sao paulo residents have been in quarantine for nearly two months now, but there is no sign of it ending. the numbers keep rising, the situation is still not under control. the expectation is that tougher lockdown measures will be brought in in the coming weeks. but as the number of dead grows, more and more people are giving up on social distancing measures. on sunday, the mayor of brazil's biggest city warned that intensive care beds were fast running out, and he implored people to do their part in trying to flatten the curve. translation: it's difficult to believe that some would rather play a game of russian roulette with the population. the indifference to death is unseemly. it is a crime of responsibility. a criticism that many direct at the president himself. jair bolsonaro once again spend

the weekend railing against social distancing and flouting rules set by his own health ministry. in rio, the health system is at breaking point. field hospitals are filling up fast. so, too, are the morgues. doctors warn the next few weeks will be critical. i have never seen anything like it. i got covid—19 — i don't actually know anyone who hasn't been contaminated, but everyone has gone back to work. "stay at home," the favelas are asking people. rio‘s poor neighbourhoods are some of the most violent in the world. but covid—19 is now a much bigger killer than crime. this weekend, rio‘s streets were still buzzing, despite a lockdown, but its beaches will be deserted for some time yet. katy watson, bbc news, brazil. let's take a look at some of today's other news. football, and celtic have been confirmed

as scottish champions after clubs in the scottish premiership decided to end the season early because of the pandemic. the final table has been determined based on a calculation of average points per game played. hearts have been relegated. clubs in the premier league have voted unanimously to let players restart training in small groups, and without any contact, from tomorrow. the season was suspended in mid—march with liverpooljust two victories away from securing what would be their first title in 30 years. the chelsea flower show should have opened its gates today — instead it has has been cancelled for the first time since the second world war and forced to go online from tomorrow. instead of show gardens, virtual visitors will be able to look around designers‘ own gardens. the queen praised the move and said she hopes people find the "unique event enjoyable and interesting", as daniela relph reports. hello, i'm alan titchmarsh. not everyone has a garden... hello, i'm rosie hardy.

some of the faces are familiar, but everything else about this year's chelsea is different. show gardens have become home gardens, as the whole chelsea experience moves online. hi, tom. have you had to think about how the garden looks virtually? we're trying to think about the right shots to capture, the right plants to show, how to tell the story of this kind of dull space, and transforming it into a chelsea—style garden. we receded the orchard last autumn. others have given virtual chelsea a tour of their own private garden, during a time many have found solace in the outdoors. gardening of any kind is really helpful. it reduces anxiety. it helps depression. and it's to do with nurturing something. this is just absolutely wonderful. for those denied their chelsea fix this year, there was a positive response to the virtual version. well, i think it is an absolute wonderful asset to have, that we've got it all here at our fingertips, virtual —

still we will get the inspiration, although we can't actually visit. now the queen arrives. the queen has visited the show almost every year of her reign. in a statement of support to the royal horticultural society, today she said... "my family and i have always enjoyed visiting the show. for me, one of the most rewarding things to grow is something i can eat. the timing of lockdown was devastating for horticulture, with almost £500 million of stock lost. virtual chelsea is a reminder of the best the industry has to offer. daniela relph, bbc news. that's it. newsnight is on bbc two with emily in a few minutes. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night.

welcome to bbc news. it's it's on time for us to take a look at the national and international from pages in the papers.

hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us. with me are polly mackenzie, chief executive of centre—left political think tank demos, and sebastian payne, whitehall correspondent at the financial times. tomorrow's front pages starting with a hopeful lead story on the front page of the times, which reports on potential plans for "air bridges" between countries this summer. the uk transport secretary grant shapps says the strict quarantine on all arrivals into the country could be relaxed, with deals between countries with low coronavirus infection rates. the telegraph is leading on the same story, and says "quarantine—free "travel to and from countries like france and spain "will depend on the status of their own epidemics." 0n the front of the metro, a warning from kings college london that "up to 200,000 people in the uk may not have self—isolated

when they needed to" — as loss of taste and smell is added to the list of coronavirus symptoms to look out for. le figaro is leading on how france's health system will recover from the pandemic. discussions will be held later this month on how to revive the country's health sector and structure it for the future. "the recession is here, but the worst is yet to come" warns the front page of the japan times, as analysts expect a record 21.5% contraction in the current quarter. the straits times reports that china's president xijinping supports a probe into the country's handling of the coronavirus outbreak. it follows the us. an exclusive on the front page of the guardian, as the paper reveals "how agency care home staff in the uk spread covid—19". and finally, the financial times leads on the 500 billion euro coronavirus " recovery fund" being backed by france and germany, who have today agreed it should issue grants, not loans, to countries most in need.

so let's begin... we have actually a world record number of newspapers to get through in this papers, so it's now the papers express version, polly mackenzie and sebastian payne. we begin with the times. that's art of air bridges, polly mackenzie, does this mean that in the summer, we might all have to go on holiday we can might all have to go on holiday we ca n afford might all have to go on holiday we can afford to south korea, germany, singapore, hong kong and taiwan? well, i mean that would be quite the summer well, i mean that would be quite the summer holiday, so i think i would enjoy myself. i think everything is still enormously up in the air. this quarantine plan has been muted now for a few days, but we still don't actually have the details, and already they are talking about the ways in which they might loosen it. for several days, journalists were talking about there being an exemption for france and then the government has now said that that was just a mistake and the journalists have never should've reported it, although it took them seven days to correct the mistake, so seven days to correct the mistake, so i'm not sure if there is enormous amounts of hope for holiday is,

let's see the quarantine plans come into force before we start talking about relaxing them. the reality is that it's extraordinary that we are so that it's extraordinary that we are so far into this pandemic, so far past the peak, and we haven't been doing this already. sebastian payne from the financial times, an air bridge has to work both ways, wind can't all just pitch bridge has to work both ways, wind can't alljust pitch up there, and say you have a low infection rates, we are now taking pictures of the coliseum, they would have to take except that britain has a low infection rate, so it has to be mutual. indeed, that's one of the quite odd things about this story. the government has talked about introducing this 14 day quarantine period for all arrivals into britain with some very hefty fines starting at £1000 going up to £10,000 for anybody who goes abroad and we are expecting that to come in at the very beginning of june, expecting that to come in at the very beginning ofjune, but that is coming in for usjust very beginning ofjune, but that is coming in for us just as other european countries are getting rid of their quarantines and saying you can travel freely again. it feels like britain is a little bit behind

the curve on this on, but again, it's all going to be based on the international metric of the r rate and track and trace as well. i think oi'i and track and trace as well. i think on that basis, other bricks will be looking at the front pages and thinking "thank heavens. " because of those of us who live in the smaller flats are very much wanting to get to somewhere different. of course, there is still huge and certainty about this, as well as just getting a break though, it's going to be very important for the economic coverage of europe, because britain is a huge net exporter of tourists to france, spain, italy, all of those countries that have a similar coronavirus trajectory is us, sol similar coronavirus trajectory is us, so i think there will be quite pleased with this news commander think when those international discussions happen, the idea of that will probably get a fairly good hearing. this is a parcel of it on the road. at the moment, we are still not allowed into our friends and neighbours garden, so the thought of actually taking the fight

and going and sitting in a friend's garden in italy or france is one of two steps down the line. let's stick with the times newspaper. "stop passing the buck." top scientists tell politicians. we have been told, polly, repeatedly over the last few weeks, we're just following the signs, but according to this article in the times newspaper, that's not quite good enough. yes. the president of the rest of society, the esteemed kind of scientific body has said that the government shouldn't just blame scientific body has said that the government shouldn'tjust blame the scientists. they said it was there kind of clear monterey from the start, following the signs, following the signs. no, of course, it looks like some of the science, perhaps was mistaken. actually, i think if you spoken to the scientists of the time they would've said, because scientists do, we don't know a lot. these are our best guesses and best estimates. you know there are lots of different scientific models, lots of different approaches. i think i think the criticism in this article is that the government hasn't been transparent. they tried to cover up the membership about scientific

advice advisory group they are not publishing the minutes of it. i think we have all kind of hope that we might have a new conversation about expertise meanings in policymaking, but the danger is that the government has clearly made some mistakes. inevitably, in an unprecedented crisis, it's just normally to take responsibility for those mistake. we have seen, sebastian payne, that this virus has had almost every country in the world from in the scientific response is different in every country, slightly blowing a hole in that idea that there is such a thing as the science. 0ur scientists being set up in the uk as? i wasjust about to make that point that that isa about to make that point that that is a bit of fallacy here, because it means that it's passing the buck on policymaking essentially saying that we put all of the scientific advice that was wrong or it's not our

fault, because we were following the scientists here, but much like saying that there's a thing as the politicians, there isn't of course i scientific or general scientific view on things. a government's advisory boards say and has lots of members who have very different opinions from and they have huge debates on that, but i'm sure the government is absolutely doing that, at one of the reasons from the very beginning of this crisis, you have always seen boris johnson with patrick # professor chris chris whitty wherever possible, because ads credence to the idea that policymaking is being driven by experts and by data and not by the winds of politicians ideas or by public opinion here. but once we get to the other side of this there will be some sort of inquiry and all of the decisions taken will be dissected, and at that point, we will find out where the balance was, because if there is certainly a tendency in uk and other countries as well to say things are driven by the science, whereas in fact, they are political decisions, it'sjust expedia to say they are not. lets go internationally now to the straits

times. they report on the view that china supports probe into coronavirus, it believes that she's in pain, the chinese president says that turnaround comes as he defences nation handling of the outbreak as a global meet. polly mackenzie, i should say that the new york times sees this differently, in article they published, he appeared to precious side calls for independent estimations. saying that forensics should wait until the crisis had subsided. it is not entirely clear that china does support the probe into the coronavirus as the straits times claims. know, a lot of questions rightly have been directed at china over their handling over this. some of that has turned into sort of conspiracy theories about whether the chinese manufactured the virus either deliberately or accidentally, but i mean, i think those can basically be dismissed. nevertheless, the chinese did not offer full transparency, they were

trying to suppress the story, they are trying to silence doctors who spoke out about the outbreak in wuhan. and i think if there had been more transparency, than other countries would have been able to respond more appropriately, and that this crisis would not have killed so many people around the world. the question is will it ever be really possible to get to the bottom of that? i think the idea that there should be reparations, that china should be reparations, that china should somehow pay the bill for the economic devastation around the world has a certain appeal to its come about, you know, if we are going to get into the business of reparations, than you know, there are plenty of crimes of colonial expansion by the united kingdom or by the united states. you would never get to the bottom of whatever country never get to the bottom of whatever cou ntry owes never get to the bottom of whatever country owes to every other. i think inevitably it comes down to basic politics. if the chinese feel under pressure, they will see some access, but you know, every sovereign nation wa nts to

but you know, every sovereign nation wants to defend its own