this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. my name is mike embley. the british prime minister defends his plan to relax the lockdown in england at a faster rate than the rest of the uk. it is very good advice for the entire population of the united kingdom. families‘ joy as spain begins to ease one of europe's strictest lockdowns. in the united states, president trump announces virus testing for more americans. as lockdowns are loosened, how can countries prevent a second wave of infections? we speak to a health expert.

hello to you. we begin in the uk, the country with the second highest number of recorded deaths from covid—19 in the world, after the us. prime minister boris johnson and his colleagues have sought to provide answers to some of the many questions asked about the plan to relax the lockdown in england. the government has now published a 50—page document. but scotland, wales, and northern ireland have their own powers over restrictions and say it's too soon to relax measures to the same extent. laura kuenssberg reports. was the day any different? on the wild yorkshire coast? on the quiet manchester commute? to a few more travellers on london's lines, all trying to work out what the slow train to a new normal looks like, with many questions tonight put direct to the prime minister. yesterday, you left the nation with more questions than answers.

why have you been so vague with who can start back at work and which businesses can reopen this week? it's when you come to take small steps back to normality, as we are now, that clearly, the message becomes finer, more complicated. earlier there were plenty of questions from mps too. the prime minister made no bones about the complexity but the opposition, like many of the public, wants crystal clear messages too. what the country needs at this time is clarity and reassurance and at the moment, both are in pretty short supply. and at the heart of the problem, it seems, is that the prime minister made a statement last night before the plan was written or at least finalised, and that has caused considerable confusion. and whether it's near empty parks in cardiff, or deserted beaches of aberdeen, the administrations in scotland, wales, and northern ireland

are taking a different path, sticking to the stay at home message with sharp political disagreement. there is now a three nations apply which. and i mean with no malice, but for the sake of clarity, can he confirm that most everything he has announced today, the prime minister, is acting as the prime minister of england. no, mr speaker, prime minister of england. no, mrspeaker, a prime minister of england. no, mr speaker, a reject that completely. it is very good advice of the entire population of the united kingdom though a perfectly respect the inflections and variations that may be necessary both locally, regionally, nationally to reflect differences in those areas. in number 10, there has been worry for weeks, not just about the disease, of course, but about how to keep the public onside when a new phase begins with more complicated instructions. those concerns were well placed. there are, prime minister, different instructions for people in different

parts of the uk. you can see your colleagues if you go to work, but grandparents can't look after their children. many employers say they are just not ready to have people back to work yet. so what do you say to millions of people watching right now who may well be a bit perplexed about what you're actually trying to say, and what they are meant to do? yes, of course the message that we were giving out initially was incredibly clear and incredibly stark and the uk population actually obeyed it more thoroughly perhaps than many other populations around the world. we really did stay at home. we need to make progress if we possibly can in relaxing some of the measures very, very cautiously. the elastic bonds between westminster, belfast, edinburgh and cardiff are certainly being stretched and, in private, frustration among tory mps is bubbling up too. one cabinet minister confided the situation was so complicated, they feel like they almost cannot win, but no question, unease about the government's handling of the crisis is certainly starting to spread. this emergency

is on such a scale, it is impossible for the course to be smooth, but when lives and livelihoods are both at stake, political anxiety is running high too. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, westminster. in spain, the first stages of a plan to re—open took effect on monday, but only for about half of the population who live in less badly—affected areas. cafes and restaurants have re—opened outdoor terraces, and gatherings up to ten people are now allowed. but other restrictions remain in place. spain has been one of europe's worst hit countries, with more than 200,000 infections and 26,000 deaths. so any taste of freedom is being savoured, as damian grammaticas reports. old friends... ..back in their old haunts for the first time in

two months today. this is lockdown lifting spanish style. morning coffee flowing again, national rituals restarting. for sonia, a hospital cleaner, breakfast outdoors is a treat she has been dreaming of. translation: i love it, iam happy. i do not mind spending all day at home, no problem, but breakfast i have to have outside. spain began relaxing controls on everyday life. but not everywhere. this is quinca, population 200,000. from today in phase one of spain's easing. two hours away, madrid is under tight restrictions and so is barcelona and about half the country. this family live a couple hundred metres away from their two aunts. until today, they have not

been able to visit them. now, up to ten people, family and friends can gather where easing is allowed. hugs and kisses. in the time they've been separated, baby clara has turned one and started to walk. it is amazing. for all of us. so much time with no touch and today is a very happy day for all of us. the grandparents are not allowed to be part of this. that will come, but still for this family and for half of spain moving to phase one, it is — after all the dark days — something to celebrate.

there are now more than four million coronavirus infections around the world and a quarter of all those cases are in the us, where nearly 80,000 people have died. the virus has even hit the white house, with two cases there. it's now compulsory to wear masks in the west wing for almost everyone. and, as president trump pushes us states to reopen, he's just announced more coronavirus testing for americans. the bbc‘s nada tawfik has the latest. at aioli gourmet burgers in phoenix, this is what the new normal looks like. booths taken out, markers on the ground and barriers in place for safety. arizona became the latest state on monday to allow restaurants to reopen since the coronavirus. owner tommy d'ambrosio was eager to welcome customers back inside, but like so many others, still worries about his restaura nt‘s survival. when you have to limit capacity, it really makes it difficult to make just enough money to keep the lights on and keep

all of our employees. a number of other small businesses in arizona say they won't open their doors until medical experts say it's safe to do so. the same debate is playing out across the country as many states forge ahead with reopening their economies. in new york, the epicentre of the virus in the us, governor andrew cuomo says the state was right back to where it started its journey. hospitalisations have retreated to the same levels as when the lockdown began nearly two months ago. you were on the other side of the mountain, right? we got hit with the virus, we saw that incline, we saw the number of cases growing, we saw the number of deaths growing, we finally hit a plateau because we did what we needed to do, and we changed our behaviour and we closed down and we turned a corner and then we started to come down the other side, and that was the decline, and now the decline has gotten

to a point where we are just about where we started the journey. upstate regions will be allowed to partially reopen this weekend, but it will be weeks, if not longer, for the city. but when new york is taken out of the equation, though, infections in the united states are on the rise. the nation's capital has yet to reach its peak and is gearing up its response. over the last 22 days, work has been under way to convert the convention centre into a temporary hospital. it is now ready to take patients, but officials hope it is never needed. on its doorstep after aides had tested positive. three health officials including dr anthony fauci are now quarantining on some level. it comes as death toll projections from a model used by their teams showed over 570,000 deaths by august 4th. it's the second time in two weeks that those numbers have been revised upwards. we've seen just explosive

increases in mobility in a number of states that we expect to translate into more cases and deaths in ten days from now. never before has america faced such a daunting public health and economic emergency, and without cure or a vaccine, it's impossible to know how long it will last. nada tawfik, bbc news, newjersey. daniel lippman is white house reporter for politico. he's in washington. daniel, good to talk to you. you have very good contacts in washington. what are you hearing about safety systems within the white house and also about the mindset of the president and vice president? we never see the president, for instance, ina we never see the president, for instance, in a mask? we don't. he says that all thinks to himself that it makes them look wea k himself that it makes them look weak and he doesn't want to be meeting with foreign leaders or dignitaries wearing a mask. the safety systems in the last 2a

hours in the white house has really increased as those to a tested positive. for months now we have been monitoring the situation and white house aides proudly said they did not want to wear a mask. they do not wa nt to to wear a mask. they do not want to confuse the public. they do not want to make the public feel like everything is melting down, but they also wa nt to melting down, but they also want to protect president's safety, so they know that people can be asymptomatic and still infect the present. because they will be well aware of the level of cases, the level of maths in the rest of the country. we never really hear much empathy from the president about that but there must be a level of their in the white house now. there is. and he's not a big share your feelings guy. he's more focused on reopening the economy, which he sees as critical for his re—election prospects, because he had based his entire campaign oni he had based his entire campaign on i was thejobs president, eye brought america's economy back to new heights, and now we are in

almost a great depression, so it's very hard for him to give that message. and even though he wants america to return to work, he was getting asked a lot of questions by white house reporters today at that press conference saying that if you can't even keep the white house safe and you are having people still work from home at the white house, then how can you tell americans to go back to work, especially because most americans don't have the benefit of daily testing like many people in the west wing. and, daniel, talking about that press briefing and questions, stay with me a minute, they wa nt to stay with me a minute, they want to queue up something. the president announced more testing, of course, which was very welcome. just before it finished there is something else which this press briefing is going to be remembered, u nfortu nately. is going to be remembered, unfortunately. why is this a global competition to you if everyday americans are still losing their lives and we still more cases every day? well, they are losing their lives everywhere in the world and, maybe, that's a question you

should ask china. don't ask me. ask china that question. when you ask them that question you may get a very unusual answer. yes, behind you, please. so, why are you saying that to me, specifically? i'm telling you. i'm not saying it specifically to anyone. i would ask it —— say to anyone who would ask you nasty say to anyone who would ask you na sty wa s say to anyone who would ask you nasty was it like that. please go and stop daniel yet again, a lot of people would take from that that the president seems to have a problem with women, often african—american women, in this case a chinese woman. this is not good news. he marched off afterwards. his aides are probably tearing their hair out, because you don't want to have a performance from a prison where he walks away from his own press co nfe re nce . he walks away from his own press conference. usually want something where you are dignified and ending it on your own terms. and so he can have a temper at times. in the white house he is known to swear a lot sometimes and get mad at aides, including his own

son—in—law, jared kushner, when he feels like he has been let down or they're not doing a good enoughjob. down or they're not doing a good enough job. and down or they're not doing a good enoughjob. and so it sometimes doesn't even matter if you are a woman or a minority, he doesn't sometimes care. hejust gets mad and poor performance or add people being mean to him, like he takes reporters, his very thin—skinned at times. reporters, his very thin-skinned at times. daniel lippman of politico, thank you very much. thank you. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: fears of discrimination in south korea, as a recent outbreak of covid—i9 in the capital is traced to a district popular with the gay community. the pope was shot, the pope will live — that's the essence of the appalling news from rome this afternoon, that, as an italian television commentator put it, terrorism had come to the vatican. the man they called the ‘butcher of lyon,‘ klaus barbie, went on trial today in the french town where he was the gestapo chief

in the second world war. winnie mandela never looked like a woman just sentenced to six years injail. the judge told mrs mandela there was no indication she felt even the slightest remorse. the chinese government has called for an all—out effort to help the victims of a powerful earthquake, the worst to hit the country for 30 years. the computer deep blue has tonight triumphed over the world chess champion, garry kasparov. it's the first time a machine has defeated a reigning world champion in a classical chess match. america's first legal same—sex marriages have been taking place in massachusetts. god bless america! cheering this is bbc news, the latest headlines: borisjohnson says his plan to ease the lockdown in england faster than other parts of the uk is fit for purpose. after two months,

spain and some other european countries start to ease their lockdowns. with many countries in the world debating how best to end the lockdown and enable shops and offices to open again, the main worry remains that the virus could spread again, leading to a second wave of infections. dr eleanor murray is assistant professor of epidemiology at boston university. she's in boston now. thank you very much indeed for your time. of course, we talk about a second wave but for most it feels like we're not finished with the first wave yet. yes, i think that's definitely the case. right now we've seen a lot of countries and regions starting to flatten the increase in cases, but we're still in a situation where in most countries, the number of that are active now is as high as it's ever been, so we're really not finished with the first wave yet. what

are your worries about countries beginning to open up like this? i think if we see people opening up and not changing their behaviour from what life was like in february or early march, what we expect is we will take off on that same trajectory again, except now instead of starting from a handful of cases in any given city or region, we are going to be starting from hundreds or thousands of cases, and that's the worst—case scenario, that we ta ke the worst—case scenario, that we take back off on that exponential trajectory. there's lots of things we can put in place to limit that an open up safely, but that's the thing most worried about seeing. given the economy ‘s shutdown with a comparatively handful of cases, another wave could be really serious. it would not even be a second wave byjust a continuation of the first wave, which hasn't really ended. you have a particular concern, and this was interesting but very

worrying, about air—conditioning. worrying, about air-conditioning. yeah, this is something we will need to look into more and think about as we head into the summer in a lot of regions in the globe. there was a report in early march from china of families dining ata from china of families dining at a restaurant where one of the individuals was presymptomatic, and from what they could figure out, transmitted infection to up to ten other individuals in the restau ra nt, ten other individuals in the restaurant, but only those seated along the path of the air—conditioner from that first initial case. this does suggest that even though we believe that even though we believe that sars covid two is spread by droplets and they don't travel more than two metres, when we have a situation like a strong air—conditioning system blowing, that can potentially spread may be up to three or four metres, about the distance the infection might have spread in this restaurant setting, so we will have to think carefully

about how and when to operate air—conditioners safely in indoor settings. briefly, if you don't mind, in a form that we can remember, is there one thing that you should do or shouldn't do that you recommend? i personally have been avoiding public transit. i'm in boston, the public transit system here can get very crowded, so that's something i've been avoiding. if that's something people can do, it's probably a good idea to avoid the cause anywhere where you will be crowded in with people, it's going to be really ha rd to with people, it's going to be really hard to avoid transmission if anyone around you is infected. doctor murray, thank you so much. south korean health officials are offering anonymous tests to those who visited gay dance clubs in seoul that have become the centre of a recent coronavirus outbreak. 86 new cases have been linked to a handful of venues in itaewon district, which is popular with the lg btq community. more than 3,000 people who visited the affected clubs at the beginning of may have yet to contact the authorities for testing.

it's thought many visitors provided false names and contact details when entering itaewon's bars and clubs, as homophobia remains widespread in south korea. let's speak now to journalist nemo kim, who has been covering this story in seoul, and bomi kim, a gay rights activist, also in seoul. bomi, thank you for talking to us, those of all, tell people briefly if you could what happened here. hi, my name is bomi, and here in south korea i would like to tell you about the situation first of all. there is a fear and at the beginning of the covid—i9 situation the fear came from the fact that anyone who was infected or tested will be identified as gay because of various identified as gay because of various reasons, many identified as gay because of various reasons, many of us are not open to the society. since covid—i9 was relatively well—controlled in south korea

the incident, incident, anyone who got tested was identified. christians then identified the clu bs christians then identified the clubs as gay clubs, spreading the fact and focusing on gays rather than fighting the virus. they encourage homophobia by talking about gay culture like 93v talking about gay culture like gay saunas in extreme ways. being identified as gay in korea means more than pride and shame. south korea is a country without antidiscrimination law, it leads to bullying and losing 1's it leads to bullying and losing i'sjob is possible. clubbing was already growing among korean people with the media pointing fingers at gay culture overall, homophobic

responses. . . overall, homophobic responses... there is a historical culture of homophobia. can i speak to nemo for a moment, what is the thinking about how the authorities have dealt with this? from the people i have spoken to within the gay community, most of seemed extremely unhappy and some told me they felt even suicidal regarding the measures taken by the south korean authorities. some provinces have decided to provide anonymous testing, and also at the beginning they were only giving free testing to people who had actually been to certain businesses. you actually had to name the businesses, thereby revealing the nature of the businesses, but certain provinces such as the one near seoul, they have said you can go to the testing

ce ntre said you can go to the testing centre and say you've been around the area without actually telling... without actually telling... without actually revealing the name of the businesses, which is a little bit better than before, but many people within the gay community feel that it's too little coming to light. nemo, with 3000 people still to come forward , with 3000 people still to come forward, that's potentially a lot of virus cases wandering around ina lot of virus cases wandering around in a country that has now with the virus so well up until now —— that has dealt with. that's right. from what bomi has been telling us, i don't see there's any alternative for people to try to make people come forward and get tested. the mayor of seoul said, come on, if you don't get tested and if we later find out you've been to these clubs, you will be fined 2 million korean won. “—

will be fined 2 million korean won. “ wan. will be fined 2 million korean won. —— wan. would that work? speaking to many members of the 95v speaking to many members of the gay community about this, i doubt it. speakfrom doubt it. speak from the heart for a moment and be brief, bomi, you have confidence in the way it is being dealt with? could you tell me again? i have to ask you to be very brief because we don't have much time, but from the heart, from your own personal experience, very briefly, do you have confidence in the way this is being dealt with and confidence in the authorities? actually in south cities it is possible to take a test mostly, and it is true we value our government has said the things we need to make progress on. people need to ta ke tests progress on. people need to take tests to be safe not just for them but for their friends and family, so the government

should promote the tests. we will have to leave it there, please forgive me, i hope we can come back to this, bomi. hello again. we've got another few cool days coming our way before the weather turns milder as we head into the weekend. now, at the moment, the satellite picture shows cloud in france. that's been bringing some extreme falls of rain here. satellite pictures to the north of the uk, where our eye is coming from, shows a lot of cloud working into scotland. that cloud is bringing showers at the moment, and they'll continue over the next few hours as well, mostly across northern scotland. elsewhere, it's largely dry. quite a bit of cloud for eastern areas. it stays quite breezy as well, and that should keep the temperatures for the most part above freezing. but with lighter winds and clearer skies in wales, parts of the midlands and south—west england, these are the areas where we're most likely to see temperatures drop low enough to give

us some frost to start the day on tuesday. now, high pressure's still influencing the weather on tuesday, but we've got this cold front diving southwards into scotland as the day goes by. so, for many of us, a bright start to the day. there'll be some sunshine around. it tends to turn a bit cloudier through the day, and there is a risk of a few showers working into perhaps north—western areas of england and wales. but, at the same time, we've got this cold front bringing rain and probably a bit of snow into parts of scotland. northern ireland, england and wales, temperatures ii—i3 degrees, but through the afternoon, as that cold front works southwards, we get colder air, 5—6 celsius. the rain turning to snow for a time. wintry showers follow for shetland and orkney. it will be a colder day for these far northern areas than it was compared with monday. high pressure is still there on wednesday, but eventually, it's going start to bring in a more of a north—westerly flow of air. so eventually, it starts to turn a bit milder, but the cold air still filters its way southwards down the north sea. so, wednesday, these northerly winds probably bringing a slight drop in temperatures

to parts of eastern england, and again, there will be some bright whether around. probably turning quite cloudy for a time during the afternoon. it's across western areas that we'll start to see the temperatures begin to lift a little bit, with highs up to 15 degrees in cardiff and plymouth, and maybe 12 or so in glasgow. as we head towards the end of the week and the weekend, high pressure keeps the mainly dry weather. eventually, though, that starts to decline, and we get these weather fronts just toppling in across the north of the high pressure, bringing some thicker cloud, and that will ultimately bring the threat of rain this weekend to parts of scotland. but for most of us, it will be turning milder this weekend.

this is bbc news. the headlines: borisjohnson has defended his plans to relax the lockdown, saying the strategy applies to all of the united kingdom, notjust england. however, scotland, wales, and northern ireland, who have their own powers over the lockdown, say it's too soon to relax measures to the same extent. some european countries have cautiously begun to lift their lockdowns, with millions back in work after eight weeks of restrictions. cafes and restaurants have re—opened outdoor terraces, and gatherings up to ten people are now allowed in parts of spain that have been less affected by the coronavirus. president trump has announced more coronavirus testing for americans, but has had to deny that the safety system at the white house has broken down. an aide to vice president pence has tested positive for the virus, and that's prompted three senior health officials to quarantine themselves. most staff in and around the west wing are now wearing masks, although mr trump has not been seen in one.