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 fresh 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. china's foreign minister accuses some politicians in the united states of trying to push the two countries to the brink of a new cold war. police in hong kong arrest dozens

of people participating in the first pro—democracy protests since beijing announced plans to impose a new security law on the territory. the duke of cambridge has revealed how becoming a father brought back the painful emotions he felt after his mother's death. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world, and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. the uk prime minister's closest aide, dominic cummings, is facing further pressure and scrutiny, with new allegations he breached lockdown rules and several members of the ruling conservative party calling for him to resign. both mr cummings and the government insist he acted "reasonably

and legally" by driving from london to county durham in march while his wife had coronavirus. but some conservative mps are demanding his resignation. leading brexiteer steve baker tweeted that it is "intolerable that borisjohnson‘s government is losing so much capital" and said dominic cummings must go. also on twitter, damian collins said mr cummings had a track record of beliving the rules don't apply to him, and said the govenrment would be better off without him. and simon hoare said, "with the damage mr cummings is doing to the government's reputation, he must consider his position" and warned he was now wounding the government and prime minister. i spoke to conservative mp and former brexit minister steve baker who explained why he thought dominic cummings should go. i think his position is untenable. it is because of dominic's slogans around these rules that mums and dads,

grannies and grandpas around the country will have felt that they had to stay at home if covid got into their families. and of course they too care about their children but they knew that they must stay at home, 7 days for the first person, 1a days for the others. and now it turns out that they could have been driving around the country with symptoms perhaps for hours to get to a position of more convenient to childcare. this requires an extremely broad interpretation of the latitude of the rules and makes it untenable for dominic to stay. and my real objection here is we are simply burning through capital, co—opting members of the cabinet with vapid lines trying to defend the indefensible. we saw yesterday enormous political capital expended to try and fix today's press. it didn't work, it isn't going to work. until dominic goes, i am afraid we are going to find we are talking about dominic. i want us to get onto the real concerns that people have, like getting out of this coronavirus crisis and getting on with the normal programme of boris johnson's government.

speaking on andrew marr‘s show this morning, the transport secretary grant shapps defended dominic cummings. i have read the newspaper report about easter sunday, which would be the 12th, i was merely correcting the fact that it seemed to me he may have gone up to durham earlier than you suggested in your introduction. therefore he would have been isolated for two weeks, for m days. but look, as i say, i am not... did you or anybody in number 10 ask him, ask dominic cummings, whether he had left the house once he was up there? my understanding is that stayed there in the house for the 14 days until he would have been out of the quarantine period. that is my understanding of the situation. are you absolutely sure he was not back in durham seen walking in a bluebell wood on the 19th of april? again, my understanding is that he has been down in london since the 14th of april and has not returned to durham since that time.

we can speak to the conservative mps sir roger gale. . .. thank mps sir roger gale.... you for your time. what are the thank you for your time. what are the thing about this affair. these think mrcummings the thing about this affair. these think mr cummings should resign? yes, iam think mr cummings should resign? yes, i am a father and grandfather, i understand mr cummings‘ desire to protect his four—year—old son and any parent would understand that, but this man is a member of a team in numberio but this man is a member of a team in number 10 downing street and you cannot have one law for the prime minister‘s team and another for absolutely everybody else. i agree with steve baker, i think his position is untenable and i think he has to go. but you have heard what downing street have said, he acted reasonably and legally, so the problem? the problem is you cannot have one lover downing st and

another for everybody else. people all over the country have children, but they have had to self—isolate with them and they haven‘t been able to provide childcare for them, this is not one law for one person and another for absolutely everybody else and there is a degree of hubris and arrogance in this. it goes beyond acceptability. as i have said, ithink beyond acceptability. as i have said, i think his position is untenable and i think to maintain the credibility of the administration, he has to go. do you think he broke the rules or bend the rules ? think he broke the rules or bend the rules? broke, bent, it is neither here nor there, the fact of the matter is that there are a team of people who set the rules, we and then have to abide by those rules. i am sitting in a office in isolation, why am am sitting in a office in isolation, whyami am sitting in a office in isolation, why am i doing that? i have two, i am told that i need to and i am doing it. do i like it? no, i would sooner doing it. do i like it? no, i would sooner be in the house of commons in

thejob i was sooner be in the house of commons in the job i was elected to do. but if this is how i have to work, i will do that and do this job. mr cummings has to play by the rules that he has set and everybody else has to abide by. he has broken those rules and has to go. you say that. but the question is in the end, it is down to him whether he wants to go. he says he won‘t go and doesn‘t care how it looks, that is what he said yesterday. borisjohnson is quoted today saying he won‘t throw him to the dogs, does the prime minister need mrcummings to the dogs, does the prime minister need mr cummings to baddeley that he won‘t fire him? —— to baddeley. need mr cummings to baddeley that he won't fire him? —— to baddeley.” think there was a degree of sympathy yesterday, as parents and grandparents we understand that fathers want to protect their children and need to protect their children and need to protect their children and need to protect their children and are determined to do so. children and are determined to do so. people can sympathise with that. if it turns out, and if it is and if at the moment. if it turns out the full story hasn‘t been told and has

been coming and going, that he has been coming and going, that he has been seen in places other than in isolation, then that becomes a different story. the story that the cabinet members would end yesterday was his right to look after his child. —— where defending yesterday. the other stories are indefensible. thank you very much for being with us thank you very much for being with us today. china‘s foreign minister, wang yi, has warned that certain us interests are pushing for ‘a new cold war‘, following the fallout from the coronavirus crisis. speaking at a press conference in beijing, the country‘s top diplomat said china and the united states would lose from confrontation, and insisted both sides must find a way for peaceful co—existence. translation: it has come to our attention that some political forces in the us are taking china us relations hostage and pushing our two countries to the brink of a new cold war. china remains prepared to work

with the us in the spirit of no conflict or confrontation, mutual respect and win—win cooperation and build a relationship based on coordination, cooperation and stability. i call on the us side to stop wasting precious time and stop costing people‘s lives. i‘m joined now by our china correspondent steve mcdonell. very strong words there, warnings of a new cold war. absolutely, i have just come from that press conference and you know, china‘s foreign minister, he only does one of these press c0 nfe re nces every minister, he only does one of these press conferences every year on the sidelines of the national evil‘s congress. it is highly orchestrated. —— on the sidelines of the national people‘s congress. it is a message from beijing to the world and on several fronts, well, he from beijing to the world and on severalfronts, well, he wasn‘t really getting stuck into the us and

the trump administration. he hoped the trump administration. he hoped the american people would seem to be able to return to their own normal lives. but these attempts to try and make china pay for the damage that this virus has caused by some sort ofa this virus has caused by some sort of a lawsuit, for example, he described them as frivolous and shoddy. he said that as well as this damaging real virus in the us, he described a political virus. he said it was causing politicians there to drum up conspiracy theories, to attack china at every chance it had. so on the one hand he is saying feel sorry for the american people and what they are going through, but it really was attacking the trump administration and especially those, mainly republican politicians, who have been in his words spreading conspiracy theories about the virus and blaming china for it. steve,

relations between china and donald trump‘s white house administration we re trump‘s white house administration were already bad in terms of trade and all of the argument over trade before coronavirus, and now they have got worse and worse. absolutely, there were times when he said we really should be cooperating with one another and he was asked at one point about this so—called wolf worrier diplomacy, by which we have seen worrier diplomacy, by which we have seen these chinese politicians, especially on social media, giving as good as they get from the likes of donald trump. well, we are looking to see that coming to an end quickly because he said, basically, in china, we have got the truth on oui’ in china, we have got the truth on our side, but also guts and we are not going to take this from america any more and we are going to be taking them on when we are challenged. so it seems that tensions aren‘t going to ease off in the near future. this

tensions aren‘t going to ease off in the nearfuture. this was tensions aren‘t going to ease off in the near future. this was also the case for hong kong. he was asked about comments from western governments after this new security legislation was introduced, which will mean tougher penalties for protesters in hong kong, sparking more clashes in that city. he said that was an internal matter for china and that basically all of these other countries like the us, like britain, australia, canada and the like should be putting out of china‘s internal affairs. the like should be putting out of china's internal affairs. thank you very much indeed. as steve mentioned. as part of that meeting, the chinese foreign minister also insisted that a new hong kong security law must be imposed without the slightest delay. almost 200 senior politicians from around the world have backed a joint statement criticising china‘s plans. they‘re urging governments to make clear that any infringement of hong kong‘s autonomy won‘t be tolerated. thousands of people in hong kong have been protesting on the streets, with a dozen of them

arrested so far. this was the scene a little earlier at causeway bay — a busy shopping district — where there‘s a heavy police presence. tear gas and water cannons were fired at anti—government demonstrators. another territory keeping a close watch on what is going on in hong kong right now is taiwan. the officially chinese island which maintains it is autonomous has been on high alert, especially after chinese president li‘s annual report failed to mention the "1992 one china consensus" that governs the unique understanding between the chinese mainland and the island. we‘re joined now by professor syaru shirley lin, a university professor at the university of virginia in the us and the chinese university of hong kong and author of taiwan‘s china dilemma. she‘sjoins me from taipei.

thank you very much indeed for being with us. what you make of this latest move by china on hong kong and the security law that has ignited a fresh wave of protests there? thank you, i speak today with a heavy heart because the protest is happening around causeway bay five minutes away from my home in hong kong. today i am actually in taipei andi kong. today i am actually in taipei and i would say the biggest issue in all of this is that taipei and beijing and hong kong have grown apart over the last few years, especially since 2014, when taiwan had a massive protest against legislation against a agreement that would allow more trade and services between china and taiwan. and right after that, hong kong also started a very big protest against not being able to vote for their chief executive. so this has been ongoing

for several years. fast forward to what happened with the resolution, thatis what happened with the resolution, that is likely to be passed on may 28, which authorises the national people‘s congress standing committee to d raft people‘s congress standing committee to draft a tailor—made national security more and impose it on the hong kong people. what has happened is that this is on the eve of course of taiwan‘s government going into its second term and taiwanese people are watching this closely. yesterday ata taipei are watching this closely. yesterday at a taipei station there was a mass sit in to protest against what is happening in hong kong and we can see a one country, two system is being deleted at a accelerated pace —— they looted, although it is a trend that is clear. we have seen those protests in hong kong and as you say, it is in causeway bay place where you live, and they going to continue and what we china‘s

reaction? the difficult part is it is under new legislation, those people could be arrested with more consequential sentencing and the next big event isjune four, the sist next big event isjune four, the 31st anniversary of tiananmen square is coming up. i think people in taiwan and hong kong where, in the past, not so united in thinking about what is happening with the chinese policy on hong kong and taiwan. but over the past few years, young people have banded together andi young people have banded together and i think that this will continue despite what has happened today, which is over 100 people, most young people, where arrested.. professor, thank you very much for being with us, thank you for your time. the headlines on bbc news... 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. china‘s foreign minister

accuses some politicians in the united states of trying to push the two countries to the brink of a new cold war. police in hong kong arrest dozens of people participating in the first pro—democracy protests since beijing announced plans to impose a new security law on the territory. the afghan president, ashraf ghani, has used his eid message to the country to announce that the government is to speed up the release of taliban prisoners. he made the comments as a three—day ceasefire to mark the religious festival comes into effect. there has been a surge in violence since a deal was agreed between the militants and the united states in february. 0ur reporter sodaba haidare has more. three days of peace in a country marred by 19 years of violence. sudden and last—minute, but welcomed nevertheless, with the afghan president

instructing government forces to defend only if attacked. the truce comes following an agreement between the us and taliban to end the war in afghanistan. applause. although temporary, it‘s a relief for war—ridden afghans after a wave of violence, with recent attacks on a maternity ward and another one on a funeral. horns blare. afghans hope to celebrate eid al—fitr in peace this year, but to those used to the reality of war, this is most likely the calm before the storm, with the taliban so often planning and carrying out attacks as warm weather approaches. to others, a flicker of hope that the ceasefire might lead to an everlasting peace.

funerals have taken place in pakistan for some of the victims of friday‘s plane crash in karachi, in which 97 people died. flight data and cockpit recorders have been recovered and an investigation into the cause of the crash is under way. but the pakistan pilots‘ association says it doesn‘t trust the government to investigate properly. umer nan giana sent this report from the scene. this is exactly the site where the pakistan international airlines plane crashed. debris is all over the place, you can see one of the parts of the wings of the aircraft and there are parts of the engine and the body of the aircraft in the street. this is a very narrow street, about 20 foot wide or something. and we have been told by the eyewitnesses here they were inside these houses

when plane crashed here. if we can show you a little bit of what happened to the house that was trapped 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 the servants that were present close to the gate here were badly burned. this is the engine of the aircraft and you can see here, this skeleton that you can see was actually cars, like this one. the security agencies, when they first moved in and the rescue workers there, 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. it was that house, which is, like, three or four houses from here. this is where the plane first hit and then itjust crashed into the street. 0n the impact, it went into a fireball and the whole place caught fire.

let‘s get more now on the calls for borisjohnson‘s senior advisor, dominic cummings to resign after apparently breaking coronavirus lockdown relgulations. we can speak to the conservative mp simon hoare. thank you for being with us. the government are very strongly defending mrcummings government are very strongly defending mr cummings and what steve think they should —— he should do now? the advisor starts to damage the reputation of the government, whoever that adviser is and whatever the reason for the story, they need to consider their position and the harm they are inflicting on the reputation of the government and i think it is significant. i think there are strong messages about social distancing and staying at home and making sacrifices and that we are all in this together, and those have slightly become die looted. i think mr cummings, it is

time for him to consider his position and whether he is useful to the government and my assessment is he is not. he says he was acting legally and reasonably and looking after his child and the prime minister and government have defended him and a string of ministers have defended him as well. ime father of three girls and i do not question and i do not criticise dominic cummings‘s paternal instincts to look after his child and make sure the child is well. but as evidenced in my inbox and m essa 9 es over as evidenced in my inbox and messages over the last 24 or 36 hours, thousands, if not millions of families up and down the country have made sacrifices where they have had elderly relatives moving towards the end of their days where they have had newborn grandchildren they have had newborn grandchildren they have wa nted have had newborn grandchildren they have wanted to visit. all of these sort of things. they are perfectly normal, acceptable family support

instincts, but we have had to suspend normality as a nation, we have pulled together, to face it and try and combat lockdown. and at the time when these visits or trips were being made, we were at the height of lockdown. we were absolutely at the start of all of this when people we re start of all of this when people were asking questions, and i am afraid that it does play into the... iam never... the afraid that it does play into the... i am never... the argument of, oh, well, the politicians and people, they are the do as i say, not as i do brigade, and it has undermined our message. i do not criticise at all for wanting to look after the welfare of his child, put thousands of other people, those of my constituents, they have wanted to do same thing and have assisted the temptation because they have abided by the advice which the government has given out at the time. it is advice that i fully support and continue to support. in terms of the politics of it, we know that he is

the prime minister‘s chief adviser, the prime minister‘s chief adviser, the prime minister needs him and may not be prepared to let him go to make that sacrifice. that is a very consideration for the prime minister. mrcummings is consideration for the prime minister. mr cummings is a very close to the prime minister, they have got a long history of a good successful collaborative relationship. this is, i think, successful collaborative relationship. this is, ithink, a error ofjudgment on behalf of dominic cummings and if i were him, andi dominic cummings and if i were him, and i was as close and supportive and i was as close and supportive and affectionate towards the prime minister as he purports to be, i would to the conclusion pretty quickly that i would be damaging the reputation of the government and the effectiveness of the government in trying to deliver these important m essa 9 es trying to deliver these important messages at these important times. i would not put the prime minister in any further difficulty, i would attend my resignation as a defective resignation, not up for discussion, and move on, draw a

resignation, not up for discussion, and move on, drawa line resignation, not up for discussion, and move on, draw a line and let the government move on as well. but at the moment, i think it is increasingly hard, if not now impossible, for any offers to, with any degree of authenticity and sincerity, to communicate, to our constituents and others who want to get on with the normal lives they are used to living, that we are still not in normal times and they need to resist. especially when a senior person within the whitehall machine appears to have so very flag ra ntly machine appears to have so very flagrantly disregarded the rules of the government. we have only got a few seconds left, simon, he said he doesn‘t care how this looks. does that mean you don‘t think he cares about what people like you say and he won‘t resign? about what people like you say and he won't resign? exactly, that has a lwa ys he won't resign? exactly, that has always been dominic‘s bigger problem, he does not care. he does not care about parliament and public opinion, he doesn‘t care about what

parliamentarians think. as far as he is concerned, he thinks we are the absolute biggest nuisances going. sorry, simon, we are out of time. we all watching —— you are watching bbc news. the duke of cambridge has revealed he has found parenting "overwhelming" at times and says having children brought back the emotions he felt following the death of his mother. speaking candidly in a new bbc documentary which hopes to encourage men to open up about their mental health through football, prince william shares the impact being a father has had on his own wellbeing. 0ur correspondent sean dilley has more. when you‘ve been through something traumatic in life and that is, like, your dad not being around, my mother dying when i was younger, your emotions come back in leaps and bounds.

the duke of cambridge speaking about his struggles with parenting as a father of three. i‘ve definitely found it very, at times, overwhelming. me and catherine particularly, we support each other and we go through those moments together and we kind of evolve and learn together. prince william opened up in a conversation with former professional footballer marvin sordell for a documentary, football, prince william and our mental health, which will air on bbc one on thursday. marvin sordell quit football last year after a successful career that saw him play for the england under—21 team, bolton and burton albion. when he retired at 28, he pointed to his mental well—being, describing football as a beautiful game with an ugly persona. sordell, who has previously spoken of his poor mental health and his suicide attempt in 2013, says being a father has been difficult. it was the hardest time of my life. i found it really, really tough. and i grew up without my father and i've not had a father to look up at, and now i've got a child and they are looking up to a father

and i don't really know how i'm dealing with this. i really struggled with my emotions at that time, you know. the programme features conversations with footballers and fans and managers from all walks of life. prince william says he wants his emotionally—charged documentary to kick off the biggest ever conversation on mental health through football. your dad would be very proud of you, he would. as your mum would. i appreciate that. you‘ll make all the right decisions, i know you will. i can see the kind of man you are and you will be absolutely fine and you will be a great dad. now it‘s time for a look at the weather with nick miller. hello. after a cloudy and in some places start to sunday, it will be brightening up a bit as we go through the afternoon. some as we go through the afternoon. sunny spells deve winds some sunny spells developing, the winds are still quite breezy out there and these are average speeds, they will be cost of up to 40 miles

an hourand they will be cost of up to 40 miles an hour and that is certainly enough notch down compared to yesterday and the winds will fomite as we go into tonight. a warm day, but under clear skies and light winds, temperatures will fall into single figures for many of us, so a colour night on the way. tomorrow, it is high—pressure in control across much of the uk, south through england, wales and eastern scotland, plenty of sunshine to come. a weather front approaching northern ireland and western scotla nd northern ireland and western scotland will eventually introduce more cloud and a chance for some outbreaks of rain and temperatures in the warm spots heading towards the mid 20s. hello this is bbc news. iam ben i am ben brown. the headlines: 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. china‘s foreign minister accuses some politicians in the united states of trying to push the two countries to the brink of a new cold war. police in hong kong arrest dozens of people participating in the first pro—democracy protests since beijing announced plans to impose a new security law on the territory. the duke of cambridge has revealed how becoming a father brought back the painful emotions he felt after his mother‘s death. now on bbc news, dateline london.