protesters and police have clashed as curfew orders are ignored in minneapolis and several other us cities. there are now curfews in place in 13 us cities. demonstrators are calling forjustice after the killing of african american, george floyd, by a police officer. england's deputy chief medical officer has warned of a "very dangerous moment" in the fight against coronavirus. professorjonathan van tam said easing the lockdown would not affect the infection rate, but he urged the public not to "tear the pants" out of the new guidelines. the first commercial spacecraft to carry people into space has successfully launched from cape canaveral in florida. the capsule, built by elon musk‘s spacex, has two astronauts onboard, and they are now on their way to the international space station.

here, private tenants are more likely to be in financial difficulty than home owners because of the pandemic, according to a new study. the report by the think tank — the resolution foundation — says many renters have seen their incomes fall. the government insists it's taken action to support tenants, including banning evictions for three months, as our business correspondent, katy austin explains. paying the rent has become too much for denny while her hair salon is shut. her landlord has agreed to postpone two months‘ rent, to be paid back in future. at the moment we owe april and may, and thenjune is due the 1st ofjune. i feel sick, actually. because at the moment, now, that's obviously one of our biggest outgoings, the rent. citizens advice estimates 2.6 million tenants expect to fall behind on rent because of coronavirus, and the resolution foundation think tank says one in five private renters have been furloughed or lost theirjob. it says they are struggling with payments more than homeowners.

going into the crisis they had lower levels of savings, for example, and critically they also spent considerably more of their income on housing costs in the first place. government has brought in measures to try and help struggling tenants. in march, evictions were banned for three months but a committee of mps has warned a crisis is looming in the private rental sector. citizens advice says further measures will be needed when the eviction ban ends in late june. what we want the government to do is make sure that there is protection for people who have fallen into arrears due to coronavirus, and then also to accept and make sure the landlords have to put in place things like affordable repayment plans. landlords say they are working out solutions with tenants wherever possible. the ministry responsible for housing said support for renters and landlords is being kept under review. katy austin, bbc news. now on bbc news, our world. new york has been the epicentre of america's coronavirus outbreak,

with nearly 30,000 deaths in the state so far. as the virus took hold in march, doctors and nurses from across the us answered new york's call for help. this is the story of four of those on the frontline — told through their video diaries as the crisis unfolds. a warning — this programme contains scenes some viewers may find may find distressing. new york city has been the global epicentre of coronavirus. the president said this is a war, i agree with that. this is a war. more people have died here than in any other city in the world. there's been times when i have walked out of the er and said to myself, what in the world just happened 7 things got so bad that the governor of new york pleaded for help. i am asking healthcare professionals across the country, please, come help us in new york now. this is the story of some

of the nurses who answered the call. and the besieged new york doctors fighting to stop their city being overwhelmed. i saw the row of ambulance stretchers waiting to be triaged and i thought to myself, we're losing, we're losing. ellie, come here! i'm christina ferguson and in a week, i will be heading out to new york to help in the bronx at one of their hospitals. i'm travelling with a co—worker of mine, and having the skills, critical care for me, er for him, we decided, let's do it. this is the first time i have ever gone on an assignment such as this. this is a little bit different going into the epicentre of a pandemic. this is one of my suitcases.

i was there for september 11, so naturally it feels like i should go back, you know, to be a part of this and help out in any way ican. i have seven bags, there is the insta—pot. i was thinking about some of the things i was packing up. as a nurse, this is what we went to school for. this is what we do. going to new york for this whole covid crisis is basically like that, it's like throwing yourself into the situation. you don't think twice about it, you're just going. here we are at our favourite lake. my daughter and i do a lot of outdoorsy stuff, and it is something we're really going to miss. but i would like to take these moments to think about the things i can come back to. i do have my trunk packed, all the medical supplies that were donated. we'll get ready to hit the road. so the day has come, it is a 17.5 hour drive, and reality is sinking

in and we're on our way. i have my sleeping beauty and her best friend. i had some conflict about bringing her along but i don't want fear to steer me away from what i want to do, and we have had many conversations. we'll just take it one day at a time. some gorgeous views, it's kind of serene all at the same time knowing that once we get out of these mountains and into the city, there's no telling what's going to be waiting there for us. there's always some fear going into such a traumatic environment, but the moment i walk into the er, it's go—time.

on march the 13th, new york city recorded its first covid—i9 death. i'm not we could have fathomed how big this could've been. within a month, more had died from the virus than in 9/11. i never really ever imagined in my life i would see the density of human suffering. we will never think about healthcare in the same way. new yorker, doctor eric cioe—pena is working at an emergency covid hospital that has been set up on staten island. ijoke with people that i don't remember the days of the week anymore, i don't remember how many days i've been doing this. ijust count it like coronavirus day 67, or something. new york has been through a lot and this is certainly testing us to our limits.

but i think we are all hopeful this is going to get better. it's been a marathon. we have been acting like it's a sprint. it's as if we were immediately post—hurricane. except the problem is, it wasn't like the hurricane came, hits the coast and then moved away. then we could start recovering. imagine a hurricane sitting over your city for 50 days. vacations have been deferred, birthdays have been deferred. all we're doing is basically sleeping and coming to work and dealing with coronavirus. so, i have finally made it to my hotel room. a cute little kitchen. there is my famous insta—pot. nancy is a critical care nurse who will be working in the same hospital as doctor cioe—pena. i left my daughter this morning but i'm sad to leave her but i know she is in good hands.

here is the bathroom, this is where the action is. make—up, hair, i don't know what. a shower. it looks kind of cosy to me and i think i'm going to be very happy here over the next eight weeks. christina and derek will be working in the bronx. there's our hospital. the burrough with the highest death rate in new york. we came two days early to get a tour. a lot of sick people. they're coming in quick. that right there is exactly what you think it is. they're about to take a truck away from the hospital. by early april, the situation in new york is so bad that refrigerated trucks are being used as makeshift morgues, and mass graves dug to deal with the number of bodies. so, it's the morning of my first shift.

didn't really sleep very well last night. i'm working a 12 hour shift today and tomorrow. so, i'm just keeping my fingers crossed for the best. alrighty, wish me luck. this is my first shift and all day today, we've been going through testing and honestly everywhere isjust go time. we're doing the best we can. i heard the other day that if you can work in the bronx er, you can work anywhere. so, hopefully we get through these 13 weeks with my sanity. so we just finished our shift today, trying to decontaminate and disinfect everything. she's already taking off her shoes. laughs don't lose this now. we keep everything in a bag separated.

it's unlike anything i've ever seen before. to see so many critical patients coming in at one time. the ambulances were non—stop. it seems like every two or three minutes, there was an ambulance coming in. there are other cases where you know the situation is not going to end well. whenever i see it to this degree, it's almost as though death is sitting on some of these patient‘s shoulders whispering in their ears. there's been times when i walked out the door and said to myself, what in the world has just happened? time to get out of here. nancy has been assigned to work in one of her hospital's pop—up intensive care units... so thirsty. ..which have been created to do with the overflow

of covid—19 patients. time to go back. no rest for the weary. with these pop—up icus, the issue is the lack of access to equipment we need to take care of the patients. the nurses are spending a good majority of their time running around hospital trying to find supplies. i think all of the nurses are doing the best that they can but it's definitely stressful. it was busy, it was definitely an experience today. i got in there and they were so short—staffed that they tried to give me four icu patients, which is kind of unheard—of. usually, two is the norm, three is a lot. but four, there was no way. so we'll see how it goes. i'm on foranother12 hour shift tomorrow. it's going to some strengthjust to get myself upstairs.

it has become all—consuming. i'm getting reminded by my family to take small breaks, especially when i'm with my kids. when i'm at home, there's almost like this guilt that i'm not still there. there is much more fighting to do. there has been a lots of absentee fathering unfortunately. i got home early enough to put my son to bed last night and the thing he was sad about yesterday was that he doesn't get to see me, which breaks my heart. he's going to remember me not being there more than the pandemic and the virus and that hurts. it's definitely something that leans on me and affects me, and affects them. after i get my scrubs on and my compression socks, every nurse should wear compression socks. we're at high risk, the virus is everywhere. no matter how many times we wash our hands, no matter how many times we sanitise, the risk is very high. i have a scrubcap. right now, we have 40 people agency

nurses from our agency picking up the work for the nurses that are out sick. there are more of us working in the er right now than the regular employees. it's extremely busy, it's just a constant flow, one after the other, after the other. an ambulance brought in an elderly person, about 15 minutes, 20 minutes later, they were brought out in a body bag. they come in alert, and then it is mind—blowing how fast theyjust go. after this is over and healthcare workers don't get the therapy they need to process the stuff, i think the statistics are going to be high with suicide attempts in healthcare workers, so there is something we really have to watch out for. as somebody who works in psych, i know that it's a possibility.

well, we just finished our first two days in a row. i'm wiped out, i'm tired. you don't realise how much it takes, wearing all of this ppe. my head feels like it's 100 pounds heavier on my neck. it's been a long night, it's after midnight, we've been here since noon and it's time to hit the road, decompress and... shower! both chuckle. nancy has just finished a shift on a covid unit where all of the patients are dependent on a ventilator. generally, those people that are in that unit are not likely to survive. since this whole virus situation started, there's only been two patients who have made it out of the unit and survived — that's very, very little. the age range was pretty great.

there was a patient there who was 26, which i thought was really eye—opening because it just further reiterates how the covid virus affects everyone. but this young girl — and she's still there and she's still fighting for her life and it's sad. home, sweet home! sighs. time to get these scrubs off. ugh, my feet are killing me! it's been a long day. pants — they are going to go into the basket. sighs. i think now people are exhausted and i think people just want respite. i think the nurses want to get back to what they were doing, you know, before this happened. their units have been turned so upside down. but i think at this point, people are just ready to quit —

quit the covid crisis, i mean, not theirjob. you know, as a nurse, we give all of our energy to others and keep none for ourselves. i think that's why we're always tired. across the city in the bronx, the virus is highlighting stark inequalities. you have the projects, lower income housing, a large immigrant population. we are seeing mostly impoverished individuals, you see the black and latino community as well. these are essential workers, you know? they're the bus drivers, they're the janitors, they're those that deliver food, deliver mail. and so, while many people are able to quarantine themselves, or they have the luxury

of working at home, essential workers don't have that opportunity, so it gives them an increased chance of being exposed to the virus. black and latino new yorkers are dying at twice the rate of white residents of the city. after developing symptoms of fatigue and a headache, christina has been sent home from the hospital... i was crying. i was just more scared because i didn't want to be like some of the patients that we've seen — i mean, they get really, really sick. ..and today, she's going for a test. if it is positive, ijust hope that i have built up some type of immunity. i'm pretty nervous. i'm hoping it's not, but ijust feel like a truck hit me and my muscles hurt. any symptoms right now? uh, just fatigue and a headache still.

and my stomach is not right. you've got to tilt your head back all the way back, as far as you can. 0oh! great. all right, you're all set. it takes 2a hours to know the results so that's going to be really hard, to sit and wait on the results. so if things, for me, get really bad, to where i have to go in the hospital, derek has graciously told me he'll take care of chloe and the dog. if it gets really bad and i don't make it out of the hospital, then chloe and i have had the discussions about, you know, where she would go and who she would go with. if christina tests positive, she'll be one of the growing number of infected nurses.

and some are becoming gravely ill. when i was training in brooklyn, there was a nurse there who worked the night shift and she kind of has this reputation of being a battleaxe, and i obviously grew to love her and knew that she had the biggest heart in the world. and i was told today by a colleague that she's in critical care in the icu on a ventilator with coronavirus. um, and this is, uh, symbolic of a lot of the angst and the hurt that happens with healthcare workers because we're not only watching patients die but you're also hearing about colleagues that are suffering and so, it feels like an attack on all fronts — it feels like it is a personal attack, it's a professional attack, um, and it's hard sometimes, i think, to see past that and to get through that, because it's really an acute stress and it feels like it's unravelling a lot

of our lives as healthcare workers. that is the most challenging part is that these patients are kind of alone and the families are not able to be there. there was a gentleman that i was caring for and he wasjust not in a good way and i was holding his hand. i was like "i'm going to go get some coffee and i'm gonna come back". i came back with the coffee and he was dead. yeah. he died. so, i was gone maybe 15 minutes. and there was nobody with him. so it was sad. and i felt, to some extent, that i did a disservice because i wasn't there and i went to get coffee. so, um, i hate that.

um, i hate that more than anything. and then after that experience, you just flip back into nurse mode, you know? now you have to just do what you have to do. a well— known er doctor here in new york who battled to save the lives of so many others... 49—year—old dr lorna breen took her own life after weeks of treating patients with covid—19. she died in virginia sunday... when i heard about doctor breen, i wasn't surprised. it's tragic. and in the same day, we heard about an ems technician who also killed himself, and ijust think it's the tip of the iceberg. the other day, i was talking to a tech who was responsible for putting the bodies in the bags.

and he said "that's all i did, day after day. i would put a body in a bag, take it downstairs and then there was no room downstairs — they were just everywhere. that's when the trucks came." they would fill it up with 55 bodies, it would leave and then another truck would be right there, they'd fill it up. he said it was horrible. i said "you have to talk to somebody about it. it will never go away." the end of a really long and hard week. ijust finished the zoom memorial service for a colleague — dr lorna breen. lorna was a former colleague and friend and, last sunday, took her own life. you know, her family says that it was related to the stress of coronavirus, and that really hurt. in addition, the head nurse that i think i mentioned in one of my previous diaries passed

away last week as well. a nurse manager that i know also passed away. and an intensivist downstate, where i trained, also passed away. so last week really, for me, was the worst week of this. it really did feel like a war. and any other event you would stop, you would mourn, you would be with people. tough week. i hope next week's a little bit better. by early may, hospitals are finally starting to see fewer admissions and fewer deaths. and new york is beginning to ease lockdown restrictions. it has been a crisis, and a painful one. but we're coming out of the other side. christina's coronavirus test was negative

but she and her daughter chloe have returned to missouri. i will talk to you guys tomorrow. nancy is about to head back to maryland to see her daughter and mum. and derek is continuing in the bronx. it has been a great adventure, it is challenging, but the whole thing has been great. over 100,000 people have died from coronavirus in the us since march. just under 30,000 of those are in new york state. it has survived what its governor called a war. now, it has to come to terms with how life has changed. we tickled the brink in new york. the system was about to collapse. it completely disrupted normal

in every sense of that word. there is no normal anymore. there's no going back from this. we will honestly never be the same again. hello there. saturday brought more dry, sunny, and warm weather across the whole of the united kingdom. now, it was a fine end to the day in london and west london did quite well for temperatures. heathrow got up to 26 degrees. but for the most part on saturday, the highest temperatures were across the north and the west of the uk with kinloch here in the highlands of scotland, the nation's hotspot with highs of 27.

we're going to see similar kind of temperatures for these western areas as we get on into sunday as well. now over the next few hours, most of us are going to keep the clear skies but probably some low cloud and some fog begin to push onto the eastern shores of scotland and although temperatures in the towns and cities between around 8—13 degrees, in the countryside the coldest spots get down to about 3 degrees so it will be quite chilly for some of you to start sunday morning. sunday, well, that low cloud and fog can take the first few hours of the morning to clear away from east scotland. maybe a bit of misting this as well in north—east england. but otherwise, a sunny start to the day and a sunny afternoon. now, the highest temperatures in scotland probably again to the north—west of the country, the highlands doing ok with highs probably reaching around 25—26 degrees celsius here. you might see another 23 or 2a for westernmost areas of northern ireland. and some of the highest temperatures in england across western areas and wales too. you could see highs locally hitting around 27. now for monday's forecast, the high pressure is still in charge of our weather, so we've got more of that dry weather to come.

more of the sunshine as well. temperatures still on the high side for the time of year, looking at highs of 2a in glasgow, 26 or so in cardiff, but from then on we're going to start to see the weather changing somewhat because an area of low pressure is going to start to develop to the north of the uk and move in as we head towards tuesday and wednesday. so, that is going to be bringing some cloudy skies with rain or showers pushing southwards and as well as that, the area is going to be getting cooler. so temperatures will be coming back down close to normal for the time of year and normal isn't something we've seen for quite a long time. so, scotland is going to be cooling down as you can see, there will be some rain and showers around as well as we go through tuesday and wednesday. perhaps some of the heaviest rain actually working through during tuesday night. further southwards across england and wales, still hanging onto some warm sunshine on tuesday but the change comes really on wednesday with thicker cloud. again, rain or showers working in. that's your latest weather.

this is bbc news — welcome if you're watching here in the uk or around the globe. i'm lewis vaughan jones. our top stories: tensions in minneapolis as protestors and police clash as curfew orders are ignored. police and national guard troops fire tear gas and flares are thrown back. the governor urges people to stay at home. and it's very clear on this. this is a very simple order. there is a curfew issued by the mayor, and backed by the state, that you shouldn't be on the streets tonight. and i will leave it at that. when you decide to take the decision to go out on the streets tonight, the assumption is that you're