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hello this is bbc news. the headlines. the prime minister orders a formal review into the two metre social distancing rule in england, amid calls for it to be scrapped. disturbances break out overnight in the us city of atlanta after a black man is shot dead by police officers. officers had tried to arrest rayshard brooks after he failed a breathalyser test. more than 100 people are arrested after a day of violent clashes in central london, involving far right activists. a virtual church service is held to remember the 72 people who died in the grenfell tower fire in london three years ago. now on bbc news the travel show visits margate, a town attempting to adapt to social distancing measures. this week, a tiny glimmer of hope. europe starts to slowly reopen for travellers. but how will they keep us all apart? also coming up, lucy tests the gadgets that claim to keep you safe on your travels. and we re on one of the world s most famous beaches as it reopens fully for the first time since lockdown. we re back on the road this week, a modest two hour drive east of travel show hq in london in the resort town of margate. for more than 250 years, holidaymakers have come here, rain orshine, to experience the chipped around the edges glitz of the great british seaside. in recent times, there s been a renaissance here, new hotels and restaurants and restored vintage attractions have brought cool, young london types here by the bucketful. but as resorts throughout europe start to reopen, blinking into the summer sunshine, what kind of future will they face? across the world, we are seeing the first signs of tourism adapting to the new scheme of things. there s lots of talk of borders being lifted and special air bridges or corridors being formed between countries with low infection rates. whilst in many cities, galleries, museums and landmark attractions are up and running again. in italy, the first country in europe to enter lockdown, the coliseum, the leaning tower of pisa and the ruins of pompeii have already opened, and in france, people can once again wander the grand halls of the palace of versailles. hotels in europe are also gradually reopening too. back in april, we spoke to javier in spain, who had just been forced to shut down his family run chain of hotels in benidorm. now, he s hoping to reopen then again later this month. we are going to sell less capacity than ever, because we have to keep social distance. this will help people to have a more exclusive experience. if we are talking about profits, we will have less profits than last year, sure. sure. here in england, in line with government guidance, many hotels are hoping to reopen in earlyjuly. that includes the cave here in kent. they had only been open for a few months when the virus struck following a £12 million development. it was a huge shock. no one would ever want to launch a brand new hotel or any business and then three months, four months later, close it down, and we literally closed it down overnight. jonathan has already put in place some coronavirus safety measures, offering us a glimpse into what our future hotel stays might look like. first thing, if you could stand in front of the camera, please, and look into the camera so we can take your temperature. authenticated. as you re authenticated, first of all, sanitise your hands and then help yourself to mask and gloves if you d like. and then from here, if you go to the reception desks, we have got the screens up so our staff are completely protected, as are the guests as well. and you will be saying to guests, if they ve got luggage, take their own luggage? yep. we will be not offering that service for the time being just to minimise the contact with the guests. once you ve checked in, you have limited access to the hotel s communal areas. you can book a 20 minute slot at the swimming pool and the restaurant delivers to your room. we ve taken the tables out of our fire pit restaurant, including the chairs, and we ve set them up in all rooms, every room type. like you are in a restaurant kind of dining. and so, what happens, someone comes in and delivers it? so, your doorbell will ring and outside is a tray for you to bring in yourself. if you d like drinks, you can order via whatsapp. it will be delivered pretty instantly but without any contact whatsoever. are you confident you will get people here? i believe we will see an upsurge in uk travel. so, domestic tourism? domestic tourism, 100%. we ve seen bookings forjuly, our booking occupancy is around 30 a0% at the moment, on the basis that we are able to open. as an independent boutique resort, cave hotel has been able to be relatively nimble, incorporating coronavirus safety measures. but what about the larger chain hotels, with hundreds of rooms and a high turnover of guests? cleaning specialists the safe group have been advising big hotels about how they can keep both their customers and their staff protected. i ve taken a look at the large number of the big hotel chains ranging from what they call room seals. so, effectively when someone has cleaned a room, they completely seal it with a notice effectively. some hotels have started to remove items that you might touch such as tissue boxes, removing the magazines. some of them are doing a lot and some of them, interestingly, are doing nothing, so it s a mixed bag. after months cooped up at home, many of us will be desperate to get away for a few nights when hotels reopen. but with corporate and international travel still pretty much at a standstill, the future for many hotels, whether they have thorough safety measures or not, remains uncertain. what kind of hotels then do you think will survive and what kinds will fail in this new climate? whether you are the budget end or the top end, the hotels who are proactive in understanding the challenges that are going to come and prepare for them, i hope will flourish through it. so, once all those perspex screens are installed, travel should be back on the cards, shouldn t it? well, let s find out from the man who has all the answers, our global guru simon calder. 0k, simon, i m going to put you on the spot a little bit now, because back in march, when we first talked after covid 19 hit, really, you said: archive: we will see injune something like normal travel beginning again, but it will be on a small scale, and even if there is huge amounts of pent up demand from you and i desperate to travel, it won t be anything like the normal summer that we would be looking forward to at this time. how would you like to revise that or would you like to revise that? i think i would just a little because i underestimated how non normal it would be. certainly, there are going to be parts of the mediterranean, north america, asia, where it will at least have a reasonable number of tourists showing up, but it is going to feel very different. we ve already seen that the big travel companies have got to come up with new ways of reducing risk when we are flying, and new ways of working particularly in really big hotels, which are used to effectively processing us by the thousands, so there will be a new normal. one thing, though, i absolutely wasn t expecting was the uk s sudden introduction of quarantine for all arrivals from june 8 onwards, which of course has had the, i guess, predictable effect of stifling all inbound tourism to the united kingdom for some unspecified period, together with making it very difficult for any travel firms to sell outbound travel, because it s great to have a weekend in barcelona or rome, but if you re then going to have to spend two weeks stuck in your flat or your home, that s going to take the edge off it rather. when can i go on holiday? well, it all depends where you are. at the moment, of course, every country and indeed many regions within countries have their own rules, so, for example, if you happen to be in new york and you think you would love to go to florida, you are going to have to self isolate for two weeks when you get there. but in general, the european union, 27 member countries, are saying, 0k, we re going to reduce the frontiers between us from june 15 and that is going to be a soft opening, followed on julyi with a much more general opening and certainly the traditional mediterranean destinations all the way from turkey, greece, croatia, italy, cyprus and malta of course, france and spain, not forgetting portugal, they look as though, from july i, they will all be back in action and indeed some countries, in particular portugal and croatia, are already saying, come here, we re ready for you! but of course the foreign office in the uk is still warning against all but essential travel. what about regions outside europe? for instance, the middle east or asia? what s happening there? we have seen different degrees of lockdown and there s been some really strange things going on. for example, june 4 was when the caribbean island of antigua decided it was opening up, but many other islands are very much closed, and in general, i think we are going to see a pattern where smaller islands with very few cases of covid i9 are going to be generally quite slow in opening. argentina, which is very much a southern summer destination, has said no international flights until september i, and it s of course this terrible tension between countries wanting to do what s best for their population in terms of avoiding infection as much as possible, and the economic reality that so many places are absolutely dependent on tourism. simon, a pleasure to speak to you again. thanks very much. gadgets and tech can make travellers‘ lives a whole lot easier, but in a time of covid i9, how can they keep us healthy? well, i can tell you there are things on the market right now that let you do just that, like this. even if your travel is just a stroll around your local area. this is the hygiene hook. a pretty simple gadget, really, but something that solves that classic covid i9 dilemma how to open a door without touching it. shortly after it became a bit more obvious about the covid i9, driving into work i thought, actually, i could just make a hook to open doors. and we got machinery, and i got 3d software, an hour later we had 15 hooks. for every one they sell, they give another one away to healthcare workers. it s a pretty nifty solution to a problem that a lot of us are facing right now, although you can probably tell from the design that it doesn t necessarily work with all kinds of doorhandles. yes, doorknobs, i m talking about you. but i think the burning question here is, would i actually use one of these? well, i have been to quite a lot of questionable places in my travels over the years and i could have done with opening a few doors with this, but it is quite chunky so it is not going to be to everyone s taste, but it wouldn t hurt to just chuck it in your bag or suitcase just in case you need it. now in italy, at sites like florence s duomo cathedral, which normally welcomes about 4 million tourists a year, it has been trialling a new system to help encourage proper social distancing for the smaller number of visitors they will be allowing in. as someone enters, they are given a device to wear round their necks, which alerts them when they are less than two metres from someone else. but even if you re not venturing to any tourist sites anytime soon, tech can help you keep your distance. a new online tool from google for android devices called sodar uses augmented reality to let you know what is and isn t two metres away. so it s superimposing a ring onto my phone screen. well, i can see that my cameraman simon is definitely two metres away. he is outside the ring. it keeps jumping around a little bit so i m not entirely sure how accurate this is, erm, but it gives you a good idea, gives you some rough guidelines as to how far you should be keeping your distance to other people and objects. i think it s quite fun! of course, there were gadgets on the market before covid i9 that were designed to help stop any nasties from getting into your system. and you may have noticed that ultraviolet light is used in quite a lot of them. take this water bottle. the larq bottle movement uses uv light in the cap which, it says, will minimise 99.9% of harmful bacteria in 60 seconds. the uv clean smartphone sanitiser and sanitiser bag also use uv light to zap away 99.9% of bacteria and viruses although they say it s not yet been tested for its effectiveness against this coronavirus. generally, these gadgets are portable, they re practical and easy to carry around with you when you re out and about. and, at times like these, they can prove hugely reassuring as well. but without seeing any visible signs of cleanliness, it s quite difficult to ascertain if it actually works and whether they‘ re doing what they say on the packet. well, what we do know is that uv is being used in this pandemic. it has been trialled for disinfecting the new york public transport system, for example, but with strict safety measures in place because certain forms of uv are dangerous. but in scotland, st andrews university and ninewells hospital have been researching the possibility of disinfecting big public spaces with people in it, like airports. so the idea that we ve got and other groups around the world is to use far uvc radiation, which is gonna be safe for humans, but we ve really got to use a clinical trial to ensure that it s safe, and we ve got a clinical trial starting in the next few weeks and if this is successful, the goal is that we can roll this out into large public spaces, such as trains, airports, food production lines, and the ultimate goal is that this‘ll go towards bringing all of our lives back to normal. now if you re a regular viewer of the show, you may remember that three years ago, i was one of the first members of the public to ride red force, europe s fastest and tallest ever roller coaster at portaventura in spain. it will come as no surprise that the theme park has been closed since lockdown, and does hope to reopen sometime injuly. although elsewhere, other theme parks are already starting to open their doors with new social distancing regulations in place. disney parks in china are up and running again and flying in the face of tradition and some might say fun injapan, people are being asked not to scream while they ride roller coasters in an effort to stop the potential spread of coronavirus. disney parks in america say they hope to reopen injuly and universal orlando has already opened. 0ne park marking its 100th anniversary this year
thank you for watching the news cont6:00. ues captioning sponsored by cbs o donnell: tonight, alarming spikes in coronavirus cases seen across the nation. at least 16 states see infections rising, hospitals in arizona nearing capacity. officials worry we are on the verge of a second wave as beaches, movie theaters, and restaurants continue to open nationwide. grim economic outlook: a new prediction says the unemployment rate will end the year at 9.3%, and it will likely stay high for the next two years. the fed chair s urgent plea to lawmakers. police reforms: the minneapolis police chief under pressure to change his department takes on the police union as george floyd s brother delivers emotional testimony on capitol hill, demanding justice. i m here to ask you to make it stop. stop the pain. stop us from being tired. o donnell: nascar bans the confederate flag at its events,i bases named for confederate generals. how the president is responding tonight. breaking news: family members say remains found buried in idaho were those of two missing children. the new charges against their stepfather tonight. and the story of a chance encounter on a flight leads to a conversation about how we are a lot more alike than we are different. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening and thank you for joining us. we are going to begin tonight with a sudden surge in coronavirus cases across the country. at the same time the government is warning that the financial damage caused by the pandemic will last for years. tonight, the head of the federal reserve says congress may need to do more to help those who are out of work, saying millions of americans who lost their jobs will not get them back, even after the country fully reopens. tonight, there are more signs the country is reopening, and some people are going back to work. a.m.c., the world s largest theater chain, says it will start showing movies again in july, and vacationers are back on the sands of miami beach tonight, but that comes as we re learning 16 states are seeing rises in coronavirus cases, including texas and arkansas, where hospitals there are facing record numbers of coronavirus patients. and as we come on the air, more than 112,000 people have been killed by the virus nationwide, and there are nearly two million confirmed cases here in the u.s. tonight, cbs news has learned the president s coronavirus task force is privately warning governors there could be an even bigger spike in cases following those protests over the death of george floyd. floyd s brother was on capitol hill today, calling for change to the nation s policing practices during an emotional hearing just one day after floyd s funeral in houston. well, there s a lot of news to get to tonight, and our team of correspondents is standing by. cbs manuel bojorquez is going to lead off our coverage tonight in miami. manny. reporter: well, florida is one of the states with infections on the rise. more than 1,300 new coronavirus cases were reported in the state just today. in other states, the concern is the strain new cases are putting on hospitals. two weeks after the memorial day holiday, some states are not only seeing a spike in coronavirus infections, but a surge in cases filling up hospitals. texas reports more than 2,000 hospitalized, a record high. arkansas hit a record, too. and in arizona, officials urged hospitals to fully activate emergency plans as nearly 80% of adult i.c.u. beds are full. some hospitals say they ve already reached capacity. george floyd! reporter: cbs news obtained audio of the president s coronavirus task force telling governors they re worried about a spike in infections due to recent protests. this was dr. deborah birx on the call: it does worry me, because not everyone was in a mask. and some people were shouting. and we don t know the efficacy of masks with shouting. reporter: it all adds up to a pandemic dr. anthony fauci calls his worst nightmare. he had this reminder: masks can help, but it s masks plus physical separation. reporter: federal reserve chief jerome powell says unemployment will likely fall to 9.3% by the end of this year, and vows consumer support, holding down near-zenterest rates through 2022. we re not thinking about raising rates. reporter: the push for a vaccine got a boost from the federal government, which reportedly announced it will fund and conduct three trials this summer involving roughly 30,000 people in more than 50 cities. a vaccine can t come too soon as more places with crowds indoors, like movie theaters, plan to reopen. a.m.c. announced a plan to open its doors next month. as for the outdoors, miami reopened beaches for the first time in three months. you have to have a face mask on. reporter: albeit with volunteers making sure people abide by the new social distancing and face mask rules. we had to all make sure we had our masks on, and since we didn t have any we ll have to go get some so we can all be safe. that s the bottom line. reporter: today, the director of the harvard global health institute offered yet another sobering prediction, that the u.s. could see another 100,000 coronavirus deaths by september. norah. o donnell: manny bojorquez in miami, thank you. today, the brother of george floyd told congress that he believes his brother s death was a premeditated murder. in tearful testimony to a house committee, he also urged congress to deliver justice for victims of police brutality. cbs nancy cordes reports tonight from capitol hill. i wish i could get him back. reporter: an emotional philonise floyd pleaded with congress to act one day after laying his brother george to rest. george wasn t hurting anyone that day. he didn t deserve to die over $20. i m asking you, is that what a black man is worth, $20? reporter: he came to testify about the justice in policing act, a sweeping refoil house democrats hope to pass in the next two weeks. i grieve every day for these continued losses. i grieve as a mother who lost her own child to the very same violence that we re talking about today and tomorrow and next week. reporter: the hearing revealed some bipartisan consensus, a sign that the message from widespread protests ( blast ) has sunk in. i do think there is not a legitimate defense of choke holds or lynching or bad cops that get shuttled around, and you will be able to count on republican cooperation. reporter: some states and cities aren t waiting on congress. the d.c. city council passed a bill tuesday to publicize the names of officers who use unnecessary force. and new york s governor is about to sign a bill to unseal police disciplinary records. the most dramatic police reform in the country, and it will happen in new york this week and we re proud of it. reporter: the white house says the president is hard at work on his own proposal, but in a meeting with african american supporters this afternoon, he did not go into details. when you look at how well the black community s been doing under this administration, nobody s done anything like we ve done. reporter: tonight, george floyd s brother paid a visit to the newly named black lives matter plaza, where that giant mural was painted on the street near the white house. he was surrounded by supporters a couple of hours after telling lawmakers that he can t stop thinking about that video of his brother s death, and that it felt like it lasted eight hours, norah, instead of eight minutes. o donnell: a powerful image there. nancy, thank you. turning now to minneapolis where after calls to dismantle his police department, the police chief today outlined transformational reforms in weeding out bad officers, even if it means taking on the powerful police union. cbs jeff pegues spoke with the chief and continues his reporting from minneapolis. good evening, jeff. reporter: norah, the pressure has really been on this police chief here to come up with some sort of plan for the future. the arrest of the former officers has really tainted this ceeptment, so much s at i m standing next to still have razor wire around them to keep the public out. under pressure by protesters demanding radical reform, the embattled minneapolis police chief vowed change is coming. we will have a police department that our communities view as legitimate, trusting, and working with their best interest at heart. reporter: the first step, the chief said, would be for the department to withdraw from contract negotiations with the police union to reform use of force and disciplinary procedures. did resigning cross your mind over the last two weeks at all? not at all. history is being written now. and i need to make sure that we are part of the right side of history. saw on thavideo, do you think race was involved in that? what i know is that, far too often, when we have white officers and black victims, it permeates and goes back to a history of our american policing where race is inextricably linked to that. reporter: do you think there are racist cops on the force? i believe that there probably are. reporter: cbs news has learned that prosecutors tried to reach a plea deal with derek chauvin before initially charging him with third-degree murder. arredondo says he refuses to even say chauvin s name. wh is that? because i don t want to bring any sort of credibility or legitimacy to that. use your voice! reporter: today, protests calling for justice around the country continued. one day after floyd was buried, disturbing video has surfaced showing a group of white men in new jersey mocking his death, kneeling on each other as demonstrators pass by. here in minneapolis, the home town native who became chief in 2017 says his city will make progress. we will not let what that person, who i refuse to name, define us. we won t. and we owe it to our communities we serve to not let that define us. i m confident we ll move forward. reporter: late this afternoon, one of the cops arrested, thomas lane, one of the rookie cops arrested in connection with george floyd s death, posted bond, left jail, and headed for home awaiting trial. norah. o donnell: jeff pegues in minneapolis. thank you. tonight, nascar is banning the confederate flag at all of its events. the racing giant says the flag runs counter to a welcoming and inclusive environment, and the move comes after bubba wallace, nascar s only black driver, on monday, called for the ban. at tonight s race in virginia, wallace plans to drive with black lives matter and compassion, love, and understanding newly painted on his car. there s also a growing movement to remove the names of confederate generals from ten army bases. the army secretary says he s willing to talk about it. the commander in chief is not. president trump tweeted my administration will not even consider the renaming of these magnificent and fabled military institutions. here s cbs david martin. reporter: it s not just the statues of confederate generals, it s the army bases, which bear their names. as now-retired general david petraeus put it, the irony of training at bases named for those who took up arms against the united states and for the right to enslave others is inescapable to anyone paying attention. retired major general dana pittard has been paying attention his entire career. it just always seemed strange and, in fact, insulting, that we had posts like fort hood, fort bragg, fort benning, that were named after confederate generals who betrayed our country. reporter: ten army bases in all. fort bragg, the largest, is named after braxton bragg. who wasn t even a very good confederate general. why would we name a base after someone like that? reporter: does the quality of the general make any difference? these ten generals fought against the united states army, killed u.s. troops. it makes no difference how well they performed. reporter: great field generals, like robert e. lee, should still be studied, pittard says, but not honored. david martin, cbs news, washington. o donnell: tonight we re delving into a painful discussion taking place in african american homes across the country. it s the talk between black parents and children about the hate they may encounter and possible brushes with the police. mark strassmann introduces us to a father and son who are taking that conversation beyond the walls of their home. i can t breathe, officer. i can t breathe! there s always in the pit of your stomach it can happen to anybody and no parent wants their child to be a hashtag. reporter: kendrick dixon is o race. no justice! reporter: when atlanta protested george floyd s killing, israel wanted his voice heard. it was rage, what was going through my mind, here we go again. what s going to happen this time? reporter: do you think your white friends get it? no, they don t realize it s actually happening to people like me every single day. reporter: as israel grew up, his father tried to prepare him. black parents call it the talk. trayvon martin, michael brown, ahmaud arbery, george floyd, every one of those situations, a different kind of talk. sure. my ultimate end game, my wife and i, is get home. do what you have to do to come home. reporter: ahmaud arbery s killing especially hit home. in georgia, shot dead while jogging. i had never thought that, you know, i would have to fear formg in my neighborhood, but that just put into a new perspective that this is really real out here. reporter: israel is in training. our valedictorian, mr. israel dixon. reporter: the valedictorian will enter west point this summer. i feel like he shouldn t have to walk around wearing a resume around his neck saying, i m a valedictorian. resume saying i m a human being that s it, that s all that matters. reporter: israel dixon is hardly alone when he says this moment in america woke him up. it made me realize that we need to start having this 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acropolis now, because. you never told me you were going to start the programme with a pun. you ve got to continue now you ve started. the reason i ve done it is because we re going to cross now to our colleague, foreign correspondent quentin sommerville, who almost seems to be on holiday in greece. how have you managed that? it does feel like a bit of a holiday, actually. normally, i m a middle east correspondent, but i ve been sat on hold for so long they said, how about going to athens, and ijumped at the chance to get on a plane again, and this is one of the few places where you can get on a plane, because the greeks are beginning to try and open up their tourism industry again. the acropolis opened this week to tourists. foreign tourists can t come here yet. if you arrive, as we did today, at athens airport, you get a swab stuck down your throat. perhaps that s why i m a bit hoarse. gagging sound. ow! did it hurt? that sound was entirely involuntary. it wasn t too bad. so they take that swab, they analyse it. for 24 hours, we re stuck in a government hotel and we can t leave we re underquarantine. if we leave, it s a 5,000 euros fine, which the bbc wouldn t be happy about, so we re stuck here tonight. we get the results tomorrow. normally, what happens if you re arriving in greece, you then have to do a two week quarantine regardless of whether you re positive or negative, but what the greeks are going to do in a few weeks time, from june the 15th is they re going to get rid of that quarantine and allow people from many countries to return here as holiday makers. will that include british people, as things stand? that s the million dollar question. as of right now, it will not include british people, but anyway they ve got another 40 days before they actually open the borders and get rid of those tests. it s going to be july the 1st when all flights across greece will be reinstated, so still quite a bit of time, and what the greek authorities have been saying is this isn t about a particular country, it s about the science. if a country has a very high infection rate, their citizens will not be able to come here as tourists. it will be dependent on the science. i have a feeling, later on, we ll be finding out if there is such a thing as the science from a special scientific guest, who s a member of a special scientific body. stay tuned for that and lots more in this episode of the coronavirus newscast. the coronavirus newscast from the bbc. hello, it s adam in the studio. and it s laura, also in the studio, two metres apart. we re going to go straight to the downing street briefing. of course. but hang on, it s the version of the downing street briefing by the comedy duo larry and paul. unadvisedly dipping my toe into the science and saying something i don t understand about r, perhaps, and immediately regretting it. explaining what the r value is, wishing they taught statistics properly at school, trying to explain it again, realising the futility andjust giving up. pretending that s what ijust said. obviously, it s a pastiche. obviously. but quite accurate in some aspects. i have no view on the conduct of any members of the press, any other members of the press. i would never express a view other than to say solidarity with all myjournalistic colleagues who are working very hard in challenging circumstances. fergus walsh has been keeping an eye on various medical issues. lots of that today. fergus, where are you and what have you been doing? i m at the top of a very big hill that i sometimes cycle up. fortunately, i m not wearing what i would normally wear when i m cycling. are you looking for the vaccine? i m looking for the vaccine. a lot of news that. astrazeneca, huge multinational drug company, said today that it reckons it can do a billion doses that s 1,000 million doses of the oxford vaccine, big caveat, if it works, by the end of next year, and today was four weeks since the first volunteers were immunised, so the team will be looking for antibodies, but i have to say there s one big problem surrounding all of this, which is that those volunteers need to go out and meet the virus in their daily lives, and we ve heard today that in england we reckon maybe there are 10,000 uses a day and i don t reckon many of those are in the oxford area. so that s a bit of a problem because you need a lot of virus to be circulating to know whether it protects the people who have been immunised. and also what the government wants to know is how many people are going to have it in the weeks to come. we have been talking about test, track and trace so much. a lot of bits and pieces on it today. fergus, can you make it simple? ok, so remember, test, track and trace is this system by the 1st ofjune. the prime minister said it would be world class, 25,000 contact tracers. notjust world class, world beating! yeah! these are people who, by and large, will be following a script. they ve had some online training, and they will be. there are about 2,500 cases a day of people who are confirmed positive after testing, and they will be from the 1st ofjune ringing all of those up and talking to them and saying, can you tell us about who you live with and can you remind us of anybody you ve been in contact with since you first had symptoms, and they mean close contacts, anybody you ve spent more than 15 minutes with closer than two metres, so it s largely family, it might be friends, although, of course, we should all be respecting social distancing, and then they will be tracing and contacting those individuals and asking them to get tested, and also to self isolate. that s how it s supposed to work. but there s a lot riding on this, and there s been a lot of concern today from nhs trusts and local authorities that it s all been left very late and that they have not been consulted, and they have had long standing systems for contact tracing, going back many years, and we ve talked about it on this programme before. thank you, fergus. now we re going to have a real geek‘s treat. tonight, for one night only, we ve secured the services of a member of sage, the scientific advisory group that advises the government on situations like this, and it s professor sir ian boyd. hello. hello, good evening. so your dayjob is professor of biology at st andrews university and your other dayjob is being on the famous sage. yes, that s right. i participate in sage. it s quite time consuming, yeah, at the moment, for good reason. how does it actually work? do you just skype in from wherever you re professoring that day? yes, it s basically a zoom meeting, and there s anything up to about 50 participants in the meeting, and not all of them are experts. there are some officials there as well so maybe 30 or 35 experts who are participants in sage, all of whom bring different angles to solving the problems that are facing us at the moment. there are some officials there as well so maybe 30 or 35 and what it does is it works through a specifically structured agenda, which is based around questions that come from the policy parts of government that need particular scientific advice, and we work through those in a structured way. so it s questions from ministers rather than you looking at something and proposing something to them. you re kind of doing exam questions that they ve asked you, like what s the r number, or what s the average period before you get symptoms? it s a bit of both, really. often, a question sparks other issues that come up, and sage is an independent group, and it likes to express its independence so, if it sees something that it thinks the government ought to know about, it will actually provide advice on that. ian, one of the things in the last couple of months, people are used to hearing ministers saying, we re being guided by the science but what s the relationship really there? what should our listeners and viewers think about who s in charge of making the decisions? i wonder if you feel there are some misunderstandings about how it works. i think the statement, we re guided by the science, is slightly misleading. i don t think ministers intend it to be misleading. i think they intend it to help provide trust in what they re saying, and quite rightly so. i mean, basically, what we in the scientific community do is give the best advice we can, based on the evidence that s available to us. we then pass that to government ministers and the policy parts of government, who can take that and do with it what they like, actually, within the policy context. we re not there to referee that or hold them to account or anything like that. our only purpose is to try to make sure that the evidence is properly summarised for them so that they can understand it sufficiently to be able to operationalise it in a policy context, and in this case it s about reducing the disease and trying to minimise the prevalence of the disease in the population. but at the end of the day, i have to make clear that scientists are not making the decisions, ministers are making the decisions. what we are there to do is to try and support the ministers with the best possible evidence, and to try to make sure that they understand it, and sometimes that evidence is not entirely clear. there s a lot of uncertainty in there, but it s often not a matter of saying, this is the way the world is, it s a matter of saying, the world sits somewhere in this space of uncertainty, we re not quite where it is, but it s over to you, that s the best we can do. do you think that has always been clear during this crisis? because it has felt covering this story, and i think a lot of viewers and listeners would also feel that we ve heard ministers be quite categoric about what the science says, and we also know that scientists don t always agree. absolutely, and that s one of the great things about how sage works, it is a very sort of buoyant discussion. laughter. do you mean a good old shouty discussion or debate? people keep their tempers and all that kind of thing, but actually there is a really, really strong element of debate. there s quite a lot of disagreement often to begin with but then there s a convergence, and the whole idea is it s a consensus process, but the consensus that comes out of that is never absolute. there is always uncertainty around it. now, sometimes, that s packaged in ways that suggest that there are certain things that we know reasonably certainly, and ministers may take that and say, this is what the science says, but you re right, there isn t one science, there are as many views as there are scientists, and sometimes they are very convergent and sometimes they are quite divergent as well. but it s ourjob to make sure that ministers understand when there s convergence and when there s divergence. would it be better if they didn t say the science ? i think, on balance, it probably would be, yeah. right, let s get some scientific advice from you for our newscast listeners, because we ve had some questions sent in, and you can include uncertainty, if you like, as you ve eloquently explained. the first one is from laura in london. not me! a different laura. a number of my friends lost their sense of taste and smell in the first week of march and they were told at the time it was not a symptom of coronavirus so there was no need to self isolate. it s now been ten weeks and the government has added it to its official list of symptoms. why did it take so long to add this as an official symptom? do you feel can answer this? i m not a clinician, so i think some of my clinical colleagues would probably be better to answer that, but i can give it a go. go on. i think it boils down to uncertainty, quite honestly. i think that, for quite a long time, there has been some evidence that loss of taste and smell has been one of the symptoms, but actually, when you dig down into the actual mechanics of that evidence, the details, it s not 100%, it wasn t 100% clear because there was quite a lot of uncertainty around it. we ve got tonnes of questions. next is rob from bristol. i d like to know when we re going to hear more about the social bubbles that had previously been talked about. it was mentioned in the government s paper but we ve heard nothing since and i think it would make a big difference to people who live alone more so than changing some other lockdown measures. to remind people, there was a suggestion that, if you picked and chose a few people to bubble with, rather than being out in the world, seeing everybody, you could do that sometime soon. the government told us last week they would look at it. ian, will it happen? whether it happens or not is a policy issue. i can tell you what the science says. should it happen? that s not for me to say. that s for ministers to say. what i can tell you is what the pros and cons might be, and the advice is very clear about bubbling, which is that, by having social bubbles you re increasing the number of connections between people and for every connection between people there s a certain probability associated with disease transfer going on, so you increase the risk, and one of the problems is that, as bubbling happens, those connections don t increase in a linear way with the number of bubbles. they increase exponentially so, even with a small change, you can get a very large change in the number of connections going on, so the result of that is that scientists like me say, actually, you have to be really careful about something like that, because you never quite know what you re going to release and, once you ve released it, it s really difficult to bring it back again. right, here s anne brownlee from bath. and of course shielding for the most vulnerable is people who are really at risk from covid 19, maybe because they have got a very serious underlying health condition and they ve got to stay at home and not see anyone for 12 weeks and then it may be more weeks than that. so, ian, yeah, how much did sage contribute to the policy and are you looking at letting people out of the shielding? right, first of all there is a qualification here in that i wasn t actually present at sage during some of the early stages when some of these things were being discussed, but what i am certain about is that sage did discuss the principles around shielding. i think it is really important for people to understand that sage does not look at every single policy that government wants to put in place, what it does is it produces scientific advice that is generic, so that the government can take the general principles and turn that into policy. so, what sage will have said in the circumstances is that there are people who are vulnerable, a shielding process is an appropriate thing to put in place, there are certain timescales around that and that is based on the infection cycle, duration and those sorts of things. and also there should be certain types of shielding processes, in other words the three metre rule and those sorts of things. and what sage will have done is taken a package of those sorts of things and placed them in government, in the policy environment and then it is for them to take that package and turn it into an operational policy with a set of guidance and advice and all those sorts of things. so, that is the way it works, really. so, there is a limited interaction goes on, sage doesn t vet everything that comes out of government, to say is that compliant with scientific advice or not. oh, really interesting, we can hear then what a complicated and deliberate process it is and the idea that we feel the scientists are telling them to do this or the ministers are telling scientists to say this, it is clearly not what was going on from listening there to ian. final one, which i think is really interesting, and as you said, you weren t there right at the beginning of this crisis, you started attending the meetings a bit further into it, but edward from the north east of scotland, so, not far from you tonight, has a question. with the benefit of hindsight, which three actions, in respect of this pandemic, do you wish you had been able to do from the outset and that would have saved lives? ian, can you say that now? well, it is quite difficult to list three actions, but i think that what i can say is there is some principle, acting very early was really important, you know, i would have loved to have seen us acting a week or two weeks earlier and it would have made quite a big difference to the steepness of the curve of infection and therefore the death rate. and i think that s really the number one issue, is could we have acted earlier? why didn t we, then? why didn t we? well, i mean i think that is an important question and it is one that we are probably going to be looking at in a lot of detail in the future. i think there are lots and lots of reasons why, some of which were, for example, that this country didn t really get affected by the previous sars outbreak in 2003. if you look at the countries that reacted really quickly, it was those that really got quite badly affected by the previous sars outbreak. they had seen it before and they weren t going to have it again. in other countries, like ourselves and many of the other european countries, we were a bit slower off the mark. we weren t as prepared, i think is quite frankly the conclusion i will come to. but there are lots and lots of reasons for that and one could point the finger at ministers and politicians for not being, you know, willing to listen to scientific advice. you could point the finger at the scientists for not actually being explicit enough, but at the end of the day, all these things interact with public opinion as well and i think politicians, some would have loved to have reacted earlier, but in their political opinion, it probably wasn t feasible to do that, because people wouldn t have perhaps responded in the way that they eventually did. but from your understanding, ian, what was the balance there? because we know that the government scientists, professor chris whitty and sir patrick vallance, you know, said repeatedly on the record, they were hesitant about going into lockdown too early, ministers were at that point absolutely explicit about how closely they were listening to those two in particular, are you suggesting that they weren t urging ministers strongly enough to act at that stage? well, i wasn t involved at that stage, but i know both patrick vallance and chris whitty, i know that they would have been very blunt and very clear in the advice that they are giving. however, i can only reflect on that question as a citizen looking in at this from the outside, but somebody who knew what was going on behind the scenes or had a pretty good idea what was going on behind the scenes, and my question was, even as things were being locked down in italy, would we ever be able to make that work in the uk, because we had never done it before, and i, as somebody who had worked in government science, as a scientific adviser in government, was saying to myself, actually this is going to be really, really difficult. we have no idea what the british public will do under these circumstances. will they accept it and there is lots of uncertainties in the circumstances. and what i have been pleasantly surprised by is the way the british public has actually taken this up and gone with these behavioural modifications which have been absolutely necessary to keep this disease under control. does that mean, though, that sir patrick and sir chris whitty, two men that you presumably know quite well, have worked with a lot, and sat on sage meetings with them, do you think they almost had a bit of a failure of imagination where they misjudged the british public and if they had judged the british public correctly they would have advised lockdown sooner and lives would have been saved? well, look, it is really easy to look at this with the benefit of hindsight. my personal view is that they were very likely to be giving very clear advice to ministers. is it a failure of imagination? well, quite possibly you could depict it that way, but if it had been me in those positions, i would have had that same failure as well. i would have been questioning whether we could actually achieve that in the uk, because we have never done before. and it was unprecedented. and also, in italy, as it was beginning to happen, i had a lot of doubt, a lot of doubts in my mind as to whether it would work there. cani.? it has worked, however and that is the main thing. may i ask exactly at what point you started going to sage meetings again? i know that might sound like a really particularly nerdy thing for us to ask, even on this programme, but the timeline is so important here, so exactly at what point did you start taking part in the meetings again? i started taking part just about a month ago. so, i had been going there forjust over four weeks or so. my obsession is with a paper that was done by one of the sub groups from sage, the modelling group, on the 17th of february. i seem so obsessed about it, even have the date carved in my memory, and it says, and there is a paragraph that says, some people, but basically not the majority of the group that day, thought, on the 17th of february, there is sustained transmission within the uk of coronavirus. back on the 17th of february. do you think they were right and that it was transmitting quite widely as early as then? i wouldn t like to put a date on it. i think it is very probable, but remember back to where we were then, in terms of what we knew. we had a new virus, we really didn t know what it was capable of. the model that we were working on was the start of 2003, on was the sars of 2003, which was much less infectious than this one. so, if you were to apply that model to this one, then the position of community transmission at that time was not quite as alarming as it turned out to be. now, maybe, you know, maybe one could have said, actually, you should be using reasonable worst case scenarios, and i m sure they were using reasonable worst case, but nevertheless, it takes time to actually understand what the risks really are in a situation where actually you really don t know what you are dealing with most of the time. you know, but i can t say more than that, because i wasn t there. ian, one of the people we know who was there some of the time, were some of the prime minister s political advisers and there was a lot of unhappiness in some quarters that dominic cummings was attending some of the sage meetings. have you at any point had concerns about people who are in the room? is it right that political advisers attend sometimes, too? i ve never had concerns about that. i ve been in lots of meetings with ministers and political advisers on their shoulder and the political adviser usually says nothing. and did he? did he try and stick his oar in? no. i ve never had a meeting with dominic cummings, but i know how the spads work and that sort of thing. that was said knowingly! laughter. whether they say things afterwards is another matter, but actually i think on balance, it is quite good to have been there, because it is good for them to hear these arguments, first hand, because it brings them down to earth and it takes them out of the political sphere and brings them back to what i would call reality a lot of the time. i mean you could say politics as reality, but actually, you know a virus, transmitting itself and using, you know, being a pathogen for humans, is real reality and it s good for them to hear what scientists actually have to say. well, it has been very good for us to hear you tonight. professor sir ian, thank you very much, that was absolutely fascinating. thank you very much for coming on tonight. and thank you to everyone else, too. we will be back very soon. bye. the coronavirus newscast from the bbc. this is bbc news. i m lewis vaughan jones with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. two people survive as a passenger plane crashes into homes in the pakistani city of karachi at least 80 are confirmed dead. brazil s supreme court releases a video of the president allegedly admitting to interfering with law enforcement to protect his family. the british prime minister s chief advisor is reported to have broken lockdown guidelines by travelling to his parents‘ home when suffering with coronavirus. president trump demands us state governors reopen all places of worship this weekend.
this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. for the first time since italy locked down ten weeks ago, people are able to visit shops, some restaurants and hairdressers. we ve a special report from milan. more than 15,000 people killed in this region, almost half of all the italian deaths. and economic pain is intense, one in three businesses here don t plan to reopen today. so milan is coming back to life, but the wounds run deep. new measures on trains and at stations as people return to work in england. security guards with crowd management training are on hand. with two weeks to go until some primary school pupils in england return to the classroom, the government says plans are in place to protect teachers and pupils. northern ireland is taking some steps towards easing its lockdown with garden centres and recycling facilities re opening. the mayor of brazil s largest city, sao paulo, warns its health system could collapse as demand grows for emergency beds to deal with with coronavirus cases. and today should have been the first day of the chelsea flower show. the cancelled event has instead gone online with tours, demonstrations and replicas of exhibits. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we re covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. first, ten weeks after imposing one of the world s strictest national lockdowns, italy is starting to reopen many businesses, including shops, restaurants and hairdressers. church services are also restarting. here in the uk, new measures have been deployed on trains and at stations in case more people use public transport to return to work this week. security guards with crowd management training are on hand. also this morning, with two weeks to go until some primary school pupils in england return to the classroom, the government says plans are in place to ensure the safety of teachers and pupils. but unions and some parents say they re concerned about the spread of coronavirus. northern ireland is taking steps towards lifting its restrictions. garden centres and recycling facilities are reopening and the health minister at stormont has also announced that all care home staff and residents will be offered coronavirus tests. the world s thirds biggest economy, japan, has fallen into recession, as the financial toll triggered by the pandemic continues to escalate. in brazil, the mayor of the country s largest city, sao paulo, says its health system is near collapse as demand grows for emergency beds to deal with coronavirus cases. with more on the further easing of lockdown restrictions in italy, our correspondent mark lowen reports from milan on how businesses have been preparing. milan is dressing up for its reopening. its chic shops have been closed for ten weeks in the world s first national lockdown. with the final touches, strict hygiene controls a screen at the till, a reminder of the new rules. customers here will be by appointment to limit numbers. the sparkle has been dulled by the virus, but they are raring to go. it has been hard, actually, very hard, because nothing was sure, so we kept on listening to the news, and we didn t know what to expect, when we would open again, and we really hoped and we were really looking forward to coming back to our store. was there ever a moment where you thought, are we ever going to be able to come back to work? no, never. italy s capital of fashion, industry and finance was at the centre of the outbreak, the first cases in february nearby. it was overwhelmed. with sites closed, tourists cancelling and business is suffering, there is talk of. we were in this city as the corona storm hit. ten weeks on, we are here again. milan is still struggling to comprehend what has happened in that time. more than 15,000 people killed in this region, almost half of all the italian deaths, and the economic pain is intense. one in three businesses here don t plan to reopen today. so, milan is coming back to life, but the wounds run deep. and now, we are getting better, we feel better, we can take walks out from home. he was born two months ago, so this is one of his first walks, so we are very happy. this, too, is helping italy s recovery a hotel used to quarantine less serious cases as they wait to test negative. with the outbreak more under control, it s now also admitting people through contact tracing those in touch with victims, further halting the spread. after 20 days here, jacqueline is ready to be discharged. a step closer to this country healing. mark lowen, bbc news, milan. andrea grisdale owns a travel agent in lake como which she can finally reopen. it s for the first time in a while, how do you feel about it? fantastic news, it did come as quite a surprise, i have to say, but obviously very, very nice surprise and any positive surprises in this period is fantastic. tell us what kind of business you are likely to see, now that you re able to reopen? what are we are a chilly expecting is, my business concentrates on promoting and selling italy and holidays in italy. we are expecting oui’ holidays in italy. we are expecting our domestic traffic, we expect to be working on holidays for italians, europeans initially, fourjune, july and august, and wee hoping to see international travellers back in italy from september. and what are the arrangements for beaches, by hotel pools, is a social distancing having to be the norm? absolutely, absolutely. as i say, this news did come as a surprise to us but we are getting rules and regulations, and we have clear indications of what is necessary. as a company, we have taken it upon ourselves to follow who is opening, when they re opening, and myself and what are my collea g u es opening, and myself and what are my colleagues will be going to the hotels, to the restaurant come out on the boats and with the drivers, and we ll be showing on video and instagram and social media channels exactly the experience that our clients get to enjoy here in italy. how much business have you lost in the last few weeks? about 8596 of our total business for the year. wow. and how long is it going to take you to get back up to that kind of level? i think we ll need a couple yea rs level? i think we ll need a couple years at least. but you have a smile on yourface, years at least. but you have a smile on your face, because you re just glad to be back, i suppose? presumably some companies have gone out of business? yeah, absolutely. with smiling, were very positive, we are smiling and a very positive, we are smiling and a very positive, we will remain that way, but it has been very dramatic and extremely tough, it s been an emotional roller coaster. we believe in italy, we have the bestjob in the world selling italy each and every day. it s believing and sticking in there and knowing that there is an end of the tunnel and we will be welcoming people back to enjoy holidays here in italy very soon. where is your accent from? in italy very soon. where is your accent from ? lots in italy very soon. where is your accent from? lots of different countries! i m from the lake district in cumbria. i knew it! i ve beenin district in cumbria. i knew it! i ve been in italy almost 30 years now. nice to talk to you and good luck, thank you very much. good to talk to you. several other european countries that were among the worst hit by the coronavirus are also continuing to ease the lockdown measures. in spain, the government is relaxing restrictions outside of madrid and barcelona, with groups of up to ten people now free to meet. denmark has relaxed significantly but under certain conditions as some students return to school. classes from sixth to tenth grades will next week. it has also allowed shops to reopen. meanwhile, in the greek capital, athens, the acropolis has re opened to the public. 0ur europe reporter, gavin lee, is in brussels with more on the news from spain. 70% of the country, as of today, is getting back to some kind of normality, at least when it comes to shops opening, when it comes to restau ra nts, shops opening, when it comes to restaurants, bars, cafe is reopening, but only serving on terraces, you cannot go inside. madrid and barcelona, the two cities worst hit, still considered not to be able to go into those what they call phase one. there have been some protests in the salamanca protests in madrid, people saying they should also be allowed the chance. the social security minister in spain has said that by the end of the month, 100,000 households will get a basic minimum salary of a62 euros a month, aiming to push that to 1 million households around spain. that gives you a sense of the scale of the help needed. that will roughly be three to 3.5 billion per yearspain roughly be three to 3.5 billion per year spain will be spending trying to support those losing theirjobs, those unemployment figures that we are expecting to rise of deep recession. here in the uk, efforts to get commuters safely back to work by train are being brought in this morning. more security guards are now in place at several railway stations in england, and some seats on board will be blocked off to allow social distancing. passengers are still being advised to use public transport only if it s essential and they have no alternative. here s our transport correspondent, tom burridge. social distancing really isn t a problem a lot of the time, but there is concern as more people commute again. worried, but its needs must, got to go to work. busier than i thought it was going to be. yeah, there was only about two people in each carriage so.it s fine. announcer: good morning. welcome aboard the 8:30 service. new messages. please follow social distancing advice and spread out throughout the train. ..and more staff directing you around. please keep to your left. they will also limit passenger numbers. if they judge that there is already enough people on board a particular train, then they might block the gates off here and other people will have to wait for the next service. and when numbers rise, you might have to queue to get into a station. we have done the calculations and analysis to ensure that we can have a certain amount of people on the concourse at any one time, and, yes, there will be closures to entrances and exits should those numbers increase and grow. 0n intercity services, it s reserved seats only to control numbers. train companies say they re doing all they can, but they re worried about how they ll manage if many more people travel. so the main advice is don t use public transport if you can. tom burridge, bbc news. with two weeks to go until some primary school pupils in england return to the classroom, the government has again insisted plans are in place to ensure the safety of teachers and pupils. ministers want children in reception, year one and year six to go back to school, as part of the next step to ease the lockdown. but unions and some parents fear the move may cause a second spike in coronavirus cases, as john mcmanus reports. when is the right time to send children back to school? and how will the safety of them and theirfamilies be guaranteed? in england, some younger pupils will be back at their desks onjune1st. but no date has yet been set for schools in wales, scotland or northern ireland. ministers say measures including staggered breaks and class sizes of 15 will reduce the chances of pupils transmitting coronavirus. but labour says guarantees must be in place. everyone wants pupils to go back but everyone wants there to be a safe environment as well. that is so important. the government also needs to have its test, track and trace strategy all up and running as soon as it possibly can. the government has acknowledged it can t eradicate all risk, but the evidence shows children with the virus rarely develop serious symptoms, though their transmission rate isn t yet known. we have already indicated the direction of travel, we are aiming for the beginning ofjune, we are aiming for year one and year six. so those parents of children in those age groups should be looking ahead to that potentially happening from the beginning ofjune. other european countries are facing the same dilemma. germany and denmark are slowly reopening classrooms using social distancing, but italian pupils will stay at home until september. meanwhile, the latest daily death toll was 170, the lowest figure since the day after the lockdown began on march 2a. however, numbers are typically lower at weekends. the total number of people who have died in the uk after testing positive for the virus is now 3a,636. the only permanent solution of course is a vaccine. some scientists believe one may not come for at least a year or perhaps never. but the pharmaceutical company astrazeneca has signed an agreement to make 30 million doses available in the uk by september if it can find a vaccine that works. john macmanus, bbc news. there is one study which has caught the eye of the british government particularly about transmission in schools. kristine macartney is director of australia s national centre for immunisation research and surveillance, paediatrician and infectious disease specialist and professor at the university of sydney. she was the lead author of a study of transmission in children. good morning. this study is the only major study on the transmission of covid in primary and secondary schools, tell our audience what he specifically looked at. thank you, yes, it is a preliminary report and we shall have the work ongoing. we looked in the state of new south wales, working with public health collea g u es wales, working with public health colleagues where we have almost 1.8 million children, and 3000 schools. so all of those schools were trapped and we saw that in just 15 schools in march, and april, either a staff member or a student with covid 19 attended the school were infectious. we then went about tracking all of the contacts of which there were almost 900, right up to a month post that case and found only two secondary infections in a student in primary school and a student at a high school.. what is that tell us? does that tell us? high school.. what is that tell us? does that tell us? in our context in australia at that time, tells us the rate of transmission was very low but i do say contact. it s important to realise we had some social distancing occurring, we had some attendance in those schools declining over that time, and i think most importantly, our epidemic peak was relatively low compared to some other parts of the world. at the time the study was going on, we had around 250 cases per day, maximum, in new south wales. right, 0k. maximum, in new south wales. right, ok. i m talking to you from the uk and people here are looking at this study with real interest because there is a debate amongst some around primary schools going back on june the 1st, but at the moment, our new cases level is it about 3500 per day, we still get about that new cases every day, so there is quite a difference. in terms of that study, is that a big study, is something we should be looking at?|j is that a big study, is something we should be looking at? i think for us in australia, it s a big study. new south wales has a third of the australian population. and our policymakers here have used it, i guess, not only to keep schools open during the first wave of our epidemic, but also to encourage people to go back to school here now as we enter our second term. but again, we have to contextualise this information. right now we have ten cases per day, and we have got a lot of measures in place to support the return of children to face to face learning, as i m sure every country complementing contemplating this is debating. was there a debate there about whether children should go back? absolutely, and it s very important thing, everyone been terribly frightened and done very well at staying at home, and now it s about understanding when the para meters it s about understanding when the parameters are right to get back to schools. we have had extensive guidelines introduced around social distancing in schools, around hygiene measures, environmental cleaning, and real significant changes in behaviour. particularly, obviously, for our adult staff that make schools work, to ensure that the teachers are comfortable in the way that they can social distance not only at school but to and from getting to school. do you continue without research, do you continue checking this? we are absolutely continuing because it so important, and we are looking at childcare as well, we still waiting on some tests from some children who have been fantastic sticking out their arms, and we will see where we go. thank you for talking to us, really welcome your insight. you re welcome. brazil s coronavirus death toll has risen to 16,118, with more than 2a0,000 cases. that makes it the fourth worst affected country in terms of confirmed infections. on sunday the mayor of brazil s biggest city, sao paulo, warned that the health system was close to collapse. 0ur south america correspondent katy watson now reports from sao paulo. the death toll is still climbing and the president is still in denial. jair bolsonaro remains intent on putting politics before the pandemic, once again flouting global health guidelines at a protest on sunday, even if he was finally wearing a mask. translation: it is priceless for politicians to have a spontaneous demonstration like this one, coming from the heart, from the soul of the brazilian people who want freedom, democracy and respect above all. amid growing criticism over his handling of the coronavirus crisis, mr bolsonaro is sticking closely to the minority of brazilians who still think he s doing a good job. he and his fan base are convinced brazilians need to get back to work despite the science proving otherwise. translation: it is not the right way to do isolation. this has never happened before in the world, just closing everything down and seeing what happens. not even scenes like this can convince jair bolsonaro to change tact. people are dying and health systems across the country are collapsing, and these next few weeks are only expected to get worse. the state with the highest number of cases is sao paulo. the business capital already has a death toll bigger than that of china, and authorities have warned the health system is struggling. sao paulo residents have been in quarantine with nearly two months now, with businesses, schools and public spaces ordered shut. but as the weeks have gone on, social distancing has slowed. statistics show that fewer than 50% of residents are still respecting the rules. in some parts of sao paulo city, shops are reopening. authorities, they say, are turning a blind eye. the mayor on sunday called on residents to do their bit to improve brazil s chances. translation: it is difficult to believe that some prefer to subject the population to a game of russian roulette. the indifference to death is unseemly. it is a crime of responsibility. traffic jams have returned despite authorities efforts to dissuade people from commuting. many brazilians argue they have to work. millions of people who work in the informal economy and depend on daily wages are struggling. the country is running out of options to tell people to stay at home at the time when it is needed the most. katy watson, bbc news, in sao paolo. cctv footage allegedly showing sir frederick barclay‘s nephew handling a bugging device at london s ritz hotel has been released. the footage is at the centre of a bitter legal row between the families of the billionaire barclay twins whose businesses include the telegraph media group. we can speak to our legal correspondent, clive coleman. how did this footage come out? it has been released by sir frederick barclay, admits to a really bitter legal dispute between the families between the famous barclay twins children. sir frederick is the old est children. sir frederick is the oldest win by ten minutes, he and his daughter are suing three of sir david barclay‘s stands for invasion of privacy, breach of confidence, breach of data protection. as you say, the barclay empire includes the telegraph media group and at the time also included the ritz hotel. the allegation is that it was at the ritz that alistair, one of sir david s sons, planted or was seen handling this listening device and ata high handling this listening device and at a high court hearing on the 6th of may, explosive allegations of commercial espionage on a vast scale we re commercial espionage on a vast scale were made in documents lodged in the court by sir frederick and his daughter, amanda. they allege that this bug captured over 1000 conversations amounting to some 9a hours of recordings, and that a second bug was provided by quest global, a private investigation firm. its chairman is the former met commissioner, lord stevens. the allegations could not be more serious in terms of the espionage involved in this business and financial dispute, and the most serious allegation made by sir frederick in these documents is that the ritz hotel was sold for half of its true value. he said that conversations were captured between him and an organisation that had made a bid for a £1.3 billion for the ritz but in spite of that, his three nephews, who have a controlling interest in the family trust, sold the hotel for around half of the value. the hotel was sold in march to a qatari businessman, and sir frederick had threatened legal action if it was sold for under £1 billion. the holding company for the barclays business interests has said at all times it was seeking best value for shareholders. heather rogers qc, for the three brothers, nephews, told a court hearing that these allegations we re court hearing that these allegations were made in an emotive and eye catching manner and it was a shame that they were being shared in public are not dealt within the family. no dissent has been filed yet, there will be a trial in due course but this is not a happy family. rya nair‘s chief executive, michael 0 leary, has described the proposed 1a day quarantine of incoming passengers to the uk as idiotic and accused the british government of mismanaging its response to the coronavirus outbreak. the government says it s still in talks with france about whether its citizens would be exempt from the restrictions, expected be introduced at the end of the month. mr 0 leary has been speaking to bbc radio four. it s laughable that this government can come up it s laughable that this government can come up with any plans for a quarantine that would be strict and fully enforced when already they are exempting the irish, the french,. they are not going to exempt the french. they are, that s currently the policy. it s idiotic and it is not impermissible. you don t have enough police in the uk to implement a two week lockdown. and what is really worrying is that a two week lockdown has no medical or scientific basis to it anyway. if you really want to do something effective, wear masks. what worries us effective, wear masks. what worries us is that the uk government out there talking about and ineffectual and unmanageable 1a day lockdown, instead of talking about allowing people to travel on the underground and trains and planes but wearing masks. new york state governor andrew cuomo has undergone a covid 19 test live on tv. mr cuomo said he wanted to show how quick and easy the process is. a doctor dressed in full ppe conducted the nasal swab test. the governor said he didn t experience pain or discomfort. he told new yorkers there s ‘no reason why you should not get tested. basketball shoes worn by michaeljordan in his first nba season, have sold at auction for a record $560,000. the signed nike airjordan 0nes were the first designed especially for the star in 1985 and were expected to raise between 100 150,000 dollars. hello, this is bbc news. i m victoria derbyshire. the headlines: ten weeks after it became the first country to impose a nationwide lockdown, italy reopens its shops, restaurants, bars and hairdressers. security guards trained in crowd control are on duty at some major railway stations in england, as some people return to work, following the easing of restrictions. with two weeks to go until some primary school pupils in england return to the classroom, the government says plans are in place to protect teachers and pupils. northern ireland is taking some steps towards easing its lockdown, with garden centres and recycling facilities re opening. the mayor of brazil s largest city, sao paulo, warns its health system could collapse as demand grows for emergency beds to deal with with coronavirus cases. health ministers from around the world are meeting online for the world health organisation s annual world health assembly. with the virus having killed at least 300,000 people across the globe, questions will be asked about how the pandemic spread so quickly. the chinese authorities didn t allow the who to send in their experts to the country until february despite notifying them of the outbreak at the start of january. our global health correspondent, tulip mazumdar, reports. the world health organization is facing immense pressure over its handling of the covid 19 pandemic, with the us president leading the charge against the united nations health agency. the us is the who s biggest single donor, but last month president trump withdrew funding and launched a blistering attack on both the who and china. had the who done its job to get medical experts into china to objectively assess the situation on the ground, and to call out china s lack of transparency, the outbreak could have been contained at its source with very little death. the who did get teams into china to work alongside chinese officials injanuary and february, and says since it was first alerted to the outbreak, china has shared crucial information which has helped other countries prepare. founded in 19a8, the world health organization s goal both then and now is ensuring the highest attainable level of health for all people. it works on a wide range of life saving programmes, from mass vaccination campaigns to sounding the alarm when international health emergencies hit. but it is just an advisory body. it doesn t have the power to enforce or compel countries to share information. now, at this year s world health assembly, there are calls to give the agency more powers, with who inspectors able to go into countries at the start of outbreaks and carry out independent investigations. the big challenge with outbreaks is that no country wants to have one, every country wants to deny it s there, and every country wants to play down deaths. right now countries are required to notify if there is some kind of emerging pathogen within their countries, they are supposed to notify who within 2a hours of this. and so this would be an extension of that, to actually have who sending an international mission to investigate the origins of this. representatives from 19a countries who are meeting virtually this year will also consider calls from the eu, the uk, australia, new zealand and others, for an interest in a review of the global response to the pandemic. another thorny issue at the meeting is likely to be around taiwan, which has been praised for a very successful response to the pandemic but is barred from attending because china and the un doesn t recognise it as an independent state. there will also be renewed calls for equal access to vaccines against covid 19 once they are developed, for all nations, rich and poor. tulip mazumdar, bbc news. northern ireland is taking some steps towards easing its lockdown today, with garden centres and recycling facilities re opening. the health minister at the northern ireland assembly has also announced that all care home staff and residents will be offered coronavirus tests. earlier we spoke to our correspondent chris page from a garden centre in south belfast, which has re opened it s doors to the public today. the major step that has been taken this morning is reopening garden centres like this one on the outskirts of south belfast. people who have been arriving here today have said coming here feels like some semblance of normality. the reality is there is a long way to go as regards easing all the restrictions that have been in place for the best part of two months. here, as you can see, it is all about social distancing. there is a one way system in operation to help people keep that social distance. staff are wearing protective equipment. it is a cautious reopening but nonetheless business owners, particularly owners at garden centres like this, say they are delighted to be back. 0therwise the cycling facilities recycling facilities are reopening again. there have been long queues outside of them in belfast this morning. people waiting to off load the recycling that has built up in recent weeks. some other measures the devolved government has brought in. marriage ceremonies can now go ahead if one partner is terminally ill, and also anglers are able to go back to the river banks in public fishing areas. ministers are meeting this lunchtime to decide what further restrictions will be lifted. for example, on the agenda drive in cinema is there a possibility, reopening charges for private prayer and perhaps allowing groups of up to six people to meet outdoors. clearly thatis six people to meet outdoors. clearly that is something that would mean a lot to people, the chance to see their loved ones, their family members again, after such a long time. but ministers here and in the irish republic, where they are in the first stage of their exit strategy today, are emphasising the watchword is caution. the virus is still there, it is still dangerous and if the restrictions are going to be eased, people are going to have to bear in mind of the social distancing and bear in mind that everybody has got to work together to try to keep everybody safe. chris pagein to try to keep everybody safe. chris page in belfast. nurses, doctors and other key workers in dublin have been turning to canine day care to look after their pets while they spend long days working at the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic. the doors of the canine centre have reopened again, but only for the dogs of frontline workers. we can speak now to naomi tracey, who runs the canine centre in dublin, and zenia martin, a vascular surgeon who sends her dog, ziggy, to the centre. hello both of you. naomi, how is it going? great. the sun is shining and the dogs are happy and well behaved. how many dogs have you got? there about ten, 12 in today. let s see them. turn your camera around so we can see them properly. talk through the names and the breeds, if you can. brody here is a beast on. there are two lurchers. then we have got boxers, golden retrievers, a dash hunt. two more lurchers back there. iris has gone running. ziggy belongs to xenia. that is ziggy in your arms now? yeah. xenia, good morning. good morning, how are you? i m very well, thank you. how did you come across naomi? i was fortunate that another health care work at the hospital had told me about naomi before i got a ziggy. told me about naomi before i got a ziggy, so naomi and her team at the canine centre have been looking after ziggy. i have been very fortunate. it is a wonderful place. if you weren t able to drop ziggy off there, how would that affect you and the work you need to do? yeah, obviously in the middle of march everything sort of turned on its head and normal went out of the window. my own specialty became quite quiet, but obviously other specialties such as infectious diseases and icu had a massive amount of work to do. i have worked with them for the past eight weeks. without naomi i couldn t have done that. as a health care worker not only have you got the risk of contracting the illness, but the biggest worry is transmitting the owners to others. so naomi overnight changed at the entrance to the canine centre so that i can now safely deliver ziggy there knowing that i am not going to transmit coronavirus to anyone else. happily i ve stayed very well, but you can have coronavirus and be asymptomatic, so that was a big worry for me all along. naomi, did you set more set up this place when you were 21? yes, ten years ago now. so go on, in normaltimes, what was the motivation? what would you be doing with the dogs? 0h, along with doggy daycare we also offer grooming and hydro care for rehabilitation for dogs. they might have been paralysed or had cruciate surgery. it is definitely a labour of love. and when the pandemic came along, you just said, look, of love. and when the pandemic came along, youjust said, look, if of love. and when the pandemic came along, you just said, look, if key workers need help with dogs, we can help? absolutely. being in business for ten years your customers are kind of your friends at this stage. they are most definitely your friends. we didn t want to let anybody down. 0bviously friends. we didn t want to let anybody down. obviously i had to let my staff stay at home, so it was just me and the dogs hanging out for a good few weeks. since we have got busier we have been able to bring back a few more. sorry, they are being naughty! bring back a few more tea m being naughty! bring back a few more team members. yeah, it s been great. sorry, one second. he needs his ball. xenia, do you find having a dog around can sometimes relieve a little bit of stress? yeah, i think during this time we have all craved a little bit of normality. and i think, you know, with dogs, they have no idea about the coronavirus, they still want to go for a walk, they still want to go for a walk, they still want to go for a walk, they still want to play, and it ziggy. they still want to play, and it ziggy, obviously i am biased, but she is a gorgeous dog, a lovely temperament. but she is a little scamp and she would eat anything. so naomi will tell you if there are 15 different dog toys there, you will be sure to find ziggy chewing on the patio table. it has been fantastic for me to know that at home i find it difficult enough to keep eyes on her, you need eyes in the back of your head, but it has been reassuring for me to know that she can continue to go there to a safe environment and to play, and it s been, from a personal point of view, it has been really nice to have a little bit of normality, to be able to drop her in the same area and have a normal type of conversation at the end of the day about what they ve been up to, playing in the paddling pools and eating frozen yoghurt. i have been living my life through ziggy for the past couple of weeks and it s been great. we were just showing the cutest of a ziggy to our audience. xenia, thank you so much for coming on. and naomi, thank you. good luck. carry on the excellent work. thank you both. excellent work. goodbye. showing cute pictures of dogs on the television, we are just like youtube! all around the world, health workers have found themselves on the first line of defence against the coronavirus pandemic. in most places they have been praised as heroes, but in mexico, dozens of nurses, doctors and hospital staff have been attacked by people who accuse them of spreading the virus. marcos gonzalez reports. last month this doctor, an ear, nose and throat specialist, was walking her dogs. someone came from behind and threw liquid over her. it was bleach. her eyes and skin were left swollen. she didn t know why she was targeted. at least a7 health workers have been attacked in mexico since the start of the pandemic. many here fear they could spread the virus outside hospitals. this woman is an emergency nurse who treated coronavirus patients. but on her way back home from hospital she was stopped by residents her village. she was intimidated and told to leave. in the end, she took her belongings and left the village. these are just two examples of the dozens of attacks registered here in mexico so far. that s why the government decided to send the national guard to hospitals like this one, to protect nurses and doctors working against coronavirus. the mexican president has urged people to stop stigmatising health workers. authorities have now had to provide special buses for health workers in some places, as well as hotel rooms. but attacks are still happening. this man is not a doctor or a nurse. he is a hospital cleaner, but his attackers repeatedly called him dirty. the police suspect his assault is related to his uniform. despite the attack, this doctor is now back at work. she has a message for people who think health care workers are the enemy. as mexico faces the peak of coronavirus cases, ensuring the safety of those at the front line will be even more important. marcos gonzales, bbc news, mexico. the headlines on bbc news. ten weeks after it became the first country to impose a nationwide lockdown, italy reopens its shops, restaurants, bars and hairdressers. security guards trained in crowd control are on duty at some major railway stations in england, as some people return to work, following the easing of restrictions. with two weeks to go until some primary school children in england return to class, the government says plans are in place to protect teachers and pupils. here in the uk, efforts to get commuters safely back to work by train are being brought in in england this morning. more security guards are now in place at several railway stations, and some seats on board will be blocked off to allow social distancing. passengers are still being advised to use public transport only if it s essential and they have no alternative. earlier this morning, our transport correspondent, tom burridge was at london s euston station. it s been very quiet throughout the morning and that is good news, exactly what rail managers want, it s what they are hoping will happen, at least for the coming days, if not weeks. the story this morning is the preparations being put in place at stations like this. you might be able to make out the hand sanitiser in the centre of the concourse, and there are probably more passengers than staff at this moment. early this morning staff outnumbered passengers, we have got security guards trained in crowd control, officers from british transport police as well. if passenger numbers do rise, they know they have to be ready and they want to be able to manage the flow of passengers as best they can. we will move around a little bit now, keep social distance of course. it s also worth mentioning that people should cover their face on a train, on a tube, on a bus, when they travel. that is the official advice. in a station, you should have something, if it s not so busy, you don t necessarily have to use it but you should have itjust in case. that s the kind of advice that people like joe hendry from network rail, the station manager here at london euston, are ramming home at the moment, so how difficult is it managing social distancing at a train station like this? let s be honest, it s not a particularly well designed station, it is very old. it is 52 years old, it s not really designed for social distancing measures. it s very strange to not have our customers here, to tell people to stay away, normally we encourage people to come. the advice is very simple, wear a face mask, we recommend that, check before you travel and make sure you don t travel if you really don t need to. it must be very strange for you being a manager of the station, and being happy that there are not many people here. quite a strange concept. talk us through some of the measures you have in place now. the planning has been done in getting these measures in place? we have been working two weeks solidly making the station ready for customers, notjust this station but across the country, adding signage and one way systems, things like the sanitisation stations. we have refurbished our toilets to make them more hygienic in easton. at some point you will see some more passengers coming back. the forecast by train companies is that that will not happen for several weeks, they hope. when it does happen, as the situation changes again, will you have to bring in more measures? we are prepared for all measures, we have looked at three options, like it is now, and when it gets really busy. we will be introducing one way systems and controlling the number of people who travel. good luck, thank you having us this morning. good work. it is very different too this morning, notjust the number of passengers but the things like for example, dotted around the station, you cannot see any, there are big metal gates folded away. they have them ready because they are prepared to close entrances and exits to train stations if they need to. they are monitoring the number of people inside the station in real time and they will potentially block the walkways down towards the platforms if they think there are too many people heading towards a particular service. your guest recommended the wearing of face coverings. the westminster government says that is voluntary. it is definitely up to people, ultimately, to make that decision themselves, victoria. rail bosses have very much been saying this weekend to me, we are not going to police this, we don t want our staff to police this, we will not put them in that position. they have been saying that to the government. it is down to the goodwill of people. not only to bring something to cover their face when they get on a train, and if the station gets crowded, but also the goodwill of people not to travel unless their journey is really essential and only to use public transport if there is no other option at all. we are in a weird place where you have got ministers telling people to use their cars rather than public transport, and that is not a message we normally hear. tom burridge reporting. it should have been the first day of chelsea flower show today. for many gardeners, it s one of the highlights of the year. but of course, because of coronavirus, the event has been cancelled for the first time since the second world war. instead, the show has gone online, as daniela relph reports. the chelsea flower show, a gardening and social highlight for many. flowers and plants timed to grow to perfection. but this year, coronavirus means there is no chelsea. event florist, simon lycett, would normally be showing at chelsea. his world is usually filled with glamorous parties and weddings. instead, he is now confined to his small south london garden, making the most of what it has to offer. he will be a contributor to the online version of the chelsea flower show. oh, the cancellation of chelsea flower show is the saddest, saddest thing, because it was going to an nrhs flower show when i was seven that inspired me to become a florist. and now aged 50 something, i still adore working with flowers. it is all i have ever wanted to do and it is such an inspiring place. and the effort that would have gone into prepping the showgardens and, 0k, the plans can go back into the plan chest until next year, but all those plants that had been being grown that is beyond tragic. salve isjust coming out, the euphorbia, the allium. gardening in lockdown has been a safe haven for so many, a support both mentally and physically. normally i m just leaving for chelsea now so normally the weeds are about to engulf the garden. the organisers of chelsea knew cancelling would be devastating for a horticultural industry already hit hard. we should all he really proud of british growers. they do an amazing job for all of us who are gardeners, who buy cut flowers. and that timing of the lockdown could not have been worse for them. indeed, even though garden centres have just reopened, they have already lost an estimated £500 million worth of stock, that just hasn t survived. but in the gloom, the virtual chelsea flower show is also an opportunity. garden designer, tom massey, has moved his display to his front garden. he will be doing his own show and tell from home, during virtual chelsea. hi, tom, can i drag you from your garden for a quick chat? yeah, of course. have you had to think about how the garden looks virtually? yeah, i did have you 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 the story of this kind of dull space and transforming it into a chelsea style planting, you know, it took a bit of thinking about to get that right. it won t be the same but maybe virtual chelsea, with its private garden tours, its school gardening clubs, and its surprise guests, has something to fresh to offer. the bustle, the smell, the feel won t be there. but you don t need a ticket this year virtual chelsea will be a flower show for everyone. daniella relph, bbc news. what will happen in the entertainment industry after lockdown? it will be a challenge. but those in the world of cinema are already getting inventive about how films, their stars and their audiences can continue to flourish. 0livia crellin reports. hollywood, closed until further notice, courtesy of covid 19. but the industry is already repairing to make a comeback. and when the red carpet is next ruled out for the stars it will look very different. no more excited fans jostling for an autograph, no more reporters or photographers rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous. instead the film premieres of the future are likely to look a bit like this. plexiglas panels for press pods, video call style interviews and social distancing for the stars will become the new normal. a los angeles company is reinventing the red carpet experience to make sure that hollywood can t return as soon as possible. what you will see is a drop off where there will be a temperature check for all guests coming onto the carpet. we ve created bypass lanes to where ear the talent and their publicist, or their guests, will be the only ones walking the carpet. you are not going to have the entourage, you re not going to have the hundreds of people walking in. it s notjust in hollywood that film makers are finding innovative ways to keep the engines of the creative fired up. a travelling film festival has been launched in bordeaux, france, allowing the public to watch films at a safe social distance from their cars. translation: the idea was to recreate a desire for cinema and to show that watching a film together is not the same as watching alone at home. but it was especially during the lockdown, when there were no cultural offerings, to offer some culture that can be enjoyed by many and to make people feel good. the concept is already a hit with audiences. translation: it is a great opportunity to go out again, also in the open air. it is the first time i have done this in bordeaux. i thought, why not take out my classic car to really get into the vibe? we ve got a beer and popcorn in the back too. translation: the first time outside, really. the first event, the first leisure activity and the first return to a pretty normal life. so it s very cool. with hours of content consumed during lockdown through streaming services like netflix, the film industry is hoping that the appetite for old fashioned cinema going won t have disappeared, even if the way films are served in the future looks set to change. 0livia crellin, bbc news. and you ve been watching bbc news. now it s time for a look at the weather with matt taylor. hello there. some of the warmest weather of the year so far on the way this week. we will see temperatures on wednesday peak somewhere around 27, 28 degrees, 82 fahrenheit in eastern england, up to 22 or 23 in parts of northern scotland. warmth, though, doesn t mean sunshine and dry weather all the way. some parts of the south won t be seeing much rain but quite a bit at times in the north, and later on we could see some more wet weather come with a spell of some cool and windy conditions. that will be dictated by what s been happening across the western atlantic, tropical storm arthur there swelling away, that s going to mix up the atmosphere and potentially bring us that windy weather to end the week. for the time being, though, lots of cloud across the country so far today, that s going to stay in fact across parts of central and southern scotland, northern ireland, northern england and north wales, through the rest of this afternoon. some rain or drizzle at times. brightening up to the north, rain in scotland, in shetland. sunshine across some southern counties of england. but with winds coming in from the south or south west, even with the cloud and rain, temperatures actually close to if not a little bit above where they should be for the time of year. the warmest of all, the south east corner, 23 or 2a degrees. now this evening and overnight, still cloud and rain in the same sort of spots, parts of scotland, northern ireland, northern england and north wales. the odd heavy a at times. clearer conditions to the north of scotland and across southern counties of england and south wales. here we will see the lowest of the temperatures, down to around seven or 8 degrees in a few spots but certainly clear of frost. none of them to come this week. most starting tomorrow with temperatures in double digits. but like today, a fairly cloudy start, some breaks in the cloud to the south of england, north of scotland with some sunshine. cloud in the morning across scotland, northern ireland, northern england, bringing some topics of rain and drizzle. potentially a little bit in the way of dry and brighter weather through the afternoon and that should allow temperatures to creep up a little bit more. 20 degrees potentially on some eastern coasts, 25 in south east england. then that surge of warm air comes as high pressure builds for wednesday, pushing eastwards, opening the door to south easterly winds, which will bring clearer conditions. the morning cloud will break up more readily, more sunshine for scotland and northern ireland and even here, we will see temperatures get up to 20 degrees more widely. highest of all, anywhere from north london through towards parts of lincolnshire and south yorkshire, 27 or 28. chance of a thunderstorm on thursday but then that change i mentioned towards the end of the week, we have to watch what happens to this low for the potential of some windy weather.
this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. loss of smell or taste are added to the uk s list of coronavirus symptoms that people should look out for and act upon. for the first time since italy locked down ten weeks ago, people are able to visit shops, some restaurants and hairdressers. we ve a special report from milan. more than 15,000 people killed in this region, almost half of all the italian deaths. and economic pain is intense, one in three businesses here don t plan to reopen today. so, milan is coming back to life, but the wounds run deep. the mayor of brazil s largest city, sao paulo, warns its health system could collapse as demand grows for emergency beds to deal with with coronavirus cases. new measures on trains and at stations as people return to work in england. security guards with crowd management training are on hand. northern ireland is taking some steps towards easing its lockdown with garden centres and recycling facilities re opening. and today should have been the first day of the chelsea flower show. the cancelled event has instead gone online, with tours, demonstrations and replicas of exhibits. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we re covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. first, loss of smell or taste have now been added to the uk s list of coronavirus symptoms that people should be aware of and act upon. themselves away in self isolation. now, if you or someone you live with has any of these symptoms, a new, continuous cough, high temperature, or loss of smell or taste, the advice is stay at home to stop the risk of giving coronavirus to others. elsewhere, ten weeks after imposing one of the world s strictest national lockdowns, italy is starting to reopen many businesses, including shops, restaurants and hairdressers. church services are also restarting. here in the uk, new measures have been deployed on trains and at stations, in case more people use public transport to return to work this week. security guards with crowd management training are on hand. also this morning, with two weeks to go until some primary school pupils in england return to the classroom, the government says plans are in place to ensure the safety of teachers and pupils. but unions and some parents say they re concerned about the spread of coronavirus. northern ireland is taking steps towards lifting its restrictions, garden centres and recycling facilities are reopening and the health minister at stormont has also announced that all care home staff and residents will be offered coronavirus tests. in brazil, the mayor of the country s largest city, sao paulo, says its health system is near collapse as demand grows for emergency beds to deal with coronavirus cases. with more on that updated list of symptoms from the uk government, our health correspondent michelle roberts, is here. just tell us quickly what the new list of symptoms is. it has been increased? now it is notjust a fever or a new continuous cough that people should be looking for. it is also a loss or change in your sense of smell or taste that have been added to the list for the whole of the uk. anybody who feels they have any of those symptoms should be staying at home and self isolating for seven days to prevent possible spread to more people. in the meantime, quite something has elapsed with people having no symptoms and officially being told there was no need to self isolate with them, the loss of sense of smell and taste has been discussed for some time. why has it taken so long for the official guidance to change? lots of experts had been signing that this should be a symptom that people are looking out for, your nose and throat experts, other researchers using an app to gather research and symptom state is not just fever, it s gather research and symptom state is notjust fever, it s notjust cough that we need to look for. the difficulty is all of these symptoms can be quite vague and they can apply to lots of different things. it s not necessarily always coronavirus. which is a balancing act. you have got to try and pick the ones that have you the best information and help people do the right thing. we know lots of people wa nt to right thing. we know lots of people want to do the right thing during lockdown or as we ease by self isolating. so this virus doesn t keep moving around in the community. but you need the best information to be able to do that so now they are saying, the government advisory bodies looked at the evidence and say there is enough now to add the loss of smell and taste to the list. going forward obviously the changes finally there. how does this compare with other countries? 0bviously other countries had this covid 19 outbreak before it came here, a list of official symptoms different in different countries? they are, lots of countries recommend the fever and a cough, the world health 0rganization actually has several tiers of symptoms, if you have a fever or a cough, those of the main ones. it lists quite a few more. we hear from experts and ones. it lists quite a few more. we hearfrom experts and may ones. it lists quite a few more. we hear from experts and may be other things, stomach upset may be important to look out for too but in the uk it has not gone that far. thank you very much and later i will be speaking to the man behind the tea m be speaking to the man behind the team behind the app. italians can once again visit bars, hairdressers a nd restau ra nts as the country eases its coronavirus restrictions a bit more from today. the eurozone s third largest economy is trying to work its way back, ten weeks after imposing a strict national lockdown. almost 32,000 people have died in italy but the daily death toll and rise in cases is now the lowest since restrictions were imposed. mark lowen reports from milan on how businesses have been preparing to open up. milan is dressing up for its reopening. its chic shops have been closed for ten weeks in the world s first national lockdown. with the final touches come strict hygiene controls. a screen at the till, a reminder of the new rules. customers here will be by appointment to limit numbers. the sparkle has been dulled by the virus, but they are raring to go. it has been hard, actually, very hard, because nothing was sure, so we kept on listening to the news, and we didn t know what to expect, when we would open again, and we really hoped and we were really looking forward to coming back to our store. was there ever a moment where you thought, are we ever going to be able to come back to work? no, never. italy s capital of fashion, industry and finance was at the centre of the outbreak, the first cases in february nearby. it was overwhelmed. with sites closed, tourists cancelling and businesses suffering, there is talk of. we were in this city as the corona storm hit. ten weeks on, we are here again. milan is still struggling to comprehend what has happened in that time. more than 15,000 people killed in this region, almost half of all the italian deaths, and the economic pain is intense. one in three businesses here don t plan to reopen today. so, milan is coming back to life, but the wounds run deep. and now, we are getting better, we feel better, we can take walks out from home. he was born two months ago, so this is one of his first walks, so we are very happy. this, too, is helping italy s recovery. a hotel used to quarantine less serious cases as they wait to test negative. with the outbreak more under control, its now also admitting people through contact tracing those in touch with victims, further halting the spread. after 20 days here, jacqueline is ready to be discharged. a step closer to this country healing. mark lowen, bbc news, milan. silvio vettorello is the general manager of grand hotel tremezzo in lombardy, one of the regions hardest hit by the outbreak. as the region begins to reopen, silvio has started preparing the business to welcome guests again with new bookings starting to come in. hejoins me now. welcome. good afternoon. are many booking starting to come in? actually, yes. we are really happy. with this new phase, phase three, everything is really a little bit back to normality and finally new bookings, so we are really, really happy and we can t wait to reopen our doors. how different and experience will be coming to the hotel now compared previously?m course it is a little bit different and we have taken a little bit more ca re and we have taken a little bit more care in having more space between each other, the social distancing. but it was actually, there will not bea but it was actually, there will not be a big difference because thanks to the huge spaces, we re going to have a lot of distance between ta bles have a lot of distance between tables or people and around the property. it will be different of course, because something really extraordinary, something new that we never tried before, but we really think that hospitality will be the same as before in the coming weeks. maybe a little bit better. how hard is your business been hit by the outbreak? actually, we have had hard ha rd outbreak? actually, we have had hard hard moments because we started receiving huge amounts of cancellations and then also it was a little bit different. seeing the hotel close and having all of our employees and colleagues working from home was really difficult. something difficult to comprehend the first time. but now that everything is going really better, the sun is over again, we can t wait to be back and we start to be back today. i have maintenance and a gardener fixing today. i have maintenance and a gardenerfixing the today. i have maintenance and a gardener fixing the new beach by the la ke gardener fixing the new beach by the lake and the new rooms and everything. so we re really back to normality. as you say, it s so important to be positive and look forward but in terms of the hit that your business has taken, and i hear what you re saying about the hit on you all in terms of your worries, but financially, did you worry that the business might not be viable? how much did it hurt you financially? we don t really think. of course, we lose a lot because comparing the regular in the second week of march we hoped to open or 26 ofjune, and so there will be losing 75 days of business and of course it is a lot. but we are very, very positive and we know that as soon as we start, which is now, everything will restart a book. because we are enemies in area and because we are actually far enough from milan so that people who were a little bit scared for that, butjust an hourand a little bit scared for that, butjust an hour and a half from, little bit scared for that, butjust an hourand a half from, so little bit scared for that, butjust an hour and a half from, so you are really by the lake in front of where the situation was always very, very calm. so yes we lose the 75 days of the opening, but i am pretty sure that the season, july, august, september, october and even the middle of november, there will be, i will say, like before. it s great to talk to you, wishing you all the very best. thank you. thank you so much, goodbye. several other european countries that were among the worst hit by the coronavirus are also continuing to ease the lockdown measures. in spain, the government is relaxing restrictions outside of madrid and barcelona, with groups of up to 10 people now free to meet, while bars and restaurants can open outdoor seating at half capacity. denmark has relaxed significantly but under certain conditions as some students return to school. classes from 6th to 10th grades will return next week. it has also allowed shops to reopen. meanwhile, in the greek capital, athens, the acropolis has re opened to the public. 0ur europe reporter, gavin lee, is in brussels but has more on the news from spain. 70% of the country, as of today, is getting back to some kind of normality, at least when it comes to shops opening, when it comes to restaurants, bars, cafe is reopening, but only serving on terraces, you cannot go inside. madrid and barcelona, the big two cities worst hit, still considered not to be able to go into those, what they call phase one. there have been some protests in the salamanca area in madrid, people saying they should also be allowed the chance. the social security minister in spain has said that by the end of the month, 100,000 households will get a basic minimum salary of a62 euros a month, aiming to push that to 1 million households around spain. that gives you a sense of the scale of the help needed. that will roughly be three to 3.5 billion per year spain will be spending trying to support those losing theirjobs, those unemployment figures that we are expecting to rise of deep recession. here in the uk, efforts to get commuters safely back to work by train are being brought in this morning. more security guards are now in place at several railway stations in england and some seats on board will be blocked off to allow social distancing. passengers are still being advised to use public transport only if it s essential and they have no alternative. here s our transport correspondent, tom burridge. social distancing really isn t a problem a lot of the time, but there is concern as more people commute again. worried, but its needs must. got to go to work. busier than i thought it was going to be. yeah, there was only about two people in each carriage so.it s fine. announcer: good morning. welcome aboard the 8:30 service. new messages. please follow social distancing advice and spread out throughout the train. and more staff directing you around. please keep to your left. they will also limit passenger numbers. if they judge that there is already enough people on board a particular train, then they might block the gates off here and other people will have to wait for the next service. and when numbers rise, you might have to queue to get into a station. we have done the calculations and analysis to ensure that we can have a certain amount of people on the concourse at any one time, and, yes, there will be closures to entrances and exits should those numbers increase and grow. 0n intercity services, it s reserved seats only to control numbers. train companies say they re doing all they can, but they re worried about how they ll manage if many more people travel. so the main advice is don t use public transport if you can. tom burridge, bbc news. the chairman of network rail, sir peter hendy, says he is confident that people can travel safely on the railways. passengers are sensible. this is a national crisis of unprecedented proportions. and we are relying on people being sensible, we re doing our best too. we want people to stay apart if they humanly can and if they cannot, then a face covering is quite a sensible thing to do for the brief moments when you might be getting on or off a train or moving through a station. but what we have done, as tom s report shows, is put the most enormous amount of effort into organising stations so that the likelihood of being two metres, less than two metres is much less than it was. let s speak to mick whelan is general secretary of aslef, the train drivers union, he chairs labour unions, which represents all the trade unions affiliated to the opposition labour party, and is a member of labour s nec. thank you forjoining us. are you reassured by the measures that have been put in place? we are working in partnership with the industry to a vast degree and we have been running 52 trains up to this point in time. the real problem is that we don t seem to understand that even if we get back to anywhere near a full timetable, we will only be able to have 15 20% of the travelling public capacity to travel. we worry about the four nations not coming out of this at the same pace. we would like all transport to be ramped up at the same point so that we don t get ten points and we do have concerns that leaving it to good old common sense might not be. you say that people don t seem to understand about the reduced capacity, but from what we have been hearing and seeing so far, that message is getting through pretty loud and clear. people are holding back and there does not seem to have been a rush on the transport this morning. maybe not this morning. we saw with the mixed messaging last week when the prime minister and ince on sunday virtually business as usual on monday then it was wednesday. and massive return in certain major conurbations. the real problem is on trains you can come on those inter urban and connected trains, not all stations on the intercity network at the same facilities. we wa nt network at the same facilities. we want it to work. i will make it quite clear. we want people to get to work, we want the economy to function but we want to be safe as we do so. and you are still saying you don t feel safe? 0r we do so. and you are still saying you don t feel safe? or your workers don t feel safe? we are getting a lot of anecdotal and other reports that people do not feel safe. we will then work to alleviate those pinpoints and those concerns. wind sorry to interrupt, but can you give some specific examples of what they don t feel safe about? most of what we are getting is that the real problem is that most employers have not varied staff finish times so we are getting a large amount of, in certain areas construction sites have opened, all sorts of areas have opened but people have not changed travel patterns. averages across the sectors, if you reduce it across the whole of the industry that isn t a lwa ys whole of the industry that isn t always a true reflective figure for everything. thank you very much. thank you. let s pick up on some of the issues we ve been discussing. as we ve been hearing, loss of smell or taste have now been added to the uk s list of coronavirus symptoms that people should be aware of and act upon. professor benjamin cowling is head of epidemiology at the university of hong kong and co director of the world health 0rganization collaborating centre for infectious disease epidemiology and control at the university s school of public health. thank you very much forjoining us. lack of sense of smell and taste have been added anecdotally, there has been a lot of it about. why has it taken so long for that to be added to the official list of symptoms? i m not sure. for months now we have known it is a potential symptom of coronavirus. it s an unusual symptom for respiratory infection but it s been reported in china, italy, iran, early on in the outbreak so i don t know why took so long to be added to the list in the uk. what impact might have had that that was not an official symptom? because of course if you do not know it is linked to covid 19 it s not obvious initially that it might be in therefore it might be that people would potentially carrying on their normal business spreading the virus was not we recommend people with symptoms to stay at home or go to hospital if they need to, then having a compressive list of symptoms would really be important and it s good that has an added to the list so that more sick people with coronavirus infection will stay at home with less community transmission. a comprehensive list. what would you say the comprehensive list of symptoms should be? as you mention, different countries have handled it in different ways and when it is the same virus everywhere, you would think it would be helpful if everybody was singing from the same hymn sheet? we still don t have a very concrete list of which symptoms should be on this list and we should not be, but obviously respiratory symptoms, systemic symptoms like fever and headache, then a nose near, the loss of sense of taste, i think we re really looking for guidance the who on this list to be safe, which symptoms we should consider in the broader sense. why do you think it is taking so long to coal it that? i don t know. there we re coal it that? i don t know. there were reports going all the way back to january that loss of sense of taste or smell was a symptom reported by many covid 19 patients in different parts of the world so i don t know why it has taken until now for that to be added to the list. i think there was an early focus on severe cases in the uk that they did to be hospitalised and community cases were not given so much attention and now that has changed. in terms of where we are in the virus, the number of cases in the virus, the number of cases in the uk, peaked some weeks ago. the number of deaths has declined dramatically and it s pretty much the same picture in most countries around the world. what would your assessment be of where we are now on what the potential risks are going forward. in the uk it looks like you have peaked but you are not coming down as fast as may be some other countries. you still having thousands of new infections every day, 3000 confirmed cases a day. that s a concern because it means that lockdown was not effective in the uk as it might have been elsewhere. i m a little bit worried about how long it will take to get the numbers of cases down to a low level where you could then use test and trace and quarantine another thing is to really stay on top of the numbers. in terms of test and trace, there is increasingly optimism that widespread vaccination may be sooner than later. also, the testing for antibodies, how important is it that we get there and until we important is it that we get there and untilwe are important is it that we get there and until we are there, how important for people, locked in measures to continue? the first thing is we important but we have to establish what the antibodies actually mean. do they mean people are actually mean. do they mean people a re protected actually mean. do they mean people are protected and is it long lasting protection or is it relatively short? for the vaccine, protection or is it relatively short? forthe vaccine, i protection or is it relatively short? for the vaccine, i think we have got to be careful not to be too optimistic. we may not have a vaccine even by the end of this year, it may be into 2021 with the time we get an effective vaccine thatis time we get an effective vaccine that is available for widespread use so for now we need to rely on public health measures like test, trace and isolate. 0n the on the antibodies, what are the indications on what the virus is doing and whether it is mutating and changing? it s still very early in this pandemic so we have not got a lot of data to go on. the earliest known cases have only recovered for maybe three or four months so we can t get that long term picture of how antibodies stay in the blood and how antibodies stay in the blood and how they might offer protection in the longer term but it looks that patients with more severe illness get a stronger antibody response and those with milder disease don t get such a good antibody response. that s bit concerning but there are other markers of immunity that we may also look at so it s still early daysin may also look at so it s still early days in terms of interpreting antibody results. they conditionally tell us who has been infected or not but i don t know whether they can tell us longer term dynamics of population immunity. if you have been previously infected, could you potentially still pass on the virus was not if you are recovering now, most likely you are no longer contagious if you have passed most of the symptoms under getting better. at that point most likely you would not be contagious. the people who have recovered completely can be infected again we don t know. it s a lower chance we presume but it s one of the questions we have to a nswer it s one of the questions we have to answer now. thank you very much. with two weeks to go until some primary school pupils in england return to the classroom, the government has again insisted plans are in place to ensure the safety of teachers and pupils. ministers want children in reception, year1 and year 6 to go back to school, as part of the next step to ease the lockdown. but unions and some parents fear the move may cause a second spike in coronavirus cases, as john mcmanus reports. when is the right time to send children back to school? and how will the safety of them and theirfamilies be guaranteed? in england, some younger pupils will be back at their desks onjune1st. but no date has yet been set for schools in wales, scotland or northern ireland. ministers say measures including staggered breaks and class sizes of 15 will reduce the chances of pupils transmitting coronavirus. but labour says guarantees need to be in place. everyone wants pupils to be back but we want a safe environment as well. that is so important. the government needs to have its test, track and trace strategy all up and running as soon as it can. the government has acknowledged it can t eradicate all risk, but the evidence shows children with the virus rarely develop serious symptoms, though their transmission rate isn t yet known. we have already indicated the direction of travel, we are aiming for the beginning ofjune, we are aiming for year one and year six. those parents of children in those age groups should be looking ahead to that potentially happening from the beginning ofjune. other european countries are facing the same dilemma. germany and denmark are slowly reopening classrooms using social distancing, but italian pupils will stay at home until september. meanwhile, the latest daily death toll was 170, the lowest figure since the day after the lockdown began on march 2a. however, numbers are typically lower at weekends. the total number of people who have died in the uk, after testing positive for the virus is now 3a,636. the only permanent solution of course is a vaccine. some scientists believe one may not come for at least a year or perhaps never. but the pharmaceutical company astrazeneca has signed an agreement to make 30 million doses available in the uk by september if it can find a vaccine that works. john macmanus, bbc news. the uk government s post brexit immigration system, which will bar those regarded by ministers as low skilled from working in the uk, will be debated by mps today. occupations which will be excluded include some which have been on the front line during the coronavirus outbreak, such as care workers. the opposition labour party has urged the government to think again about the system, describing it as a threat to the national interest. 0ur assistant political editor norman smith is at westminster. 0ne one of the early examples of the opposition taking a strong stand against the government on this new world post covid 19. tell is more. we locate homes have been at the centre of this crisis, add a centre of the government upon my criticism of the government upon my criticism of the government upon my criticism of the handling of this crisis, with critics claiming they have not received the priority or the attention they needed. now that argument is rightly to be reinforced in the commons because of the position of migrant care workers, those from abroad who have been working in the care system during this whole epidemic. under the immigration bill, which will have its main debate in the commons today, care workers in the future will not be able to come to the uk from abroad because they are no longer regarded as skilled workers, and also they do not meet better salary threshold. labour is saying this is rank hypocrisy for ministers to applaud care workers for their work during this crisis and also saying they are not welcome here and we do not want new migrant care workers coming to the uk, so they qualify rethink of that entire proposal in the immigration bill, added to which care bosses are saying they are heavily dependent on foreign care workers, there have been estimates of 20% of care workers coming from outside of the uk. they are warning that if these rule changes go through, it will make it even harder to try and attract sufficient staff into care homes. i suppose the basic point is that once again it seems care homes are that once again it seems care homes a re really that once again it seems care homes are really at the sharp end of the criticism of the government s handling of this virus. more now on our top story. loss of smell or taste has been added to the uk s list of coronavirus symptoms that people should look out for and act upon. ear, nose and throat doctors had been warning for weeks that more symptoms should be included. until now, only a fever and cough were triggers for people to self isolate in case they had and could spread the infection. joining me now is dr tim spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at at king s college london. he was part of the team that developed an app to track symptoms. thank you forjoining is. what do you think? i presume you welcome it, but it has been some time coming. yes, it is obviously good to finally get it out there, but we did tell the government about this six weeks ago, showed them the first outcome of the paper that came out of the research from the app on the first 1.5 million people. clearly showing that it was by far and away the best predictor of having a positive swab test and being infectious. it has taken a bit too long and way behind other countries in recognising these other countries in recognising these other symptoms, because we are now asking in ourapp, other symptoms, because we are now asking in our app, the covid 19 symptom study app, 3.2 million people are now using it. 1a symptoms at the moment, all of which are related in some way to this rather complex disease, and so we do have a more flexible idea of what makes someone infectious in order to give them the proper advice. to pick up from what you were saying, going back to what you are saying to the smell and taste being far away the best predictor of a positive test for covid 19, if someone has got those symptoms, what would you say the likelihood is of them having covid 19? the likelihood is of them having covid-19? it is about 8096. likely, which is nearly as good as having a micro do to stop the nose. it is very good and it is actually better bya very good and it is actually better by a long way than having a fever or cough. having a swab test up the nose. rather than having temperature gauges, people going into airports or hotels or whatever, they should maybe have some smelling salts, that is about something people need to think about in the future. the important thing is this isn tjust a simple disease of two symptoms that happenjust for seven simple disease of two symptoms that happen just for seven days, as we are finding all the people using our app and reporting it, you can have any of these 1a, maybe more symptoms that occur in different people at different ages, different in children, different in adults, different in the frail, it can present in many different ways and we all have to more about this disease in order to know who to isolate from and which symptoms to ta ke isolate from and which symptoms to take notice of over a period of many weeks. it is notjust seven days and it is done. we all need to learn much more, that is why we have been collecting this invaluable data with the help of our the citizen scientists logging every day. would you just run through for us, i know it is quite a long list, as briefly as you can, the list of 1a? it is quite a long list, as briefly as you can, the list of ia?” probably won t go get there. the most important ones are, we are seeing they occur in different times, so often the condition starts with headache, sore throat, a severe muscle pain, then you start to get fever in some people, but again early on about 30% of people, then you might get some coughs, fatigue, which can be very severe, and then you get chest tiredness in many people, shortness of breath. chest tightness. some people get stomach problems. in the elderly, things like, not delusions and slight confusion states happen, some people get low temperatures and changes in temperature. this can come and go, we see skin rashes increasingly on the fingers and toes. you can get swollen eyelids. the list is actually going on and getting larger. as we are collecting this mass of data. which is very different in the population to just the data the government has been relying on, which is mainly from hospitals and people in intensive ca re hospitals and people in intensive care units. they are the only people who have been tested, that is why we are in this position. we have to be more vigilant and all become our own medical teams to work out how you tell the difference between a headache that may go on to become covid 19 or a headache that is just a headache. that is why doing this any more systematic way, we are able to build these algorithms and predict with increasing accuracy the likelihood of someone being swab positive. in the absence of the symptoms having been put out much sooner, so that people could be aware of when they should potentially be self isolating, even if they were not actually really ill but they were probably carriers, therefore shouldn t be spreading it, what difference do you think it would have made had this have been sown sooner or probably better the other way around, what about does the impact of not having had sooner have? infecting other people, 196 of those will have died. i think the failures recognised there is more of this condition out there, left care workers going to work. i have had doctors telling me 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. soi sense of smell and they had muscle pains. so i think in an enquiry, we will find that this will have a major effect on prolonging the epidemic problem in care homes and in hospitals, so i think it is all being recognised too slowly and we need to have a more transparent view of how we deal with these things. 0ther of how we deal with these things. other countries are doing this, they have much wider lists. the americans change their lives to about seven or eight symptoms, three or four weeks ago. we havejust got eight symptoms, three or four weeks ago. we have just got to eight symptoms, three or four weeks ago. we havejust got to move eight symptoms, three or four weeks ago. we have just got to move faster and realise people can be trusted if you give them the information, we do not have to dumb it down to much. when you say people can be trusted if you give them the information, does that indicate there is an element of suspicion for you around why the list of symptoms was not increased sooner? why do you think it was? i think you would have to ask the government s opinion on that. but you said you have been talking about the symptoms for weeks, and i think probably many of us have experienced some of the symptoms and our own families, most our friends, symptoms and our own families, most ourfriends, and symptoms and our own families, most our friends, and i symptoms and our own families, most ourfriends, and i wondered why symptoms and our own families, most our friends, and i wondered why it has been that they have not been on the official list. what conversations have you been having about that? we said the government six weeks ago and early copy of the paper which had all these facts in it. they knew about it. i guess they have been looking at their own data from hospital admissions, and i think they initially had a difficult time getting up to speed, perhaps they just wanted to time getting up to speed, perhaps theyjust wanted to keep the message very simple, and that is why they we re very simple, and that is why they were told from china, this is all just about fever and cough, that is a simple message for the public. but i think after a couple of weeks that peak period when everybody was being infected, that is when they should have acted, about six weeks ago, to say there are these other symptoms, evenif say there are these other symptoms, even if you don t have fever or a cough, you should be self isolating, evenif cough, you should be self isolating, even if you are a key worker, you should be staying at home and not infecting patients etc. i think a few weeks definitely were lost, and time will tell how important that was. hopefully people have learned their lesson and will go beyond just these three symptoms and expand further to what other countries have done. remember, at least 17, 18 other countries are already got a much bigger list than ours, including the who and eu and the us. iam speaking including the who and eu and the us. i am speaking to someone from the who ina i am speaking to someone from the who in a moment, we will pick up on that. thank you very much. thank you, do love on the app and keep spreading that around. download the app. health ministers from around the world are meeting online for the world health organisation s annual world health assembly. with the virus having killed at least 300,000 people across the globe, there are questions about how the pandemic spread so quickly. 19a countries belong to the who, and many of them including the eu, uk, australia, new zealand are calling for an independent review into the who s response to coronavirus so far. many countries have been critical, including the us, it s biggest single donor, which has withdrawn funding, saying it has been slow to react and alleging bias towards china. the who said it did get china to share crucial information but it is only an advisory body and cannot force any country to work with it. many are calling for the who to have more powers, with inspectors able to go into countries at the start of outbreaks and carry out independent investigations. there are calls too for equal access to vaccines to covid 19 once they are developed, for all nations, rich and poor. as that meeting gets under way in geneva, more than 1a0 world leaders and experts have written an open letter calling for a people s vaccine that is free and equally available to all nations. one of the signatories to the letter is mariana mazzucato, author and professor in the economics of innovation and public value at university college london. let s talk about the vaccine and the desire for many for their to be an open pattern so that countries cannot be prioritised in buying up stocks to get the supplies first and foremost and that businesses cannot effectively capitalise on selling ad for higher prices. what do you want to see on that front? specifically, we have to be very clear what the demand is, which is to develop an effective vaccine produced a global scale, rapidly, and especially universally available for free. this requires enforcing, not making involu nta ry, requires enforcing, not making involuntary, to really make sure that both the patenting, the pricing and manufacturing capacity are really designed in such a way that have international collaboration and solidarity, rather than competition between countries of pharmaceutical companies at its core. public interest led vaccine. there i3 demands in the letter. the first is to ensure a mandatory worldwide sharing of all covid 19 related knowledge, in other words in an area where we talk about big data and collective intelligence, this is the map to walk that talk, and that has to do with patent pools and making sure that any knowledge is enforced in terms of the licensing capability so it doesn t remain secret. the second is to establish a global and equitable rapid manufacturing and distribution plan so we can make it for everybody around the globe, and that has to be funded fully by rich nations. thirdly, we have to guarantee that the vaccine, diagnostics and tests are provided free of charge, and this means we have to prioritise access, especially for front line workers, the most vulnerable people, and for poor countries with the least capacity to save lives, because they health systems are so weak. can you enforce that? the uk and the united states have been criticised for not wanting that model to go ahead.” have actually been arguing for this type of enforcement for a long time, even pre thing mac. we have to understand how innovation in the health sector comes about. even pre thing mac. it is not true that this is just pre thing mac. it is not true that this isjust big pharmaceutical companies expressing their entrepreneurial spirit. by not governing of this in the public interest, that is a failure. how we innovate itself. it is about changing the narrative to pretend that this is somehow a market that is being intervened in by public authorities from just causes and that it somehow will hurt innovation, that has been the mantra that unfortunately many, not all, large pharmaceutical companies have been arguing for their ability to price drugs that do receive a lot of public funding based on whatever the market will bear. sorry to interrupt, i hear what you are saying, but if countries are resista nt to saying, but if countries are resistant tojoining saying, but if countries are resistant to joining in this effort, cannot happen? so the effort is there in terms of a global collective effort in terms of the search, the race for this vaccine. what media is a global collective effort for the governance. if there is not that, there will be a massive failure of international collaboration in such a desperate time in the history books which will hopefully write about it so we don t repeat that. what i was saying was that we do have very large amounts of public money in the us, national institutes of health, coalition for epidemic preparedness, innovations, these organisations are putting in huge amounts of money into a search for a vaccine. we are saying, make sure you also govern that brussels and the public interest. for too long in the medical sector, even though have collective efforts around the creation of value, we do not then structure that value so that it really is socialised to meet the needs that people have. this is also not related to covid 19, but we cannot get this wrong. too many lives are at stake, especially countries with weak health systems. this really working through what it means to create patent pools so that we are not allowed the knowledge itself to be harboured in a secret way which dangers funerals temporary monopoly profits. that might be ok for some specialist drugs, four luxury diseases, that is not ok right now. we need to make sure that we have compulsory licenses, patent pools, increase the capacity for countries to actually manufacture the vaccine once it is available. we need international solidarity, this is not a moment to have survival of the fittest for a competitive model. it has to be driven by cooperation for the public good. thank you for joining us. new research here in the uk has revealed that more young people are struggling with increased levels of anxiety and fears about their future job prospects since the lockdown began. more than a quarter of the 16 to 25=year olds who took part in the study, by the prince s trust and yougov, believe their future career prospects have been damaged by the coronavirus pandemic, while a3% say they are feeling overwhelmed and anxious on a daily basis. well, in a moment we can talk to michele farmer, who is director in central england of the young persons charity, the princes trust. but first we can speak to aisa ali who is a princes trust ambassador but has herself experienced difficulties with her mental health in the past. thank you forjoining us. how you re feeling right now and missed this pandemic? it is a lot of uncertainty from ind. i have a key worker, so i am still having to go to work. it is normal from monday to am still having to go to work. it is normalfrom monday to friday am still having to go to work. it is normal from monday to friday but the weekends it is very different, and not being able to go out as much. it is very strange. add url in employment. there are many obviously who perhaps have left studying who do not have a job but don t have a job and! do not have a job but don t have a job and i worried about whether it s about comeback. you are in employment. do you speak to many in that boat, what you hear about it?” have a few friends, a lot of them in retail or have lost a jobs. they are very, i cannot speak for them, retail or have lost a jobs. they are very, i cannot speakfor them, but they are scared, nervous, they don t know what will happen, very nervous about their future. they don t know if everything that is going on is going to damage their future prospects, so it is a lot of uncertainty, and i am trying to support as many people as i can add try to spend as much positivity as i can, but it is quite scary. spread positivity. michele farmer, what is the best support you can offer to someone feeling vulnerable? we are! offer to someone feeling vulnerable? we are i doing as much as we possibly can at the moment to move our services online, we are available on phones, we are talking to people one to one, bringing small groups together, we are encouraging people as best they can to be positive, look for those opportunities in the sectors where there is work. and to hold onto theirdreams, but be there is work. and to hold onto their dreams, but be realistic about their dreams, but be realistic about the difficult situation that we are in. what is your experience with the charity of how much young people are struggling and worrying right now? the princes trust has been going since 1976, we have been through difficult times during that period, and we know that young people do get hit harder than other age groups. we know that there is an absolutely direct link between having a job of being in training, having a sense of purpose, otherwise it does impact on your mental health and well being. 0ne your mental health and well being. one of the things we try to do is help people think about what their next step might be and help them to connect to other people that are in a similar situation so they realise they have not on their own. how important would you say that is, being able to think about a next step and try to see how you might be able to make that happen?m step and try to see how you might be able to make that happen? it is extremely important. especially when the princes trust get involved with young people, they are in a situation where they are wanting to change their lives, and it is hard not to look to the future, and through this time i thick it is important to set realistic, but kind of motivating goals in this time. perhaps not the dream job you thought you would be going for others particular stage, maybe not something even double help you on your way but something that will be good for you right now. yes, right now are anything positive that people can get their hands on, i think that isjust people can get their hands on, i think that is just the main goal to look at, to remain, have faith. we talk about the covid 19 generation, this generation of young people who will have had their generation impacted, exams not happening, their next steps suddenly changing as a result of it. what are your thoughts about this covid 19 generation, and what the legacy might be in the long run? of the young people who we surveyed, over 1000 who responded to our survey during this period, all aged between 16 to 25, one of the statistics that jumped out for me was that 69% felt that they are life was that 69% felt that they are life was on hold. i think that is probably a common feeling. people at a lot of ages are anxious and worried, but we are already prior to this pandemic worried about young people s mental health and their levels of anxiety. the thing that really leapt out for me was that sense that so many felt that their life is on hold. what i hope is that as things become a little clearer, as things become a little clearer, as we know what will happen with schools and colleges and employers start to work out what they do business models are going to be, we can be there along with other charities, with other partners and the government, to make sure we wrap around our support and give young people a chance and that we do not end up with a generation that was lost and missed out because of this. it all of our interest to make sure that young people do not experience quite the extent of disadvantage that maybe they have done in former recessions when they have missed out on those firstjob recessions when they have missed out on those first job opportunities. recessions when they have missed out on those first job opportunitiesm course, a lot of young people will be finding themselves back at home with their parents, where perhaps they had expected that. that will bring its own tensions. what advice would you give in that context?” have some myself, so very definitely. people are having to make choices that may not have been their first choice but right now it makes sense. you have to stay home, stay safe, look for those opportunities that will come up as we start to seek links ease, and we they can about returning to college are getting work. there are jobs out there, so we are doing a lot of work with the help and care sector, so we know there are industries that are crying out for young people. i would ask employers to think about employing a young person. michele farmer, thank you, thank you both, you are watching bbc news. now for the weather with matt taylor. hello there. some of the warmest weather of the year so far on the way this week. we will see temperatures on wednesday peak somewhere around 27, 28 degrees, 82 fahrenheit in eastern england, up to 22 or 23 in parts of northern scotland. warmth, though, doesn t mean sunshine and dry weather all the way. some parts of the south won t be seeing much rain but quite a bit at times in the north, and later on we could see some more wet weather come with a spell of some cool and windy conditions. that will be dictated by what s been happening across the western atlantic, tropical storm arthur there swelling away, that s going to mix up the atmosphere and potentially bring us that windy weather to end the week. for the time being, though, lots of cloud across the country so far today, that s going to stay in fact across parts of central and southern scotland, northern ireland, northern england and north wales, through the rest of this afternoon. some rain or drizzle at times. brightening up to the north, rain in scotland, in shetland. sunshine across some southern counties of england. but with winds coming in from the south or south west, even with the cloud and rain, temperatures actually close to if not a little bit above where they should be for the time of year. the warmest of all, the south east corner, 23 or 2a degrees. now this evening and overnight, still cloud and rain in the same sort of spots, parts of scotland, northern ireland, northern england and north wales. the odd heavy a at times. clearer conditions to the north of scotland and across southern counties of england and south wales. here we will see the lowest of the temperatures, down to around seven or 8 degrees in a few spots but certainly clear of frost. none of them to come this week. most starting tomorrow with temperatures in double digits. but like today, a fairly cloudy start, some breaks in the cloud to the south of england, north of scotland with some sunshine. cloud in the morning across scotland, northern ireland, northern england, bringing some topics of rain and drizzle. potentially a little bit in the way of dry and brighter weather through the afternoon and that should allow temperatures to creep up a little bit more. 20 degrees potentially on some eastern coasts, 25 in south east england. then that surge of warm air comes as high pressure builds for wednesday, pushing eastwards, opening the door to south easterly winds, which will bring clearer conditions. the morning cloud will break up more readily, more sunshine for scotland and northern ireland and even here, we will see temperatures get up to 20 degrees more widely. highest of all, anywhere from north london through towards parts of lincolnshire and south yorkshire, 27 or 28. chance of a thunderstorm on thursday but then that change i mentioned towards the end of the week, we have to watch what happens to this low for the potential of some windy weather.
this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. loss of smell or taste are added to the uk s list of coronavirus symptoms that people should look out for and act upon. for the first time since italy locked down ten weeks ago, people are able to visit shops, some restaurants and hairdressers. we ve a special report from milan. more than 15,000 people killed in this region, almost half of all the italian deaths. and economic pain is intense. one in three businesses here don t plan to reopen today. so, milan is coming back to life, but the wounds run deep. new measures on trains and at stations as people return to work in england. security guards with crowd management training are on hand. the mayor of brazil s largest city, sao paulo, warns its health system could collapse as demand grows for emergency beds to deal with with coronavirus cases. and northern ireland is taking some steps towards easing its lockdown, with garden centres and recycling facilities re opening. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we re covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. first, loss of smell or taste have now been added to the uk s list of coronavirus symptoms that people should be aware of and act upon. until now, only a fever and cough were triggers for people to shut themselves away in self isolation. now, if you or someone you live with has any of these symptoms a new, continuous cough, high temperature, or loss of smell or taste, the advice is stay at home to stop the risk of giving coronavirus to others. elsewhere, ten weeks after imposing one of the world s strictest national lockdowns, italy is starting to reopen many businesses, including shops, restaurants and hairdressers. church services are also restarting. here in the uk, new measures have been deployed on trains and at stations, in case more people use public transport to return to work this week. security guards with crowd management training are on hand. also this morning, with two weeks to go until some primary school pupils in england return to the classroom, the government says plans are in place to ensure the safety of teachers and pupils. but unions and some parents say they re concerned about the spread of coronavirus. northern ireland is taking steps towards lifting its restrictions. garden centres and recycling facilities are reopening and the health minister at stormont has also announced that all care home staff and residents will be offered coronavirus tests. in brazil, the mayor of the country s largest city, sao paulo, says its health system is near collapse as demand grows for emergency beds to deal with coronavirus cases. with more on that updated list of symptoms from the uk government, our health correspondent, michelle roberts, is here. there has been talk about the symptoms for a long time and pressure on the government to change the symptoms. it is only doing so now, why is that? they have been looking at this. i spoke to someone who represents doctors who deal with your, nose and throat and they said eight weeks ago they were in contact with the government saying they think it should be added as a symptom, the loss of smell and taste. they are concerned a lot of people who might feel otherwise we will be having the symptoms and then not realising they need to self isolate because they could be spreading it to other people who could get more sick if they get coronavirus. the difficulties are how specific these actual symptoms are. you might still get loss of smell and taste like common cold. until now on their own experts have been unsure as to how accurate it might be the two tell people to act on the symptoms but the evidence seems to be enough to tell people to stay home if you have lots of taste and smell on its own, notjust the court and fever. i spoke to the man who was behind the tracker to monitor symptoms in this country cou nty monitor symptoms in this country county set actually they have said for weeks as you see others have been, he said actually it is probably the number one indicator of covid 19, he said as reliable as taking a test. it depends who you are because different people get different symptoms. we know the virus gets into the knows, mouth, eyes, so it is not surprising it will affect the organs, we have other symptoms such as gastrointestinal, stomach upset, diarrhoea, there are lots of different things that might hint, it s knowing which ones to hone down on. we don t have test for everyone at the moment and that s what we want, a rapid test to give you the quick result to see you have it or another test to see that you have had it in the past. joining me now is professor claire hopkins, the president of the british rhinological society. she is a professor of rhinology at king s college london and is also a consultant ent surgeon at guy s and st thomas hospitals. rain ology is ryan ology is relating to the nose swims sure this is something you have been aware offer some time. tell is your thoughts today. we identified the potential link in mid march and alerted public of england at that point. since then we have been rapidly collecting data and evidence to share with them to show there is a strong indicator. i think this recognition today is very important for the patients who have lost their sense of smell over the past 2 3 months and did not know was related to covid 19. but also so new patients can identify and self isolate and access testing to confirm that s the case, to reduce the risk of further spread of infection. was a first contact with public health england about this? this is two months after that. yes. what were you told that the time in those conversations? wide they not ta ke those conversations? wide they not take that evidence on board, what they say? mid-march when we first started to look at the data, the evidence was at best anecdotal. there were all kinds are considers the theories going around at that point in so they rightly ask for more data. we have had quite good evidence for the past month that it s both sensitive and very specific although you might lose your sense of smell of a common cold, typically that is. the case, certainly some people lose this meant science of smell that can breed clearly. it s difficult to know what the cause has been but perhaps while we are unlocked and it was considered less important and certainly now we are having increasing movement of people, it can become increasingly important to identify those cases. do you think it relevant that impact on the spit of the disease? to you think it will have an impact on the spread of the disease? i having contacted by hundreds of patients who said they we re hundreds of patients who said they were isolating despite it not being recognised by nhs111 but i also had contact from key workers, for example those in contact with vulnerable, delivering food who said they had to go to work because it was not a recognised symptom. so i think we may have missed some opportunities to control spread and fortu nately opportunities to control spread and fortunately those patients will be allowed to self isolate and hopefully get tested. as you say going forward now, people with the symptoms while self isolate. what do you think about the fact that you see key workers were told to go to work presumably amongst them health workers? the awareness among health ca re workers? the awareness among health care workers has been very high. many of my colleagues lost their sense of smell and did it self isolate straightaway as a result. fortunately through media, we we re result. fortunately through media, we were able to get the word out quite quickly and hopefully that has played its part in reducing infection but obviously it s important to reduce every case where possible. thank you very much. thank you. italians can once again visit bars, hairdressers a nd restau ra nts as the country eases its coronavirus restrictions a bit more from today. the eurozone s third largest economy is trying to work its way back, ten weeks after imposing a strict national lockdown. almost 32,000 people have died in italy but the daily death toll and rise in cases is now the lowest since restrictions were imposed. mark lowen reports from milan on how businesses have been preparing. milan is dressing up for its reopening. its chic shops have been closed for ten weeks in the world s first national lockdown. with the final touches come strict hygiene controls. a screen at the till, a reminder of the new rules. customers here will be by appointment to limit numbers. the sparkle has been dulled by the virus, but they are raring to go. it has been hard, actually, very hard, because nothing was sure, so we kept on listening to the news and we didn t know what to expect, when we would open again, and we really hoped and we were really looking forward to coming back to our store. was there ever a moment where you thought, are we ever going to be able to come back to work? no, never. italy s capital of fashion, industry and finance was at the centre of the outbreak, the first cases in february nearby. it was overwhelmed. with sites closed, tourists cancelling and businesses suffering, there is talk of. we were in this city as the corona storm hit. ten weeks on, we are here again. milan is still struggling to comprehend what has happened in that time. more than 15,000 people killed in this region. almost half of all the italian deaths. and the economic pain is intense. one in three businesses here don t plan to reopen today. so, milan is coming back to life, but the wounds run deep. and now, we are getting better, we feel better, we can take walks out from home. he was born two months ago, so this is one of his first walks, so we are very happy. this, too, is helping italy s recovery. a hotel used to quarantine less serious cases as they wait to test negative. with the outbreak more under control, its now also admitting people through contact tracing, those in touch with victims, further halting the spread. after 20 days here, jackeline is ready to be discharged. a step closer to this country healing. mark lowen, bbc news, milan. jennifer bradburn is a makeup artist who works at weddings, ceremonies and parties. shejoins me now from lake como. thanks forjoining us. hello, thank you. what impact has the pandemic had on your business? it has been quite devastating, to be honest. the problem is we really don t know when we are going to get back to normal if ever. because the last fashion show is that i did, i was in paris and milan in february and as i got back from that, that s when italy immediately closed in on their lockdown, which was intense, as you have heard from other people. now, we re coming out of that which is amazing, everyone cannot wait to get back to normal, the bars and restau ra nts back to normal, the bars and restaurants are opening which is fabulous. but my job, restaurants are opening which is fabulous. but myjob, weddings, luxury weddings idea, here on lake como, the majority, 99% of them, for the summer, have all postponed to next summer which leaves this summer wide open. the fashion shows which we re wide open. the fashion shows which were to go ahead injune and july we re were to go ahead injune and july were cancelled. we are still uncertain but it s possible that also september will be cancelled because of course all these shows and things are prepared months ahead of time. and at this point, we still don t know for sure what is going to happen next month, the month after. it has a devastating effect on my economy, on the economy of the businesses that i am involved in. how are you managing financially? then again, there has been little help from the government. a little. they offered what they called a bonus to self employed people and people with small businesses. i did receive that money for march. i am now waiting to receive april was not money but it s not even, let s say. a quarter of what i would normally earn. i have friends who have not received it yet. so they are kind of behind on that. they have offered us a possibility of taking a loan which that their loan then needs to be paid back so that is also something when you take into careful consideration if that is gonna be the way forward for us. you said it s hard to see if things will ever go back to normal in your business. 0bviously, people have been doing things differently because they have not been able to have the services of make up artists. do you think you will hang in there and hope it will ever return? i will, yes. that s my career, business, everything and i love it. i lovejob. so why will hang in and hopefully things will back to normal and i m sure they it will take a while because injob, obviously the weddings, gatherings of more than 100 people from all over the world, we have people flying in from australia, america, china, to name just flying in from australia, america, china, to namejust a flying in from australia, america, china, to name just a few of the countries, so that will take awhile for that to happen again. the fashion shows is the same. it s a gathering of people from all over the world. models, stylists, hair and make up artists, so i am confident it will go back to something but maybe it will be a little different. maybe the groups again have to be smaller. the spaces will have to be organised in a better way. we will have to have more space. i think the social distancing is gonna carry on for a while. and we re still obliged in lombardy to wear facemasks at all times, even out in the open air. which is a very controversial topic here at the moment. we have to leave it there. i wanted to pick up on that more but we are out of time. thank you very much. you are very welcome, thank you. several other european countries that were among the worst hit by the coronavirus are also continuing to ease the lockdown measures. in spain, the government is relaxing restrictions outside of madrid and barcelona, with groups of up to 10 people now free to meet, while bars and restaurants can open outdoor seating at half capacity. denmark has relaxed significantly but under certain conditions as some students return to school. classes from sixth to 10th grades will return next week. it has also allowed shops to reopen. meanwhile, in the greek capital, athens, the acropolis has re opened to the public. northern ireland is taking some steps towards easing its lockdown today, with garden centres and recycling facilities re opening. the health minister at the northern ireland assembly has also announced that all care home staff and residents will be offered coronavirus tests. meanwhile, the irish republic is moving into the first phase of its recovery plan, meaning small groups of people can meet outdoors. we can speak tojohn farren, who is the general manager at ballyliffin golf club in county donegal, in north west ireland. thank you forjoining us. what the situation for your club now? thank you very much. we ve reopened four member golf today. the first in a series of phases the government has introduced in terms of relaxation of the covid 19 restrictions. member golf only for the next three weeks. it s all a little different, a lot different for some of the older generation, but certainly people seem to be coping well with it so four. how different will things be at the club in terms of number of people coming to the club for a start? that will be a big change? yes, there is a five kilometre restriction on travel to and from the club. that limits the number of members that can qualify legitimately to play here. for the next three weeks. and certainly that limits the number of members that we can facilitate. but nevertheless, it s a good first step, a cautious first step but it needed to be. there are restrictions in place in terms of the number of people that can play in a group, restricted to three. the gap between each group going out is extended to a0 minutes and we have restricted the opening hours in order to facilitate contact tracing and ensure their supervision here at all times. are many people coming forward blunting to play? yes, quite a bit of interest. we are not by any means sold or anything but there are people that are remaining cautious and cocooning as u nfortu nately a word remaining cautious and cocooning as unfortunately a word that has become synonymous with the covid 19 restrictions. a good number of members would still be cooking, that would limit their ability to play golf. cocooning. is it financially viable for you to carry on like this? we are obviously, it has been devastating financially. we are members only, we rely almost over 60% of our revenue is from visitor green fees. we are not going to have that income this year. we don t foresee there will be any update in greenfield income until possibly next year. even then we are reliant on people being comfortable, coming on airlines for four or five hours, we are very coming on airlines for four or five hours, we are very reliant on the north american market and indeed the uk market. until the airlines and people are comfortable with travelling on airlines, the international tourism market will be restricted to say the least. we wish you all the very best. thank you for joining us. thank you. brazil s coronavirus death toll has risen to 16,118, with more than 2a0,000 cases, making it the fourth worst affected country in terms of confirmed infections. on sunday the mayor of brazil s biggest city, sao paulo, warned that the health system was close to collapse. 0ur south america correspondent katy watson now reports from sao paulo. the death toll is still climbing and the president is still in denial. jair bolsonaro remains intent on putting politics before the pandemic, once again flouting global health guidelines at a protest on sunday, even if he was finally wearing a mask. translation: it is priceless for politicians to have a spontaneous demonstration like this one, coming from the heart, from the soul of the brazilian people who want freedom, democracy and respect above all. amid growing criticism over his handling of the coronavirus crisis, mr bolsonaro is sticking closely to the minority of brazilians who still think he s doing a good job. cars honking. he and his fan base are convinced brazilians need to get back to work despite the science proving otherwise. translation: it is not the right way to do isolation. this has never happened before in the world, translation: it is not the right way to do isolation. this has never happened before in the world, just closing everything down and seeing what happens. not even scenes like this can convince jair bolsonaro to change tact. people are dying and health systems across the country are collapsing, and these next few weeks are only expected to get worse. the state with the highest number of cases is sao paulo. the business capital already has a death toll bigger than that of china. and authorities have warned the health system is struggling. sao paulo residents have been in quarantine for nearly two months now, with businesses, schools and public spaces ordered shut. but as the weeks have gone on, social distancing has slowed. statistics show that fewer than 50% of residents are still respecting the rules. in some parts of sao paulo city, shops are reopening. authorities, they say, are turning a blind eye. the mayor on sunday called on residents to do their bit to improve brazil s chances. translation: it is difficult to believe that some prefer to subject the population to a game of russian roulette. the indifference to death is unseemly. it is a crime of responsibility. traffic jams have returned despite authorities efforts to dissuade people from commuting. many brazilians argue they have to work. millions of people who work in the informal economy and depend on daily wages are struggling. the country is running out of options to tell people to stay at home at the time when it is needed the most. katy watson, bbc news, in sao paolo. here in the uk efforts to get commuters safely back to work by train are being brought in this morning. more security guards are now in place at several railway stations in england, and some seats on board will be blocked off to allow social distancing. passengers are still being advised to use public transport only if it s essential and they have no alternative. here s our transport correspondent, tom burridge. social distancing really isn t a problem a lot of the time, but there is concern as more people commute again. worried, but its needs must. got to go to work. busier than i thought it was going to be. yeah, there was only about two people in each carriage so.it s fine. announcer: good morning. welcome aboard the 8:30 service. new messages. please follow social distancing advice and spread out throughout the train. ..and more staff directing you around. please keep to your left. they will also limit passenger numbers. if they judge that there is already enough people on board a particular train, then they might block the gates off here and other people will have to wait for the next service. and when numbers rise, you might have to queue to get into a station. we have done the calculations and analysis to ensure that we can have a certain amount of people on the concourse at any one time, and, yes, there will be closures to entrances and exits should those numbers increase and grow. 0n intercity services, it s reserved seats only to control numbers. train companies say they re doing all they can, but they re worried about how they ll manage if many more people travel. so the main advice is don t use public transport if you can. tom burridge, bbc news. some breaking news on football in scotland. what they are doing as a result of covid 19, the scottish league has ended the season and celtic have been confirmed as scottish premier league champions for the ninth season in a row and hearts have been relegated. the decision was taken at a board meeting after the 12 clubs agreed at the end of last week that completing the end of last week that completing the season was unfeasible. average points per game played has been used to determine final places with the only change to the table since football was halted been that saint johnstone move above hibernian. celtic confirmed as champions, hearts relegated. you are watching bbc news. with two weeks to go until some primary school pupils in england return to the classroom, the government has again insisted plans are in place to ensure the safety of teachers and pupils. ministers want children in reception, year1 and year 6 to go back to school, as part of the next step to ease the lockdown. but unions and some parents fear the move may cause a second spike in coronavirus cases, as john mcmanus reports. when is the right time to send children back to school? and how will the safety of them and theirfamilies be guaranteed? in england, some younger pupils will be back at their desks onjune1st. but no date has yet been set for schools in wales, scotland or northern ireland. ministers say measures including staggered breaks and class sizes of 15 will reduce the chances of pupils transmitting coronavirus. but labour says guarantees must be in place. everyone wants pupils to go back but everyone wants there to be a safe environment as well. that is so important. the government also needs to have its test, track and trace strategy all up and running as soon as it possibly can. the government has acknowledged it can t eradicate all risk, but the evidence shows children with the virus rarely develop serious symptoms, though their transmission rate isn t yet known. we have already indicated the direction of travel, we are aiming for the beginning ofjune, we are aiming for year one and year six. so those parents of children in those age groups should be looking ahead to that potentially happening from the beginning ofjune. other european countries are facing the same dilemma. germany and denmark are slowly reopening classrooms using social distancing, but italian pupils will stay at home until september. meanwhile, the latest daily death toll was 170, the lowest figure since the day after the lockdown began on march 2a. however, numbers are typically lower at weekends. the total number of people who have died in the uk after testing positive for the virus is now 3a,636. the only permanent solution of course is a vaccine. some scientists believe one may not come for at least a year, or perhaps never. but the pharmaceutical company astrazeneca has signed an agreement to make 30 million doses available in the uk by september, if it can find a vaccine that works. john macmanus, bbc news. we will see sunshine develop more widely through the rest of the day. fairly dull with some rain and drizzle at times, persistent through shetland. the wind has come in south west so even when you have the cloud, temperatures actually close to if not a bit above where they should be for the time of year. warm air pushing in, around 23 or 2a celsius in the south east. this evening and overnight, cloud fairly extensive across scotland, northern ireland and northern england. every bursary, clearest of the skies north of scotla nd clearest of the skies north of scotland and south of england. this is where temperatures will drop the furthest. well clear of the force. mostly in double figures which will start off fairly similar to today. lots of cloud around, rain or drizzle at times for northern areas which will clear through, sunny spells will develop widely and temperatures will climb a vet more. hello this is bbc news. the headlines. loss of smell or taste have been added to the uk s list of coronavirus symptoms that people should look out for and act upon. ten weeks after it became the first country to impose a nationwide lockdown, italy reopens its shops, restaurants, bars and hairdressers. security guards trained in crowd control are on duty at some major railway stations in england, as some people return to work, following the easing of restrictions. the mayor of brazil s largest city, sao paulo, warns its health system could collapse as demand grows for emergency beds to deal with coronavirus cases. northern ireland is taking some steps towards easing its lockdown with garden centres and recycling facilities reopening. let s cross to edinburgh where scotland s first minister, nicola sturgeon, is giving her daily briefing. good afternoon. thank you for joining as. i want to start with an update on the key statistics in regard to covid 19. 1a,39a positive cases confirmed as of nine o clock this morning, an increase of 57 cents yesterday, a total of 1a27 patientss are in hospital with covid 19, patientss are in hospital with covid-19, 1005 patientss are in hospital with covid 19, 1005 them have been confirmed as having the virus, a22 are suspected of having it. that represents a total increase of 119 from yesterday. the number of confirmed cases has declined by two. a total of 63 people last night were in intensive care with confirmed or suspected covid 19 and that is an increase of four since yesterday. i can confirm that since 5th of march a total of 335a patients who had tested positive have been able to leave hospital and i wish them all well. i also have to report that in the past 2a hours two deaths have been registered patientss who had been registered patientss who had been confirmed through a test of having the that takes the total number of deaths in scotland under that measurement to 2105. i should inject some caution into that figure. as i often sit on a monday, although death can t now be registered at weekends, registration numbers are usually relatively low and they can be especially low on a sunday. that should be taken into account when considering today s figure. these numbers are notjust statistics. each one is an individual whose loss is a source of sorrow and grief and my condolences go to everyone who has lost a loved one to the spiders. let me also thank our health and care workers for their work. lost a loved one to this virus. i want to update on two things today. we have changed our guidance on the symptoms of covid 19. this is based on a recommendation from the chief medical officers across the uk. until now we have been asking people to stay at home for seven days if you have a high temperature or a persistent cough. that remains the case. however we have also said that we are learning about this by this as it develops and we now have sufficient evidence to add an additional symptom which you should look out for. if you notice a loss of or taste in your sense of taste or smell that can also be a symptom of covid 19. the medical officer will say more about this in a few moments. if you have a high temperature, a persistent cough, or if you notice a loss of taste or smell, stay at home completely for seven days and do not leave your home at all. other people in your household should stay at home for 1a days. the second issue i want to discuss todayis the second issue i want to discuss today is that from today we are widening the number of people who can be tested for covid 19. the health secretary will see more in a moment about testing in care homes. the change i will talk about is that anyone over the age of five who has anyone over the age of five who has any of the three symptoms of covid 19, including that loss of taste or smell, will now be able to book a test. the test will be available through the drive in centres at aberdeen, edinburgh and glasgow airports and at perth and inverness, they will also be available through the 12 mobile testing units based across the country which move around every five days or so. tests at the centres have only been made available to over 65, key workers, two people in vital infrastructure services, and for anybody who needs to work and cannot work from home. tests have also been available to household members of these groups. this further expansion that we are announcing today will ensure that anyone with symptoms will be able to find out if they have the virus and will therefore be able to know whether or not they should be isolating. tests can be booked online. priority will be given to those who are key workers and these can be secured through looking. if you book a test will be allocated to the centre closest to your own postcode. i know that for some people this will involve travelling quite a distance. we are currently working with the military to try and make mobile testing units as available as possible. i want to stress this point, that for nhs and social care key workers, or symptomatic household members of these workers, testing should still be accessed through the nhs. this testing ensures priority access and should be accessible to care and health service staff at nhs facilities within their local area. that should not require people to travel long distances. today s expansion is the result of cooperation between nhs scotland, the scottish government and the uk government. it will help more people to know if they have the virus and also will be very helpful as we build towards our strategy of taste, trace, isolate and support. some that will be especially important as we start to emerge gradually from the lockdown. that is relevant to that final issue i want to talk about today. i can confirm today that we will publish on thursday a route map setting out our phased approach to easing lockdown measures. this will take account of the up to date estimates of the transmission rate or r number, it will take account of the latest national records report on wednesday on the amount of deaths from covid 19. the route map will give a more detailed indication of the order in which we will carefully and gradually seek to lift restrictions. like other countries we will not yet be able to put a firm date 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 is normal when it is safe to do so. thursday s route map will confirm that assuming that we see progress in ash addressing the virus, the first phase will start from 28th of may, within a few days of that we will be able to allow more outdoor activities like meeting in a park, some limited outdoor activities like golfing, fishing, the opening of garden centres, the resumption of some outdoor work. this first phase will coincide with our ability to start ona coincide with our ability to start on a phased basis a substantial test, trace and isolate operation to help us keep the virus under control as we start to ease up these restrictions. that part is absolutely crucial. thursday s route map will also set out our up to date assessment at that point of a phased return to school as guided by the considerations of the education recovery group. from thursday onwards we will also set out guidance for key industries on the changes they will need to make to ensure that their employees and customers are safe in advance of further changes, as well as setting out advice on travel and transport. within two weeks my hope is that we will be taking some concrete steps on the journey back to a form of normality. as i have said before it will not be normality exactly as we knew its because the virus will not have gone away but it will be a journey towards a better balance i hope than the one we have today. as we ta ke hope than the one we have today. as we take each step we must make sure the ground beneath as is as solid as possible. that is why between now and then sticking with the lockdown restrictions a bit longer to suppress the virus more is so important. because that will mean we can important. because that will mean we ca n start important. because that will mean we can start to take these steps with the confidence that we have alternative means of effectively keeping it under control. for that reason are key advice right now remains unchanged and it remains as important as ever. please stay at home right now except for essential purposes such as essential work that cannot be done at home, exerciser accessing food and medicine. you can now exercise more than once a day but when you do leave the house to stay more than two metres away from other people and do not meet up with people from households other than use at this stage. you should wear a face covering if you are in a shop or public transport and please remember to wash your hands thoroughly and regularly. finally, if you are someone else in your household has symptoms, then you should stay at a completely, and a reminder of those symptoms from today are a high temperature or a persistent cough, or a change or loss of smell or taste. by sticking with these instructions now we make it all the more likely that we can start that journey back to normality within the timescale that i talked about a minute ago. let me end with my thanks again to all of you for doing the right thing and staying at home at this stage. you are helping to slow down the spread of the virus, you are helping to protect the nhs, and undoubtedly you are saving lives. thank you. i am going to hand over to the chief medical 0fficer to hand over to the chief medical officer to see few words, particularly about the change to guidance on symptoms today, then i will hand over to the health secretary who is going to see if you words including more on testing. today i want to see a little more on the change in recognition symptoms of covid 19 that we are asking you to look out for. since the beginning of the epidemic in the uk researchers have been collating information, this has been used to determine symptoms that are most likely to identify that most people who may have covid 19. this analysis has confirmed that we should continue to use the symptoms of cough and fever that we already use, it is also confirmed now that there is sufficient confidence to add a new symptom. following a recommendation made by myself and colleagues elsewhere in the uk. i realise this will be a new term. for the benefit of those have not heard of this, it is the loss of eight normal sense of smell. because of smell and taste are so closely linked it can also affect the sense of taste. this is how many people first recognise it as a system. this loss of the sense of smell or taste has now been identified as a symptom that can be one of the earliest. included in the case definition may allow for slightly more cases of covid 19 tube identified early on. the new definition of covid 19 symptoms as anyone of the following symptoms. the new continuous cough or symptoms. the new continuous cough ora symptoms. the new continuous cough or a fever, or a loss off or a change in smell or taste. adding loss of smell or taste to the case definition will also slightly increase the number of possible cases which turn out not to be covid 19. however it is my view and that of colleagues that on balance this is outweighed by the benefits of identifying more cases at an early stage. i want to reiterate that everyone, including health and social care workers, should sell isolate if the developed a new continuous cough, or a fever, or a loss of or a change in smell or taste. individuals households should also sell isolate for ia days as per the current guidelines. individuals should stay at home for seven days, or longer if they still have a fever. if an individual is symptoms worsen and they do not go away after seven days they should call nhs 24 on 111 for further advice. as the first minister has outlined that is an increased number of categories of people who are now eligible for testing for covid 19 under the government testing scheme. this testing will now be done on the basis of a new continuous cough, a fever, or a loss of a change in smell or taste. guidance will be updated to reflect this change. members of the public can continue to access further information on the nhs website. there are two areas i want to briefly touch on this morning. 0ver the past few days we have set out further additional steps for support for care homes in the face of covid 19. we have been keeping all aspects of the support mechanism is under review to best protect both ca re under review to best protect both care home residents and staff. 0n testing we have a clear position where anyone who was he covid 19 patient should have two negative tests before being admitted to a ca re tests before being admitted to a care home and we are also ensuring that all the other new admissions to ca re that all the other new admissions to care homes are also being tested prior to admission. should a care home have a case of covid 19 we have put in place a regime we are all residents and staff are tested subject to their consent. for care homes that have no current cases of covid 19 the current position as sample surveillance of residents and staff, again subject to their consent. having ta ken staff, again subject to their consent. having taken clinical advice i am taking a further step and will set out the detail of that in parliament tomorrow. the further step is that we will now move to a position we are all care home staff are offered testing regardless of symptoms and regardless of whether there is an ongoing outbreak in the ca re there is an ongoing outbreak in the care home where they work. this testing will have to be carried out ona testing will have to be carried out on a basis to be effective and will help us to detect residents and staff themselves. front line staff in both our care sector and elsewhere deserve as much support as we can give them and that takes me to my second area. buy agreements we have managed to alleviate the cost of parking at three hospital car parks for our staff, that arrangement was until the end of june. iam pleased arrangement was until the end of june. i am pleased today to confirm that we have now reached agreement to extend that arrangement to the end of september 2020. what that does mean is that in a small way we are able to alleviate some of the worry and upset that is caused to our staff as they do so much to help protect all of as. thank you. i will move straight to questions now. as you say, the key to easing lockdown measures as being able to do widespread testing and tracing. 0bviously able to do widespread testing and tracing. obviously we are seeing some pilots ongoing at the moment in scotla nd some pilots ongoing at the moment in scotland but how low levels of the virus have to be in the community before you could be confident that we can contact trace people sufficiently and efficiently? will be also have to adopt other measures possibly like this app that is being trialled now in england? just to take these questions one by one. we want to get that number of new cases in the community as low as possible for a variety of reasons, one of those reasons is that then makes it more possible that we can effectively control the virus through test, trace and isolate, but we are not setting a particular figure on that. we have also said that we need taste, trace and isolate system that is flexible enough to adapt if it is a sudden spike in transmission, we will need to ensure that we can t respond to that. we are building a system that scalability as part of it. the health secretary reported yesterday that there are already 600 contact tracers and health boards, that is expected to be 2000 by the end of the month, but they may not all be needed initially if the virus is suppressed to a sufficiently low level. that scalability is important. we have got the trialling of the digital tools that contact tracers will use under way in health boards from today. on the app, we are not building a system that is dependent on the app, we have deliberately taken a decision to build a bottom up a system that is based on traditional methods of contact tracing and follow up and i think that is the sensible thing to do. nor have we turned our face against the app. it is still being trialled right now, i think the uk government still has some decisions to make about how it will develop in the week ahead. if we can be satisfied that that integrates efficient sufficiently without system, and other concerns that people have have been addressed, then we would be enthusiastic about then we would be enthusiastic about the potential enhancement to the system we have, but the sensible thing to do to make the system dependent, we need to see it as an enhancement. that app, the proximity tracing app that the uk government is developing as separate to the digital technology that our traditional contact tracers will use for follow ups. all of us traditional contact tracers will use forfollow ups. all of us has traditional contact tracers will use for follow ups. all of us has to hang together. all different parts at the stage are progressing well. very final point. that starting of the first phase of easing of restrictions towards the end of this month coinciding with our ability to introduce a significant test, trace, isolate system, it is important that we have these things in sync and thatis we have these things in sync and that is part of the planning we are doing. ijust doing. i just wanted to doing. ijust wanted to pick up on the expansion to testing within care homes. could you give us more details on what the clinical advice was that has changed and tell us why it has taken so long to make this change given there have been calls for this to happen for a number of weeks? i do not except that it has taken so long. what we have done here is what we have done all along which is gather the rates clinical views, making sure that there is time for that on the evidence, then taking a decision that is right at the time. the evidence that i have relied on to make that decision is that the route for the virus into a ca re that the route for the virus into a care home is primarily will beat through those who work in the care home, because they will be the people going in and out the most from the community, bearing in mind that visiting come up with one or two exceptions, has been stopped in ca re two exceptions, has been stopped in care homes, that residents should be being looked after in their own rooms, and there will be very little in and out traffic to a care home other than those who work there. also remembering the other restrictions and requirements we have put in place about how linked homes should not be transferring staff from one home to another. 0n that basis it makes sense that even ina care that basis it makes sense that even in a care home that does not have a case that we regularly test the staff who work in that care home so that if a positive test comes back from one of them at any point we are able to, they can stay off work and isolate according to guidance, but we can also ensure that we are even more alert to the prevalence of the virus for the residents and we would ta ke virus for the residents and we would take steps at that point to ensure that residents were then tested provided they consented to that. that is the position that we have now reached. it is based soundly on the advice that i have been given. we will set out the detail of that tomorrow when i make a statement to parliament. the final point which i think is always important to make when we are talking about testing, testing is important but we always have to remember and remind ourselves that testing is not a substitute for infection prevention and control. all of these measures that care homes are being asked to implement and have been asked for some time to implement are very important and one of the reasons for thatis important and one of the reasons for that is that as i have said, testing is important, we do know that testing of asymptomatic people who are not displaying the kind of symptoms that we have spoken about today, the testing may not be as reliable in those people. we must never actually testing as some kind of feel safe that then means we do not have to do all of the other things. it is always important to underline and stressed that. i want to ask the question about the conference in edinburgh in late february and the aftermath of that. we learnt at the weekend that a number of local people in edinburgh and glasgow suffered symptoms of coronavirus, they were not contacted trace, they learnt about the outbreak through the media like everybody else. did you feel a new duty of care to them and did you feel your effort to suppress the virus following that conference? no, ido virus following that conference? no, i do not believe either of those things is the case. there are issues around decent confidentiality, patient confidentiality, there were a very small number of people from scotla nd a very small number of people from scotland at that event, all of those cases were reported three figures in the normal way, it is important to stress that but having said patient xandy stress that but having said patient x and y health board, they may have been the only person in that effort at that event and that would have effectively identified them at that point, that is why, patient confidentiality is an important consideration. contact tracing was done rigorously in this situation, and incident management scheme was set up to ensure protection of public health was at the centre of how this was managed. contacts were identified and chase. i have talked a different context before about a contact. it is for those contact racers who are doing that to ensure from the information we are giving follow up contacts. studio: the first minister of scotland seeing that from now on anyone over the age of five in scotland will be able to get a covid 19 test if they are showing symptoms, and on thursday the scottish and will outline a road map to the easing of the lockdown, not giving dates but giving an indication of the order in which restrictions would be lifted. that one o clock news is coming up inafew that one o clock news is coming up in a few moments. now, the weather. some of the warmest weather of the year this week. it does not mean sunshine and dry weather all the way. we could see some more wet weather cam with a speu some more wet weather cam with a spell of cool and windy conditions. that will be dictated by what is happening across the western atlantic. a tropical storm will mix up atlantic. a tropical storm will mix up the atmosphere and potentially bring as windy weather to end the week. for the time being. some rain or drizzle at times. sunshine across some southern counties of england. winds from the south to south west, with cloud and rain temperatures close to or slightly above what they should be at this time of year. this evening and overnight still cloud and rain in parts of scotland, northern ireland, north england. cletus conditions for the north of scotland and southern counties of england and south wales. clear of frost. most start tomorrow with temperatures in double digits. cloud in the morning across scotland, northern ireland, northern england bringing rain and drizzle outbreaks. brighter weather in the afternoon should allow temperatures to creep up a bit more. 20 degrees potential on some east coasts. surge of warm airas potential on some east coasts. surge of warm air as high pressure builds from wednesday. east winds will bring clearer conditions. cloud will break up more readily. more sunshine for scotland and northern ireland. even here temperatures will get above 20 degrees more widely. chance ofa above 20 degrees more widely. chance of a thunderstorm on thursday. that changed towards the end of the week, the potential for windy weather. a loss of taste or smell are added to the nhs list of symptoms of covid 19. are added to the nhs list anyone with the symptoms should self isolate for seven days. the advice coming weeks after experts raised concerns that coronavirus cases are being missed. it has taken a little bit too long, i would say. we are way behind other countries in recognising these other symptoms. we ll be looking at the new list of symptoms and asking why they ve been changed now. also this lunchtime. commuters getting back to to work face new measures on trains and security guards trained in crowd control on duty at major stations. back in fashion italy moves to the next stage of returning to normality, reopening more shops, restaurants and hairdressers. could the start of the pandemic have been handled better? a un chief says the world is paying a heavy price
this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the government has defended the easing of lockdown measures in england from tomorrow, despite the country s covid 19 alert system indicating high levels of transmission. we are reasonably confident that the steps we have ta ken we are reasonably confident that the steps we have taken and will be taking on monday are manageable, but we have to also continue to play our pa rt we have to also continue to play our part in that. after 10 weeks at home, more than two million people in england and wales who ve been shielding during lockdown, are told they can go outdoors. protests in the us over the killing of george floyd spread from minneapolis to at least 30 different cities, despite a number of curfews in place riot police use tear gas and rubber bullets. nasa astronauts doug hurley and bob behnken have docked with, and entered, the international space station. on the beaches, how people and the authorities in the uk are dealing with the challenge of covid 19 and school s back for some pupils primary schools in england get ready for socially distanced classes starting tomorrow. 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. for the latest news and analysis the uk government has defended its timing of a further easing of the lockdown in england from tomorrow. the communities secretary robert jenrick said they were reasonably confident the steps being taken were manageable but people also had to play their part. from tomorrow, all four uk nations will have guidelines in place allowing more than two people to meet outside. vulnerable people in england and wales, who have been advised to stay home since the lockdown began, will also be able to go outdoors again. shielding advice in northern ireland and scotland hasn t changed. the first phase in the reopening of schools will begin in england, with children in nurseries, reception, and years one and six being allowed to return. and, provided they meet safety guidelines, open air markets and car showrooms in england can also start to trade again. it comes as another 113 deaths were recorded in latest 2a hour period which brings the total death toll for those who ve tested positive for the virus to 38,489. here s our political correspondent, chris mason. in the sunshine, this is the valley as spot is so popular today than the car park eventually had to close. scientists say the chance of catching the virus on site is pretty small, but their pleading with us to be cautious. it is notjust about what is possible to do it is about what is possible to do it is about what is possible to do it is about what is sensible to do and what is sensible to do is to have as few interactions as possible. by tomorrow, all parts of the table of guidelines in place to allow more than two people to meet outside. in england, groups of run seven people can gather from different households in wales, and a number of two different households can be able to meet and family should aim to travel no more than five miles in scotland, two separate households to a maximum of eight people can meet and in wales, people are being encouraged not to travel far. northern ireland, groups of the six people who do not live together, can gather. wherever you are in the uk, social distancing rules still apply in people from different households must stay two metres apart. we heard how crucial it is that we stick scrupulously to the rules this very dangerous and sensitive moment and i wonder how having seen the pictures this weekend, where social distancing is difficult or impossible. those additional easements was still in all likelihood keep the rate of infection below one, so we are reasonably confident that the steps that we have taken and will be taking on monday are manageable.- we all venture out more, this is the yorkshire dells today and as the government being reasonably confident for getting this right. labour is sceptical. unless it works, we will not know where the diseases, will not be in addition to down in localised areas that we could see another lockdown. geographical differences around the uk. using lockdown is perfectly 0k in areas like london, which were hit early and hit hard but up north, it is still a very large number of cases. relaxing the rules is loaded with uncertainty. no one can know what the consequences will be. vulnerable people in england and wales who ve been shielding in their homes since the start of lockdown have been told they can venture out for the first time from tomorrow that s four weeks earlier than expected. those with underlying health conditions, who are more at risk, will be able to go out with members of their household or meet one person outside their household. here s our health editor hugh pym. showed that since march, not leaving her house and garden, but tomorrow, she will be able to. taking the dog for a walk in meeting a member of the family. i ecstatic, my mum is going to come here for a walk and we are going to have a proper conversation in the air and it will feel like we are a lot closer again. so, even though we cannot embrace that, will be much better than it has been. those most at risk from the virus or shielding, renter and a half million people in the uk, including transplant recipients, cancer patients, those with severe respiratory conditions. they have been told not to leave their homes perform tomorrow, those shielding in england and wales will be allowed to go outside once a day meet one of the person from outside their household remaining two metres apart. the rules have not changed in scotla nd apart. the rules have not changed in scotland and northern ireland. but some are worried. kidney dialysis at home in blackburn four days a week and he is waiting for a transplant. he stayed indoors for ten weeks with his mother and brother. he says he will not be going out tomorrow. his mother and brother. he says he will not be going out tomorrowm is not something i would like to risk. i d rather be safe than sorry and the messaging generally from the government over the past couple of months is been very muddled and unclear and it just doesn t months is been very muddled and unclear and itjust doesn t really fill me with much confidence in and probably more afraid now than i was the beginning. when charity leader gave a warning. is actually created quite a lot of anxiety and people are hearing different things in the government announcement that they are shooting from their own clinical team. minister say deceptive people in the shielded groups whether they go outside or not, they should only do what they are comfortable with and there will be a review of the policy in midjune. protests have spread to at least 30 cities in the united states, triggered by the death of a black american in police custody in minneapolis. george floyd who was unarmed, died after police officers pinned him down to the ground. officers in riot gear charged at demonstrators, and rubber bullets were used in many cities. barbara plett usher reports from minneapolis. another night of chaos and unrest, as anger over police killings spread to every corner of the country, penetrating the heart of political power in washington, dc security agents used tear gas to push protesters away from the white house. new york s iconic streets were littered with the debris of rage over the death of george floyd, but also giving vent to years of festering frustration with police mistreatment of african america ns. here, and in more than a dozen other cities, protesters and looters ignored curfews. security forces rounded them up, fighting to restore order. nearly a third of the arrests took place in los angeles. in minneapolis, where the protests began, the national guard moved with military precision to clear demonstrators away from the police station, firing tear gas and rubber bullets, setting up roadblocks throughout the city and shutting down movement. we re the press! we re media! security forces have been aggressively pushing back the protesters. they came, determined to make sure that this night would be different than the others, to retake the streets. we ve seen a real show of force here tonight. earlier in the day, protesters marched peacefully, chanting, i can t breathe , the words of george floyd as a police officer knelt on his neck to restrain him. most don t support the violence, but some say without it their voices aren t heard. we ve been silent for too long. we ve been peaceful. how many peaceful protests we have to have until it gets right? so, yes, i feel like it needed to happen. there is a point of being policed where we just reach our wits end, and this is our wits end. this is a war! they are notjust stepping back and allowing us to win! they see this as a pivotal moment in a long struggle for racial justice, but the country is walking a dangerous line between protest and anarchy, confrontation and aggression, battering the space to find answers to the unrest. and in the uk, thousands of people have gathered to protest in manchester, cardiff and london in solidarity with demonstrators in the us. protestors walked to the american embassy in south west london and crowded together despite social distancing restrictions. they chanted black lives matter in reference to the civil rights campaign group, and held up signs reading justice for george and rest in power . our correspondentjon donnison has been at the protests outside the us embassy here in london and sent this update. there s still quite a few police here outside the us embassy, but this demonstration is now over. they started off in trafalgar square i d say about 1,000 people at its peak. they headed down towards parliament and then here to the embassy. the majority of people, but not all, were black and most, i d say, were quite young, and many were carrying placards with the words black lives matter. this demonstration looked to be almost entirely peaceful. there was some anger when police made a number of arrests outside the us embassy here, but one of the things that i think a lot of people will be asking is that the organisers of this demonstration today on social media had called for people to bring facemasks and to keep two metres apart. well, some people had facemasks, but there was very little social distancing, with many of the protesters, when it was at its height, this demonstration, simply cheek by jowl. thousands of people have flocked to beaches around the uk today to enjoy the warm weather as the lockdown starts to be eased. but how difficult has it been to follow social distancing rules? our correspondent, duncan kennedy reports from bournemouth. the beach at bournemouth was packed by mid morning. people out to enjoy the sun and keep their social distance as best they could. there are tens of thousands of people here not socially distancing. it became so crowded that the leader of the council herself came out to warn people of the danger. every household i ve met so far has said, we all live in a house together. she says, with numbers like this, social distancing can become challenging. these people are not ignoring the rules, they are not interested for after what happened last week nationally, people are saying they are not in the rules. the gaps between people were clear in many areas but some didn t feel comfortable. i ve lived here for ten years and i ve never seen at this busy on a non lockdown day, let alone today. it s crazy. how much social distancing do you think is going on? none at all, to be honest. but most were happy to stay. although the vast majority of people here are trying to keep socially distant, the rules change again in england tomorrow, allowing up to six people together. the council says it s writing to mps and the government to ask them for more help to keep places like this safer. with the arrival of summer, the issue of how we come together to stay apart remains with us. the end of the pier sign sums up one council s view and what they think we should be doing about it. india has announced plans to further ease a strict national lockdown. it comes despite a record daily rise of nearly 8,000 new coronavirus cases on saturday. from 8thjune, restaurants, hotels, shopping centres and places of worship will be allowed to re open in many areas in the first stage of a three phase plan. divya arya, our corresondent in delhi has the details. it is a clear message to the people that this might still be called a lockdown, it is a month long extension, but the purpose of the lockdown is actually to unlock. so the lockdown, or the restrictions on movement of people, is strictly going to be enforced only in areas that have high numbers of coronavirus cases. other areas, which is most of the country, will see the phased reopening. only schools and colleges are not being opened for another couple of months. we have not heard anything about international air travel as well. but other things, shops, shopping malls, even places of religious worship, as you explained, are opening up. even today, you talked about saturday, today is an update on saturday and the numbers are still the highest single day. it is 8300 today. and they have seen that for the last two weeks, that numbers are consistently rising as india started easing restrictions. so over the last two weeks, train travel has been allowed in the country, so has domestic airflights. millions of people, in fact, migrant workers, who were stranded without pay in big cities, have been moved as they wanted to go back to their home towns, complaining they had no food to eat, no way to sustain themselves. so the numbers are small, but now, as these restrictions are being eased, there is a possibility, and as we have seen over the last two weeks, that the numbers may surge. now, these are small numbers in comparison to the population, but the government has also been accused of very low levels of testing. india is testing just over 100,000 people every day, which is one of the lowest levels of testing compared to globally. the headlines on bbc news. the government has defended the easing of lockdown measures in england from tomorrow, despite the country s covid 19 alert system indicating high levels of transmission. after ten weeks at home, more than two million people in england and wales who ve been shielding during lockdown, are told they can go outdoors. protests in the us over the killing of george floyd spread from minneapolis to at least 30 different cities, despite a number of curfews in place. riot police use tear gas and rubber bullets. two of the holiest sites in islam have reopened their doors after more than two months shutdown because of the coronavirus. hundreds of worshippers streamed into the second holiest site, the prophet s mosque in the saudi city of medina. the third holiest site, al aqsa mosque in occupied eastjerusalem has also re opened worshippers are now required to wear face masks and have to follow social distancing rules. islam s holiest site in mecca in saudi arabai remains closed to be public. and for roman catholics, st peter s square has reopened to the public. pope francis has led prayer from his window for the first time in three months. primary schools in england will begin re admitting some pupils this week, amidst warnings from teachers unions that it is too soon. in addition to vulnerable children and those of key workers, parents of nursery, reception, year1 and year 6 pupils will be able to choose whether to send their children back to class. school governors have told the bbc that some schools will only be opening part time. our education editor branwen jeffreys reports from manchester. we ve had to think about everything from the moment the parents drop of the children from the gates the morning. for weeks, the had teachers from planning to stop this is the yellow line. parents and children arriving tomorrow morning we ll see how much is changed. on the playground, the new normal marked out, children and youth glass bubbles of no more than 15. all of our classrooms i have doors onto the outside. lessons, break time and lunch on the same group. usually we would have the admit videos and how stu d e nts would have the admit videos and how students were coming to school and about the classrooms look like because everything is just a little bit different and we want to ease the anxiety for parents and children. even schools like this that are completely ready to take back nurseries, perception, your one in yearsix, back nurseries, perception, your one in year six, don t expect everyone to turn up on the first day. a lot of it is about personal choice. how pa rents of it is about personal choice. how parents feel about managing the risks. safety comes first. one mum told me of her dilemma. her oldest could go back to your six, both older relatives at home, she wants him to wait. bill talked to the teachers how to manage now everything is going and if they give mea everything is going and if they give me a positive response i think about it. at moment, it is no. in this community, every family making their decision. they want her to go back to finish primary school.|j decision. they want her to go back to finish primary school. i am sure there is a school doing what they can to follow the guidelines, but i wa nt can to follow the guidelines, but i want her to meet her friends before the transition to high school. earlier, when union leaders that scientists repacking their call for a delay stop you what they re concerned and our concern is that the case number in the country is not low enough and that the contract tracing is not working well enough. so, we are risking a spike in communities. most of the children will still be at home, with the promise of some lessons for your ten later in june. nasa astronauts doug hurley and bob behnken this afternoon reached the international space station onboard the crew dragon capsule from the private firm, spacex. it took the pair 19 hours to get to the destination, after blasting off from cape canaveral last night. the mission s aim is to demonstrate spacex s ability to ferry astronauts to the space station and back safely. outdoor markets and car showrooms will be allowed to reopen in england tomorrow, with safety measures in place, as the restrictions on non essential retailers start to be eased. all other shops classed as non essential are preparing to open from june the 15th. here s our business correspondent katy austin. neil s getting ready to sell his towels and bedding at barnsley‘s outdoor market for the first time in over two months. he and his wife suzanne are planning a new safe stall layout. and then we ve got the tables at the front, a two metre distance. i don t think we ll take a great deal of money, but we ve just got to get into the system of working again. however slow business is, they can t wait to reopen. it s very important. plus, we want to help the economy, don t we? we want to make a start. scotland, wales and northern ireland have different plans in place for the reopening of shops and markets, but no dates are set yet. meanwhile, retailers in england are pressing ahead with their covid secure reopening plans. as it sells homeware, ikea could have stayed open, but it chose to shut, and will only reopen in england and northern ireland from tomorrow, with safety procedures. we will be limiting the flow of customers in the car park and into the store. we ve invested in this new team of what we re calling social distance wardens , who will be on hand throughout the store just to help customers with the one way system. other nonessential shops in england, including this kent menswear shop, can t open untiljune15. we have ordered a screen for the till area. they, too, are adapting to recommended safety measures. i ve closed one changing room. so we ve got one changing room which will be sanitised after every use, and then whatever garments have been tried, they will be taken out of stock for a period of time to be sanitised. so, how much of a challenge is it for an independent shop like yours to introduce all these safety measures and still make enough money? very challenging. we ve got to limit who comes in. so, straightaway, you re saying, sorry, sir, do you mind waiting? and that potential customer might say, oh, well, i ll come back another time . tony only expects a trickle of trade initially, but like the markets, hopes customers who have been shopping more online, do eventually return. there are more than 3 and a half million children in the uk who don t have a brother or a sister, and for them the lockdown has been particularly tough. the children s charity, the nspcc says that only children may have felt isolated in the last 10 weeks, with only mum and dad for company and plenty of solo play. tomos morgan s been to meet a couple of one child families in cardiff. i m embracing the fact i m watching him growing up every day. i am seeing him develop and spending all that time with him, that is brilliant. but he does need to be with his friends as well. since the middle of march eight year old evan has been enjoying quality life at home in cardiff with dad jason. we have bumped into a few of your friends. as an only child the only children he has seen since lockdown are either his friends at a distance or online. which is just not quite as good as normal. if you see your friends you are like, dad, can i go and play with them? but, no, you can just wave at them through the window but you can t go and play with them. really annoying. because i want to but i can t. i can t. according to the office of national statistics there are over 3.5 million single child families across the uk. and from monday some pupils in england will return to school. by then across all the uk nations groups of varying amounts of people from different households will be able to meet outside. but crucially still at a social distance. which means children still won t to be able to play with each other in person in the near future as the two metre rule remains in place. isolating for only children who are struggling with a lack of social interaction with their friends, being in school, and yes they can go online but that does not replace that physical contact. because i am an only child i am kind of used to it but when i have time to think about it it is more lonely, yes. between football and playing international basketball, 12 year old daniel would usually see friends almost every day of the week but not any more. i want to meet up but we are not allowed to. it is quite boring because i do not have any siblings. mum has been at home with daniel throughout lockdown keeping him engaged with school work, scrabble and sports training. he is dealing with it really well. he is good at keeping himself amused. but in the long term that is not good, is it? although any child could be experiencing loneliness during lockdown the best way to overcome those feelings is by sharing those emotions. it is just that keeping in touch with people, sharing how you are feeling, sharing how you are feeling with your mum and dad, your carer. for daniel and evan quality time with their parents has made lockdown easier. but sometimes nothing can replace a kickabout with friends. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes. hello there. it s been another warm day, with nationwide sunshine. in wales, the warmest day of the year so far, with temperatures reaching 27 celsius in porthmadog. you can see the extent of the clear skies nearby on that weather watch picture. overnight tonight, we will keep that clear weather for the most part, although late in the night, there could be a few patches of low cloud there mist and fog. but for most of us, it is a clear and starry overnight, with temperatures 6 13dc, a little bit colder potentially out in the countryside. tomorrow, it is another fine and sunny day coming up nationwide. there will be a bit of cloud developing as we head in the afternoon but not really spoiling the sunshine. it will be very warm once again. temperatures in scotland will probably reach the mid 20s in the warmest areas. glasgow, 2a celsius. 2a as well in western areas of northern ireland and across western wales. 25 potentially in porthmadog. similar temperatures in bournemouth. on tuesday we will start to see the weather front approach the far north of scotland. that will bring some rain across the northern areas, maybe up to ten minute metres of rain. as the northerly winds begin to work in, it is going to start to feel cooler as well. temperatures quite a bit down on recent days in stornoway and lerwick. elsewhere, it is another warm and sunny day, temperatures, low to mid 20s. heading into the middle of the week, we are going to see outbreaks of rain for some of us and it will be turning cooler as the more northerly winds begin to push further south. with rain or showers for many of us. along with that, the northerly winds dragging in some much cooler air. instead of the mid 20s, towards the end of the week, we are looking at temperatures generally in the high teens perhaps just into the low 20s. not everyone will see rain but the amount we do get will vary quite a bit. at least for some, there is rain on the horizon.
hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. the government has defended the easing of lockdown measures in england from tomorrow, despite the country s covid 19 alert system indicating high levels of transmission. we re reasonably confident that the steps that we ve taken, and will be taken on monday, are manageable. but we have to all continue to play our part in that. after ten weeks at home, more than two million people in england and wales who ve been shielding during lockdown