will make the loggers $300. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines: have bills to pay. they've chosen more than 50,000 people have now died in the us from coronavirus. meanwhile, president trump has backtracked on a suggestion their target, an 80—year—old rosewood tree. this fallen giant that disinfectant could be used to tackle the virus. these valleys are populated by he said his suggestion that miners and loggers. in the town of injections of disinfectant could treat patients was sarcastic. the uk government website for key workers to apply for tests has reopened after it was closed due to "significant demand". the tests are being offered 0tache, members of the community to around 10 million key workers have been invited to a workshop and their families. organised by the authorities. the government aims carry out 100,000 daily tests by the end of april. and world leaders and the world health organisation have launched a global initiative to accelerate work on drugs to treat coronavirus. they hope ecotourism will be the the head of the who says the biggest health effort in history is needed silver bullet, providing an income to rid the world of covid—19. for the community while saving the forest. the botanists from kew have experts say any vaccine that is developed must be made available and affordable. been invited to make their case.

now, it's friday night in the uk, a time when, not long ago, the pubs would have been packed. but with lockdown measures in place, some have been forced to adapt to the times. they're providing takeaway meals and home deliveries. but others have had to pour out their precious pints, as our ireland correspondent the fact that there is such a good emma vardy reports. turnout here, better than there is a lot of interest in alternatives to there are thousands of gallons cutting down the forest. but the of lovingly—brewed beer right now going to waste. question is, is it going to give the landlord of people enough of a livelihood, and the gardener's arms in norwich disposed that's a big question. the colonel has turned up. sitting next to him of his ten real ales to the hymn played as the titanic sank. is edemildo, who's been a logger all we have a cellar full of beer, his life. now, though, he is looking which is probably all going to be out of date for new opportunities. within the next two or three weeks. a lot of the brewers who brew with the products, they love what they do. it's really sad to think that all that beer and all that hard work is being wasted and being thrown away. i drank a little bit, but i can't drink loads of it, so i think, all in all, we're up to nearly

6,000 gallons of beer that we're due to throw away. in cool rooms and cellars across the uk, it's estimated there are some 50 million pints that will suffer the same fate, while off—licence sales of alcohol have jumped by nearly a third. so this bar in belfast came up with an idea. while the rules have been relaxed to allow pubs to operate as takeaways, the hatfield now looks more like a call centre, taking orders for food and drinks, and they added an extra service — delivering fresh lidia is one of the pioneers of pints of guinness. we decided to kit ecotourism. she set up a butterfly out a wee van, put a keg in the back of it, century to try and entice tourists pull up at your house and pour you an absolutely perfect, into the region. it is a natural fresh pint of stout. destination for tourism but there is it sparked a big demand... no infrastructure for it at all. you've got the nice perfect head on it... it's going to take years, isn't it, ..and worldwide attention, and by then, the forest will be but after drivers were stopped by police, they were almost gone? forced to put the deliveries on hold. stopped me and told me it was illegal, but couldn't tell me under what section

of the liquor licensing act it was illegal. so where will you go with this? are you optimistic or pessimistic? we do believe we were operating within the law. this is about keeping are you optimistic or pessimistic? are you optimistic or pessimistic? are you going to win this fight to people in employment. save columbia's natural heritage? police say prosecutors are now considering whether any action should be taken for a breach of licensing laws. but the pub‘s mounting its own legal challenge, saying they were within the rules and that they need to adapt to survive. a typical friday in belfast‘s cathedral quarter pre—pandemic. it's a ghost town here now, and the government says that pubs and bars will be some of the last places for future generations and the that can reopen. we have nearly 80% of our staff environment, time is running out. is on furlough at the moment, the need for a solution is urgent. so we are being very clear i'm back on the horse on another and direct with the government and saying, "if you want our pubs field trip with the botanists. this to survive this, you must support us throughout the period of closure and also throughout time, on more even ground. 0h, the period of reopening." field trip with the botanists. this time, on more even ground. oh, my god. it's like... this is but with some forms of social distancing possibly lasting up to the end of the year, that won't happen quickly. incredible. 0f meanwhile, there are questions over the extent to which god. it's like... this is incredible. of all the wild, remote a pub is allowed to bring the bar to you. places i've been to in the wild, i think this is got to be right up

emma vardy, bbc news. there near the top and as a disabled person, as somebody who can't walk, now on bbc news, who has to use of wheelchair, it's deforestation has sky rocketed in colombia since the peace deal of 2016. amazingly liberating that here our world joins a team of scientists amongst all this round flora and fauna, these beautiful butterflies from the royal botanic gardens. and rare plants, it's this amazing bio diversity. the scientists from in the forests of colombia, nature kew remain hopeful of finding hidden is under attack. since the civil war treasures before it's too late. endedin is under attack. since the civil war ended in 2016, deforestation has skyrocketed. i am ended in 2016, deforestation has skyrocketed. iam frank ended in 2016, deforestation has there are things i've never seen skyrocketed. i am frank gardner and iam heading before. i have no idea what genus it skyrocketed. i am frank gardner and i am heading into what remains of virgin tropical rainforest. i traded belongs to. the thing about plants, they can be rare and special. they in my wheelchair for a all look the same but it's when you virgin tropical rainforest. i traded in my wheelchairfor a packhorse virgin tropical rainforest. i traded in my wheelchair for a packhorse and am tested to my limits. i think this go back and start comparing them with others. mauricio, do you think is too dangerous. i am joining a you can persuade people to stop crack team of scientists from the cutting down the forest soon enough royal botanic gardens, kew. they are before the forest is gone? that is very ha rd to before the forest is gone? that is very hard to say. that's our hope

ona and that's our mission. that's why royal botanic gardens, kew. they are on a mission to discover and save we are here. i believe that we can unique plant species before they vanished forever. i am going to bear make a change. wejust we are here. i believe that we can make a change. we just have to do our best to protect the best of this witness on the frontline rainforest conservation. biodiversity. jennifer is a local this is where the journey begins, botanist. she is exploring new areas of her country for the first time. not in colombia but in the royal how optimistic or pessimistic are you that you and others like you, botanic gardens, kew, london. kew is who care about nature, who care about dive —— biodiversity, that you can save this forest? it's great the world leader in developing plant science. the botanists are preparing that you're optimistic but the for their mission to discover new reality is, the area of forest is getting smaller every year. species. and it is from here that this expedition will be launched. i

have come here to see the expedition leader, doctor mauricio de bernados. he was in a library for lab specimens. que tal? como estas? this is where we identify new plants. we believe we have more than 200,000 different species here. you are a botanist and in some sense. what are columbia today is a post— conflict you expecting to get from this mission? the most remote areas are nation but it faces a new battle to the best preserved and this is going protect its natural resources. the to be our most important expedition biodiversity contained in these forests could prove to be its most stop we're going to try to get into the of this area. we do not know precious commodity of all. what we expect to find. what is at sta ke what we expect to find. what is at stake with this whole trip that we are doing? why is this so important? we are in a race against time to

protect this biodiversity from disappearing. we have rappen deforestation. we see how we are losing this forest very quickly and oui’ losing this forest very quickly and ourjobis losing this forest very quickly and ourjob is to get an understanding about the diversity of these resources as well as their importance. in 2016, the colombian government signed a peace deal with hello. after another predominantly dry week, there is going to be a lot the farc rebels. for more than half of dry weather around this weekend a century, civil war slowed the pace as well but slow, subtle changes, of deforestation. but now remote the increasing chance of catching a shower and it will start to feel tra cts of deforestation. but now remote tracts of land have opened up. cooler, particularly across northern parts of the uk. starting off farmers, loggers, and miners are saturday then with a lot of cloud across eastern scotland and eastern scrambling for resources. colombia pa rt across eastern scotland and eastern part of england, quite misty and is now reportedly losing 3000 square kilometres of forest every year. we murky here but that cloud, mist and fog will lift and break up and we will see spells of sunshine. the odd shower later in the day on the south—west of england, perhaps northern ireland. another warm one

for us but very cool feel for the are travelling to an area famous for north coast of northern ireland, the its emerald mines, western boyacan. east coast of scotland and down the north sea coast of england. as we go through saturday evening, one of two showers particularly in the west, clear spells around as well but more this could be the last time that i could see this forest. if i come cloud into northern parts of backin could see this forest. if i come back in ten years, this forest could scotland, rather chilly and eastern be gone. colombia is still an eden. england, relatively mild elsewhere. for sunday, it will turn cooler it is the second most bio diverse across the north of the uk. and it turns cooler for all of us during country in the world after brazil. i next week. may be the bbc public security correspondent, but my passion is for nature. you know, just look around you come here. there is incredible scenery. it is such a privilege to be here. i love being surrounded by the sounds and smells of nature. nature has always been something of an antidote to myjob as a security respondent. in 2004, i was shot and partly paralysed while on the job. i

won't deny, i have a certain trepidation about the trip itself because everybody else is walking. i will need to do this on horseback or i will not make it. the team assemble at the edge of the ra i nfo rest assemble at the edge of the ra i nforest in assemble at the edge of the rainforest in las quinchas. this is the first time this area will be explored by scientists. so many yea rs, explored by scientists. so many years, conflict and criminality made this area to outsiders. if you see a snake, everybody please freeze, don't move. we are going to carry radios at all times. you, actually, frank, we'll have a radio. so this

is going to be your radio. frank, we'll have a radio. so this is going to be your radiolj frank, we'll have a radio. so this is going to be your radio. i am going to be quite busy trying to control the horse. well, going to be quite busy trying to controlthe horse. well, yes, maybe we can put this on the horse so you can have something that you can... this is bbc news with the horse can do the radio. poco the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm simon pusey. the uk government's new website for coronavirus tests is swamped and shut down for hours as it's inundated by key workers. 0fficials confirm mas? mas? i cannot afford to 50,000 people have now died in the united states. meanwhile, president trump fullerton break things. at the attacks the media after he suggested using beginning of the track is a steep descent. the botanists hope to find disinfectants in a treatment. i was asking a very sarcastic you species deep inside the forest. question to the reporters in but i am unable to hold on with my the room about disinfectant on legs. guys, i don't think i can do the room about disinfectant on the inside. but it does kill it and it would kill it on the hands. this. i'm going to fall off. i think world leaders throw their weight behind a drive to develop new treatments this. i'm going to fall off. i think this is just too dangerous. i for covid—19 and ensure that this. i'm going to fall off. i think this isjust too dangerous. i mean, everyone gets access to them. it breaks my heart, ijust... i a political crisis in brazil — president bolsasonaro

think you will have to carry on without me. but the local guides come up with an idea. well done. 0k. iamso come up with an idea. well done. 0k. i am so thrilled that despite my injuries, thanks to the endurance and kindness of these guys, i am able to see this amazing scenery. primary forests are the most bio diverse terrestrial ecosystems anywhere on the planet. forests are not only vital in mitigating climate

change, the botanists hope to find pla nts change, the botanists hope to find plants with untold potential. they get to work collecting specimens. we don't know what it is. it could be a philodendron. beautiful. one of the local guides believes that he has chanced on something extraordinary. wow! perfecto! listo yo lo recojo. this, we actually don't know exactly what it is. we are the first

botanists collecting in this area. so basically every single collection isa so basically every single collection is a new report for this area. the scientists will take the cuttings to the laboratory for further examination, in kew. it is usually interesting, but what does it mean to find a new species like this in a remote forest? in a country like theirs, usually bio diverse, we still do not know how many species are out there. we estimating colombia we have about 30,000 species, but still probably 6000 new species, but still probably 6000 new species to be discovered. so you think that there are new species out here in these forests that could actually vanish before they are even discovered? yes, absolutely. and we still don't know the uses of many species. some of the species could have the properties to cure important diseases for humans. and

so as biologists, as botanists, we need to understand as much as possible as quick as possible of this amazing biodiversity. this is like a supermarket, or a pharmacy, and we don't know it, we don't appreciate the forest. 0ur quality of life relies on the preservation of life relies on the preservation of these forests. in the fight to save the forests, the colombian government has extended its protection to millions of acres of land. the army launched 0peracion artemisa in 2019 to fight illegal logging. colonel hermida has a

thousand troops deployed in the area. what effect has this had on deforestation here? but this can't really apply to the whole of colombia because deforestation is continuing throughout the country. even here, they are still doing it. this

region, colonel, seems very secure, very peaceful but of course in the past, it wasn't like that. do you worry that if they don't find proper alternatives for people to make a living, that this region will go back to conflict? under colombian law, illegal deforestation carries a sentence of up deforestation carries a sentence of up to 12 years in prison.

but in remote places, the law is ha rd to enforce. illegal loggers are still at work in these forests. the loggers say they