this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. british airways treatment of staff during the coronavirus crisis is a national disgrace according to a group of prominent uk politicians they say ba has used the pandemic to cut thousands ofjobs. virus deaths surge in brazil it now has the second highest toll in the world. london s top police officer tells those planning to join anti racism protests today to stay off the streets amid a warning that far right groups could try to disrupt events. please express your voice in a different way, and don t come physically to the streets of london. in an interview with the bbc, the dalai lama, the leader of tibetan buddhism says he s been inspired by the compassions shown during the coronavirus crisis. no footguards, no carriage ride and no flypast how the queen s official birthday will be a socially distanced celebration at windsor castle this year. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. in the uk, a cross party group of mps has described british airways treatment of its staff during the pandemic as a ‘national disgrace . a report by the commons transport committee accuses the airline of attempting to use the crisis to cut thousands ofjobs and weaken the employment conditions of thos that remain. ba says it needs to find ways to survive the crisis. in other news, brazil has now recorded the second highest number of deaths from covid i9 after the united states. it means brazil has overtaken the uk, with more than 41,800 deaths. meanwhile, in china, eleven districts in the capital beijing have been locked down over fears of renewed clusters of coronavirus. 45 people tested positive for the virus at a wholesale market in the south east of the city. here in the uk, research carried out by the bbc has found that hundreds of doctors from black and ethnic minority backgrounds are still waiting for a risk assessment for coronavirus despite official guidance that they should have one. and in england, from today adults who live alone or single parents who live with children aged under 18 can form a support bubble with one other household of any size. with more on ba, here s our international business correspondent, theo leggett. british airways is a company in crisis. it is struggling to cope with the huge financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic and embroiled in a bitter row with its unions. now, mps have weighed in. the airline is planning a major cost cutting drive which could lead to as many as 12,000 redundancies, out of a total of 42,000 employees. some remaining staff could also see big cuts to their pay. i don t live an expensive champagne lifestyle, i live within my means. and what could happen means that i m going to get a 50% or 60% pay cut, so i could lose my home. that s the long and short of it. after hearing from british airways employees and questioning the chief executive of its parent company, mps have described the airline s behaviour as a national disgrace. they claim the company s been taking advantage of the pandemic to push through job cuts and undermine the pay and conditions of staff who remain. ba rejects the claims. it says it needs to find ways to survive during the deepest crisis ever faced by the airline industry, and says mps should focus on the facts. and ba is certainly not alone. ryanair plans to cut 3000 jobs. easyjet says it could make a500 staff redundant. and virgin wants to close 3000 posts. airlines are very welcoming of the support that has been put in place so far by the chancellor, the furlough scheme has been widely picked up by the airline sector and it s very welcome indeed. but we are facing a future with an aviation sector that s going to be very much smaller than what we ve got currently. it s going to take several years to get back to pre crisis levels, and therefore difficult decisions will have to be taken. the mps report also criticises the new quarantine rules which came into effect on monday. they now force anyone arriving in the uk to go into isolation for two weeks, in order to prevent new cases of coronavirus being brought in from abroad. but the committee says the policy will cause further damage to the aviation industry and the wider economy. huw merriman, who chairs the transport select committee, spoke to the bbc a little earlier. of course it has to look at its bottom line, it would be unrealistic and our report makes it clear that redundancies are inevitable, but ba is the only airline that is looking at this pandemic as the time to downgrade the terms and conditions of staff, rather than just rely on redundancy. brazil has now recorded the second highest number of deaths from covid 19 after the united states, overtaking the uk. the brazilian health ministry says more than 900 people died from the virus in the past 2a hours, bringing the total to over 111,800. president jair bolsonaro has consistently downplayed the severity of the crisis. densely populated cities like sao paulo and rio dejaneiro have begun lifting restrictions, even though many brazilians fear the worst is yet to come. professor anthony pereira, who is director of the brazil institute at kings college london, says that the situation is very worrying for brazilians. it is sad, because the numbers are still going up in brazil, even as lockdown is being eased in a lot of places, so we don t know where it would end. it is possible that brazil could exceed the number of deaths in the united states byjuly 01’ deaths in the united states byjuly or august and it comes amid a political battle between the branches and levels of government. we know about the fights between the president and the governors. yesterday a supreme courtjustice said the army couldn t be a moderating power. the president tweeted a response, saying that the army would not obey senseless orders from the other powers. in digging in and perceiving that he is losing popularity, jair bolsonaro, he is trying to reemphasise his control over the armed forces. it is a very troubling moment for brazil s democracy as well as its public health. people planning to take part in protests in london today have been told that they must be off the streets by five o clock this afternoon. the metropolitan police said several protests are scheduled in the capital, including a black lives matter protest and another by right wing groups. senior officers have again urged people to stay away while coronavirus rules remain in place. sean dilley reports. london s metropolitan police is gearing up for more protests on the streets of the capital today, two and a half weeks after the death of george floyd in police custody in minneapolis. britain s most senior police officer is urging people to stay at home. i think people should stay away from these protests. it s clear that we re in the middle of a public health crisis, so it s not safe for them, it s not safe for the people around them. secondly, we do have information that people are intent on coming to cause violence and confrontation. of course, we will do everything we can to prevent violence and disorder. senior officers have authorised special powers to restrict the locations of protests. all gatherings must end at 5:00pm. the measures come a week after tens of thousands gathered around the uk. a minority turned violent. shouting. in london, 27 police officers were hurt. statues were targeted in bristol and in the capital. this weekend, the cenotaph and a statue of britain s wartime prime minister were hidden from view. what s happened with these demonstrations is that a tiny minority or actually, a growing minority, unfortunately have hijacked them. and they are using them as a pretext to attack the police, to cause violence, and to cause damage to public property. police say they understand the depth of feeling ahead of planned protests but they say people should, on public health grounds, find other ways to make their voice heard. sean dilley, bbc news. from today in england and northern ireland, people who live by themselves can expand their support network to include one other household of any size. these new support bubbles allow qualifying people to meet indoors or out, be less than two metres apart and stay overnight. in england, the rule also applies to single parents with children under 18. an outbreak of the coronavirus emanating from a large wholesale market in beijing has led to fears of a second wave of infections in the chinese capital. the market is now shut, along with some others in china s capital. an outbreak of the coronavirus emanating from a large wholesale market in beijing has led to fears of a second wave of infections in the chinese capital. the market is now shut, along with some others in china s capital. 0ur china correspondent, steve mcdonell, has more from beijing. we are getting used to not having any cases in beijing, more than 50 days without a new case and all of a sudden at a large wholesale markets, dozens sudden at a large wholesale markets, d oze ns of sudden at a large wholesale markets, dozens of positive cases, most are asymptomatic. now they are testing 10,000 staff at the market and this isa 10,000 staff at the market and this is a massive wholesale market, that supplies 80% of beijing s meat and vegetables. so a lot of concern there. the people running that market are saying they have been going around trying to test where it could have come from, or how it s spread, but they re saying they have tested traces of the coronavirus on a chopping board used for imported salmon. i don t know if that necessarily means it has come off the salmon, or the person chopping the salmon, or the person chopping the fish. but large ramifications. we have seen hundreds of military police pouring into that market. the market has been shut down and neighbourhoods around the market shut down, schools, shops around the market also closed. hundreds of black and minority ethnic doctors in the uk have told the bbc they are still waiting for a coronavirus risk assessment. guidance issued by nhs england at the end of april recommended that staff who are at greater risk should be assessed. 94% of doctors who have died with coronavirus have come from non white backgrounds. joining me now from north london is the bma s council chair, dr chaand nagpaul. thank you forjoining us. how concerned are you by these figures and do they accord with what your hear something yes, the figures are disturbing, 94% of all doctors who have died from covid 19 have come from a bame background. this figure cannot be explained on stat isical variation. so it is clear that the nhs hasa variation. so it is clear that the nhs has a duty of care to protect its workforce and risk assessments are key. they re the same as we do for the population, that certain members of population should be shielded, certain are vulnerable. what we know is that bame health ca re what we know is that bame health care workers who have a high risks, those who may be older, who may have diabetes or a heart condition, should they be in contact with the virus and become infected, that could seriously damage the health and cause death. it is right they should be risk assessed. without that, you basically have a situation where health care workers are putting themselves in harm s way and these statistics, it is a call for action. so we had guidance from nhs england to all nhs providers for the staff to be risk assessed and yet about 40% of doctors have told us they re not even aware of the ability to be risk assessed and of those that have been risk assessed, more bame doctors are telling us they re not satisfied. this is a time where we must protect our workforce and those who are most at risk. and i want to make sure that no one feels that doctors are not going to be on the front line. this means that doctors can be redeployed to do work that is safe for them and patients and there is plenty of work, with the lack log, to do work thatis work, with the lack log, to do work that is not covid facing. we should redeploy staff in a way that is right for them and patients. are some staff taking matters into their own hands and risk assessing themselves if they have underlying conditions and they know that because of their ethnicity they re at greater risk, can they say i m stepping back, whether you re going to risk assessment me or not, i ve done my own? one of the worrying statistics is that bame doctors are less likely to challenge authority and complain, because they feel there may be repurr cushions. repercussions. so i have written to all doctors advising them they re entitled to a risk assessment and they should be challenging if they feel they re at risk and they have not been assessed. there are some tools available that give employers and we have advised our members of these stools tools so they can see if they fall into a high risk category and if they do, remember doctors and health care workers are seeing patients at close proximity. if they re at risk of serious ill health it can t be right they re put into that position. we are encouraging doctors to feel out if they feel they re being put in harm s way when they should be protected. thank you forjoining us. worth saying that nhs england have said they know that covid 19 has put a spotlight on health inequalities and saying that they re prioritising risk assessment for ethnic minority staff. the dalai lama has said he s been inspired by the compassion so many have shown during the coronavirus crisis. the tibetan buddhist spiritual leader told the bbc the pandemic had helped people recognise they were part of one global community. 0ur correspondent justin rowlatt reports. when i met the dalai lama in 2017, the world was very different. then the world was very different. then the leader of tibetan buddhism could even tap me on the head. that is for educated people. how are you, your holliness. in the age of coronavirus we meet by video. he admits being locked down in a palace is pretty curby. i personally stay here peacefully. he recognise it is pandemic has been a terrible burden for many, but he says there has been much to inspire and celebrate. many people don t care about their own sort of safety, but helping. wonderful. in a way it has revealed something positive about humanity and about us all. negative things, sometimes helpful one way frustration, anger and one way when you re on a member of your own community suffer, then there are a sense of concern, more compassionate feeling. his hope is that the coronavirus crisis will help foster international co operation. coronavirus crisis will help foster international co-operation. in the past, there has been too much emphasis my continent, my nation, my religion. now that thinking is out dated. we should think humanity, seven billion human beings. one of the key concerns for the buddhist leader i was the environment. is the environment. the current dalai lama was born in a remote village and exiled in 1959. the god king travels. that is when the tibetan people rose up against the chinese occupation. the dalai lama says he has seen dramatic changes in the environment within his own lifetime. 1960 i came here. that winter, a lot of snow. then each year less and less and less. so we must think very seriously global warming. now to a more delicate subject, his own death. he has said he may not be reincarnated and could be the last dalai lama. dalai lama institution now a few centuries now and with this. great dalai lama! are you saying you are the last dalai lama? the concerned people should discuss about the future of the dalai lama. they should decide. i have no idea. my they should decide. i have no idea. my main concern is my own life spent something useful. it hasn t finished! four years. the dalai lama has been an extraordinarily effective ambassador people since the chinese invasion 70 years ago. he may say he is not interested in what happens when he is gone, but his passing will raise major political and religious issues. a government scheme providing grants for businesses supports fewer firms in areas with higher property prices, according to a new report by researchers from the institute for fiscal studies. just a one pound difference in a property s rateable value can lead to the amount of support differing by up to nearly £25,000. there has also been a significant variation in how quickly councils have been able to pay out grants to companies. let s get more on this from david phillips, one of the authors of the report. thank you forjoining us. so what are these grants and business rebates and how know how do they work. the government put in place two schemes to support businesses with not just labour two schemes to support businesses with notjust labour costs, two schemes to support businesses with not just labour costs, but other costs. so most businesses in the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors, many which are closed town, most businesses are getting a waiver of their business rates this year and those occupying small properties, or the vast majority of them, are entitled to grants of up to £25,000 to help pay their rent or with other costs. some other businesses in the office sector are also entitled to grants if they re in particularly small properties. it is support over £22 billion of support, mostly to the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors, but that doesn t mean there are not issues with the design that could be addressed if the schemes were extended. explain what the problems are, why you think there injustice is and how they can be quickly fixed? the figures issue is that the way the schemes are designed means there are quite big cliff edges in there are quite big cliff edges in the support businesses get. you mentioned that a one pound difference in the value of a property can lead to a doubling or a halving in the amount of support they get, because they become eligible for bigger grants or lose eligibility for grants. that could bea eligibility for grants. that could be a £25,000 difference. that unfair and it could cause distortion to competition and some businesses want to survive and continue and others just because of that one pound difference in the value of property. also. tell us what how this can be fixed. there are two ways, one is that the schemes could be changed so that the schemes could be changed so that rather than having the big cliff edges in support, support gets tapered away and that is how it often works with these schemes, the other issue that could be changed is that rather than have national thresholds who define who is eligible for grants, so if you re in london, over 20% of properties are above the threshold, regional thresholds could be set to reflect the differences in property values, to make sure the schemes are more fairly providing support to different parts of country where values are different. we will have to eleven it, because we have a busy morning. thank you for explaining that clearly. the queen s official birthday will be marked with a ceremony instead of the annual trooping the colour parade, as the coronavirus lockdown continues. it is only the second time in her 68 year reign that the parade in london has not gone ahead. instead, windsor castle will host a ceremony with a small number of welsh guardsmen and military musicians. social distancing rules will be in place for those who are marching. joining us now from windsor castle is our royal correspondent, sarah campbell. tell us more. well, the build up to the ceremony is beginning. i can hearin the ceremony is beginning. i can hear in the distance behind the castle walls, i can hear the massed band. and behind the gate, the guardsmen are lining up to make that march up the hill to the quadrangle. the doors are closed, because there will be no public viewpoint, no van ta ij will be no public viewpoint, no van taij point vantage point. social distancing is the order of the day and trooping the colour cancelled for only the second time in the queen s reign. there are soldiers trooping up the mall towards buckingham palace for that photo opportunity. none of that can happen this year, due to the coronavirus and instead location wise it has moved from london to here to windsor castle where the queen and the duke of edinburgh have been during lockdown. there will be a short military ceremony. roughly 20 minutes. it has been especially designed. normally the guards men are shoulder to shoulder and of course that can t happen and they have developed a ceremony that means they will be exactly 2.2 metres apart at all times. the queen will ta ke apart at all times. the queen will take the royal salute and go back into the castle and the welsh guards will go back on duty. no public vantage points in windsor. the ceremony will be shown on bbc1. thank you. as we ve been hearing from today in england and northern ireland, people living alone, or single parents with children under the age of 18, can choose to pair up with another household in a so called ‘support bubble . for many, the chance to visit, and even stay the night with loved ones, is a welcome change to the strict lockdown measures introduced almost three months ago. (read 0n) introduced almost three months ago. samantha sloane is a single mum with a two year old daughter she s reuniting with her parents today. i can talk to her now, with her dad duncan. what does it mean to you, it is your birth day, i m glad you have the t shirt. birth day, i m glad you have the t-shirt. it is. congratulations. thank you. how does it feel to be in a bubble at last and not entirely on your own with your two year old. a bubble at last and not entirely on your own with your two-year-old. for me it is an amazing thing, it has come at st right time, it is my birthday and it is a welcome pirt day present. my two year old broke herfoot day present. my two year old broke her foot a couple of weeks ago and that was challenging on my own, i m due to move house on monday and could do with some child care support and i found could do with some child care support and ifound out my could do with some child care support and i found out my dad s due open heart surgery. it is amazing to be able to see him again and hopefully have a takeaway and have a sunday dinner tomorrow, so all very exciting for us. duncan, sorry to hear about your heart surgery and good luck with that. thank you. on the question of the bubble, what does it mean to you to actually see your daughter and your grand child again after these three months? that is great. we have seen each other over videos and things, but to actually physically come in the house is brilliant. what have been, i don t know if either of you is prepared to go there with full candour, but what have been the ha rd est candour, but what have been the hardest moments? probably hit six weeks and i hit a really low point and got quite epressed and emotional depressed and emotional and found out the news about my father and being alone and not hug him and having my daughter with a broken foot and no support. so it has been emotional but there has been some good times with my me and my daughter. i m glad it is mixed and there have been some up things, sorry about the six week difficult moment, duncan, what have been the ha rd est moment, duncan, what have been the hardest things for you? it is helping out more, having the chance, you see your daughter or and your grand daughter in difficulties and there are problems arise and you can t help them. you know it is frustrating and it has been frustrating, but now you knowjust to come around and be able tojust sit here and help. it is lovely to talk to you both. all the best with moving on monday. duncan all the best with the child care on monday and all of you have a wonderful birthday today and feel free to have a big hug for all of us. thank you. thank you. now time for a quick look at the weather with helen. hello. there will be further heavy and thundery showers this weekend, but with spells of sunshine in between it will feel warmer. the showers will be quite slow moving into the afternoon, perhaps parts of wales, the midlands and north west england sing active storms, lots of lightning, large hail, squally winds. rain across northern england and northern ireland is edging its way northwards into scotland, but drier to the north and east, but the sea haar and fret will keep things quite a grey and cool. showers are obviously congregating a lot near centre of low pressure in the southend west, but will tend to ease a little through the night. another warm night, the low cloud will return, slow to clear tomorrow, otherwise further spells of sunshine and some heavy and thundery showers. hello. this is bbc news with carrie gracie. the headlines: british airways treatment of staff during the coronavirus crisis is a national disgrace according to a group of prominent uk politicians they say ba has used the pandemic to cut thousands of jobs.
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.
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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
this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the uk prime minister, boris johnson, sticks by his top aide over claims dominic cummings broke the lockdown rules by travelling across the country. i think he followed the instincts of every father and every parent, and i do not mark him down for that. mounting calls for mr cummings to resign will overshadow today s cabinet discussions on lifting coronavirus restrictions. a top german court rules volkswagen must pay compensation to motorists who purchased diesel cars that the company modified to appear less polluting. japan prepares to lift it s state of emergency in tokyo and surrounding areas after a fall in the rate of infections. and parents and teachers are told to prepare for the return of more pupils to schools in england from next monday as planned. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world, and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. there s mounting pressure on the prime minister, borisjohnson, to fire his key adviser, dominic cummings, for travelling across the country during the coronavirus lockdown. conservative backbenchers, the opposition labour party and some scientists have condemned mr cummings‘ apparent flouting of the government guidance, with many accusing him of seriously undermining public confidence in measures to halt the spread of covid 19. borisjohnson says his adviser acted responsibly, legally and with integrity . the cabinet meets this afternoon to discuss the latest moves to ease the lockdown in england. our correspondent, simonjones, reports. reporter: have you undermined the message, mr cummings? leaving downing street with the backing of the prime minister, but there are growing calls for dominic cummings to quit or be fired. he s accused of breaking lockdown rules by travelling to durham when his wife had coronavirus symptoms so they could be close to other family members in case they needed help caring for their young son. i think he followed the instincts of every father and every parent, and i do not mark him down for that. i believe that, in every respect, he has acted responsibly and legally and with integrity. the uk was placed into lockdown on the 23rd of march with strict limitations on travel. the government guidelines stated you should not be visiting family members who do not live in your home. the last time dominic cummings was seen before developing coronavirus symptoms was in london on the 27th of march. four days later, durham police said it was made aware of reports that an individual had travelled from london to durham. on the 12th of april, newspaper reports suggested mr cummings was spotted in the town of barnard castle, 30 miles from his parents home. two days later, he was photographed back in downing street. but on the 19th of april, it s alleged mr cummings again travelled to the north east. number 10 says this is false. labour wants an enquiry. this was a huge test of the prime minister and he s just failed that test. he hasn t sacked dominic cummings, he hasn t called for an investigation, and he s treating the british public with contempt. the former conservative minister, paul maynard, tweeted. the concern is shared by one scientist who s been advising the government. if we undermine the unity between the population and the government, if people lose trust and lose adherence, if they stop complying with the measures which have contained the infection, then all of us will lose out because the infection will spike again and many more people will die. hypocrite! resign! dominic cummings was heckled as he returned home, but as the cabinet meets today to discuss plans to further ease the lockdown, ministers are facing the accusation that it s one rule for downing street and one for the rest of us. simon jones, bbc news. our chief political correspondent, vicki young, is outside the prime minister s office at downing street in london. vicki, the dominic cummings row continuing to overshadow everything else. yes and i think it will because i think people feel that there are still some unanswered questions. particularly about whether he made a trip to a castle on easter sunday when the guidelines clearly said that you should be staying at home, that the only travel if that journey staying at home, that the only travel if thatjourney is essential. of course, i think people looking at this and people have listened to that over the last couple of days will think, yes, you can of course go through these pages and pages of guidelines like there is a lot of them mike and there is exemptions, you could do that, but in the end most people know what they were being asked to do in that time and it was to stay at home. the other interesting thing is that the fact that people are now talking about the prime minister s judgment that people are now talking about the prime minister sjudgment by standing up and defending his adviser, it is notjust now about what dominic cummings did, but what the prime minister knew, did he sanction this, did he know that at the time? and people think, actually, he has made a wrong judgment here in keeping his adviser. as you say, dominating everything, cabinet ministers who are giving interviews are sure to be asked about this time and time again. exec they what happened to the education secretary gavin williamson this morning. the guidance is incredibly extensive and at the heart of that guidance is always the issue of safeguarding children. and making sure that children are always absolutely protected. and my understanding is, from what the prime minister said yesterday, and you saw it as i did, is that at every stage dominic cummings and his family followed the guidance. at no stage did dominic cummings or his family break the law. of course, the issue with the prime minister saying that dominic cummings followed his instinct as a parent, there are lots of parents around the country have been in a similar position. and they did not act in this way. that is the other point about this, it is not normal times, the coronavirus, the restrictions placed on everyone have affected absolutely everybody in the country. that is why i think there is this anger. conservative mps say they have been e mailed contacted by constituents. a lot of them now saying that they feel there needs to be an investigation into what happened in order to get the facts straight. nicola sturgeon, who went through something similar with an advisor, you will remember in scotla nd advisor, you will remember in scotland her chief medical officer was found to have travelled to a second home during lock time, she resigned. this is what nicola sturgeon mix of what is going on here. during lockdown. i think he s come to the wrong judgment. the reason why i think that matters is that the consequences are potentially so serious. as we go into the next phases of dealing with this crisis, as we start to lift lockdown restrictions and rely less on the letter of the law and more on guidance and appeal to people s good judgment, then trust in the advice we are giving and the reasons why we are giving that advice is really important. and people, if they get any sense that it is one rule for them and another rule for people in positions of authority, then that will become very difficult. the sacrifices people have made over these past few weeks are immense. i think that is the point that some conservative mps are worried about, that this undermines those clear m essa 9 es that this undermines those clear messages from the government. at the moment, there are going to be announcements about unlocking and using those restrictions, but you know there could come a time when more restrictions need to be placed back on people and what they do not wa nt to back on people and what they do not want to that message undermined by things that officials here might have done. thank you very much, vicky. joining me now is professor robert west, professor of health psychology at university college london and a government scientific advisor. welcome and thank you forjoining us. welcome and thank you forjoining us. the prime minister said that dominic cummings followed the instincts of every parent, acted responsibly, legally, and with integrity. do you agree? responsibly, legally, and with integrity. do you agree ?|j responsibly, legally, and with integrity. do you agree? i think that he did follow the instinct of a pa rent that he did follow the instinct of a parent and that is precisely the problem. the prime minister should have realised that, that the reason why these guidelines and rules were put in place is because people will have a very difficult choices to make in their lives and i think as of the previous clips have shown, many, of the previous clips have shown, any of the previous clips have shown, many, many people, thousands of people in the country, have made thatjudgment people in the country, have made that judgment and have people in the country, have made thatjudgment and have stuck to the rules. at great cost to themselves and, in many cases, to their loved ones, and are continuing to do so and need to do so, so when they see some in any position of power and authority not doing that, then that is problematic, but when they see the prime minister of the country saying, well, actually, it is ok to follow your instinct as a father and somehow making a virtue of it, i think this is where a lot of people have really struggled to understand why he would do that. we will come onto how people might react going forward , onto how people might react going forward, but just onto how people might react going forward, butjust looking back to what actually happened. gavin williamson, the education secretary this morning was saying at every stage he followed the guidelines. he did not do anything illegal. in a very straightforward way, what was what he did following the guidelines? the guidelines have, at that stage, where very clear in the way that they said stay at home was a guidance. however, it was recognised that this cannot apply in every single situation so there were some exemptions put in place. these we re some exemptions put in place. these were things like if you find yourself in an abusive relationship and you need to seek refuge, then, of course, you must go out of the home and do that. or, if you have a situation where you have got a very sick child and you need to leave the home in order to be able to address that situation. so the exceptions where there for a really very serious problematic situations. now ina serious problematic situations. now in a situation like this, if you have senior government adviser or a government minister, the natural thing to do would be if you really have concerns, would be to seek advice from the cabinet secretary or someone advice from the cabinet secretary or someone high up in the. about what you should do. if they then say, i understand you re in a very difficult situation, ok, that should be fine, then that is ok. whether he did that are not, i do not know. if he had done that, i would expect him to say so. and then i think people might have understood that, even though the judgment might have been wrong, at least it was made in good faith. coming onto how people, the general public might take this going forward. we are in a different stage of this, been told he is a common sense, our ownjudgment, of this, been told he is a common sense, our own judgment, what of this, been told he is a common sense, our ownjudgment, what impact do you think it might have on the integrity of the lockdown and people doing the right thing to stop the spread of the disease? obviously it has put this at risk. i think the key thing that we need, that eve ryo ne key thing that we need, that everyone needs to remember is that the reason why we are dealing to these rules is not for dominic cummings early prime minister, it is for ourselves, for our loved ones, for ourselves, for our loved ones, for ourselves, for our loved ones, for our friends for ourselves, for our loved ones, for ourfriends and for ourselves, for our loved ones, for our friends and family not for our friends and family not for dominic cummings or the prime minister. and at those principles remain. that is why we are doing it. even though there appears to have been quite a substantial failure of leadership, that does not necessarily mean we have to sort of ta ke necessarily mean we have to sort of take things into our own hands and somehow behave in a way that is going to cause harm to the community. so the guidance remains. and i think one of the things that we also need to do is to restore confidence in the system is that we are going to be using going forward for example, as we go from a blanket lockdown type social distancing situation to something that has more nuance, we are going to be relying more on testing, contact tracing, and isolation. and that does require a high degree of trust and confidence in the system andi trust and confidence in the system and i think the government has got a really big job of work to do to restore that confidence and to get that system up and running in a way that system up and running in a way that people will say, yes, i am willing to go along with that. professor robert matt, thank you very much. this robert west. in the past hour, germany s top court has ruled that volkswagen should pay compensation to motorists who bought cars fitted with emissions cheating software. the car maker has already paid billions of dollars in fines for installing software designed to artificially improve its emissions test results. lets speak to our correspondent in berlin, jenny hill, for more on this. just remind us about the details of this case because it was a one man who took volkswagen to court saying that he basically wanted his money back having bought a car on a false premise. yes, you re quite right. this was a pensioner who bought a vw car back in 2014 and he butted in good faith, he said, and once the emission scandal came to light, he went to volkswagen and said he wa nted went to volkswagen and said he wanted them to take the volkswagen back of him and refund his money. germany s top civil court has by and large agreed with him. they say that vw must buy the car back. but the money that the men will get will be a little less than the vehicle s original value, that is to compensate for wear and take wear and tear, depreciation and son. he will get around 25,000 euros now. that is quite a big moment here in germany because there are around 60,000 other vw owners out there who have launched similar complaints i in the courts and this could, in some respects, open the floodgates toa some respects, open the floodgates to a degree. when you look at the sums of money involved, this man is getting 25,000 euros and at times that are a little bit less than that by 60,000 people and actually this is going to run into the millions. compared to the 30 billion euros bill that this company has already paid out in fines and regulatory fees and compensation in other parts of the world so far. it is actually not a huge amount of money. of the world so far. it is actually not a huge amount of moneym of the world so far. it is actually not a huge amount of money. it has been back and forth in the court with appeals, is this it? or is there possibly going to be further appeals? well, these tens of thousands of other complainants will now see this as a very positive moment for them so their cases are likely to continue and be heard. vw had already settled out of court with several hundred thousand car owners here in germany, far less amounts and terms of payments to them. but that sort of collective action, as it is known here, has been dealt with. there are other ramifications, so five years after vw actually finally admitted that it had been cheating as emissions tests and the ramifications are still coming and there are actions still outstanding, including actions being taken by shareholders, investors who say that they lost a lot of money when their share value plummeted after that admission so there are still a lot of court cases outstanding and a number of executives have been charged with various charges over the years too. just last week we heard that the current chief executive and the current chief executive and the current chair of the financial supervisory board have now, after payment of 9 billion euros by vw, now no longerface payment of 9 billion euros by vw, now no longer face charges. over what the courts were suggesting was their part in the scandal. but yet another executive still faces charges. so this is not over yet by a long stretch. and of course, what lasts even longer, and it is hard to imaginea lasts even longer, and it is hard to imagine a ceiling going away, is at the same left on the reputation of this huge german car maker. to imagine eddie stein going away. to imagine the stain going away. the japanese prime minister, shinzo abe, has lifted the nationwide state of emergency imposed to stop the spread of the coronavirus. restrictions had already been eased in most of the country but had remained in force in tokyo and surrounding areas. despite more relaxed lockdown rules than in most european countries, japan has so far avoided an explosive outbreak of the virus. our correspondent in tokyo, rupet wingfield hayes, has more on the easing of restrictions, that comes into effect later today. after seven weeks, the state of emergency here in tokyo is about to be lifted. the panel of experts who have been advising prime minister shinzo abe met here in tokyo this afternoon and they decided that the infection rate is below the 0.5 per 100,000 level, which is the rate at which they think it is safe to start reopening the city. as you can see, most people haven t actually waited. it s a monday afternoon here. well, if you d come here over the weekend, it s been great weather here in tokyo for the last few days and this place was jammed. like everywhere else in the world, people are bored. they want this to be over. what s remarkable, though, is here injapan we never really had the sort of lockdowns that have happened in cities in europe and north america, and yet, at the same time, japan has managed to keep both the infection rate, but more importantly, the mortality rate from covid 19 very, very low. as of yesterday, the number of people who have died from the disease here injapan was just 830. why that is is not clear. there are lots of theories. there are, for example, people talking about the fact that everybody here wears masks. this is not a new thing that s just happened in the last few weeks, for years and years decades here injapan, if you get a cold, if you get a cough, it is normal for you to wear a mask. there are many cultural customs injapan that may have contributed to stopping the spread of infection. people, for example, don t shake hands they bow. people take their shoes off when they go into buildings. hygiene levels here are generally very, very high, and there s one other thing that people have been mentioning as perhaps significant japan has, by far, the lowest level of obesity in the whole of the developed world. a number of church of england bishops have taken to twitter to accuse borisjohnson of treating people like mugs and having no respect after he backed his chief aide dominic cummings. the bishop of bristol vivienne faull said living differently in a nation where the prime minister has no respect for the people. the bonds of peace and our common life have been dangerously undermined this evening . the bishop of leeds nick baines said, the question is: do we accept being lied to, patronised and treated by a pm as mugs? the moral question is not for cummings it is for the pm and ministers who find this behaviour acceptable . in sheffield, bishop pete wilcox tweeted tonight i must say: the pm and his cabinet are undermining the trust of the electorate and the risks to life a re real . the bishop of reading olivia graham said i find myself deeply worried by the pm s judgment call on this one. not from a political perspective but a moral one. his response lacks both integrity and respect and he hasjust made his task of leading us through this crisis much, much harder . joining us now dr david walker, the bishop of manchester. thank you very much forjoining us. what is your view of all of this?|j what is your view of all of this?” think i agree with what my collea g u es think i agree with what my colleagues are saying. i think i was stunned yesterday evening by the press co nfe re nce stunned yesterday evening by the press conference from downing street. religions have had thousands of years of saying, actually, human instinct on it sony is not good enough. we need rules, we need virtues human instinct on its own is not good enough. in the prime minister basically says, actually, you can trust your instincts. if we ll do then we are not going to get out of this covid crisis. are you comfortable that we know enough for people to be piling in and saying these things as strongly as they are? i mean dominic cummings says that he has done nothing wrong and the prime minister says he is content that he has done nothing wrong. do not trust either of them? i think there is a role in public life that when a story gets as big as this, what needs to happen is very, very quickly you get out there all the news, whether it is good, bad, whatever it is and then you have got a position you can defend. what we are struggling with at the moment is we are not being told. we are told that some of the things that are being said about mr cummings are palpable lies, but were not told which things are true, which things are false so it is very ha rd to which things are false so it is very hard to understand what is going on. it is that sense of deception there that we are being i do like to or, at the very least, things are being hidden from us that we need to know in order that we, the people of this country, can really understand that we are all in it together and that sense of being in it together is absolutely essential to our cooperate coping of the crisis. if we feel it is one rule for somebody different role for others, we will all go our own way and the peaks of the disease will find other unacceptable the disease will find other u na cce pta ble levels the disease will find other unacceptable levels of death. what you think should happen next? i m that the prime minister, and he did not look well at all last night, i m hoping that having had a nights sleep, perhaps the restful morning, his cabinet meeting, i am hoping that they may be able to come out and say, look, we got this wrong, we are sorry, we got it wrong and we let in the british people. i think that public does mean that mr cummings position is untenable at the heart of government. but i think if we can have that sense, look, we did that run, we misjudged the public mood, we have learned, we are sorry, that will enable us to rebuild the trust we need to get through this crisis. look we were wrong. what about trust in the prime minister? well, he does not look a bellman. we have now we know that people who have he does not look a well man. i think i cut him some slack for that. cabinet advisors and collea g u es slack for that. cabinet advisors and colleagues around him need to say, boris, you got that wrong, just say you got it wrong and everybody can forgive. they got it wrong and we can move on. if he does that, i think we can put this behind us and get on with the realjob, the railtrack cut task of tracking and tracing the task of tracking and tracing the task of tracking and tracing this. just got a statement through from the acting durham police commissioner. i m confident that durham police has responded appropriately to the visit of mr cummings to the county at the end of march was up there is a platter of additional information serving in the public domain which deserves appropriate examination. i have written to the chief constable to establish the facts pertaining to any potential breach of the law and regulations in this matter at any juncture. it is vital that the first graduate has the interest of the people of county durham and darlington at its heart. so that the model of policing by consent, independent of government, but a nswera ble to independent of government, but answerable to the law, is maintained. it will be to the chief co nsta ble to maintained. it will be to the chief constable to respond to this request and i m confident with the resources at its disposal, the first can show proportionality and fairness in what has become a major issue a public interest. and trust. that statement just from the acting durham police crime and victims commissioner steve white. greeks are once again able to travel freely to the country s islands, as part of measures to ease lockdown restrictions. the return of domestic travel is an important step towards restarting the wider tourism industry, which makes up at least a fifth of the greek economy. ferry services to the islands are operating with reduced capacity, are operating with reduced capacity to ensure social distancing, and passengers are having their temperatures checked. nikos voulgaridis is the owner of kokkini porta rossa hotel and joins me live from rhodes. are you preparing to welcome your first guests? we certainly hope so. we are going to accept her first guests around the 1st ofjuly in the islands and we very much look forward to it. what impact has locked down hard on you? the lockdown had on your? we are blessed here because we are healthy and we live in a lovely place and we have been very little affected, other than financially, by the crisis. businesses are another thing altogether. being dependent on tourism, the islands are almost 100% dependent on it, we are going to be affected very severely. but we are going to make the best of it. we hope that people from abroad will be able to travel soon and visitors. the weather is lovely, the place is beautiful, and we are a very safe destination compared to other places. so we are going to have a very bad season, financially, but we are going to cope and we are all here. have there been any cases of covid 19 on roads? on rhodes. here. have there been any cases of covid-19 on roads? on rhodes. two ladies flew from europe a couple of months ago and that was it. it is either two or three cases that have been hospitalised and then sent back home. so i am wondering whether you re worried about the prospect of an influx of tourism perhaps bringing covid 19? how can locals and guests be reassured that it is going to be safe? well, we have all the bad been very well informed by the bad been very well informed by the entirety is have all been very well and for many authorities and the way that we are going to operate, all kinds of accommodation, it is going to be done in a way that heel is going to ensure that everything will be done very safely in a way that will ensure everything will be done very safely for ourselves and our guests. i think the way things are now in the way things are being done, the risk is going to be minimal because as we understand it, we are going to start accepting guests from countries that are rather safe now and then gradually it is going to be increased and progressed to other countries that are currently not as safe as others are. so i think it is going to be fine. obviously you describe the economically it has taken a big hit and how have you been so bad? if tourism does not pick up, are you worried about the viability of your business going forward ? viability of your business going forward? not our business. our business is going to be ok. we are not happy with the situation, but we are going to define. i am worried about other businesses. they are going to struggle a lot. and also individuals. the thing is that for the change, we appear to have a government that looks as if they know very well what they are doing and also, for a change, we the people have been behaving exactly the way that we should so it looks as if we are already by the situation and know what we see, as far as finance goes, and business goes, the government is doing things the right way and we feel secure that we are going to be ok. they have convinced us, most of us, to open our hotels and restaurants, etc, they are going to help people be paid what they would otherwise be, that his employees, and they are helping us, the business people, with taxes and other ways to survive. to keep afloat. thank you very much forjoining us. wishing you all the very best. i hope the british will visit because they are a big chunk of the business that we have and it is traditionally a destination for the british and we hope that soon you will be able to travel and we look very much forward to seeing you with us. thank you very much. thank you. thank you, you re welcome. western australia has been battered by a huge storm, ripping roofs off houses, downing trees, and leaving more than 60,000 homes without power. most were in the city of perth. the state s south was particularly hard hit, with dust storms and torrential rain as well as huge waves along the coast. officials said no injuries were reported. authorities had warned residents to prepare for a once in a decade storm. new zealand has been rocked by a 5.8 magnitude earthquake, while the country s prime minister was in the middle of a live television interview. the earthquake struck 30 kilometres off the coast of the country s north island and, although no damages were reported, it lasted for more than 30 seconds. ms ardern, who was in the country s parliament building known as the beehive when the quake hit, was remarkably calm under pressure. we arejust we are just having a bit of an earthquake here. quite a decent shakier, but if you see things moving behind me. the beehive moves a little more than most. the uk prime minister. we are doing our headlines now. the uk prime minister borisjohnson sticks by his top aide over claims dominic cummings broke the lockdown rules by travelling across the country. but mounting calls for mrcummings to resign will overshadow today s cabinet discussions on lifting coronavirus restrictions. a top german court rules volkswagen must pay compensation to motorists who purchased diesel cars that the company modified to appear less polluting. japan prepares to lift its state of emergency in tokyo and surrounding areas after a fall in the rate of infections. and parents and teachers are told to prepare for the return of more pupils to schools in england from next monday, as planned. the united states has suspended travel from brazil for non americans because of the high number of coronavirus cases there. the country now has more than 360,000 cases, and 22,000 people have died with the virus. the spike in numbers comes amid deep divisions in brazil, as kathryn armstrong reports. they chant. flanked by security guards wearing masks, a barefaced president jair bolsonaro greets a crowd of adoring fans. a young girl is passed through for an embrace with the far right leader, who has repeatedly dismissed warnings about social distancing. they sing. this spontaneous gathering is one of several held over the last two months. the crowd represents those who support the president and his plan to keep brazil open instead of locking down. siren wails. but the south american country has the second highest rate of coronavirus in the world. field hospitals are inundated. these girls say their father is one of many in intensive care. translation: psychologically, he s very upset. one moment, one person dies and another is discharged. he gets very angry. he s very afraid of dying, because a lot of people are dying. more than 22,000 people have now died of the virus and the numbers are on the rise. lockdown measures vary from state to state, but the country s leader is demanding restrictions ease in favour of the economy. katheryn armstrong, bbc news. the united states is edging closer to the grim milestone of 100,000 deaths with coronavirus. there s a growing divide in the country about when and how to ease lockdown restrictions. but after a sunny memorial day weekend, many people took matters into their own hands. our reporter freya cole has the story. a packed pool party in ozarks, missouri. this video was shared on social media at the weekend and has now been viewed millions of times. it has triggered fears of a second virus wave. it was a sunny memorial day weekend across the united states and many people flocked to beaches which have officially reopened. but not everyone followed the advice to keep a safe distance. you walk around here and i mean with the crowds on the beach, you wouldn t think anything was different. our travel ban was just lifted so i felt like i was safe to leave and i was following the rules. no one s really doing the social distancing, the masks. in new york, residents flocked to central park and took advantage of the sunshine to exercise. professional sports teams have also been given the go ahead to resume training. i believe that sports that can come back without having people in the stadium, without having people in the arena, do it. president trump marked his weekend with a round of golf, which triggered outrage from his critics. they say it wasn t the right sentiment when the country s death toll nears 100,000 people. freya cole, bbc news. research shows that the effects of social isolation have increased the risk of mental health issues for many young people around the world. but for disabled people, isolation and loneliness have all too often been the norm. joining us now to share his experience and tell us more is joey mander, a disability rights activist who is also a part of coventry youth activists. also on the line for support is molly gillespie, a community organiser who works alongside joey at the coventry youth activists. welcome both of you. thank you for joining us. joey, one thing that i have heard other disabled people say is this is actually those who are not disabled are getting a bit of a taste of what it feels like to be isolated and stuck at home when you don t want to be. tell us how you are feeling right now. absolutely. toa are feeling right now. absolutely. to a lot of disabled people, this social isolation is quite a. there isa social isolation is quite a. there is a lot of correlation for their everyday life. it is a scenario that feels very familiar to us. missing out on things that we want to enjoy. and i always try to describe it to people as very often with disabled people, it is not the so called handicap keeping them in, it is what other people take for granted. things like not having the right support to go out or not being accessible in places, it is hard for people to imagine, but if you imagine that you have a child and you are taking them to school at the moment or you cannot take them to school, that you might be out in the carand school, that you might be out in the car and you school, that you might be out in the carand you might school, that you might be out in the car and you might pass a football field, and they cannot go and play football, but the field still stays there, so that is how it feels. we miss an event and that event still goes on, we arejust miss an event and that event still goes on, we are just not there. so how have you felt during lockdown? it has been a difficult situation. i am an nhs worker as well, so i have been getting to go out to work, and work has been a difficult atmosphere. i think staff were quite down for a while. i work in a department that is very much underestimated and we are little known about, and to me it is really important that all key workers are heard. when you say about that fear of missing out, knowing that something else is out there, and we have all been effectively in this situation together where we have all known we are not missing out because eve ryo ne known we are not missing out because everyone is in the same boat. do you think you will feel differently when life returns to normal or whatever the new normality is for others? melanie reid in the times at the weekend described very poignantly in an article how she has been feeling through this, and this is now a fury of missing out, the thought that others will go back and she cannot. yes, i think that will be difficult. i think it will be very easy to forget their situation and be able to move on, and it would be really good if we could use this as a learning opportunity. i mean, a line i have been using to try and raise awareness of it is that for most people, this is just awareness of it is that for most people, this isjust temporary, but for some of us, this is our ordinary, and how even when things go back to normal, we will still be struggling with a lot of isolation. molly, what is your perspective on what might change as a result of this? i think what the coventry es activists are working towards with theircampaign, the activists are working towards with their campaign, the dragline that joeyjust said, their campaign, the dragline that joey just said, when their campaign, the dragline that joeyjust said, when we do return from lockdown and instructions are lifted, that ordinary that he is talking about, it will not return for disabled people, nothing is different. we want to work with other people to create a world that includes everyone and does not allow that normal to return. includes everyone and does not allow that normalto return. obviously there are laws in place, there is a lot that has to be done to raise awareness of trying to make sure that everybody is as fully integrated into society as possible. what would you say is missing in that picture? me orjoey, sorry? to you, molly. people often have lower expectations of what people with a disability can do. groups like cove ntry disability can do. groups like coventry youth activists completely smashed those stereotypes, but there isa smashed those stereotypes, but there is a lot more that needs doing. part of theircampaign is is a lot more that needs doing. part of their campaign is asking people to sit on their virtual sofa and share their experiences so that people can really relate and we do not allow that normal to return afterwards. joey, what would you like to change going forward? we often talk about in coventry youth activists, how one in three young people with a disability spend less than one hour outside their house on a saturday, and that, through all of the campaigns we have done, that is one thing that has kind of always liked everything we have done together. that is what we want to change, and we feel we can only do that by talking to people, notjust sharing our story, but giving them a chance to share their story because we know it is really hard to be heard. we fight to be heard, so when people work with us, we also want to help them so that their voices are heard for how their life experiences are. we hope our new campaign we will launch will be able to achieve that. joey and molly, thank you very much forjoining us. thank you for having us. thank you. one of the key questions being asked by medical professionals right now is why some people have more severe coronavirus symptoms than others. it s hoped some of the answers may lie in research being carried out by a team of scientists in cambridge. here s our science correspondent richard westcott. why does covid 19 put some people, like george gilbert here, in hospital, yet others get no symptoms at all? how are you doing? lovely. oh, that s good. well, he s helped volunteered to help find out. because part of the answer might lie in his blood. you take all that lot?! yeah, we re like vultures, aren t we? i shan t have any left. no! once it s sealed up the blood s passed to volunteer ben. his medical research had to go on hold because of the virus, so he s set up a team that every day carries covid samples to be analysed. so, ben, it s quite an odd way to interview someone. it is, yes. how did you get involved in this? so i d normally be working in the lab on pulmonary hypertension, a rare lung disease. and it s quite frustrating because i can t do that. so ijust e mailed my colleagues and asked how can i get involved, how can i help? and it s been excellent, to be honest, because you do feel you re making a difference in these difficult times. samples are taken to a brand new lab just around the corner on the cambridge biomedical campus. your blood contains cells that play a key role in fighting off the coronavirus. some of them make antibodies, others directly kill infected cells, but to analyse them first you have to separate them off. so at the very bottom we have the red blood cells, they re the heaviest and go to the bottom of the tube. at the top, the yellow part, is the plasma, it s kind of the solution that your blood floats in normally. and then we re looking at this white small band here these are the white blood cells that are fighting off your infection. then it gets more complex. there are lots of different types of white blood cells all playing different roles. so next door a machine uses lasers count how many of each key type. it could then separate millions of them off for more tests. incredibly, each blob here is a droplet of salty water with one cell inside. i think we ll find that the pattern of white blood cell numbers is going to give us an answer to why some people recover and some people don t. so basically the very ill people might have different cell structures or cells to the people who don t get very ill? very ill people may start off with a different balance of white blood cells, or they may end up with a different pattern that doesn t help the recovery. 265 addenbrooke s patients and staff are giving their blood for this research. some got very sick, some didn t. the key question for scientists can you see the difference in their blood? we ve found a number of severe abnormalities in patients with advanced covid disease, and some of those point very clearly to the potential therapeutics that might impact on the disease. we re also finding that a lot of those abnormalities are visible early in disease, and perhaps much earlier than we expected. so that s interesting you might be able to tell much sooner who is going to get very, very sick? exactly. what we re hoping is that when people develop symptoms that make them suspect they might have covid and get their very first test, when tests become more readily available, at that point we might be able to predict who s going to go on to get severe disease, which should allow us to intervene earlier. by understanding the science of the disease it s easier to find drugs to fight it. richard westcott, bbc news, cambridge. and, to comply with all virus distancing measures, the covid ward filming in that report was carried out safely, for the bbc, by on site doctors so that we didn t enter the ward or use personal protective equipment. the international office of migration has warned that the current situation in the mediterranean could mean many people are disappearing at sea without a trace. the number of migrant boats leaving libya for europe has increased four times compared with last year, and there are also fewer search and rescue missions. the bbc‘s population reporter stephanie hegarty investigated what happened to one boat that left libya in early february, when it called for help that never came. we were in carlos s kitchen, i think it was about three o clock. hello, can you hear me? we are calling from a boat. we are migrants. please, we are in danger. we are in the middle of the sea. we are in the mediterranean sea. right, tell me information, how many people are you in the boat? we are 90 people, 91 people. usually they call us and the boat is still working and moving and in this case it wasn t. carlos and jacinta volunteer for a helpline that answers calls from boats in distress in the mediterranean. the process is simple. they call in and then we ask where is their position, and then we will contact the coastguard. that is our role. we don t do anything else. but that night those that were supposed to coordinate the rescue were not answering. the boat was in libyan waters. they tried six different numbers for the libyan coast guard but there was no answer. then they called the rescue coordination centre in rome. it just became more and more clear as the night went on that no one was coming. these people are going to die. there was no chance that they are going to be rescued because nobody is picking up. i did ask where they were from, and i asked that partly for that thing of being able to match up later, but also because i was really worried for them and i didn t want them to be anonymous people. i wanted to know a bit more about them. wow. this man knew ten people on board. muzammil was his 18 year old nephew. i remember saying to them, you are doing really well, because i just wanted to say something positive. is there a lot of water inside the boat? yeah, water, water. it s going to be full now, yes. of course you cannot tell them everything is going to be fine because you know that everything may not be fine. and we were speaking to them, we were speaking to the man and he was shouting and he was saying there are people in the water. then we couldn t hear him any more. we tried to contact the italian search and rescue centre to find out what happened to this boat but the only thing they could tell us is that the exchanged information with other rescue centres, as required by current international legislation. alarm phones say that the libyan coastguard told them that a boat was sent out seven hours after the initial call. we tried to get more information from libya but the coastguard didn t respond to any attempts to contact them. stephanie hegarty, bbc news. the pandemic has left many teenagers missing their friends and school. some have been using the time to capture snapshots of this moment in history as part of a photography project to show what lockdown has meant for young people. our reporter graham satchell has been to meet some of them. it almost helps me to understand my feelings, by taking pictures of what s going on. ithink, before, i kind of would just take pictures a bit almost carelessly, just snap it, but now i actually look at the composition of it. i think, like, roads can be like metaphors for life almost. it s a long road, but there sjust no end to it almost, itjust seems so, like, isolated. i can t bear this waiting one minute, i m so impatient! i ll start. an online class led by award winning photographer carolyn mendelsohn. these teenagers being encouraged to document their life in lockdown. it s a project funded by bradford council. what has life been like in lockdown? incredibly boring most of the time. i miss my friends, i normally see my friends way more, obviously. i definitely prefer documentary photography. sitting around, just sort of waiting for something to do, like waiting for lunchtime, then tea time and then bed. so i m in year 11 and i wasjust about to take my gcses, obviously, some time around now, and due to the coronavirus, they were cancelled. i ve had a lot of down days over, obviously, the lockdown, and i think many other people have as well, especially teenagers because we re so stressed about, obviously, education. i feel like time s really strange right now and my mind has been going over what time means to me. the pocket watch is my grandfather s, who passed away a couple of years ago. everybody s frozen right now. everybody s wondering what s going to happen next, so, for me, that was a symbol of like frozen time and how we can try and make the most out of it. was everyone blown away by this picture that harry took? because i certainly was. people always talk about a work life balance and how you have to separate work and school from your life at home. but we re in this strange position where those things have beenjoined together. i wanted to portray that stressful feeling of it being quite all encompassing, surrounding you. i think everyone wants life to go back to normal really, and even if it isjust a tiny, tiny glimmer of what we view as normal, i ll take it. i think she is speaking for a lot of people there. coronavirus has seen concerts and music festivals cancelled around the world. but now there s a drive in revival as musicians find new, socially distant ways of performing live for music fans. denmark is kicking of a season of 70 shows from various artists, performing to audiences as big as 2500 people. adrienne murray went along to one of them. these cars are parking up at copenhagen airport, but no one here is taking a flight. they have come to watch a socially distanced live concert. it s the same principle as a drive in cinema. they simply tune into a radio frequency and then sit back and watch the show from the safety of your car. singer songwriter mads langer is taking to the stage. his european tour was cancelled when denmark s lockdown came in. now he s playing a sell out drive in show to 600 cars and an audience of 2500 people. vehicles park two metres apart. windows can only be opened on the left hand side. it s a new experience for everyone. now that the country is opening up, it s a good reminder that it is still here and that you can do things on a distance. there is not that much going on for the moment and it isjust a good opportunity to be together. the coronavirus pandemic has seen concerts and music festivals cancelled around the world. drive ins are one way live music is making a comeback. we knew we had to be creative and the drive in was, according to the government guidelines, and the restrictions. that was the only opportunity we had to gather a lot of people in one place to see their favourite artists. video platform zoom is used for an extra human connection. so what is it like performing to this unusual crowd ? it is kind of strange to play a drive in concert, honestly, but it feels great to be part of like a new thing. and i could tell from the atmosphere in the cars and everything that people are really excited to get out. smaller driving concerts have taken place in the us and australia. we are likely to see the format in other countries, too. sitting in the car might not replace the raw energy and excitement of being part of the big crowd. but, for now, it is one way music lovers can still come together and enjoy the unique atmosphere of a live concert. coming up in the next half hour, we will have the latest on the political pressure on borisjohnson over his senior adviser. also speaking to the greek deputy foreign minister as greece reopens to international from july. minister as greece reopens to internationalfrom july. you minister as greece reopens to international from july. you are watching bbc news. now, it s time for a look at the weather with carol kirkwood. hello again. some parts of the uk have not seen much rain at all during the course of may. and as we enter the last week of may, the situation isn t going to change too drastically either. today, mostly warm and sunny is the forecast. we do have a couple of weather fronts out to the west and they are introducing thicker cloud, some patchy rain and drizzle across northern ireland and also western scotland. but with high pressure in charge for most of england and wales, it s going to be fine and settled. so a lot of sunshine as we go through the course of the afternoon. a bit more cloud coming in from the west across scotland through the afternoon, as this weather front bringing its rain approaches. it s going to be gusty this afternoon, not as gusty as the weekend, but the western isles could have gusts of 40 mph. whereas further south, we are looking at gentle breezes and highs of 25 degrees. through this evening and overnight here is our weather front continuing to move slowly southwards and eastwards, bumping into the high pressure and weakening, so it s more likely to be a band of cloud with some spots of rain, clear skies ahead of it and behind it and not a cold night. so, we picked that weather front up tomorrow, still moving into that high pressure, continuing to weaken all the time. and although we might start with some spots of rain across parts of northern england, possibly into the midlands, the south west, it won t last. it will dry up and as this cloud sinks south it will turn the sunshine hazy. but behind it we are back into sunny skies for northern ireland, northern england and also scotland. temperature wise, average temperatures more or less for scotland and northern ireland, but high temperatures in the south, up to 26. tuesday into wednesday, the high pressure establishes itself right the way across the land. a front coming in across northern ireland and western scotland, once again introducing thicker cloud, patchy rain and drizzle, and we will have an onshore breeze coming in along the north sea. but that aside, there will be a lot of warm or very warm sunshine with highs of 25 or 26 in england and wales, 16, 17 and 18 in scotland and northern ireland. as we head towards the end of the week, though, the high pressure moves further east allowing this flow of warm, or very warm air, across all of our shores. so, as we head through thursday and into friday the temperatures are going to continue to rise. and by saturday for some it will be into the high 20s.
this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the uk prime minister, boris johnson, sticks by his top aide over claims dominic cummings broke the lockdown rules by travelling across the country. i think he followed the instincts of every father and every parent, and i do not mark him down for that. durham police are asked to launch a fact finding inquiry to establish mr cummings movements. mounting calls for mr cummings to resign could overshadow today s cabinet discussions on lifting coronavirus restrictions. a top german court rules volkswagen must pay compensation to motorists who purchased diesel cars that the company modified to appear less polluting. japan prepares to lift its state of emergency in tokyo