this is bbc news. the headlines: here, the prime minster, borisjohnson, 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. on social media beforehand 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 in the day.

it's now a fortnight since boris johnson announced the coronavirus lockdown here in the uk, and there are some signs that the rate of infection could be starting to go down. while the number of people dying in hospital from the effects of the virus has been doubling every few days, the figures for confirmed cases and hospitalisations are coming down. so, is the peak of the virus in sight? and if it is, what does that mean for our day—to—day lives? our science editor david shukman reports. a village outside rome being turned into a laboratory, everyone is being screened. spent as well as in terrible losses for four days in a row, but the number is following. a sign that the lockdown strategy may

be working. so when made the uk see a peak in the outbreak? the working assumption is that what's happening 7- assumption is that what's happening 7— days‘ time, but it's very difficult to predict —— 7—10 days. from the moment of infection, five days may pass before it starts to show. with the common symptoms of fever and coughing and of breathlessness. it could be 16 days before intensive care is needed by the most severe cases. and sometime after 23 days, patients will either recover 01’ after 23 days, patients will either recover or die. and then it may take a few more days to register their death. we do have to be patient. hopefully by the time we come to june members will have fallen quite a lot and we can think about relaxing social distancing and how we're going to manage that —— numbers will have fallen. so what does this mean across the uk? in harrogate, construction is under way

for one of many nightingale hospitals. but the disease is striking different parts of the country at different times. london's numbers have been rising further and faster than those in scotland and wales. the pea ks, faster than those in scotland and wales. the peaks, when they come, it may not be at the same time. that raises a really difficult question about whether it is possible to relax measures like social distancing at different times in different parts of the country, how tricky would it be if some regions are still in lockdown while others are still in lockdown while others are trying to get back to normal? all over the world, governments are wrestling with these dilemmas. in japan, a state of emergency gives the authorities new powers to encourage people to stay at home. and in south korea, a lockdown has been extended. the big worry amid all the talk of reaching a peak in the pandemic is that if controls are

listed too soon, the virus could strike again. —— lifted. david shukman, bbc news. now on bbc news: the travel show. my name is tony giles and i'm totally blind and severely deaf in both ears. now we're moving. feel the wind in my hair. i've spent the last 21 years travelling. i've visited over 120 countries. every continent in the world, including antarctica. my mission is to visit every country in the world. i started off in december planning this recent trip and i decided i'd just start in egypt, the top of north africa, and work my way through several countries to get to ethiopia. want to have a try of that? mm, it's good, it's quite sweet. yeah, right? it's my passion, it is what i do.

it always makes me happy. it's the biggest challenge i can get. when i'm travelling country to country, i usually take public transport. when i get to the city i'm visiting, i hear people get ready on a bus. the bus will pull up, stop.

i usually wait for most people to get off. i get my backpack, get my stick out. meskel square, yes? bye— bye. bye—bye, thank you. i follow the people. i can hear them so i know they're getting off. i'm looking for a phone shop. i will ask people, is there a shop nearby i can buy a sim card if i haven't got one. you can show me? thanks. excuse me, mate. yeah? could you help me put my new sim card in my phone? i use a website called couchsurfing and ifind local people on the website and they have profiles and i have a profile so i contact them. hello. is that mr happy? hi, this is tony, your couchsurfer.

can you tell me how to get to your place, please? i'm going to take a taxi so what — where do i need to tell him to go? 0k. alright. so i will see in about half—an—hour, a0 minutes. thanks very much. bye. i need to find a taxi now. taxi? where are you going? hello. i go to gotera. gotera? yeah, gotera, yeah. 200 birr. 200 -150? 0k, go on. i lost my dad when i was 15, 16. i lost my best friend when i was 16, i don't really talk about. it was a big loss for me.

0k. thanks. it sent me off into alcoholism for a good six to seven years. by the age of 2a, i was almost an alcoholic. once i got my head out of the bottle, i could see that there was a different road to go down. i was hung up about being blind for a long time, especially as a teenager, early 20s. and then i suddenly realised the more people i met, i realised they wanted to be around me not because i was blind or different, but because of who i was, my personality. driving along a straight road, a bit of a wind. still smell the car fumes, they're everywhere. hello, mr happy. it's tony. i think i'm at your street, at your place. i'm opposite a restaurant. i can smell the food, but i'm not sure how to get to you.

apparently i'm by the gates someone's told me. hey—hey, tony! hello! guess who's here. mr happy. yeah, i'm glad, i'm glad to see you. good to meet you. how are you? thank you very much for coming. you found it already. wonderful, yeah. welcome to addis, my place already. thank you. he's a really nice guy, really friendly. as his name would say, happy. full of energy and was really happy to meet me, i was really excited to meet him. take a step. yes, there you go. you have it all easy. welcome to your couchsurfing place. thank you. your happy home. my space, yeah, thank you. take off the load. this will be your sleeping spot. 0k, just a mattress? yeah, that's a mattress. i mostly even sleep here. 0k. i like to sleep on the floor. great, yep. one of the main components about my travelling is food. eating food, talking about food,

sometimes buying food and cooking. hello. i'd like to buy shiro, please. i was very fortunate that mr happy very kindly offered to cook for me some local ethiopian food. how much is that altogether? 70. 70? i bought some shiro, and also a kilo of tomatoes and a kilo of chilli. people are lovely, very, very helpful, very kind. some people speak a little bit of english. i asked a guy to help me to find shiro, he took right me to the shop.

and then the shopkeepers helped me buy the food. it was a lovely experience. sometimes it can be confusing, especially if there's a lot of people pushing each other, all shouting for the same thing. even when you can see, you don't really quite know what you're buying. sometimes it is a bit more confusing, but you just be patient and keep going, keep asking. most people will help you. what is shiro exactly? shiro is like a powder made of chickpeas. 0k. it is like one of the staple foods that we have here. so we call this dancing shiro time because the shiro kind of bubbles out and then dances. and you just cook it here, where the heat is coming from? yeah, where the heat is coming from, we have a charcoal here, so natural fire—making. do you want to have a try of that? give me your hand. you just put it here and then

you can just put it to your mouth and taste it. nice. it's good, it's quite sweet. yeah, right? that's from the tomato. i hope it tastes as good as it smells. of course, ready for it? yeah! lunch is here. what a nice smell, lunch! thank you very much. hungry? oh, very hungry. great. so we have our shiro in the centre, which is like the focal element of the food. and then we have a couple of vegetables. do you like kale? yep. kale is like our green vegetable. then we have some tomatoes by the side, and some chillies. mostly we take time to bless the food in a way. we kind of give it a good vibration in a way so just take a few seconds to be just grateful and thankful for having this food. thank you very much. great. the other thing cultural in ethiopia as we eat together,

is something called "gursha". gursha. gursha is basically feeding each other. it is like, i made a bit of like a bite and then ijust give that to you. beside the content of feeding a person, it is also a sign of respect and care. it's like a mother feeding a child, so there's some care into it. it is a culture that we do here. so i'm going to give you one of that now. are you ready? this will be interesting. open your mouth and you have yourfirst gursha... wow. nice. this is incredible food. people, you have to come to ethiopia and eat this food. you like it?

it's delicious, it's tasty, it's a little spicy, it's a little...so rich. at least four or five different textures in this one dish i can taste on my tongue. so now is your turn to give me a bite of that. see how you do the gursha. gursha. here it comes. you are like a pro. having this little ceremony, eating traditional ethiopian food with a lovely person, who i now consider my friend, is a wonderful experience. it's very humbling. to be able to share and exchange cultures is so wonderful. it is hard to describe, really. very emotional. i can't pick up a book and think, let's go to this place or let's go to that place. so i had to have the research, i had to have the knowledge beforehand and i have a very, very good memory so i plan my route before i travel. i don't know who i'm going to meet, i don't know what's going to happen and to me that is all an adventure, it is exciting. many people say i could not do that,

i couldn't imagine it. but i've never really seen so me, i don't worry about it because i don't know. it is all the unknown and that is what i love and enjoy. trying to find people that i can help me with on line. i found this guy called mike, a local guy, who seemed really interesting, good fun. i says i was coming to addis, want to meet up? have a coffee or have a chat about ethiopian life and culture? tony? mike, hi, good to meet you. thanks for coming. welcome to ethiopia. have a seat. ijust really wanted to meet you and find out a bit more about ethiopia and what is going on in addis. likewise, i really wanted to meet you, when we contacted. we recently had change in government so it was not an election but by popular demand a new government has come up to power. it is a new government, a young leader, a kind of visionary. the people's man. the first time most people

would have heard about ethiopia would have been 1985, the band aid and live aid, the famine. but there is more than that, what's more to ethiopia? that image stayed in people's minds and shuttered everything else. when the famine was over and we were back to safe times, nobody was reporting on that. like, if you take the farming side, ethiopia is the fifth—largest country in the world with the number of livestock. it is not as depicted. ok, mike, where are we going? that image stayed in people's minds and shuttered everything else. when the famine was over and we were back to safe times, nobody was reporting on that. like, if you take the farming side, ethiopia is the fifth—largest country in the world with the number of livestock. it is not as depicted. ok, mike, where are we going?

now we are going to the headquarters of the african union. so there, we are going to see a statue, a new statute that was just inaugurated and it is a statue of haile selassie, our last emperor. i've heard of him. if you do this, you are getting a nice picture, and if you turn the camera sideways, because it's... vertical, yeah. tony, you're a nice photographer. thanks. yeah. awesome. yeah, yeah. you have a talent for pictures. yeah, just shoot and point, hopefully something comes out. how important is haile selassie to ethiopian people? for some, he was a hero, for others he was a villain. because whenever you occupy a throne, those are the things,

the two balls you juggle. he had tried to modernise the country. so he did work a lot on education, that was one of his main interests. my grandfather was a big fan of him. he said, he used to come to their school, randomly, just to check on what the students were being fed. every time he would come, he would bring them grapes, apples, oranges. and how was he viewed by young ethiopian people today? haile selassie is immortalised, he is iconic. if you bring your hand, and interlace it here, and you do this... yeah, yeah. it goes back to unity. yeah, yeah, of course. so, we are heading into north addis. we are going to see an art gallery, an art gallery for blind and visually impaired people. i'm assuming some kind of tactile art exhibition.

different textures to make a picture or pictures. that's what i'm assuming. we'll find out when we get there. thank you. the entrance? hi, tony. welcome. hi. welcome to my studio. thank you, i'm really looking forward to it. let me show you one of the art pieces. wow. so, we're touching a piece of art. these are people, who are laughing.

this is their mouths. 0k. this is their nose. this is their eyes. these are like buttons, are they? yes. so it is a face. you can see their hands, they are screaming, happy, expressing themselves. do you like it? it's really good, it's really interesting. it really gives a blind person a better understanding of expression of people. it's amazing. it's really inspiring. so many times you go to art galleries with your friends, and you sort of feel excluded. touching this made me feel included.

a christian cross. actually art i can appreciate. i felt equal. it was really nice, really positive. i feel just like anyone else looking at art. radio: ethiopia's number one station for news, music and entertainment? that's us, 105.3 afro fm! driving through addis one afternoon, got a bit hungry, so got a taxi to stop at a food stall on the street. i went in and talked to the guy there. i was talking to him and telling him my story, i travel around the world and i'm blind.

we're about to go live on air. are you ready? yep! he said, do you want to come on my breakfast show? i said, yeah, that would be cool, yeah. talk to the people, share my story, maybe inspire a few people. good morning, good morning, good morning, ladies and gentlemen. how're you doing? it's the best breakfast in town, your voice of motivation, inspiration. every single day. i'm sitting here with an amazing person, tony giles is here in the studio. he is a blind person, but also partially deaf, but he has managed to travel to 138 countries around the world. good morning, everyone. the question i have for you right now, i'm sure a lot of our listeners are wondering as well, what are the main challenges you face doing this project you've been doing? one of the most difficult ones is getting money out of atm machines, cash machines. i have to find somebody i can trust. i have to check them out, listen to their story, how they're sounding,

figure out that i can trust them and go to the cash machine with them. they help me to read the screen, i can press the buttons and put my information in, and once i get the money, i have to ask them, what denomination are these? i can't read a menu in a restaurant, so i have to have an idea of the national dish of each country i visit. in ethiopia it's quite easy, injera. probably one of the other biggest challenges for me is crossing borders. i have to hand my passport over to someone, and i don't know where that passport goes, and i have to hope it's going to get back to me. what keeps you going, when you are faced with challenges? how do you keep your chin up? when i get tired and i think i can't do it anymore, i think about my best friend. he died when i was young. he had a serious disability, and he couldn't move most of his body. i always think of him, he inspired me. i've got it easy compared to what he has. just keep going, yeah. ladies and gentlemen, here you have it. the one and only tony giles here in the studio. it was such an amazing, inspirational story.

yeah, i have dark days. not so many now. one of the main reasons i started travelling was escapism, escapism from my emotions. i can do things physically, that's easy. i run away from my emotions. i couldn't deal with relationships for a long time. because i thought an everyday relationship would end the same way as my relationship with my friend, i thought. people would go away. i thought that's what would happen with a relationship. and for a long time, it did. i realised that there's more to life. i could stop grieving. i still occasionally gets dark days. but the way you overcome them, the way i overcome them, is, i think, when i get up tomorrow, i think, what's the next challenge? i know people love me.

so that's enough. some people might say i'm on the extreme edge of travel, and the extreme edge of disabled people. i do worry sometimes, when i'm giving talks, doing interviews, am i going to put people off? am i going to make people think, wow, that's incredible, that's so out there, i couldn't do that, i couldn't possibly. i wonder if in a weird way, maybe i discourage people. i guess ijust thought i'd have to tell it and let people take from it what they will. without people, i wouldn't be able to travel. i think it's a two—way thing. people are helping me, and i'm given something back. i show them there's an alternative way. they say, how do you travel, how can you see? why have you come to my country, you're blind. people are helping me,

and i'm given something back. i show them there's an alternative way. they say, how do you travel, how can you see? why have you come to my country, you're blind. i tell them, well, i come to eat the food and meet the people and hear the music and walk on the terrain up and down the mountains. i can feel it all through my skin and my feet and that's how i see a country. the terrain around the churches on the outside is up there with some of the toughest places and terrain i have visited. i just want to be normal. it's just so frustrating. got to be strong all the time. it's the only way i can travel, the only way i can cope.

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 north—west, 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 north—west 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 rules on self—isolation, social distancing, wherever you can, stay home and stay safe. bye— bye.

this is bbc news. i'm james reynolds with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. our top stories: britain's prime minister is moved to intensive care, ten days after testing positive for coronavirus. he's been receiving excellent care at st thomas' 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.