michelle is one of tens of thousands who simply don't know when they'll get the help they need. as long as the nhs is battling coronavirus, they're unlikely to get an answer. dominic hughes, bbc news. the medical chief of fifa has warned against restarting the current football season in the coming weeks for fear of causing a second wave of coronavirus. michel de ooge believes football should not resume until the ‘end of august or beginning of september'. starting earlier, he said, could have life or death consequences. our sports editor dan roan reports. some premier league footballers were back at work this week. arsenal are one of a number of clubs to partially reopen their training ground for the first time since the season was suspended last month as hopes of a resumption gathered pace. but today came a stark warning from the most senior medic in world football. there is a risk and it is not a risk that has small consequences. it can have consequences of life and death.

avoid playing competitive football in the coming weeks and try to be prepared for the start of a good competition next season. as part of a plan dubbed project restart, the premier league remains hopeful of a return behind closed doors by earlyjune, with sealed, neutral venues, extensive player testing and the numbers present at matches limited to around 300 people. but with clubs desperate to honour commercial contracts, many in the game are willing to be flexible. whether it means staying in hotels to isolate and just play the matches on the screens for people who are isolating at home, i think it would be a great morale boost. and something positive in such difficult times. premier league clubs will meet later this week to discuss possible health protocols but ultimately they will take the lead from government. and there are major concerns about the resumption of a contact sport, the availability of testing, and whether a return would place unnecessary extra pressure on public

services and elsewhere, the game is already up. today, the french prime minister announced there would be no sports events in the country until at least september, effectively meaning the football season there is over. the government here has expressed its support for resumption, believing it could provide some welcome relief to many. but significant challenges must be overcome before we see a return to action. dan roan, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here's darren bett. thank you, fiona, the sunniest april on record across the uk but the weather changed dramatically across the uk underneath the cloud and rain with temperatures in the midlands only seven or 8 degrees. most of the rain is fairly steady and light and there has been heavy bursts coming through the south—east of england and east anglia but most of the rain is going to head east overnight so it does become a bit drier. however, still some damp and drizzly weather continuing and a lot of low cloud, some missed and hill fog as well.

further north, the showers are fewer where we have clear skies in northern and eastern scotland there will be a pinch of frost. elsewhere, temperatures around six or 7 degrees. tomorrow there might be some sunshine for a while across scotla nd some sunshine for a while across scotland and one or two showers, but the band of rain is moving up from the band of rain is moving up from the south—west. that will bring steady and heavy rain north and east through the day and once it clears away there are a few hours of dry and sunny weather before it turns wet and windy again in the far south—west later on. whilst there will be more rain for england and wales tomorrow, you won't be as cold as it was today. and all areas i think we'll see further rain during the evening and overnight on those two weather fronts, and as we head into thursday we will be dominated by that area of low pressure, so more rain to come. some patchy rain left across scotland and northern england and northern ireland stop to the south of that, we will see showers developing on those could turn heavy thundery and some strong winds will blow through the english channel as well. the temperatures on thursday still disappointing for the

time of year, 12 or 13 fairly typically. as we move into the first day of a new month on friday, we will see sunshine but heavy and potentially thundery showers, but for the start of the weekend at the least it should be drier and brighter. that's all from the bbc news at six, so it's goodbye from me, and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. latest sports news. the top two lea ks of french latest sports news. the top two leaks of french football will not be competing after the french prime minister said no sports will be

taking place until september at the earliest. the top of the leak will be awarded the title or not it follows both the dutch leak in the belgian league being abandoned. earlier i spoke with french football journalist and asked if he thought the english premier league would follow suit stubby little friends have just cancelled every kind of sport event in september set for the netherlands a comedic about playing football anytime soon now when countries who have gone through similar things, have countries who have gone through similarthings, have said it countries who have gone through similar things, have said it is not safe to play football. players can play again, you cannot play, this is not ok. a country that is the premier league in england, italy, spain, maybe they do and may be for and resume there and if it is all safe that everyone agrees, then good on them. but for us it was not safe enough to play football again and

thatis enough to play football again and that is why it has been suspended for longer. several teams of got their players training again in the premier league are talking tentatively of blood starting on june the 8th. tentatively of blood starting on june the 8th. that is a bit ambitious, i would june the 8th. that is a bit ambitious, iwould have june the 8th. that is a bit ambitious, i would have faith in the british government and premier league clubs that if the site is playable at that time and resuming training, if it is completely safe and they can play, no problem. but if you start going down the line of saying we can put all the teams in confinement in hotels for five weeks, six weeks or the players can wear masks and they will have to be tested, but there soon enough test for doctors and nhs people and nurses, key workers meet this test but cannot have them come up for me, thatis but cannot have them come up for me, that is not on. my opinion but that is not on. and they decided that it was not good enough or not safe

enough to resume football if in the uk, everybody says everyone is safe enough thinking of all those conditions and all that equipment together, the never gives the green light. we all want football to resume to be played again, but only in the right conditions and i'm not com pletely in the right conditions and i'm not completely convinced that there will be the case. they want the premier league season to be concluded and things league leaders should not in the side of the title because the pandemic. whether that's a quick format of finishing all the games and playing three games a week, whether it's playing behind closed doors where it is safe. yeah, i am someone doors where it is safe. yeah, i am someone who respects football and the fact of how fantastic they have been at the stage. the scottish

sports minister the scottish sports minister is to discuss a phased return the scottish sports minister is to discuss a phase return of events with heads of sport in the country. joe fitzpatrick will meet virtually with representatives including the scottish fa, the spfl and scottish rugby. our sports news correspondent chris mclaughlin has more. there will be talks next week between government ministers and with sporting bodies that are trying to look at how sport can return and we're talking about the prospect of playing football and rugby behind closed doors. that seems to be behind what is happening between the epl and westminster, but it looks like in scotland, they are finally catching up. the other thing to know todayis catching up. the other thing to know today is that the spf shell has written 12112 clubs, calling for reconciliation and there will be a meeting next week to try and find out whether or not they are looking for a wider investigation into the decision to end the lower leaks here

in scotland. we're still waiting on a decision with what happens happens to the premiership, but that meeting next week to be crucial with regards to that and with regards to what is happening here in scotland and scottish football. pretty much trinkets of part. —— tearing itself apart. 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 % coming from the taxpayer. there hasn't been a league match since february the 23rd because of the pandemic. 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 one 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.

the already postponed tokyo olympics will be cancelled altogether if they can't go ahead next year. that's according to the games president yoshiro mori. at the moment the olympics is due to start nextjuly, after being delayed because of the pandemic. our sports reporter laura scott joins us now — laura, what are the concerns about the games going ahead?2 — but we are hearing today is next july is the last possible option for the games to take place. asked in an interview what would happen if the games could not take place and they said they would be scrapped. so they know now that that is the timeframe we are looking at and he also did say that he remains confident that the games would go ahead and their current form and the spokesperson for the games said that they were his personal thoughts and the

minister was very much to deliver the games. but this all comes amid concerns from the scientific and medical community about the ability of the games to go ahead without a vaccine. and of the association today, they had said that he thought it would be difficult for the games to go ahead if there was not a vaccine we effort similar comments in the last week or so and there's a mounting sense that there might be a case of no vaccine, no games. since the postponment of the olympics, many athletes have had to adjust their training targets. heptathlete katarina johnson thompson has been telling the bbc how disruptive the delay has been for her, but that she's developed a new routine. my my life has been a big build—up for the last four years and i completely moved face from my home in liverpool andi moved face from my home in liverpool and i went to france to train with

my new coach and everything has been reaching this day and it is hard to be in that sort of limbo because they postponed it, they said it was next year, it is easier to get my head around that because of a date and readjust. routine and structure are so hard for me and if i do not do that, to get into a rut, like to wa ke do that, to get into a rut, like to wake up and start the day and say this is what i want to achieve today whether it be stretching or sorting out my house, or taking the dogs for a walk in his long as i can take something off the list than i am happy. but i think with me and my life in france being so trained but the rest, recover eat, i need that same routine on regular basis. before we go, time to tell you about a great programme now available on the bbc iplayer. "sport in the time of coronavirus" hears from athletes

past and present about how they're coping with the lockdown. and that's all the sport for now. hello. a recap on today's downing street, the health secretary set the amount of deaths in hospitals was going down of role, there've been 586 deaths announced in the last 2a hours tomorrow they said the government will publish daily figures for care homes and community debts as well, notjust deaths from covid—19 hospitals. all care home residents, people over 65 and those having to leave their homes can now qualified to be tested for coronavirus. therapeutic treatments,

this is a clinical trial. some reaction to that now is to speak to the strata secretary. —— shadow secretary. expansion of testing, ramping up of testing it does appear that we are getting that. and that is to be welcomed if it is delivered. we have had continuous announcements from government about capacity and there's a difference between having there's a difference between having the capacity and then carrying out the capacity and then carrying out the test. we stayed at capacity for 72,000, but the figures for test being carried out is significantly shorter than that. he must have a degree of transparency and clarity on how we do with the statistics so

that people get the true picture that people get the true picture that would encourage the government to embrace the tone that keir starmer set out last week. very alarming figures for the amount of deaths and care homes. matt hancock is promised today that from tomorrow we will get daily figures, notjust on deaths in hospitals, but also in ca re on deaths in hospitals, but also in care homes and the community. do you welcomed that and how worried are you about what is happening still and ourcare you about what is happening still and our care homes? we have been asking for it for long enough. and the care sector has been crying out for weeks now that the adequacy and the ppe in particular and of testing more broadly and it is imperative that the testing be ramped up and is available to residents of care homes and the staff and that they have the appropriate ppe and we are doing a

great deal about the lack of appropriate ppe people having to tolerate and go into work with ppe thatis tolerate and go into work with ppe that is not fit for purpose and that isa that is not fit for purpose and that is a huge important issue in the ca re is a huge important issue in the care sector and are hospitals as well and that is a huge important issue that still needs to be addressed fully. what is your party stand on the issue of facemasks and face coverage because if bit of a difference now, recommending that they use of only certain circumstances but not mandatory. but in the briefing, scientific adviser was saying that there's pretty weak evidence for it in the mix a small difference, she said. small differences, if this behavioural evidence available and i would urge

the scientific figures to treat us like adults because we are fearful that some of the strategy lacks expand capacity and it the advice does change the availability of the kit and capacity to produce it. so, if it is going to be largely beneficial, that is something worth considering but not talking about is facemasks that belong to health and social care workers and we cannot detract from that and to the general public, let us have a conversation about that and have the science of their end of this a difference of opinion in the scientific community, it's a bit on the respective positions, but we need that transparency throughout this process. can transparency throughout this process. (an refocus on transparency throughout this process. can refocus on the economic of coronavirus. we're british

airways are thinking about laying off 12,000 of their staff. that is roughly a quarter of their entire workforce. what is your reaction to that? that isjust the heat of more complications on people is already difficult lives. and perhaps this is not wholly surprising, the aviation industry has been shut down for several weeks now, but if the governments to be intervening in a significant way because this airline isa significant way because this airline is a critically important product of our transport infrastructure, the new diskette up in the right terms. the workers positions are secured and of course, government money is protected and perhaps they might wa nt to protected and perhaps they might want to consider taking the stake. these are the things that have to be

openly discussed and we have covid—19 in climate change crisis and this should be utilising the opportunity to have the sense of discussion about having a major contribution to emerge as well. so if this is going to be forward as a discussion between aig and the government about support, and this got to be on these sorts of terms. but the protection of those workers is the starting point and i would encourage that in this discussion so we make sure that the representation is there in the proper consultation is there in the proper consultation is going about today's stage. -- at any stage. raising ballpark nationalization? we do not want to return to is the previous position

where very considerable dividends shifted out of companies such as this. we have seen that in recent times where workers have been made for a load of redundant by the significant dividends being paid out over the same period. what i would say is if the company is in the sort of difficulty, the government should be open—minded to the possibility of taking a stake in british airwaves and put it on the table is a discussion point. thank you very much. shadow secretary of state for employment rights and protection. the scottish government is recommending the use of face covering on transports and food shops is to room to see during there. nicholas sturgeon says science shows there may be some benefit and the have updated

guidance, suggesting people wear scarves rather than facemasks. so should the uk follow? i will speak to the professor of primary care health service at oxford university and also trains as a gp. thank you very much for being with us. what is your view on face covers? a lot of different evidence and we heard of the downing street press briefing saying that it was rather weak evidence. yes, the evidence is very strong in favour of medicine of the public wearing face coverings. i believe it's whatever evidence you look at but in the round at the totality of evidence, the evidence of infection and covid—19, that is the way it spreads, the evidence that two afforded of a cloth ——

folded piece of a clock and stop the contamination and people may mask for the public either mandatory or recommended every single one of those countries is wearing a face covering and has been associated with a reduction in the spread of this terrible disease. what are the concerns people has, present government is wearing face coverings gives people a false sense of security, perhaps thousand to encroach on social distancing rules. slow get closer to other people and then they would otherwise. yes, i think there is no absolute evidence for that. people talk about the lack of evidence and this idea of risk compensation is product again and again with no evidence whatsoever to back it up. if that was the case, we would be seeing examples of

countries like hong kong with 97.5% adherence to the face covering recommendations and you see places like hong kong with problems what is actually happening in those countries is the spread of coronavirus has gone down. so i do not think there is risk compensation and some of the other arguments against face coverings like, it makes you touch your face more, where's the evidence for that? there is no evidence. the evidence seems to be quite strongly in favour of face coverings that absolutely delighted the nicholas sturgeon has taken us on board and made a positive recommendation which i think is going to save lives in scotland. you are also much more likely to get the verse inside so that you are, if you're going to wear face coverings, wear them inside rather than all doors. borges said that? -- outdoors. catching it

by it coming out of someone else's mother knows, if you're walking around with nobody around, there's no need to wear face covering. if you're standing in a queue in sainsbury‘s, there's an awful lot of people around you who could catch a droplet from you or you could catch one from them. it's not so much indoors or outdoors but how close short of the people which is why we of social distancing. but in areas roosts can't socially distance, and in aeroplanes, face coverings are very important health measure. and people are making their decisions as to whether or not they should go but what sort of face coverings do you think people should use and where. are stuck with the presenters and this is when i made earlier. i have

taken a blue hanker chief and white anger chief and i've also got some stretchy strapping which i made for in or pairof stretchy strapping which i made for in or pair of tracksuit bottoms and there was a very comfortable face covering, two layers of cotton is very soft against my face and they kept it up for two hours and hours are and about of time doing shopping and things and we need plenty of patents on the internet and actually, if you cannot make your own and you have not got access to a showing machine, i have a bandanna here and you can just do that. and the reason my homie face coverings are ok, the reason why none of us need to wear a medical grade mask those designed for doctors and nurses is that cotton is a very good blocker of droplets and droplets are what come out of your mouth and those. the reason why the doctors have with the medical grade mask is by the time the droplets have gone

through the air and reach the other person, they have become aerosolized and the medical grade masks are there to protect the wearer but to protect the other people from the things coming out of your mouth and nose, a cotton mask is fine. my mass protects you, your mask protects me. so cotton is best as your message? cotton is pretty good, yeah. experts in material science will find other materials which are even better. i heard silk was particularly good but i have not got any silk. i've got plenty bits of cotton and those watching this programme, get your sewing machines out or get your old bandannas. you're going out with the government to tell you to do this, you don't have to wait. thank you for being with us.

here is look at the weather prospects. it has been sunniest april on record. unusually dry but all of that changed across england and wales today. this was yesterday and wales today. this was yesterday and although the heat is more limited comments to get up to 19 degrees which is what did he make a significant drop and only 17 degrees. there's still some only wet weather in october overnight eastwards, but stays cloudy and misty with health fog and some drizzle around it as well. but we have the clearing skies across eastern scotland, the showers reduce there could be a touch elsewhere, temperatures remain rights 7 degrees and as it turns drier overnight, this weather friend continues to bring some rain to the southwest rector of that area of low pressure and there could be some sunshine

with some showers in the big grey and cloudy elsewhere in the could see this more consistent perhaps heavier rain pushing northwards and eastwards. once that clears it will have some dry and sunny weather before it turns wet and windy again in the southwest later on. and although there is more rain to come, it will not be as cold for england and wales as it was today. it all of this rain means that the polar levels have dropped and they remain low to moderate across the country tomorrow. more rain to come overnight as well on this to other friends there and as we head into thursday, that central low—pressure coasters we have more but whether to come as well. submit patchy rain to start off on thursday in scotland, a band of rain for northern england and northern ireland, bits of that will see some sunshine but also some heavy or potentially fun to read downpours developing with some strong and gusty winds to the english channel is. the temperatures still disappointing for this time of

day. may and may we have that low— pressure day. may and may we have that low—pressure close by is making is very slow and it is not going to be com pletely very slow and it is not going to be completely dry. scotland with some more rain in the mood for some sunshine elsewhere was showers developing and pushing the way eastwards in the heavier and thunder he but the turning printer and prayer that the southwest of england and wales. temperatures in the south up and wales. temperatures in the south up to 15 or16 and wales. temperatures in the south up to 15 or 16 celsius.

this is bbc news — with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk — and around the world. new figures show — a third of all coronavirus deaths in england and wales — now take place in care homes. the uk's health secretary announces testing will soon be rolled out — to all residents and staff. anybody that is working in a care home will be able to get access to a test whether they have symptoms or not. the scottish government recommends, people should use ‘face coverings' in confined public spaces, to help slow the spread of covid—19. british airways announce 12,000 redundancies — after the collapse in passenger numbers, caused by the pandemic. france announces plans to ease the lockdown from the 11th of may. but, the prime minister says, the country will have to learn