this is bbc news. the headlines: the national guard has been called in to help restore order in the american city of minneapolis which has now seeen its third night of violence and unrest. crowds have been protesting against the killing of an african american man at the hands of the police. the state governor said he took the decision following widespread rioting on wednesday. the united states, britain, canada and australia have issued a joint statement warning that china s national security law in hong kong would curtail individual liberties there. they said it raised the prospect of people being convicted of political crimes and would make existing tensions worse. president trump has signed an executive order targeting social media companies, after being angered by twitter tagging two of his posts as potentially misleading. the measures limit the legal immunity the companies have against being held liable for what people post on their platforms. for two and a half months, streets across the uk have been filled with the sound of applause every thursday night as the nation comes out to thank the carers and key workers of the pandemic. tonight was the 10th week in a row but now the woman who came up with the idea says she thinks it should be the last. here s our special correspondent allan little. every week it has been a moment of intense and noisy solidarity. an anxious, grateful public seeking a way to say thank you to health workers at first and then to all those on whom we have relied. often those previouslyjudged low skilled and consequently low paid. we know now how valuable they are. but the woman who created it all has said tonight should be the last. everybody who wants to continue should continue, but i think its is good to do it while we still have such a positive impact with this moment to stop now and then also we are now in a different part of the crisis. what have they made of it, the health care workers risking their own health to protect ours? it s been very emotional and pleased that everyone has come together. it sjust been really nice to see everybody get together and we ve been able to thank each other. nine weeks ago, we put on our winter coats and clapped in the dark all over the uk. theyjoined in from an antarctic research station. and north sea oil platforms. the prime minister, visibly ill, from downing street. what has it meant this outpouring of shared sentiment? it places at the heart of public esteem a health service whose resources in recent years have not kept pace with the demands made upon it. this weekly expression of affection is notjust for a service the public clearly treasures but, for the values on which it is founded of fair access for all, regardless of the ability to pay. healthcare workers wonder whether this public mood will translate itself into actual policy. what is important is that for years to come, ministers should still hear that ringing in their ears and do what s right by those services and by nursing staff. most nhs staff don t think of themselves as heroic. we are not angels, one nurse told me, we are professional people with a job to do. but the weekly clap for carers illustrates the enormous burden of public faith they carry and the esteem in which they re held. # dancing in the streets. will it end tonight? i hope we will still come out on a thursday and i think folk will still want something to focus on. don t underestimate the public need to say thank you. alan little, bbc news. and let mejust and let me just show you the darkness in minneapolis as violence is still just occurring darkness in minneapolis as violence is stilljust occurring on the streets there. this following the death of george floyd at the hands of police in minneapolis. you can just see a fire is burning there, piercing the blackness. we are keeping right across what is happening there in the us for you here on bbc news. now on bbc news, the world is buying more sneakers or trainers than ever before, with more styles becoming collectables and more brands releasing limited editions. reporting for newsbeat, lynnie zonzolo travels to new york to see how the industry has tripled in size in a decade and what the impact is on the environment. a lot of people don t get this opportunity. but you guys came a long ways. we did indeed. you guys crossed the pond. ok, i m ready. i m going to let you go inside the million dollar shoe case. you are too kind! holy! this is nuts, nuts, nuts. this is like the closest i ll ever get to holding $20,000 $30,000 in my hand. i feel you! wow! it smells of fresh leather, it feels like christmas, you know, there is something aboutjordan ones when they re fresh out of the box. yeah. i will sniff them like no other, like, it s the best smell in the world. yeah. i can relate to that. oh, my lord, i never thought i would see these! yeah, look at that. classic. absolutely classic. welcome, welcome, welcome. this beautiful bad boy is the nike back to the future, if you want to buy it s $100,000, 0k? and if you are a size 12, it s $112,000. my first love of sneakers i guess first came about when i was ten. it was my birthday, i got some friends over, i got some money, and pretty much went tojd sports that next day. i really liked popping colours and aesthetically giving me that old school buzz. my uncle, he had a crazy range of sneakers. and i was like, man, one day all of need those. one day ijust need all of these old school classics. ok, so, we re pretty much in the hallway, right. and like i said, extra shoes, extra pairs of shoes, more shoes. about $30,000-$40,000 worth of kicks. i need some help. i do, i do. if i was on a train and i saw some by the window and they had gold nike blazers, i knew they were cool! you know? it s ingrained in you. these things are made to bring uncalculable joy. if you haven t got a pair of these, you are not walking in the right way. being in new york is mind blowing. just being in new york is mind blowing. i m excited, it s christmas for me right now. it s christmas. i ve come to the birthplace of sneaker culture to find out how it became such a phenomenon. the sneaker industry has tripled in the last ten years. it s now almost half of global footwear sales. i own 80 pairs myself, and i m not gonna lie i still want more. but why? 2019 and 2020, we re living in the greatest era of sneaker culture, period. there s a huge sneaker community out there and it s global. in 1991 dj bobbito garcia wrote confessions of a sneaker addict, considered the first major piece of sneakerjournalism. so let me break it down like this: there s two pockets of why shoes are cool. on one side, they re really functional. they re comforatble to wear, they look cool, they re an extension of your individuality. you can become creative with them, you can paint them, customise them, you can own them, right? so that is one pocket. the other pocket is that sneakers in and of themselves have been placed in the same way that people approach art. you ve got auction houses during sneaker exhibitions and selling shoes that are highly, highly collectible in the same way that one sells art. we grew up with rules of originality. so the phrase was no biting. what does that mean? so that means, don t talk like me, don t dress like me, don t say what i say, don t dance the way i dance. everything was that expression of originality. if we go out, i show up with my suede pullman s on and you have the same, you ve got to change. you either change the laces, paint the stripes do something to the midsole, that s what we live by. this sort of like, disposition of wanting to be unique, is something that was very prevalent in new york and multiple communities and multiple cultures. we are the people who put nike on the map because everyone was wearing converse and pro keds. we were the ones who put a chance on this new brand. and by the 80s there was nike, reebok, puma, pro keds, and it is, pony, you know, converse. by the late 80s and 90s there was a shift and people started really being fed marketing and advertising and buying into that. and a lot of that determine what they want to wear. one of the first shoes to go big was the nike air force one, which came out in 1982. the shoe that really change the game came three years later when nike teamed up with basketball legend michael jordan. the airjordan 0ne netted $75 million in a month. brands realise the power of teaming up with a celebrity, especially if you combine that with creating a unique design in a limited edition quantity. people started to see sneakers as real collectables. there were even riots over big releases, and worse. rap‘s influence grew. reebok and jay z signed deals, as did wu tang. and now kanye west s yeezys. for some people, owning a rare pair has become the ultimate status symbol. i guess sneaker culture, like you see right now, they are repeat sneakers. ifeel personally i m getting duped. you know, having bought these same sneakers three, four, five times already, not just for yourself or little brother or your son, how many times can you keep buying the same thing, you know what i mean? first time in new york? an absolute dream come true. it s amazing, i love it so much. new yorkers love their sneakers. the numbers are just astronomical, adidas publish their figures and produced 109 million pairs of sneakers last year. i think it was a 60% increase since 2013. wow! i didn t know that. they re cranking out lots of shoes. “119811, the sneaker industry was already about $2 billion. by 2000, but had shot up to almost $14 billion, and in the last ten years it has just exploded. sneakers have taken over the world. the other thing that has really taken off is collecting. i mean, serious collecting. and they know how to keep you buying, they put out limited editions to keep up demand. a limited drop will cost more right out of the gate. but things get really crazy on the resale market. resellers will bulk buy limited sneakers and sell them for a higher price. they can cost thousands more than a regular version of the same issue. reselling has gotten so big the market is worth about $6 billion, and it is predicted to hit as much a $17 billion in the next three years. there is a lot of money to be made. as the industry evolved over the years, they weren t thinking as much it seems about what is going to happen down the line. yeah. eventually, all have to go somewhere. where is it going to go? mostly it is going to go to landfills. we can t really do a lot with it, we can t recycle a lot of sneakers. it is one of those things companies are working on now. adidas being the big example. according to nike, the average carbon footprint of their product is over 700 kilograms, about the same as a ten mile drive. so what does that mean for the planet? well, it would take one tree nearly two years to remove the carbon dioxide from one pair of shoes. with over1 billion sneakers sold every year, that tree would need two billion years offset their emissions. to have two or three sneakers, my parents thought i was crazy. i didn t have the money to buy a lot of pairs of sneakers, so the care that we took to our shoes was again, unprecedented. when i started painting my sneakers, it wasn t just for aesthetics, it was to elongate the potential use of the shoe. i basically had an extra three months of shoes just by painting them. i was born in 1994, so learning the sneaker culture of the 70s, 80s and 90s, gave me goose bumps because there was a lot of effort and love into it. having a toothbrush and cleaning your shoes, like, it s crazy. it shows there was a genuine love for that and i don t sense that anymore. i want to say the hype is always good, because it obviously brings more attention and things like that, but the love for the sneaker world is kind of lost, for sure. i don t care where the sneakers are. if i have heard that they are out there i am going to find out. if i ve got to go on the internet or something like that it s no fun for me. i d rather fly there. how did things change so much? i think there s a blurred line between what gets attributed to sneakers and what gets called high culture. for the sake of camping out to get something, that s a deeer rooted issue for people who want to do that. 0k. i ve had over 4,000 sneakers in this lifetime. i ve never camped double one. stop it. not one. hey, thomas. hi, how are you doing? i m very well, how are you? i m very well. welcome. the sneaker glorified. look how protected they are. i know. we ve got to protect them. i would happily starve in it. sneakers for me. then when you were wearing them you wouldn t look so good. laughter. that s true. you ve got a point there. you ve got a point. what do you think about limited editions? i think they re pretty ridiculous. it seems to me that it s a way of hyping it up and kind of creating, it s sort of a way of stimulating design, is making you buy because you worry. you re getting up in the morning because you are worried that you re not going to be able to get it. call it fom0, fear of missing out. trainer fom0. i have that sometimes. it s nagging away in your stomach thinking if they don t get these now i won t have them. that is artificially created by them saying we re only to produce, i don t know, like whatever number they are going to produce. whereas they could quite easily, you know, produce as many as people wa nt and keep producing it. i m guessing that you ve got more than one pair of trainers. yeah. yeah, yeah, yeah. so you ve got more than one pair. you re probably buying multiple pairs, new pairs before the old pair is worn out. wow. so the question you have to ask yourself is, and i m guilty of this is anybody, i ve got a mountain of these things, so you ask yourself to a really need to keep buying them? i feel like low key i m kind of moving towards the i don t need them. of course you don t need them. i don t need them. i know that for a fact. i don t want to look at somebody‘s shoes and know that i had the opportunity to get it but they didn t. that s how they re getting you. is there is only a business? of course it s only business. of course it s a business. it s about selling shoes. but this passion and outcome of this posting creating, this posting creating, dispassionate design, and this passion in creating, dispassionate design, and is based on buying. it s like anything. it s like the fashion industry. it s about creativity, it s about design, it s about innovation, it s about new technology, it s about sports, it s about performance, but, ultimately, it s about selling shoes. i ve spent about £30,000 £40,000 on speakers. was that money well spent? i don t know. it was my choice. maybe if i hadn t spent it on loads of sneakers maybe if i hadn t spent it on loads of sneakers i could have got a car, bought a flat, but this isn t just about me. over a billion pairs of sneakers produced every year and you can t produce that much of anything without having an impact on the planet, especially something which has as much plastic in it as sneakers do. so i am in germany today heading to the adidas headquarters. i am so excited. so i want to find out more. i just wanted to show you a couple of things. from the past and what we re doing these days. this year we have got the introduction of this new fabric. it uses part of the ocean plastic. and we ll use twice as much ocean plastic this year as we as used last year. this was the first prototype we actually developed. almost 100% of shoes in the sports industry are glued. the uppers are glued to the bottom. and gle is basically poison for recycling. it s a contaminant. so the real innovation here is that the upper andy barr of are made out of what material, every single piece on here is the same type of plastic, tpu, the shoes are 100% recyclable. the loop is a 100% recyclable shoe. but it s only one shoe. why aren t adidas making all their shoes like this? you can only do it if you can manage to do without losing your business if everybodyjust stopped buying product that doesn t work, because the definition of sustainability is that it works for the environment, it works on people, and it works the economy. just had a great chat with james. it really, really made me look into myself, you know, as far as a consumer and how i can help the environment. and going back to london is going to make me think more about my choices. nike, reebok, and puma are all bringing out sustainable shoes too. but the truth is they re just a tiny slice of the multibillion dollar sneaker market. i decided to go see if maybe recycling our shoes could help. morning. good morning. how are you? nice to see you. welcome. we used the idea of trying to shred the shoes into bits and pieces, which i m going to ask you to do with your sneakers ina minute. laughter. no way! basically what we do is we put the whole shoe into some sort of a shredder, in this case granulator, and it will come into small particles and we will put it through a number of processes which i will show you in a minute to be able to separate it into individual materials and then we can use those materials to make more shoes or other things. so these were sneakers once upon a time? these were sneakers. it makes me so sad. think about it this time. this is so much better than sending them into a landfill, then there is no use out of this material. this way we can separated and make something out of it. ok, that s fair. so sorry! unfortunately, sneaker recycling is impossible for most people yet. the technology just isn t advanced enough. in the short term, until our process is significantly improved in terms of how we make rings and how we recycle it, the concept of consuming less and using a product for longest, in terms of environmental benefit, has got the biggest potential. ok, so i should basically buy less until technology has improved ? um, i ve given you all the information. the decision about buying less. i would like to get your take. for example, how many shoes do you have? i have two pairs of trainers, one is for indoor activities, one is for outdoor activities. it is weird to hear that. two shoes and, yeah, two shoes. maybe the secret is returning to the roots of the scene, owning few issues and treasuring them more. so i am literallyjust outside of lead, a meeting young man and he is very much into his customisation and restoration and he has a really good point when it comes to talking about the environment. so i m looking forward to it. hi. nice to meet you, lynnie. thank you so much. i literally got into trainers just from watching football and the process of obviously going to be put all is wearing nice shoes. it all just started off from france. theyjust started cleaning shoes and re dying them and it has moved to this fully customisation work and this is where it is that at the moment. there are not many people really sending old shoes to me. but when they do i tend to want to revamp them fully, so a add new tongue tabs to them, add text to them. i got into it because when it was younger remember my dad buying brand new shoes and binning them constantly, he would wear them for a few months, they would get ruined output all, and he was just in them. these are getting re dyed so they will get a custom colour created for the corner and bottom it will get repainted local of that. my reason for it is mainlyjust because i want to keep my trainers in good stead. if i am buying a good shoe i want to keep it strong. some people don t have the brain to keep their shoe to a decent state. if i can restore nine pairs of shoes in my house, that is not shoes that go to the landfill. it is worse with the toxins in the shoes that leach into the soil, the rubber doesn t degrade. if everyone can just think for a minute before thinking let us bin these shoes, i m not saying come to my business, but i am saying if you can bring your shoes to me and i can restore them that is one less pair for landfill. he is just one of so many customers and refurbishes who have started up in recent years. it s interesting because they seem closer to the way things were back on the day with making your sneakers last. they love the idea of it, you know, just having a view pairs that matter and customising them to keep them in shape, rather than buying new ones constantly. do i need all the sneakers i have? probably not. hello. we know this spring has been warm. it s been very dry in some spots. and now news aboutjust how sunny it s been, with the met office saying provisionalfigures indicate that it s been the uk s sunniest spring on record. and with high pressure close by for friday into the weekend, most will stay sunny and dry, warm, very warm, even hot in some spots. in fact, friday, the flow of air around this high pressure as it moves north across the uk will favour parts of scotland to see the uk s high temperature of the day, close to 28 celsius. now, we start the day with temperatures for some in single figures, though they will rise quickly in the sunshine. any low cloud across parts of eastern coastal england will disappear, along with any misty low cloud around the murray firth in scotland. 0rkney brightening up, shetland staying mainly cloudy. but for most of the uk, it s sunshine all the way. it is now a prevailing east southeastly breeze. and that means that east facing coasts will see temperatures towards the teens rather than the low to mid 20s across the bulk of the uk, and, again, nudging the upper 20s in the hottest parts of scotland. temperature not the only thing high. uv levels as well. strong may sunshine. do take care if you re outside for any period of time. and pollen, moderate to high for many of us, as grass pollen levels are on the increase. now, friday looks like a fine evening, plenty of sunshine to end the day. again, temperatures will head down overnight, so if you do try to cool the house down overnight, we re expecting some spots, again, tojust dip down into single figures. and a largely sunny start to saturday morning. and again, just to show you the big picture, it s high pressure maybe just pushing out towards scandinavia, but it is still blocking weather fronts that would give us some rain otherwise from getting to us from the atlantic. so, on saturday, there may be a bit of patchy cloud developing here and there, the sun may turn hazy in some spots, but for most, it s a sunny story, a brighter one in shetland as well. still the breeze keeping some eastern coastal parts cooler than elsewhere. again, we re talking widely in the low to mid 20s. and then on sunday, again, some patchy cloud developing here and there, but for most places, it will be sunny, it will be dry, it will be very warm. just a hint of something cooler at the end of next week.
this is bbc news. welcome if you re watching here in the uk, on pbs in america or around the globe. i m lewis vaughn jones. our top stories: rioting in the us city of minneapolis. these are live pictures of the unrest triggered by the police killing of an african american man. the daughter of martin luther king says it s the result of deep seated problems. they terrorise, they murder our children, and we have done nothing. when you do not deal with these conditions of adequacy and white supremacy in the nation, these are the kind of things that happen. people riot. that is their language, that is their frustration. targeting twitter: president trump signs an executive order aimed at social media companies. western countries condemn china s planned new hong kong security law, saying it threatens basic freedoms. and france announces a re opening of bars and restaurants.
this is bbc news, the headlines: the british prime minister has defended his top advisor, dominic cummings, amid a row over the aide s travel during lockdown. boris johnson says mr cummings followed the instincts of every parent and acted with integrity, in seeking childcare with family members, after his wife had developed symptoms of the virus. thousands of people have been taking part in mass protests againsts china s plans to impose a new security law on the territory. more than 100 people have been arrested. beijing says the legislation will improve people s lives, but campaigners warn fundamental freedoms are being eroded. brazil s coronavirus death toll continues to rise steadily, with more than 600 fatalities reported on sunday. however, president jair bolsonaro is still refusing to implement social distancing rules. meanwhile, the us has imposed travel restrictions on foreign nationals who have been to brazil in the last 1a days. now on bbc news, the week in parliament. hello there, and welcome to the week in parliament. on this programme labour says there s been no tracking and tracing of coronavirus in the uk for months. for ten weeks, there s been no tracing, unlike germany and south korea. and tracing is critical. but the prime minister promises the uk will have a world class track and trace system. and, yes, it will be in place it will be in place byjune 1st. the immigration bill bringing in a points based system passes its first parliamentary hurdle. scotland s first minister sets out her plans to ease the lockdown. and how about this as an idea to lift the spirits when the crisis is finally over? we could possibly have a bank holiday in october, because the industry has sort of lost the benefit of the two main bank holidays. but first, the government faced criticism from senior figures in the care sector of its handling of coronavirus. giving evidence to the health and social care committee, the head of the organisation representing care homes said elderly people should have been prioritised from the beginning of the crisis. the chair of the committee asked about a government ambition to move to routine testing of front line care and nhs staff. have you had any indication or sense that this is going to start anytime soon? well, i mean, we ve had the announcements, but so often the announcements, there s a time delay before delivery. so, ithink, you know, the intention is there but also i want to say that it would be very helpful to have both testing and track and trace in place, because i think that could be a game changer as well in this. so, i think the short answer, chair, is we had the announcement but what we haven t had is the delivery, and we re not really clear when that s going to arrive. professor martin green. and those comments on routine coronavirus testing in care homes were seized on by the labour leader sir keir starmer at prime minister s questions the next day. official figures suggest more than 11,500 people have died from the infection in care homes across the uk since the start of the pandemic, so sir keir starmer wanted a straight answer when would routine testing start? the chief executive of care england, who knows what he s talking about, gave evidence yesterday that it hasn t. if the prime minister is disputing the evidence of the select committee, that s his own business. order, order! secretary of state for health, please. i don t mind you advising the prime minister, but you don t need to advise the opposition during this. sorry, do you want to leave the chamber? we re at maximum numbers. if you want to give way to somebody else, i m more than happy. keir starmer. mr speaker, to assure the prime minister, i m not expressing my own view, i m putting to him the evidence of experts to the committees yesterday. we have a growing confidence that we will have a test, track and trace operation that will be world beating and, yes, it will be in place it will be in place byjune1st. the snp‘s westminster leaderjoined calls to exempt more key workers from abroad from having to pay a surcharge to use the health service. people migrating to these nations and choosing to work in our nhs and our care sector must have this government s cruel nhs surcharge removed, and removed immediately. will the prime minister make that pledge today, or will he clap on thursday, hoping that no one really notices that he s giving with one hand and raking it in with the other? well, boris johnson didn t answer that directly, but he had earlier been asked a similar question by sir keir starmer and told him that changing the system would leave a hole in the nhs budget. like him, i ve been a personal beneficiary of people who ve come from or carers who ve come from abroad and frankly saved my life, so i know exactly the importance of what he s talking about. on the other hand, we must look at the reality that this is a great national service, it s a national institution, it needs funding, and those contributions actually help us to raise about £900 million. and it s very easy er, very difficult in the current circumstances to find alternative sources, so with great respect to the point that he makes, i do think that that is the right way forward. but on thursday afternoon, just 28 hours after those exchanges, it emerged that the prime minister had changed his mind. number ten said borisjohnson had asked the home office and the department for health and social care to remove health service and care workers from the nhs surcharge as soon as possible. now to brexit, swept off the front pages in recent weeks by the coronavirus crisis. peers wanted to know if customs posts would be established at ports and airports in northern ireland from january and how, if that were the case, it was compatible with repeated assurances from ministers that goods moving from northern ireland would have free and unfettered access to uk markets. my prime minister said there will be no forms, no checks, no barriers of any kind. you will have unfettered access. my lords, i simply ask the noble lord, the minister, what is the truth? the prime minister said that if there was any forms of any kind, if someone asked you to fill in the forms, tell them to ring up the prime minister and i will direct them to throw that form in the bin. he was referring to customs and tariffs. on that point, can i ask him if somebody does what the prime minister says and tears up the form and puts it in the bin, what number should they call to speak to the prime minister? well, peers didn t have long to wait for an answer to those questions. on wednesday, the government confirmed that there will be new checks on some goods entering northern ireland from the rest of the uk as part of the brexit deal. the cabinet office minister michael gove told mps northern ireland s ports would be developed to carry out checks on animals and food products. the province will continue to follow some eu rules after the brexit transition period ends on december 31st, but mr gove said there would be no new customs infrastructure. we acknowledge, however as we ve always done that on agrifood and live animal movements, it makes sense to protect supply chains and the disease free status of the island of ireland, as has been the case since the 19th century. that will mean some expansion of existing infrastructure to provide for some additional new processes for the agriculture and food sector. but these processes will build on what already happens at ports like larne and belfast. will my right honourable friend confirm that as from the 1st of january 2021, that northern ireland, i.e., a part of the united kingdom, will be required to abide by eu regulations on certain goods until at least 2024, and potentially indefinitely? it is the case that there will be eu regulations, aspects that will apply in northern ireland to 202k. but of course, she draws attention to a very important point, which is that if the workings of the protocol are viewed by the people and the parties of northern ireland as onerous, too much, intrusive and unacceptable, then they have the opportunity to vote them down in 202a. michael gove. meanwhile, measures to create a trade policy independent from the eu came a step closer when the trade bill passed its second reading in the commons. the legislation replaces trade agreements the uk had as an eu member state. as we recover from the economic shock of the coronavirus crisis, providing certainty and predictability in our trading arrangements will be vital to securing the interest of businesses and consumers. we will unleash the potential and level up every region and nation of our united kingdom. now is the time for this house to speak out against protectionism. it is time for us to embrace the opportunities that free trade and an export led recovery will bring. but labour said the bill was a missed opportunity. instead of a bold strategic vision for the future of our trade policy, we have a stopgap piece of legislation that even ministers are trying to talk down. instead of putting issues like climate change and human rights at the heart of our trade policy, they have been ignored or consciously dropped. instead of opening our trade policy to the expertise of others, the government is denying them even a seat at the table. and instead of restoring parliament s sovereignty over trade policy, this bill leaves mps even more powerless than before. emily thornberry. and another key piece of government legislation also cleared its first commons hurdle. the immigration bill ends the free movement of eu nationals at the end of this year. the aim is to introduce a system whereby would be migrants to the uk will need a certain number of points such as for skills, education and salary before they‘ re allowed to come to work. the home secretary said the bill would give people what they called for when they voted for brexit. the bill before us today will play a vital role in our recovery plans for the future. it will end free movement and pave the way for our new points based immigration system a firmer, fairer and simpler system that will attract the people we need to drive our country forward through the recovery stage of coronavirus, laying the foundation for a high wage, high skill, productive economy. labour focused on the proposals to bring in a salary threshold and how that might affect health and care workers. in the midst of this crisis, the government is putting forward an immigration system containing a salary threshold of £25,600 that sends a signal and tells people that anyone earning less than that is unskilled and unwelcome in our country. we know that one in six of those brave care workers on the front line of the battle against coronavirus are non uk nationals. i commend the home secretary for her commitment to extend visas for doctors and nurses, but what of care workers? are they to be the cinderella service, forgotten once again? and what of ancillary staff in our hospitals, so crucial in a war against a virus where repeated deep cleaning is an absolute imperative? we cannot open hospitals if we cannot clean the loos. i m afraid to say that this is a dreadful bill, one which will destroy opportunity for future generations and will split even more families apart. it s a bill that will result in many thousands of eu nationals losing their rights in this country overnight and will extend the reach of the hostile environment even further. it also fails to protect the rights of petition citizens to live, work and study in other eu member states. nor does it fully guarantee the rights of uk citizens already living across the eu. and while i m disappointed and frustrated that the government refuses to respect the rights of eu citizens who contribute to this country, ifind it beyond comprehension that they do not recognise the need to protect the rights of our citizens, either. a conservative recognised immigration had been a factor in the brexit vote. today, we can put the dilly dally, dither and delay to an end. i understand there are some concerned about what they see as a bizarre concept the end of free movement. to me, it s rather simple. a uk immigration system created and developed by the uk select elected government, a system devised by our national interest, determined by the needs of our economy. a system that treats immigrants from every corner of the globe on the same basis. matt vickers. now, the number of people claiming unemployment benefit in the uk jumped to just over 2 million in april the first full month of the coronavirus lockdown. the figures came from the office for national statistics on tuesday. by coincidence, the chancellor rishi sunak was in front of the lords economic affairs committee and its chair got straight to the point. what do you anticipate the level of unemployment will be in the fourth quarter of this year? i don t have a precise estimate. there are a range that are out there from the bank of england and the obr. most of them point to around a double digit percentage unemployment rate. obviously, the numbers you would have seen today show just under a million new claims in the last month over 800,000 taking total number of claims to two million. i think the obr estimate had that tapping out at about three million. obviously, the impact will be severe. there will be more hardship to come. this lockdown is having a very significant impact on our economy. we are likely to face a severe recession, the likes of which we haven t seen, and of course, that will have an impact on employment. do you accept that the length and depth of that recession you refer to will be very much related to the length of the lockdown? i think there s also two things to distinguish. one is the immediacy of the economic impact, the depth of the recession. the question that occupies my mind and, indeed, long term is probably more relevant is, you know, what degree of long term scarring is there on the economy as a result of this recession? what is the depth, what is the loss in productive capacity? because ultimately, once we recover from this crisis by nature, i believe it will be temporary, of course, we will suppress the virus, we will progressively now lift the restrictions the question is, what do we return to? and, you know, the question there that the jury is out. first minister nicola sturgeon has set out how lockdown restrictions will be eased in scotland. she said schools would start preparing next month to reopen from august 11. some outdoor activities would be allowed from thursday, including opening gardening centres and waste and recycling sites. it would also be possible to meet people from other households, but only outdoors and in small numbers. the first minister said that businesses would reopen as part of a four phase easing of the lockdown, which would only continue if the spread of the virus was being controlled. we view them as a proportionate and suitably cautious set of first steps and i hope that they will bring some improvement to people s well being and quality of life, start to get our economy moving again and start to steer us safely towards a new normality. she said the timing of moving between different phases would depend on everyone. we must continue, all of us, to recognise that every single decision we take as individuals has an impact on others and our collective well being. does the first minister accept that for parliament and the public to have confidence and for scotland to feel safe as we come out of lockdown, it s essential that the infrastructure for testing and tracing or test and protect is in place? i want to align our lifting of lockdown measures with our ability to implement a substantial significant test and protect operation, and we will be able to do that from the end of next week in every health board area in the country. we need three guarantees. first, the government should publish the evidence behind the decisions it has taken and it will take in the future. second, we need to see maximum testing capacity and a test, trace and isolate system that is fully working and universally rolled out. and thirdly, the government s strategy must be flexible and able to adapt quickly to changing circumstances. can the first minister give us these guarantees? first minister. yes, i think i can in broad terms. but obviously, the detail of that will be scrutinised on and developed in the weeks to come. a green msp raised newspaper pictures of sunbathers on an edinburgh beach flouting the current lockdown rules. does the first minister agree, particularly given the scenes in portobello, in my own city of edinburgh yesterday, that the lockdown is getting harder to sustain? when i saw the pictures of portobello beach yesterday, i almost felt like crying to some extent because i know why people felt the need to do that and i completely sympathise. but every time we have people getting together in ways that provide opportunities for this virus, we risk the progress we have made together, so i appeal to people to stick with these restrictions for a bit longer so that we can much more quickly work through these phases and get back to the normality all of us so badly crave. meanwhile in wales, there were questions for the first minister about his government s road map out of lockdown. mark drakeford described it as a traffic light system , but it had come with no dates attached. is this road map the best hope the welsh government can actually offer the people of wales and when can we expect to see some timescales alongside your exit strategy? on timescales, let me say, as i ve said before and i ve been asked, there is a genuine debate to be had as to whether timescales are a helpful way of setting out the future. in the end, we thought that it was more of a distraction than a concentration on the matters that really deserve our attention. why should people in wales be subject to the most extraordinary, intrusive and prescriptive restrictions on their freedom if they are not necessary? many who had not before understood the scope of devolved powers don t now like the answer. it s because of devolution. mark dra keford accepted extraordinary powers were being used. i agree with what he has said about devolution being brought home to people in this crisis in a way that it hasn t been over the last 20 years, and i doubt that it is true that in wales, people aren t aware of devolution. it is certainly true of people outside wales and in london appear to have woken up from a 20 year sleep. local authorities in northern ireland are to get access tojust over £20 million in emergency covid 19 funding from the executive. councils are still carrying out essential work but have lost income from sectors like leisure and tourism. the new funding will help cover costs between now and the end ofjune. northern ireland s communities minister said the executive had agreed to an immediate intervention to avoid a cash crisis. the losses sustained to date are such a magnitude that councils will soon be unable to meet their financial liabilities. the executive again yesterday agreed to make funding available of £20.3 million to my department, for local councils to alleviate these financial pressures. this intervention will provide relief to our local councils, to protect the delivery of front line services during this crisis and ensure the councils are ready to play their role in our post pandemic recovery plans. will primary schools in england be reopening for some pupils from 1 june? schools are looking at ways to enforce social distancing and make sure it s safe for youngsters and teachers. but at least 11 councils in england have expressed concerns about the plan, and the teaching union, the nasuwt, said it remained unconvinced reopening schools was appropriate or practicable . peers were told that certain year groups would be expected to go back, providing the government s five tests on easing lockdown restrictions were met. well, labourfocused on the spread or r value of the virus. the minister will have seen today that various local authorities across england are advising schools not to open schools in their areas. with public health england having said r values vary across different regions, it s difficult to understand the logic of the government s decision that schools should reopen nationwide on the 1st ofjune. can the noble baroness the minister reveal to the noble lords what the scientific evidence says about re opening schools in communities which have an r value which is closer to one in the average? the r rate is not actually broken down regionally. it is not published in that form. it s a uk wide estimate range that s published each week. the individual modelling groups include epidemiological information on the intensive care unit rates of admissions, death rates and the rates of hospital admissions. so it is an average value that can vary across communities, but it is not published on a regional basis. what are you going to do when lockdown is finally over? top of many people s list, no doubt, is a holiday. the covid 19 shutdown has had a massive impact on the tourism industry. despite the sunny spring weather, beaches have been deserted. popular beauty spots have been, for the most part, empty. hotels up and down the uk are shut, along with campsites, b&bs and holiday homes, all of which has left businesses locked up and facing a shaky financial future. the digital, culture, media and sport committee heard from a wide range of tourism organisations about the effects on them. in your written submission to the committee, you said that you thought the cost impact of covid 19 on your sector could range from £8 billion to £22 billion. that s quite a range. does the fact that we re now talking about a 14 day quarantine and we have a stubbornly high r rate in certain parts of the country, does that mean that you re likely to be toward the top end of that expectation in terms of the cost of covid 19 on your sector? yes, indeed. every time we do the modelling, the figures get worse. i think the worrying thing we see is the lack of confidence in the british public about travelling, so that 74% of people who have a holiday booked forjuly and september think that holiday won t take place. she had a suggestion that could help the industry. we could possibly have a bank holiday in october because the industry has sort of lost the benefit of the two may bank holidays. i think that s an idea that is being considered, have an october bank holiday around half term. because what we re going to need to do is notjust generate income injuly and august but, really, extend the season. coastal tourism has also been hard hit. the key for us, really, is that we believe the coast will take a three year recovery period before it s back to pre covid 19 levels, and what we would like to see is a collaborative approach across all stakeholders to build back better. now is our opportunity to really tackle seasonality on the coast. many businesses, over 20%, are looking at how they extend their opening this year so that they can claw back some of their lost revenue. the national trust told the committee it had closed all its buildings, gardens and car parks and had stopped all non essential projects. we will need to review oui’ human resource. we have a lot ofjobs that people simply won t be doing for the next nine months, so we re in the process of reviewing that at the moment. we re not anticipating another three months‘ closure but if we have a second wave and we had to close completely, that would be deeply, deeply concerning. and what we re watching very carefully, as you would expect, is the decline in membership. we were losing, certainly in the first month, the rate of members four times the normal rate and, of course, we cannot replenish our members because our properties are not open. so it s the membership base we re watching very closely because once that declines, it s incredibly hard to build it up again. there s been a lot of messaging that s gone on from councillors and members of parliament to stay away. understandably so, it was the lockdown rules, etc. but as we move out of that, is there any chance that that sort of messaging has had a more long term effect, could make people nervous or feel as if they are not that welcome? we have had vigilantes. we have holiday parks accommodating nhs key workers when we could. we ve had vigilantes checking up and reporting them to the council and the police. who are at these people on your holiday park? that negative anti feeling is going to be an issue. at the same time, there was something very, very similar after foot in mouth. people did not want tourists in the countryside because we had to protect farmers, but it settled down within a fortnight. if we don t get a second wave, things settle down, people will get used to having their tourists back. and if they don t have them back, they won t have the village shop or the garage the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker because the tourists are sustaining all the local businesses when you have a tiny local community that s unable to do so. it is all part of it. we re integrated in our rural and coastal communities. so we re hoping that it will be seen, but there is a real challenge there at the moment. and that s it from me for now. parliament is taking a break for a week, so we ll be back when mps and peers return on 2june. but until then, from me, alicia mccarthy, goodbye. hello there. we saw a top temperature of 23 celsius in the london area on sunday afternoon. bank holiday monday today looks warmer still further south, we could make close to mid 20s celsius across parts of the south east. but generally, much of the country will be dry and sunny thanks to the influence of this area of high pressure. but through the day, these weather fronts will start to play a part in the weather across the north west of the uk to bring outbreaks of rain and stronger winds. a fairly fresh start to the day today. we had temperatures in single figures in places, a little bit of early mist and fog across western areas, which will tend to burn away quickly through the morning. many places will be dry and sunny, england and wales, eastern scotland, but then western scotland, lots of northern ireland will stay windy and cloudy and wetter later in the day. that will impact the temperatures around the mid teens in the north west, closer to the low 20s and the mid 20s in the south east. now, that band of cloud and rain across the north west moves its way south eastwards during monday night, tending to fizzle out, though, as it reaches parts of england and wales, just a few showers along it. but with more cloud cover generally, i think it should be a little less chilly with temperatures in double figures for most. now, as we move into tuesday, we ve got high pressure with us once again. this area of cloud associated with that weather front will straddle central areas and push its way south eastwards through the day, so i think england and wales could see more cloud around generally. a bit more sunshine, though, for scotland and northern ireland, but slightly fresher air mass here with temperatures into the low to mid teens. but again, despite the cloud across england and wales, the air is quite warm here, so still 20 to 25 or 26 degrees will be the high. high pressure still with us on into wednesday, we ve got this feature which will bring thicker cloud, perhaps some patchy rain to northern ireland and in towards central and western scotland. but to the north of it, dry, little bit cooler with some sunshine to the south of it, plenty of sunshine for england and wales and, again, another warm day, 25 or 26 will be the high, closer to the mid teens in the north. but that fresher air in the north gets pushed away northwards as high pressure changes its position, moves to the east of the uk and starts to draw up this warm, southerly wind from the near continent. that will drive the warmth northwards into scotland and northern ireland as we reach the end of the week, and it ll be very warm for england and wales with plenty of sunshine. this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i m aaron safir. uk prime minister boris johnson stands by his chief advisor, rejecting calls for him to resign over allegedly breaking coronavirus lockdown rules. i believe that in every respect, he has acted responsibly, and legally, and with integrity. in hong kong, more than 100 people are arrested in protests against beijing s new proposed security laws. brazil s president continues to dismiss warnings over social distancing, despite the number of cases rising sharply. meanwhile, turkey says it is turning the tide in its coronavirus outbreak as the rate of infection drops
to terms with the truth about his identity. the woman who created him now finds herself at the centre of a storm over the reality and complexity of identity in modern britain. mark easton, bbc news. for the people who survive coronavirus after being seriously ill in intensive care, the road to recovery can be long. our special correspondent ed thomas has been back to a hospital in lanarkshire to talk to one man who s just left hospital after almost two months, and has finally been reunited with his partner. he is just the love of my life. i was determined to survive. the cruelty of separation. there we are. when he looked at me in the ambulance, i was like, will i ever see you again? sorry. and he was like, i hope so. the unbearable pain. you don t face death with any sort of form of feeling, 0h, here comes death. you re frightened. the long road to recovery. how long has it been? nearly seven weeks. yes, come on. two months ago, we filmed inside wishaw hospital. that s you breathing on your own. ..at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic. the staff have felt completely overwhelmed. it was their toughest day. injust hours, three people died in intensive care. every day, you think today will be a better day. the better day never, ever comes. and this is where we first met guy. it s made me feel absolutely terrible. at times, i didn t think i would make it. on his 12th day in intensive care. i had 90% oxygen at the time, i think i lost something like 15 kilograms. i wasn t really aware that people were dying around me. i was probably only semi conscious at the time. i was determined i wasn t going to die. guy had asked not to be ventilated and was not to be resuscitated. his partner denise was told to prepare for the worse. the doctors phoned me and told me that there is a dnr in place and i m thinking, i m never going to see guy again and he s never going to come home. she spent nearly 50 nights away from him. it s so soul breaking. it breaks people in half when you re there and you are living with it and you see it. marching on the spot. we followed guy s journey, the physio sessions. rehab. well done. step by step. it s really positive for the staff as well because it does give you that wee bit of hope that we can get through this and we will. just stand up. they didn t give up on me, and i have to say i m forever grateful to them for that. ijust want him to hurry up and come out. ijust really need him to come out so i can take him home. inside, guy s finally ready, saying goodbye and going home. i m so excited. together again. oh, my love. how are you? i m fine. good. did you ever think this moment would come? i didn t but i m glad it has, i really am. guy and denise, the lucky ones. ed thomas, bbc news, lanarkshire. that s it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night. welcome to bbc news. it s now time to take a look at the international front pages in the papers. . hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. we rejoined by stefanie bolzen, uk correspondent wbr id wbr2810 at german newspaper die welt, and caroline wheeler, deputy political editor at the sunday times. welcome. just a establishing communications /b with her. the guardian reports that tension over britain s attitude to racism and heritage are increasing with fears there could be clashes between a planned black lives matter protest and the far right. the telegraph leads on home secretary priti patel‘s response to labour mps who accused her of exploiting her asian heritage to challenge the use of violence at black lives matter demonstrations. the i warns on its front page that the uk s cancer backlog will kill many thousands unless urgent action is taken. the new york times reports on the increased razing of the wbr-id wbr3410 amazon rainforest since the coronavirus struck brazil. die welt leads on a story about german airline lufthansa, who may have to cut 20 thousand jobs due to the coronavirus. and the international financial times says that deaths related to covid i9 in india s capital have been vastly under reported, according to data acquired by the paper from hospitals in the city. so let s begin. up to date with some of tomorrow s papers. let s begin. stephanie, let s start off with the new york times and this dramatic picture of the. that s the amazon rain forest. you can see, it s been caught up in a perfectly straight line. by a legal robbers a legal robbers who are taking advantage of the cross crisis. robbers who are taking advantage of the cross crisis. these are u nfortu nately pictures the cross crisis. these are unfortunately pictures we have seen last year since president bolsonaro came to power. it has been u nfortu nately, even came to power. it has been unfortunately, even less enforcement of the protection of the amazon forest. what we are now seeing is because police and law enforcement cannot cope because of the pandemic, there has been massive areas of the amazon that have been deforested. in the article it says it is an area of 20 times the size of manhattan, so this is really a massive area. at the appellee staggering when you put it like that. it really hit home what is happening absolutely staggering. they also talk about the infections surging as the world ends, world ends lockdown measures. when it comes to infections, the line is going the other way. yes, it looks at the new york times the new york times looks at developing countries such as india, mexico, pakistan and russia where the governments are having a very hard choice because they have to choose between the economy and the public health, and because the economic situation everywhere is very difficult and very dire, they opt to open the economy again. but if you look at mexico, i think it was india, sorry. 10,000 new infections a day. russia still sees 8000 new infections a day. so this is quite a scary outlook when you have to choose between the economy and the public health. the pandemic is farfrom being under control. i m pleased to say that caroline we are learning alsojoined us say that caroline we are learning also joined us now. say that caroline we are learning alsojoined us now. caroline wheeler. good to see you. just standing on that new york times story because if this balance between health and the economy when it comes to developing countries, it s just so tough for them to make that call. absolutely. we can see it even in the uk. there s been a phenomenal struggle within government to weigh up whether or not we ease the lockdown restrictions in order to reopen the economy. and it s fairly severe warnings from scientists that any increase in contact amongst populations is likely to result in that spike or second wave. of course, in the developing world, that s largely what the new york times has focused on, on india and pakistan and some of those countries that are really struggling to both reopen their economies, which is even more significant for them, given the wealth of the population. at the same time, still have a large numberof at the same time, still have a large number of deaths being recorded every day. it s a really unenviable task for any of those governments to have to decide how they balance those two things a. also, caroline, it s a question of politics as well. the new york times picking up in russia, politics may be playing a role in the push to reopen. it talking about moscow s mayor if the restrictions that have been put in place since march the 30th. politics as well trying to beat people happy again keep people happy in this process. but it s quite interesting about what keeps people happy. we ve seen about what keeps people happy. we ve seen the conversation in the uk which is worried the government to some extent, which is actually the population was very much in favour of lockdown and there s been some concern about trying to get the population back to work. we ve all become quite used to staying at home. of course, there s always going to be politics and everything. the other date that comes into place is about local competition. both countries need to list lockdown, those that need to compete globally, and that is all developing countries as well. there s always concerned that if something lifts ahead of another country, then they will lose that advantage. so there s lots of conscious going on. stephanie, to get your perspective, seeing that you re the uk correspondent for die welt, how does germany see what is happening in the uk, given that the uk is easing at lockdown restrictions at the moment but yet the rates when it comes to coronavirus, the uk has pretty drastic. what did the germans make of it? germany is following very closely the news from britain and the very tragic record of the highest death toll in the pandemic in europe. the german experience is that you have to be very, well a quest in terms of texting interesting well equipped in terms of testing and tracing. local authorities have far more power than in the uk. the nhs is very centralised. it has been easier and very early on, the government and the local authorities have employed contact tracing who started from the beginning to track down people and isolate them immediately so that we knew people where ill and make sure they can infect other people. i think this is now the key question for the uk. let s move onto stephanie s paper. a very visual sign of the confederate flag on die welt. the fact that in nancy pelosi is playing to have 11 statues removed from the us capital. in terms of the story that we want to really focus on, lufthansa, talk less about what your paper has found. this is a controversial story in germany because the german government decided to pay a rescue package of 9 billion euros for luftha nsa. package of 9 billion euros for lufthansa. 0f package of 9 billion euros for lufthansa. of course that was very controversial because other companies and other businesses were saying, especially airlines, why not us? but the government was adamant that lufthansa is the main carrier for germany. it was really important to save the most important, most traditional german carrier. it took on 20% of the shares of the company. as far as it is understood, there has been not much or not enough assurance from lufthansa to save jobs. last night, after talks with the unions, lufthansa announced that they were likely to cut 20,000 jobs. that doesn t mean that people will be made redundant immediately, so what they are trying to do is cut down the staff but also by asking people to take early retirement. 20,000 isa people to take early retirement. 20,000 is a massive number and of course, it also looks not very good for the german government, having making that decision to save jobs in. it s an absolutely huge figure. what have the how are the government explaining this? again, there is a big controversy around it but they said it was a systemic company for germany. we had to make sure to save it and they also say, echoing what lufthansa said, they are not making people easily redundant but they are looking at socially smooth measures to downsize the staff. staggering when it comes to the airline industry. really heavily hit by this crisis and echoes for a different company as well. yeah, exactly. it s not like we ve been immune to that in the uk. we ve seen lots of talks about whether or not there will be any kind of government bailout to british airways and virgin atlantic. the issue there has been that it takes a phenomenal amount of money to bail out companies of that size and of course, at the moment, there s no sign of those traveller s extremes being listed in the uk travel restrictions. we just impose measures which will be in place up to a month or more, given that s what the government said it s reviewing it. there s no end in sight for the difficulties the airline industry. ithink sight for the difficulties the airline industry. i think everyone is expecting the uk will see some sort of economic statement or budget in response to the coronavirus crisis before parliament breaks up at the end ofjuly. it will be interesting to see whether there is any kind of package within that for the british airline companies that have been affected by the crisis in the same way that the german government has offered to lufthansa. cannot understate just how
of confirmed coronavirus infections. the country has now recorded more than 263,000 cases, placing it behind only the united states and russia. more than 1,000 people have died. millions of people are evacuated from the coastal areas of india and bangladesh, as a huge storm bears down on the bay of bengal. cyclone umpun is expected to make landfall later on wednesday. the world health organisation has defended its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, following criticism from the united states. it comes as the who s member states agreed to an independent evaluation of its response. global carbon emissions fell by more than a sixth at the height of the coronavirus lockdown, according to a new study. the reduction was partly due to a fall in the number of cars on the road. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. the european union has struggled to find a collective response to the coronavirus pandemic. those countries hit first and worst by the virus, italy and spain, have complained of a lack of solidarity. well, is that about to change? because france and germany are now backing a 500 billion euros economic recovery fund that would be made up of grants, not loans. my guest is french finance minister bruno le maire. is the pandemic taking the eu in a new direction? minister bruno le maire, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, good morning. let me start getting your response to the dramatic video conference joint appearance by your president, mr macron, and angela merkel of germany yesterday. mrs merkel said that the eu is facing the greatest crisis in its history, and we must find appropriate answers. do you believe those answers have been found? i think they have been found. and i fully share the assessment of chancellor angela merkel. we are clearly facing the gravest crisis in the history of the european union. an economic crisis, a social crisis, but also a political one. we need a new and strong response, and i really think that chancellor merkel and president macron have been able, both together, to provide the necessary response to the crisis. this is a major step, and i would say an historical step that has been decided yesterday by president macron and chancellor merkel. for the first time in our history, we are ready to provide 500 billion of expenditures, public expenditures, to fight the economic consequences of the virus and to face the economic crisis. this is a historical step for france and germany, and i hope for all european countries. but let us be clear, minister you say mr macron and mrs merkel have decided, but frankly nothing at all has been decided. this is simply a proposal, and it is a proposal that is so historic to use your word that it seems very likely significant numbers of other member states of the eu will not accept this idea of debt sharing which, in essence, is what this is. i know what that it will be difficult to convince the other partners some of the partners, for instance, austria, denmark, sweden, the netherlands to go this way. but when you look at the steps that have been already decided, i think that we are on the right way. we have been able, with the 27 member states on 9 april, to adopt a global package for the economic recovery within the eu with a new loan from the eab, with the so called mechanism sure, with their use of the esm, and with this recovery fund. now france and germany have been able to find an agreement on the funding of this recovery fund with the common debt. but minister. i just want to explain to the other member states. there is no agreement let us be clear. ..and political interest to go this way. there is no agreement, though. after the. it will be difficult to find an agreement, i know that. it will be. but all the member states should be aware of the necessity to adopt new responses to fight such an important economic, social, and political crisis in europe. but the point is surely simple there are significant numbers of countries, mostly in the north of europe, and you ve pointed to austria, denmark, sweden, and many people inside germany, as well who think one of the fundamental principles of the european union has to be that each member state remains fully responsible for its own debt. and your proposal completely eliminates that principal. my response is that nobody is responsible for the way it has been hit by the coronavirus. nobody is responsible for the health crisis and for the coronavirus. and i think that the eu and the eu in the 21st century should not be based only on selfish behaviours, but also on solidarity. and what is at the core of the agreement between france and germany is the fact that the eu of the 21st century should be based on solidarity. when one of the member states is hit by a crisis, by the coronavirus crisis, and if the state needs the help of the other member states, he should take for granted that it will have the support of the other member states. so when the austrian chancellor, sebastian kurtz, says, as he did after the macron merkel meeting yesterday by video when he says, look, we are only ready to approve a rescue fund that gives loans, ie money that must be paid back, rather than grants, you say he s being selfish, do you? i just say that it is also in the interest of austria, but also the netherlands, also denmark, also sweden to have a stronger eu after the crisis. this is a profoundly important moment for the eu, isn t it? because if we take seriously what you are saying and indeed what mrs merkel appears to have signed up to in this plan, we re looking at a massively deeper integrated eu economic system in which fiscal, as well as monetary policy is being collectivized? i think that we are clearly at a decisive moment of the history of the european union. because we are facing the greatest crisis, which is an economic, but also i want to insist on that a social and political one. and now it is time to choose. it is time to choose what kind of a eu we want for the 21st century. there are two choices. either you go the way of having some member states working together without any solidarity, without common funding of innovation, new technologies, disruptive technologies, artificial intelligence, 5g and so on in that case, that is the end of the eu. we never play any role on the international stage because we will be overcome by china in the united states. or we can make another choice, which is, to me and the french president, the right choice for the 21st century for the eu which is to gather our fundings, even through common debts just for the sake of financing the economic recovery, but also financing the new technologies for the sake of having more independence, more serenity, and being able to have our own 5g, our own artificial intelligence, our own renewable energies, our own technologies, not relying on the support of other world powers, butjust relying on our own forces. that is the right choice for the eu for the 21st century, and that is what is exactly behind the agreement between france and germany yesterday. well, you may be absolutely convinced of this, but i wonder if all the french people are, let alone the people of germany, the netherlands, austria, sweden, denmark, and a host of other countries. let me read to you an interesting thought from the financial times‘s chief foreign affairs commentator, gideon rachman, the other day. he wrote, the mutualisation of debt within the eu was always been the reddest of red lines for the german people, the dutch, the austrians, the fins and others. if it is pushed through now in this atmosphere of crisis, it could set a time bomb under the eu. because there will be a backlash, won t there? i don t share that point of view. i think that a large majority of european citizens wants to go the way of more independence and more serenity. they don t want to be dependent any more on china or on the united states. 0r on brussels. they want to be independent, and if we want to be independent, if we want to have our own technologies once again, which is the key point for the 21st century, then we need to gather our efforts. now i want to be very clear that the idea is not to provide money without any conditions. the idea is just to support some of the member states for the sake of having a quicker and stronger economic recovery after the crisis. that is the idea behind that. but you are not really addressing my point, that what we may see it as a backlash in the north european countries where the populations think, we don t want to pay for the debts of the italians, the spanish, and others. and hang on you may see a much deeper division growing. because it is in the interest of these northern countries to have a single market working very well, and making profits and making benefits. that is also the point. let s think about the situation in france in particular, because you are the french finance minister, one of the most senior voices in the government. would you agree with me that the way france has handled its own coronavirus crisis has left a deep sense of unease amongst many in your population? the government has not come out of this looking very good, has it? i agree that there has been critics, doubts, because we have been hit very severely by the coronavirus. did you see the new york times investigation of a couple of days ago that compared emmanuel macron‘s rhetoric about declaring war on coronavirus, promising that all of france s front line health workers would be given the means and protection they needed and the reality was, concludes the new york times, that france was nearly defenseless ? and that even today, if there is a second wave, a new spike in the spread of the virus in france, your emergency services still do not have access to the kind of emergency ppe protective equipment that they would need? you are still dangerously reliant on getting supplies from countries like china? i think that is not the case any more. i hope there won t be a second wave of the virus in france, and i think that we are taking with the prime minister all necessary measures to avoid such a second wave in france. and if we are taking some decisions that are really hard to take and difficult to take, it is for the sake of avoiding a second wave of the virus in france. i will not say that the emergency services do not have the necessary equipment. we have been hit severely by the crisis. we had to take some reactions with a sense of urgency, and we have taken the positions that i think our emergency services now have the necessary equipment to face such a situation. but once again, i hope we will not be in a situation to face a second wave of the crisis. you re the finance minister, you know the french economy is facing a deep recession, like most of the national economies across europe and, of course, that is your prime concern in your dayjob. but you re also watching as france reopens businesses, shops you can even get a haircut in france today, which you couldn t do in london the metro in paris is crowded again. are you entirely happy that france has got the balance right between normalisation, reopening the economy, and maintaining the strictest of discipline in the fight against the virus? that is a balance which is obviously very difficult to find. but we are trying to find this right balance between the protection of the population and the necessity to go back to work. because there is a necessity to go back to work if we want to avoid an economic collapse. so our first reaction was a very strong support to the french economy with partial unemployment scheme, for instance, with loans to the private companies, with temporary cash flow needs that have been provided by the state. then we are entering a second phase which sees support to some specific economic sectors tourism, the automotive industry, and the aeronautic industry. and before the ist ofjuly, we will have decided three sets of plans to support those economic sectors. and then will come the time of huge economic recovery plan that should be announced by the french president in some weeks, i think by the end of august or the beginning of september, to really define the perspective for the french economy. and i think we should get through this crisis, to rebuild the strongest french economy which will be a competitive economy and a sustainable economy. you re looking, it seems, according to all of your national and imf and other estimates, a recession which could see a contraction of gdp between 6 8% this year. you and your government have put aside hundreds of billions of euros in a national economic recovery plan. many french people are wondering, where on earth is this money coming from? will it be tax rises across the board, or are you going to have to slash public spending in the next few years? first of all, that is a choice that has been made by all the major member states of the eu because we did not have any other choice but to support our economy also and i really think it was the right choice. then it will be funded by debt let us be very clear about that and there will be the necessity at some stage to reimburse the french debt. but it will be later. and i really want the french debt to be reimbursed by growth. and that is the meaning of this economic recovery plan, that is the meaning of these hundreds of billions of euros to support our economy, to have a quick and strong economic recovery for the sake of having more prosperity, and being in a situation to reimburse our debts. not through new tech stations, but through growth. right, so just very simply, what is france s debt to gdp ratio going to be in, let s say, a year s time? 0ur assessment now is that, in 2020, it should be 100 115% of the gdp. it could be more because there are some new spendings that might be necessary to support some economic sectors. but once again, the key question is not debt the key question is the economic recovery and growth. so what you have is an economy that is looking extremely fragile in the medium and, frankly, even the long term, and you have a president who came to power promising a whole slate of reforms. and we ve seen his attempts to change the welfare system and the pension system, and we ve seen his popularity plummet, and we ve seen the rise of the gilet jaunes movement of protesters. isn t the truth that the macron plan for changing, radically reforming france, is now off the table? there s no way he can continue with that plan given the situation you ve just described to me. 0n the contrary. because we have been successful in the decisions we have taken during the three first years of the mandate of emmanuel macron. well, not according to the french people. there are many policies that we ve put in place that gave some very strong reserves at the beginning of 2020 we were one of the strongest economies within the uso. which means that after the crisis, our economy will not be fragile because the basis of the french economy is solid. so we will stick to the way of reforms, of improvements of the french economy and the french competitiveness, for the sake of having more growth and more prosperity. we had had some very good reserves, we have been hit by the crisis but, after the crisis, there will be a french rebound. and what kind of france and what kind of europe? will there be a rise in protectionism? we see donald trump with his language which suggests that he believes china is responsible for this virus, also talking about long term implications for us china relationships. you in france have talked about bringing some supply chains home, a much more nationalist approach to economic policymaking in the future is this what france wants to see, a new era of economic nationalism? i don t think that economic protectionism would be the right response to the crisis. that won t be the end of globalisation. what we need is a new globalisation based on more fairness and the fight against climate change. that s the key point. but i don t believe in this economic protectionism. i really strongly believe that there is a need for a new globalisation, being able to have a more level playing field and a better fight against climate change. that s what we are proposing to the other member states of the eu. and is this crisis going to change france s relationship with china, as it appears to be changing the us‘s relationship with china? i think it will change all the relationships among the superpowers. and the key question is whether the eu is one of these superpowers in the 21st century or not. everything that we are supporting with president macron is for the sake of having europe being one of the three superpowers among china and the united states. and if we want to be one of these superpowers, we need more solidarity, more investment, more innovation, and providing the right funding for the states that are in difficulty because we want all the member states to go out of this crisis stronger than ever. and a final thought you ve talked a lot about europe going forward. of course, europe is minus the uk, we re in the current transition phase and, by the end of the year, the idea is that transition phase ends and a new economic relationship is negotiated. and the negotiations right now are stuck at an impasse, michel barnier on the eu side says he s not optimistic about reaching a deal because the uk continues to want to have the best of both worlds. the uk negotiator says, we need a change of eu approach, and the brits appear to believe that if they just let this slide for long enough, the eu will make major concessions. to quote michael gove, a british minister, i think the covid crisis, in some respects, will concentrate the minds of eu negotiators. do you think the british, if they believe that your economic problems will lead to concessions, have got it right or wrong? i m afraid they are wrong. you know, i miss the uk. i miss the uk because i think that we would be stronger with the uk within the eu. but that s not the case any more, and the british people has made its choice about its future. but now, do not make any mistake about that there won t be any further concessions from the eu. and on the contrary, i will think that this economic crisis will lead to the reinforcements of the eu, will lead to more solidarity among member states. and we are not ready to make concessions that mightjeopardise the eu construction, and that might fragile eyes what we once built together. so i hope that everybody will be resilient and we can find an agreement as soon as possible between the eu and the uk. it is up to michel barnier to pave the way for this compromise, but do not believe that being opposed to any kind of compromise would lead to more concessions from the eu member states, because i think it will not be the case. bruno le maire, we have to end it there. i thank you very much indeed forjoining me from paris. thank you. hello there. tuesday was very sunny and very warm for some of us but not for all. in fact, it was the warmest day of the year so far. 26 degrees recorded in stjames‘ park in london. but i suspect wednesday will be warmer still and a little more widespread across the country. however, it s going to be a chance of a few thunderstorms on thursday, then as we head into the weekend, fresherfor all of us. but for the time being, high pressure, the dominant feature, and it s keeping these weather fronts out in the atlantic for the moment. that s allowing ahead of it to southerly feed, a very warm air coming up from the very near continent. so despite a little bit of early morning mist and fog around, it will be a mild start, as you can see, widespread double digits. now, any murkiness close to the coast will lift quite readily away, and there will be lots of sunshine coming through the day. just a little bit of fairweather cloud into the north, and maybe some showery outbreaks of rain into the northern isles. here, a little disappointing, but the warmth will be quite widespread, low 20s into central scotland, as high as 27 celsius perhaps in the southeast that s 81 fahrenheit. it s worth bearing in mind that, if you are going to be spending a little more time outside, well you have got the sunshine, we re looking at high uv levels throughout the day. now, as we move out of wednesday into thursday, that weather front will start to push and from the atlantic, and it ll bring some outbreaks of late showery ring to scotland. so starting off pretty grey and wet to the west, that will drift its way steadily east, allowing for an improvement. and at the same time, it stays pretty hot and humid in the southeast corner, and that could trigger off a few sharp thundery downpours. dodged the showers, keep the sunshine again, we could see highs of 27 celsius. but the real change arrives on friday. you can see quite clearly, more of a significant area of low pressure, tightly squeezed isobars around that centre of the low. so that means the strongest of the winds look likely through northern ireland and western scotland. gales not out of the question. and there will be some sharp showers and longer spells of rain as we go through the day. a little more cloud generally on friday, and as a result, not quite as warm. top temperatures of around 11 20 celsius that s 68 fahrenheit. so a fresher start to the weekend, but look at this for england and wales, as we go into next week, the heat is set to build yet again.
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we hearfrom their manager emma hayes. the decision was made on a points per game basis. good evening. the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in the uk reaching a grim milestone today, with the number of people dying having tested positive for covid 19, surpassing 40,000. britain is now only the second country in the world to reach that number, after the united states. 357 deaths were recorded in the latest 2a hour period bringing the total across the uk, to a0,261. it comes amid falling numbers for new infections in the community. an office for national statistics study of adults and children in private households estimates one in 1,000 people in england tested positive for the coronavirus in the last week of may, not counting those staying in hospitals or care homes. this is down from last week s estimate of one in 400. we ll have more on the rate of infection in a moment, but first, with the very latest, here s our health editor, hugh pym. for families and friends of the bereaved, some of whom spent weeks in intensive care, there have been months of grief and emotional turmoil. my mum, she was my best friend. she was kind, funny. this is just the worst pain in the world. i feel like without the proper protection, then more things like this and more families will lose a loved one. since the first uk death in early march, a total of 40,000 have now died after testing positive for coronavirus. the government s chief scientific adviser said keeping the death total to 20,000 or below would be a good outcome. it s now above 40,000. how do you assess that outcome, given where we are now? the day that the number of deaths from coronavirus has gone over 40,000 is a time of sorrow for us all. we have got to remember that each one of these is. ..an impact on a family that will never be the same again. and my heart goes out to them all. and it makes me redouble my determination to deal with this virus. so, how did we get here? on march 11th, the world health organization formally declared a pandemic. that day, spanish football fans were in liverpool for a champions league fixture. the next day, testing and tracking of new community cases was stopped, with resources focusing on hospitals. the four day cheltenham racing festival was in full swing. on march 16th, people were told to avoid pubs and other social venues, and work from home as possible. the next day, the chief scientific adviser made this prediction. if we can get this down to numbers 20,000 and below, that s a good outcome. on march 23rd, lockdown began across the uk. 0n the 21st of april, the daily death toll hit a peak, with more than 1,000 deaths. since then, the overall total has climbed and now stands atjust over 40,000 deaths, though this doesn t include those in all settings where there wasn t a test. some experts argue the government should have reacted more quickly after seeing what was happening in italy. we had two to three weeks more time to get ready for this but i think we just took it too easy, to be very frank. i think we assumed that we were different, that somehow we were going to respond in a different way, that we could cope. and then, by the time they realised they had the problem, it was too late. the uk covid 19 death toll, at around 40,000, is ahead of other european countries, with italy next on the latest reported figure atjust over 33,500, followed by france, spain and belgium. but adjusted for the size of the population, belgium has the highest death rate, at around 84 per 100,000 people, with the uk at 60, a little above spain, italy and france. there are slight differences in the way each country calculates its figures. this virus has hit lots of very developed nations with robust health care systems, robust health infrastructures, and it has taken a lot of people by surprise and i don t think the uk is alone in having been taken by surprise. i think we need to essentially wait until the end of the pandemic and then have a dissection of what happened and learn lessons from it. for now, the authorities will focus on testing as many people as possible and then tracing their contacts, seen as the best way to suppress the virus. hugh pym, bbc news. well, the first case of covid 19 diagnosed in the uk was at the end of january, and the first death, was back in march. our special correspondent, allan little, now looks at the lives lived of some of those who ve died. behind the statistics, the government charts, the number crunching, are the lives lost. ricardo bonsato, known as ricky, was 54. he worked in a care home in lancashire. the residents knew him for his kindness, compassion and sense of fun. he leaves a wife and two children. ina beaton was 103. she lived through the 1919 spanish flu pandemic, and the clydebank blitz. she died in her care home on the isle of skye. her family said she was known throughout the island, and loved its language and culture. jamshed ahmed siddiqui was a florist from hodge hill, near birmingham. he fell ill on the day lockdown began, and died in intensive care. the consultant sat us down and said look, i don t think he s going to make it, and then my. ijust gave the opportunity to my older brother to, you know, to hold his hands in his last moments. um, yeah. and then i think he spent, like, three to five minutes, and then my father sadly passed away. earl fuller, known as sam, joined the prison service after a 20 year career in the army. he was a physically fit 60 year old. his family said he was hugely popular, always the barbecue man at parties. christina poll was from hornchurch in east london. during the second world war, she worked on breaking the enigma code at bletchley park. she kept her work secret for 40 years she was 97. clive futter from mold in north wales had worked as an airbus inspector. he was 78. his family said he had an amazing sense of fun and an immeasurable lust for life. liz spooner worked as a nurse at the same hospital in swansea for 41 years. she was 62. devastated is an understatement, one of her friends there said. another dear colleague lost. gordon reid, known as gogs, was an edinburgh taxi driver. he was 68. his friends, unable to attend his funeral, paid tribute outside his local pub. he was cautious, stopping work to stay at home, days before the lockdown began. only one gogs. my dad was funny, we just had a huge amount of fun with my dad. he absolutely doted on his grandkids, and my kidsjust adored him. we just had such a lot of fun. he had a huge group of friends. everyone that knew him just loved him really. he was a fit and healthy guy, liked going out and playing golf. and just socialising with his friends. we just. it was always about fun with my dad, really. poornima nair was a 56 year old gp from county durham. a wife and mother. it s unbelievable, her practice manager said. her heart was with the nhs and what she could do to help. she will be so missed. steve lynham from burnham on sea was 44. he and his wife denise would have celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary next year. she was also in hospital with covid 19, and recovered. steve was loving, caring and fun, she said. please take this seriously. stick to the rules. don t go through our heartache. alan little, bbc news. there has been some encouraging news today in the pandemic. new figures suggest coronavirus infections in the community are falling substantially. the office for national statistics says the number of cases in england is down to 5,600 a day, from 8,000 a day, last week. however, one study suggests that in the north west and south west of england, the rate at which the virus is reproducing, could be near one, suggesting infections may rise. with more, here s our science editor, david shukman. with people out and about across the uk over the past week or so, what do we know about the virus and whether it is under control? well, despite the scale of the death toll, there are some signs that things may now be going in the right direction, at least for the moment. the latest survey shows how the percentage of the population testing positive for covid 19 has fallen in each of the last five weeks, which is of course good news. but bear in mind that there is a very wide margin of error with this study and also that the swab tests were carried out by people themselves. because that is not easy, the results may not be that accurate. i think it is incredibly important for us not to lose sight of the fact this is a virus which is incredibly contagious, can transmit very easily and efficiently between people, and still, most of the population have not seen this virus and are susceptible which allows it to spread very rapidly if we let our guard down. the big worry is that more contact will mean more infections. so what is the latest assessment about the speed with which the virus is being spread? at the height of the outbreak, the infection rate, the r number, was running at about three, meaning anyone infected was on average passing it on to three others. the key was to get it down below one because, below that number, the disease does not escalate, and the latest estimate is that we are for the whole uk running at about 0.7 up to 0.9. below one, but not falling rapidly. and if we break that down across the uk, the picture varies. 0ne computer model shows that in most areas of england, the rate is thought to be below one, except in the north west and south west, where it is estimated to be right on one. a different study suggests that scotland, wales and northern ireland are on 0.8. so, for the moment, the advice is still to keep at least two metres apart, and barriers and signs have been springing up to remind people. the lockdown has suppressed the virus, but it hasn t killed it off. david shukman, bbc news. our health editor hugh pym is here. more than 40,000 dead in the uk, a total no one could have predicted after the first death in march. devastating death toll and the new daily reported case numbers are falling, that is what the seven day rolling average sirs, pointing downwards, says. we should remember the nhs cope throughout the early stages and the peak in april and may, but a few worrying pointers, hospitaladmissions and may, but a few worrying pointers, hospital admissions with covid 19 patients have moved up slightly, they are down in northern ireland, and there is no data in scotland, but they are up in england and wales. there are issues around the regional r numbers, in the south west and the north west, and tameside council in greater manchester has written to local schools today are urging them not to reopen as planned on monday, to leave it a couple of weeks because of concerns about where the r number is. the health secretary matt hancock looking at this weekend and mass demonstrations planned, he said he was appalled by the death of the george floyd and he was sympathetic to people who wished to be out there but he said people really should not ta ke but he said people really should not take part in large gatherings, demonstrations above the number of six people. thanks forjoining us. people living in the republic of ireland will be able travel anywhere inside their own county from monday, instead of being limited to a range of 20km from home. the irish cabinet is accelerating the easing of the country s lockdown, allowing groups of up to six people to meet indoors or outside, provided social distancing is maintained. the european union s chief brexit negotiator, michel barnier, has accused the uk of backtracking on its commitments over a future trade deal. however the government s chief negotiator, david frost, says the latest round of talks had been positive in tone and the uk remained committed to a successful outcome . time is running out, with just six months to go to reach an agreement, before the end of the uk s transitional arrangements with brussels. here s our political correspondent, alex forsyth. remember this? it was the end of january when we left the eu. since that moment, the clock has been ticking towards the end of this year the current time frame to agree a new future relationship. earlier this year, negotiators from both sides held talks face to face, but it doesn t look like this any more. coronavirus means it is all online, and today, the eu said there is no significant progress, claiming the uk s backtracking on commitments made so far. round after round, our british counterparts seek to distance themselves from this common basis. we cannot and we will not accept this backtracking on the political declaration. among the key sticking points, the so called level playing field. measures to ensure businesses on one side don t have an unfair advantage over competitors on the other. fisheries, access to markets and waters, and governance, including how any agreement will be enforced. number 10 s chief negotiator agreed today progress has been limited. but the government s still adamant it won t extend the process beyond the end of december. given the time that s passed, it s time for both sides to work together, and we are willing to accelerate that work, to get that final agreement, based on a vision that has been agreed, and then we can progress. borisjohnson is due to meet senior eu figures this month, which some hope will give a fresh push to these talks, but uk officials have warned they don t want them to drag on to the autumn, because at some point, they say, businesses will have to prepare for no deal at the end of year. with the economic turmoil already caused by coronavirus, some businesses have warned that could be deeply damaging. the uk and the eu say they want to avoid that, and a deal is still possible, but that will take some serious compromise on both sides and quickly. alex forsyth, bbc news, westminster. there s renewed anger in the united states over police violence. footage has emerged of a 75 year old demonstrator, protesting the death of george floyd, being pushed to the ground by officers and suffering serious head injuries. it happened in the city of buffalo, in upstate new york. the two officers involved have now been suspended. protests have continued across america after the death of mr floyd, who died at the hands of four police officers, in the city of minneapolis last month. 0ur north america correspondent aleem maqbool has more details. for days, the people of washington have been taking their calls for change to the white house. now the city s mayor has approved her own. the renaming of an area on the president s doorstep, black lives matter plaza. but nearby the protests go on, in the shadow of the memorial to martin luther king. some scenes of police brutality he s witnessed in recent days may have seemed disturbingly familiar. in buffalo, new york, for example, a 75 year old protester was shoved to the ground by a policeman. another officer goes to help him but is held back, even though the man s now motionless and bleeding from his skull. police filed past and no one else is allowed to go to his aid. two officers have been suspended. but it s just the latest in a torrent of apparently unjustified use of force at these protests. an assault from behind in seattle. the arrest in charleston of a man peacefully trying to reason with officers. and police in la driving into protesters, to name but a few examples. for the incident that sparked all this, three officers have now been charged with aiding and abetting murder. another‘s already been charged with murdering george floyd. minneapolis says officers will now be required to intervene if they see a colleague using unauthorised force. the president of the united states. the president has called for authorities to continue to be tough on the street, but has also talked of equality for black people. they have to receive fair treatment from law enforcement. they have to receive it. we all saw what happened last week. we can t let that happen. hopefully george is looking down right now and saying there s a great thing that s happening for our country, there s a great day for him, it s a great day for everybody. nobody s ever done for the black community what president trump has done. think of it. well, it is easy to say there should be fair treatment for african americans, but given the deep rooted issues with racism in this country and as we re seeing almost daily with police culture, that is of course far harder to achieve in practice. aleem maqbool, bbc news, in washington. more details are emerging of the new suspect in the madeleine mccann case, who according to german media is now also being investigated over the disappearance of a five year old girl in germany. it s reported the suspect is being named as christian b, a 43 year old man who s believed to have been in the same area of southern portugal where three year old madeleine went missing while on holiday in 2007. 0ur correspondent gavin lee has more details. this is christian b. the man suspected of the murder of madeleine mccann. she disappeared in 2007. ten years later german police received a tip off from a friend of the suspect in a bar in germany. christian made comments that made them think he could be involved in madeleine s disappearance. here in praia da luz we re told portuguese police have been making house to house inquiries since then. candido works close to one of the properties that was used by the suspect. translation: i think i have seen this man, at some point i saw him, not here but in the town. he also said that police searched for madeleine s body around this land in 2014 and several times after that. translation: they searched over there. in that ditch there and up over that side, too. it was extensive. it was all over the place. two years before madeleine mccann went missing from this hotel apartment, a woman was raped in praia da luz. christian b is remanded in germany charged in connection with that case. he is also in prison for other crimes, including child sex abuse. locals here are questioning why portuguese police hadn t picked up this man with an extensive criminal past before that. in the years after madeleine mccann‘s disappearance, the suspect is said to have moved several times between germany and portugal. in 2015, he owned this run down property in the east of germany. it emerged today he s also been investigated there over this german girl who went missing from a family party. that investigation has now been reopened. the search for madeleine mccann has been unprecedented in size and scale, with numerous suspects that have since been discounted. this seaside villages synonymous worldwide with this unsolved, shocking case, one that s 110w unsolved, shocking case, one that s now reliant on a public appeal for help if there is to be a breakthrough. gavin lee, bbc news, praia da luz. the bbc has appointed a new director general, who ll take over from tony hall in september. tim davie is currently the head of bbc studios, one of the corporation s commercial subsidiaries. among his priorities for the corporation will be funding and the future of the licence fee. our media editor amol rajan is with me. it isa it is a toughjob, running this place. some understatement, clive. you can say that again. what do we know about tim davie and what are his challenges? he was acting director general before tony hall got thejob. before director general before tony hall got the job. before that he ran director general before tony hall got thejob. before that he ran bbc radio services. it came from a commercial services, he worked in marketing for the pepsi company. he is charismatic, he s a crystal palace fan, popular with the staff but intriguingly most of the recent director generals have come from bbc news, behind you, but tim davie is from a commercial background. his experience in making deals around the world. his first and foremost task is making a deal with number ten. in 2022 the bbc celebrates its lengthy centenary, there will be a tough negotiation over the licence fee, that will be nasty and brutish and long and he has to come up with and long and he has to come up with a good deal. the other big challenges commercial, the biggest most powerful companies in human history, apple, facebook, google, they are competing with the bbc for oui’ they are competing with the bbc for our attention and eyeballs and he has to allow the bbc to compete with them and persuade young people to keep paying for a licence fee. he has to make the bbc reflective of the whole of britain and make sure it s a trusted brand in the age of social media when impartiality is under scrutiny. most tagged rector director generals are judged with how they deal with crises they couldn t foresee, like the savile scandal and equal pay, the same will be true of tim davie. tim davie s job is going to be much harder. a lot of people wish him luck and goodness knows, he s going to need it. amol rajan, thanks very much. as the uk reaches more than 40,000 dead in the coronavirus pandemic, we ve seen in the last two months the poorest communities hit the hardest. the death rates in the most deprived areas of england are more than double those in the most affluent. now public health england says the pandemic has, in some areas, deepened existing health inequalities. our special correspondent, ed thomas, has been hearing from families on merseyside. it is an uncomfortable truth. coronavirus is more likely to kill the vulnerable and most deprived. and these are the people who feel forgotten during this crisis. it s like they ve closed up on us, and they ve just forgot about us. it s like being on death row. obviously, if i go out, it could kill me. nobody s rung, nobody s knocked, nobody. this is just one street on merseyside, in one of the uk s most deprived areas. and along this short cul de sac, three people have died recently two linked to coronavirus. he was loved to death. everyone loved joe. and then the test come back, it was covid 19. joe had cerebral palsy. in april, he started struggling to breathe. he was 26 when he died. if it would have been a different time, he would have went right into intensive care, he would have, but there was no treatments available, whatsoever. and then they phoned me back. the doctor, who was explaining to me, said there was no hope whatsoever. joe couldn t speak and tell you what was going on, so he would have been petrified. just a few doors down, another man died. what s left behind is a shared grief and anger. i was close tojoe. joe round the corner. is there a sense of being forgotten in this area? totally has, yeah. this area always gets forgotten, whether it s about crime, health, wealth, whatever, it always gets forgotten, doesn t it? we re the forgotten street. merseyside has some of the highest rates of health deprivation in the country. for some, during this pandemic, it s a challenge to access treatment. i have cancer that s incurable. my husband, he s got severe copd. my children have been in since 23rd march. no one has left the home in more than two months. it s a prison behind our doors. a family that desperately needs help. how am i supposed to get my bloods done? going back in march, and i m still waiting on the waiting list for someone to come to my home address. we re not noticed. we re not recognised. for those struggling financially, the anxiety is not knowing when this will all end. so my income s been halved and the pressure is immense. louise is a single parent who s just lost herjob as a dementia carer, now on benefits for the first time. i feel terrible. as a mum, sometimes i feel like i m not good enough, i can t provide the way i should be. universal credit is covering the bills. charity for everything else. i shouldn t be struggling the way i am, and my mental health and anxiety through the roof, worrying if i can afford my rent. ifeel at the moment a little bit lost, isolated. ifeel like a failure because i m not in work. and what of those young witnesses to this crisis? for children living through this hardship, obstacles will remain long into the future. ed thomas, bbc news, liverpool. chelsea women s football team is celebrating tonight, having been named the winners of the super league, after the season was abandoned. but in england the men s premier league is gearing up to re start in 12 days time, with 92 games still to play. natalie pirks has more from brighton. solly march, first time cross. murray! for fans craving that match day rush, the premier league s return cannot come soon enough. but this won t be football as we know it. yes, it will be rather lonely in these stands, but at least fans will be able to watch more than 30 of the remaining 92 games on free to air channels. broadcasters will let you decide whether to watch with or without crowd noise, and clubs will pump in music at key moments to enhance the action. here at brighton, they ll fill the top tiers with cardboard cut outs of fans. but players say it s nothing like the real thing. i think it will be good to try to generate an atmosphere but deep down, we know it s fake. ijust look forward to the day that the fans can return because i think this has shown, more than anything ever has in the past, how the sport is basically the fans, and without fans, it s nothing. around 300 people will need access to the stadium for every game, with teams of 20 players and 12 coaches and medics. stadiums will be split into three distinct zones red, amber and green zone. now, the tunnel and the pitch will form part of the red zone, and only a maximum of 105 people will be allowed here, after temperature checks. that s considerably fewer than usual and means there won t even be ball boys or girls. well, here on the bench, players will sit two metres apart. and out on the pitch, there will be water breaks midway through each half, where players will drink from their own bottles, and balls and cornerflags can also be disinfected. it was initially proposed that neutral venues should be used, mainly to stop fans congregating. but brighton and others felt strongly they should be allowed to play at home. now it seems they have largely won the argument. i think the most important thing is, please stay away from the stadium. you know, we ve been given the opportunity to play out our remaining games in our own venues, notjust brighton