but the two million people in the uk who belong to choirs have been missing the experience of singing together. this weekend, thousands of them will gather online for a singalong of handel's messiah, which lasts several hours. jon kay has the story. if i could ask everybody, if possible, to stand up for me? what would handel have made of this? they sing # hallelujah #. it was mark strachan‘s idea. missing his friends in a dorset choir during lockdown, he suggested singing online. music is more thanjust notes on a piece of paper. it's the feeling of singing with your friends, it's the feeling of going to the same place to be together, it's the feeling of the performance, where you're doing it together, with other people. this virus has taken all that away.

meet choirmaster ben england. he agreed to lead nightly rehearsals of the messiah. hello to andrew... they expected a couple of dozen to sign in... guten abend! from perth, my goodness! ..but soon, there were 3,500. they sing andrew and nora are twins. he's in berkshire, she's in yorkshire, but the choir means they can be together, despite lockdown. what's it like singing on your own, with headphones on, to a computer? it might be a little bit odd, but knowing that andrew's... he might be 300 miles away, but he's singing at the same time as me — and 3,500 other people — just makes it good. this has just been a fantastic way of still getting that togetherness and still getting the fun that you get from singing the messiah. it's a plus, in the middle

of a very big minus. # do i love you...# thousands of miles away, in new york, george and dianejoined in. what has this experience, with the choir, given you both? it's given us heart. it's given us hope. yes, it really does. hope. hope for the future. itjust lifts you, and it gives you more confidence that things are going to continue, that we can still sing. yes, we can still sing. you know? yes, yeah. it's done wonders for us mentally, for sure. the self—isolation choir is now so big, it's not technically possible to stream the final performance live. # hallelujah...# so, on sunday night, they'll all sing along to this three—hour backing track. isolated, no more. jon kay, bbc news. thank you, everybody.

that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night. hello to viewers in the uk joining those around the world. it's now time for us to take a first look at the national and international front pages in the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the uk and international papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are iain anderson, executive chairman of the public relations and lobbying firm cicero amo, and sian griffiths, education editor at the sunday times.

let's ta ke let's take a look at tomorrow's front pages. in the uk, the telegraph leads with a warning from police that they'll issue fines for anyone breaking lockdown rules by trying to see gatherings of friends and family this sunny weekend, before restrictions are eased on monday. in france, le figaro looks at the challenges of reopening as restaurants and cafes prepare to open their doors amidst the uncertainty caused by the virus the times says almost every primary school in england is set to reopen on monday in defiance of the biggest teaching union. the international edition of the financial times says donald trump's battle with twitter has intensified after the social media network accused the us president of "glorifying violence" following his apparent call for the military to use force against protesters in minneapolis.the daily mail says force against protesters in minneapolis. the daily mail says plans to quarantine travellers

coming into britain are falling apart" as border force and police officials here say the system is "unenforceable". the guardian says the row over the uk prime ministers top aide dominic cummings'breach of lockdown rules has prompted tens of thousands of people to flood their mps' inboxes in what some say is the biggest outpouring since brexit. and in singapore, the strait times says the coronavirus means singapore's job market is heading into uncertain territory — with vacancies likely to shrink, employers reluctant to hire and a large pool of workers expected to be looking forjobs in the coming months. so let's begin... iain anderson, sian griffiths, welcome to both. let's start with restau ra nts, welcome to both. let's start with restaurants, bars, very much the sta ble restaurants, bars, very much the stable certainly of parisi in life are set to reopen, how is it going to work, iain? , very very tentatively. it would seem, yah, as you say, big into restaurants, socialising, it's kind of what we

all think about in terms of right at the heart of french culture, cuisine and there are 200,000 restaurants in france that are going to be opening up france that are going to be opening up from the 2nd ofjune, but they are only going to be able to do so with big changes to their menus and by having customers sitting outside in the open air. so it's going to be a huge change, at least the weather is improving, but it's really the start of very very baby steps towards opening up all of france's great restaurants. sian, ithink towards opening up all of france's great restaurants. sian, i think the question is will people feel safe to go back to bars and restaurants? the staff will have to wear masks, only a certain number of people are allowed at any one table, they will try and implement social distancing. imean, it try and implement social distancing. i mean, it sounds pretty difficult,

doesn't it? apologies, we haven't got the sound there for sian, i'm going to put the plane to you. do you thank you would go back to a restau ra nt you thank you would go back to a restaurant anytime soon in france if you had to wear a mask, if you had to be very careful about social distancing, cleanliness, handwashing? i mean come i think this is one of the issues we are all going to phase whether we are sitting at a restaurant, going on a train... willjust drive around generally, there are just very very tentative steps that we can all take over the next few weeks. because clearly, you know, listening to some of the scientists right now, the big concern still about a second spike. now, yeah, how you eat a meal ona spike. now, yeah, how you eat a meal on a plane with a mask on, you probably can't. how you eat a meal and enjoy a meal with all of the ppe around you is going to be very very

ha rd to around you is going to be very very hard to see. but this is the balance. governments know that they need to get their economies going. and in france, the art of food is essential to the french economy. and in france, the art of food is essential to the french economylj wonder essential to the french economy.” wonder what lessons i suppose are going to be learned, certainly here in the uk, a couple of weeks behind a lot of europe in terms of the freedoms that people are being allowed to experience now. yeah, i mean that's precisely it. i mean, these are very very tentative steps. kind of hearing from the government's chief scientific adviser over the past 2a hours. they have got big concern still about a second spike emerging, and because of that, this is a very very slow turning of the tap in terms of the restrictions, but it's also fundamentally about competence and do people have competence to go out and aboutand,

do people have competence to go out and about and, you know, try out things that were kind of commonplace before we all locked down. well we will see, what we, certainly in the coming days and weeks. sian is back with us, welcome, we have established sound, wonderful, let's move established sound, wonderful, let's m ove o nto established sound, wonderful, let's move onto the paper. the daily mail, sian, board of estimate granting plans for travellers to the uk in chaos as officials say, well, we can't police it. this is about anybody coming into the country going to have to go into quarantine for two weeks. is it really going to happen? well, this is an interesting story, the front page of the daily mail, because we have onlyjust about to introduce this measure within the next ten days, and already they are saying it's not going to work. but it's actually quite a crucial measure, so this is the plan that any travellers coming into our airports will have to quarantine for 14 days once they arrive. they will have to self—isolate to arrive. they will have to self— isolate to make arrive. they will have to self—isolate to make sure that they don't, they are not bringing in the coronavirus and not spreading it to the population here. and it does

seem the population here. and it does seem like this is really quite critical in terms of making sure that we stay on top of this virus, making sure that the infection rate doesn't go up. already, the daily mail says this plan may not work. the border police are saying the syste m the border police are saying the system is completely unenforceable, and an awful lot of exemptions. i mean, all kinds of people are exempt, apparently, from having to self—isolate. the daily mail has a list of them from gas stations to electricians, quite understanding —— why they would be exempt. i actually think it would be a disaster of this plan is not enforced, because it just means of our borders are secure, and if we get on top of the virus as we seem secure, and if we get on top of the vii’us as we seem to secure, and if we get on top of the virus as we seem to be doing across the country, you know, it could come in again from outside, and we could see a second spike, which would be very bad news. i mean for everybody. for the economy as well as course. they are saying that they can't divorce it —— enforce it, how are they going to make sure the tens of

thousands of people in this country stand in place for two weeks, but other countries managed it at the beginning of the pandemic, didn't they? aren't there lessons to be learned from their here? think that's right. most notably, we saw that's right. most notably, we saw that this kind of approach being taken many asian countries in southeast asia countries and of course, they are kind of coming out of the pandemic just course, they are kind of coming out of the pandemicjust reading that daily mail piece to sean's to —— to iain because my point. the way this comes at you off the pages that the government isjust comes at you off the pages that the government is just looking to trust the instincts of travellers in the uk right now. without the ability to enforce these measures, i think that's going to be very very hard to do. let's move on to the new york times. their headline here is "where

hospitals are deadly." but they are not talking about new york or america, they are talking about mexico and a painting of a real dire picture of the neglect of the health ca re system, picture of the neglect of the health care system, which is leaving so many people at a loss for any kind of help. yeah, i mean, this isjust tragic. so one of the things we've seen, and in some anyways, we are so lucky to have the nhs in this country. we've had our clapping for carers oi'i country. we've had our clapping for carers on a country. we've had our clapping for carers on a thursday night, i think one of the reason we don't have a worse death rate than we already haveis worse death rate than we already have is because the nhs hasjust been phenomenal. it's been fantastic. we have a brilliant health care system here, free at the point of use. countries like mexico don't affect. they have a broken health care system, and as a result, imean, in health care system, and as a result, i mean, in mexico, many people are dying. they are getting infected with the virus in the same they're not dying because of the virus, they die because of the care they are getting in the hospitals, they are

getting in the hospitals, they are getting dumb debts, dumb care. so examples in the story that are just her bringing a man who died because an inexperienced nurse unplugged his ventilator. this is just an inexperienced nurse unplugged his ventilator. this isjust really sad, also, of course, the health care staff are getting infected because the system is broken. there isn't enough personal protective equipment, people are not being trained properly and how to treat the virus. so they've got 11,000 health care workers who are sick from it as well. this is really, really tragic. when you have got a combination of a broken health care system, health care system which has not been invested in, which is not open to everybody, then you get this virus on top of it. you know, the consequences are just... unbearable. it's tragic. let's move onto the straight times. their headline "uncertainjobs prospect straight times. their headline "uncertain jobs prospect that had come being taken to help." this is talking about the job situation in singapore, as the world emerges from lockdown and economies try to get back on track, iain, what is

singapore doing to try and help people? so, this story is really about a mass job—training programme being launched in a country of about 6 million people that has been an economic superstarfor, million people that has been an economic superstar for, one of the lowest unemployment rates on the globe, some of the highest levels of gdp in the world. it's a real economic superpower, and yet, of course, this pandemic is no respecter of the economics, in fact, farfrom respecter of the economics, in fact, far from it. it respecter of the economics, in fact, farfrom it. it crashes respecter of the economics, in fact, far from it. it crashes through the economics, and singapore government is really now embarking on a kind of national plan in a way that only really a country like singapore can

do to retrain and provide, if they can, newjob opportunities. but already, the data is showing in singapore the prospect of a pretty rapid spike in unemployment. i was just looking before we came on air. you know, singapore has a very very low and employment rate. in fact, two years ago, it was about 2%, but prospects are that this is going to spike considerably. and itjust shows it's going to be a really difficult task to manage economies as we come out of lockdown, hopefully, there isn't a second spike, but without seeing —— we are u nfortu nately spike, but without seeing —— we are unfortunately seeing messing up limit everywhere. let's have a look at the frankfurt, a picture here of some of the protests happening in minneapolis after the killing of an unarmed black man by a police officer. a former police officer now. four police officers were sacked. it shows the impact that this story is having worldwide that

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