that service shouldn't be affected. this thing, it's vicious, it's non—discerning, it will go for anyone. we really have to focus and not get lax about it, because that's when things will get worse again. angus crawford, bbc news. health charities are warning that some vulnerable patients still aren't getting the support they need during the pandemic, after being left off the list of shielded patients. nearly 2.2 million people around the uk should now have been told to self—isolate for 12 weeks — and they then qualify for help with food and medication. but some are still waiting to be contacted. hywel griffith has more. help to walk, help to breathe. every step of rob's day is dictated by motoneuron disease. his wife marilyn has done everything possible to protect him during the pandemic at their home in swansea. but it's taken over five weeks for his name to be added to the list of shielded patients who can receive support. rob's condition may have

stolen his voice but it hasn't dimmed his anger. computer speech tool: this left me frightened and worried. i feel let down by the system. we would have had much more peace of mind really and felt safer and cared for really if we'd had this inclusion on the very vulnerable list earlier on. delivery for you. being on the list of extremely vulnerable patients should mean help getting medication and priority for food deliveries. around 2.2 million people should qualify because of their medical condition but it's clear some are still missing out. it's quite apt this. this is home sweet home. sylvia has pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable lung condition. she's been isolating at her home in northampton but hasn't received a letter. despite calls to doctors and the council, she feels forgotten. i don't know what else or who else to talk to. i can't understand why i haven't got the letter that they specified

everyone would get. it would make a big difference to me and my husband. we've spoken to patients and health charities across the uk — all raised similar concerns. there has been a huge effort to try and protect the most clinically vulnerable patients, but the process has been inconsistent and confusing. even now after six weeks of lockdown, some are still falling through the cracks. in all four nations governments say it is now up to gps to decide if a patient qualifies or not. it's easierfor some conditions to know that somebody falls into the shielding category. but for many other conditions it's much more nuanced, much more difficult to make the rightjudgment. so some people with mild—to—moderate asthma would need to be taking social distancing measures, whereas somebody with severe asthma would need to be shielded. those with the letters have been

told to shield for at least 12 weeks. but rob and many others may well need the support of the outside world for much, much longer. hywel griffith, bbc news, swansea. unusually, this year's early may bank holiday is being held next friday to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the second world war in europe. may 8th, 1945 was dubbed ve day for victory in europe and saw millions of people pour onto the streets to celebrate. robert hall has been looking back on that momentous day and why it's being commemorated. archive newsreel: luneburg heath, germany, may the 4th, 1945. in a tattered tent near hamburg, first steps in a complicated surrender. the general admiral von friedeburg will sign first. seven clauses and no mere scrap of paper. rumours of a european ceasefire had been widespread as allied and

russian troops linked up along the western front. we've both come a long way together. he speaks russian what does that mean? how do i know? over the next three days, news of their surrender spread across the channel. crowds were on the streets long before the official announcement, swelled by a decision to call a national holiday. in whitehall, prime minister winston churchill waited for his cue from the bbc. generaljodl, the representative of the german high command, and admiral donitz, the designated head of the german state, signed the act of unconditional surrender of all german land, sea and airforces in europe. but let us not forget for a moment the toils and efforts that lie ahead.

darker times that were still very real away from the cheering crowds in london. the channel islands, occupied by the germans for five years, were still waiting for their liberation. and armies would be fighting and dying in the far east for another three months. but that was for tomorrow. this was a parting of the clouds and the memories of those wild hours help us to connect to ve day as the generations who were there slip away from us. what we found with the first world war centenary, which of course was six years of work, is that actually young people responded to that element of family history. what the museum has to do really is to say what those people did, how they did it, how they responded to it. and we can do that through our archives. archive which captures nationwide celebration stretching into the night. even the queen managed to slip away with her sister margaret to join the party.

throughout the land the bells of victory rang out. robert hall, bbc news. three of the world's top male pole vaulters leapt at the chance to compete against each other today — from their own back gardens. the event, described as the ultimate garden clash, was streamed live by the governing body, world athletics. the men competed via video link from france, and two american states. our sports correspondentjoe wilson watched the action. these days are testing sporting imagination to the limit. in three back gardens of the world, that limit was specifically five metres. up. former olympic champion renaud lavillenie was at home in france. two—time world champion sam kendricks competed from oxford, mississippi. and what a backdrop for kendricks. while the gloriously named mondo duplantis was in louisiana. although he competes for sweden. mondo in the lead at the moment. and is the world record—holder.

now, five metres is almost nothing to these men. the idea was that they would sail over the bar every time, so no—one needed to be there to replace it. the challenge was speed. which one them of could make the most successful clea ra nces in the allotted time? mondo is absolutely on fire. don't try this at home is a very obvious warning. if we are fortunate enough to have a garden, we should leave the poles to the beans and the volts to the lawn mower, if electric. 36 each. dupla ntis and lavillenie sort of agreed to tie. they always want to win. we're just glad to have something to watch. joe wilson, bbc news. ingenious. there's more throughout the evening on the bbc news channel. we're back with the late news at 10pm. now on bbc one it's time for the news where you are. good evening.

your latest sports news. we start with brighton who are against resuming the premier league season at neutral venues, saying it has the potential to affect the integrity of the competition. on friday, premier league clubs were told that playing the remaining games at neutral grounds will be the only way to complete the season, with up to ten stadiums likely to be chosen to host matches behind closed doors. but brighton's chief executive paul barber says they would "not be in favour" of the proposal. the club's currently two points above the relegation zone with five of their nine remaining games supposed to be played at home. italian side sassuolo are set to become the first serie a football team to allow players to train from tomorrow, as the country gradually begins to roll back its lockdown. clu bs voted on friday to restart the season when it's safe to do so. the league was suspended on march the 9th withjuventus leading lazio by a point. sassuolo are one of several clubs opening up their facilities

from monday, but players will only be allowed to train individually for now. with the olympics postponed as well as many other events, the president of world athletics says they face a huge challenge ahead to get competitions back up and running on a global level. lord coe has told bbc news that expert advice and the safety of athletes will be paramount when deciding the way forward. we really do have to be guided by governments and public health authorities, and for us the principle is very clear. it's got to be saved for the athletes to get back into competition, and actually save for those communities that we wa nt to save for those communities that we want to base particularly our steadier based events. it poses problems, but that is probably something that the marathon majors will be dealing with towards the end of the year. but the stadium competitions, there are some countries that are coming out of the

pandemic, but to get the sport globally back is going to be a challenge. lord coe was speaking ahead of this event earlier. a live—streamed pole vaulting competition, from their individual gardens, between this man, the 2012 olympic champion renaud lavillenie, world record holder armand duplantis and two—time world champion sam kendricks. the winner was whoever cleared five metres the most times in 30 minutes — in the end it was a tie between lavillenie and duplantis with 36 clearances each. the newly re—elected chairman of world rugby, bill beaumont, has told us he thinks it'll be difficult for any leagues around the world to complete their rugby seasons any time soon, including the english premiership. clubs are understood to be looking at a potential return injuly. we have to listen to what the government's saying. certainly you've seen in france for instance where rugby will not be played till

september. they have decided that their league has closed down now. so they will not play. and in england there is a hope that they can, maybe get the season away, but when you listen to advice from the experts, then it's going to be tough, i think, very tough for both domestic and international rugby to resume sooner and international rugby to resume sooner rather than later. i'm tempted to think it might be later. while the majority of professional sport around the world may be suspended, there is some action going on. the tennis—point exhibition, which is a round robin, is continuing in germany. there are no line judges, there is an umpire, no ball boys or ball girls. britain's jan choinski, with the winner here, eventually beat jean—marc werner in straight sets. that's all the sport for now.

thanks for watching, goodbye. you're watching bbc news. now, as we have been reporting — the us‘s food and drug administration has authorised emergency use of the ebola drug remdesivirfor treating the coronavirus. the authorisation means the anti—viral drug can now be used on people who are hospitalised with severe covid—i9. a recent clinical trial showed the drug helped shorten the recovery time for people who were seriously ill. however, it did not significantly improve survival rates. mahesh parmar is professor of epidemiology at university college london — he's been leading clinical trials of the drug remdesivir professor, thank you very much for joining us. it's an international trial, then. tell us a little bit about it. this trial recruited just over 1000 patients in 68 hospitals

in the us, southeast asia, many countries in europe including the uk, greece, denmark, spain and germany. and the trial of those more than 100,000 participants, half were given remdesivir and half were given placebo. the time to recovery for those given remdesivir, it was 11 days compared to 15 days for the patient‘s who received a placebo. how encouraging are these preliminary results, then? everyone's looking for that silver bullet. they are, of course, and these results are very encouraging. you have to remember the last patient entered this trial on april the 19th, and we are just two weeks from that now, so the data are very early. having said that, the data on time to recovery are very, very clear. we have to wait for the death

data to come through. they will emerge over the next month or so. the initial data are very encouraging on that as well, and we have seen about a 12% death rate on the placebo arm, and an 8% death rate on the remdesivir. we have to wait for another few weeks to see whether that difference is real or not. i know its immensely complex, and you are talking to a lot of people here who, we're not scientists like you, but can you explain how it works? remdesivir was developed originally to treat diseases like ebola, and it targets an enzyme in the virus and as a consequence stops the virus replicating. and that activity quite clearly happens, because we see that inpatients we are improving the time to recovery. so we see the activity.

asa to recovery. so we see the activity. as a consequence, as to recovery. so we see the activity. as a consequence, as you said, of these results, the food and drug administration have authorised the use of remdesivirfor administration have authorised the use of remdesivir for patients with advanced covid—19 in the us. it wouldn't surprise me at all if the eu regulators, the european medicines agency, was in touch with the food and drug administration to see what processes they went through, and are probably thinking of similar processes themselves. so how widely might it be used in the uk? well, we have to go through the regulatory processes. the european medicines agency for europe, as i said. but if they give the green light and then the government gives the green light for it to be used, i can imagine it could be used very widely across the uk. certainly the doctors i've spoken to have been very keen to use it for their patients. how much of a difference might it make in helping the uk get through the worst of this outbreak?

well, i should through the worst of this outbreak? well, ishould preface through the worst of this outbreak? well, i should preface that the a nswer to well, i should preface that the answer to that by saying that for all our major diseases such as hiv, tb, many cancers, we need combination treatments to really have major effects. we have seen that through the ages. remdesivir could be the first step in building that combination, an important first step in building that combination. and if we can do that in a few months, then hopefully other trials which are testing other therapies which are testing other therapies which are testing other therapies which are then show equal effects, oi’ which are then show equal effects, orsimilar which are then show equal effects, or similar effects, can be added to remdesivir to give us even larger effects and reduce that death rate from 12% down to 8% and even lower. professor mahesh parmar from university college london, we appreciate you taking the time to talk to us. thank you.

billionaire investment guru warren buffett says "the world has changed" for aviation — and has revealed that his berkshire hathaway investment fund dumped its shares in all four major us airlines last month. the conglomerate had a stake in major american airlines, including delta and american. mr buffet also says us stocks could fall further. max wolff is a market strategist for multivariate, a consulting firm in new york. max, thank you forjoining us. to what extent is warren buffett right that the world has changed for aviation. i know that this is a way out on the skinny branches type of comment, we have seen this hospitality space led by the airlines being down about 35 to a0%. i think the americans have a spectacular what we call a dead cat bounce here, way out over any justifiable level, but even in that balance of general euphoria, you have seen the hospitality space lag,

and airport spaces don't seem like they can be run with any kind of profitability at all, you can only have four passengers for 26 seats to comply with the rules, and they don't want to be in a metal tube breathing each other‘s exhalations, and we are also in the middle of a recession now which isn't good for the airline industry. how much further could stocks and airlines for? they don't look like they will fall back much further. stocks are massively overvalued now, so the markets are going through this grieving process for an era where they had virtually costless borrowing money to buy back their own shares, which in retrospect is going to be the folly of the last couple of years. but i think the markets are probably due for a 35% fall from here at a broad level. it depends on which country in which

stocks, because the big tech stocks dominate the american market indices, because they are a market cap weighted, so if you're bigger you count more, so cap weighted, so if you're bigger you count more, so are upon cap weighted, so if you're bigger you count more, so are upon those stocks. but generally speaking, the markets are probably going to test the load. what is your advice to members of the public, people with pensions all wrapped up in stocks and shares, what should they be doing? they should be taking half of the risk, if they have just taken this whole ride down and back up again, itell this whole ride down and back up again, i tell them to get at least half your money off the elevator. if you ride the elevator all day you will end up in the lobby. if you just ride it up and down and up and down and up and down, and endure the stress of the whole thing, you won't do that well. the basic profitability of big corporations around the world is going to be in for a tough several years, so do i think we will recover? yes. have we begun to recover? that is a

comforting massive delusion. we are beginning to figure out what the challenge is. we haven't even begun to think about how to best it. it will be a tough several years, there will be a tough several years, there will be a tough several years, there will be ups and downs, big bear market rallies, but if you have risk assets that come up, sell half of them and continually move to be more defensive. cash will be king for a while. even though interest rates are low. and i don't think you will get your adjusted returns. i can understand why taking risks make sense, and we have seen the global central banks try to bail out risk—takers, central banks try to bail out risk—ta kers, and central banks try to bail out risk—takers, and bonds are problematic too, but i would say be very defensive and bet on the things that have done well. the tech companies that are bigger part of the future and the basics, because i think we will have a retrenchment to basics in the western spending pattern which we have begun to see but i think it will last several months or more. max wolff, market strategist in new york, thank you very much. thank you. in the united states,

the total number of coronavirus related deaths has exceeded 66,000. there are now more than 1.1 million confirmed coronavirus cases. but despite the high numbers, president trump insists the country should start to open up. rich preston has this report. large parts of the us are slowly starting to open after weeks in varying states of lockdown. in texas, beaches have opened. for many, it couldn't come soon enough. it is so awesome to be out of the house and be in galveston. the beach is beautiful. we've just been desperate to get out of our houses, and the beaches are one of our biggest things. it's really going to bring a somewhat sense of normalcy back. but authorities are saying they are still taking care. we are trying to dress it as best we can. but our main thing is if we have a couple of hundred thousand people here, our main thing is we want to get them home safe. authorities in san francisco have extended a stay—in—place order until the end of may. i think it's really a smart decision just to keep everybody safe. i think we can do this together.

we feel so fortunate that our mayor london breed really was the first one in the whole country. she locked us down, put a shelter—in—place so early and we really crushed the curve. and in new york city, face masks are being handed out in the city's parks. meanwhile, the subway system, normally 24—hours a day, will close down for four hours every morning so that every carriage can be disinfected. to make sure the transit workers are safe, to make sure the riding public are safe, the best thing you can do is disinfect the whole inside of the car. as massive a challenge as that is. the president himself has left the white house for a weekend at the presidential country retreat camp david. he is keen for the country to open up to be back in business again. conscious of an election on the horizon, and an electorate

in rising numbers of unemployment, and with the economy suffering. military jets flew over several us cities on saturday, honouring health care and essential workers. over new orleans. phoenix, arizona. and washington, dc. the might of the us military on show for a fight that is far from over. a white mare has been brightening up the coronavirus lockdown for people in a frankfurt neighbourhood. every morning jenny heads out for a stroll round town, she's always been a hit with the residents but never more so than in recent weeks, as hope bolger reports. bringing trams to a halt and smiles

to people's faces. for more than a decade, jenny‘s owners anna and werner have let her out of her sta ble werner have let her out of her stable each morning so she can explore the local area frankfurt in germany. like other countries, germany. like other countries, germany has closed schools, playgrounds and many businesses to try and curb the coronavirus outbreak. though some of these measures have slowly started easing, people are still encouraged to limit their social interactions and keep their social interactions and keep their distance. translation: it's beautiful that she can at least have her freedom and not be locked inside because of coronavirus like us humans. but there are no rules against saying hello tojenny. translation: everyone knows her, no matter where she goes. people always greet her nicely, especially now in times of coronavirus. they're happy to have someone to cuddle. people

have to stare apart from each other, butjenny sometimes have to stare apart from each other, but jenny sometimes has ten children round her. adults too come out of the tram and hug and pet her. anna and werner say in all of her years ofambling, and werner say in all of her years of ambling, she's never caused any trouble, and she is well liked by the local authorities. but to avoid any misunderstandings, jenny wears a note around her neck that reads, i haven't run away, i am just out for a walk. at the end of the day, wernerjumps a walk. at the end of the day, werner jumps on his a walk. at the end of the day, wernerjumps on his scooter to look for her along her usual route, and then she slowly heads back after another day of freedom. every town should have one! a california—based photographer has filmed sensational footage of surfers gliding through bioluminescent waves illuminating the san diego shoreline. shades of blue, red and browns can be seen against the backdrop of a dark night sky. the phenomenon occurs when algae bloom — which is prevalent at this time of year —

fills the water with phytoplankton the organisms react to moving water, becoming bioluminescence as they are jostled by the waves. this is bbc news. time for a look at the weather with nick miller. hello. it has been a cloudy day for much of england and wales, where there has been some sunshine, northern, northern ireland and scotland, there have been showers around, heavy and thundery in places too. this is a solar powered bird bath, not up to much today with the heavy rain that went through the newcastle area. still keeping a few showers overnight and into tomorrow down the eastern side of the uk, whereas elsewhere it is high pressure that will give a fine monday. the showers that we've had through eastern scotland, north—east england, will lose their intensity overnight, but some will continue, pushing down through lincolnshire towards east anglia. elsewhere we have clear spells, lowest

temperatures will be northern scotland, the cold spots a few degrees below freezing, a touch of frost in the cold spots of northern ireland too, but here there will be lots of sunshine on the way tomorrow. across scotland too. eastern areas of england keeping a scattering of showers, the west and wales will be a lot of monday sunshine around. the breeze is does start to pick up particularly down towards the south and south—west of the uk. it is an onshore breeze along the north sea coast holding temperatures down, but further west in some sunshine. overnight, monday to tuesday, we are seeing an area of heavy rain that will push through the channel islands, isles of scilly, towards cornwell and into devon as well. this may advance a little further north and east, more of southern england into south wales, with a brisk and cool wind as well, slowly easing as tuesday goes on. whereas elsewhere there is a lot of fine weather around. these are average speeds, gusty down towards

the south—west, particularly overnight and into tuesday, and as for the temperatures, it will feel quite cool where you have this rain and cloud, still along some of these north sea coasts, but for the remainder of the week, high—pressure holds on, low pressure to the west may be introducing a few showers at times, but a lot of fine weather around and temperatures will start to creep up a bit as well. by the end of the week, an increasing chance of a few showers, and i can just show you a few locations and our forecast here. an just show you a few locations and ourforecast here. an increasing chance of showers in particular it will scotland and northern ireland later in the week, but one thing you will notice in this, just look at how much colder it gets as we go through next weekend.

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i'm martine croxall. the headlines: another 315 deaths have been recorded across the uk since yesterday, taking the total to more than 28,400. over 76,000 tests were carried out in the uk yesterday, after hitting the target of 100,000 a day by the end of april. the uk government considers a series of measures to control the spread of coronavirus post lockdown, including staggering uk workers' hours to prevent overcrowding on public transport. in an interview, the uk prime minister describes preparations to announce his death, while he was in intensive care for coronavirus. churches in germany reopen for sunday services, with strict regulations in force and singing forbidden.