protesters and police have clashed as curfew orders are ignored in minneapolis and several other us cities. there are now curfews in place in 13 us cities. demonstrators are calling forjustice after the killing of african american, george floyd, by a police officer. england s deputy chief medical officer has warned of a very dangerous moment in the fight against coronavirus. professorjonathan van tam said easing the lockdown would not affect the infection rate, but he urged the public not to tear the pants out of the new guidelines. the first commercial spacecraft to carry people into space has successfully launched from cape canaveral in florida. the capsule, built by elon musk‘s spacex, has two astronauts onboard, and they are now on their way to the international space station. here, private tenants are more likely to be in financial difficulty than home owners because of the pandemic, according to a new study. the report by the think tank the resolution foundation says many renters have seen their incomes fall. the government insists it s taken action to support tenants, including banning evictions for three months, as our business correspondent, katy austin explains. paying the rent has become too much for denny while her hair salon is shut. her landlord has agreed to postpone two months‘ rent, to be paid back in future. at the moment we owe april and may, and thenjune is due the 1st ofjune. i feel sick, actually. because at the moment, now, that s obviously one of our biggest outgoings, the rent. citizens advice estimates 2.6 million tenants expect to fall behind on rent because of coronavirus, and the resolution foundation think tank says one in five private renters have been furloughed or lost theirjob. it says they are struggling with payments more than homeowners. going into the crisis they had lower levels of savings, for example, and critically they also spent considerably more of their income on housing costs in the first place. government has brought in measures to try and help struggling tenants. in march, evictions were banned for three months but a committee of mps has warned a crisis is looming in the private rental sector. citizens advice says further measures will be needed when the eviction ban ends in late june. what we want the government to do is make sure that there is protection for people who have fallen into arrears due to coronavirus, and then also to accept and make sure the landlords have to put in place things like affordable repayment plans. landlords say they are working out solutions with tenants wherever possible. the ministry responsible for housing said support for renters and landlords is being kept under review. katy austin, bbc news. 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. more people have died here than in any other city in the world. there s been times when i have walked out of the er and said to myself, what in the world just happened 7 things 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 stretchers waiting to be triaged and i thought to myself, we re losing, we re losing. ellie, come here! i m 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 co worker of 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. this is a little bit different going into the epicentre of a pandemic. this is one of my suitcases. i was there for september 11, so naturally it feels like i should go back, you know, to be a part of this and help out in any way ican. i have seven bags, there is the insta pot. i was thinking about some of the things i was packing up. as a nurse, this is what we went to school for. this is what we do. going to new york for this whole covid crisis is basically like that, it s like throwing yourself into the 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 outdoorsy stuff, and it is something we re really going to miss. but i would like to take these moments to think about the things i can come back to. i do have my trunk packed, all the medical supplies that were donated. we ll get ready to hit the road. so the day has come, it is a 17.5 hour drive, and reality is sinking in and we re on our way. i have my sleeping beauty and her best friend. i had some conflict about bringing her along but i don t want fear to steer me away from what i want to do, and we have had many conversations. we ll just take it one day at a time. some gorgeous views, it s kind of serene all at the same time knowing that once we get out of these mountains and into the city, there s no telling what s going to be waiting there for us. there s always some fear going into such a traumatic environment, but the moment i walk into the er, it s go time. on march the 13th, new york city recorded its first covid i9 death. i m not we could have fathomed how big this could ve been. within a month, more had died from the virus than in 9/11. i never really ever imagined in my life i would see the density of human suffering. we will never think about healthcare in the same way. new yorker, doctor eric cioe pena is working at an emergency covid hospital that has been set up on staten island. ijoke with 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 to our limits. but i think we are all hopeful this is going to get better. it s been a marathon. we have been acting like it s a sprint. it s as if we were immediately post hurricane. except the problem is, it wasn t like the hurricane came, hits 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. all we re doing is basically sleeping and coming to work and dealing with coronavirus. so, i have finally made it to my hotel room. a cute little kitchen. there is my famous insta pot. nancy is a critical care nurse who will be working in the same hospital as doctor cioe pena. i left 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 s our hospital. the burrough with the highest death rate in new york. we came two days early to get a tour. a lot of sick people. they re coming in quick. that right there is exactly what you think it is. they re about to take a truck away from the hospital. by early april, the situation in new york is so bad that refrigerated trucks are being used as makeshift morgues, 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 ve been going through testing and honestly everywhere isjust go time. we re 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. so we just finished our shift today, trying to decontaminate and disinfect everything. she s already taking off her shoes. laughs don t lose this now. we keep everything in a bag separated. it s unlike anything i ve 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 ambulance 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 s almost as though death is sitting on some of these patient‘s shoulders 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 one of her hospital s pop up intensive care units. so thirsty. ..which have been created to do with the overflow of covid 19 patients. time to go back. no rest for the weary. with these pop up icus, the issue is the lack 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 s definitely stressful. it was busy, it was definitely an experience today. i got in there and they were so short staffed 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 ll see how it goes. i m on foranother12 hour shift tomorrow. it s going to some strengthjust to get myself upstairs. it has become all consuming. i m getting reminded by my family to take small breaks, especially when i m with my kids. when i m at home, there s almost like this guilt that i m not still there. there is much more fighting to do. there has been a lots of absentee fathering unfortunately. i got home early enough 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 there 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 re at high risk, the virus is everywhere. no matter how many times we wash our hands, no matter how many times we sanitise, the risk is very high. i have a scrubcap. right now, we have 40 people agency nurses 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 s extremely busy, it s just a constant flow, one after the other, after the other. an ambulance brought in an elderly person, about 15 minutes, 20 minutes later, they were brought out in a body bag. they come in alert, and then it is mind blowing how fast theyjust go. after this is over and 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 in healthcare workers, so there is something we really have to watch out for. as somebody who works in psych, i know that it s a possibility. well, we just finished our first two days in a row. i m wiped out, i m tired. you don t realise how much it takes, wearing all of this ppe. my head feels like it s 100 pounds heavier on my neck. it s been a long night, it s after midnight, we ve been here since noon and it s time to hit the road, decompress and. shower! both chuckle. nancy has just finished a shift on a covid unit where all of the patients are dependent on a ventilator. generally, those people that are in that unit are not likely to survive. since this whole virus situation started, there s only been two patients who have made it out of the unit and survived that s 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 reiterates how the covid virus affects everyone. but this young girl and she s still there and she s still fighting for her life and it s sad. home, sweet home! sighs. time to get these scrubs off. ugh, my feet are killing me! it s been a long day. pants they are going to go into the basket. sighs. 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. their 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 s why we re 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 and latino community as well. these are essential workers, you know? they re the bus drivers, they re the janitors, they re 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 latino 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. 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, they get really, really sick. ..and today, she s 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? uh, just fatigue and a headache still. and my stomach is not right. you ve got to tilt your head back all the way back, as far as you can. 0oh! great. all right, you re all set. it takes 2a hours to know the results so that s 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 ll take care of chloe and the dog. if it gets really bad and i don t make 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. if christina tests positive, she ll be one of the growing number of infected nurses. and some are becoming gravely ill. when i was training in brooklyn, there was a nurse there who worked the night shift and she kind of has this reputation of being a battleaxe, and i obviously grew to love her and knew that she had the biggest heart in the world. and i was told today by a colleague that she s in critical care in the icu on a ventilator with coronavirus. um, and this is, uh, symbolic of a lot of the angst and the hurt that happens with healthcare workers because we re 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 it feels like it is a personal attack, it s a professional attack, um, and it s hard sometimes, i think, to see past that and to get through that, because it s really an acute stress and it feels like it s unravelling a lot of our lives as healthcare workers. that is the most challenging part is that these patients are kind of alone and the families are not able to be there. there was a gentleman that i was caring for and he wasjust not in a good way and i was holding his hand. i was like i m going to go get some coffee and i m gonna come back . i came back with the coffee and he was dead. yeah. he died. so, i was gone maybe 15 minutes. and there was nobody with him. so it was sad. and i felt, to some extent, that i did a disservice because i wasn t 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 to just do what you have to do. a well known er doctor here in new york who battled to save the lives of so many others. 49 year old dr lorna breen 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 s tragic. and in the same day, we heard about an ems technician who also killed himself, and ijust think it s the tip of the iceberg. the other day, i was talking to a tech who was responsible for putting the bodies in the bags. and he said that s 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 s when the trucks came. they would fill it up with 55 bodies, it would leave and then another truck would be right there, they d fill it up. 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 dr 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 that 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 mourn, you would be with people. tough week. i hope next week s 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 re coming out of the other side. christina s coronavirus test was negative but she and her daughter chloe have returned to missouri. i will talk to you guys tomorrow. nancy is about to head back to maryland to see her daughter and mum. and derek is continuing in the bronx. it has been a great adventure, it is challenging, but the whole thing has been great. over 100,000 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 brink in new york. the system was about to collapse. it completely disrupted normal in every sense of that word. there is no normal anymore. there s no going back from this. we will honestly never be the same again. hello there. saturday brought more dry, sunny, and warm weather across the whole of the united kingdom. now, it was a fine end to the day in london and west london did quite well for temperatures. heathrow got up to 26 degrees. but for the most part on saturday, the highest temperatures were across the north and the west of the uk with kinloch here in the highlands of scotland, the nation s hotspot with highs of 27. we re going to see similar kind of temperatures for these western areas as we get on into sunday as well. now over the next few hours, most of us are going to keep the clear skies but probably some low cloud and some fog begin to push onto the eastern shores of scotland and although temperatures in the towns and cities between around 8 13 degrees, in the countryside the coldest spots get down to about 3 degrees so it will be quite chilly for some of you to start sunday morning. sunday, well, that low cloud and fog can take the first few hours of the morning to clear away from east scotland. maybe a bit of misting this as well in north east england. but otherwise, a sunny start to the day and a sunny afternoon. now, the highest temperatures in scotland probably again to the north west of the country, the highlands doing ok with highs probably reaching around 25 26 degrees celsius here. you might see another 23 or 2a for westernmost areas of northern ireland. and some of the highest temperatures in england across western areas and wales too. you could see highs locally hitting around 27. now for monday s forecast, the high pressure is still in charge of our weather, so we ve got more of that dry weather to come. more of the sunshine as well. temperatures still on the high side for the time of year, looking at highs of 2a in glasgow, 26 or so in cardiff, but from then on we re going to start to see the weather changing somewhat because an area of low pressure is going to start to develop to the north of the uk and move in as we head towards tuesday and wednesday. so, that is going to be bringing some cloudy skies with rain or showers pushing southwards and as well as that, the area is going to be getting cooler. so temperatures will be coming back down close to normal for the time of year and normal isn t something we ve seen for quite a long time. so, scotland is going to be cooling down as you can see, there will be some rain and showers around as well as we go through tuesday and wednesday. perhaps some of the heaviest rain actually working through during tuesday night. further southwards across england and wales, still hanging onto some warm sunshine on tuesday but the change comes really on wednesday with thicker cloud. again, rain or showers working in. that s your latest 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this is bbc news welcome if you re watching here in the uk or around the globe. i m lewis vaughan jones. our top stories: tensions in minneapolis as protestors and police clash as curfew orders are ignored. police and national guard troops fire tear gas and flares are thrown back. the governor urges people to stay at home. and it s very clear on this. this is a very simple order. there is a curfew issued by the mayor, and backed by the state, that you shouldn t be on the streets tonight. and i will leave it at that. when you decide to take the decision to go out on the streets tonight, the assumption is that you re
from the edd on your unemployment benefits. we ll be here every day at 3:00 tu liveand on live stream tonight, new reporting on the former police officer, derek chauvin, charged in the murder of george floyd in minneapolis. what we did not know about a plea deal that fell apart. prosecutors confirming chow vin was negotiating a guilty plea to local and federal charges, so, what changed? as george floyd s brother appears before congress today, saying his brother did not deserve to die over $20. and what he said when asked if he believed his brother s killing was premeditated. also tonight, as we come on the air, the urgent hunt for a gunman who opened fire on a police station. investigators do believe the shootings are connected. residents ordered to shelter in place. and what authorities have just revealed tonight. after military leaders said the time has come to discuss changing names of u.s. military bases named after confederate leaders, tonight, president trump saying this will not happen, saying they are part of a great american heritage. and nascar late today revealing they are now banning the confederate flag. the coronavirus here in the u.s. alarming news tonight involving the spike in cases right now across more than 20 states. some hospitals told to enact emergency plans. and some authorities now talking about a potential for a stay at home order again. and the race for a vaccine tonight. tens of thousands of americans now volunteering to be injected with experimental vaccines. so, what could this mean about timing for a vaccine here in the u.s.? the voting chaos in georgia overnight. voters in lines well after sundown. some in line for six hours or more. what caused this and what does it mean with the presidential election just five months away? and there is breaking news tonight in the case of those two missing siblings. the discovery on that property and what their heartbroken grandparents are now saying. and we pay tribute tonight to a renowned debate coach, eight decades at texas southern university. tonight, right here, his students on what he would expect from them in this moment. good evening and it s great to have you with us on a wednesday night. we re back from houston tonight, where thousands came from all over to pay their respects to george floyd, his family, remembering him as a gentle man, a loving father, an imperfect man, but saying his name will now stand for the push for change, for justice. and tonight, what we did knnot know about the officer charged with murder now. how close was he to a plea deal, and why did it fall apart? and on capitol hill today, one of george floyd s brothers telling lawmakers, enough is enough. pleading with them to stop the pain of police brutality. breaking down, asking, what was his brother s life worth? we have learned prosecutors and that former officer, derek chauvin, were closing in on charges until the day before his arrest. chauvin now faces up to 40 years behind bars if convicted on all charges. and tonight, as we come on the air, an urgent hunt now for a man who opened fire on a police station. we have it all covered for you. we re going to begin with abc s alex perez in minneapolis again tonight. reporter: tonight, the stunning revelation, as prosecutors mulled charges against fired minneapolis police officer derek chauvin, he was angling for a deal to plead guilty on federal civil rights charges and to murdering george floyd. as prosecutors were walking up to the podium on may 28th, the deal had just fallen apart. another development that i could tell you about. unfortunately, we don t at this point. reporter: chauvin charged with third degree murder the next day, upgraded to second degree the following week. mr. floyd, what do you hope to tell the committee today? justice for george. you don t do that to a human being. you don t do that to an animal. his life mattered. all our lives matter. black lives matter. i just wish wish i could get him back. those officers, they get to l e live. for him to do something like that, it had to be premeditated and he wanted to do that. intentional? yes, sir. reporter: and tonight, those chants of the streets turning into demands for reform. minneapolis police chief faced with the possibility his department could be disbanded, unveiling his own plans for change today, revealing the department will no longer negotiate their current contract with the police union and new, real-time technology to track cops accused of misconduct and intervene. chauvin had 18 complaints against him, but was only disciplined twice. under the new rules what would have happened to someone like chauvin, who had all these complaints? we could have intervened much earlier, if there were problematic behaviors brought to our attention right away, we could have made appropriate measures. reporter: back on capitol hill, george floyd s brother demanding more accountability from officers. george wasn t hurting anyone that day. he didn t deserve to die over $20. i m asking you, is that what a black man is worth? $20? this is 2020. enough is enough. powerful testimony. we here the demonstrators behind you tonight, alex. and we know there s late word that one of the other officers who was charged in this case, thomas lane, we remember, he was on his fourth shift as an officer that night, a rookie, there s news on him this evening? reporter: well, david, according to jail records, former officer thomas lane was released from jail just a short time ago, late this afternoon. he posted $750,000 bail and has been released. you ll remember that s the officer who in court shifted blame towards the veteran officer on the scene that night, derek chauvin. now, as for the changes here at the minneapolis police department, the chief tells me, today was just the beginning. he expects to make several announcements in the weeks ahead. david? all right, alex perez, thank you. and as i mentioned at the top tonight, there is an urgent hunt at this hour for a gunman who fired on a police station in california, shooting a deputy in the face and then a body found a mile away, someone shot dead. authorities do believe it s related. that community put on lockdown. reporiglice oilng. reporter: police describing the shooter as a male in his 20s or 30s. they re urging residents to shelter in place. gunfire erupting early this morning around 3:15 a.m. in downtown paso robles. the pd is advising they can hear gunfire coming from the east side of their station. reporter: the gunman shot and wounded a sheriff s deputy in front of the station. taking gunfire. at the dmv! copy. taking gunfire on ninth street at the dmv. keeps shooting at us! gunfire is coming from a soh. reporter: around 7:00 a.m., police discovered the body of a man near an amtrak station less than a mile away from the police department. the victim was shot in the head from close range and believe the shooting is connected. within the past couple of minutes, authorities released a picture of the gunman. they say, without a doubt, he set out to kill police officers and this is the third time that members of law enforcement have been ambushed here in california in just the past couple of weeks. david? the scene playing out tonight. will, thank you. we have been reporting here on the growing pressure across this country, from demonstrators and supporters, to take down confederate symbols. tonight, late word nascar is taking action, banning the confederate flag at all nascar events. driver bubba wallace wearing a t-shirt i can t breathe in recent days. u.s. military leaders have expressed a willingness to discuss renaming bases named after confederate generals. but tonight, president trump says that won t happen. saying they are part of a great american heritage. here s our chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. reporter: president trump today firmly shot down the idea of changing the names of military bases named after confederate generals, tweeting, quote, my administration will not even consider the renaming of these magnificent and fabled military insulations. in case anybody missed his tweets, he dispatched his press secretary to read his words allowed. these very powerful bases have become part of a great american heritage and a history of winning, victory and freedom. reporter: it comes just after thannounced, the secretary of defense and the secretary of the army are open to a bipartisan discussion on the topic. around the country, signs of the confederacy are coming down. now nascar is announcing a ban on confederate flags at all event. tonight, racing star bubba wallace car will bear the words black lives matter. there are ten u.s. army bases named after confederate soldiers. among those calling for that to change is retired general david petraeus, who boat in the atlantic of the, quote, irony of training at bases named for those who took up arms against the united states and for the right to enslave others. he added, we do not live in a country to which braxton bragg, henry l. benning or robert repd lee can serve as an inspiration. acknowledging this is imperative. the president wouldn t answer questions today on his decision. while the white house makes an impassioned defense of bases named for pro-slavery confederate soldiers, the president has yet to propose any specific reforms of police practices in the wake of george floyd s death. on cop toll hill, republicans have tasked the only african-american republican senator to take the lead in coming up with a plan. we should all want to follow the lead as it relates, to, a, making sure we get something acomplained, and not just having pieces of legislation they are for show. reporter: the white house press secretary said today the president is working, quote, quietly and diligently, to come up with a plan to address the concerns of the protesters, but we have heard nothing specific. the ideaitg eye by most police officers. that s an idea that democrats and some republicans say would make it easier to hold the police accountable for their actions. david? jon karl live at the white house. jon, thank you. i want to get right to martha raddatz tonight, because martha, the army said the defense secretary was, in fact, open to discussing renaming military bases named after con fed rat generals, but you heard what the president said today, essentially saying this won t happen. so, where does it stand tonight? reporter: well, david, the decision is technically up to an assistant secretary of the army, but given what trump has said, that would likely be professional suicide. but as you know, it was just last week that secretarial of defense mark esper spoke out publicly against the president s threat to use active duty military to quell protests and there has also been a growing chorus of retired military officers blasting trump s decision-making, so, you can t rule out the base names changing, but for now, that seems unlikely, david. all right, martha, thank you. now, the news this evening on the coronavirus, the number of cases spiking in several states across this country. and there s news tonight on a potential vaccine. tens of thousands of ams volunteeo get injected wi penal horizon. so, what could this mean for any timeline for the rest of the country? here s matt gutman on that. reporter: tonight, the u.s. government saying tens of thousands of volunteers will soon receive injections with one of three of experimental vaccines. those injections are part of third phase of vaccine trials, the stage before possible approval. and dr. anthony fauci now saying there are no garn teens, but he s cautiously optimistic about at least one of them working. we could have a vaccine either by the end of this calendar year or in the first few months of 2021. reporter: moderna beginning phase three trials in july, followed by the university of oxford and astra-zeneca s vaccine in august and johnson & johnson in september. the goal, to test the vaccine s safety and effectiveness. that, as at least 20 states plus puerto rico seeing increases in new cases, and eight states reporting rising hospitalizations. in texas, hospitalizations jumping 40% since memorial day. officials there say it s too early to tell if that s because of reopening, the protests or both. and inlte te min o of icu beds. in mid-may, the projection for covid deaths was 600. right now, the projection is 4,500, correct. that s a pretty significant change. that s an alarming trajectory. reporter: david, the goal of a phase three trial is to determine how well a vaccine works. that s why they re casting a wide net, up to 90,000 volunteers. half of them will be given a placebo, the other half, the actual vaccine. it will be later determined how many show the presence of antibodies. david? matt gutman, thank you again tonight, as well. we re also following that developing headline in the case of two missing siblings from idaho. their step-father was in court today facing charges now after human remains were found on his property. and what the children s heartbroken grandparents said late today. here s marcus moore. reporter: tonight, the grandparents of two idaho children, missing since september, say their bodies have been found. but police not confirming they are the remains of 17-year-old tylee ryan and her brother, 7-year-old j.j. vallow, discovered during aer er iseart chad daybell s home, their mother s new husband. we are aware that those remains are the remains of children. reporter: daybell appearing today before a judge today via zoom, facing two felony counts of destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence. mr. daybell, do you understand the allegations on both counts that have been brought against you? i do. reporter: mom lori vallow already behind bars after refusing to tell police where the children were. lori? can you tell me where your kids are? reporter: the couple under a cloud of suspicion for months after a string of deaths in the family. marrying in hawaii weeks after daybell s first wife died. vallow s husband killed last summer by her brother, who later died himself. friends and family insisting lori changed after meeting daybell, a religious author. after lori s arrest, daybell telling us the kids were safe. is there anything that you would like to say to people who are concerned about the kids or concerned about you and your wife, anything at all you want to say to them? just grateful for any support. reporter: tonight, j.j. and tylee s family saying, we are filled with unfathomable sadness that these two bright stars were stolen from us, and only hope that they died without pain or suffering. lori vallow and her husband are both being held on $1 million bail and, david, daybell is due back in court in july. marcus, think. when we come back tonight, the voting chaos in georgia overnight. and severe storms coming tonight from michigan over to new york. we have the track in a moment. but when you have the chase mobile app, your bank can be virtually any place. so, when you get a check. you can deposit it from here. and you can see your transactions and check your balance from here. you can save for an emergency from here. or pay bills from here. so when someone asks you, where s your bank? 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i think that dr. freeman, because he has always encouraged us not only to be articulate, l in which we can have the best outcome for ourselves. meaning that he s always pushed us to do our best. it s in our motto, we all know what we do, we do well, what we don t do well, we don t do it all. reporter: the faces that you see, black, white, latino, from every race, every background, every story, part of these protests. do you sense it s a turning point? absolutely do. reporter: what s your message to the country right now? there s always hope. that you can always be better. that you don t have to settle. i think the message would be, there s power in your voice. you should definitely use it. definitely. reporter: well, i would say to your debate team, keep winning. we ll try. keep winning. vowing to carry the torch. it s about more than winning, he would say, and they already made dr. freeman proud. thank you for watching here tonight. i m david muir. for all of us here abc have news, have a good evening. good night. i wanted my hepatitis c gone. i put off treating mine. epclusa treats all main types of chronic hep c. whatever your type, epclusa could be your kind of cure. i just found out about mine. i knew for years. epclusa has a 98% overall cure rate. i had no symptoms of hepatitis c mine caused liver damage. epclusa is only one pill, once a day, taken with or without food for 12 weeks. before starting epclusa, your doctor will test if you have had hepatitis b, which may flare up, and could cause serious liver problems during and after treatment. tell your doctor if you have had hepatitis b, other liver or kidney problems, hiv, or other medical conditions. .and all medicines you take, including herbal supplements. taking amiodarone with epclusa may cause a serious slowing of your heart rate. common side effects include headache and tiredness. ask your doctor today, if epclusa is your kind of cure. statues and symbols of racism are coming down. some by protesters, others by community leaders. thanks for joining us. in the wake of black lives matter across the country, communities rethinking names on buildings, memorials and statues. the bay area is no different. there s now movement to remove sir francis drake statues and more in marin county. it s eggs within eggs. it is called cosmic embrace. the marine resident isn t exactly well known but follows the signatures and some of his work is getting to be that way. i looked at it once or twice. i thought it was don quixote. reporter: not
this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i m mike embley and these are our top stories. britain s prime minister says he regrets the ‘confusion and anger‘ as his special adviser admits making long journeys during the anti virus lockdown. no, i don t, i don t regret what i did. as i said, i think reasonable people may well disagree. misses the scene live right now in hong kong where the hong kong chief executive carrie lam has defended china s security law, causing it fence against violent protest. calling it a defence. brazil s virus death rate overtakes the united states but the government is still refusing to lock down the country. the who suspends testing of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for covid 19, warning the drug could damage the health of some people. already struggling with a mass of problems, haiti battles covid 19 an aid worker tells us of shortages in vital equipment. hello. in an extraordinary press conference, the top adviser to britain s prime minister has given a defiant defence of his behaviour dominic cummings has been widely accused of flouting coronavirus lockdown rules. he says he doesn t regret driving his family hundreds of miles from london, at a time when his wife was showing symptoms of covid 19, to get help with childcare. here s our political editor laura kuenssburg. morning. the rule is unwritten, but it is real. advisers aren t meant to be the story. reporter: when ordinary people were obeying the rules and staying home, mr cummings. already, this is day four of headlines about dominic cummings. he s made a career out of trying to rewrite political convention. even for him, this was astonishing. using the downing street garden, normally reserved for world leaders, to explain, or to apologise, or perhaps fight back. sorry i m late. i know that millions of people in this country have been suffering. thousands have died. many are angry about what they have seen in the media about my actions. i want to clear up the confusions and misunderstandings. first, i was worried that if my wife and i were both seriously ill, possibly hospitalised, there was nobody in london we could reasonably ask to look after our child and expose themselves to covid. my wife had felt on the edge of not being able to look after hi m safely a few hours earlier. i was thinking, what if the same, or worse, happens to me? there is nobody here i can reasonably ask to help. i thought the best thing to do in all the circumstances was to drive to an isolated cottage on my father s farm. at this farm, my parents live in one house, my sister and her two children live in another house, and there s a separate cottage 50 metres away from either of them. my tentative conclusion on the friday evening was this. if we were both unable to look after our child, then my sister or nieces could look after him. i did not ask the prime minister about this decision. he was ill himself and he had huge problems to deal with. every day, i have to exercise my judgement about things like this and decide what to discuss with him. i thought that i would speak to him when the situation clarified over the coming days. on sunday 12 april, 15 days after i first displayed symptoms, i decided to return to work. my wife was very worried, particularly given that my eyesight seemed to have been affected by the disease. she did not want to risk a nearly 300 mile drive with our child, given how ill i had been. we agreed that we should go for a short drive to see if i could drive safely. we drove for roughly half an hour and ended up on the outskirts of barnard castle town. i felt a bit sick. we walked about io ism from the car, to the riverbank nearby. we sat there for about 15 minutes. we had no interactions with anybody. this is where it began. on the 27th of march, watch mr cummings running out of work. he d just discovered his wife had fallen ill. worried about child care, they drove that night more than 200 miles to the family s farm in county durham. mr cummings, the next day, developed severe symptoms, but his wife recovered and was able to look after their 14 year old. at some point, he told the prime minister he had gone north, but it s not known when. and on 12 april, having somewhat recovered and taken medical advice, the family went on that test drive, 30 miles away. and on the 13th, the family drove back to london. do you regret what you did? because many people in this country have made heartbreaking sacrifices in the last couple of months in order to stick to the rules that you were part of putting together. and many people may have listened to you and think you made your own interpretation. and do you understand for some people, it seems as if there was one version of the rules for you and one version of the rules for everyone else? no, i don t regret what i did. as i said, i think reasonable people may well disagree about how i thought about what to do in these circumstances. but i think that. i think that what i did was actually reasonable in these. in these circumstances. will the public tolerate his reliance on the small print? walking away, did he believe his explanations have got him off the hook? his boss wanted to make announcements about the next stages of easing the lockdown. but while he might still have looked unfamiliar with the details, he had to defend him still. good evening. you knew that your chief advisor had gone against the spirit of the lockdown rules, whether driving 30 miles to a local beauty spot when he was in county durham, supposedly to test his eyesight, or not self isolating straightaway when his wife had symptoms. dominic cummings would not express any regret about any of that this afternoon. do you? i didn t know about any of the arrangements in advance. we had a brief conversation in which i think dominic cummings mentioned where he was. but i have to tell you, laura, at that particular stage, i had a lot on my plate and really didn t focus on the matter. i do regret the confusion and the anger and the pain that people feel. i really did want people to understand exactly what had happened. and so that s why we had the statement and the very extensive questions that we did today. the prime minister is standing by his adviser, famed and feared for believing that rules are there to be broken. that s always come for big political danger for dominic cummings. now it couldn t be closer to home. laura kuenssberg, bbc news. in hong kong, carrie lam, the chief executive, has been defending china s new security law she s calling it a safeguard against violent political protests. she insists it is not a violation of the territory s autonomy and she s criticised international leaders who ve supported protesters resisting the legislation. national security legislation asa national security legislation as a matter for national security legislation as a matterfor a country, it s the case in any country. it doesn t matter the country has a unitary system or a multi party system or a federal system. now, legislation on national security is always a metal matter for the central authorities. so for overseas politicians making such comments, they probably are practising double standards. now, i think there is no one country that will allow an important matter like national security to be flawed in any way or to have a void in any way. this weekend, after months of quiet, there was a fresh surge of protests against that law proposed by the government in beijing that many think would radically change hong kong s unique status. opponents say it is a direct attempt to limit freedoms and silence critics. there have been another 800 deaths in the past 2a hours in brazil. the total number of infections now puts it second to the united states globally. but despite the crisis, president bolsonaro has played down the threat from the virus, and repeatedly argued that a lockdown would be unnecessary and harmful to the economy. i spoke to karabekir akkoyunlu who is is a political science professor at the international relations institute at sao paulo university. i pointed out that some people are surprised the country is opening up at this point, but president bolsonaro does seem to have a lot of support. brazil is a massive country, continent sized country so the picture is not the same everywhere but if we want to take a general look at it, it s country with deep structural socio economic and geographic inequalities in a country that has gone through a debilitating economic recession over the past five years. it hasn t come out of that crisis really before it confronted the coronavirus crisis. the economic crisis has made people poorer, rolled back social services, including the health services in various states. so it s no wonder that it s confronting the pandemic in such a severe way. it should have taken particularly proactive action because it was not positioned to tackle such a crisis in the first place in a very strong position and it needed seamless co ordination between different levels of decision making. instead, what we are seeing since the beginning of the pandemic, is crisis and division at every single level, whether it s the federal government level, whether it s the federal government and state governors. between state governors and the mayors. between the federal executive and the congress, or within the executive branch and cabinet of president bolsonaro himself. now, president bolsonaro seems to be playing to his solid support base, which is about 30% of the electorate percentage hasn t gone down, even though the president seems to have lost support from other groups and political actors who have in late 2018, but he seems to believe that any sticks to catering to his support base, 30%, he is going to come through this crisis relatively undamaged. and it s cost him, of course, his position has cost him three health ministers. does he have a point, though, that the economic risk as he sees it is more damaging than the health risk? there is no question that countries like brazil, as i mentioned, with deep inequalities, and which have suffered through economic crises recently, will have a major economic impact from this crisis, from the health crisis, but many experts believe the dichotomy of economy versus health is a false dichotomy, that you cannot really forsake the help of millions of people of people and expect for your economy to persevere, to go through the crisis. ina sense. forgive me, just one point i wanted to clear up with you if we have the chance very quickly, if you don t mind. the figures are pretty extraordinary in brazil. is it likely too the figures are not reliable, that the real figure is much higher? they are most probably unreliable in the sense that brazil is doing relatively little testing so real figures so realfigures are likely to be much higher. in fact, a recent study by the medicalfaculty at the sao paulo university, where i am at as well, estimated that actual figures might be some 15 times higher than what s announced. of course, it s a very vast country and different states are coping with the situation in better ways than other ones. the world health organization has temporarily halted the testing of the drug hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for covid i9 because of safety concerns. the drug, traditionally used to treat malaria, has been described by president donald trump as game changer in the battle against the virus. imogen foulkes reports from geneva. there are so far no known treatments or vaccines for covid i9, but there are many clinical trials of many different drugs to try to find them. one drug, hydroxychloroquine, is already in use as a treatment for malaria. some, among them president donald trump, think it could work against covid i9 too. he s even taking it himself. i m taking it, hydroxychloroquine. when? right now, yeah. couple of weeks ago, i started taking it, because i think it s good. i ve heard a lot of good stories. the world health organization has repeatedly said there is no scientific evidence so far that hydroxychloroquine can treat covid i9, let alone prevent infection with it. the who had been running clinical trials to test anecdotal reports that it might be beneficial. now, those trials have been stopped after a study suggested the drug could cause heart problems and might even increase deaths among covid i9 patients. the executive group has implemented a temporary pause of the hydroxychloroquine arm within the solidarity trial while the data, the safety data, is reviewed by the data we safety monitoring board. the who said the decision to suspend trials was a precautionary measure. now, it will gather more data on safety before deciding whether to continue testing. however, it said patients taking hydroxychloroquine for established reasons, such as malaria, should continue to do so. imogen foulkes, bbc news, geneva. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: the boy and the bear meet the italian 12 year old being praised for his cool handling of a very risky situation. in the biggest international sporting spectacle ever seen, up to 30 million people have taken part in sponsored athletics events to aid famine relief in africa. the first of what the makers of star wars hope will be thousands of queues started forming at 7:00am. taunting which led to scuffles, scuffles to fighting, fighting to full scale riot, as the liverpool fans broke out of their area and into the juve ntus enclosure. the belgian police had lost control. the whole world will mourn the tragic death of mr nehru today. he was the father of the indian people from the day of independence. the oprah winfrey show comes to an end after 25 years and more than 4,500 episodes. the chat show has made her one of the richest people on the planet. geri halliwell, otherwise known as ginger spice,‘ has announced she has left the spice girls. argh, i don t believe it. she s the one with the bounce, the go, girl power. not geri, why? welcome back. very glad to have you with us. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: the top adviser to the british prime minister has given a defiant defence of his behaviour after he was accused of flouting coronavirus lockdown rules. the world health organization has suspended testing of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for covid i9, after a study suggested the drug could cause serious health problems. a british couple is co ordinating efforts to help a hospital in haiti prepare for a spike in coronavirus cases which they believe could overwhelm the country s healthcare system. the country has just 60 ventilators for a population of 11 million and is ill prepared for the pandemic. the bbc‘sjon hunt has more. while in britain, we may be past the peak of the pandemic, in haiti, cases are rising sharply. at this hospital set up by a uk charity, they are having to improvise, making ppe out of raincoats and diy masks. uh.this is actually made out of a ladder. rob dalton is an a&e nurse from surrey, volunteering for the charity. i ve been working six days a week, sometimes too busy to to get to eat and things. there s so much to do here. they need all the help they can get. the preparation of the hope health action hospital is being co ordinated from crawley, in west sussex. the charity s founders say one of their biggest challenges is access to oxygen. there s no access to a ventilator at a hospital. there s only 15 20 icu beds for the whole country. so we are focusing more on provision of oxygen, but that can be a struggle. we ve invested to get a number of oxygen concentrators out to the country in the last couple of weeks, which just arrived over the weekend. the charity is also doing community outreach work to teach social distancing and promote good hand washing. you can have ten people living in a one bed house, which means that self isolating is just nearly impossible, and communities all function really closely together. with donations from the uk, they ve been able to set up an isolation ward for covid i9 patients and a triage system. the peak of the pandemic is due in haiti in the next two weeks. john hunt, bbc news. well, sandra lamarque is the head of mission for doctors without borders in haiti, speaking from port au prince earlier, she told me that the country is not prepared to fight this outbreak and is already facing an increasing number of virus related deaths. the country is not prepared to deal with an epidemic and outbreak of such proportions. so what we re trying to do, we ve just opened a hospital specialised in care for patients suffering from covid i9, and specifically for severe cases. we ve also helped public hospitals protect themselves with setting up triage facilities and isolation beds, but this is not enough and a lot more effort is required. and so called barrier measures, of course, very difficult even in countries with advanced health systems. in the slums of port au prince, it must be nearly impossible, and with that very porous border from the dominican republic. absolutely, haiti is one of the most densely populated countries in the caribbean, and especially in the slums, where we work the population density is extremely high. it s impossible for people to stay isolated, and it s nearly impossible to implement. people need to go about their business on a daily basis. access to hand washing facilities, access to sanitation is also extremely limited in this area. the situation at the border is another worry. every week, we estimate that 20,000 people cross the border from dominican republic to haiti, and a lot of them are importing the virus, u nfortu nately. at the border, there is no proper system in place to test people, or screen them for fever, or put suspected cases in quarantine. so, due to this, a lot of people are probably importing cases from dominican republic next door, which is at the moment the main cluster in the caribbean. it must be so difficult, i mean, you must have problems everywhere you look, don t you? the hurricane season is supposed to be particularly active this year, and i supposed none of this has stopped the gang violence. i think your hospitals are still dealing with gunshot wounds daily, aren t they? exactly, one hour ago we received four gunshot wounds in our emergency centre, in one of the most violent slums in port au prince, and over the last week we ve received a couple more as well. this is worrying because not only are we worried about covid i9 itself, we are worried about the continuity of access to healthcare for every pathology, for pregnant women, for gunshot wounds, for asthmatic people. and this is a worry, actually. last week, two hospitals, two prominent hospitals in port au prince, the capital city, had to close down because they did not have personal protective equipment for their staff, and they feared infecting their staff or other patients, so they had to close down, limiting even more access to healthcare for the population. and sandra, very briefly if you don t mind, what do you most need, and where are you going to get it from? can you get it? we mostly need oxygen equipment, we need personal protective equipment, and it s really hard to get them into the country, due to shortages worldwide. some doctors on the front line of the national health service here in the uk arrived as refugees. fergal keane has been to meet syrian doctors who told him they want to repay the kindness and generosity they ve received since they came here. dr ahmad alomar is a syrian refugee, now working at royal oldham hospital in manchester. here, he is checking on a patient admitted with a severe cough. arriving in 2014, ahmad and his family found safety in britain, and he brought precious skills. nurse: where s my chocolates? laughter. he has a presence that puts other staff at their ease. i ve only had one day off! having struggled with mass casualties in besieged aleppo, he is well placed to offer emotional support to colleagues. during these difficult times in syria, i ve learned how to cope with stress. i ve learned how to manage. when the covid pandemic started here, i realised that it would be a very difficult time, because nobody had ever had similar experience. more than half syria s health facilities have been destroyed or damaged. hospitals have been targeted by the regime and its russian allies. the british surgeon david nott, here wearing the colourful cap, trained syrian doctors in emergency surgery in besieged aleppo. it s left me with a broken heart, because there are so many millions of people as refugees now, and they need to go home, but they re too scared to go home. and it is a dreadful situation, that they re still u nfortu nately having to cope with. there is an irony in this, of course, in that you went there to help them. they re now here helping you. yes, it s true, absolutely true. and it s wonderful. here in aleppo, working under siege conditions, one of the young doctors he trained. ayman alshikh became a highly skilled trauma surgeon. now ayman is in manchester, a friend of dr ahmad, and studying for the exams that will allow him to practise in britain. he wants to repay the welcome and peace he has found here. i imagined our colleagues here, that they are suffering, they need help. they need any hand they can have with them. i can understand their feeling now, and it s really exhausting during these uncertain times. ahmad has found security here, and work he loves. but he yearns for home, a return he knows is impossible while the regime is in power. a doctor no longer able to help his own country helps save lives here. may i feel your hand, please? our good fortune, syria s tragedy. fergal keane, bbc news, manchester. americans have marked memorial day a chance for the nation to honour who died serving in the us military. the president visited fort mckendrick in baltimore. the historic battle site was actually an inspiration for the star spangled banner, america s national anthem. mr trump invoked that tune while honouring those on the front lines against the coronavirus. meanwhile, the man who will take on mrtrump in november s election also paid tribute. former vice presidentjoe biden left his home to make his first public appearance in two months, laying a wreath at a veterans park in delaware. that s it for now. when you so much for watching. hello. if you re looking for rain through this week, well, there is not very much in the forecast. but what i can offer you is plenty of warmth. in fact, during monday, to the south west of london, temperatures got very close to 27 degrees. we ll see more very warm weather over the next few days. on the satellite picture, though, you can see this stripe of cloud that s been working its way in towards the north west. not bringing an awful lot of rain, though. this is a frontal system, but one which is weakening very quickly, so really wejust have a band of cloud sitting in place across parts of england and wales through tuesday morning. maybe the odd spot of drizzle around, but generally speaking it ll be dry, just with a bit more in the way of cloud generally than we had during monday. conversely, for northern ireland and scotland, well, here we see long spells of sunshine. still quite breezy in the far north, and a little bit on the cool side here, i suppose. but, the further south you are, top temperatures getting up to 25 degrees. now, as we move through tuesday evening, our old weather front will still be sitting in place, but reallyjust a band of cloud at this stage. could be a little bit misty and murky for some coastal spots in the south and the west. and then we see some more cloud starting to work in towards parts of northern ireland. but generally it s a dry night, and not a particularly cold one, with lows between 7 14 degrees. so, during wednesday, high pressure still very much in charge. but this warm front here will be introducing more cloud, and maybejust nosing some rain into the western side of northern ireland and potentially the west of scotland. there is a bit of uncertainty about just how far east this rain will get. but, to the south of this band of cloud and patchy rain, well, that s where we have the very warm air. so temperatures down towards the south, cardiff, london, into the middle 20s celsius. not quite as warm as that across the northern half of the uk. but, as we move towards the end of the week, as this area of high pressure moves its way a little bit further eastwards, well, more and more of us get to feel the effects of some very warm air. and i think, on thursday, we will see plentiful sunshine across most areas. a bit more cloud across scotland, maybe just the odd shower across the northern half of the country, but the vast majority will be dry. but those temperatures up to 26 degrees there in cardiff, 22 in glasgow, but a little bit cooler for some of those north sea coasts. that s a trend that will continue on into friday. and as we head into the weekend, well, those temperatures stay pretty high for the time of year, and very little sign of rain for most of us.
this is bbc news. the headlines: britain s prime minister, borisjohnson, has said he regrets the confusion and anger caused by his chief adviser‘s long journeys across the uk during the anti virus lockdown. but he has reiterated his support for dominic cummings, who s insisted he didn t violate the rules and doesn t regret what he did. brazil has recorded the world s highest number of deaths from covid i9 in a single day. the latest figure was 807. only the united states has more cases, in total, but brazil s official figures are thought to be very much under estimated. president bolsonaro is still refusing to implement a national lockdown. hong kong s chief executive, carrie lam, has been defending china s new security law, insisting it would be a safeguard against legal process and would not violate the territory s autonomy. she criticised international leaders who supported protesters resisting the
confused as to so many people are confused as to why the statue offence and upset so many people. aren t people mature to realise that the statue is of a man who in his era did things which are apparent to any right thinking person today, but that is the historical context and we don t need to erase history to understand that. removing statues is not erasing history and this is the constant accusation made of people who have been taken to this history, trying to make the city more aware of who he was, doing everything they can to raise the profile of the atlantic slave trade, and what has happened here as people have asked for the statue to be put in a museum, people have attempted to put plaques on the statue, explaining this wealth bequeathed to the city was born from the atlantic slave trade and all of those temps have been thwarted were dismissed and patronised, and i m afraid that i ve it should never have happened because the statute should have been taken down and been a great collective day for bristol when the statue was peacefully taken down and put in a museum, which is where after all we remember history properly. so it s not about statues, it s about understanding history. but statues aren t the mechanism by which we understand history, we learn history through museums, books and television programmes. statues are about adoration, about saying this man was a great man and did great things. that is not true. he was a slave trader and a murderer. 0k, david olusoga, thank you for joining us here on bbc news. now it is time for a programme looking back at what has been happening. the week in parliament. the week in parliament. hello there, and welcome to the week in parliament. coming up: mps demand the government allow them to continue voting by video link, and say the new giant queuing system isn t working. it all looked more like exercise hour in a category c prison for white collar criminals, rather than the mother of parliaments. laughter. labour hardens its attack on the government over its handling of coronavirus, but borisjohnson reckons the country wants to see a united front. i really do not see the purpose of these endless attacks on public trust and confidence! i have supported the government openly and i ve taken criticism for it but boy, he makes it difficult to support this government! and an mp defends changes to the abortion laws in northern ireland. one of the reasons why this house stood up for the rights of all women in the united kingdom wasjust because it was too difficult didn t mean that their rights should be denied. mps returned to westminster after their whitsun break with a government rebellion brewing. members were being asked to back plans demanding they be in parliament to take part in votes. ministers argue that working via video link which they ve been doing during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic had made it harder to pass new laws, creating a backlog of important legislation. but in order to keep with social distancing rules, the old way of crowding through division lobbies had to be replaced. instead, a winding queue was marked out, through the lobby and down into westminster hall. well, many mps argued taking part and voting remotely had worked fine and it was too risky for many of them to return a suggestion rejected by the leader of the commons. the stopgap of a hybrid parliament was a necessary compromise during the peak of the virus. but by not being here, the house has not worked effectively on behalf of constituents. for ten weeks, there has been no detailed line by line consideration of bills that will affect people s lives. the new queuing system had already been dubbed the ‘mogg conga by opposition mps. one wondered if the leader of the commons had got the idea from a theme park queue. the honourable gentleman asks if i have ever been to alton towers, and yes, indeed i have i took my sister annunziata there many years ago. laughter. what the leader of the house is proposing is discriminatory. the equalities and human rights commission have said so. so if you are able bodied, you can come in. you have to ignore government advice about shielding, the r factor, but you have to come in. now, if for whatever reason, you are following government guidelines and cannot be here, you are effectively losing your vote. could he confirm therefore me that those constituents of mps who have to shield are therefore worth less, and it is expected they will be less well represented by this place? the chair of the commons procedure committee said she wasn t a natural rebel and it was an uncomfortable day for her. she highlighted the plight of her fellow tory mp, robert halfon. he wanted to be here today, but his doctor has advised him that he must not, for his own health. so the idea that we decide today to disenfranchise him completely seems, to me, to be absurd. we can work from home. we should work from home. because that is the right thing to do notjust for parliament, but it s the right thing to do for our families, for our colleagues, and for our constituents. covid has too often been described as a great leveller in that anyone can catch it we saw that from our right honourable friend, the prime minister but the unequal impact is well documented, on older people, men, those from bame backgrounds, those with underlying health conditions. they now have a very stark choice stay at home and play no part in proceedings, losing your right to cast your vote on legislation, or come here and expose yourself and your family to greater risk. well, at the end of all that, it was time to test out the new socially distanced voting system. the queue started outside the building in the sunshine of pa rliament‘s courtyard, then snaked through the new chicanes in westminster hall with mp5 winding round and round, and having the chance to chat, supposedly two metres apart, as they waited to get back into the chamber, where they eventually arrived at the despatch box and moved to the right or left to register their vote, with the odd bit of confusion along the way. it tookjust over a0 minutes for all the mp5 to vote, as opposed to the normal 15. the government won by a majority of 57, but with more than 30 rebels. the result meant that while some mps would be allowed to continue contributing from home, they wouldn t be able to vote if they weren t in westminster. well, at pmqs next day, the labour leader asked borisjohnson to think again. the scenes yesterday of mps queuing to vote and members being unable to vote were, frankly, shameful. members on all sides know this is completely unnecessary and unacceptable, so can i urge the prime minister to stop this and to continue to allow online voting and the hybrid parliament to resume? i apologise to colleagues for the inconvenience and i apologise to all those and i apologise to all those with particular difficulties because they are shielded or elderly, and it is vital that they should be able to vote by proxy. a concession there by borisjohnson, so that mps who can t turn up in person will be able to get a colleague to vote for them. meanwhile, the business secretary alok sharma announced he d be self isolating after becoming ill in the commons, repeatedly wiping his nose and mopping his brow. he said he d stay away while awaiting the result of a covid test. next day, there were more calls for the hybrid parliament to continue. and a lib dem, who d made an 18 hour journey to get back to westminster, asked for an emergency debate. of course we debated this matter and divided on it on tuesday the sight of members queuing for that division was a truly memorable one. as we shuffled around the lawn in the palace yard waiting to join the queue in westminster hall, i couldn t help but feel that it was like exercise hour in a category c prison for white collar criminals, rather than the mother of parliaments. laughter. he said anyone with any doubts about being present and queuing to vote should have had them dispelled by the sight of alok sharma struggling at the despatch box. he illustrated perfectly the way in which we are all subject to pressures to carry on when we should not. one of the first rules of politics is that when you are in a hole, then you should stop digging. a debate understanding order 2a will allow the government and the leader of the house in particular to explain to the world why they refuse to put down the shovel. the number of mps allowed into the chamber is currently limited due to social distancing, but the majority of those that were there stood to show their support for alistair carmichael‘s request, and that emergency debate will be held on monday afternoon. as a curtain raiser for prime minister s questions, the labour leader had said that borisjohnson needed to get a grip on the coronavirus pandemic. it s more full blooded political criticism than sir keir starmer has made so far during the crisis, and he continued his attack in the commons. the telegraph this morning is reporting that the prime minister has decided to take direct control of the government s response to the virus. so an obvious question for the prime minister who has been in direct control up till now? i take full responsibility for everything this government has been doing in tackling coronavirus, and i am very proud of our record. and if you look at what we have achieved so far, it is very considerable. we have protected the nhs, we have driven down the death rate, we are now seeing far fewer hospital admissions. and what i think the country would like to hear from him is more signs of cooperation in that endeavour. mr speaker, the prime minister is confusing scrutiny for attacks. i have supported the government openly and i ve taken criticism for it but boy, he makes it difficult to support this government over the last two weeks. keir starmer moved on to the government s test and trace programme for england. two weeks ago today at the despatch box, the prime minister promised that we will have a test, track and trace operation, that will be world beating and, yes, it will be in place by istjune. but it is not. and a critical element a critical element the ability of local authorities to respond to local spikes is missing. as one council leader put it to us, we are weeks away from having this fully up and running. i really do not see the purpose of these endless attacks on public trust and confidence when what we are trying to do, and i think what the public want to hear from politicians across all parties, is a clear messages about how to defeat this virus. test and trace is a vital tool in our armoury. and contrary to what he says, actually, by the end of may, we did get up to 100,000 tests a day and we got up to 200,000 by the beginning of this month. the snp‘s westminster leader turned to the protests in the usa over the death of an unarmed african american, george floyd, who died after being knelt on by a white police officer. it would be nothing short of hypocrisy if we were to turn a blind eye to the events unfolding in the us. however, actions speak louder than words, and the prime minister can shake his head but the uk exports millions of pounds worth of riot control equipment to the us, including tear gas and rubber bullets. the prime minister must have seen how these weapons are used on american streets. with the government s own guidance warning against equipment being used in such a way, will the prime minister urgently review such exports? as he knows, all exports are conducted in accordance with the consolidated guidance and the uk is possibly the most scrupulous country in that respect in the world. borisjohnson. the foreign secretary has said china s proposed national security law for hong kong would be a clear violation of its international obligations. china is seeking to pass a law that would ban treason, secession, sedition and subversion in hong kong, sparking fresh protests. in a statement, dominic raab said the uk was talking to international allies about how to handle a mass exodus of hong kong citizens if beijing pressed ahead. so the uk stands firm with our international partners in our expectation that china live up to its international obligations under the sino british joint declaration. he urged china to step back, but warned that if beijing pressed ahead, the uk would extend visa rights for hong kong s 350,000 british national overseas passport holders, or bnos. we will put in place new arrangements to allow bnos to come to the uk without the current six month limit, enabling them to live and apply to study and work for extendable periods of 12 months and thereby providing a pathway to citizenship. even at this stage, i hope china will reconsider its approach. but if not, the uk will notjust look the other way when it comes to the people of hong kong. it is increasingly clear that we need an alliance of democracies to ensure that we can maintain, as he says, a constructive dialogue with china on shared challenges not least climate change while standing up to aggressive behaviour and clear breaches of international law. he referenced statements by the uk, australia and canada and the us which was welcome, and the additional statements from new zealand, japan and the european union. it is time for an international democratic alliance to come together and speak with one voice. at what point does he envisage having to take further steps? no one is calling for sanctionsjust yet, but surely work must be going on to put together something that constitutes a price for beijing s heavy hand here. in the lords, the last british governor of hong kong made his views clear. the government itself should take a lead in putting together an international contact group which can keep in touch with developments there and continue to press china not to breach its international treaty obligations and not to breath obligations and not to breach the commitments it s made for a high degree of autonomy in hong kong. you re watching the week in parliament with me, alicia mccarthy. don t forget, you can follow me on twitter at @bbcalicia and you can find any of our programmes by searching for parliament on the bbc iplayer. the right move at the wrong time. that was the verdict of mps on all sides on new quarantine rules for travellers. from monday, most people entering the uk will have to self isolate for 14 days. the home secretary said with coronavirus past its peak, the changes were necessary to protect the british public. these measures are backed by science and supported by the public and are essential to save lives. we know they will present difficulties for the tourism industry, but that is why we have an unprecedented package of support. the most comprehensive in the world for employees and for business. there has to be reassurance that quarantine has a genuine public health benefit now that, according to the government, it did not have in past months. there has been widespread concern that the uk has been out of step with most other countries who introduced public health measures at their borders far earlier in the pandemic. the idea that this was wrong when europe was at the centre of a pandemic and right now, it does not add up to me but maybe that isjust me. i m afraid that i cannot get around the mental gymnastics of this policy. if such a barrier was required, why was it not introduced earlier? and there was more criticism when the aviation minister answered questions. international air travel is necessary for trade. without it, there is no global britain. so instead of bringing in measures to close britain off from the rest of the world, why is the government not taking a lead in developing an international aviation health screening standard to save jobs and ensure britain is open for business? we re working incredibly hard in order to gain a consumer confidence but also trying to get the aviation sector up and running as quickly as we possibly can. the government has been urged to take action on the disproportionate effect covid i9 has on those from black, asian and minority ethnic backgrounds. labour asked an urgent question about a report by public health england that suggested those from bame backgrounds were more than twice as likely to die from the virus as white people, with health workers at particular risk from infection. coronavirus thrives on inequality and there is no more important time to tackle racial injustices in our society to save lives during this crisis. it is up to the government to take action and show its commitment that black lives matter. all: hear, hear. speaker: minister. thank you, mr speaker. it s absolutely imperative that we understand the key drivers of these disparities, the relationship between the different risk factors and what we can do to close the gap, that way we will ensure that we will not take action not warranted by the evidence. the head of the newly launched nhs ‘test and trace programme in england faced questions from the health committee on just how well and how quickly the new system was working. test and trace aims to alert people who ve been in contact with someone who s had a positive coronavirus test. they re then required to stay at home for 14 days. the chair of the health committee wanted to know how it was going. what no one wants to tell us is the overall proportion of tests that come back within 2a hours. you must know the results. this cannot be right. you re telling me that you do not actually know how many come back within 2a hours, and you are in charge of nhs test and trace? no, i have not had the data validated. so you have data, but it has not being validated ? i have not had the data validated by the authority who has expressed concerns over previous testing data not being validated. will you write to us within a week with the validated data as to what proportion of tests are coming back within 2a hours? i m sorry to be boring provided the quality of the data is good enough. what i don t want to do with a service that is only six days old is launch with data that than people then lose faith in. scotland s first minister was told that care homes were being let down all over again when it comes to testing for covid i9. the tories said it had already emerged that more than 1,000 people had been sent from hospitals to care homes before testing was mandatory. the tragedy is this scotland has the capacity to test. indeed, if you had used that capacity effectively since the end of april, you could ve tested all the residents and staff at care homes twice. instead, capacity is being squandered and care home workers and residents who have already endured the horror of this crisis are being let down all over again. we will continue to take the careful and considered steps that we are taking and will not shy away from the challenges that we face in the unprecedented situation that we re dealing with. the scottish government will continue to take that careful, cautious approach, making sure that we, as we have done, build up our testing capacity, but also, crucially, use testing in a way that is clinically driven. the education minister in wales has announced that schoolchildren are to return to their desks at the end of the month. june 29th, to be exact. but that news came after first minister s questions, where the first minister was accused of causing confusion when he announced a relaxation of lockdown. under the change, people in wales can visit loved ones within a five mile radius while socially distancing. we have spoken before on that confusion engendered by your insistence on making welsh rules just a little bit different from the uk government rules applicable in england. further confusion is surely engendered by your constantly chopping and changing welsh rules. there is a very easy distinction between regulations and guidance and the government has never confused people. and it is a rule of thumb, it is guidance for people to interpret in their local geographies, as to what local might mean for them. the northern ireland assembly voted on tuesday to reject recent changes to abortion laws in northern ireland. the new regulations came into force in march after a vote in westminster in 2019, when stormont was not functioning due to a row between the main power sharing parties. the motion, brought by the dup on tuesday passed by 46 votes to a0. it highlighted that the regulations permit terminations up to birth in cases of serious nonfatal disabilities. disability rights activist heidi crowter, who has down syndrome, claims such laws are discriminatory. the dup took up the case in the commons at the end of the week. it makes me feel like i shouldn t exist the words of heidi crowter, born with down syndrome. this government, whether we like it or not, is continuing to ride roughshod over the devolved administration in northern ireland. it is discriminating against people who have nonfatal disabilities, and is going far beyond its legal requirement, and has implemented the most liberal abortion laws in the whole of europe. it has. can the minister of state. will he recognise the severe offence these regulations pose to people with disabilities but also the clear will of the devolved institutions is that these regulations are not wanted in northern ireland? the government should withdraw these regulations, respect the fact that devolution has been restored and rather than seek to further undermine devolution and the northern ireland assembly its rightful place to legislate on its own abortion law. while i respect the assembly s right to state their position on this, it doesn t have any bearing on the legal obligations which have been placed on us by this parliament. unfortunately, the motion that the assembly debated and backed proposed no solution. the government is, however, under a clear statutory duty to allow for access to abortions in cases of both severe foetal impairment and fatal foetal abnormalities, and this is what we have delivered. a labour mp who had been instrumental in bringing about the change in northern ireland s abortion laws was in the chamber, with her own newborn baby. we all recognise that this is a difficult issue for many and there are strongly held views on all sides of this debate, but one of the reasons why this house stood up for the rights of all women in the uk, just because it was too difficult doesn t mean their rights should be denied. and devolution does not absolve us of our responsibilities to uphold the human rights of every uk citizen. stella creasy. three former chancellors have been telling the commons treasury committee what they d do to tackle the economic hangover left by the pandemic. alistair darling, george osborne and philip hammond, who between them ran the treasury between 2008 and 2019, gave their prescriptions for future taxes, creating jobs and supporting businesses, with little real disagreement between them. when we get to the happy day when we re recovering and we re on the path to recovery, my view is quite clear that, yes, we re going to have very high debts, like we had at the end of the second world war, but one of the things that a government like ours can do, because we re a large economy, and no one doubts our credit worthiness, you can actually carry that for some period. but what i would be very concerned about is if we got ourselves into a situation where, if you like, in the recovery stage, you start clamping down things prematurely, you stop the growth and you drive the country back into a recession. if you want to stimulate the economy, the most obvious this to do a time limited vat reduction. we did it ten years ago and it did have some effect. i m not sure about cutting income taxes. i don t think that really would make a difference from people going out to work longer or doing second jobs or anything like that. my guess is in any scenario, because the decline in output has been so dramatic over the last few months, the first part of the recovery will look like a quite sharp v shaped. but the real question is what will the last part of the recovery look like? if you want the protection of the state, you need to pay your tax, either as an individual, or as a company. you can talk as much as you like about taxing billionaires and tech companies, and it all adds up and helps, but the big money raisers, the income taxes, national insurance, those big central taxes that the government relies on, and that s why there is speculation on national insurance. to say that we re just going to get billionaires to pay for it is a cop out from the real questions that government and the opposition have to confront. finally, to an issue close to the heart of the discussion just when will hairdressers reopen? when can the house to expect an update so that hairdressers, hotels and other hospitality businesses can adequately prepare to reopen with social distancing measures in place? speaker: leader of the house. mr deputy speaker, when i was a child, i remember there being a song i ll be your long haired lover from liverpool. i have never aimed in my whole career to end up looking like the long haired lover from liverpool, but i fear i am heading that direction. i have never had longer hair, and i m beginning to wonder whether i ought to ask nanny if she can find a pudding bowl and put it on and see if something can be done as an emergency measure. jacob rees mogg, who, after a tough week in the commons, might want to think carefully about who he lets loose with the scissors! and that s it from me for now. but dojoin me on bbc parliament on monday night at 11pm as we begin a new westminster week. but for now, from me, alicia mccarthy, goodbye. hello, after the warmth and sunshine of last weekend, this weekend has been very different. it has been cool, it s been pretty windy. we have seen some rain at times. but the winds have been easing and will continue to do so as we head into tonight. some showery rain across eastern england will tend to fade and as the skies clear through scotland down into north east england it s going to turn into a decidedly cool night, some spots in scotland could see a touch of frost. not as cold down towards the south of england or the south of wales because here we will keep more cloud and the odd shower through the night. tomorrow, though, a lot of dry weather around, a mixture of patchy cloud and sunny spells. still one or two showers drifting across eastern scotland, across eastern counties of england. maybe a shower for northern ireland and a heavy downpour or a thunderstorm is possible across wales or the south west. some sunny spells for most as we close out the day with temperatures between 11 and 17 degrees. another fine day for most on tuesday but from mid week onwards it turns more unsettled with some rain at times, increasingly windy for the end of the week and quite humid by friday as well.
this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. thousands of people are taking part in protests in cities in the uk after the police killing of george floyd in the us. anti racism demonstrators gathered outside the us embassy in central london some are now protesting outside number 10 too. in bristol protestors have pulled down the statue of the 17th century slave trader, edward colston. huge protests over the death of george floyd have continued in cities across america all of them peaceful. in washington, thousands gathered in the biggest
this is bbc news, the headlines. the chief adviser to the british prime minister, has come under further pressure after newspapers reports that he breached lockdown rules twice in the space of a few weeks. it was revealed that, dominic cummings had driven hundreds of kilometres to be with family members, while exhibiting coronavirus symptoms. while his wife. funerals have been taking place in pakistan for some of the victims of friday s plane crash in karachi, in which 97 people died. the government has launched an official inquiry but the pakistan pilots‘ association says it has ‘no faith‘ in the official investigation. spain in continuing to ease its lockdown. tourists will be able travel to the country again from july. spanish football s top division, will resume next month, after being disrupted by the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. all organised football has been suspended since mid march. now on bbc news. with coronavirus outbreaks at different stages around the world, we explore what might happen as restrictions change and people adjust to a new reality. hello and welcome to the latest on our special programmes on the coronavirus pandemic. i m victoria derbyshire. on today s programme, we will hear from minority communities in the us and the uk about how the pandemic has affected their lives, and an interview with facebook‘s founder about what the company says it is doing to combat misinformation around coronavirus. so, if you are saying something that is going to put people at imminent risk of harm we are going to take that down. if you re saying something that is just wrong and is spreading quickly but isn t going to put people at imminent risk, we don t take that down but we stop it from spreading. plus, don t forget you can find the latest updates on the pandemic on our website. but first, in afghanistan the united nations is warning civilian casualties at the hands of both the taliban and the government s security forces are on the rise. the un is calling for a reduction in violence as the country tries to grapple with the spread of coronavirus. our chief international correspondent has more. a fight on two fronts. the hospital underfire in capital as they battle against the deadly virus. a time of body armour and face masks. trying to protect themselves against this new enemy. we have spoken to doctors across the country. there s not enough of this ppe to them safe. a doctor in kabul, back at work after recovering from covid 19, i didn t want to be identified. translation: there is a big crisis at the moment. we have lost three good doctors this week because of r covid. they were in contact with a patient suspected of having it. they recently died, they didn t good enough ppe, sadly they are not amongst us today. there is a covid crisis now in afghanistan. a house in morning. there man lost his brother fussell, a businessman, a sister, and his brother, a doctor, the first to be tested for covid 19 by a system which failed the entire family. translation: i told the doctor that if my brothers test was positive why didn t you call us? they told me they made a mistake. then they tested all of us but after 13 days of waiting my first brother died. then another brother and sister died and we still haven t got our test results after one and a half months. he took to facebook to vent his fury. shaming senior officials into helping him. the government says it s doing it can. they are absolutely right. people have died because of no testing equipment. and our health infrastructure was not designed to cope with a high per event like the coronavirus pandemic. this caught us by surprise. a nation in the midst of violence and fighting. there is a lockdown but it s not straight. in a country where millions live hand to mouth, hunger is seen as a deadly threat. many already hurting. translation: i m not scared of coronavirus, but i m afraid of hunger. coronavirus will not kill us but we will definitely die from hunger. in some masks they keep a safe distance in the muslim holy month of ramadan. in others, they believe only god can save them from their enemies. this invisible enemy may already be spreading fast, next door to iran, the region was ‘s epicentre, but there aren t enough tests to know. for now, in this emergency hospital close to taliban front lines, the old war still takes the heaviest toll. doctors treat victims of violence. the disease isn t expected to reach its peakfor a month or more. many worry the worst may be yet to come. in the united states, native american communities say they have been forgotten in the coronavirus crisis, despite making upjust 2% of the population the rate of infection amongst these communities is among the highest in the country. a roadblock in the hills of rural south dakota. since april, they ve been operating 21w, with tourists and hunters turned away. two native american tribes say the threat of the virus, combined with their vulnerable populations and poor medical facilities, meant they had to urgently control access to their lands. we have an inherent and sovereign right to protect the health of our people, and no one, man or woman, can dispute that right. but now fighting the coronavirus has got political. south dakota s state governor said last week that the checkpoints must be removed, claiming the tribes broke the law by blocking state and federal roads. what we are looking for is clarification in respecting tribal sovereignty, which is something i have always done in my words and actions, but also making sure that we have the ability to protect people. despite their efforts, tribal leaders here have not managed to keep the virus out of their land entirely. last week, the oglala sioux tribe ordered a reservation wide shut down, after learning that two residents had tested positive for covid i9. let all of your relatives know, all of your people know, your friends, everyone across our reservation, that it will be shut down. the largest reservation in the us is home to over 350,000 people spanning arizona, utah and new mexico. it has had 144 deaths from covid i9 so far giving it one of the highest infection rates in the country. the land base is enormous and can cover several states but in their highly populated areas that is where we are seeing large cases of confirmed coronavirus infections. in massachusetts a tribe are one of the few with their own health service and virus testing scheme. would you say tribes have been forgotten in this pandemic? absolutely. tribes are forgotten every day regardless but in this pandemic it brings it more to light. we do not get the attention we deserve and we definitely have been an afterthought. we are an afterthought still right now. under the $2 trillion coronavirus relief tribal governments are set to receive 8 billion to respond to the public health crisis. tribal leaders say this is not nearly enough to reverse inequality and discrimination that goes back for centuries. meanwhile, in britain, thejewish community also appears to have had a disproportionately high death toll. john mcmanus has been speaking to some of the families of those affected. yy was very special to us in ourfamily. remembering a dearly loved brother, another victim of the covid i9 virus, which has hit britain s jewish community particularly hard. this man shared a love of singing with his brother yy. the 20 year old lived independently in the ultraorthodoxjewish community of stamford hill in north london. then one evening on the phone yy told his brother he was feeling unwell. it was to be their last conversation before he was rushed to hospital. my parents were crying. their hands were tied. they couldn t do anything. their son, they couldn t even go into hospital to hug him, to say goodbye properly. yy is one of hundreds of deaths among all denominations ofjudaism which appear to be out of proportion to the community s small size. this cemetery in hertfordshire just north of london has been here for more than 70 years. thousands of britain s jewish community have been laid to rest here. staff say that over the weeks of march they saw a sudden and unexpected spike in the number of funerals, many of them a result of covid i9. at the moment it s quiet but in the busy period we were having around ten to 15 a day for six days a week. this is a tube or mask. other parts of the community have also raced to adapt. one charity in stamford hill has been supporting the health needs of the community for decades. literally from hospital beds if they need it to crutches. in the last few months it s brought dozens of oxygen machines to lend to recovering coronavirus patients when they are discharged from hospital. but there have been accusations that somejewish people have been slow to change their lifestyles in the face of virus warnings. i don t know anyone who doesn t know someone who s died. this woman is a community advocate and activist. she says that some influential jewish leaders failed to set a good example, but insists a much larger blame lies with the authorities. there are health inequalities that are known to public health england about individual bame communities and none of that was news and it should have been obvious that our communities were going to be affected in a different way. nobody took the step to say that these communities should be warned in advance. nobody took control of the situation. there are still people in the community, still families, who are still mourning. the message of this pandemic has been to keep healthy by staying apart, but one organisation says that for traditionally large families who often live in cramped conditions that was impossible. there are families who have every age group in the house and that means we have little children from one year old going to somebody in the house who is possibly 60 years old or above that age. that contributed towards, you know, the virus being more aggressive in some parts of the community unfortunately. meanwhile, even as he continues to mourn his brother, he says yy s life was a gift. he brought light. he was a beacon of light in the whole community, not just in our family. he brought light to people. john mcmanus reporting. as the number of dead in brazil hovers around the 20,000 mark, its government is under ever more scrutiny, in particular its controversial president. in april he was asked about the rapid spread of covid i9 in brazil. by may, the number of cases was the third highest in the world. this virus which the president had dismissed as flu had killed 17,000 people and he was being held responsible. the lancet put it bluntly, perhaps the biggest threat to brazil s response is its president. you have two viruses to combat, coronavirus and bolsonaro virus. the government s initial assessment of the threat raises questions. we paid attention to the united states and the united states was comfortable saying they would take care of that and we thought he had some kind of science that would be released soon. it turned out to be a hollow boast. that was the former health minister who advocated social distancing and was fired. next into thejob, when asked about the decision to reopen gems he replied, was this an ounce today? it didn t go through the ministry. days later he resigned. in march bolsonaro told supporters the cure is right there. it isn t. at the third time of asking he has a health minister who is happy to proceed. the drug has been cleared for treatment in brazil. undermining the health industry and preoccupation with an on tested drug. but arguably their lack of a nationwide lockdown has battered even more. this is an anti lockdown rally and as you can see these are not advocates of social distancing but it is brazil s states that have the power to impose restrictions and they have done so but to very differing degrees. there are happier to what they are willing to try. about 40% of the labour force is only being partially assisted. a lot of those live from hand to mouth so for them it is hard to see inside the house when you do not have the money to buy food. that leads us to the economy. brazil s mean stock exchange index has plummeted. manufacturing is slumping and unemployment is rising. brazilian economist has written my investment advice would be not to run into a burning building, but how best to put out that fire? the president believes lockdown would make matters worse and in economic terms he is right. ecuador‘s president has defended its lockdown but says it is a zephyr family has lost half of what it needs to live and this delicate balance between saving lives and protecting incomes is universal but the bitter political row over whether brazil can afford a lockdown has had consequences. at the end of the day he is the president and people take advice from him and that is what has been so confusing to people whether to listen to bolsonaro or state governors. covid i9 has delivered a deadly lesson. to explain brazil s failure to build a coherent response you must start with a president who hasn t always appear to want one. founder of facebook has defended its record of tackling this information during the outbreak. speaking to the bbc in his first broadcast interview in five years, he has been talking to our business editor. he has been talking to the business as simonjack. he has been talking to the business as simon jack. on the immediate health risks if some crazy person decided to start telling people to, i don t know drink or inject bleach oi’ i don t know drink or inject bleach or saying that colloidal silver would be a good way of keeping the virus at bay what is the facebook algorithm response to that? is not out algorithm response to that? is not our algorithm. we have policies around this, about stopping misinformation. we break this into two categories. there s harmful misinformation that puts people at imminent risk of physical harm. things like saying that something is a proven cure for the virus when in fa ct a proven cure for the virus when in fact it isn t we will take that down. and there have been hundreds of thousands of cases of things that are powerful misinformation, another example that s been very prevalent in the uk has been 56 misinformation. itjust has led to some physical damage of five g infrastructure, so we believe that thatis infrastructure, so we believe that that is leading to imminent risk of physical harm and take down that content. that s hundreds of thousands of content like that. we do take it down when can we enforce that even no matter who is saying it. there was a case where the brazilian president went out and said that it was proven by all scientists or something to that effect that there was a drug that was proven to cure coronavirus, and that s obviously not true, there s nothing yet that at least i m aware of that has been proven to be a cure. so we had to enforce that. evenif cure. so we had to enforce that. even if something was going to cause imminent risk of physical harm we don t want misinformation to be the content that is broadly going viral across the network. we work with independent fact chequers over the course of this period since the outbreak they have issued about 7500 articles saying fact checking content. which is led to a showing about 50 million warning labels on posts across about 50 million warning labels on posts across our services. about 50 million warning labels on posts across our services. when are those posts are effective because 95% of the time when someone sees a post has a warning label on it they click through to see it. if you are saying something that will put people at imminent risk of harm we will take that down, if you safely that sjust wrong but is spreading quickly, but will not put people at imminent risk we don t take that down, but we stop it from spreading generally. no one doubts the awesome responsibility that a company like facebook which has instagram and whatsapp of course, that responsibility, the minutes of the company with you what a note that saying facebook should be broken up, he said mark alone because of the voting structure can determine what people see in their newsfeeds and what privacy settings they use a m essa 9 es what privacy settings they use a messages get delivered. he set the rules for how to distinguish speech. hand on heart as the controlling shareholder in facebook, do you hand on her think it s a good idea for that kind of responsibility to be vested in one human being to you?” have said publicly that i don t think that any one individual or company should be making so many decisions about important values for society like free expression and safety. we have taken a lot of actions on that front. just recently we have established an independent oversight board which basically what it is the starting off a group of about 20 experts who all, you know folks like formerjudges and former prime minister of denmark, abbot academics, journalists, leaders of nonprofits, people who come from countries around the world and have diversity of experiences but all have a commitment to understanding of free expression of human rights, this oversight board will make it so that people in our community can appeal if we think are making a decision incorrectly. this board will have the final binding say, so if they say something needs to come down or needs to stay up at that point it does not matter what i think, or what the other folks on out think, or what the other folks on our team think. this independent board will get to make that decision. sol board will get to make that decision. so i do think that there needs to be some additional governance beyond just our company making all the decisions, which is why we are taking steps like that. it s very important. that s mark zuckerberg talking to simonjack. in south africa a group of actors ostrich at large restrictions as an opportunity to start a new online soap opera which they have shot by themselves at home. is proving so popular that it s already in its third season. cink clapper. standing by and action. so when the president announced that national lockdown i kind of sat at home and thought to myself, what happens to the soaps, and so in my head i was like, well, when we just create a soapy on our cell phones? lockdown heights is an online instant novella. it s a telenovela we are so instant novella. it s a telenovela we are so casing instant novella. it s a telenovela we are so casing on instant novella. it s a telenovela we are so casing on social media platforms and is really a bite sized episodes. which is between nine to 12 minutes. we are on lockdown, ms was to be in the house, we all do! what happens is we all sent scripts are to actors and each actor shoots from home on their cell phones. in the individual parts of the episode of the scene in which that are edited together and it comes across as people in the same space. obviously you have to do whatever you can to get the shot. 0h obviously you have to do whatever you can to get the shot. oh my goodness. this is my tripod. well, you are dangerous. we get out of my frame, what are you doing?” you are dangerous. we get out of my frame, what are you doing? i would just call up actors that i know, friends and people that i worked with in the past, everyone was excited. there are key to go into their space to do not know. i m sorry i didn t know what else to do. let me go and set this thing up so we can finally be done with your mess. it grants us an opportunity as artist to stay creative during this period, for us to collaborate with one anotherjust to create something that s fresh and new because we are moving into a format that we have not explored before.” moving into a format that we have not explored before. i cannot stop thinking about how he felt when he kissed him. well, i am right here. i messaged all of the actors that even the crew that has been affected by the crew that has been affected by the covid i9 virus within this space is always be creative, always look for opportunities for creative ways of storytelling, of characterisation, of shooting. the creative ways of storytelling will be unraveled and shows like lockdown heights are shows to have the innovation. and cut! that s it for 110w. innovation. and cut! that s it for now. everybody you can find me on twitter or head to the bbc news website for the latest information. thanks for watching. hello there. we saw gale force winds across the uk today. lots of showers rattling through without much of england and wales did stay dry with plenty of sunshine. most of the rain was across western scotland. extremely wet with over three inches of rain falling saturday. less windy there will be a lot of cloud around thanks to this weather front bringing outbreaks of rain to the northwest of the country on sunday. high pressure will continue to build in process. things dry as we head through sunday afternoon. we start the day off with temperatures in double figures for most. we will start with quite a bit of cloud cover still a fair odd breeze out there. quite wet and scotland towards north england and clouds break up increasing amounts of sunshine especially across england and wales in the afternoon across northern island. the mean wind speed still quite fresh out there but nothing as strong as what we had on saturday. slightly lighter winds up more sunshine is getting temperatures will creep up around 22 may be 23 degrees in the scene two south. through sunday night the winds turned lighter still high pressure builds it will turn dry with likely clear skies. a bit of cloud in the far north of scotland. clear skies with very light winds temperatures could drop into fig fleet neck single figures in the western areas with that one or two spots is a ten or 11 degrees. monday a bank holiday, high pressure with much of england and wales. weather fronts flirting with the northwest corner of the country felt up that will tend to bring in thicker cloud. stronger breeze for western parts of northern island and scotland s outbreaks of rain much of scotland and england and wales will be dried with sunshine. light winds will feel much warmer for all especially in the southeast where we could make 25 or even 26 degrees. into the afternoon. as we move out of monday into tuesday we start to see these weather fronts move a little bit farther southeast towards a very weak feature but he could introduce more cloud as part of england and wales as we go through the day. sunshine making return to the north and west of the country. some glimmers of brightness further south. that will help push amateurs up to around mid 20s celsius. it is a warmer air mass at highs of around 16 or 17 in the north. a bit more cloud and at times the odd spot of rain continue to move through the week. scotland northern island england and wales high pressure dominating is going to be warm and sunny.
this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the chief advisor to the british prime minister, comes under pressure, as he s accused of breaching lockdown rules twice but cabinet ministers defend his actions. mr cummings is, you know, in the public eye. but the reality of the matter is that a four year old child s welfare, ithink, is the important thing. after weeks of increasing attacks taliban and afghan government forces agree a three day ceasefire, to mark the eid holiday. funerals take place in pakistan after the plane crash in a residential area of karachi that killed 97 people. spain continues to ease its lockdown. tourists can travel to the country again from july