chloe have returned to missouri.” she and her daughter chloe have returned to missouri. i will talk to you guys tomorrow. nancy is about to head back to marilyn. to see her daughter and mum head back to marilyn. to see her daughterand mum maryland. and derek is continuing in the bronx. daughterand mum maryland. and derek is continuing in the bronxm has been a great adventure, it is challenging, but the whole thing has been great. over challenging, but the whole thing has been great. 0ver100,000 people have died from coronavirus in the us since march. just under 30,000 of those are in new york state. it has survived what its governor called a war. now, it has to come to terms with how life has changed. we tickled the break in new york. the system was about to collapse. it com pletely system was about to collapse. it completely disrupted normal in every sense of that word. there is no normal there is no longer that and we honestly will never be the same again. well, friday was a very warm day across the uk. in fact, the hot spot was scotland temperatures got up to 28 degrees. and saturday, in most parts of the uk, will be every bit as warm at least the low to mid 20s in most major towns and cities. it s been so reliable during the lockdown that the spring has ended up being the sunniest one on record, so this has been confirmed by the met office. now, high pressure is in charge of the weather across a large chunk of europe. it s centred across scandinavia and it s clearing the skies across the uk, ireland, much of western and central europe. these are the 6am temperatures. a little fresh in parts of east anglia. maybe in the rural spots, temperatures could be around 6 degrees, but elsewhere, not quite as nippy. very quickly, the temperatures will rocket during the course of the morning and into the afternoon. let s take a closer look. so on friday, we had temperatures up to around about 28 in some parts of western scotland. probably not quite so hot on saturday more like the low to mid 20s. very warm there in glasgow, 24 celsius. we ll match that in liverpool, in birmingham, and probably the hot spot will be somewhere in the south of england temperatures will get up to around 25 degrees celsius. now, the sun will be very strong as well you can see high uv levels pretty much right across the country so take note if you re planning to enjoy that fine weather outdoors. saturday night s looking absolutely fine and then sunday, we do it all over again the winds are light, the skies are clear, the temperatures are going to rise. in fact, in one or two spots, it could reach around 26 or 27 celsius, so a hot day on the way, especially across western parts of england on sunday. and over the next few days so this is including the weekend and into next week that warm plume of air from the southern climes continues to spread across the uk, as far north as scandinavia and even pushing to the arctic circle, so those temperatures are expected to, in fact, peak across the south of the uk come tuesday. we could see temperatures getting up to around 28 degrees celsius. but after that, a big change on the way. look at that back into the teens by the time we get to the weekend. in fact, next weekend, we re expecting colder air coming in from the north. that s it for me. bye.
welcome to bbc news i m lewis vaughanjones our top stories: teargas and troops, protesters ignore the curfew in minneapolis as demonstrators and buyers continue over the killing of george floyd. a police officer sacked over his death has been charged with murder. clashes in atlanta continue where hundreds of activists and police have held running confrontations on the main roads of the city. the mayor makes a passionate plea for the rioters to stop. you are disgracing our city, you are disgracing the life of george floyd and every other person who has been killed in this country. this was the scene in boston earlier where hundreds of activists and police clashed at protests over police brutality. in other news: coronavirus deaths in brazil pass 27,000
black man call was made, just a black man walking around. and it comes after many murders and in the missive covid 19 whereby we know they re in the us and here the uk, it is disproportionately affecting the black community. this deep, deep pain that is coming out. i watched a bit of the moral service and george floyd and what happened to him and the pain that his family feels has come to represent something much wider about racism, structural racism. yes about police battalion and there are demands but defunded the police and moving that money towards more new services, etc. but a wider stance of we have had enough and we need real structural change. asa what is so striking after years after segregation is just how segregated blacks and whites are in the united states in terms of poverty, education, even geographically down to where they live and how few white police officers, in this case the four who are facing charges, did not even live in the areas they were policing. and you are seeing the tensions writ large right now and how america is digesting this. this is why this is reaching new heights. and it is because we have footage of the awful killing. as we saw, that is why his last words, i can t breathe was what have become almost mythic about the crime among processors. and beside this memorial service it was very powerful when al sharpton invited the audience to sort of pause for eight minutes 43 seconds, the time in which there was a knee on mr floyd s. and this was an attempt to capture that moment of such pain that they could all be feeling and so the community was coming together as one for that there is very little mention, almost an undertone that president trump by contrast has abuses whole response to try to bang the drum about wall and orderand to try to bang the drum about wall and order and point the finger at the few violent protesters but in the few violent protesters but in the meantime there are communities that have been very deep pain right how. that have been very deep pain right i iow. “ that have been very deep pain right now. vaughn and order. his former defensive terryjim matus and also he has had criticism from his current one mark esper. in the independent, the uk please must tackle racism in its own ranks, this has overtones of the stephen lawrence merv and her when much boston police was described as institutionally racist. but what i wa nt to institutionally racist. but what i want to when do much about the police was described as institutionally racist. it is interesting german but that the transport secretary grant shapps criticise the london mayor back in april the ist adjusting mask should be worn. and now he is recommending, effective will be mandatory that they are in public transport. and michael gove also set i think it was in march or early april that the government was not telling people to wear masks. this is somewhat of a u turn and it seems eminently sensible for people to be wearing masks on public transport. and it s something that many other countries have put in place a long time ago. the question then is why is this only happening now just like the question then is why is this only happening nowjust like how slow we have been to put the track and trace programme in place for instance? why has it taken so long for them to come to this conclusion? and also for them to change their mind, what is going on with the science here and what advice are they getting? it is frustrating because we could have been doing this months ago. asa do you know why now? is interesting because i suppose it was tracking there, the advice initially was don t bother with facemasks because they do more harm than good because perhaps they would almost act as a placebo effect and people would go around and ignore social distancing and stick their faces far too close to people when they re in the shops. and then after much robbing from people like sadiq khan about the necessities of having it on one to transport. much lobbying from people exited co nfe re nce much lobbying from people exited conference up now much lobbying from people exited conference up now they want it. they could find you £80 under current guidelines in the same way that you can excite fines now for facemask. i think it is certainly quite striking how far it has left and changed the subject in the early days it was you are free to wear masks if you want but we are not going to recommend it, they hummed in hot, they wondered about whether they were going to have checks and people arriving in airports and now it is hard when toughened up but nobody s business. travel quarantine, almost compulsory. they hemmed and hawed. but for exceptions for the elderly, for children and for those with breathing difficulties. that is going to slow things down when people are getting on the tube or bus as well. let s go on to the guardian and go back to the guardian because we see that frontpage pursed of all but we now look at the during oui’ of all but we now look at the during our field of all but we now look at the during ourfield nhs of all but we now look at the during our field nhs test and trace on fully operational until september. fa iza fully operational until september. faiza quizzed about this is a very troubling read and it has taken. from a couple of sources. one estimate zoom call and some kind of meeting with the chief operating officer. another leaked e-mail from circo were involved in delivering this. and what we are hearing is despite borisjohnson saying that we would have a world beating service by ist ofjune which he said in pmo to the opposition leader keir starmer a couple of weeks ago, that there are bumps in the road, it is not working smoothly, and the operating officer himself saying do not expected to be world class until september, october and another very worrying aspect. circo is a private company operating saying and the quote is, they want to cement the position of the private sector. they do not expected to run smoothly in the first few months but our focus on cementing the position of the private sector and that will concern a lot of people. asa this goes against a lot of medical advice. do not release and ease the lock on until this test and tracing system is absolutely ready to go. chris whitty did say the other day that we are in dangerof whitty did say the other day that we are in danger of confusing the biased security over its, the covid of words and there are a number of those and all this. what we re seeing is nonetheless the government taking the decision, political decision granted, to really start using the lockdown in parallel with trying to get this track and trace up trying to get this track and trace up and running. i will make two quick points on the guardian report. one, we shouldn t instantly have our eye brows one, we shouldn t instantly have our eyebrows raised about the private sector helping and being a positive force because an example on testing if public health engman and not try to centralise if public health engman and not try to ce ntralise everything if public health engman and not try to centralise everything to such a great extent early on and shutout treaties and offers from the wax, then they would be doing so much more test earlier on by having these private webs of band running helping the system and national efforts was a private the system and national efforts was a private labs up and ready. and will destroy not in these reports is the advice citing drawing on the private assume normal conversations in which officials are saying is going to take time to reach maximum efficiency. and you expect that. private exuma calls. there have been hundreds of e mails we to the wrong addresses, it is not started off as well, and the chief executive rupert sims saying that he realises that there will be some teething problems but it has i got off to best start. also to remind you about matt hancock laughing when he was questioned a few disco about bringing this for about test and trace trying to hide the dominic cummings story what you thought was laughable at the time. but that s one side. how to hotspots, the ft. faiza, have you book your trip to greece, turkey, or spain yetand book your trip to greece, turkey, or spain yet and are you company you are going to get there? no, i have not and it was interesting reading this because a lot of the discussions about who will be able to go where in the summer is of course one about the infection rate and obviously we have had particularly bad infection rate in this country and the death toll in this country and the death toll in this country. and secondly about this country. and secondly about this quarantine. now the discussion in this piece is effectively about the kind of holiday corridor between certain countries. the problem is that priti patel the home secretary early on this week and very much emphasised this to be quarantine if you come back to this country saying that the rest now and i m not sure but the size. 20 seconds, asa. what do you think on this because the states are different?” what do you think on this because the states are different? i have been much keener to visit my own family around the country rather thanjetting off family around the country rather than jetting off elsewhere. family around the country rather thanjetting off elsewhere. this is the subtlety between social distancing and the easing of economic easing. all right, asa thank you very much. and faiza we will be looking at those papers in about 45 minutes time. again with fa iza about 45 minutes time. again with faiza and asa for our reviewers here on bbc news channel, not for our reviewers on bbc world. but he of those stories are covered on the website and for viewers watching in the uk. as i have been saying a lot of the british papers have come out and named this prime suspect in the madeleine mccann disappearance but because of privacy, very strict privacy rules in germany where we are broadcasting at the moment, we have not been able to do that. we will be back in a few minutes time with more news and as i say in 40 minutes another paper review. bye bye. hello there. after just experiencing afterjust experiencing the sunniest spring on record, it s rainfall most of us is going for. will be get some over the weekend? yes for some but not for all. many was he cloudy skies, windy and cool at times but the rainfall will be very hit and miss. last week and was about high pressure into the south of scandinavia influencing the story. this weekend it s low pressure in southern scandinavia. that low will arrive later on my ahead of its sunny spells and scattered showers but not all of us are going to see those showers and if you do dodge them you will have cloudier skies with the wind strengthening through the afternoon, 30 40 mile an hour gusts. scattering showers in the northern ireland and england but more widespread into the north east of scotla nd more widespread into the north east of scotland and the winds here will strengthen in excess of 50 mph, that is going to make it feel quite cool by the middle of the afternoon. just highs of 9 13 degrees, we could see temperatures peaking at 17, 60 three fahrenheit. that low pressure will sink its way steadily southwards along the east coast. strongest of the winds to the west and the southern flank of that well. dustin went potentially around the 60 mph mark which is quite unusual for earlyjune and mark which is quite unusual for early june and with mark which is quite unusual for earlyjune and with summer trees in full leaf, that could have an impact for some it will be windy across the northern half of the uk, went to for some. likely to include sudden scotla nd some. likely to include sudden scotland down through northern and eastern england for a time. brightening up into the far north of scotland, not seeing much notable rain at all across southern england but a disappointingly cool day with temperatures around the mid teens. now, the low tens to ees, the isobars will open up for the second half of the weekend. sunday later winds, still rain clinging onto that east coast and it will be an issue that the day for some elsewhere is where all the cloudy skies with the later winds should feel just that little bit warmer, high spec up to 18 degrees. but if we look at the rainfall accumulations, after nothing notable rain at all, over the weekend, the darker blues are suggesting that we could have as much as 20 mm may be more. around one inch of rain except onto the far south where rain will be very minimalat south where rain will be very minimal at all.
this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. remembering george floyd. the first memorial service is held for the man whose death in police custody launched a global movement. america, this is the time of dealing with accountability in the criminal justice system! in hong kong, thousands of people commemorate the tiananmen square crackdown defying a ban and challenging china s rule. german prosecutors say madeleine mccann, is presumed dead, as a convicted sex offender, is investigated on suspicion of murder. face coverings will be compulsory on public transport
madeleine mccann is presumed dead, say german prosecutors, as a man is investigated on suspicion of her murder. the three year old vanished from a holiday resort in portugal wbr id wbr120 13 years ago while her parents were having dinner. this is the camper van used by a 43 year old german, identified as christian b, who was in portugal at the time. he s currently serving a prison sentence in germany. translation: we are assuming that the girl is dead. and the suspect, we are talking about a multiple sexual predator who has already been convicted of crimes against little girls. madeleine s parents say they feel the development is potentially very significant. also tonight. face coverings will be compulsory for anyone using public transport in england from 15thjune. if you don t wear one, you won t be allowed to travel and could be fined. /b a memorial is about to get under way in minneapolis for george floyd as the police officers charged in connection with his wbr-id wbr720 murder are expected to make their first appearance in court. and the fields across britain crying out for tens of thousands of pickers to harvest their crops. and coming up on bbc news, premier league teams will be able to make five substitutions in a game as clubs approve new rules ahead of the planned restart later this month. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the disappearance of madeleine mccann has been one of the longest running mysteries of recent times. 13 years after she vanished, german prosecutors today said they believe that madeleine mccann is dead. a 43 year old german has been identified as a murder suspect. known only as christian b, he s currently in prison for sex offences. he was living in portugal and was thought to be near the resort of praia de luz in the summer of 2007, which was when the three year old disappeared while holidaying with her family. our correspondentjenny hilljoins us from the city of braunschweig, in north eastern germany. yes, it s a case which has baffled detectives for years. there have been searches and supposed sightings all over the world. right now, the focus is on this german city were today, prosecutors said they have a suspect, a man who lived right here in braunschweig, but who also spent a considerable amount of time in portugal. it has been described as a significant development. they have looked everywhere for madeleine mccann. it is 13 years since she went missing during a family holiday in praia da luz. her family holiday in praia da luz. her family have never given up hope that they would find her. but today, investigators in germany announced that they had opened a murder inquiry. they believe a german man killed madeleine mccann. translation: we are assuming the girl is dead, and the suspect, we are talking about a multiple sexual predator who has already been convicted of crimes against little girls and is serving a long sentence. the suspect has been named, though not officially, as christian b. his full surname has been withheld in line with german privacy law. in 1995 he left germany for portugal, where he lived until 2007. for some of that time, use the house between lagos and praia da luz. police say he was in the result and made a call from his mobile on the night madeleine mccann disappeared. he is now serving time ina german disappeared. he is now serving time in a german prison for drugs offences and what police describe as a sex crime. that report suggests was the rate of 72 year old american woman attacked in praia da luz two yea rs before woman attacked in praia da luz two years before madeleine s disappearance. so what you have now is an individual with a history of sexual offending that spans girls through to older women, extremely dangerous. he is not a preferential offender, he is someone who will offender, he is someone who will offend across a range of ages, also with a history, we are told, of burglary. so he fits the profile. the man is believed to have driven around the algarve in his camper van. police have released the picture, as well as that of the man sj picture, as well as that of the man s jaguar, in the hope that someone, man s jaguar, in the hope that someone, somewhere, will remember something. they are also focusing on two houses. he is known to have spent time in both of them. one is close to a site which attracted the interest of detectives six years ago. they scoured this area of wasteland in 2014. it is just inland from praia da luz. there have been so from praia da luz. there have been so many from praia da luz. there have been so many searches, so many from praia da luz. there have been so many searches, so many sightings, so so many searches, so many sightings, so much disappointment. for madeleine s family, the weight, they hope, the longing, unimaginable. madeleine s family, the weight, they hope, the longing, unimaginablem all the thousands of leads and potential suspects that have been mentioned in the past or discussed in the media, there has never been something as clear cut as that from not just something as clear cut as that from notjust one, something as clear cut as that from not just one, now something as clear cut as that from notjust one, now three police forces. so it does appear to be significant. still, so many questions, so much anguish. jenny hill, bbc news, braunschweig. 0ur europe correspondent gavin lee joins us from praia da luz in portugal. you have been talking to people over there today. what are they saying? there are no police on the streets of praia da luz today and no visible sign ofany of praia da luz today and no visible sign of any appeal. we understand portuguese police say they are supporting their german counterparts, but they say their focus now is to attract the attention of thousands of tourists who came here in may 2007 who may by chance have ta ken who came here in may 2007 who may by chance have taken photos or video footage with the suspect in the background, or video of the vehicles he was driving, including a jaguar carand he was driving, including a jaguar car and this camper than he was living out of from 1995 to 2007. this building behind me in the background, which is half hidden by palm trees and bamboo, is a site where a local media report said was used as storage for drug dealings which was frequented by the suspect, christian b, and one of two sites that the police are trying to appeal for more detail about. the pattern of living that we get during these 12 years is one of criminality that largely went under the radar. we don t know for certain whether police in portugal knew of his background and convictions for child sex offences. but german police have been working quietly on this case for a number of years. been working quietly on this case fora number of years. it been working quietly on this case for a number of years. it is clear at this point that they don t believe they have enough information and they need the public to try to work out if they have clear evidence on this man. gavin lee, thank you. from june 15th, face coverings will be made compulsory for anyone using public transport in england. if you don t wear a mask or something to cover your face you won t be allowed to travel and you could be fined. the government says people should start wearing them now, but the rules will be enforced from the week after next. here s our transport correspondent tom burridge. please remember to use a face covering while travelling on tfl services. it is advice now. it will be an order soon. covering your face is to become compulsory on public transport in england. the move is popularfor transport in england. the move is popular for those travelling around in warrington this afternoon. you don t want to catch anything or be ill. you don t want anyone in your family to get anything. so i think it isa family to get anything. so i think it is a great idea. you are in a closed space on a bus or on a train oi closed space on a bus or on a train or anywhere like that. so i think it probably should be compulsory. throughout the pandemic, most services have been pretty empty. but at certain times in certain places, social distancing hasn t been possible as restrictions to control the virus ease, scenes like this could become more common. major stations now have crowd control measures in place as a precaution. they are, for now at least, still generally deserted. but they expect more people to be travelling to work oi’ more people to be travelling to work or school in the coming weeks. so when it gets busier, you will have to cover up. enforcing the measure could be tricky. is it possible that people will be fined if they do not cover their face people will be fined if they do not cover theirface on people will be fined if they do not cover their face on public transport? it is a condition of travel, so you cannot travel unless you are wearing the face covering. there will be posted to remind you, it will be quite a visual thing. there will also be other powers. so ultimately, it could lead to fines. i hope we will not be in that situation. train companies say covering your face will become increasingly important. wearing a face covering in either a train or a station should give customers that confidence that they can make that journey safely. but obviously, this policy has just been announced and we have to work with government to ensure that it is implement it properly. face coverings are recommended on public transport in scotla nd recommended on public transport in scotland and northern ireland. the scottish government is thinking about making them compulsory. but the broad message is, please wear any type of face covering if you have to travel. on the wearing of face dozens of countries already have rules in place on the wearing of face masks in public places. 0ur science editor david shukman explains the thinking behind the new guidance. inside a train, we can t see for real how the coronavirus could be spread, so this animation simulates what might happen. how someone who s infected but maybe doesn t realise can pass it on just by talking to the passenger sitting close to them. it s in confined crowded situations like this that face coverings could make a difference. scientists have studied how a cough travels through the air and could carry the virus with it, and how wearing some kind of mask can reduce that flow. the science is clear that being out of doors is safest of all because of all the fresh air and how it s easy to keep two metres apart, but indoors, of course you can t do that, especially on a train or bus. in which case, if everyone wears some kind of mask, even something that s home made, that will reduce the chances of them passing the virus to you and of you passing it to others. for several weeks now, masks have been mandatory on the paris metro. more and more governments have looked at the evidence and they have decided that, although face coverings are no guarantee against infection, they can help reduce it. many scientists say the benefits are clear. if you put your hand in front of yourface and cough, you can feel that it gets wet, you can feel that something in front of your face will stop those droplets, and i think the other thing that has changed is what we call natural experiments. country after country which has introduced face coverings has seen a subsequent decline in the transmission of this terrible virus. 0n face masks, we are guided by the science and the government position hasn t changed. so we are now seeing a big change. for months, the uk government had been against the public wearing any kind of masks. not least because the most important thing people can do is the social distancing, as opposed to the weak science on face masks. but the contrast with countries like germany became more striking. for some time there, on public transport, masks have had to be worn. the big worry here was that medical staff would lose out. that s why home made face coverings were suggested to help the public without harming the hospitals. david shukman, bbc news. let s join our chief political correspondent vicki young, who s in westminster. vicki, there s a question as to why the government is making this announcement now. the government has never really standard enthusiastic about this. it does partly go against every natural conservative instincts, including those of borisjohnson himself, to force people to do this kind of thing. but you can see some parallels here with those measures, for example, to quarantine people travelling into the uk, some criticism that the government is against it and then they slowly start to move towards it. but remember, the mayor of london sadiq khan has been calling for compulsory face coverings in the capital for several weeks. the government s response to that is to say the timing now is because things are going to start to get busier. restrictions on england are starting to be lifted. there is also an element of trying to give people the confidence to get back onto public transport as they start to get back to some kind of normality. it is another reminder that everything to do with this crisis is notjust about the science. these are political decisions as well. vicki young, thank you. the uk s death toll from coronavirus rose again today to almost 40,000. in the past 24 hours, the deaths of another 176 people have been registered. since the beginning of march, 39,904 have now died. with me now is our health editor, hugh pym. i remember sitting here with you two months ago, and 20,000 was going to bea months ago, and 20,000 was going to be a good figure. it is now almost double that. yes, it was sir patrick vallance, the government s chief scientific adviser, who said early on that 20,000 deaths would be a good outcome, although still horrible. that 20,000 mark was passed in late april. here we are in earlyjune on the verge of getting to 40,000, although not quite yet. let s look at the detailed data presented at the downing street media briefing on the number of deaths confirmed for those with a positive test around the uk. you can see the number coming down fairly steadily. the seven day rolling average, that line, has started falling again. the number of new delhi reported deaths, 176, is relatively low. but moving on to hospital data, you get a slightly more ominous picture. the top graph is the estimated new daily admissions with covid 19 in english hospitals. and it has ticked up a bit. that figure of 505 new delhi admissions, the highest since the end of may new daily admissions. so in conclusion, what we see here, things are pointing tentatively in the right direction, but you can see why health officials and scientific advisers are extremely cautious about saying where things go from here. hugh pym, thank you. let s take a look at some of today s other news. the business secretary, alok sharma, who appeared in the commons yesterday looking ill, is today said to be doing well working from home, as he awaits his result of a coronavirus test. mr sharma went into self isolation after his appearance at the dispatch box. new figures from the office for budget responsibility suggest the cost of the uk s emergency spending and tax cuts, intended to soften the economic hit from coronavirus, will add up to £133 billion. this is a £10 billion increase on its previous estimate. there s also been a further collapse in car sales. borisjohnson has told a global vaccine some of that finding a coronavirus inoculation will provide cooperation on a scale not anything we ve ever seen before. a summit of more than 50 countries and donors is aiming to raise a £6 billion for the vaccination of children. in scotland, the coronavirus infection rate has reduced slightly in the past week. the first minister, nicola sturgeon said the r number, which estimates how many people an individual will infect, is now 0.7 to 0.9, down from 0.7 to one. the new figures do not reflect the situation since the lockdown was eased last friday. ms sturgeon said the progress being made to control the spread of the virus was encouraging but still fragile. a memorial service is about to get under way in the us city of minneapolis for george floyd, the african american killed there last week, while being held by police. three police officers, sacked after his death, will appear in court shortly for the first time charged in connection with his murder. the former us defence secretary james mattis has condemned donald trump s response to the protests over george floyd s death. he said the president was wrong to say the military should be used to end the demonstrations, and accused him of trying to divide the country. 0ur corresopondent, aleem maqbool reports. justice now! they haven t stopped taking to the streets even though there are now charges against all four officers involved in the incident where george floyd was killed. the cause has become much broader including protest against the way the state has often crossed peaceful demonstrations. even some of the most respected ex military leaders in the us have condemned donald trump s response including his former defence secretary james mattis. donald trump is the first president in my lifetime who doesn t try to unite the american people, doesn t even pretend to try, instead he tries to divide us, he said. militarising our response as we witnessed in washington, dc sets up a false conflict between the military and civilian society. predictably, the president responded on social media with insults. good afternoon, everybody. in a virtual town hall meeting, former president barack 0bama said this was a moment to, in his words, make people in power uncomfortable. as tragic as these past few weeks have been, as difficult and scary and uncertain as they have been, they ve also been an incredible opportunity for people to be awakened to some of these underlying trends. and the duchess of sussex gave an impassioned address to students graduating from her old high school in la. i realised the only wrong thing to say it is to say nothing. because george floyd s life mattered and breonna taylor s life mattered and philando castile s life mattered and tamir rice s life mattered. and so did so many other people whose names we know and whose names we do not know. protesters continue to remind us of those agonising minutes george floyd laid down under a policeman s knee. they are yet to hear what s being done to make sure nothing like it ever happens again. aleem maqbool, bbc news, in washington. 0ur correspondent barbara plett usher is in minneapolis, where george floyd s memorial service is about to take place. give us a sense of the mood there tonight. yes, sophie, so many pauses of breath taken after ten days of turmoil after this memorial. it ll be the first of three which will be held over six in three different states and the reverend al sharpton, a well known civil rights leader, will lead the service. he will be remembering george floyd the man who meant a lot to his family when he was alive but also what is death a means to the country. i think he will be starting to try to shape that meaning because, as we saw, it triggered this movement for racial justice beyond any expectation. the service is going to be livestreamed but by invitation only so those who didn t getan but by invitation only so those who didn t get an invitation will still be coming here to the memorial site where george floyd drew his last breath. and just before the service, yesterday, it was announced that new charges had been filed against three officers involved in that arrest and charges had been increased against one of those officers. those three will be appearing in court later today and the family is welcome that, they have called this a significant step on the road to justice, but they ve also said this isa justice, but they ve also said this is a bittersweet moment. and it s a bittersweet moment for the family, for those who have been protesting for those who have been protesting for the last ten days, but also a time of community drawing together and we ve really seen this here at this memorial site. so many people, black, white, asian, joining together to say they don t want to put up with this, giving out food, solidarity, music, as well, so this isa solidarity, music, as well, so this is a positive thing which has come out of these terrible events of the past ten days. barbara, in minneapolis, thank you. several thousand people have gathered in the centre of birmingham for a black lives matter demonstration over the death of george floyd in america. authorities said the event s location had to be moved to accommodate the number of people expected to attend. 0rganisers asked people to socially distance. the charity, crisis, is warning of a growing homelessness problem around the country in the wake of the pandemic. it has contacted scores of charities and organisations in england, wales and scotland and found that more than half of these front line services reported a rise in people seeking help during the lockdown. and councils are warning they need more money to cope with the growing problem. june kelly reports from birmingham. hello. you all right? they form part of birmingham is front line team in dealing with the homeless. are you ok? do dealing with the homeless. are you 0k? do you need any help with accommodation? the gentlemen, i ve seen accommodation? the gentlemen, i ve seen him before. he doesn t want to go in. with these outreach workers into organisations, councillor sharon thompson. normally you would see them in doorways, and. she is the homelessness lead in birmingham and she knows what she s talking about. she was homeless herself in the city at 16. homelessness is more thana the city at 16. homelessness is more than a house, it s a whole life and creating a home, more thanjust simply giving them a key to a door. like other councils, birmingham has worked with the government from the start of a lockdown to try to get people off the streets. they are among those who have been housed in among those who have been housed in a city centre hotel. because i m sleeping ina a city centre hotel. because i m sleeping in a nice bed, with nice things around me, looking at a nice tv, things that make you feel good. you feel like you are a different race on the streets. you do feel like that. it s horrible to feel like that. it s horrible to feel like that. it s horrible to feel like that because you feel invisible as well. if it can be done as go, why hasn t it been done before? why is it touched so many people, dying from a horrible disease, for people to believe. to be. the street. money is one reason and birmingham is now looking at its budget and all its new post pandemic demands. looking at its budget and all its new post-pandemic demands. for birmingham, we have spent £272 million responding to covid 19. 0f that money, the government only given us back £70 million. i was in that one up there. back at the place where she was housed, sharon thomson knows there is a particular concern about young people as the city experiences a rise in numbers. about young people as the city experiences a rise in numbersm allowed me to apply for uni. this man was homeless. because you don t think you have any support or help, you d think what are you going to do in the future, how will you survive when you are 30,40? in the future, how will you survive when you are 30, 40? can salida say they need to know what practical support they will get as a lockdown eases. “ support they will get as a lockdown eases. council leaders. the government says it s committed to ending rough sleeping and is planning 6000 new homes. june kelly, news, birmingham. south korea is using technology to track down people infected with coronavirus in less than an hour as it tries to clamp down on those breaking quarantine rules. south korea has had one of the most successful strategies in the world for dealing with the virus. fewer than 300 people have died. 0ur seoul correspondent laura bicker has more details each gasp for breath. each drop of blood painted an alarming picture. do you have any cough? no cough. headache? wan yu from wuhan, china, was south korea s first coronavirus patient. her scans revealed she had been ill for days before showing symptoms. doctors realised then that carriers could infect others without knowing they were sick. at the peak of the outbreak, hundreds of contract tracers were mobilised, lessons south korea learned from previous epidemics. she is allowed to ask personal questions and record private details because of special laws brought in to combat infectious diseases. tracers then hit the streets to seek out cctv footage. they will look at phone and bank records to get the most accurate information. the details are sent out as emergency messages across the country. this was my team and i in daegu in february. alarm sounds. that s the kind of thing. are we getting another one coming? tracking down covid 19 carriers once took days. after gaining access to even more data, it now takes less than an hour. how are you feeling? pretty tired, actually. i ve come from south carolina. technology is used at the border too. and you have no symptoms? luckily not. this woman has told how to download a quarantine app on her phone. she won t be allowed to switch her phone off or moved from a quarantine address for 14 days. this foreigner is told he will be deported if he doesn t comply. but she feels this is right. i m so grateful that i can beyond this territory. nothing i can describe better. i m just so glad. few have complained about any intrusion in privacy. it s been seen as a price worth paying. track and trace has kept this country out of lockdown. meanwhile, hugs from dad at the arrival gate are replaced by hosing down with hand sanitiser, an act of love in itself in these extraordinary times. laura becker, bbc news, seoul. britain s fields are crying out for tens of thousands of people to help harvest their crops. the usual flow of labour from europe has ground to a halt because of coronavirus so the government launched a pick for britain initiative hoping that britons would step in and help. but 70,000 workers are still needed to deliver this season s harvest. claire marshall reports from worcestershire. a plea has been made for a land army to help pick british crops. on one of the largest farms in england, there s one already at work. everyone in it is from eastern europe. during the pandemic, it s not been easy to get here. evelyn is from bulgaria. were you worried that you couldn t make it at one point? man translates. the government has recognised how crucial migrants are. now they don t have to follow the two week quarantine rule. so what about home grown labour? british workers, to date we ve taken on 31 and we ve lost 31. it s a great shame, really. why have they left? they ve left because it s not for them. we don t see them again, they don t give us a reason. theyjust take their ppe and go. there are many different languages spoken here, bulgarian, polish, russian, romanian, but not english. migrant workers have been key to the farming economy for the last 20 or 30 years here, and that can t change overnight. being out in the fresh air. many thousands of british people have answered this appeal. but so far, fewer than 10% have ended up injobs. pick for britain. we had a fantastic response across the sector, and then we ve seen furlough payments stop and workers having the opportunity to go back to their previous employment, and they ve taken those opportunities. and the farms understand that, but that s difficult and costly for them. still, more brits are needed. teresa brooks was a professional japanese drummer. now she is working on this family run farm. with the pandemic going on, i think people are becoming more aware of where their food is coming from and the importance of british growers and british farmers. however, this kind of spirit is not enough on its own. growers say migrants are as vital to farming as they are to the nhs. claire marshall, bbc news, worcestershire. time for a look at the weather here s louise lear. hi there. summer is on hold as we head into the weekend. a showery weekend with a cool wind for all of us weekend with a cool wind for all of us because of this area of low pressure that s going dominate to the south of scandinavia and it s going to interact with the uk for the next three days. that means we start off
tonight at ten, president trump facing widespread condemnation for his handling of the unrest in dozens of american cities. as the president poses for the cameras, bible in hand, he s being accused of stoking divisions instead of promoting unity. on the streets of some cities, more protests following the death of a black man being detained by police, but the president issued this warning. if a city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then i will deploy the united states military and quickly solve the problem for them. as the protests grow outside the white house, mr trump s democratic rival called for a different kind of presidency. the country is crying out for leadership. leadership that can unite us, leadership that brings us together. leadership that can recognise pain and deep grief of communities that have had a knee on their neck for a long time. we ll have the latest from washington, and we ll be asking how these events are likely to affect the race for the presidency later this year. also tonight. an empty coronavirus testing facility, as the uk government is criticised for the way it presents testing data to the public. we report on the higher likelihood of death from covid 19 among black, asian and other ethnic minority groups. and memories of last year at silverstone, on the day formula one announced its comeback after the lockdown. and later on, sport state will have all the latest reports, interviews and features from the bbc sports centre. good evening. president trump is facing widespread condemnation for his handling of the unrest in dozens of american cities. it follows the killing of george floyd, an african american who died last week in minneapolis while being detained by police. his death has now been declared a homicide following an official post mortem. on the streets of some cities there s been more violence and looting, prompting mr trump to say he ll send in the military. the president s democratic rival for the white house, joe biden, accused mr trump of using racist language and of failing in his presidential duty to unite the nation. for the lates, let s join our correspondent aleem maqbool in washington. hundreds of people are outside the white house again this evening, right now with their hands up with the hands up, don t shoot charmed of recent nights. but at the same time over the last hour what we have seen isa over the last hour what we have seen is a huge convoys of military personnel fanning out across that city and donald trump has promised an even tougher response on people on the streets tonight. that is when he is already receiving heavy criticism for coming down hard on legal, peaceful protesters. lock him up! undeterred, they are outside the white house again. but the focus of their anger now is notjust violent police officers who kill unarmed black men, but the president as well. it is terrible that people can t protest, which, by the way, is their first amendment right. president trump likes to talk a lot about the second amendment, owning guns and everything, but will not even comment when we come to do what we are literally raised to do, born to do, as americans. donald trump himself has appeared quite pleased with the way he has, in his words, dominated with overwhelming force. but those subjected to that force here late yesterday were peaceful protesters out in the memory of george floyd. as we speak, i am dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel, and law enforcement officers. and with that, demonstrators were gassed and shoved and pushed back from the historic church outside which they had been protesting, though it was well before any curfew. i feel like i m not even feeling one eighth of what black people feel every single day and i m terrified. and what was it all for, particularly outside the church? well, this. the president took a short walk to saintjohn‘s to show he is in control and apparently to pose with a bible. donald trump s democratic presidential rival has been critical of his handling of this crisis. the country is crying out for leadership. leadership that can unite us, leadership that brings us together. leadership that can recognise pain and deep grief of communities that have had a knee on their neck for a long time. but the security forces continued to force back demonstrators on the orders of a president who has claimed to be a champion of free speech. but there is a sense that this will go on. we have been martin luther king for ages, for generations. generations on end. it s time for malcolm x and marcus garvey. like, nojustice, no peace. like, that s notjust a mantra any more. that s got to be a way of life. although the military and the police have fairly successfully shut down a lot of zones across the american capital, there are still large pockets of protest travelling throughout the city determined to continue to demonstrate. black lives matter! the president may have disrupted the protests in washington and with it, dealt with some of the looting, but his critics feel his actions compare to those of authoritarian leaders around the world the us would previously have condemned. aleem maqbool, bbc news, in washington. within the past hour, the family of george floyd took part in a march in his home city of houston, texas. and there ve been protests across the united states, including in minneapolis, the city where mr floyd was killed. our correspondent barbara plett usher is there with the latest. there have been a number of protests here today including one that involved faith leaders who marched right up to this memorial site. the situation has largely stabilised but attention is still very much focused on accountability. is one of the officers was charged and the attorney general is saying prosecutors are working as quickly as they can to see if the other three who were involved in the arrest should be charged as well. but the unrest that began here is still rolling across the country. minneapolis is reclaiming the place that sent the city into spasms of anger and unrest, smothering with flowers at the spot where george floyd stopped breathing, pinned down by the knee of a police officer on his neck. become a pilgrimage site for those demanding justice for george. at the state capital, a sit in echoing the civil rights movement. 60 years later, still demanding equaljustice movement. 60 years later, still demanding equal justice for african americans, especially an end to police brutality against black people. them minnesota government has announced it will investigate the conduct of the state s largest police department stretching back ten years. in houston, texas, it seemed like the whole city had turned out to much for mr floyd pandit members of his familyjoined them. to march. this is where he grew up and where he will be buried. pa ct street grew up and where he will be buried. pact street in new york city, emptied in recent months to contain the coronavirus pandemic, now full again with protesters. the anger has taken a destructive turn here as it has elsewhere. unfortunately, there are people looting but you can t tell angry people how they can t be angry. that is like telling slaves not to burn down master s house. but this looks like more than protest about racial injustice pinned up in manhattan bans young people dressed mostly in black took advantage of the unrest to pillage stores that have been shattered because of coronavirus. police struggled to respond and the mayor imposed a cu rfew, respond and the mayor imposed a curfew, double quarantine. the vast majority of protests are peaceful. but it doesn t take much for the mood to change. police have been responding with more and more force. and they have been attacked. in several cities last night, and four we re several cities last night, and four were shot and injured in st louis. some coward fired shots at officers and now we have four in the hospital but thank god they are alive. they are alive. but. can we make some sense out of this? can we make some sense out of this? can we make some sense out of this? can we make some sense out of this? police are struggling to make sense of their role to restore law and order and also respond to the tragedy of minneapolis. we are appalled at what happened in minneapolis. period. that we have got to be better. in that city, faith leaders made clear they were siding with those calling forjustice. they were siding with those calling for justice. people are they were siding with those calling forjustice. people are demanding that all of the officers involved in mr floyd s arrest to be charged. accountability in this case might be the beginning of an answer, but only the beginning of an answer, but only the beginning. barbara plett usher, bbc news, minneapolis. artists, record labels and radio stations today suspended business on what s been called blackout tuesday in response to the killing of george floyd. celebrities and social media users across the world joined them in solidarity to show their support for the black community. the oscar winning film director spike lee has long been an outspoken critic of police brutality and racism suffered by america s black community. he said scenes witnessed in the united states over the past week were not new, and had been going on in various ways since the advent of slavery in america four centuries ago. spike lee was speaking to will gompertz ahead of the release of his latest film. black gi, is it fair to serve more than the white americans that sent you here? in the broad sense, is the vietnam war through the viewpoint of black vietnam vets. i see.ghosts. happens to all of us, man! you are more than a film maker. you re an intellectual, an activist, and you are very eloquent on the situation of racism. how do you bring about change? we have to talk about how the united states of america was founded, the foundation. the foundation of this country is immoral. the land was stolen from the native people. genocide was committed against the native people. and my ancestor was stolen from africa, and brought here to work. so the foundation of the united states of america is genocide, stealing the land and slavery! and so any architect will tell you that if you don t have a strong foundation, the building s going to be shaky. and it s been shaky from day one. the whole music business has come out in solidarity for george floyd. this seems to have resonated beyond america. yes, and i think that s a good point that you re bringing it up because united states of america, racism, they do it better than anybody else! but it s not just. .. racism is all over the world. this is a global pandemic before corona. we ve been dying for this country from the very beginning. i shall resign the presidency. what did you think of president trump s suggestion that he d put military on the streets if the protests didn t cease? well, i was watching this last night with my family, and we were all screaming in disbelief. that this thing was staged, the show of force, gassing innocent, peaceful bystanders, so you could clear the street? he s a gangster, you know? he s trying to be, you know, a dictator. mookie, they killed him! they killed radio raheem! it s murder. they did it again, just like michael stewart. murder. talking about the young spike lee, young film maker, enraged, angry. does this apply to spike lee today? let s take a step behind that. why are people angry? people are angry because black people are being killed left and right, cops walk away free. they are angry for a reason. you re angry because you live every day in this world where the system is not set up for you to win. the director spike lee, talking to will gompertz. our north america editor, jon sopel, joins me now. let s ta ke let s take stock on where we are, and do think we have reached the position where it is impossible to separate what is going on in the us from the politics of this year? you would think it was a grave enough politics would not intrude but they happened at the light bulb morning permit was yesterday morning when donald trump tweeted, after a night of terrible writing, how good his poll numbers were. in the last hour he has tweeted about sleepyjoe biden again, saying he thinks he knows the answer is, he doesn t even knows the answer is, he doesn t even know the questions. that follows joe biden breaking cover, coming out from the basement where he had been for the past three months and taking off his face mask and launching a scathing attack on donald trump for his handling of the race riots we are seeing across america. donald trump does not want to back down, he wa nts to trump does not want to back down, he wants to say, look, i m the guy that will bring law and order back to the streets. that will be his pitch. i think it is notable how few republicans have come out and back to what happened yesterday when he went to that church and held up a bible, leading to thousands of peaceful demonstrators tear gassed in the protests process. one prominent support of the president said, oh, is that what happened? i didn t see it. no one can say in november there will not be a clear choice between donald trump, mr law and order, mr tough guy, and joe biden, mr unity, mr empathy project the only thing i think they have in common is both are in their 70s. many thanks. jon sopel, our north american editor. let s turn to the day s other main story the latest on the number of deaths from coronavirus, the effect of the pandemic, especially on ethnic minority groups, and the criticism of the way the uk government has presented data on testing. so these are the latest government figures. the uk recorded 324 deaths in the past 24 hour period. and that brings the official uk total so far to 39,369 deaths. experts have pointed to one hopeful sign the number of weekly deaths linked to covid i9 in england and wales fell to 2872 its lowest level for seven weeks according to the office for national statistics. but on a separate measure called excess deaths, from march to late may across the uk there were almost 62,000 more deaths than might have been expected based on previous years. the elderly have suffered most from the pandemic and care homes, as we have often reported, have been particularly affected. one care home in county durham has lost 25 residents from the disease. our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan reports. a survivor of covid i9 in a care home where many have perished. her family gather outside, in part to clap the carers who have had much to deal with. no one blames them for what has happened, so we have an anonymized them, but we have discovered at least 25 people have died at melbury court, thought to be the highest single death toll in a care home in britain. samuel wilson became a victim of coronavirus in early may. his family believe he became infected after the home insisted he go to hospital for day treatment. in a statement they told us. the home was relentless for a family member to take my grandad into hospital for a non essential procedure in the middle of full lockdown. in my opinion, they took an unnecessary risk, a risk that cost grandad his life. the owners of the care home say their sympathies are with all of the families who have lost a loved one and say that the place is now in recovery and that many of the residents have returned to good health. but locally, the sense is that this is yet another consequence of a decision that put the nhs above the care homes. coronavirus has killed more people in care homes in county durham than anywhere else in england. local providers told council and health officials in march not to discharge untested or covid positive patients into care homes from hospitals. they were ignored. instead, financial funding was, at one point, explicitly linked to them taking people with the virus. cup of tea and a slice of cake? the owner of this care home, which has not had covid, is appalled by what has happened. we do feel that this was neglect. they knew how vulnerable this sector was and i thinkjust with a little bit of forethought, collaborative working, we could have easily gone through this without the number of deaths we have had. more than half of the care homes in county durham have had coronavirus, a consequence of both nationwide problems on testing and ppe, for instance, and local decisions. in a letter seen by the bbc, the county durham care home association said that the council has pursued a policy which has caused and/or increased covid i9 infections and deaths within care homes in county durham. 96 year old barbara wells died of coronavirus in april. immensely sociable, her family says she was thriving at the stanley park care home but the place has been hit hard by the pandemic at least 16 residents have died. barbara s family blame the government, not the care home, for her death. most of europe was locking down before us, so why didn t we do it? if we did do it, i m certain my grandma would still be with us and all the other poor people who have died in that home. durham county council vehemently deny that anything they did added to the problems in care homes. we followed national guidance and put in place support for our care homes. we ve put in additional financial support and have provided ppe, we provided training and support, and psychological support for our care home staff as well. give me an example of where the care sector was put ahead of the nhs. hard to think of an example off the top of my head. sorry. that s the problem, isn t it? the nhs was prioritised. and the result of it is all these deaths in care homes. the uk government insist that they threw a protective ring around care homes. michael buchanan, bbc news, durham. a report by public health england has found that although age is the biggest risk factor when it comes to covid i9, black, asian and other ethnic minority communities in the uk are more likely than others to die from the disease. our correspondent rianna croxford reports. one family, one household, with the odds stacked against them. abdullah used to collect passengers to his taxi but now only picks up groceries. he is black, male, aged 59, and was born outside of the uk, putting him at high risk to catching covid i9. he lives with three generations in milton keynes. feeling unsafe, he chose to stop working at the start of the pandemic and has no income. the government is supposed to really help them but they have been ignored because there is no ppe, there s no help, there s no even proper advices. his daughter khadijah is a nurse, a key worker, and says she has been unprotected on the front line. the ppe, to be frank, is very, very selective, very, very selective. but it depends on where you are working. if you are working in a low risk area, it s fine, but if you are working in an area where you are in contact with those with coronavirus, i think it is right for you to have the right ppe. but khadijah‘s concerns have not been addressed in the government review released today confirming that people from black and asian backgrounds are disproportionately dying from this disease. i put those concerns to the health secretary, matt hancock. many people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds will be confused why it has taken six weeks for the government to simply confirm what studies have already shown, that they are dying with covid i9 at significantly higher rates. why haven t you done more to protect and support these communities? you are absolutely right that there is much more work that needs to be done and this report shows that. so we are asking. i have asked the equalities minister, kemi badenoch, to take this forward and to look into the causes and what further can be done. divina is a nurse from birmingham looking for an answer. yeah, it makes you even more anxious, thinking how can you sort of minimise the risk slightly. but i can t, because of the colour lam, and i can t change it. it makes me really angry and the government is supposed there are many factors driving these figures and they point towards socioeconomic inequalities an existing problem the pandemic has only further exposed. rianna croxford, bbc news. under scrutiny today has been the government s 5 level alert system for coronavirus, which was introduced last month. it s become clear that boris johnson s ambition to reduce the alert level at the same as easing the lockdown was blocked by all four of the uk s chief medical officers. our economics editor, faisal islam, has the story and joins me now. we are used to the phrase that ministers are following the science. is that still the case? the government has the delicate balancing act of trying to get the economy out of an historic hole and at the same time keep a lid on a deeply contentious pandemic. the way it did this while trying to communicate clearly to the public was with this traffic light system, which i think we can see, the covid alert level system. remember we are now at four on that level. and if the prime minister said last week he wa nted the prime minister said last week he wanted to get that down to three at a meeting on thursday. also, when that was launched, addressed to the nation and in the document that followed, some connection was made between the alert level and the loosening of the lockdown. now, it didn t happen. it stayed at four. my understanding is because the chief medical officers of all four uk nations didn t agree it should be lowered from four, which is quite interesting. you ask the question if we are still following the science and the government will argue it agreed with leaving it at four eventually, even though it wanted to come down to three and the loosening of the lockdown was modest. but it does show how delicate this is, the loosening, and how it could be reversed if necessary and that scientists and medics were worried and the balancing act is there and playing down that alert system. faisal islam, economics editor, thank you. the health secretary for england, matt hancock, has been sharply criticised by the government s leading statistician for the way key data relating to coronavirus testing is presented to the public. in a letter, the head of the uk statistics authority, sir david norgrove, said testing statistics were incomplete, difficult to understand and of limited value to public understanding. our health editor hugh pym has the details. a drive in test centre today but with very little activity as a new debate on precisely how many virus tests have been carried out has flared up. health secretary matt hancock made great play in recent weeks of the plans to boost testing. lam now weeks of the plans to boost testing. i am now setting the goal of 100,000 tests per day. currently just i am now setting the goal of 100,000 tests per day. currentlyjust over 50,000 tests available will stop i can announce that we have met our goal. but today he has been criticised by the head of the uk statistics watchdog over the numbers, who cast doubt over how many numbers, who cast doubt over how ma ny tests numbers, who cast doubt over how many tests have actually been carried out and on how many people. in his letter sir david norgrove welcomes the addition of some new data but adds. i m afraid though that the figures are still far from com plete that the figures are still far from complete and comprehensible. the way the data are analysed and presented currently gives them a limited value. the aim seems to be to show the largest possible number of tests even at the expense of understanding. the health secretary was challenged by labour in the commons. the uk statistics authority have written to him today saying that his figures are still far from complete and comprehensive, that the testing statistics still fall far short of standards in the code. and that it is not surprising that testing data is mistrusted. this is quite damning, i have to say to the secretary of state. we will work with the uk statistics authority to make sure that they are happy with how we are publishing that data, to make sure that we get the data published in a reasonable and sensible way. the daily figures show tests for whether people currently have the virus. in one recent day over 128,000 tests were provided. 27,500 were for hospital staff and patients. around 29,400 were for the public at testing sites. around 43,700 were test kits sent out though not yet returned. and nearly 28,000 were for research and antibody tests, finding out whether someone has already had the virus. the number of people tested isn t currently published. officials say it will be restored soon after data checks. i didn t feel i was connecting to the system. some, like michael, have reported delays getting results. they said don t call back for five days. i then phoned back five days later. they said, no, it s actually now seven days. i phoned back seven days later, then it was nine days. i would just perhaps get some form of confirmation or not, and i haven t since, and that was nearly two weeks ago. the government wants to extend testing and tracing of people who might be infected in england, but today s developments confirm there are still many questions about how the system is working. hugh pym, bbc news. ministers at westminster are said to be examining ways of relaxing the planned i4 day quarantine for people entering the uk over the coming months. from next monday, most people arriving by plane, ferry or train including british citizens must go into isolation. but many mps and businesses have expressed concern at the plan, warning it will damage the travel industry and the wider economy. the government is expected to publish more details of its plans tomorrow. our transport correspondent tom burridge is at heathrow airport. a blanket travel quarantine will ta ke a blanket travel quarantine will take effect on monday. the home office insisting tonight it is necessary to help control the virus. but the government insists it is also working hard to secure these air bridges, agreements with countries with low infection rates so people don t have to self isolate. the portugal foreign minister has confirmed to me tonight that talks are ongoing and he hopes an air bridge between portugal and the uk can be in place by the end of this month. he says british tourists will be welcome in the algarve this summer as long as they follow rules on social distancing and heed warning systems to avoid crowded beaches. but spain on the other hand says british tourists will not be welcome there until the infection rate here in the uk falls more significantly. the government has confirmed tonight it is looking at testing and tracing people arriving in the uk is another possible way of getting rid of quarantine but the government is under huge pressure on the policy from business and within its own conservative ranks. tom burridge, thank you for the update from heathrow. mps returned to westminster today, forming long queues in line with social distancing rules as they prepared to decide how they should hold hold votes in the house of commons from now on. the government wanted to end the virtual, or online system which was introduced in april and to return to voting in person, but critics say such a move would exclude vulnerable mps and those with caring responsibilities. our chief political correspondent vicki young has the latest. mps had been told to set an example and get back to work. for some it s a round trip of almost 1500 miles. a journey in excess of 18 hours for something that frankly is of questionable necessity. others say it s their duty to return to parliament rather than take part via video link. my home is here on the island of anglesey, and i m going to westminster to do the job that i was democratically
this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. plans to impose localised lockdowns in england will be unveiled later. the government will explain how its test, track and trace strategy will deal with regional outbreaks of covid 19. if there is a flare up in one particular community, and that could be on quite a small scale like a particular workplace or school, then measures can be introduced, local lockdowns may be introduced which hopefully the public will get to tackle regional outbreaks behind, enable us to control of coronavirus in the future. the virus in that locality. the prime minister, borisjohnson, will be questioned by senior mps there‘s no timeframe yet, later amid continued calls for his top adviser but the government says it‘ll dominic cummings to resign. be part of the test, track and trace system. some health officials are concerned elsewhere riot police in hong kong fire pepper pellets to break up about getting the public on board. protests over a law that would criminalise insulting what we must have, if there china s national anthem. was a local lockdown, is adherence of the local president trump accuses twitter of stifling free speech after one population, and they would have of his tweets about postal voting to have the respect and the trust of the people who are actually was given a fact check label. giving that information. and nasa astronauts prepare we‘ll find out more about how to launch into space from the us the system will work. for the first time in nearly also this lunchtime: a decade we count down to the launch. the prime minister will face questions from senior mps this afternoon, amid continuing calls for his senior adviser, dominic cummings, to resign. donald trump has his wings clipped by twitter, after the social media company labels two posts by the president as hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. future coronavirus outbreaks in england could be controlled by introducing ‘local lockdowns‘ according to the government. the health secretary matt hancock said some restrictions, including the temporary closure of shops and schools, could be reintroduced in specific areas if there is a spike in the number of cases. there are already arrangements similar to ‘local lockdowns‘ in countries like france and germany. also today the uk prime minister borisjohnson will be questioned by senior mps about the government s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. he s also likely to be asked about his chief adviser dominic cummings‘ controversial trip to the north of england during lockdown. south korea, which avoided a nationwide lockdown, has seen its biggest spike in new coronavirus cases in two months, just as many schools are reopening. the head of the pan american health organisation has warned that latin america has become the centre of the global pandemic. and, back in the uk, research suggests women are more likely than men to have lost theirjobs since the start of the lockdown. they‘re also more likely to be doing most of the housework and childcare. do let us know your experiences you can get in touch on twitter or via email, victoria@bbc.co.uk. letters bring you this first report from andi mohr. more on that later but first this report from andy moore. a testing, tracking and tracing system is regarded as vital if the virus is to be kept in check while lockdown restrictions are eased. the fear is that, without it, there could be a second wave of infections. transmission rates are generally coming down across the country, but there are big regional variations. in somerset, the hospital in western super mare has been temporarily closed due to a high number of coronavirus cases. there‘s said to be an emerging picture of large numbers of staff testing positive, though they‘re showing no symptoms. the hospital says it hopes to reopen its a&e department and accept new patients as soon as possible. if there‘s a high level of infection in a particular area, the government has indicated that local schools, businesses or workplaces could be closed down. at the daily downing street press conference, matt hancock said the nhs test and trace programme would be incredibly important. it will give us the information to have local lockdowns and focus on areas where there may be flare ups, and it is very important that people follow those rules and they should do it don‘t not do it for, um, the government, people need to do this for themselves, for their loved ones, for their communities. it‘s incredibly important and it will stop those local flare ups from happening. a similar system will be launched in scotland tomorrow. it‘s called test and protect. anyone with symptoms will be urged to get a swab. if it comes back positive, 700 trackers will be ready to trace any contacts, with that number rising to 2,000 in due course. andy moore, bbc news. let‘s talk to our assistant political editor norman smith. mrjohnson will be questioned by senior mps later this afternoon. what kind of question is will they be putting to him? they will be a 90 minute grilling for borisjohnson where the questions will only be on coronavirus, the first 20 minutes specifically on the row over his chief aide dominic cummings, but a lot of questions also about the test, track and trace scheme which we have been hearing about and which is crucial in terms of easing the lockdown and is meant to kick in from monday. as part of that, we have been hearing that if there is an upsurge in the virus as a result in easing the restrictions, then the hope is that test, track and trace will enable officials to identify where there is an upsurge in the virus. what the government is now talking about is localised lockdown is so you can actually impose really dramatic restrictions on individual schools, on villages, on to give housing estates, at least that is what will set out this morning by the communities secretary robert jenrick. the trade off here is that for a relatively small number of people abiding by the rules, being inconvenienced in some cases, staying at home and self isolating, the rest of society gets to enjoy far more freedom than we all do today because of the great restrictions we are living under. so the potential is huge to help us get back to all the things we care about in life. the row over dominic cummings, however, rumbles on with two nude of elements this morning. the first, mr jenrick confirming the government will not now carry out a review of the finds of people who have travelled during the lockdown like mrcummings. travelled during the lockdown like mr cummings. robertjenrick saying no, they are just not going to do that. secondly, we had an admission from mrjenrick that if other people find themselves in the same situation as dominic cummings, in other words, they too have to travel for child care, well, they should be able to do it. if there are no other options and if you don t have ready access to childcare, then you can do as dominic cummings chose to do. evenif as dominic cummings chose to do. even if you are in household with symptoms of coronavirus? but the guidelines say that you must do your best mud but they appreciate that family life poses particular challenges, and in order to protect children you are able to exercise a degree of personal judgment. children you are able to exercise a degree of personaljudgment. and i think that s a reasonable way forwards. so it is clear borisjohnson wants to cling on to dominic cummings, despite the fact that around a0 or so tory mps from different wings of the party are demanding he goes. the big unknown is how do the public respond? we big unknown is how do the public respond ? we know big unknown is how do the public respond? we know there is widespread public anger, but is it so intense that it threatens the government‘s public health message? in other words, do people simply decide they are going to do a dominic cummings and ignore further restrictions or lockdowns? thank you very much, norman. norman smith reporting. riot police in hong kong have fired pepper pellets at demonstrators, as mps gather to debate a bill that would criminalise insulting china‘s national anthem. more than 2a0 people are reported to have been arrested by riot police as protesters gather in the central commercial district and in shopping areas. there were the scenes in hong kong‘s commercial district a little earlier when police attempted to disperse the crowds. pro democracy activists have also voiced their opposition to separate legislation which would impose a sweeping national security law on the semi autonomous territory. 0ur correspondent martin yip in hong kong explains the background to the controversy surrounding the chinese national anthem. it‘s pretty much about people thinking that this whole piece of law would bar them from expressing their discontent with governors in some ways, such as making parodies of the national anthem orjust booing at the national anthem. because back in 2017 when beijing made the national anthem law, and put it into what we call annex iii of the basic law of hong kong, which then forced hong kong to make this local legislation, was at a time when there was a series of incidents that hong kong football fans booed at the chinese national anthem at international games. because hong kong, under the one country, two systems rule, hong kong sends its own teams into games like world cup. things like that. but you have to play the chinese national anthem. and beijing treat this kind of behaviour, not just as unpatriotic, but almost as like a betrayal of the country. but to the hong kongers it is one of the many ways they can do legally, at least until this moment, to express discontent to chinese rule. professor arthur li is a member of the executive council which is the top policy making body of the hong kong government. he‘s considered pro beijing in his political outlook and he explained why he supports the national anthem law. well, basically, manners maketh man. i don t think anyone anywhere should insult anybody, any country s national anthem, and it is wrong. but we have seen in hong kong when the national anthem is being played at public events, people, some people, started booing it. this is very upsetting for a lot of hong kong people who feel that, first of all, it s bad manners. secondly, it is a national anthem. and thirdly, something needs to be done about it. as coronavirus restrictions ease in some areas across the world, schools have begun to resume face to face classes. but what should classroom look like now? and how are different nations dealing with the challenges of teaching during a pandemic? in china, schools began gradually reopening earlier this month including in wuhan where the outbreak started. students lined up to give swab samples and have their temperature checked. in france masks are required for students aged 11 years or older but it‘s not yet compulsory for parents to send their children back. schools in sweden have remained open. they have relied on social distancing and lots of washing of hands to reduce the spread of infection instead. and south korea just as over two million school children return to school. but strict measures have been put in place. as laura bicker has been finding out. well, this is pe class, as you can probably tell behind me. 2.5 million students are going back. this is part of a phased return. so a series of students go back every week. but teachers are on edge because there are clusters of infection popping up across the country. this is all related to an outbreak in nightclubs in seoul‘s party district a couple of weeks ago. health officials have traced 86,000 people. and tested them for the virus. but still these little pockets of infection keep cropping up. and that is why every single student must wear a mask. at the gates they are having their temperature checked. that‘s the first temperature check of the day. there are many temperature checks throughout the day. each of the classes have dividers in them to keep students apart. daily, teachers are telling their students to keep that social distance, but it is extremely difficult. as you can imagine, this is the first time that they‘ve seen each other in months. this is the start of the school term which was supposed to happen in march so they are very, very excited. i saw one studentjump up and down desperate to hug herfriend but she was told no, no, no, no by a teacher. but still they are allowing students to go back to school. some schools have decided to say no today but this one has. as you can see they are enjoying their pe class, they don‘t speak much english but they have one word which they can say which is hello! they go, hello from them. and hello from us. we heard about schools in south korea there and headteachers in england have told the bbc that preparing schools to welcome more children back from next week, has been the toughest challenge of their careers. staff rotas, school systems and physical changes to classrooms, have all been considered to ensure pupils can return safely under social distancing guidelines. john maguire has this. 0k, theo, can you tuck your chair and come and stand on the white line. the children returning to school here at the whitehook academies in north somerset next week, everything will be different. each and every aspect of school life has been reassessed. we have a 109 point check list to go through to make sure everything is risk assessed to be safe. we have a a5 page risk assessment that has also gone through a whole checking process, including staff, governors and trustees. but behind that, we have the practicalities of the day to day. so, we have timetables for break time, for lunch time, for outdoor space. we have timetables for different classrooms and different bubbles within those classes. the school has stayed open for key workers or vulnerable children. social distancing rules mean their desk partners are their siblings. there‘s a new theme each week. the latest is japan. they applaud on a normal day, there would be a50 pupils here, and after half term, around 150 will return. class sizes are different. the requirements for children s mixing and interaction is different. the hygiene requirements are a far higher level than we ve ever seen before. also, the risk assessment process behind that, ensuring that our site is as safe as it possibly can be for everyone in our community, is vital. making the physical changes has been very challenging but staff are also preparing to support children emotionally. the decision to reintroduce more pupils hasn‘t been an easy one. not for parents or for staff. for me, being in the classroom is where i belong. i want to be with the children, i don‘t want to be sat at home on my laptop doing things for them. i want to have that interaction and to be there for them, as their journey continues with their learning. a school is so much more than just a classroom. it‘s part of a community. in the office, fiona hague has been on hand to reassure anxious families. parents are still very worried, so it s pointing them in the direction of all the guidance that s coming out. we re ensuring we re getting as much information out to parents as we can via the website, school app, e mails. and making sure they re as up to date as they can be and know as much as we know. when the school gates next open, the canteen‘s shutters will remain closed. mixed feelings. i‘m fine with it. i think i‘m fine with it. we‘ve been. me and sue have been on our own for a while now, so it‘s fine. it‘s a nice big kitchen to social distance in, so, we are lucky, really. we‘re going to do a sandwich selection for them and they‘re going to be eating in their classroom, so we‘ll prepare it here and it will be going over in boxes into their little bubbles in their classrooms. over the past two weeks, primary schools have had to reinvent the wheel. and as these corridors fill in the coming days, there‘ll be much more to learn. so notjust for children, but for parents, teachers, and support staff, every day will be a school day. john maguire, bbc news, nailsea in north somerset. the headlines on bbc news: plans to impose localised lockdowns in england will be unveiled later today. the government will explain how its test, track and trace strategy will deal with regional outbreaks of covid i9. the uk prime minister, borisjohnson, will be questioned by senior mps later amid continued calls for his top adviser dominic cummings to resign. riot police in hong kong fire pepper pellets to break up protests over a law that would criminalise insulting china‘s national anthem. donald trump has accused twitter of interfering in the 2020 us election after it labelled two posts by the president as potentially misleading. mr trump had claimed that the use of postal votes would lead to widespread voter fraud. twitter responded by directing readers to a page with news articles and information from fact checkers debunking the claim. 0ur north america correspondent peter bowes reports. a twitter war about twitter. it started when mr trump, who has more than 80 million followers on the social media platform, tweeted that postal ballot papers would result in a rigged election. mailboxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged and even illegally printed out and fraudulently signed. mr trump also claimed that the governor of california will be sending ballots to millions of people, anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, will get one. twitter responded with a blue exclamation mark underneath the tweets, suggesting readers get the facts about mail in ballots through stories contradicting mr trump. the president later repeated his claims at a white house news conference. people that aren‘t citizens, illegals, anyone that walks in california is going to get a ballot. we‘re not going to destroy this country by allowing things like that to happen. we‘re not destroying our country. this has more to do with fairness and honesty, and really our country itself. twitter introduced a policy earlier this month to combat misleading information. but this is the first time the platform has applied a fact checking label to tweets by the president who was quick to respond with another tweet. twitter is now interfering in the 2020 presidential election. twitter is completely stifling free speech, and i, as president, will not allow it to happen! thank you. a potentially rocky road ahead for the president and his social media platform of choice. peter bowes, bbc news, los angeles. we are going to stay on that subject because a bbc team has been tracking online conspiracy theories. it has linked to some of the misinformation to racist attacks, arsons and even deaths around the world and now senior doctors in the uk including the royal college of gps are warning that the potential for harm could be much, much bigger. the bbc‘s specialist disinformation reporter marianna spring joins us. what are some of the examples of harm you have been investigating? bad information, bit my coronavirus, has spread everywhere and we have seen cases of harm and even deaths across the world. there have been poisonings in nigeria, the us, vietnam and iran linked to hydroxychloroquine, the drug that president donald trump said he was using to treat himself, or prevent coronavirus. to ward it off. yes, it has been trialled, although the world health organization says those trials have been paused at the moment. and then there have been cases of racist attacks, as you say, in india against muslims because of misleading information suggesting muslim communities have been spreading coronavirus. here in the uk and other places telephone masts have been set on fire because people believe falsely that 5g technology is linked to coronavirus and we have spoken to engineers who have been attacked and abused by people. and then there is the stuff that is less direct but equally harmful in my opinion. so, misinformation that courage to people not to seek help, not to good hospital, to misdiagnosed themselves, to try treatments at home, and i spoke to one man who was an extreme case in florida who believed conspiracy theories, including that 5g was falsely linked to coronavirus, or that coronavirus was like the flu and asa that coronavirus was like the flu and as a consequence he didn‘t follow social distancing guidance and didn‘t seek help soon and has been critically ill in hospital with coronavirus. his wife is sedated on a ventilator and he deeply regrets believing this misinformation. it is incredibly harmful across the spectrum fell. what are people most concerned about when it comes to disinformation? medics are concerned about brian‘s case, although that is extreme, cases that mean people don‘t seek help. i spoke to professor martin marshall the chair of the royal college of gps and he explained to me the kind of things he has been seeing patients saying about misleading stuff online. as health professionals we have a responsibility to raise awareness around the risks around this. government, of course, has responsibility, particularly through its information sources that it provides. possibly, most importantly, the social media companies themselves have a responsibility to police the content that goes up on theirwebsite. explains responsibility this is, as doctors they feel a great responsibility to get the right information out to people and us journalists we also do, but then there is the responsibility of social media companies and companies and governments and what they are doing to properly police their platforms, bit like what we saw about donald trump. you have spoken to governments, social media companies, what have they said to you? they say they aim to tackle disinformation that endangers the life and threatens it. but the problem is that, as we just highlighted, actually a lot of misinformation doesn‘t necessarily cause direct imminent harm, but can actually lead to people not seeking medical help and people miss diagnosing themselves, and particularly with the prospect of a vaccine on the horizon, conspiracies about vaccinations which have really been growing on social media are a serious concern to doctors and aren‘t necessarily tackled properly by social media companies. thank you very much, marianna spring. mums appear to being doing most of the housework and childcare during lockdown. research from the institute for fiscal studies suggests that in homes where there is a working mum and dad, women are doing more of the jobs and spending more time with the children. and mums were only able to do one hour of uninterrupted work, for every three hours done by dads. let‘s speak now to paula sheridan a coach whose firm unwrapping potential works with professional women, helping those who pause their career to have a family. hello, paula. hello. does this surprise you, or not at all? not at all, unfortunately. so many of the women that i speak to have been talking in terms of it‘s just highlighting, lockdown is just highlighting, lockdown is just highlighting what they are experiencing the rest of the time in terms of a lot of their mental energy is going on planning everything, making sure everything is organised in advance, we know what the children are doing, what time they are going to do it, do we have the right materials for them to do it? all of that sort of thing. it really is just a sort of an extension of what ordinary life is before lockdown, unfortunately. yes. why is it not different during lockdown, when often both parents who wouldn‘t normally work, are in the home at the moment? my belief is that it goes all the way back to maternity leave when the birth pa rent maternity leave when the birth pa re nt ta kes maternity leave when the birth parent takes extended time off, at home with the child early on, they are learning how to do it, they are learning how to parent and how to runa learning how to parent and how to run a household. it is a bit of trial and error and you get there in the end and we all make mistakes and then we learn not to do them again. and it tends to be only women that get the opportunity to have that space, learn how to do planning and the running and organising and every thing else. and their partners don‘t usually get that opportunity. so when the woman goes back to work she just carries on doing all the stuff that she‘s been doing. just carries on doing all the stuff that she s been doing. so it s our fault? well, it s not about fault. no, i‘m being slightly facetious! yes, women carry on doing it and the only way to break the cycle is to find a way to stop doing it. that involves letting go a bit of control. i‘ve been in that scenario myself, and guess what, my husband can change nappies just as well as i could but he just did can change nappies just as well as i could but hejust did it can change nappies just as well as i could but he just did it slightly differently and i just could but he just did it slightly differently and ijust had to accept that and it was fine. exactly. exactly. and when i went back to work after maternity leave and i had to go ona work after maternity leave and i had to go on a work trip all the people i was travelling with said to me, will he be all right with your daughter at home? and i was like, of course he will be all right, he is her father, of course course he will be all right, he is herfather, of course he course he will be all right, he is her father, of course he will be all right. but there seems to be this expected norm that men can‘t cope with this stuff, and of course they can. of course they can but we as women need to get out of the way sometimes. james says it isn t the case in my house, my dad is a teacher working from home. my mum is a nurse not working from home. it doesn‘t surprise me, though, that on average it is what is happening. my question would be, as the gap closed since lockdown? matt says, my wife is working full time and looking after three kids at the same time. we are in two different countries, japan and the uk, due to corona. i should be doing my bit but there is only so much i can to help them it is so exhausting, lift the travel ban soon so i can travel to my family. loads on twitter. graham says i do both. leanne says my partner does just as says i do both. leanne says my partner doesjust as much says i do both. leanne says my partner does just as much as i says i do both. leanne says my partner doesjust as much as i do. we work as a team to get everything done. eva says my partner and i share chores, generally, and chris says my wife works and i am furloughed, so i look after my seven year old son and one year old daughter, i cook all the meals and i do all the cleaning. there is also some research from the ifs today which suggests that more women are losing theirjobs during this period of time than men. what do you think of time than men. what do you think of that, paula? i can t necessarily comment on that. because i haven‘t read the research, that bit of the research, in detail. i think it‘s u nfortu nate research, in detail. i think it‘s unfortunate and i think it may well represent the mix ofjobs that there are in society and the gender distribution of roles. i don‘t think i‘m the right person to really comment on that. i think it‘s a shame if it‘s the truth. comment on that. i think it‘s a shame if it s the truth. thank you for your contribution, paula, thank you for talking to us. really appreciate it. and thank you for your messages on the subject as well. the first commercial craft to take people into space is due to blast off from cape canaveral in florida this evening. the spacex rocket and capsule, will be the first to take off from american soil since 2011. two nasa astronauts will be on board the mission to the international space station. here‘s our science correspondent rebecca morelle. getting ready for launch. a commercial spacecraft facing its ultimate test carrying astronauts into space. nasa‘s bob behnken and doug hurley will be at the controls. they‘ve been training for this moment for years. at any time you have the first flight of a brand new vehicle, it‘s exciting. it‘s a bit more risky, which is why we‘re using people like bob and doug, who are very experienced test pilots, they can handle anything that maybe happens that we didn‘t expect. but it‘s what test pilots live for, you know, the chance to be the first one to fly a new, shiny vehicle is a test pilot‘s dream. lift off, we have a lift off. the united states has a long history of space flight. from the apollo missions, which took astronauts to the moon, to the space shuttle programme, which ferried men and women to low earth orbit and back. the shuttle has cleared the tower. but its last flight touched down nearly a decade ago. since then, nasa‘s astronauts have had to buy seats on russian rockets instead. this new spacecraft will restore america‘s ability for human space flight. the fact it‘s owned by spacex, a commercial company, also marks a big change for the us space agency. nasa has said, basically, we ll give you the money and you give us the space flight and that releases nasa to use its resources to do other things. and that s where we can start really thinking big. and instead of spending allthe time, effort, resources on something we ve done now for many years, going into low earth orbit, doing experiments, let s look bigger, let s go further and the ultimate destination has to be mars. last year, a crash test dummy took a test ride in the spacex capsule. now, though, it‘s time for the real thing. a new era in space flight is set to begin. rebecca morelle, bbc news. hello this is bbc news with victoria derbyshire. the headlines: plans to impose localised lockdowns in england will be unveiled later today the government will explain how its test, track and trace strategy will deal with regional outbreaks of covid 19. if there is a flare up in one particular community, and that could be on quite a small scale like a particular workplace or school, then measures can be introduced, which hopefully the public will get behind, enable us to control the virus in that locality. the uk prime minister, borisjohnson, will be questioned by senior mps later amid continued calls for his top adviser dominic cummings to resign. elsewhere, riot police in hong kong fire pepper pellets to break up protests over a law that would criminalise insulting china‘s national anthem. president trump accuses twitter of stifling free speech, after one of his tweets about postal voting was given a fact check label. and nasa astronauts prepare to launch into space from the us for the first time in nearly a decade we count down to the launch. police officers in the us city of minneapolis have fired tear gas at demonstrators protesting the death of an unarmed black man in police custody. soon after george floyd died on monday a video emerged showing a white policeman kneeling on his neck forfive minutes despite the man complaining that he couldn‘t breathe. these are some of the protests you can see now. protestors filled the city‘s streets on tuesday evening hours after it was that four police officers had been sacked. this report starts with images of the dead man being detained. a disturbing scene caught on camera by witnesses incensed over the police‘s actions. bro? the ten minute video shows george floyd pleading with officers who have him restrained on the ground. one of them using his knee to pin the man down by his neck. clearly in distress, he tells the white officer he can‘t breathe and is in pain. the crowd tries to help, and grows increasingly concerned and frustrated. when george floyd appears motionless, bystanders question why he isn‘t being given urgent medical attention. seven minutes into the video, an ambulance arrives. he‘s put on a stretcher, still handcuffed, and taken to hospital. at a press conference, the minneapolis police department offered their version of events. they said they were responding to a crime and that the man appeared to be under the influence. he physically resisted officers. officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and officers noticed that the male was going into medical distress. officers called for an ambulance. he was transported to hennepin county medical center, where he died a short time later. mayorjacob frey said that four of the officers involved have now been fired, after initially being put on paid leave. the fbi is also investigating the incident. being black in america should not be a death sentence. for five minutes, we watched as a white officer pressed his knee into the neck of a black man. for five minutes. when you hear someone calling for help, you are supposed to help. this officer failed in the most basic human sense. the viral video quickly sparked outrage. yesterday, what we saw was a black man who was lynched. right? they didn t use rope, he used his knee. and that black man, mr floyd, said, i cannot breathe. minnesota prides itself on being progressive and being the north. but this is the jim crow north, and we demand justice. police officer: put your hands behind your back! george floyd: i can t breathe! for many, this is a case of history repeating itself. millions protested in 201a after eric garner, an unarmed black man in new york, died after being restrained by police. his repeated plea of i can‘t breathe , also captured in cellphone footage, became a rallying cry at demonstrations against police brutality against african america ns. there are sometimes investigations, but many feel there is rarely any accountability. nada tawfik, bbc news. the husband of the jailed biritsh iranian woman nazanin zaghari ratcliffe, says there is some hope his wife could soon be allowed to come home from iran. to the uk. iran‘s leader is expected to pardon 3,000 people as part of the countty‘s eid celerations, and richard ratcliffe has told the bbc he expects to hear around lunchtime whether or not his wife is among those to be released. she was arrested in 2016 and sentenced to five years in prison, accused of plotting to overthrow the iranian government, something she denies. the charity which runs the uk‘s national domestic abuse helpline has had a ten fold increase in visits to its website in the past two weeks. refuge said numbers have spiked again significantly since it started recording rises during lockdown. but figures revealed to the bbc request show that more uk police forces recorded a fall in calls about domestic violence at the start of lockdown, than recorded a rise. why the disparity? abby newbery reports. for some, lockdown has meant feeling trapped in an abusive situation at home. itjust got me down more and more. i thought i can‘t go on like this. this is one woman‘s experience, recreated and voiced by actors, to protect her identity. he got more and more aggressive, saying he‘d like me to go now. he got a stick and he came back with it and he stood there with the stick in his hand and he said, i want you out now or i‘m going to hurt you and you know i can kill you, waving this stick at me. and he really, really did frighten me. this woman has now escaped her situation. but that‘s not the case for many. the bbc asked all a5 of the uk‘s police forces how many domestic abuse calls they‘d had. a1 responded. more than half had fewer calls at the start of lockdown than at the same time last year. but that‘s not the case for refuge, a domestic abuse charity that has seen 66% more calls and almost 1,000% increase to its website in lockdown. as director of communications, lisa king explains. refuge is concerned to see such demand on its services and what we really want all women to know is that they are not alone. that domestic abuse is a crime and that refuge is here to support them every hour of every day. it shows that domestic abuse is perhaps a bigger issue than we have even anticipated in this country. but why is there not a similar recorded increase in police calls? there needs to be an understanding of what domestic abuse is. claire walker is a domestic abuse consultant and she thinks more training is needed to spot the signs. 100% of victims will experience coercive control. not so much what he does, it s about what he. ..disables her from being able to do. their systems and their policies and practices need to change. i am tired of police officers not understanding what coercive control is. the country‘s leading domestic abuse police officer, louisa rolfe, says that all front line officers across the uk receive training to spot the signs of coercive or controlling behaviour. she adds they are working with domestic abuse charities to understand the nature of their demand. drones are being used to deliver medical equipment to a scottish island, as part of a trial to prove the efficiency of the technology. the test flights can carry protective equipment and packages between the hospital in oban and the isle of mull, in 15 minutes. that must be good, i assume. it‘s hoped that test kits and samples could, in time, be transported in this way. iain macinnes reports. did the preflight check? preflight check completed. ready for take off. this is a drone flight with a difference. medical supplies carried on board will head 12 miles across the water to the isle of mull injust 15 minutes. i think anything that improves island medical health has to be tried. i think it‘s extra resilience for our island, as well. because of covid 19, we were looking at ferry sailings and trying to cut down the risk of transmitting infection. so even if it saves one life, it will give great confidence to the island. the heavily regulated process has been accelerated by coronavirus but the drone and its carrying abilities can be the latest tool in fighting the virus. i think particularly we are moving into the phase now where we re looking at testing and isolation, the speed of getting a test kit out to some of our more remote communities, or getting that result back will allow us to make those decisions and support the communities in protecting them and keeping them safe and well in their community. and obviously supporting the health service so that we can cope with any peak in demand. the health board say other crossings like this could be made to island surgeries and hospitals, and there‘s no suggestion the west coast weather will cause any issues. within a couple of years, we hope to have multiple drones over multiple routes, serving lots and lots of different purposes. of course, when you get to that stage, the economics start to get better for the nhs and other users, because you can fly packages out, you can fly samples back, you can integrate with the mail, any goods that need to go over. then it really becomes an efficient form of transportation. another test flight has successfully made its way back here to oban. the hope is, though, that if this technology could be proved, that we may see drones like this more widespread across the country. ever since the pandemic began countries around the world have been desperately trying to get hold of personal protective equipment or ppe. that‘s the gloves, face masks and gowns needed for doctors, nurses and carers. but what happens when these items mostly made of plastic get thrown away? the bbc‘s tim allman reports on the potential hazards of discarded ppe. in the waters off the coast of southern france, a perhaps unexpected consequence of covid 19. this video, shot by an environmentalist called laurent lombard, appears to show disposable gloves on the sea bed, near the resort of antibes. and it‘s notjust gloves. there are face masks, too, in amongst the usual plastic pollution of the mediterranean. laurent lombard is part of a group called operation clean sea, which describes the oceans as our heritage that must be respected. this is what he found during just two hours of snorkelling, dozens of plastic bottles and, lying in a row at the front, face masks and latex gloves. the demand for personal protective equipment has been, understandably, huge, country after country scrambling to get hold of as much of this stuff as they can. france alone is reported to have ordered somewhere in the region of 2 billion face masks. much of it cannot be reused and some of it seems to be ending up discarded in the ocean. this has been described as a new form of pollution and there has been a warning that if nothing is done, we may end up with more face masks than jellyfish in the mediterranean. one consequence of so many shops, bars and restaurants being closed around the world is that it can be harder for people who are out and about to find a toilet. and the problem is even worse because many public toilets are closed, too. but for vulnerable people, it‘s more thanjust an inconvenience it‘s feared the lack of facilities is stopping some of them from leaving their homes. tim muffett has more. inconvenience. with lockdown easing, more people are out and about and needing the loo. and that‘s been a problem in many places, such as skegness. so, how are you coping, then? there‘s no toilets down by the beach. yeah, it‘s a killer and i got a water infection. we knew about the toilets. and how have you coped? just won t have to have too many of them. she laughs. they re basically not keeping two metres distance, they re going into the sand dunes and, excuse my language, peeing in there. it‘s notjust trips to the beach that have been affected. jonathan‘s a lorry driver from hampshire. it‘s making it really difficult for us lorry drivers. we‘re out on the road, doing ten, 12, 13 hours a day and we‘re not able to use toilets anywhere. it‘s just getting worse. places i used to go to the toilet, different businesses, they‘ve stopped letting people go there. there‘ve been instances where i‘ve had to stop somewhere and maybe have a wee in a bush, or do something like that. but there‘s people where i work, you know, that have. ..had to have a number two in the back of a lorry, which is not good and it‘s not dignified. some public loos have reopened, but the british toilet association says the majority are still shut, as, of course, are cafes a nd restau ra nts. and whilst the site of a closed toilet can be a nuisance for many, for those with a bowel condition such as crohn‘s or colitis, it can be much worse. what we want is for local authorities in thinking about opening back up again, it s really important to prioritise those local conveniences for people with crohn s or colitis or other disabilities who need them. it s not a luxury, it s actually a necessity. the way we live our lives might have changed, but basic human needs will always remain. and finding a loo when out and about has become much harder. tim muffet, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news: plans to impose localised lockdowns in england will be unveiled later. the government will explain how its test, track and trace strategy will deal with regional outbreaks of covid 19. the prime minister, borisjohnson, will be questioned by senior mps later amid continued calls for his top adviser dominic cummings to resign. riot police in hong kong fire pepper pellets to break up protests over a law that would criminalise insulting china‘s national anthem. let‘s get more now on plans for some coronavirus restrictions, including the temporary closure of shops and schools, to be reintroduced in specific areas in england if there is a spike in the number of cases. so called local lockdowns will be used to suppress flare ups of the virus once the nationwide lockdown restrictions have been lifted. dr george rae is north east chair of the british medical association and joins me now. what do you think of this idea of local lockdowns? well, the very first thing we‘ve got to be thinking about, victoria, is the continued protection of public health. and we have got to make sure that we are maintaining the suppression of covid 19. now, what we‘ve noticed in the north east of england about four weeks ago was that we had a higher rate of patients testing positive for covid 19. also, very sadly and tragically, we had more deaths pro rata 100,000 tragically, we had more deaths pro rata100,000 patients as opposed to any other area in england. at the time, but four weeks ago, we had 55 deaths per 100,000 population as opposed to further south in the more affluent areas about 25 deaths. we raised concern about that. there was no doubt in our mind it would be more than likely multifactorial in explanation. for example, more people are being tested in the north east. however, health inequalities have a huge implication in this. what do i mean by that? thejobs huge implication in this. what do i mean by that? the jobs that people have, the employment or unemployment ata have, the employment or unemployment at a look all those factors have an effect on health and the sort of factors, they have caused more chronic bronchitis, more emphysema and heart disease. therefore, the ability of the people to actually contend with that virus like covid 19, it is reduced. at that time, when we were debating it, we felt it is not inconceivable that in the future, when, eventually, the lockdown measures come off, that they might find in some areas there will be further restrictions. that was a massive concern for us. right. are you saying that if there are more restrictions in your particular area of the country, for example, because of flare ups, then. what are you saying? because of flare ups, then. what 7i m because of flare ups, then. what ? i‘m sorry. because of flare ups, then. what are you saying? i m sorry. what i m saying is that it is not inconceivable that in certain parts of the country, and i‘m talking about in england, but it can happen within the united kingdom, that particularly when there are areas where there is deprivation and higher rates of infection and higher death rates that you could find that when we are coming out of the lockdown that there is an actual rise in the r number in certain areas in the country and that would bea areas in the country and that would be a concern for us. it is something we would do something about. ok, forgive me, i absolutely understand, something would have to be done and that would be where presumably this local lockdowns would come in? would that be enough? very unfortunately, we would have to bring in a local lockdown. this is all predicated on the testing, tracing and isolating and making sure we have got all the reliable information. what i would think. i was speaking to doctors last evening during a virtual conference, we would want the local public health to be involved in that. but also working with public health england with the test, track, trace and isolate. if there was a local lockdown, we would have to have adherents of the local population. they would have to have the respect and trust of the people who are actually giving that information. lets be honest, victoria, a lot of people would think, well, this is unfair, the rest of the country is coming back out and we are being told to go back to the square before, we are having further restrictions , this could have an effect on their health, their mental health and the local economy. but nevertheless, if there are spikes in certain parts of the country, if there are clusters, they have actually got to be brought under control. because if not, if it was ina under control. because if not, if it was in a part of the north east, it was in a part of the north east, it was a part of the midlands, in the south west, that cluster could spread. that can spread to further areas in the region and of course, you know, people would realise it could further spread within the country. that is the very last thing we want. that is why i feel there has got to be, with the population, if there is a local re occurrence, there has got to be trust. there has got to be respect. they have got to be saying, look, the public health, the doctors say it is in the north east, say it is in the south west, they are saying to us that there is a problem here and they would adhere to the guidance, which is being given. because, in many respects, they will be feeling, well, this is unfair because i‘ve done my bit over the last ten or 12 weeks, i have abided by what is actually happening at now i am being asked to further go back into restrictions, so we are going to have to look at how that actually is carried forward in the future. ok. thank you very much for talking to us, thank you. the north east chair of the british medical association in england. around the world, thousands of music concerts and festivals have been cancelled because of the coronavirus. the organisers of the high profile afro nation music festival in portugal have told the bbc they received death threats and racial abuse, after they refused to offer ticket holders refunds. shamaan freeman powell has this report. and just to say it does feature images of racially abusive messages. it was meant to be one of the highlights of the summer. after selling out in its debut last year, fans of the afro nation portugal festival had big plans for summer 2020. so well organised, so nicely put together. it was such a vibe. i bought a vip ticket this year because i thought, yeah, let me just go bigger and better. but those plans were scuppered by the covid 19 outbreak and while other festivals offered refunds, afro nation only offered a ticket to next year‘s event, causing outrage amongst some customers. at the moment, a lot of people are financially stressed and people are losing jobs or working less. and then on top of it, i found that i can t get a refund. so it was just a lot to take in. many ticket holders were even more shocked to see one of the men behind the festival, adesegun adeosun, better known as smade, posted a controversial message on twitter, threatening to block people who complained. if you try to ask a question, or could you please reply me, i have messaged you in the dms, they would block you. afro nation say, like all festivals, they remove abusive, anti social or bullying comments from social media feeds and haven‘t blocked anyone since announcing the event was postponed. as for smade, he says he reacted after receiving threatening and racially abusive messages online. some suggested that he should go and live in a zoo, whilst others wished terminal cancer on his mum. i regret tweeting what i tweeted, but i don t think anyone deserves any of those. um, messages. but on may the 11th, organisers announced that they will be using a new portuguese law, which was passed in march. the law was introduced to protect the tourism industry in portugal and it allows events to be rescheduled within a year with the same line up. because the main promoter of afro nation is based in portugal, this law applies and means customers get a ticket to next year‘s event but no refund. ijust want my refund back, that‘s really it. and if i want to go next year, because i don‘t know the plan for next year, then i‘ll go on my own terms. some of the people that i have spoken to have said that they‘ve lost some faith in the festival. what would you say to them about that? i would say to them to continue to believe in afro nation. a lot of people are disappointed. a lot of people are sad, at the moment. you know, 2021 is going to be a bigger opportunity. the festival organisers say cancelling the event would have damaged local businesses and the portuguese economy. and say they‘ve done everything possible to ensure 2021 is better than before, adding extra names to the line up. this leaves ticket holders with only two options try and resell their tickets using the platform provided by afro nation or hope that the pandemic is over by 2021. shamaan freeman powell, bbc news. many couples across the uk have been forced to cancel their wedding plans, but one doctor and nurse from south london were able to tie the knot this week, in the hospital chapel where they both work. after calling off their august wedding because of fears their family would be unable to attend, jann and annalan decided to hold their nuptials early in the grade 2 listed chapel, at st thomas‘ hospital. they described the day as intimate and lovely , but said it felt surreal getting married at work. look at those pictures. absolutely brilliant, stunning, amazing, joyous. thank you for your messages today, always appreciate them. try today, always appreciate them. try to read most of them. on the split of housework in the house, heidi says it is the opposite in my house, iam says it is the opposite in my house, i am working from home, my husband is furloughed, he is doing all the cooking, housework and lots of diy at my teenage children are doing their bit. my daughter willingly and she is also working part time. my son under sufferance. thank you very much, heidi. now it‘s time for a look at the weather with carol. hello again. if you‘re looking for rain, there really isn‘t much in the forecast for the next few days. and that that we do have isn‘t going to be particularly heavy where it falls. most of us are going to remain dry, sunny and warm and for some by the weekend very warm. what we have today is high pressure still in charge of our weather, it has been with us this week and it will see us through this week as well. but across the north of the country, we have a couple of fronts which are introducing thicker cloud and also some rain. as we go through the afternoon, there will be a lot of dry weather, a lot of sunshine, some low cloud just lapping on shore across parts of eastern england. and the front‘s coming in from the west producing some rain but it‘s not going to be heavy at this stage. we might see the odd drop across northern ireland and western scotland. temperatures ranging from 12 in the north to 25 in the south. now, if we pick up this rain through the evening and overnight as it crosses northernmost scotland, it will turn that bit heavier. move away from there, we are looking at a lot of dry weather, some clear skies, with some of this low cloud lapping a bit further inland. as a result of all of this, it‘s not going to be a cold night for most of the uk. so tomorrow, we say goodbye to that rain. you could even see a few spots across south east scotland and north east england before it eventually moves away. and once again it‘s going to be a dry day, variable amounts of cloud and a fair bit of sunshine. temperatures responding, 22 in edinburgh, 25 in liverpool, 26 in cardiff. by the time we get to friday, we still are looking at a lot of dry weather, the high pressure through thursday and into friday drifts in towards scandinavia. we start to pull in some breezier conditions, but also some warmer air from the near continent. so a largely dry day for us all during the course of friday, a lot of sunshine, a little bit of fair weather cloud here and there. not really that much of a breeze on friday, but temperatures, well, they are going to get up into the low to mid 20s quite widely and 27 in cardiff is likely to be the highest temperature and with high pressure in charge it is effectively keeping these weather fronts at bay. we don‘t think they are going to make any progress. if they do, then we are likely to see the odd spot of rain in northern ireland, possibly in western scotland but they are more likely to stay in the atlantic. on saturday, a breezier day, a dry day with a lot of sunshine and highs up to 26.
this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. plans to impose localised lockdowns in england will be unveiled later today. the government will explain how its test, track and trace strategy will deal with regional outbreaks of covid 19. if there is a flare up in one particular community, and that could be on quite a small scale, like a particular workplace or school, then measures can be introduced, which hopefully the public will get behind, enable us to control the virus in that locality. the prime minister, borisjohnson, will be questioned by senior mps later amid continued calls for his top adviser dominic cummings to resign. elsewhere, riot police in hong kong fire pepper pellets to break up protests over a law that would criminalise insulting china‘s national anthem. president trump accuses twitter of stifling free speech after one of his tweets about postal voting was given a fact check label. and nasa astronauts prepare to launch into space from the us for the first time in nearly a decade. we speak to british astronauts tim peake and helen sharman. hello and welcome if you‘re watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. future coronavirus outbreaks in england could be controlled by introducing ‘local lockdowns‘, according to the government. the health secretary matt hancock said some restrictions, including the temporary closure of shops and schools, could be reintroduced in specific areas if there is a spike in the number of cases. there are already arrangements similar to ‘local lockdowns‘ in countries like france and germany. also today, the uk prime minister borisjohnson will be questioned by senior mps about the government‘s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. he‘s also likely to be asked about his chief adviser dominic cummings‘ controversial trip to the north of england during lockdown. south korea, which avoided a nationwide lockdown, has seen its biggest spike in new coronavirus cases in two months, just as many schools are reopening. the head of the pan american health organisation has warned that latin america has become the centre of the global pandemic. and, back in the uk, research suggests women are more likely than men to have lost theirjobs since the start of the lockdown. they‘re also more likely to be doing most of the housework and childcare. more on that later but first, this report from andy moore. a testing, tracking and tracing system is regarded as vital if the virus is to be kept in check while lockdown restrictions are eased. the fear is that, without it, there could be a second wave of infections. transmission rates are generally coming down across the country, but there are big regional variations. in somerset, the hospital in western super mare has been temporarily closed due to a high number of coronavirus cases. there‘s said to be an emerging picture of large numbers of staff testing positive, though they‘re showing no symptoms. the hospital says it hopes to reopen its a&e department and accept new patients as soon as possible. if there‘s a high level of infection in a particular area, the government has indicated that local schools, businesses or workplaces could be closed down. at the daily downing street press conference, matt hancock said the nhs test and trace programme would be incredibly important. it will give us the information to have local lockdowns and focus on areas where there may be flare ups, and it is very important that people follow those rules and they should do it don‘t not do it for, um, the government, people need to do this for themselves, for their loved ones, for their communities. it‘s incredibly important and it will stop those local flare ups from happening. a similar system will be launched in scotland tomorrow. it‘s called test and protect. anyone with symptoms will be urged to get a swab. if it comes back positive, 700 trackers will be ready to trace any contacts, with that number rising to 2,000 in due course. andy moore, bbc news. let‘s talk to our assistant political editor, norman smith. the government wanting to talk about what is going to be happening going forward , what is going to be happening going forward, but so much of the figure still on dominic cummings. huge still on dominic cummings. huge still on dominic cummings. huge still on dominic cummings. a0 or so tory mps all saying in effect he must go. that said, there is absolutely no sign of borisjohnson backing down there. media, angry tory mps, hoping they will move on. hoping based on that is a really crucial coronavirus issues coming down the track very, very quickly. we know the government wants schools back by next monday. they also want to have reached 300,000 tests a day and, crucially, they want to roll out test, track and trace which is absolutely central to easing the lockdown. 200,000 tests a day. what we have learned today is the possibility of renewed localised lockdown is, if there is a flare up in the virus in some particular areas. this could be in individual villages, housing estates, hospitals or schools, where a lockdown would be reimposed and people basically we go back to square one and have to self isolate for 1a days. have a listen to how the communities secretary robertjenrick set out the plans. the trade off here is that for a relatively small number of people abiding by the rules, being inconvenienced in some cases, staying at home and self isolating, the rest of society gets to enjoy far more freedom than we all do today because of the great restrictions we are living under. so the potential is huge to help us get back to all the things we care about in life. a couple of other things we learned from robertjenrick is the promised review of the fines imposed on people for breaching the lockdown by travelling, not going to happen, even though the health secretary matt hancock in response to the question in the news conference yesterday seemed to say there would bea yesterday seemed to say there would be a review. according to robert jenrick, that is not going to be such a review. secondly, he conceded that if people found that the childcare reasons they had to travel, to their parents‘ to ensure adequate childcare, then they could do the same with dominic cummings. they could do the same as dominic cummings. if there are no other options, if you don t have ready access to childcare, then you can do as dominic cummings chose to do. even if you re in a household with symptoms of coronavirus. but the guidelines say that she must do your best, but they appreciate that family life poses particular challenges and in order to protect children, you are able to exercise a degree of personaljudgement and i think that is a reasonable way forwards. we know that many tory mps are angry at the conduct of dominic cummings, we know the polls, if they are to be believed, the public are unhappy. we don‘t know how people respond when the government comes asking them for further restrictions, whether it is through a localised lockdown or quarantining if they come back from abroad, whether they will think, i am going to do a dominic cummings and just use my own instinct. i am going to use my own judgment. and just use my own instinct. i am going to use my ownjudgment. we don‘t know whether people will choose in effect to flout rules because they take the view that dominic cummings has say they are going to do the same. i can‘t really recall many if any incidents in politics where there has then such demands for somebody to stand down or be sacked. and that they have survived, even if it is gone on first a long period of time, normally the inevitable happens. does this seem like a different one to you this time? it does, if you look to comparable situations, alastair campbell and tony blair would be an obvious one. mr blair hugely dependent on alistair campbell but at the end of the day he had today. borisjohnson seems to ta ke he had today. borisjohnson seems to take the view that dominic cummings is pretty much indispensable, that he is absolutely critical if he is to deliver on brexit but also it seems in terms of managing coronavirus and he has taken the view that he is going to take a hit, and a mighty hit it would seem, in order to keep mr cummings, regardless of what the media say, what tory mps say will indeed what public opinion thinks. thank you, norman. riot police in hong kong have fired pepper pellets at demonstrators as mps gather to debate a bill that would criminalise insulting china‘s national anthem. more than 200 people have been arrested by riot police as demonstrators gather in the central commercial district and in shopping areas. this was the scene in hong kong‘s commercial district a little earlier when police attempted to disperse demonstrators. pro democracy activists have also voiced their opposition to separate legislation which would impose a sweeping national security law on the semi autonomous territory. our correspondent martin yip in hong kong explained the background to the controversy surrounding the chinese national anthem. it‘s pretty much about people thinking that this whole piece of law would bar them from expressing their discontent with governors in some ways, such as making parodies of the national anthem orjust booing at the national anthem. because back in 2017 when beijing made the national anthem law, and put it into what we call annex iii of the basic law of hong kong, which then forced hong kong to make this local legislation, was at a time when there was a series of incidents that hong kong football fans booed at the chinese national anthem at international games. because hong kong, under the one country, two systems rule, hong kong can send its own teams into games like world cup. things like that. but you have to play the chinese national anthem. and beijing treat this kind of behaviour, not just as unpatriotic, but almost as like a betrayal of the country. but to the hong kongers it is one of the many ways they can do legally, at least until this moment, to express discontent to chinese rule. professor arthur li is a member of the executive council which is the top policy making body of the hong kong government. he‘s considered pro beijing in his political outlook and he told us why he supports the national anthem law. well, basically, manners maketh man. i don t think anyone anywhere should insult anybody, any country s national anthem, and it is wrong. but we have seen in hong kong when the national anthem is being played at public events, people, some people, started booing it. this is very upsetting for a lot of hong kong people who feel that, first of all, it s bad manners. secondly, it is a national anthem. and thirdly, something needs to be done about it. and we‘ll be getting the latest from hong kong live later in this half hour. as coronavirus restrictions ease in some areas across the globe, schools have begun to resume face to face classes. but what should classroom look like now? and how are different nations dealing with the challenges of teaching during a pandemic? in china, schools began gradually reopening earlier this month, including in wuhan where the outbreak started. students lined up to give swab samples and have their temperature checked. in france masks are required for students aged 11 years or older, but it‘s not yet compulsory for parents to send their child back. schools in sweden have remained open. they have relied on social distancing and hygiene measures to reduce the spread of infection instead. south korea, just as over two million school children return to school but strict measures have been put in place. as laura bicker has been finding out more. well, this is pe class, as you can probably tell behind me. 2.5 million students are going back. this is part of a phased return. so a series of students go back every week. but teachers are on edge because there are clusters of infection popping up across the country. this is all related to an outbreak in nightclubs in seoul‘s party district a couple of weeks ago. health officials have traced 86,000 people. and tested them for the virus. but still these little pockets of infection keep cropping up. and that is why every single student must wear a mask. at the gates they are having their temperature checked. that‘s the first temperature check of the day. there are many temperature checks throughout the day. each of the classes have dividers in them to keep students apart. daily, teachers are telling their students to keep that social distance, but it is extremely difficult. as you can imagine, this is the first time that they‘ve seen each other in months. this is the start of the school term which was supposed to happen in march so they are very, very excited. i saw one studentjump up and down desperate to hug herfriend but she was told no, no, no, no by a teacher. but still they are allowing students to go back to school. some schools have decided to say no today but this one has. as you can see they are enjoying their pe class, they don‘t speak much english but they have one word which they can say which is hello! there you go, hello from them. meanwhile, headteachers in england have told the bbc that preparing schools to welcome more children back from next week, has been the toughest challenge of their careers. staff rotas, school systems and physical changes to classrooms, have all been considered to ensure pupils can return safely under social distancing guidelines. john maguire reports. ok, theo, can you tuck your chair and come and stand on the white line? well done. the children returning to school here at the whitehook academies in north somerset next week, everything will be different. each and every aspect of school life has been reassessed. we have a 109 point check list to go through to make sure everything is risk assessed to be safe. we have a as page risk assessment that has also gone through a whole checking process, including staff, governors and trustees. but behind that, we have the practicalities of the day to day. so, we have timetables for break time, for lunch time, for outdoor space. we have timetables for different classrooms and different bubbles within those classes. the school has stayed open for key workers or vulnerable children. social distancing rules mean their desk partners are their siblings. there‘s a new theme each week. the latest is japan. they applaud on a normal day, there would be a50 pupils here, and after half term, around 150 will return. class sizes are different. the requirements for children s mixing for interaction is different. the hygiene requirements are a far higher level than we ve ever seen before. but also the risk assessment process behind that, ensuring that our site is as safe as it possibly can be for everyone in our community, is vital. making the physical changes has been very challenging but staff are also preparing to support children emotionally. the decision to reintroduce more pupils hasn‘t been an easy one. not for parents or for staff. for me, being in the classroom is where i belong. i want to be with the children, i don‘t want to be sat at home on my laptop doing things for them. i want to have that interaction and to be there for them, as their journey continues with their learning. a school is so much more than just a classroom. it‘s part of a community. in the office, fiona hague has been on hand to reassure anxious families. parents are still very worried, so it s pointing them in the direction of all the guidance that s coming out. we re ensuring we re getting as much information out to parents as we can via the website, school app, e mails. and making sure they re as up to date as they can be and know as much as we know. when the school gates next open, the canteen‘s shutters will remain closed. mixed feelings. i‘m fine with it. i think i‘m fine with it. we‘ve been. me and sue have been on our own for a while now, so it‘s fine. it‘s a nice big kitchen to social distance in, so, we are lucky, really. we‘re going to do a sandwich selection for them and they‘re going to be eating in their classroom, so we‘ll prepare it here and it will be going over in boxes into their little bubbles in their classrooms. over the past two weeks, primary schools have had to reinvent the wheel. and as these corridors fill in the coming days, there‘ll be much more to learn. so notjust for children, but for parents, teachers, and support staff, every day will be a school day. john maguire, bbc news, nailsea in north somerset. in wales, the test, trace, protect scheme is due to be in place by the beginning ofjune, but there are fears among some council leaders that it will be delayed by at least a week. our correspondent, tomos morgan, joins us from cardiff. what are the reason that it may be delayed? i thinkjust because what they have been saying for a while that this is a huge, a mammoth task, according to the welsh local government association. the track, trace and protect scheme is to be in place, as you say, at the beginning ofjune and what that involves is tracing anyone that has come into close contact with someone who has tested positive for covid 19 and advising them to self isolate, to stop further spread. the welshman says ttp, the acumen for the scheme, is further to easing any further lockdown restrictions on well‘s the welsh government. we deployed council staff across wales will be redeployed to run this programme. it will increase testing capacity across hospital care homes and key workers to about 10,000 by the end of this month. currently in the middle of may, the capacity and wells were just about 5000 each day in wales. it means almost double that when they start this new scheme. what will happen is they will be a central data system for all the local authorities in wales so they can track their information, eve ryo ne so they can track their information, everyone can check that to make sure thatis everyone can check that to make sure that is across coordination of the information so everyone is on the same page. there have been trials the last couple of weeks, most important of those over the bank holiday weekend and whatever comes out of those will be key into one this first starts next week or the following week. some of the issues that have arisen in wales is to do with concerns that some people in wales are still not able to book dry coronavirus test. i‘m just on the website here, the uk government website. wales is still not available as an option to book drive through test in wales, so that will hamper the effectiveness of this new scheme if people cannot pick those tests. the other issue is there have been concerned home testing kits aren‘t as readily available as they have been in other areas of the uk, but that is not just an issue in well specifically. the plan is for this to start next week but there are concerns that it may take another couple of weeks or another week to get the system working at full capacity. how does the information get disseminated? is how does the information get disseminated ? is it how does the information get disseminated? is it a voluntary application like the system that was trolled on the isle of wight? application like the system that was trolled on the isle of wight7m will be a central data system, according to the local government. local authorities, they will all import the information than anyone that gets tested well notify whoever needs to be tested and they will pass on the information from there. i think one of the concerns has been, where do the additional staffing members in the testing kits come from and how will that were with mag i think there has been a huge effort made by the welsh government and local authorities to make sure that everything is in place so when this new testing scheme starts, everything can run as smoothly as possible, everyone has the information they need and they can track entries and make sure there is not any more spread of the virus that needs to be. testing is a really vital part of this because otherwise there will be a situation where people are told to self isolate when they are not showing symptoms and perhaps it is just on the basis of someone else having showed symptoms but not had a test. well rigorous testing be firmly behind and underpinning all of this? yes, i think the rigorous testing is the biggest issues for all the home nations of the uk, really. i think in wales, just like other areas of the uk, there have been certain issues and there have been delays in certain aspects of testing, the goal and the number of testing capacity will change at some part during the lockdown for various reasons. the welsh government say they are doing as much as they can to make sure that all the testing facilities are available to everyone. as i mentioned, there is still an issue on the uk government website that it is not possible to book drive through test at the moment in wales, where as it is possible in other areas of the uk. the other home nations. that is something that still needs to be addressed, but the welsh government are clear and adamant that they will make sure that they will be an increase testing capacity and they are working around the clock, every time i speak to them, to make sure there will be more testing capacity available because that is, as you say, a key part in making this new scheme work and they say they need it to work because otherwise, well, they need it to work so they can ease the restrictions further down the line. thank you. meanwhile, in scotland a test, trace and isolate programme will begin tomorrow, to try to limit the spread of the virus. people with symptoms will be asked to have a swab test immediately, and if the result is positive, anyone they have come into close face to face contact with, will be traced and told to isolate for 1a days. earlier, national clinical director of the scottish government, jason leitch explained how it will work. u nfortu nately we unfortunately we cannot bring that tea, we will try to bring it to you a little bit later. mark u nfortu nately we a little bit later. mark unfortunately we cannot bring that to you. let‘s return to the situation in hong kong. we can speak to mary hui, a reporter for the news website quartz. welcome. this centring on concerns around the new national anthem bill and concerns it could make protest difficult. tell us a bit more about the background to this, why is it being introduced and why now? this bill was part of beijing and the hong kong‘s efforts to essentially legislate respectful pictures, something that has long been a priority of beijing to instill the sense of love for the motherland. that is not something that many hong kong people feel very strongly and the fact that this bill is being pushed through is, for many protesters, reminded that it is yet another encroachment on loss of theory domes and liberties that they hold so dear to their heart hurt loss of freedoms. we see the pictures of platers, these are coming in covid 19 times when there is social distancing, how many people are going up to protest and how are they being handled? it is hard to tell exactly how many are out because the police today have used vastly different tactics compared to what we saw last year. they have blanketed much of downtown hong kong with a huge show of force, right police deployed and what feels like every other street corner, every other street. essentially it means there are no crowds of any sizeable, of any kind of size able to congregate. protesters are taking to congregate. protesters are taking to singing and chanting on streets and in shopping malls, but already by about 6pm here, hong kong time, just about half an hour ago, over 300 people have already been arrested and many of them just passers by, young schoolchildren. when you talk about last year, that is the extradition law protest that obviously went on for a long time and did result in some changes from the national executive. what lessons can be learned, what will protesters ta ke can be learned, what will protesters take from what happened and in terms of how far they can push it, and how the executive might respond? the larger battle now is for national security bill that beijing announced last week, it would be enacted in hong kong. ithink announced last week, it would be enacted in hong kong. i think that essentially changes the game, one pro democracy politician today said that a lot of things now are out of the hands of a hung kongers and urge processes to privatise returning him safely tonight rather than risk arrest on the street. i think it tends to a change in mindset and energy levels amongst protesters. in the sense that beijing is really cracking down very hard and that the wiggle room that was present last year may not be here now. mary, thank you very much. the husband of the jailed biritsh iranian woman nazanin zaghari ratcliffe, says there is some hope his wife could soon be allowed to come home from iran. iran‘s leader is expected to pardon 3,000 people as part of the countty‘s eid celerations, and richard ratcliffe has told the bbc he expects to hear around lunchtime weather or not his wife is among those to be released. she was arrested in 2016 and sentenced to five years in prison, accused of plotting to overthrow the iranian government, something she denies. president trump has accused twitter of interfering in the 2020 us election after it labelled two posts by the president as potentially misleading. president trump had claimed that the use of postal votes would lead to widespread voter fraud. twitter responded by directing readers to a page with news articles and information from fact checkers debunking the claim. our north america correspondent peter bowes reports. a twitter war about twitter. it started when mr trump, who has more than 80 million followers on the social media platform, tweeted that postal ballot papers would result in a rigged election. mailboxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged and even illegally printed out and fraudulently signed. mr trump also claimed that the governor of california will be sending ballots to millions of people, anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, will get one. twitter responded with a blue exclamation mark underneath the tweets, suggesting readers get the facts about mail in ballots through stories contradicting mr trump. the president later repeated his claims at a white house news conference. people that aren‘t citizens, illegals, anyone that walks in california is going to get a ballot. we‘re not going to destroy this country by allowing things like that to happen. we‘re not destroying our country. this has more to do with fairness and honesty, and really our country itself. twitter introduced a policy earlier this month to combat misleading information. but this is the first time the platform has applied a fact checking label to tweets by the president who was quick to respond with another tweet. twitter is now interfering in the 2020 presidential election. twitter is completely stifling free speech, and i, as president, will not allow it to happen! thank you. a potentially rocky road ahead for the president and his social media platform of choice. peter bowes, bbc news, los angeles. hello this is bbc news. the headlines: plans to impose localised lockdowns in england will be unveiled later today the government will explain how its test, track and trace strategy will deal with regional outbreaks of covid 19. if there is a flare up in one particular community, and that could be on quite a small scale like a particular workplace or school, then measures can be introduced which hopefully public will get behind, enabling us to control the virus in that locality. the prime minister, borisjohnson, will be questioned by senior mps later amid continued calls for his top adviser dominic cummings to resign. elsewhere riot police in hong kong fire pepper pellets to break up protests over a law that would criminalise insulting china‘s national anthem. president trump accuses twitter of stifling free speech after one of his tweets about postal voting was given a fact check label. the first commercial craft to take people into space is due to blast off from cape canaveral in florida this evening. the spacex rocket and capsule, will be the first to take off from american soil since 2011. two nasa astronauts will be onboard the mission to the international space station. here‘s our science correspondent rebecca morelle. getting ready for launch. a commercial spacecraft facing its ultimate test carrying astronauts into space. nasa‘s bob behnken and doug hurley will be at the controls. they‘ve been training for this moment for years. at any time you have the first flight of a brand new vehicle, it‘s exciting. it‘s a bit more risky, which is why we‘re using people like bob and doug, who are very experienced test pilots, they can handle anything that maybe happens that we didn‘t expect. but it‘s what test pilots live for, you know, the chance to be the first one to fly a new, shiny vehicle is a test pilot‘s dream. lift off, we have a lift off. the united states has a long history of space flight. from the apollo missions, which took astronauts to the moon, to the space shuttle programme, which ferried men and women to low earth orbit and back. the shuttle has cleared the tower. but its last flight touched down nearly a decade ago. since then, nasa‘s astronauts have had to buy seats on russian rockets instead. this new spacecraft will restore america‘s ability for human space flight. the fact it‘s owned by spacex, a commercial company, also marks a big change for the us space agency. nasa has said, basically, we ll give you the money and you give us the space flight and that releases nasa to use its resources to do other things. and that s where we can start really thinking big. and instead of spending allthe time, effort, resources on something we ve done now for many years, going into low earth orbit, doing experiments, let s look bigger, let s go further and the ultimate destination has to be mars. last year, a crash test dummy took a test ride in the spacex capsule. now, though, it‘s time for the real thing. a new era in space flight is set to begin. rebecca morelle, bbc news. we‘re delighted to be joined by helen sharman, the first british astronaut to go into orbit, who spent six days on the mir space station in 1991. and i‘mjoined by tim peake, the first british astronaut to visit the international space station. thrilled to be able to talk to you, thank you forjoining us. tim, how much of a game changer de think this is? this is huge, it is notjust the element of the commercial launch, which is obviously for america returning lunches to the usa, but europeans will fly in this vehicle as well. my classmate is next in line to fly and that could be this one or the other commercial vehicle. so this is a game changer. how different is it going to look? the spacecraft itself is going back to the capsule, rather than the larger shuttle, so we are going back to a capsule style vehicle. what is unique about it is, glass cockpit, lots of new technology, a booster will come back and land on a ship out in the atlantic in the capital itself can be reused and that is what is driving down the cost of access to space. helen, you mentioned that once nasa resources can be released from other things, thatis can be released from other things, that is when it is to get exciting and you mentioned the prospect of going to mars, what are your thoughts on where things will go from here? i think it is notjust the cost, but also the access to space for everybody. so this space driver can seat seven people. nasa is likely to bite four seats so people around the world will fly because their space agencies are painted it but that does release probably other receipts that will be positioned underneath the four that the other astronauts will fly in, saw three extra seats. they will buy those three extra seats? it could be a space agency, it could be a research institute, it could be tourists, so i think the whole access to space issue changes as well, so that also increases this game changer idea. well, so that also increases this game changer ideal well, so that also increases this game changer idea. i love the story of how you ended up going to space which is, you heard something on the radio, you applied to be put in the mix for somebody who would get to go into space. 13,000 applied and you we re into space. 13,000 applied and you were whittled down to one of two and you did it and were whittled down to one of two and you did itand it is were whittled down to one of two and you did it and it is amazing. were whittled down to one of two and you did itand it is amazing. in terms of just anybody you did itand it is amazing. in terms ofjust anybody being able to get on the slides and go up, what are the rigours of training and preparing for that process of going to space? well, unfortunately this still uses quite a hefty lunch and in particular, this will have a splashdown so it is the re entry thatis splashdown so it is the re entry that is going to be interesting prospect. we have not done a splashdown since apollo time and in particular, rescuing people from the water. what will be interesting is, how do we do that with astronauts who may have spent many months in space and how they will feel on the splash down like that rather than land on dry land? it is actually less risky rescuing people from dry land. tim and i both were rescued from dry land. in the sea, that is a different thing. people will public have to be moderately healthy. in the end, like flying in airlines, it is going to become more commonplace as long as nothing else wrong. you don t have to be hugely physically fit to fly into space, i don t think. i don t know what you think about that, tim? i completely agree, i think we are opening up space lighting more and more people. they will have to be an element of medical selection but i think you will find, as helen says, this will become more and more normal in next ten to 15 years. you both will obviously hold a special place because you are in a very small elite at the moment. what do you think about that commercialisation and opening up, tim?|j think about that commercialisation and opening up, tim? i think it is very exciting. international space station has been brilliant over the last 20 years in being our human outpost in space and be done and up a lot of valuable science and we have learned a lot about new technology as well, but we do want to go further, we want to go back to the moon and as helen said, we ultimately want to get to mars and in order to do we need the health might help from commercial companies to provide things like launch vehicles, supply craft. so, this is a great era of space flight we are about to embark on. in terms of what these missions achieve at each stage, what would you see as your legacy? obviously, the first british astronaut in space. in terms of what that mission delivered, do you have something you would point to?|j think my specific mission was exactly what you said, putting the first person from britain and getting bitten on the map of international human space flight. i did some experiments. i cannot really claim specific science was done because of my space flight but i think it is all part of this international collaboration and trying out new ways to cooperate with different countries. tim flew as part of the european space agency and of course, it is those agencies that need notjust the resources but also the money to pay other people like the russian space agency to fly a possibly nasa or crew dragon. it isjust this whole a possibly nasa or crew dragon. it is just this whole opening up a possibly nasa or crew dragon. it isjust this whole opening up now. it isa isjust this whole opening up now. it is a completely new way of thinking about human space flight and if we can get this nice and reliable, what next? really, we can win it now started think very big. tim, how would you see your legacy? it is cooperation with the international space station partnership that has been so successful and will continue to do so. what is exciting is that same partnership that is looking to go back to the men to build a gateway to go and do lunar surface operations so the uk being part of that partnership and continuing to do so, the european space agency is not part of the eu so our membership is not affected by brexit. this is very much our space agency and we are part of this future exploration and that is very exciting and i think people in the uk should be excited about it. is a dog and bob continuing to launch hopefully later today, how will they be feeling? what is it like, that moment when you are about to be propelled into space? they are going to be feeling more excitement than anything else. of course there is some apprehension and anxiety, especially with a new test vehicle, but they are professional test pilots. they will have a her thirst might rehearse this many times and frankly, they will be willing and delighted to get a mission into space and so they will be excited about the mission to come. helen, does it take you back? you were in your 20s when you went 7 you were in your 20s when you went up? i think every ulster not members lunch. it is the beginning of that next phase. as tim says, we have trained for so long to do this but it is the launch bear actually, there is nothing new to do. you know what you need today, he had trained for it, you trust all the teams that are working and have worked so hard to make that mission a success and now isjust the to make that mission a success and now is just the day that they got to get on and do it, so good luck to them. indeed, it is a privilege to talk to you both, thank you. police officers in the us city of minneapolis have fired tear gas at demonstrators protesting the death of an unarmed black man in police custody. shortly after george floyd died on monday a video emerged showing a white policeman kneeling on his neck forfive minutes despite the man complaining that he couldn‘t breathe. protestors filled the city‘s streets on tuesday evening hours after it was that four police officers had been sacked. a warning, this report starts with images of the man being detained. a disturbing scene caught on camera by witnesses incensed over the police‘s actions. bro? the ten minute video shows george floyd pleading with officers who have him restrained on the ground. one of them using his knee to pin the man down by his neck. clearly in distress, he tells the white officer he can‘t breathe and is in pain. the crowd tries to help, and grows increasingly concerned and frustrated. when george floyd appears motionless, bystanders question why he isn‘t being given urgent medical attention. seven minutes into the video, an ambulance arrives. he‘s put on a stretcher, still handcuffed, and taken to hospital. at a press conference, the minneapolis police department offered their version of events. they said they were responding to a crime and that the man appeared to be under the influence. he physically resisted officers. officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and officers noticed that the male was going into medical distress. officers called for an ambulance. he was transported to hennepin county medical center, where he died a short time later. mayorjacob frey said that four of the officers involved have now been fired, after initially being put on paid leave. the fbi is also investigating the incident. being black in america should not be a death sentence. for five minutes, we watched as a white officer pressed his knee into the neck of a black man. for five minutes. when you hear someone calling for help, you are supposed to help. this officer failed in the most basic human sense. the viral video quickly sparked outrage. yesterday, what we saw was a black man who was lynched. right? they didn t use rope, he used his knee. and that black man, mr floyd, said, i cannot breathe. minnesota prides itself on being progressive and being the north. but this is the jim crow north, and we demand justice. police officer: put your hands behind your back! george floyd: i can t breathe! for many, this is a case of history repeating itself. millions protested in 201a after eric garner, an unarmed black man in new york, died after being restrained by police. his repeated plea of i can‘t breathe , also captured in cellphone footage, became a rallying cry at demonstrations against police brutality against african america ns. there are sometimes investigations, but many feel there is rarely any accountability. nada tawfik, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news. plans to impose localised lockdowns in england will be unveiled later today the government will explain how its test, track and trace strategy will deal with regional outbreaks of covid 19. the prime minister, borisjohnson, will be questioned by senior mps later amid continued calls for his top adviser dominic cummings to resign. riot police in hong kong fire pepper pellets to break up protests over a law that would criminalise insulting china‘s national anthem. the charity which runs the uk‘s national domestic abuse helpline has had a ten fold increase in visits to its website in the past two weeks. refuge said numbers have spiked again significantly since it started recording rises during lockdown. but figures revealed to the bbc request show that more uk police forces recorded a fall in calls about domestic violence at the start of lockdown, than recorded a rise. why the disparity? abby newbery reports. for some, lockdown has meant feeling trapped in an abusive situation at home. itjust got me down more and more. i thought i can‘t go on like this. this is one woman‘s experience, recreated and voiced by actors, to protect her identity. he got more and more aggressive, saying he‘d like me to go now. he got a stick and he came back with it and he stood there with the stick in his hand and he said, i want you out now or i‘m going to hurt you and you know i can kill you, waving this stick at me. and he really, really did frighten me. this woman has now escaped her situation. but that‘s not the case for many. the bbc asked all a5 of the uk‘s police forces how many domestic abuse calls they‘d had. a1 responded. more than half had fewer calls at the start of lockdown than at the same time last year. but that‘s not the case for refuge, a domestic abuse charity that has seen 66% more calls and almost 1,000% increase to its website in lockdown. as director of communications, lisa king explains. for some, lockdown has meant feeling trapped refuge is concerned to see such demand on its services and what we really want all women to know is that they are not alone. that domestic abuse is a crime and that refuge is here to support them every hour of every day. it shows that domestic abuse is perhaps a bigger issue than we have even anticipated in this country. but why is there not a similar recorded increase in police calls? there needs to be an understanding of what domestic abuse is. claire walker is a domestic abuse consultant and she thinks more training is needed to spot the signs. 100% of victims will experience coercive control. not so much what he does, it s about what he. ..disables her from being able to do. their systems and their policies and practices need to change. i am tired of police officers not understanding what coercive control is. the country‘s leading domestic abuse police officer, louisa rolfe, says that all front line officers across the uk receive training to spot the signs of coercive or controlling behaviour. she adds they are working with domestic abuse charities to understand the nature of their demand. women appear to being doing most of the housework and childcare during lockdown. research from the institute for fiscal studies suggests that in homes where there is a working mother and father, women are doing more of thejobs and spending more time with the children. and mums were only able to do one hour of uninterrupted work, for every three hours done by dads. amidst the chaos and confusion left in coronavirus‘s wake has been a wave of bad information, spread online sometimes even by world leaders. a bbc team tracking online conspiracy theories have linked some of them to racist attacks, arsons, and even deaths around the world. and now senior doctors in the uk including the royal college of gps are warning that the potential for them to cause harm could be much, much bigger. the bbc‘s specialist disinformation reporter marianna spring joins us. give us some of the examples you have been looking at. as you said, but information has spread everywhere during this pandemic and it has spread across the world causing harm to people in a variety of different countries. we have seen poisonings in nigeria, iran, the us and vietnam and some of those poisonings have been elected to this drug and rumours about it that have been circulating online. it was promoted by donald trump as a way to prevent coronavirus but in a misleading way that encourages people to use it at home without consulting a doctor outside drug trials which the world health organization have been opposed. there are other information is about harm, there have been racist attacks in india against muslims and members on whatsapp, and here in the uk, there have been sown mass being set alight as a consequence of misleading claims suggesting 5g is linked to coronavirus and telecom negations workers have been assaulted. but it is not a case of these direct cases, there are also more indirect instances of misinformation causing harm and those can be just as dangerous. i spoke to brian who lives in florida and he believed conspiracies such as sg and he believed conspiracies such as 5g being linked to coronavirus what that coronavirus was a hoax orjust like the flu and as a consequence, he and his wife didn‘t follow social distancing guidance and didn‘t seek help when he has been ill. he has beeniuin help when he has been ill. he has been ill in hospital and his wife is incredibly unwell on a ventilator and he deeply regrets believing these claims because they led him to not seek the help he needed. there is direct harm caused by dodgy cures and treatments, people using disinfectant to treat themselves and then as other kind of harm that is a consequence of medical myths, underlining health messages. what are doctors on the front line saying about all of this? doctors are worried about people like brian, although his case is very similar across the world, they have been seeing instances of patients either not seeking help because they are trying to diagnose themselves using dodgy tests and various other things. i spoke to the chair of the royal of gps who explained to me his response it is to deal with this. we, as health professionals, have a responsibility to raise awareness of the risks around this. government of course has responsibility, particularly through its information sources that it provides. possibly, you know, most importantly, the social media companies themselves have a responsibility to police the content that goes up on theirwebsite. what are government and social media companies doing about this? what are government and social media companies doing about this7m what are government and social media companies doing about this? it has been a big problem and today i am sure lots of people heard how twitter have sacked checked for the first time one of president trump‘s tweets. but to do with coronavirus but postal voting, but a step in the right direction. however, those claims about the drug, they have not been fact checked and i think has been fact checked and i think has been a real issue social media companies in distinguishing harm and misinformation that poses an immediate threat or harm as opposed to the kind of misinformation we are talking about that could undermine public health messages. as we look towards a possible vaccine and there has been an increase in support that is what doctors want social medias to tackle because if this affects a solution to this pandemic, it could be incredible difficult to resolve. that fact check thing on president trump‘s tweet, very high profile, is that going to be the start of a whole new wave of that happening on twitter and other social media cosmic we will see, there has been a relu cta nce cosmic we will see, there has been a reluctance to tackle misinformation thatis reluctance to tackle misinformation that is spread by the president. other world leaders have had misinformation taken down on platforms like facebook. trump has not on this the first instance we have seen this happening. the problem is, donald trump came back amid italy and said, this is a question of freedom of speech and you are trying to suppress what i say. that‘s one of the big issues and trying to tackle this information because there is a fine line between tackling that misinformation, sending people in the right direction, which is what twitter prides today, but to make sure people are allowed to express their opinion freely and that is the conundrum of a social media companies. this is a drone flight with a difference. i think anything that im proves difference. i think anything that improves island medical health has to be tried. it is extra resilience for our island as well. because of covid 19, we were looking at ferry sailings, trying to cut down the risk of infection even if it saves one life, it will be a big confidence to the island. the heavily regular process has been accelerated by coronavirus but the drone and its carrying abilities could be the latest chill in fighting the virus. i think particularly when moving into the phase where we are looking at testing and isolation, the speed of getting a test kit out to somewhere more remote or getting that result back, will allow us to make those decisions and support the communities in protecting them and keeping them safe and well in their community and supporting the health service so that we can cope with peak in demand. the health board says other crossings like this could be made to island surgeries and hospitals and is no suggestion the west coast weather will cause any issues. within a couple of years we hope to have multiple drones over multiple routes serving out and lots of different purposes. when you get to that stage, the economics start to that stage, the economics start to get better for the nhs and how we use it because you can fly packages out, samples back, any goods that need to go over, then italy becomes a very efficient form of transportation. another test flight has successfully made its way back here. the hope is that if this technology could be proved, we may see drones like this more widespread across the country. now it‘s time for a look at the weather. hello, again. if you‘re looking for rain, there really isn‘t much in the forecast for the next few days. and that that we do have isn‘t going to be particularly heavy where it falls. most of us are going to remain dry, sunny and warm and for some by the weekend very warm. what we have today is high pressure still in charge of our weather, it has been with us this week and it will see us through this week as well. but across the north of the country, we have a couple of fronts which are introducing thicker cloud and also some rain. as we go through the afternoon, there will be a lot of dry weather, a lot of sunshine, some low cloud just lapping on shore across parts of eastern england. and the front‘s coming in from the west producing some rain but it‘s not going to be heavy at this stage. we might see the odd drop across northern ireland and western scotland. temperatures ranging from 12 in the north to 25 in the south. now, if we pick up this rain through the evening and overnight as it crosses northernmost scotland, it will turn that bit heavier. move away from there, we are looking at a lot of dry weather, some clear skies, with some of this low cloud lapping a bit further inland. as a result of all of this, it‘s not going to be a cold night for most of the uk. so tomorrow, we say goodbye to that rain. you could even see a few spots across south east scotland and north east england before it eventually moves away. and once again it‘s going to be a dry day, variable amounts of cloud and a fair bit of sunshine. temperatures responding, 22 in edinburgh, 25 in liverpool, 26 in cardiff. by the time we get to friday, we still are looking at a lot of dry weather, the high pressure through thursday and into friday drifts in towards scandinavia. we start to pull in some breezier conditions, but also some warmer air from the near continent. so a largely dry day for us all during the course of friday, a lot of sunshine, a little bit of fair weather cloud here and there. not really that much of a breeze on friday, but temperatures, well, they are going to get up into the low to mid 20s quite widely and 27 in cardiff is likely to be the highest temperature and with high pressure in charge it is effectively keeping these weather fronts at bay. we don‘t think they are going to make any progress. if they do, then we are likely to see the odd spot of rain in northern ireland, possibly in western scotland but they are more likely to stay in the atlantic. on saturday, a breezier day, a dry day with a lot of sunshine and highs up to 26.
this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. plans to impose localised lockdowns in england will be unveiled later today. the government will explain how its test, track and trace strategy will deal with regional outbreaks of covid 19. if there is a flare up in one particular community, and that could be on quite a small scale, like a particular workplace or school, then measures can be introduced, which hopefully the public will get behind, enable us to control the virus in that locality. the prime minister, borisjohnson, will be questioned by senior mps later amid continued calls for his top adviser dominic cummings to resign. elsewhere, riot police in hong kong fire pepper pellets to break up protests over a law that would criminalise insulting china‘s national anthem. president trump accuses twitter of stifling free speech after one of his tweets about postal voting was given a fact check label. and nasa astronauts prepare to launch into space from the us for the first time in nearly a decade. we countdown to the launch. hello and welcome if you‘re watching in the uk or around the world, stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. future coronavirus outbreaks in england could be controlled by introducing ‘local lockdowns‘ according to the government. the health secretary matt hancock said some restrictions, including the temporary closure of shops and schools, could be reintroduced in specific areas if there is a spike in the number of cases. there are already arrangements similar to ‘local lockdowns‘ in countries like france and germany. also today, the uk prime minister borisjohnson will be questioned by senior mps about the government‘s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. he will also be asked about his chief adviser dominic cummings‘ controversial trip to the north of england during lockdown. south korea, which avoided a nationwide lockdown, has seen its biggest spike in new coronavirus cases in two months, just as many schools are reopening. the head of the pan american health organisation has warned that latin america has become the centre of the global pandemic. and, back in the uk, research suggests women are more likely than men to have lost theirjobs since the start of the lockdown. they‘re also more likely to be doing most of the housework and childcare. more on that later, but first this report from andy moore. a testing, tracking and tracing system is regarded as vital if the virus is to be kept in check while lockdown restrictions are eased. the fear is that, without it, there could be a second wave of infections. transmission rates are generally coming down across the country, but there are big regional variations. in somerset, the hospital in western super mare has been temporarily closed due to a high number of coronavirus cases. there‘s said to be an emerging picture of large numbers of staff testing positive, though they‘re showing no symptoms. the hospital says it hopes to reopen its a&e department and accept new patients as soon as possible. if there‘s a high level of infection in a particular area, the government has indicated that local schools, businesses or workplaces could be closed down. at the daily downing street press conference, matt hancock said the nhs test and trace programme would be incredibly important. it will give us the information to have local lockdowns and focus on areas where there may be flare ups, and it is very important that people follow those rules and they should do it don‘t not do it for, um, the government, people need to do this for themselves, for their loved ones, for their communities. it‘s incredibly important and it will stop those local flare ups from happening. a similar system will be launched in scotland tomorrow. it‘s called test and protect. anyone with symptoms will be urged to get a swab. if it comes back positive, 700 trackers will be ready to trace any contacts, with that number rising to 2,000 in due course. andy moore, bbc news. let‘s talk to our assistant political editor, norman smith. the government wanting to talk about what happens going forward, but obviously the question still come in, the pressure still there over dominic cummings. each pressure still over dominic cummings, around a0 or so tory mps from different wings of the party all demanding he walk the plank. the hope of team johnson seems to be that we‘ll get fed up with this and we move on. the medium of song, tory mps move on and attention shifts to some of those coronavirus issues trundling down the track towards us at high speed. top of which is this test, track and trace scheme, due to be unveiled on monday. what we learn now is that as pa rt monday. what we learn now is that as part of that, the government is looking at it very, very localised lockdown for where there is any upsurge in the fine is because once restrictions are eased, it seems pretty likely that the virus will begin to pick up again. what ministers are looking at is targeting individual schools, hospitals, workplaces, parts of towns, rather than much larger geographical areas all larger communities, in otherwise trying to identify the virus very quickly, lockdown those individual offices and say to people in them you have to self isolate for a0 days. have a listen to the communities secretary, robertjenrick. the trade off here is that for a relatively small number of people abiding by the rules, being inconvenienced in some cases, staying at home and self isolating, the rest of society gets to enjoy far more freedom than we all do today because of the great restrictions we are living under. so the potential is huge to help us get back to all the things we care about in life. what it means is that for many of us, yes, the restrictions will gradually fall away, but in those little tight communities where there is this sudden uptake, they face going back to square one pretty much when it comes to restrictions. they will face lockdown is of up to 1a days self isolation. a couple of other things we learnt this morning from robertjenrick, there is not going to be a review of fines, which matt hancock seem to mix yesterday. mrjenrick said if people are in a similar situation to dominic cummings and they cannot get adequate childcare, it is ok for them to try and travel to secure that childcare. this is what he said about that. if there are no other options, if you don t have ready access to childcare, then you can do as dominic cummings chose to do. even if you re in a household with symptoms of coronavirus? but the guidelines say that she must do your best, but they appreciate that family life poses particular challenges and in order to protect children, you are able to exercise a degree of personaljudgement and i think that is a reasonable way forwards. this afternoon, we make it a bit more detail about all of that when the prime minister will be facing the prime minister will be facing the liaison committee made up of some of parliament‘s may senior mps who are to quiz him for 90 minutes about coronavirus, including 20 minutes over the dominic cummings saga. these and arc when someone in the public eye is under pressure to go is normally that it does not matter how long it takes, the pressure will build on a belt and eventually the inevitable happened, they will jump they are pushed eventually the inevitable happened, they willjump they are pushed and we forget about it. does it feel differently this time? it is certainly different to what has happened in previous incidents. if you look at, i suppose the most comparable example is alistair campbell, who tony blair did a banner, even though he were central to his administration. a rough rule of thumb if you are a8 hours and the headlines, then you begin to wobble and in all likelihood you go. dominic cummings has been in the headline since friday and are still very much there. i think the simple truth is, borisjohnson has nailed him to his badge and said, you are not going anywhere, even if he had volunteered to quit, which he has not. because it seems mrjohnson ta kes not. because it seems mrjohnson takes the view that he is absolutely critical to his government, notjust in terms of delivering brexit policy but a broader agenda and i suspect in terms of managing coronavirus. he absolutely believes he cannot do without dominic cummings. norman, thank you. riot police in hong kong have fired pepper pellets at demonstrators as mps gather to debate a bill that would criminalise insulting china‘s national anthem. more than 200 people have been arrested by riot police as demonstrators gather in the central commercial district and in shopping areas. this was the scene in hong kong‘s commercial district a little earlier when police attempted to disperse demonstrators. pro democracy activists have also voiced their opposition to separate legislation which would impose a sweeping national security law on the semi autonomous territory. our correspondent martin yip in hong kong explained the background to the controversy surrounding the chinese national anthem. it‘s pretty much about people thinking that this whole piece of law would bar them from expressing their discontent with governors in some ways, such as making parodies of the national anthem orjust booing at the national anthem. because back in 2017 when beijing made the national anthem law, and put it into what we call annex iii of the basic law of hong kong, which then forced hong kong to make this local legislation, was at a time when there was a series of incidents that hong kong football fans booed at the chinese national anthem at international games. because hong kong, under the one country, two systems rule, hong kong can send its own teams into games like world cup, things like that. but you have to play the chinese national anthem. and beijing treat this kind of behaviour, not just as unpatriotic, but almost as like a betrayal of the country. but to the hong kongers it is one of the many ways they can do legally, at least until this moment, to express discontent to chinese rule. the number of coronavirus deaths in scotla nd the number of coronavirus deaths in scotland has just been released, the number of coronavirus deaths in scotland hasjust been released, the latest number, there is some good news, the number has fallen for the fourth week in a row. last week, children 30 people confirmed or suspected to have the virus died, that compares to 3a5 the week the fourth. hundred and 25 people died in care homes last week and that is just over half of the total of 5a%. in all, 3779 people have died with confirmed or suspected coronavirus in scotland since the pandemic began. as coronavirus restrictions ease in some areas across the globe schools have begun to resume face to face classes. but what should classroom look like now? and how are different nations dealing with the challenges of teaching during a pandemic? in china schools began gradually reopening earlier this month, including in wuhan where the outbreak started. students lined up to give swab samples and have their temperature checked. in france masks are required for students aged 11 years or older, but it‘s not yet compulsory for parents to send their child back. schools in sweden have remained open. they have relied on social distancing and hygiene measures to reduce the spread of infection instead. and south korea just as over two million school children return to school. but strict measures have been put in place. as laura bicker has been finding out more. well, this is pe class, as you can probably tell behind me. 2.5 million students are going back. this is part of a phased return. so a series of students go back every week. but teachers are on edge because there are clusters of infection popping up across the country. this is all related to an outbreak in nightclubs in seoul‘s party district a couple of weeks ago. health officials have traced 86,000 people. and tested them for the virus. but still these little pockets of infection keep cropping up. and that is why every single student must wear a mask. at the gates they are having their temperature checked. that‘s the first temperature check of the day. there are many temperature checks throughout the day. each of the classes have dividers in them to keep students apart. daily, teachers are telling their students to keep that social distance, but it is extremely difficult. as you can imagine, this is the first time that they‘ve seen each other in months. this is the start of the school term which was supposed to happen in march so they are very, very excited. i saw one studentjump up and down desperate to hug herfriend but she was told no, no, no, no by a teacher. but still they are allowing students to go back to school. some schools have decided to say no today but this one has. as you can see they are enjoying their pe class, they don‘t speak much english but they have one word which they can say which is hello! there you go, hello from them. laura bicker and a lot of schoolchildren. meanwhile, headteachers in england have told the bbc that preparing schools to welcome more children back from next week, has been the toughest challenge of their careers. staff rotas, school systems and physical changes to classrooms, have all been considered to ensure pupils can return safely under social distancing guidelines. john maguire reports. ok, theo, can you tuck your chair and come and stand on the white line? well done. the children returning to school here at the whiteoak academies in north somerset next week, everything will be different. each and every aspect of school life has been reassessed. we have a 109 point check list to go through to make sure everything is risk assessed to be safe. we have a as page risk assessment that has also gone through a whole checking process, including staff, governors and trustees. but behind that, we have the practicalities of the day to day. so, we have timetables for break time, for lunch time, for outdoor space. we have timetables for different classrooms and different bubbles within those classes. the school has stayed open for key workers or vulnerable children. social distancing rules mean their desk partners are their siblings. there‘s a new theme each week. the latest is japan. they applaud on a normal day, there would be a50 pupils here, and after half term, around 150 will return. class sizes are different. the requirements for children s mixing for interaction is different. the hygiene requirements are a far higher level than we ve ever seen before. but also the risk assessment process behind that, ensuring that our site is as safe as it possibly can be for everyone in our community, is vital. making the physical changes has been very challenging but staff are also preparing to support children emotionally. the decision to reintroduce more pupils hasn‘t been an easy one. not for parents or for staff. for me, being in the classroom is where i belong. i want to be with the children, i don‘t want to be sat at home on my laptop doing things for them. i want to have that interaction and to be there for them, as their journey continues with their learning. a school is so much more than just a classroom. it‘s part of a community. in the office, fiona hague has been on hand to reassure anxious families. parents are still very worried, so it s pointing them in the direction of all the guidance that s coming out. we re ensuring we re getting as much information out to parents as we can via the website, school app, e mails. and making sure they re as up to date as they can be and know as much as we know. when the school gates next open, the canteen‘s shutters will remain closed. mixed feelings. i‘m fine with it. i think i‘m fine with it. we‘ve been. me and sue have been on our own for a while now, so it‘s fine. it‘s a nice big kitchen to social distance in, so, we are lucky, really. we‘re going to do a sandwich selection for them and they‘re going to be eating in their classroom, so we‘ll prepare it here and it will be going over in boxes into their little bubbles in their classrooms. over the past two weeks, primary schools have had to reinvent the wheel. and as these corridors fill in the coming days, there‘ll be much more to learn. so notjust for children, but for parents, teachers, and support staff, every day will be a school day. john maguire, bbc news, nailsea in north somerset. mcdonald‘s has announced that every restau ra nt mcdonald‘s has announced that every restaurant in the uk and ireland with a drive through option will be open between tuesday and thursday next week. they plan to expand the availability of its delivery service. they say they‘ve been working on implementing procedures to ensure safe working in pilot restau ra nts a nd to ensure safe working in pilot restaurants and some dry through lines had to be closed where it impacted on the safety of customers, or the local community. donald trump has accused twitter of interfering in the 2020 us election after the site labelled two of the president‘s posts as potentially misleading. mr trump had claimed that the use of postal votes would lead to widespread voter fraud. twitter responded by directing readers to a page with news articles and information from fact checkers debunking the claim. let‘s speak to dr paul reilly, a senior lecturer in social media and digital society at sheffield university. thank you forjoining us. what do you think of this intervention on twitter, why now? i think it is a good question, i think on the back at the coronavirus, that information academic, there has been a push for twitter and facebook to please content that could be harmful. i think that is part of that but interestingly will this be something that they will continue to do 3d out the campaign. what are the rules around it. there is previous stuff that president trump is put out previously that could have wanted a response by twitter and it has not happened. what can they do? one of the things that they introduced in march around the pandemic was this labelling system and i think that is the first time we have seen this used in an election context and a context of political leader making false statements about something thatis false statements about something that is not public health related. the labels system is interesting, i think also thinking about what to extent they will retrospectively fa ct extent they will retrospectively fact check what he says. i think thatis fact check what he says. i think that is proper not going to happen. it will be interesting to see whether his claims over coronavirus key is in march, will they get the same labelling? i am not so sure they will. do they have the resources to actually apply this, not just to president trump, but to everybody on twitter? i think that is a great question. one of the things that is difficult here is that certainly twitter have said they are using machine learning, automated techniques because they could not employ enough people to fact check every statement made by a politician or a member of public, it is very hard for them to do that because they publish and then filter. they rely on us to report information that may be misleading or harmful. it is very difficult to do given the amount of information out there. president trump has hit back, saying this is an infringement of free speech. showing how he is going to handle this, he is not going to take this lying down. i think! can this, he is not going to take this lying down. i think i can this makes to trump‘s base, and i think trump will benefit from this, he will say that without the social media companies are against him. a perhaps benefits him to say that twitter are 20 clamp down on what he sees as free speech, even if it is not about freedom of speech at all. thank you forjoining us, paul riley. let‘s go live to holyrood and listen in to first minister‘s questions with the first minister nicola sturgeon. an increase of a7 yesterday, the number of confirmed cases has decreased by 23. last night, 38 people were in intensive care with confirmed or suspected covid 19, an increase of three since yesterday. yesterday‘s figure of 36 has been revised to 35. i never ate in the 2a hour is, 13 deaths have been registered as patients who have been confirmed as having the virus, taking the total number of deaths to scotla nd taking the total number of deaths to scotland to 230a. national records of scotla nd scotland to 230a. national records of scotland has just published its more detailed weekly report, unlike the daily figures, its figures do not just include the daily figures, its figures do notjust include a a confirmed diagnosis, every person cases where no formal test was carried out but when the virus was depicted on the death certificate. at that point, three days ago, according to our daily figures, 2273 deaths have been wretched with people who had tested positive for the virus, today‘s report says by sunday, the total numbers of registered deaths related to covid 19 confirm tampers with 3779. 230 of those deaths were registered in the seven days up to sunday, that isa in the seven days up to sunday, that is a decrease of 105 from the week before and indeed this is the fourth week ina before and indeed this is the fourth week in a row in which deaths have fallen. deaths in care homes made up 5a% of all deaths linked to the virus last week, that is down from 56% in the previous week and the number of covid 19 deaths in care homes also reduced again from 186 loss to one to four in the most recent week. that figure remains too high. two 12a. the number of access gas for the same time of year five year average decreased from 1572158. i think it remains she that these statistical trends will never consult people who have lost loved ones to this file is in my thoughts and sympathies are with each and every one of them. these trends have been suspended for overfour these trends have been suspended for over four weeks they definitely give us grounds for encouragement. the weekly number of verse five deaths have fallen by more than 60% at its peak, excess does have reduced by more than three quarters and deaths in care homes are also falling. tomorrow we will take a formal decision on whether to begin cautiously to emerge from lockdown, and the early steps are likely to focus on outdoor activities and we will provide full information of what individuals and businesses should and should not be doing. i stress that if restrictions are relaxed later this week, it will be essential to follow guidance, stay two metres apart from people from other households and self isolate if you have symptoms. at the moment the message in scotland remains the same, stay at home, except for essential purposes. when you leave the house, stay two metres apart and do not meet up with those from other households. please use a face covering in a shop on public transport and remember to wash your hands thoroughly and regularly. let me remind people if you or someone in your household has covid 19 symptoms, you must stay at home and isolate completely. what we have all done so far has made a difference and today‘s figures show that, everyone has played a part in slowing the spread of the virus, protecting the nhs and saving lives. i want to and by thanking everyone across scotland are doing that but to stress as we start to emerge from lockdown, that cooperation will become more important than others. we will now move to questions. we will now move to questions. we now know that more than 900 patients were discharged from hospital to care homes are much before compulsory testing was announced on april 21, far more than become the previously suggested. does the vestments are now know the number of patients who were discharged from hospital to care homes without being tested? did the government do everything it could to protect care home staff and residents. we have published the figures for fa bry we have published the figures for fabry and march. the figure for april will be published on the 2nd ofjune in a few days‘ time. on the issues about care home, to think suggested about care homes, both of them very serious and legitimate. one is that we should not have discharge order. you are watching bbc news, he is nicola sturgeon. people will look at those things and ask why that was done. i invite people to look at the situation at the time. old people, delayed discharges of course, do not need to be in hospital, even in normal times it is not in the interest to be there. at the time we are talking about, we were waiting for a tsunami of coronavirus cases to enter our hospitals and remember the scenes we we re hospitals and remember the scenes we were seeing from italy at that time, it would have been unthinkable to leave older people that in the face of that, that would have put a huge risk and many i am sure would have died in the circumstances. i think i will be getting asked different questions right now. secondly on testing, at that time the advice was people who did not have symptoms we re people who did not have symptoms were not likely to spread the virus and they testing people without symptoms was unavailable and indeed that latter point is still a concern to some extent. if we apply what we know now to that situation then, of course we may ta ke situation then, of course we may take different decisions. but when we face these decisions, we have to act on the basis of the information we had and based on the information, yes, we did everything possible to protect older people, risk assessments of people leaving hospital and the guidance to care homes about isolation. but on this, as on everything, we continue to attach our response is the knowledge we have continued to develop. the numbers we are talking about here are so considerable that we do sometimes forget we are talking about individuals. let me mention just one. this week we were contacted just one. this week we were co nta cted by just one. this week we were contacted by a lady in glasgow called sandra o‘neill, her mother marie sadly died from covid 19 on april eight at the care home in drumchapel. she has nothing to say but good things during the front line staff who looked after her mother. she has a series of questions about how her mother caught the disease. she said and much, as in other care homes, there are examples of people who were in hospital he will return home despite clearly being ill. she said those are the home that home that believe that at least one case, residents have symptoms can deliver consistent with covid 19 when returned. we know the first mentor has confirmed elderly people we re mentor has confirmed elderly people were taken out of hospitals and put back into hospitals without being tested, but can you confirm that people who were ill anderson displaying symptoms of the disease we re displaying symptoms of the disease were removed from hospital and taken back to care homes? i never forget that when we save these statistics, we are talking about real people and real individuals, it is something i take at the time and always will do to remember each day when i read out the grim statistics that i required to read up, behind each and every one of these statistics is a human being who is being grieved by their loved ones. on the issue at hand, it is not possible for me to comment on individual cases when i do not know the full circumstances. anybody who has lost a loved one to this file is, understandably will have questions in the fullness of time i think we want to try and answer all of these questions as far as we possibly can. i would point to the guidance that was issued at the time, which made clear that clinical risk assessments should be done of patients who were being discharged from hospital. nobody who had symptoms of coronavirus and certainly nobody within the clinical assessment with they should continue to be in hospital wedderburn discharge in this way. these are risk assessments required to be done by clinicians and professionals but the guidance in place was clear and should have been followed as all guidance, whether due hospitals or to ca re guidance, whether due hospitals or to care homes, should be followed very carefully. jackson. i thank the first minister for that. it is not clear whether people with symptoms may well have been discharged into the hospital, even though was a clinical assessment made. if they had symptoms discharge into the care homes. sandra‘s view is that unwell elderly people should not have been sent back to care homes. we have had read press reports that five residents have died in this particular car home, even though mrs o‘neill said she believes it is now more than that. there was little or no attempt to isolate residents who would then return from hospital. as she maintains, she says the front line care staff at the home did everything they could for her mother, they were not to blame for what happened. there is a growing feeling that residents like sandra‘s mother were treated like second class citizens. can the fed might givea second class citizens. can the fed might give a clear commitment that the situation at the care home will be examined in full and other residents in my family who remain worried about their own relatives will be better treated ? in the karen specter has a duty to make sure concerns around any care home public considered and standards are. on the two specific issues that he raises, i think i was clear, the guidance in place is very clear. the patient should have been clinically risk assessed so patients with symptoms should not have been discharged to care homes. clearly i did not see every patient, i cannot stand here and give a categorical assurance that no patient with symptoms was discharged. it would be wrong of me to do that but the guidance in place was very, very clear. with isolation, the guidance that was issued to care homes in march made clear that there should not be communal dining, communal activities that people coming to ca re activities that people coming to care homes should be isolated in a way that has been hard for others but particularly hard for older people living in care homes. while all parts of the system have to work together and are working together, the primary responsibility is for ca re the primary responsibility is for care home providers to make sure that guidance is being followed and i would continue to expect that that is the case. it is not the case, this is the issue i do take exception to, we have learned about this virus all along, we have had to adapt our approaches but at no point older people treated like second class citizens, at no point was anything other than the greatest ca re was anything other than the greatest care and attention and thought given to the decisions that were being taken in the guidance being put in place and that will continue to be the case every single step of the way. with or without hindsight, it is now clear that what happened in our care homes in march and april was a national scandal. on monday the first minister said undoubtedly there would be an inquiry into all aspects of this pandemic and i think thatis aspects of this pandemic and i think that is right and proper. care homes will be part of that review. the scale of what had happened and what we know to have been so far 17a9 deaths in the tragic stories of people like sandra and her mother underlined the need notjust for a review but for a public inquiry into what has happened in our care homes specifically. when the first minister agreed to confirm that she will in due course instructor that formal public inquiry into the care home sector. of course there will be a public inquiry into this hill crisis and every aspect of that crisis and that will undoubtedly include what happened in care homes. decisions we re happened in care homes. decisions were taken for the best of reasons based on the best evidence. they we re based on the best evidence. they were similar decisions taken in scotland, wales and star as i am aware, in northern ireland. the decisions were committed very clearly to this parliament by the health secretary. this is not something that was done without proper transparency and notification in the normal way. we will look back on all of this and learn a lot. few people want to make sure we all learn appropriate lessons than i do but throughout this crisis i had taken the best decisions i can every step of the weight based on the best information and evidence i had at the time. all of these decisions have been tough, some have been really tough but i have not shied away from taking them, nor will i ever shy away from being candid about mistakes or instances where had i known then what i know now, i may have come to different conclusions but that is what leadership means, you have to make the tough calls you cannot hide away with your head down, hoping it will all go away, and i hope jackson carlo and others will reflect on that. applause. back on the 5th of march, i asked the first minister about the challenge of delayed discharge in light of covid 19. we now know the government rushed to discharge almost 1,000 vulnerable patients from hospital in the month of march alone. and we have now seen the devastating consequences in a scotla nd devastating consequences in a scotland boss mike care homes. the first minister told me at the time there would be, and i could, and intensive focus on ensuring that we can discharge people appropriately. but right up until the 22nd of april, scottish government guidance on the discharge of patients from hospital into care home stated that, andi hospital into care home stated that, and i could, individuals being discharged from hospital do not routinely need confirmation of a negative covid 19 test. just yesterday, a nurse working at a care home in lanarkshire told me, we had several residents that came from hospital, none of them knew they we re hospital, none of them knew they were going to a nursing home, so when they arrived, we contacted their next of kin, who didn‘t know they were going to a nursing home either. it was all one big mess. does the first minister accept now that her intention of discharging people appropriately was not met, and can she explain why she allowed it to remain in place for so long? we have adapted our approach as the evidence and information that we have had has developed. the previous guidance around tests, yes, we now had different advice around testing presymptomatic people but at that time, there were two things that we re time, there were two things that were different. firstly, there was a view that it was not likely that people without symptoms which spread the virus and secondly, there was a concern about the lack of reliability of testing people without symptoms. that latter point still exists to some extent so we have developed our approach to testing and other things as the evidence and the advice has changed. i cannot, and richard leonard says he was talking about discharge in early march, the fact he was not raising those specific questions then, that he is now, shows that we cannot apply hindsight and change what we knew at the time. we can only operate on the basis of what we knew and operate with absolutely the best of intentions. i would challenge richard leonard when he says we rushed to discharge patients from hospital. i need to points to him that i have made before. firstly, in normal times, him that i have made before. firstly, in normaltimes, remember, richard leonard and others are usually standing up here criticising the scottish government for not reducing delayed discharge because these are older people that have no medical need to be in hospital and being in hospital is not an interest. secondly, yes, i regret more than richard leonard might ever be able to know, every single person who has lost their life in a care home as a result of this virus but again this is where the hindsight point comes in. had we not tried to get older people out of hospital, they would have potentially exposed to the virus in hospitals and many of them would have died. in those circumstances, richard leonard would undoubtedly be standing here saying to me, but the benefit of hindsight, why didn‘t we try to get older people out of hospital? the point i am making is that there are no easy choices when you face these decisions. what you have to do is make the decisions based on the best evidence and information you have. that is what we did, putting in place the guidance i have spoken about and we have continued to adapt our approach as our knowledge is developed and that is what we will continue today every single step of the way. we will continue to be, as we have been all along, open and transparent with this parliament about the decisions we are taking on the reasons why we are taking them. well, i have said, and we have said repeatedly, you should listen to the world health organization which said, test, test, test. it has been saying that since march so sadly, the result is the consequences we see in our residential care homes. the crisis in our care homes may be linked to the release of those hospital patients who have not been screened but this crisis has not stopped there. every day the government data shows that there are more new covid 19 infections in even more new covid 19 infections in even more care homes. it now stands at over 5,500. that is as many as one in six residents, with over 60% of all care homes in scotland reporting at least one case. so let us be absolutely clear, this crisis is not yet under control. last week, the scottish government announced regular testing for care home staff, but the royal nursing is warning today that scotland is lagging behind. so, can i, once again, as the first minister, help many care home staff and residents have now been tested, and when will all those staff finally have access to regular testing? testing of care home staff will be an ongoing process because it is not enough to do it once, we have to do it regularly and we will publish data as we have published data on testing as we go along. and we are certain that that data is robust and able to be published. i would caution against making comparisons between scotland‘s testing and figures that are being published uk wide, is not for me to go into detail about those statistics but i am certain in the validity and robustness of the data that is being published in scotland and of course, this is not political in any way, shape orform. this is not political in any way, shape or form. i this is not political in any way, shape orform. i took this is not political in any way, shape or form. i took about these issues regularly with richard leonard‘s colleague, the first minister of wales, where we are all grappling with these issues and basing our decisions on the best evidence that is available. on the issue of the current situation in ca re issue of the current situation in care homes, i would never describe this crisis generally or specifically in relation to care homes as being under control. we have a long way to go abut in point of fa ct, have a long way to go abut in point of fact, both in terms of the number of fact, both in terms of the number of care homes with an active case, the percentage of care homes with an active case and new cases being reported everyday, as well as the number of deaths, we are seeing all of these decline so in today‘s figures which will be published at tpm, the increase in committed cases in care homes increased by 60 which is much lower than what we have seen previously. we will continue for as long as this virus is a threat, to ta ke long as this virus is a threat, to take the right decisions based on the evidence and the knowledge that we have got. these are all horrendously difficult decisions because all of us understand and i absolutely understand the consequences of all of these decisions which is why they have to be taken with such care, thought and attention. as far as i‘m concerned, the absolutely always will be, with com plete the absolutely always will be, with complete focus on doing the right thing as best we can at every stage. the situation is urgent, so it is not a matter of whether it is politics or not, it is the urgency of it, and as we start to see an easing of the lockdown, the human right and the dignity of care home residents must be paramount. there isa residents must be paramount. there is a basic duty of care which government has too its most vulnerable citizens, so those residents will need continued protection. that means widespread and regular testing of staff. that means adequate ppe, and it means true transparency. we know that flawed government guidance led to the discharge of untested patients into ca re the discharge of untested patients into care homes. we know that flawed government guidance meant that care home residents were not transferred into hospitals when they were ill. we cannot make the same mistakes again. this time, the guidance must be right. so, when the first minister today commit to an urgent review of her government‘s approach to ca re review of her government‘s approach to care homes so that lessons can be learned and action can be taken quickly as we begin to ease the lockdown? asi lockdown? as i said previously, not only do i expect, i absolutely want there to bea expect, i absolutely want there to be a review, an inquiry into every aspect of this crisis, that is vitally important for accountability but also for learning lessons for the future. that will undoubtedly include the situation was in care homes. if richard leonard will forgive me, right now, my focus is on continuing to do everything we need today for the remainder of this crisis. we are not through this crisis. we are not through this crisis yet, we are not even through this phase of the crisis yet and therefore my responsibility as first minister and the responsibility of eve ryo ne minister and the responsibility of everyone of my ministers is to make sure we focus on the decisions that still need to be taken, learning the lessons and applying the knowledge that we have at the time. richard leonard because the guidance of lord, what he has doing, and he is entitled to do this, but it is reasonable for me to point out that what he is doing is taking knowledge we have now that we did not have at the time and applying that retrospectively. i wish i had the benefit when i took these decisions of the foresight that changing circumstances so i could apply it then but we had to take decisions based on what we knew then. richard says these things are urgent and trust me, whatever else you want to criticise, i don‘t think you have to tell me about the urgency of this. literally every waking moment of mine and the health secretary and the cool government right now, there are plenty of waking moments right now, they are spent on trying to do the best thing to do with this crisis and that will continue to be the case for as long as we are facing it. from tomorrow, test and protectable finally be ruled out, though idp regret contact tracing was abandoned in the first place. going into isolation for two weeks, particularly when there are no symptoms is necessary but it is a big ask. this week‘s news has been dominated by the failure of a wealthy and powerful individual to self isolate, but imagine the difficulties faced by those who are not privileged. for the self employed, isolation may be unaffordable, for those who share their homes with families or others, isolation may be impossible. for the sole carer of a loved one, isolation may be heartbreaking, so can the first minister outline what support will be made available to those who need to isolate, for example, will accommodation like hotel rooms be offered free to those who need thank you. the short answer is yes, we issued guidance yesterday to employers around expectations to employers. we are in discussions with the uk government around changes that may be needed to benefit statutory sick pay to make sure people do not lose income of and we also should guidance to individuals about what they could do to prepare in advance for potential periods of isolation but also on the support that will be available to them. that support will be provided largely easing the kind of infrastructure we have put in place to give support to those in the shielded grip and that could be support accessing third and medicine if there are no family members that are able to do that, or it could be supported with alternative accommodation. it is absolutely the case that we will require to make sure anybody who has been asked to enter a period of isolation for 1a days gets the support they need to dh. cani days gets the support they need to dh. can i make an important point here, i feel this will be lost as a major and protect, which is busy very important. my biggest fear is we all feel we can stop doing the other things we have been doing because testing and protecting is a system there that will keep us safe from this virus regardless of what we do. if you do not want to face a period of self isolation, the best way to minimise that risk is not to be in close contact with somebody outside your own household so if you ta ke outside your own household so if you take care not to be within two metres of somebody outside your household, then you are minimising your risk of ever being in the position of getting that phone call from a contact racer and being advised to self isolate. if all of us continue to follow that advice to stay two metres apart, then collectively, we keep this virus suppressed so test and protect is very important but fundamentally, how we stop this virus is spreading is down to us and our behaviour and reducing the number of pages we give it tojump reducing the number of pages we give it to jump over reducing the number of pages we give it tojump overand reducing the number of pages we give it to jump over and that means physical distance and continues to be many important and as we start to ease some of the lockdown measures, becomes more important than ever. i think the first minister for that response. test and protect will have an impact on front line staff and theirfamilies. a an impact on front line staff and their families. a report an impact on front line staff and theirfamilies. a report yesterday linked 2a members of medical staff the western general hospital contracting the virus but the admission ofjust one patient. we need to do more to suppress the spread of the virus in hospitals to protect patients, staff and the families. it has been over a month since i started calling for regular, routine testing for nhs workers on the front line but we have had a little movement, even though two of our capacity remains unused muscle can the first minister tell us whether regular testing and hospitals will be introduced alongside test and protect? that is something we continue to ta ke that is something we continue to take clinical advice on and we will make decisions on that in due course. on the issue of hospital transmission, there is a huge amount of work, not just transmission, there is a huge amount of work, notjust in scotland but across the uk and globally, to better understand that. when somebody tests positive was confirmed as having the virus in a hospital, it cannot automatically be assumed that they got it in the hospital because of the often lengthy and commissioned. we established an advisory group some weeks ago to identify additional interventions to reduce in hospital transmission, health protection scotla nd transmission, health protection scotland is working with uk cou nterpa rts scotland is working with uk counterparts on these issues as well. testing will undoubtedly be a pa rt well. testing will undoubtedly be a part of that but there is a whole range of things around infection prevention and control including courting of patience where appropriate but also it continues to be important as well. we need to speak with one voice. what dominic cummings did was wrong. the prime minister was wrong to defend him. they are treating people like mugs. this is wrong and we should condemn it, everyone should condemn it. can i ask the first minister about the legal tourist industry. the precautionary approach will mean a longer lockdown for the sector. the industry is anxious that this could up h its summer season and that many businesses will colla pse and that many businesses will collapse without additional support. this will result in thousands of jobs lost. the uk government has extended the furlough scheme stop will this scottish government extend its grant scheme as well to avoid that business collapse? firstly ca n that business collapse? firstly can i say on dominic cummings, i have made my views clear. i think it was wrong, the prime minister is wrong to defend it because it has involved a retrospective rewriting of the reels which undermines confidence in the rules and guidance that remain so important. i don‘t want to be standing here talking about that, my job is to make sure that i get a message across to scottish people that the what we are asking you todayis that the what we are asking you today is important, notjust because you are being told to do it, it is important for your own protection for you and your loved ones and that is the one voice that we all must speak with in the weeks to come. on the tourist sector, he is right. all of the sectors and there is not a sector that has not been hit by this virus but there are some that have been hit harder than others and tourism is one that has been hit ha rd est tourism is one that has been hit hardest and potentially have the longest lasting impact. these are issues that the scottish government issues that the scottish government is actively considering both in terms of grant support and what happens to that in future and we will take decisions on that engine course but we are also looking carefully at the ways in which the tourist industry may be able tourism activities and a safe way. fergus ewing has been needing work there andi ewing has been needing work there and i chaira ewing has been needing work there and i chair a sub committee every week looking at the economic issues and this is one we are due to look at in detail shortly, so these are issues absolutely at the top of our minds and we will take careful decisions trying to make sure that at all stages, as much support as possible is in place for businesses that have been affected. i think that is right because of the support mechanisms, the financial support mechanisms, the financial support mechanisms, the financial support mechanisms need to match the lockdown as well. many working in the tourism sector in the summer months but if it does not reopen, stu d e nts months but if it does not reopen, students will be without an income. normally support is only provided in term time basis so students are leading campaign to extend grant payments over the summer months. the campaign has the support of sensible msps from across the parliament, so we‘ll the first minister get behind it, too, and provide financial support for students of the summer? we will look very carefully at that as we are looking very carefully at all suggestions that are made about how we mitigate the impact of this on businesses and individuals. i hope he will appreciate that i will not stand here and get categoric assurances on things while you‘re still going through the process of consideration because there are many suggestions being made and i would love to be able to agree to all of them but we have to make careful decisions bearing in mind that there isa limit decisions bearing in mind that there is a limit on the financial resources that we are able to bring to bear but we will do as much we possibly can. i recognise in a whole range of ways that students will be affected by this, given the nature of some of the industries, that will have the longest lasting impact but i don‘t want to lose sight of the five that we want to try to get businesses and all sectors operational to a greater or lesser extent as soon as possible. it got to be done safely and that is a big focus of the work that fiona heslop is leading overall right now but we do want to see as much economic activity risen as quickly as possible, consistent with continuing to suppress the virus because if we ta ke to suppress the virus because if we take our eye off that, then the damage to the economy will be even deeper and longer lasting and what it is currently estimated to be. has the scottish government had discussions with the treasury about project burch cosmic we are in discussion with the uk government about a whole range of matters right now as members would expect. i welcome the indication that they are prepared to provide support for large companies and failure would harm the uk economy. today the scottish government has not been involved in specific discussions with the treasury regarding that particular initiative although we will seek to be over the days to come and we would expect the uk government to share more details of this project with us particularly where the businesses they are looking at as possible recipients for this kind of support i critical to the scottish economy. there is an scotland can continue watching first ministers questions on bbc scotland and on bbc parliament. the bbc news at one is next but first a look at first the weather. the sunshine has been beating down. this was the weather watcher picture taken earlier on. not a cloud in the sky. some areas have been seeing some cloudy, here in cambridgeshire we had some cloud, limiting the timber to rise for a while but that has been offending and breaking. we have high pressure still in charge of our weather. this weather front is approaching into the north west and that will probably steer to the north of northern ireland but will bring more cloud this evening and overnight into scotland and some rainfora overnight into scotland and some rain for a while across the northern half of the country. we will see semester and low cloud coming into eastern parts of england but the earlier fog has now eastern parts of england but the earlierfog has now appeared eastern parts of england but the earlier fog has now appeared away from the south west and it should be clear here overnight. for most places, it really will be a mild one again. as we head into tomorrow, what is left of the rain, this time in the north east of scotland, by early morning will move away into the north sea. the cloud will then and we will get sunshine developing more widely. while some time to come for northern ireland and across england and wales once that low cloud england and wales once that low clou d m oves england and wales once that low cloud moves away. more other breeze properly and it‘s an easterly breeze septemberjust properly and it‘s an easterly breeze september just won‘t be properly and it‘s an easterly breeze septemberjust won‘t be as high in the south east of england. that warmth is getting pushed further towards the west. any low cloud again across eastern england on friday will not last long and it is sunshine petty much all the way. appraisal continue to pick up and turning more to a southerly as you head northwards towards the uk so it will push the heat further north. probably warmer in glasgow than in london. over the weekend, still high pressure in charge. these weather fronts will be patchy and we will draw ourair in fronts will be patchy and we will draw our air in from continental europe. temperatures aren‘t appointed to change a huge amount, looking at highs of the mid 20s but they will be a lot of sunshine this weekend and strong sunshine. maybe a bit of cloud at times in scotland and northern ireland but hopefully not a great deal. temperatures into the mid 20s. highs of 26 or 27 in the mid 20s. highs of 26 or 27 in the sunshine. and no rain, it has been a joy month for most of the country and it could be a possible record breaking may, especially in 02:58:53,765 > 4294966103:13:29,430 the south east.