this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. spanish children are being allowed out of their homes for the first time in six weeks, as one of europe's strictest lockdowns is relaxed. the british prime minister boris johnson is to return to work on monday, two weeks since he left hospital after falling ill with coronavirus. dozens are arrested in central berlin, after demonstrating against germany's lockdown measures. the military will begin testing essential workers around the uk for coronavirus in mobile units which will operate in "hard to reach" areas. also in the programme. people take up challenges across the uk, raising money for charities that would have

benefited from the london marathon. 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. first, children in spain are being allowed out of their homes for the first time in six weeks, as the government relaxes one of europe's strictest coronavirus lockdowns. under ms will be allowed out for an hour a day accompanied by an adult, but parks and playgrounds will remain closed. in other developments — the british prime minister, borisjohnson will return to work in downing street on monday, after having spent the past two weeks recovering from coronavirus. in the us — president trump has failed to attend his usual coronavirus briefing, tweeting that it wasn't worth his "time or effort". it comes after he provoked outrage by suggesting that disinfectant

could help treat coronavirus. and in the uk, the armed forces are planning to deploy at least 96 mobile testing units by the end of this week to test essential workers and the most vulnerable. more on that in a moment, but first on the easing of restrictions in spain, damian grammaticas reports from madrid. across spain, children have been confined inside homes and apartments since schools were shut some six weeks ago. barred from even setting foot outside their front doors by some of europe's strictest lockdown rules. now though with a number of new coronavirus infections declining to around 3000 a day, they are finally being allowed out, but only for an hour each day and all parks and playgrounds remain out of bounds. in an address to the nation, spins prime minister urged parents to be responsible and exercise extreme caution.

translation: this de—escalation will be gradual. what does that mean? that we will not suddenly recover all activity and social mobility, but that it will be done in stages. for each field of activities, successive stages will be fixed. adults in spain are still only allowed out to get food or medicine or for essential work. mr sanchez said if the number of new infections continues to decline, from next weekend people would be allowed to exercise outside. and he said his government will outline a de—escalation plan to gradually transition to what he called the new reality of life once spain has controlled the epidemic. 0ur correspondent, guy hedgecoe is in madrid for us. this is in madrid for us. marks an easing of what has been this marks an easing of what has been one of the strictest lockdown

is in europe. yes, it has been a very strict lockdown for the past six weeks, children, most of these children haven't been out of their homes at all and the police have been controlling this lockdown very tightly, the latest figures we have from the interior ministry show that nearly three quarters of a million fines have been handed out to people for violating the terms of the lockdown. that shows how tightly it has been controlled. there has been a lot of pressure building on the government, political and social pressure, to lift some restrictions, particularly for children, there was a feeling that they were really desperate to get out and many pa rents were desperate to get out and many parents were desperate for their children to get out so finely that is happening today, just one hour ago, the lifting of that restriction came into place here in spain. what is likely to be the next steps in terms of more easing of the lockdown? well, prime minister pedro sanchez has said that next saturday

he hopes to be able to ease restrictions for adults, so for example allowing them to take some exercise, but still with a certain amount of restrictions, also to go for walks and so on, people in the same family would be able to go for walks but that all depends on the figures continuing to stabilise, so the number of daily deaths continuing to drop, which they have been doing for the past two or three weeks and also the number of new infections which have been stabilising. he wants to see those figures continue to drop and if they do, he will take those measures next weekend he has said. the authorities they are saying that testing is key, as it is in all countries involved, what is the latest on the testing in spain? well, testing has been a big issue of debate throughout this crisis in spain, a lot of political opposition has said there hasn't been enough testing, that is one of the reasons why spain has been the second hardest—hit

the reasons why spain has been the second ha rdest—hit country the reasons why spain has been the second hardest—hit country in europe, but the latest is that a programme to test 90,000 spaniards, to find out who has the virus and also who has had it already, that is under way and it will be an eight—week programme with which the government hopes to find out exactly how people, how many people across the country have had the virus and haveit the country have had the virus and have it now, so a clearer picture of how to handle further easing of this lockdown over the coming weeks and months. thank you,. prime minister, boris johnson will return to work tomorrow, just over three weeks after being admitted to hospital to be treated for coronavirus. the pm returns to downing street with the death toll from covid—i9 in uk hospitals now beyond 20,000. there's also growing pressure to explain how the government plans to ease the lockdown. lets talk to our political correspondent, leila nathoo.

that pressure coming to boris johnson as he returns to work tomorrow, from within his own party. 0ryes, a number of tomorrow, from within his own party. 0r yes, a number of voices now expressing concern about the impact. impact of the economy on peoples livelihoods. a number of mps raised concerns about the lockdown going on too long. keir starmer is saying the government must publish an exit strategy calling on ministers to have an adult conversation with the public. remember that the scottish government, the welsh government, the devolved governments have already started to outline more detail but so far, westminster has been reluctant to get into that conversation while the infection rate and the death numbers are still so high. the message we are hearing from government is that it is simply too soon to even think about relaxing lockdown restrictions in any meaningful way, while boris johnson has been recovering at his country retreat in chequers, the

the... there is another decision point coming injust the... there is another decision point coming in just under two weeks' time, boris johnson point coming in just under two weeks' time, borisjohnson will be backin weeks' time, borisjohnson will be back in charge for that, this will be his number one priority, weighing up be his number one priority, weighing up the impact of the lockdown versus what effect it is actually having on transmission. there is a lot of work going on to try and make some progress on the kinds of things that will be important to get the uk out of lockdown, testing as you heard they're going on in spain, that is a crucial issue here as well, as well as measures like potentially quarantining people coming into the uk atairports, quarantining people coming into the uk at airports, lots of things under consideration but along with the pressure, there is nervousness in downing street as they are among other governments that any relaxation of the restrictions will lead to the virus spreading rapidly again, then you get a second peak of infections and they would have to be a subsequent lockdown and the economic impact that brings so lots of tricky decisions and a delicate balancing act for boris johnson of tricky decisions and a delicate balancing act for borisjohnson as he comes back to work. back to work,

fully in charge from tomorrow, but while he has been convalescing, he has been having conversations with other senior ministers. yes, he has been recovering for more than a fortnight at chequers and in the early days of that, we were told he was not doing any government work and dominic raab has been deputising, we were told he had all the authority to make the decisions needed but in their last week or so, there have been signs he has been gearing back up, he had a phone conversation with president trump, an audience by phone with the queen and on friday, he held a three—hour meeting with dominic raab, matt hancock and the chancellor rishi sunak to discuss all the challenges ahead so clearly preparing to take charge again in a full way, chairing that daily coronavirus meeting that government officials and ministers have been having at the start of every day, borisjohnson will be tearing that tomorrow morning. thank you very much. the british armed forces are going to start testing key

workers and their families who have symptoms, in "hard to reach” areas of the uk. the new mobile facilities can be set up in 20 minutes, and will travel to police and fire stations, care homes, prisons and benefits centres. the government has set itself a target of completing 100,000 tests a day by thursday. the uk government's been accused of ”dragging its heels” over demands for a guarantee of financial support to the families of health care workers who've died treating coronavirus patients. the british medical association wants all staff to qualify for death in service benefits, even if they're not covered by existing arrangements. at least 90 nhs workers are known to have died with covid—i9. the department of health said it was evaluating financial support for the families of those on the front line. president trump didn't go ahead with his daily coronavirus briefing on saturday. he tweeted that it wasn't

worth his "time or effort" and questioned the purpose of the briefings when, as he put it, the media asks "nothing but hostile" questions. critics say the move is linked to his falling poll ratings. in new york state, the epicentre of the us outbreak, governor andrew cuomo says independent pharmacies will be authorised to carry out tests for covid—i9. it comes as figures suggest that the outbreak there seems to be slowing down. rich preston reports. new york state has reported more than 21,000 deaths from coronavirus, but the positive news that the number of hospital admissions is declining. we are back where we were 21 days ago. 21 days of hell, but we're back to where we were. the move to allow high street pharmacies to carry out covid—i9 tests is a significant step in increasing testing available to new yorkers. the governor also said four hospitals will expend antibody testing starting

with the essential workers. as we continue to develop our testing capacity and the labs are coming up to scale, the collection sites are opening, the more testing we have, the more we will open eligibility. hopefully, one day, we get to the point where anybody who wants a test can walk in and get a test, right? that was the dream. there are 300 labs across the state to analyse these tests. the aim? for them to process more than 40,000 a day. but the governor warned people not to get complacent. the virus is still keeping thousands of new yorkers in hospital and killing more than 400 every day. rich preston, bbc news. in berlin police have arrested dozens of people demonstrating against the continuance of lockdown measures. about a thousand protestors, from left and right—wing groups, flouted coronavirus restrictions to hold the rally.

bill hayton reports. testing the limits of freedom. germany has the fifth highest number of coronavirus cases and strict measures to fight the disease. but not everyone agrees with them. the organisers of this gathering had been given permission to distribute newspapers in front of the old east berlin people's theatre, but police decided they'd crossed the line by turning the event into a protest. translation: during coronavirus times, and according to the containment regulations, we are required to prevent such gatherings. we have 180 police officers on duty here around the square, ready to react to violations and to uphold the regulations. the protest was organised by left—wing activists, but some of those taking part appeared to be supporters of the right. 0thers took inspiration from an anti—nazi protest movement during the second world

war, the white rose. translation: we are here today, enjoying the nice weather and thinking about setting an example with the white rose for the protection of constitutional rights, freedom and, above all, freedom of speech. it's very important, as it has unfortunately started to regress in the last few weeks. with the crowd refusing to disperse, the police moved in. dozens were arrested. earlier this month, germany's constitutional court ruled protests are allowed, but only if distancing rules are followed. the government has started to ease lockdown measures, allowing smaller shops to reopen, but gatherings of more than 20 people are still banned in berlin. finding a balance between freedom and disease control remains a difficult challenge. bill hayton, bbc news. some other news stories from around the world. officials in wuhan, where the pandemic began,

say they have no remaining cases of coronavirus in the city's hospitals. since the outbreak began the city has recorded more than 46 thousand cases of the virus with nearly 4,000 deaths. speculation‘s mounting about the health of north korean leader kim jong—un. it's been two weeks since state media reported on any public engagements concerning the nation's leader. earlier this week neighbouring south korea played down reports that kim was seriously ill after surgery. the authorities in southern yemen have declared autonomous rule. the declaration is in defiance of the saudi—backed government. the southern transitional council , based in aden , also announced a state of emergency. in mexico, 13 factory employees have died from coronavirus. with many assembly plants staying open in violation of a national shutdown, activists say the true figure may be

three times as high. they claim employees are being asked to choose between theirjobs and their health. from ciudad juarez, our mexico correspondent, will grant reports. factory workers in ciudad juarez rarely strike. their labour rights are so weak, protest can cost them theirjob. however, recently employees turned up outside several us owned assembly plants, saying they have been forced to choose between their work and their health. translation: are people desperate to buy a refrigerator, stove, or washing machines at the moment? of course they are not. we have children and we are risking their health by coming to work. employees at regal, the us company which makes motors, confronted their bosses over the risks. translation: we know of one colleague who hasjust died. there are other affected workers and we are not being told.

he also said their face masks weren't being regularly changed. regal didn't comment, but after the strike, their staff in mexico were told to stay home on full pay. some factories have ignored the government's order to shut down. 0thers deemed essential were allowed to stay open. behind this mask is susana, a well—known activist for the workforce. i caught up with her after the protest. translation: they flagrantly disobeyed the emergency public health decree because of the absence of authority from the mexican president and the federal government. there is real panic among the workers. because they have seen the factories only closed once the bodies started literally dropping in front of their eyes from covid—19. there is certainly pressure to remain open. with the us mexico border closed, to nonessential travel, a group of us manufacturing companies wrote to the mexican

president, urging him to relabel some industries as essential, so that they can keep working. the pentagon echoed the call. i spoke with our us ambassador to mexico on friday and today, i am writing to the mexican foreign minister to ask for help to reopen international suppliers there. these companies are especially important for our us production. it seemed the president heard the trump administration. we need each other,. insisting that the board of the us can never be fully closed. without its 300,000 factory workers, the economy of ciudad juarez would die out fast. while factories producing exports for the us may be considered essential, their employees say their health and the lives of their families are far more important. will grant, bbc news.

spare a thought this morning for the thousands of runners who should be waking up, ready to run the london marathon. all that training is now on hold until october 4th at least. it also means that charities are missing out on millions of pounds in fundraising, so the organisers have come up with another way for runners to raise money — without leaving their homes. as i've been finding out. it's the world's because one—day fundraising event, and today, more than 40,000 of you should have been strapping on your trainers to take part. and with no london marathon this year, thousands of charities are missing out on the millions of pounds that would have been raised. but organisers have come up with an alternative. it's the 2.6 challenge. now, you don't have to run 26 miles round your garden. it could be something as simple as bouncing a cricket ball off a tennis racquet. 11,12,13,14... like shane warne.

..18, 19, 20! 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6! or you could try swimming 2.6 kilometres in your paddling pool, like sophie. and if you'd already got your fancy dress costume for the marathon, well, you could still put that to good use. among those taking on the challenge, eleanor davis. she was due to compete as an elite athlete, but instead will be at work as a doctor looking after patients on the covid ward. i normally work part time so i can train and compete at a high level, and just at the minute, obviously, there's not a lot to train for! everything's on hold. so i'm doing a few extra shifts on the coronavirus wards through this pandemic. but i'm still managing to fit in the miles, so i run to and from work most days, which has been really positive to me. i find running really therapeutic. just a bit of head space and a bit of calm amongst the chaos. so, yeah, i think this little

project as well has given me something positive to think of outside of work, which has been really nice. to put it into context, last year's london marathon raised over £66.4 million for charity, and that's just one event. in fact, the uk charity sector estimates it will lose £4 billion of income as a result of the pandemic, making it a worrying time for smaller charities. all of our events that happen in spring, we've lost them all, and there's probably quite a few more to come. we believe it's going to affect us to the region of £1 million before the end of the crisis, and that's lockdown part of the crisis, not the longer economic impact of this. singing # i'll rise up, i'll rise like the day # i'll rise up... 0ur diversity choir, i'm particularly proud of. and we have a group of 22 residents and four carers that have come

together to sing andra day's rise up. most of them are signing because, actually, physical communication is quite difficult and quite challenging for them, so they've had to invent all sorts of ways of trying to get together to become the diversity choir. it's a very emotive youtube to watch and i really recommend anyone to watch it because it's exactly why the 2.6 challenge is going ahead — to support organisations and people that we are supporting too. it's hoped, however, the 2.6 challenge can make a real difference. it's already raised more than £1.6 million so far as people across the country come together while remaining still very much apart. holly hamilton, bbc news. 0lympic medallist and world champion swimmer keri—anne payne is one of those lending their support to the campaign and shejoins me now.

tell us what you are doing today.|j was tasked with one of the charity that i support to come up with the 2.6 challenge and i decided i didn't wa nt to 2.6 challenge and i decided i didn't want to do it alone so i thought, what can i do, we are all at home at the moment, everybody is on social media on their phones and i will try to rope in 26 of my 0lympian friends to rope in 26 of my 0lympian friends tojoin me to to rope in 26 of my 0lympian friends to join me to create an epic work—out essentially so that we could all do it at 10am this morning, so that is where it all started from and that was five days ago so i don't quite know what day it is today but i am pretty sure it is sunday and this morning it is going live. fantastic, as we were saying, the london marathon is such a big fundraising opportunity and all that money can't be raised through the marathon now but people like you are finding alternative ways to do it. yes, one of the big reasons why i wanted to get all my 0lympian friends involved was because we all have charities that are because we all have charities that a re close because we all have charities that are close to our hearts, we are

ambassadors for charities and we are seeing that they are struggling at the moment and i wanted to give each 0lympian a opportunity to shine a light ina 0lympian a opportunity to shine a light in a charity that means a lot to them, this is an opportunity for us to them, this is an opportunity for us to say what you are doing is amazing and we are supporting it with that, what i did was i got all of them to record a one—minute where an exercise of around 40 seconds two minutes, specific exercise to them, it is an insight into the world of 0lympians, we have gone from shooting, to rowing, winter sports as well, it is a range of amazing exercises and it is all put together into one work—out of 26 minutes. fantastic. just tell us, as an 0lympian, being not able to train and participate in the olympics this year, how frustrating is that? well, there is a small amount of frustration that some people might be feeling but that has been pushed aside very quickly because we are trained to prepare or expect the

unexpected so when the decision was made that the olympics were going to be moved, that is ok, the new training plan starts from here on it andi training plan starts from here on it and i have been speaking to a whole bunch of them who are hoping to compete next year who are using this time for real benefits to take a bit of time away from the sport but also learn new things, i think sometimes in adversity is when we learn how to be better at something that, when you have to be creative about how to do something, so i'm looking forward to seeing how they get on over the next year and then see what the 0lympics year brings. next year and then see what the olympics year brings. and you are able to keep fit at home? yes, very much so, that is the point of this exercise was that we are all encouraging people to stay at home andi encouraging people to stay at home and i thought, what better way to do that than to try and get all these quys that than to try and get all these guys to send me videos but also i had to think of things that i could think of myself, trying to keep as fit as we can at home doing some work out but i have a 19—month—old daughter and she is keeping me fitter and running around the house. and you begin injust a few minutes?

yes, 10am, so if you google 26 0lympians challenge, the video will go live on there at 10am. thank you so much for talking to us. you are watching bbc news. well now, a look at the latest where the prospects. although we should just about hang on the dry weather for many today, changes are afoot already, already there is more cloud across scotland, a weak weather front across the morning and that cloud is sinking its way southwards in behind that there is colder airfor its way southwards in behind that there is colder air for scotland and northern ireland and it will turn caller right across the uk this week. this is the low pressure that i talked about for today, bringing that cool air, brisk north—easterly winds and showers. quite a rash of showers already across the northern half of scotland and that is where we will see most of the day's wet weather, some will be heavy with thunder and lightning. we could see

some sharp showers across northern england and parts of wales in the midlands, it should dry up for northern ireland this afternoon with some sunny spells coming through, notably cooler here, 20 or 21 degrees yesterday, 12 or 13 today. still hanging onto the warmth further south which is why we may see some sharp showers and high levels of tree pollen. let's pick up on those showers, a few across england and wales this afternoon but the exception rather than the rule. they will continue through the night as well though showers across the north of scotland, brought in by a brisk north—easterly wind so some cold air sets in here, just of props in the glens, it won't be as chilly as we start monday morning here but thatis as we start monday morning here but that is because we have that dividing line still, the weather front, just about holding onto another day of warm weather in southern areas but a notable change that will see already today further north. more showers to come across scotla nd north. more showers to come across scotland and northern ireland through monday and one or two will be sparked off elsewhere, southern scotla nd be sparked off elsewhere, southern scotland and northern england as well and by the end of the day

further south, although it is warm still, drive a hazy sunshine, we start to pull up showers from the south, that is another area of low pressure coming in so today's area of low pressure will have moved across to scandinavia allowing this next area of low pressure to move up from the south and this looks as though it will give us more general rain, probably some of the first significant rain parts of england and wales have had all throughout this month so some quite wet weather around, rain on tuesday and by that stage we will have lost the warmth so 19 or 20 or monday down to 13 or 14 degrees but further north, staying largely dry and bright for some sunshine, just the odd shower, the unsettled, cooler, windier theme is with us for the rest of the week.

this is bbc news. the headlines... spanish children are being allowed out of their homes for the first time in six weeks, as one of europe's strictest lockdowns is relaxed. the british prime minister boris johnson is to return to work on monday, two weeks since he left hospital after falling ill with coronavirus. dozens of protesters are arrested in central berlin, after demonstrating against germany's lockdown measures. the military will begin testing essential workers around the uk for coronavirus in mobile units which will operate in "hard to reach" areas. also in the programme, people take up challenges across the uk, raising money for charities that would have benefited from the london marathon.