this is bbc world news, the headlines, the united kingdom has outstripped italy in the number of coronavirus deaths, this is outside source on bbc news becoming the worst affected country for viewers in the uk in europe with just under 29 and around the world. we're covering all and a half thousand. only the united states has lost more the latest coronavirus lives to the disease. developments here in britain and globally. virgin atlantic is to cut three the uk has overtaken thousand jobs in the uk. italy's coronavirus death toll — the airline says, it won't restart operations at gatwick, and is now reporting the second london's second airport, highest deaths from covid—19 which have been suspended in the world, behind the us. because of the global but ministers says it's coronavirus pandemic. a draft government report has warned too early to compare. the us deathtoll could reach three thousand a day injune double the current rate. lam not i am not sure that the international but president trump says, that's without the mitigation comparison works unless you are that's happening. reliably knowing that all countries india has reported

are measuring in the same way it its biggest daily jump also depends on how good, countries in coronavirus cases and deaths. are in gathering the statistics. president trump is on his first trip there were more than four thousand new infections outside washington in a month — as the new york state governor warns against a life—or—death trade off as several states begin to lift their lockdowns. there's a cost of staying close. there's a cost of staying close. there is also a cost of reopening quickly. that is the hard truth. more fallout in the airline industry. virgin atlantic is the latest to announce huge job cuts as the pandemic disrupts travel worldwide. we'll look at whether airlines will be introducing any social distancing rules onboard flights — after this photo was shared from an aer lingus flight. welcome. the uk is now reporting the second largest official coronavirus death toll in the world. today officials confirmed the number of people who died from covid—19, in the uk had risen to 29,427 people

making it the worst in europe and second only to the us globally. italy currently has 29,316 reported deaths from coronavirus. it is important to point out when comparing the uk with italy, that their populations are different, there are roughly 6 million more people in the uk, and methods of reporting differ from country to country. a point foreign secretary dominic raab was keen to make at today's briefing. in terms of the comparisons that you are suggesting, as the scientist of all said, ican are suggesting, as the scientist of all said, i can remember patrick and chris talking about this. i do not think we will get a full verdict until the pandemic is over and particularly, until we have comprehensive international data on all cause mortality. people hit particularly severely by covid—i9 are those living in care homes. latest figures from the office

for national statistics —— show deaths in care homes in england and wales that involve coronavirus increased by more than a third in the week ending the 24th april. you can see from this graph that virus deaths in care homes continued to rise even as hospital deaths were falling. our social affairs correspondent alison holt reports. more than a third of deaths and care homes were registered as a link to covid—i9 in the week up to april the 24th. but overall, the number of deaths from sourcing in england and wales from all causes is much higher than usual. almost four times more deaths than we would expect to see at this time of year were registered in that last week, by 20 to deaths and care homes above the five—year average and many of those mentioned covid—i9 on the death certificate.

these official figures distressing picture on the impact that coronavirus is having on care homes. i understand within days, the government will set out a plan of intensive support for care homes in particular, including additional back—up from councils and health services. today the uk government also announced that 84,806 tests were carried out yesterday — meaning for a third day in a row the government has not hit its 100,000 daily testing target. the uk government insists it has followed scientific advice in its response to the coronavirus outbreak. but today we heard from two senior scientific advisors who acknowledged shortcomings with the uk's coronavirus testing regime. this is a tweet posted earlier from our health editor hugh pym noting that the ‘deputy chief medical officer for england acknowledges there was a change of policy on virus testing in march partly because there

was not enough capacity. drjenny harries told the commons health select committee that "if we had unlimited capacity we would have done differently". shortly after dr harries made those comments, we heard from the uk's chief scientific adviser. in the early phases, and i've said this before, i think if we managed to wrap testing capacity quicker, it would've been beneficial and for all sorts of reasons, that did not happen. i think it is clear you need lots of testing for this, but to echo what they said, it is com pletely echo what they said, it is completely wrong to think of testing as the answer, it is just part of the system that you need to get right. earlier today the health secretary was confronted

let's go back to jessica parker in westminster. the second largest official death toll in the world, the highest in europe. i know there's a number of caveats to that, but what if the government been saying to explain that figure today? they're not seeking to explain it at the stage. with the first secretary of state of the foreign secretary said at the press c0 nfe re nce the foreign secretary said at the press conference is that you cannot necessarily make international comparisons and the fact that different countries are measuring things in different ways. the national statistic is a world leader in statistics, but he also said that he didn't think he could get a real verdict on these issues until the pandemic is over in the sense that we are still in the midst of the pandemic occurs, the prime minister said that we are now past the peak in the uk but in a statement from

the shadow health secretary said that the public will want to ask questions about the scale of the uk death toll as far as ministers are concerned, they want to focus minds are gained through this pandemic, trying to get the public to do what is necessary in order to bring down transmission rates but there will be questions over these death figures which of course, forever family across the country, is an individual tragedy but i think the government pointed to those questions may be being asked in depth and answered in depth and there have been calls must mr that liberal democrats for a public inquiry, not really being drum and the possibility of that yet, but i think the scrutiny on this issue will continue and later as well. came from a scientific adviser talking about the shortcomings of the belief of the testing process,

was the government said in response to that in the news that there below target, their daily target of 100,000 tests in the country for three days in a row now? earlier today, patrick, the chief scientific adviser in the uk, said that of the country wrapped up testing quicker, it would've been much better. but to think of testing is the answer, no, it is just part of the answer to tackling this pandemic in terms of bringing the country out of lockdown and as you may know, the uk is trying to get a tracking and tracer app. it has massively ramped up over the course of april, and the manner set the target, the health secretary for 100,000 daily tests by the end of april, he fronted the press

conference and just after that day had passed because there's bit of a lag in terms of doing garage at 20,000 tests by the end of april. there was some dispute over how the speakers were put together, but it has since been a bit of a dip in those figures so the number of tests carried out in the past 2a hour period, some around the region of 84,000. so under that 100,000 target. some will question whether the the government ramped up the numbers at april and has since let the target go a little but the important thing was to galvanise the government, galvanise the health service, the army and ordered to get that testing up the fact that there 110w that testing up the fact that there now is a greater capacity is what is really important. about five or so minutes ago that the head of the advisory committee, the scientist that made the prediction still leave the government introduced lockdown,

he has resigned. what more do we know about that? this is professor neil ferguson, he has certainly been an adviser on the group, with history key to providing the government with its advice and you'll often hear the government is taking a approach by looking at the latest data. resulted in television interviews about the scientific approach and he has resigned from the company this evening and a comment from him is, according to a comment. he said i accept that i have made an error ofjudgement to the wrong course of action, and therefore step back from my involvement and they believed that i was immune, having tested positive for coronavirus and completely isolated myself to weeks after developing symptoms, symptoms i

deeply regret. undermining any of the clear messages around the continued need for social distancing to control this epidemic, it is unequivocal and is there to protect all of us. he breaks social distancing rules will be up to give more details of the curse of the evening, but you will remember perhaps catherine calderwood, the scottish chief medical officer to resign from her position after share broken social distancing rules of revisiting her second home. thank you very much and thank you for the correction. not the head, more on that to come. donald trump is in arizona — this is his first trip outside of washington in a month. more than 30 states are now beginning to lift their lockdowns — even as the infection rates continue to rise. on monday top us health expert anthony fauci warned about a rebound of new cases. speaking to an american news network he asked: how many deaths and how much suffering are you willing to accept to get back

to what you want to be some form of normality sooner rather than later? new york state governor andrew cuomo echoed that message too. there is a cost of staying closed. there's also a cost reopening quickly. that is the hard truth. that is what we're all dealing with. and let's be honest and open about it and let us not camouflage the actual terms of the discussion that we are having. and the question comes back to how much is a human life worth? last night we told you on 0utside source about the draft government report, warning the us deathtoll could reach three thousand a day injune — more than double the current rate. here's president trump responding to that at the white house today. that is a report with no mitigation. based on no medication, but we're

doing a lot of mitigation and frankly, with the people report back, they're going to be social distancing, washing their hands and be doing the things you're supposed to do. we will not going in the stadiums fully yet, soccer, football and other divisive events, baseball, i'll baseball can get going. anthony zurcher is in washington for us. just before a comment on what donald trump to say. you've heard from the vice presidents saying that they are currently having conversations all went to wind down the coronavirus task force establish a reaction to that and also, the fact that donald trump is making his first public appearance in the last four weeks. as far as the task force goes, it's more of a reflection of the reality which is that the task force has not

been as prominently on display in donald trump is stopped all of his daily press conferences with the task force and they did not meet on saturday at all, which they normally do, it has not ever public press conference and so the reality is the administration is trying to shift focus away from attracting the health of this pandemic and how to restart the economy and the economic consequences of this now more than a half long shutdown and so while anthony has said that it still working strong and still going to its daily business, the reality is that the administration is changing its focus because their starting to feel the heat from the economy. and i suppose that is what we are weighing up with much of what we heard earlier from the weighing up with much of what we heard earlierfrom the new weighing up with much of what we heard earlier from the new york state government about the human cost versus the economic cost. right and you mentioned this trip the

donald trump is taking to arizona andi donald trump is taking to arizona and i think that is what the industry string to do is talk about how to reopen the state and how to restart donald trump possibles presidential campaign because he is running for reelection and the voters in less than six months and so voters in less than six months and so he started the campaign trail and this is technically an official visit as well as the one he is going to ohio and afterwards, but the reality is he is going to key states where he has to win in november, arizona is going to be key swing state and he has to get out in front of people, start showing that he is doing things and beginning to connect with voters again. at the bottom line is that it is a balance here, the administration strained to balance and protecting human lives with starting the move toward some semblance of normalcy with businesses in the economy that is a very delicate balance because we

talked a lot about bending the curve of keeping the number of deaths, the number of new cases relatively low but once you start bending that curve, you have to start thinking about what the long—term economic consequences are and what that can mean for peoples everyday lives going forward. we are expecting to see donald trump landed in phoenix, arizona and will bring you the scene in life. stay with us on 0ustide source, still to come: we'll have the latest on how coronavirus is hitting russia — as new cases spike. (pres) the scottish government has set out options for lifting the scottish government has set out options for lifting the coronavirus lockdown — but has warned that ‘extreme caution‘ will have to be exercised. social distancing restrictions are to reviewed on thursday. here's first minister nicola

sturgeon speaking earlier today. the number is not yet far enough below one to be confident that any changes to current restrictions would not quickly send over again and ifi would not quickly send over again and if i would start to increase exponentially again, that could overwhelm our health service, forces to impose restrictions and it would lead to many more deaths. an illustration of this combo include in the paper. based on recent danish data and we are looking at experiences of the countries all the time. if we were to fully reopen our cities and primary schools now, the most likely scenario would be a resurgence in the virus that would overwhelm our hospital capacity in a matter of weeks. this is 0utside source live

from the bbc newsroom latest figures show britain's death toll has overtaken italy — becoming the highest in europe. ministers though say, it's too early to compare. this pandemic and the lockdowns that have followed were always going to take an incredible toll on the travel and tourism sector. ros atkins has more details on this. hi ros. hi babita, virgin atlantic is going to cut three thousand jobs in the uk. and it says it won't restart its operations from gatwick airport — which have been suspended during the pandemic. first let's hear the reaction of aaron heslehurst from bbc business. the going to cut nearly 30% of their workforce, 3115 jobs to the going to cut nearly 30% of their workforce, 3115jobs to get out of the workforce of some 10,000. this

in the back british airways announcing that it may have to cut 12,000 jobs and all of this in an environment where 80% of flying is reduced by 80% the world or some 17,000 has parked all around airports over the world. so this is an industry that is absolutely been clobbered by this virus and you can certainly expect to see more job cuts from more airlines to come. next, this is the bbc‘s transport correspondent, tom burridge. is supplied for umbrella dash bailout. as one senior executive from the la and put it to me tonight, they said normally they are good for casting but they simply do not have a reliable crystal ball

and thinks that is an uncertainty in the do believe they can protect that they will not return to pre—pandemic levels until 2023. with that scene behind me, it says it all, we have two flights take off in the last hour or two flights take off in the last houror so, two flights take off in the last hour or so, they could be repatriation flights but is a bit unclear. think about those aircraft pricey and very few of them are making a money. —— any money. some airlines are warning that travellers may have to pay a lot more for tickets whenever flights resume. that's because if social distancing measures are in place — fewer seats can be used — and so there are fewer passengers to share the cost. in fact iata, which is the global body that represents airlines, has today said it while does support passengers wearing face masks — but doesn't support leaving the middle seat free on planes — it says this would not

improve passenger safety. this is a live issue not least because of pictures from a flight between belfast and london on the irish airline, aer lingus, have been widely shared. as you'll see it was just about full. and aer lingus has since announced it will put on 5 more flights a week. here's our ireland correspondent emma va rdy. (tx sot) it was these pictures taken by a worker travelling from belfast to london which have added to mounting concerns over the way airlines are operating during the lockdown. no social distancing whatsoever. none whatsoever. 0n the plane, the queues were down the steps and out onto the tarmac, as they were before all this has happened, no change whatsoever. since restrictions were imposed, the number of daily flights has fallen by around 80%. some 60 flights a day now arrive at london heathrow, compared to 600 a day before the pandemic. but there is no policy

capping passenger numbers. aer lingus has said there was unexpectedly high demand on the day those pictures were taken and that it's now urgently reviewing its procedures on board, but others in the industry have warned that, on a plane, social distancing is basically impossible. we don't believe social distancing on aircraft actually works, and there are two reasons for that. one of which is the obvious economic one. the second of which is around the air conditioning systems on aeroplanes which rely, in part, on recycling air within the cabin. that simply defeats the purpose of social distancing. the bbc has also heard from one member of british airways' cabin crew, who told us ba are also still operating some short—haul flights at capacity. and, as these images from paris to madrid today show, other airlines are similarly flying with full cabins. lots of different elements to how travel is being impacted.

and really what we're seeing here is evidence of a much broader trend — that the disruption from this virus is notjust comprehensive, it's also long—term. and that is going to have profound consequences for how we live — and the businesses and industries we use. russia is now the country reporting the highest number of new coronavirus cases in europe — second in the world, only to the united states. there were 10,102 new cases of covid—19 reported in the past 24 hours. it's the third day in a row where new cases in russia have been above ten thousand. russia has a total number of confirmed cases of infection of 155,370. 95 people have died in the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll

in russia to almost 15 hundred. staying in russia, three doctors in the front line against coronavirus have fallen from hospital windows in separate incidents over the past fortnight. two of them have died and the third's in critical condition. the first incident was on april 24th in star city just outside moscow. natalia lebedeva was the head of the ambulance service there. she'd contracted covid—19 and a local newspaper reported she might have committed suicide, after being accused of spreading the virus. two days later, another female doctor yullena nippom—nishh—eyya fell from a fifth floor window and later died of her injuries. she had previously complained about inadequate protective clothing and training to treat covid—19 patients. on friday there was a third incident, in the city of novva—sibb—earsk. dr aleksander shulepov had previously posted this video online. in it he complained he had been forced to keep working even after testing positive for coronavirus. he later posted a second video retracting these allegations. by this point he was a patient in his own hospital, being treated for the virus. and then — he fell — from a second floor window, fracturing his skull and breaking several ribs.

0lga ivshina is from the bbc‘s russian service. two of the three doctors had gone public with their concerns about russia's response to coronavirus — a factor in their deaths?— is foul play suspected two are dead and one in critical condition and this is just a very harsh and strong reminder of the challenges that russia and all of the world are facing. a shortage of ppe and tremendous amount of stress put on the shoulders of doctors. and this is in a way amplified by the trouble. when doctors feel their concerns are not hurt, there's many places they can go and especially in the region, especially one as far away from moscow that there aren't that many independent media outlets, they tend to broadcast the concerns of social media and they get the message of fraud but they do not get there —— message abroad. they do not get it out there. the news of the uk is to come the

second highest death toll globally due to covid—19. stay with us or an outside source. hello will be taking a bit of a roller coaster ride as far as temperatures are concerned of the next few days, there will be heading upwards because of this pattern, low pressure to the west, high pressures of the east so that the flow taking weighing some warmth in spain and france and some of these actually booked temperature records of the time of year earlier on this week. but from that warmth we head into the weekend at a different weather pattern with high—pressure building down to the westin in the east this time, they'll be feeding a northerly wind direction we say farewell to that warmth pumping in something much, much more colder this time of year. much, much more colder this time of yea r. let much, much more colder this time of year. let us start with the here and now through tonight, ran from today

trying to fizzle across the southwest and southern wells we could see some weather on yorkshire in lincolnshire, temperatures to receive clear skies will dip down to around three freezing. spots of sunshine and early low cloud across the east coast and i'll be back out to sea. it should state plate grey with the odd shark clipping in and maybe pembrokeshire later in the day but temperatures much higher than they have been and if you get 1920. the transformer for many of us pretty good what type he makes both of sunshine and the odd shower in the west, certainly some showers for northern ireland and scotland, temperatures climbing to 18 degrees in glasgow, 22 in london and friday likely to be warmer still don't was the southeast with a high of 25

expected, more cloud with some operatives shot every rain in here, a much coolerfor operatives shot every rain in here, a much cooler for her to the weather as these northerly winds start to set in and it's a to friday and into the weekend, we push this frontal system southwards, it is a court system southwards, it is a court system if you bring some shower and introduce this much colder air and speckles of white indicating just a suggestion of one or two wintry showers. a fair amount of dry weather but it is big in the north but also windy to for the second 00:28:34,979 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 half of the weekend.