applause good evening. it's 8pm on thursday evening, the time of the week which has become a ritualfor so many of us has become a ritualfor so many of us went all across the uk, we go to oui’ us went all across the uk, we go to our windows, open ourfront us went all across the uk, we go to our windows, open our front doors, clapped our hands, bang our pants and each in our own way show our support and appreciation for nhs staff, for key workers and for our carers. applause

applause cheering and this is the village, the home of captain tom moore. captain tom celebrated his 100th birthday today. the captain has raised over £30 million, and if ordinary feet. —— in extraordinary feet.

applause welcome to wolverhampton. this is a residential home for elderly people, 24 residential home for elderly people, 2a hour support for those who have been shielding during the outbreak. they all come out and clap, etc. 0ver they all come out and clap, etc. over here, we've got riley. applause cheering # happy birthday to you # happy birthday to you # happy birthday to you # happy birthday, captain tom # happy birthday, captain tom

# happy birthday to you! welcome to normanby on teesside. the teachers on social media have been encouraging them to do it. giving them a goldstar. carers really appreciate this. i've been speaking to some nhs hospital workers who say that they hope people don't feel obliged but that they ought to come out here and do this on a thursday night. but when you come to strip like this on teesside, you know that families are absolutely delighted to do it —— when you come to streets like this. for the hard work and ca re like this. for the hard work and care staff is showing. thousands of people here on teesside and of course gci’oss people here on teesside and of course across the uk. we are here in

cardiff as, across the uk, people are finding different was to show their admiration. the lives of musicians have changed quite considerably. in this street, these houses, these people are part of five different orchestras who would normally be travelling around europe. the lockdown is they cannot do that so they formed their own cardiff street orchestra, showing their appreciation for the nhs but also raising money for musicians fighting hard at the moment. we have just had a round of you'll never walk alone. another way to come together at this difficult time and show appreciation for people on the front line. horns honk applause

you're watching 0utside source. welcome to our viewers in the uk. the prime minister borisjohnson has said that the uk is past the peak of the coronavirus outbreak. this is the first time we've seen him at the daily briefing since he became ill from covid—19. here's a little of what he said. we're going to have to beat this disease by our growing resolve and ingenuity, so i will be setting out a comprehensive plan next week to explain how we can get our economy moving, one, how we can get our children back to school, back into childcare, second, and third, how we can travel to work and how we can make life in the workplace safer. the prime minister, borisjohnson.

this is what the leader of the opposition had to say. i've been calling on the prime minister to have a plane for the next stage, an exit strategy. we've been pushing hard on that in the la st been pushing hard on that in the last week or two. the prime minister has now said he's going to have a plan next week. so i think that shows we write to challenge on it. we look to see a plan. —— we were right to challenge on it. the leader of the opposition responded to that press conference by the prime minister. as always, we were given an updated death toll. sadly, 674 more deaths have been recorded, taking the uk total to 26,771. this means there's a chance the uk could overtake italy to become the country with the second—highest death toll in the world — the us has the highest. as you can see, the latest figures show that the uk is around 1,000

deaths behind italy at present. the high uk death toll was put to mrjohnson at the press conference. here's his response. i think it's very, very important that people should understand that the collating of data internationally is, you know, bedevilled difficulties and comparisons are very, very difficult and, actually, i think that the only real test, the only real comparator, comparison, is going to be possible at the end of the epidemic when you look at total excess deaths. the prime minister there at the daily press conference. let's speak to our political correspondent iain watson in westminster. a difficult day for the uk in terms of figures but the prime minister saying that potentially the uk is past the peak. 5, the prime minister

during his first press conference since he was in hospital, in intensive care for three days, flanked again by scientific and medical advisers, he wanted to give good news. he did say we are past the peak of infection in the uk. he said we have been three long alpine tunnel, seeing light at the end of that tunnel, but he didn't want to crash into the mountain. although he was giving some good news, he is downplaying the prospect of an early exit from the lockdown. maybe we'll see some modifications next week when he comes forward with this comprehensive plan. probably not a distinct timescale, but he may say how the economy will get moving again, how schools will reopen and what manner. workplaces, how they could have social distancing full stu b could have social distancing full stub that is all for next week. today, some good news about the peak of the virus, but also news of what

might be necessary. he was talking about potentially the use of facemasks not just for epidemiological reasons but also that they might feel safer networking environment. 0nly that they might feel safer networking environment. only a few days ago in on these press conferences, again, flanked by scientific and medical advisers, the evidence was said to be quite weak for using masks. some of the arguments the prime minister wants to encourage when we are finally coming out of lockdown, encourage people to feel confident and i suppose facemasks is one of those ways that people will feel happier and more confident about things like using public transport.|j and more confident about things like using public transport. i think that's right. there are major challenges coming out of coming out of lockdown. 0ne challenges coming out of coming out of lockdown. one of the challenges is, believe it or not, the compliance with the like that was

greater than the government initially anticipated. they thought perhaps only three quarters of the population we go along with it now the problem for them is not so much some people shopping at the bit to get back to work but who are very worried about the else risk of getting back to work. if perhaps you can say masks ought to be used in the workplace or in public transports, that might help, but there's also a big challenge of trying to ratchet up the provision of public transport. some people are ill orfurloughed or off of public transport. some people are ill or furloughed or off work, trying to make sure you can maintain social distancing on public transport. i think that is going to bea transport. i think that is going to be a major challenge. although there are some reports about differences inside borisjohnson's are some reports about differences inside boris johnson's cabinet are some reports about differences inside borisjohnson's cabinet about how and when to raise the lockdown, i think how and when to raise the lockdown, ithinka how and when to raise the lockdown, i think a lot of the differences are not as much ideological but practical. what is the concert was of doing one thing that seems desirable if it leads to something else which has difficulties? get people back to work? great. 0vercrowded public transport? bad. that is what they are grappling with over the course of the next week. again, it is good to see some... to

lifted usually, he will be press once again on the detail of having a plan, a route map out of the lockdown or that may mean for people's safety. yes, we expect the more details. iain, thank you for walking us through this. iain, our political correspondent. british airways has said it may not restart its services at gatwick airport in southern england once travel restrictions are eased. in a letter sent to airport staff — and seen by the bbc — the airline said up to a quarter of its pilots could lose theirjobs because of the pandemic. here's more from our transport correspondent tom burridge. the idea of abandoning gatwick altogether is radical. it would be a massive blow to that airport. it would mean effectively consolidating its two main hubs here at heathrow and gatwick into one main site here at heathrow, but unions and staff members i've been speaking to today accuse

the airline of opportunism. 0ne ba cabin crew member said this is the chance that ba bosses have been waiting for to stab us hard—working colleagues in the back. corporate greed and total disregard for people's lives. and a strongly worded union letter tonight to the airline from the pilots‘ union, saying it has to change course. otherwise, it will damage industrial relations for years to come. but ba says these are exceptional times and it has to protect the business in the long—term. tom burridge reporting there. stay with us on 0utside source. still to come: the us space agency nasa releases the most detailed survey yet of polar ice melting. an raf flypast has been held over bedfordshire to mark the 100th birthday of captain tom moore. the tribute marks his remarkable achievement of raising more than £30 million for nhs charities, by walking laps of his garden. the world war ii veteran has been promoted to honorary colonel

to mark his centenary. here are some images capturing his 100th birthday. # walk on, walk on # with hope in your heart... it really is absolutely awesome, the amount of people who have been so kind. # you'll never walk alone... when the queen's 100, who's going to send her a card? you! laughter # you'll never walk alone. # you'll never walk alone.

you're watching 0utside source live from bbc news. 0ur our main stories... the number of americans who've lost theirjob climbs to more than 30 million — after another 3.8 million sign on in the past week. among the many challenges that covid—19 poses, we are seeing evidence of some countries starting to exert control over it. not least south korea, which has reported no locally transmitted infections for the first time in more than two months. ros atkins has been looking at some the strategies that seem to be working. what have you found? hi, kasia. thank you very much indeed. it will be many months before we have sufficient evidence to be sure which tactics proved the most effective in taking on covid—19. and comparing countries is fraught given the different ways data is collected. however, it is clear that some, in these initial weeks and months at least, have had more success than others. let's start with south korea — which has just reached

a moment of great symbolism. here's our correspondent in seoul, laura bicker. even saying the words zero cases means a lot. they really went after this virus. they were ready for this pandemic. they had a test prepared within a few days of the first confirmed case. they then set out a number of labs, 100 labs, to process those test they can give one to one patient ca re they can give one to one patient care and that they believe means that fewer people and died. that phrase trace and track is crucial. some, like south korea, stuck with doing it. some, like the uk, began and but then stopped it. in the short—term, that appears to have been important, given the uk death toll is far higher, though borisjohnson today argued his government took the right decisions at the right time. it's also worth remembering that south korea has not shut down in the way that many european

countries have done. here's laura bicker again. yes, it was part of a social distancing campaign, yes, a number of places were closed. but restaurants, cafes have remained open, businesses have been able to trade. it's kept the economy moving even if it's been more sluggish than before. it's definitely worth following laura on twitter. this is from laura too. this is the article. many experts would now say it has and is saving lives in south korea. next, hungary. it has 300 recorded deaths — far below the thousands

who've died in italy, france, the uk and spain — and still far below if you factor in hungary's much smaller population. here's nick thorpe in budapest on some of the measures that were introduced there. early on in the pandemic in hungary, doctors realised that patients were catching the coronavirus actually in hospitals so they began emptying the words, at first voluntarily. —— emptying the wards. patients were advised to go home immediately. swift government measures and the self discipline of the population kept infection numbers down, but next week the government plans to relax some restrictions. translation: what comes next is going to be an enormous test. can this epidemic continue to be suppressed if we don't just sit at home, but start to live again? and for a different strategy, different momentum and a strong organisation would be needed. i'm very curious what will happen. any breathing difficulties?

feeling of suffocation? no? this is a superman. in the coming weeks, prime minister viktor 0rban will face the biggest challenge of his long political career. reopening his country for business could cost many lives. how will he explain the choice to the public and will they believe him? nick thorpe, bbc news, budapest. well, from hungary to portugal. its government is planning to ease its lockdown from may 3. and it too has seen relatively low case numbers and fatalities. one possible factor here is the date that the virus arrived. there's some evidence that the later the arrival, the more time there was for the government to take action, and the lower the impact — new zealand being maybe the best example of that. and new zealand says it has eradicated the virus. have a look at this graph from politico.

it shows the dates the third covid—19 death was recorded in each of these countries — and how long it took for lockdown measures to be imposed after that point. this is a simplified version of the same data. you can see the third death was recorded in italy at the end of february, but it took almost a month more to reach that point in hungary and portugal — and by then, those two governments there had already introduced lockdown measures. compare that to italy which took nine days from the third recorded death to suspend events — and two weeks more to ban nonessential travel and close nonessential shops. as one portuguese government advisor puts it... in other ways, portugal reminds us that we mustn't focus on any one factor in isolation. portugal has one of the oldest populations in europe —

and while we know covid disproportionately impacts eldery populations, not so, at the moment, in portugal's case. which leads me to this quote i saw in the guardian. here is the advice from a professor of biology called carl bergstrom. he says... he goes on... which is why, while governments, scientists, journalists — indeed all of us — are understandably trying to establish what's working against this virus, no one knows for sure. and if you want more information on those three countries we focused on, you can get that through the bbc news website. ros, as always, thank you. it's fair to say we will be pouring over the data for years to

come. turning away from coronavirus twos, sadly about another sad story. india is mourning the loss of a second major bollywood star in as many days with the death of rishi kapoor at the age of 67. he had been suffering from leukaemia. he played the romantic lead in dozens of pictures for more than two decades, and then made a successful transition to character roles. his death follows that of irrfan khan a day earlier. yogita limaye look backs at his life and career. rishi kapoor in the movie that launched him as a romantic hero. the boy from the first family of bollywood went on to be the heart—throb of a nation. but his success also meant he got stereotyped, as he confessed in a bbc interview. the first 25 years of my career, i was only singing songs and running around trees with my leading lady. no one gave me an acting role. no one actually gave me a performance—oriented film.

and now is the time that i'm playing characters and enjoying myself as an actor. in recent years, he played a dreaded gangster, a gay professor and even acted alongside irrfan khan, who died on wednesday. it's been a double blow for indian cinema. it's a huge, huge loss for the industry, both stalwarts in their carving their own niches for themselves. they are actors of the highest calibre but so very different from each other. in a hospital not far from home, the actor lost a two—year battle with cancer. there's a big void in the film industry and in our lives for sure. translation: i feel very sad. he was a good actor and did such good work. rishi kapoor spent most of his life in this small lane in western mumbai. normally in india, when such a famous personality dies, thousands of people gather

to get one last look at their favourite star. but under a coronavirus lockdown, his fans are having to take a very quiet goodbye. an unusual farewell to a man who spent his life in the spotlight. yogita limaye, bbc news, mumbai. the us space agency nasa has released the most detailed survey yet of polar ice melting. this animation shows the north of greenland. the red areas show ice loss. the blue, snowfall that's adding to the ice. you can see the pattern change over the years as warmer air and sea water melts, increasing amounts of ice. the same is happening in antarctica too. after 1a years, the melt has added nearly one—and—a—half centimetres to sea levels around the world. 0ur science correspondent jonathan amos is in cambridge.

it just goes to itjust goes to show these images just how serious the situation is, jonathan. just how serious the situation is, jonathan. yeah, we have had a number of reports like this, in recent months, looking at the trends in the antarctic and in greenland. the difference here is that we are talking about the highest resolution salle system in operation today. the americans ran a laser in space. they count the time it takes for the beam to bounce back up, that tells them how high things are. they've done this since 16 years now, back to 2003, and in that time, they've been able to track the trends, to see how much these are losing. in the case of the antarctic, it's... if you

don't understand what a gigaton is, equivalent to the amount of water you need to fill 400,000 of them pick swimming pools, so it's a lot. —— 0lympic sized pools. pick swimming pools, so it's a lot. -- olympic sized pools. briefly, if you would, pretty impressive. -- olympic sized pools. briefly, if you would, pretty impressivem really is. this system can seem the micro —— the system can look inside it crevices. it doesn't have the resolution that this system has, and it'd nibble them in particular to look at the really craggy parts of the antarctic, so we are talking here the peninsula, this bit that sticks up towards south america if you know your map of the antarctic. and that's very, very mountainous, and to see the glaciers, you need a

high—resolution system and is it. jonathan, thanks so much. jonathan's article on our website is worth checking out although sad news there. thank you so much. i will be back shortly. hello there. so we've ended april on a very unsettled note, thanks to low pressure, which brought strong winds and torrential downpours, thunder and lightning, and some hail thrown in for good measure. now, we start the month of may on an unsettled note with low pressure nearby, than it looks like high pressure will begin to build in to settle things down, with increasing amounts of sunshine this weekend and into next week. as we head through tonight, it looks like low—pressure will still be across the uk, tending to move out towards the north sea, some of the heaviest showers then will begin to push their way northwards and eastwards, a little bit drier at times across the south, but there will be

some drier interludes further north too. still quite breezy across the south, generally lighter winds further north. but because of the breeze, the cloud, the showers, temperatures no lower than 4—7d. so, into friday then, the 1st of may, low—pressure still with us, the centre of it pushing out in towards the north sea. so it looks like northern and eastern portions of the uk will see the majority of the showers spinning around the area of low pressure. now, into the afternoon, some of the showers could turn out to be heavy across northern ireland, but particularly across scotland and into northern and northeast england. probably a drier day across the south, as pressure begins to build in here. lights winds, more sunshine, means it will feel a little bit warmer, 15—16 degrees, low teens further north. the area of high pressure then pushes over towards scandinavia, it takes most of the showers with it. then we are in between weather systems. it looks like conditions will be generally settled to start the weekend. some good spells of sunshine to begin the day, but it could be that the cloud tends to build up into the afternoon, and we could still see a hang back of showers across the north and east

of scotland, thanks to that low pressure. temperature wise, though, in the brighter spots, 16—17 degrees. pretty decent for the time of year. into sunday, it also looks like it's going to be a largely dry day as well. still a few showers across northern scotland, could see a frontal system bring thicker cloud and a few showers to the extreme south and southwest. but, other than that, it should be another largely dry day, with variable cloud, some sunshine, temperatures again for most around the mid—teens celsius. and then high pressure wants to build in across the country as we head on into next week. should keep this weather system at bay, you have to stay tuned to the forecast. but the current thinking is, certainly monday and tuesday look fine, dry and settled, with plenty of sunshine around. it will be warm by day, fairly chilly at night.

this is bbc world news, the headlines more than three—point—eight million people submitted new claims for unemployment benefits in the united states last week. the coronavirus outbreak has now led to thirty million americans losing theirjobs since mid—march but economists beleive the true figures could be higher. british prime minister borisjohnson has said the uk is past the peak of the coronavirus outbreak. the number of uk deaths is now more than 26,700 — among the worst in europe. the european central bank says the coronavirus has caused the economy of the eurozone to shrink at a speed and magnitude unprecedented in peacetime. economic activity plunged by nearly four percent in the first quarter of this year. and south korea has announced zero new coronavirus cases within its borders. you are watching bbc news.