this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. deaths in england and wales hit a 20—year high. more than 1000 covid—related deaths recorded at care homes in the week before easter. it's been, you know, a very lonely experience. that's all i can say. we don't feel as though we've been prepared or led through this. human trials for a potential coronavirus vaccine will begin in the uk this week. president trump is criticised after promising to stop all immigration into the us because of the pandemic. he says it's to protectjobs, but has given no indication of when the ban will start or how long it will last. british dentists say they haven't got the protective equipment to safely perform emergency treatment.

and easing the lockdown in austria — restau ra nts a nd cafes can open next month. hello, and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we're covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. the scale of the suffering caused by the coronavirus epidemic here in the uk became clearer today. the office for national statistics revealed that the number of deaths has risen to its highest level in 20 years, nearly double what would be expected at this time of year. it comes after the uk reported 823 more coronavirus deaths in hospital following a post—weekend dip in yesterday's figures. matt hancock also announced that

human vaccine trials will begin in the uk starting on thursday. elsewhere, president trump is to meet new york governor andrew cuomo in washington this evening to talk about tackling the virus there. following the opening of shops last week, austria now plans to lift restrictions on cafes and restaurants by mid—may. let's get this report now from our social affairs correspondent alison holt on the latest in the uk. each face so much more than a statistic, a life lived and a family mourning, the extraordinary high toll of deaths in the official numbers today can only really give a glimpse of how much the coronavirus is taking from us. amongst those it's claimed is 89—year—old joan davies. my mum could ask about something that happened when she was a child and she would be able to give you the day and time and everything that happened.

she had an incredible memory for things like that. she was a great historian. her niece says althouthoan was frail, she was still doing well at a care home in wales. her ambition was to reach the age of 100, but within a couple of days of developing coronavirus symptoms, she had died. i do wonder if people really understand how much we're going to lose in terms of the older communities, so much experience and family loss will happen. because we're not really looking out for them properly, and certainly not for the carers either, and that's really scary. many care homes like this one in sheffield have been hit hard by the virus. the deaths of some of their residents have left staff at full stretch physically and emotionally. a week after last speaking to us, their boss says they're coping but they felt on their own.

sadly we're the forgotten sector, we do not have the infrastructure or support of the nhs so i would say we really have needed that in the past four weeks and i think we have to look at lessons that need to be learned from this. official statistics are only now starting to give a sense of the scale of what has happened in care homes in england and wales. the last figures up until the start of april recorded the deaths of 217 people as linked to covid—19, but figures today show that one week later, the overall number had quadrupled to more than 1000 deaths. that means 10% of all deaths connected to the virus are happening in care homes. the figures in scotland and northern ireland are higher. dr peter calverley runs one of the large care home where they have had 250 deaths and he thinks that the official numbers are still underestimated but the difficulties are being recognised. i think finally it is shining a light to reveal what we all knew

what was happening on the ground, and ijust think it is good to be out in the open and now part of the national debate that we are understanding deaths not only in hospitals, but also care homes. the government has promised more protective equipment and is ramping up testing for care staff and residents, but the numbers today are a stark reminder of the cost to so many of the coronavirus. alison holt, bbc news. the uk government is facing increasing pressure over its strategy for supplying personal protective equipment to the nhs and care homes amid claims from the labour party that it's been ignoring offers of help from british companies. the labour leader, sir keir starmer, says firms are telling him they've been contacting the government, but not hearing anything back. speaking at the daily news briefing, the health secretary, matt hancock, insisted that all offers were being investigated and officials were now working with more than 150 potential uk manufacturers. 0ur political editor laura kuenssberg reports.

but as you can see, our machines sit idle and our staff are furloughed. empty workshops that don't have to be. tomorrow, jim griffin's car parts firm will start up again to make gearfor medics. he'll repurpose his kit to make protective equipment. but although he says he's filled in form after form, this nottinghamshire factory will be making medical equipment for orders from ireland. i don't understand why it's so difficult for people to be getting in touch with companies like ours to make the products here in the uk. mps are now back at work in a very different parliament. and the squeeze on equipment for health workers is top of many of their demands. the green benches have been carefully spaced out. order, order. from tomorrow, they will able to ask questions of ministers online. members may launch forth into fine parations only to be muted or snatched away altogether by an itinerant internet connection. ministers defend themselves to mps

and others by saying that they're focusing on larger providers after a vast 8000 firms offered to help with kit, but the opposition believes the government has had time enough. manufacturers here are saying we've stepped up and offered and didn't really hear back from the government, and yet at the same time we've got planes trying to bring stuff back from abroad. so something's clearly going wrong. do you think this is a bit of a reflection what is going on in a wider sense in terms of the management of this crisis? the other decisions about testing and equipment appear to have been very challenging for the government, and i think they've been slow into it. and they're still not fully accepting the gap between what they say is happening and what the front line is telling us is happening. the health secretary has always said the government was well—prepared to cope with the terrible reality of this crisis. since the start of the crisis, we've now delivered over a billion items of ppe. we're constantly working to improve that delivery system, buying ppe from around the world and working to make more here at home.

this was declared a pandemic well over a month ago. why is the government still having to scramble now to get our health workers the equipment they need and allowing uk firms we've been hearing from today who could supply british hospitals and care homes to sell their products abroad? i think the most important thing we concentrate on is what are the offers that can get us the most ppe to be able to get it into the country, to be able to manufacture it here and to be able to then get it out to the front line and we are doing everything we possibly can to make that happen. but tomorrow, ministers will no doubt again be asked in this very different looking parliament whether doing everything they can is the same as achieving what needs to be done. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, westminster. donald trump has announced that he'll impose a "temporary ban" on all immigration into the united states. the president said the move, which is likely to face legal challenges, was needed to protect americanjobs during the pandemic. new york has been hit

hard by coronavirus, and the city's immigrant communities have been disproportionately affected. nick bryant reports from the borough of queens. in a city of ambition, in a city of abundance, a scene that looks like a throwback to the days of the great depression. these people were queueing for food hand—outs, the length of the line a measure of the desperation. every person has a story of need. almost all are economic victims of covid—19. only a few weeks ago, restaurant workers, cleaners, labourers, now thrown out of work. alfredo moreno was laid off last month. we have a little bit of money saved, so we're trying to survive with that. while... when do you think that money will run out? we don't know yet. i mean, we have talked with our landlord to see

what we're going to do this month, but i don't know how we're going to survive. even in this time of crisis, mary bautista spoke of her civic and national pride. we are a nation where we support each other, and you have seen the tremendous... the abundance of support from all the americans, and i'm glad to be a new yorker, and god bless america. and these are the meagre food packages they spent hours queueing for. a sandwich, some applesauce. in this, the land of plenty. from queens, you can see the residential skyscrapers of billionaires row in manhattan. but these neighbourhoods are part of another america, one that's been ground zero in new york's outbreak, one that's home to the ha rdest—hit public hospital. here, a mother and daughter had to wave up at the windows to their husband and father, his birthday spent in covid isolation.

on its doorstep is a neighbourhood called corona, heavily populated by immigrants who don't have the luxury of teleworking from home. people pursuing american dreams that are being crushed by this global contagion. the coronavirus crisis has really held up a mirror to income inequality in america, and especially new york. many of the richest people simply fled the city early on and headed to their coastal and country retreats. that was not an option for the poor. many people here live in multi—generational households in overcrowded housing, and the lower your income, the harder it is to be socially distant. with latino and black residents dying at twice the rate of white new yorkers, the local councillor, francisco moya, says the coronavirus has revealed a tale of two cities. a lot of the latino community and the poor community are living ten to a one—bedroom apartment.

when you think of new york city, you're accustomed of thinking of these luxury condos and high—rises throughout the city, but you have to come out to the outer boroughs and see how the working class and the poor have to live. in this crisis of need, new york's iconic yellow cabs have been drafted in to deliver aid. taxi drivers have become caregivers, handing out meals to people who can't leave their homes. new york believes it's past the peak of its coronavirus outbreak. but it's still in the depths of this economic disaster. nick bryant, bbc news, queens. let's speak to katty kay in washington. that news of the executive order came ina that news of the executive order came in a midnight tweet. in the last few minutes we have been getting more detail because aside from that top line we knew very little. and it is not actually clear what this means in practice to me

because effectively immigration into the us and everywhere has stopped because there is not much travel coming into the country. there are very few flights coming in from europe and very few flights coming in from asia. 0n europe and very few flights coming in from asia. on march the 18th, the government stopped processing green ca rd government stopped processing green card applications and new immigration visa applications as well so those have been pretty much on hold. traditionally at this time of year we do see a pick—up and be coming across the border as the weather gets warmer so may targeted specifically at that. and people who are already in the country, these details are coming in, are allowed to stay in health care workers are going to be made an exception and farm workers made an exception as well. it will be challenged in court and it looks more political to me than a big move in practice. interesting you in on that thought because democrats have tweeted their opposition with amy klobuchar saying

the president attacks immigrants to draw attention away from his own failures and i want to see more testing. for the battle lines are drawn but donald trump thrives on these metal lines. yes and last night at the white house briefing, he also said with a general there to talk about building hotels and on the prompting of the president building a border wall. this is an election year and is important for the base of the president to go on addressing issues like immigration so addressing issues like immigration so there is no harm and putting in a tweet like this and democrats like klobuchar and joe biden pushing back against this saying this another time to be spending effort on immigration restrictions and a lot of these immigrants are needed and the whole focus should be on testing. a final thought on what will be a fascinating meeting with andrew cuomo and a couple of hours' time because there has been real tension between those two with their daily briefings going on only a couple of hours apart. what will be

the critical thing that gets discussed here, do you think? would not be good to be a fly on the wall at that particular meeting given how many angry tweets these two men have traded. i think and are cuomo coming down, he still needs to federal government and it is still all about testing and i suspect the main issue is testing and then it will be the dynamics of how andrew cuomo, democratic governor from new york who has been critical of the president, gets what he needs from the federal government and is sufficiently conciliatory towards the president he wants the governors to be kind to him and perhaps he will be even they are. who knows maybe at the briefing and there is talk in washington sank reasonably revere ntly talk in washington sank reasonably reverently good things but the president but he needs that testing to be wrapped up. that will be fascinating and we will have more on that a little later. thank you very much indeed. uk human trials of a vaccine for coronavirus will be trialled from this thursday

at a project in oxford. the health secretary said the process for finding a vaccine would take "trial and error", but he would back uk scientists "to the hilt". two of the leading vaccine developments are taking place here at home, at oxford and imperial. both of these promising projects are making rapid progress, and i've the told the scientists leading them that we will do everything in our power to support. first, today, i'm making £22.5 million available to the imperial project to support their phase—two clinical trials which will assess a sample of several thousand, and for them to begin the work on subsequently a very large phase—three trial. second, i'm today making available £20 million to the oxford team to fund their clinical trials. the team have accelerated that trial process,

working with the regulator the nhra, who have been absolutely brilliant, and as a result, i can announce that the vaccine from the oxford project will be trialled in people from this thursday. in normal times, reaching this stage would take years, and i'm very proud of the work taken so far. at the same time, we'll invest in manufacturing capability so that if either of these vaccines safely works, then we can make it available for the british people as soon as humanly possible. joining me now is professor beate kampmann, who's head of the vaccine centre at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine. thank you so much forjoining us here. your reaction to what you just heard that the trials start this thursday and how does the process actually go from there? thank you

very much. the fact that the money was made available today does not mean that if the reason why the trial is starting on thursday. be under no illusion about this. vaccine trial say very careful planning and both the groups in oxford and at imperial would have spent weeks and months trying to get this all in place and i am really pleased they are now getting what i would see as more for an end to end approach to financing of this process and that is really good news and it shows enthusiasm for vaccine development. what actually has to happen? how many groups will be involved? how long happen? how many groups will be involved ? how long will testing actually take? the first phase is phase one which is to establish whether the vaccine is safe in limited numberof whether the vaccine is safe in limited number of volunteers i believe for the author protocol and i think it is around 500 but have not seen that protocol myself. it will involve making sure that there are no nasty side effects, no bad surprises and people will be very carefully monitored. we know that

the regulators are also trying to accelerate things. talking about acceleration, do we mean any different thresholds on safety or is it the same threshold and just process much quicker? so no corners kimmich on safety. nobody is served bya kimmich on safety. nobody is served by a vaccine that is not safe and thatis by a vaccine that is not safe and that is actually counterproductive in the longer term. the same rules will apply and people have started talking about the criteria will be ata talking about the criteria will be at a much earlier stage in there is at a much earlier stage in there is a much more combined effort between academia, regulators and now funders to bring this parcel together which will ultimately lead to regulatory approval of the candidate. whether it is the author candidate, the imperial candidate or one of the many others that might be out there in the field. i wanted to ask you because we have many different teams are working on finding a vaccine right around the world. does it make sense to operate individually or to pool knowledge, pool programmes,

pool knowledge, pool programmes, pool development, pool initiatives? so the platforms on which these vaccines are designed already have some similarities. not every candidate that is currently in preclinical developer will ever see the light of day in a clinical trial. it will ultimately be a little bit of a competition of course will also will need investment and will need the all important safety data also from animal experiments which are coming on in parallel. and many candidates will fall by the side. what do you think realistically is the quickest we could have this? having gone through all you've just described, you also then have to manufacture that vaccine in vast quantities in terms of what is actually needed. absolutely true and until a vaccine is licensed, nobody will undertake massive manufacturing on a scale that will meet the whole pandemic. so there is quite a distance to go between that phase one which is the safety and phase two and phase three which will actually only then show

us which will actually only then show us the efficacy of the vaccine and only then will licensing happening and upscaling of manufacturing and we need massive manufacturing facilities for that and probably partnership with industry. we have to leave it there but thank you so much forjoining us on the programme here, thank you so much. the number of acutely hungry people around the world is likely to double this year to more than a quarter of a billion as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. that's the warning from the united nations' world food programme, which says covid—19 is "potentially catastrophic" for millions who are already hanging by a thread. most of those at risk are in a small number of countries affected by conflict, economic crisis and climate change, including south sudan, yemen and syria. dentists in england are facing "critical shortages" in ppe, forcing patients with urgent problems to "take matters into their own hands". that's the warning from the british dental association.

it comes after practices were told to suspend routine appointments and set up emergency hubs instead to help slow the spread of coronavirus. the government's chief dental officer said work is ongoing to ensure ppe is available. paul woodhouse is a dentist in teesside and sits on the board of the british dental assocation. welcome to the programme. give me an idea ofjust how bad the situation is on the ground. locally i can speakfor, is on the ground. locally i can speak for, we were told to stop treating patients on march the 25th and our two local sites went live on monday and i had been informed five minutes ago that one of those sites actually has been pulled and the local area team has actually asked for expressions of interest for the practice to run that. that has been cut down to two practices since friday morning so the situation is actually terrible in terms of urgent

care. i will come to ppe and a second but in terms of people, they're taking things into their hands of people are putting their own teeth out. what you actually say to people who actually phone into practices? at the minute, i feel phone calls from a day. all we are allowed to do is offer them advice and prescribe analgesia pain relief 01’ and prescribe analgesia pain relief or antibiotics they look like they have an infection. beyond that, if those don't work within a supporter of urgent care centres, up to definitive care but i see horror stories people having to pull their own teeth and taking 90 minutes to extra ct a own teeth and taking 90 minutes to extract a tooth. without anaesthetic, i cannot imagine the agony they are in to resort to those measures. i have agony they are in to resort to those measures. i have seen agony they are in to resort to those measures. i have seen stories of a woman who was pregnant having to travel through the mouth of access dental care. this isjust ridiculous. in terms of the shortage of ppe, do you have any idea... in

your local practice or sitting there on the association, do you know where you are as dentists in the queue for ppe because we know that health workers, hospital workers and ca re health workers, hospital workers and care homes are all after the same stuff? the cynic in me says we are in the back. in the local patch and the local dental committee which is essentially the dentists in our area, we bought our own ppe and nothing came from nhs england despite assurances on various tv programmes that every dental practice that had ppe delivered. i must‘ve been out that day because nothing came to my practice. we've a lwa ys nothing came to my practice. we've always been considered the cinderella service in terms of health care and we are not high up on the list of priorities politically and not a great politically and not a great political football. so i politically and not a great politicalfootball. so i can imagine dentistry will not get ppe from central sources easily. final question here would you be advise members on the dental association simply not to risk doing any sort of work without that equipment? we know in other areas of the sector people

are forced having a dilemma to either go into work without the equipment they would ideally like. either go into work without the equipment they would ideally likelj think equipment they would ideally like.” think anyone who is risking treatment patients without adequate ppe is putting themselves at great risk and their team and their patients and future patients and eve ryo ne patients and future patients and everyone they bump into it is at risk. you need the proper ppe to ensure patient safety and team safety a nd ensure patient safety and team safety and that is throughout all health care and notjust dentistry. well, thank you for taking time and joining us here bbc news this evening to go through all of those dilemmas. you're welcome. yesterday, we told you about baby peyton. she was born eight weeks premature and then contracted covid—19 when she was just three weeks old. her mother, tracy was isolated in lanarkshire hospital in scotland with her for 1h days. finally, last night, a healthy peyton was discharged to go home for the first time.

fantastic pictures and great news. but with more headlines in a moment. hello again. for most of us, it has been another day of clear blue sunny skies, but we did start off with a little bit more cloud in the sky and that's the stunning start of the day. the cloud also brought a few nasty morning showers the isles here, moved out of the way quickly for the morning and for the rest of the day dry and sunny. the highest temperature in northwest wales where highs got up to 21 celsius, which is 70 in fahrenheit. underneath those skies, iy‘s pretty stunning up and down the country. one of our weather watcher pictures showing the white sandy

beach in the western isles of scotland. overnight tonight we are going to keep that clear weather initially. the second half of the night may see patchy cloud form over the pennines and southern highlands. four to seven celsius for many of us. could get down to about —3 or 4 degrees. the isobars are opening out, and so that means the winds are still blowing from the easterly direction, they won't to be blowing as strongly. cloud initially of the southern highlands will clear off weakly and another day of almost unbroken sunshine, just a bit of high cloud moving across the skies of northern ireland. temperatures higher across the border, a warmer day with more across england and wales and temperatures for the low 20s. it was about 18 for northern ireland, 18 or 19 for scotland. thursday looks like the warmest day of the week. mist and fog patches to start off with, those temperatures could beat 23 or 2a celsius with the warmest areas across southern england. that's thursday's weather

and what about the end of the week? just a few mist and fog patches around friday, little overall change for most of us. still spells of sunshine and very warm forjust about all of us. however start to get northerly winds blowing in across the north of highland, 0rkney and shetland. didn't turn cooler. temperatures around nine celsius. that weekend set fairfor the most part. but more cloud and temperatures coming down just a few degrees but still on the warm side. isolated showers and more especially on sunday.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. deaths in england and wales hit a 20 year high — more than 1,000 covid—related deaths, recorded at care homes, in the week before easter. it's been, you know, very lonely experience. that's all i can say. we don't feel as though we've been prepared or led through this. human trials for a potential coronavirus vaccine, will begin in the uk this week president trump is criticised after promising to stop all immigration into the us because of the pandemic. he says it's to protectjobs but has given no indication of when a ban will start, or how long it will last.

british dentists say, they haven't got the protective equipment — to safely perform emergency treatment. and — easing the lockdown in austria — restaurants and cafes can open next month. welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we're covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. here in the uk, supplies of face masks for key health workers, could be put at risk, if the government starts advising the public to wear them. that's the warning from hospital bosses. nhs providers — which represents hospitals in england — said, there needed to be clear evidence of the benefits before the guidance is changed. the world health organization says, there's no evidence to support their use by the general population, but many countries easing

their lockdowns, have insisted people wear them, when leaving their homes. here's our science editor, david shukman. a familiar sight on the medical front line — masks protecting the faces of doctors and nurses. by contrast, masks worn by the public are generally helping to protect the people around them. there are two key reasons why it may be helpful for people to wear some kind of face covering. one is that if you become infected, five days may pass before you start coughing or having a fever. and in that time, especially in the two days before symptoms start to show, you can be highly infectious, passing the virus around without even realizing. the other reason is that some people become infected and never show symptoms. maybe for ten days or even longer, no one really knows. and they also could be passing on the virus without even being aware of it. people started making homemade masks and giving them to others for free. there's now a campaign

to make your own mask. this one started in the czech republic. it's one answer to the pandemic. masks aren't a magic bullet, but what they can do is to slow the spread. and we can see that from countries such as taiwan, which haven't had a lockdown, they've managed to slow the spread of the virus through multiple measures. one of those is masks. and if all of us, or the majority of us wear masks, i'm convinced we can slow the spread of covid for the benefit of all of us, and protecting the nhs. but this has led to a serious worry among health professionals that if everyone rushes to buy masks, hospitals will face even more of a struggle to find them. we need to make sure that health care workers can protect patients and can protect the public. that's what an individual has to think about when they're thinking of buying those higher grade masks. so while we're being urged not to try to buy professional face

masks, there is growing evidence that homemade ones like an old t—shirt can be very effective. one study found thatjust two layers of cotton are enough to stop 90% of any virus you might be breathing out. a grim reminder of how easily the infection can spread. so when the lockdown is eventually relaxed, some kind of mask may be the answer. david shukman, bbc news. for weeks now, health experts have been emphasising the importance of increasing the capacity to test people for coronavirus. the uk government's target is 100,000 a day by the end of the month. so far, it says, it has the capacity to carry out a0 thousand tests a day. but here's the challenge — the latest figures show that less than half that number of tests were actually carried out. why is that? here's our health editor hugh pym. des is a prison officer on his way into a drive—through coronavirus testing centre.

as a key worker he can in agreement with his employer get a test to confirm if he is fit to start work or return from self isolation. that is really good. a simple throat and nasal swab and the job is done, he must wait a couple of days for results to come back. i was coughing at work and my colleague did not want to work with me which is fair enough. so i thought hang on, i was sent home and sent down here which is fair enough. there is a network of testing centres for key workers like this around england. a similar drive—through testing site near aberdeen airport as well. the number of tests carried out each day on patients and key workers in the uk has risen to around the 20,000 level since data was first available earlier in the month. still well short of a government target of 100,000 tests per day by the end of april,

less than two weeks away. that target set by the health secretary matt hancock is for the number of tests carried out, testing capacity is another matter. facilities like this can be set up which are not fully used. confident we have the capacity to respond with the testing required. you confident of getting to the 100,000 tests per day by the end of april? you would need to talk to the secular state about his target but we do have the lab capacity to deliver the testing service that the country needs. the swabs are brought here to one of three so—called mega labs, this one in milton keynes has been created at an existing research centre. management here got a call in late march saying they would be part ofa national virus testing effort, equipment was meant by laboratories over the country and brought here

by the army, the navy and even in taxis. testing started a few days later and soon will move up to 20 47 operation. -- 24/7. at the moment the manual process will support many thousands of samples per day and as the automation develops that will rapidly escalate into tens of thousands of samples per day. those tens of thousands will be part of the move towards the government target with volunteers like beth, a research student, helping out. it is when rewarding to be able to contribute, i have a lot of friends in the front line and health care professionals and to be able to help them out in a way is good. home testing has started this week, allowing key workers to get their own swab samples and send them for analysis. it is another part of the drive to escalate testing capacity which will be crucial if there is a second spike in cases late in the year. whether it is enough to hit the government targets this month

is another matter. pictures of deserted monuments and empty beaches have become symbolic of the staggering blow to tourism dealt by the covid—19 pandemic. and now — the authorities in the german state of bavaria have cancelled the world's best— known beer festival, oktoberfest. it comes as the european union says, that the tourism industry is likely to be one of the last to recover from the pandemic. let's speak now to zurab pololikashvili, secretary general of the united nations world tourism organisation. welcome here to the programme. i am assuming you have never seen anything quite like this for the tourism industry. absolutely. this is the first time ever that in our headquarters in madrid you cannot even travel to neighbour countries like france or portugal. cannot even travel inside the country. first time ever that the european union and all the world is locked. whether

170 countries are locked. people are not travelling and the tourism industry is one of the most affected during this covid period.” industry is one of the most affected during this covid period. i referred there to oktoberfest, but we are already seeing major events like august, september and october being cancelled. that means that there has to bea cancelled. that means that there has to be a short—term strategy and a longer—term strategy to be developed here. first of all it's not only 0 kto be rfest here. first of all it's not only oktoberfest which was cancelled, the tokyo 0lympic oktoberfest which was cancelled, the tokyo olympic games were postponed stop by expo postponed, major events. but i'm sure many trips were postponed, not only events but i'm sure the campaign started commit stay at home to travel tomorrow, it will work. we are sure that it will

work just to state two will work. we are sure that it will workjust to state two or three weeks more and then i am sure. 0ur job and then i will go to the long—term strategy. starting and travelling, and how can we travel tomorrow. we want to make sure his people are safe travelling tomorrow. not when the vaccine will be invented. and how do you do that in terms of making it safe for people to travel, how do you actually do that? because things like health passports have been suggested. is that the sort of thing that you are thinking about? for us two things are most important. it's the control on the borders, this is one of the most important parts to travel tomorrow, and the second thing is to recommend countries again depending on the control to open borders. now everything is locked but we have to open borders and am sure that many

countries will start. several airline companies have started to think about how to make it safer to be in the planes into travel and i'm sure that this campaign started, we are not preparing covid guidelines for countries. just a brief final thought, realistically thousands upon thousands of companies in many different countries are going to go to the wall because of this, and ultimately certainly for the next two years towards and potentially might change dramatically. people staying in their home countries. absolutely agree. first we think that domestic tourists will start because people's mentalities will be very hardened and difficult to travel and other countries. but stage by stage tourism has shown

many times it has the power to recover and recover fast. the many times it has the power to recover and recoverfast. the crisis has also hit people's confidence in the economy, as a person to person secretary and it will reveal confidence. thank you for speaking to us. i want to again mention and underline we need actions not words and we will the commissioners statement. he calls for 25% of eu recovery funds to go to the opening of the tourist sector. europe can set an example for the world. it was the most hit region in the world and is the first time in brussels and the european union is supporting this in such a strong way and again europe will be a nice example or showcase, and we are working on it and in two or three weeks we can present guidelines. 0ur message is

to stay at home and travel tomorrow. thank you so much for your time. thank you so much for your time. thank you. brazil has the highest number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in latin america, with nearly 2600 deaths. and yet clashes within the highest branches of brazil's leadership have put the country's response to the pandemic,at odds with its own scientific community. president bolsonaro fired his own health minister last week, refusing to impose social distancing measures. he also joined an anti—lockdown rally on sunday. earlier, i spoke to former brazilian foreign and defence minister celso amorim. i asked him how alarmed he is by the president's actions. i think what is happening in brazil is more or less what happened in the us and what happened in the beginning in the uk, in which the leaders didn't think it was necessary to impose social distancing. and in the case of brazil, of course, that has been the position of the president.

in contrast with the position of the governors and in contrast with the former health minister who was dismissed last week. so, i think this is basically a problem of the country and the people don't feel real leadership to take the difficult decision, which it's always a difficult decision to stay home. i will come to those decisions in a moment. but you told our producer it was not a fight between left and right, but between reason and unreason. which of those two is actually winning in brazil at the moment? i would say unreason. you have the governors and many people who are... the media and other people working for a more provincial approach, and you have the president who is...

he is like donald trump. he's pushing kind of a dichotomy which for me is a false dichotomy between the economy and the health situation. of course it's important to think of the economy, already taken, to deal with that. maybe they are still insufficient, well, i'm sure they are insufficient because we have also have a problem, we have a minister of the economy which is a complete neoliberal and who hesitates to take the necessary measures along the lines that are now being recommended by the financial times or by the economists. you are exactly right with the parallels... you are right with the parallels with donald trump because president bolsonaro has discounted the science. he described covid—19 as the sniffles. he says unless you lift restrictions, the country will simply go broke and you'll end up like venezuela. what do you make of that argument? the economic argument trumping

the health argument? well, you know, without life there is no economy. it's a question of priority. for ethical reasons, for logical reasons, but also for practical reasons, because if you don't have producers and you don't have the people to exercise demand, what will be the economy? so, i think if you don't say people's lives, that's our view and maybe he has a different view which i think is wrong, but again the problem is not so much having the wrong view, the problem is having to rely on science, rely on what the world health organisation have said and what the scientists around the world have said. that was brazil's former foreign and defence minister speaking to me just a short while ago. austria has announced that its coronavirus restrictions will be significantly eased from the middle of next month. the chancellor, sebastian kurz, said restaurants and cafes will be allowed to open until 11 o'clock in the evening — and religious

services can resume. small shops, diy stores and garden centres were allowed to re—open a week ago. 0ur correspondent in vienna, bethany bell, has more details. mr kurz says that if all goes well, restau ra nts a nd cafes will be allowed to reopen as of the 15th of may. now we don't know all the details about this yet. we don't know the social distancing rules that will be in place, how many guests will be allowed in, what the size of groups will be. mr kurz says all of that detail will be announced next week. but it is expected that serving staff certainly will have to wear face masks. mr kurz said austria is moving more quickly, faster than other countries in returning to what he called "a new normality". this was, he said, due to the fact that austria took tough measures early on in the outbreak. already small shops have

been able to reopen. the plan is if everything goes well for all shops to open as of the 1st of may. and there are also plans for the schools. high school students, people doing their final exams will start at the beginning of may, and then as of the middle of may, step—by—step, other schools will expect to start up as well. but we are still waiting for the details of all of those things, too. the government stressed that it is ready to slam on the brakes at any time if the infections start going up again. in italy, 534 people with coronavirus have died in the past 2a hours, the highest daily death toll there for five days. but authorities are encouraged by a drop in the overall number of people known to be currently carrying the illness, which has now declined for the second day in a row. mark lowen gave me this update from rome. 534 people have died in the past 2a hours.

that is 80 higher than the death toll we spoke about on monday. so, it's frustrating certainly for italians who are waiting for this death toll to fall considerably in order to really see light at the end of the tunnel. but on the infection numbers, they continue to be giving grounds for optimism. they have fallen again. the current number of positive cases here fell for the first time yesterday by just 20, but in the past 24 hours, they have fallen by 528. so that is optimistic. that is encouraging for the scientists who are looking at the figures here. they show the curve is stabilising, and for the first the numbers are beginning to drop. as i say, until that death toll falls from a stubbornly high level, italians are going to be very frustrated and waiting for this tangible sign that the virus is receding rather than simply losing hundreds of people every day. a pregnant junior doctor says

that she feels "unsafe" going to work because the rules over the use of protective equipment keep changing. meenal viz wanted to speak out after the death of mary agyapong, a pregnant nurse from luton who died from covid—19 last week. more than 70 front line nhs staff have died during the coronavirus pandemic. kate bradbrook reports. a one—woman protest outside downing street by a pregnant doctor with a clear message. it was my call to all fellow doctors that it's ok to speak up, and i cannot explain how scary it is to walk into an environment which is so highly infectious, i don't know what i'm exposing myself to, i don't know what i'm exposing my unborn child two. she is six and a half months pregnant, and although not working on a designated covid ward sheath says she feels that risk. knowing that i might not even have the ppe to see my patients is even scarier because we don't

know what we are walking into every day. we might have ppe today and tomorrow we are told something else. she says the death of nurse mary aqygpw‘q she says the death of nurse mary agyapong in luton over easter was the catalyst for her protest. she does the very same hospital that she was saving lives. that is not ok. that is injustice. she left a young baby behind who will never know who her mother is and it breaks my heart, and that could be me or anybody else. her story really inspired me. her story really made me feel that i had to speak up for everybody else. because who is going to be her voice now? according to the royal college of obstetricians and gynaecologists pregnant women up to 28 weeks should practice social distancing, but can choose to continue to work in a patient facing role. they advised where possible to avoid caring for patients with suspected or confirmed coronavirus, if not possible to use ppe. and undertake a thorough

risk assessment. patients who are coming and make turn out to be covid positive a few days later. initially we were told that would require the full ppe in terms of when we see it covid patients, now even when we see covid patients we are told a surgical mask is enough. the guidelines are being changed based on supply, not been changed according to our safety. some people arguing you broke government guidelines and potentially put lives at risk just by going to downing street. if you think i am unsafe coming to downing streetjust holding a sign where i'm not even around anybody where everyone is practising social distancing, if you think that's unsafe, how do you think i feel when i walk into a hospital when i'm surrounded by people? and hospitals it's very difficult to practice of group distancing because the architecture and rooms and awards, and on top of that you're telling me to go in to see a patient with a piece of plastic.

people across the uk have been showing their gratitude to the nhs staff working to save lives. amongst them is the leading portrait artist tom croft, who has decided to celebrate the dedication of doctors, nurses and other health care workers by painting portraits of them. 0ur arts editor will gompertz has the story. the artist tom croft has painted a lot of portraits over the years. he's done footballers, politicians, bishops and rock stars. but the pandemic left him short of subjects. until, that is, he had an idea. when the lockdown first started, i was really struggling, as i know a lot of artists were, to find almost the point in their work. and so i thought about a portrait being a celebration of people achieving extraordinary things, maybe in their professional lives. and who is more deserving at the moment than the heroes on the frontline of the nhs? and so he posted

an instagram message. the first doctor, nurse, key worker to contact me in this post, i will paint their portrait in oils for free. harriet durkin, an a&e nurse at the manchester royal infirmary, did just that. and tom got to work painting harriet wearing her ppe. what does it mean to you now to have it? i'll have that picture forever and be able to look back, you know, and remember what a difficult time it had been, but people that i work with, people i call my friends, everybody coming together, i can look at that and think, gosh, you know. it's very emotional. critical care nurse carolina pinto also got in touch with tom, who has been inundated with portrait requests from hundreds of doctors and nurses. he matched her with bp portrait award finalist mary jane ansel, who conducted a virtual sitting. so i'm really excited to paint you and i think this is such a lovely idea. i never had my portrait done before, but it's also good to have like this kind

of experience where people are supporting us in a different way. that must be really difficult when you've got your mask on, because i know that that sort of connection that you have with your patients, that's such a huge part of looking after them. and not being able to have that? they can not really understand your expression. so it's the same if i'm smiling or not, because all they really see is your eyes. most of the time it seems like we are screaming, and we just want them to understand what we are saying. so yeah, you lost a bit of the human connection. so far, there've been around 500 parings of hospital key worker and professional artist under the hashtag portrait‘s for nhs heroes. the hope is once the lockdown is over to have a public exhibition of them all as the culmination of an initiative that has already been copied in america, spain, belgium and ireland. will gompertz, bbc news. that's it — on the day when the number of coronavirus case worldwide has past 2.5 million.i'll see you at the same time tomrrow —

i'll see you at the same time tomrrow — next up — it's 0urside source. hello again. for most of us, it has been another day of clear blue sunny skies, but we did start off with a little bit more cloud in the sky and that's the stunning start of the day. the cloud also brought a few nasty morning showers the isles here, moved out of the way quickly for the morning and for the rest of the day dry and sunny. the highest temperature in northwest wales where highs got up to 21 celsius, which is 70 in fahrenheit. underneath those skies, pretty stunning up and down the country. one of our weather watcher pictures showing the white sandy beach in the western isles of scotland. overnight tonight we are going to keep that clear weather initially. the second half of the night may see

patchy cloud form over the pennines and southern highlands. four to seven celsius for many of us. trust again for the shelter valleys of scotland. could get down to about —3 or 4 degrees. the isobars are opening out, and so that means the winds are still blowing from the easterly direction, they won't to be blowing as strongly. cloud initially of the southern highlands will clear off weakly and another day of almost unbroken sunshine, just a bit of high cloud moving across the skies of northern ireland. temperatures higher across the border, a warmer day with more across england and wales and temperatures for the low 20s. it was about 18 for northern ireland, 18 or 19 for scotland. thursday looks like the warmest day of the week. mist and fog patches to start off with, those temperatures could beat 23 or 24 celsius with the warmest areas across southern england. that's thursday's weather and what about the end of the week?

just a few mist and fog patches around friday, little overall change for most of us. still spells of sunshine and very warm forjust about all of us. however start to get northerly winds blowing in across the north of highland, 0rkney and shetland. temperatures around nine celsius. that weekend set fair for the most part. but more cloud and temperatures coming down just a few degrees but still on the warm side. isolated showers and more especially on sunday.

this is outside source on bbc news for viewers in the uk and around the world. we're covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. all eyes are on washington as the governor of new york prepares to meet president trump after clashing over funding for coronavirus testing. let's just co—ordinate who does what. what do the states do? what does the federal government do? president trump is criticised after promising to stop all immigration into the us because of the pandemic.