this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the prime minister's top adviser, dominic cummings, declares he won't quit, after driving hundreds of miles during lockdown — with his wife sick with symptoms of coronavirus. asa as a question of doing the right thing. as a question of doing the right thing. cabinet ministers have defended him — arguing he wanted to stay nearfamily for childcare — in case he too contracted coronavirus. mrcummings is in mr cummings is in the public eye but the reality of the matter is a ao—year—old child welfare and i think is the important thing. —— four ao—year—old child welfare and i think is the important thing. —— four

businesses will have to pay around a quarter of the wages of furloughed workers from the start of august. and guernsey will become the first part of the british isles to lift nearly all its lockdown. restrictions hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world — stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. the prime minister's chief aide dominic cummings is facing new claims that he breached lockdown rules. earlier, he and the government insisted he'd acted "reasonably and legally" by driving 260 miles from london to durham in march while his wife had coronavirus. ministers said they'd chosen to self—isolate at a property adjacent to other family members in case they needed help with childcare.

however, tonight the bbc‘s spoken to a man who claims to have seen him at another location 30 miles away in mid april. downing street say the story is ‘inaccurate‘. here's our political correspondent iain watson. you're supposed to be more than three metre apart. boris johnson's borisjohnson‘s senior adviser lecturing reporters on social distance ends. but his opponents accused him of making the lockdown rules himself. when his wife became ill in march he she and their four—year—old child did not isolate but travelled more than 250 miles to come to durham. it's a question of doing the right thing. is that what you guys think? the governments guidance on self isolation says if you live with others the first under the household that you must stay at home for at least seven days. but all other household members who remain well must stay at home and not leave the house for 14 days. but

ina not leave the house for 14 days. but in a statement downing street set out to a claim by borisjohnson‘s adviser did not stay at home. durham police said they were aware that he was in the city on march 31 in the next day his police officer spoke to his father at his father's request. he confirms that dominic cummings and his family travelled from london and were self isolating on part of the property. they deemed further action was not necessary but did provide advice on security issues. so where does this leave the government stay at home guidance now? is the advice now to parents if you don't have your own extended family nearby, even when you are ill

with covid—19 symptoms you're allowed to leave your home, travel many miles across the country and isolate closer to your extended family? the important thing is that eve ryo ne family? the important thing is that everyone remains in the same place whilst there lockdown. which is exactly what happened i think to the case you're referring to. so the prime minister would have known he was staying put and didn't come out again until he was feeling better. but he did travelled 250 miles from his london home, did he not? in the guidance it says if you're living with children, he following this advice to the best of your ability. however, we are aware that not all these measures will be possible depending therefore, on circumstances. senior administers have rallied around to defend dominic cummings. having called for his resignation from some of his opponents. dominic cummings should have done the right thing, he should've resigned. now that he

hasn't borisjohnson must show leadership and you must remove him from office immediately. you know, we had a lot of people who have been struggling throughout this pandemic and sticking by the rules. we've got ca re and sticking by the rules. we've got care workers moving into care homes, hospital staff staying in hotels, and struggled not seeing their families, they've adhered by the rules. and he's broken them. it's just so irresponsible. but tonight new allegations downing street denied reports that cummings had returned from durham last month after he recovered. while in the observer there's a claim that dominic cummings was seen at a beauty spot about 30 miles durham we who was apparently self isolating. this isn't just about who was apparently self isolating. this isn'tjust about dominic cummings. about the guidelines and people should follow. and whether the rules apply to the new street also applied to downing street? with more on those fresh allegations in the observer and sunday mirror, i've been speaking to our

correspondent, nick beake. the first claim i was easter sunday so if we cast our minds back to april the 12th, someone has told the newspaper that mr cummings and his family were in fact 30 miles from the property in durham where he was apparently self isolating. before hand the assumption was he had been there. at this particular location 30 miles away and robin leach who is a retired chemistry teacher told the two newspapers he was gob smacked to see the top number ten aid they are on easter sunday. i was able to talk to him this evening and he said yes, he stands by what he told the newspapers. and he was able to in his own mind, be sure that it was mr cummings because he took a note of the number plate. the car that the cummings family he thought were using. he said he was able to find

a photograph online and the first five characters of the number plate matched. to him it was a vehicle he saw with his own eyes matching a vehicle in the photograph photograph with mr cummings. as far as he's concerned he confident the man mr cummings. not at the property he said he was staying up at 30 miles away. we've also had durham police issue a statement which contradicts what's downing street had said on saturday morning. yes, this is something that the labour party of picking up on. they're talking about potential inconsistencies in the reaction from downing street. specifically we were told that mr cummings and his family were at a property near where his family are. they were staying in house near his extended family. apparently his sister was providing supplies which left outside. in accordance with the rules. now saying this was part of his father's property for that we have it at the exact layout of what it's like they are but the update from the police in durham

is he was staying in a part of his father's property. that's what the labour party have seized upon showing another inconsistency in the story the chronology of all this suggests that at some point dominic cummings came back to london and then went back to durham? yeah, that is the second of the two new allegations tonight. that is that on the 19th of april mr cummings was spotted again in the northeast in durham. this is crucial because it was days after had been photographed in london having apparently recovered from the virus. so of course the lockdown measures were still in place. if that is the case why was he back in the northeast of england having apparently recovering from coronavirus? the acting leader of the democrats has been speaking on bbc radio saying is going back if dominic cummings has not been sacked by tomorrow i think the prime ministersjudgement is in serious doubt. clearly the government is on the back foot over the guidance and what everyone else should be following.

absolutely because this is a distraction in the governorate mixed messages. bank holidays weekend saying things to be much better and people are being told to stay away from beauty spots and beaches pulled up even though they can do more things. all the while that this is dominating the headlines this distraction of course people may well think if the government can get away with it as say may say or may be on the rule can they do the same? uk businesses will be expected to pay a quarter of the wages of furloughed workers — in the coming months. the chancellor's said the furlough scheme will be in place until the end of october with companies to be asked to "start sharing" the cost from the start of august. the scheme currently supports around 7 and half millionjobs. spain continues to gradually ease its lockdown, with its top football division, la liga — given the go ahead to resume behind closed doors from june 8th. the prime minister also says international tourists can come to the country from july.

however, thousands of people protested on saturday against the government's handling of the coronavirus outbreak. our correspondent guy hedgecoe is in madrid. it's obviously an enormous relief to football fa ns it's obviously an enormous relief to football fans here and the football industry which is so enormous in spain that things are going to receive zoom. we don't know exactly under which conditions clearly there will be a lot of restrictions. things won't be back to normal as they were before the lockdown. but i think it's the fact that the league is going to resume with these 11 fixtures which are remaining, is going to come as a enormous relief both economically and emotionally in spain. as for tourism, howell open will the country really be? will every region be welcoming visitors? there are certainly some regions which are much more used to receiving torres for example down the mediterranean coast and the cost of a soul in the

south. and cities like madrid and barcelona. madrid and barcelona have been particularly ha rd—hit barcelona. madrid and barcelona have been particularly hard—hit by coronavirus. clearly there might be a concern they are for people visiting. at the government has said that the country will be open for business when it comes at tourism. from the beginning ofjuly and that the country as a whole will be safe. prime minister said that the hallmarks of spanish tourism going forward will be environmental sustainability and safety when it comes to the coronavirus. in theory the government wants to welcome people across the country, make sure they feel safe all the way across spain from the beginning ofjuly. these protests then against the governments handling of the coronavirus outbreak what more do they think that spain should have done? compared with some countries particular in europe the restrictions were quite strict. yes, that's right. the protesters who we re that's right. the protesters who were led by the far right vox party

we re were led by the far right vox party were calling for more freedom and they were calling for the resignation of the prime minister. when it comes to specific demands or claims against the government it's not entirely clear what they have wanted. they had have talked about wanting a better economic response when it comes to dealing with those that have lost theirjobs. they also said that the government was simply ill prepared. but the government say it's really people like boxes is far right party that organised this march today or these demonstrations is simply playing politics. with the coronavirus. and that the country needs to unite. i think what this reflects today is the deep divisions in spanish society over the coronavirus. there are people who believe the government has done a very bad job and there were others that sibley feel that the government has done it can in difficult circumstances. the british government is facing

more questions over its plans to introduce a 14—day quarantine for people arriving in the uk. from june 8th, travellers will have to self—isolate for two weeks and could face fines of one—thousand pounds if they break the rules. france has said that visitors arriving from the uk will also have to self—isolate for 1h days — from the same date. airlines and travel companies are worried it could damage their businesses even further. the uk government says the measures are designed to stop a second wave of coronavirus. the number of deaths due to coronavirus in new york state has fallen below one—hundred for the first time since late march when lockdown began. state governor andrew cuomo said the number of deaths recorded in the last twenty—four hours was eighty—four. new york has been the epicentre of the virus in the us — at the height of the outbreak last month, more than 800 people a day were dying. in china, health authorities have recorded no new coronavirus infections for the first time since the outbreak began the city of wuhan.

the country has seen a sharp fall in locally transmitted cases since march as major restrictions on peoples' movements were introduced to help control the epidemic. the worldwide tourism industry has been badly affected by coronavirus, and many popular destinations are now trying to find ways to welcome visitors back. italy is planning to reopen its airports from the 3rd ofjune, and international charter flights to popular locations in greece are due to resume injuly. our correspondent in athens, quentin somerville, explains. greeks have been able to come to the beaches for a couple of weekends now. but what about the rest of us? well, from 15th ofjune, the greek authorities are going to welcome tourists back from all over the world without a quarantine. there will be some exclusions, though — countries with high infection rates and, at the moment, that looks like britain, russia and the united states. greece has been very successful in controlling the pandemic — fewer than 170 deaths. so it wants to tread very carefully. it needs to reopen its beaches and,

as of monday, the greek islands will reopen again too. but it has to take a very cautious approach to this. it realises business won't be the same as before, but just these small, incremental changes, letting people get back to the beach, get in the sea, is very important to regaining that life we once had. beaches across cyprus have reopened, as the meditteranean island nation gradually eases its lockdown. the country's health ministry has issued strict social distancing guidelines for beachgoers. it comes two days after a short heat—wave in the region saw temperatures hit 43 degrees celsius. cyprus partially sealed its borders ahead of most european nations, managing to keep the number of coronavirus—related deaths to fewer than 20. the headlines on bbc news... a senior aide to the uk prime minister faces calls to resign after he travelled hundreds of miles

with his wife — who had virus symptoms — during the lockdown. the government defends him — saying he wanted to stay with family to ensure he had childcare if he got symptoms of coronavirus. businesses in the uk will have to pay a quarterfrom furloughed workers from the start of august. he funerals have taken place in pakistan for some of the victims of friday's plane crash in karachi, in which ninety seven people died. flight data and cockpit recorders have been recovered and an investigation into the cause of the crash is underway, but the pakistan pilots' association says it doesn't trust the government to investigate properly. bbc urdu's umer nan—giana sent this report from the scene. this is exactly the site where where this pakistan international airlines plane crashed in karachi yesterday. as you can see, this is that street where this debris is all over the place.

you can see one of the parts of the wings of the aircraft here, and there are parts of the engine and the body of the aircraft spread all over into the street. this is a very narrow street, about 20 feet wide or something. and we have been told by the eyewitnesses here that they were inside these houses when the plane crashed here. if we can show you a little bit of what happened to the house that was dragged right into the fireball. the owner of the house said that he was inside the house praying when he heard this boom and he rushed out. and then he realised that some of his relatives who were present at this — were very close to the gate here — were badly burned. this is the engine of the aircraft that you can see here. and this skeleton you can see here was actually cars like this one. the security agencies, when they first moved in, and the rescue workers, they had to make a place for themselves to pull the bodies out of the rubble.

if we can show you the point of impact where the plane first crashed was that house which is, like, 3—4 houses from here. this is where the plane first hit. and then itjust crashed into the street. and on the impact, it went into a fireball and the whole place caught fire. joe biden, the presumptive democratic presidential nominee, has expressed regret for suggesting that african—americans were not black if they consider voting for president trump in november's election. he made the comment to a black radio presenter after being asked whether he'd choose a black vice—presidential running mate. listen, you've got to come see us when you come to new york, vp biden. i will! it's a long way until november. we got more questions. you got more questions but i tell you, if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or trump, then you ain't black. it don't have nothing to do with trump. it has to do with the fact i want something for my community.

i would love to see. take a look at my record, man! i extended the voting rights act for 25 years. i have a record that is second to none. the naacp has endorsed me every time i've run. i mean, come on, take a look at the record. daniel lippman is a political reporter for politico. speaking from washington, he told us how the trump campaign is taking advantage of this. the trump campaign is spending $1 million on ads making fun of biden for this mistake. they have tried to get black people to vote for the president. they think he has a winning message although historically the trends are very much against him. the only thing he has going for him is that he did pursue criminal justice reform bill that made it into law and has helped thousands of people, but democrats will always hearken back to trump's remarks in charlottesville where trump basically praised people marching

on the streets. what impact though is a comment like this likely to have on joe biden's prospects? it encourages him to pick an african—american female running mate. he has already said his vice presidential pick would be a woman and he is considering several african—american women. like the senator from california and a georgian politician. so that encourages him to do that. but i do not think there will be long—term damage because the new cycles in the us are so quick and people still have the pandemic to deal with so in a week or two most people will not have remembered this. i heard joe biden say, come on, look at my track record. what is his potential appeal to black voters? african—america ns traditionally vote for democrats, but they do not want to be taken for granted, and especially from a 77—year—old

white man who supported legislation, the 1994 crime bill which a lot of african—americans did not like, it tightened criminal sentences, so you do not want an old white man deciding who is black or not. but the appeal is that he is a trusted messenger, and also the fact that he served an african—american man loyally for eight years as vice president, so that love of barack obama in the democratic party and among african—americans and the fact that joe biden was his right—hand man, he was number two, that is a big part of the appeal. what will black voters want particularly then in this election from the winning candidate, be itjoe biden or anyone else? they want someone who will listen to their concerns and also address

the vast economic damage that the pandemic has had on the african—american community, and one last point is that african—americans have been harder hit by the coronavirus, sojoe biden has to be seen as a good person to lead to address that. one of italy's top tourist attractions is reopening — the duomo in florence is going to use technology to help people will be given a device which will bleep if they get too close to other people. the director of the cathedral and the museum there says they are the first to use these devices in the world. initially visits to the cathedral will be free — in a gesture to welcome people back. the measure is intended to help italy's tourism industry which has been shut since mid—march. the channel island of guernsey has become the first part of the british isles to remove nearly all its lockdown restrictions, after reporting no new cases of covid—19 for over three weeks. robert hall has more.

ina in a guernsey garden eight—week—old charlie is missing his widerfamily. until now his grandparents have only had glimpses of him at a distance. today the family can hold charlie and hugged each otherfor the first time since lockdown began. and hugged each otherfor the first time since lockdown beganlj and hugged each otherfor the first time since lockdown began. i was so fortu nate time since lockdown began. i was so fortunate because in england they can't do that and it must be so, so difficult for them. where just really, really lucky. it feels absolutely amazing. it has been a long time coming. it feels so nice. ican long time coming. it feels so nice. i can put him down. guernsey families and friends can meet up under what's called a bubble system. gradually widening their contacts. currencies success against covid—19 is down to a community effort. social distancing combined with testing and tracing has brought new cases down to zero. in a week's time

most lockdown measures will disappear completely. at the peak we we re disappear completely. at the peak we were saying most of our cases where we re were saying most of our cases where were regularly doing up to 126 sundays at 280 test today. and it uk terms that's over 100,000 test per day. in jersey to the curve of new cases has flattened close to zero and life looks almost normal. shops, businesses and outside eateries have open but social distancing measures remain in place and islanders have been advised to use masks if they can. beaches remain mostly deserted and that sums up the dilemma now facing island governments. getting covid—19 figures down to her close to zero is a cause for celebration. but the celebration might be short—lived. the channel islands know that they can't remain within a sealed bubble indefinitely. they must open their borders if they are to slow the decline in their

economies. latest figures from jersey show the island is losing £120 million a month for its economy. increases in testing and tracing might replace quarantine but even a gradual return of sea and air links could reverse the progress made. to keep it in a bubble and to keep cases low but at the same time if you don't have immunity then you don't really know what can happen is things open out. i think we should set out. stay clear. but then you've got a test people coming in and that's gonna be the problem, i think. as politicians and health experts debate their next moves islanders are savouring their freedom. robert hall, bbc news in the channel islands. an alligator who survived world war two in berlin and was rumoured — wrongly to have belonged to the nazi leader, adolf hitler, has died in moscow zoo. saturn was gifted to berlin zoo by the united states in 1936 and escaped the zoo being bombed in 1943.

but it remained a mystery where he had spent his years before arriving in moscow in 19116. false rumours spread that saturn became part of hitler's personal collection. this is bbc news. and we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers political commentatorjo phillips the political editor of the sunday mirror and people, nigel nelson and john stevens, the deputy political editor at the daily mail. that's coming up after the headlines at 11:30. now it's time for a look at the weather with stav hello there. we saw gale force winds across the uk today. lots of showers rattling through without much of england and wales did stay dry with plenty of sunshine. most of the rain was across western scotland. extremely wet with over three inches of rain falling saturday. less windy there will be a lot of cloud around thanks to this weather front bringing outbreaks of rain to the northwest of the country on sunday.

high—pressure will continue to build in process. things dry as we head through sunday afternoon. we start the day off with temperatures in double figures for most. we will start with quite a bit of cloud cover still a fair odd breeze out there. quite wet and scotland towards north england and clouds break up increasing amounts of sunshine especially across england and wales in the afternoon across northern island. the mean wind speed still quite fresh out there but nothing as strong as what we had on saturday. slightly lighter winds up more sunshine is getting temperatures will creep up around 22 may be 23 degrees in the scene two south. through sunday night the winds turned lighter still high pressure builds it will turn dry with likely clear skies. a bit of cloud in the far north of scotland. clear skies with very light winds temperatures could drop into fig fleet neck single figures in the western areas with that one or two spots is a ten or 11 degrees. monday a bank holiday, high pressure with

much of england and wales. weather fronts flirting with the northwest corner of the country felt up that will tend to bring in thicker cloud. stronger breeze for western parts of northern island and scotland's outbreaks of rain much of scotland and england and wales will be dried with sunshine. light winds will feel much warmerfor all with sunshine. light winds will feel much warmer for all especially in the southeast where we could make 25 or even 26 degrees. into the afternoon. as we move out of monday into tuesday we start to see these weather fronts move a little bit farther southeast towards a very wea k feature farther southeast towards a very weak feature but he could introduce more cloud as part of england and wales as we go through the day. sunshine making return to the north and west of the country. some glimmers of brightness further south. that will help push amateurs up south. that will help push amateurs up to around mid—20s celsius. it is a warmerair up to around mid—20s celsius. it is a warmer air mass at highs of around 16 or 17 a warmer air mass at highs of around 16 or17 in a warmer air mass at highs of around 16 or 17 in the north. a bit more cloud and at times the odd spot of rain continue to move through the week. scotland northern island england and wales high—pressure dominating is going to be warm and sunny.

hello. this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment — first the headlines. the prime minister's top adviser, dominic cummings, declares he won't quit, after driving hundreds of miles during lockdown — with his wife sick with symptoms of coronavirus. it's a question of doing the right thing. it's not about what you guys think. cabinet ministers have defended him — arguing he wanted to stay nearfamily for childcare — in case he too contracted coronavirus. mr cummings is in the public eye but the reality of the matter is that a four—year—old child's welfare, ithink, is the important thing. businesses will have to pay around a quarter of the wages of furloughed workers from the start of august.

hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are political commentator, jo phillips, the political editor of the sunday mirror and people, nigel nelson and john stevens, the deputy political editor at the daily mail. tomorrow's front pages starting with. .. the observer leads with what it calls ‘devastating' new claims that the uk prime minister's top aide, dominic cummings, breached lockdown rules more than once. the paper says downing street are under growing pressure to fire the senior adviser. the mirror says dominic cummings made two trips from london to durham at the height of the lockdown — including one trip when his wife was ill with coronavirus symptoms. but the paper says the prime minister still supports his most senior adviser. the telegraph says opposition parties are demanding an urgent inquiry in to mr cummings actions — and several conservative mps