the number of coronavirus cases in the united states has now passed one million. the figure is nearly a third of the world total, and includes more than 57,000 deaths. president trump put the unwanted mile—stone, down to the volume of tests the us is carrying out. the uk government says it plans to offer all residents and staff at care homes, in england and wales, a test for coronavirus, after new figures showed this is where a third of all deaths linked to the pandemic are happening. they have not been included in official figures so far. the french government has laid out plans for easing the country's lockdown, from next month. under the proposals, all shops will be able to reopen on may the 11th, and schools will also be allowed to resume teaching but masks will have to be worn in public spaces. now on bbc news, more

than a third of the global population is confined to their homes because of covid—19. coronavirus: life in lockdown is presented by victoria derbyshire. hello, iam hello, i am victoria derbyshire. welcome to this special. we will start in brazil. a video journalist who lives in copacabana whose a ncestors who lives in copacabana whose ancestors are from the amazon where hundreds of thousands of indigenous people have close access to their land against the threat of covid—i9.

the united states currently has more than four times as many confirmed cases as any other country. to understand the impact the bbc on line team have young american photographers to document their story. this is maddy, university student in ohio. i am living in cincinnati with my sister and pa rents. cincinnati with my sister and parents. i have been thinking about where 0hio parents. i have been thinking about where ohio is in all this. as soon asi where ohio is in all this. as soon as i get home, i wash my clothes and ta ke as i get home, i wash my clothes and take a shower. i am a student at university but i am taking all my classes. my dad is a professional musician and teachers. 0bviously all thatis musician and teachers. 0bviously all that is on line. he has a recording studio across the street where he works. my mother is a co—ordinator

ata works. my mother is a co—ordinator at a local high school. this is probably the most time i have spent with my sister before. we have been doing so much together, like running, cooking, so many things. we drove around the city without windows listening to music. at the end of the day, we all get together and we ate dinner and sometimes we play games and hang out with our neighbours or watch a movie. that is the silver lining that i get to spend more time with my family. the distance between me and my friends and me and my boyfriend has definitely been really tough. my boyfriend and i have been in a long distance relationship for almost four years. we go to school three hours apart and now that i am home in cincinnati where he goes to school, we aren't in this weird close distance relationship where we see each other more often but it is outside, from a distance. it has

been really difficult not knowing when we're going to be able hang out together again. doing long—distance relationship with my college best friend is also tough. we do not get to celebrate our senior year together. everything is different now. it is like really scary to see how many people are getting ill around the us because obviously it is different state by state and city by city. there is a teacher at my mum's school who died suddenly last week and at the school community kind of came together and made this a really special ceremony for the teacher's family. around 100 people gathered in their clouds and parked ina line gathered in their clouds and parked in a line and then they went in front of the teachers family's house and made special notes and posted them on the cloud window. this is like a collective traumatic experience and it has been

incredible to see how kind people have been to each other. people need more support during this time more than ever. everything is changing really quickly, as it has in the last month. i think that is it. long before recorded pandemics, an ancient civilisation in nepal use a little—known system of quarantine. for a thousand years merchant conducted trade along the silk road. many would contract diseases due to the harsh conditions and would go into a salacious from the families on their return. —— into isolation.

when my father returned from tibet in 1954, he had to live separately for two weeks. they had to get a note about purification right to allow him to return to society.

being in lockdown seems to be having an effect on people. quite a lot of people on social media are reporting unusually vivid dreams, but why is it happening and what can you do to make your sleep more peaceful as denmark out of nowhere there is a whole in the wild. suddenly a bunch of people and circled me and there was 110 of people and circled me and there was no talking, they were expressionless and then they deliberately started coughing. expressionless and then they deliberately started coughinglj expressionless and then they deliberately started coughing. i had a dreaml deliberately started coughing. i had a dream i kept entering the wrong zoom meeting, they were very confused and i felt very

embarrassed. this kept happening multiple times. i was at the top of the hill and my husband was at the bottom. and a big, a man —sized world, came out and that start onto his arm. —— man sized wolf. you know, usually when you have dreams like that you can brush it off or walk it off but this was just way more intense. people are dreaming about catching the virus themselves, about their children or parents catching the virus. they are dreaming metaphors for the virus, swarms of bugs coming at them is the most common, i think

because bugs is a term for infections. they are dreaming about tidal waves, tornadoes, infections. they are dreaming about tidalwaves, tornadoes, people coming after people with chainsaws. i think there are several reasons. first, most people are sleep deprived most of the time but during this lockdown i think that many more people are catching up on sleep. and thatis people are catching up on sleep. and that is the single strongest correlate with dreams. and another isjust waking correlate with dreams. and another is just waking up without an alarm makes dream recall likelier. thirdly, the psychological effect, there is a lot of research that shows that any big life change or period where you are more emotional tends to result in more dreams, more vivid dreams. nightmares have a strong correlation with daytime anxiety. the best way to change your dream concern is not don't have a

nightmare, but suggest to yourself what kind of dream you want to have. you want to dream about a particular person or place, to think of your ideal dream and be thinking about that as you fall asleep. covid-19 has upended life across the world, but for many, reading is a refuge and a day version. it is the arts editor will gompertz boeck to five authors including margaret atwood and adam kay to ask them what books they would recommend for weathering they would recommend for weathering the lockdown. —— spoke to five authors. if you were to pick three books, what would they be? let's pick three that are quite long and will keep you occupied. i've never read the brothers current as of, a long russian novel with lots of bad behaviour, and sol long russian novel with lots of bad behaviour, and so i understand books with bad behaviour are always comforting because the things they do are usually worse than what you have done. how are you? i'm very

good. if you haven't read david sedaris, then me talk pretty 0ne good. if you haven't read david sedaris, then me talk pretty one day is funny. it's fine enough to extra ct is funny. it's fine enough to extract anyone, however briefly, from the current crisis.|j extract anyone, however briefly, from the current crisis. i don't think you can go wrong with nemesis, one of philip rossman's little—known books was that it goads a polio pandemic, it's short but incredibly powerful. i have chosen a classic, their eyes from watching god by zora neale hurston. she was one of the first writers to write from a black female perspective. i think is great for now, he survived a lot of intense stuff that happened in the 16605 intense stuff that happened in the 1660s of the fire of london, the plague, advanced that i think

history, ifind very plague, advanced that i think history, i find very comforting right now. a classic? how about - how about the secret diary of adrian mole. my second choice is eight rainbow milk, by paul manders. it's about a young man who escapes a very repressive religious community and finds a life for himself in london and becomes a sex worker. the books i really love of the short stories by amy bloom, and whenever i saw to reread them, i must have read the bible six times, i find a huge comfort in the repetition of rereading. i'm a great elton john fan, isaw rereading. i'm a great elton john fan, i saw him live last year. every paragraph in that book contains some incredible, incredibly honest account of a scandal. i've been reading murder mysteries, that's always comforting because there is a solution. at the end. almost always there is a solution. elderly people

are some of the most vulnerable to the risks associated with coronavirus, but many have a unique spectre to offer. bbc news has been in touch with a group of people over the age of 90 from around the world to get their tips, their guidance on how to stay positive and yet do it all. it's a weird world at the moment, isn't it? my name isjonah, also known as granny. my name is arno. —— anna. also known as granny. my name is arno. -- anna. they call me muumu or grandma muumu stop i'm hundred and two! my name is granny bridie. this is a

difficult time and you have two keep your spirits up stop on the day i got nothing good to do, a crochet or net. i keep myself occupied by writing to my friends, phoning. net. i keep myself occupied by writing to my friends, phoninglj confess writing to my friends, phoning.” confess to be a shocker, i love my armchair, netflix, and i read my paper cover to cover. reading and having bath. find something to occu py having bath. find something to occupy yourself. eight, nine, ten! ready or not, here i come! 0h! occupy yourself. eight, nine, ten! ready or not, here i come! oh! my god! you checked me —— checked me. 0h, god! you checked me —— checked me. oh, there you are! i sang a little song. keep up your exercises like

me. people are important. people of the most important thing in my life. we've been married for 71 years. we argue like every couple, but we make up. my children and my grandchildren and they are suffering and that is very sad. you can speak to them on the phone, skype, you can skype. my great grandchildren our people a value. —— ivalue. great grandchildren our people a value. -- i value. the doctors are risking their lives, you know? they're doing over us, aren't they?

and we're very lucky. keep safe. follow what the government says and stay in your own home. in fact, it is largely commonsense.” stay in your own home. in fact, it is largely commonsense. i love you very much, stay home and stay safe. bye— bye! very much, stay home and stay safe. bye-bye! that's it for now. you can a lwa ys bye-bye! that's it for now. you can always keep up—to—date on the bbc news website will follow me on twitter. thanks for watching. —— or follow me on twitter. hello there. it has been the sunniest april on record and for much of the month it's been exceptionally dry. but things changed a bit on tuesday for many of us. you can see the way in which rain pushed its way northwards, certainly across england and wales, there were some showers for scotland and for northern ireland.

now, that first area of rain is clearing away, you can see the frontal system sliding out into the near continent but there is another area of low pressure out to the west. more frontal systems coming our way, which means there is more rain in the forecast through the day ahead. this is our main rain band, it will be pushing its way north—eastwards, so initially moving across the south—west of england, into wales, the midlands, into the london area by about lunchtime, and then that rain will eventually get into northern england, northern ireland and southern scotland by the end of the day. northern scotland will hold onto something brighter, but with one or two showers. some brighter skies returning behind the rain band as well. quite a windy day across parts of northern ireland and also the south—west of england. and those temperatures generally between 10—14 degrees, i think some coastal areas in north—east england might struggle at around eight or nine. now, as we go through wednesday night, here goes ourfirst rain band northwards, but another pulse of heavy rain will slide its way north—eastwards across england, wales, northern ireland, again up into southern scotland, some further hefty showers chasing on behind. temperatures to start thursday morning generally between 5—8 degrees.

so for thursday, low pressure firmly in charge of the scene, you can see these various frontal systems spiralling around the low. so there will be some outbreaks of rain to contend with, some patchy rain drifting its way northwards across scotland, perhaps parts of eastern england for a time. and then, yes, we'll see some spells of sunshine, but also some showers. and some of those showers across the southern half of the uk will be heavy and thundery into the afternoon. also, very windy across the south of england and the channel islands, across the channel islands we could see gusts of 50 miles per hour, potentially those temperatures again generally in the range of 10—14 degrees. so, certainly cooler than it has been on many days recently. for friday, it's another sunshine and showers day, the centre of our area of low pressure will start slide away eastwards so we may just start to see something a little bit brighter and certainly drier developing. temperatures nudging upwards a little bit, could get as high as around 15 degrees. and then we get into the weekend, certainly to start off it will be drier with fewer showers. i think some of us will see rain returning from the west on sunday.

a very warm welcome to bbc news, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. my name's mike embley. american coronavirus cases move past a million — nearly a third of the global total. over 30% of all deaths linked to coronavirus in england and wales are now happening in care homes. british airways warns that 12,000 jobs could be lost as the demand for air travel collapses. france plans to ease its lockdown from next month, but masks will remain a way of life.

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