the headlines: the british prime minister's closest aide — dominic cummings — is facing further allegations that he breached lockdown rules. earlier, he and the government insisted he'd acted "reasonably and legally" by driving from london to county durham in march while his wife had coronavirus — so his family could help with childcare. the taliban in afghanistan have declared a ceasefire for the three days of the muslim festival of eid. the militant group had stepped up its attacks in recent weeks but now says they will restrict themselves to defensive operations. the afghan president has ordered the army to respect the truce. funerals have been taking place in pakistan for some of the victims of friday's plane crash in karachi, in which 97 people died. the government has launched an official inquiry but the pakistan pilots' association says it has no faith in the official investigation.

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. in a guernsey garden, eight—week—old charlie flood is meeting his widerfamily. until now, his grandparents have only had glimpses of him at a distance. today, the family can hold charlie and hug each other for the first time since lockdown began. we're so fortunate because in england, they can't do that. it must be so, so difficult for them. we're just really, really lucky. it feels absolutely amazing. it has been a long time coming. and it feels so nice! i can't put him down! on the 16th of may, guernsey moved into phase three of the lockdown exit plan... guernsey families and friends can meet up under what is called a bubble system, gradually

widening their contacts. guernsey's success against covid—i9 is down to a community effort. social distancing, combined with testing and tracing, has brought new cases down to zero. in a weak‘s time, most lockdown measures will disappear completely. at the peak of when we were seeing most of our cases, we were regularly doing over 100, up to 126 some days, up to 180 tests a day. in uk terms, that's over 100,000 tests per day. in jersey too, the curve of new cases has flattened close to zero and life looks almost normal. shops, businesses and outside eateries have reopened, but social—distancing measures remain in place and islanders have been advised to use masks if they can. beaches, though, remain mostly deserted — and that sums up the dilemma now facing island governments. getting covid—i9 figures down to or 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 from 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 do not really know what is going to happen as things open up. i think we should see it out, i think we should see it clear. then you've got to test people coming in and that is going to be the problem, ithink. as politicians and health experts debate their next moves, islanders are savouring their freedom. robert hall, bbc news, in the channel islands. now on bbc news — the travel show.

on this week's travel show, your guide to the future of flying once the lockdown is over. hello and welcome to an almost deserted sta nsted airport just outside london. we are here to find out what the airlines and airports are planning to do to keep us safe when we do start thinking about foreign holidays again. also, coming up this week: we meet the new york cabbie who has continued working throughout the lockdown. we head to cambodia to see the temple complex and tourist hotspot at angkor wat, totally deserted. and we discover some of history's

greatest minds thought that the very best way to travel was to stay at home. here at stansted, there are normally 500 flights coming in and out every day. today, there are only nine. but flight numbers from the uk could be slowly picking up again. british airways and ryanair have recently announced plans to schedule up to 50% of their usual flight capacity from the beginning ofjuly. though they say, normal scheduling isn't likely to return until 2023. of course this is not going to be a normal summer. not for any of us. meanwhile, local travel restrictions are easing and some governments are even planning to reopen their borders to citizens of neighbouring countries, creating so—called travel bubbles.

the whole purpose of us discussing the possibility of having a bubble of sorts between us, a safe zone of travel, would be so that you wouldn't have to have a quarantine attached. i think everyone would acknowledge that it would be prohibitive. safety, that underlies our guidance. and that means taking gradual, careful steps to help travel restart in line with what the science tells us. those bubbles are one way of kick—starting travel again. but when we do begin to fly, can we trust the airlines are doing enough to keep us safe? so here at stansted, they are using all of the space to enforce social distancing. there are stickers on the ground to make sure that you stand in the right place. and when it comes to masks and gloves, well, they're not compulsory but they are very much advised. you can get your hands cleaned first.

thank you very much. then, you get the mask. thank you. then put that on around your ears. and then the gloves. and you can even get your temperature scanned before you get to security. well, that all seems pretty straightforward and simple when you've only got nine flights a day. how easy will it be to maintain when there are many more passengers and many more flights? and also, when you actually get on the plane, how safe will that be? this week, the international air transport association announced a series of measures the industry should be taking to keep passengers and crew safe. etihad, based in abu dhabi, is just one of the airlines already taking action to try and reassure passengers. they are currently trialling technology that allows them to monitor passenger's temperature, and respiratory rate, with the potential to detect covid—19. we have embarked on a huge sanitisation programme. what we're doing is actively encouraging people to check in online. it's all about limiting touch points

throughout the travellers' journey. i want to ask about the middle seat because there seems to be some debate about that. does it actually make any difference? it is difficult to achieve the two metre distancing. for example, in economy, what we're doing is ensuring that the neighbouring seat is free. all of our aircraft have air filters which basically filter 99% of airborne microbes. effectively, the air quality on an aircraft is equivalent to what you would get in a hospital operating theatre. to be able to not use an aircraft's full capacity, it's not economically sustainable in the long—term. the only way i suppose you could counter this is to double airfares and that's not viable. we would hope that the wearing of facemasks, as well as the many other measures, that that is going to be sufficient. because it is impossible to maintain social distancing on an aircraft. etihad is not alone in this efforts.

delta will be spraying its cabins with a special disinfectant between every flight. the spray is electrostatically charged to ensure that no surface goes untouched. and hong kong airport has introduced decontamination tanks. the claim is they will kill any viruses or bacteria on your clothes or exposed parts of your body in only a0 seconds. but it's notjust technology that could be seeing us through this crisis. medical detection dogs may soon be in place at airports like this in an effort to literally sniff out passengers with the virus. so, this is asher, one of the rescue dogs who's going to be helping in the fight against covid. he's got 250 million scent receptors in the nose. us poor humans have 5 million. that nose is going to be put to good use and going to save many, many lives.

volunteers who were tested positive for covid—19 were given special socks to wear. the socks capture the odour of the virus which is then used to train the dogs. we are hoping that the dog will be able to make a good detection without becoming too close to the individuals. this is going to be quite smelly. if there is an odour on a person, they are going to be shedding these odours and the dog should be able to pick it up. for example, when working at heathrow, where there flights coming in from areas of the world where we know there is a current hotspot. the dogs will be able to detect, very rapidly, it takes .5 of a second for a dog to make a detection. let's find out what our global guru simon calder makes of the situation. hi, simon. let's face it, it's going to be a long time before most of us are flying again, isn't it? that all depends who

you talk to actually. because you have, for example, in the middle of may, lufthansa suddenly coming out and saying, right, we're going to be flying a really, quite significant network from the first ofjune. you've had obviously, ryanair, the biggest budget airline in europe saying that they would be pretty much doing the same from the start ofjuly. and, it's a question of which airlines are flying where and most crucially of course, as we've been hearing, what sort of restrictions are in place, notjust for the airlines but crucially, for the passengers. i want to clear up a couple of things that people have said. number one, by getting rid of the middle seat on the plane, you are making it safer. and number two, actually flying on a plane is safer because the air is circulated so we shouldn't worry

about that anyway. what do you say to that? if you take the middle seat out of an aircraft, then you can reduce the distance between passengers from maybe 50 centimetres to one metre. a lot of people would say that in the course of a three hour flight, that's actually not going to make much difference but it would certainly make a lot of difference to the fare. if you take out a third of the passengers, the cruelty of fractions means that you would need to increase the price by 50%. and in terms of the way that the air circulates on aircrafts, yes, they do have very high quality air filters, up to operating theatre standards. if somebody next to you is sneezing and coughing, i'm afraid that the best filters in the world aren't going to do you much good. the other thing of course is that while these things are starting and people are trying to be induced into flying, if you like, there could be some nice, good deals. but in the long run, would it make flying prohibitively expensive? it's depends on who you talk to. there are certainly, of course, going to be some increased costs. if you're a low—cost airline and you have to clean out

the aircraft really thoroughly after a two hour flight, that's going to add to your returns. that's going to reduce the amount of time you have aircraft in the air and effectively cause losses in your business model. the extra costs at airports are going to push prices up. against that, you're going to see the airlines, the holiday companies, coming in with all sorts of deals to persuade us that, yes, it is a good idea to go travelling once again. and so, as it were for the brave, maybe for the foolhardy, there will be plenty of bargains out there. but i think when things settle down, we won't see quite as many flights, we won't see the same range of opportunities that we have now, and we will certainly see higher prices because the only way that the airlines can recoup the billions of dollars that they have been losing over the past few months, is of course to push up the prices, and they will do that

by keeping a lid on capacity. thank you, simon. stay safe. let's cross the atlantic now and speak to anotherfamiliarface here on the travel show. mike corey has been at home in lockdown in eastern canada. hello, mike. hello, how are you? fine. how severe have restrictions been where you are? things are different province to province. my province, brunswick on the east coast, we've only had about a hundred cases. we are taking it seriously but are slowly opening things back up. for example, parks have now been opened locally and we can gather in groups of only ten, as long as we are outside and still retaining social distancing measures. but really you must be itching to get on the road again and travel abroad. what is on your list for the places you want to go next? i have plans to go to peru and of course, those are now on hold. that's one i'm itching to go to as soon as i can.

i've got to find myself in the jungle sometime soon. it does give you a chance to explore your homeland, canada, some more. are you going to do that? yes, definitely. my province, brunswick, haven't spent a lot of time here in the past couple of years — i'm always travelling. for example, there are the highest heights in the world, 15 metres of vertical water goes up and down each day. i think as soon as i can, i'll be up there maybe getting my feet muddy in the ocean. we're going to stay on this side of the ocean for a moment and find out how new york's famous yellow taxi cabs are dealing with deserted streets and no passengers. you can see how empty the city is. my name is ricardo rosillo. i've been a new york city cab driverfor 15 years. ever since the lockdown, business has been slowing down and it has affected us cab drivers because normally,

we would usually make around 30 rides a day and now, you could only make around ten rides per day. so this right here is the heart of times square. yeah, so this is one of the busiest places in manhattan and as you can see, it's completely empty. they got thousands and thousands of people here. it is crazy how, because of the virus, it has affected ourjobs and it has affected everybody. the only reason that i'm out here is because i'm a little bit younger than other cabdrivers, so that makes a big difference. i've heard that a lot of cabdrivers have passed away, you know, because they are in their mid—50s, so i think that most of the cabdrivers that are out here now in new york are mostly young — in their 30s or, you know, 40s and they feel more secure. a couple of friends

of mine have passed away. i was afraid of getting infected and infecting others — you know, my family members orfriends. but, you know, i needed to make a living. i have sanitation products and alcohol. i always wipe down the seats after i pick up a passenger. so this right here is park avenue. before the quarantine, you should see it at this time. at 3pm in the afternoon, there is a lot of people hailing cabs. people coming out from work, kids getting out from school. most of the passengers that i pick up now are nurses, doctors — essential workers, basically. so there was one lady that was very generous to me. she had the courtesy to give me $50, just for going less than three blocks.

she was surprised that i picked her up. nobody had picked her up for at least 30 minutes because she looked elderly and they thought she would have the virus. people feel that as an essential worker, i should deserve a better tip, so they've been really generous to me that way. now, lockdowns remain firmly in place in some countries but are beginning to ease in others. it's been amazing to see some of the creative ways people have been getting used to their reduced circumstances. and some taking a new, more philosophical view of travel. in berlin, for instance, local group window flicks are projecting films for people living in apartment blocks to enjoy. berliners from all over the city can apply online for a viewing. plays trumpet ecuador, baghdad, london and new york have all seen musicians

serenade their neighbourhoods. in some places, it has become a regular fixture. band plays somewhere over the rainbow even cartography has a place in this. the urban design site citylabs has been asking people to send in personal maps showing their new, limited horizons. since the beginning of april, we've been running a project where we're inviting readers to send in maps of how their worlds have changed under quarantine. they're using this extraordinary moment as a chance to explore their own homes and neighbourhoods and communities in ways that are fresh, in some ways. i mean, despite how, like, gratingly familiar our quarantine lives feel a lot of the time. maps are really strange objects. we think that they're just representations of the world

but actually, they're very much showing what we want to represent. so a map of a town might include all of the castles and it doesn't include all of the council estates. so when people go off and make maps, the really nice thing about that is that they are highlighting the bits of the world that they think are important. i think the process of actually making a map, of sitting down and drawing, portraying a place that's important to you, or that, you know, you have some thoughts or feelings about, it really amplifies that whole experience and kind of forces you to sort through what you're seeing, hearing, thinking, feeling and even desiring about a place. whenever we travel to a place, we travel at a certain time. new york in 1920 is very different

to new york in 2020, and i think imagining how new york is going to be in 2021 could actually be really helpful. it will help us put ourselves in other people's shoes, take ourselves out of our own particular lockdowns and imagine what the world more generally is going through what it's gonna be like at the end of this. there's quite a lot of evidence in different fields to show that the more you know about something, the more you enjoy it. the philosophers socrates and immanuel kant both argued it's actually better to read books about a place if you want to learn about it, rather than going off. so kant has this famous saying where he argues "i don't have time to travel. i want to know too much about the world." and then you could just picture him sitting at home in his armchair, surrounded by travel books, and that was his way of doing it.

now, if you've ever been to cambodia, chances are that you will have dropped in on angkor wat. it's the world's largest religious site, a vast ancient buddhist temple complex that attracts 2.5 million people every single year. that means it's rarely empty. crowds get there early to see the sunrise and stay for days, spending plenty of money in that part of the country as a result. but, of course, coronavirus has had an impact. income from tourism has dropped more than 99% since 2019. the angkor wat temple, it really shows the peak, you know, of architectural and engineering skill, you know, of our ancestors. we even put it in the national flag of cambodia as well. as you could see, around ourselves, we don't see any tourists! chuckles ifeel quite sad, you know?

yeah, i have not come to this temple for now a0 days. i really missed those day, you know, where i brought people to here, you know? we gotta deal a lot with our life situation at the moment, so many people lostjob. of course, we have had some crisis before but nothing was ever bigger than this, so this is, like, the hardest hit ever. so far, cambodia has reported fewer than 150 cases of coronavirus. but the crash in international tourism has badly affected the local economy. in nearby siem reap,

many businesses are closed. here is the psar chas. it is the most well—known market in the city where tourists would come for shopping, for woodcarving, t—shirt, silver, silk. yeah, normally these stores are opening but at the moment, every store is closed. back at the temple, some work has been able to continue... we use mortar so that's when water, when it flows, it can't go inside, not on — in the stone. ..and fewer sightseers have actually made the job of some conservationists a little bit easier.

site managers are also working on a new bicycle trail and a new welcome area, but many of these projects rely on income generated from ticket sales. for the people whose livelihoods depend on tourism, the end of the crisis can't come soon enough. of course that we pray that the coronavirus will be vanished from our planet soon, so that people can come once again. and a massive thankyou to everyone who spoke to us there at angkor wat. i really and truly hope that tourism returns to cambodia as soon as it possibly can. thanks, mike! take care. that's is it for this week. we'll be back in a few weeks' time with a brand new show. but until then, take care, stay safe and goodbye.

hello there. we saw gale force winds across the north and the west of the uk today. lots of showers rattling through across england and wales, though. much of england and wales did stay dry, with plenty of sunshine. most of the rain was in western scotland — it was extremely wet, with over three inches falling on saturday. sunday, less windy, a lot of cloud around in the morning thanks to this weather front bringing outbreaks of rain to the north—west of the country. but high pressure will continue to build in across the south, so that will turn things dry as we head through sunday afternoon. we start the day off, though, with temperatures in double figures for most. that's because we'll start with quite a bit of cloud cover around, and still a fair old breeze out there. it will be quite wet, western scotland in towards north—west

england initially, and it looks like the cloud will tend to break up with increasing amounts of sunshine, especially across england and wales, and into the afternoon across northern ireland. these are the mean wind speeds, so you can see quite fresh out there but nothing as strong as what we had on saturday. with slightly lighter winds, more sunshine again in the south, temperatures will creep up to around 22, maybe 23 degrees in the south. high teens further north. on sunday night, the winds turn lighter still. as high pressure builds in, it'll turn drier with lengthy clear skies, a bit of cloud in the far north of scotland. under those clear skies with very light winds, temperatures could drop into single figures for many northern and western areas. one or two spots in the east seeing 10/11 degrees. 0n into monday, then, a bank holiday monday — high pressure with much of england and wales. we've got these weather fronts just flirting with the north—west corner of the country. that will tend to bring in thicker cloud. there will be a stronger breeze for western parts of northern ireland, western scotland and outbreaks of rain.

much of scotland, though, england and wales will be dry, plenty of sunshine. light winds. it's going to feel much warmer for all, especially in the south—east, where we could make 25 or even 26 degrees into the afternoon. as we move out of monday into tuesday, we start to these weather fronts move a little bit further south—eastwards. a very weak feature, but it could introduce more cloud, i think, to parts of england and wales as we go through the day. sunshine making a return to the north and west of the country, but there will still be some glimmers of brightness further south too, and that'll help push temperatures up to around the mid—twenties celsius again, as it is a warmer air mass. highs of around 16 or 17 in the north. we will see a bit more cloud at times and the odd spot of rain as we continye to move through the week for scotland and northern ireland. for england and wales, though, with the high pressure dominating, it's going to be warm and sunny.

welcome to bbc news — i'm lewis vaughan jones. our top stories: the chief adviser to the british prime minister, comes under pressure, as he's accused of breaching lockdown rules, twice — but cabinet ministers defend his actions. mr cummings is, you know, in the public eye. but the reality of the matter is that a four—year—old child's welfare, ithink, is the important thing. after weeks of increasing attacks, taliban and afghan government forces agree a three—day ceasefire, to mark the eid holiday. funerals take place in pakistan after the plane crash in a residential area of karachi that killed 97 people.