this is bbc news — i'm james reynolds with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. britain's prime minister is moved to intensive care 10 days after testing positive for coronavirus. he's been receiving excellent care at st thomas‘s hospital and we would like to take this opportunity as a government to thank nhs staff up and down the country for all of their dedication, hard work and commitment in treating everyone who's been affected by this awful virus. political leaders in the uk and around the world send their best wishes and hopes for a speedy recovery. americans are all praying for his recovery. he's been a really good friend. he's been really something very special. strong, resolute, doesn't quit — doesn't give up. the coronavirus has killed more than 10,000 people in america,

as officials warn this could be the saddest, ha rd est week yet in the outbreak. australia's high court upholds cardinal pell‘s appeal over his conviction for sexually assaulting two choirboys — he will be freed from prison later today. boris johnson has been moved to intensive care after his coronavirus symptoms worsened over the course of the afternoon. the british prime minister was admitted to st thomas‘ hospital in london on suday evening. earlier on, borisjohnson said on social media that he'd gone into hospitalfor some routine tests and that he was in good spirits. the foreign secretary, dominic raab, has been asked to deputise for mrjohnson. buckingham palace said the queen had been informed about the situation.

leaders around the world have been sending their best wishes to the prime minister. president trump sent america's well wishes to boris johnson for a speedy recovery. the french president, emmanuel macron, said he hoped mrjohnson would overcome this ordeal quickly. the latest official figures showed almost 5,400 patients have now died in the uk — an increase of a39 on the previous day. in the united states, a senior new york city council member has now reversed his earlier warning that a massive increase in virus related deaths could see people being buried in parks — saying they would be buried on hart island, near the bronx. france has reported 833 deaths in the past 2a hours — its highest since the outbreak began. the figure includes people who died in hospitals and nursing homes. we'll have more on those developments across the world — but first our our political editor laura kuenssberg reports from westminster with the latest on borisjohnson.

less than a mile from downing street, borisjohnson is in intensive care tonight, in a personal fight against the virus that the government and the country is trying to beat. who would have known on thursday night that the health workers he applauded would be caring for him like this? brief glimpses of borisjohnson on social media made it clear he was struggling to shake the virus off. i've done my seven days of isolation. alas, i still have one of the symptoms, a minor symptom — i still have a temperature. now, after being admitted to hospital last night for tests, he is conscious, but, as a precaution, downing street says he has been moved to intensive care, and the foreign secretary has been asked to step up for now. during the course of this afternoon, the prime minister's condition worsened and on the advice of the medical team, he was moved into a critical care unit. with the prime minister now in intensive care, this is now an extremely serious situation. how worried should people be about his health and who is in

charge of the government? the government's business will continue. the prime minister is in safe hands with a brilliant team at st thomas‘s hospital, and the focus of the government will continue to be on making sure that the prime minister's direction, all the plans for making sure that we can defeat coronavirus and pull the country through this challenge will be taken forward. are you confident, though, that the government is under control tonight? there is an incredibly strong team spirit behind the prime minister and making sure that we get all of the plans that the prime minister has instructed us to deliver, to get the implemented as soon as possible and that is the way we will bring the country through the coronavirus challenge that we face right now. just after 8 o'clock, the official statement came from downing street, saying:

good wishes from friends and rivals of borisjohnson‘s flooded online within minutes. from the first minister of scotland, and the brand—new labour leader, and from someone who knows him and the unique job very well. the prime minister is now suffering seriously from a disease that does not pick and choose. downing street itself, a place where the virus spread. power, no protection from harm. laura kuenssberg, bbc news. the bbc‘s chris mason has the latest details from westminster. it's a shocking turn of events, isn't it, when the person charged with co—ordinating the country's response to a national emergency is stricken by the very virus he spent much of the last month trying to ensure impacts the uk

in the most minimal way possible, while being well aware that the impact was always going to be very grave, both in health terms and in economic terms, and in terms of our liberty. we are now a fortnight on from his address to the country, beginning the lockdown and the social distancing measures that we been slowly adjusting to over the last couple of weeks. over and over again, this coronavirus crisis which has swept the world and swept the country has had the capacity to surprise us, to do the very thing that 2a hours earlier would have seemed impossible and here we are again with the prime minister in intensive care, with downing street having to point out, as of 8pm this evening, that boris johnson was conscious but that he had been moved to intensive care, having been given oxygen around about 6pm this evening, i understand, in order to ensure that if he required a ventilator to help with his breathing, he was in the right place for that equipped and to be made available to him.

and we understand that the prime minister had asked dominic raab, the first secretary of state to deputise. tell us a bit about dominic raab, does he have the confidence of his colleagues? dominic raab is the mp for esher in surrey, appointed foreign secretary by borisjohnson when he became prime minister. he was a prominent campaigner for brexit during the referendum campaign and in the months and years that followed the referendum leading up to the general election just before christmas, has been a minister in different departments around whitehall prior to his elevation to one of the great offices, appointed by boris johnson as first secretary of state which, in many ways, is often an honorific title which means very little. other than occasionally deputising for the prime minister

at prime minister's question time when the prime minister was at the european summit or event overseas that prevents him from being at westminster on wednesday lunchtime. i don't think dominic raab, when he accepted the job, though he would be asked to be effectively a potential stand—in prime minister for an unknown period of time if borisjohnson was not able to fulfil the range of obligations and duties that normally fall his way. i thought it was quite striking, james, this evening, and the downing street statement, that mrjohnson had asked mr raab to deputise where necessary, so it wasn't a wholesale exporting of his duties to mr raab. and the british constitutional system doesn't set out a clear path down which power is handed, if the prime minister finds themselves incapacitated. it's a cabinet system of government where cabinet ministers to a greater or lesser extent are equal to the prime minister, first among equals amongst them and a big part of a general election campaign in the autumn

was built around borisjohnson and his personality, known in the uk pretty much by his first name, such is his recognition value. and for a lot of people, frankly, they won't know a great deal about this man, dominic raab, who could quite conceivably be taking significant decisions on behalf of us all. messages of support are coming in for boris johnson from around the world. this was the president trump a short time ago. i also want to send best wishes to a very good friend of mine, and a friend to our nation, prime minister boris johnson. we are very saddened to hear that he was taken into intensive care this afternoon, a little while ago, and americans are all praying for his recovery. he has been a really good friend, he has really been something special. strong, resolute, doesn't quit, doesn't give up. 0ur chief political correspondent vicky young has been at st thomas‘ hospital, where borisjohnson is being treated. she sent this update.

well, after nine days in self—isolation here under the care of doctors here last night, he was admitted to hospital. we know that he has been suffering from this persistent cough and temperature — something he couldn't shake off, which is why he was brought into hospital in the first place. it's worth saying st thomas‘s hospital is one of the top hospitals in the country, it's just across the bridge from the houses of parliament. we were told by downing street earlier the prime minister was working from his hospital bed here, we understand he was given oxygen before that decision was made to move him to intensive care. we are told that has been done as a precaution, it's been done in case he needed ventilation to aid his recovery. now, like thousands of other families that have been affected by the coronavirus, this is an extremely worrying time for him and his family, especially of course his fiancee, who is pregnant, and has been suffering with symptoms of the coronavirus herself. that was vicki young.

0ur political editor, laura kuennsberg has more on how the uk government has planned for situations like this. the foreign secretary now is technically in charge, as he is the prime minister's official understudy and he's been requested by downing street to deputise for him, as and when. and government insiders are pretty confident, they say, the way the cabinet committees have been designed to try to deal with coronavirus into four different groups, looking into all the important elements. that will continue to tick over. 0ne cabinet minister said to me decision—making was pretty crisp, pretty efficient and this had been happening, whoever was in charge. the prime minister of course is much more than a political mascot. they are of course also the most senior decision—maker in any government, and at a time when there are so many dilemmas about the health and wealth of the country, this is obviously a very serious moment for the government and the whitehall machine. even for the prime minister, who was popping up every now and again, trying to say he was fine and getting better throughout this, it has created

a sense already of not that much stability, with him being ill and even when he was in the downing street flat. but now with him in intensive care tonight, even though we should emphasise it's said to be as a precaution, this is obviously a grave moment, one that is very unsettling for the government. and at a time like this which is a genuine national emergency, irrespective of your politics of course, this is clearly a terrible time for the government to be without its figurehead. let's move away from coronavirus coverage for a moment. the former vatican treasurer, the australian cardinal george the former number three in the vatican, from jail after winning a long—running battle to overturn his child sex abuse convictions in australia's high court on tuesday. the appeal was upheld at australia's high court, all sevenjudges ruling unanimously. his conviction has been quashed

and he cannot be retried. 0ur correspondent shaimma khalil is in sydney. i covered the beginnings of this in the vatican several yea rs this in the vatican several years ago now where i remember cardinal pell went to a news conference and said he was innocent. it has worked its way through the courts and it is now the final decision has gone in his favour. what is the court's reasoning? because simply said that the jury which found cardinal george pell guilty back in 2018 failed to eliminate reasonable doubt which is what cardinal george pell‘s defence team went to australia's highest court where. they said that the jury had depended so heavily on testimony of wonder victim, and while they found the testimony compelling, as they described it was i'm cooperated. they failed to acknowledge other evidence and essentially did not —— uncorroborated, and wouldn't be able to get rid of

reasonable doubt. they couldn't decide without reasonable doubt that he was guilty and that's really what the seven judges, the full bench of the seven judges had occurred and upheld. you say, james, that you followed this from the beginning. it is quite a dramatic, a monumental decision ina very dramatic, a monumental decision in a very dramatic and most closely watched case in australia essentially because of who george pell is. a very senior member, the most senior member of the catholic church to ever be accused of such crimes. today, he has been acquitted. as he reacted it all? he has actually. he sent out a state and saying, i have consistently maintained my innocence while suffering severe injustice. he thinks his family, he thinks his supporters and then he mentioned his accuser. he said i hold no ill will towards my accuser. i don't want my acquittal to add to be hurt and

bitterness so many fell. what isa bitterness so many fell. what is a really interesting point, james, and i'm sure you also covered this when the case started. he said, my trial was not a referendum on the catholic church and not a referendum on how church officials and authorities deal with crimes of paedophilia. this was really one of the biggest points to be made on this point, how the catholic church has dealt with abuse. and thejudge who church has dealt with abuse. and the judge who was residing over the initial case also made a point that this was a trial of george pell, not the trial of george pell, not the trial of the catholic church. thank you very much and will bring you very much and will bring you any reaction from the vatican as we get it. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: with millions in lockdown and now using zoom to stay in touch — we'll find out if fears about its cyber security are well founded. 25 years of hatred and rage, as

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this is bbc news, the latest headlines: britain's prime minister boris johnson, who has coronavirus , has been moved to an intensive care unit in a central london hospital after his symptoms worsened. political leaders in the uk and around the world have sent their best wishes and hopes for a speedy recovery. more than 10,000 people have now died from coronavirus in the us, as the country is braced for the most difficult week of the outbreak so far. there are more than 347,000 confirmed cases, with around a third of them in new york state. the authorities in the city of new york might start temporarily burying victims in a park — because the city's morgues are almost full. joining me now from new york here's laura nahmias, who is on the editorial board of the new york daily news. laura, i would laura, iwould imagine laura, i would imagine that new

yorkers are having to learn the rules and the vocabulary and the norms of a new world? we are indeed. this is the city that never sleeps and we are effectively in a coma right 110w. effectively in a coma right now. we don't have a tremendous amount of space to share with each other and yet we are being asked to stay very far away from each other. it is truly, truly a bizarre and alien feeling here in new york city. i've never seen anything like it and i've never seen anything like itandi i've never seen anything like it and i think most new yorkers haven't seen anything like this in their lifetimes. we are learning a tremendous amount about epidemiology as well. everybody is becoming a sort of amateur epidemiologist, learning about flattening the ca rd learning about flattening the card and the reason why we need to keep these very strict and isolating rules in place for so long. laura, i don't know if you have to restrict your own movements, but if you are able

to leave your front door, what is it like when you step outside? it is hard to describe. it is a new york city with no stores open, no restau ra nts with no stores open, no restaurants open, almost no people on the streets, almost no taxicabs. you can see all of the graffiti everywhere, all of the graffiti everywhere, all of the buildings, it feels absolutely empty. you can hear all of the birds chirping. and no other ambient city noise. it is unbelievably strange. and everybody is wearing a facemask now, as per the government's guidance. i have never heard new york city birdsong, myself. ican new york city birdsong, myself. i can see behind you have a picture of roosevelt for governor, which makes me think of the current governor, andrew cuomo. i was told he was a bit ofa cuomo. i was told he was a bit of a figure of scorn for a number of years, people didn't quite take to him, now he seems to have attracted people's attention? he has drawn

people's acclaim and praise for his handling of previous crises, actually, during his time as governor of new york state. he has been governorfor quite a while, since he was elected in 2010. he handled a major hurricane that devastated new york city in 2012, and is often at his best when he is managing a major crisis or an emergency, and that is the andrew cuomo that people are getting to see right now, especially at a time when a lot of people are saying there is a vacuum of leadership at the top of the national government. he has projecting a strong and sort of confident commitment to handling the crisis at a time when we are seeing a sort of wild and inconsistent response from the federal government, particularly president donald trump. coronavirus has impacted businesses across the world. some are struggling, others adapting and a few are growing. millions of people are now

working from home and the video conferencing app, zoom, has seen a twenty—fold increase in its users in the past three months. people are turning to it, and other similar apps, for meetings and in order to keep business going. but there are concerns over video conferencing — and zoom has been banned in us schools over security and privacy issues. james stickland is a cyber—security expert and ceo of biometric authentication firm veridium. what is it, james, about zoom which concerns people? what is it, james, about zoom which concerns people ?|j what is it, james, about zoom which concerns people? i think there are a number of concerns about its overall security policies and strategies. as you said, the increase in use has been exponential, and many enterprises around the world, many public—sector around the

world have lapped to the utilisation of zoom and other forms of access for collaboration. and they have not necessarily been geared for, first of all, the volume that has been deployed, you know, and also some of the sensitivity of the content that has been shared over the zoom. and the danger is that uses' information could be passed on, or could be hacked ? information could be passed on, or could be hacked? yeah, absolutely. there is a lot of concern around the management of passwords, as its strongest form of authentication measure. 0bviously form of authentication measure. obviously there are inherent problems of passwords, as we have seen. there is also inherent issues just with user admin and control data. so where does that data set? where does the recordings potentially reside, in either locations of unknown provenance that potentially you do not trust and you do not have huge amounts of visibility into.

people these days, not by choice, having to live a lot their lives online. does this mean that they might become targets for cyber hacking or scams, that there are opportunities there for cybercrime that were not there a month or so ago? yeah, and we have seen an incredible rise in phishing attacks, the opportunity of nation state funded or targeted cyber hackers trying to garner and gather password information from you, so that they can log into your systems and kind of represent you as an individual, soa 300— represent you as an individual, so a 300— 400% increase in phishing attacks in the last ten days alone. so there is a huge amount of challenge with people's security and enterprise support over the next few weeks and months. and how are companies like zoom promising to increase their security. so i think they are taking positive steps forward

in terms of their own security posture. you know, publishing of their own data security policies and management, where they store and how they store personal details and data, which they will retain, and obviously they are asking for users to utilise passwords, which is obviously 1—step in many. so i think there are good steps there but obviously much more they could do to deepen the security strategy. you study this area deeply. are there any organisations you can point to to say, these are the ones which are leading the way with protecting their customers and clients security? so, in terms of the technology stack, people at microsoft always do an incrediblyjob in terms of building security by design. they have a huge collaboration suite, as we know, with teams and the opportunity to use a lot of microsoft collaboration tools. my advice, my kind of

counsel to our customers is to be forward—looking, to be engaged with the security posture, the strategy of the firms and the collaboration suites they are using. if it is fremium type software they are utilising, it is to be more intelligent with the way that they are thinking about data management and data policy and obviously personal details. james strickland, thank you so much. so just a reminder of our main story with the british prime minister borisjohnson being moved to intensive care in hospital. here's a timeline of events. on march 26th it was announced that the prime minister had tested positive for coronavirus. on sunday, he was admitted to st thomas' hospital in london after his symptoms had persisted for ten days. and a few hours ago it was announced that he'd been moved to intensive care afer his symptoms worsened. and we note that the foreign

secretary will deputise for the prime minister when needed. you can reach me on twitter. i'm @jamesbbcnews. hello. the warmth of the weekend was replaced by something a little bit fresher through the day on monday, but many of us were able to enjoy a bit of blue sky and a bit of sunshine from our windows and our gardens too. a bit more of the same on tuesday, things are looking mostly dry after a chilly and a misty start. but high—pressure very much dominating our weather through the day on tuesday, and into wednesday too. things are going to turn a little bit warmer over the next few days. because, as you can see, the blue colours, the colder air that's been with us gets pushed away, and these yellow colours, the warmer air, starts to move in from the south. but for the here and now, tuesday dawns on quite a chilly note, touch of frost, and some mist and fog patches, particularly across england and wales. lots of dry weather with some long spells of sunshine. cloudier towards the far northwest, but the odd shower

perhaps for the western isles, perhaps northern ireland by the end of the day too. also quite breezy, particularly for the northwest of scotland, but, elsewhere, lighter winds and the sunshine lasting through the day, but there will be more cloud just pushing into southern counties of england as we head on into the afternoon. but temperatures likely to reach about 20 degrees in london. elsewhere, typically the mid to high teens. so, we're looking at a largely dry night tuesday night into wednesday, particularly across england and wales. scotland and northern ireland will have more cloud, and a few outbreaks of patchy rain moving in here. if you've been during some gardening recently, we are not expecting a frost overnight tuesday into wednesday, so it won't be as cold as it will be first thing tuesday morning. through the day on wednesday, again, most places, largely dry. plenty of sunshine across england and wales, a little bit of cloud drifting around too. thicker cloud for scotland and for northern ireland, with the odd light shower. across scotland and northern ireland, temperatures here around 13—14 degrees, whereas further south, 1—2 spots could get up to 23—24 degrees. wednesday probably being

the warmest day of the week. into thursday, high—pressure still holding on. so, again, quite a bit of dry weather, if you're able to open the window, get out in the garden, perhaps go for a walk if you can on thursday. temperatures in the warmest spots up to about 21 celsius, always a little bit cooler and fresher though further north. into good friday, and it's all change, as we start to see this weather front moving its way in from the west. so some patchy outbreaks of rain heading west to east, and things are turning cooler into the easter weekend. so a bit more unsettled, a drop in temperature, but whatever the weather's doing, remember the rules on self isolation, social distancing, wherever you can, stay home and stay safe.

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here, the prime minster boris johnson has been moved to intensive care after his coronavirus symptoms worsened. he was admitted to st thomas' hospital in london for some tests after doctors said his symptoms were persisting. 0n social media the prime minister said said that he was in good spirits. president trump hasjoined political leaders in the uk and around the world in wishing borisjohnson a speedy recovery. mr trump said the prime minister was "strong, resolute, doesn't quit and doesn't give up." he added that americans are "all praying for his recovery." australia's high court has upheld cardinal pell‘s appeal over his conviction for sexually assaulting two choirboys in the 1990s. cardinal pell was jailed for six years — with a non—parole period of three years and eight months. he will be freed from prison later today. for many people, the lockdown has meant having to rely heavily