welcome to bbc news. i'm mike embley. our top stories: 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 approach. wales, scotland and northern ireland all agree on policy and message, and i mean this

with no malice but for the sake of clarity, can he confirm that on almost everything he has announced today, the prime minister is acting as the prime minister of england? no, mr speaker, i reject that completely. it is very good advice for the entire population of the united kingdom though i perfectly respect the inflections and variations that may be necessary both locally, regionally, and nationally to reflect differences in those areas. in number 10, there's 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. damian grammaticas, bbc news, quinca, there are now more than four million coronavirus infections around the world and a quarter of all those cases are in

the us, where 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, in a briefing he has announced more coronavirus testing for americans and he has also defended his strategy. the bbc‘s north america correspondent peter bowes gave me more details. well, the president saying that systems haven't broken down at the white house. as we've heard, it was a member of mike pence, the vice president's staff, one of his aides that tested positive under another member of staff who has access to the white house. the president responding to this, effectively saying these things happen, it is the hidden enemy, suggesting that — quite rightly — the white house isn't immune from this virus and it can infect people there as well. but it is clear that some of the precautions in that building have been tightened with masks being worn

by just about everyone in the west wing. the president hasn't been seen wearing a mask himself, yet it was interesting at this news conference, though, he was more separated from everyone else, including another of the speakers, one of his scientific experts who was using a completely separate podium, something we haven't seen before. so to some extent, self—isolation within the west wing while still working with his colleagues is what the president is doing. and the president has announced more testing nationally, which is bound to be welcome. yes, some $11 billion being sent out to the states and us territories to ramp up the testing, and the message from president trump is that anyone who wants a test can have one. a slightly different phrase from his medical expert was that anyone who needs a test can have one, and they were both saying they don't believe everyone has to have a test. if you don't have any symptoms, it's not necessary but clearly

if you're showing the signs of having coronavirus, you should have a test, especially if you're going back to work. and that wasn't the only takeaway from press briefing, there was a row. there was a row in the final minute of the press conference, and looking at social media, this seems to be what is dominating the coverage. he was asked a question by a reporter, a chinese—american reporter from cbs, and she asked why, just to paraphrase what she said, she was asking about the emphasis the president puts on the global competition, and that's because he often talks about how america is testing more people than other countries. she said that kind of emphasis when still people are dying in the united states. his response was that people are dying everywhere, but that that wasn't a question for him, he said, "ask china", to which she said, "why are you specifically saying that to me?", a chinese—american reporter,

and he said, "i'm not saying it specifically to anybody," he would say it to anyone who asked a nasty question like that. peter bowes for us there. let's get some of the day's other news. the usjustice department is looking at whether to bring hate crime charges in the killing of ahmaud arbery. the 25—year—old black man was shot and killed while he was out for a run in georgia in february. two white men were arrested for his killing, but only after a national outcry about the handling of the case. the electric car maker tesla has defied local health officials in california and restarted production at its factory there. alameda county, east of san francisco, wants tesla to stay shut. but on saturday, the company filed a lawsuit against the county, claiming it was violating the state's guidance. 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. right now we are seeing a lot of countries, a lot of regions are starting to flatten off the increase in cases, but we're still at situation where, in most countries, the number of cases that are at now is as high as it's ever been and so we're high as it's ever been and so we' re really not high as it's ever been and so we're really not finished the first wave yet. so what are your worries about countries beginning to open up like this was yellow so i think, if we see people opening up and not changing their behaviour from what life was like in february oi’ what life was like in february or early march, then what we expect is we willjust take off on that same sort of trajectory again, instead now instead of starting from a handful of cases in any regional city or country will be starting from thousands of cases. i think that's the worst case scenario, that's the worst case scenario, that we take back often that

exponential trajectory. there are exponential trajectory. there a re lots of exponential trajectory. there are lots of things we can kinda put in to limit that, to try to open up safely, but that is the thing we're most worried about seeing. because given that economies shut down with was, in comparison, was a handful of cases, another wave could be really, really, really serious. yes, exactly. it would be not even really a second wave that sort of a continuation of this first wave which hasn't really entered. you have a particular concern, i think, entered. you have a particular concern, ithink, and entered. you have a particular concern, i think, and this was interesting but very worrying, about air—conditioning. interesting but very worrying, about air-conditioning. so, yeah, ithink about air-conditioning. so, yeah, i think this is something we're going to have look into more as we head into the summer ina lot more as we head into the summer in a lot of regions in the globe. there was a report in early march from china of family standing at a restaurant where one of the individuals was presymptomatic and from what they could figure out transmitted infections 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. and so this does suggest that even though, you know, we believe it is spread by droplets and those typically don't travel more than about two metres, when we have a situation like a strong air—conditioning system blowing that can potentially spread up to maybe three or four metres, which is about the distance that the infection might have spread in this restaurant setting. and so we're going to need to think very carefully about how and when to operate air—conditioner safely in indoor settings. if you don't mind, very briefly in a form that we can remember, is there one particular thing that you don't do or do do that you recommend? so i think, i've 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. i think if that's something people can do is probably a goodidea people can do is probably a good idea to avoid, because

anywhere where you are going to be crowded in with people it's going to be really hard to avoid transmission if anyone around you is infected. dr eleanor murray at boston university. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: positive signs that some professional sports may be able to resume play in the near future, but questions remain over how to keep games safe for all. 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. health officials in

the state of new york are investigating 85 cases of children with an inflammatory disease possibly linked to covid—i9. other states have also been alerted to the newly discovered symptoms in children, which can include inflammation of the heart. here's new york governor andrew cuomo. this does not present as a normal covid case. covid cases tend to be respiratory. this presents as an inflammation of the blood vessels, sometimes inflammation of the heart. it is possible that these cases we re is possible that these cases were coming in and were not diagnosed as related to covid because they don't appear as covid. he went on to talk about an entirely different chapter of the disease. we'rejoined by dr mike zody, scientific director of computational biology at the new york genome centre. thank you for your time, good

to talk to you. what do you make of this? do you think there is a link between this disease, kawasaki disease, some call it an covid—i9, and what is kawasaki disease? kawasaki disease or kawasaki syndrome is in orto disease or kawasaki syndrome is in or to inflammatory autoimmune disorder that involves inflammation primarily of the blood vessels, although this causes a number of different symptoms including fevers, rashes and in severe cases, damage to the organs or aneurysms that can be fatal. and the reason in this case that we think this is related to covid is that both in new york and in other places, hospitals are reporting a significant uptick in the number of patients who are coming in with the symptoms and many of them are testing positive for either the presence of the coronavirus or for antibodies indicating they may have had it in the past. how worried about these are you

and your colleagues? i know it's a very rare disease but it can't just be new it's a very rare disease but it can'tjust be new york, canada, alone? there must be other cases which are not being spotted yet. —— can it. cases which are not being spotted yet. -- can it. that's correct. when you look at the number of cases in total that we have in new york and of this severe syndrome we are seeing in children, it's likely other places that have you a cases probably have fewer instances of the childhood syndrome as well and may not be recognising it as being covid — related. kawasaki occurs at some low rate in the background. you have a study you are undertaking with new york state in the rockefeller centre. what do you expect to find, how concerned are you about this? in terms of concern level, i think obviously because it's a severe repercussion and it's in the population that has not been hit particularly hard by this disease so far, but it's

children, it's important from a public health perspective that we understand how likely this is to be a severe problem when we think about the possibility that there will be children infected with covid in the future so we knew from kawasaki in general there is a genetic component to it and we are hoping to understand if we can figure out who is at risk for this through the genetics and whether that gives us some insight into the way the viruses interacting with the body ‘s immune system that might help us both treat these patients but more generally to understand treatment of covid. i have to ask you to answer this briefly. it's unfair to ask you for a brief answer but pa rents a re ask you for a brief answer but parents are thinking, covid—i9, it seems to cause only mild symptoms in children but pa rents symptoms in children but parents everywhere hearing you talking about this will be freaking out. should they? i don't think they should be freaking out but i think they should be concerned and i think they should look for symptoms

that seem severe but atypical for covid. fever that lasts a very long time without any respiratory symptoms, that might be indicative of this and i think they should be concerned of their children have had covid and then have a secondary illness after they think they are over the respiratory symptoms. in which case, get the kids to hospitalise fast as possible?” think in which case they should ask their doctor what to do. i don't know if i would recommend that everyone who is concerned rushed to the hospital right away. dr mike zody, thank you very much. as we've heard, various countries around the world are starting to lift lockdown restrictions — but that's not the case in latin america, where infections continue to rise and where some authorities are implementing some of the stiffest lockdown measures seen so far. rich preston has this report. varying measures to restrict movement have been in place in brazil since mid march but here

in niteroi near rio dejaneiro, this is only day one of a lockdown, but officials are put in place forjust one week to try and stop the spread of covid—i9. brazil is the worst hit country in south america with over 165,000 cases in more than 11,000 deaths but scientists say the real figure could be much higher due to a lack of protesting. even 15 or 20 times higher. scientists say brazil may not even reach its peakfor brazil may not even reach its peak for several more weeks. still's peak for several more weeks. still‘s leaderjair bolsonaro was supposed to lockdown measures which he sees as being too damaging to the country's economy. state governors implementing lockdown have done so without the support of their president. further north, el salvador has some of the strictest lockdown measures in place. public transport has been suspended, you can only go shopping twice a week and those violating the lockdown measures are detained but feelings amongst salvadorans are split. some say they understand the

need to protect lives while others say it is impacting them financially. translation: health is what is important and thatis health is what is important and that is what we are seeing right now. the government are taken right now. the government are ta ken care of right now. the government are taken care of our health. translation: if the situation continues like this, sooner or later you're going to see people rise up. nobody wants to die from hunger in their home. translation: there is no work for anyone, nobody can make any money because you can't go out. i think the measures they've imposed are good because it. the infection is but yes, we've been infected by it. the country's supreme court has ordered the president not to detain those violating restrictions which he says are in place to save lives. the country has reported just over 950 cases of the virus and 18 deaths. richard preston, bbc news. the uk government's announced that professional sport may be allowed to go ahead — but not until next month at the earliest. clubs from the english premier

league — one of the most lucrative football competitions in the world — met on monday to discuss their next steps — but it's still not clear how the game will resume. the bbc‘s tim allman reports. slowly, ever so slowly, put all begins its comeback. barcelona players training by themselves to avoid any chance of spreading the virus. the president of la liga says he hopes matches will resume on june 12. in germany, the big kickoff is planned this weekend although one team, dinamo dresden, is in isolation after two of their players tested positive for covid—19. on the other games will go ahead without one rather crucial element. spectators. translation: i think that people will just translation: i think that people willjust be happy to watch football on their screens at home. and of course for all of us, it's a completely new experience. we've never known the situation with coronavirus but we have complete our games without spectators. the fate of

the english premier league is still up the english premier league is stillup in the english premier league is still up in the air. clubs are struggling to agree a way forward and face potentially huge losses if a deal can't be reached. after the latest meeting, the premier league's chief executive richard masters issued a statement, saying: the moment we do go back, just needs to make sure it's a situation it's not just needs to make sure it's a situation it's notjust for football reasons, it's safe, not just for us football reasons, it's safe, notjust for us all as per the whole medical staff, the referees. but away from foot tall, has actually resumed, with a meeting at longchamps. there were no crowds on the jockeys had to wear face masks but it is progress of shorts.

—— progress of sorts. and you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter — i'm @bbcmikeembley. 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 11—13 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 brings the threat of rain this weekend to parts of scotland. for most of us, milder this weekend.

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boris johnson 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 10 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.

the russian government has announced that it