you're watching bbc news. the headlines. a senior member of the uk's conservative party calls for the prime minister's top aide to resign —— as dominic cummings faces fresh allegations that he breached lockdown rules. he insists he acted ‘reasonably and legally‘ by driving from london to county durham in march while his wife had coronavirus. but new reports suggest he was seen in the north east of england on two further occasions. the country cannot afford this nonsense, this pantomime, now. dominic should go and we should move on and deal with the things that matter in people's lives. police in hong kong fire tear gas at pro—democracy protesters who are angry at china's plans to introduce tough new security laws. after weeks of increasing attacks, taliban and afghan government forces agree a three—day ceasefire to mark the eid holiday.

the duke of cambridge has revealed how becoming a father brought back the painful emotions he felt after his mother's death. before the papers — sport and for a full round up. what is the latest on the premier league project restart? we have the latest coronavirus testing figures from the premier league and it's good news, as far as project restart is concerned. only two positive results from almost a thousand tests, so they're on firmer ground as they move towards the next step, of allowing contact training. players, coaches and staff are tested twice a week. leagues across europe are keeping a close eye on the return of the bundeslige in germany, where borussia monchengladbach have managed to keep a fan presence in their stadium, with 13—thousand cardboard cut—outs of supporters

around the ground, for their first home match since the restart. they did lose 3—1 to bayer leverkusen, though — so perhaps there's a flaw in the idea, because those fans are still smiling. we've talked at length about the uncertainty around footballers at the moment. it can be a difficult time for those who struggle with their mental health. as part of mental health awareness week, i spoke to everton‘s michael keane who was really candid about his own battles. i was feeling really down and i did not want to go out or see anyone. i felt embarrassed about how things were going on the pitch, so i didn't want to do anything. i tried to turn things around on the pitch but, in the end, itjust got on top of me. i didn't have a full breakdown but i just had to tell my family that it was a big breakthrough

moment where i got to my personal rock bottom at that time and from then on i have got better and better, with the help of my family and my friends. i started speaking to a sports psychologist and just keep on top of it. all those things together really helped. organisers of the french open tennis are still hopeful of being able to stage the tournament this autumn. it was due to start today, but it was postponed when the prime minister ruled that no sporting events could take place until september. andy murray has already said he'd definitely play at roland garros, if it were to go ahead later in the year. now, they say disney world is where all your dreams comes true. well, it could be for basketball fans, wishing the season would get back underway. the nba is in talks with disney in orlando, florida, to start matches again in latejuly,

at their wide world of sports complex. players would also be based at the site. the season has been on hold since the 11th of march. that's all the sport for now — let's go back to ben for the papers. hello and welcome to our look at today's papers. with me are ben chu, the economics editor at the independent and rosamund urwin, senior reporter at the sunday times. thank you for both being with us. let us look at the front pages. 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 are expected to call on the senior adviser to resign today. the daily mail carries a quote from the prime minister borisjohnson who — the paper claims — has fended off calls to fire his top aide by telling allies ‘it‘s not like he was visiting a lover.‘ the sunday times agrees that the prime minister wants to stand by dominic cummings. it says the pm has insisted he will not throw his most senior adviser ‘to the dogs‘. and the express says borisjohnson will unveil a series of crucial moves to start steering britain safely out of lockdown at the start ofjune — including funds to help high

streets. let‘s kick off with the observer. this is a joint investigation by the observer and the mirror. no surprise that they have splashed on the dominic cummings story. fresh claims that he broke the virus lockdown rules. give us an idea what those claims are. obviously, the mirror and the guardian splashed on this story on saturday, and they were setting out to be dominic cummings, he had been seen up in durham, that was at the period he quickly became ill and his wife was already ill. yesterday we had all these ministers coming out and defending him, saying that he was putting his child was mike needs first, but then it turns out —— child‘s needs first, but then

it comes out that there are witnesses that dominic cummings appears to have been in durham after he had been spotted back in london. so he had been commuting from london to durham, while the rest of us are all staying home and lockdown. it is pretty devastating claims. fantastic bit of collaborative journalism, both left—leaning papers with different audiences who have worked together brilliantly on this. we have two witnesses, one who is named, saying they spotted dominic cummings up in durham. one of them reports that he was out looking at the bluebells. he commented on how pretty they were. he also visited a

castle. it is not exactly what you would expect the person who has been partly responsible for the masses that we should all stay home. downing street rigorously and robustly defend him. do you think you broke the rules or did he bend the rules? i think it is devastating for the reason that it leaves the government's initial defence of what happened, that he was caring for the interest of his child, that does not apply if you suddenly have gone back to london and then back to durham again, it leaves the defence from the government looking at sea. this is devastating politically for the government because it looks like one rule for one, for the people in charge, and one rule for everyone else who must obey the rules. it is devastating from a health point of

view, people asking why they should all be the lockdown if senior figures aren't. i also think it is fascinating the government's response, but they are not going to waste time reporting allegations, one this week it has been putting out incredibly detailed responses from civil service — — out incredibly detailed responses from civil service —— servants to government stories. perhaps the person who has been dictating those responses is busy? what do you make of that in terms of the mirror? dominic cummings broke lockdown twice. what do you think of the way he has responded so far, getting films outside his house and asked if he would resign, and he said obviously not. he said he did not ca re obviously not. he said he did not care how it looks. what do you make of that response? extraordinarily

arrogant. we have had people be fined for their behaviour. some arguably for lesser things. now he is saying that the rules don‘t apply to him and it is extraordinary arrogance. it is interesting that we are seeing conservatives, we were briefing yesterday, i saw damian collins had just tweeted, another tory mp had tweeted, they are all saying dominic cummings should go. lots of people are warning what it really shows, their desperation to protect this man, is that they can‘t survive without him, but boris johnson can‘t see —— can‘t do the job without him, which is struggling. but dominic cummings and his reaction yesterday was appalling. many people have not been to funerals to relatives or visiting

the sick relatives, and there he is taking the virus around the country. it seems extraordinary to me that something so hypocritical is being defended by the government and he doesn‘t have a better answer to it. if he is being defended by the government, specifically defended with —— by borisjohnson, he is not leaving downing street any time soon? everyone gets defended until the moment they aren't any more. the fall can be be astonishingly rapid. there is almost an element of classical greek tragedy to this, in the sense that the person has been brought down by their own character flaws. he has always acted like someone flaws. he has always acted like someone where the rules don't apply to him. it is not hard to see how it may be thought that going up to durham during this time of lockdown was reasonable for him, because the rules don't apply to him. we are

going to find out soon one of those rules will catch up with them. the sunday times have got borisjohnson refuses to throw his top aide to the dogs, an apparent quote from the prime minister himself. there is also a survey that shows that most voters do think he should resign. yes, 52% is a majority! i think we are going to need some more holes in the coming days to cement that, —— polls, another interesting point that was made in one of the front pages were saying that dominic cummings hasa pages were saying that dominic cummings has a thick skin id is used to drawing fire away from downing street. i think that is delusional and he is drawing fire to downing street, which is why it is dangerous

for borisjohnson to street, which is why it is dangerous for boris johnson to allow the situation to carry on and why you may well be forced to get rid of him. i suppose it is true to say that he has not made a huge number of friends while he has been in government, in fact he made quite if few arrogant —— enemies, due to his bruising style. i noted yesterday that a civil service accounted was tweeting guidance when he did visit relatives. i got messages from people in whitehall who said they we re people in whitehall who said they were trolling him, because that was a frustration from whitehall who are ready did not like dominic cummings. he felt he was patronising to the civil service, which she was, and he acted as though whitehall was a terribly run organisation who needed his radical reforms. he has not made

friends, plenty in the conservative party that also don‘t like him, but he obviously does have his supporters, one of them is in 10 downing street, so that has protected him to some degree, but thatis protected him to some degree, but that is until it doesn‘t. the interesting thing in that headline is that borisjohnson is refusing to throw his top aide to the dogs. does that make us the dogs? i think that actually, the interesting thing about the story, this is notjust a twitter bubble of angry left—leaning people, there are people who would not normally be furious about a new story in this way who, because of the suffering they have endured, are absolutely apathy —— furious about this. i think what is interesting is that this story really has made a whole bunch of people that the conservative party need as

supporters, it has made them furious. let us look at the mail on sunday. boris johnson furious. let us look at the mail on sunday. borisjohnson saying that it was not like he was visiting a lover, i don‘t know if it is a direct quote, i think it attributes that quote to one of the prime minister‘s other aids. not a direct quote from ourjohnson himself, but is the wider point that it now makes the government message about social distancing, does it make it harder to sell to the public? i am sure it does, but that is unexplored narrowly wea k does, but that is unexplored narrowly weak defence. —— extraordinarily weak defence. what is the does what the real problem is is the does what the real problem is is that he wasn't trying to think about the future of his sick child,

the new allegation of m going to and from durham and london, that is simply breaking the lockdown. that is the key element here. it looks as though he wasn't respecting it at all and the defence that he was thinking about his family does not apply. it is sheer arrogance of not following the same rules as everyone else. that is the thing that is likely to cut through. he says it doesn't matter what people think, but it does! you have to set an example! you cannot break the rules and then break them yourself. the sunday times, away from dominic cummings they have an insight investigation. it is about the period before lockdown and it is saying that the rate of infection away from an estimated 200,000 to one and a half million in the nine days before lockdown and is accusing

the government of dithering doing that pre—lockdown phase. in the end, maybe the history books will focus more on that kind of thing that whatever happens to dominic cummings. i think that is absolutely right, in the long run that will be the case. the original insight investigation was one of the many stories that the government had put out unexplored narrowly long response to it. most of it was, frankly, irrelevant. they were looking at the initial period and this moves it onto look at a longer period and the real key bits year, it does expose the badness of the herd immunity idea. at the time people were warning against it, but the piece starts that the infection rate was doubling in three days. we went into lockdown at the much later stage, in terms of where the disease

was in our population in other countries, and the argument the piece is making is that that‘s translated into a catastrophic loss of lives. obviously, over 36 foot —— over 36,000 people have died in this country. it is a really shocking graft in there that shows the impact of lockdown, in terms of spreading it in the population —— a graph. if it in the population —— a graph. if it had been brought in earlier, the argument is, —— they were saying that it was a case being made. public health officials said it had to come in early. another major point is that a key committee was informed right at the start of march that the modelling chains were showing the loss of life that could happen if we did not go into lockdown earlier, and it‘s doted about three weeks for that to happen. looking ahead, everyone is

putting hopes on a vaccine, oxford university are in the driving seat —— driving seat or not. but the story in the sunday telegraph is a bit disappointing. the oxford trial has only a 50% chance! the reasons has only a 5096 chance! the reasons they give for that are really interesting. they say the virus is dying out, and the way these trials work is that we give a vaccine to two large groups and the sea —— a cure and a placebo to two groups, but if the disease is not prevalent enough, not enough people in the trials will get it. on the face of it, that might seem quite encouraging in the sense that, if the virus is not out there enough, not enough people can get it in the trial, but we know that the nature

of these things is that these things can be dominant and then re—emerge. we do need a vaccine. —— remain dormant. so many people are pinning their hopes on it, some people are talking as early as the autumn, but it apparently only has 50% chance of happening. the sunday times have a story about princess charlotte being kept at home when the school reopens. a huge controversy about the reopening of schools in england at the beginning ofjune and princess charlotte is in reception, so she would be one of the ones expected to go back, but maybe she would be? yes. the royalfamily are facing a dilemma that lots of pa rents a re facing a dilemma that lots of parents are facing, in which they have of kids different age groups, their son is not in the group that

are expected to go back, so prince george is a slightly too old, but the younger charlotte is in the age group that would return from —— return to school. they are wanted to keep theirfamily return to school. they are wanted to keep their family together. people are obviously very worried about schools going back. we know that not many children die from coronavirus, it isa many children die from coronavirus, it is a very small number, it is much more a threat to the elderly, but of course the children come into contact with their teachers. we come into co nta ct contact with their teachers. we come into contact with grandparents potentially, if you live any household three generations, and so the worry that it could be spread, but on the flip side a huge number of pa rents but on the flip side a huge number of parents are happy to work and home school, which is incredibly difficult. obviously the royals are ina much difficult. obviously the royals are in a much more privileged position than most of us, but we are facing a

similardilemma. than most of us, but we are facing a similar dilemma. grant shapps has been saying that it is still the government was my intention to send children back to those primary schools on june children back to those primary schools onjune the 1st. finally, let us look at the story about the quarantine, the new quarantine rules that the government have announced about a 11! day quarantine for new arrivals coming into the uk. france are retaliating, what is that about? the language of retaliation is interesting, reminding me of the brexits debate, and the european ce ntre brexits debate, and the european centre said all these expos to rise, they threatened to put tariffs on them. that hurts consumers of those goods, and if france imposes quarantine —— quarantine, british

holiday— makers will be effectively unable to go, because they will have to sit in quarantine. but it hopes the french tourist industry as well if the importance quarantine is. it really is lose lose situation from an economic and hardy making the point of view, but if the way of stopping a second wave of the virus are breaking out is to stop international travel, public health wise there is a strong case, as there has been for the lockdown, if it prevents another outbreak. do you think there is a strong case for it quarantine? if we are bringing it under control, we do not want lots of people coming in with new infections into heathrow airport?|j do infections into heathrow airport?” do think that is a factor. i feel desperately sorry for people working in the travel industry, with all their work to being destroyed, but i think there is a strong case for it. the real question for it is, why on

earth is this coming in onjune the 8th? why on earth was this done earlier like in other countries? we seem very slow. there is also a stonking fine if you break the self isolation, it is £1000, which does seem an extraordinarily large sum, but i suppose people are also concerned, as we have seen with other lockdown rules, that people will not be able to stay home or one place for 1h will not be able to stay home or one place for 16 days. i think there is a decent case for it, it‘s just seems very late to be. very briefly, ha rd to enforce seems very late to be. very briefly, hard to enforce that 16 day quarantine, but for the police, they are now expected to go around knocking on peoples doors, abe? cat

—— abe? knocking on peoples doors, abe? cat -- abe? yes, and that brings us full circle to dominic cummings. if you are at the top are putting a terrible example out there, what pressure either —— is there are people to fall planting? the structure does rely on people or being it without police going round to check on absolutely everyone. that will be undermined by the dominic cummings story.” that will be undermined by the dominic cummings story. i always like it when it comes full circle! thank you very much, both of you. that‘s it for the papers this hour. thanks for watching, join us again soon. goodbye for now. hello. after a mostly cloudy and in some places damp start to sunday, it will be brightening up a bit as we go through the afternoon, certainly

keeping more cloud on the eastern side of england than we had yesterday. very much on the plus side, it is not as windy as it was yesterday. the winds gradually ease further as we go through the day. any rain that we had at the start of the day will slowly die out and that is because high pressure is now building across the uk, so that is going to settle things down, certainly for the bank holiday, bringing a good bit of sunshine. these weather fronts mayjust bring some rain to the north—western parts of the uk. this is how your afternoon is shaping up, that patchy rain towards north—west england and west scotland slowly dying out. brighter skies at times for eastern scotland, brightening up in northern ireland. slowly seeing some sunny spells develop across england and wales, but especially into wales and south—west england. these winds are average speed. gusts are higher, around 110 mph. they are certainly down from yesterday and it is going to fuel the warm air out there, particularly where yesterday

was very windy and wet in western scotland. now, as we go into tonight, the winds are far lighter across the uk, largely clear skies with a touch of cloud in northern scotland, some fog patches around south—west wales and the south—west of england. but, under clear skies, temperatures are on the way down so most others will end the night in single figures. into the bank holiday tomorrow, you can see a lot of fine weather out there through much of england, wales and eastern scotland. northern ireland and western scotland will have morning sunshine, cloud increasing and some outbreaks of rain very slowly moving in as the afternoon goes on. the warmest parts of scotland and northern ireland near 20 degrees, it is low to mid 20s across much of england and wales. high pressure is still around for much of the week ahead, though a weak weather front does try to move further south early on tuesday. it will introduce more cloud. the selection of locations on the week mayjust see a chance of rain into northern

ireland and northern and western scotland, most of england and wales will stay dry, meaning no rain.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. senior members of the uk‘s conservative party call for the prime minister‘s top aide to resign, as dominic cummings faces fresh allegations that he breached lockdown rules. he insists he acted "reasonably and legally" by driving from london to county durham in march while his wife had coronavirus. but new reports suggest he was seen in the north east of england on two further occasions. the country cannot afford this nonsense, this pantomime, now. dominic should go and we should move on and deal with the things that matter in people‘s lives. gunfire. police in hong kong fire tear gas at pro—democracy protesters who are angry at china‘s plans to introduce tough new security laws.