this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. adults flock outdoors to exercise in spain as one of the countries worst affected by coronavirus further eases its strict lockdown rules: it feels like an historical moment, you know? with everybody out like this. so i'm very happy about this, and i think that people are respecting the rules. meanwhile, trials are to take place in the uk to see if blood plasma from covid—19 survivors can help other critically ill patients. an experimental drug is authorised by us officials for emergency use on severely—ill coronavirus patients. could temperature checks be the key for uk commuters to get back on public transport? it's thought to be one post—lockdown option being considered.

the uk lockdown puts the heat on warehouses, as cold storage space for frozen food — with nowhere to go — runs short. a smartphone app — to track coronavirus cases — is made compulsory for all public and private sector workers in india. smiling and smoking: north korea's kimjong—un reappears in public after a three—week absence, putting an end to rumours about his health. and uk prime minister boris johnson and his fiancee carrie symonds name their baby boy wilfred lawrie nicholasjohnson. people in spain have been allowed outside to exercise for the first time in seven weeks, after one of the strictest lockdowns in europe.

they can now do any form of exercise outside, but only during set hours, as damian grammaticas reports. onto empty streets, tentatively, spaniards began emerging today, released from 48 days of confinement. then the numbers began to swell. adults first, allowed out to take a walk, to exercise for the first time in weeks. until now, the only acceptable reasons for leaving your home were to buy food or go to the chemist. this is fantastic. it's amazing. the first time i ride with my bike this morning, it was incredible, really incredible to get some fresh air in your face. some clearly wanted to capture the moment. for others, just being out in the sunshine was a relief. then at ten in the morning, it all changed. adults back indoors so the elderly

could have two hours to themselves. and, after midday, children. spain is giving different age groups specific time outdoors to limit the chances the most vulnerable can catch the virus. with this relaxation, spain's government is dipping a cautious toe in the waters to see what happens. if virus cases continue to trend downwards, there will be more easing in the coming days. if they surge up again, well, the lockdown will come back. damian grammaticas, bbc news, valencia. in barcelona, footage has emerged of crammed seaside promenades and walkways on the first day of the easing of restrictions. some have raised concern about the obvious lack of social distancing. clearly quite difficult in some parts of the beach to keep far apart. pedro sanchez the prime minister said on twitter, today we ta ke minister said on twitter, today we take a new step in the measures to ease the confinement but we must do

it with prudence and responsibly. the virus, he said, is still there. translation: i think it is crazy, the first day you would like social distancing and everyone is out here andi distancing and everyone is out here and i don't see any evidence of social distancing. everyone does what they want to make people want to catch it, let them catch it, but this will mean in 20 days we will all be locked up at home again. amazing, yes, the truth is i felt this is going a bit too fast, everything that is happening but i have to admit this is amazing. to find out what it was like in the capital, i'm joined by pilar marti—fluxa who lives in madrid. thanks forjoining us. i gather you we re

thanks forjoining us. i gather you were out for your firstjob this morning? i was, thank you very much, thank you for having me. it was the first run since the 15th of march and it was very exciting. absolutely exhilarating to be outside in the warm weather. of course, the weather has turned nice now, we are in full spring in madrid and it was fascinating to go outside and see eve ryo ne fascinating to go outside and see everyone outside. basically, eve ryo ne everyone outside. basically, everyone who owned a pair of sports shoes put them on and went out for a run 01’ shoes put them on and went out for a run orfora shoes put them on and went out for a run or for a quick shoes put them on and went out for a run orfor a quick walk shoes put them on and went out for a run or for a quick walk around the block. we are actually allowed to do individual sports with no limit in terms of distance, but before you could only walk a kilometre around your house, but now you can actually run as faras your house, but now you can actually run as far as the province lets you. it was very exciting and it was amazing to see how everyone had

actually had the same thought and was actually dying to go out and do some kind of sport. there were people skating, on bikes, or walking and running. as you mentioned, you have set time limits, set times when you can go out, and everyone who was under the age of 70 was out until ten o'clock in the morning. it must have felt strange because i'm short madrid —like parts of london has been eerily quiet. when it would normally be very busy. and suddenly this must have been, to some extent, like a saturday morning of old? this must have been, to some extent, like a saturday morning of old ?m was, it was a bit eerie and bizarre to see other days when you went out forfood on a to see other days when you went out for food on a saturday or in the middle of the day and there was no one. it was eerily quiet as you

said. today, there were people... the other rule is that you can do sport together as long as it is people you are cohabiting with. they we re people you are cohabiting with. they were not big groups but couples and people running together and walking together, and that was amazing. it gaveit together, and that was amazing. it gave it a sense of normality, that we have not seen for a long time here in spain. it gives a feeling of reassurance that things will very slowly but eventually get back to the new normal, as they call it. you had no concerns about social distancing? you get a sense that people were still being relatively careful? to be perfectly honest, you get the sense that people are being somewhat careful but not scared and

not ina somewhat careful but not scared and not in a bad way. people were being careful and you could see some people walking around with face masks and gloves but not necessarily doing sports with them on. it was weird. it didn't give a sense of worry weird. it didn't give a sense of woi’i’y 01’ weird. it didn't give a sense of worry or that you might be scared to catch the virus. i think people were being careful to some extent. we are a social community in spain. 0h being careful to some extent. we are a social community in spain. oh boy, yes! like in most of southern europe, i suppose, yes! like in most of southern europe, isuppose, and it is yes! like in most of southern europe, i suppose, and it is hard to keep a big social distance, but no one was hugging and holding hands and no one was greeting themselves very warmly. i think in that sense, if people were talking they were talking from across the street or certainly from a couple of metres distance. what has been the hardest thing for you during the lockdown?

from a personal perspective, certainly the stories of grief you hear, if people leaving their loved ones in hospital —— of people. not being able to be with him in difficult moments. those stories are really heartbreaking. and, you know, not being able to be with those loved ones who might be in the more vulnerable groups, somewhat older, like parents, grandparents, not being allowed to see them or to be with them and thinking they might be alone or feeling lonely, with them and thinking they might be alone orfeeling lonely, that with them and thinking they might be alone or feeling lonely, that is hard. and then, i think, alone or feeling lonely, that is hard. and then, ithink, personally, not being able to go out and see children are not being out for six weeks —— who were not allowed to be out for six weeks, and remember most

people in madrid live in flats, so that would have been hard for them. apart from that, we have been very fortu nate, apart from that, we have been very fortunate, you know... i hope spain has turned a corner and the lockdown can be eased in stages and we understand the headdresses are opening on monday and people will be fighting for appointments, no doubt! it is going to be phased, of course, the spanish prime minister says, but it will be interesting to see what progress spain is able to make. thanks forjoining us. thank you for sparing your special moment. thousands of people have registered to take part in a trial — that uses blood plasma from people who have had coronavirus, and since recovered, to treat sick patients. it's one of the latest trials in progress aimed at tackling the virus. meanwhile, in the united states, emergency approval has been given for an experimental drug that was used for treating ebola.

it comes as ministers here prepare to announce plans for lifting some of the restrictions in place across the uk. laura foster reports. every day, scientists around the world are getting closer to finding a solution to the coronavirus pandemic. here in the uk, it's hoped this golden liquid could mean victory. this is blood plasma, and donations are now being collected from people who have had covid—19. hospital doctor zahid safas is one of them. every step we are taking right now at a government level, hospital level is to find a cure for this disease, which has affected millions of people around the world, so i feel really privileged and excited that i am playing a role in that. when somebody becomes ill, their immune system produces antibodies to fight the virus. the idea is, if these can be given to someone else, it will help them recover more quickly. an important treatment for hospitalised coronavirus patients...

meanwhile, in the united states, the drug remdesivir has received emergency approval — not full approval, but a trial has shown it reduced the time people spent in hospital with covid—19. but experts warn it isn't a magic bullet. remdesivir was developed as a treatment for ebola and despite showing very high promise in laboratory studies it failed to show any real effect when used in the field. the british government says the peak of infections is now behind us. one way to avoid a second peak involves following the movements of millions of people in the uk, a process called test, track and trace. when somebody develops a new infection, we immediately try and assess them, get them tested, find out where they got the infection from, who they were in touch with and who they've been in touch with, and contact their contacts to give them advice and, by doing that, you can control the spread of the infection quite quickly.

that alone will not be enough to get us out of lockdown. now the government has to work out a way to get the country and economy moving again while still keeping the population safe. laura foster, bbc news. the uk prime minister boris johnson and his fiance carrie symonds have announced the name of their baby boy. i'm joined now by our political correspondent jonathan blake. he is the prime minister and this is a rare thing to have a british prime minister having a baby whilst in office. it is, the third in recent history but the news has come from carry simon's instagram account this afternoon and she has posted a picture of herself —— has come from carrie simon's. the caption tells the name and a few details about the little boy and it says she is introducing wilfred lawrie nicholas johnson says she is introducing wilfred lawrie nicholasjohnson who was born on the 29th of april at nine o'clock in the morning. those names wilfred

is after boris's grandfather, lawrie after her grandfather and nicholas after her grandfather and nicholas after the two doctors who saved boris's life last month. she goes on to thank the incredible nhs maternity team at university college london. that looked after them so well. they were not sure which hospital the baby was born in but that has now confirmed it. she ends the post by saying she could not be happier and her heart is full. he has a fine head of hair. that is the one thing you can notice. he will ta ke after one thing you can notice. he will take after his father in terms of his hair, it is fair to say. and his grandfather stanley, although he is born in 1940, is over 80 now, and has a fine head of hair to this day.

wilfred was an adopted name a p pa re ntly wilfred was an adopted name apparently because stanley's father had a different name originally because he was of turkish descent. boris has spoken about his turkish roots but nothing too extravagant in the naming for baby wilf. interesting they have taken the name nicholas from those two doctors and they say they saved his life last month which is an insight into how serious things work for the prime minister. he said it could have gone either way when he was in intensive ca re either way when he was in intensive care and the couple clearly paying tribute to the doctors and nurses who looked after borisjohnson when he was in hospital and what a tumultuous few weeks it has been for him. possibly nearly losing his life and then the joy of the birth of his new baby son and then the instant family unit created. a real seesaw

of the nations. he is now back in charge doing thejob he of the nations. he is now back in charge doing the job he wanted all of his life, to be prime minister, in the beloved perhaps the biggest crisis we have faced for decades. —— in the middle of perhaps. he's not going to take paternity leave anytime soon, maybe late in the year, but they are pressing matters at hand for him to get a grip of an ta ke at hand for him to get a grip of an take care of and that is why he is back at work full—time. he was there for the birth, we were told, on wednesday morning, but very soon after that back in downing street and getting on with things. the family will live above number ten, the flat above number 11, actually. is there enough room for a new baby in that? i'm not had a look round, so i'm not entirely sure. other prime ministerialfamilies so i'm not entirely sure. other prime ministerial families have lived in there. david cameron and tony blair both said it was not idealforfamily life tony blair both said it was not ideal for family life when you have

several children running around but i think the three of them will find enough space. he is all right now, just wait until he starts crawling. thanks forjoining us. let's get more on plans to announce lifting some of the coronavirus restrictions in place across the uk. i am joined by economist dr christopher tsoukis from keele university. what are your thoughts on the balance between lifting restrictions and getting the economy moving ain? and getting the economy moving again? obviously, the imperative task of any government is to safeguard lives but equally safeguard lives but equally safeguard the livelihood of those that survive the virus which is 99.9% of the population. there is a calculus there that is rather unpleasant, balancing the risks, and it seems to me that without being in

a bid immunologist, many countries are rather plateauing or stabilising —— epidemiologist. the economic risks are rising exponentially, though, so my feeling so far is that the economy has suffered, of course, but they have managed so far —— the damage so far is not catastrophic. of course, we're going to have a recession but at the moment it looks as if the recession might be of the order of, although one cannot be specific or accurate, but of the order of the recession that we had in 2007-2009 which order of the recession that we had in 2007—2009 which is serious but not catastrophic. the risks from now on are rising exponentially and there will become a point where the stress on businesses and the risks

will become unmanageable. therefore, it seems that everything put together, and again, i emphasise there's nothing very pleasant here, but everything put together suggests that we probably need to be moving towards the easing, a careful small steps coordinated easing of the lockdown in the next few weeks and the emphasis on the next few weeks. spain has announced that the first businesses that will be allowed to reopen will be those businesses who see clients by appointment, like headdresses, that was part of a staggered process and bars and restau ra nts staggered process and bars and restaurants have got to wait. is that the kind of thing you would expect the government to have to do in this country? yes, of course, it

must be targeted and it must be well thought out. for instance, yes, headdresses, i would agree, but also —— hairdressers, iwould headdresses, i would agree, but also —— hairdressers, i would agree, headdresses, i would agree, but also —— hairdressers, iwould agree, but also other businesses. businesses with outdoor spaces, where the epidemiological risks are not so heavy, where the risk of contagion is not so heavy, so it has to be small steps, the safety protocols need to be thought out. targeted and accompanied by intense testing, experience shows that testing, testing, testing is the way forward. but with these coordinated small steps, i think the process can be managed. it is probably likely that

there will be at some point a flare up, what people might call a second wave. i would say, if properly managed, this might not be a catastrophic increase and it is rather unlikely that the transition to normality will be very smooth. there will be problems. presumably the normality could be different to what we have been used to? yes, of course. the day after or the year after, will have serious dilemmas posed on governments and societies. we have got to leave it there. doctor, thanks for joining we have got to leave it there. doctor, thanks forjoining us. very interesting subject. some breaking

news. we have had fatality figures for england. the number of people who have died in uk hospitals, england's hospitals, over the previous 24—hour period, 370, 25 of whom did not have any previous underlying health conditions thought to have made them more vulnerable to the coronavirus. 20,853 is the total number of people who have died in england's hospitals. that is the england's hospitals. that is the england only we hope in the course of the afternoon we will get a uk figure. england deaths up by 370 and hospitals in the last 24 hours. —— in hospitals. bars, shops and restaurants have been closed for weeks here in the uk — but advance orders they made

months ago have still been coming into warehouses — but those goods have nowhere to go. that's causing problems for the companies which run the warehouses, as they make profit from the movement of items through their premises. we can speak now to peter ward, ceo of the united kingdom warehousing association, which represents the uk's third party logistics sector. thanks forjoining us i can see the problem, things are coming in and presumably capacity is full, why is that a particular economic problem for the warehouses? first of all for the operators of those warehouses they are losing key revenue streams ina they are losing key revenue streams in a business which is under normal circumstances operating on pretty slim margins. having done some research with our members over the last couple of weeks, they are

telling us that they are losing over 60% of their normal revenue streams, as you said. the margin, the small margin to be made is largely around the handling of goods rather than the handling of goods rather than the storage itself. yes, the market is probably running at around 90% capacity at the moment so there is space available in the market but we estimate that probably if we look at the large volume of inbound freight coming in, especially general merchandise from china and other far east sourcing markets, that capacity is probably no more than two weeks of supplies. the danger at the moment is that we run into a pinch point in the supply chain and of course what we cannot afford to allow to happen is for ports to become congested and for that

congestion to potentially slow up or block the movement of some of those essential supplies, the ppe, and of course food, coming through to the grocery supermarkets. a fairly complex situation. what can you do to create the extra capacity needed? for the moment, our call to the cargo owners and the shippers is to come and take up the available space. as the leading trade association in the sector, we have set upa association in the sector, we have set up a emergency space are set up and we are identifying something like half a million public spaces available around the country in different locations. —— pallet spaces. we have also put a default insurance policy in place should we run into that pinch point to actually start taking some containers of dock and we have

identified and put a solution together for some identified and put a solution togetherfor some of dock identified and put a solution together for some of dock storage. i'm just going to pause you there. viewers in the uk are still with us. in practical terms, then, how much help, additional help, the warehouse companies need from government to get them through this period? we hope this will be a relatively short period before things start to return to normal. the further lowering and thejob retention scheme has helped and where possible our members have been forced to put some employees into the furloughing situation. we are trying to keep the industry going and keep the warehouses and the logistics and supply chain flowing. with the tight margins that exist in the business we could do

with a bit more help. we have written to the chancellor and suggested an extension of the business rates relief to us, something like a six—month holiday on that, from march until september, that would a big difference to our members, and to the whole sector. peter, chief executive of the united kingdom warehousing association, thanks forjoining us. now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich. hello again. much of the country will end the day dry with some sunshine but we've still got a few showers into the evening, running down across scotland into north—east england, towards lincolnshire by this stage and one or two still for northern ireland. though showers will fade away and overnight we will see the cloud increasing in the south—west of england and wales, thickening up to give a little light rain or drizzle. pretty mild here, elsewhere i think it's going to be a cool but probably frost free night. i think it will probably dry off through today in the south—west of england and wales

but stay quite cloudy. some of the cloud affecting south—east england. quickly, we'll see showers developing in northern scotland, a few arriving in northern ireland, northern england and then this time eventually across the midlands towards east anglia as well. though showers could be heavy and possibly thundery. and on the whole, it will be a bit cooler than today although still 18 degrees in the brighter skies in the south—east. into the beginning of next week, may be some showers on monday for eastern parts of england but some wetter weather coming into the more southern parts of england and wales on tuesday and some stronger winds. hello this is bbc news with shaun ley. the headlines: adults flock outdoors to exercise in spain as one of the countries worst affected by coronavirus further eases its strict lockdown rules. meanwhile trials are to take place in the uk to see if blood plasma from covid—19 survivors can help other critically ill patients. an experimental drug is authorised by us officials for emergency use

on severely—ill coronavirus patients. could temperature checks be the key for uk commuters to get back on public transport? it's thought to be one post—lockdown option being considered. smiling and smoking: north korea's kimjong—un reappears in public after a three—week absence, putting an end to rumours about his health. and uk prime minister boris johnson and his fiancee carrie symonds name their baby boy wilfred lawrie nicholasjohnson. now on bbc news, it is time for global questions, coronavirus crisis. hello, i'm zeinab badawi. welcome to the latest in the special series of global questions from london. people in governments everywhere are trying to cope with the death and destruction unleashed by the coronavirus crisis. here in the uk we are still in lockdown and as economies take a hammering, people are asking,

how did we get into this dire situation in the first place, with many pointing the finger of blame at china. is that fair? that is the topic of this global questions — coronavirus crisis focus on china. well, we are now in the headquarters of the bbc here in central london and because of lockdown, we have to bring you our audience members who will be posing questions from all over the world, as well as our two panellists all via video link. so let me tell you who is in the hot seat this week. we've got guests from washington and beijing and from washington,