on the coronavirus pandemic. i'm annita mcveigh. on today's programme, we'll hear from minority communities in the us and the uk about how the pandemic has affected their lives. and an interview with facebook‘s founder on what the company says it's doing to combat misinformation around coronavirus. if your sense of thing that is going to be putting someone at emanate time, we will take that down. if we are saying something that is wrong and will spread quickly but will not put people at imminent risk, we do not put that down, but we will stop it from spreading. do not forget that you will find latest updates on the pandemic on our website. but first in the united... or on the

rise. the un is calling for a reduction in violence as the country tries to grapple with the spread of coronavirus. our chief international correspondent has more. ifight on two fronts. the hospital underfire as they battle against the deadly virus. a time of body armour and facemasks. trying to protect themselves from this new enemy. we have spoken to doctors across the country. there is not enough of this ppe to keep them safe. a doctor back at work after recovering from covid—19 didn't want to be identified. there is a big crisis at the moment. we have lost three good doctors this week because of covered. they were in contact with the patients suspected of having it.

those who died did not have good enough ppe. sadly, they are not with us enough ppe. sadly, they are not with us today. there is a chronic crisis now in afghanistan. -- coronavirus. a house in morning. he lost his brother, a sister and his other brother, a doctor, the first to be tested for covid—19 by a system which failed the entire family. translation: i told the doctor that if my brother's test was positive, why did you not call us? they told me they had made a mistake. then they tested all of us, but after 13 days, of waiting, my first brother died. then another brother and sister died, and we still have not got our test results. after one and a half months. he took to facebook

to vent his fury. shaming senior officials into helping him. the government says it is doing what it can. they are absolutely right. people have died because of our testing abutment, and our infra structure was not designed to cope with our hyper event like this coronavirus pandemic. this caught us by surprise. a nation in the midst of the violence and fighting. there isa of the violence and fighting. there is a lockdown, but it is not strict. ina is a lockdown, but it is not strict. in a country where people live hand to mouth, anger is seen as a deadly threat. many already hurting. translation: i'm not scared of coronavirus, but i am afraid of hunger. coronavirus will not kill us, but we will definitely die from hunger. in some masks, they keep a safe distance. in the muslim holy

month of ramadan. in others, they believe only god can save them from their enemies. this invisible enemy may already be spreading fast next door to may already be spreading fast next doorto iran, may already be spreading fast next door to iran, the region's epicentre, but there are not enough tests to know. for now in this emergency hospital close to tell front lines, the old war still takes the heaviest toll. doctors treat victims of violence. the disease is not expected to reach its peak for a month or more. many worry the worst is maybe to come. in the united states, native american communities say they have been forgotten in the coronavirus crisis. despite making up just 2% of the population, the rate of infection amongst these communities is amongst the highest in the country, as ellie costello explains. a roadblock in the hills

of rural south dakota. since april, they've been operating 21w, with tourists and hunters turned away. two native american tribes say the threat of the virus, combined with their vulnerable populations and poor medical facilities meant they had to urgently control access to their lands. we have an inherent and sovereign right to protect the health of our people and no—one, man oi’ woman, can dispute that right. but now fighting the coronavirus has got political. south dakota's state governor said the checkpoints must be removed, claiming the tribes had broken the law by blocking state or local roads. —— federal. what we're looking for is clarification, respecting tribal sovereignty, which is something i've always done in my words and actions, but also making sure that we have the ability to protect people. despite their efforts, tribal leaders here haven't managed to keep the virus out

of their land entirely. last week, the oglala sioux tribe ordered a reservation wide shutdown after learning that two residents had tested positive for covid—19. let all your relatives know, all of your people know, all your friends, everyone across our reservation that it will be shut down. elsewhere, native american communities have been hit hard. the largest reservation in the us, navajo nation, is home to over 350,000 people, spanning the states of arizona, utah and new mexico. it's had 144 deaths from covid—19 so far, giving it one of the highest infection rates in the country. navajo nation is — the land base is enormous and covers several states, but in their highly populated areas, that's where we are seeing large cases of confirmed coronavirus infections. in massachusetts, the small

mashpee wampanoag tribe are one of the few with their own health service and virus testing scheme. would you say that tribes have been forgotten in this pandemic? absolutely. tribes are forgotten every day regardless, but in this pandemic, itjust brings it more to light. it's just we don't get the attention we deserve and we definitely have been an afterthought. we're an afterthought still right now. under the $2 trillion coronavirus relief act, tribal governments across the united states are set to receive $1 billion in response to the public health crisis. ——8 —— 8 billion. tribal leaders say this is not nearly enough to reverse inequality and discrimination that goes back for centuries. meanwhile in britain, thejewish community also appears to have had a disproportionately high death toll. the bbc‘sjohn mcmanus has been speaking to some of the families of those affected. yy was very special

to us and ourfamily. remembering a dearly—loved brother, another victim of the covid—19 virus which has hit britain'sjewish community particularly hard. yanki rothschild shared a love of singing with his brother, yechiel yosef, known as yy. the 20—year—old lived independently in the ultraorthodox, or haredi, jewish community of stamford hill in north london. one evening on the phone, yy told yanki he was feeling unwell. it was to be their last conversation before he was rushed to hospital. my parents were crying. their hands were tied, they couldn't do anything. their son — they couldn't even go into hospital to hug him, to say goodbye properly. yy's one of hundreds of deaths amongst all denominations ofjudaism which appear to be out of proportion to the community's small size. this cemetery in hertfordshire,

just north of london, has been here for more than 70 years. thousands of britain'sjewish community have been laid to rest here, but staff say over the weeks of march, they saw a sudden and unexpected spike in the number of funerals, many then the result of covid—19. at the moment, it's quiet, but in the busy period we were having, around 10 to 15 a day for six days a week. this is a tube or mask, so two ways obviously to get the oxygen. other parts of the community have also raced to adapt. the ezra umarpeh charity in stamford hill has been supporting the health needs of the community for decades. literally from hospital beds, if they need, down to crutches. in the last few months, it has bought dozens of oxygen machines to lend to coronavirus patients when they are discharged from hospital, but there have been accusations and somejewish people have been slow to change their lifestyles in the face of virus warnings.

—— that some jewish —— that somejewish people... i don't know anyone who doesn't know someone who has died. yehudis fletcher is a community advocate and activist. she says some influential jewish leaders failed to set a good example, but insists a much larger blame lies with the authorities. there are health inequalities that known to public health england about individual bame communities, and none of that was news. it should have been obvious our communities were going to be affected in a different way. nobody took the step to say that these communities should be warned in advance, nobody took control of the situation. there are still people in the community, there are still families who are mourning. the message of the pandemic has been to keep healthy by staying apart, but one organisation says for traditionally large haredi families who often live in cramped conditions, that was impossible. there are families who have every age group in the house, and that means you have little children all the way from 1—year—old

going to somebody in the house who is possibly 60 years old or above that age. that did contribute towards, you know, the virus being more aggressive in some parts of the community unfortunately. meanwhile, even as he continues to mourn his brother, yanki says yy's life was a gift. he brought life, he was a beacon of light in the whole community, not just in our family. he brought light to people. as the number of dead in brazil hovers around the 20,000 mark, its government is under ever more scrutiny, in particular its controversial president. in april, residentjair bolsonaro controversial president. in april, resident jair bolsonaro was asked about the spread of coronavirus in brazil. by may, brazil's number of cases was the third highest in the

world. this virus the president had dismissed as a little flu had killed 17,000 people, and he was being held responsible. the leading medical journal the lancet put it bluntly. this is the mayor of sao paulo. you have two viruses to combat, the coronavirus and the migratory virus. but can he explain result‘s plight through it jair bolsonaro but can he explain result‘s plight through itjair bolsonaro alone? certainly the initial... what the government for a threat. they were very comfortable saying that we were really funded, they had some kind of science that would be released soon. donald trump's boasts turned out to be horror. that was this man. he advocated social distancing and was fired. next into the job was this man, and when asked aboutjair bolsonaro's decision to reopen gems,

he he said was announced today? this did not go through ministry. days later, he resigned. an antimalarial drug, andjair later, he resigned. an antimalarial drug, and jair bolsonaro told his supporters that the cure is right there. it is not, but at the time of asking, he does have any health minister who is able to receive. it was cleared for the treatment despite not being proved to work. these are all relevant to understanding what has happened, but arguably, the lack of a nationwide lockdown has mattered even more. the president was thought to undermine that idea wherever possible. this is an anti—lockdown rally, and as you can see, these are not advocates of social distancing. but actually it is brazil's states that have the power to impose restrictions, and they have done so, but to differing

degrees, and there are clear limits to what they are willing to try. about 40% of the labour forces in the formal economy, only partially assisted by the social safety net. a lot of nose will be from hand to mouth, so it is hard to stay inside when you do not have the money to buy food. which leads us to the economy. brazil's currency is the worst performing in the world. its main stock exchange index is plummeting, manufacturing is slumping, and an upper limit is rising. the brazilian economist has written of his country, my investment device down my advice would be not to run into a burning building. but how best to put out that flag was like the president believe that lockdown and make it worse, and in economic terms, he is right. this president has defended its lockdown, saying that it is as ifafamily its lockdown, saying that it is as if a family has lost half of what it needs to live. this delicate balance between saving lives and saving incomes is universal in this pandemic, but the bitter political row over whether brazil can afford a

lockdown has had consequences.- the end of the day, he is the president. people take advice from him asa president. people take advice from him as a leader, and that is what is so confusing to people listening to jair bolsonaro or if they are taking advice from the state governors. around the world, covid—19 has delivered a deadly lesson that while human beings are influenced by passion, politics and prejudice, viruses are not. explain brazil boss mike failure to build a coherent response, we must start with the president, and... the founder of facebook, mark zuckerberg, has defended its record of tackling misinformation during the coronavirus outbreak. speaking to the bbc in his first uk broadcast interview in five years, he said the platform removed all content which put people at imminent risk of physical harm. he's been talking to the bbc‘s business editor, simon jack. on the immediate health risks, if some crazy person decided to start telling people to, i don't know, drink or inject bleach or, you know, saying that colloidal silver

would be a good way of keeping the virus at bay, what is the facebook algorithm's response to that? well, it's not our algorithm, we have policies around this, around stopping misinformation. we break this into two categories, so there's harmful misinformation that put people at imminent risk of physical harm. so things like saying that something is a proven cure for the virus when in fact it isn't, we will take that down. and there have been hundreds of thousands of cases of things that are harmful misinformation. another example, which i know has been very prevalent in the uk, has been 5g misinformation, which has led to some physical damage of 5g infrastructure, so we believe that that is leading to imminent risk of physical harm and we take down that content. there have been hundreds of thousands of pieces of content like that.

we enforce that no matter who is saying it. there was a case where the brazilian president went out and said that it was proven by all scientists, or something to that effect, that there is a drug that was proven to cure coronavirus, and that's obviously not true. there's nothing yet, at least that i'm aware of, that's proven to be a cure. so we had to enforce that. even if something isn't going to cause imminent risk of physical harm, we don't want misinformation to be the content that is broadly going viral across the network. so we work with independent fact—checkers. over the course of this period, since the covid outbreak, they have issued about 7,500 articles, fact—checking content, which has led to us showing about 50 million warning labels on different posts

across our services. we know that those posts are effective because 95% of the time when somebody sees a post that has a warning label on, they don't click through to it. if you are saying something that is going to put people at imminent risk, we take that and put up if you are saying something which is just wrong, but is spreading quickly but is not going to put people in imminent risk, we do not take that down but we stop it from spreading generally. no—one doubts the awesome responsibility that a company like facebook, which has whatsapp and instagram, of course, the responsibility it has in the world. your old friend, chris hughes, who founded the company with you, wrote a note saying that facebook should be broken up, these were his words, "mark alone, because of the voting structure, can decide how to configure the algorithm, to discern what people can see in their news feeds, what privacy settings they can use and even what messages get delivered. he sets the rules for how to distinguish violent and incendiary speech." do you, hand on heart,

as the controlling shareholder in facebook, do you, hand on heart, think it's a good idea for that kind of responsibility to be vested in one human being? you? i've actually said publicly that i don't think that any one individual or any company should be making so many decisions about important values and for society, like free expression and safety. we've taken a lot of actions on that front. just recently we've established this independent oversight board, and this oversight board will make it so that people in our community -- is --isa —— is a group of about 20 experts, folks like formerjudges, former prime minister of denmark, academics, journalists, leaders of nonprofits. people who come from countries around the world with diversity of experiences, but all have a commitment to understanding

free expression and human rights. this oversight board will make it so that people in our community can appeal if they think we are making a decision incorrectly on content. this board will have the final binding say. if they say something needs to come down, or needs to stay up, at that point it doesn't even matter what i think or what the other folks on our team think. this independent board will get to make that decision. i do think that there needs to be some additional governance beyond just our company making all the decisions, which is why we're taking steps like that. i think that that's very important. that is facebook founder mark zuckerberg talking to simonjack. finally, so many industries are facing a long road to recovery because of the pandemic, and tv productions are no exception. but in south africa, a group of actors are so stringent lockdown restrictions as an opportunity to start a new

online soap opera, which they have shot by themselves at home. it is proving so popular it is already in its third season. think club standing by, and action. so when the president announced the national lockdown, i kind of sat at home and thought to myself, well what happens to the soapie is, and so in my head isaid, why to the soapie is, and so in my head i said, why don't you just create a soap opera on i said, why don't you just create a soap opera on our i said, why don't you just create a soap opera on our soapbox? lockdown hounds is a lockdown instavella, which is a novella which we are putting on social media. it runs between nine and 12 minutes. we are on lockdown, i am supposed to be

in the house, we all do. what happens is we sent a script out to actors, and each actor shoots from home on their cell phones the individual part of the episode or the scene of which we will edit together and it comes across, when it comes together, it comes across as people are in the same space. obviously you have to use the tv if you cannot get the shot. look at this. this is my tripod. well, girl, you're dangerous. get out of my frame, what are you doing? we will just call out actors that i know, friends, people i have worked with in the past, and they are excited. everyone was keen to go into a space they do not know. i cannot believe you tried to steal from me. they do not know. i cannot believe you tried to steal from melj they do not know. i cannot believe you tried to steal from me. i am sorry, i did not know what else to do. maybe go home and set this thing up do. maybe go home and set this thing up so we do. maybe go home and set this thing up so we can do. maybe go home and set this thing up so we can finally be done. you're next. it also gives us opportunity to be actors to be creative and

collaborate with each other and just to create something fresh and new, because we are moving into a format which we haven't before. because we are moving into a format which we haven't beforelj because we are moving into a format which we haven't before. i cannot stop thinking about how it felt when i kissed him. well, i am right here. my message to all of the actors, and even the crew out there affected by the covid—19 virus within this space, is always a stay creative, always look for opportunities for creative ways of storytelling, of characterisation, of shooting. innovative ways of storytelling will be unravelled, and she was like this are here to pioneer that kind of innovation. and cut. that's it for now. a reminder, you can follow me on twitter — @annita—mcveigh — or head to the bbc news website for the latest information. thanks for watching.

we have lots of dry weather to come this week, a fair bit of sunshine, and it is going to be getting warmer. over recent days, we have been seeing some fairly warm air moving northwards from the subtropics, and that is going to be moving over the uk where it gets incorporated into this area of high pressure. the high—pressure will recirculate that warm air and tend to drift it northwards as the week goes by, so for many of us, it will become increasingly warm. today we are seeing plenty of sunshine, for most of us, and we will keep the sunshine into the evening time as well for most of us. one exception, the far north—west we have seen this figure cloud edging. this is a weather front, bringing figure cloud edging. this is a weatherfront, bringing some rain. particularly in the far north—west of scotland, the hebrides, the islands, the northern isles all seeing a bit of rain, between five

and ten millilitres, not a lot. as the front drift southwards, it wea ke ns, the front drift southwards, it weakens, so just an odd spit of rain in northern england, northern ireland and north of wales was not a mild night for all of us, but particularly so in the know with london area with temperatures falling no lower than 1a degrees. warm start to the day on tuesday, the weather front weakening and fishing southwards, that cloud bringing down like breaking up, and overall a cloudier picture for england and wales, some sunny spells coming through. highs of 25 degrees, some slightly fresher air getting in to scotland. and northern ireland. we will have some high spells of sunshine developing in the afternoons up on wednesday, high—pressure still with us. that warmerair high—pressure still with us. that warmer air getting pushed back northwards, so we should start to see those temperatures rising across ireland and then northern ireland as well. wednesday, plenty of sunshine in england and wales. after a cloudy start in northern ireland, we will see the brighter conditions working in through the afternoon. patchy cloud for scotland, some quite high,

so still it should be on the bright side for most areas. in the south, temperatures continue to build. highs of 25 degrees in both london and cardiff, and towards the end of the week, our warmer air working northwards, is of scotland, to produce fishing on into the 20s. 23 there in glasgow. towards the end of there in glasgow. towards the end of the week. further south—west, we will keep the highest temperature, and in the warmest spot, temperatures pushing on into the high 20s at times towards the end of the week. that is your latest weather, bye for now.

this is bbc news, i'm simon mccoy. the headlines... borisjohnson's top adviser dominic cummings will make a statement this afternoon, as the prime minister comes under increasing pressure to sack him following allegations he broke lockdown rules. borisjohnson is putting his political interest ahead of the public interest and when trust in a public health message and public health advice is as important as it is right now, the consequences of that could be very serious. the price some children pay in lockdown, as social services warn of an increase in abuse, neglect or harm going on behind closed doors. brazil is declared the latest coronavirus hotspot with more than 360,000 cases, second only to the united states. and getting training back on track. the government gives the go—ahead to some contact sport preparations,