horse racing resumed after a 76—day break, as katie gornall reports. after nearly three months on hold, in an instant, the racing was back. good luck everyone. they're off! as the first major professional sport to resume in britain since the lockdown, all eyes were on the opening race at newcastle and what a race it was. the 22/1 shot zodiakos racing home and into the history books. fans would've loved it, had they been there to see it. a closer look would tell you this was not business as usual. jockeys wore masks and kept their distance, their victories greeted with an eerie silence. we've lost, as an industry, tens of millions of pounds of attendance income over the summer because that's when people come out. if it happened january, february, march, it would've been much less of an impact. but it's been an incredible impact throughout the summer, but we'll get through it. government approval was only granted on saturday but racing has been

preparing for weeks, putting in place social distancing and hygiene measures and strictly limited numbers. i was one of the few who was at wetherby the last day before racing shut down. that was very gloomy day. a lot of us thinking, when will we be back? june 1st is not at all a bad result. now, usually a big race meeting here at newcastle could attract up to 20,000 people, but it will be a long time before we get crowds here like that. instead, today was about getting an industry that's facing a £50 million hole in its finances back on its feet. but after starting on a high, the mood darkened when december second fell in eighth race of the day and was fatally injured. a reminder that racing, whatever the conditions, still carries risk. horse racing wasn't the only sport to resume today. some of the biggest names in snooker, including world champion judd trump, were back at the table in milton keynes. all players had been tested for coronavirus and isolated before being given the all clear.

the test isn't pleasant, so that wasn't great, but it had to be done and at least we know everyone here is safe and negative. nobody has it and we can sort of wander around a little bit more freely. with more sport set to resume in the coming weeks, for the moment, snooker and horse racing have the stage to themselves and an opportunity to inject some momentum into their delayed and disrupted seasons. katie gornall, bbc news, newcastle. the easing of lockdown restrictions, albeit in different forms in different parts of the uk, means that groups are able to meet outdoors for the first time in several months. for many, it's been a day of family reunions, with some grandparents able to meet their young grandchildren for the first time, as our special correspondent lucy manning reports. i think we'll take this as well. to be a grandparent... to love... and this is for amari. yeah. ..to spoil... ..to hug... but that bond has been stretched, denied.

allowed only through a screen. is it all right if we come over? yeah! because we're allowed to come over now to see you. it's been hard because i can't give a cuddle, i can't see her. in durham, christine and david are finally on their way to meet their new granddaughter, now six—weeks—old. tiny! here's amari! 0h! hello. here's nanna and granddad. hello! 0h, she's gorgeous! just want to get hold... you can't touch. i know. amari is one of their two grandchildren born during lockdown. it's been fantastic. great! it's... it's not the same as being able to actually hold her but it's a start and it's better than looking at images on a screen. it's been, yeah, really good. she's only six—weeks—old. but i think she recognises your voice because every time she hears your voice, she cries. she cries!

many grandparents have not been interested in when the shops are reopening or the football restarting because the cruelty of covid is that not only has it separated people in death, it has kept apart those from family life. and there are still new grandsons unmet, reunions and complete. patricia in belfast must wait to see robbie in london. her other son has special needs and is shielding. oh, it's so sad because you want to cradle them, cuddle them, kiss them. you know, cooey—coo with them. but all that... that has been stolen away. but to be a grandparent, i feel as though it's yet to come. in theory, i am, but not in the heart. grandchildren will look back at these lockdown pictures, at this time, in amazement. today, still no hugs but all over the country, a sense of partial normality.

some grandparents finally seeing those they hold most precious. to amari! lucy manning, bbc news. cheers! that's it. newsnight is coming up on bbc two with emily. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night. welcome to bbc news. hello to the viewers. it is time to ta ke hello to the viewers. it is time to take a look at the papers.

hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the broadcaster and author, john kampfner and the comment and features editor at city am, rachel cunliffe. tomorrow's front pages starting with. .. the times features a warning from britain's biggest head teacher's union that a full return of all primary school pupils before the summer holidays ‘will be impossible.'. a child has her temperature checked in an image on the front of the mirror as some students returned to socially distanced classes in england today. the i reports on the uk government's plans to use summer camps to help children who have missed out on weeks of education due to the coronavirus outbreak. the telegraph says ministers are working on plans to replace quarantine for arrivals to the uk —

the paper reports that the prime minister borisjohnson is now ‘personally in favour‘ of introducing air bridges. according to the guardian, new arrivals to the uk will be able to go food shopping and use public transport from airports during a 14—day quarantine — draft plans are to be laid before the uk parliament tomorrow. and the financial times international front page reports several facebook employees have publicly criticised their chief executive — mark zuckerberg — for refusing to take action over posts by president trump which have been described as ‘glorifying violence‘. the death of george floyd in police custody has led to six days of protest across the united states and a level of civil unrest not seen in decades. the george floyd killing and story dominates a lot of the front pages internationally and in and in america. we start with the new york times. welcome to both the youth. thank you for your ritual presence

this evening. —— both to you. john, the picture here are processes being stopped by police in riot gear. this has been a pretty unprecedented a few days, hasn't it? equipment bound for america but also internationally would have been protests around the world. that's not only in america. this is extraordinary. you have, and the united states, rachel tensions that have really abated and the many yea rs. that have really abated and the many years. —— the racial tensions. they have been stoked an increase in considerably under donald trump tenure as president and the way he has relished almost inciting violence in the way he has the announced his predecessor barack 0bama. and now calling on law enforcement to dominate the protesters and to go after people.

what has the impression now, for from several people, it is almost as if the president wants there to be a state of civil unrest, which might just might give him a pretext for seeking to postpone the november presidential election. yet some would argue this predates president trump. the issues that these protesters are processing about and angry about. absolutely! race riots, protests, they have been going on in the united states for long as there has been segregation over the history of slavery, it is a country that has very rarely racially been at ease with the cell. which country is? with the united states is particularly troubled by it. so absolutely it did not begin with donald trump, far from absolutely it did not begin with donald trump, farfrom it but absolutely it did not begin with donald trump, far from it but unlike other presidents, i cannot think of any other president who has gone out of his way almost to exploit it and

to exacerbate the problem. rachel, what do you think? i really agree with a lot of that. they have been to many horrific come in this country, looking across the us, horrific incidents of police brutality and police killings of african—american men and often these do spark protests and understandably so do spark protests and understandably so what you have african—american men unarmed being shot by police and dying in police custody, eric garner come his death spark protests and his last words were i cannot breathe from a very reminiscent of the situation now. and then later michael brown some of the shooting death spark protests in ferguson. the difference is the president and the white house in those instances barack 0bama made a real point of trying to calm the national mood and to urge protesters to protest peacefully, even in these

demonstrations, many of them are doing and it started off peacefully come for as donald trump hasn't seen try to stoke the racial tensions and some of his tweets were branded by twitter, ta ken off some of his tweets were branded by twitter, taken off twitter for glorifying violence, particularly the one where he said when eluting starts, the shooting starts. no world leader should want to send militarized police into the streets to show a sharp pull to do. that's when eluting starts. nobody wants it to escalate to that point except for the us president at this time. —— we nt the us president at this time. —— went to the living. george floyd's brother, terrence floyd, was speaking earlier at the scene of the killing. he said to protesters the important thing here is to go out and vote, you just had earlier that you think possibly looking ahead to the election will this benefit president trump. do you think you read it really benefit him this level of unrest in the country

between now and november? that is what a lot of people are suggesting oui’ what a lot of people are suggesting our preface what that will. donald trump summoned jared kushner a few weeks ago certainly did not rely then he would citing the coronavirus pandemic as the pretext. the sense in which when you get to the party convention and august, which are still up convention and august, which are stillup in convention and august, which are still up in the air in terms of the health scare, if there is a situation of national emergency, and currently, since between the middle of february and the middle of may, 62 countries, including our own, cancelled or postponed election, we did that for the may local elections, entirely legitimate it is happen all over the world, but it does give presidents and leaders,

authoritarians, democrats, whatever authoritarians, democrats, whatever a pretext if they wish to misinterpret or ms use the powers that they have two call off elections or to do that different way, say by postal vote and we know how much fraud and ballot rigging can take place there. i'm simply saying it is a combustible situation. let's move onto the financial times. rachel, you touched on this a minute oi’ rachel, you touched on this a minute or two ago. top facebook staff revolve over the zuckerberg stance on trump. basically, the story is about a marked difference between the way that twitter has treated tweets from the president of the united states, started tweets in the way facebook is treating them. what is mark zuckerberg been saying in his own defence? his defence for keeping donald trump's comments on facebook without warnings or hiding

them all without misleading labels which is what twitter has done come he hasn't wanted to touch any of that and his defence, which is fairness to him a defence he has had had right from the beginning of facebook is that he wants the site to be committed to free expression and he sees serious issues with him as an individual having censorship rights over millions of people and billions of businesses and political groups and what they can freely publish on his site. and he has a point at that. i think when we look at accountability for free speech and who decides if something is problematic if something is dangerous or hate speech, you would like it to go through very clear channels and i just like it to go through very clear channels and ijust rest with one individual. whereas twitter is taking the opposite approach and finally it now after much debate

about it, seems to have decided that their policy on donald trump tweets is they are going to clamp down on it finally. the sites to have their owi'i it finally. the sites to have their own terms and conditions in our private companies and they do say the terms and conditions if you break our rules, you can be banned from this site and have your comments deleted. it isjust about how much power it we went in the hands of one individual was that what is interesting about this development of facebook is that the facebook staff are not happy about that and they are not happy about it publicly which is quite unusual for a company of facebooks size and influence to have a high ranking staff member come up publicly and say we think mark zuckerberg has got it wrong in this instance. sol think we should expect to see more oi'i think we should expect to see more on facebook trying to work out how they the square that circle and remain committed to free speech without seeming to endorse hate speech which is what is doing at the moment. i suppose the question is what is the role of social media