president trump has said he s taking an antimalarial drug as a precaution against coronavirus. mr trump told reporters he d been taking hydroxychloroquine for a week and a half as a preventive measure. the us has strongly rebuked the world health organisation s response to the coronavirus pandemic, accusing it of costing many lives by failing to provide the information the world needed. the agency s director general said they had sounded the alarm early and often. france and germany are proposing a european recovery fund worth more than $500 billion. president emmanuel macron and chancellor angela merkel said the fund would offer grants to the countries and regions hardest hit. police in myanmar have seized what s been described as south east asia s biggest ever haul of synthetic drugs. crystal meth and heroin were among the substances found in raids in northeast shan state. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are polly mackenzie, chief executive of centre left political think tank demos, and sebastian payne, whitehall correspondent at the financial times. tomorrow s front pages, starting with. .. a hopeful lead story on the front page of the times, which reports on potential plans for air bridges between countries this summer. the transport secretary, grant shapps, says quarantine on all arrivals into the country could be relaxed, with deals between countries with low coronavirus infection rates. the telegraph is leading on the same story, and says quarantine free travel to and from countries like france and spain will depend on the status of their own epidemics. on the front of the metro, a warning from kings college london that up to 200,000 people may not have self isolated when they needed to as loss of taste and smell is added to the list of coronavirus symptoms to look out for. queen hit by £18 million losses reads the front of the sun due to royal palace closures during creating a loss in revenue. new britain, new schools on the front of the daily mirror, with this photo of a socially distanced classroom. the daily mail asks when will they learn of teaching unions, and highlights how the reopening of schools across europe hasn t led to a spike in coronavirus infections. an exclusive on the front page of the guardian, as the paper reveals how agency care home staff in the uk spread covid 19 . and finally, the financial times leads on the 500 billion euro coronavirus recovery fund being backed by france and germany, who have today agreed it should issue grants, not loans, to countries most in need. so, let s begin. we will start with the guardian. it s exclusive on its front page revealed how the agency care home staff s p rea d revealed how the agency care home staff spread covid 19. polly, the story of care homes is the story of the pandemic in this country really. yes, it does seem that was the government took a really impressive grip of the nhs and expanded capacity. they really took the i off the ball when it comes to care homes. and in fact in order to clear space in our hospitals, the discharge a lot of patients into ca re discharge a lot of patients into care homes who may then have carried covid 19 with them. meanwhile not doing anything near enough to provide personal protective equipment. the guardian is talking especially about agency workers who may work between a whole range of different ca re may work between a whole range of different care homes and just the kind of bio security measures that you have in hospitalsjust have not been applied in care homes and in this really has been both kind of print journalism this really has been both kind of printjournalism and this really has been both kind of print journalism and also this really has been both kind of printjournalism and also tv journalism that has put huge amounts of effort into investigating and talking to care home managers and talking to care home managers and talking to care home managers and talking to people who live there and their relatives and exposing how much the government really i think let us down. sebastien, the health secretary and minister said they had thrown a protective ring around care homes. when he read the article and look at other pieces of evidence, what do you make of that government claim? is a clinic does not stand up toa claim? is a clinic does not stand up to a huge amount of reality. it is quite clear that there are many things government have not got right about this crisis. yes, the nhs in the intensive care at bad capacity and the service was not overwhelmed in the testing capacity is where it needs to be in that if the good side of the government response to this crisis with the bad side is this dreadful epidemic in care homes. we learned today that there have been outbreaks of covid 19 in 38% of the uk s outbreaks of covid 19 in 38% of the uk s care homes which is shocking absolutely. in the story on the front page of the guardianjust reveals how ill prepared the government was to deal with this outbreak in care homes that there reports over the wicked people getting discharge straight from hospital still with covid symptoms and going back to care homes without being properly tested and without being properly tested and without being isolated. and obviously people in hospitals have to make very difficult decisions about who to keep in and who to isolate and who to send back to the homes be at where they live or be in care phones. but i do think this issue is a battle for the government and it is important to show us they did not grasp the scale of this challenge even though that there were warnings from any care home providers and as polly was just saying that a lot of the media is done digging into this and the stories are harrowing. i know of someone who is in the very situation that was in a care home and that has caught covid 19 and is i iow and that has caught covid 19 and is now ina and that has caught covid 19 and is now in a very serious illness without any prospect of knowing what is going to happen next. sol without any prospect of knowing what is going to happen next. so i do think the government is trying to get a think the government is trying to geta grip think the government is trying to get a grip of it and is putting more money into more testing but in fact it is probably alljust a bit too late. we will look now towards the summer late. we will look now towards the summerand late. we will look now towards the summer and the daily telegraph. the headline air bridge plan to save holidays abroad. i must admit i do not know anyone who is planning a holiday but apparently those holidays can be saved if there is an air bridge to countries like spain, france, italy and germany. we may wa nt to france, italy and germany. we may want to go to those countries, polly, but will those countries want to receive us? well that is what we don t know. we have it seems the worst outbreak or if that is not true when the numbers are finalised, certainly close to the worst outbreak in europe. and whilst other countries are further ahead of us in terms of easing the lock down, we are still a long way from allowing even travel within the uk let alone travel outside. we are very belatedly introducing this quarantine rule. probably at the beginning ofjune. just as some other countries are beginning to lift their quarantine for the government is still not clear on the details yet and i think for fear of frightening the beleaguered travel industry and the airline industry the government is trying to provide some hope and optimism and say if there are countries that have really got a there are countries that have really gota grip there are countries that have really got a grip of of coronavirus, where infections levels are as low as ours oi’ infections levels are as low as ours or lower than it is fine and we will create kind of mutual arrangements where people can travel between our country in their country. that does require us to keep our infection rate low. and it is not certain that in the uk or france or spain or italy that has we open up our economies, our infection rates will stay low. i think there is a huge seal is rent people travelling insurance or existing holidays let alone starting to book new ones and i think alone starting to book new ones and ithinki alone starting to book new ones and i think i want not put my money down for a flight anytime soon certainly. let s go to our necks in the papers now and the i am a damning verdict of the uk missed a critical moment to stop the virus. this from the ft goes back to the 12th of march when britain decided to stop the way it was testing, which the comments science committee is looking at in detail. indeed. this period at the beginning of march is going to become very crucial when there is that big inquiry into the uk government response to the coronavirus outbreak. now obviously everyone is expecting there is going to bea everyone is expecting there is going to be a big formal inquiry that will ta ke to be a big formal inquiry that will take place over many months and years but mps are very patient about this and want to get investigating now in case there are lessons that apply to dealing with the rest of the pandemic. in this report from the pandemic. in this report from the science committee confirms things that a lot have said that we had this approach that seemed to be working for coronavirus and this is when cases were in the tens and anybody who was diagnosed with covid 19 or a come back to the uk with covid 19 was isolated for 14 days as banana putting into quarantine. but all that contact traced. everyone i spoke to him in contact with was alerted by the government and they had to go into quarantine themselves. now that sounds familiar, what we re doing now and is very bizarre to think we we re now and is very bizarre to think we were doing that right at the beginning of march and now as you said on that crucial date, the 12th of march the government decides to stop that and move from this containment strategy into a suppression one where it acknowledged it was going to spread much more widely and with that very serious illnesses and more deaths and then it seems six weeks later we have now gone back to where we were before and back to contact tracing and isolation. in the real question people want to know is what change the government mind? was it political or scientific advice or was it at some of the mp5 on this committee suspect the fact that we just did not have the capacity of the tracing and did not have the contact tracers and did not certainly have the apparatus in that situation that we could have done which of course raises big questions about the uk posit resilience but i think that two or three week period where so much more could have been done to prepare us for this next stage of the pandemic is going to be very crucial and a lot more of that will be seen in the investigations and debates to come. let s stay with the science of move to the times newspaper. there is a story there next to a picture of people having brea kfast next to a picture of people having breakfast by the cathedral in that is on the story about the science. i use that word probably should not use that word probably should not use that word the science because as we have learned scientist in different countries and different scientists in this country have different analysis of the measures to be taken in this article in the times says it is up to politicians to make the final decisions. yes, andi to make the final decisions. yes, and i think the science is quite convinced that tiramisu is of the ideal breakfast but when it comes to epidemiology and the modelling of statistics and especially when it comes to a new virus where we have been speculating and onlyjust beginning to build the evidence about how it transmits exactly, does it transmit by aerosol droplets outdoors or only through these door handles and objects called for lights. all of that, we don t know. we have been building the science as we go and i say we, obviously much more accomplished people that may have been doing that. and as the evidence has changed so the scientific advice has changed. 0ther the government was excellently right to set up a scientific advisory committee, follow its advice where it could but they have been so clear that they are following the advice as if that is kind of a perfect shield to protect them from any m ista kes shield to protect them from any mistakes when the reality is there we re mistakes when the reality is there were always choices to be made in exactly which scientific advice to follow and whether given that we did not know very much, to take a more cautious or a more risky approach. and what the president of the society was set in the article is a government should not try and put scientists up as a kind to protect them from the mistakes that they themselves made. it is inevitable you make mistakes during an unprecedented crisis like this people should be a bit more humble about them. we will move to europe now into the financial times. the headline of germany and france unite to call for a 500 billion euros eu recovery fund. sebastian, this is your paper. i recall in march the anger in italy and spain against the rest of the eu. they felt let down and each of those polls starting to rise in italy, should we really be pa rt rise in italy, should we really be part of the eu any more? this surely is an attempt to address those concerns in southern europe. indeed in this whole thing has echoes back to the official crisis of 2008 09 and the eurozone crisis that followed in admitted her busy between the northern european countries which have stable financial systems and smaller debt piles and the southern european countries and particularly portugal, spain and italy who are in a much more precarious position. and during the euro crisis there was this sense developed that the south of europe was not being treated fairly by the northern countries and of course they were all in the eurozone together initial the same currency in the same difficulties, too. shiva had netted the economic shutdown that followed due to the coronavirus shutdown and it is the same arguments all over and italy especially at the very beginning of the crisis was calling to brussels for help, saying we need help getting to the situation because we do have a lot of debt and there is a lot of questions about the sustainability of some of the smaller italian banks as well and their request fail on a lot of deaf ears until now when it is decided that the age old thing that often happens in europe which is countries don t necessarily want to hand over cash that they think is not necessarily deserve. but i think will be if he and not with this package being developed and huge sums of money that will be sent to these countries in the form of grants and not loans and is that old axis of france and germany that really shows where the power bounces on europe and they have almost got this package together and we had to wait and see what the details are about how it pans out but generally as you said it is trying to address those growing euro sceptic concerns from those countries that felt brussels really was not doing enough for the smaller states and they are not entirely happy but i think they will get to a compromise and it will do something in the longer term and has big financial consequences for europe as well because were talking about billions and billions of debt being piled onto the balance sheet here and somebody down the line will have to pay for that. and that black hole from which britain used to contribute to the eu budget hasjust got a lot bigger. does this agreement hold the eu together, pauly? i think it will take an extraordinary force actually to tear the european union apart. where the brexiteers argument was it britain left the entirety of the eu would crumble and that would be a tremendous thing will stop but actually we have seen the european union through the brakes and negotiations being incredibly united. there are some differences of opinion around money and around this and the chancellor of austria in particularly leading the charge to the char said that you should not be granting money, only lending it. but the european union is slowly finding its feet. because it started asa finding its feet. because it started as a public health crisis which is of course not a competence of the european union, i think that is one of the races while they were so slow and of course every country distracted by the huge amount of work they had to do simply to keep citizens safe. we will move on back to the uk and look at schools and do so to the uk and look at schools and do so with two papers now who have different ways of seeing this. first of all, the daily mirror, new britain, new schools in preparation for children posit rich about worries that many parents and teachers remain and submit it towards those worries and towards those teachers who might not know whether or not they have to wear face masks. and let us contrast that with the daily mail which has the question when will they learn? underlined there. the 22 eu countries and opening their school has not been harming that harmful so every pa rent has not been harming that harmful so every parent question fort britain posit militant teaching unions is that. two different ways of seeing the same issue. sebastian. indeed the same issue. sebastian. indeed theissue the same issue. sebastian. indeed the issue about schools has gone awry into the classic political left right divide here where teachers attend to be on the left of politics and they are saying they will not commit to be sending teachers back into the government s test, track and trace scheme is up and running and is proven and until they have more reassurances about ensuring social distancing and the agreement for all staff in schools as well. on the other side of this you have got the government who wants to get the economy moving again, get kids back to school so that parents can get back to work and also to help the education of those kids who want to go back now. and this will continue to play out through this and i hope the government is keen to get agreement with the teacher unions because so far everything is done in the coronavirus pandemic has been cross party. generally from the labour party as well and it wants to try and keep that momentum going there. and i thought there is been two interventions on this that were striking with the first being tony blair of the former labour from minister who said he supports schools going back in the second being the new labour party of kier starmer also seems to agree that schools going back but if he s trying to tread that careful lot of not going against the trade unions but also speaking to people who do sin to want to schools to go back and isa sin to want to schools to go back and is a difficult line there. for the job and the government to try and convince the teaching unions to get them on board as possible to re up in schools and it still wants to do that byjune the ist and will get a clear decision this week on when and what primary schools can open again but it is actually an example of politics returning back to normal after the kind of. it is a funny is that because any look at the daily mail and pick it up and you say when will they learn and to the the daily mail against what they call militant unions and this could be any mail addition over the last ten or 20 or 30 years. it is almost like we are back as sebastian tended to suggest towards a pretended pre pandemic conflict or world. to suggest towards a pretended pre-pandemic conflict or world. but looking to see the daily mail and express looking to see the daily mail and ex press a looking to see the daily mail and express a particular charging very strong allegations against the unions in this town. but also being quite hysterical about people travelling or people walking around in parks and they are not really showing much consistency. it is not i don t think about the epidemiology but about the fact that they don t like the teachers unions. children do need to go back to school and the need to learn and this a lot and is clearly children the most. but giving that in a kind of steady and managed way is going to be incredibly important. children may themselves not be enormously at risk but of course their parents or their grandparents may be and the teachers of course made even if they themselves don t have to shield may have relatives or members of the family at home who do. so we have to proceed carefully and cautiously and i think one question is whether pa rents i think one question is whether parents will be punished if their children do not go back to school. lots of pa rents children do not go back to school. lots of parents i know simply don t feel safe sending kids back yet and with much of their weight. and we know in the end the indian you control the virus is a successful treatment potentially in the form of a vaccine will in the guardian talks about its front page. the first human trial results raise hope for vaccine with a lot of talk about the vaccine with a lot of talk about the vaccine projects at a peer college london and austin university as well but this story is about a company in america. indicative of the global efforts in they are being coordinated with an organisation called the cep i wear all the universities are sharing research and even government has put out hundreds of millions of pounds of funding into this and many of the government s trying to get to that vaccine because within the government has been very clear about is that the social distancing in the lock down and all this is in a holding pattern until they get a vaccine to cure covid 19. but also university are being very bullish saying that they are hoping to have a breakthrough by this autumn and this news coming out of america which is referenced again is very positive. if either of these projects to come to fruition it is an amazing achievement for science here asa an amazing achievement for science here as a ladder for a vaccine being produced is about four years and that was back in the 19605. the idea that was back in the 19605. the idea that covid 19 i5 that was back in the 19605. the idea that covid 19 is going to be barely a euro and we actually have a vaccine that can be produced is quite outstanding but of course once a vaccine is there is proven the next challenge is getting it produced in high enough numbers and 5tarting produced in high enough numbers and starting a huge vaccination programme and a5 starting a huge vaccination programme and as we have seen with te5ting programme and as we have seen with testing and discussion about the antibody te5ting testing and discussion about the antibody testing that becomes very political very quickly and i5 obviously different countries are involved. and into our final picture in the guardian and the front page of people having breakfast in milan and forgive me for the criminology public at this picture, they are drinking from the take away mugs with no respect would ever done that with no respect would ever done that with the best crockery so that shows would take away mugs things have changed was that there is a enormous pastry they tend to be eating there andi pastry they tend to be eating there and i question what that is presumably a treat in a post endemic world and which preface would you like to have, polly? just anything away from my children to be honest. i love them very much. sebastian, your ideal breakfast equipment salmon, scrambled eggs on some nice sourdough toast. you ve thought about that. sebastian and polly, thank you both so much. that s it for the papers this hour. goodbye for now. good evening. i m holly hamilton with your latest sports news. and celtic have been crowned scottish premiership champions for the ninth year in a row after the top flight clubs agreed that the spl season could not be concluded. well, that also means that hearts have been relegated. celtic manager neil lennon is determined to set a record and make it ten titles in a row if and when the season starts next. some supporters of a certain vintage will have remembered the first time that celtic achieved nine in a row, so for them to see it again must be, you know, brilliant for them. and i grew up on stories of that team. so, i m stood here as the manager, you know, we ve won our ninth title in a row, it s very, very special for me personally. it probably won t sink it for a long time because we ve planned this, you know, for a year. obviously, you know, the supporters are talking about ten. now, i can safely say we can go for the ten if and when that, you know, football restarts. but to have nine in a row, to equal that records fantastic. premier league clubs have voted to start training again this week after clubs voted unanimously in favour of a set of medical protocols to make players safer. it s the first stage in a proposed return of the league, but all are in agreement that the next steps will be much tougher. here s our sports reporter laura scott. so, the clubs unanimously agreed today to return to the first phase of group training. so, it won t be anything like normal training, but it is a start. so, what it will mean is group5 of a maximum of five players will be able to train together, but there ll be no tackling, no contact and no use of the same equipment. they ll be under strict restrictions on the fact that they all have to be tested. they have been tested actually, today and yesterday. they ll have to have have daily temperature checks. they ll all have to arrive in their own kit and park three car parking spaces apart, and this is all part of the first phase. so, the phase two will be much more of a normal form of training. that 5 yet to be approved. that could come later this month. but, yes, this is an important milestone that they ve taken today. laura scott reporting there. now, the football association says it s continuing to consult with clubs on the possibility of terminating the women s super league season. club representatives and the fa are understood to have held a meeting today, but no final decision on how to conclude the campaign was reached. the fa says it s clear that there will be significant challenges in completing the season. no wsl fixtures have been played since february. well, in cricket, players are likely to be banned from using saliva to shine the ball when the sport returns. the international cricket council has received new medical advice due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the icc says it will still be ok to use sweat to polish the ball. the recommendations, which also suggest the use of home umpires, will be presented for approval in earlyjune. well, england s men return to training this week. their three match test series against the west indies could be rescheduled to take place injuly, but windies captainjason holder says his players safety is of paramount importance. i think each player has to be comfortable in making this step. certainly from my perspective, i wouldn t be forcing anybody to go anywhere. and it s been made clear that if we are to hop on a plane and go over to england, it must be safe, you know? we ve been given a55urance from cricket west indies that we would only go over to england unless they deemed it safe for us to go over and play. and that is all the sport for now. from everyone here, goodnight. hello there. on monday, the temperature reached 25 celsius in suffolk, and over the next couple of days, the heat will continue to build. the peak of the temperatures is likely to be on wednesday. things start to break down a bit after that. chance of thunderstorms on thursday before we all turn cooler and windier by the end of the week. pretty mild out there at the moment away from northernmost parts of scotland. these are the temperatures by the end of the night, and as you can see, still a lot of cloud around. some outbreaks of rain, too. that rain continuing to affect the northern half of the uk mainly during tuesday morning. slowly petering out, many places becoming dry during the afternoon. the cloud thinning and skies brightening. the best of the sunshine likely to be across wales, the midlands and southern england, where temperatures will peak at 25 or 26 degrees. but on the whole, it should be a slightly warmer day across the uk than it was on monday. and those temperatures continue to climb for wednesday. that area of high pressure is sitting over the uk. it s pushing the cloud and rain away, and we re going to be drawing up a gentle southerly breeze that will bring the heat northwards all the way from spain and france and move its way across the uk. northern areas start quite cloudy on wednesday. some rain to clear away from the northern isles, the cloud thins and breaks, and sunshine develops more widely. and in the afternoon, we re likely to find temperatures of 23 degrees through central scotland, 20 or so for northern ireland, the highest temperatures across the midlands to the south east of england, 27 or 28 degrees. things start to break down a bit on thursday. there s a bit of rain trying to come in from the west. that may not make it too far. these showers are likely to break out from the south east of england and heading towards the midlands, lincolnshire and east anglia, and they could be heavy and thundery. and that will knock the temperatures down. for many of us, it s still quite a warm day on thursday, just not quite as warm as wednesday. and then things start to change more widely, i think, for the end of the week, because we ve got this area of low pressure. it s winding itself up, the winds will be strengthening and this weather front will be bringing some rain. that s going to move its way eastwards across the uk during friday, but there won t be much rain for england and wales, and the more persistent rain soon sweeps away from mainland scotland. the winds, though, will be stronger. gales likely in the north west, and this is where we ll see most of the showers. 0therwise, there ll be some sunshine, a cooler and fresherfeel, but still 21 in eastern england. this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. america s coronavirus death toll tops ninety thousand as president trump says he s been taking an unproven drug to prevent coronavirus. i happen to be taking it, i happen to be taking it. the world health 0rganization pledges an independent inquiry into pandemic but the us renews its criticism. the british government adds loss of smell or taste to its 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tens of thousand of people in hong kong have defied a ban to turn out for a vigil on the anniversary of the tiananmen square crackdown. this year s vigil was banned by police citing coronavirus measures. now on bbc news, panorama. america is reopening, as its covid death toll reaches 100,000. butjust weeks ago, so many were dying in new york that bodies were left to rot on the streets. i m not going to sugar coat this in any way. very upsetting. i m hilary andersson. for decades, i ve worked as a reporter on wars and disasters all over the world, but i never expected to see a crisis of this scale in my own country. we were looking at a freight train coming across the country. we re now looking at a bullet train. two months ago, i began filming my journey to the eye of the storm, in new york. this crisis is completely out of control. i wanted to know how, in the richest country in the world, 21,000 people could die in one city, and ask, is the rest of america about to repeat the mistakes of new york? i feel like we need to have a corona party! i ll bring the corona! rural vermont. my home. far, you might think, from today s pandemic. but the virus knows no bounds. it s trickled deep into rural america. vermont s relatively protected from the virus, but this old people s home right here has had several people die in it and 36 test positive. half of them, staff. so, you know, this is how bad it is, even in a small rural part of america. my neighbours are afraid. i ve heard of one who s taking the safety of his family to a whole new level. i m on my way now to see a friend. a dairy farmer. his name isjoel pomenville, and he lives with his mother, who s elderly, and i understand he s taken some pretty extreme precautions to try to protect her. thanks, mom. see if your soup is hot enough, or if you want me to heat it a little bit more. to protect his mother, joel has built a physical barrier down the middle of their sitting room. your mom, how did she react when you came up with the idea for the glass, the bubble room? she didn t like it! she doesn t like this whole covid i9 thing interfering with her life. but who does, right? yeah. but ijust feel responsible for her health. and how long are you planning on leaving this up and using this? until we have a vaccine. 0h. long time. really?! well, i m hoping. johnson &johnson says their vaccine is going to be ready in eight months. that was a month ago. eight months? oh, my goodness! can you do this for eight months? i didn t know that. with so few people here, it s a relatively easy place to isolate. but new york city is just five hours away. i d begun talking to emergency doctors there. their stories were disturbing. so, it s absolutely insane. we just had another death in the hospital. news anchor: the death toll from coronavirus has jumped dramatically tonight, after new york city said it has been under counting those killed by the disease. other countries have higher rates of death but, by april, the united states had overtaken china and europe as the global epicentre. and now, this was becoming personal. these are n95 masks that a friend. my sister is a local gp. she d decided to volunteer in overstretched covid wards in new york. i was proud of her, but worried for her too. so, yeah, i have a friend who works in an inner city hospital in new york. she s told me that the hospital is not safe and that it s a very dire situation. and she s told me that it s like an apocalypse down there. i wanted to see this crisis for myself. as a journalist, i was allowed to travel. i ve covered a lot of wars and conflicts over the last 25 years and i ve seen a lot of death, but i ve never witnessed anything like this in the western world. tens of thousands of people have died of this pandemic in a matter of weeks. this was a 300 mile journey, on roads that were virtually deserted. queensbury a town 3.5 hours north of new york city, and my first glimpse of what was to come. these were the bodies of new yorkers ferried out of the city in their hundreds by volunteer david penepent. so many were dying in april that the city was short of space to cremate them. in the past three weeks, after this week, i have made. 600 human remains. brought them to various crematories. yeah. it s beyond belief down there, what i m seeing. it is just beyond belief. arriving in new york was intimidating. i was driving into the heart of the pandemic. the city s streets were eerie. empty. as i got there, i witnessed what s become the ritual a cheer for health workers. here, it happens every night. i got here at 7 o clock, just as the whole city is doing their evening shouting. it s amazing. you can hear it all around. this city has seen more covid deaths than most countries. around 8,000 people have died in london, which has a similar population. in new york, it s over 21,000. more than five times as many deaths as in the whole state of california. central park hosts a field hospital. this is completely surreal. i mean, this is times square, the normally throbbing heartbeat of new york, and it s almost completely quiet here. i m standing here, in the wealthiest nation on earth, a country with some of the best hospitals and scientists in the world. the question is, how did this place become the front line of the global pandemic? at the start of the crisis, hospitals were closed to visitors and cameras. as pictures emerged, the pressures on staff were clear. so, i asked the doctors i d been talking to including my sister if they could catalogue their days, without disturbing their work, orfilming patients. i ve a number of patients who are manual labourers and they re just literally bedridden. and you can t even sit them up without them developing laboured breathing. dr rob gore worked in a covid emergency ward in brooklyn. the rising body count was alarming. just coming off of one of the toughest shifts that i ve had in a long, long time. i ve seen quite a few deaths over the past couple of days, and it starts to wear on you. i ve seen a lot of tragedy, i ve seen a lot of disaster. i worked in haiti pre earthquake and post earthquake and saw a lot of people dying from illnesses and injuries, or complications of injuries. i ve never seen anything like that before. so, anotherday in the covid crisis. many doctors were short of the basic equipment they needed to do theirjobs. dr anuj shah worked across six different hospitals in neighbouring newjersey. here s the morgue. we re still seeing a lot of deaths in this small hospital. and you get numb to it. you re seeing it so frequently. i didn t want to see another death today. i did not want to see a death today. i never imagined that, in this country, that we would not have simple masks and simple gowns and you would not have iv lines. we are like soldiers in the front line. government and healthcare organisations should stepped up way more, they should have been prepared for a pandemic. in march, the rate of new infections began soaring, doubling at times by the day. we were looking at a freight train coming across the country, we re now looking at a bullet train. just six weeks earlier, new york s governor cuomo, a democrat, had been dismissive about the threat of the virus. catching the flu right now is a much greater risk than anything that has anything to do with coronavirus. the white house had been warned as early as january that covid could take half a million american lives. the trump administration says it will now bar foreign nationals entering the united states if they ve been here to china. president trump shut down flights from china in early february and continued campaigning for november s elections. his message to americans relax. we have done an incrediblejob. we re going to continue. it s going to disappear. one day, it s like a miracle, it will disappear. what the president had not done was shut down flights from europe. that would take six more weeks. during that critical period, in february and march, the virus spread across this city unchecked. new york about twice as crowded as london the perfect breeding ground. the governor pointed the finger at washington. january, february, march. three million europeans travelled to new york state. three million. and there was a critical lack of covid testing. the governor begged the president to help step it up. the federal government here let the city down. it didn t stop travel from europe when it should have. it didn t provide access to diagnostic tests when it should have. and because of that, new york city was flying blind. it didn t realise that there were thousands and thousands of infections in february. in the hospitals, there was fury. we re dying here. we re seeing our co workers die. we can t look forward if we can t look at the errors that were made. this administration has blood on its hands. every person that dies right now, that falls on the federal government. but the decision on when to start lockdown in new york belonged not to the president, but to governor cuomo. by the time he gave that order, at least 134 new yorkers had already died. jeff shaman, a leading epidemiologist, believes thousands of lives could have been saved in new york, had the city locked down earlier. we ve modelled that, and if we were to back it up ten days or 1a days, 1a days back from when they locked down, ostensibly here when we started to see it, is when the first death occurred in the united states, we d see a ten fold reduction in the number of cases. it didn t have to happen, if people were proactive. closing new york earlier, before any deaths, would have been a huge call. but san francisco s leaders did exactly that. san francisco is a smaller city, not as crowded or poor. still, fewer than fifty people have died there. i mean, it has me screaming at the walls in my house. i m publishing information that actually shows what the problem is, and. ..we were ignored. in february, there was ample evidence that this thing was spreading very aggressively and that if we had acted earlier and sooner, that we could have ramped up the war production ask, that we could have gotten companies to build test kits and got them deployed en masse and put ourselves in a position to be prepped for this. a month later, nearly 16,000 people had died. but, that s not the whole story. in places like this parts of brooklyn, and the bronx, where it s mainly black and latino, people have died at twice the rate of white new yorkers. it s crowded and poor here. people are far more likely to suffer ill health. i got a call from david penepent, the mortuary professor who i d met in queensbury. he d had an emergency and had asked me to meet him at an undertaker‘s in brooklyn. satnav: turn right onto corona avenue. then left onto 915t place. you must be kidding me! that is just weird, right? the situation that awaited seemed almost too macabre to be true. these ordinary rental trucks parked on the busy high street contained dozens of bodies. the vans were being used as temporary storage space by the local funeral director, whose chapel already stored over 100. this is new york city and there are truckloads of bodies, unrefrigerated, on the side of a road. what this says is that this crisis is completely out of control. there have been many days throughout this when hundreds of people have died injust a 24 hour period. and this is what it s come to. the crisis only came to light when the neighbours complained about the smell. this grieving daughter couldn t put it into words. my last visual is watching my mother take her last breath, so right here, this truck is too much for me. i m trying to speak to you all. but i am so clouded right now because this hurts, it hurts. there s no words for hurt from this. it was now up to david to move the bodies to a proper place of rest. do you find this disturbing at all, what happened here? very upsetting. er, i m not going to deny it, i m not going to sugar coat this in any way, very upsetting. what do you say to the families of these people? we basically say to these families, this is a good funeral director, he just became very overwhelmed. and when he reached out to me, he was almost in tears, please help me, please help me. his voice was breaking up, he was very, very saddened by what was happening. grief has consumed this city. so many relatives of the thousands who died, reliving the trauma, wondering why? beatriz nunes is one. she lives here in brooklyn. in march, her fiance, jorge, began showing covid symptoms. but there was a shortage of tests in the city and she says the hospital didn t test him. he had had a temperature of 106, he was completely delirious, and you still couldn t get him a test? no. unless he has to be admitted and intu bated, they would not test him. hospitals in these parts of new york, overstretched at the best of times, were struggling to cope. jorge was discharged the same day. he went home in an uber. the hospital told us it gives all patients the appropriate treatment. he couldn t even stand up straight. when he came home from the hospital, i had to physically carry him upstairs. at home a few days later, jorge‘s condition still wasn t improving. he asked if he could have a cup of tea. which for us was even weird because he s not a tea drinker. and when his mum went to give it to him because it was already cooled down, i don t know, it was ten minutes or so, and she realised he wasn t breathing, and that s when she called me and i ran to him and, you know, i called 911 and i was doing the cpr but, honestly, in my heart he was already gone. when she realised that he wasn t breathing, he was already dead. jorge died of suspected covid. he left behind a son, logan, who was just turning two. he doesn t understand, but he for sure knows something s different. he asks for his dad all the time, he was extremely close to. ..hid dad. i m sorry. once again, the meals will be here shortly, but come get your hand sanitiser and your face masks. in the bronx, new york s poorest borough, a food handout. this area was hit hardest by the disease, and now too by the effects of lockdown. almost a million new yorkers are out of work. a0 million unemployed across the nation. there s been nothing like this since the great depression. here, many are down to their last pennies. usually when i have no more money left, i come here to the centre to get food. or, i eat less food! let s practice social distancing. let s practice safety. the city, still in lockdown, is poised to start reopening next week. infections in new york have now decreased massively. but weekly, deaths are still in the hundreds and there s fear of a second wave. it s now four weeks since coronavirus cases in new york reached their peak. i ve left new york and i m back on the road. what i saw and learnt in new york was really disturbing. the scale of the death, the chaos. but i also understand that if you come from a part of the country that hasn t been as badly affected, you might see things differently. most states have been in some form of lockdown, but none have been hit on anything like the scale of new york. ten states have had fewer than 100 deaths. this is new hampshire. it s not far from new york state, but fewer than 250 people have died here. wow, this place is open. it s amazing. i haven t seen this before. i visited just as lockdown was partially lifted in mid may. similarly to the uk, people here had been asked to only leave their homes for essential reasons, and today, finally, a breath of relief outdoor markets and many shops and salons are reopening. the government does not have the right to restrict assemblies of any kind. cheering but for these protesters, it s not enough. they want everything open, and they want it now. the restrictions should be lifted completely. there s no state of emergency. we did have one, but the emergency has gone. it s time to get back to normal. not a new normal. the old normal. as of yesterday, it s 183,000 people out of work in new hampshire, out of a working population 775,000. that s a huge price to pay for these decisions. we have our freedoms and we re willing to fight for it, if we have to. i love president trump. i bless him and i bless his family. the pace of reopening america has become a massive political issue in an election year. a lot of americans are absolutely craving this. a chance to get out in the sunshine, and they want theirjobs back. many are thrilled that the president is saying it s time to open america back up. president trump has chosen a powerful electioneering message to rally his base. until all this, president trump s strongest electoral card was america s booming economy. but now, there are warnings of a 30% downturn, which could be politically devastating. president trump has signalled his support for these protests from the outset. these are people expressing their views. i see where they are and i see the way they re working. they seem to be very responsible people to me. chanting: we re not sick, we re not sick! in may, the president supported armed protesters who d invaded the state capitol in michigan, where there d been almost 4,000 covid deaths, saying the protestors were good people and the governor should give a little . mary rivaud, a hairdresser here in new hampshire, thinks donald trump s great. she s just officially opened her salon for the first time since march. good morning. but today, she can only take one customer at a time. mary s infuriated that the virus is still, months on, cramping her style and killing her business. so, my love, this is the waiver i have to have everybody sign so you can t sue me for, you know, coronavirus. ayiyi. i know, it s ridiculous. for mary, the horror stories of new york are a world away. do you remember, back in the day they had chickenpox parties where you d like literally invite every kid in the neighbourhood so everyone would get chickenpox? i feel like we need to have a corona party! i know, i know. i ll bring the corona! mary believes the president has handled the pandemic well. the white house has increased testing, outlined science based guidelines for reopening and is sending millions of americans stimulus checks with the president s name on them. i think most business people realise that he s doing far more than most politicians. where are the democrats now? nobody‘s helping. i support him 110%. i don t know a lot of people that i know that have been sick. and if the numbers are like they re saying they are, they re obviously all in new york. but why in new york did it get hit so high? is it because we have a lot of people that aren t there legally? is it because we have thousands of people living on top of each other? the president can exert pressure for america to reopen. but it s state politicians who make the decisions. representative tim lang says they re reopening cautiously here in line with the science. every one of our recommendations are being reviewed by our state epidemiologist, a non partisan person, who s looking at them for strictly public health concerns. if we wanted to open probably a large concert venue with 10,000 seats, we talked about, i bet you they would tell us no. so, if the infection numbers go up, you ll start to close down again? i will, say, if the numbers go up, we will. the governor will consider moving backwards if if necessary. now all 50 american states are starting to reopen. in just over half, new hampshire included, infections are decreasing. but in many states, infections have been steadily rising. 0n last week s holiday weekend, the beaches were packed as if none of this had ever happened. once again, the american scientific community is sounding the alarm. we have to remember, though, that coming back too soon, could set us back, it could lead to a large resurgence of cases that damages not only lives but damages our economy. we are seeing activities in some places that worry me. people together in enclosed places with no face masks on in communities where the virus is spreading. that s a really risky thing to do. do you think the pandemic is being politicised by the white house? i m very concerned by some of the political aspects that are being layered onto what should be scientific decisions. scientists warn that 135,000 americans may be dead by august. but in the land of the free, each state makes its own choices. will america learn the lessons of new york? or will election year politics drown out the scientists, putting america, once again, in peril?
this is bbc news. welcome if you re watching here in the uk, on pbs in america or around the globe. i m lewis vaughan jones. our top stories: this is bbc news with the latest headlines remembering george floyd. the first memorial service is held for the man whose death in police custody launched a global movement. george was somebody who was a lwa ys george was somebody who was always welcoming and always made people feel like they were special. everybody wants justice, we want justice special. everybody wants justice, we wantjustice for george. he s going to get it. he s going to get it. two. applause. protests continue in cities across the us. this is washington a few moments ago as crowds gather outside the white house. back in control of tripoli:
that s dealing with economics, dealing in education, dealing in criminal justice? there s so many ways that we can, like you said before, goi on hold right now because okay. you can see that car away after having its rear windshield busted out by some of the protesters. we saw a protester go up to oh, it looks like this man, this driver who had his windshield busted out is now screaming at police. i notice he stopped near the chp, across from them. he is yelling right now. folks, if you re just joining us here, we ve been covering this developing situation in san jose on highway 101. a protest over the death of george floyd in minnesota has led to the shutdown of 101 there near alum rock. a large group of protesters has formed, and it started out fairly peaceful.opleryg sign of, bunow we e seeing some yelling, confrontations, and then at least in the case of one driver and one truck, he had his windshield busted out, and the man you see right there had gotten out of his vehicle at one point to say something apparently near police. he seems to be driving away, but there definitely seems to be tension and anxiety building right now as probably about, i would say, 300, 400 people gather to carry signs that say black lives matter, george floyd protest, demanding justice and an end to police brutality, excessive force that have rtainly the case of george flo floyd with police officer derek chauvin charged and arrested four days later in large part due to the fact that video materialized. that was key. here you re looking at more vehicles that are getting by in the emergency lanes. some of the protesters are waving tin sort one by one form, if you will, one line in the emergency lane and letting people through that way, sort of like when you have a freeway closure and only one lane is open. so that s what s happening right now on 101 san jose. we are watching this for you because it started out in downtown in san jose, but now the group has spread out, and one of the areas is here on 101. some people are making contact with some of the cars. sometimes it s justng. sometimes it s making sure the driver saw the signs, and there s some conversation had between some of the drivers and some of the protesters. but in at least one case, there was some confrontation and one rear windshield that was busted out. tunde, are you still with me? i know you cannot see the video right now. yes. but i know you have been and carly, you too have been seeing video out of minneapolis with things burning, and there were some stores that were looted. president trump sort of referred to the looting in one of his tweets, saying when there s looting, there s shooting. i got to ask you, what do you make of that? well, let me say, you know, one piece of gratitude and challenge to continue doit yore doing. you are today bringing on carly and myself to talk about the work, the action that we re doing that stems from around eq. so i just thank you that you re not only showing the looting and the breaking of things because we grieve in a number of ways. i m in east palo alto, california, right now, and there s no looting on my street. i m not saying there won t be, and there hasn t been, but we are praying. we are coming up with solutions. we are consoling each other. we are hugging each other. we are calling each other and checking in. we are creating policy. there are so many ways in which we are grieving with the situation, so i just thank you that you are showing both the tragedies that are happening and the expressions of anger that s happening in san jose and across the country and showing solutions too. well, there s the looking at things that happen, and then there s the deeper conversation of why are these things happening, right? addressing the root causes, and like you said, president trump said something this morning but also vice president biden, the presum soid a live event whi he said it s 400 years of racism and open wounds that really have not dissipated. and during this time is coming to the surface more and more. so there is not a one-day simple answer because this was 400 years in the making according to vice president biden today. i want to bring in the chp right now. alicia i m sorry. yes, ma am. u vy thank you for joining us. can you give us a sense of what is happening here on 101? we ve been seeing the pictures. it does appear that protesters have managed to shut down both directions there around alum rock, but we see protesters letting cars through sort of on the emergency auxiliary lane. whes role is right isng now because you guys seem to be letting this play out. yeah. so as we have officers that will be en route, but we do have officers on-scene. and of course our primary course or primary objective is to get all protesters off the freeway because it is very dangerous. not only is it dangerous for pedestrians, but for motorists around their vehicles. we definitely don t want anybody to get injured or hit by a vehicle. not only should protesters not be there, but it s against the law. it s very important for their safety to make sure they get off the freeway. i will bng oe right now, but it s very important once again that, like i just mentioned, protesters get off the freeway. so what action is being taken to deliver the message that they should get off the freeway? so obviously officers tt s have be on ft trying to, in a tactical form as we are showing to make it safe not only for the pedestrians but for us. and just advise them verbally to please exit whatever the nearest exit is. so, once again, the safety of them is our primary objective. so wherever it is, i can t tell you where they are right now because i m not on-scene right now. but wherever the location is, we ll escort them through the nearest exit. we areou ni toai close,to protest beknow to ensure the safety of both the protesters and the what is their strategy for approaching the protesters to deliver this message and also to ensure that they skplcomply wite message to allow the freeway to open? absolutely. through our academy training, we go through these trainings for tactical formations. yes, we ll get close. we understand that they re protesting, but we haven t seen anything that would be unless we see something that s life-threatening or anything like that, no, we understand that they want to communicate. but other than that, you know, we ll do it calmly and lawfully and respectfully to the point they understand they re not supposed to be there. we ll just escort them off the freeway. that is our primary focus, and we re hopeful it s going to work in that direction. is this the only location you know of right now where there s been freeway stoppage due to the protests over georgfoatioof li i said, i m en route to the scene at this moment, so we ll have further. all right. we do apologize in this sky7 scene, somebody has scribbled a curse word on the center median there. not much we can do about that. this is playing out in real time of course, a protest group of what would you say? 300 people, officer moreno? yes, we did have information about 300 people. okay. that are now converged on 101 stopping traffic there around alum rock. of course it s a friday afternoon during shelter in place, so the impact is i don t want to say minimal, but not as bad as it would be otherwise. how far back do you think the stop traffic extends at this point? how many miles? do you have any estimate on that, officer moreno? i don t have the numbers right now as far as if the amount has grown or the distance. like i said, it s very, very dangerous for protesters or just pedestrians to be on the freeway. you have vehicles coming at a high rate of speed, and it can be someone that s not paying attention or anything and coming to an abrupt stop for a vehicle to stop from 65 or greater t your moving. it drove into like a little dirt area, and then now seems to be talking with the protesters to be let through, if you will. we have seen the protesters allow some of the cars to pass through. they don t seem to be going fast. but you re right. anytime you re on a freeway with a car moving at any speed with pedestrians standing there, it is potential for injuries if not worse. so the situation is dangerous. it is happening on 101. however t is civil disobedience, and it is a reflection of theee over the deae floyd in minnesota this week after an officer was seen putting his knee on video seen on video putting his knee on floyd for over eight minutes. okay. so, officer moreno, which freeway on-ramps and off-ramps are currently closed? well, we did have information it was the southbound 101, at santa clara street. that is the information i have. i don t know where they have moved to this point. you mentioned something very important as far as other motorists trying to take an exit or get out of the way. that is where we need to get there or have all of our units responding to these locations where we have pedestrians is because we re trying to avoid somebody getting hurt. motorists don t expect to see pedestrians on the freeway, and they might panic, or they might where have theeone, and tha is oos lifencehe same time, the fs against the law and it s very, very dangerous. sorry. re prere forhis because surely after snen other cities, were you briefed and perhaps had a strategy for dealing with this? oh, yes, we do. this is something we have retrainings and we train on, and that is what we re en route, and we have a plan. but like i said, we are not going to do it in a way that is going to rush anybody. we re going to do it the way that we were trained, in an orderly fashion, respectfully, and in a way that no one is going to get hurt. so it might take us a little bit of time, but if travelers or drivers need to get through, just plan an alternate route. stay at home if you don t need to go out so we can prevent ied suv we were looking at earlier, it did make its way through. the protesters let that car go by. they kind of cleared out a little path for it, and that car is off. and i m seeing some tweets on social. a woman named maya who says she s out there says, i apologize to those who feel strongly about us briefly protesting on the freeway, but this is a minor inconvenience al wit sole strong feeling as a result of what s happening in minnesota. and i just want to say officer moreno, thank you for keeping us posted because we had also heard in downtown santa clara or san jose on santa clara street where it started, you know, there was road blockage at some point too. as far as you know and i know that s city streets, but do you know if that part is clear or any traffic implications there? oh, ma am, i don t have that information available at this moment. i don t. okay. that s quite all right. i do appreciate you spending the time to share with us what s happening here. i don t know if you need to go. i do. you do? okay. will you kindly check back in with us and let us know if there are further developments? what is your last message for both our viewers who might be commuters and also for the protesters? yes. once again for all the protesters to stay off the freeways just for their safety. we don t want anybody to get hu hurt, for commuters to always keep an eye on the freeways and know that pedestrians are not expected, but this is something that we are seeing now. please be very, very aware. pay attention. do not drive distracted and to everybody that can just remain at home, please do so. and thank you. you take care. you too. absolutely. so the message from the chp, protesters need to exit off the highway. they are working out a strategy. chp officers will be there shortly. they re en route to advise the protesters to get off the freeway so that traffic can resume, so that they are not endangered by moving vehicles, possibly a higho need t do so, obvio obviously understanding tensions are running high. tellers may flare between the two sides and they want to make sure it is done in a way in which nobody gets hurt. so far we re seeing he dth of george floyd and all the reasons that may have led up to that and other incidents that they ve seen across the country. by the way, i m also just seeing now that sort ofquarterback, of been an outspoken social equity activist, he is offering to pay for the legal fees of anyone who is arrested in protesting what s happened. i need to get youdy ta details that whether it s just protesters in the minnesota area or if it s broader than that. but colin kaepernick, who so famously essentially ended his nfl career when he knelt down during the national in protest. he has extended the gesture of covering legal fees. i want to see if tunde is still with me from street code academy in east palo alto. tunde are you still there and carly? yes, i am. thank you for hanging with us. i don t know if you got a chance to see, if you can see what s playing out here. have you been watching with me? no. we are at least i can sr se o see is the studio, so i m not able to see the live footage. okay. i want to ask you if guys just, you know, can share what kind of thoughts are running through your head as you see folks taking to the street. i know you guys have taken to the streets in peaceful family walks, to call attention after ahmaud arbery was shot. what are positive actions that we can take together as a community, black, brown, yellow, white, to address what we know is weakening the fabric of our society for all of us? what can we do? well, i mean, i ve heard that question from so many people, and i think it s very much appreciated. you know, at the same time, i think that we need as a collective society to realize this is not a onetime event. this event has been boiling up with unaddressed racism that we ve let go. so the very first thing that we could do is to not let the disease of racism only show up when there s symptoms. we need to address it all the time, and that s individually, you know, things we can do. so it s not a okay, now there s an influx of text messages that come to my phone. how do we address this? this needs to be something that we re pounding on every single day to make this a more equitable place. we cannot avoid it. our brother in montgomery just talks a wens whene thead-on? there s justice on the other side of that. there s peace on the other side of that. so you re right, it s not just a black issue. this is an issue that affects everyone black, brown, yellow, white, red. every single person on this planet needs to join the fight against racism, particularly right hereamerica. people directly protesting on the streets, there s also indirect ways like donating a laptop as tunde said, donating your time, becoming a mentor, donating your network like you re giving right now and getting platforms out there that are trying to give black people, brown people, the people who are the most disinfranchised different platforms and different alternative stories, different routes they can take their lives. of course we can t stop police taking us from the streets and killing us, but there are ways we can break different barriers. it s interesting how okay. we see chp officers getting out their jeeps. let s watch what they re intending to do here. we did hear earlier from chp officer moreno that officers were going to make an effort to get the protesters to get off the freeway, both so that traffic their own safety, that they can get hit by vehicles that perhaps, you know, we haven t seen one yet drive at them quickly or at high speed. all of the ones we ve seen moving have been going super slowly and passing by the protesters who are allowing the vehicles through one by one in the auxiliary lane. but who knows what can happen as tempers start to build over time? officers certainly don t want any confrontations that result t otrsfou will, getting injured by a vehicle as well. it s interesting how, carly and and take away from it so differently. i m seeing comments on twitter. somebody s saying, watching the protesters in san jose taking over 101, i m so proud of my hometown. i stand with you. let it be known no justice, no peace. and then there s someone else saying, run them over. how do you justify and explain that very, very different takeaway as we see this action happen? go ahead. what s in your heart is going to come through your mouth and your voice and your perspective. so i think we are many of us are failing to see the pain that s there, and many of us recognize it and see it and are proud that we re standing up because for so long, we were just to get the voice out there. weinou omf expression. n o expression, and people have different takes on that. the perspectives i don t have a problem with. the root of that perspective i think we need to address, and oftentimes we see at the root of many of these perspectives, we re seeing a lot of the same hate that drove what we re seeing. yeah, i would say it s hard to maybe not justify it, but to me one thing that s very clear and the common thread amongst all of those different responses is that everybody after seeing a clip like that is activated, and we all have different ways to set up a process in that activation. so, you know, you can t control other people. we have to give that up. but we can control ourselves. there is many ways to channel that activation i say into he helping to uplift your community. when you see this, and i know that you re all for people expressing themselves in a peaceful way and taking action in civil disobedience sometimes is the way. but when you see this, do you get afraid or scared that something could happen that could set back what you re trying to achieve? i do. i think that there are when you re dealing with carly said the word, rage. it s a word that has been used by james baldwin and several other really voices of the unheard to describe feelings as rage or anger orbiterness. these are things that are extremely dangerous feelings. so when you have those and they re not channeled to be constructive, it can turn to unconstructive ways. you can see somebody very easily making sure. and that s why we just have to address it. we have to keep addressing it. not using the moments like this when it s front and center on our cell phone, but on every day when we face these microaggressions, when we face these feelings, we face in our workplace and our schools, we have to address it. it s very real. this is not made up. these with railroad real things and we have to address these emotions so they do not become destructive. yes, well said. and we certainly hope as we watch this play out that nobody is hurt here today. we have seen at least one windshield that was broken. that car continued to drive on after that and has left the scene. however, chp officers are starting to arrive. they seem to be not quite approaching the protests yet, the main group. they are still holding back a little bit. i think they are ready to take action is what it appears like to me. but the chp will be moving very slowly, because they want to get the message across to please get off the freeway, but ensure that they don t escalate any tensions or hostilities that result in anybody getting hurt, not the driver, not the officers, not the protesters. so far what we saw earlier was it started with a fairly relaxed feel as they first took to the highway. certainly when they marched through the street of san jose, they were carrying signs and chanting, but there had not been anything that would lead to worries. but now that they re on the freeway, there is definitely the worry of their safeties but also of things perhaps escalating. but so far it seems most of the drivers are willing whether it s family obligations or he bt aic we can give you right now plaing southbound, that is where the protesters are. it s shut down, but you who not even traverse it northbound right now because you can see chp, they ve shut off that stretch in both directions as this demonstration over the death of a black man in minnesota, george floyd, plays out, not just here in san jose but across the country. there was a protest in oakland yesterday. we expect there to be another one in oakland tonight. ryirne ,he earlier today, officer chauvin, charged with that video became viral, it is to some people not enough. there are those who ask why was it not second-degree murder. there are others who do say that was moving very swiftly for the prosecutors. opinion, as you can imagine greatly divided, as so many things seem to be right now in our country. where people are looking at the same situation, but getting completely different reads and interpretations on what is happening. all we can tell you is that if you were planning on going through san jose, you might want to avoid highway 101 that is what the chp is suggesting because they re trying to diffuse the situation, diffuse tension. it does look like some of the protesters are walking towards the edge of thewa towards the on-ramp. not sure if they are actually well, we do see a few people sort of looking like they re on the frontage road now, or walking towards it. so we ll see if we can get a tighter shot here for you. some of the protesters do appear to be leaving. yes. this is a new development. breaking news. we ve been following this situation for over an hour now here at abc7 news. protesters saking over 101 in san jose to call out the injustice and protest against what happened in the case of george floyd, having taken over 101, stopping traffic. about 300 people at one point. and now it appears a large number of them are just walking peacefully off the freeway. some are on bike. and they appear to be mostly walking away, a you stillee traffic realacked up there. you can imagine with the freeway in one direction being shut down for an hour now. and chp officers are appearing and then allow traffic to resume. so if you re just joining us, folks, it is now 4:00, and abc7 news at 4:00 technically starting right now, although we have been on the air for the past hour following breaking news. in the death of george floyd. and today in minnesota, charging of the police officer who put his knee on floyd s neck foov eight minutes with floyd saying i cannot breathe and him eventually dying. floyd was black. the officer charged is white, and that is relevant because
but the two million people in the uk who belong to choirs have been missing the experience of singing together. this weekend, thousands of them will gather online for a singalong of handel s messiah, which lasts several hours. jon kay has the story. if i could ask everybody, if possible, to stand up for me? what would handel have made of this? they sing # hallelujah #. it was mark strachan‘s idea. missing his friends in a dorset choir during lockdown, he suggested singing online. music is more thanjust notes on a piece of paper. it s the feeling of singing with your friends, it s the feeling of going to the same place to be together, it s the feeling of the performance, where you re doing it together, with other people. this virus has taken all that away. meet choirmaster ben england. he agreed to lead nightly rehearsals of the messiah. hello to andrew. they expected a couple of dozen to sign in. guten abend! from perth, my goodness! ..but soon, there were 3,500. they sing andrew and nora are twins. he s in berkshire, she s in yorkshire, but the choir means they can be together, despite lockdown. what s it like singing on your own, with headphones on, to a computer? it might be a little bit odd, but knowing that andrew s. he might be 300 miles away, but he s singing at the same time as me and 3,500 other people just makes it good. this has just been a fantastic way of still getting that togetherness and still getting the fun that you get from singing the messiah. it s a plus, in the middle of a very big minus. # do i love you.# thousands of miles away, in new york, george and dianejoined in. what has this experience, with the choir, given you both? it s given us heart. it s given us hope. yes, it really does. hope. hope for the future. itjust lifts you, and it gives you more confidence that things are going to continue, that we can still sing. yes, we can still sing. you know? yes, yeah. it s done wonders for us mentally, for sure. the self isolation choir is now so big, it s not technically possible to stream the final performance live. # hallelujah.# so, on sunday night, they ll all sing along to this three hour backing track. isolated, no more. jon kay, bbc news. thank you, everybody. that s it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night. hello to viewers in the uk joining those around the world. it s now time for us to take a first look at the national and international front pages in the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the uk and international papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are iain anderson, executive chairman of the public relations and lobbying firm cicero amo, and sian griffiths, education editor at the sunday times. let s ta ke let s take a look at tomorrow s front pages. in the uk, the telegraph leads with a warning from police that they ll issue fines for anyone breaking lockdown rules by trying to see gatherings of friends and family this sunny weekend, before restrictions are eased on monday. in france, le figaro looks at the challenges of reopening as restaurants and cafes prepare to open their doors amidst the uncertainty caused by the virus the times says almost every primary school in england is set to reopen on monday in defiance of the biggest teaching union. the international edition of the financial times says donald trump s battle with twitter has intensified after the social media network accused the us president of glorifying violence following his apparent call for the military to use force against protesters in minneapolis.the daily mail says force against protesters in minneapolis. the daily mail says plans to quarantine travellers coming into britain are falling apart as border force and police officials here say the system is unenforceable . the guardian says the row over the uk prime ministers top aide dominic cummings breach of lockdown rules has prompted tens of thousands of people to flood their mps inboxes in what some say is the biggest outpouring since brexit. and in singapore, the strait times says the coronavirus means singapore s job market is heading into uncertain territory with vacancies likely to shrink, employers reluctant to hire and a large pool of workers expected to be looking forjobs in the coming months. so let s begin. iain anderson, sian griffiths, welcome to both. let s start with restau ra nts, welcome to both. let s start with restaurants, bars, very much the sta ble restaurants, bars, very much the stable certainly of parisi in life are set to reopen, how is it going to work, iain? , very very tentatively. it would seem, yah, as you say, big into restaurants, socialising, it s kind of what we all think about in terms of right at the heart of french culture, cuisine and there are 200,000 restaurants in france that are going to be opening up france that are going to be opening up from the 2nd ofjune, but they are only going to be able to do so with big changes to their menus and by having customers sitting outside in the open air. so it s going to be a huge change, at least the weather is improving, but it s really the start of very very baby steps towards opening up all of france s great restaurants. sian, ithink towards opening up all of france s great restaurants. sian, i think the question is will people feel safe to go back to bars and restaurants? the staff will have to wear masks, only a certain number of people are allowed at any one table, they will try and implement social distancing. imean, it try and implement social distancing. i mean, it sounds pretty difficult, doesn t it? apologies, we haven t got the sound there for sian, i m going to put the plane to you. do you thank you would go back to a restau ra nt you thank you would go back to a restaurant anytime soon in france if you had to wear a mask, if you had to be very careful about social distancing, cleanliness, handwashing? i mean come i think this is one of the issues we are all going to phase whether we are sitting at a restaurant, going on a train. willjust drive around generally, there are just very very tentative steps that we can all take over the next few weeks. because clearly, you know, listening to some of the scientists right now, the big concern still about a second spike. now, yeah, how you eat a meal ona spike. now, yeah, how you eat a meal on a plane with a mask on, you probably can t. how you eat a meal and enjoy a meal with all of the ppe around you is going to be very very ha rd to around you is going to be very very hard to see. but this is the balance. governments know that they need to get their economies going. and in france, the art of food is essential to the french economy. and in france, the art of food is essential to the french economylj wonder essential to the french economy.” wonder what lessons i suppose are going to be learned, certainly here in the uk, a couple of weeks behind a lot of europe in terms of the freedoms that people are being allowed to experience now. yeah, i mean that s precisely it. i mean, these are very very tentative steps. kind of hearing from the government s chief scientific adviser over the past 2a hours. they have got big concern still about a second spike emerging, and because of that, this is a very very slow turning of the tap in terms of the restrictions, but it s also fundamentally about competence and do people have competence to go out and aboutand, do people have competence to go out and about and, you know, try out things that were kind of commonplace before we all locked down. well we will see, what we, certainly in the coming days and weeks. sian is back with us, welcome, we have established sound, wonderful, let s move established sound, wonderful, let s m ove o nto established sound, wonderful, let s move onto the paper. the daily mail, sian, board of estimate granting plans for travellers to the uk in chaos as officials say, well, we can t police it. this is about anybody coming into the country going to have to go into quarantine for two weeks. is it really going to happen? well, this is an interesting story, the front page of the daily mail, because we have onlyjust about to introduce this measure within the next ten days, and already they are saying it s not going to work. but it s actually quite a crucial measure, so this is the plan that any travellers coming into our airports will have to quarantine for 14 days once they arrive. they will have to self isolate to arrive. they will have to self isolate to make arrive. they will have to self isolate to make sure that they don t, they are not bringing in the coronavirus and not spreading it to the population here. and it does seem the population here. and it does seem like this is really quite critical in terms of making sure that we stay on top of this virus, making sure that the infection rate doesn t go up. already, the daily mail says this plan may not work. the border police are saying the syste m the border police are saying the system is completely unenforceable, and an awful lot of exemptions. i mean, all kinds of people are exempt, apparently, from having to self isolate. the daily mail has a list of them from gas stations to electricians, quite understanding why they would be exempt. i actually think it would be a disaster of this plan is not enforced, because it just means of our borders are secure, and if we get on top of the virus as we seem secure, and if we get on top of the vii’us as we seem to secure, and if we get on top of the virus as we seem to be doing across the country, you know, it could come in again from outside, and we could see a second spike, which would be very bad news. i mean for everybody. for the economy as well as course. they are saying that they can t divorce it enforce it, how are they going to make sure the tens of thousands of people in this country stand in place for two weeks, but other countries managed it at the beginning of the pandemic, didn t they? aren t there lessons to be learned from their here? think that s right. most notably, we saw that s right. most notably, we saw that this kind of approach being taken many asian countries in southeast asia countries and of course, they are kind of coming out of the pandemic just course, they are kind of coming out of the pandemicjust reading that daily mail piece to sean s to to iain because my point. the way this comes at you off the pages that the government isjust comes at you off the pages that the government is just looking to trust the instincts of travellers in the uk right now. without the ability to enforce these measures, i think that s going to be very very hard to do. let s move on to the new york times. their headline here is where hospitals are deadly. but they are not talking about new york or america, they are talking about mexico and a painting of a real dire picture of the neglect of the health ca re system, picture of the neglect of the health care system, which is leaving so many people at a loss for any kind of help. yeah, i mean, this isjust tragic. so one of the things we ve seen, and in some anyways, we are so lucky to have the nhs in this country. we ve had our clapping for carers oi i country. we ve had our clapping for carers on a country. we ve had our clapping for carers on a thursday night, i think one of the reason we don t have a worse death rate than we already haveis worse death rate than we already have is because the nhs hasjust been phenomenal. it s been fantastic. we have a brilliant health care system here, free at the point of use. countries like mexico don t affect. they have a broken health care system, and as a result, imean, in health care system, and as a result, i mean, in mexico, many people are dying. they are getting infected with the virus in the same they re not dying because of the virus, they die because of the care they are getting in the hospitals, they are getting in the hospitals, they are getting dumb debts, dumb care. so examples in the story that are just her bringing a man who died because an inexperienced nurse unplugged his ventilator. this is just an inexperienced nurse unplugged his ventilator. this isjust really sad, also, of course, the health care staff are getting infected because the system is broken. there isn t enough personal protective equipment, people are not being trained properly and how to treat the virus. so they ve got 11,000 health care workers who are sick from it as well. this is really, really tragic. when you have got a combination of a broken health care system, health care system which has not been invested in, which is not open to everybody, then you get this virus on top of it. you know, the consequences are just. unbearable. it s tragic. let s move onto the straight times. their headline uncertainjobs prospect straight times. their headline uncertain jobs prospect that had come being taken to help. this is talking about the job situation in singapore, as the world emerges from lockdown and economies try to get back on track, iain, what is singapore doing to try and help people? so, this story is really about a mass job training programme being launched in a country of about 6 million people that has been an economic superstarfor, million people that has been an economic superstar for, one of the lowest unemployment rates on the globe, some of the highest levels of gdp in the world. it s a real economic superpower, and yet, of course, this pandemic is no respecter of the economics, in fact, farfrom respecter of the economics, in fact, far from it. it respecter of the economics, in fact, farfrom it. it crashes respecter of the economics, in fact, far from it. it crashes through the economics, and singapore government is really now embarking on a kind of national plan in a way that only really a country like singapore can do to retrain and provide, if they can, newjob opportunities. but already, the data is showing in singapore the prospect of a pretty rapid spike in unemployment. i was just looking before we came on air. you know, singapore has a very very low and employment rate. in fact, two years ago, it was about 2%, but prospects are that this is going to spike considerably. and itjust shows it s going to be a really difficult task to manage economies as we come out of lockdown, hopefully, there isn t a second spike, but without seeing we are u nfortu nately spike, but without seeing we are unfortunately seeing messing up limit everywhere. let s have a look at the frankfurt, a picture here of some of the protests happening in minneapolis after the killing of an unarmed black man by a police officer. a former police officer now. four police officers were sacked. it shows the impact that this story is having worldwide that it should be on
this is bbc news. the headlines. the prime minister has condemned violent protests in central london as ‘racist thuggery‘. groups including right wing activists clashed with police in the capital earlier, as they gathered near parliament and the statue of sir winston churchill. meanwhile in trafalgar square, protestors threw objects at police as they tried to contain the crowds. another 1°1 “ln-“é “1 11121114 have died after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the total death toll to 41,662. the bbc has obtained a copy of a leaked draft report into the impact of coronavirus on ethnic minority communities. it includes as yet unpublished recommendations on how to protect them. support bubbles come into effect across england and northern ireland people who live alone will be able to form a support bubble with another household, in a further easing of coronavirus lockdown rules. the queen s official birthday has been marked with a ceremony at windsor castle this morning. it took place instead of the annual trooping the colour parade, due to the coronavirus lockdown. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister has condemned clashes betweeen protesters and police in westminster as racist thuggery . borisjohnson said anyone attacking the police will be met with full force of the law. the clashes came after protesters, including some right wing activists, gathered in central london, claiming they were protecting statues from anti racism demonstrators. the police say they have arrested five people for offences including violent disorder. six police officers have suffered minor injuries. this report from our correspondent tom symonds contains some violent scenes from the start. there had been some peaceful protesting. before this happened. but throughout the day, the police have been repeatedly attacked. explosions, shouting these lines of officers where there to keep the protesters apart from an anti racism demonstration nearby. this team were pushed back from outside parliament. the crowd broke through. they attacked photographers. we tried to ask why they had come. report the truth! i am asking to speak to you so i can report what your truth is. it is quite hard for us to ask these protesters what their demands are. we have faced threats today. they are from a variety of different groups, from right wing activist organisations and organised football fans as well. the one thing they say they aren t is racist. the clearest motivation today? protecting, in the protesters‘ words, the statues in this area. though winston churchill, nelson mandela and the others had already been covered up. one protester, who would talk, said he felt churchill, british history were under attack. come on! i mean he had some racist views, but at the end of the day he led us through our darkest hour. i mean, you know. everyone here has no problem with black lives matter. some antiracism protesters did gather today in central london, but black lives matter brought forward its latest events to yesterday to avoid trouble. however, at a black lives matter event in newcastle, the organiser said she felt there was a threat. we have received a lot of opposition and threats from far right groups and whatnot, so we had to keep this quite low key. the home secretary, priti patel, said violence in westminster would be met by the full force of the law. she urged the protesters to go home. as we ve heard in the last hour, the prime minister hash. ,, ,, , comdemned the violence in central london today. he tweeted racist thuggery has no place on our streets. anyone attacking the police will be met with full force of the law. these marches & protests have been subverted by violence and breach current guidelines. the home secretary priti patel also condemned violent attacks against police in london. we are in an unprecedented public health emergency, and i have said every single day, as have the police around the country and in london, that these protests, these gatherings are illegal and we have been discouraging them. secondly, we have seen a small minority behave in extreme thuggery and violent behaviour today. that is simply unacceptable. and the individuals who are basically putting the safety of our police officers and the safety of the public at risk will expect to face the full force of the law. we have seen some shameful scenes today, including the desecration of pc keith palmer s memorial in parliament in westminster square, and quite frankly, that is shameful. that is absolutely appalling and shameful. and i think, you know, my final remark very much is that we live in a tolerant country but racism, any form of intolerance and violence, is simply not acceptable. and my message to people today, and my message to anybody that wants to protest, is simply, please do not. joining me now from near berwick in north northumberland is sue sim retired police chief constable of northumbria police and former national police chiefs council lead for public order until 2015. dealing with a lot of the situations on behalf of police chiefs across the country. thank you very much for joining us, sue, forjoining us on the programme today. first, what did you make of what we saw in central london today? i think any level of extreme violence is to be condemned. the desecration of keith palmer s monument is appalling, and there is absolutely no need for that. in our country and our democracy, there is an opportunity and a right to protest, but the issue is to protest peacefully. last week, we had the black lives matter protests, and people are perfectly entitled to protest in the way that they want to, so long as it is peaceful. this week, we ve had the alternative side protesting, in this case, not necessarily peacefully. and i believe at the moment five people have been arrested, metropolitan has clearly determined those individuals broke the law and needed to be arrested. as the home secretary said, if you break the law then you will be arrested, and that is right. but people do have a right to protest. however, in the current time, when there is the coronavirus outbreak, everybody is asking people to stay away, to stay at home, and to stay away, to stay at home, and to be safe, and to keep themselves, theirfamilies to be safe, and to keep themselves, their families and their communities safe. that is what should be happening. however, if protests are going to take place, then they need to be cognizant of the fact that people have to be two metres apart, that their own safety, when that s not happening, that s totally inappropriate. let me ask about that. i mean, this is clearly a kind of very unusual situation, £531; in a a in a lockdown, in we are still in a lockdown, in general terms, we are still discouraging people from babbling in large numbers. technically, any of the protests right now are terribly in breach of the coronavirus emergency regulations, police would be justified in legal terms to disperse them and not even allow them to take place. presumably, that would have been a hugely risky approach to have adopted, and the met police and other forces around the country have not done that, but presumably that leaves a bit of a dilemma, doesn t it? large parts of the public to pay their taxes are saying, why on earth are the police alone this when i can t even visit my own family, can t even see my own grandchildren, lots of people are angry about these issues. there are things that are happening at the moment that have caused individuals and groups within our communities to believe that they need to protest because they feel that there is a great unfairness across the country. the police should not take sides in this matter, that s very, very clea n. this matter, that s very, very clean. policing has to be impartial. that s very clear. however, when you turn around and say, please should have arrested everybody, the reality is, british policing is policing by consent. those individuals have turned up to protest today and last week and throughout the country today, they are doing so because they feel very, very passionately, and as part of oui’ very passionately, and as part of our democracy, our democracy says that people can speak about the views on the way that they feel. they should be, as the home secretary and the prime minister have said, cognizant of the fact that we are in the middle of the coronavirus epidemic at the moment, and people should be staying at home. however, police officers arresting significant numbers of people, putting them in cells, putting them before the courts at this time, next month, when we healthily have the coronavirus behind us, those police officers have to go out on the streets. hopefully have the coronavirus behind us. and they have to police by consent, that s what british policing is about. and people have a right, as i have said, to peacefully protest. they have undertaken to deliver that right. the metropolitan and other police forces have quite rightly, in my opinion, determined that they should allow people to have their right to protest, but it has to be peaceful. and when people breach that line, then the police have to act as they have done today. thank you very much for speaking to us thank you very much for speaking to us this evening. thank you. that s just give you a view now, we ll take a look at some pictures here on our bbc news, this gives you an indication of the police presence, this is in chinatown, right in the heart of central london, some way away from parliament square. and the activities around waterloo station that we saw pictures of earlier this evening. the police lines are in chinatown, this is just evening. the police lines are in chinatown, this isjust to evening. the police lines are in chinatown, this is just to the south of soho in central london, just away from leicester square. in the set of streets between soho and trafalgar square. so those are police lines there. whether they are there because they have had some reports of trouble or whether there are there just, of trouble or whether there are therejust, again, as part of the dispersal of police to ensure there are no groups of demonstrators causing trouble around central london, will no doubt find out a little later. we heard priti patel‘s comments about the memorial to pc keith palmer, the police officer stabbed to death outside of parliament. an appeal has been made to identify a man, who has urinated next to the memorial to pc keith palmer. the police officer was stabbed to death in the westminster bridge terror attack in 2017. this photograph was taken during the protests that were held in westminster this afternoon. but the gates into the houses of parliament there. that s the gates. the metropolitan police federation chairman, ken marsh, has suggested the man pictured should be sent to prison. we can speak now to tobias ellwood, the conservative mp for bournemouth east. thanks for talking to us, you are one of the first at pc keith palmer s side and you made a very valiant efforts to help try to save his life along with others who were at the scene that day, and sadly, those efforts were unsuccessful, and you were involved in the efforts included by the police federation to get this memorial. what you make of the photograph you have seen, the image, it appears to show?|j the photograph you have seen, the image, it appears to show? i am really saddened to see this, it s one of the most disturbing images i ve seen. we are going through a very difficult period of self reflection here, quite rightly, for us reflection here, quite rightly, for us to look back and have a long overdue debate about our complex past and perhaps be more aware and more critical of our own history, and black lives matter is actually allowed that to happen. but what we are seeing today with black lives matter actually retreating from wanting to demonstrate, but the minority far right groups wanting to come to london on the pretext of defending monuments, and yet we see a monument such defending monuments, and yet we see a monument such as defending monuments, and yet we see a monument such as this treated in this way, shows you how far this generation still has to go. we don t know who this man was, as i say, effo rts know who this man was, as i say, efforts are being made to identify him. i m going to put an alternative unity of what we see in that photograph and stop some people might seea photograph and stop some people might see a man desperate for the loo at a protest were of public laboratories have been shut, relieving himself as discreetly as he can manage, and maybe even aware of the plaque that was done by his left leg. is that a possible interpretation of that photograph?” don t agree with that at all. this is the gates of westminster, the most iconic symbol of democracy in the world, next to a monument for pc keith palmer. he was fully aware of what he was doing, he should step forward and apologise. these images are seen across the forward and apologise. these images are seen across the world. they will damage britain s reputation, there is no doubt about it. it will make us look like were not in control. we are having this debate, it s almost like the teacher has left the classroom and we are having a discussion of what to do and everybody has their own agenda. this cannot go on. i m pleased to hear the home secretary and prime minister say that they will see the full force of the law put in place here. that absolutely must happen. because i m afraid things are getting out of control. there at the feeble atmosphere out here, a vacuum was created this afternoon and the far right has chosen to move into it. far right has chosen to move into it. there is a febriel atmosphere. and that is not who we are, is not where we want to go. you say it s as if the teachers left the classroom, i want to be clear, are you saying these protests should not have been allowed today and is that because of the coronavirus pandemic or because of the subject matter? there s a number of concerns that you raise there, absolutely, it s during an emergency that we need to be responding to. but ultimately we need greater national leadership to frame this important debate we re having at the moment and not allow events to spiral out of control, that s what i would encourage this government to actually do. we must absolutely be firm on these people who choose to come to london and defend these statues, but actually come here on the pretext attacking the police and pursuing other agendas. this is not where britain wa nts to agendas. this is not where britain wants to go, nor does it do justice for us, reflecting on our complex past. thank you very much. that s what our political correspondent, who has been trying to gauge the political reaction to today s protests today. let s start, what s very striking, and you can read too much into this but i d be interested to see what your take is, the home secretary talked earlier today about thuggery, in her original tweets before she did her interview, the prime minister talked about racist thuggery. that suggests there s been quite a conference call based on what the them it is the government has seen in the course of the day, to label this underside a particular group of people were responsible for the trouble is that fair interpretation? i think it is a fair interpretation? i think it is a fair interpretation, it is interesting priti patel talked about extremist agree, going a bit beyond the thuggery line extremist thuggery, going beyond the thuggery line which borisjohnson himself is about other demonstration, but talking about racist thuggery does actually mean this is notjust a more robust response but they are actually, he is in downing street are actually targeting the people they so today is those who were causing the trouble, as you know, the main black lives matter demonstration was moved yesterday to try to avoid some of the clashes that may well have happened in central london otherwise, though as we know, there s a whole range of other demonstrations around the country in any case. but he did specify that this was, as i said, in his view, racist thuggery, that the fight against race of people today, would feel the full force of the law. he is being evenhanded in his approach to what we saw in the streets, on the streets, there is a whole sequence of tweets about editing or censoring history when it came to statues, the edward colston statue, the slave owners that she had been pulled out in bristol, to some extent he is making it clear that the people who should be feeling the full force of the law on either end of as he would say the extremes either end of as he would say the extre m es of either end of as he would say the extremes of his already talked in the past about the danger of these demonstrations and protests would be hijacked by extremists and perhaps undermine the cause for which they we re undermine the cause for which they were fighting. and, to some extent, again, that image we saw, we don t know the motivation of the person involved but that image of pc palmer s plaque for example tends to suggest that questions are being raised over how much the people who we re raised over how much the people who were protesting not far from raised over how much the people who were protesting not farfrom here around parliament square are really cared very much about protecting our memorials or our statues, and it looks as though the prime minister has condemned very, very decisively one side of the debate. it s interesting that there were some of those gathered today saying, we are only here, genuinely, because we ca re only here, genuinely, because we care about the symbols and we are worried that having seen the way that the churchill statue had been treated by some of the protesters a few days ago, they were worried about the threat, what they perceived as the threat to it. but there were others who are quite explicit, the leader of british first which is one of those organised groups on the far right, saying the mandela statue, one of a number of statues in the square, as you know, walking past it every single day of your career, along with, say, mahatma gandhi and other figures, shouldn t be there, they would like to see that wouldn t go on the grounds that he is not part of our historical heritage. they would like to see that one go for that when you start this debate it sta rts that when you start this debate it starts to get quite heated and have huge symbolic significance for people on all side of it, and former politician s point of view, potentially huge headache. it s a good headache for politicians, we heard from tobias ellwood are there, i think he was quite subtle in what he said, talking about perhaps the teachers left the classroom come off the record, i can tell you a lot of conservative mps are far less subtle, as you can imagine. but they are worried that some people describing this as culture wars, they are just worried in terms of law and order, but things are getting out of control, their constituents are saying, we are being kept, effectively, in lockdown, told we can t meet some of our relatives indoors, we can only meet certain people out of control, their constituents are saying, we are being kept, effectively, in lockdown, told we can t meet some of our relatives indoors, we can only meet certain people helpers, and yet what are the police doing when they see demonstrators from either side of the argument meeting perhaps a thousand impoundments were today, busan s last weekend, they re under some pressure to explain that. thousand in parliament square today, many thousands last weekend. and they re under many thousands last weekend. and they‘ re under pressure many thousands last weekend. and they re under pressure when it comes to policing this. i think we will hear over the next 2a or 48 hours hear over the next 24 or 48 hours some attempts by government to try and gaina some attempts by government to try and gain a group, i think we will again hear repeated messages that the government will look for swifter justice, that s actually quite difficult to achieve with such a distance in the court system at the moment, and i think we will also hear calls, as well, for perhaps tougher sentences against those who attack the police. but it is becoming a headache for politicians when they are effectively trying to say, on the one hand, we are in the midst of a pandemic and you should stay at home, and on the other, we are seeing evidence every weekend that their advice, their warnings, are being ignored. thank you very much. hundreds of black and minority ethnic doctors are still waiting for covid 19 risk assessments, despite guidance from all four uk nations in april that they should have one. 94% of doctors who have died with coronavirus have come from non white backgrounds. amara sophia elahi reports. the nhs heroes who lost their lives to coronavirus. 94% of doctors who have died from covid 19 has come from ethnic minority backgrounds, according to the british medical association. they worked in general practice as well as in hospitals. what ethnicity are you? indian. have you had a chance to calculate your bmi? 30. that s why these gps in manchester created a coronavirus risk assessment framework, so doctors can do theirjob safely. listening to colleagues passing away nationally affects everybody within the health service. but with a local colleague who we knew very well, saad al dubbaisi, and having to then go to his funeral, and to the cemetery to bury him, touched a group of gps and practice managers in this area. at the end of april, nhs england recommended ethnic minority health care workers should be risk assessed for coronavirus. scotland, wales and northern ireland issued similar guidance. but bbc research has found that many doctors still haven t had a risk assessment. in the last two weeks, over 1600 doctors volunteered to answer questions for us. out of those, over 1000 said they hadn t had a risk assessment yet. out of 704 doctors who answered a question about their risk level, 408 told us that they were at either moderate or high risk from coronavirus. and some ethnic minority doctors also told the bbc that nothing had been done to protect them in their workplace. large numbers of bame doctors do feel let down. they feel they haven t been given timely information. what is critical is that we must avoid further deaths and further ill health amongst our medical workforce. nhs england told us that covid 19 has put a spotlight on health inequalities. scotland, wales and northern ireland also say they are prioritising risk assessments for ethnic minority staff. hi, doctor. you 0k? very good. as the lockdown eases, doctors like mo feel it s even more important they have the right protections in place so that their risk from the virus is minimised as much as possible. a leaked draft of a second report from public health england says that racism, stigma, occupational risk and social inequality may exacerbate the risk from covid 19 within ethnic minority communities. the report calls for the provision of adequate protective equipment and better risk assessments. our community affairs correspondent rianna croxford has more detail. this leaked draft is a second report from public health england, including recommendations and contributions from 4,000 organisations about how to reduce the impact of coronavirus on ethnic minority communities. the report is dated from the end of may and says that racism, stigma, occupational risk and social inequality may increase the risk of covid 19 for these groups, and says people from black backgrounds are at the greatest risk. now, the key recommendations they call for are better data collection about ethnicity and religion, including having this recorded on the death certificate to really monitor the real impact. it also suggests making it law for health risk assessments to be brought in for ethnic minority workers and generally calls for better personal protective equipment, better representation in the nhs, but also suggests there needs to be more culturally sensitive public health messaging to really reach these communities. to make clear, this isjust a draft. there are still questions around the role of diet and vitamin d and no work has been done by the government yet to review this evidence. after being approached by the bbc last week, the government did say it will officially publish this leaked report next week and that this work is being carried forward by the equalities minister. the queen s official birthday has been marked with a military ceremony in the grounds of windsor castle. the traditional trooping the colour on horseguards parade in london was cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic. the queen was the only member of the royal family attending today s celebration, as our royal correspondent nicholas witchell reports. a birthday parade for changed times, with windsor castle substituting for horseguards parade. there were no crowds, and no cavalry. but under perfect summer skies, into the castle s central quadrangle, marched the soldiers who formed the castle guard, accompanied by the rather less than massed ranks of the band of the household division. and on this, the day that officially marks her 94th birthday, the queen was there to watch. she emerged, accompanied by officials from the castle, where she has been in isolation with her husband since the start of the lockdown. social distancing was very much the order of the day. the soldiers from the welsh guards were all standing at least two metres apart. all the troops had learned new marching techniques to maintain safe distances. this was something called feathering. watching intently, the guest of honour. a birthday celebration this may have been, but we shouldn t forget windsor castle has been the hub of the monarchy during the lockdown. it was from here that the queen broadcast during the pandemic. while we may have more still to endure, better days will return. we will be with our friends again, we will be with our families again. we will meet again. today, at the queen s birthday parade for 2020, her first official engagement since the pandemic began, there was a note of hope that very slowly and very carefully, life can be restored to a version of normality. nicholas witchell, bbc news. some good news on coronavirus. people who live alone in england and northern ireland will from today be able to form what s being called a support bubble with another household from today. it means they will be allowed to visit another household and even stay overnight, as our correspondent 0livia richwald reports. this is the first hug lucy gibson has had for three months. she has travelled almost 200 miles via two trains and a taxi to see her sister and family in stockport. ifelt very emotional when i saw them. yeah. wonderful. i didn t want to let them go. i think there will be a lot more hugs. lucy is a make up artist who lives alone in watford and hasn t worked or seen any family and friends since lockdown began. from today, single parents and those living alone in england and northern ireland can form what is being called a support bubble with one other household. they can stay overnight and do not need to maintain social distancing. the kids adore her so it is lovely to see that relationship and they get so excited. what are your plans this weekend? i am looking forward to hanging out with them. they are my favourite people. i never care what we do when i come to visit. i m never bothered about making plans. it is just whatever they want to do on the day. the kids though do have plans. i want to play lego with her. i want to playjigsaws with her. i want to bake a cake with her. lucy s visit also means that james and gemma can enjoy a trip out without the kids for the first time in three months. 0livia richwald, bbc news, stockport. now it s time for a look at the weather with darren bett. hello. if few heavy showers around tomorrow, and we have got there was at the moment mainly affecting england and wales. further into the night, there was will fade away as we lose the energy of the son, and at the