from going outside. 50 children from going outside. 50 while the children from going outside. so while the boys played cluedo, the six—year—old had the balcony at her playroom. today, spain relaxed those rules. 8 million children, freed from their confinement. i was bored inside, she says. i don't like it. i wa nt to inside, she says. i don't like it. i want to be outside. now they can, foran houra want to be outside. now they can, for an hour a day. and this is what the boys have missed most, a kickabout. for them, it was the ha rd est kickabout. for them, it was the hardest thing. playing football, they love it. they miss it really much. they couldn't do this in your apartment. no! they are not allowed to do it. i couldn't go out for 40 days. me and all my family are people who like to go out and have

fun outside. spain has some of the toughest lockdown restrictions of any country in europe. that is why it is still so quiet here. if the rate of infections continues to decline, though, the prime minister says adults may be allowed out to exercise, but only in a week's time. today, though, was the children's day, maria's day. forsix today, though, was the children's day, maria's day. for six weeks, maria and pablo had been stuck with a tantalising view of the park across the road. and that's what she made a beeline for as soon as she was outside. papa, the four—year—old says, look at this, look at this! look what i have for mum. before heading off to pick some more. spain's moves are cautious. more than 23,000 people have died here, and no one wants to take risks. of course it's worrying, says maria's mother paloma. a lot of people have been infected and we worry about the older generation. at least paloma

can now catch up with friends from a distance. while maria gets used to life in a mask and the smalljoys of being outside. damian grammaticas, bbc news, madrid. here, business lobby groups are calling for the government to publish the stages that the uk will need to go through to reopen the economy. the institute of directors says that its members are "clamouring" for information on the subject. tomorrow, unions will ask ministers to make sure employers take thorough steps to keep staff safe as they go back to work. our business correspondent, katie prescott, reports. 28 years of business closed in a day. hello, welcome. come in. thank you very much. this restauranteur is desperate to see his tables filled with diners once again. but he would like some sense about when that might be and what happens if the restrictions ease but the threat of the virus remains.

it would be good to know what the model is going to look like. are they going to be measured or will there be a quota of people per square foot? a little bit of clarity would be good. it's not going to be something crowded. something hustley and bustley. it's not going to be anything like we've known. but then, if it's not, can't the business sustain it? for some businesses, social distancing is harder than others. this hairdresser in leeds is expecting a flood of customers when they reopen, desperate for a post lockdown haircut. but how they can do this safely is a major headache. it would be great if we had a bit more guidance or advice about when we think that could be. i'm expecting it in may. and even then i don't think we'll be open as we were before. i think it'll be a new normal but we've got to be a lot more careful with the precautions that we take, really. but also, most importantly, we've got to work on client confidence as well. some companies not on the lockdown list are getting back to work.

as construction firms start to build again, this shower manufacturer will bring in a quarter of its staff from monday. we are sort of envisaging pent—up demand will hopefully see quite a busy may and june and then we will see where it settles from there. but i don't know what normality is going to be. whether it will be october or november if we have a normal month. the government has started to talk to businesses about how to lift the lockdown safely. and it's looking to examples of other countries that are slightly further advanced terms of the pandemic. but what businesses want to see now are those conversations turned into concrete plans. katie prescott, bbc news. visit scotland says tourism in scotland has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. before the health crisis, hundreds of farmers had diversified into so—called agritourism. now that crucial income has been lost. alexandra mackenzie reports. portnellan beef farm overlooks loch lomond.

chris came home to the family business after university. to make a living, he diversified into agri—tourism. part of that is offering watersports to visitors. but after lockdown, his bookings were cancelled. obviously, my income‘s taken a big hit at the moment, as has the farm income. we can survive it for a while, but if it doesn't come back at some stage, it's going to become much harder. a newborn lamb on a nearby farm. it's been in the same family for nearly 300 years. like many farms, they relied on the income from agri—tourism. this included self—catering accommodation and farm tours, all gone because of covid—i9. if we can't get that going, that would be serious. i don't think we could survive through it without that. the tourism side of the business is run by bobby's daughter kay. the farming venture itself could support the one family.

the additional diversification gives the income to myself and my family. so if it goes into the following year, i don't know how i'm going to feed the kids. i'm not sure how i'm going to put clothes and food on the table. i'm not sure how that will happen. tourism brings millions of pounds into the scottish economy, but visit scotland has said the industry has been completely devastated by the coronavirus lockdown. on a day like this, loch lomond would normally attract visitors from around the world. i think we've just got to focus on how we're going to bounce back from this and focus on our businesses, both the agricultural side and the diversified side as well. alexandra mackenzie, bbc news, loch lomond. after months of training for the london marathon, elite athletes and fundraising runners have been using their energy in creative ways now the event's been postponed. thousands of people are taking part in the 2.6 challenge

to help raise money for charities. the 40th london marathon — which was due to take place today — has been pushed back to october. natalie pirks reports. it's the biggest one—day fundraising event in the world, attracting 40,000 runners every year. but this weekend, the capital's iconic sights look rather different. to fill the void, organisers came up with the 2.6 challenge... ..where people have to do something with the numbers two and six. like sophie, who swam 2.6 kilometres in her back garden. i'll be running 2.6 miles every day for 10 days. or finn, who has cystic fibrosis. i'll have run 26 miles. as far as the marathon! danny watts has raised more than £1000 for the rfu's injured players foundation. they helped her adapt to life in a wheelchair after she was paralysed playing rugby three years ago. most of these challenges i've done in quite a lot of extreme pain. the pain i get is like someone

is literallyjabbing a hot poker in you and just crunching through your bone. i can't explain it any more than that. but this challenge, it kind of relit the fire that went out for sport a few years ago. well, it would have been considerably busier than this here in blackheath at the start line of the marathon. and the worry now is this will make things very quiet for charities. last year's marathon alone raised more than £66 million and it's estimated the lockdown could cost charities more than £4 billion in lost donations. mind is estimating it will lose between 12 and £20 million in donations this year. partly as a result of our shops being closed but also from the postponement or cancellation of events like the london marathon and many other community events where people choose to run for us. the 2.6 challenge has already raised more than £4 million. britain is showing charity really does begin at home. natalie pirks, bbc news.

there's more throughout the evening on the bbc news channel. we're back with the late news at 10pm. now on bbc one, it's time for the news where you are. everybody has found from i think, over the last month or more, the beneficial effects of being out and about in the last hour or so, the medical director of the nhs in england, professor stephen powis, has said there is a definite trend in reduced hospitalisations in terms of people admitted with coronavirus symptoms. professor powis said the reduction is down to the public observing social distancing measures. he was speaking at the downing street briefing a short time ago. when are the very definite trend and reduce number of people in hospitals, that is most marked in london, but i thank you could also see that in the midlands and the beginnings of in other areas of the

uk. so that is definitely showing that our compliance with social distancing is proving to be beneficial, it is reducing the transmission and spread of the virus, and of course, for those u nfortu nately virus, and of course, for those unfortunately who are more critically ill, again, a minority, in the next slide, you can see the proportion of critical care beds that are being used for covid—i9 patients in the uk, and you can see that proportion is declining, as indeed is the absolute number. so, again, evidence that all the hardware come everybody in the country as been doing to maintain those social distancing rules is paying off. and then finally, the last couple of slides are deaths. all deaths are tragic, and my heart goes out to all those who have been affected by the deaths of loved ones. the number of deaths in hospital is shown here is now starting to decline. the deaths outside hospitals are reported differently, and i'll show you data on that

ina minute. but this is absolutely because we as a british public have paid attention to the social distancing guidance we've been given. earlier my colleague clive myrie spoke to labour's shadow health minister, justin madders. mr madders started by giving his reaction to the latest daily death figure in the uk, which marks the lowest number that has been reported in april. i think we have to probably be a little bit cautious on the number of deaths, because we know from previous weeks that there does tend to bea previous weeks that there does tend to be a little bit of a lag in terms of its being recorded at the weekend. we also know that we are still a long way off getting accurate figures for social care sector, there is a lot of concern that actually, that is really where the biggest issue is at the moment in terms of infections and deaths. the testing numbers are going up,

but i think we are still also an incredibly long way away from that 100,000 targets, which has got to be just four days' time, and i feel at the moment, it looks like it's not going to be reached. does all this, 01’ going to be reached. does all this, or these improvements, do they suggest to you that, potentially, there should be more of a road map 110w there should be more of a road map now being put out there, relating to a decrease in the severity of the social distancing rules that we have at the minutes? well, look, we called today through care starmer for a proper conversation with the british public about what the shape ofa british public about what the shape of a lockdown might look like. i think that it's really important that the public are engaged in that. one of the key things that the government has said, in order to have a relaxation, you have to be sure that there isn't going to be a second wave of infections, and part of that will, of course, be down to the public adhering to whatever new

rules are in place. so it seems to be obvious that part of the success of that strategy will have the public about the vet at the early stage, clearly, governments in scotla nd stage, clearly, governments in scotland decided that it's something that they can engage with the public on, and it looks like we're that too. that was speaking with clive earlier. i don't think anybody is running a bet about who is going to p0p up running a bet about who is going to pop up next and introduce who's interview, but it's one of those things at the moment, people doing a bit here, and a bit there, to stay with us, it will likely be clive or me, unless it's been, from earlier. some positive news from italy now— the country has reported its lowest coronavirus death toll in over a month as the government prepared to announce a gradual easing of the country's lockdown. the 260 daily fatalities reported by the civil protection service today were the lowest since march 14. italy's covid—19 death toll now stands at 26,644 — second only to the united states. officials in wuhan, the city in china where the virus

was identified, say they have no remaining cases of coronavirus in local hospitals. since the outbreak began the city has recorded more than 46,000 cases of the virus with nearly 4,000 deaths. the australian government has released a coronavirus contact tracing app as it seeks to contain the spread of the pandemic. the development there comes as an an expert advising the uk government, says a tracing app could prevent one covid—19 infection for every one to two users who download it. professor christophe fraser, from oxford university's big data institute, said that the traditional way of contact tracing is not quick enough because of how rapidly the virus is passed on. he told andrew marr that the app could be released "within weeks" — to prevent a resurgence of the outbreak.

the app is going to be one of the building blocks of how to get out of the epidemic and we have two estimates. we found that when we projected over the next three months, for every one to two users who download the app and who adhere to the instructions, you'll prevent one infection and we found that for this intervention alone to stop resurgence of the epidemic, about 60% of the population would have to use the app. andreas michaelis, germany's foreign minister, says germany is considering phone tracking apps, but said it was unlikely to happen beforejune. we are interested to introduce them, but we don't see this happening before march and june, because it has to be fitted into an overall contract tracing concept, just give you an idea, we will have to hire, in the process of hiring people at level of the local health authorities, district level here, that are able to do the contact

tracing and we think erasure of roughly a team of five for 20,000 people is roughly what we have to come up with, that's a huge number. i will give you an idea, i think it's about 650 teams only in the case of bavaria. which is not easy, so case of bavaria. which is not easy, so the app by itself is an important factor in moving into that phase. but it has to be complemented by other measures as well. we have a full house of presenters. you might‘ve seen andrew marr p°ppin9 you might‘ve seen andrew marr p°pping up you might‘ve seen andrew marr popping up briefly there. here, reports suggest passengers arriving at british airports and ports could be placed in quarantine for up to a fortnight. the sunday telegraph newspaper says the move is part of plans for the "second phase" of the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic. earlier the travel editor of the independent, simon calder explained how a two week quarantine might work. will be a modification of what we have seen in many other countries

worldwide, for example, in australia, you are effectively frog marched from the plane to an upmarket detention centre, or an airport hotel, and you are kept there for two weeks. the government wouldn't be doing that. what they wouldn't be doing that. what they would be doing is basically same to everybody who comes in, you have to tell us where you are going to be for the next two weeks, you must not leave that property, and there's even talk of officials being able to come around and check that you are there, and if you are not, then you be fine. this is in complete contrast to what we have at the moment if you come into heathrow, there are no checks whatsoever to me we re there are no checks whatsoever to me were given a piece of paper telling you what to do if you feel symptomatic, and that's actually in line with all the international advice for the centres for the prevention and control the world health organisation, they say checks like testing of her but he's temperature when you come in, frankly, isn't worthwhile.

as more stores open across the country, such as diy, there have been calls to open gardening centres as one of the first steps in easing lockdown restrictions. earlier i spoke to the broadcaster and gardener alan titchmarsh about why they're so important. everybody has found, i think, over the last month or more, the beneficial effects of being out in the garden. that piece of space that you are allowed to go into. we play, you know, a lot of lip service to mental health, and gardens are a practical and spiritual way of ensuring that mental health continues. the other consideration is the fact that the british horticulture industry will be on its knees byjune, if they don't open until then. we have a situation now where if this carries on untiljune, and this is no trading allowed, then a third of all growers will go out of business. this has been an established fact. holland have been very clever, the dutch government put in place a system of compensation for growers. so they know that they have the future. if a third of our growers disappear, what it means for the future is that we will have to import far

more, and the controls of plant health in europe are not always as effective, as efficient, or as stringent as ours are. we risk plant health declining, we have implications there for climate change. we also have implications for a 25 billion horticulture industry in the uk, which could be crippled. i mean, do you, in your own mind, understand by the government has made a distinction between garden centres and diy centres? i did, but then i think when they decided that b&q, for instance is a chain, was allowed to stay open as a diy centre could open its garden centre end as it were, so garden centres turned diy stores could open, but pure garden centres, which earn their entire living from plants and the nursery they are supplying them to couldn't open then there is a disparity, and this is notjoined up thinking in terms of government at all. and it needs to happen soon, so that not only the economy, with obviously strict health

protocols in place, but i'm sure there are far easier to put in place outdoors in the garden centre than internally in the supermarket, which is our condition. it has come to the point now where it's looking really rather silly and ill considered that garden centres are not being allowed to reopen. hundreds of millions of people around the world have been spending the past few weeks at home, but what of those without a permanent home — what in the uk we used to call "of no fixed abode". take travelling communities. how have they adapted? tim allman reports. so what do you do when the show can't go on? that was the question facing the darix orfei circus. they were travelling through sicily when the entire country simply shut down. no crowds to entertain, no shows to perform. crucially, no money coming in. they can rehearse, they can look after their animals. but how are they going to survive?

translation: we are stuck here because of the coronavirus. but thank god, we have been helped in many ways, but above all with food. the mayor of the city gave us everything. we have been helped every day by charities that are constantly by our side. instead, local community groups providing as much help as possible. food and drink for staff, the performers, even the tigers. translation: today we are here in a circus that in the past was by our side, entertaining our children with their shows. now, they're facing difficulties because they can't work and they need food. we are happy to return the favour and show our solidarity to the circus artists. italy is expected to begin easing some of the restrictions early next month, although it will be a slow process. but eventually, one day, the big top will be raised

and the circus will well and truly be back in town. tim allman, bbc news. i'm not doing the next bit either. it's only foster. the wolves forward diogo jota says he thinks that the premier league season will resume and be played to a conclusion, even if it's behind closed doors. he was the winner of the epremier league invitational over the weekend. a fifa video game tournament the portuguese international beat liverpool's trent alexander arnold in the final. regarding a return to real football, with the dutch league being called off and the german bundesliga targeting a return in two weeks, jota says the premier league shouldn't pay too much attention to other nations i think, in my opinion, that we don't need to look to other countries, because each country has its own problems, and each country needs to deal individually

with their own problems, because some countries are in worse scenarios than others. so that's why i think that although some leagues can end right away, others can start sooner, but i think we will do a good job when we start the competition. what is your gut feeling, you are trying to remain positive and think that the premier league season can finish in some way? yeah. i do believe that. i know that almost every country of the world has a premier league has a league to watch, it's major that we can finish the season, but, obviously, health is first. it seems like years ago, doesn't it? but it was only 6—7 weeks ago that you were playing in an empty stadium in athens, your last game, itjust seems like years ago now.

yeah. i do remember that game and i said, i remember saying to my team—mates during lunch, "lads, this could be our last game in a while", and it was. it was strange. i think we need to finish the season behind closed doors, but, obviously, everyone wants the fans in the stadium because that's what makes football special, and that's what we want to do, but maybe we need to go step—by—step and may be the first step is to play behind closed doors. everton say they are appalled after the publication of pictures showing their italian striker moise kean hosting a house party. kean, who joined the club from juventus last summer, filmed himself at the party held in his apartment. everton say they have strongly expressed their disappointment to the player for ignoring government guidance and the club's own policy. the president of world athletics, lord coe, thinks that some sports could emerge from the lockdown stronger, benefitting from the way they have had to deal with the crisis.

we do also have to accept, along with every other sector, that sometimes you just have to take a back—seat. there are other things that are just as important. sport will bounce back, and i honestly think it will lead the way in a post—pandemic world. will we all be doing the same things again? i doubt it. i hope we don't match with them i think smart organisations, whatever sector they are in, or figuring out how to be even smarter and more resilient when they come out of this, and sports has to adapt and respond to those changes. we've had the nfl draft over the last few days, conducted remotely because of the lockdown. instead of the planned gala event in las vegas, american footballs hottest prospects, most from the us college system, found out where they would playing, via video link. the new york giants picked georgia university offensive tackle andrew thomas. getting ready for the draft was a technical challenge you there was rules to follow.

they sent us a little guideline. we had to set up all different types of cameras. there had to set up all different types of cameras. there was a had to set up all different types of cameras. there was a specific phone for this specific stand, microphones, lights. we had to connect to the wi—fi, download different apps, just make sure everything works perfectly. that's all the sport for now. thank you. i get to say goodbye to viewers around the world. you are watching bbc news. for many people, the lockdown has meant an increased focus on food and exercise — from being able to buy what you need in the shops, and when to go for a daily walk. but for people with eating disorders, the restrictions have made daily life more diffcult, and charities say they've had an increase in calls for help. meghan owen has been speaking to two people who are trying to navigate their way through lockdown. i have been struggling with bulimia for many years, but i have been finding it

particularly challenging at the moment, during the lockdown. i am eating at home on my own feeling quite ashamed, and much more at risk of eating too much, making myself sick. all of these things that i try and avoid. right now, we're thinking about what is left in the cupboards or when to take our daily exercise, but forjames this has already been a difficult part of my life. exercise used to be a big part of my illness. and i used to exercise in a really punishing way. learning to exercise in a positive way was all about doing that with other people and it being fun, and not being able to go to yoga classes, not being able to exercise with other people, whether it's in a class or outdoors, that's the sort of thing i really, really miss, and actually it puts me a bit more at risk of struggling with my eating. hope is in recovery from anorexia. she too has found the last weeks hard. i have this fear around lockdown and not being able to exercise outside. i have the fear around not being able to get the foods that i want, the foods that i felt safe and comfortable eating. i have this fear in my head around the fact that what am i going to do if we go into complete lockdown and we can't leave the house, will it impact my recovery

if i can't go leave the house? will it impact my recovery if i can't go running? life indoors means it is harder for them to talk through the issues and looking on line does not always help. hope and james are both struggling in isolation so we connected them on zoom to see what's worked for them. you both talk about challenges that you're facing in lockdown but what advice would you have for each other to help cope? my first big of advice is around having routine in place. so kind of making sure that you are getting up at the same time pretty much every day. you're etting dressed, you're washing your hair, and then you're kind of structuring your day around your meals and sure that you're still sticking to that. yeah, i totally agree. i think structure is so important and i quite like to be free and easy about things and be a bit intuitive but, actually, with the lockdown situation, i found that putting in structure has really, really helped. a rally big thing at this moment and this is something i would tell anyone who is struggling, is that, if you need help, that is as real now and as violent now as it ever has been. just because there is a national crisis going on does not mean you should not take your

own problems seriously. for some, worrying about food and exercise is more challenging than ever. at a time when our normal routines have been changed completely. time for a look at the weather. hello there. for many parts of the country, april has been extremely dry. the weather pattern is changing over the week ahead, the weather is turning more unsettled, it looks particularly wet or across england and wales. but for all areas, particularly wet or across england and wales. but forallareas, it will be turning cooler over the next few days. now, today there has been some very warm sunshine around particularly across more southern and eastern parts of england command we are seeing temperatures getting up we are seeing temperatures getting up to around 21 degrees or so. but cooler air is pushing in from the north, as the wind is changing to more of a northerly. and that cooler air comes more of a northerly. and that cooler aircomes in more of a northerly. and that cooler air comes in behind this band of cloud, which is still around this evening and overnight, drifting very slowly southwards and still producing some showery bursts of rain. clear skies to the north of that come away from the showers in northern scotland command we will find a touch of frost across the grass of southern scotland from afar

north of england and northern ireland. further south across england and wales commit will be much milder. we will still have that band of cloud. on that with a friend there, it is still going to be producing some sherry bursts of rain, that will trickle its way very slowly southwards through the day. sunny skies for northern england, northern ireland, southern scotland, but still a few sharp showers to come across the northern half of scotland. the cooler air is pushing down further across the uk, temperatures are continuing to drop away. the remaining heat is getting squeezed into the southeast corner, where there could be if few heavy showers later on in the day. but with that cooler air coming down across the uk, we should see tree pollen levels dropping, moderates, really co m e pollen levels dropping, moderates, really come a medium across many parts of the country. but whether weather is still to arrive, i think, and it arrives across the southern half of the uk on tuesday. pressure continues to fall. together with those weather fronts, we see an area of low— pressure those weather fronts, we see an area of low—pressure development, so that means some rain. and perhaps by the end of the day, there could be as much as an inch of rain in one or two places in the south. it's going

to be seven england, wales,