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 in one—bedroom apartments. when you think of new york city, you are 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. family lawyers say that some parents who are separated are exploiting the lockdown to try to limit access to their children. but parents who do this could face legal action. the head of the family courts in england and wales, sir andrew mcfarlane, says children should continue to spend time with both parents as long as everyone is healthy. our correspondent frankie mccamley has the story. i'm coming home to an empty house on my own. it is quite a lonely place to be, and then you're not hearing from the one person that you really want to see. alex, whose identity we're protecting, is a key worker. on the day the uk went into lockdown, the mother of his child restricted contact with his son despite court orders stipulating otherwise. the most things i miss is actuallyjust physically

seeing him in front of me. the big thing isjust to be able to hold your child's hand. alex says his partner used his key worker position against him, stating he is at high risk of catching and spreading the disease. current guidance states that if parents live in separate households, children under 18 can be moved from one parent's home to the other after the parents have had a reasonable discussion to make sure the children are not being put at risk. but there are many families where the relationship and the trust has completely broken down. those families will often seek out legal representation. some working in the profession say they've been overwhelmed with calls for clarification and witnessed parents abusing the system. unfortunately, in high conflict cases where parents are not communicating, then any excuse, i'm afraid, to change contact arrangements can be used. and the coronavirus sadly seems to be providing parents with a reason

to prevent contact happening. what parents really need at the moment is clear rules on when they should and shouldn't be changing child arrangements. can you move your children between the two households? well, it's very, very difficult, but no, you should not. the cabinet minister michael gove added to the confusion by performing a high—speed u—turn during a round of interviews at the start of lockdown. those under the age of 18, children under the age of 18, you can see both parents. a senior familyjudge says if both parents are healthy, contact should continue. if the parents are acting in a cynical and opportunistic manner, then that's wrong, and the courts will regard it as wrong. and where contact has been stopped, if in a later day when there will be a day of reckoning in court, that is seen to be unjustified, then parents can expect the courts to take action about it. so what would you say to those families who are trying

to abuse the system? don't. look to the child's welfare. you've got to go the extra mile. do something that you don't feel you want to do, but do it for the sake of your child. alex hopes he'll be able to take his son for a walk soon. but for now, all visits are cancelled. frankie mccamley, bbc news. across the united kingdom in recent weeks, there have been repeated public expressions of gratitude for all those nhs staff caring for patients affected by coronavirus. one leading artist came up with the idea of celebrating the doctors, nurses and other health care workers by offering to paint their portraits. other artists then followed, as our arts editor will gompertz reports. 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 forfree. 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. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night. welcome to bbc news. hello to viewers in the uk and around the world. we will be bringing you that latest briefing from president trump when that gets under way, but, first, from president trump when that gets underway, but, first, it's time for our review of the papers.

with me is talkradio presenter daisy mcandrew and also i'm joined by katy balls, the deputy political editor, spectator. good evening to you both and thank you so much for being with us. it's lovely to have you. let's do a quick skim through the website in the front pages, starting with the international edition of the financial times, which leads on reports of us groups dipping into the small businesses rescue fund. meanwhile, the new york times online edition focuses on president trump's plans to suspend immigration to the united states. the i reports on the launch of coronavirus virus human vaccine trials in oxford. according to the times — these could start as early as thursday. the race for a vaccines also features on the front of the daily express, alongside the uk prime

minister's return to work — as he recovers from coronavirus. the telegraph reports that nhs workers have been given flawed virus tests. while the mirror reports that front line care workers plea for protetctive equipment as stock lies in a warehouse. and the mail reports on urgent referals that have been missed since the start of the covid—19 outbreak, saying 2,700 cancer detections are being missed each week. so, let's begin... just a flavour of those front pages. let's kick off then. katie, if you could start us with the metro, and this is actually the leading quite a few papers, but the vaccine trials on human beings starting as early as thursday. yes. this is the good news that matt hancock was trying to get across in today's daily press

conference from the government. and thatis conference from the government. and that is the uk is looking at vaccines, not only funding, but we heard the end of last week about the extra funds the government is putting into trying to find a vaccine internationally, but, specifically two projects in the uk, which could be crucial to getting out of lockdown to eventually finding a cure to a degree in terms ofa finding a cure to a degree in terms of a vaccination. one being oxford university, which is going to start human trials, and the other being imperial college london, which is also having a programme on this. so lots of optimism coming from the government on this, but i think it's worth bearing in mind that it's still a very long road to get to a vaccine, and patrick, the chief scientific officer for the government has said several times, you know, it is a bit like a lottery in terms of which trial works, and he keeps talking about 12—18 months. if things go well. so i think this

is very encouraging, but it's not something that we are expecting to happen imminently still. daisy, i suppose this is the exit strategy in the end, a sort of race of the top scientists, is to? in places like imperial and oxford to try and come up imperial and oxford to try and come up with this vaccine. absolutely. you can see that the top scientists, as you said, are competing with each other, but, of course, the top politicians, the governments are competing with themselves. there is a lot of pride for whichever government scientist comes up with a vaccine first, and we know that the only countries that are in that race at the moment are from scientist comes up at the moment are from scientist comes up with a vaccine first, and we know that the only countries that are in that race at the moment are from scientist comes up with a vaccine first, and we know that the only countries that are in that race at the moment are from scientist comes up at the moment are from scientist comes up with a vaccine first, and we know that the only countries that are in that race at the moment are from scientist comes up with a vaccine first, and we know that the only countries that are in that race at the moment are from ourselves and the us. it won't be him personally commit will be the scientists, which was why he was so up about it today, but as katie said, there is a very

long path ahead, and as the scientists have been very keen to emphasise, of course, they don't wa nt emphasise, of course, they don't want to get our hopes up, and we know that they have been looking into lots of different solutions to this problem, whether it's an antibody solution, whether it's a proper vaccine which would take 18 months, or whether it's reinventing or reusing some of those drugs that are already out there. but, even with the best people in the world come as they said today, professor pollard, who is running the oxford one said, "there is no way, even if everything goes brilliantly, that this is going to happen before the autumn, much more likely sometime next year. " autumn, much more likely sometime next year." katie, as you were saying, that downing street press briefing that matt hancock very keen to stress that this was a bit of good news, potentially, vaccine trial starting on thursday, but there has been quite a lot of, shall we say, embarrassing news, for the government, and one of those stories highlighted in the financial times tomorrow, political decision in quotation marks kept britain out of a joint european union tactic to get ventilators, this is something maybe you could explain the ins and outs of this row. yes, so the government is not a lot of criticism, as you would expect from i think having to handle the pandemic, but

specifically today the issues of ventilators came up again. now, this goes back to a story i think from a few weeks ago, which is that there is an eu efforts to source ventilators as well as ppe and the uk did not take up that offer. initially, they said i think there was a suggestion that they hadn't been invited, then the government said that, actually, there had been a miscommunication. we had a rather bizarre situation today, where the top civil servant in the foreign office was appearing as a select committee and made the suggestion that, actually, the reason we weren't in that first procurement scheme was not because there was a miscommunication but because it was a political decision, and the government had been briefed on it. now, this led to some confusion that the press conference of matt hancock saying that wasn't the case. no, the front page of the ft is saying political decision kept them out of the ventilator pack, but it's worth

pointing out that since this front page has been released, we have not heard from the top civil servants, and he said that he did make an error that can actually hindsight, what he said wasn't correct, and he unknowingly misled the committee. so it's all a little bit confusing, but you do have a strong denial of someone you do have a strong denial of someone taking back what they said. so that would suggest that matt hancock was saying what was the case in the conference, but it has been a rather bizarre walk around. daisy, would you make of the government's handling of the whole crisis, really? because they are under pressure, aren't they? with ppe, testing, ventilators, and a lot of criticism. you know, if and when there is a public inquiry, quite a lot of questions to be answered. there will definitely be a public inquiry and questions that need to be answered, but, of course, at the moment, nobody knows really whether the government is doing a good job ora the government is doing a good job or a bad job. we the government is doing a good job ora badjob. we can the government is doing a good job or a bad job. we can compare ourselves to other countries and we can compare the number of deaths and

compare the number of tests, but as everybody keeps saying, this is going to be a very long road. and so many things are yet as unknown, which will probably tour for nightmare we are going through at the moment, as faras nightmare we are going through at the moment, as far as historically significant. i totally understand why the government get exasperated with the criticism that is aimed at them all the time, but usually totally understand, i am one of those people criticising and pulling my hair out those people criticising and pulling my hairout and those people criticising and pulling my hair out and thinking "are we doing worse than other countries? are more people dying unnecessarily? " but the truth is, nobody knows. this issue it's simon mcdonald saying that katie was talking about was an absolute dogs dinner as far as communication was concerned. now, i don't think it has made a big difference whether or not i believe matt hancock when they said it doesn't make any difference whether we are not in this procurement, but they haven't got anything we need at they haven't got anything we need at the moment. as far as trusting what they are saying and having one

message come out of the civil servants and politicians, with that didn't happen at all. public