this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. british based airlines say they've been told to bring in a 14—day quarantine for passengers arriving in the uk. the new restriction is expected to take effect at the end of this month. a lot of airports now are closed for passenger traffic. there are very few flights coming in. and that means no revenue, so we are really having to adjust and see our way through. russia marks the 75th anniversary of the end of world war ii, but without the planned red square parade of soldiers and veterans.

but belarus holds a full victory parade with huge crowds, and no regard for social distancing. protect the public transport network — people who need to travel into a workplace in england will be urged to consider walking or cycling more. china's president expresses concern about the coronavirus situation in north korea, and offers to help. hello, and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we're covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. first, uk airlines have been told that passengers flying into the country will be expected to quarantine for m days from the end of this month.

the body which represents the industry says it needs to see more detail, but understands that the new restrictions won't apply to arrivals from the republic of ireland. the new restrictions would bring the uk into line with some of the toughest global measures on travel, and the aviation industry has warned it would have a devastating impact on the sector and the wider economy. andy moore reports. heathrow airport, where there are currently far more planes parked up than actually going anywhere. at the end of this month, anyone flying into the country is expected to have to self—isolate in a private dwelling for two weeks. airlines are due to be briefed this morning. they fear it could compound the severe damage they have already suffered. we've seen passenger numbers typically down by about 98% now in the uk. so a lot of airports now are closed for passenger traffic. there are very few flights coming in. and that means no revenue. so we are really having to adjust

and see our way through. the quarantine will not apply to lorry drivers and other key workers, nor to arrivals from the republic of ireland. the united kingdom is eagerly awaiting a televised address from the prime minister tomorrow evening, when he will announce a road map for the way forward. but it's not expected he will announce any major immediate changes. we have learned that garden centres in england will be allowed to reopen on wednesday. a similar measure has been announced in wales from monday, where people will also be able to exercise outdoors as much as they like so long as they remain in their local area. the four devolved nations are trying to move broadly at the same pace, but that might not always be possible. i, with the first ministers of wales and northern ireland, spoke to the prime minister. there was, i think, a helpful recognition in that call that the four uk nations may well

move at different speeds if our data about the spread of the virus says that that is necessary to suppress it. yesterday the government announced another 626 people had died with coronavirus, including a six—week—old baby with underlying health problems. the child is believed to be the youngest victim in the uk. the total number of deaths in all settings now stands at 31,241. as the lockdown is gradually eased, the government is expected to urge us today to cycle or walk to work wherever possible if we cannot work from home. so—called "active travel" is seen as a way of easing pressure on public transport, which will have far less capacity if social distancing is to be maintained. andy moore, bbc news. let's talk to paul charles, an aviation analyst and ceo of the pc agency.

what do you think will actually happen here? is it going to be compulsory? what is the role of airlines and enforcing it? it is very strange, because our countries we re very strange, because our countries were quick to shut down at their borders. —— other countries. the government seems to still be allowing many flights to take off and land in the uk, yet it is saying to airlines this policy may not come in until the end of may. so here we are on the 10th of may, 320 flights arriving in the uk today, 320 departing... sorry, paul, we lost you for a moment, just after you said there were 320 flights arriving, could you pick up your sentence from there? yes, there are 320 flights arriving in the uk today, and 320 due to go out. so i

don't understand why the government is saying this policy may come in at the end of may when there are still 20 days or so for that to happen. what is meant to happen in the intervening 20 days? thousands of people will be coming into the uk, and are not asked to quarantine for 14 and are not asked to quarantine for 1a days. and are not asked to quarantine for 14 days. so that is one obvious question which i know your collea g u es question which i know your colleagues will be put into government when this was discussed, andi government when this was discussed, and i suppose another question is, why don't we, now that we have a ramped up testing, why don't we test incoming passengers rather than quarantining them? absolutely, it would make far more sense to test incoming passengers than it would simply to tell them to go in quarantine for two weeks. 0ther airports are doing it, like vienna, where you can get a test within a few hours and get the results within a few hours of arriving. i don't understand it. this is a government thatis understand it. this is a government that is saying it is scientifically led, it is data led, and therefore you would expect it to get the data as soon as passengers arrive in the

uk. that would give them vital information. it would say to them which countries they are coming in from, whether the virus is very active in the nations they come in from, and it would give immediate data to the government about risk that inbound tourists or business travellers are to the uk. so i don't understand the 14 day rule, and i think the aviation industry as a whole will push back against it in recall with the government tomorrow morning. and why were the aviation industry push back exactly? what is the problem? airlines and airports trying to restart. they are focused on protecting jobs, and getting people back into employment as quickly as possible, and fundamentally, if airlines cannot restart, and this is the signal the government is sending here, then there will be thousands more job losses in the industry. the government is sending a signal with

this policy that britain is closed to outsiders, and also it is sending a signal to to outsiders, and also it is sending a signalto uk to outsiders, and also it is sending a signal to uk consumers that they should not put holidays abroad until further notice. this is a message thatis further notice. this is a message that is saying we are going to shut the borders, essentially, oryou have to quarantine for two weeks, so don't book a holiday at all. and that will send shock waves to the whole industry, because it means that nobody will book, there will be no revenue coming in, and it will do further damage to the tourism sector. paul charles, we will leave it there, thank you very much. president putin has been leading russia's commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the defeat of nazi germany in the second world war. public events have been significantly pared back because of coronavirus. smaller ceremonies have been happening around the country in honour of russia's war heroes. in a national address, mr putin paid tribute to the millions who died and said

russia was invincible when its citizens stood together. the bbc‘s steve rosenberg is in red square. this is a very strange victory day in moscow. i've been to many of these celebrations on red square in the past and normally, you know, there is an incredible atmosphere. you see thousands of russian troops marching across the square, hundreds of pieces of military equipment, military bands, there's a big crowd, quite an amazing atmosphere. today, it is empty. of course, that is because of the coronavirus pandemic. russia has had to tone down the celebrations. having said that, president putin did lay red roses on the tomb of the unknown soldier and made his short speech, his address to the russian people. and there are a number of events that will be taking place across the country, some of them online. russia is still determined to make this a celebration,

because it is such an important day for the country. not only a celebration of a glorious military victory 75 years ago, but this is the day the country remembers the human sacrifice that was made to defeat nazi germany. belarus also marked the end of the second world war in europe with a large military parade with hundreds of onlookers, with no regard for social distancing. the anniversay is hugely symbolic in belarus, which, along with other former soviet countries, helped topple nazi germany in 1945. but the country's president alexander lu kashenko has consistently downplayed the threat posed by the coronavirus. the country is one of the worst affected by the pandemic in europe, with more than 21,00 people infected. with fewer cars on the roads, the lockdown could provide some unexpected solutions to environmental problems caused

by too much traffic. the uk transport secretary grant schapps is expected to encourage people to cycle or walk more instead of choosing to drive, and is likely to announce some new measures in england to help that happen. our environment correspondentjustin rowlatt is in east london we need to walk more, we need to cycle more. that is going to be the message from the transport secretary grant shapps at the government press conference this afternoon. he is going to say we need to do that to protect public transport. think about it — if we stick to the two metre rule, we won't get nearly as many people on our trains and buses, about 10%, according to estimates. at the same time, if wejump into our cars and drive to work, the roads are going to be choked with traffic. what's the alternative? grant shapps is going to say, "start walking and cycling." he's going to give new powers to councils to close roads, set aside space for pedestrians and cyclists. waltham forest has been doing that

for a number of years. that's where i am, in leighton. and i am joined now by clyde loakes, deputy leader of waltham forest, and also the lead on transport. what have you done around here to make it easier for people to walk and cycle? for the past five years, we've been widening pedestrian space, we've been closing roads to through traffic, handing back to residents their neighbourhoods. so it's about people rather than the single mode of transport, namely, the car. clyde, you told me earlier, there used to be 5,000 cars a day coming through here. 5,500. and now there is just a few dozen? we are counting in tens now. but there was a huge pushback by motorists when you started introducing this. you ended up in the high court, didn't you? we were challenged on the pace and radical nature of our interventions that we wanted to make that put people first, put walking and cycling first, because we knew it was the right thing to do for the right reasons. we were challenged and we were

successful in pushing back on that legal challenge. but the right things to do often mean breaking the status quo, and you will upset some people, but doing it for the right reasons. and one of the things clyde was saying earlier was that some communities are now saying, "please introduce the same measures for us." what the government is announcing today are temporary measures but the coalition of environmental and transport pressure groups are saying, "make these permanent changes. " we will wait and see about that. but this afternoon grant shapps expected to tell us all, "cycle and walk more." environmental groups have written to the uk government, asking for £6 billion of investment over the next five years to improve road infrastrucure for walkers and cyclists. one of the signatories was the cpre — the countryside charity — and its chief executive

crispin trumanjoins me now. thanks for talking to us, crispin. what hope do you have for getting money out of the treasury at this point when the cupboard is bare we think this is an amazing moment where political leaders can step up and change the way we travel permanently. the treasury does have money, and this should be top of the list. we have had a terrible glimpse during this crisis of how streets can be, with pollution levels dropping 60% in urban areas, everyone in towns and cities experiencing a cleaner air. sorry to interrupt, but the thing is, that is because people are not going to work. so when they go to work, they don't always find it possible to walk or cycle. so your idealistic version of the future, once people are back at work, cannot

be achieved? yes, it hasjust been a glimpse, andi be achieved? yes, it hasjust been a glimpse, and i think that is a real fear that we return to the levels before the lockdown, after the lockdown, people returning to intolerable levels of pollution. tens of thousands of premature death because of air pollution, to which transport is a major contributor. transport is now the worst carbon emitting industry in britain, the only increasing source of carbon emission. so we have a real crisis here. the climate emergency has not gone away. so we do have to do something about it. i think the idealistic vision you mentioned has shown as it is possible, we can change our behaviour. the vast majority of car journeys change our behaviour. the vast majority of carjourneys in towns and cities are under two miles, short journeys, and cities are under two miles, shortjourneys, and and cities are under two miles, short journeys, and people and cities are under two miles, shortjourneys, and people choose to drive them, often because there is no easy alternative. maybe we'll need to make better choices. i think the government needs to make it much safer and cleaner and easier for people to choose walking and

cycling, which is not only best for the environment, but also best for us. this is a government facing the worst recession in 300 years. it is already spending enormous amounts of money on keeping the economy afloat. it has previously been committed to a road—building programme for cars. how optimistic are you that you can even get a hearing for the submission in the midst of the current crisis? our source of optimism is grant shapps the transport secretary saying he wants to decarbonise. i'm glad you mentioned the £27 billion road—building programme in the same breath as its only government is out of money. they are building roads through some countryside that we all value very highly, such as the south downs and the stonehenge world

heritage site. areas of outstanding natural beauty in the north. these schemes are dinosaurs. the road—building programme is not necessary. if you are going to decarbonise transport, as grant shapps says he wants to do, then walking and cycling should be top of the list. public transport also has to be invested in. this is notjust in urban areas either, rural areas as well, we did some research and found that over half of people living in small towns and villages in large parts of england were cut off from the basic services unless they had a car. so that means you cannot live in these places unless you a ccess cannot live in these places unless you access to a car, but if you are elderly or very young or have low income, you do not have. so we have to address these issues for a whole range of reasons across the country, and the money can be found. you will then end up with a much more sustainable solution. crispin truman, thank you. thank you.

the press secretary of the us vice—president, mike pence, has tested positive for covid—19. katie miller, who is married to a senior advisor to president trump, is the second white house worker to test positive this week. on thursday, it was confirmed that a member of the military serving as one of mr trump's valets had the virus. the president and the vice—president, who both have busy public schedules, are checked daily, and have so far tested negative for coronavirus. shops and businesses have started to partially re—open in the pakistani capital islamabad, as the government eases its nationwide coronavirus lockdown. clothing and shoe shops and small markets are among the first to start business, but malls are still shut. the moves came despite the rising number of cases in pakistan. i'm joined now by our south asia editor anbarasan ethirajan. why this decision, given that infections are rising? the government has been under intense

pressure for the past 50 days to do something about these restrictions, because most businesses were shut, and all the commercial passenger flights have been stopped, and petroleum use has half in the last two months, which means the government doesn't have that much of a tax revenue. and also revenue from abroad has been following it, because pakistan also depends on money sent by its migrant workers, nobody has been going anywhere for the last few months. many people have been made redundant because of this coronavirus crisis, which means they are not sending enough money home, as many liberals and workers in pakistan say, we will die because of hunger rather than coronavirus. the prime minister has not been a big fan of the complete shutdown, and he has been telling us pakistan is not a country which can afford to have this kind of a lockdown, and he has been calling for an easing of restrictions. each provincial government has had their own rules,

and as the prime minister pointed out, the coronavirus crisis has not been pakistan if you compare it with countries in western europe, like the uk or italy or spain, still it is only about 24,000 people infected, with around 600 deaths, in a country of more than 200 million, it is not a huge amount, and that has given the confidence to the government to partially reopen. they are not reopening everything all at once, they are in a phased manner restarting commercial activities. 0ne restarting commercial activities. one can only hope that this is successful, because obviously, the alternative is too horrible to contemplate. but really, it is very interesting what you say about the relatively low death count. why do pakistanis think that that is the case? do they think it is the case of actually, lots of deaths, they arejust of actually, lots of deaths, they are just not been counted, or do they think that is something specific which protects them in a way that other countries are not protected ?

way that other countries are not protected? it is notjust in pakistan. if you look at asian countries, for example in the neighbouring india, bangladesh, or even vietnam and cambodia, the deaths have been significantly lower when compared to western europe. scientists have been given various reasons. first of all, some people might say that not enough tests are being carried out. for example, in the uk we are told about close to 100,000 tests, with us in countries like pakistan or india, there could bea like pakistan or india, there could be a few thousand tests per day. so thatis be a few thousand tests per day. so that is one of the reasons also... still wondering whether any particular strain of this virus is not that intense because it is not only in pakistan, if you look at the whole of asia, the death rates have been significantly lower, and they are trying to find out the reason for this. they are coming out with various theories, venus examples, some even there were some vaccinations taken as an early age which have prevented it. or people are not which have prevented it. or people a re not really which have prevented it. or people are not really knowing how many people are being affected. that is one of the reasons why the pakistan government and also asian

governments, like in india where they have started easing restrictions, hoping that they may be able to bring this wider outbreak under control. they want to restart the economy, because these countries are running out of money, they don't have the luxury of germany or the uk where they have enough resources to manage for the next few months, because there are hundreds of millions of migrant workers that depend on a day—to—day earnings. they earn their money, they make their food and even commander they earn their money, they make theirfood and even commander go back to work the next day. for these people, the pakistan government has to start the economy. 0k, we are going to leave it there. thank you very much. china's president, xijinping, has offered support to neighbouring north korea in dealing with coronavirus, saying he is "very concerned about the situation". but north korea maintains it hasn't had a single confirmed case of the virus. i asked our correspondent in beijing, stephen mcdonell, what he makes of china's offer.

0n the face of it it seems like nothing, really. there was a message from the north korean leader to the chinese leader congratulating china on its efforts in defeating the coronavirus. so why wouldn't xi jinping then respond to him? but what made everyone sit up and listen is xijinping has expressed his concern about the coronavirus situation in north korea, offering chinese help. well, north korea hasn't acknowledged that it has even one single case of coronavirus. so why would it need chinese help? very interesting for china to be saying this and also saying it publicly. because it has now been reported on chinese state television. just going to the north korean situation, they were very swift to close the border to stop people travelling, so there claim they have no cases. they might point to their measures

and say, we acted early. yes, i think the first country to close its border back injanuary, as soon as the coronavirus outbreak happened, bang, north korea, an already pretty isolated country closed to full access to chinese tourists coming into the country and shut down the border. then, sort of strangely again, for 20 days, the north korean leader kim jong—un went missing. i mean, even not turning up for the celebrations for his grandfather's birthday which is the most important festival in the country. then to sort of strangely reappear weeks later for the opening of a fertiliser factory, apparently with no health problems at all. there has been some speculation he was possibly hiding out, if i could put it that way, trying to make sure that he didn't get the coronavirus. but again, they are saying there is no coronavirus at all in north korea.

so it is really hard to tell what on earth is going on there. the magician roy horn — of the well—known las vegas act seigfried and roy — has died at the age of 75 after contracting coronavirus. their show closed in 2003 after roy was attacked by one of their white tigers. a warning, this report contains some flashing images. known for a list of tricks and closeness with big cats, roy and his partner siegfried stunned audiences around the world. the german born magician starred in a long—running las vegas and built around rare tigers. it answered you're a star on hollywood's walk of fame. in 2003, we show ended when a tiger lunged at roy's throat in front of a live

audience. he suffered serious injuries, but survived and continued his lifelong love of cats. aged 75, a publicist confirmed mr horne died from complications of covid—19, leaving behind a remarkable legacy in show business. you're watching bbc news. a look at todays weather with louise lear. hello there. 0ur weekend is definitely a tale of two halves, with the best of the sunshine and the warmth reserved for today. take a look at shropshire earlier on, not a cloud in the sky. just as beautiful but a little more threatening across the highlands, with some dark leaden skies. there was quite a lot of cloud in scotland and it's producing some rain today as well. this is the satellite picture where the thick cloud is sitting to the north. not much in the way of cloud across much of england and wales, that's where the best of the sunshine and the warmth

is going to be today. some of that rain to the north—west of the great glen will be quite heavy as well through the day and the winds are strengthening as well. some sharp showers breaking out in one or two spots but dodge the showers, keep the sunshine, and temperatures peaking between 22 and 24 celsius. that's the mid 70s in terms of fahrenheit. but the colder air sitting into the far north will sink its way steadily south through the night tonight, perhaps not arriving to the extreme south until later on into sunday but it will feel different. that rain pushes its way out of scotland into the north of england and northern ireland by dawn on sunday morning, weakening a little. behind it, some wintry showers. so we could have a dusting of snow anywhere above 100 metres. with temperatures into the low single figures. you will probably wonder what all the fuss is about across england and wales first thing in the morning. a relatively mild start with some sunshine. but as that weak weather front sinks south, a band of cloud and a little bit of patchy rain and colder air arrives as well. it's notjust the source of the wind, strength, too. a cold northerly flow gusting

in excess of 30—40 mph really will take the edge off of the feel of the weather. for many, temperatures down a good 10—13 celsius. in comparison to today, along exposed maximum ofjust between six and eight celsius, even in london we are looking at 13. gardeners and growers, take note. sunday night into monday morning, with clear skies we could wake up to a frost. and that is going to be a bit of an issue for those tender spring plants. things stay relatively quiet but on the cool side as we go into the next week. winds are likely to ease through the middle part of the week. not that much significant rain, mostly dry, but frosty nights with the winds slowly easing. take care.

hello and welcome to dateline london. i'm carrie gracie. this weekend, europe marks the 75th anniversary of the end of world war two on european soil. lockdown, grieving and economic paralysis weren't part of the original plan for celebrations. a lot of fighting talk has been deployed in relation to covid—19 and a lot of talk about solidarity too. but are there real lessons on fighting or solidarity that the descendants of the second world war generation could teach us now? my guests, on socially

distanced screens, are guardian columnist nesrine malik, and henry chu of the la times. welcome to both of you.