has been end, a postponed olympics has been no excuse end, a postponed olympics has been no excuse to slack. how are you getting on with the like that we le nt getting on with the like that we lent you ? getting on with the like that we lent you? good, shame i can't keep it! dame sarah storey is usually in the saddle six hours a day but is now racing in a virtual world. training has had to be quite significantly adapted. technology is just so good, you can choose a group to ride with or you canjust just so good, you can choose a group to ride with or you can just go around the courses and do it by yourselves. but what about kids in all this? the recommendation is they need an hour of exercise daily, but that has just become a lot harder. we know staying active in childhood can help prevent diseases in the future, not to mention how good it is for our children's mental health. with school pe off the agenda and playgrounds closed, health experts are urging parents to keep their kids as active as they possibly can in anyway they can during this lockdown. we are the fattest nation in western europe, a third of all children are overweight or have

obesity by the time they leave primary school. everybody appreciates that people are staying at home to save lives by stopping covid—i9, but the danger is that it is going to have a real adverse effect on the overall weight of children. keep active to stay healthy and start from now. double olympic champion max whitlock agrees. the father of one has been devising workouts for kids and believes we've been handed an opportunity. it's a great way to kickstart you into thatjourney, and that could be something that could be created for a lifetime, a habit, which will bring so many benefits to so which will bring so many benefits to so many families. to help fight the virus now, or to help protect the nhs in the future, there are plenty of reasons we should all get off the sofa, even if you look a bit silly in the process. in other news, bill withers, the soul singer behind hits such as lean on me and ain't no sunshine has died.

# lean on me # lean on me # when you're not strong... # when you're not strong... # i'll help you carry on... he died on monday at the age of 81 in los angeles. he had heart complications. his family described him as a solitary man with a heart driven to connect to the world. bill withers, who has died at the age of 81. time for a look at the weather — here's tomasz schafernaker. hi, there, clive. well, we all know what the forecast is for this weekend, it's going to be so tempting to go outside, but we must follow the rules. anyway, this is what is happening from a meteorological point of view at least. warm air that is coming in from the south will establish itself across the uk during the weekend and there are indications that it may hang around well into next week. the

morning on saturday is going to be a little fresh, not as cold as last night but quite cold first thing on saturday morning. the cloudy is to weather on saturday will be across parts of scotland and northern ireland. also a few showers here. the sunniest weather will probably be from yorkshire southwards. wales also seeing plenty of sunshine. and then on saturday night, into sunday, we see this low pressure approaching, it is going to strengthen that warm current of air from the southern climes. it is going to push away the clouds as well, so hence, that sunny, warm day widely across the uk, but across western areas, very gusty winds and also the threat of some spots of rainfor also the threat of some spots of rain for belfast. so, here is that warm day on sunday. the pollen

levels are going to be— and as well, high in the south—east, but for much of the country it will be around moderate. we can see that that warm weather continues into next week, and by wednesday, it will be in excess and by wednesday, it will be in excess of 20 degrees in the south, and staying relatively settled in many other parts of the uk as well. that is it. goodbye from me, now we join our news team is where you are. hello, i'm sarah mulkerrins at the bbc sport centre. football clubs and the pay of their players has been in the headlines for the last few days, and, today, the premier league announced that it was asking footballers to take a 30% pay cut, in order to protectjobs. they will now put the proposals to the players. the premier league also said the season would not resume until "it was safe and appropriate to do so". for more on this —

let's bring in our sport news reporter laura scott now. she's been following this for us. laura, we have seen huge pressure on laura, we have seen huge pressure on all the stakeholders in football to act — and laura, there's been a series of finacial announcements today, not just that pay cut of 30%. know, exactly. there's been a furious reaction this week, mainly from politicians, and also fans to some clubs choosing to use thejob also fans to some clubs choosing to use the job retention scheme for non—playing staff. there was immense pressure on the clubs and players to ta ke pressure on the clubs and players to take action regarding player salaries. you mentioned this 30% idl. they will be consulted on a 30% wage deferral or reduction. now, my understanding is it's based on on numbers scenario to do with potential match a revenue loss is it's based on a numbers scenario to do with potential match day revenue losses if they return to play behind closed doors. but also potential broadcast losses if they don't end up

broadcast losses if they don't end up playing the game. so, they will have a meeting tomorrow. these talks continue. but not everyone is entirely happy with what they've heard today. i think when it comes to ages, it's a small step. but we are still seemingly quite a long way from actually getting that sorted. when it comes to other things such as the 125 needed by smaller clubs, that really is a good move. i've seen the devastation in places like barry when their football club is taken away, and i really don't want to see us coming out of this crisis with more communities stripped of their foot ball clu b more communities stripped of their football club because it really is the lifeblood of many of our towns and cities. the mp julia at the mpjulia at night there, in terms of the reabsorption of the lead, this is not going to happen until it safe and appropriate. know, exactly. they decided today that they wouldn't be resuming in may as they wouldn't be resuming in may as they had planned, and they haven't put a restart date on it. they've almost effectively, suspended the

season indefinitely and said that they will just constantly review when they might be able to restart the season. as you say, they have said that they will only do so when it's safe, but also when they've got the government's support and the medical guidance would support them starting again. but with football's restart seeming a long way off come into becoming being dominated by this discussion of player wages and this discussion of player wages and this pressure, it does feel like today there's been some progress. laura, or sports news reported there. thank you very much for joining us. the world heavyweight title fight between anthonyjoshua and the ibf‘s mandatory challenger kubrat pulev of bulgaria has been postponed. the bout was due to take place at tottenham hotspur stadium on the 20th ofjune. joshua's promoter matchroom boxing said a new date for the fight "was being worked on". next to one athlete turning from professional sport, to front line working in the nhs. layla guscoth is an england netballer and she played until very recently in australia for the adelaide thunderbirds. she is also a junior doctor.

and, since last monday, she back in her scrubs and is part of the team treating covid—i9 patients in birmingham. i spoke to her about the transition. the team that i play for, a couple of days before they paused our league over there happened, and the coach had asked what i would want to do if the leak was postponed, and i said that i would like to come home, and they were supportive of that. at that time, australia was starting to close the borders command fights we re close the borders command fights were becoming really difficult, and a lot of the interchanging airports we re a lot of the interchanging airports were closing, like singapore and dubai, so it was touch and go for about 2k hours, we weren't sure if we we re about 2k hours, we weren't sure if we were able to get a flight, but we managed to get one. about 36 hours before we flew, we had actually secured one. so until i got on that plane, ididn't secured one. so until i got on that plane, i didn't really speak to my family too much about it all. are you feeling, i suppose, overwhelmed

yet? you know, everybody‘s talking about this peak and when it may come, andi about this peak and when it may come, and i just about this peak and when it may come, and ijust wonder what stage you may feel it to may be at. it's quite early for me. i don't think i've yet been exposed to what i know some of my friends and colleagues have had. for me, i was nervous going back into it all, just not knowing what to expect. it's not something that i've read in a medical textbook, and it's not something that i've encountered before. it's also new, and there's s0 before. it's also new, and there's so much hype and media around it all that it's difficult to put that all to one side and just go to work. i think it's the supportive atmosphere at the moment and morale seems quite high, and people seem really engaged in trying to do the bestjob that we can. so it's challenging and it's overwhelming, but i'm just trying to focus on the things that i know some of the good sources of information and trying to seek help from the right people. have you seen some of the claps for the nhs? yeah, oh

yeah! idid. the claps for the nhs? yeah, oh yeah! i did. and i saw the one last week. i was prettyjet—lagged, yeah! i did. and i saw the one last week. iwas prettyjet—lagged, but yeah! i did. and i saw the one last week. i was prettyjet—lagged, but i managed to stay up until eight o'clock to hear it, and won again last night. it's amazing that people are coming out to clap for notjust the nhs but carers throughout all of our society, and i hope that after this gets better and subsides, which i really hope it will do, that people still remember how great our nhs is, and for me, personally, i feel such pride working in the nhs and think it's a really important bit of our society. she's there doing a very important job for us. so thank you to her. now, for some the postponement of the olympic games until 2021 has thrown up some difficult questions. british rower tom ransley was all set to be part of the men's eight, defending their olympic title — but the prospect of adding another year onto his career, was something he couldn't face — as jo currie reports.

the golden moment for great british rowing and the eight men on board, but one of them wanted more. after winning in rio, tom grimsley was targeting a spot at the summer's olympics in tokyo, but after the games were postponed until 2021, he says his body and mind simply can't hold on. even though it's tough, and it's especially close to that decision point commits really tough to let go ofan point commits really tough to let go of an objective, i'm just like really looking forward to seeing the guys, really looking forward to seeing the guys, you know, enjoy it. ithink there will be some awesome games. yes, i think i'm you know, i will miss it in some senses, but no, you know, it's not my olympics. i'm just looking forward to seeing the guys do well. rowing involves a lot of early mornings out on the water from and that's on top of the backbreaking training sessions in the gym as well. for a time, the prospect of having to do this for one more year has proved too much. isa sad,

one more year has proved too much. is a sad, it is really tough. it's not just getting in is a sad, it is really tough. it's notjust getting in the boat, because i miss being on the water, but it's doing it day in and day out, all of the mileage, all of the pushing through injuries, there's just no let up. time's success in rio followed on from when he bronzed at london 2012. so how hard was it to give up on the prospect of competing at a third games? yeah, it's always going to be an end. it's inevitable. you can't do this forever. so, anyway, i have that conversation and from then on, it was more a case of accepting retirement and going forward. as i said, with the coronavirus, you know, that space to try and re—up and go again, but, actually, it probably... the confirmation that it made the right decision and that tokyo, you know, are for the other guys. time says he is now hoping to

transition into a career in journalism and may be more importantly, he's looking forward to a much deserved lie n. jo currie, bbc news, possibly. sorry to break it to you, time, there is some early mornings in journalism two. the international swimming league have announced they'll fund their contracted athletes through to next year's rescheduled olympics in tokyo. the "solidarity programme" will run from september this year to july next year and is due to cost the organisation nearly nine million pounds. the isl which launched in 2019 was hailed as a huge success by swimmers — and organisers plan to launch season two in october. one thing we've been seing during the enforced lockdown in the last couple of weeks is the way families have come up with creative ways to get their sporting fix. the whybrow household have decided to find a unique way to recreate the drama of great britain's success at olympic curling.

one last delivery for olympic gold. it's on its way. she's done it! i love his reaction with the big yes. there are some more, because we need this in our life, don't we? this is a family from jordan, they are all professional table tennis players. using it on any surface, they are confined but keep practising. rights, that is all the sport for now, we will see you again soon, bye—bye. sarah, many thanks. you are watching bbc news. let's go back now to that downing street press conference held a little earlier, where the health secretary, matt hancock, urged volu nteers secretary, matt hancock, urged volunteers to come forward to participate in clinical trials for

coronavirus tests. he also echoed the prime minister in demanding that people don't leave their homes unnecessarily ahead of the sunny weekend, this is not a request, he said. we can get some reaction to that. let's speak to the shadow attorney—general, i do have to say at this point, we are no relation. matt hancock said, this is not a request in terms of not going out this weekend, it's an instruction, is that something that you back? absolutely. and some people may remember that, you know, i'm a human rights lawyer. i'm second to no one in my love of our ancient liberties and our modern human rights, but i think that anybody who gives pause for thought for those two brave nurses who have died in their mid—30s, caring for others needs to not be selfish, needs to not be controversial list just not be selfish, needs to not be controversial listjust because they feel well. they need to think about

everybody else as well. so i absolutely back the instruction from government that we should all obey the social distancing rules, and we should stay—at—home, except for those very very brief periods and specific purposes set out. that is how we are going to protect each other in the short term. and i am, you know, i have no truck with people who this week have been taking to the airwaves on the bbc and elsewhere to talk about police states and so on. irresponsible. loose talk will literally cost lives at this point. so, yes, we are with —— one with the government on that. we actually urged the government to go into this lockdown phase before they did that. 0k, go into this lockdown phase before they did that. ok, the health secretary continues to face lots of questions about testing. where do you stand on what the government has done so far? i think there's been a lack of clarity about their testing

strategy, and there has been a slow delivery of that testing strategy. i say that in the spirit of constructive opposition at a time of national and international emergency. still in the press conference in the public statements, some lack of clarity about the five pillars of matt hancock's strategy and about the test —— that test see whether you have the virus now as opposed to the test coming down the strea m opposed to the test coming down the stream that may tell you whether you've had it in the past. there wasn't complete clarity, i thought, about how many of the new tests are going to be in the first or second category. also about how the government proposes to ramp up production of these tests. the good news, however, was the announcement

about the new hospitals. i have to pay tribute to the nhs for really managing to increase the bed capacity and open all of these enormous sort of field hospitals overnight. that is to be applauded. we were talking about staying at home, we were talking about this very tough period of policing and people having to make sacrifices. there are still some employers who are forcing their staff to work in unnecessary and unsafe conditions. and ifor one would like unnecessary and unsafe conditions. and i for one would like to see the police not just out and i for one would like to see the police notjust out on the streets and in places of beauty trying to get people to be sensible, i think that they should be supporting the health and safety executive that doesn't have the resources to get into these places of work to make sure that employers do their bit as well. ms. chuck roberti, tomorrow, the labour party, your party —— labour party, is going to see who its new leader is. what sort of role

would you like the new leader to have in this crisis? one of constructive criticism of opposition or one of where he or she may be pa rt or one of where he or she may be part of the decision—making process, not necessarily part of a national government of unity, but some sort of role within that. well, i don't wa nt to of role within that. well, i don't want to preempt either this fast changing crisis or indeed to bind thejudgements of the changing crisis or indeed to bind the judgements of the new leader, what i do hope and believe is that we will go into next week a united party, continuing in a spirit of constructive criticism and at times you know, positive active assistance to the government. we have lots of wonderful members of parliament all over the country who, for example, are collecting dossiers of bad

behaviour by unscrupulous employers. we wa nt behaviour by unscrupulous employers. we want to share that with the government and we want to help them come up with solutions, whether it's on the economic protection that people are still not getting in sufficient numbers or with sufficient numbers or with sufficient speed, or whether it's in any other aspect of this terrible crisis. 0k, we will have to leave it there. good to talk to you, thank you very much. thank you. we can also speak to the liberal democrat co—leader, sir ed davey. sir ed davey, we were talking about wanting her party to provide positive active assistance to the government, but also being a sort of critical friend, if you government, but also being a sort of criticalfriend, if you like, is that how you would view your own position? yes, totally. i agree with everything that she just said then. and when you come from a press co nfe re nce and when you come from a press conference where you've seen the chief nursing officer of england, ruth may, talk about the fact that

two of her colleagues, to registered nurses, young nurses, mothers, have died today in the service of the patient's. then you have to have a sombre mood and you have to get behind the advice of the experts that we must stay at home. so i completely agree with her, and indeed with the government on that. we have to protect our nhs. we have to behave responsibly. this is a deadly virus. it's so infectious, so contagious. and we can all play our distance. and when we go out in those moments we have to, whether it's to buy food or to have exercise, we have to practice social distancing. so i think all of the political parties are at one on this. and i think that's a big signal, when politicians who are normally you know, critical of each other from her actually saying we've got to come together... that is understood. there are questions being asked about the government's planning in terms of protective equipment for health care workers,

and also in terms of testing. what are the questions that you have? yes, i think it's part of constructive opposition that we do ask those questions on behalf of the nhs staff, characters, paramedics and so on, and the wider public. and we can ask those questions in a reasonable way. and i do really worry about the ppe equipment, the personally picked protective equipment that we are getting to ca re equipment that we are getting to care and staff workers and so on. the reports i get that my colleagues are getting from around the country is that a lot of that kit is just not getting through. and even some of the kit that is getting through is of poor quality. people are having to make homemade kit. that's deeply disappointing. i asked the question when the house was sitting before recess, and i was reassured that there was enough kit. well, if there is, it's not getting to the front lines. it's not get into community pharmacies. it's not getting to people who are they are trying to help us. so i do hope the

government can step up its efforts on this. get the supply chains working. if necessary, just as they've asked manufacturing industry to make ventilators, now they are talking to the life science industry to make sure all our labs are doing the testing. they need to get more of that industry helping them out to solve this ppe equipment, this protective equipment that our front line health workers so desperately deserve and need. 0k. thank you very much indeed, that's sir ed davey, the co—leader of the liberal democrats. now, teachers and england will be asked to assess the grades that they think peoples would have achieved in their cancel gcs e and a level exams. this will be used by exa m level exams. this will be used by exam boards to decide results, along with the rank and viability of pupils in each subject in school, alsojudged by teachers. this approach from the qualifications watchdog will replace exams disrupted by the corona outbreak.

results day will be no later than originally planned, and may even be earlier. well, we can speak now to sean griffiths, the education editor at the sunday times, and she joins me now. so, teachers, pupils have all been anxiously waiting to see what will happen. what do you think of this as a solution? good evening. i think it's rather an elegant solution on the face of it. as you we re solution on the face of it. as you were saying, the gcs e and a level exams had to be cancelled this summer exams had to be cancelled this summer because of the coronavirus crisis. that has left teenagers very worried about what's going to happen. this is a very straightforward solution. it is that teachers will predict what their pupils would've got, had they set the exam and not only will they do that, in each subject, they will actually rank their pupils in order of performance. so, if for instance, the teacher thought all of their french class was going to get an a, then they would then rank those pupils in terms of who is going to get the best a, and who is going to

get the best a, and who is going to get the best a, and who is going to get the worst a grade, and everybody in between. it looks on the face of it, a solution that many have welcomed today. i think it's going to be welcomed because it does give teenagers who were really wondering what on earth was going to happen to them, it gives them a kind of very clear, very simple and straightforward way to continue with their education without necessarily having to defer a year or sit exams in the autumn, or anything else that would've put an awful lot of stress on them. and how has it gone down within the profession? have you had a chance to talk to people? yes. teaching unions have welcomed it on the whole. they think that teachers can assess their pupils accurately. there's been a lot of controversy in the past among the teaching unions about the stress that exams, gcs ease in particular not place on the children, but also on the teachers who, of course, their performance is also being judged, as their schools get placed in league tables based on

their gcse results, so many teachers think this will be a good thing, and some teachers unions would quite like to see gcse it scrapped altogether in the future. what sorts of issues might this throw up in terms of assessment? well, there are various issues. so, for instance, if a child feels that the grade that their teacher has predicted for them which then may be... a testicle be ratified by the exam boards, if that is then awarded, if a child feels that's not fair you know, they feel they could have done better, there are always children who do better in exams than their teachers predict, then they can sit and exam in the autumn, and they can take the higher of the two grades whether they got the grade in the autumn is a higher grade than the one the teacher predicted, but the problem with that is, if you sit and exam predicted, but the problem with that is, if you sitand exam in september, he will not get results until after that. if you are in a level student, that could mean you have to do for your university place for a year. so that's a problem with this scheme. another problem is that

if you are home educated, you are not in school or being home—schooled, then it's difficult to see how this will work, because there aren't teachers to necessarily predict the grades he would've got, maybe you have to dig deferred for a year and set the exams the next year. right. very good to talk to. thank you very much. sean griffiths there who is the education editor at there who is the education editor at the sunday times. thank you. now, in these testing times, let's just pause for a second to see how one nhs trust in worchester sure has briefly celebrated the amazing work of its staff. keeping at a safe distance of two metres apart, of course. # we are family. # i've got all my sisters with me. # we are family. # get up everybody insane. # we are family # i've got all my sisters with me # we are family

working so hard, but still smiling with a little help from sister sledge. ok, now time for a look at the weather, here is thomas. well, it does look like things are going to be warming up in the next couple of days. today, still a little on the chilly side. this is what it looks like as we head into the evening. a few showers out towards the northwest, but for most of us, it's a dry evening, and dry night. actually, this coming night won't be as cold as the night before. the only frost we are expecting is across these more central parts of scotland. generally speaking, temperatures will be around 3—5d in most major towns and cities. so here is saturday morning, already starting off quite sunny, particularly across parts of england. maybe a few spots of rain there and a stronger breeze in northern scotland. but this is how warm it gets come up to around 16 on saturday. still a bit of a chill in

the air left over in scotland, around 11 degrees. come sunday, those temperatures really will start to rock across the uk. 20, notjust in london, but possibly in yorkshire as well. bye—bye.

this is bbc news, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. a clear warning for the british public to stay indoors this weekend yorkshire as well. bye—bye. you will be doing your part. in the first broadcast on the opry, the queen will admits that meeting the target to test 100,000 people a day for coronavirus in the uk by the end of this month is a huge