encouraging drops in the daily number of fatalities. in spain, the number has fallen below a hundred for the first time since before it imposed nationwide restrictions. italy has also reported its lowest figure since it entered lockdown. the uk government has insisted that primary schools in england will be safe when some pupils return at the beginning ofjune. but a leading minister acknowledged that risk could not be eliminated. teaching unions have safety concerns, in particular over how teachers and children can maintain social distancing. the mayor of ezell‘s largest city says the health system in this city is close to collapse as demand grows for emergency hospital beds to deal with covid 19. he said the cities public hospitals had reached 90% capacity. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. much of the world responded to the covid 19 pandemic with a lockdown strategy and now the focus is on finding a way out of lockdown without prompting a second wave of infection. could sweden provide a model? my guest today is sweden s chief epidemiologist, anders tegnall. he was the architect of a controversial no lockdown strategy which continues to stir interest right across the world. has it worked? anders right across the world. has it worked ? anders tegnall right across the world. has it worked? anders tegnall in stockholm, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. let s begin with the latest picture in sweden. your death figures every day from covid 19 go up, go down, sometimes by significant margins. it is hard to get a real sense of whether you are really in control of the spread of covid 19 in sweden or not. what do you say? we know the death toll is complicated because the registration of death is often a few days late. so we now collect data on date of death and we do it ina way data on date of death and we do it in a way that we do not worry too much about the last ten days because we know they are unsure and many things are happening and they fill out every day. instead we look at days before that and then we followed the trend much better and we have a clear declining trend. i thinkjust under 100 cases a day and 110w thinkjust under 100 cases a day and now we re down to slightly more than 80 day on average. the trend seems to keep going that way. that trend is clearly very good news. but is not the brutal truth that you have had many more deaths in sweden than you would have had if, like your scandinavian neighbours, you had imposed an early and very strict lockdown policy? i think that is difficult to know. the death toll in sweden is mainly in the long term facilities for long term ill elderly people and we had very much and in fortu nate people and we had very much and in fortunate spread in those facilities in the way that some of the countries had but not all our neighbours. that is something trying to investigate now. in respect, isn t that part of my point? that you probably would not have had that catastrophic spread of covid 19 through your care homes, particularly around stockholm, if you had run a more strict and less open policy for the general population? these people meet many people, even in lockdown so you cannot isolate them. in that way, lockdown would not have stop the spread into them and we can see now that when we start to look at these places, we see a decline incidences once we get them to focus on basic hygiene procedures. as the countries chief epidemiologist, the man, let s be honest, the man who is the architect of the swedish government s strategy for coping with covid 19, can you regard a situation in which your country has almost 30,000 infections of covid 19 in the population, with a death toll thatis in the population, with a death toll that is significantly higher than your neighbours, standing at around 3500, can you regard that as success 01’ 3500, can you regard that as success or do you have to acknowledge that in some ways your strategy failed? that is true. when it comes to the death toll it did not work out. the way we hoped it. on the other hand, the connection between our basic strategy and slowing down the spread, if that is in the long run will affect the total death toll in the society or not. that is not yet clear. we know that our neighbouring countries by now have around 1% of the population who had some kind of immunity. investigations we have in sweden so far we have a major one going on that will give us a better a nswer going on that will give us a better answer and it points that we have at least ten, maybe 20 times higher level of immunity in the population which means we are much further into the spread than other countries and if that means that other countries will reach similar death tolls to us 01’ will reach similar death tolls to us or not, i think that is difficult to judge. an interesting answer because you are inviting me there to consider the long term significance of this notion, this concept of herd immunity. your own government says the strategy that you implemented, the strategy that you implemented, the more moderate less strict emergency response to covid 19 was not about establishing herd immunity but you seem to be suggesting that, actually it is about getting to that point where so many people in the general population have had covid 19 and therefore we assume have some resista nce and therefore we assume have some resistance to getting it again, that you have this concept of herd immunity in your population. was that the working strategy or not? immunity in your population. was that the working strategy or nowm was not. i m just pointing out one way that shows that you cannot make this kind of comparison at this stage because the epidemic has hit different countries in different ways. the point is about comparisons with your nordic and scandinavian neighbours. they took a different approach and were much stricter in their lockdown and the death toll, denmark has just over 500, finland over 200 and norway just denmark has just over 500, finland over 200 and norwayjust over 200. they are strikingly different from sweden s and the point is that they 110w sweden s and the point is that they now feel they are in a position to ease their strict lockdowns and bring some sense of normality back to their population to quote one of the senior ministers in denmark, they feel that there is very little chance of a second spike because of what they have achieved. so they are as far along the curve as you are but they prevented hundreds and hundreds of deaths that you failed to prevent. i don t understand what you mean by being as far along the curve as we are. if only if you percentage points of their population has been infected they are not along the curve. but they are not along the curve. but they are not along the curve. but they are confident that measures that they took on the social distancing and the public consciousness that they now have means the disease will not spread and kill the numbers that have been killed in sweden. and only the future can tell. if you look at similar diseases, we have never really been able to stop anything. sometimes we can delay things. we have been successful in doing that, oui’ have been successful in doing that, our nordic neighbours, but to stop them forever i do not think will be possible with covid 19 just as it has never been possible with flu or any other viral disease. we were coming to your vision of future in a moment but i am interested in the philosophical point that your approach has tested which is the notion of not conducting your emergency response through the heavy hand of government, through strict mandatory lockdown but talking to your people, placing trust in your own population and saying to them that we are relying on you voluntarily to adopt behaviour that we think will best control the spread of this disease. do you think your policy of trust has worked? yes. i really do. because we can really see the big impact and that comes back to a comparison with other countries and so on. if we look at some statistics that we have a gate related to travel patterns, travel during easter was only 10% of what it normally is, showing that people are really trying to minimise their social contact with an std we can also see that some of our other viral diseases like flu which has the same kind of pattern every year suddenly stopped in the middle of the pattern and disappeared. also again showing that social distancing really worked and you can see trains running at 10% of capacity and domestic flights not running and so on so domestic flights not running and so on so people really took this on in a way that is more or less equal to people and countries who did it via legal measures. yours was not a mandatory crackdown. in that sense do you think some governments, particularly in europe, have infantilised their particularly in europe, have infa ntilised their populations particularly in europe, have infantilised their populations and therefore when they release the break, people may not act in the responsible way that you say the swedish continue to act.|j responsible way that you say the swedish continue to act. i cannot judge that but i can say one very important thing for us is what you are alluding to and that is sustainability full these kind of measures, voluntary measures, with a big understanding among the population as to why we re doing this, have a liar level of sustainability. we know that this is something that we will have to handle for a long time and as you said, our nordic neighbours now believe they can handle it in the long term, going over to something which is fairly similar to what sweden is doing today. but we really need to then have sustainable solutions. of course, there are signs of a reaction in some countries that when you turn things free then you lose your freedom to the maximum extent. here in sweden, evenif the maximum extent. here in sweden, even if people are getting slightly more mobile as we head into summer, we still have a great level of social distancing in place. ifi may, let me get a little personal with you. earlier i said you became seen as with you. earlier i said you became seen as the architect of a maverick policy which went against the grain of the scientific consensus in many other parts of the world where scientists were backing very strict mandatory lockdowns. it did put you in the spotlight notjust in sweden but right around the world and is the death toll has mounted in sweden and you have been open about that, how has that affected you personally? do you feel any sense of personally? do you feel any sense of personal responsibility for those lives lost? this is not my decision or anything like that. we are a big agency and my director who supports this whole thing. you, you are a modest man but i think you would accept that much of the groundwork and strategy and the thinking behind sweden s policy came from you and it seems to me that that is quite a burden for you to bear when we see what has happened. 0f burden for you to bear when we see what has happened. of course, the death toll is highly regrettable. it isa death toll is highly regrettable. it is a terrible thing that we are seeing. i think we have a number of explanations why this happened, not directly connected to our strategy. now when we are investigating these long term facilities, there are many things that can be done to improve the quality of hygiene and, most likely would diminish the death toll over time in these facilities. it is highly regrettable that that was not seen highly regrettable that that was not seen by the people responsible before this happened but it did happen and, of course, it is terrible. 0n the other hand, we re not too sure a strict lockdown would have changed so much. it did not change very much in the uk or other places. what about the debate in the scientific very notable, in 2000 scientists of doctors scientists professors and wounded people signed a petition curling calling on the government to reverse your policy backin government to reverse your policy back in late march and even in april, on april 22, back in late march and even in april, on april22, some back in late march and even in april, on april 22, some very respected scientists in sweden wrote a piece condemning, quote, officials without talent which undoubtedly included you, saying that the decisions were wrong and to quote one leading immunologist, she said we are not testing, we re not tracking the people behind this strategy are leading us to catastrophe. how did you cope with all that? i can cope with that because i know that the other 40,000 scientists in sweden, the majority are behind us. we have an expert group we talk to every week you are behind us blea kly group we talk to every week you are behind us bleakly in line with what we re trying to do and we are really trying to the best we can under the circumstances, that we are trying to sacrifice some of it to have an easier burden on the economy, that is definitely false. the 2000 was a mixture of different kinds of scientists and a small group of 22 is not our leading scientists in the field. the leading scientist is behind us. so that doesn t worry me too much. the death toll worries me but that is more a group of interesting, and what about the public? because you have had a lot of support, you have even had people putting tatties of your face on their bodies and wearing t shirts proclaiming their support for you. but you have had others, and i dare say some of those were the family members are people who have died, who have been very critical. that is tough. yes, but i think that also shows that the agency and the policy has strong support in the population. we have done several investigations, and not only us, many others have done investigations, and the level of people who are behind what we are doing is like 70, 80%, which is an incredibly high number for any doing is like 70, 80%, which is an incredibly high numberfor any kind of measure from a public health agency, and only like five, 10% things that we should think more about the health of the population. another 10 20% are worried about the economy, and i think that s. it s a great support for what we re doing, that the population is definitely behind us, and then we have some extremes with tatties and things like that, which i try not to think about too much. it must be a strange feeling when you see yourself on somebody else s body, i can imagine. but you say that you didn t do any of this, in terms of the strategy and the policy that you scientists came up with and that the government adopted, you didn t do it for economic reasons. but surely the truth is that, when it came to the crunch, and making these big decisions, people at the top of government in sweden did want to keep the economy functioning, as well as it possibly could. they wa nted well as it possibly could. they wanted to avoid long term damage. and surely that was a very important element in this strategy. not the way we delivered it. i mean, we didn t do those calculations. 0n the other hand, we did calculations on the broader public health impact. i mean, when it comes to closing schools, there is a lot of science behind that closing schools does a lot of damage to children, especially children who are vulnerable already from the beginning. being out of work is also very dangerous from a public health perspective. so i think you re onto something here. i mean, ourstrategy includes broader public health perspectives that may be many others in other countries. when it comes to the economic consequences, that s on the economic consequences, that s on the government level, and of course they will make adjustments to the things we suggest. taking the economy into account, but it is definitely not our part of the development of this strategy. right, so development of this strategy. right, so when you look across europe and the world that other countries in the world that other countries in the way they are doing things, and i am thinking of where i am, the united kingdom, where the lockdown is still pretty much in place, with a very few minor evenings of it, and schools are still closed, and there isa schools are still closed, and there is a very great debate about whether any schools beyond primary age will open before september minor easings. it seems they won t. are you saying that is just plain wrong, it isa you saying that is just plain wrong, it is a mistake? it is getting the balance between tackling covid and wider public health and social issues, it is getting the balance wrong? yes, i mean, only the future can tell. and i think what is the science behind this and what is not the science behind dealings with covid 19 is definitely not clear. i mean, not anybody can claim that they have the science that lockdowns are good and the more open strategy in sweden is wrong, because there is no science really supporting anything. what is supporting what we re doing in sweden as we are following a long tradition of how we work in public health. we are also taking into account the public health effect of closing schools and other things would give you a lot of long term problems in the area of public health, and that needs to be taken into public health, and that needs to be ta ken into account public health, and that needs to be taken into account when you close schools, and so not doing that, i think, would not be ethical and not be correct public health way of working. i will tell you what is striking in this interview, and i would say honest on your part, is that you keep telling me that on many aspects of this covid 19 response, the science isn t clear. i wa nt response, the science isn t clear. i want to, in that context, bring you back to the notion of herd immunity. because you have said, you said it just a few weeks ago, that you believe by the end of may that they will be a form of herd immunity in play in stockholm. i think you suggested that by then you could imagine that maybe 30 or 40% of the population will have had covid 19, and will have therefore a form of immunity. but it seems to me you have no scientific evidence for that. you are not doing enough testing to know whether that 40% figure is real, and you also, frankly, don t know the science of covid 19. you don t know that having had covid 19 gives you any long term immunity at all. so where is your science? we are just now doing a major investigation in sweden, as they have done in other countries, taking a sample of the total population and looking at the level of immunity they are having right now, so of immunity they are having right now, so we of immunity they are having right now, so we get that data. what we are basing it on so far is a few minor investigations showing levels between 10% and 15% of different smaller groups have immunity, which supports the modelling that s been done by two or three different scientists in sweden. and when it comes to immunity, just recently i had a discussion with the top scientist on coronavirus and immunity in sweden, and everybody says of course there is immunity. we can measure antibodies, we can measure other aspects of immunity, and why should covid 19 be different than all other infectious diseases? but what about these cases, doctor tegnell, what about these cases i read about from china to california of people who have had covid 19, recovered, test negative after they recovered, test negative after they recovered, and then two months later test positive again? apparently they have courted again. that is not a real infection. i havejust discussed this with the top people in sweden, some of them are what they call a recurrence. i mean, you can have part of this virus and carry it obviously for a very long time, which explains some of the cases. 0ther time, which explains some of the cases. other cases were obviously contaminations when they were tested the first time. there is no, as far as they knew, and i really trust these people, there is no confirmed cases of somebody really had the infection twice. we have a very good system of registers in sweden. among all the cases we have had in sweden, not one of them have had it all back more than once. well, to be really sure about how much immunity there is in the general population, you do need the antibody test. rauch, the pharmaceutical giant in switzerland, has developed an antibody test that the us and the eu are saying they approve of. is sweden intending to test just about everybody over the next few months? we are doing, as i said, a test of a sample of the population to look at the level of immunity in the whole population right now roche. the samples have been tested, but in the next week we will be able to tell what is the level of immunity. and we are using a number of different methods to look at that, because there is a number of methods out there, and we have developed some of them ourselves, with the help of the top tea m ourselves, with the help of the top team in sweden doing this. so towards the end of next week we can say it better at what level of immunity we have in the population. i want to end, if i may, we are short of time, doctor tegnell, and i just want to end with some thoughts about the future, because throughout this interview have indicated that you don t think that, if we can solidified, the fight against covid 19 will come to any sort of end until there is an effective vaccine that is deliverable to the world s population stops so we are talking, let s say, a year or 18 months at the best, in most people s you. in the meantime, how much normality can there be? if we take sweden is one of the more advanced countries, that has thought about this a lot, do you think that we, for example, can return before a vaccine to a world in which there is widespread travel, even between countries,, where widespread travel, even between countries, , where crowds widespread travel, even between countries,, where crowds can gather at music concerts or football stadiums, where hugs and handshakes can become routine again? where people do not have to wear facemasks on public transport? 0r people do not have to wear facemasks on public transport? or has our life fundamentally changed for the long term? fundamentally changed for the long-term? nobody knows the answer to that question. i think certain things we can be quite sure about. i think for a long time we re going to need to protect our elderly in different ways. because they are a lwa ys different ways. because they are always going to be susceptible to this disease, and they are always going to have a very high death toll to it, unless we find a vaccine that would work in that part of the population, or a treatment. when it comes to other things, this is not only one nation can decide about travel and so on. i think that we in sweden would feel rather confident to ease down on some of the things, may be travelling around could be 0k, may be travelling around could be ok, maybe a few other things could be ok. if we sometimes get an immunity test that works a bit better on an individual level, which u nfortu nately we better on an individual level, which unfortunately we don t yet, we don t have enough experience on that, we can probably ease a few other things as well. our main concern now is really the elderly, who have been very isolated, and we need to find different ways of easing that isolation, because that will also affect our health, both in the short term and in the long term, and i think that is one of our main concerns right now. one and i am just very interested in one point. do you go out every time you go out now, do you wear facemasks? do you go out every time you go out now, do you wearfacemasks? know, in sweden we don t wear facemasks. in sweden we don t wear facemasks. in sweden we don t wear facemasks. in sweden we stay home when we are sick. anders tegnell, it has been fascinating getting your insights. thank you very much for being on hardtalk. thank you. hello. there is some wet weather and some warm weather in this weather forecast. first, most of the wet weather will be found across the northern half of the uk. further south, it ll be largely dry, and quite widely it ll become very warm for a time around the middle of the week. the end of the week will feel a bit different. it ll be cooler, windier and more unsettled for all of us. now, you can see frontal systems which will be pushing across northern areas over the next few days, bringing cloud. yes, this cloud producing some outbreaks of rain, but it is to the south of those frontal systems that things will turn increasingly warm and increasingly sunny for just about all of us by wednesday. but, as far as monday goes, some rain to start off across northern scotland. that will increasingly become confined to the northern isles. the north of the mainland will brighten up, with some sunshine. we will see quite a lot of cloud persisting across southern scotland, north west england and northern ireland. patchy rain here, which could become heavier from the west into the afternoon. further south, some spells of hazy sunshine. it will be a breezy day, quite a windy one, actually, across northern scotland. but as far as the temperatures go, well, 18 degrees in aberdeen, 17 in belfast, but a high of 24 across some parts of south east england. now, as we go through monday night into the early part of tuesday, we ll see more splashes of rain at times across northern ireland, northern england and scotland. some clear spells further south, but look at those overnight temperatures 11,12 degrees the minimum values for some. so a very mild start to tuesday morning. again we see a lot of cloud across northern areas, with some patchy rain at times. it s likely to be quite misty and murky for some of these western coasts, as well. further south and further east, that s where we see the best of the sunshine, and once again the highest of the temperatures. 25 degrees looks likely in london by this stage. now, as we move into wednesday, high pressure firmly in charge for the middle of the week, these frontal systems being held at bay for the time being. so i think wednesday is going to be the sunniest day of the week, even northern ireland and scotland brightening up by this stage. the exception shetland here. you ll hold onto a lot of cloud, some splashes of rain, temperatures topping out at around nine degrees. further south, though, a high of 27 degrees is possible. now, things do change for the end of the week. we could see some thunderstorms breaking out on thursday. it turns windy for all of us on friday, with some rain at times, and by this stage it ll feel a bit cooler.
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this is bbc news. welcome if you re watching here in the uk, on pbs in america or around the globe. i m lewis vaughan jones. our top stories: this is bbc news with the latest headlines remembering george floyd. the first memorial service is held for the man whose death in police custody launched a global movement. george was somebody who was a lwa ys george was somebody who was always welcoming and always made people feel like they were special. everybody wants justice, we want justice special. everybody wants justice, we wantjustice for george. he s going to get it. he s going to get it. two. applause. protests continue in cities across the us. this is washington a few moments ago as crowds gather outside the white house. back in control of tripoli: libya s internationally recognised government says it s driven out forces loyal to general haftar. and we re in indonesia, meeting the last family standing as their village is sinking. hello and welcome. we start in the us. the first of several memorial services have been held in minneapolis to remember the life of george floyd, the 46 year old black man, whose death sparked days of protests across the country and around the world. a lawyer for mr floyd s family said his death was the result of a pandemic of racism and discrimination . from minneapolis, here s barbara plett usher. this is the beginning of a period of official mourning for george floyd, but not the end of his story. a pause for breath after ten traumatic days. the unrest that has shaken the country in the wake of his death seemed to demand a collective display of grief, despite the risks of the coronavirus. # amazing grace. # how sweet the sound. one by one, members of mr floyd s family remembered what he meant to them in life. every day he walks outside, there would be a line of people just like when we came in wanted to greet him and wanted to have fun with him. he was powerful, man. he had a way with words. he could always make you ready to jump and go all the time. everybody loved george. like, he was this great big giant and when he would wrap his arms around you, you would just like, feel like, you know, you were everything could just go away. any problems you had, any concerns you had would go away. but this service was even more about what george floyd s death means to the nation about another black man in a list of so many killed in police custody, about beginning to shape the massive movement for racial justice it ignited. i saw somebody standing in front of a church the other day which had been boarded up as a result of violence, held the bible in his hand. i ve been preaching since i was a little boy. i have never seen anyone hold a bible like that, but i will leave that alone. laughter and applause. the civil rights veteran reverend al sharpton delivered a attack on the president s recent controversial photo op, but he was blistering about the violence of structural racism in the country. what happened to floyd happens every day in this country! in education, in health services, and in every area of american life! it s time for us to stand up in george s name and say get your knee off our necks! let us stand still. you that believe in faith, bow your heads. they were silent for eight minutes and 46 seconds the time that mr floyd spent with a knee on his neck. that number has become a symbol of police brutality for protesters. in new york, another memorial, seeking to build on momentum for change. chant: nojustice, no peace! ..promising that this time will be different. in minneapolis, streets bear the scars of the dark days that followed george floyd s death. residents hunkered down, trying to protect their livelihoods as protests turned violent, laying waste to hundreds of businesses. our lives are black and we matter. but the community has rallied strongly, creating a safe space to support each other, uniting against the forces that would divide them, determined to lead the country in pushing for lasting change. so it can finally be the land of the free. this has been a seminal moment for america to take a look at itself and ask in which direction it is going. barbara plett usher, bbc news, in minneapolis. our north america correspondent david willis was watching the memorial service. a very moving memorial service there in minneapolis, lewis, and we heard there from the reverend al sharpton, who said that it was time for black people to stand up and say get off our necks . and he went on to say that it does not matter if you wear bluejeans or a blue uniform, you must pay for the crime that you commit. thousands of people attended a memorial service for george floyd in new york as well today and there are more protests planned across the united states tonight, but we saw 5,000 people, perhaps more, at rallies both in washington, dc, and here in los angeles. both of those passed off entirely peacefully. and i know much is made of watershed moments in history and so on but, with these protests growing and growing more peaceful, this really is starting to seem like one. that s interesting, david, isn t it? and of course, we pointed out earlier on that this memorial that we saw in barbara s report the first memorial? that s right, yes, indeed. the first of a number over the next six days or so that will culminate in george floyd s funeral, and it seems that perhaps the momentum will grow steadily as those memorial services continue. they are being held in three separate states. but today, very, very big attendance at that one in new york, and as many people as they could possibly cram in to the service in minneapolis. as i say, i think this is the start of something that the reverend al sharpton has said will continue over the summer and beyond until, as he put it, there is reform, genuine reform of the criminal justice system here in america. and on the criminaljustice system, david, let s go back to the original incident and an update on the other police officers that were present at the time. absolutely. three of them appeared in court today, lewis, charged with aiding and abetting the murder of george floyd. no pleas were entered. now, if convicted, those three police officers face up to a0 years injail. 0ne one interesting thing it emerged that two of them, j alexander kueng and thomas lane, had been on the minneapolis police force for less than a week. and they were under the supervision of derek chauvin, the man who was captured on camera with his knee on george floyd s neck. now, mr chauvin is not due to appear in court until monday to face charges of second degree murder. but was david willis there. that was. brian watkins is a civil rights attorney and a legal analyst. hejoins us from san diego in california. thank you very much for being with us. lots of complicated issues legally arise from occasions like this and incidents like this. let s start with the protests, more broadly, though. what has been your reaction to seeing them? you know, this is a very, very tragic event but the one good thing that is coming out of this is the protest is an example of how people can come together. we are having protests here and all throughout the united states, in california, of all races, 70% of the protesters are white people, white, mexicans, as well as african america ns and even asians. we have protests in affluent neighbourhoods and in inner city neighbourhoods. it is something that has really united the people of the united states of america to gather this one because to stop police brutality. together for this one because to stop police brutality. it is not easy of course but what other challenges in trying to reform police incidents like this? it is difficult because we need police and police sometimes need to be physical. i mean, they are dealing with a criminal element and that is theirjob and how do you manage thatis theirjob and how do you manage that is a very difficult thing to do for police and for government to police the police. and so when we have situations where we have criminals that are uncooperative with police and violent towards police, police must in turn use violence to deal with them. so the question is is how can we monitor their actions effectively? 0ne is is how can we monitor their actions effectively? one of the things that needs to happen is the laws, as far as being able to prosecute the police and civilly sue the police comment need to be changed. they have been protected for a long time under something that we call qualified immunity. basically it isa qualified immunity. basically it is a law that allows the police to be immune from civil lawsuits and prosecutions, to an extent. now, no other profession has that. you know ifa profession has that. you know if a doctor messes up he can be sued for medical malpractice and ifa sued for medical malpractice and if a lawyer messes up and does not file your case within the statutory time he is sued for legal malpractice. but the police have qualified immunity and that is a law that is actually being addressed right now to try to get the law changed to make them liable for their actions. i see. changed to make them liable for their actions. isee. i m afraid we re running out of time but i to briefly ask you about body camp footage. i wa nted about body camp footage. i wanted to briefly ask you. bodycam. we have some footage of live of a recent incident but is police, you know, obviously, shot video, protest we believe leaving in their car and being tasered at one point. it is an example of the kind of footage that went out, that we are seeing footage that went out, that we are seeing across footage that went out, that we are seeing across media. what difference will body cam make? it makes a world of difference. you know, one of the biggest thing we had was during the rodney king case in 1992 where the officers were filmed beating a black man. now that was ina beating a black man. now that was in a time period where we did not all have cellphone cameras. it happened to be one person on his balcony playing with his new toy called a camcorder which was a hand held video camera and it had just come out in the early ‘90s and he filmed it and it brought police brutality to light because now people believed it because now people believed it because they saw it on camera and the body cameras will continue to monitor police actions so we don t have to ta ke actions so we don t have to take their word for it as to what happened that we can actually see and judge it for ourselves. brian, thank you so much for speaking to us and we appreciate your time. you. thank you. let s get some of the day s other news. police say they have received hundreds of calls from the public about a new suspect in the madeleine mccann case. german prosecutors say madeleine a 3 year old british girl who disappeared in portugal more than a decade ago is assumed to be dead. german police are investigating a german national previously convicted of sex offences on suspicion of murder. nba basketball is planning a return to the court. the board of governors approved a plan that allows 22 teams to resume the regular season. they intend to play all games without fans, in orlando, florida but the plan still needs approval from the players‘ association. libya s internationally recognised government says it s taken full control of the capital tripoli. the city has been besieged by forces loyal to general khalifa haftar for over a year. rich preston has this report. these burnt out vehicles are all that remain of the forces of general khalifa haftar as government troops celebrated their victory. horns blare. the mission to control the city was deemed a success with the recapture of the airport. it hasn t been used since 2014 but plays a symbolic role he who has the airport has the city. 1a months of fighting have ravaged tripoli. when general haftar‘s eastern libyan forces stormed the city last april, they bombarded it with rockets and artillery, sending ordinary people fleeing for their lives. hundreds were killed in the fighting. gunfire. general haftar had been loyal to the former dictator colonel gaddafi. eight years after he was toppled, many say khalifa haftar wanted to install himself as the new dictator. he had support from russia, the united arab emirates and neighbouring egypt. the internationally recognised gna the government of national accord is backed by turkey and qatar. speaking on a visit to turkey, libya s prime minister said control of tripoli was just the start of a bigger operation. translation: our battle is not over, and we are determined to defeat our enemy and take control of the entire nation, and for the eradication of all those who threatened our democratic free state. translation: turkey will continue to stand with the right side. we will never leave our libyan brothers. our support to libya s recognised government will continue. with its vast oil reserves, libya could be one of the richest countries in the world, but the rule of gaddafi, followed by years of violence, have left the country devoid of infrastructure and security. horn blares. diplomats now want to restart talks to bring about a ceasefire, with hope of long lasting peace for the people of this north african nation which has been ripped apart. rich preston, bbc news. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: pulling down the statues of america s slave owning past: confederate monuments are removed in the wake of protests. the queen and her husband began their royal progress to westminster. the moment of crowning, in accordance with the order of service, by a signal given, the great guns of the tower. tributes have been paid around the world to muhammad ali, who has died at the age of 74. outspoken but rarely outfought, ali transcended the sport of boxing, of which he was three times world champion. he was a good fighter and he fought all the way to the end, even through his illness. yes, he did. uefa imposes an indefinite ban on english clubs playing in europe. today is the 20th anniversary of the release of the beatles‘ lp, sergeant pepper s lonely hearts club band, a record described as the album of the century. this is bbc world news. the latest headlines: the family and friends of george floyd, the african american man who died while being detained by minneapolis police last week have paid tribute to him at his memorial service. the reaction to the death of george floyd has sparked a wave of protests across the us unseen since the 1968 assassination of martin luther king jr. over the course of a decade, dr king became synonymous with non violent direct action as he worked to overturn systemic segregation and racism. what would he have made of the current protests? clayborne carson is martin luther king jnr centennial professor of history at stanford university. i think he would have been very pleased to see young people standing up for american ideals that the nation doesn t live up to often. and, given that, we have had this violence at times, we ve had protests kind of spontaneously springing up. what are the strengths and weaknesses as far as you see, of what is happening right now? well, i think it is mostly the strengths. you know, i think the press sometimes turns too much on looting or vandalism, which has actually been a very minor part of this upsurge of activity. you know, if a few stores had been broken into during the march on washington, i hope that most people would have paid attention to the main thrust of the protest, not to some isolated incidents that have nothing to do with the protest. it s really more, i think, to me, it has to do with the police focusing their attention on peaceful protesters and leaving other potential targets for looters unguarded. so i think it s another example of bad policing. and on the protests again, then, what do you make of leadership in these protests? well, look, any time young people can turn out many times the number of people who were at the march on washington, which was 200,000, and i m absolutely certain that the total number of people turning out in this protest far exceeds that, they have to be highly organised. i think if there is any criticism at all, and it s something i think is part of the strength of the protest, and that s there s no central leader that you could go to. back in 1964 you could go to a couple of people and get their comments and that would represent the thrust of what was going on. today you have people independently organising massive protests in dozens of different cities and hundreds of different towns. so, obviously they know what they re doing. it s just that there are many voices. but i think the central voice is one of ‘let‘s stop this , that this is something that when you think about what it is like to grow up and come of age during a period when literally dozens of people have been killed in police custody, recorded on cellphones. so you have a younger generation that gets their news through social media, and what they ve seen is police out of control and not being held accountable. and any young person knows the difference between being held accountable and not held accountable by your parents, for example. so when you see policeman after policeman either getting acquitted or not even charged with murder, then that is going to cause a reaction. and i am very, very pleased that it s happened. it s long overdue. thanks to professor clayborne carson. the governor of the us state of virginia has ordered a key memorial to the slave owning confederacy to be removed from the capital, richmond. ralph northam said the statue of robert e lee, who commanded the confederate forces during the american civil war, had to come down. the bbc‘s tim allman reports. for more than a century, robert e lee has looked out over the city of richmond. but not for much longer. these protesters voiced their anger at what they see as an ongoing symbol of racial injustice. and state officials 110w seem to agree. yes, that statue has been there for a long time. but it was wrong then, and it is wrong now. so, we re taking it down. robert e lee commanded the forces of the confederate states in their rebellion against the north during the american civil war. some still think of him as a hero, fighting for a lost cause. but even his descendants have come to believe that enough is enough. this statue is a symbol of oppression, and if it is a symbol, it becomes an idol, and if it becomes an idol, i am convinced as a christian, that the idols must be torn down. cheering this issue is hardly new. various statues and symbols of the confederacy have been taken down in recent years. but the protests of the last few days over the killing of george floyd have added an extra sense of urgency. this is a surprise to us, but we re glad, like, they re taking actions and they re taking what we re saying seriously. so we re glad to hear our voices are being heard, finally. the governor says the statue will be removed as soon as possible. but even when it s gone, the legacy of slavery will remain. tim allman, bbc news. friday is world environment day and, to mark it, we re looking at communities tackling the crisis. the world s most populated island is java, in indonesia, but land there is sinking, threatening the lives and livelihoods of millions of people. the destruction of mangrove forests are blamed. only one family remains in the village of bedono and they re trying to save what s left.
you can reach me on twitter i m @ l vaughanjones. this is bbc news. hello there. the warm and sunny days of the start of the week feel like a distant memory now as it s turning to cooler, more unsettled to end the week. friday into the weekend will be cool and showery, longer spells of rain in the north. it s also going to turn unusually windy for this time of year as well. the culprit is this area of low pressure, which has continued to deepen just to the north east of scotland. it will continue to push in during the course of friday, bring some persistent rain across the north. further south, the winds picking up. it will be a blustery day for all with sunny spells but also blustery showers. some of these will be heavy and thundery at times, too. and those winds gusting 30 110 miles an hour. further north, 40 50 miles an hour, even stronger than that by the end of the day and this rain will become persistent and heavy across the north and north east of scotland. don t be surprised as well with these sorts of temperatures of only around nine degrees, you could see a little bit of snow in fact on the mountaintops of scotland. further south, around the mid teens celsius. we could just make 17 degrees across the extreme south. now, as we move through friday night, it stays blustery, further showers at times. the rain in the north begins to push southwards into northern ireland and into northern england, north wales. those temperatures falling to lows of around 6 8 degrees. area of low pressure still with us moving very slowly southwards on saturday. again, a real squeeze in the isobars, particularly central and western parts of the country. so in fact we are likely to see gales through friday night and into saturday as that area of low pressure slowly moves southwards across the country. we could see gusts of 60 miles an hour, which could give rise to some disruptions, particularly strong for this time of year. there s the area of low pressure spiralling off the east coast of england, bringing further bands of rain or showers. again, some of these will be heavy and thundery. further rain pushing into northern scotland but a little bit of a temperature recovery in the north. highs of 17 degrees there, in fact. mid to high teens further south. on sunday, a little bit quieter. our area of low pressure weakening still, just to the east of england. so, it looks like eastern parts of england could see most of the rain whereas further west will be a bit drier with a little bit of brightness breaking through. the winds will be later. so, it will feel that touch warmer across the board. as we head on into next week, looks like we ll start off rather cloudy and cool, mainly dry. but the winds will be light, and then if anything, it looks like high pressure will start to build back in through the week.
this is bbc news. the headlines: the first of several memorial services have been held in the american city of minneapolis to remember the life of george floyd, the 46 year old black man whose death in police custody has sparked worldwide protests. reverend al sharpton delivered the eulogy, and guests included civil rights activist jesse jackson. protests have continued in several cities across the us. hundreds marched through los angeles and gathered in front of city hall. this is the capital washington, where crowds are assembling outside the white house. tens of thousands of people in hong kong have defied a ban to turn out for a vigil on the anniversary of the tiananmen square crackdown. this year s vigil was banned by police, citing coronavirus measures. some protesters said they were also standing against china s growing control over hong kong. now on bbc news, hardtalk.
hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. building up to today s coronavirus briefing from downing street. our latest headlines. the health secretary matt hancock announces that everybody over the age of five showing coronavirus symptoms is now eligible for a test in the uk. everyday we are creating more capacity and that means more people can be and the virus has fewer places to hide. a loss of taste or smell are added to the nhs list of symptoms of covid 19. that means that you should self isolate for seven days if you have them. the route map easing scotland s lockdown. nicola sturgeon say she will publish plans for easing the lockdown on thursday. commuters getting back to work in england faced new measures on the railway system with security guards trained in crowd control at train stations. italy reopens more shops, restau ra nts a nd italy reopens more shops, restaurants and hairdressers. and could the start of the pandemic been handled better? the united nations chief says the world is paying a heavy price for muddled virus strategies. on into the orchard on the orchard beds, which again we only started a few years ago. and the chelsea flower show goes virtual as it is forced to close its doors to gardeners for the first time since the second world war. hello and welcome to viewers on bbc as we build up to today s coronavirus briefing. it is held today by dominic raab. in the last half an hour matt hancock as announcer anybody in uk over the age of five who is showing covid i9 symptoms is now eligible for a coronavirus test. losing your sense of taste or smell now among those symptoms that people have been told to look out for. until today people have been told only to self isolate if they have a fever or cough but now doctors say the possible signs of the disease are much broader. so if you or somebody you live with has any of the symptoms, then the advice is to stay at home to stop the risk of spreading the virus. well, meanwhile today nicola sturgeon has said that route map will be set out on thursday for easing scotland s lockdown. ten weeks after imposing the world s first nationwide lockdown italy is opening more shops, restaurants and hairdressers as well as starting church services again. and there have been calls for again. and there have been calls for a review into the international response to the pandemic amid divisions about the way it has been handled. envoys from nearly 200 countries are meeting online for the world health organization s assembly. let s get more news on the addition for covid i9 of a loss of taste or smell. here s our health correspondent sophie hutchinson with this report. identifying who is infected with a coronavirus and who is not as crucial in preventing it from spreading and allowing it going back to work. the uk s four chief medical officers now say a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste is a symptom along with a high temperature and/or a new continuous cough. experts say they alerted public health england to a connection between loss of smell and covid i9 two months ago, after speaking to patients. i had contact from key workers, for example, those in contact with the vulnerable delivering food who were told they had to go to work because it was not a recognised symptom. we may have missed some opportunity to control the spread and fortunately now those patients will be able to get self isolated and tested. while the uk now lists three symptoms for covid i9, the world health organization lists 13 and some are questioning why it has taken the uk so long to recognise the other symptom. for months we have known it is a potential symptom of coronavirus, it is an unusual symptom for respiratory infections but it has been reported around the world early on in this outbreak so i don t know why it took so long to be added to the list in the uk. 1.5 million people have now logged onto a symptom tracker app created by scientists at king s college london. they believe the uk is grossly underestimating the number of people infected by the virus and not recognising all the symptoms has been damaging. i have had doctors telling me that they were told by occupational health not to stay off work and go back on the front line, even though they had lost their sense of smell and they had muscle pains. so i think, you know, in an inquiry, we re going to find that this will have had a major effect on prolonging the epidemic. so the advice is now for anyone with a cough, fever or loss of smell and taste to stay at home and self isolate for seven days, in order to prevent another wave of infections in this pandemic. sophie hutchinson, bbc news. let s get more on the news that anyone over the age of five who believes they may have coronavirus can now have a free test from the nhs. the health secretary matt hancock has been giving details to the commons. today, i can announce to the house that everyone aged five and over with symptoms is now eligible for a test. that applies right across the uk in all four nations from now. anyone with a new continuous cough, a high temperature, or the loss or change of sense of taste or smell can book a test by visiting nhs.uk/coronavirus. if you re eligible for a test and you dont have internet access, you can call 119 in england and wales, or in scotland and northern ireland 0300 303 2713. we will continue to prioritise access to tests for nhs and social care patients, residents and staff. and, as testing ramps up towards our new goal of total capacity of 200,000 tests a day, ever more people will have the confidence and certainty that comes with an accurate test result. with me now is our health correspondent nick triggle. a significant announcement today that anybody in the uk over the age of five who thinks they ve got the symptoms can get a coronavirus test. yes, when you think, less than two months ago we were just testing hospital patients and staff, so significant progress has been made. last week, key workers, hospital patients, care home residents over 65 and those who need to leave home to work could be tested, but now we are hearing that all those over five who are showing symptoms will get tested. and those symptoms, the list of covid i9 symptoms, when you have them you should self isolate for seven days, that now includes a loss of taste or smell. a lot of scientists have been saying, actually, that should have been on the list of symptoms weeks ago. yes, this has been talked about for weeks. it has been noticeable that patients who have had a diagnosed infection with coronavirus have been showing this loss of taste and smell symptoms. now the four for chief medical officers. it is a common symptom in other infections, including the common cold. the chief medical officer says now is the right time. we have moved well out of that winter season so now is the right time to make sure we capture as many cases as possible. what did matt hancock have to say about the track and trace system because mikey was promising that for the middle of may. downing street say that was never promised by the government. where are we with that? it is vital as we ease out of lockdown to contain any local outbreaks. it relies on the app that is being piloted in the isle of wight and the recruitment of an army of contact tracers. he says we have recruited 21000 and have all the elements in place we need to roll out this track, test and trace programme. challenges remain for getting the testing results. it is taking too long, sometimes several days, to turn round the test results. it is noticeable that some key workers are struggling to get access to tests. in care homes, residents and staff, it will be another three weeks before they can all get access to testing, so still a significant challenge in making sure this system is in place in the coming weeks. nick, thank you very much. it s been ten days since the trial for the nhs contact tracing app launched on the isle of wight. downing street says 60,000 people that s just under half of the population on the island have downloaded the app. let s speak to our correspondent duncan kennedy. first, how does the app work? it s very straightforward technology. you download the app onto your phone. if you come into sustained contact with someone else who has the app, you send an electronic handshake to each other. say i develop covid 19 symptoms, i punched that into the app, and the app tells the nhs server, which in turn pains out a message to all those other people who have been in close contact with my phone. they are told to check their symptoms, make sure they haven t got it, and if they have, they contact the server, and so it goes on. they want to spread these apps and the people with them across the community. as nick was saying, they are doing it in conjunction with those 21,000 contact tracers, so bit by bit, using the app, the autumn monitored the automated version, and then we will get an idea of who has the covid 19 symptoms and who doesn t. that is how it works in theory, but what is the evidence you are picking up from there on the isle of wight? is it working? certainly, in terms of the popularity of the app, it seems to be working. in the last half hour or so, i had a conversation with the man who has developed the app and is rolling it out here, and they said that they have had several people here downloading the app, about half the population. the key thing is that it has to be peopled with smartphones. there are 80,000 or more of those on the island. in his words, he said they were overwhelmed by the response of people on the isle of wight. there have been a few people, not least mps on the human rights committee last week, saying they are a little worried about whether the data on this is protected and is secure enough. and we ve been speaking to people today on the isle of wight to get their views, people who have got the app and some people who haven t. have you downloaded the app? i haven t. unfortunately, my phone s too old. so, you can t get it? no, not at all, no. but in principle, what do you think of it? i think it s a really good idea if people listen to it and actually do what it tells them. i ve heard of people on the island who have downloaded the app, gone to tesco for half an hour, and it told them they ve been contact with someone, and then they ve gone, oh, well then, i m not going to take it to tesco. you know, i can t afford to be off work for two weeks. i support it. it makes people safer and stuff like that, and hopefully it can all be over and done with soon so that everyone can get back to normal. have you downloaded the app? yes, i have, yes. what do you make of it? it s fine, it doesn t ask for a lot of information. you just put the first bit of your postcode into it and then itjust says it s working. so, do you have any concerns about data protection? not really, because i haven t really told him anything, so i don t think they can take anything off my phone. so, it seems to be fine. downloaded the app. i said that. it s just told me to sort of like keep my bluetooth on. it said, how are you feeling today? there s no symptoms or anything. so, i ve left it at that. so, it s just ready to go if obviously i take it it s going to alert me if, you know, i do sort of approach somebody that s got the coronavirus. so, the views of some people there on the isle of wight. duncan, if all goes well with the trial, when might it be rolled out across the whole of the uk? the short answer is, no one knows exactly. the expectation here on the isle of wight was that it would be mid may, but a spokesman for downing street this morning said in the coming weeks, so we are not sure whether that means may or beyond that. what they are doing here, in the words of the man i spoke to on the conference call a few moments ago, they are testing it in the real world and that is throwing up some issues for them to iron out. for example, they will add to this app the idea of the two new symptoms of taste and smell, which wasn t on the app before. before, it wasn t on the app before. before, it was only testing your temperature and weather you coughed or not. they will update it with that in the next couple of days. they want to test it in factories, surgeries, care homes, the real world setting for it. they say there is a way to go on that before it is rolled out. downing street are saying that will come in the next few weeks. duncan, many thanks indeed. nicola sturgeon has announced lockdown measures in scotland could begin to be lifted from may 28th. the first minister said this would mean people could meet someone from another household as long as social distancing is maintained. a roadmap easing the lockdown will be published on thursday. she also said that testing will be extended to include anybody over the age of five displaying symptoms, as we ve been hearing that s available across the uk. and earlier today clubs in scotland voted to end the scottish premiership with celtic crowned champions and hearts relegated. speaking at her daily briefing, nicola sturgeon laid out how the roadmap to easing the lockdown might look. it will take account of the up to date estimates of the transmission rate, or r number, and the number of cases. it will also take account of the latest national records of scotland report, due on wednesday, on the number of deaths from covid. the route map we publish on thursday will give a more detailed indication of the order in which we will carefully and gradually seek to lift current restrictions. now, like other countries, we will not yet be able to put firm dates on all of the different phases, because timings must be driven by data and evidence. it will also be important that we assess the impact of measures in one phase before moving on to another. we will continue, and again, i want to stress this, to take a cautious approach that ensures the virus is suppressed while seeking to restore as much normality as possible when it is safe to do so. nicola sturgeon speaking a little earlier. as lockdown eases in england and more and more people return to work, and others take advance of being able to meet up with one person outside their household, how are people adapting to the slight easing of restrictions? and our people aware of the stay alert message? susan michie is professor of health pyschology at university college london. she is a member of the behavioural science group of sage. what do you think people around the country think of the stay alert message? i think generally people thought it was rather content free and didn t really advise people what to do. stay at home is a clear behavioural message. stay alert, it is not clear what one is meant to be alert for, and what one is meant to do when one identifies what they are supposed to stay alert for. i think people found the message confusing and inconsistent. do you think that was a mistake, do to move to that message of stay alert? it is very complicated. 0ne message of stay alert? it is very complicated. one has to take into account many different things, and also the fact that there will be different easing of restrictions for different easing of restrictions for different groups in society. at the moral complexities, the more important really clear, precise and consistent messaging becomes. and especially in the context where people are experiencing quite high degrees of anxiety about returning to work, returning. 0ften degrees of anxiety about returning to work, returning. often people have to go on public transport. in these situations, people want to know exactly what they should be doing, why they should be doing it, and they have to be convinced that it isa and they have to be convinced that it is a good idea and their safety of themselves and their loved ones will not be put at risk. and a lot of people have been expressing concern about what seemed like anomalies in the government s new rules and regulations about the easing of the lockdown for example, a cleaner going into the house but not grandparents, that type of thing. do you detect anxiety and concern, maybe even anger about that kind of anomaly? all of those things, because i think that it was seen to be really quite unfair. the imposition of the lockdown to begin with has obviously increased the inequalities that already exist in terms of people s jobs and living situation they were in, but on top of that now, as we are lifting it, the first groups of people who were told they could come into your house are cleaners, cooks, nannies and estate agents, these are people who help privileged people to lead privileged lives. what people are desperately wanting is to see their loved ones again. so i think it was peculiarly insensitive, and i think that once people think things are being done in an unfair way, it really undermines the sense of collective solidarity that has been so well built up through communities over the last few weeks and is absolutely vital to keeping adherence to these challenging measures going. what about the new announcement we have had this afternoon of the government saying anyone in the uk over the age of five who thinks they have got covid 19 can go for a test? that is a pretty simple kind of rule or instruction that people can understand across the country. yes, i think ten out of ten for it being clear. two issues about it. one is will this be the case in practice? because we have seen many cases where there have been promises and it s not been upheld so even now we are having front line healthcare workers and social care workers reporting that they are not getting a test. the other issue that is so important to communicate alongside that which i haven t heard is that people are most infectious in the two days before they have symptoms. so this is not a panacea and it means the basic instructions of social distancing, hand hygiene, using tissues for coughs and sneezes and not touching eyes, nose and mouth which is where the virus gets into the body should be rehearsed at every opportunity. susan michie, thank you for talking to us. we are getting the latest uk death toll from confirmed coronavirus cases, and that has risen up 160, we arejust seeing, so cases, and that has risen up 160, we are just seeing, so that has risen to 34,796. the uk death toll from confirmed coronavirus cases up 160. just to let you know again we will be crossing live to downing street in the next few minutes at around five o clock for the latest downing street briefing, which will include those figures. and dominic raab holding that downing street briefing. let s go to india now. india remains in lockdown after the latest extension was approved on sunday. the country went into lockdown on 24th march and schools, public transport and most businesses have been shut since. the world s largest lockdown, covering 1.3 billion people, appears to have helped keep india s numbers relatively low with a little over 3,000 deaths, and around 96,500 confirmed cases. in the southern state of kerala, which has a population of 35 million, just 601 cases have been confirmed, and only four deaths. of course, the actual number of cases may be higher but the state s health minister, kk shailaja, has been praised for her ministry s rapid response to the outbreak. we can speak to kk shailaja now, minister of health and social welfare of kerala state. 0nly only four deaths in a population of 35 million, that is pretty remarkable. how have you done it? because you had a system of track and trace very early on after the first word came through from china about coronavirus back injanuary. yes, we started to prepare very early. as you said, our population is very high and population density also very high in kerala. we started earlier, we are focusing on social welfare issues and planning like that. our local governments are very strong and we have a good health ca re system, strong and we have a good health care system, public health care system. we have primary health centres, secondary and tertiary health centres also, very good medical colleges and very good medical colleges and very good medical hospitals. we are now focusing on primary care and prevention. we are giving continuous training to our healthcare professionals and health care markers, professional training also. and when we heard about the new virus, we started our preparation from top level to bottom level. we are teaching the people of how this virus is spread, and all the people are aware of that thing before it came to kerala. but it is not easy to educate all the people and keep the people in quarantine in their own home and a government created isolation centres. we have health ca re isolation centres. we have health care workers, police and local government workers making sure people are staying inside their home. we also make sure people are using hand wash and masks when they go outside. just to interrupt you for a moment, you acted very fast with commendable speed. do you think other countries around the world should maybe learn lessons from the speed you acted on? you were taking some of these measures and having meetings just a few days after you first heard about what had happened in china. yes, we started these things when it happened in china in january. when we heard what happened we started preparedness here and we have good combination of old systems of medicine, not only the modern system, and also we have a very good private health system here. and we have very good coordination on public health and private health system. we convened a meeting with the private health care holders and they also participated. we give training to private health care system, with the coordination of all the systems together we formed a very good method of containing or preventing the spread and flattening the curve. throughout these days we are working hard. all right, sorry, we arejust are working hard. all right, sorry, we are just running out of time but thank you very much indeed for explaining what you have been doing in the indian of kerala. many thanks. the transport secretary grant shapps has said the government is looking at whether people coming from countries with a low infection rate for coronavirus could be exempt from the 14 day travel quarantine for people arriving into the uk. mr shapps was responding to a question from the chair of the transport select committee, the conservative mp huw merriman, who asked whether the government would consider so called ‘air bridges so that passengers coming from countries with a low infection rate could be exempt from having to self isolate for two weeks at a private residence. final details of the quarantine scheme will be released soon, it will come in early next month. it is the case that we should indeed consider further improvements. for example, things like air bridges, enabling people from other areas, countries, who have themselves achieved lower levels of coronavirus infection to come to the country. so, those are active discussions, but we ll go beyond what will initially be a blanket situation. grant shapps there in the commons. while we wait for the downing street briefing to be begin, we can now speak to our political correspondent. helen catt. there has been some confusion, hasn t there? at first it was thought people coming from france might be exempt, now we are not sure about that. hearing what the transport secretary was saying, it looks like people coming from low infection countries may be exempt as well. this policy is coming in from early next month, which is anyone coming into the uk will have to self isolate for 14 days. but we understand people coming from ireland will not have to do that, and there could be other potential exemptions, particularly around france. it s understood president macron had talked about this. there isa macron had talked about this. there is a recognition we are physically linked by the channel tunnel so they are looking at issues around this, although the thinking is perhaps something that applies to freight drivers or people with scientific expertise, so that is still ongoing. the exemption for ireland we know is likely to happen. then we had this question raised to grant shapps earlier this afternoon to suggest, well actually if people are coming from a country with a low rate of infection could they too have an exemption from having to self isolate for 14 days. grant shapps said that is something the government was looking at. we might hear more about that in the press conference today, given it is being led by dominic raab. just a minute or so away from that so i may have to cut you off. helen, we have also had the adding of a loss of taste or sense of smell to the list of symptoms at the point of which one should self isolate for seven days but quite a lot of critics of are saying this should have been added to the list of symptoms weeks ago. yes, and that is something i would expectjonathan yes, and that is something i would expect jonathan van tam to yes, and that is something i would expectjonathan van tam to address. these symptoms have been known for several weeks in addition to the already recognised symptoms of a new, persistent cough or a high temperature. the other big announcement today is the expansion of testing so that now anyone who is aged five or over who now displays any one of these four symptoms can request a coronavirus test, and that applies across all four nations of the uk, because the welsh, scottish and northern irish governments have opted in. let s cross to downing street now. good afternoon, and welcome to this afternoon s press conference. i am pleased to be joined afternoon s press conference. i am pleased to bejoined byjonathan van tam, our deputy chief medical 0fficer. tests carried out in the uk include 100,678 tests carried out yesterday. 246,406 people have tested positive, and that is an increase of 2684 cases since yesterday. 9408 people are currently in hospital with coronavirus, which is down 13% from this time last week. i am very sad to report that, of those who have tested positive for covid 19 across all settings, 34,796 have now died, that is an increase of 160 deaths on yesterday. it goes without saying, we offer our condolences to the friends and family of every individual who has passed away during this pandemic. this is a challenging time, and as we chart the right course over the weeks and months ahead, our overriding priority remains to save lives. whilst also at the same time preserving livelihoods and allowing people to return over time and when it is safe to something resembling a more normal way of living. so, on the 11th of may, we set out a road map to provide the information, advice and reassurance to businesses, public services and other organisations and to employees and citizens up and down the country. i want to thank everyone who is making the adjustments and engaging with us in government to forge the path ahead in a sure footed and sustainable way. we recognise that people have concerns and questions, and we want to work together with him and with everyone involved to provide the necessary confidence and reassurance in the next steps that we are poised to make. that approach is summarised in the slides, which if we could now have them up on the screen, please. you will see from slide one, as people will be aware, we have established a new covid alert system, with five levels, each relating to the current level of threat posed by the virus. the alert level is focused on the rate of infection, known as the r value, as well as the total number of coronavirus cases overall. that alert level helps us determine the social distancing measures that we need to fight the virus, so the lower the level, the fewer or the less restrictive measures we will need at any given time. since the lockdown began at the end of march, we have been at level four, as indicated on the slide, and thanks to the hard work and huge sacrifices across the uk, and the progress we have made as a result of that, particularly in relation to compliance with the social distancing measures, we are in the process of moving from level four to level three on the slide, and we will do that through a number of very careful and deliberate steps. slide two, please. you will see that last week the prime minister set out the first of three steps designed to carefully modify the measures that have been put in place. and by gradually easing certain measures, we can begin to allow people to return to something resembling a more normal way of life. the choices we make, what we are asking the public to do and not to do are designed to avoid a very real risk ofa designed to avoid a very real risk of a second peak that would overwhelm the nhs and risk turning a temporary economic painful moment for the country into permanent damage to the uk economy. at every step, we will closely monitor the impact of easing restrictions, and in particular the impact on the spread of the virus. it is only by collecting and monitoring the data that we will be able to take the next step, which is indicated as step two on the slide, no earlier than the 1st ofjune. it is natural for people to question why they can t do one or other thing now, why distinctions have been made, but in reality, you have to look at the package of measures as a whole, mindful of the risk to the r level and taking into account the various economic and social effects combine. we have adopted a balanced approach, guided at all times by the science, and asi guided at all times by the science, and as i said, the overriding need to avoid a second peak that could overwhelm the nhs. 0f to avoid a second peak that could overwhelm the nhs. of course, it is true to say that making any changes inherently comes with some risk of spreading the virus compared to simply staying at home. but it is also true that staying in permanent lockdown is itself not sustainable on health or economic grounds. that is why we have only eased measures where it can be done with the lowest risk possible. that is also why we are watching the impact of every change that we make very closely. i know the last couple of months have been really tough for families, businesses, everyone up and down the uk, but it is only by keeping to the plan, sticking to the rules, even including when those rules change, that we will beat coronavirus for good. slide three, please. and that is why we have asked people to stay alert, control the virus, save lives, as we make changes to the measures in place in england and adjust the government advice accordingly. for the vast majority of people, that still means staying at home as much as possible. for those that can t work from home, they should return to work, with the arrangements in place to ensure they can be saved it can be safely and responsibly done. we have also adjusted, as you can see from the slide, the advice for people to exercise more, to visit public outdoor spaces but staying two metres apart from those outside their own household. as ever, people need to keep washing their hands regularly and carrying out the hygiene measures we have advertised before. 0ur hygiene measures we have advertised before. our advice is to wear a face covering when you are outside the home in enclosed spaces and where it is difficult to socially distance, for example, going to the shops or travelling on public transport. if you or anyone in your household developed symptoms, you still all need to self isolate. while we are asking the public to do these things, we in government will keep ramping up the effort that we need to see to get the uk back to a more normal way of living, and with that in mind, today the health secretary announced that anyone in the uk with covid 19 symptoms can now get a test by booking online, and i can also report that we have recruited now over 21,000 contact tracers and call handlers in england for the implementation of our test and trace programme. that programme is absolutely key in the next steps we need to take as a country to come through this pandemic safely and responsibly. jonathan, if you would like to run us through the latest data. thank you, secretary of state, good afternoon, everybody. i have a few data slides to show you, in the normal fashion. few data slides to show you, in the normalfashion. beginning few data slides to show you, in the normal fashion. beginning with this one, which shows you apple maps searches for directions, so it is confined to apple users, and it shows the beginning of the period of lockdown on the left on the 23rd of march, and what has happened to searches for walking instructions, driving instructions and public transport from that point until the very re ce nt transport from that point until the very recent past, and you can see that there has been a gradual, but only gradual, upward trend in searches related to walking and driving. but for public transport, this trend is essentially flat. and this trend is essentially flat. and this is very much in line with the guidance that the government has issued about avoiding public transport wherever possible, saving it for key workers, and clearly, this is a trend that the public eye following. i have shown you the two data points on the right of the slide before now. compared with last year, 44% of adults are working at home in the period 24th of april to the 3rd of may, compared with 12% at the 3rd of may, compared with 12% at the same time last year. and that 80% of adults report they have either left the home for permitted reasons or not at all in that period. next slide, please. moving on now to testing, these data are correct as at 9am today. and they relate to tests processed and sent out. the broad message is that we are continuing to test at the rate of around 100,000 tests per day, and that in total, almost 2.7 million tests have been used since the crisis began. in terms of confirmed cases, the data as of this morning we re over cases, the data as of this morning were over night for 2684 new cases out of a grand total of diagnosed cases ofjust out of a grand total of diagnosed cases of just under 250,000. out of a grand total of diagnosed cases ofjust under 250,000. but what you can see, if you look to the bottom right hand corner of what you can see, if you look to the bottom right hand corner of slide, the green bars, you can now see a definite and sustained decline in new confirmed cases, which continues to be encouraging. next slide, please. so, these are data i showed to you last week, updated, of course, data from hospitals. the top curve relates to estimated admissions with covid 19 in england. 678 is the latest figure, darren from 701 on the 9th of may, so again, steady declines, and you can see that in the top blue curve. turning at the bottom of the slide to the percentage of critical care beds currently occupied by covid 19 patients, this trend is also consistently down across the four nations, and currently the figure runs at 19%. next slide, please. and then this slide also relates to hospitals. it relates to all of the uk, and it relates to the total numberof uk, and it relates to the total number of people in hospital with covid 19 over time, updated as of the 17th of may, and what you can see here is that everywhere the numbers of patients in hospital with covid 19 is now in sustained decline. again, very good news. and the final slide, please. this is the daily deaths data. these are deaths confirmed with a positive test in the uk. as of the 18th of may, we are reporting 160 deaths, and a total of 34,796 with a positive test. what you can see, and again it remains the most important thing to look for, is the overall long term trend as illustrated by the orange line, which is showing a consistent and solid decline as the days and weeks roll by. thank you, secretary of state. thanks very much. we will open it up to questions, and i think there is one from david from bury. good afternoon. as we take the first tentative steps towards releasing the lockdown, when will the government outline the road map ahead beyond the pandemic to ensure ahead beyond the pandemic to ensure a swift fiscal health and well being recovery? and what has already been discussed and decided? thank you very much. it s danny, i m sorry. we ve already published and over 50 page road map for how we rebuild after coronavirus, including the three steps i set out on the slides. the key thing, and there are different measures at different stages relating to no earlier than the 1st ofjune, stages relating to no earlier than the 1st of june, the stages relating to no earlier than the 1st ofjune, the phasing of reopening of primary schools, different issues for businesses at different issues for businesses at different times, so nonessential retail will be dealt with at that point, but whether it is the 1st of june or the 4th ofjuly or any subsequent steps, we will only take those decisions and take those measures based on the scientific advice that tells us we can responsibly do so, and the worst of all worlds would be to trip up now and stumble when we have made the progress that the deputy chief medical officer has set out very clearly. so, we set our road map but it isa clearly. so, we set our road map but it is a conditional one, and we will monitor very carefully based on the changes we have made over the last week and see what impact that has, and we will assess where the r rate is and where the other data is before taking any subsequent steps no earlier than the 1st ofjune. jonathan, would you add anything? no. danny, thanks very much. i think there is one from james from wittering. james asked via text: is the government preparing for a second wave on ppe, ventilators, testing etc? so that all the issues of the first wave won t happen ain? of the first wave won t happen again? iwill of the first wave won t happen again? i will let the deputy chief medical officer comment, but one of the key things we have said is that first of all we will be mindful to avoid a second wave. we want to keep the r level down, the rate of transmission down, to avoid that, and we will not sanction measures where we fear or there is a risk that they would take us above one. at the same time, when we set out our five tests for easing lockdown, and they still in large part apply, one of the key things was that we wouldn t take measures until we are absolutely confident that we ve got all of the capacity we need in the nhs. 0ne all of the capacity we need in the nhs. one thing we ve done, and it has been effective, is, we made sure that at every step the nhs has not been overwhelmed, and in particular, the critical care capacity that jonathan showed on the slides has not been overwhelmed, and it s not just good enough to do that day by day, we want to make sure that with any day, we want to make sure that with a ny ste ps day, we want to make sure that with any steps we take in the future, that remains the case. jonathan, what would you add? thank you, secretary of state. i would add that we are hoping not to have a second wave and that is one of the reasons why we are being so careful about unlocking social distancing one piece at a time. because we absolutely don t want this to get out of control again. however, is it right and proper to prepare for emergencies? is it right and proper to put ourselves in a good position to be able to deal with an upsurge of cases? absolutely. let me emphasise a couple of things here. one is that maybe people are just hoping and praying that this virus willjust go away, as indeed i hope and pray it will. but the reality is, certainly until we get the vaccine and only if we get a vaccine is really capable of suppressing disease levels will we ever be what we would call kind of out of this. and so from that perspective we may have to live and learn to live with this virus in the long term. certainly for many months to come, if not several years. a vaccine may change that, but we can t be sure we will get a vaccine. the other thing to say is this virus isa the other thing to say is this virus is a new virus, we don t fully understand it. we don t understand something called seasonality, and one of the things that is very clear for example with flu viruses is in cold winters and the levels of transmission and circulation declines over the summer months. now, the data we have on other coronaviruses we have looked at very carefully and it is not clear these coronaviruses are as seasonal as influe nza, coronaviruses are as seasonal as influenza, but there may be an element of seasonality and it may well be that the autumn and winter conditions provide a better environment for the virus to then do its work again. so we have to be very cautious about that and plan for these kind of health care surges that we hope we don t need but we wa nt that we hope we don t need but we want to be ready for them if they happen. very good. thank you for your question. we will open it up to the media now and we have fergus walsh first from the bbc. thank you. you have just added walsh first from the bbc. thank you. you havejust added loss walsh first from the bbc. thank you. you have just added loss of taste and smell is a key symptom for coronaviruses. france advised people backin coronaviruses. france advised people back in march that if they lost taste or smell that they should self isolate. has the uk been very slow to act? jonathan, i think that is probably one for you. thank you, ferguson. we have been very careful about looking at the data on a this, and if adding it to the case definition would change something in terms of what we can practically do. ido terms of what we can practically do. i do understand, and you are absolutely right, that anosmia has been recognised for some time now is a symptom of covid 19. but one of the first questions is how often does anosmia come really early in the illness? that is the first question. versus coming later on in the illness when there are many other symptoms that are evident, particularly cough and fever, which are absolutely the most prominent. the next point is how often does anosmia occur on its own in the absence of other symptoms? and the answer seems to be very rarely indeed. and so from that perspective what we have had to do is go through all of the possible symptoms of covid 19 and, you know, other than fever and cough, the who list includes tiredness, aches and pains, sore throat, diarrhoea, conjunctivitis, headache, skin rash, even loss of speech or movement is something the who put on there. so we have had to do some careful analysis behind the scenes to try and work out, when looking at the whole range of symptoms again, which of those it might be useful or important to add in terms of picking patients up and improving the very simple symptom cluster we have already. that is why we have taken ourtime in this already. that is why we have taken our time in this country, because we wa nt our time in this country, because we want to do that painstaking and careful analysis before we jump to any conclusions. and even if it was obvious that anosmia was part of this, we want to be sure that adding it to cough and fever as opposed to just listing it, adding it informally to our definition was the right thing to do adding it in formally. thanks to advice from nervetag, we have made that definition. it s estimated that up to 200,000 cases of covid 19 may have been missed by the failure to include this earlier. how many cases of covid 19 do you think have been missed as a result of not including this earlier on? i don t have those figures to my fingertips. i m not sure anyone other than professor specter has tried to make those kind of estimates. what i can tell you is that from the public health england dataset, from the first 100 cases, there are 229 cases in there all laboratory confirmed covid which have been studied in considerable detail, and 0.44% reported anosmia on its own as a symptom. so the point about anosmia is it doesn t always come as the first symptom, and even if it does, it is followed by the cough, the fever and many other symptoms i have talked about referring to the who definition. so you don t miss those cases. the important thing was to work out if this would add any sensitivity to the diagnostic cluster we were using, and the answer is it makes a small, very small difference and we have therefore decided to do it. thanks, fergus. secretary of state, you asked people to use their common sense as become out of lockdown and you are also asking many people to go back to work or soon send their children back to school, but isn t it common sense for people to wait until you have the track and trace programme properly in place before they go back to work or before they send their kids to school? 0therwise aren t you asking people to make something of a leap of faith? and professor van tam, the r rate last week was said to be 0.7 1. do you expect there to be some kind of level of covid transmission in schools once pupils return and how do you expect that to impact the r number? thank you. we are making good progress with the track and tracing regime. we have got 21,000 tracers, we have 60,000 downloads of the app on the isle of wight pilot, so we are making good progress on that. in terms of the measures we have taken at this stage, as you will no at step one we have been pretty cautious, and that is precisely because we want to make sure footed and sustainable steps. when we come to the later steps, and as and when the tracing and testing capacity is up and running, it will give more room forflexibility. so we are making sure we are taking the right steps at the right moment, and obviously the testing and tracing will be a key component, particularly medium to longer term has through the coronavirus. jonathan. yes, thank you, beth. i will chop your question into parts if that is all right. the first point is about disease and children, and we are absolutely aware of a small number of cases in children associated with a disease that looks associated with a disease that looks a bit like kawasaki syndrome, looks a bit like kawasaki syndrome, looks a bit like toxic shock syndrome, but these are very, very, very small numbers compared with the vast majority of confirmed infections in children, which are really extremely mild compared to the illness suffered by adults. so we do think, to conclude, we think children experience mild disease. the next question is do children have a higher infection rate or a lower infection rate than adults? you can gain those data from serology studies, studies of the blood to look for antibodies. the emerging data from around the world on the whole suggests that the rate of infection in children is about the same as in adults, possibly a little lower in the younger aged children. but they get this much more mild disease on the whole. the next question then is can children transmit the virus to adults? and here we have to acknowledge that we are working with a new virus where the data are pretty sparse at the moment. but the experts have already had a look at this and formed a conclusion, unlike influenza, like flu, where we are very clear that children drive transmission in the community to adults, it really does not seem to be the same kind of signal with covid 19 that children are not these kind of big high output transmitters as they are with flow. and then to your final point about getting children back to school, and is that safe in terms of the r0, all of the measures being considered always are run against the test case of can we keep control of the r0? end if the answer is yes, thenit of the r0? end if the answer is yes, then it will be considered. if the answer is it s going to risk pushing the r0 higher than answer is it s going to risk pushing the r0 higherthan one, then our science advice to ministers will always be know, we advise against it, simple as that. this is a difficult balancing act because there are significant well being issues for children who are out of school for months on end, so it is delicate and difficult, and i accept that. do you want to come back on any of that? just quickly, you have done a greatjob in recruiting people to track and trace, but in terms of the app, just to be clear to parents, will it be ready byjune the 1st when you ask some of us to send their kids back to school? because parents might want that reassurance. all of these steps are a balanced assessment, notjust of one or other element but particularly the r rate. in terms of the app, it is still our intention to roll it out across the country for everyone to use in the weeks ahead. i cannot be any more precise at this stage but we are making good progress with it. gary gibbon next, channel 4. progress with it. gary gibbon next, channel4. thank progress with it. gary gibbon next, channel 4. thank you. it sounds as if the progress on the app has slipped a bit. we were told to expect it will be rolled out in the middle of may, but you cannot say any more that it will be in the weeks ahead. given the app and testing are two key ingredients, are you not worried that the test seem to be coming back really rather late, sometimes in five days? you have missed the opportunity potentially to quarantine someone. it is perfectly reasonable to point out we are learning all the way as we go through this pandemic, not just on the scientific side, but we need to get a grip on it and control the virus. we are making good progress on the pilot in the isle of wight in relation to the app. we have always said of course the steps we might take, what is a step two on the slides i just showed, we might take, what is a step two on the slides ijust showed, will only be taken at the earliest injune. but we are giving is a road map with maximum conditionality to make sure both in terms of the measures we have taken at step one and any subsequent measures, we are confident we can take further sure footed steps. confident we can take further sure-footed steps. can you guide us, may be the professor can, to what extent was the modelling on which the easing is based based on a fully functioning app and a testing process that was bringing back results before 48 hours? jonathan, please. yes, so, iwant to results before 48 hours? jonathan, please. yes, so, i want to be clear that the app is one part of the test and trace system. the rest of it is much more of the tried and tested methodology used by public health england for this and for many other diseases. and the mainstay will always be the public health england system, as evidenced by the 21,500 recruits, a third of whom are doctors or nurses, to help with that. that is the mainstay of it. testing is very much testing for action. we don t do it for the hell of it. it informs action for people either to be reassured that they have a negative result and they don t need to go into self isolation, or that they absolutely must, and it will inform contact tracing as part of test and trace, it absolutely will. and from that perspective, you are absolutely right that we need to do it bigger and faster, and as fast as we can, and faster, and as fast as we can, and we are sending a clear message as scientists that it needs to be fast, and we have to work as hard as we can to improve the timeliness of the testing system as we go along. of course, the reality is, the further along it is, the more expanded, the more flexibility we will have, so it is not a binary choice but it is proceeding at pace. tom newton dunn from the sun. may i ask about the resolution tabled today to which britain is a signatory calling for a review into the international community s response to the pandemic. it does not mention anything about getting to the bottom of the origin of it and doesn t mention china by name at all. are you letting china off the hook or do you want an independent enquiry like australia does and want this enquiry to get to the bottom of the origin of the pandemic? and a question for mr van tam as well. jonathan, in your incredibly honest way, as usual, can you update us on how far site has got on the double bubble joining of two households. and for the over 70s, is there any hope of them co joining with their children or grandchildren? now might bea children or grandchildren? now might be a good time to manage their expectations, because they are running pretty high. at the international level, we have been clear, and we work with all of our partners, including australia and many others, because we want this review to command the strongest support. it has to be international, credible, which means it is independent and impartial, and it has to be able to get to the bottom of how it happened, how the outbreak happened and spread, and critically the lessons we can learn for future pandemics. jonathan. yes, so thank you for the question. my mum lives on her own. she hasn t seen her grandchildren for many months, so i appreciate how difficult and stressful this really is for the kind of categories of people that you mention out there, and it is hurting, and it is difficult. sage is looking at this at the moment. the matter is under review. it would not be right and proper for me to comment further at this stage, and therefore, with respect, i won t. tom, do you want to come back on any of that? a quick follow-up for mr van tam. i understand your reasoning, but perhaps you could offer more guidance on camping, which you offered to look into last week. if brits can t go on holiday anytime soon, can they camping outdoors not co joining with anyone, safely? yes, i have had a lot of correspondence about that since my appearance last week, as you can imagine, andl appearance last week, as you can imagine, and i stand ready to give advice to the government on all of those complex issues as and when it asks for it. very good. thanks, tom. kate proctor from the guardian. thank you. to the foreign secretary, thousands of care workers from out side the european economic area are risking their lives working in britain in care homes in the coronavirus pandemic. these same ca re rs are coronavirus pandemic. these same carers are being asked to pay £625 to use the nhs, in many cases the same service in which they work. will the government exempt migrant ca re will the government exempt migrant care workers from this nhs charge, or will they scrap it altogether? and forjonathan or will they scrap it altogether? and for jonathan van tam, or will they scrap it altogether? and forjonathan van tam, i wanted to ask what you thought the scientificjustification is for introducing a quarantine period now as opposed to doing it earlier on in march or april, particularly considering the infection rates for other countries in europe are particularly low. thanks very much. there are no current plans to make the change you describe, but we know that the home secretary is very keen to make sure that we have a sensitive immigration system for those exceptional front line workers, whether in care homes or in the nhs, and we recognise that a lot of people have come from abroad and do thosejobs of people have come from abroad and do those jobs and make a huge and valued contribution to this country. jonathan. so, on the question of quarantine, why didn t we do it previously? and we are talking subject to ministerial announcements about maybe doing it now. well, my recollection is, we did do it before. 0n the 29th of february, and then on the 30th of february, we announced that travellers returning from wuhan and its surrounding province when they arrived in the uk must self isolate at home for 14 days. you have caught me on the hop here, i m afraid, but i believe it was about four weeks later, we made further advice that people returning from northern italy, initially lombardy, then northern italy, and south korea and iran, i think, we asked them also on arrival in the uk to go home and quarantine, self isolate at home, for 14 days, that being the potential maximum incubation period of this virus. so, i think we have done it before. we did it at a time when the virus activity was concentrated into international hotspots such as hubei province, south korea, northern italy. we are now in a different world where this virus has spread completely internationally, and we are lucky in that we are driving down our case rate to the point where we are becoming an area of low incidence of covid 19, and at that point, then it becomes more sensible to think about what the contribution of travellers from abroad might be. so, that is, i hope, knits it all together for you. i haven t got the precise dates on some of the previous quarantines, but we did it. would you like to follow up on any of that? thank you for that explanation, that was very helpful. to the foreign secretary again, you said that you want to have a sympathetic immigration system. i don t understand what is sympathetic about a £625 nhs charge for carers. and you have made it exempt for other health workers, so why not carers? we keep these things co nsta ntly carers? we keep these things constantly under review, but that is a provision that applies to all workers subject to the definitions coming into this country. we do all sorts of things to support the care sector, including the action plan for the sector that was launched a few weeks ago. and if your concern is having the people to work in the ca re is having the people to work in the care sector, of course, we have put extra money in under an extra recruitment programme to make sure we are able to do that. we will keep it under review, and i understand the point, kate, you are making, and it is absolutely right to pay tribute to the incredible work so many do, and in fairness, tribute to the incredible work so many do, and infairness, it is in so many other ways. we do have immigration controls in place and how they apply in the covid pandemic is something we are reviewing. jez hemmings from the north wales daily post and bbc wales. good evening. what do you say to claims the decision to relax a lockdown in england is undermining efforts to contain the virus in north wales where a full lockdown remains and torres are heading over the border in large numbers chris mackay will be interested to know what mr van tam thinks about the divergence between the english and welsh scientific approaches? to start with, we have done a pretty good job. all nations in the uk have adhered to the social distancing measures to help get the capital are down. i have to say, we have had good collaborations with the devolved nations. i have sat in on cobra meetings where, notwithstanding the different perspectives or considerations which will apply in different nations of the uk, we have actually had a uk wide approach. equally, we have recognised that given the devolved competencies, and given the level of coronavirus in different parts of the uk, there may be different speeds at which the different nations proceed, or even at regional level, and in answer to your question about people from the uk going over to wales, from england going over to wales, from england going to wales, we have been clear that anyone who wants to travel from england to wales or any other part of the united kingdom needs to be mindful of the regulations that the devolved administrations have in place. jonathan. i will answer my bit of the question. so, decisions that are made are always a complex blend of science, politics and practicality, and i think we have to recognise the right of different parts of the uk to make their own decisions. what i would be far more worried about is if there was a separate stream of science driving decisions are in wales, scotland, northern ireland from england. but sage absolutely is a committee that advises the whole of the nation in that sense. 0ne advises the whole of the nation in that sense. one of the difficulties with all of these data and working out what is happening is that as you chop the uk into smaller and smaller regions, you don t have as much regions, you don t have as much region specific data to work with, and the granularity of the picture down at regional level start level starts to fade. some differences in timing and so forth are to be understood. would you like to come back on any of that?” would. going back to what you were saying about cooperation with the nations, the welsh first minister re ce ntly nations, the welsh first minister recently complained that the welsh government hadn t had a conversation with the uk government for a week. as the uk government leaving devolved nations to their own fate, and if not, what assistance is being provided? i don t think that s right at all. if you look at the funding provided to all the devolved administrations, including the welsh executive, the amount of ppe we have helped deliver for nurses and others on the front line. i don t know the last time that any one of the uk government spoke to the welsh executive, but what i would say is that this challenge of, as far as we can, steering a uk wide approach whilst also recognising the devolved competencies and the fact that judgments and the state of the virus will be different in different parts of the uk is not unique to the uk. if you look at italy, they have experienced that. i spoke to my german opposite number recently and he was explaining the different approaches taken in the different states of germany. it has been true in france, with different geographic variations and variables at play. we wa nt variations and variables at play. we want the best we can, and certainly there is a huge repository of goodwill built up on both sides, and certainly from the uk government was my point of view, we want to continue that going forward. on the medical side, and i m only talking about the medical side, i don t recognise the position that you have outlined. my last conversation with the welsh medical director in teleconference was like last week, and my first one with him will i expect to be this evening, and i know that our chief medical officer for england is in pretty much daily contact with all of the devolved administration chief medical officers, and that on very many things, they act as the four cmos together. jez, thanks very much for that. thanks, everyone. that brings toa that. thanks, everyone. that brings to a close today s downing street press co nfe re nce . to a close today s downing street press conference. thank you, jonathan. there we go, the latest downing street briefing on coronavirus, dominic raab, the foreign secretary, and professor jonathan van tam, the deputy chief medical officer for england. let s run you through the main points. they have been a further 160 deaths related to coronavirus over the last day. that brings the total number in all settings to 34,796. dominic raab also announced the daily testing figure in the 24 hour period up to 9am on monday, 67,409 people were tested. dominic raab warned it is not sustainable to keep the lockdown in place permanently but said the government is monitoring the changes it is making and easing measures only where that can be done with the lowest risk possible. we also heard from professor van tam, the deputy chief medical officerfor from professor van tam, the deputy chief medical officer for england. he said autumn and winter conditions could well provide a better environment for the virus, and we may have to learn with it in the long term. that is of course if a vaccine is not discovered, manufactured in the next few months. let s get the thoughts and analysis of our political correspondent helen catt. one of the questions was about the additional list of symptoms for covid 19, the loss of smell and taste, the point at which people should self isolate. in france that was added to the list of symptoms weeks ago. why has it onlyjust been added today here? that is the question that has been asked all day since it was added to the official list of symptoms, along with the persistent cough and high temperature. professor van tam said they had ta ken temperature. professor van tam said they had taken their time because they had taken their time because they wanted to work out if the symptoms of the loss of sense of smell or taste, how often they appeared as the only symptoms, and how often they appeared much earlier than the other symptoms. so the phrase he used was, even if it was barn door obvious they were symptoms of covid 19, he needed to make it clear adding it to the list of symptoms was the right thing to do. he said in the end they decided it made a small difference so that is why they decided to do it. but he didn t think they had missed many cases because in the vast majority of cases the symptoms came with the others which were already on the list. also interesting from the press co nfe re nce was list. also interesting from the press conference was then being pushed on the development of this contact tracing app. dominic raab announced the recruitment of 21,000 contact tracers, who will do this manually. people will get contacted and advised if they need to self isolate, so we knew that was in place, but they were pushed on whether the app was running late because it had been expected to be in place by mid may. he said on that case dominic raab declined to give a date by which the app would be up and functioning, but they did say it is only one part of the track and trace programme, and the manual tracing and tracking would be the mainstay of any system so that was an interesting take on that. helen, for the moment thank you very much indeed. helen catt. i want to bring you some breaking news from northern ireland. we are hearing ministers from the devolved administrations and there have said groups of up to six people who do not share a household can meet outdoors with social distancing of course, that is from tuesday. so groups in northern ireland of up to six people who do not share household can meet outdoors from tuesday. also churches will be open for private prayer again with social distancing, sports like golf and tennis can restart in northern ireland, and also allowed will be driving church services and cinemas drive in. also the restau ra nt cinemas drive in. also the restaurant owners casual dining group, one of britain s biggest restau ra nt group, one of britain s biggest restaurant operators and they run restau ra nts, restaurant operators and they run restaurants, 6000 staff in 250 locations and they run the restau ra nt locations and they run the restaurant chains bella italia and cafe rouge, they have filed notice to appoint administrators. they are working on a possible restructuring plan but have filed notice to appoint administrators, so clearly in trouble there, that restaurant group that employ some 6000 staff altogether. let s go to our health correspondent nick triggle, who can talk to us about what we learned from that briefing. again, one of the questions was parents can feel confident about sending their kids back to school, how people can be confident about going back to work. if we still haven t got the track and trace system fully up and running. yes, as helen mentioned, dominic raab did not commit to a date by which the track and trace system would be up and running. the expectation was it would be by mid may but we know that the app is still being piloted in the isle of wight, just under half the population have downloaded that. and we have heard they are recruiting 21,000 contact tracers. we are still a long way from having the system in place. tests have been done but some people are waiting a long time for their test results to come back, sometimes up to five days, and that will be essential if we are to track and trace people that they get their test results back quickly. then you can inform the close contacts of those individuals that they may also be at risk. another issue discussed was the idea of quarantining new arrivals into the uk. i know that concerns a lot of people who are thinking about trying to get away for a summer holiday in particular. what did we learn about that? because there have been suggestions there may be exemptions for people coming from low infection countries, where there isn t a high rate of infection. i think the picture with thatis infection. i think the picture with that is still very unclear. there is a lot of work to be done on how we contain the outbreaks and how any quarantining system contain the outbreaks and how any quara ntining system will work. contain the outbreaks and how any quarantining system will work. it was interesting jonathan van tam referred back to the early days of the outbreak in the uk, insisting we did use quarantining then when people were coming in from china and a number of asian countries, and then from northern italy, and we did use it to try to contain it then but theissue use it to try to contain it then but the issue was we didn t have the testing and tracing system in place. that s why there were a lot of questions at the briefing about testing and tracing, and trying to get that in place. many thanks indeed for that. nick triggle, our health correspondent. today should have been the first day of the chelsea flower show, but the pandemic means it has been cancelled for the first time in fact since the second world war. instead the show has gone online with many designers transforming their own gardens for what is a virtual show. the queen was among those sending her support to the organisers. hello, i am alan titchmarsh. the face is familiar, but other things are different. for me one of the most rewarding things to grow something i can eat. the virtual chelsea flower show, the smells, the bustle aren t there, a different mood to the online version. hello, tom, have you had to think about how the garden looks virtually? yes, i did have to think about the kind of shots, i m not a director, i m not a film person so trying to think about the right shots to capture, the right plants to show, how to tell a story of this kind of dull space and transforming it into a chelsea style planting, took a bit of thinking about to get that right. we reseeded the orchard last autumn, with wild flower mix. instead of show gardens and displays, we ve been taken into some private back gardens. virtual chelsea is also focusing on the positivity gardening can bring. more and more people are finding that gardening of any kind is really helpful, it reduces anxiety, helps depression, and it s to do with nurturing something. this is just absolutely wonderful. for those denied their chelsea fix this year, there was a positive response to the virtual version. with virtual chelsea, i think we always look for inspiration, different ideas that we can bring into our own garden and in our own situation. and there is such a lot on there for us. that, you know, every day will bring something different to our perspective of lockdown. now, the queen arrives. all chelsea regulars have become armchair viewers this time. the queen has attended almost every year of her reign. in a statement of support to the royal horticultural society today she said the horticultural industry is one that has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. even though garden centres have just reopened, they ve already lost an estimated £500 million worth of stock. that just hasn t survived. it s not exactly the same, but chelsea is a gardening and social highlight for so many. this hopefully fills a gap until the planned return of the chelsea flower show in 2021. daniela relph, bbc news. the six o clock news is coming up in a few minutes with fiona bruce but let s first recapped the main points from the downing street briefing which was led by the foreign secretary, dominic raab. he confirmed there have been a further 160 deaths related to coronavirus over the last day bringing the total number of uk deaths from covid 19 in all settings to 34,796. dominic raab also announced the daily testing figure in the 24 hour period until nine o clock on monday morning, that was 100,678 tests carried out or dispatch, a total of 67,000 people actually tested. he warned it is not sustainable to keep the lockdown in place permanently. it was also announced today that anyone in the uk over the age of five who think they have the symptoms of coronavirus can be tested. the six o clock news coming up. first let s get the weather. so far this month of may has been exceptionally dry with the rain deficit for many areas. it doesn t look like there s much rain in the forecast either, certainly over the next couple of days it will be turning warmer, particularly in the middle part of the week. by the end of the week, low pressure moves in so cooler and windier and some will see some rain. the pressure chart for the latter part of monday shows these weather fronts across the northern half of the country, higher pressure towards the south. it means through tonight it will stay cloudy and damp across northern ireland, north wales, northern england, central and southern scotland with outbreaks of rain here. drier to the north of scotland and further south, and a mild night to come for pretty much all areas, 10 degrees being the lowest value. tuesday starting off cloudy and damp but the rain should peter out and become confined to the far north of scotland, in the northern isles. high pressure really sta rts northern isles. high pressure really starts to building for wednesday, that s when we start to see the heat building. it pushes the weather front further north and draws up the warm airfrom spain and france. it looks like it will be a dry story for most, the rain becomes confined to orkney and shetland. this is where we will see the peak of the warm weather, 27 degrees in the south east, even the low 20s celsius across scotland. thursday is another warm day in the south, an increasing chance of heavy showers and thunderstorms with slightly cooler air pushing from the north west. then by the end of the week a different story moving in, an area of low pressure, quite a deep feature with lots of isobars on the chart and a weather front that will sweep north was to bring some areas outbreaks of rain. to end the week ona outbreaks of rain. to end the week on a caller and windier note, thanks to the area of low pressure, and some in the north west will see the rain. it is scotland, northern ireland, north england and west wales but some southern and eastern areas could stay dry altogether. new symptoms to look for if you think you may have coronavirus a loss of smell or taste. that s if you also have a high temperature or a cough doctors say the new symptons should have been included weeks ago. in excess of 100,000, maybe 200,000 cases, would have been missed, would have been out there infecting other people. the government says anyone aged five and over can now have a coronavirus test, though there are complaints it s taking too long already to get the results. 21,000 contact tracers have been recruited, though the nhs coronavirus app won t be ready for a few weeks. also tonight. in northern ireland, groups of up to six people not
this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk a major new development in the case and around the world. of the british girl madeleine mccann a new prime suspect who disappeared in portugal a convicted german sex offender in the search for british girl madeleine mccann, who is the prime suspect in the international investigation. disappeared in portugal. a convicted german sex offender is the focus police believe he was travelling of the international investigation. in the area in this camper van at the time madeleine vanished, police believe he was travelling 13 years ago. in the area in this camper van at the time madeleine vanished, this is the scene live 13 years ago. in braunschweig in germany, a stinging attack on president trump where the prosecutor will shortly by his former defence secretary, give an update. james mattis, over his threat to use troops to end the protests sweeping the united states. president trump s former defence secretary, james mattis, launches a stinging attack over his threat to use the duchess of sussex speaks troops to end the protests of her own experience of racism sweeping the united states. in the wake of the killing the duchess of sussex speaks of her own experience of racism of george floyd in minneapolis. in the wake of the killing of george floyd in minneapolis. the only wrong thing to say is to say nothing, because. george floyd s life mattered. the only wrong thing to say is to say nothing, because. the uk s prime minister is to call for a new era of global health ..george floyd s life mattered. co operation when he hosts a vaccine summit in london. and prince charles talks the uk s prime minister is to call about being affected by coronavirus, for a new era of global health saying he got away lightly . co operation when he hosts a vaccine summit in london. hello and welcome if you re watching hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. in the uk or around the world stay with us for the latest news and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and analysis from here and across the globe. and across the globe. i m rebecca jones. and you can contact me police in germany are to on twitter about our stories give an update shortly about their investigation at @annita mcveigh. into the disappearance first, a german prisoner has been of madeleine mccann, after they announced a child sex offender was the new suspect. identified as a new suspect in the disappearance of the british girl madeline mccann from a holiday resort in portugal 13 years ago. the a3 year old german man is currently in prison. the man in his 40s is a convicted sex offender who had been living he s believed to have been in the area where the madeleine in the algarve at the time, was last seen, when she disappeared travelling around in a camper van. our home affairs correspondent in portugal 13 years ago. daniel sandford reports. this is the vw camper van let s go to braunschweig in germany, that was used by the new suspect in where the prosecutor is giving an update. the madeleine mccann investigation. with its distinctive colours, translation: i want to make a short police hope it will trigger statement about the current results. as yet unnamed suspect. i would like to ask for your understanding that, because of someone‘s memory and lead to new evidence about their current investigations, we are as yet unnamed suspect. unable to accept any questions, so i he used the vehicle to live in and, certainly, the week preceding, will not be able to give you answers he was in there living, so he would move around the area, to your questions. this isjust using that van as probably his base. going to be a bit of a monologue, so the suspect also used this jaguar car at the time. i have to ask for your understanding he registered the car into someone else‘s name the day in this case. if i may, then i would after madeleine mccann disappeared. like to start. in connection with the three year old went missing the disappearance of the on may the 3rd 2007. three year old british girl madeleine mccann on the 3rd of may she d been sleeping in her parents‘ holiday apartment 2007 from an apartment complex in praia da luz in portugal, the while they were 50 metres away having a meal with friends. braunschweig prosecution is her 17th birthday was last month. on the german version investigating against a a3 year old of crimewatch last night, german on suspicion of murder. we police there revealed that the suspect has previous convictions for sexually assaulting girls and is thought to have burgled are assuming that the girl is dead. hotels and holiday apartments. with the suspect, we are talking he s currently in prison in germany. his phone was used in praia da luz about an hour before madeleine mccann disappeared. about a multiple sexual predator who the metropolitan police are now has already been convicted for asking for anyone who can help crimes against little girls, and he with information about the mobile number he took the call on that is already serving a long sentence. night, the vw camper van between 1995 and 2007 he has that he was using that summer regularly been living on the and the old jaguar xjr algarve, amongst others living in a 6 that he registered out of his name the day after madeleine mccann disappeared. in a statement, her parents, kate and gerry mccann, seen here in 2007, said house near praia da luz. we they would like to thank the police understood he did a couple of odd forces involved in britain, germany and portugal. jobs in the area. other points are they said they would never give up that the suspect financed his life hope of finding madeleine alive. the german police said that theirs is a murder investigation, but madeleine mccann‘s parents said, by committing crimes, including whatever the outcome is, they need to know what happened, thefts in hotel complexes and as they need to find peace. apartments, but also drug dealing. clarence mitchell is the spokesperson for the mccann family. the braunschweig prosecution is now he told the bbc that the family hasn t given up hope concerned because they suspect prior of finding madeleine alive. to going abroad, he last had his residence in braunschweig during the the family are very grateful, as they have been all the way investigation is being carried out through this, to the police forces involved, not least here, working together closely with the british police but, now, the germans and, indeed, the portuguese police. the british metropolitan police and they simply want to establish what happened to their daughter, the british metropolitan police and the police in portugal. we are now to find out the truth, and to bring whoever was responsible for her disappearance to justice. they have not given up hope of finding madeleine alive, despite the length of time, asking the public, appealing to the public to help, and calls for they ve never given up that hope, but they are realistic, witness being set out. i can only and they say that whatever appeal to everyone as far as you the outcome of this appeal possibly can to react to this appeal and the police work, they do need to know, because they need to find peace. and help us along with this. i am let s speak now to stefanie bolzen, uk correspondent for german asking for your understanding that newspaper die welt. because of the ongoing investigations, no further thank you very much forjoining us information, no details can be given today. what do we know from germany on the concrete matter, and no more itself about how this suspect has emerged at this time. well, this is can be said about current investigations of the situation. as very, very fresh news. so, last farasi investigations of the situation. as faras i am investigations of the situation. as far as i am concerned, this is all i night, in germany, there was a tv can tell you today and thank you for programme which i think you can your attention. i hope you get home safely. thank you. compare to crimewatch in britain, well, short statement there from the german public prosecutor, with an and in this programme, they talked update on the latest investigation again about the case of the disappearance of madeleine mccann into the disappearance of madeleine mccann. our home affairs correspondent and the prosecutors were quite daniel sandford is with me. specific in giving out telephone not a huge amount of new information numbers, putting out photos of the there, but what did you make of what camper van numbers, putting out photos of the campervan and of numbers, putting out photos of the he had to say? first of all, it s camper van and of the jaguar and appealing very specifically to quite striking how he started that, people to come forward and give information. reading the local the braunschweig prosecutor, by saying that we are assuming that the newspaper in the place where the girl is dead. the german police did suspect had been living until he was also say that last night and said that this was a murder living in portugal, that is why the investigation, but this is the man who was essentially in charge of authorities there are in charge, trying to bring their suspected they have described very much in justice, and he is working on the assumption that madeleine mccann was detail a court trial against this dead. he then gave some of the man back in december 2019, where he details that we already know about this man. the man is being named in was sentenced for the rape of an american woman and a lot of this has only come out because of people who germany as christian b, not his full have come forward and given information, so it seems like in the name, just the initial of his press c0 nfe re nce surname, and we believe that is an information, so it seems like in the press conference $0011, at information, so it seems like in the press conference soon, at 12 o clock british time, there might be more accurate description of the details coming out explaining what prosecution are talking about. he has happened to have this may be has a a3 year old man with multiple prime suspect now being named. there sex offence convictions, some of has always been a feeling, a them against children but also some against older people as well. some suspicion, hasn t there, that, apart of those took place in portugal. and from whoever it was that took essentially what has happened, we madeleine, there must be a small have got to the stage in this investigation where they are pretty sure that they have identified number of people with information as somebody who was heavily involved in well and, clearly, the german the disappearance of madeleine authorities are hoping that mccann, but they need some extra someone s memory will be jogged jigsaw, so again what you are seeing authorities are hoping that someone s memory will bejogged or, i think the phrase they used, is in the prosecutor there is asking people to come forward and give them that there allegiances will have changed over time and that is very those last pieces of the jigsaw to see if they can get to the point interesting, clearly they want to, where they can charge christian b with this new camper van, the car, with madeleine mccann s murder.- the phone number, they want to build you said, it was quite chilling on what seem like pretty tangible hearing the german public prosecutor there saying that he was assuming leads. we don t know, this has been she was dead. can you explain the case for so many years, there something to me. the german police have been so many investigations are treating this as a murder going on, so i understand everybody investigation, and yet there seems has to be very cautious on to bea conclusions but reading reports from investigation, and yet there seems to be a different approach from the metropolitan police. why is that? 2019 ina conclusions but reading reports from 2019 in a local newspaper, there are to be a different approach from the metropolitan police. why is that7m is about traditions and different reports on somebody who came forward sensitivities. i don t think many who had been doing a burglary of a people involved in the disappearance house and came across video footage of madeleine mccann have much hope of rape and that was in connection about finding her alive. it is with this person and in this hearing possible she could have been kidnapped and held somewhere for at the court, he said, well, you do many, kidnapped and held somewhere for any kidnapped and held somewhere for many, many years, but i think the british police, because they don t stupid things in your life but that have any proof that she is dead, was too much and therefore i have they are taking their approach that come forward. now, this is not isa they are taking their approach that is a missing persons enquiry. the related to the case of madeleine mccann, of course, but to another german prosecutors have a different case, but there is some indication approach, which is that the information that may have led them that there might be, and again, we to this man in the first place, and we are not quite sure what that is, have to be very cautious, there might bea but that seems to be information have to be very cautious, there might be a connection here. thank that links him to her death rather than just that links him to her death rather thanjust her that links him to her death rather you very much, stefanie bolzen, the than just her disappearance. and thatis than just her disappearance. and that is the key, isn t it? because uk correspondent for die welt and as over 13 years we have had so many you mention, that news conference in germany, happening at noon uk time. false alarms, false leads, for different suspects, and it does make president trump s former defence secretary james mattis has denounced the president you wonder why this person and why as divisive and expressed his this person now. i think in the support for the street protests shadows for quite some time there demanding racialjustice in america, has been the suggestion that the in the wake of the death of george floyd. person involved was german. that has it comes after further charges been around for a long time, and were announced against the police thatis officers who were present been around for a long time, and that is to do with stuff that has at mr floyd s arrest, shortly before he was pronounced dead. been seen in internet chat rooms and david willis reports. intelligence that was coming in, so the focus has been on germany for huge protests continue to grip quite a while. as this name came this country in response to george floyd s death. into the frame, first in 2013 and thousands converged on downtown then again in 2017, what has become key about this man, christian b, is los angeles, and after violence that his mobile phone was in the right town on the evening that here over the weekend, this time, their call madeleine mccann disappeared, and for change was peaceful. night time cu rfews also that his car, which was remain in place here, registered in his name, is where it as well as in new york and washington dc. is registered into somebody else s name the day after madeleine mccann in minneapolis, where all this disappeared. and those two things began, anger gave way to cheers obviously mean that he is of very, at the news that former police officer derek chauvin is to face very significant interest to these a more serious murder charge. let me hear y all investigations, and then when you say we got all four! put that against his background of we got all four! burgling hotels, burgling holiday apartments and of sexually and at the news that the three other assaulting women and young girls, officers involved in mr floyd s then you can see why he is somebody death have now been arrested. they stand accused of aiding that the police want to talk to as and abetting his murder. well as any further intelligence that they have against him that we president trump s often bellicose have not been told about. daniel response to the recent unrest here has unnerved even some sandford, thank you for that. as in his own party. daniel said, the focus is in and now his former defence secretary james mattis is voicing concern. germany,. let s speak now to julian in a withering critique reichelt, editor in chief of german newspaper bild. in the atlantic magazine, we are very grateful for your time, mr mattis accuses the president of an abuse of power and writes. thank you. what do we know from germany as to how this suspect has emerged at this time? well, we have heard a lot already there on your donald trump responded promptly. programme about how he has emerged in this crime. it was about that telephone number that was locked in close to where maddy disappeared on that day, but there is another i see limitless potential that aspect to this. he is in prison in deserves to flourish and thrive. you should be able to learn and make the city of kiel right now here in mistakes and live a life ofjoy. america s first black president struck a starkly different and more germany, and there is some optimistic tone to that information coming from the whole of president trump in a virtual town hall event. prison environment, some new as tragic as these past information emerged that pushed few weeks have been, as difficult and scary and uncertain investigators towards christian b, as they ve been, they ve also been because everything we have heard so far publicly has been around and an incredible opportunity basically known to police in germany for people to be awakened. and in britain for years, basically known to police in germany and in britain foryears, so basically known to police in germany and in britain for years, so what we right now, i think the nation are hearing from our sources is that needs law and order, there was an additional push towards because you have a bad group looking at christian b another time, of people out there and that is when the police put all and they are using george floyd and they are using a lot of other the pieces together again, and now people to try and do some bad things and what we do. we have it totally under control. george floyd s family and friends are due together in minneapolis opened as we just heard from the on thursday for a memorial service prosecutor in braunschweig, opened a murder investigation. and what is in his honour. your newspaper and indeed other the calls for a radical reform german newspapers, what are you of race relations in this reporting about this man? do you country are growing. have any more information about him? david willis, bbc news, los angeles. yes, we do. we just had a chance to and we will be talking more about look at his criminal record, his the political response to george file, through our sources, and it is floyd s death soon. shocking to see that file, it is the uk will host the global vaccine also shocking that from that file summit will get under way today, where more than 50 countries and from knowing that that person and donor organisations has lived in the area of question, that he wasn t on the radar before, will be urged to play their full part in what s being called the most essential shared endeavour of our lifetimes . the aim is to raise £6 billion because he has been convicted of to immunise hundreds of millions child abuse as early as 1994, as we of children against deadly diseases. the video conference is being hosted by borisjohnson, have read in his file. he was born who will call for a new era of global health co operation . the uk government will also in1976, he is hold a video conference have read in his file. he was born in 1976, he is a3 years old. that means that early in his life already with aviation industry officials, to discuss its coronavirus there was a record of child abuse, quarantine plan. and it wasn t the only time, there south america continues to be the current epicentre of the outbreak. are numerous other convictions, drug brazil suffered a record number of daily deaths with more than 1,300 people dying from the virus. convictions, driving under the and research in the uk found that influence, driving without a driver license, it is a huge numerous page more than half the population struggled with sleep during the lockdown. 40% of people also reported long criminal record that we have seen, but what is most striking is having more vivid dreams. that there is a clear history of joining me now from westminster child abuse, and that combined with is our assistant political editor, norman smith. the burglaries you have mentioned on your programme, it seems indeed a bit odd that this person wasn t on hello, to you, norman. let s begin the radar in the past 13 years. with that global vaccine summit. clearly, there are concerns in many countries that there is going to be julian reichelt from bild, we must a scramble, you know, once a vaccine leave it there. a really good of you tojoin us, leave it there. a really good of you to join us, thanks. thank you very hopefully is found, a scramble to much. president trump s former appropriate that vaccine and that defence secretary james mattis has rebuked him over his threat to use not everybody might get access to it troops to quell the protests at the same time. so what is it that against racial injustice in america. the uk is going to do to try to his comments come after all bring about changes in that area?” four officers involved in the death of george floyd think first of all, they want to the event which started the protests were formally charged. coordinate a global response and build some impetus and get some cash derek chauvin, the officer behind the search for a vaccine, but who was filmed kneeling you are right, there is concerned on mr floyd s neck, has that if and when a vaccine is had his charge elevated from third to second degree murder. finally developed, it will be the wealthier of the world that have access to the vaccine and, in poorer under minnestota state law, first degree murder is defined as when the defendant has the intention to kill parts of the world, they won t. but and usually requires some the concern of scientists is that element of premeditation. only means the virus will continue, second degree murder, the charges being brought here, because unless you provide requires an intention to kill. safeguards to all countries, it or in this case intention to commit a serious crime simply, sooner or later, re emerges. which results in death. so it is an attempt, as it were, to focus minds in ensuring that there and third degree murder would not isa require proof that the defendant focus minds in ensuring that there is a global push to develop vaccine, wanted the victim to die, but also to make sure that, when it only that their actions is available, it is not confined to were dangerous and carried out the very wealthiest countries. lots without regard to human life. our north america correspondent of countries, of course, grappling david willis reports. as well with testing and the search for a vaccine with how they boost huge protests continue to grip this country in response to george floyd s death. the economy, when we hopefully emerge from this pandemic, sooner thousands converged on downtown rather than later. particularly in los angeles, and after violence here over the weekend, relation to tourism, to air travel. this time their call for change was peaceful. what is the uk saying about its quarantine plans, due to come in night time cu rfews remain in place here, from the beginning of next week, for as well as in new york people coming into the uk? the uk and washington dc. in minneapolis, where all this is, in many ways, unique, because began, anger gave way to cheers at the news that former police large parts of europe are now officer derek chauvin is to face beginning to ease their restrictions a more serious murder charge. on travel and tourism. some tourism let me hear y all ministers are encouraging people to say we got all four! we got all four! come back and visit their holiday hotspots. in britain, the opposite appears to be happening because we and at the news that the three other are now imposing, from monday, a officers involved in mr floyd s death have now been arrested. mandatory 1a day quarantine for they stand accused of aiding people arriving in the uk and that and abetting his murder. has sparked huge, huge opposition, president trump s often bellicose response to the recent unrest here has unnerved even some including from conservative mps, who feel it will deliver a body blow to in his own party. and now his former defence secretary the aviation industry and, indeed, to the holiday and travel business james mattis is voicing concern. in britain. and what is striking is the revolt, if you like, is being in a withering critique led by some of the most senior and in the atlantic magazine, mr mattis accuses the president of an abuse of power and writes. previously loyal conservative mps, including amongst them the former prime minister theresa may, and their argument, bluntly, is prime minister theresa may, and theirargument, bluntly, is notjust theirargument, bluntly, is notjust the damage this measure will do but donald trump responded promptly. also that it makes no sense, in that britain did not have a quarantine system at the peak of the pandemic, why on earth is it imposing one when the pandemic is beginning to tail off? this morning, we have heard from government ministers resolutely i see limitless potential that defending the policy, among them the deserves to flourish and thrive. cabinet minister brandon lewis. you should be able to learn and make mistakes and live a life ofjoy. the spread of the virus within the communities here in the uk is much lower america s first black president than it was, it has gotten struck a starkly different and more to a lower level and we want to see optimistic tone to that of president trump in that continue to be low a virtual town hall event. and that is why this is the right time to bring this in, because, as patrick vallance was outlining, as tragic as these past when you have a higher few weeks have been, as difficult and scary and uncertain community transmission rates, the difference somebody coming into the country can make as they ve been, they ve also been is much more marginal an incredible opportunity and much more negligible. as our rates are now much lower and moving lower and lower, hopefully, as we go forward, for people to be awakened. it has a much bigger impact, that is why we are bringing this in. now, the government has promised to keep the policy under review and the right now, i think the nation next date for the review is in three needs law and order, weeks time, but, given the level of because you have a bad group of people out there opposition from conservative mps, it seems to be quite possible that this and they are using george floyd and they are using a lot of other policy will have to be shelved well people to try and do some bad before then. norman, thank you very things and what we do. we have it totally under control. much. norman smith in westminster. let s recap the headlines on bbc george floyd s family and friends are due together in minneapolis news. on thursday for a memorial service a german sex offender has been identified as a new suspect in his honour. the calls for a radical reform in the disappearance of the british of race relations in this girl madeline mccann from a holiday country are growing. david willis, bbc news, los angeles. resort in portugal 13 years ago. president trump s former defence secretary, james mattis, has launched a stinging attack on him, over his threat to use meghan markle has spoken out troops to end the protests following the protests over sweeping the united states. the duchess of sussex speaks the death of george floyd. of her own experience of racism in a video message, speaking in the wake of the killing to the graduating class of her former high school, she said she felt compelled to address what s happening in america. of george floyd in minneapolis. the only wrong thing to say let s return to the us, is to say nothing, because. and the continued outrage over ..george floyd s life mattered the death of african american and breonna taylor s life mattered george floyd at the hands of police. and philando castile s life mattered as we heard earlier, president trump s former and tamir rice s life mattered. defence secretary, james mattis, has denounced the president as divisive and expressed his and so did so many other people support for the street protests whose names we know and whose demanding racialjustice in america, names we do not know. in the wake of mr floyd s death. stephon clark, his life mattered. so with the us elections later this year, how will this current situation play out in the polls? and i was thinking about this moment when i was a sophomore in high school. with me are ren brewster, a political commentator and president trump supporter, i was 15 and, as you know, who was a campaign manager for ronald reagan. sophomore year is the year also drjulie norman, that we do volunteer work, which is a prerequisite for graduating. who s a political analyst at university college london and supports joe biden. and i remember my teacher at the time, one of my teachers, said to me before i was leaving thank you both very much for your before a day of volunteering, always remember to put others time today, we appreciate you coming along to talk to us about this. ren, needs above your own fears. first of all, that attack from the headlines on bbc news. former defence secretary james matos on the president but also his current defence secretary saying a german sex offender has been there is no need for the president to talk about evoking the identified as a prime suspect in the disappearance of the british insurrection act and bringing troops girl madeleine mccann from a holiday resort in portugal 13 years ago. out to militarise this mattis. you think it is a bad idea, getting german investigating police say the military involved in stepping it they assume madeleine is dead. president trump s former defence secretary, james mattis, up the military involved in stepping it up from the police? actually, i has launched a stinging attack on him, over his threat to use think the military should get troops to end the protests involved at this point because right now, in new york and minnesota and a sweeping the united states. the duchess of sussex speaks of her own experience of racism lot of these blue democratic cities in the wake of the killing and states, we are having problem of george floyd in minneapolis. with the riots and the military is the only way you can stop this, because you have three elements. you do have the peaceful protesters. iran has recorded its highest daily count of new coronavirus infections the great majority are peaceful. since the outbreak began. 7996. the great majority are peaceful. 79%. that is right, but you have two official figures just released show that in the past 2a more elements, the antifa anarchist hours, there were more element and the looting element, than 3,500 new infections. the country has suffered looking for opportunities to go into the deadliest outbreak in the middle east, but has moved in phases to reopen as much a store and loot wants the chaos begins, so you have these three of the country as possible. elements and so you do need the the number of new infections has been increasing in some military. does the president not provinces for several days. have faith in the police force to handle all of this? it isjust a matter of numbers. there is not enough police. what the military does, once you put them in place, there are certain areas the police force do not have to watch or cover, so force do not have to watch or cover, so the military can cover certain areas and then the police can do let s go back to that news about theirjob. the new york city police suspicion falling on a german man department, i m sure you will agree, is probably the best police department in the united states, as over the disappearance of madeleine good as the police department in mccann. clarence mitchell is the spokesperson london, i m sure, but they do need for the mccann family. he told the bbc that the family hasn t given up hope of finding help and the military is that form madeleine alive. of help they need in a situation like this. the best way to handle this is to have a 7pm curfew and quell the violence right away and then let the peaceful protesters protest during the day. let me bring in doctorjulie norman. when the national guard moved into the family are very grateful, as minneapolis, president trump said it they have been all the way through isa minneapolis, president trump said it this, to the police forces involved, is a beautiful thing to watch. we know that he is a president who to the british police, now the germans and indeed the portuguese admires these displays of power, of police. they simply want to establish what happened to their law and order, how do you think this daughter, to find out the truth and to bring whoever was responsible for is going to have an impact in the her disappearance to justice. polls, because, you know, it seems they have not given up hope of finding madeleine alive, despite the length of time, they ve never given up that hope, almost distasteful in a way to be but they are realistic, and they say that whatever talking about the polls later this the outcome of this appeal and the police work, year but, nonetheless, this is very they do need to know, much what is going on in the because they need to find peace. our berlin correspondent response to coronavirus and of jenny hilljoins us now. jenny, we have heard from the german course the response to george public prosecutor within the last floyd s death, this is very much half an hour, telling us a little going to be influencing what people bit more about what has led police to this man. what did you make of do in november. it certainly will what he had to say? yes, i think in have an influence and, as you said, right now, we are really focusing on the events happening right now, this many ways he repeated what we have week, but, of course, these are already heard from the police who going to have a longer effect and made a public appeal on german television last night. i think the response that we saw from trump perhaps the most stark thing that varied ina the prosecutor here had to say is the response that we saw from trump varied in a couple of ways. first of all, the national guard deployment that the investigators in germany that we saw in some of the states in are convinced that madeleine mccann response to some of those early is dead. they suspect she was killed nights that did include high levels of violence, those were requests by the german man, a a3 year old who from governors to bring in national guard members who are members of they say is currently serving a their reserves, so those are people prison sentence for another unrelated crime. they say he does who are trained and expected to support police forces in that way. have previous convictions for the that is different to calling for an sexual assault of children, and he active military deployment, which is was living in portugal between 1995 what we heard trump say a couple of days ago. so it is that kind of and 2007. he has been named, he is escalator or a language that a lot of democrats in particular but also believed, or not officially by the many republicans are can back it is prosecutor, i should say. he is a concerned about, that trump is using rhetoric but also policy to escalate man called christian b, his full the situation rather than diffused name is not circulating, and that it the situation rather than diffused hasn t been officially confirmed as it republicans are concerned about. so there is concern among yet. last night german police made democrats but also some republicans that do see this as potentially an appeal to find out more about this man and his movements at the hurting trump a s standing with time in the algarve. he lived for moderates but will continue to some time in a house quite close to galvanise democrats around this praia da luz where madeleine mccann issue. ren, when james mattis made went missing. german detectives are keen to find out more about two his comments, he said the situation vehicles he is known to have used, calls for mature leadership, not one a dark red jaguar, the other a inflammatory language and a yougov red and white yellow and white vw camper van. survey in the states recently had red and white yellow and white vw campervan. a red and white yellow and white vw camper van. a television programme 5296 survey in the states recently had 52% of people polled thinking that last night, similar to the british the president is a racist, compared programme crimewatch, where investigators ask public for their help in solving old cases, they are with 37% who said he isn t. i mean, this is surely going to damage his now pinning their hopes on members of the public coming forward with standing in the polls come november, more information. they say they need do you think? actually, president those final details before they can trump has a very strong base, the really end their investigation into this case. but i must repeat that same base that put him in office in they are convinced here that they are looking at a murder. they say 2016, but as far as damaging him same base that put him in office in 2016, but as faras damaging him in madeline mccann is dead, killed, the polls, i don t think too many of they believe, by a german man. this isa they believe, by a german man. this is a murder investigation. jenny, his republican and some democrat thank you for that. jenny hill in backers in the election change votes berlin. the northern ireland executive because of this. the races, do something they seem to go back to is meeting today to discuss the easing of lockdown. after they have worked the russia if it confirms the changes, outdoor weddings with ten people concept, they have worked at the present will be allowed ukraine telephone call, they are from the 8th ofjune. going back to racist now because let s speak to a couple who are they realise thatjoe biden is getting married this summer slipping in the polls and joe biden peter mcconnell and sarah mcafee just had his comment, when he talked in ballymena in county antrim. toa just had his comment, when he talked to a radio announcer about if you i m delighted to say they both join are black, you should be voting for me now. congratulations to you both. me, or some statement to that sarah, perhaps if i can start with effect, so he had a problem with you. how have your plans been that also. so, right now, that is affected by this virus?” the theme they are going to try you. how have your plans been affected by this virus? i guess it s and. by president trump is not the uncertainty at the minute. and racist. let s see what julie makes up the uncertainty at the minute. and up untila up racist. let s see what julie makes up that. of course, trump has his the uncertainty at the minute. and up until a while back, we didn t know how many people we would be base of supporters that will support allowed, and just realising we had him no matter what but we are also to make a call ourselves, make a talking about people perhaps you didn t vote at the last election and decisionjust to reduce if you look specifically at the to make a call ourselves, make a decision just to reduce the numbers ourselves, and we are going to do a group of african american voters in the us, if they are going to get out really small wedding, and then hopefully celebrate with all of our in enough numbers to supportjoe guests at some point in the future. biden, jude and joe biden can win and what you think ofjoe biden s so, yes, we are working round it, response to all of this so far? that it s fine. peter, can ijust clarify. are you in separate houses? is going to be the big question right now. as ren pointed out, joe we are, we are only ten minutes biden has been a bit uneven on some apart from each other, but separate houses. so when did you last see of his comments about race, each other in person? since the including in recent weeks, but he came out with a very strong northern ireland executive brought in the distance we have been able to statement in philadelphia, where he had a very well formulated he had see each other at the weekend. so you are hoping that this wedding can very well formulated discussion points, finding his voice on this go ahead in august. how difficult issue in a way we hadn t heard has it been, though, deciding who to before, speaking very directly to a invite and perhaps more importantly lot of the concerns we are seeing who not to invite, if you are only expressed across the united states allowed a handful of guests, sarah? but again, it was framed around empathy, unity and calmness and tricky, but as i say, we plan to do really trying to underscore those factors that made him an appealing candidate to many in the primaries a really small wedding with just and he hopes will make him an close family, so we are really appealing candidate to many during hoping that by the time august comes the general elections as well. the big question as to what extent he we will be allowed to have perhaps can translate that into real policy 20 guests, and then we plan to celebrate again in the future with proposals that will resonate enough with democrats and certain everybody that we wanted there. so demographics of democratic voters to get them out to the polls in we are excited. there are not many november. julie anne ren, thank you people who get to have two wedding very much for your time. days, so it is good. peter, have there been any aunts and uncles or meghan markle has spoken out following the protests over distant cousins who have said they the death of george floyd. are sorry that they won t be able to in a video message, speaking join you? i think the fact that we to the graduating class of her former high school, she said she felt compelled to have next year pencilled in already, they are all looking forward to address what s happening in america. that. but obviously they can t make the only wrong thing to say it this year. but at least we have is to say nothing, because. next year to look forward to.” it this year. but at least we have next year to look forward to. i do ..george floyd s life mattered assume there will be no stag night? know, that was meant to be this and breonna taylor s life mattered weekend, but that will have to be and philando castile s life mattered postponed as well. and sarah, i have to ask you about the dress. i and tamir rice s life mattered. suppose this could be an opportunity, you might be able to and so did so many other people wear it twice? most brides don t get whose names we know and whose names we do not know. that chance. that is going to be the stephon clark, his life mattered. case, hopefully. it is funny, actually, my brother in law, we were and i was thinking about chatting about it one day, and i this moment when i was said, i don t know whether to get a sophomore in high school. another dress or to wear the same i was 15 and, as you know, one twice, and he was like, if i sophomore year is the year could just have one input, he said that we do volunteer work, which is a prerequisite whenever we got married, this was for graduating. him and my sister, he said at the end of the day, she took her dress and i remember my teacher at the time, one of my off and she was like, i can t teachers, said to me believe that is the only time i will before i was leaving before a day ever get to wear that, and he was of volunteering, always remember to put others needs like my advice is to just wear it twice. peter, what about you? have above your own fears. you got your outfit? nope! i was demonstrations have taken place around the world, in solidarity with the black lives matter protests in the us . rich preston has been looking going to get fitted before lockdown, at the global picture and life has gone on hold. you don t over the last 2a hours. seem and life has gone on hold. you don t seem too sorry about that. and very briefly, honeymoon plans? we were meant to go to kenya in september, but at the minute we haven t heard anything about that. we are kind of hoping that might go ahead, but. thousands gathered in london s hyde park on wednesday we must leave it there. thank you to show their support for the black lives matter movement, and calling both had good luck. you are watching forjustice for george floyd. ..before marching bbc news. towards westminster. ..and gathering outside the houses of parliament. it was an image mirrored across europe. the prince of wales has said he got here, in finland, where thousands away with it quite lightly chanted george floyd s last words. when he contracted coronavirus all chant: i can t breathe! at the beginning of the uk s epidemic in march. prince charles said he self isolated after testing positive for the virus ..and sending their message to the us. and only experienced mild symptoms. the way that everyone showed up he also used the interview today, and especially with sky news to highlight his in an homogenous, white concerns over the environment. our royal correspondent country such as finland, it s sending a big message that many nicholas witchell has more. more people than just black people are tired. he has been campaigning protesters in denmark took to one on the environment for more than a0 knee as a symbol of support, condemning racism and calling years, and he believes as the world emerges from the coronavirus forjustice to be done. pandemic, there will be as he puts in central germany, protesters it a golden opportunity in frankfurt decrying racism to build something better. of all kinds. he calls it the great reset, and the fact that he too experience the virus has sharpened his resolve. translation: the difference is that, there, it was recorded but it it makes me more determined to push does not mean it does not happen here and it is not bad and shove and shout and prod, here and it has to stop. it is vital to stand up against it, notjust here in germany but all over the world. if you see what mean. translation: the most we can do whatever i can do, behind the scenes sometimes, here is show solidarity with people but yes, i mean, over there and to go out i suppose it did partly. on the streets and show them i mean, i was lucky in my case that they are not alone. and got away with it quite likely. crowds in the greek capital, athens, marched towards the us embassy people have gone through. the prince expressed his deep but the demonstration turned violent. sympathy for what so many protesters threw stones at police, families had to endure. who responded with tear gas. explosion. in cape town, south africa, but as we recover from the pandemic, he hoped people would see where legalised discrimination that the planet and its damaged in the form of apartheid is, environment should be treated as the patient. for many, within living memory, messages of unity and solidarity. so no self respecting doctor i think it s really important would ever have let the situation, if the planet is a patient, to show some kind of support reach this stage before making an intervention. and for all of us to stand hence, you know, the precautionary against something that principle, which seems to me we know is not right. absolutely essential. what started out as a seemingly it was time, the prince said, innocuous call to police to put nature back at the centre of our collective concerns. in minneapolis over a week ago, nicholas witchell, bbc news. resulted in the death of a man, sparking an outpouring of emotion now it s time for a look and a civil uprising, at the weather with matt taylor. notjust in the city where it happened but around the world. hello. as well as staying cooler and cloudier, we are also going to add hong kong s legislative assembly has passed a bill stronger winds into the mix too. not which would make it illegal to show too strong today, but lots of cloud disrespect to the chinese national anthem. the bill was passed with 41 around. showery rain here and there, in favour and one against. critics see this as the latest sign not everywhere staying dry, but of beijing s tightening grip on the city. clouding over from the south west. the ruling comes as people highest temperatures, 18 or 19 in hong kong are set to hold degrees, cooler further a candlelit vigil to commemorate highest temperatures, 18 or 19 degrees, coolerfurther north. the the 31st anniversary brighter this afternoon, parts of of the tiananmen square crackdown scotla nd brighter this afternoon, parts of scotland and northern ireland cloudy when chinese troops killed conditions this morning. it pro democracy demonstators in beijing. continues through the night, some china will allow foreign places staying dry. southern airlines currently blocked scotla nd places staying dry. southern scotland and northern england, a few from operating in the country degrees above freezing and well to resume limited flights from monday, as it loosens sheltered spots, so a cool start to coronavirus restrictions on travel. tomorrow. sunshine and showers for all arriving passengers will be england, wales and northern ireland, tested for covid 19. some still avoiding them. those the move comes after washington threatened to suspend all flights showers replaced by more persistent by chinese airlines into and out rain in scotland, even a little snow of the us from 16th ofjune. over higher ground as it becomes robin brant has more from shanghai. cold and windy. widespread gales across the northern half of the country to take us through friday night into saturday. this is a slight easing, a very slight easing of china s very stringent restrictions on air travel coming into the country. i mean, it s been pretty much nonexistent for months now. there are cargo flights between the city and certain other parts of europe and parts of the world, but no passengers coming or going. so that disintegrating relationship between the us and china in particular has extended to empty skies. no passengerflights into china since mid march. china is now saying that it is willing to change that, it is willing to let some qualifying airlines resumed flights to a city on the mainland of their choosing to resume flights. that came after donald trump, in an attempt to increase pressure on beijing, said he was going to ban all chinese airlines leaving this country and flying to the united states from the middle of this month. so what is clear, slight easing of the restrictions coming from the chinese civil aviation authority. they are also going to be hello, this is bbc news. willing to let foreign airlines that the headlines. a major new development have continued flying to increase in the case of the british girl madeleine mccann who their flights from one a week to two disappeared in portugal. a convicted german sex a week. that is if they can prove offender is the prime suspect that all the passengers on those in the international investigation. flights don t have covid 19, test police believe he was travelling in the area negative for that disease over a in this camper van at the time three week continuous period. we are seeing, you know, japanese madeleine vanished 13 years ago. government and sectors of industry, with the suspect, we are talking along with the germans and maybe even the british in weeks to come, about a multiple suspect, organise chartered flights. there a sexual predator, who has already have been plenty of chartered flights for the chinese coming back been convicted for crimes from the us, bringing chinese citizens with them, but in terms of against little girls. scheduled flights, this is the president trump s former beginning of some kind of return to defence secretary, james mattis, business. launches a stinging attack over his threat to use troops to end the protests sweeping the united states. hello, this is bbc news with annita mcveigh. the headlines: the duchess of sussex speaks of her own experience of racism in the wake of the killing of george floyd in minneapolis. a new prime suspect in the search for british girl madeleine mccann, the only wrong thing to say who disappeared in portugal a convicted german sex offender is the focus of the is to say nothing, because. international investigation. police believe he was travelling in the area ..george floyd s life mattered. in this camper van at the time madeleine vanished 13 years ago. a stinging attack the uk s prime minister is to call on president trump for a new era of global by his former defence secretary james mattis health co operation when he hosts over his threat to use troops to end the protests a vaccine summit in london. sweeping the united states. the duchess of sussex speaks of her own experience of racism let s cross now to the scottish in the wake of the killing gvernment‘s daily briefing, which is being led by the first of george floyd in minneapolis. the only wrong thing minister, nicola sturgeon. to say is to say nothing, because.george floyd s in relation to covid 19, as at nine o clock this morning, there have life mattered. the uk s prime minister is been 15,553 positive cases confirmed. that is an increase of a9 to call for a new era of global health co operation when he hosts a vaccine summit in london. cents yesterday. a total of 1021 and prince charles talks about being affected by coronavirus, patients are currently in hospital saying he got away lightly. with either confirmed or suspected covid 19. that represents a total decrease of 96 since yesterday, including a decrease of 21 in the let s return now to the developments number of confirmed cases in in the investigation hospital. a total of 28 people last into the disappearance of the british girl madeleine mccann, who went missing 13 years ago. it was back in may 2007 night were in intensive care with when the three year old vanished confirmed or suspected covid 19, and during a family holiday thatis confirmed or suspected covid 19, and that is a decrease of six since yesterday. i am also able to confirm in the algarve. today that since the 5th of march, a total of 3678 patients who had she was sleeping in an apartment while her parents, tested positive and required kate and gerry, ate with friends hospital treatment for the virus have now been able to leave in a nearby restaurant. the portuguese police launched hospital. in the last 2a hours, nine an investigation, deaths have been registered of but byjuly 2008 it was called to patients confirmed through a test as a halt with no official suspects. having the virus, and that takes the david cameron picked up the cause after he became uk prime minister, total number of deaths in scotland and by 2013 the british met police was ready to launch and that measurement to 2395. as i its own investigation. operation grange as it was named often say, we cannot and we should was slow and painstaking work which has cost close to £12 million, not read too much into any one day s but last year the uk government agreed to extend funding. figures, and tomorrow s figure or last night saw the next day s figure may be higher the biggest development yet, than the one i have given you, but i as detectives appealed for information about a german sex offender think it is still worth noting today currently injailfor an unrelated offence that yesterday was the first weekday who was in the area since the 27th of march when the when madeleine went missing. clarence mitchell is the number of deaths registered under our daily measure was in single figures. i think that demonstrates spokesperson for the mccann family. the progress we are making against he told the bbc that the family hasn t given up hope this virus, but it also underlines of finding madeleine alive. why we all continue to need to the family are very grateful, as they have been all the way comply with the public health through this, to the police forces involved, guidance so that we continue to make not least the british police this progress and don t allow it to go into reverse. of course, nine but now the germans and indeed deaths is still too many, and the portuguese police. they won t be doing any interviews, they would much rather the focus thinking of those nine lives are remains on the investigation and the appeal the police lost reinforces the point that i have just made overnight. but, as i say, they are grateful and they welcome this appeal. make every day, that these figures they simply want to establish are not just make every day, that these figures what happened to their daughter, are notjust statistics. they to find out the truth, represent people. unique and and to bring whoever was responsible irreplaceable individuals whose loss will have left families shattered for her disappearance to justice. they have not given up hope and weaving, so i send my condolences once again to everyone of finding madeleine alive, who has lost a loved one to this despite the length of time, they ve never given up that hope, but they are realistic, virus. grieving. iwanted and they say that whatever who has lost a loved one to this the outcome of this appeal virus. grieving. i wanted to thank the health and care workers, and the police work, they do need to know, asi thank the health and care workers, as i always do. they have done incredible work throughout, and notwithstanding the following numbers in hospital and in intensive because they need to find peace. care, they continue to do incredible work in challenging circumstances. my work in challenging circumstances. my thanks go to each and everyone of you, and the entire country owes you a debt of gratitude. i am joined in more than 13 years, i can t recall an instance today by the chief medical officer where the police have been at the cabinet secretary for health. so specific about an individual. the cabinet secretary has some granted, yes, he s not been information to share about the named, but nevertheless they are looking for specific prioritisation of cancer services, details about his movements at the time of madeleine s and the chief medical officer will disappearance, his vehicle usage, what he did with those vehicles focus on figures posted yesterday afterwards, and indeed relating to patients in intensive down to the level of mobile phone usage on the day care. before they speak, i want to and night in question. now, of all the thousands of leads acknowledge the job losses that were and potential suspects that have been mentioned in the past announced yesterday at rolls royce or discussed in the media, there has never been something in shannon. that announcement will as clear cut as that from notjust one but indeed have been devastating news for the now three police forces. workforce at what already is very so it does appear to be significant, but the police, you know, devastating time, and unfortunately it may not be the last of its kind they may still have reason to rule this man out at some stage, in the period ahead. i want to but it certainly appears that he, and the police said this themselves, stress the scottish government will do everything we can to secure as they are treating him good an outcome we can for those as their prime suspect for now. whose jobs are at risk. yesterday s the vehicle it is said that this man news emphasises a point i have made was apparently living in. before, that alongside a public he had lived in the algarve for some time but had disappeared health emergency, we are also now from a known address about a year dealing with an economic emergency before madeleine went missing ona but was presumed to have dealing with an economic emergency on a scale that none of us have still been in the area, using this camper van experienced before. that requires to sleep in, apparently. and it will get the attention and the car he was also focus of the scottish government using and is said to have just as the health emergency has and continues to get. we have already re registered its ownership or its driver details allocated more than £2.3 billion to in germany the very day after madeleine went missing, which is obviously a cause help businesses through measures for the police to be such as grants and business rates interested in that, relief, that is in addition to and the mobile number, welcome a uk government measures the portuguese numbers, such as the furlough scheme. it would appear, that he received mitigating and addressing the economic cost of covid 19 is of a call from another portuguese number lasting half an hour course going to become an even around an hour before madeleine went missing, and the police are hoping that those greater priority priority in the numbers, which are being months ahead, but alongside that, as circulated by the authorities, and the vehicle pictures, pa rt might just jog the memory months ahead, but alongside that, as part of our response, we also want of somebody who was in the area to help businesses as much as or would know more details possible to adapt and find new markets. more of the areas we have about this man. been doing that already is in the police have always insisted, relation to personal and protective as have the private investigators, equipment, ppe in scotland. we are that probablyjust one or two, publishing a report today that a handful of people, know more about what happened summarises how we are securing ppe to madeleine, for health and care workers in scotla nd for health and care workers in and the police are stressing that scotland and also sets out the work if any allegiances have changed, we are doing to develop a this man is now in prison, manufacturing chain for that people who may have been reluctant to come forward until now, equipment. to demonstrate the scale can feel safe in the knowledge of some of this work, it is may be that they can do so and the police worth looking at an item such as fluid resistant surgical masks. are very keen to hear from them these are masks which help to prevent blood, bodily fluids and secretions from one person which clarence mitchell. might include water droplets from let s get some of the coughs, from coming into contact day s other coronavirus news. with the mouth or nose of the person austria is lifting border restrictions on neighbouring wearing the mask. prior to covid 19, countries, with the exception of italy, from today. the foreign minister said the coronavirus figures from italy did not yet warrant national services scotland would provide around 57,000 of those masks removing checks there. to our health and care workers every in turkey, the health week. but now instead of needing minister has announced that he would not recommend continuing the weekend stay at home 57,000 masks a week, we need four order, almost two months after it first came into force. he said restrictions could be reimposed if infection and a half million a week. that is rates begin to rise. and a half million a week. that is an 80 forward 80 fold increase. nd in spain, the government has extended to meet that demand, we are the coronavirus state of emergency, which will continue untiljune 21st. importing equipment from overseas, the restrictions have been renewed six times since the outbreak began but have been eased 100 million have been imported from significantly since then. china, and a further 60 million on order. we are also working with suppliers here in scotland to establish domestic supply chains. millions of babies are missing out on life saving vaccines, i ll establish domestic supply chains. ru fight establish domestic supply chains. i ll fight solely based in west as the coronavirus pandemic disrupts immunisation campaigns scotla nd i ll fight solely based in west scotland specialises in protective around the world. clothing and is due to start the united nation s children s producing masks in august. they have agency, unicef, has warned that it could lead to taken on 13 new staff to do so and thousands of children are using raw materials sourced from dying every day from diseases that had largely been brought under control. scotland. we hope that in due our global heath correspondent course, manufacturers in scotland will be able, notjust to meet tulip mazumdar reports. new mums trying to do the best demand for these masks here in for their young babies scotland, but also provide them to in the midst of a pandemic. other parts of the uk and indeed to other parts of the uk and indeed to other countries in europe. there is this clinic in niger s capital, a similar story niamey, is usually packed, other countries in europe. there is a similarstory in other countries in europe. there is but restrictions on movement, a similar story in relation to other items of equipment. we are creating a shortage of health care workers, supply chains for non sterile gowns, and the fear of catching covid 19 and f supply chains for non sterile gowns, andfp supply chains for non sterile gowns, and f p three masks. in addition, have kept many families away. there is a plan to make 2.3 million aprons a week in greenock. a number this health worker says of smaller enterprises are planning farfewer women have been coming to get their babies vaccinated to make advisors. cala ken limited since the pandemic and children has produced 580,000 litres of hand are now at greater risk of other sanitiser at its plant in killer diseases like measles. grangemouth, and it is using ethanol provided by whyte and mackay. many many countries were advised by health officials to suspend other scottish businesses have vaccination campaigns to avoid divisive read in order to help with the spread of coronavirus, the provision of ppe, and i am grateful for each and every one of but now there s a stark warning about the longer term impact them. they have worked alongside public service bodies such as the nhs, scottish developers of this disruption. international and the national manufacturing institute for scotland, and it is worth measles is on the rise, highlighting that in many cases, diphtheria, cholera, so all of these issues these companies are notjust simply are going to be a real problem. making existing products, they are as a world, we had conquered in this past century many of these also using innovation to improve the equipment. for example by ensuring preventable diseases for children. that facemasks fit better on small so we made great gains faces and that more equipment can on childhood survival. what is now threatened safely be reused. fundamentally, the is all of those gains in the last 30 years, government s authority which we are that we will wipe them away achieving is to always ensure we because children are not have adequate stocks of ppe. our health and care workers, the people getting immunisations. who help protect us, must themselves be protected. that is imported at the pandemic is disrupting life saving vaccination campaigns on a global scale. the moment, but also for the future as we look to reopen the nhs and in south east asia, it s estimated more than 3a million babies missed out on their routine vaccinations. maintain secure stocks of equipment for social care as well. we will a lwa ys for social care as well. we will both nepal and cambodia always when necessary place major are reporting orders with overseas suppliers, but significant measles outbreaks. we are also increasingly taking advantage of the expertise of in africa, it is estimated manufacturers here, because doing 23 million babies missed out on their that gives us greater reassurance routine vaccinations. that gives us greater reassurance that supplies will be secure in the ethiopia, for example, is currently fighting measles, long term and also of course creates cholera, and yellow fever outbreaks. real benefits for jobs long term and also of course creates real benefits forjobs and exports. recent research suggests disruption these benefits don t come close of to these types of crucial services could result in the additional deaths course to balancing the wider of more than 6,000 children economic harm is caused by this pandemic, is of the scottish every day. government will continue to work with businesses and the uk government to address these. but medical staff around the world are working tirelessly these benefits are welcome to try and ensure those devastating nonetheless, and they are a great testa m e nt to nonetheless, and they are a great numbers do not come to pass. testament to the ongoing importance and excellence of our manufacturing here in bangladesh, sector here in scotland. i had over vaccination clinics are reopening under a new normal. the cabinet secretary and the chief medical officer in a moment. before when you have a big effect ido medical officer in a moment. before i do that, i want to reemphasise our on vaccines like this, it takes some time to rebuild key public health guidance. i am some of the systems around them. asking you today to focus notjust it s going to be important on what you are now allowed to do as to make sure we can continue to deliver routine vaccinations, a result of the small changes we made last week, but to focus even but also as we rapidly move forward towards having covid vaccines available, more so on made last week, but to focus even these are the same systems more so on what we made last week, but to focus even more so on what we are made last week, but to focus even more so on what we are still asking we re going to use to be you not to do. it is by not doing able to deliver those, as well to look for further outbreaks. certain things right now that we will all help stop this virus despite the challenges, spreading. so that means not meeting the work continues. these medics are going door to door here in colombia, other households indoors, not coming as world leaders meet virtually within two metres of people from for the global vaccine summit, hosted by the uk, to ensure these other households, not shaking their life saving campaigns can continue. hands or hugging them for example. tulip mazumdar, bbc news. not sharing food or utensils with others. or touching hard services that they may also have touched. not leaving your face uncovered in enclosed spaces like shops and well, in the coming hours the global public transport. i am asking you to leaders will meet virtually think about all of that, all of for the annual global vaccine summit. hosted by the uk this year, these things we are asking you not to do every time you leave home or the british prime minister boris johnson will encourage nations meet with someone from another to donate billions to ensuring that life saving vaccines household. in particularly ahead of during the pandemic and beyond. our weekend when unfortunately the and our global health correspondent weather forecast is more tulip mazumdarjoins me now. traditionally scottish with heavy this conference was planned well rain, iwant traditionally scottish with heavy rain, i want to particularly before coronavirus was on our radar, emphasise this point. you cannot and but presumably it will be discussed. you must not meet people from another household indoors. that is a sure fire way of allowing this virus to spread again. if you are not willing to get your waterproofs on yes indeed, i mean, this is a and meet outdoors, do not meet up at replenishment conference that all. i cannot emphasise that actually takes place every five yea rs strongly enough. to recap, you actually takes place every five years to bring money to the vaccine should still be staying at home most of the time and you should still be alliance which approximates around half of the world s children against meeting the fewer people than normal. if your life feels like it some of those deadly diseases we is getting back to normal at the heard about in my report, but this moment, you should ask yourself whether it should be and whether you was planned well before the are complying with all of the coronavirus pandemic hit, and now guidance. when you do meet people the big challenge that governments from another household, you must and health workers and health leaders have all around the world is stay outdoors and you must stay two metres apart from them. don t meet vaccinating children against with more than one other household diseases that are preventable in the ata with more than one other household at a time. don t meet with more than midst of a massive global pandemic. one day and keep to a maximum, i but clearly another issue that is stress at maximum, of eight people going to be discussed at the meeting in ourgroup. wash todayis going to be discussed at the meeting today is when can we expect these stress at maximum, of eight people in our group. wash your hands often, ta ke in our group. wash your hands often, take hand sanitiser if you are out and about, where a face covering crucial covid 19 vaccine, and when it does come online, if it does come online, there are hopes it could when you are in a shop or public happen towards the end of the year, transport, avoid touching hard services and clean any you do touch. next year, how is it going to be if you have the symptoms of covid 19 distributed all around the world and you continue to cough, have a fairly to some of those communities you saw there in my report, the fever or have a loss or change in your sense of smell and taste, you poorest children on the planet? and must get tested and follow the what will be discussed today is how advice on self isolation. above all that will happen in practice, so else, please remember that the decisions each of us take right now what is being discussed by gavi and as individuals will affect the by other countries is whether there should be the mass production of health and well being of all of us. some of the front runners of so please, i am asking you to continue to do the right thing as covid 19 vaccines that are already you have been doing and to stick to in human trials, around ten of those all of these guidelines. it really at the moment, a couple in the uk matters. it matters as much now as it did at the start of this here, in the us, in china, whether pandemic. by doing that, we will those should actually be scaled up at the moment, or in the very near continue to slow the spread of the virus and we will save lives, so my future, or when they, fingers thanks once again to all of you for doing that. i now hand over to the crossed, are given the green light chief medical officer to say a few in terms of effectiveness, in terms words before handing to the health of safety, they can be sent out to secretary. gregor. i want not just the countries of safety, they can be sent out to notjust the countries that can afford to buy them up very quickly, words before handing to the health secretary. gregor. iwant to words before handing to the health secretary. gregor. i want to pay tribute today to a particular group of staff in our nhs, and that is our but countries all around the world as soon as but countries all around the world as soon as possible. the first people that will probably get them, no matter where you are in the icu staff. yesterday there was a world, will probably be health report that showed how many people had been admitted to icu between the workers, but that is all up for discussion. there have been discussions in the past, with swine flu, for example, when the richer mid march and may. that shows how countries were able to get their ha rd mid march and may. that shows how hard our nhs boards, managers, hands on the vaccine first, and facilities teams and icu staff have several countries have committed worked to make sure the facilities over the last few weeks and months we re worked to make sure the facilities were and remain available for that they will commit again at this everyone in scotland who might benefit from them. from the ist of gavi conference to making sure that march to the 16th of may, 516 people there is equitable access to everybody who needs this covid vaccine if and when it finally does we re march to the 16th of may, 516 people were admitted to icu units across the country with confirmed covid 19. come. tulip, will there be a this demand was at its greatest discussion about the discussion of between the 29th of march and the your report, the impact of covid 19 6th of april. we now know that what on other immunisation programmes? would have been a normal baseline because in all of this, you know, we have been talking about the capacity for the most complex level pandemic, the deaths caused directly of icu care, which we call level by that, but the secondary effects three, was actually exceeded between of that. well, absolutely, and this the 3ist of march and the 2ath of april. this reached a maximum on the 9th of april, where we were ag% over is, some would argue, perhaps more our usual baseline capacity for icu. crucial. these are diseases, polio, however, thanks to the hard work and planning put in place by health measles, diphtheria, they are boards across the country, we had preve nta ble, measles, diphtheria, they are preventable, and children do not need to die of these diseases, but ple nty of boards across the country, we had plenty of additional capacity available to cope. facilities and what is happening, as you had in my staff, managers and medical physics report, because of the pandemic, technicians in every part of supplies are being disrupted, air scotland repurposed words, created freight of vaccines getting into countries have not been able to get extra space and ensured that there in because of travel restrictions, was enough intensive care equipment pa rents in because of travel restrictions, parents have been worried about to treat every patient who came going to clinics for the fear of through a hospital door and might catching coronavirus, and some of the statistics you heard about how benefit from them. hospital staff this could impact children is truly and doctors and nurses to domestic staff and porters, made sure that each one of these people were given devastating, particularly as itjust doesn t need to happen. again, yes, the best treatment possible in a absolutely this will be discussed, safe and clean environment. although and that is why borisjohnson, the the demand for icu services was far british prime minister, will say today that, actually, it is clear below above our usual capacity, it also exceeded the additional that global health, that the sort of capacity created. this 585 they had systems a re that global health, that the sort of systems are supported, because what we do know is that vaccines for tripled our baseline number of beds these diseases can save hundreds of and we are still able to support our millions of children s lives all around the world. they have been doing that for many years. what they response to coronavirus. health boards are still working to ensure don t want is a backsliding, taking the number is over 700 beds, us don t want is a backsliding, taking us back several decades to where we we re us back several decades to where we were before because of coronavirus, quadrupling our usual icu capacity as part of a long contingency plan. so were before because of coronavirus, so absolutely that will be discussed notjust the as part of a long contingency plan. not just the numbers as part of a long contingency plan. notjust the numbers of as part of a long contingency plan. not just the numbers of patients we today, and the hope is they will be have seen on icu that show our hard able to raise this money, around £6 billion, around $7.11 billion, so work from the nhs staff. is the care that they can vaccinate around 300 that was needed by these patients million children over the next five was up that was needed by these patients was up on average a person yea rs. that was needed by these patients was up on average a person with covid 19 has to stay in icu for over million children over the next five years. tulip, thank you very much, nine days. that is longer than you tulip mazumdar, our global health would normally expect to see people correspondent there. staying in and icu ward, and 60% had russia s president putin has declared a state of emergency after 20,000 tonnes of diesel fuel leaked into a river within the arctic circle in siberia. an even longer save us the accident occured a week ago staying in and icu ward, and 60% had an even longer save us 80% of those patients in icu had to be put on a near the siberian city of norilsk and could be the worst environmental ventilator to assist their breathing, and 80% needed support disaster in the region. for their heart and blood pressure. our moscow correspondent around 30% needed treatments like sarah rainsford says the scale of the dialysis to support the kidneys when accident is huge. they couldn t function properly. i 20,000 tonnes of fuel diesel that spilt out of this tanker at a power have said many times that we plant up near the city of norilsk continue to learn more about the effect of this virus, and this shows in the russian arctic. the virus affects far beyond its impact on peoples lungs and then it crossed some 12 kilometres breathing alone. we know that this to reach a river, virus would put additional pressure the river ambarnaya, on our icu teams and hospital and has been flowing down that river capacity and our staff. but i am now for several days. very proud of how my colleagues the clean up operation has finally begun, across the clinical and support and we re told that the spill teams have risen to the challenge. itself has been contained. the number of people in icy you care it s been fenced off, but the big have been declining, which is question is what to do now? promising. we must make sure that as now, environmentalists are warning we move on into recovery and beyond that this is an event that we do notjeopardise the of catastrophic implications for wildlife in the area, progress we are made. i ask you for the water systems too. today once again that you stick to and at the moment, it seems that officials here in russia the guidance, reduce your chance of really don t know creating bridges for this virus to how to deal with this. it is in an extremely remote area spread and help us to ensure that in of the russian arctic, the tundra. there are no roads to the area. the future we never need to use this full icu capacity. thank you. i hand the river itself is not over to the cabinet secretary. last navigable by boat. so there are big questions sunday, i published our framework to about what they re going to do guide the framework to mobilise with this fuel, which they re now pumping out of the river systems. re cover guide the framework to mobilise recover and redesign the nhs in and yesterday on state tv, scotland. today i want to talk a bit there was quite an extraordinary about our work to do that for cancer video conference that president putin held services and in particular vital with his ministers cancer surgery. cancer was and with the local officials in that area, in norilsk area. services and in particular vital cancer surgery. cancer was at clinical priority for this and he was asking government before covid 19, and it what on earth had happened, has remain so. whilst the majority and essentially berating local officials of cancer treatment has continued, that he said had taken two days some treatment plans have changed to inform the emergencies ministry and to inform the authorities due to the significant new risk about what had happened. so suggesting there had been posed by the virus, and that has some kind of attempt to cover this up been particularly the case in terms for a couple of days. in fact, he said that the authorities had found out of cancer surgery. been particularly the case in terms about this from social media. of cancer surgery. the decision to postpone or delay some cancer he was absolutely furious, treatments is one that i know none and one of the newspaper headlines of our doctors would have advised this morning described him without a lot of careful thought and as being white with rage . compassion, and i am grateful to them for that. now as we begin to well, this isn t president putin s only problem at the moment. his approval rating slowly and safely restart our nhs, i has fallen to an all time low. russia, like many countries, am pleased to announce we are is suffering acute economic hardship after weeks of coronavirus lockdown. publishing today the framework for amid rising unemployment, there are signs of growing recovery of ca nce r publishing today the framework for recovery of cancer surgery. disillusionment with the kremlin. publishing today the framework for recovery of cancer surgery. it has two key aims that i want to see steve rosenberg reports. made. firstly that all patients are bells toll. prioritised in the same way across often, it s when darkness approaches scotland and secondly that within that you see most clearly that prioritisation, patients are offered the earliest available how the city is struggling. appointment for their surgery. that every night, appointment for their surgery. that appointment may be outside their this mobile soup kitchen feeds the hungry of st petersburg. local board area, but that is in demand has doubled order to allow us to ensure that since the pandemic the economic consequence of covid. prioritisation is the same across the country no matter where patients live and that they are given the this man tells me he s been on the coronavirus diet, surviving on water earliest possible opportunity. prioritising and treating patients on the basis of clinical need and hoping thejobs come back. requires regional working, sometimes i have to start shoplifting, national working, across our health says vladimir, a chef who s been laid off. boards. i am writing today to our what else can i do? board chief executives to set that out. to ensure the focus remains on milana s family relies the prioritisation of cancer on food parcels now. she and her husband services, i have set up to national have lost their jobs. the kremlin says its supporting families like milana s, cancer groups. the national cancer recovery group will be chaired by but not nearly enough, she thinks. professor aileen keel. it will provide a strategic national oversight of all cancer services through their immobilisation phase will stop it will meet tomorrow and continue to weekly. important to them reporting to them is a further group which will drive equity of access to cancer treatment across the country. i wanted to thank all of those who have been with unemployment rising, vladimir putin s popularity has fallen to its lowest level involved in cancer services through in 20 years. this pandemic in our nhs and in the third sector for all of their work, you can sense a change in mood andl third sector for all of their work, and i know that i can thank them in despair is fuelling disillusionment advance for the work that i know they will continue to do. the final with those in power. thing i want to say is to those vladimir putin s big selling point to the russian people patients who are waiting for has always been, i am the man who brought you stability. treatment for cancer. i want you to but take that stability away, be assured that you are a priority, and suddenly it becomes much harder our absolute focus is on making sure for president putin to convince russians that you are treated as a sin and as that he has the solution to their problems. safely as possible. and what i have just outlined, however briefly, will yaroslav tells me help to make sure that that happens. about his problems. many thanks. we will go now to a coronavirus nurse, he and his colleagues complained questions as usual. first questions online about a lack of ppe. from the bbc. thank you. can you soon after, he got the virus. share with us at are numbered today yaroslav is a member of putin s and with that in mind, looking party, but not for much longer. across the country, there are several areas which have had no new cases for at least a week, and in some cases much longer. is it fair now for them to be under the same disappointment restrictions as the rest of the country, and is it something you are actively considering now that there milana knows all about that. should be a different approach for different parts of the country? the estimate of the hour number that will be published today, we now publish this every thursday, it may coronavirus isn t only claiming lives another casualty have already been published, is 0.7 of this pandemic is hope. steve rosenberg, bbc -0.9. have already been published, is 0.7 - 0.9. that have already been published, is 0.7 0.9. that is compared to a 0.7 news, st petersburg. one last week, so it remains relatively steady, which underlines our caution. and the care that we need to take, and the publication will be published today will give us some news to bring you from iran, it information about the estimated level of infectiousness across the country. so we are making progress, is reporting 357a new virus and the supplementary indicators infections, its highest daily total that i cover here every day demonstrate, i think, that i cover here every day demonstrate, ithink, the that i cover here every day demonstrate, i think, the extent of that progress, so the decline in icu case is that gregor talked about yet, 357a new infections of covid 19. iran s government had been today. icu cases are now 87% down on warning of a second, stronger wave the peak level, and we see them down in the middle east s biggest again today. a number of deaths, coronavirus outbreak after reporting while still too high as long as its highest daily number of cases in there are any debts, i will consider the past two months. people seem to that an unacceptable number, but think it is over, the health minister is quoted as saying, the that an unacceptable number, but thatis that an unacceptable number, but that is clearly reducing as are outbreak is not over yet, and at any hospital admissions, so we are going moment it may come back stronger than before. in the right direction. i cannot stress enough how fragile it still the long term impact remains, because we are seeing new of coronavirus can be severe, both physically and mentally, cases in our health boards everyday. with some patients struggling to adapt to a normal life. i would make two points about this in the last week, the uk s first extensive part of question. firstly rehabilitation centre dedicated to covid 19 patients has opened. is that, and we have already said sima kotecha has been this, and if you cast your mind by queers to remind people every day, but we figured that people had got to the seacole centre in surrey. message. “ but we figured that people had got message. cast your mind back. our my first time on sticks. the road to recovery for those numbers are estimates because they with coronavirus can be a long and arduous one. are numbers coming through the david is 73 and spent laboratory system through tests, so seven weeks unconscious. he first developed sepsis and then caught the virus, which he still has. there will always be a degree of underestimation in that, and that is he also had a heart attack. just an important caveat that we you feel as though you re in a bit have got to take account of. as we ofa dream, a bit ofa haze, start to publish data which we and you can t appreciate what s hopefully will start doing next week on test and protect, that will give actually going on around you. us another source of data on the numbers that are displaying and he found it hard to walk or even move. coming forward with symptoms. my slowly, he s relearning those basic mobility skills. next point, and i have never ruled out a regional approaches in i get involved in community issues, scotla nd out a regional approaches in scotland if that proves necessary and i need to be able and certainly as we gather data and to stand up and talk. monitor the impact of this virus in and i can t do that at the moment, the weeks and months to come, it is but i hope when i get out of here, really important we do that that with the help regionally as well as nationally. of these lovely physios, they will actually be able but we also have to recognise that people travel between different to enable me to walk. areas of scotland, and therefore we have to be mindful of people are but if i can walk with a stick, travelling between different countries and perhaps exporting or or better still without a stick, importing infections in that way, i d be happy. being away from his family and in the same way they can take it has been the worst part. i haven t seen my wife or family to different parts of the country with them, so we must be conscious orfriends since march. about this but we will continue to assess these things as carefully as that s the major impact. we can. my main message would be you miss being able to put your arms that when you hear these figures we around your loved one. are reporting right now, absolutely ta ke are reporting right now, absolutely take encourage them encouragement a lack of contact and its impact on the mind from them. i want people to be is something they re optimistic, but even in areas where very much aware of here. you might be seeing no new cases what we re offering here reported on a daily basis right now, is some psychological therapy that will help patients to adjust do not allow that to become from their long stays in hospital and also being separated complacency. the virus has not gone from their loved ones. away, it is still out there, and the we do have one patient who remembers some delirium he had. hour number estimate i have given he remembers being in bed at night, you today tells us today how easy it and he s actually quite frightened about going to bed now, could be for the virus to run out of so he seems fine during the day, control again, and that is a risk we but as night time comes along, must not take. do you want to add on his anxiety increases considerably. anything today? is certainly there they currently have four patients are encouraging signs, particularly with coronavirus and 15 without. in the numberof are encouraging signs, particularly in the number of infection cases we some are recovering from it, are seeing others need help with rehabilitation in the number of infection cases we are seeing across in the number of infection cases we are seeing across scotland, that has after suffering from falle n are seeing across scotland, that has fallen again. these are things we should continue to be optimistic other debilitating illnesses. about, but as the first minister has this hospital is a work in progress outlined, the margins are tiny. i it s expanding daily. said ona outlined, the margins are tiny. i said on a number of occasions that at the moment, it has 130 beds it doesn t take much for those cases to begin to grow again. all we need with the capacity to expand to 300. to begin to grow again. all we need to do is re establish some of those bridges of transmission more easily so just tell me about for people, and before we know it we who we are going to see now. started to see a growth in number of so peter has been in icu cases again. we are right to be cautiousjust now, for a really long time, cases again. we are right to be cautious just now, and cases again. we are right to be cautiousjust now, and i remain that and it actually started out we urge that caution for everybody with him having a fall, in terms of the way they are pursuing and making sure they are and he had an injury to his ribs social distancing, making sure they which affected his lung. continue to wash their hands, making and at some point he developed sure they are complying with all the covid, and he was in itu rules that we have in phase one as for a very long time. well, and that we do not give the so you ll see he s very deconditioned, he s lost a lot of muscle mass, virus a chance to grow and spread in he s lost his strength, the way we saw beforehand.” his endurance, balance, and all of the things virus a chance to grow and spread in the way we saw beforehand. i should have made other and other points that go with that. hello, peter, how are you? morning! how are you? there. today s our number estimate i m fine, thank you. and yourself? yes, very well, thank you. is based on their modelling that you ve lost so much weight will have taken account of the as well, haven t you? from not having any exercise. lockdown measures as they were last look. week. it does not yet taken account peter s arms and legs of the changes we made last week. that is what we are required to monitor over the next two or three are struggling to function. weeks, so for me to say that we can start making changes before we have look at the state of that! monitored the impact and understand i ve lost. . .five kilos? the impact of the changes we have which is heartbreaking, really. already made would be irresponsible i mean, you shouldn t be allowed and reckless, and that is an to lose that amount of weight. important point about the to staff are helping him to gain strength through regular exercise. understand. thank you. stv.” wonder, we are now about a week into there we go. i didn t need to do much, did i? the test and protect scheme, and i wonder if you have any updates on headley court used to belong to the ministry of defence how many people have been contacted and provided rehabilitation and traced the system, and how many to service personnel. that facility has moved have come from a care home setting? to the east midlands. i covered this in parliament yesterday, and i said then we would this year, in just a matter publish the first data from test and protect i hope next week. i hope of weeks, the nhs, local council, that would be next wednesday. but we and militaryjoined forces to create the seacole centre on the site. have to make sure that data is properly quality assured, robust and reliable, and that is the process we are going through right now, but i the scars of coronavirus on those wa nt to are going through right now, but i want to see that data published as who have had it are clear. quickly as possible and then publish as the country tries to carry regularly so that we can assess the on after the peak of the outbreak, so do those who have experienced the devastating illness. effectiveness of that system, but we nice and tall. it won t be long, and i ll be home. are not in a position to do that right now, but we will in less than a week from now. itv border. first i was told it would be about two weeks. it s just a case of start running. minister, after the very sad debts oh, my gosh! well done. sima kotecha, bbc news, surrey. of seven residents in a care home. we are going to leave that daily now it s time for a look coronavirus briefing from the scottish government in edinburgh for at the weather with matt taylor. now because it is time for us to hello. the second half of the week, catch up with the weather forecast, much different to how we started this week, some of the biggest and here is louise. hello. we are temperature changes, at least in the last 48 hours, expecting quite a contrast to have been in north yorkshire. welcoming our first weekend expecting quite a contrast to welcoming ourfirst weekend ofjune, particularly in comparison to last weekend. we closed may with blue sky, sunshine and warmth, territories in the high 205, and this weekend there will be a lot of 2a degrees on tuesday afternoon, just ten celsius on wednesday cloud, a cold northerly winds and afternoon, felt like a completely different change of seasons. showers or longer spells of rain as and that cooler story continues well. you can see the signs of this through into the weekend. some rain at times, can t be change already on the satellite guaranteed for every garden picture. a lot of cloud across the and all will turn windier. not too breezy out country, and triggering some of there, though, today. these showers. some of them could be there ll be plenty of cloud around, showers across scotland, northern ireland, northern england heavy with lightning in this push a bit further southwards. but still many in the south will stay largely dry. the showers in northern england afternoon. temperatures are subdued and southeast scotland could be heavier through the afternoon, subdued, 9 18d at the very best. and it could start feel even colder across the north and north east those showers drift across the as those northerly winds pick up. country, but where there are clearer not too bad in the sunnier moments in the south, 18 or 19 the high. but overnight, there will still be spots, scotland, northern england, some showers around. clearer skies, too. we could see temperatures in low single figures. chilly start, but in the north of scotland, perhaps holding up around 7 10d. we where the winds are lighter start off tomorrow again with quite in southern scotland, a lot of cloud and a few scattered northern england and the skies showers. those showers will be very hit and miss across england and clear this will be coolest wales, but nevertheless, they are of all, going to be accompanied by temperatures just a few degrees above freezing, most strengthening wind. gusts in excess well and truly still frost free. then into friday, sunshine of 30 or a0 miles an hour here. and showers for england, wales and northern ireland. showers will be replaced by longer some showers could become heavy spells of rain by the afternoon into and thundery at times. but as we start the day the north of scotland, and here the with showers in scotland, northern half of scotland, winds are expected to strengthen we replace those showers with some longer spells of heavier rain further. a5 50 mph, may be more as as we go into friday afternoon, northeast scotland could be we close out the day. it is going to some minorflooding too. and temperatures only feel pretty chilly under the cloud, nine or ten degrees. maybe even a bit of snow the wind and the rain, 9 13d, on the hills. and it will be feeling much colder than that given highest value is likely of 17. that the strength of the wind, particularly northern half area of low pressure is going to the country we will see some widespread gales develop as we go through friday and slip down through the north sea, the into friday night. all linked to this area of low winds are staying strongest to the west of that low, and that is where pressure which is developing to the east of us over the next west of that low, and that is where we will see the strongest gusts of few days, pushing another bit further southwards. wind, potentially topping out at 60 so it s the north and the west where some of the strongest mph. that is quite unusual for of the winds will be, wind, potentially topping out at 60 biggest chance of travel disruption mph. that is quite unusualforjune, and could cause issues, particularly across the northern half of the uk, with cemeteries in full leaf at the as you see winds maybe top 60 miles an hour in places. moment. that low, sitting in the but across the board, a windy day on saturday, bright compared to friday north sea, spiralling allowed that in northern scotland, cloudy for most, outbreaks of rain, although again, if you re after rain glow is a series of weather front in the south, no guarantee of that. but a cold day compared to the high 20s we saw last week, just 12 14 degrees, probably warmest western scotland with a bit of sunshine and shelter, bringing longer spells of rain for a as it will be on sunday. time was up may be scotland and the western areas always brightest on sunday. south of england escaping that the winds ease down relative to saturday. greatest chance of rain, central mike. 11-15d. south of england escaping that mike. 11 15d. sunday will be a and eastern parts of england. better day, perhaps not as a showery that s how it s looking, or windy, and as a result, not feeling quite as cold. temperatures see you soon. should peak with highs of 17 degrees. take care.
german police identify a man they believe killed madeline mccann. three year old madeline disappeared from herfamily‘s holiday apartment this is bbc news with the latest in portugal 13 years ago headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the suspect who is in prison is being named as christian b. a major new development in the case of the british girl madeleine mccann translation: with the suspect who disappeared in portugal we are talking about a multiple a convicted german sex offender sexual predator who has already been is the prime suspect convicted for crimes against little girls. in the international investigation. police believe he was travelling in the area in this camper van at the time madeleine vanished, 13 years ago. and is serving a long sentence. the police are appealing president trump s former for the public‘s help they say the man used this campervan defence secretary, james mattis, when he lived in the algarve. we ll have the latest launches a stinging attack on this major developement over his threat to use in the police investigation. troops to end the protests also this lunchtime. sweeping the united states. donald trump is accused of dividing america, the duchess of sussex speaks by his former defence secretary of her own experience of racism james mattis has attacked in the wake of the killing of george floyd in minneapolis. the only wrong thing to say is to say nothing, because. ..george floyd s life mattered. the uk s prime minister is to call for a new era of global health co operation when he hosts a vaccine summit in london. and prince charles talks about being affected by coronavirus, saying he got away lightly . 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. i m rebecca jones. a german prisoner has been identified as a new suspect in the disappearance of the three year old british girl madeleine mccann from a holiday resort in portugal 13 years ago. the man in his 40s is a convicted sex offender who had been living in the algarve at the time, travelling around in a camper van. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford reports. this is the vw camper van that was used by the new suspect in the madeleine mccann investigation. with its distinctive colours, police hope it will trigger someone s memory and lead to new evidence about their as yet unnamed suspect. he used the vehicle to live in and, certainly, the week preceding, he was in there living, so he would move around the area, using that van as probably his base. the suspect also used this jaguar car at the time. he registered the car into someone else s name the day after madeleine mccann disappeared. the three year old went missing on may the 3rd 2007. she d been sleeping in her parents holiday apartment while they were 50 metres away having a meal with friends. her 17th birthday was last month. on the german version of crimewatch last night, police there revealed that the suspect has previous convictions for sexually assaulting girls and is thought to have burgled hotels and holiday apartments. he s currently in prison in germany. his phone was used in praia da luz about an hour before madeleine mccann disappeared. the metropolitan police are now asking for anyone who can help with information about the mobile number he took the call on that night, the vw camper van that he was using that summer and the old jaguar xjr 6 that he registered out of his name the day after madeleine mccann disappeared. in a statement, her parents, kate and gerry mccann, seen here in 2007, said they would like to thank the police forces involved in britain, germany and portugal. they said they would never give up hope of finding madeleine alive. the german police said that theirs is a murder investigation, but madeleine mccann s parents said, whatever the outcome is, they need to know what happened, as they need to find peace. daniel sandford, bbc news at new scotla nd daniel sandford, bbc news at new scotland yard. clarence mitchell is the spokesperson for the mccann family. he told the bbc that the family hasn t given up hope of finding madeleine alive. the family are very grateful, as they have been all the way through this, to the police forces involved, to the british police, now the germans and indeed the portuguese police. they simply want to establish what happened to their daughter, to find out the truth and to bring whoever was responsible for her disappearance to justice. they have not given up hope of finding madeleine alive, despite the length of time, they ve never given up that hope, but they are realistic, and they say that whatever the outcome of this appeal and the police work, they do need to know, because they need to find peace. that was clarence mitchell. our correspondent alison roberts has the latest from the algarve in portugal. here in the algarve there are virtually no tourists because of the covid 19 pandemic, but 13 years ago when madeleine mccann was holidaying here with her family, when madeleine mccann was holidaying here with herfamily, it when madeleine mccann was holidaying here with her family, it was full of foreign visitors. it s to those people that people are now appealing for information or even photos and videos relating to a 43 year old german man who is now a suspect in the investigation. now in prison in germany for another crime, he is believed to have been in and around praia da luz in the run up to may 2007 when madeleine disappeared. police have released information about him, a description saying that he was tall with short, fair hair, and would have been in his late 20s at that time. they have also released two mobile phone numbers, both portuguese, one of which was used by the suspect. the other was used by the suspect. the other was used to call him in praia da luz about an hour before madeleine disappeared. they have also released details of two vehicles, a jaguar carand a details of two vehicles, a jaguar car and a volkswagen camper van that we re car and a volkswagen camper van that were also used by the suspect, and two properties that he used at the time near praia da luz. they say that this line is highly significant. that was alison roberts in portugal. let s talk now tojim gamble, former head of the child exploitation and online protection centre. he served as the senior child protection officer in the uk s first investigation into madeleine mccann s disappearance. we are very grateful for you to talk to the bbc, mr gamble, thank you. there have been different suspects. there have been different suspects. there have been different suspects. there have been different leads, over the last 13 years. in your view, how significant is this one? this is the first time in 13 years when i actually dare to hope myself. i think for a variety of reasons there was a bungling beginning to this investigation in portugal. i think the golden hour was lost, that is not necessarily a criticism of the portuguese police in isolation, but just a recognition the portuguese police in isolation, butjust a recognition that the portuguese police in isolation, but just a recognition that these cases are so rare but just a recognition that these cases are so rare that when they do happen, there are very few law enforcement entities with the experience to deal with them. so i was commissioned by the home secretary of the day, alanjohnson, to carry out a scoping review in 2009 to ascertain whether there were any areas that could be revisited and better investigated. and in that review, which was delivered in 2010 to the new home secretary, theresa may, there were a number of areas that were identified. the fact that cell site telephone dumps hadn t been investigated, the disparate bits of information that were being held all over the place rather than being consolidated in the way that uk policing would on a database, a computer designed to help identify key lines of inquiry. and a range of other conditions. a year later, following a prompt by the mccanns direct to the prime minister, the metropolitan police, which had been my recommendation, because they are the most experienced and i think the finest detectives in the world when it comes to this, they were then commissioned to engage with the portuguese police, and i think we have been on a positive trajectory since then with a number of false dawns, but as you say, when you take the circumstantial evidence that has been shared with us now, and put it together, this is a really significant person of interest. can you help me with something that is puzzling me. how is it that after this length of time, we are only finding out about this person now? how has he suddenly come to light?” would suggest that he probably came to light a number of years ago, in fa ct to light a number of years ago, in fact that is what i would believe. but this is a painstaking investigation. when you begin from a point of chaos, it is like taking a large jigsaw puzzle box, point of chaos, it is like taking a largejigsaw puzzle box, emptying it out on a coffee table that is too small, and bits fall off. and then you have to come back, without the plan, without the cover where you can see what the picture looks like, and start putting it all together. and so there is lots of information that will inform where we are today that will inform where we are today that we had at the very beginning, we just that we had at the very beginning, wejust didn t that we had at the very beginning, we just didn t understand the context of it and why it was important. so what you have now is you have an individual with a history of sexual offending that spans girls through to older women. extremely dangerous. he is not a preferential offender, he is someone who we know from what we are told who we know from what we are told who will offend across a range of ages. also with a history, we are told, of burglary, so fits the profile. circumsta ntially, told, of burglary, so fits the profile. circumstantially, you look at opportunity to commit the crime, and what we know from that is that he was in proximity to praia da luz, not only in the lead up to the crime, but also within an hour of it, because his telephone, his cell site analysis shows that he was there and he was on the phone to someone there and he was on the phone to someone for 30 minutes. so that is really important circumstantial evidence. and the other thing, when you look at circumstantial evidence, you look at circumstantial evidence, you look at subsequent conduct. his subsequent conduct, the day after madeleine went missing, was to change the number plate on his car. now that is, you know, that adds to the circumstantial evidence. when you start to bring all of those things together, a person who you know commits that particular type of crime, with an opportunity to engage, in the area where the crime took place and who, the day after, begins to do things that looks like they could be masking who he is and where he is. so when you take all of that and you look at the international investigation, i think it is great that the german police who i have worked within the past, are involved. they will be relentless in their pursuit. and i think the metropolitan police are rightly giving us a little bit of information, but not too much. they don t want to put words in our mouth. and this appeal couldn t come ata mouth. and this appeal couldn t come at a better time, because whilst eve ryo ne at a better time, because whilst everyone is trapped at home, they are going to be able to get their attention. and if you are watching this programme and you were in chipmunk three at that time, or another time close to it, think back now. did you see that jaguar. if you were in praia da luz at that time, might you now have that context? time, might you now have that co ntext ? if time, might you now have that context? if you are one of those people who think you might have something, then contact operation grange. sharing the information that you have is really, really important. jim gamble, we must leave it there, but really good to talk to you, thank you so much forjoining us. you, thank you so much forjoining us. thank you. president trump s former defence secretary james mattis has rebuked him over his threat to use troops to quell the protests against racial injustice in amerioa. his comments come after all four officers involved in the death of george floyd the event which started the protests were formally charged. derek chauvin, the officer who was filmed kneeling on mr floyd s neck, has had his charge elevated from third to second degree murder. under minnestota state law, first degree murder is defined as one in which the defendant has the intention to kill and usually requires some element of premeditation. second degree murder, the charges being brought here, requires an intention to kill. or in this case intention to commit a serious crime which results in death. and third degree murder would not require proof that the defendant wanted the victim to die, only that their actions were dangerous and carried out without regard to human life. our north america correspondent david willis reports. huge protests continue to grip this country in response to george floyd s death. thousands converged on downtown los angeles, and after violence here over the weekend, this time their call for change was peaceful. night time cu rfews remain in place here, as well as in new york and washington dc. in minneapolis, where all this began, anger gave way to cheers at the news that former police officer derek chauvin is to face a more serious murder charge. let me hear y all say we got all four! we got all four! and at the news that the three other officers involved in mr floyd s death have now been arrested. they stand accused of aiding and abetting his murder. president trump s often bellicose response to the recent unrest here has unnerved even some in his own party. and now his former defence secretary james mattis is voicing concern. in a withering critique in the atlantic magazine, mr mattis accuses the president of an abuse of power and writes. donald trump responded promptly. i see limitless potential that deserves to flourish and thrive. you should be able to learn and make mistakes and live a life ofjoy. america s first black president struck a starkly different and more optimistic tone to that of president trump in a virtual town hall event. as tragic as these past few weeks have been, as difficult and scary and uncertain as they ve been, they ve also been an incredible opportunity for people to be awakened. right now, i think the nation needs law and order, because you have a bad group of people out there and they are using george floyd and they are using a lot of other people to try and do some bad things and what we do. we have it totally under control. george floyd s family and friends are due together in minneapolis on thursday for a memorial service in his honour. the calls for a radical reform of race relations in this country are growing. david willis, bbc news, los angeles. meghan markle has spoken out following the protests over the death of george floyd. in a video message, speaking to the graduating class of her former high school, she said she felt compelled to address what s happening in america. the only wrong thing to say is to say nothing, because. ..george floyd s life mattered and breonna taylor s life mattered and philando castile s life mattered and tamir rice s life mattered. and so did so many other people whose names we know and whose names we do not know. stephon clark, his life mattered. and i was thinking about this moment when i was a sophomore in high school. i was 15 and, as you know, sophomore year is the year that we do volunteer work, which is a prerequisite for graduating. and i remember my teacher at the time, one of my teachers, said to me before i was leaving before a day of volunteering, always remember to put others needs above your own fears. the headlines on bbc news. a german sex offender has been identified as a prime suspect in the disappearance of the british girl madeleine mccann from a holiday resort in portugal 13 years ago. president trump s former defence secretary, james mattis, has launched a stinging attack on him over his threat to use troops to end the protests sweeping the united states. the duchess of sussex speaks of her own experience of racism in the wake of the killing of george floyd in minneapolis. the uk will host the global vaccine summit which will get under way today, where more than fifty countries and donor organisations to play their full part in what s being called the most essential shared endeavour of our lifetimes . the aim is to raise £6 billion to immunise hundreds of millions of children against deadly diseases. the video conference is being hosted by borisjohnson, who will call for a new era of global health co operation . the uk government will also hold a videoconference with aviation industry officials, to discuss its coronavirus quarantine plan. south america continues to be the current epicentre of the outbreak. brazil suffered a record number of daily deaths with more than 1,300 people dying from the virus. and research in the uk found that more than half the population struggled with sleep during the lockdown. 40% of people also reported having more vivid dreams. joining me now from westminster is our assistant political editor, norman smith. if we could start with this global vaccine summit chaired by the prime minister. tell us a little more about what the uk government is hoping to achieve. i think there is an acceptance that so much of the world s attention and scientific effort is now focused on coronavirus, vaccines for other diseases such as diphtheria, polio, measles, have taken something of a back seat, and people have been, particularly in the developing world, perhaps more reluctant to get vaccinated for those diseases because of an understandable fear about going into hospitals and health centres, and at the same time, hospitals have beenjust so overwhelmed by coronavirus, they ve had less resources to put aside to ensure people are still getting vaccinated. as a result, there is a risk of these diseases beginning to gaina risk of these diseases beginning to gain a foothold again, and lives being put at risk because so much attention has been focused on coronavirus. so it is an attempt, as it were, to the international community in terms of medical effort, in terms of money, in terms of political attention, on the much broader agenda in terms of ensuring vaccination against some of these long standing diseases, and not to be totally as it were overwhelmed by the threat from coronavirus. the spread of the virus within the communities here in the uk is much lower than it was, it has gotten to a lower level and we want to see that continue to be low and that is why this is the right time to bring this in, because, as patrick vallance was outlining, when you have higher community transmission rates, the difference somebody coming into the country can make is much more marginal and much more negligible. as our rates are much more lower and moving lower and lower, hopefully, as we go forward, it has a much bigger impact, that is why we are bringing this in. cabinet office minister brandon lewis responding to one other side of this this morning, which is moved here in the uk to introduce quarantine controls for people coming into the uk, or uk citizens coming into the uk, or uk citizens coming back into britain, forcing people to self isolate for 1h days, which has prompted huge controversy in britain amid fears it will cripple the aviation industry and the tourism sector, and a major revolt amongst tory mps who are questioning why this policy is being introduced now when it wasn t introduced now when it wasn t introduced when the pandemic was at its height, which has prompted the government to concede that they will review that policy in three weeks time. but there is massive pressure from senior tories, including the former prime minister, theresa may, former prime minister, theresa may, for a much swifter rethink. norman, good to talk to you, many thanks. as norman was saying there, millions of babies are missing out on life saving vaccines is the coronavirus pandemic disrupts immunisation campaigns around the world. the united nation s children s agency unicef has warned that it could lead to thousands of children dying every day from diseases that had largely been brought under control. our global heath correspondent tulip mazumdar reports. new mums trying to do the best for their young babies in the midst of a pandemic. this clinic in niger s capital, niamey, is usually packed, but restrictions on movement, a shortage of healthcare workers, and the fear of catching covid 19 have kept many families away. this health worker says far fewer women have been coming to get their babies vaccinated since the pandemic, and children are now at greater risk of other killer diseases like measles. many countries were advised by health officials to suspend vaccination campaigns to avoid the spread of coronavirus, but now there s a stark warning about the longer term impact of this disruption. measles is on the rise, diphtheria, cholera, so all of these issues are going to be a real problem. as a world, we had conquered in this past century many of these preventable diseases for children. so we made great gains on childhood survival. what is now threatened is all of those gains in the last 30 years, that we will wipe them away because children are not getting immunisations. the pandemic is disrupting life saving vaccination campaigns on a global scale. in south east asia, it s estimated more than 3a million babies missed out on their routine vaccinations. both nepal and cambodia are reporting significant measles outbreaks. in africa, it is estimated 23 million babies missed out on their routine vaccinations. ethiopia, for example, is currently fighting measles, cholera, and yellow fever outbreaks. recent research suggests disruption to these types of crucial services could result in the additional deaths of more than 6,000 children every day. medical staff around the world are working tirelessly to try and ensure those devastating numbers do not come to pass. here in bangladesh, vaccination clinics are reopening under a new normal. when you have a big effect on vaccines like this, it takes some time to rebuild some of the systems around them. it s going to be important to make sure we can continue to deliver routine vaccinations, but also as we rapidly move towards having covid vaccines available, these are the same systems we re going to use to be able to deliver those, as well to look for further outbreaks. despite the challenges, the work continues. these medics are going door to door here in colombia, as world leaders meet virtually for the global vaccine summit, hosted by the uk, to ensure these life saving campaigns can continue. tulip mazumdar, bbc news. we can speak now to dr muhammad munir, a virologist at lancaster university. we are grateful for your time, we are gratefulfor your time, and i wa nt to we are gratefulfor your time, and i want to come onto the work you are doing at the moment. butjust to begin speaking a little more broadly about this vaccine summit that the uk is hosting today. how important is that, and how confident are you that it could make a difference? thank you very much for having me on the show. i think it is really important to understand that while we are waiting for covid 19 vaccine, we are waiting for covid 19 vaccine, we should not forget the importance of the vaccines that we already have, and that is absolutely important that those vaccines are deployed in the field to immunise the children of the future. and this has become even more important because of the covid 19 disruption onto the current vaccine campaigns, and according to a current estimation, 80 million children could be without up to date vaccinations. this summer that is being held here in the uk this summit that is being held here in the uk is a critical step towards ensuring that these vaccines are ongoing, and if not, the infrastructure should be put in place so that there is no interruption until 2025. place so that there is no interruption until2025. you place so that there is no interruption until 2025. you talk about the covid 19 vaccine. i know you are leading a team at lancaster university developing a vaccine. how close are we to having a vaccine? at the moment i would like to emphasise that the speed we are developing the vaccine for covid 19 is unprecedented, never been seen before. at this moment, there are five or six vaccine trials running into phase two and phase three. we are into phase two and phase three. we a re close into phase two and phase three. we are close to the place where we will be able to demonstrate that these are safe and efficacious and could be deployed in the field very quickly. but again, there are a few challenges that really need to be considered before we can proceed, for instance the vaccines that are being used here in the uk, one of the major challenges is that the phase three trial requires a density of the disease in the population which is really going down, which means that the target to require demonstration that the vaccine is safe will take longer, so there are factors that challenging at the moment which need to be considered. but certainly the speed is incredible. so are you basically saying that we have got a handful of vaccines that are already in clinical trials, and then several dozen that are like yours, which are in what are described as preclinical trials? and it is really a sense now of trying to work out which one might work? is that broadly speaking the case? absolutely. the important thing here is to emphasise that many vaccines that are developed fail a clinical trial, so we should not count on one or two vaccines. the number of vaccines that are currently in the world health organization exceed 100 in number. the majority of them use different approaches. understood. if and when approaches. understood. if and when a vaccine is finally developed, there is concern as to who will have access to it. concern that wealthier parts of the world will have access to it and not poorer parts. do you share that concern? yes, absolutely. i think this is a critical time to really collate the global concerns and establish bold international laws of how the vaccine would be distributed in the world once it becomes available. and this is certainly important for certain perspectives, especially when it comes to who will need it most in the beginning or at the end. the summit today, they will allocate some proportion of the funds especially for low and middle income areas so especially for low and middle income areas so that once the vaccine becomes available, it can be manufactured at a cost that is affordable in those countries and can be deployed. because ultimately what we wanted to see is that unless eve ryo ne what we wanted to see is that unless everyone is safe, no one is safe. 0k, dr everyone is safe, no one is safe. ok, dr muhammad munir, we must leave it there, but do keep us posted as to how your tests go with your vaccine, and we will talk to you again on bbc news. many thanks. the prince of wales has said he got away with it quite lightly when he contracted coronavirus at the beginning of the uk s epidemic in march. prince charles said he self isolated after testing positive for the virus and only experienced mild symptoms. he also used the interview with sky news to highlight his concerns over the environment. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell has more. he has been campaigning on the environment for more than a0 years, and he believes as the world emerges from the coronavirus pandemic, there will be as he puts it a golden opportunity to build something better. he calls it the great reset, and the fact that he too experience the virus has sharpened his resolve. it makes me more determined to push and shove and shout and prod, if you see what i whatever i can do, behind the scenes sometimes, but yes, i mean, isuppose it did partly. i mean, i was lucky in my case and got away with it quite likely. but i ve had it, and i can so i understand what other people have gone through. the prince expressed his deep sympathy for what so many families had to endure. but as we recover from the pandemic, he hoped people would see that the planet and its damaged environment should be treated as the patient. so no self respecting doctor would ever have let the situation, if the planet is a patient, reach this stage before making an intervention. hence, you know, the precautionary principle, which seems to me absolutely essential. it was time, the prince said, to put nature back at the centre of our collective concerns. nicholas witchell, bbc news. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. a major new development in the case of the british girl madeleine mccann who disappeared in portugal. a convicted german sex offender is the prime suspect in the international investigation. police believe he was travelling in the area in this camper van at the time madeleine vanished, 13 years ago. president trump s former defence secretary, james mattis, launches a stinging attack over his threat to use troops to end the protests sweeping the united states. the duchess of sussex speaks of her own experience of racism in the wake of the killing of george floyd in minneapolis. the only wrong thing to say is to say nothing, because. ..george floyd s life mattered. the uk s prime minister is to call for a new era of global health co operation when he hosts a vaccine summit in london. and prince charles talks about being affected by coronavirus, saying he got away lightly . let s return now the developments in the investigation into the disappearance of the british girl madeleine mccann who went missing 13 years ago. it was back in may 2007 when the three year old vanished during a family holiday in the algarve. she was sleeping in the apartment while her parents kate and gerry ate with friends in a nearby restaurant. the portuguese police launched an investigation but byjuly 2008, it was called to a halt with no official suspects. david cameron picked up the cause after he became uk prime minister, and by 2013, the british met police was ready to launch its own investigation. operation grange as it was named was slow and painstaking work, which has cost close to £12 million, but last year the uk government agreed to extend funding. last night saw the biggest development yet, as detectives appealed for information about a german sex offender, currently in jail for an unrelated offence, who was in the area when madeleine went missing. clarence mitchell is the spokesperson for the mccann family. he told the bbc that the family hasn t given up hope of finding madeleine alive. the family are very grateful, as they have been all the way through this, to the police forces involved, not least the british police but now the germans and indeed the portuguese police. they won t be doing any interviews, they would much rather the focus remains on the investigation and the appeal the police have just made overnight. but, as i say, they are grateful and they welcome this appeal. they simply want to establish what happened to their daughter, to find out the truth, and to bring whoever was responsible for her disappearance to justice. they have not given up hope of finding madeleine alive, despite the length of time, they ve never given up that hope, but they are realistic, and they say that whatever the outcome of this appeal and the police work, they do need to know, because they need to find peace. in more than 13 years, i can t recall an instance where the police have been so specific about an individual. granted, yes, he s not been named, but nevertheless they are looking for specific details about his movements at the time of madeleine s disappearance, his vehicle usage, what he did with those vehicles afterwards, and indeed down to the level of mobile phone usage on the day and night in question. now, of all the thousands of leads and potential suspects that have been mentioned in the past or discussed in the media, there has never been something as clear cut as that from notjust one but indeed now three police forces. so it does appear to be significant, but the police, you know, they may still have reason to rule this man out at some stage, but it certainly appears that he, and the police said this themselves, they are treating him as their prime suspect for now. this is the scene in germany which is where, in the next 25 minutes or so, around midday uk time, we are expecting an update from the german police. the police of course have identified a german prisoner as the new suspect in the disappearance of madeleine mccann. we know they have already said he is in his a05. he is already said he is in his a05. he is a convicted sex offender for an unrelated case, but he had been living in the algarve at the time, travelling around in a camper van at the time that madeleine mccann disappeared. so this is seen in germany, which we will return to for an update on that police investigation. demonstrations have taken place around the world, in solidarity with the black lives matter prote5t5 in the us. rich pre5ton has been looking at the global picture over the last 2a hours. thousands gathered in london s hyde park on wednesday to show their support for the black lives matter movement, and calling forjustice for george floyd. ..before marching towards westminster. ..and gathering outside the houses of parliament. it was an image mirrored across europe. here, in finland, where thousands chanted george floyd s last words. all chant: i can t breathe! ..and sending their message to the us. the way that everyone showed up today, and especially in an homogenous, white country such a5 finland, it s sending a big message that many more people than just black people are tired. protester5 in denmark took to one knee a5 a symbol of support, condemning racism and calling forjustice to be done. in central germany, protester5 in frankfurt decrying racism of all kinds. translation: the difference is that, there, it was recorded but it does not mean it does not happen here and it is not bad here and it has to stop. it is vital to stand up against it, notjust here in germany but all over the world. translation: the most we can do here is show solidarity with people over there and to go out on the streets and show them that they are not alone. crowds in the greek capital, athens, marched towards the us embassy but the demonstration turned violent. protester5 threw 5tone5 at police, who responded with tear gas. explosion. in cape town, south africa, where legalised discrimination in the form of apartheid i5, for many, within living memory, messages of unity and solidarity. i think it s really important to show some kind of support and for all of us to stand against something that we know is not right. what started out as a seemingly innocuou5 call to police in minneapolis over a week ago resulted in the death of a man, sparking an outpouring of emotion and a civil upri5ing, notjust in the city where it happened but around the world. hong kong s legislative assembly has passed a bill which would make it illegal to show disrespect to the chinese national anthem. the bill was passed with a1 in favour and one against. critic5 see this as the latest sign of beijing s tightening grip on the city. the ruling comes as people in hong kong are set to hold a candlelit vigil to commemorate the 31st anniversary of the tiananmen square crackdown, when chinese troops killed pro democracy demonstators in beijing. our correspondent, martin yip, is in victoria park in hong kong, the place where the annual vigil is usually held. martin, how is the anniversary of the crackdown going to be marked there? quite a difference scenario this year indeed. like you said, this year indeed. like you said, this would have been the place for the candlelit vigil. that would have been the station over there, this side of the camera, but as you can 5ee, side of the camera, but as you can see, it is sealed off because the government, the police have been quoting andy coronavirus rules on social distancing to ban this year s candlelit vigil, the first time since the first anniversary in 1990. ifi since the first anniversary in 1990. if i can try and show you the scenario out there, there are some people gathering around. some are actually holding candles. they are waiting because the organisers, they have promised to hold a virtual vigil in around 90 minutes time, and these people are here. some are 5itting, some are holding a candle, so 5itting, some are holding a candle, so it is quite clear theyjust want to maintain the tradition of lighting a candle at this very park, victoria park in hong kong, despite the government ban. we do not know if the police will intervene at all, because if anyone gather5 in a group larger than eight people, they would be breaching the5e larger than eight people, they would be breaching these social distancing rules that they could be subject to a fine rules that they could be subject to afine on rules that they could be subject to a fine on the spot. multiple report5 from local media saying the police would not intervene in this event, but these are from local media, and thatis but these are from local media, and that is the only the only official police line at the moment i5 official police line at the moment is to stay home and stay away from the virus. this comes after a hong kong s legislative assembly passed this bill which would make it illegal to show disrespect to the chinese national anthem. what does that mean exactly? what are the indications of that? this view is somehow pre5cribed indications of that? this view is somehow prescribed by beijing a5 well, this is legislation by the chinese government back in 2017, which would outlaw anything which would be seen as a disrespecting or even doing at the national anthem when played at a sports event, such as at football event5. when played at a sports event, such as at football events. this was something that had happened before it was made two years ago, but beijing put it into law, so it was put into the constitution and they in hong kong have no choice but to put it into legislation. how will the police actually enforce this law? what could be seen as defaming the national anthem, and i5 law? what could be seen as defaming the national anthem, and is subject to criminal prosecution? people 5ee this as one of the many crackdowns from beijing on theirfreedom of speech, and this is why some people have been protesting about it. legislators have been trying to stop this from going through. they have done this by unleashing 5tink bombs in the parliament, but then they moved into another conference room. they resumed their meeting, voted it through and called it a day. thank you very much. russia s president putin has declared a state of emergency after 20,000 tonnes of diesel fuel leaked into a river within the arctic circle in siberia. the accident occured a week ago near the siberian city of norilsk and could be the worst environmental disaster in the region. our moscow correspondent, sarah rainsford, says the scale of the accident is huge. 20,000 tonnes of fuel diesel that spilt out of this tanker at a power plant up near the city of norilsk in the russian arctic. then it crossed some 12 kilometres to reach a river, the river ambarnaya, and has been flowing down that river now for several days. the clean up operation has finally begun, and we re told that the spill itself has been contained. it s been fenced off, but the big question is what to do now? now, environmentalists are warning that this is an event of catastrophic implications for wildlife in the area, for the water systems, too. and at the moment, it seems that officials here in russia really don t know how to deal with this. it is in an extremely remote area of the russian arctic, the tundra. there are no roads to the area. the river itself is not navigable by boat. so there are big questions about what they re going to do with this fuel, which they re now pumping out of the river systems. and yesterday on state tv, there was quite an extraordinary video conference that president putin held with his ministers and with the local officials in that area, in norilsk area. and he was asking what on earth had happened, and essentially berating local officials that he said had taken two days to inform the emergencies mini5try and to inform the authorities about what had happened. so suggesting there had been some kind of attempt to cover this up for a couple of days. in fact, he said that the authorities had found out about this from social media. he was absolutely furious, and one of the newspaper headlines this morning described him as being white with rage . the headlines on bbc news. a german sex offender has been identified as a prime suspect in the disappearance of the british girl madeline mccann from a holiday resort in portugal 13 years ago. president trump s former defence secretary, james mattis, has launched a stinging attack on him, over his threat to use troops to end the protests sweeping the united states. the duchess of sussex speaks of her own experience of racism in the wake of the killing of george floyd in minneapolis. new car sales in the uk fell by 89% in may, only slightly less negative than a 97% collap5e in the previous month. the figures show that the idustry is continuing to be hit by the coronavirus lockdown. joining me now is our business presenter, ben thompson. from the sound of those figures, it i5 from the sound of those figures, it is being hit and being hit badly. ye5, you re right. normally the industry 5ales about 180,000 cars in the month of may, but last month, selling ju5t the month of may, but last month, selling just 20,000. not surprising, you might say, given car showrooms we re you might say, given car showrooms were closed as part of the lockdown. tho5e car showrooms got the go ahead to reopen on monday, so already we are getting a sense of how the industry might find the next few months. i was in a car showroom on monday, and they told me that demand online had been particularly strong. people doing click and collect to try and pick up their cars, but what we might see over the coming months i5a we might see over the coming months is a resurgence in a pent up demand from people who have not been able to swa p from people who have not been able to swap their car. and also quite a big increa5e to swap their car. and also quite a big increase in the number of people buying used cars. perhaps as public transport look5 le55 buying used cars. perhaps as public transport look5 less attractive in the wake of this lockdown, more people might be seeking to buy their own vehicle. the industry says that demand will be pretty robust, but nonetheless, it has been shut down for so long, and a5 nonetheless, it has been shut down for so long, and as the figures tell u5, for so long, and as the figures tell us, it has made a pretty tough time. a number of car makers are making job losses as a result. let s get the thoughts ofjim. he is the editorial director at what car. he joins me now, good morning. what do you make of these figures? on one hand, no surprise. car5howroom5 we re hand, no surprise. car5howroom5 were closed, people couldn t go out and buy. at the same time, the industry now trying to look at what the future is like. a few absolutely. the figures are not as a prize, this is an industry which has pretty much been paralysed by the cri5i5. pretty much been paralysed by the crisis. it is only now starting to come out of it. what is crucial was monday s decision to open dealerships in england down the line. northern ireland will open next week and hopefully the industry in scotland and wales will ease that is in. what we are seeing on our own websites and what dealers are reporting is there is this pent up demand coming through. people have been holding off on buying cars. many people at lease cars, and they have to keep updating them on a cycle, and that demand is there to be taken advantage of. the concern is longer term, will people still wa nt is longer term, will people still want a new car is? we are facing a huge economic crisis. we are starting to see the first cracks of the job losses coming through. not just in the car industry, but in the wider economy. how much will people wa nt wider economy. how much will people want new cars and will the shift in used cars commentate in that in any way? yeah, i wanted to ask you about that. quite clearly many dealers wanting to talk up their pro5pect5. they say there is a lot of demand that couldn t be serviced while the showrooms were closed. but with a looming rece55ion that is all but inevitable now if we look at these numbers, people will have less money in their pocket, and that will suggest they are less likely to go out and buy a big purchase like a car. absolutely. there are concerns. we have been pulling our own audience throughout the weeks of the crisis, and what we have seen is the intention to buy a car at longer term essentially is collapsing. some of that may be because they have seen of that may be because they have seen the light at the end of the tunnel that they will be able to buy a car in tunnel that they will be able to buy a carina tunnel that they will be able to buy a car in a nearer term, but also it is fall in confidence. as an industry, it has to to worry of what is to come, and we have to look to see what incentives it can offer and perhaps more broadly, what the government can offer as incentives to keep it moving. it is an industry that employs close to 1 million people by most estimates across retail and manufacturing. it touches all sorts of businesses across the uk, and of course it contributes nearly 15% of the net value of exports that the uk achieved every year. yes, and let s talk about what tho5e incentive5 might look like. becau5e quite clearly in some countries around the world, they are looking at ways to stimulate demand. i know germany are looking at a scrappage scheme whereby if you trade in your old car, they will not maybe don t have thousand pounds of a new one. could we see something like that here? potentially, the industry is nervous about talking about it. obviously it hasjust unlocked this pent up demand and doesn t want to see people waiting. it is trying to encourage people to ta ke it is trying to encourage people to take advantage of the offer is there. the importance of the industry to the wider economy means that it should be front of mind for some consideration and incentives. i think those incentives will focus on environmental responsibility. they will be trying to take older, more polluting cars off the road and getting more environmentally friendly ones on it. but it does have a weight in mind. there is a period before it had any hope of getting those incentives, but there is an initiative launched across europe by other countries as you say, and it will be one that will be looked at closely by the industry and by government, i m sure. yes, absolutely. good to talk to you, as always. jim holder, executive director at what car. rebecca, it really puts into focus when we have heard the numbers this morning from aston martin. they say they are going to cut 500 jobs. they say they wa nt to going to cut 500 jobs. they say they want to reduce the number of people employed there because they are reducing their production and they call it a fundamental reset of their business. elsewhere, the car showroom chain say they are going to cut 1500 jobs, closed 12 of their sites, because so many concerns about whether they will have the money in their pocket to go out and upgrade the car. change the car of the next few months, so a lot of big questions for the industry, and at the moment, very few answers. the latest set of figures suggesting a 90% fall in a new car registrations last month. as those dealerships stay closed. thank you. sobering figures, as you say. the uk s bafta television awards have just been announced, and a powerful drama about the chernobyl nuclear power station disaster looks like it could be in for a successful night. the sky atlantic and hbo series, called chernobyl, was nominated for nine awards including best leading actorforjared harris. it was not shortlisted for best drama that will go to either the crown, gentleman jack, giri/haji or the end of the world. our entertainment correspondent colin patersonjoins us now to run through some of the nominations. chernobyl, i thought it was fantastic. i don t know if i m allowed to express an opinion. it is well deserved to have received this number of nominations.” well deserved to have received this number of nominations. i thought it was absolutely wonderful bit of tv. from such an unlikely team. when you think it was created by a man called craig madden who previously was best known for writing the hangover part two and three. knock about comedy. the director is a guy who used to be a swedish pop star in the 905. he went by the name stackable, but together they created a wonderful drama about the 1986 nuclear disaster in the soviet union. it is nominated in miniseries, that is the category it was eligible for. jared harris from mad men, many people know, was nominated for best actor. that was one of the big ones to have done well today. also the crown. series three of the ground nominated for seven baftas, and strangely absolutely nothing for olivia colman as her role in queen elizabeth ii, and she is normally a realfavourite of the baftas. joss o connor was nominated for his role, helena bonham carterfor nominated for his role, helena bonham carter for playing nominated for his role, helena bonham carterfor playing princess margaret. lots of familiar names in the list. people like phoebe waller bridge, glenda jackson, i noticed she must be one of the oldest nominees. a lot of first time nominees. a lot of first time nominees as well. there was a real spread. absolutely, more than half an acting nominees are first time nominees. the likes likes of the start from the bbc two detective drama that was on towards the end of last year, giri/haji. doubt it has done really well. you mentioned glenda jackson, not the oldest person ever. with that she might have been, 8a years old she has been nominated for her first tv role for almost 30 years, but not quite as old as. when she was nominated for the age of 89. i can always rely on you for getting the stats right. what is the ceremony going to look at? is it going to look like you in your living room? very different, we think it is going to be a feature, and richard iowa eddie who won a bafta for the it crowd a couple of yea rs bafta for the it crowd a couple of years ago. it will be held on the 315t years ago. it will be held on the 31st ofjuly and winners will be giving their acceptance speeches remotely from their living rooms. we are going to see perhaps what glenda jackson s living room looks like if she wins best actress, so a very different kind of ceremony. they we re different kind of ceremony. they were originally supposed to be held in may but were delayed because of covid 19. one very interesting nominee, i think we should point out, is the interview of emily made lists with prince andrew, and that was nominated. interestingly, prince william s nephew is president of bafta. good to talk to you, many thanks. you are watching bbc news. now it s time for a look at the weather with matt taylor. hello. the second half of the week, much different to how we started this week, some of the biggest temperature changes, at least in the last a8 hours, have been in north yorkshire. 2a degrees on tuesday afternoon, just ten celsius on wednesday afternoon, felt like a completely different change of seasons. and that cooler story continues through into the weekend. some rain at times, can t be guaranteed for every garden and all will turn windier. not too breezy out there, though, today. there ll be plenty of cloud around, showers across scotland, northern ireland, northern england push a bit further southwards. but still many in the south will stay largely dry. the showers in northern england and southeast scotland could be heavier through the afternoon, and it could start feel even colder across the north and north east as those northerly winds pick up. not too bad in the sunnier moments in the south, 18 or 19 the high. but overnight, there will still be some showers around. clearer skies, too. but in the north of scotland, where the winds are lighter in southern scotland, northern england and the skies clear this will be coolest of all, temperatures just a few degrees above freezing, most well and truly still frost free. then into friday, sunshine and showers for england, wales and northern ireland. some showers could become heavy and thundery at times. but as we start the day with showers in scotland, northern half of scotland, we replace those showers with some longer spells of heavier rain as we go into friday afternoon, northeast scotland could be some minorflooding too. and temperatures only nine or ten degrees. maybe even a bit of snow on the hills. and it will be feeling much colder than that given the strength of the wind, particularly northern half the country we will see some widespread gales develop as we go through friday and into friday night. all linked to this area of low pressure which is developing to the east of us over the next few days, pushing another bit further southwards. so it s the north and the west where some of the strongest of the winds will be, biggest chance of travel disruption across the northern half of the uk, as you see winds maybe top 60 miles an hour in places. but across the board, a windy day on saturday, bright compared to friday in northern scotland, cloudy for most, outbreaks of rain, although again, if you re after rain in the south, no guarantee of that. but a cold day compared to the high 205 we saw last week, just 12 1a degrees, probably warmest western scotland with a bit of sunshine and shelter, as it will be on sunday. western areas always brightest on sunday. the winds ease down relative to saturday. greatest chance of rain, central and eastern parts of england. that s how it s looking, see you soon. 01:59:20,503 > 2147483052:36:24,966 and the fact that he too experience 2147483052:36:24,966 > 4294966103:13:29,430 the virus has sharpened his resolve.
in the united states that s more than the combined total of fatalities from the korean, vietnam and iraq wars. the uk prime minister, borisjohnson has continued to back his chief advisor under questioning from senior mps. he was also questioned about britain s coronavirus response which has seen the highest number of deaths in europe as protests rumble on in hong kong the us secretary of state mike pompeo says the territory no longer merits special status under american law, because china is stripping it of autonomy. and the first private sector mission to the international space station and the first crewed launch from us soil in nine years has been postponed due to bad weather. it s now thought that the spacex rocket will be launched on saturday. that is it from me and the team for now. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. in times of crisis we learn plenty about who we really are. so it is that this global coronavirus pandemic is revealing truths about humankind. how we balance self protection against the collective interest. my guest today is the dutch writer and historian, rutger bregman, whose book, humankind: a hopeful history, is making waves across the world. do we humans underestimate our capacity for doing good? theme music plays. rutger bregman, in the netherlands, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me. we are all living in this time of covid i9. it is a global health emergency and, in times of emergency, perhaps we learn more than usual about the nature of human beings. what do you think this pandemic right now is showing us about humanity? i think it is showing us that most people are actually pretty decent and that, especially in the midst of a crisis, people most people at least show their better selves, you know, and you see this explosion of cooperation and altruism. i think that is one of the most important lesson. an explosion of altruism i m just wondering how you process some of the other scenes we have seen of people at times literally fighting to get essential supplies from the shops, we have seen people blaming each other, scapegoating outsiders for spreading the virus. we have seen lots of very difficult things too. yeah, absolutely and i am not denying any of that. i am just saying that, for every toilet paper hoarder, there are a thousand nurses doing their best to save as many lives as possible, and there are 10,000 people doing their best to stop this virus from spreading further. i think we really have to get away from this old idea that civilization is only a thin veneer and that, as soon as something happens, an earthquake or a disaster or a pandemic, that we reveal our true selfish self. we actually have a lot of evidence from sociology, going back all the way to the 1960s, hundreds and hundreds of case studies, that show that, especially during times of crises, most people start to co operate together, whether they are left wing or right wing, rich, poor, young, old. that s what we see. and i ve just been looking at social media before coming on air with you and i have been noticing the incredibly vitriolic debate there is in the united states now, between those citizens who want to see society opened up, the economy motoring again, and others who believe that that represents a capitalist instinct to put money before people. regular citizens, on both sides of the argument, are knocking lumps out of each other and we see that all the time on social media. well, you know, twitter and social media is not real life. i think we have to remember that human beings have evolved over thousands of years to communicate with each other on a face to face basis. we have been designed by evolution basically to be friendly to each other. so biologists literally talk about this process of survival of the friendliest, which means that, for thousands of years, it was actually the friendliest among us who had the most kids and so had the biggest chance of passing on their genes to the next generation, and you can see this in our bodies still today. so one very fascinating and peculiar fact about human beings is that we are the only species in the animal kingdom, apart from some parrots, that blush. we have this ability to just involuntarily give away our feelings to someone else to show that we care about what they think about us. i think that is a very fascinating thing and itjust shows us that we have been designed by evolution to co operate and work together. obviously, if you go on twitter and see all the vitriol there, you may get a different impression but, again, that is not real life. this book of yours which is causing quite a stir around the world, humankind: a hopeful history, it seems to me, in its ambition and its span because it really nods to all of human history, the evolution of civilization over millennia what it seems to me to be doing really going back to the age old philosophical meditation as to whether human beings are intrinsically good, are sort of born innocent and pure, or whether, within them, within the very human nature, there is something that takes us toward sin and bad things. is that the fundamental argument that you are wrestling with? i think so, yes. there is this very old idea in western culture, as we talked about, that civilization is only a thin veneer scientists call it veneer theory and it goes back to the ancient greeks. if you read the greek historian, thucydides, he talks about the plague in athens, for example, or the civil war in corcyra, in his history of the peloponnesian war, and he had this observation that deep down people are just selfish and animals and monsters, and indeed, if you read the early christian church fathers, saint augustine, same idea, the idea tat we are born as sinners. and you read the enlightenment philosophers, thomas hobbes, david hume, even adam smith, also often emphasise that in the end people are selfish or at least that politically we have to assume that, when we build a society. and i think that idea is just wrong. it is really fundamentally wrong. in the past couple of decades, we have seen scientists from diverse disciplines psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, archaeologists all moving from a quite cynical view of human nature to a much more hopeful view of human nature, and what i am trying doing in this book is just to connect the dots and to show that something bigger is going on there. are you saying far from that that people are basically selfish and bad are you saying that, fundamentally, deep down, people are good? i just want to get that clear. no, absolutely not. we are not angels, we are not fundamentally good. i m saying that most people in the end are pretty decent, which i think is a little bit different, and i m also saying that, what you assume in other people is what you get out of them. so if you assume that most people are selfish and that they just want to get as much for themselves as possible, then you will design your society in such a way, you ll create institutions that will bring out the worst in each and every one of us. and i think we have been doing that for the past a0 years. we have designed schools and marketplaces and organizations in our democracies in a ways that have not brought out the best in us. i think we can turn that around. our view of human nature can be a self fulfilling prophecy. but we did not design everything from shopping malls to political governance on a whim. we were also listening to behavioural scientists. i am thinking of stanley milgram and others operating out of the top universities in california, who set up experiments trying to figure out whether ordinary people could be persuaded to do bad things, including torture of the other ordinary citizens, and concluded that actually, worryingly, yes, they could be persuaded quite easily. are you debunking and dismissing all of that evidence? well, many of it. you know, i used to believe in all of these experiments. i have written earlier books, that luckily have not been translated into english, about the stanford prison experiment, for example. it is only recently that i discovered, based on the work of an important french sociologist, thibault le texier, that it is actually a hoax. we all know this experiment about 2a students who were selected to participate in an experiment with a sort of fake prison. 12 were made into guards, i2 prisoners, and philip zimbardo, the researchers, sort of said i willjust sit back and just see what happens. and the story that he told later is that these students, on their own, started behaving in a very horrible way, and the message was obviously there is a monster in each and every one of us, just below the surface, there is a nazi in each and everyone of us. it is only recently that we have learned that actually, philip zimbardo specifically instructed the guards to be as sadistic as possible, that many of those guards said, i do not want to do that, that is not who i am. then he said, look, you are these 60s hippies, liberals, right? you want to reform the prison system in america as well, come on, i need these results, i need you to behave in a horrible way, then we can go to the press and say, look, this is what prisons do to people. and so some of them went along this became a huge story and it is still in the textbooks of millions students, while in reality it s pretty much a hoax. and i do find that fascinating and you have done a lot of work to debunk some of those theories but your big problem, it seems to me, is that, while you might be able to debunk the 60s work which sort of attempted to say there is a quasi nazi mentality within all of us, what you can t debunk, because it is just factual, is nazism, genocide, and the holocaust itself, and not even just the german holocaust, but the genocides we have seen in more recent times, from rwanda to the ethnic cleansing in the balkans and elsewhere. these are realities ordinary people conducted themselves in the most terrible ways and i do not see how that fits with your fundamental worldview. it would obviously be hubristic to sort of pretend that i can give a sort of short explanation for things that we need libraries of books to understand and maybe we still don t understand it, but i can say this, i believe there is a connection between our capacity for friendliness and our behaviour that sometimes can be so cruel because so often within history we do the most horrible things in the name of comradeship and of friendship. and i think this is sort of the paradox of my book. 0n the one hand i am arguing that people have evolved to be friendly and to work together but then on the other hand sometimes it is exactly the problem because friendly behaviour can morph into tribal behaviour and groupish behaviour. and then people find it hard to go against a group and against the status quo and they start doing these horrible things. but are you not. but that is just one part of the explanation, obviously there are many other mechanisms at play here. but with what you have just said, are you not coming dangerously close to being an apologist for the mass ranks of hitler s armed forces who committed atrocities? and you might say, oh, well, we have to understand them because, frankly, most of them were simply motivated by comradeship and wanting to defend their brothers and look after themselves that is not good enough, is it? i think it is certainly a danger. i think you are right about that. i think we have to be really careful and make a difference between sort of trying to understand certain behaviour and condoning it. it is the same with the debate about terrorism. we have a genuine responsibility to understand what drives terrorists, why they blow themselves up. and here again you have the same dynamic that often they do it in the name of comradeship and of friendship, and that, especially the foot soldiers, are not that ideologically motivated, they often know very little actually about the ideology. we have had reports from people going to syria with books in their bags like the quran for dummies. but still they do these horrible things. again, you know, it is absolutely not about condoning, but it is about understanding what is going on here because that is the only way to prevent it, i think. i want to spend a little bit of time on the flip side of your argument not challengingly you with all of the evils that we have seen in recent human history but actually getting you to explain why you think one of your anecdotes in the book, humankind, is so very important and that is the anecdote about what happened to half a dozen tongan teenagers, living in a remote island on the south pacific, when they decided one night to escape from a school that they did not like. they climbed into a boat, took off into the pacific ocean. found themselves in a storm, shipwrecked, and then on a deserted, very tiny island, where they proceeded to live for the next year and more, on their own, with no contact with the outside world and, far from any sort of lord of the flies scenario, where they ripped themselves apart, you say all the evidence suggests they lived cooperatively, they cared for each other and, when they were eventually discovered, they were in very good shape. it is a fascinating story but does it really tell us anything about the human condition? well, maybe not. it is obviously not a scientific experiment and that would be very hard, to drop lots of kids on islands and have control groups, etc, and then to judge and study how they behave. i am just saying that, if millions of people around the globe still have to read lord of the flies in school, and they often become quite pessimistic and cynical after reading it. i mean, i remember reading it when i was 16 and i was depressed for a week afterwards. i am just saying that let s also tell them about the one time that we know of in world history that real kids, shipwrecked on a real island, and it is the most happy story you can imagine. they lived there for 15 months, they cooperated really well, and they became the best of friends. actually, the captain who rescued them, an australian captain named peter warner, is still soulmates with one of the boys, who is now 70 years old, mano totau. i mean, if it would be movie, a hollywood movie, people would say, oh, this is so sentimental, this is not how people would really behave, this is worse than love actually but it is what really happened. 0n hardtalk we talked to a lot of sort of public intellectuals, big thinkers with big ideas about the way we human beings organise our societies today and i m thinking of the recent past where we have interviewed yuval noah harari and steven pinker, and these are thinkers who fundamentally i think believe in a notion of human progress. steven pinker, in particular, will make a point of saying you might think things are bad today, we focus on the wars, we focus on the bad stuff, but actually human beings are living in the best of times. there is more security, better education, more relief from poverty than there has ever been in human history before. and he would say that is because we are evolving better ways of running our societies. your message, although you are an optimist about the human condition, seems to be that we are actually not discovering better ways to run our societies, and you seem in some ways anti progress. well, i m absolutely not. we have made extraordinary progress in the last couple of decades, moral progress, technological progress. if you would chose any time to live, it would be now. what i am just saying is that we got the history of civilization all wrong. steven pinker paints a picture of our history in which supposedly everything was worse, when we were nomadic hunter gatherers, which we were for 95% of our history, we were raging these tribal wars that is sort of the pessimistic view. what i am trying to show in the book is that actually civilization was, for most of our history, a big disaster. it started the age of warfare, of patriarchy, of hierarchy, of infection disease like we are dealing with right now. and actually the lives of nomadic hunter gatherers were much healthier and happier and more relaxed than the lives of the city dwellers and the farmers who came after it. but how on earth. ..and why do we remember this because obviously we have made a lot of progress in the last couple of decades. how can you posit that the cave dwellers and the hunter gatherers were a happy people living in a state of sort of pure innocence. you have no idea! they had not left written record and you are just sort of imposing some sort of quasi religious world view upon this sort of age of innocence, aren t you? no, i m not. it is obviously hard to know how our ancestors lived 30,000 years ago. but we do have two important sources. so we have what anthropologists have studied. you know, tribes who lived in the 19th or the 20th century and who still lived as nomadic hunter gatherers, and you can look if there are similarities in the way they live, and you ll discover, for example, that they have these really egalitarian societies, a relaxed lifestyle, a work week of around 20 30 hours, they are healthier than farmers as well, for example. and you can obviously also study the archaeological records. now, you are absolutely right, nomadic hunter gatherers did not leave much behind but, if there was really some kind of war against all going on in our deep past, then you would be expected that at some point some artists in the stone age would have said, you know what? i am making a cave painting out of that. but we have not found any there is nothing like that. we have a lot of cave paintings but not about war between people. then we settled down, we became sedentary about 12,000 years ago, we started doing agriculture, and you find a lot of these cave paintings that are very suggestive and that there is also the evidence we have from excavation, skeletal remains you can study that. most experts in the field, most archaeologists and anthropologists believe that war has not been with us forever. and has really been an invention. it s just that these people did not get a lot of attention in the press because they are not telling us this dark story. i think it s often seen as more boring. i am just now wondering what all of this means for rutger bregman‘s analysis of where we are today? you paint this picture of a sort of idyllic prehistory, where hunter gatherers lived in a more pure sort of human condition what does that lead you to conclude about the state of capitalism, for example, today? you have written a lot about what you believe to be the inadequacy of capitalist systems, the failure to deliver any sort of equality orjustice to ordinary people. so what are you suggesting, that we all find our inner caveman? if you look at the model that we have had for the last a0 years, neo liberal capitalism, i think the central dogma has been that most people are selfish and so we designed our institutions around that. and i think the results have not been good. we have had an epidemic of loneliness and anxiety and burn outs, and it is also not a great way to deal with the pandemic we are in right now. so what i hope, and i am not predicting this, it is just what i hope but it is a possibility, is that we could now move to a new age with different values and a more realistic view of human nature, where we rely more on our ability to co operate and to have this kind of solidarity, that is what i hope. you are a sort of latter day marxist, an idealist who.? no, actually, really the opposite. marx was convinced that history was driven by material forces and that ideas were just, well, who cares about the ideas that was just the superstructure. i believe in the power of ideas. i really think that ideas that are often dismissed as unreasonable or unrealistic, that will never happen , can over time move from the margin to the mainstream. and that is what i think has been happening actually, since the financial crash of 2008. now we are discussing ideas, like universal basic income, higher taxes on the wealthy, a more powerful state, that is really willing to invest in our future. that is moving into the mainstream. if you ve seen the financial times editorial, for example, the beginning of april, even there, really changing their mind right now. so i am not a marxist at all, i believe in ideas. itjust seems there are some internal contradictions that we are teasing out even in this conversation because, a minutes ago or a few minutes ago, you said that, like steven pinker, you think this is the best time ever for human beings to be alive and in so many different ways, yet you re also telling me that for the last a0 years you think human beings and their developed capitalist societies have taken a series of wrong turns can both be true at the same time? yeah, i think so. historically speaking, this is one of the best times to be alive but we can do so much better. i don t see any contradiction here. and then obviously, also the big question we have with our current model is, is it sustainable? we have got the massive extinction of species around the globe, we ve got global warming. even if we are having a relatively good time right now, that is an important question to ask, is it sustainable? yeah, and i am just looking at, for example, the words of sir angus deaton, one of britain s most respected economists, saying, i am still a great believer in what capitalism has done, not only for the off sited billions who have been pulled out of poverty, as we ve discussed, but to all the rest of us who ve also escaped poverty and deprivation over the last two and a half centuries. this is progressive and it is real. i would agree with that as well. i am a little bit bored with all those old debates from the cold war in the 80s about capitalism versus socialism, and the market versus the state. i just think that capitalism has been underperforming quite a bit in the last couple of decades and it could do so much better. it is all about saving capitalism, it s about reforming capitalism. if you look at the 50s, for example, and 60s, we had much higher growth, much higher rates of innovation, and also much higher taxes on the wealthy. i think that often, taxes on the wealthy, for example, often let our societies function better so there can be more fundamental research and innovation etc. it is a year and a half pretty much since you went to davos and rather famously lectured a whole bunch of billionaires that philanthropy really was not the answer to any of the world s problems, it was all about taxation and the rich paying much more in terms of tax to genuinely redistribute wealth in society. not much has really changed since then. perhaps you think that the crisis and the emergency that surrounds us with coronavirus may be the trigger for some fundamental change that was not on cards before. is that the way you see things? yes, absolutely and i think that actually quite a bit has changed. the window of political possibility has really been moving. people could say, oh, but corbyn lost the election, and sanders lost the election yes or the primaries that is absolutely true and it would be nice if progressives sometime get their act together and win an election for once, i mean, that would be nice. but then, if you look at the kind of ideas that are increasing in power look atjoe biden‘s tax plan, for example. it is twice as radical as hillary clinton s tax plan of 2016. if you look at his climate plan, it is actually more radical than bernie sanders‘ climate plan of 2016. things are really shifting but you can only see that if you zoom out a little bit. rutger bregman, we have to end there, we have to zoom out completely, but it has been a pleasure having you on hardtalk. thank you very much indeed. thanks for having me. hello again. wednesday brought us more sunshine across the country. the highest temperature was again around the greater london area, this time in heathrow, 26 celsius. and a bit further north in suffolk, that s how we ended the day. now over recent days, the warmth that has mainly been concentrated across southeast england has been spreading into wales, southwest england, and for thursday the heat is more widespread across the uk. so most areas will have warmer weather, one exception really, east anglia and south east england where it is going to get a little bit fresher with temperatures coming down just a few degrees, but still warm. we ll take a look at why. 0n the satellite picture, we have this cloud working into northern scotland and bring a bit of rain. and a very weak cold front diving southwards across the north sea, that is introducing fresher air to east anglia and southeast england and ultimately will knock the temperatures down by a few degrees. this is how the weather looks at the moment, though. cloudy for northern scotland, still got some rain around at the moment but it will tend to ease over the coming hours. elsewhere it s a largely dry picture, a little bit of low cloud, a lot of mist and fog patch towards coastal areas of lincolnshire. but otherwise clear spells for at most and a fresher feel to the weather across some of these eastern areas of scotland and eastern areas of england, as the cooler air works in. for thursday, most of us will have sunshine from dawn till dusk, any low cloud and mist clearing away very quickly, and the rain also clearing from northern scotland and should brighten up in the northern isles later in the day. a warmer day for most then. 23 degrees or so in edinburgh, probably about 23 or 2a for western counts of northern ireland. but cooler in london, instead of around 26 or 27 it has been over recent days, it will be about 22. still warm in the sunshine and more of the same to come on friday. most of us will have sunshine from dawn till dusk again with little in the way of cloud. highest temperatures always likely across more northern and western areas of the uk, 25 or so in the glasgow area. how is the weekend shaking up? the area of high pressure is still in charge, still keeping these atlantic weather fronts at bay, that means we have more of the same. that said, it will turn breezy for some of us but nevertheless, we do have more of that warm sunshine to come. temperatures in glasgow peeking around 2a celsius and it s going 23, 2a through the weekend and further south, we will see temperatures in the mid 20s. some of the warmest weather in cardiff, 27 on saturday. that is your weather.
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