president trump has reversed a decision to disband the white house coronavirus task force — telling reporters he didn't realise how popular it was. the us is the hardest—hit country by the virus, with 71,000 deaths. the number of deaths here in the uk has passed 30,000 people. the prime minister defended his handling of the pandemic during his first appearance in parliament, opposite the new labour leader, kier starmer. restrictions are going to ease in europe's biggest economy with germany unveiling plans to reopen restaurants and schools — while professional football will also resume. but it's not all positive news out of europe with warnings the eu is in for the biggest economic shock since the great depression because of the pandemic.

hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are lucy fisher, defence editor at the times, and the broadcaster and authorjohn kampfner. many of tomorrow's front pages are in, starting with "stay home advice to be scrapped" — that's the top story on the daily telegraph, referring to the government's plans to adapt the lockdown slogan this weekend. the financial times also focuses on the easing of lockdown restrictions, while at the same time highlighting travel issues, and areas where restrictions could be tightened. the daily mail simply headlines the words "hurrah! "lockdown freedom beckons".

the daily express exclaims "first steps to freedom from monday". "happy monday" is the top line on the sun, which predicts we'll be able to exercise all we like, and sit in the park from next week. the top story from the independent online focuses on the uk's shortage of tests — saying widespread testing has been suspended for many key workers. that's also the headline on the guardian — calling it a "landmark" test target that keeps being missed. while the main story on the times looks at the link between coronavirus and obesity, saying being obese doubles the risk of needing hospital

treatment for the virus. let's go through some of these papers here in a bit more detail now. welcome back, lucy fisher, let's start with the telegraph again. everyone‘s at the story, various degrees of detail, picture of borisjohnson there looking up at questions can i think it's cure starmer, one of the questions that the new leader of the labour party was able to pledge them, but the state on the advice to be scrapped from already, the hashtag from number ten has changed. yes, well we know that we are going to get the road map about some of the gentle using soap locked on sunday to begin on monday, and that is going to involve a greater exit is going to involve a greater exit is from our homes or for britain's across the land, more people are going to be urged to go back to work, although, they will be advised to wear a face covering if they are going to be taking public transport, oi’ going to be taking public transport, or be in crowded places. they are also going to ease the restrictions we think on the current rules,

meaning we can exercise only once a day. from next week exercise, and i'm also per month to sit in the park, sunbathe, take picnics, and so forth. the last time we spoke, lucy used the word getty, john kampfner, there is this euphoria, isn't there, across the paper said about finally after six weeks, some easing. various degrees of how much. what you make of the telegraph coverage before we move the male? yeah, just as i was saying an houror so ago, the male? yeah, just as i was saying an hour or so ago, tim, the giddiness is there in the papers, and in one respect, it's understandable. i use the term freedom, well, that'sjust realistic shorthand. i don't think most people will feel particularly free on monday, they will feel a little bit less hemmed in, but i don't share

the giddiness. i although i will definitely be looking able —— looking forward to being able to spend more times outdoors and to be able to do more things, and gradually seeing people, but one of the reasons is that i'm not sure how free to continue that word, people will really feel. the opinion polls are showing that britain's, more than any other equivalence country, are more anxious about getting out and about more anxious about going back to work, sharing you know spaces, even with social distancing, using public transport, and that may be for other particular reasons, but it also may be the fact that, again, asi it also may be the fact that, again, as i said before, over the last couple of months, our government has not shown itself to be particularly efficient in dealing with the situation. it's always beenjust that one step behind, and trying to get away with it, we have lost it.

lucy, onto the male, john is picking up lucy, onto the male, john is picking up on that word, freedom, boris johnson has said today, didn't he, that he wanted to sort out the advice from sage, which is going to be tomorrow, make the announcement on sunday ahead of the easing on monday, but, the messaging pretty muddy in some areas, isn't it? about—face coverings and whether masks should be worn locked on freedom beckons, they could still be pretty confused. i think that's absolutely right. there is some suspicion, which i think is valid, that the government has avoided up until this point, advising people to wear face coverings in public forfear that they may then attempt to buy the sorts of sophisticated high spec masks that are in short supply already for front—line workers in the nhs and in social care settings who obviously need that and those masks the most. so there may be one reason that the messaging may have

been a bit confusing. i also think you know, people have been told repeatedly again and again and again, you know, stay home protect the nhs, save lives. it will need a big communication strive to encourage people to go out and some places in society is suspect. that was reflected today when the community secretary acknowledge that ministers have to sort of encourage people to have the competence to feel they can go back to work without the fear of catching coronavirus. and john, let's move on to the telegraph, because the headline on their looks to border checks as price of lockdown relaxation. this is quite interesting as well, because we are one of the last countries i think to even one of the last countries i think to eve n ta ke one of the last countries i think to even take the temperatures of people coming in, and they have been arriving at our airports in their thousands ever since this outbreak started. yeah. i mean, airand all sorts of travel is a tiny percentage

of what it was. so the airports are not inundated. some are even closed oi’ not inundated. some are even closed or have closed terminals. but, yes. i scratch my head once again. what on earth were we doing when other countries were taking it very sensible precautions around requiring people to take temperature tests. now, if in some of the briefings in the paper tonight are saying that we are going to start imposing quarantine immediate quarantinesjust across imposing quarantine immediate quarantines just across the board on international visitors to this country, then that's going to stymie, once again, the attempts to revive business, buts, also, ijust think of their country as well start probably profiling visitors and their ability to come to their

countries, and i fear at the moment it isjust a guess —— it's notjust a guess, it's a fear, that it will be back at the q a guess, it's a fear, that it will be back at the 0 because of our disastrous death rate. if you are australia or germany or japan disastrous death rate. if you are australia or germany orjapan or whatever, would you really want to ta ke whatever, would you really want to take a risk with written coming, as opposed to another country that has dealt with it more efficiently? but, already, those conversations are taking place aren't they? certainly we know between australia and new zealand that they might have their own agreements, their own arrangements. absolutely, so you've got the idea of this sort of australian bubble between those two countries, you may see that. obviously, within the european union, the whole question of the open borders, that has been absolutely torn apart over the last six weeks, at what point will they start to reinstate open borders, probably not for some time. there

just may well be some especially stringent measures against brits because of our poor performance. that will impede people from travelling either for business or for holiday if they, in any case, felt that they were able to do so. 0k. lucy, let's go back to the telegraph. a bit of clarity on the virus immunity after professor neil ferguson broke rules in belief that he was clear. nobody knows, do they, really? about the immunity levels. i mean, he did get it, remember him being interviewed from home on the today programme saying that he had contracted it, albeit in a mild form. yes, and of course, he is the author of this strategy, or someone who is really fed into it with the warnings that without a severe lockdown, we would see a huge swath of people far beyond the toll we

have had so far. so i think given his centrality of keeping everybody inside on lockdown, him breaking it has left, certainly matt hancock from the health secretary today, he said he was left speechless when he heard that professor neil ferguson had broken the rules. and his excuse, as you say, that he thought he was immune from he had already tested positive for its committee had completed two weeks in isolation after that has raised a lot of questions around immunity, including whether he perhaps, as before he resigned, a member of sage, the scientific advice group for emergencies to the government, whether he was privy to more information about immunity then perhaps the rest of the public have, so perhaps the rest of the public have, so i'm sure those questions will continue in the days ahead. a good old—fashioned sex continue in the days ahead. a good old —fashioned sex scandal, continue in the days ahead. a good old—fashioned sex scandal, john, on the day that we broke that pretty depressing figure for being the highest number of deaths in the uk and europe. yes, lucy, who if we

we re and europe. yes, lucy, who if we were in the studio, i would be smiling rightly at you at this time suggesting that i was being paranoid in making the implicit connection between the fact that the story broke, not the journalist held her back, but the story was potentially given out to journalists to try to distract attention from the fact that yesterday was the day that pretend had achieved the status of having the highest number of deaths for reasons that are still unclear, but what has to work from the assumption that there is a direct correlation with the government's lax approach to the whole crisis from the get—go. so, yeah, i mean, he shouldn't have absolutely, he should not have done. it was a ridiculous thing to do it. it undermined his own credibility, the

credibility of the advice and the fa ct credibility of the advice and the fact that we are trusting so much in experts, and when you stop digging —— when you are in a hole, stop digging, so don't make an excuse such as, i thought i was immune, because once again, that just sews further confusion. nobody would accuse you of paranoia, i don't think i'm a sean. let's move onto the next paper. the times. i double risk of hospital for patients with obesity and alongside it, a picture of a dell, who of course was never a beast, but she has lost seven stone. under a new fitness routine. these figure are pretty stark according to this glasgow university data. just talk us through it. glasgow university is looked at more than 420,000 cases to analyse the data around obesity, but

being obese doubles the risk about having to be hospitalized if you could contract coronavirus and i think it's very interesting in the early phases of this pandemic, all of the focus of the very beginning was on age and how older people were worse affected than at middle age or younger people. as it has gone on, we have seen younger people. as it has gone on, we have seen some very younger people. as it has gone on, we have seen some very troubling patterns or potential patterns emerged around obesity, also around ethnicity, the suggestion in a separate study, also referencing on the front page on the times, that so far, bea the front page on the times, that so far, be a mee people who have current contracted coronavirus appear to— three times more likely to die it —— appear to— three times more likely to die it -- bame, appear to— three times more likely to die it —— bame, and also, the evidence as it seems to appear that men are worse affected than women. so, there are a lot of different factors here that seem to affect the outcomes of contracting coronavirus, and, obviously, we just outcomes of contracting coronavirus, and, obviously, wejust don't outcomes of contracting coronavirus, and, obviously, we just don't know that much. it's a new pandemic, and

the research is sort of struggling to catch up as it continues to spread. and triply problematic, john, one in three of british adults are clinically obese, according to that bmi level. that's right. a bmi of over 30 puts you in that category in 25-29, of over 30 puts you in that category in 25—29, as an overweight man in that category, yeah, it's not something to be taken lightly. i mean, it's interesting for people navigating lockdown, there is a, i'm the one hand, it's heartening that people are taking... are trying to take... ora lot people are taking... are trying to take... or a lot of people are trying to take exercise and fitness very seriously, just a number of people jogging and doing stretches and other forms of activity in the street or trying to walk a lot, it's

very good. drinking alcohol has come according to the figures, gone up considerably in this period for all the obvious reasons of people feeling cooped up and stressed and fed up. the indications are that the skewed death rates and propensity to be taken ill to hospital and i see you, it's maybe down to socioeconomic factors, and particularly diet and the extent to which people are forced to live in very close confines. but if that is the case, as in mcintyre and the times and in lucy's paper a few weeks ago, we are not all in this together. people with the worst public health suffer more than the wealthy or who have more access. that's very much george osborne's

point on the bbc today as well, the recession that is coming is not going to affect everyone equally. let's go on to the guardian. landmark test target that keeps being missed, lucy, it was 100,000 for one day for matt hancock's targets, borisjohnson says 200,000, it's all over the place, isn't it? it is indeed. it looks like the government really pulled out all the stops just to hit that 100,000 targets on the day was due, since then, it's falling back considerably. i think the latest figures suggest that only 69,000 tests were either conducted or sent out, so those were including tests that were mailed and not necessarily you know, sent back, just delivered. the reason it's really important, the testing, is because it's key to the testing, is because it's key to the government being able to ease lockdown. the idea of some of the technology we are seeing in the isle of wight, the new tracing app this

week it all revolves around people being able to quickly test whether they've got coronavirus if they develop symptoms, then contract trace those they have been there in order to alert them, the total lockdown use might occur. it's quite concerning that the government hasn't been quite able to up testing to the levels it initially wanted, and now, today, borisjohnson has tried to double it. it's a bit perplexing. we make only a few minutes left. moving onto another story, now that we are working from home for me and i are old enough to my thing, that advertising lane, 30-40 my thing, that advertising lane, 30—40 years ago. my thing, that advertising lane, 30-40 years ago. in that idea of sort of trying to message this right about persuading people to go back, we are, perhaps, some of us, despite all of the boredom and all the frustrations and all of the, you know, the problems of being an lockdown, and has allowed for more civilized start to the day.

it's a mixed bag. i probably spend about a third of my career doing portfolio freelance and that's being predominantly home—based, and probably two thirds in offices, including at your very own bbc. so, i have seen it on both sides, and they both have strengths and weaknesses. when you do work from home, it's much better if you want to be working from home rather than yourin to be working from home rather than your in lockdown or you are unemployed or whatever, because it is an acquired taste, i mean, there are some goods about it, it's connecting with your children, it's having more of your own time, it's not having to travel, but added to all of that at the moment is anxiety that so very very many people feel about "wa nted to that so very very many people feel about "wanted to go back to my workplace, will have a workplace to go back to? " exactly. and i say they are pointing to the idea of a brea kfast they are pointing to the idea of a breakfast and spending time with

family and trying to sort of force yourself to start concentrating on the working day had come about, lucy, boiled eggs and cups with two soldiers, i've always associated that with t. yes. a little whimsical flood. on a more important notes, little has been desperate for supplies, people have been importing eggs from the netherlands, supermarkets already limiting in some cases eggs as well, and a rush on flour. yes. particularly a breakfast aspect ifind yes. particularly a breakfast aspect i find fascinating, and yes. particularly a breakfast aspect ifind fascinating, and people taking the time to use teapots. ict pots of sold out, online retailers, the sales of loose leaf tea i've gone up, the sales of loose leaf tea i've gone up, so the sales of loose leaf tea i've gone up, so people taking the time to make a ritual out of it rather than just bombing a tea to make a ritual out of it rather thanjust bombing a tea bag and a mug to go. i think that's important when you are working from home to try and have rituals to break up the day ina

try and have rituals to break up the day in a way, otherwise your free time from your personal life and your working life all merge into one. i think that's... john, you are nodding knowingly, as i have been as well. thank you both very much indeed for looking through just some of the additions of the morning papers, john and lucy once again, thank you. we will be back in a few minutes' time with summer headlines. before that, some sports. hello, i'm gavin ramjaun, and this is your latest sports news. the coronavirus pandemic has forced the cancellation and disruption of sports across the world for several weeks now. but today, the bundesliga got the green light to restart top—flight football in germany later this month after an announcement from

chancellor angela merkel. the league has been suspended since 13 march, but games look set to resume again behind closed doors very soon no doubt to the interest of other top divisions including the premier league. joe lynskey reports. they call dortmund's main stand the "yellow wall". it won't look like this again for a while. but now, in less than a month, we will see football's new normal. games in empty grounds will start in germany in late may. it's a reward for a country that so far has been a front runner in containing the virus. but this is still a timeline that's fraught with risk. in germany right now, there is still a lot of infection in the country. you still have that risk of transmission and amplification of transmission. and since players came back to training here, it has not been easy. salomon kalou filmed himself high—fiving his team—mates.

he's been suspended. across the clubs, ten players already have tested positive for the virus. fixtures behind closed doors are called "ghost games" in germany. 0ne team is trying to improve the look with photos of their supporters in the stands. but not all german fans want football back like this. one group says that football is "sick enough and belongs in quarantine," while many think covid tests should be saved only for key workers. the league says it needs less than 1% of germany's testing capacity to fulfil the season. and just like the rest of europe, its finances are under strain. my view is that, once it does come back, i think people will understand this is the lesser of two evils because not having any football until this pandemic is over, which could take another 12 months, would be disastrous for all football.

we might not have any clubs left by then. most teams have nine games left. the biggest victory of all would getting them all played. joe lynskey, bbc news. so, german football is set to resume later this month. but will the premier league be following suit? according to the league managers association's chief executive, richard bevan, the top flights might be cancelled if clubs do not agree to play in neutral venues. the league has been suspended since 13 march because of the coronavirus pandemic, but a vote is set to take place on monday on proposals for a return to football behind closed doors in june. but the proposal needs 14 out of the 20 clubs to vote in favour for it to be adopted. brighton are one of the clubs not in favour of using neutral venues because it may affect the integrity of the competition. wearing protective masks during ring walks and a ban on using spit buckets could be the conditions for a return for boxing in the uk, according to the british boxing board of control. the sport is gearing up for a behind—closed—doors return in the uk injuly after being shut down in most

countries across the world as a result of the pandemic. the next major flight scheduled to take place in the uk is dillian whyte's bout with alexander povetkin for the wbc interim heavyweight title at manchester arena on 4july. referees and trainers in the fighter‘s corners and organisers of the epson derby and 0aks are hoping to hold the classic races behind closed doors also on 4july. jockey club racecourses, the track's owner, has submitted an application to epsom and ewell borough council, also asking for all saturdays injuly and august to be approved for flexibility. racing in britain is suspended indefinitely because of the coronavirus pandemic, and any resumption would depend on government approval. and that is all the sport from us for now. hello there. over the next few days, it looks like the temperatures are going to creep upwards.

we could be looking at the mid—20s celsius across some southern parts of the uk, but we'll also have building humidity as well and that could increase the chance of some showers, some of which will be heavy and thundery. now, the pressure chart for thursday shows high—pressure largely dominating the scene, particularly towards the eastern half of the uk. further west, we'll have these weather fronts, but it will introduce more cloud and outbreaks of rain. so it could be fairly wet in one or two places during thursday morning, the patchy rain spreading northwards into scotland. and then further south, we should see some sunshine developing but a few heavy showers on into the afternoon. central eastern parts of the country seeing the best of the drier and the sunnier weather. we could see highs reaching 23 degrees in the south, but up to 19 or 20 in the north too. now, there could be some evening showers or thunderstorms across england and wales — into the midlands, certainly. these will tend to die off during the night. most places will be dry, but it will stay rather cloudy and damp across the north and the west of scotland. and a milder night to come as well, temperatures in double figures across central and southern areas. so, for friday, it starts off mild.

as i said, it's going to be a warmer day. bit more cloud around generally. certainly across the north and the west, we'll have further outbreaks of rain. certainly for northern scotland. elsewhere, some thundershowers will develop into the afternoon once again, particularly northern ireland, england and wales. look at those temperatures — up to 25 degrees across the south. now into the weekend, we start to see some changes. for saturday, a cold front begins to push southwards across scotland. much colder air behind it, as the name suggests. some rain on it too. further south, it'll be another warm day with sunny spells but increasing chance of showers and thunderstorms. those temperatures again reaching the low to mid 20s in the south. much colder in the north as that cold front begins to slip southwards. and then during saturday night, it'll advance its way southwards right across the country, so by sunday, it's going to feel very different. unusually cold air for the time of year will make it feel very chilly indeed and we'll see some wintry showers across northern and eastern parts of the country, maybe even some settling snow

across the north in scotland, even down to lower levels. that said, apart from a few showers, there will be some sunshine around. but look at these temperatures compared to what they expect for the next few days — ranging from 6 to 12 degrees.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm tim willcox. the united kingdom becomes the first country in europe to record more than 30,000 deaths linked to coronavirus. all shops are to re—open in germany — and the country's top football league is to resume later this month. the us doubles down on its criticism of china's scientists and handling of the coronavirus, saying beijing could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives. president trump changes his mind and says the coronavirus task force will continue its work. a public sign of appreciation for hospital staff from the