there's also extra cash for scotland wales and northern ireland. doctors injapan warn that the country's medical system could collapse amid a rising number of coronavirus cases as coronavirus cases in moscow rise, ambulances queue for more than nine hours to drop patients at hospital. and in the midst of the pandemic — police in hong kong arrest 15 high profile democracy activists and lawmakers — after last yea r‘s protests and now on bbc news, victoria derbyshire has more information and health advice on the coronavirus outbreak, in this special programme. hello and welcome to this special programme. for the next half an hour

we will bring you further information and advice about the coronavirus pandemic. you might have seen the video from 2015 that shows bill gates talking about the possible impact a global pandemic could have on the planet. you will hear his thoughts know about this covid—19 outbreak. and a reminder that you can always keep up—to—date on the latest on our website. first, charities in the uk are warning that almost a quarter of the youth club is closed in the lockdown may not reopen after the restrictions are lifted. it leaves thousands of youngsters with nowhere to socialise. anna adams has been talking to teenagers and youth workers to see how they are doing. normally you would have 30 to 50 young people here. this man is showing me around in lewisham in south london. this is bbc news with the latest it has been closed and so done. headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world.

and what we are you having the number of coronavirus patients who've died in hospital in the uk to change the way you work? rises to almost fifteen we are moving such social media and a half thousand. and trying to recreate the youth it comes as the uk government club and recreate the playground accepts that some personal protective equipment is in short supply and says it's doing everything it can to bring in more. in the read as best we can. we've got to do more to get the ppe nicola is a youth worker as she is chatting online with kids who would normally be here. that people need to the front lines. how do you think you will feel if you're not able to come you this is an extremely challenging here for three months? situation. not good. an extra 1.6 billion pounds for councils across england so they can protect essential this club is confident services during the pandemic — they will survive the difficult there's also extra cash for scotland wales and northern months ahead but they are worried ireland. about the knock—on effect doctors injapan warn of the coronavirus in the world that the country's medical system and other young people rely could collapse amid a rising number on places like this. of coronavirus cases the national body for youth workers are already getting reports rom some young people seeing they feel suicidal. a lot of services are closed and are not able to reopen and provide that vital support.

there are lots of needs not be supported. charities say more than 20% of youth services will not survive this crisis. today we have gone together a gun to the estate. youth workers in north london have gone out to look for the teenagers they have lost contact with. for now the kids are off the streets but can it stay that way? does young people have perhaps been involved in criminal activity or excluded from school, i would be worried about that group. those young people are not on the social media platforms that many others are. in these houses are full of young people trying to keep themselves busy. what are you missing the most? my girlfriend. that has been the hardest part so far. i miss her a lot. i don't think i would be able to cope with three months and just inside.

i have not been able to see my friends, family, it isjust lonely. if i were to know how long it would last for, that would be better mentally, but it is the fact that we do not know so we are just waiting every day. that uncertainty is the hardest thing for these teenagers. no one knows how long this lockdown will last. nationwide long—term measures in the uk, which had been in place for more than three weeks, are presenting loads of challenges in all sorts of circumstances. it has been really difficult for those who have recently left the care system. they are often a stranger relatives without support networks. it is very empty, very deserted, i haven't seen anyone for a couple of days i back up to my room. daily life of diana, a 20—year—old gear lever, a 20—year—old care lever, is are strays from her parents

and stuck in student accommodation. people were picked up by the parents but i am pretty much just you know. i am finding things quite challenging at the moment since the covert i9 lockdown, most people have gone home and i am living in halls. —— covid—i9. i do not have a home to go back to. the whole campus shot and does feel quite isolated. as someone who grew up in care, i am aware of the charges. whether uk when the lockdown i want to find out how they were coping. this bedsit is way this 20—year—old lives as she relies on universal credit. it is in my kitchen over there, and in there i have a tiny bathroom. that is my whole living space. a lot of gear levers are estranged from their family,

i am self isolating but i have got no one to support new attack, no one can go out to do my shopping for me, no one can help me if i get ill, and we are so alone in this. according to recent figures, almost half of all kirby will struggle with mental health in normal times, one in four have a mental health crisis. experts predict that these figures will get worse. this 17—year—old lives in supported accommodation as she has had it particularly tough. a couple of days after the lockdown announcement, by local authority moved me from one support lodging to another with two hours notice, which is obviously a very strange situation to be in, and i'd be working week we can before that, so i could have had the virus are not known, and i are moving into a house with total strangers who i have left once —— that once. people are calling on council to do more.

we know councils are under great pressure at the moment and they are making a great effort to reach out to care levers. we need to make emergency cash available for those care levers who are studying —— struggling. according to the association. councils are working hard to make sure ca re levers councils are working hard to make sure care levers get the support they need. as tough as things are, these care levers, like so many others across the nation, remaining resilient. it's like everything i wait to go wrong is going wrong at the minute but ijust have to sleep —— keep going on. we hear a lot about you workers, those whose work is essential — key to keeping a country running, usually nurses and police officers, but truck drivers say they should also be seen as providing a key service. we have been speaking to some truckers and why they believe they are not been given

the credit we deserve. without trucks, this country would stop. i am trying to do and i have been driving a truck for four years, it gets lonely. we are delivering a service to everyone, without as —— i can't give it sometimes at service stations. can even use the toilets and showers, and that is —— that is that i am using it overnight and paying for it. i have to finish making my cup of tea. there is absolutely no way to get a hot food for drivers that do not have microwaves. an absolute ghost town. it is very unhygienic. you use wet wipes for a body wash.

a lot of people won't realise that this takes a toll. here we have another garage that will not let us use the toilets or get a hot drink. this is my life on a daily basis, sat on trucks. i'm currently sat in my cab because services are shot. shut. we do this day in day out every year. we could usually get a cup of tea are a coffee. you can't get microwaveable meals, so hard to get them on sunday, which is quite difficult to do because all the shops are empty on a sunday. just parked up for the night. tonight i have got a pizza that

i can shut my microwave. it is not the best meal but it will fill me up. i was on facetime with my mate the other night, we ate dinner together, it was quite nice to have someone to talk to. i was to the radio but otherwise i don't talk to anyone. it is now starting to talk to because it can get very lonely, i have to admit. i have some premade meals. we have a choice of bolognese, bolognese and some more bolognese. i am quite lucky in the fact that i have a microwave in here. time to get ready for bed. because of the covid—i9 situation, the government relaxed our driving hours and that can take quite a strain because, as a driver, i am one of the most lowest paid careers out there, so now i am in bed this

is my time to relax. it takes a toll on your mental health a bit. good morning, my microwave is boiling hot water for my coffee. i will brush my teeth and get ready for the day. i am here on the front line, in contact with people still, and you do not get any extra pay because we are working during this time, so it does not seem fair that our facilities are being cut, our money is staying the same, we are working extra hours. at the end of the day, we are just trying to get by. treat drivers with respect. we are delivering a service to everyone, we are delivering products, we are delivering bulk orders, and this helps you. without trucks, this country would stop. the question of how close we are to a vaccine for coronaviruses being asked

on a daily basis. as scientists race to find a way to treat covid—i9. five years ago, bill gates warned about a widespread pandemic but says he was subsequently ignored. he has now promised to help fund factories testing for vaccines. he spoke to the bbc is started by explaining he believed there needs to be a global responses to this outbreak. the tools that are going to reduce deaths, drugs, that is a global thing to get those out. and the thing that will get is back to the world that we had before coronavirus is the vaccine and getting that out to all seven billion people. the efforts to build those factories, to understand is safe and ready to go,

that is a global problem and i am glad that people are coming together to find where is the best workers and combine it. the factory will be in a different country than the science is in. this is the whole world working on probably the most urgent tool that has ever been needed. in relation to the vaccine, i know you have donated a sum of money in relation to that. just talk me through what you think of the key elements around developing a successful vaccine. is it money? is a political will? what you think of the key elements that? we definitely need to fund the research and the manufacturing and distribution. the dissolution piece for developing countries, the uk has always been generous on that. —— distribution. the research will have to fund ten most promising constructs because we will not know in advance which one is more safe and effective. being effective for older people,

whose immune systems are weak, is a huge challenge. if you amp up the vaccine to do that, you can run into safety issues. we're are going to have to take something which takes five or six years usually and get it done in 18 months. there is an approach called an rna vaccine, it looks quite promising, but we can't count on that so we'll back four or five of those and companies using a more conventional approach. we have been funding directly over the last decade. you will be aware, a lot of people in the uk are asking when will there be a vaccine? how do you see that?

it is a good question because we want to get back to the life we had before coronavirus. people are seeing the economic destruction, the psychological stress, this is such an unprecedented very tough thing to deal with. people like myself are saying about 18 months. if everything goes perfectly, we could do slightly better than that. but there will be a trade—off. we will have less safety testing that we typically would have, so governments will have to decides whether they indemnify the companies and go with it or whether we just don't have the time to do what we normally do. 18 months is about what we would expect.

it definitely shouldn't be money limited. it should be all full speed ahead. it should not be limited by money, it should be all the best constructs, full speed ahead, signs unlimited. it sounds as if it may be bass —— there may be some compromise in the safety measures that would normally be expected to create a vaccine because time is so crucial? of course, if you want to wait and see if the side—effect shows up two years later, that takes two years. whenever you are acting quickly, like the hiv crisis we created a quick way of getting drug approval, there is a trade—off there. in that case it works super well, and here we have. we will be able to get some safety indications, but this is a public good and so those trade—offs,

the government is working on a cooperative basis, they will be involved in the decision to say, hey, the regulator says go ahead even though you haven't taken the normal time period. do you think world leaders are now listening in a way they didn't, out of necessity. bearing in mind, in 2015 you give a talk and go back to listen to it —— ted talks no it was extraordinarily close to what is happening now. you were talking about a real risk of a pandemic across the world is. did you feel like you were listen to then? no. the investments that could have been done so that diagnostics could have been essentially immediately available, drugs in less than half the time, the vaccine and less than half the time, most of those investments were not made. 5% of what could be done was done. now we are scrambling and it is taking much longer to get these pieces together, even though scientists are doing heroic work.

unlike the defence budget that prepares us for war where we simulate the problem than we make sure we are good at it, this risk, which i viewed as even greater that the risk of war, this —— there was very little preparation and very few of these germ games you crowd and say, 0k, how do you build 't 7 can you make ventilators? how do you prioritise the diagnostics? we are no figuring that out as we go. was up by financial decision? it wasn't deemed to be worth investing that money and something may be other people didn't see as clearly as you? it has got to be governments because there is no private—sector incentive for something that is uncertain like this, even when it happens you have to charge mostly a break even price for things which are helping out

with a global crisis like this. people still saw war as something to fund and the less than 10% of that that would be needed for this. people just did not organise the government to have that function. i do think now, since this has been so dramatic, we weren't ready for this pandemic but i do think we will be ready for the next pandemic and, using the new tools of science, that is very doable. are you optimistic that now, and obviously we need to get out of the immediate situation, but there will be a different mindset around the fears around viruses and pandemics? yeah, the speed of reaction is so crucial here. it grows exponentially. if you are there two months earlier, which some countries jumped on this faster than others, they really were checking to see

there was community spreads, we got the diagnostic passes quickly, but we should be able to have diagnostics within a month, we should have therapeutics in four months and a vaccine in less than a year. if we are on standby with the right factories and science and we should have a host with how we deal with all these shortages, with working together, so a really good system for seeing this early and making sure wejump on it before the curve gets to a meaningful part of the population, that is achievable. i know you reflected for a moment on this earlier on in the interview, and it is inevitable that, here in the uk, we ask our politicians questions about the way they reacted to a degree it is inevitable that those. that thought process will be selling that happens in the future, that we will look back on. can you talk as to what you see

from what has happened so far? the big missing piece is that funding the research for these type of vaccines, actually, ourfoundation are the biggest funders vaccines for infectious diseases. there could have been more. sepe is the one thing that happened there. next date is once you get the keys way down, how much can you open up? now it is an opportunity to see what other governments do, to see how the running to of the disease, with the series deep understandings, like our young people part of the infection chain? so i do think we will deal with this opening up phase in a more collaborative,

data driven way down in the first scramble we are, sadly, many governments were slow to react. it has been shown that nature can have a really positive impact on mental welfare. according to various scientific studies. now charities are trying to find a way to help vulnerable people connect with nature while stuck indoors. we just close our eyes and take in the shower breasts, ——breathes imagine we are walking to the edge of a field. this is a virtual walk through the countryside. there are so many different plants and bushes and trees that come together. this can have a powerful impact. it became a lifeline. you can feel like there was something i could do

and there was something valuable and beautiful to notice when i didn't feel there was anything. there are many scientific studies that show the health benefits of being in the natural world. when we are outside, our blood pressure comes down and the heart rate variability goes up. our cortisol levels are reduced and that's all on our stress. levels are reduced and that's all on our stress. so, how to get this are lockdown? ironically, the therapy now involves embracing screen time. live online, the share fragment of the natural world they can see from their balconies or gardens. my family and i had been in self isolation for almost two weeks because i have a nasty cough, and it is tough but we are lucky enough to have a garden. what about those who do not? i was diagnosed with depression and anxiety and i work for the nhs

in east london and i have started to see the reality of that, so people started coming a day by day to say could make it. this woman is a nature lover and she used to go to the countryside to cope, but now even the local parks about. what else am i supposed to do to pick myself up? ijust go out there is no point in trying. but people like her are trying to help by giving us an intimate glimpse into the private lives of some of our most loved animals. the wildlife trust have set up 20 webcams across the country. nationally, we have seen 275 increase in the number of visitors —— percent —— one can appear to last year. it is so important for people to get that connection with nature with all my wildlife webcams. it may be some comfort to have a look and see that, as human society struggles to cope

with the virus, the natural world carries on uninterrupted. just to let you know that you can keep up—to—date with the recent advice with our website and you can keep in touch with me on twitter. thank you for watching. hello, if your saturday weather view has been a cloudier one that is likely that tomorrow will be brighter. that said, we are not expecting any change in scotland. a fair amount of sunshine today and plenty of blue skies to look out upon tomorrow. at least where there has been cloud today, elsewhere, there has been some useful rain after what so far in april has been a very dry month. high pressure is now building back across the uk. that means a lot of dry weather in the forecast.

still a bit of rain to be had for some overnight, keeping some cloud with showers running into east anglia, lincolnshire, parts of yorkshire and the midlands but elsewhere in england, wales and northern ireland, it will be dry, where you have had some rain, some low cloud on the eastern coast of scotland, lots of clear skies in scotland and northern parts of northern england allowing for a touch of frost in a few places. starting sunday with a chance of a shower in cornwall and pembrokeshire, soon clearing away, but still some cloud around southern and western england through wales and northern ireland. then some sunny spells in the afternoon. much of northern england and scotland will have a mostly sunny afternoon. temperatures holding back a little along north sea coasts with a freshening easterly breeze but when you are exchanging today's cloud for tomorrow's sunshine, if you're going to be outside at all it is going to feel warmer. high pressure in control for monday. the isobars closer together indicating a stronger breeze. that will a notable feature if and when you're outside over the half of the week ahead. maybe just the odd shower towards the channel islands and cornwall, the isles of scilly,

in fact there will be a lot of dry and sunny weather across the bulk of the uk. the wind gusting to average speeds, that's gusts nearer to 30—30 mph the impact is holding temperatures down along north sea coasts. the further west you are, some spots will be around 20 celsius — look at the temperatures in cardiff for the week ahead. lots of dry, sunny weather to come with high pressure in control. the closer you are to that east coast, initially in the week, that breeze will have an impact on the feel of the weather if and when you are outside. that is how the week ahead is shaping up. 00:27:43,640 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 and that's the latest forecast.