good evening. temperatures are set to climb over the next few days, a lot of dry weather as well, but there is a chance of rain the further north and west you are across the uk, and actually we will see some rain across parts of scotland and northern ireland this is bbc news. i'm samantha simmonds. through tonight, some rain across the far north, our top stories: and also these outbreaks of rain italy's prime minister pushing in from the west. that front running up against admits coronavirus cases this area of dry pressure, could rise, as the keeping things high in the country is set to ease south, and that squeezed travel restrictions between the high pressure under frontal systems pushing in from the west will drive the error from the south — an increasingly warm feel over from earlyjune. coming days. for sunday we see some rain across the northern half of the uk. northern wales, northern england, the odd spot of rain which will peter out translation: we are facing this risk and we must accept it through the day. across northern ireland and scotland, it will figure out through lunchtime, but more wet weather otherwise we will never be able from the west into the late to start again. afternoon. further south, the uk education secretary warns the longer england's spells of hazy sunshine and schools are closed, the more light winds here, more of a children will miss out, as the government presses breeze the further north you on with plans to re—open them. are, and those temperatures — ba rack obama delivers another scathing attack on the trump administration's 17 in aberdeen, 20 to 21 across handling of the pandemic. it's game on — south—east england. just 19 germany's bundesliga becomes degrees in lerwick but shetland will spend much of the day the first major european league under sunny skies. as we head to restart, playing through sunday night we will see these outbreaks of rain once again pushing through

northern areas. further south to an empty stadium. predominantly dry with some clear spells and certainly not a cold night — actually quite a mild one. nine to 11 degrees as # waterloo couldn't we begin monday morning. escape if i wanted to... monday's weather set up as a and abba's waterloo has been named as the greatest similar one. high—pressure to eurovision song of all the south, frontal systems to time by bbc viewers. the south, frontal systems to the north. a bit of a gap between these two frontal systems, so even across northern areas there will be a fairamount of dry northern areas there will be a fair amount of dry weather. we see these outbreaks of rain drifting from mainland scotland and across the northern isles. afairamount of hello and welcome to bbc news. and across the northern isles. a fair amount of cloud, and a we start with the latest similar story for northern ireland and northern england. developments on the coronavirus further south, dry with some outbreak in the uk, and globally. spells of sunshine, and more than 310,000 people have died slightly warmer, again, 23 degrees in london. into as a result of covid—19 around the world. tuesday, another fine, dry people in germany have been protesting degrees in london. into tuesday, anotherfine, dry and largely sunny way for much of against lockdown restrictions. england and wales, but for northern ireland and scotland, the biggest gathering was in stuttgart, cloud and some splashes of rain where 5,000 demonstrators at times, but not all the time. turned out. in wuhan, where the first cases temperatures here between 1a were detected, and 18, but the further south authorities say they've and 18, but the further south and east you are, highs of 25 tested 3 million people. but residents are worried and east you are, highs of 25 and 26. we could touch 27 in that the very act of being tested could expose the south on wednesday. by them to the virus. thursday, the increasing chance we could see rain spreading

in india a court has detained from the west, and it will nearly 70 members of start to turn a bit cooler. an islamic missionary movement for allegedly spreading coronavirus in the city of bhopal. and in the us the national high school graduation ceremony is taking place online. former president barack obama and a number of celebrities are taking part. the italian prime minister, giuseppe conte, says his country is taking a calculated risk by rolling back lockdown measures from next week. the county's daily death toll from covid—i9 has now fallen to its lowest since the 9th of march. mr conte admits there could be another rise, but says the country cannot afford to wait any longer. freya cole reports. italy's wait is almost over. from monday day to day liberties will slowly resume and byjune third there will be even greater freedoms like domestic and international travel. but the process comes with a warning.

translation: we are facing a calculated risk. to put it frankly, we know the contagion curve may rise again. preparations are taking place across the entire country to get ready for this new phase of life. beauty salons and shops can resume trade on monday. gyms and swimming pools will open on may 25th. cinemas and theatres will follow in mid june. but measures must be taken this is bbc news, the headlines: to make sure people are kept italy's prime minister has said as safe as possible. coronavirus cases could rise, as travel restrictions are set to ease from the beginning ofjune. translation: we must accept the risk. guiseppe conte said italy must otherwise, we will never be accept the risk otherwise the country will never be able to start again. able to start again. we should wait until a vaccine the uk government has is discovered and distributed, defended its plan to reopen schools but we can't afford this. in england and warned, that the longer they're closed, the more children will miss out. teaching unions say they're not convinced that it's safe for more pupils to return byjune. italy has suffered immensely during the coronavirus pandemic. barrack obama has delivered another scathing attack more than 31,000 on the trump administration's lives have been lost,

the third highest in the world. handling of the pandemic. the former us president said many officials didn't even pretend the rate of new infections to be in charge. has now dropped, providing a pathway to start mr obama made the remarks opening up the country. during an online address to students the world's largest from historically black church is also opening on monday, after a weekend colleges and universities. of deep cleaning. a deluded chlorine solution was used to protect the i6th—century marble floors and buildings. worshipers will be welcome back to st peter's basilica but numbers will be reduced it's the first weekend as the church finds new ways since some lockdown restrictions in this new way of life. were eased in england. freya cole, bbc news. the uk government has sought to reassure parents about re—opening schools to some pupils in england from next month, saying the decision was based on the best scientific advice. teaching unions have expressed concern about whether schools can be made safe for staff and pupils in time for the target date of the first ofjune. here's our education editor, bra nwyn jeffreys. classrooms empty now in england, but in two weeks‘ time a few

children are due to return. some teachers and parents remain fearful. today, the government said it was the right decision. there are some who would like to delay the wider opening of schools. school governors will be involved in the plans so i asked how they should weigh it up. they are going to be thinking about their legal responsibilities in terms of making each school safe. how are they meant to reconcile that conflicting advice they're getting from you and from local councils? what we would ask them to do is look at the guidance very carefully, and recognise the fact that we are there to provide the very best for every single child who goes to that school. and the best way of doing that, the best way of

protecting children, the best way of giving them the best opportunities in life, is actually to have them coming back into school. schools are getting ready as best they can, changing classrooms, contacting families. parents will choose whether to send their children and some think it is time to start going back. i'm not waving a flag and saying, let's go back to school with 30 children in a class and have a normal school day. i think there needs to be some kind of schooling in terms of some kind of non—physical contact at school. ministers point to denmark, where children began their return a month ago, but today teachers‘ unions here raised concerns, too many cases, too little testing, among their five priorities. we really want to get schools back open again as soon as it's safe to do so. we have five simple tests that the british medical association on friday told us they agreed with our tests, and we think the government hasn't yet met them, but they are not obstructive tests. they are tests to encourage

the government to meet them so that we can get back to school, but we are not there yet, though. the gradual return to school remains a hope. the scientific evidence remains under review. a finaljudgment in england at the end of the month, as schools in the rest of the uk remain closed. branwen jeffreys, bbc news. barack obama has delivered a scathing attack on the trump administration's handling of the pandemic. the former us president, said many officials weren't even pretending to be in charge. he made the comments in an online address to thousands of students from historically black colleges and universities. 0ur correspondent david willis is in los angeles. tell us more about what former president obama has been saying. these graduation ceremonies are a sort of right of passage for american stu d e nts

of passage for american students and, of course, they have had to be cancelled throughout the country because of the coronavirus pandemic and they have switched to virtual graduation ceremonies instead. barack obama, the former president, has taken part in two of those. he took part in one this morning and he was pretty scathing in remarks about the trump administration handling of the current coronavirus crisis. mr obama has largely kept his views to himself in the three plus years he has been out of office. we note that he has been privately very critical of the trump administration because, in late remarks earlier this month, —— leaked, he said the pandemic handling was a chaotic disaster. today, in public events, he said the pandemic had torn back the curtains on

the idea that this country's leaders knew what they were doing and he said many of them we re doing and he said many of them were not even pretending to be in charge. that is likely to inflame the two most recent documents of the white house. president trump has gone out of his way in recent weeks to criticise barack his way in recent weeks to criticise ba rack 0bama his way in recent weeks to criticise barack obama and it is clear he will be a major target for mr trump going into this year's presidential election, given that mr 0bama's former deputy, the former vice presidentjoe biden is the democratic presidential nominee. what kind of reaction has there been to barack 0bama's comments, given that traditionally former president do not make comments on current president. this current president. this current president really has eroded a lot of those boundaries and he

has gone after barack obama, particularly in recent weeks, but consistently since being elected and ba rack but consistently since being elected and barack obama, despite maintaining his silence up despite maintaining his silence up to now, is clearly thinking he needs to weigh in onjoe biden‘s behalf as we now have six months to go before the next residential election here. police in the polish capital, warsaw, have used tear gas against demonstrators protesting about the restrictions imposed there. hundreds of protesters gathered in a central square in a demonstration that's illegal under the current lockdown rules, which ban large gatherings. it follows smaller protests by business owners, who say the authorities are not giving them enough support. a brazilian military general with no medical experience has taken over as the country's interim health minister. eduardo pazuello spent most of his career as a logistics specialist. he was the military co—ordinatorfor the rio olympic games in 2016. his predecessor, nelson teich,

resigned less than a month after taking thejob, following disagreements with president bolsonaro over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. in other news, a rwandan businessman who's alleged to have financed the hutu extremists behind the 1994 genocide has been arrested in france. the french authorities say felicien kabuga — now in his 80s — was detained in a suburb of paris living under a false identity. awarning — viewers might find some of these images disturbing. will ross reports. he had been on the run for 26 yea rs. he had been on the run for 26 years. during a dawn raid they arrested him in a suburb north of paris. his family had tried to shield him. neighbours are 110w to shield him. neighbours are now discovering they were living next to one of the worlds most wanted men, a genocide suspect. translation: we could not believe it. not

eve ryo ne we could not believe it. not everyone in the building was expecting to hear it was someone expecting to hear it was someone like that. he was very discreet, he did not talk to anyone, he was extremely discreet. these are the crimes he will be put on trial for, the scale and brutality of the rwandan genocide is almost beyond comprehension. in just ioo beyond comprehension. in just 100 days 800,000 people were killed. mr bulger, one of the richest men in rwanda is accused of financing this. he is also founder of the rwandan broadcaster that actively encourage people to search out and kill anyone from the tutsi ethnic group, describing them as cockroaches that had to get rid of. spurred on by the propaganda from his radio station, people turned on the neighbours with the crudeness of weapons. this was all

planned. some of the worst massacres took place inside churches, instances where priests and nuns were implicated. straight after the genocide, he fled into switzerland but was ordered to leave and was thought to head back to africa seeking refuge in kenya. it was indicted for genocide in 1987. one of africa's most wanted men used his vast wealth to stay hidden. america offered $5 million for any information leading to his arrest. politicians in kenya we re arrest. politicians in kenya were accused of thwarting effo rts were accused of thwarting efforts to catch on. his arrest in france is a huge surprise. genocide survivors have welcomed the news. translation: you have to understand that, when you arrest someone who took part in genocide, somewhere a survivor of the genocide is relieved. he is relieved to see that a criminal of this level will answer for his actions stop but the survivor will remain marked by

the loss of his family. more than a quarter of a century after the genocide, the 85—year—old has finally been locked up. prosecutors will hope the coronavirus does not prevent the genocide trial from taking place. this is bbc news. the main headlines: italy's prime minister has said coronavirus cases could rise as travel restrictions are set to ease from earlyjune, but that the country couldn't afford to wait for a vaccine. the uk government has defended its plan to reopen schools in england next month and warned that the longer they are closed, the more children will miss out. let's stay with that story now, and we've heard that uk government ministers insist they will be led by the science when making decisions — so what does the science say about how children are affected? lauren moss explains. we've only known about covid—19 for under six months, and the science community is still learning about it.

one of the big questions to answer is how are children affected. put simply, children seem to catch coronavirus as much as anyone else. the survey by the office for national statistics, published this week, suggests that one in 400 people in england has coronavirus and it also found that children arejust as likely to test positive as adults, but they don't appear to develop symptoms which are as serious or be as vulnerable to it. more than 211,000 people have died in hospitals in england from covid—19, and 12 were under the age of 19, and most had underlying health conditions. we know from the current information that children have fewer symptoms nd appear to have different transmission dynamics to adults, and it looks like they probably have shorter or fewer viral excretions from coughing or speaking, but we can't be sure for certain

and we certainly need more research in the area. so, if children catch coronavirus, how likely is it, then, that they can carry it and also spread it? any increase in social mixing could lead to an increase in the r number, the rates of transmission. children are super spreaders of other diseases like flu, but we just don't know how infectious they could be if they have little or no symptoms. there is the possibility, although it seems slight, that children might transmit it to other children or to staff members, but again what evidence we have suggests it doesn't happen very much, but opening schools does mean we have a social hub which is where teachers will meet other teachers and other parents so there will be increased mixing and there could be some spreading as a result of that. it's early days as we begin to take steps to emerge from the lockdown. what we learn in the weeks and months ahead will shape what our new normal becomes. lauren moss, bbc news. this week towns and cities across the uk have implemented measures to encourage walking and cycling. the temporary changes are aimed at reducing use of public transport and cars.

but as we emerge from lockdown, these changes could signal a permanent shift as our environment correspondent justin rowlatt reports. deansgate, the main road through manchester, is changing. today, barriers and trees closed a key stretch to traffic. elsewhere, new walkways and pop—up bike lanes are appearing. we want to see change across the city, we want people to walk and cycle more, but we want to do that in a safe way. and it isn'tjust manchester. this week pop—up cycle lanes opened in glasgow, leicester, york and brighton, and dozens more towns and cities have similar plans. london is closing some of its busiest streets to create what it claims will be the largest car—free area in any city in the world. most of these measures are presented as temporary, providing social—distancing space.

but often the aim is to make them permanent, which is why some motorists are describing this as a one—off land grab, conducted under the cover of covid and designed to create new facts on the ground. what's worrying about this is that it feels anti—motorist, anti—cars, anti—lorries, anti—vans, and yet all those methods of transport are essential for economic recovery, and for the things that we need in britain, so don't punish one group at the expense of the other. winning cyclist chris boardman says making these changes is about more than just finding new ways to get to work. we've stopped talking about the climate crisis and pollution and dirty air, but all of those crises are still here,

and if you really want to protect the nhs, as well as clapping for them, we can actually make ourselves a healthier nation. people certainly seem to be voting with their feet and their wheels. ken foster says his bike shop in manchester is the busiest it's been since his grandad opened it almost 70 years ago. ken, what about when it's raining? there's no such thing as bad weather. 0nly inappropriate clothing! you won't be surprised to hear that ken thinks it's time we all should get on our bikes. justin rowlatt, bbc news, manchester. scientists in britain have started a trial of sniffer dogs to see if they can detect coronavirus before it appears. if it works, each dog would be able to screen around 250 people an hour. dogs are already able to sniff out diseases such as cancer and parkinson's. james logan is a doctor working on the trial. what we know about respiratory diseases and lots of other diseases and lots of other diseases — in fact for hundreds of years we've known diseases

create changes in our bodies. we think the same is happening with covid—19, and that's what this study is about to, to determine whether our body changes when we have that, and if it does change, we are very, very confident these dogs would be able to detect it, and we would have a new way of diagnosing people with covid—19. the german football league has become the first major competition in europe to resume since coronavirus lockdowns brought the sport to a halt in march. six bundesliga matches took place without spectators. with near empty stadiums and some social distancing protocols in place, it was anything but an ordinary saturday of match action, as jenny hill reports. # and you'll never walk alone...# theirs is a passion that endures. fans who'd follow their team anywhere must make do now with watching from a distance. "two hearts beat inside me", sabina tells us. "of course, as a dortmund supporter,

i'm glad it's back, but it doesn't feel right like this." they call them ghost games. no crowd to roar victory, lament defeat. an odd prospect for the players, who quarantined for a week before the match. 0ff pitch, strict social distancing. it's two months since they last played. that doesn't seem to have thrown dortmund off their stride. dortmund just scored, and you could hear a pin drop out here. it's hard to believe a top—flight game of football is going on inside that stadium. the german football league admit this is largely about money. they feared smaller clubs would go out of business if they didn't resume matches. for this footballing nation, a strange day. polls suggest the majority of germans think it's too soon to play again. some league players and staff have already tested positive. even as dortmund celebrated in the new style today, there is no guarantee that this season will run its course. jenny hill, bbc news, dortmund.

the american nascar racing season gets underway on sunday after a three—month delay caused by coronavirus. the event at darlington raceway in south carolina normally attracts thousands of race fans but will be held behind closed doors. each team has been limited tojust 16 personnel, including the driver, and strict social distancing measures have been put in place. the teams are set for a busy period to make up for lost time with seven races in 11 days. the winner of this year's eurovision song contest should have been crowned in the netherlands this evening, but the event was cancelled due to the pandemic. instead, the bbcjoined broadcasters across europe to celebrated acts that were due to take part and best songs from past years. alasdair rendall is president of the world's biggest eurovision fanclub, 0gae uk.

welcome to you. good to have with ours. so did you enjoy the celebrations of what should have the competition? the shine a cat nightlight programme, where the bbcjoined up with other broadcasters across europe, was an amazing show. i wasn't the only fan who was sitting there watching the tv tonight with a tear or two in the eye. it was a really well put together programme. do you think it was the right thing to do something in place of the actual competition? because there were some people taking pa rt there were some people taking part tonight who should have been performing — others not. absolutely. 0ver a0 songs were selected to represent their country at eurovision, and it was absolutely the right thing to do to celebrate those songs. yes, there will never be eurovision songs in the sense of the the context contest this year, but it was right for the broadcasting union, all the

broadcasters, including the bbc, to celebrate those songs and to note them. as you said, only a0 contestants chosen to ta ke only a0 contestants chosen to take part. what happens next year? will it be the same contestants? year? will it be the same co ntesta nts ? does year? will it be the same contestants? does it depend on each country? the broadcasters announced at the end of the show tonight that rotterdam will be hosting the contest next year. in terms of who is going to be taking part, a number of countries have already said the act they've selected for this year will represent them automatically next year. it won't be is of the same song, because all the songs that have been chosen for this year's contest, the cancelled 2020 contest, won't be eligible next year, but many of the singers that are going to represent their country this year will hopefully be onstage in rotterdam next year. the bbc had a vote asking viewers to choose their best eurovision song for all time, and abba's waterloo was chosen. did you vote for that song? if i'm

honest, no. controversial, i know — it's not my favourite of all time. where did your vote go? of the songs tonight, i voted for rise like a phoenix, a fantastic song that lifted eurovision other gear a few yea rs eurovision other gear a few years ago, but realistically there was no surprise for abba's waterloo to win, but to be honest, not my personal favourite. there was a rare appearance from abba's bjorn, though. yes, he appeared on china light and he gave an emotional message is really about how the contest will survive — long live eurovision. it was just what we wanted to hear — the funds that have been preparing for months. i think the words he spoke really resonated with people across europe. really good to have you with us. glad you enjoyed the show, even though you didn't

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