this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. tens of thousands ofjob cuts are looming in what's been called "the worst crisis in the history of aviation". i think we can be sure that there will be more big announcements to come in terms of cuts and i also don't think any airline is really safe at the moment. the uk government announces it has exceeded its target of 100,000 daily tests for coronavirus. the health secretary says it's been a national effort. it helps remove the worry, it helps keep people safe, and it will help us to unlock the lockdown. us presidential contenderjoe biden makes his first public remarks on a claim of sexual assault nearly 30 years ago, saying the alleged incident never happened. spain's beaches are empty and it's a bleak outlook for its vital tourism industry — we'll take a look at if mass tourism

can co—exist with coronavirus. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we're covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. there's a growing crisis in the aviation industry. one of the world's largest budget airlines, ryanair, has become the latest carrier to announce significantjob losses. we'll have more details about that injust a moment, but first — let's take a quick look at the latest developments in the coronavirus pandemic this hour. globally more thani million people have now recovered from the virus according to figures from johns hopkins university. in ireland, premier leo varadkar has announced an extension of lockdown measures until may the 18th.

but two restrictions will be eased — an exercise travel limit and people over 70 will now be able to leave their homes for exercise. in india, 1.3 billion people have been affected by a national lockdown. and most regions will continue to stay in lockdown for two more weeks. several us states are starting to ease lockdown measures, including texas but new york's shutdown is due to run for another two weeks. now, the turmoil in the aviation industry, which has been underlined by the boss of heathrow, the uk's busiest airport, saying he can't see how social distancing could work there. theo leggett has more. just a few weeks ago, the airline industry was booming. the future looked bright. but now ryanair has been the latest carrier to say it will make thousands of people redundant. we announced this morning we are going to have to cut 15% of staff. that is, we think, the minimum we need, just to survive the next 12 months. if a vaccine is found, then clearly the recovery will be stronger. if a vaccine isn't found,

we may have to announce more cuts, and deeper cuts into the future. unions insist that all this is premature, and that there is no need to make such deep cuts so soon. ryanair is not in financial difficulty, it's one of the wealthiest airlines within europe. it should be be able to ride out the storm, and it should be be able to take a more measured view. some employees say airlines are taking advantage of the covid—i9 crisis to drive through job and pay cuts and reduce costs in a way they could never normally manage. it's not simply as binary as that, that airlines are just taking advantage of a bleak situation. reality is, there are hardly any planes flying and therefore airlines now are waking up to this new reality and they are making long—term decisions now, it is like a pre—emptive strike. this is clearly an unprecedented situation, and you can see that from where i am standing. the skies behind me

are normally full of planes — that's one of the major routes into heathrow airport, the busiest airport in the country. yet at the moment, nothing. no planes, no contrails, and it has been like that for several weeks. globally, 80% of flights have been grounded. 17,000 aircraft are sitting unused on the tarmac, and the cost to airlines is expected to reach £250 billion this year. once the outbreak is over, things certainly won't be getting back to normal quickly. although you can currently fly if you want to, restrictions are expected to increase. it's been suggested that passengers could be forced to wear protective gear, as already happens in certain countries, or practise social distancing on aircraft. the head of heathrow thinks such measures would be wholly impractical. if you can imagine going on your last summer holiday, if you were flying somewhere, can you imagine social distancing in that kind of circumstances? we are not designed for that.

and that is why we need to have a way of making sure that only people who are very low—risk are allowed into the airport and can travel through the journey. yet airlines remain determined to get back in the skies as soon as possible. today, hungarian carrier wizz air did just that, starting to fly a small number of services in and out of luton. theo leggett, bbc news. to find out if these struggling airlines will survive, i've been speaking to nicky kevlin from travel wesbite, the points guy. it's a big question and i don't think we can be sure. what is for sure is we haven't seen the end of cuts and possible collapses. so, ryan air wasjust next in line after the big announcement by british airways this week. and i think we can be sure that there will be more big announcements to come in terms of cuts and i also don't think that any airline is really safe at the moment. 0nce travel restarts and i know we don't know when that will be, do you expect flights to get cheaper or to get more expensive? another huge question there

is so many things at play here. first of all, supply is going to be cut significantly potentially with less routes, the airlines are going to have less staff, less aircraft. and also restrictions on where these aircraft can go. so, there is plenty of places that are in lock down still and that may extend towards the end of the year or into next year. so, it depends on how quickly places open up. but then also when it comes to demand, passengers may be more worried to fly and they are also going to have less money to fly. so, we don't know how long the effects are going to last economically. lots of people have lost theirjobs, lots of people have lost their disposable income, and holidays and travel are the first things to be cut. same with business but business travel, people might want to save their pennies and keep their employees on digital methods of meeting. just picking up on that, you and i are talking via video call, that is almost all anyone does at the moment. after the lockdowns end, might it be now that we are so used to this,

that instead of flying out to see family, friends, or colleagues we mightjust say, "well, let's just save a bit of money and carry on video calling," and some travelling? 0n the one hand, i think it's possible that people see this as a viable option now. but i also think that this method of communication has its flaws. and these flaws have come to light from the amount that we have been doing it. i think the creativity is dampened when it comes to video calls. 12 people in a room around the table when it comes to a business setting can come up with much more ideas than they can fighting and squabbling over a call on line. when it comes to family, friends, it is just not the same, it is never going to be the same and i think those long distance trips, those meetings in person are always going to happen and people are eventually going to want to start doing that again. and i think people are craving it already. as we've been hearing the uk government says it has hit a target for 100,000 daily coronavirus tests. but deaths in britain now total over 27,000 people. our health editor hugh pym reports.

a very quiet stansted airport, especially for a friday, but there was activity in a car park, with virus testing continuing. one of the drive—through centres set up in the last month to greatly expand capacity, with an overall target of 100,000 tests per day by this week. how do you intend to further develop and expand the testing network as part of moves to combat the virus? by testing, you can help to treat patients better. we have always been testing patients. it will help get people back to work, and there has been a big expansion of the eligibility to get a test to get back to work. and also for surveys, and very soon we should get the first results of the surveys that are out in the field at the moment. the scottish government says testing capacity, which is included in the overall total announced today, is set to rise from just over 8,000 to 12,000 per day in a few weeks' time. this mobile unit in elgin, staffed

by military personnel, opened today. the daily uk total includes home testing kits sent to people who booked them online but not actually completed. government sources argue it is the only way they can be counted, as it is harder to track them when swabs are sent back to the labs. there's confusion about some aspects of the new system. the owner of this care home in cumbria said he was sent a letter telling him only to book home testing kits if residents and staff who had symptoms, whereas days before, the government had said tests could be booked online regardless of whether they were symptomatic. it's terrible, really. these people, they're are being treated as throwaway. i think. they are no longer important. it's an awful shame. 0ne nurse told us there was no nhs priority system and she was stuck in a queue. a police man came and told us

the test centre had run out of test we should go home and come again tomorrow. i think, for me, the frustrating thing was that i had access to the test as an nhs key worker. testing is one thing that's slowing any further testing of the virus with recent contact with anyone that's tested positive. public officials will phone or e—mail who the patient had met recently. had met recently. the government said it is recruiting 18,000 staff to do this. an app will also be used to do this, alerting someone if someone they have been with has tested positive. they are then told to self—isolate and report any symptoms. make sure that we involve local public health and local authorities in doing this, notjust with an app but using people to contact people in order to put that system into place. that will be utterly crucial in trying to control the virus going forward. there were more thanks

to the nhs today. in edinburgh, they painted the postboxes blue in honour of key workers. hugh pym, bbc news. the white house press secretary, kayleigh mcenany has led her first briefing in front of the media. it was the first such event since sarah sanders stopped them in march last year. among the first questions put to herfocussed on the president's claim that he saw evidence that coronavirus originated in a chinese laboratory. that's despite the president's own intelligence agency saying covid—19"was not manmade or genetically modified". the president statement is consistent with the other intelligent assessments. while we continue to have very limited and dubious information from china current assessments indicated that president trumps state and is consistent with what some analysts believe is the epicentre of where the virus began. i would note that intelligent statement you're referring to it really made two points. one that this virus were originated in china, to that it began through contact with infected animals or it was a result of an accident

at a laboratory in wuhan. so, i consider that consistent with what the president said. that he's seen intelligence suggesting and could be in a wuhan laboratory. it seems to lean into the idea that they started in a laboratory where is the statement that we saw from the d and i said ——dni were still investigating those two options that theyjust laid out. is the president and any way creating mixed messages by personal investigating. let me remind everyone intelligence is just an estimate insect or essentially for topics up to policy makers to decide to what to do without evidence. in this case the president of the united states will make that decision at right time. the world health organisation has dismissed the evidence but donald trump. ...again and again to numerous scitentists who've looked at the sequence and looked at this virus.

and we were assured that this virus is natural in origin what the natural host for this viruses. us democratic candidatejoe biden has flatly denied sexually assaulting a former staff assistant nearly 30 years ago. mr biden‘s former aide, tara reade, was one of eight women who came forward last year to accuse the former vice president of sexual harassment. her recent allegation is the first to involve sexual assault here isjoe biden speaking on us television about the allegations. i am saying unequivocally it never, never happen, and it didn't. it never happened. do you remember her? do you remember any types of complaints that she might have made? i don't remember any type of complaint she may have made. it was 27 years ago, and i don't remember nor does anyone else that i am aware of.

and the fact is, that i don't remember. i don't remember any complaint ever being made. here's our washington correspondent gary 0'donghue with more on how joe biden handled the allegations in an interview on us television network msnbc. to be fair, christian, he's taken time to put himself out there to answer this allegation which is a serious one. it was a flat denial. eight lot of interviews have seem to shy away from it. eight lot of interviews have seem to shy away from it. 27 years ago. 0n tara reade‘s own account, it was only he and her present, so it is his word against hers but that does not deliver the battle is at the moment. the battle is on whether or not he should release his papers, his private papers from when he was a senator that are currently held in

delaware, at the university there — that's where he's from — whether he should allow this to be searched and see if there are complaint made about him, i think that he says he is complete unaware from the time. and that's why democrats are so uncomfortable about this. they're wondering how they can handle the situation when they were so particularly forthright about the case. you're never her,. and democrats are very about their presumptuous of belief about those who make such complaints and allegations. when he said today was yes, you do of course need to listen to people, you need to presume they are speaking in good faith but he said you still have to try assess whether things are true or not. stay with us on news,

still to come, pioneering nigerian drummer, tony allen, has died aged 79 we'll hear how all musicians are influened by his work.

this is news, the latest headlines tens of thousands of pilots and crew lose theirjobs as planes remain grounded by the pandemic. the uk health secretary, matt hancock, has said the government exceeded its goal of 100,000 coronavirus tests a day, but faced claims that the number had been artificially inflated. let's bring you some live pictures now from los angeles not the pictures we were hoping for. just disappeared as we were going to them because happened doesn't it. never mind. we were going to tell

you about that protest. just to let you about that protest. just to let you know we were gonna show you a protest against the lockdown order. it was a protest against the california governor. probably more interesting if you got to see it. let's to spain. let's to spain. spanish government forecasts show the coronavirus outbreak could cause the country's economy to shrink by almost 10% this year, resulting in the loss of two millionjobs. tourism is very much part of the spanish economy and with the easing of lockdown restrictions, officials are hoping to slowly revive the industry — albeit, with severe restrictions. 0ur europe correspondent damian grammaticas reports. spain, the second most visited country on earth, now as quiet as a desert island. this is high season — but in benidorm, the only footprints in the sand are those left by the seagulls. benidorm is built entirely on tourism. it has 65,000 hotel beds.

no people. zero? zero. so the mayor presides over a wasteland. like a chemical agent has been dropped here, he says. spain says it may allow hotels to re—open from mid—may translation: this will come back, humanity will beat the virus, there will be a vaccine and people will come back. before then, we have to adapt. adapting means hotels will have to keep their restaurants shut. guests eat in their rooms, and no swimming. all public areas closed. so it's hard to imagine how spain can get back to the way things were. there should be people literally everywhere. paige dawson's family have had a bar here for 25 years. they will only be allowed to serve one third as many customers as before. we willjust have to weigh

everything up, if it's worth us opening and whether we can earn enough to make some profit, but we need the tourists to do that. also weighing up how it can function, this theme park. meanwhile, of its 400 staff, just four are working. all the rest have been furloughed. and even if these places can re—open, what might keep people away is fear — fear of coming here far from home away from the sanctuaries they have been in, travelling long distances with all the uncertainties that might bring. to try to keep travellers safe, soldiers disinfect the terminal at valencia airport. the gate will be number four. just one flight is leaving today, but the building is sterilised before and after the passengers go through.

it makes you wonder whether mass tourism can really exist in the time of the virus. the united nation's childrens agency, unicef, is warning that millions of children risk missing out on crucial vaccinations because of a massive backlog in vaccine shipments, caused by coronavirus restrictions. officials say shipments, for diseases like measles and polio, have dropped by more than seventy per cent since the end of march. we have the disruption in the transportation that you are talking about earlier in your show. that's obviously affecting shipments of vaccine. even the countries that have vaccines now you know, the coronavirus pandemic is stretching available syste m pandemic is stretching available system capacity, human resources and

other resources and these are being diverted to their direct response to covid—19. and so, immunizations services are being suspended. we have recommended that the campaign style approach of vaccination be temporarily suspended to minimise risk of covert. so a lot of children that would have received vaccine, we estimate that more than 115 million children will miss out on measles vaccination through planned campaigns. this year. that's a huge number. which areas of the world are most affected ? number. which areas of the world are most affected? the most affected areas would be typically the countries with weaker systems africa, asia that rely on our campaigns to different liver campaigns to different liver campaigns because routine services don't reach a high enough coverage. i think the key message here is that

the longer these disruptions continue the bigger the risk of countries experiencing outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases like measles as they recover from covert. and that would stretch the system even further. what should parents do if they in one of these countries where vaccines are suddenly not available and they have young children? to be very clear the disruption and vaccination services at this point is not because of lack of supplies. let's look at some of the days other news. canada has banned 1500 types of assault rifle with immediate effect. prime minister trudeau said the weapons had one purpose, "to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time". the move comes after the country's worst mass shooting in nova scotia last month, which left 22 people dead. police in sweden say they have found the body of pakistani journalist, sajid hussain, two months after he went missing

near the city of uppsala. mr hussain, the editor of an ethnic baloch news website, had fled pakistan after receiving death threats and was granted political asylum in sweden. tributes have been pouring in for afrobeat pioneer tony allen who has passed away thursday at the age of 79 from a heart attack. known as the world's greatest drummer — allen was the drummer and musical director of musician fela kuti's famous band africa ‘70 in the 1960 and 70s. he collaborated with a number of artists during his long music career. one of the people who worked closely with tony allen is uk musician and producer brian eno — he's the one who coined the phrase "the greatest drummer in the world". brian eno has been telling us about what made tony allen so special. i think it was partly that he was a synthesis. he drew together so many threads

from not only africa but some hints of arabic music, as you said funk, american r&b and so on. they all came together in tony's drumming. and that became the basis really, of afro beat. afro beat was something really quite new when it happened. and it took me a while realising that it actually all grew out of his drums. i mean, there was a period of about 20 years when i kept telling people, you have to listen to this guy, he's the greatest living drummer. and by about the turn of this century people were, musicians anyway, were fully aware of him. and of what he was doing. so i think he's one of those people who influenced so much music himself that everybody has actually been subject to tony allen's influence. but they might not know it yet.

please do stay with us. good evening. we see plenty of turbulent skylines throughout the last couple of days and some hefty downpours to go with them. but equally a little bit of sunshine in between. however, those hefty showers will continue to keep coming as we go through the rest of these evening. and it's all down to this area of low pressure. that will meander a little bit further east away from the british isles to the weekend allowing a decrease in the activity, the shower activity. certainly a torrential downpour is out there this evening with hail and thunder. and the heavy downpours prolonged in the north will continue elsewhere. these showers will become less frequent. under the starry skies it will turn quite chilly once again. which means that saturday

morning will tune but not don and a cool bike morning. hopefully end this and we will see fewer showers. the winds will be lighter so a little bit more sunshine around it will feel warmer. it won't be com pletely will feel warmer. it won't be completely dry. shortly not close to that area of low pressure. for those areas of northern scotland, northern england probably with a northwesterly breeze coming through there will be showers around. i wouldn't like to rule them out. it's the normally breeze as well despite being lighter across the north of scotland. it will limit the temperatures to about nine or 10 degrees. quite a few heavy showers still run into the afternoon across the scottish hills into the north of england. 0ne the scottish hills into the north of england. one or two elsewhere can't be ruled out. northern island for example. by and large there will be fewer than they have been in recent days. it will feel a bit warmer. you can still see those i was continuing into the evening. 0vernight into sunday morning, again under the starry skies it will turn chilly. we could be cloc the neck close to st frost levels. bit of mist and fog around. what we will find on sunday

isa around. what we will find on sunday is a risk of a few showers not as many in recent days. a bit more clout coming into the southwest as well. hazy rather than sunny here. still with light winds temperatures should get into the mid to high teens. they could just be a few outbreaks of rain tied in with that week weather front that's coming in. in trying to come in from the southwest. it's coming into high pressure was up southwest. it's coming into high pressure was up that high pressure will movement across many northern areas keeping the rain or the weather fronts at bay. in the south it does look as if we are in for some more rain on tuesday. but look sent to claire by wednesday. as ever there is more on the website. bye— bye.

this is bbc world news. the headlines. the pandemic has plunged the airline industry into chaos, with passenger flight revenues all but wiped out. tens of thousands ofjob cuts have been announced in what's been called the worst crisis in the history of aviation. the uk provided more than 122 thousand coronavirus tests — passing the government's target — according to health secretary matt hancock. the figure includes home test kits counted when they were dispatched, which may not yet have been taken. us presidential contenderjoe biden has made his first public remarks on a claim of sexual assault nearly 30 years ago, saying the alleged incident never happened. the claim surfaced in a podcast made by a former aide in march. canada has banned 1,500 types of military—like assault weapons with immediate effect.