i mean, we want people to really dig in and tell us what they're feeling. this is our family lockdownjigsaw — 1,000 pieces looking at the world of william shakespeare — fiendishly difficult, but surprisingly addictive. maybe it's the things that have kept you going. the two most memorable things have happened in the lockdown. one, my mohawk — i'd never be able to have that at school. and, two, this chicken. an object that is really important to me and means a lot to me is my wool and my yarn. or sights like the amazing night skies. but now is the time to think about just how we'll remember this moment. i've been playing bug bingo a lot. david sillito, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here's darren bett. thank you, simon. today in england and wales is a bit of a shock to the system. good news for gardeners,

growers and maybe these jerks but it has not been part of the script this month. already april has been the sunniest april on record in the uk, particularly sunny across the midlands, north—western england in north—west scotland. it has been very dry and warm up until today, look at yesterday, temperatures as high as 19 or20. look at yesterday, temperatures as high as 19 or 20. 2a hours later and some parts of the country are 10 degrees colder than yesterday. it is particularly cold weather we have the rain in england and wales, it has moved as far north as it will get, to the 62. with heavier rain in the midlands and at times across east anglia and the south—east of england. scotland and northern ireland seeing sunshine and showers, temperatures like yesterday. showers becoming fewer overnight, some of the rainbow is eastwards from england and wales. still cloudy, misty, damp and drizzly overnight. under clearer skies in northern and eastern scotland there may be a

pinch of frost here and there, temperatures are milder under the cloud at six or seven. there may be sunshine across scotland for a while tomorrow but also showers. another bunch of rain is coming from the north—west, a couple of valets of steady and perhaps heavy rain. we have a few hours of sunshine following behind that before more wind and rain arrives in the far south—west later. england and wales should have temperatures a degrees higher than today. a couple of weather fronts are keeping wet weather fronts are keeping wet weather going into wednesday evening and night, and by the time we get to thursday this low pressure will be in charge of the weather. some rain across northern england, patchy rain in scotland on thursday, further south across england and wales, we will see heavy, thundery downpours developing, some windy weather likely through the english channel. those temperatures perhaps 12 or 13 degrees, still below par for the time of year. moving into the thursday of a new month, we have an

area of low pressure still in charge. it will stick around into friday and only very slowly move away. there may still be cloud and rain affected northern scotland on friday. sunshine elsewhere across the uk but the showers move eastwards, heavy incendiary again. turning drier in wales and the south—west and temperatures back to 15 or 16 at best. a or 16 at best. reminder of our top story... a minute's silence as the country remembers the key workers, including health and care staff, who have died during the coronavirus pandemic. that's all from the bbc news at one, so it's goodbye from me, and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. hello, i'm jane dougall with your latest sports news. uefa have given the premier league until the 25th of may to decide if they want to complete

or cancel their season. it comes as plans to resume the top tier in england have been stepped up in what's being called "project restart". liverpool — who're at the top of the league — are one of many clubs who want the season to resume. arsenal, tottenham, brighton and west ham have opened their training grounds to players for individual work. the uefa deadline applies to clubs across europe. these players are likely to be more de—conditioned than they would have been after the regular off—season break, so i think, you know, anything less than three weeks is pushing it. now, there'll obviously have to be some compromise to it, but i think if you go less than three weeks, and then you're into two games a week, you really do run the risk of picking up these, initially soft tissue injuries from that build—up into training and that build—up into playing, and then once you go into three games a week, then it's the overuse injuries come into play as well.

reading are the first club in the women's super league to place its players on the government's furlough scheme. the club will pay players the remaining 20% of their salaries — the other 80% of course coming from the taxpayer. there hasn't been a league match since february the 23rd because of the pandemic. the men's under—23 team and a large number of reading's non—playing staff have also been put on leave. some sad news to bring you now. the former liverpool and ireland striker michael robinson has died at the age of 61. he's in yellow in the middle of your screen — robinson helped liverpool win the league title, european cup and league cup during his only season at the club in 1984. he also played for manchester city, preston, brighton and qpr before moving to spain, but was then diagnosed with skin cancer in 2018. robinson also won 2a caps for ireland — scoring four goals. the already postponed tokyo olympics will be cancelled altogether, if they can't take place next year, according to games

chief yoshiro mori. the event is now due to start onjuly the 23rd in 2021 — after being delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic — and the president ofjapan‘s medical association has added to concerns that the games might not take place. our sports news reporter laura scott has more. we are hearing some things that have come out of japan. we are hearing some things that have come out ofjapan. ahead of the japanese medical association. it was says unless an effective vaccine was developed, i expect hosting the olympics will be difficult. he is a very seniorfigure in olympics will be difficult. he is a very senior figure in japan olympics will be difficult. he is a very senior figure injapan and those comments echo something that we work told by global health experts last week to say that the development of an effective vaccine would be a game changer. whether the olympics could go ahead, it has already been postponed by one year. what this head of japanese already been postponed by one year. what this head ofjapanese medical

association said was it was too early to lift the state of emergency which is currently in place in japan. and also the tokyo 2020 president yoshiro mori held a press conference saying that if they lipids cannot take place next year it would not be postponed any further, it would be scrapped. england's ellis genge says rugby players have been "poorly advised" on matters surrounding coronavirus and says it's time to "shake" the sport up. he wants a new union organised to provide elite players with improved commercial and legal advice. iam not i am not trying to go against any of the owners of clubs or anyone. i think we can all work in tandem, i just think it is about time we number one shake up the rugby scene and number two to look after the players commercially in every aspect. i've got a lot of friends in by aspect. i've got a lot of friends in rugby who come to me who say i'm being shafted on this, they are not paying me this or i don't know how

to approach this. i'm just thinking to approach this. i'm just thinking to myself, why don't we have another union that the boys can independently contact? that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport jane, talk to you later. thank you very much. the government is to provide more than £3 million for specialist services for children who've been affected by domestic abuse. a new bill is being debated in parliament this afternoon following concerns over families trapped with abusers during the coronavirus lockdown. the new law would bring in domestic abuse protection orders and protection notices, which can be used to impose long—term bans on perpetrators making contact with the victim. meanwhile, labour is calling for urgent emergency cash to help people who need to escape domestic abuse. the party is proposing an amendment to secure £75 million of emergency funding for charities facing increased demand while people are forced to stay at home.

we have seen a third increase from domestic abuse incidents. 25% reported to the national hotline. that is why with this domestic abuse bill in parliament i'm going to set out we need an emergency funding package. i say around about 10% of the 750 million which incidentally is in my view inadequate, but nonetheless 10% of that, £75 million made available immediately to front—line services. together with that being put into a single pot so it can be fast tracked, and also protecting specialist services as well. services where men are victims of domestic violence and lgbt services as well. it is vital to protect people that are at risk. we say stay—at—home, absolutely, but when home is not a safe place for somebody, we have to recognise the

impact of that as well. we can talk to ellie butt, head of policy and public affairs, at the domestic abuse charity — refuge. good afternoon to you. i think the evidence is showing a surge of domestic abuse during the lockdown and that is your evidence as well? yes, absolutely there is evidence to suggest that it is increasing at this time. we have seen evidence around the world as countries go into lockdown reports of domestic abuse increase. we have seen calls and contact to our hotline increase by 50% since the lockdown began. and contact to our hotline increase by 50% since the lockdown beganlj wa nt to by 50% since the lockdown beganlj want to talk about the direct victims in a moment, but the youngsters, the children who are witnessing this, those figures are on the increase and that is a particular concern. yes, absolutely. children are victims of abuse as well, they are notjust witnesses.

they are deeply affected by it. we really welcome this funding today today. services for children are particularly poorly funded. so the news from today is welcomed, but we still need a sustainable long—term funding so that every woman and child that comes forward to ask for help knows that there is service to support them. we've been talking about domestic abuse for years, does what has happened in the last few months and the results of the lockdown is that putting a spotlight on something in a way that in some ways you may benefit from in the long term? in a way. but of course the situation for survivors of domestic abuse is terrible. it is heartening seeing so much attention placed on this at the moment. it is good that people can think about the experience of domestic abuse survivors and consider what they need. ina survivors and consider what they need. in a way the bill this afternoon could not have been better time to. i think it is the time for

the government to be bold and put forward a full range of proposals that will really transform their response to domestic abuse in this country. key to that is funding for the specialist network so that we can make sure that no woman or child is ever turned a way. it is not about the amount of funding, but the guarantee nature of it? yes, we need two things, reinforced elements of the crisis fund so that services that are working flat out to respond to the needs of women and children can continue to provide those services. and with the bill we need long term sustainable funding for the full range of funding that these people need. men are abused too and i know we have talked about that, but in terms of women who may be watching this now, they are in lockdown, they cannot escape, what advice is there? absolutely, anyone can bea advice is there? absolutely, anyone can be a victim of domestic abuse.

it is the overwhelming majority of survivors that are women, but anyone who is experiencing this, please reach out for support. if you are in immediate danger or you are worried that someone is, called 999. otherwise the national domestic hotline which we run is available 2a hours a day 365 days a year. the number is 0808 2000, 247. it is free and it is available 24 hours a day. iam very and it is available 24 hours a day. i am very grateful for your time. thank you very much. in the united states, president trump has spoken to the media for the first time in two days, afterfacing ridicule for his suggestion that injecting disinfectant might be a way of treating the virus. at his return, reporters were keen to ask him about those remarks.

it was specifically said that they have seen a spike of people using disinfectant after your comments la st disinfectant after your comments last week. i know you said they were sarcastic. i cannot imagine why. last week. i know you said they were sarcastic. icannot imagine why. do you take any responsibility? no, i don't. i cannot imagine why. president trump told reporters china could have stopped the coronavirus from spreading around the world, and that serious investigations are under way into beijing's actions. our north america correspondent peter bowes reports. the president of the united states, accompanied by the vice president of the united states. back again to face questions just two days after tweeting that the white house coronavirus briefings were "not worth the time and effort". it was business as usual for president trump. today i'd like to provide you with an update in our war against the coronavirus. it was an upbeat assessment of a country that was in good shape and hungry to get back to work. mr trump said coronavirus testing was being ramped up. the united states has now conducted

more than 5.4 million tests, nearly double the number tested in any other country, more than twice as much as any other country. the president also suggested that he may seek damages from china over the coronavirus outbreak, which began in the city of wuhan and spread around the world. we're doing very serious investigations, as you probably know, and we are not happy with the china, we are not happy with that whole situation because we believe it could have been stopped at the source, it could have been stopped quickly and it wouldn't have spread all over the world. we think that should have happened. in the meantime america is slowly emerging from weeks of lockdown. restau ra nts emerging from weeks of lockdown. restaurants are open again in georgia, but business has been slow. in california, inc. the beach... the government has warned that

instructions may be more rigorously instructed. the reality is we are months away making measurable and meaningful changes to our stay—at—home order. that is a very optimistic point to emphasise, however, that is driven by data. it is driven by behaviour. as we change oui’ is driven by behaviour. as we change our behaviour, we can impact the science, the health and the data. this virus does not take the weekends off. this virus does not go home because it is a beautiful sunny day. he said the images of packed beaches were an example of what not to do. and such behaviour could delay reopening the state. peter bowes, bbc news, los angeles. and china has responded to president trump's threat to sue it over the coronavirus. speaking at a news conference in beijing, a chinese foreign ministry spokesman, geng shuang, suggested that american leaders were just trying to distract from their own failings.

translation: american politicians have repeatedly ignored the truth and have been telling bare—faced lies. they have only one objective — shirk their responsibility for their own poor epidemic prevention and control measures and divert public attention. but the facts speak louder than words and justice naturally inhabits a man's heart. their plot will never succeed. we'll be answering some of your questions about coronavirus vaccines, and any concerns around visiting your gp surgery, in your questions answered at 2.30pm this afternoon. we'll be joined by nicola stonehouse, professor of molecular virology at the university of leeds and dr rita issa, a gp registrar. you can send your questions in to us, using the twitter hashtag bbcyourquestions, or e—mailing yourquestions@bbc. co. uk. that will be at 2:30pm this afternoon. the headlines on bbc news...

a minute's silence has been held across the uk — to remember more than 100 key workers who've died after contracting coronavirus. new figures show that covid—19 related deaths in care homes in england and wales trebled in the space of three weeks — and total uk deaths outside hospital after easter were nearly 13,000 higher than usual. scotland's first minister recommends wearing face coverings but only in certain circumstances. the international rescue committee is warning that the world risks up to one billion coronavirus infections and up to 3.2 million deaths from covid—19, if action isn't taken to protect the most vulnerable countries. the organisation says the numbers should act as a wake—up call and that there's only a small window of opportunity to prevent deaths in places like yemen, afghanistan and syria. our middle east editorjeremy bowen

explained how the international rescue committee analysed the data. well, they have used, they say, figures from using the models of imperial college london, of course led by the uk government, and also the un's world health organization. they have made some very conservative assumptions. they have assumed that every country has health care on a level of china, which clearly, when you're talking about war—torn nations like yemen, afghanistan, or syria, is not the case, where often hospitals, clinics have been targeted and bombed. so, even with those very conservative assumptions, the figures are terrible. they're talking about up to three million people at risk of dying. now that is because, if you just look at any of the pictures coming out of there, you can see that concepts like social distancing, or washing your hands are very difficult if you don't have

running water, or you don't have clean water, or if you live in a tent, with your entire large extended family and the next tent is next door. as one young ten—year—old girl, who we were remotely managing to get information from, was saying in her camp, in syria they have i think 300 people using four toilets. things like that, basic hygiene. plus countries, where the whole infrastructure has been destroyed and where people are any weakened by war. of course, if the virus gets into those places — and so far it hasn't really in big numbers — then the chances of them escaping a very hard time are low. i mean can we be confident that the virus hasn't got there in large numbers? i was saying that the first case has been reported in yemen and presumably in these conditions it will spread quickly, but there's not going to be testing.

no, there is very little testing. people in britain complain about the lack of testing we have had, but it's loads compared to what they can do in countries where there are such poor facilities, you know, through no fault of their own. if you think, in one hospital in london there are more ventilators than entire countries have. so, you think about those sorts of numbers and those chances and it makes it very difficult. they do have some factors actually in their favour in some countries, say in the middle east. the populations there are young. often 60% or more under the age of 30. and of course, as has been now been well demonstrated, younger people have a greater resistance to the virus. but if those young people are also weakened by malnutrition, as is the case of

several million children in yemen, who have chronic mall nutrition, then their resistance is always going to be low. that was from a little earlier. the nigerian government say it is "monitoring closely" the high number of unexplained deaths in the north of the country. officials say preliminary findings show the "mysterious deaths" are not covid—19. our nigeria correspondent chi chi izundu has more. from these graves, whispers of rumours started. gravediggers who said they'd noticed a higher—than—normal number of burials. translation: no, we have never seen anything like this, not since the major cholera outbreak that our parents have told us about — that was 60 years ago. they told us, at that time, they used to run away from the dead bodies, but they will still called to bury the dead. kanu has been in lockdown due to coronavirus for almost two weeks. private healthcare centres, which provide more than half

of all healthcare in the state, have closed. testing for covid—19 started in mid april, but it's now been suspended for almost a week after the contamination of a laboratory. once fumigated, officials hope to have it up and running. the rumoured deaths of around 640 people over the last week has shocked the medical community. deaths aren't registered here, so it's not easy to find out why people are dying. but nigeria's centre for disease control has sent a 17—strong enhanced support team to start taking verbal autopsies, contact trace those who've been around positive cases and implement steps to contain the spread of covid—19, all to try and stop kanu becoming the next epicentre. authorities say early reports show the deaths could have been caused by complications around diabetes, acute malaria, meningitis or hypertension. but it's not coronavirus.

the count of the deaths is alarming, and the number are not unconnected to the coronavirus pandemic, and it might likely be due to the shutdown of private hospitals. there are a lot of hypertensive patients, diabetic patients, asthmatic patients, cancer patients, and they have not much access to the hospitals because the lockdown affects everybody. preparations are under way to treat the rising number of cases. officials, however, are asking for time — time to investigate and time to contain the spread of the virus. but as cases across nigeria continue to increase, time is a luxury few can afford. chi chi izundu, bbc news. testing and contact tracing is essential to eradicating covid—19 in local communities.

it's an approach that's been adopted in the faroe islands, about 200 miles north of scotland. jothohnston reports. the sun is out, but the streets of lerwick are empty and the tourist season is on hold. joanna hunter runs a small knitwear business. it's been tricky, because, obviously, we're at this time of year where we've just bought all the stock for the tourist season and we're fully stocked up, ready to go, so that's a bit tricky. but we're now moving as much as we can online. it's lockdown. travel by ferry or on the plane is barred to all but essential workers and island residents. now, shetland can do its own testing for covid—19. we put the patient‘s sample into a cartridge, it's got all the reagents we need. we put it into the machine. it turns out a result an hour, in one hour and ten minutes. it's a relief to health care workers. coming in to work maybe thinking we're down two workers,

but this will make a big impact if we can get folk back to work the next day, if they're fit and well, obviously, then that would be a huge thing for us. the ability to do testing in shetland gives the island's health board the flexibility to move away from the current delay fears and back to trying to contain the virus. the machine gives us the capacity and also the flexibility that should allow us to test much more people, but also, to get back to the test, trace and isolate phase of the pandemic response. 200 miles north of shetland, the fa roe islands are doing just that. it has twice the population of shetland and is carrying out mass testing. now, the islands are starting to emerge slowly from their lockdown. we had, from the start, had the strategy to mass test the people and to be able to track them and quarantine the people who had been in contact with the persons that have been tested positive. it's prompted calls for shetland to return to contact tracing. shetland have a lot of cases

at the moment, it has 54 cases, much higher than some of the other islands. so, actually, contact tracing is really essential in shetland. it‘ really important to snuff out that disease bath. -- it is —— it is really important to snuff out that disease fast. as preparations are made about the gradual easing of lockdown, should scotland's island committees like shetland be treated differently when it comes to testing? jothohnston, bbc news, shetland. while they were clear skies there, but not nearly for the rest of us. here is the weather. even before today, it has been the sunniest april on record. with the sunny spots being in the midlands and the northwest of scotland. it has been a very dry month and a very warm month, up to today. but the cloud is bringing with it some rain. it has gone about as far as it will

go. it has been cold. temperatures around 9 degrees. this evening, the rain is going to ease away. it will go towards the east. it will be cloudy and misty over the hills and there will be some drizzle. clearer skies across scotland. it will be cold in the north and east of scotland. might be a touch of frost here and there. it will be milder under the cloud. tomorrow, another area of rain. everything is coming from the west or southwest. these areas of low pressure pushing a band of rain up. tomorrow, they will be some sunshine across scotland. some drizzle to start with and then we will see this band of rain moving up from the southwest it could be heavy and persistent. behind it there is a little bit of sunshine across wales, the midlands. then more rain will arrive. temperatures will be higher tomorrow it won't be as cold. we have a couple of weather fronts on

the scene tomorrow evening and tomorrow night. the rain will be coming into the north and east words. we have one band of rain sitting here, very slow moving. and more rain across scotland, but the main will be coming across england and. it could be heavy and thundery. some stronger winds blowing through the english channel. temperatures 12 01’ the english channel. temperatures 12 or 13 degrees. a bit below average for this time of year. as we go to the end of the week, the area of low pressure will start to drift away, but very slowly will things eased down. there is still some more showers around and may be some persistent rain across the north of scotland. they will push their way towards the east across the uk and some of them will be heavy and thundery. it will be dry across the wales and southwest. temperatures back up to 15 degrees. near average for this time of year.

this is bbc news. the headlines: new figures show that covid—19 related deaths in care homes in england and wales trebled in the space of three weeks, while deaths in hospitals are beginning to fall. a minute's silence to remember key workers who have died. from the royal gloucester hospital to the airambulance station in glasgow, from the streets of belfast to laboratory workers in milton keynes, from a supermarket in chorley to downing street, those who have died were remembered. i think it's important for us to remember people who are no longer with us because they are the innocent, they came to work to do a good job, to care.