the headlines: minnesota's attorney has increased charges against derek chauvin, the police officer involved in the death of the unarmed black man george floyd. charges have also been laid against the three other officers who were present. the us defence secretary has said he opposes invoking a rarely used law to deploy military troops to put an end to protests, as suggested by president trump. mark esper also said keeping politics out of the military is hard in an election year. a new suspect has emerged in the disappearance of the british girl madeleine mccann — it's a man in prison in germany who was in portugal when she went missing 13 years ago from monday anyone arriving in the uk must self—isolate for two weeks — as the government is forced to defend its controversial coronavirus control plans. you're watching bbc news... as protests over the death

of george floyd continue in the us, demonstrations have taken place in cities all over europe in a show of support and solidarity. in london, thousands of marchers gathered for a protest organised by campaign group black lives matter. let's get more on this now with benjamin zephaniah. he's a poet, writer and musician and uses his work to educate people about politics and racism. and uses his work to educate people he and uses his work to educate people joins us live. ' joining he joins us live. thank you for joining us, benjamin. when it comes to what happen to george floyd, it is incredibly close to you and your family. that is right. in 2003, my cousin michael powell come diet died in the city of birmingham area in england and almost identically the same way. he was on the floor inside a police vehicle, and the police officer footitt was at his neck. so

when i see this footage, it wasn't theoretical for when i see this footage, it wasn't theoreticalfor me. it when i see this footage, it wasn't theoretical for me. it was guttural. i felt the pain of that person of george floyd. that was in 2003. it is 20/20. it is still happening. why are we still here? it is interesting. i have been watching a news programme. every time i heard the word police, they say police force and i thought, we are paying force and i thought, we are paying for this. they should be a police service. why did they feel they have to come with force all the time. that is how we and the black community feel. when they come into oui’ community feel. when they come into our communities, it is a force come interesting, i have seen footage of when not very often when the police officer says being civil with demonstrators in one case walking with them and they were welcomed, but when they come with armoury and

the kind of attitude which is very forceful, people react. i was a young person on the streets once. i have talked about this in books of mine and in the media before. i have reacted. i have been and what they call a so—called riot, uprisings, because we feel, it is notjust what happened to george, it is years and yea rs of happened to george, it is years and years of pent—up frustration. it is interesting. i have been watching demonstrations all over the world today. australia, new zealand, even in war—torn syria, iraq, people saying black lives matter. and most of them, although they they are making solidarity with george floyd, they're also talking about their own black communities well. we are just very tired of this. how do we change this? well, i think it is very

difficult to talk about this without being ultra—political, but we have a president and rulers of countries that don't acknowledge the racism in their own countries, it is very very difficult. one ray of hope is that people on the streets are black, white, asian, they come from all kinds of backgrounds and a lot of them are young people. that is a sign of hope. but there is a lot of them were there i say, old people with old attitudes who have power who refuse to change and acknowledge that the world is changing. we express our multiculturalism through music and poetry and art in the way we live and we follow love with. why can't they recognise the weather changing? and change their so—called forces accordingly? we are still struggling when it comes to talking about race, or the white person ever

understand what is happening to a black person? i have never been a woman. but i understand. i saw my mother being beaten by my father. i have worked with women who have suffered domestic violence. i will never feel the same pain as them but ican never feel the same pain as them but i can show solidarity with them. so we don't want why people to turn black or anything like that. but at least they can acknowledge what is happening. and i can understand that some white people and some black people as well who live in areas where they don't really see racism. —— we do not want whipple to turn black. but they shouldn't deny that it exists. —— white people. that is what can be frustrating sometimes. again, sorry for making the analogy come a bit like a woman who separate domestic violence and one they first things that happens is people deny that it things that happens is people deny thatitis things that happens is people deny that it is happened to her and don't ta ke that it is happened to her and don't take it seriously, we feel the same

but sometimes we complain about but people don't take it seriously enough. one thing we keep hearing all the time, we have a chip on her shoulder. i don't have a chip on my shoulder. i don't have a chip on my shoulder. i don't have a chip on my shoulder. i have injustice on my back. and injustice on my mind. —— injustice on my mind. wish we had more time for the time being, thank you for those words. from monday people arriving in the uk will have to self—isolate for 14 days. the government's plans will mean anyone found breaking the rules in england could face fines of up to 1,000 pounds or even prosecution. the prime minister explained why the quarantine measures were deemed necessary during today's downing street briefing. good evening and welcome to the latest downing street press conference. let me first run you through the latest data on our coronavirus response. 4,786,219 tests for coronavirus have been carried out or posted

out in the uk including 171,829 tests yesterday. 279,856 people have tested positive and that is an increase of 1871 cases since yesterday. 71185 people are in hospital with covid—19 in the uk, down 16% from 8921 this time last week. and sadly, of those who tested positive for coronavirus across all settings, 39,728 have now died. that is an increase of 359 fatalities since yesterday and once again, we are with their families in mourning. now that the rate of transmission in the uk has fallen significantly from its peak,

we need to take steps to manage the flare—ups and stop the virus from re—emerging and i want to update you on the progress we are making on three fronts to prevent a second wave of infections that could overwhelm the nhs. first, we have set up nhs test and trace in order to identify, contain and control the virus in the uk, thereby reducing its spread. as we move to the next stage of our fight against coronavirus, we will be able to replace national lockdowns with individual isolation and, if necessary, localaction where there are outbreaks. nhs test and trace will be vital to controlling the spread of the virus. it is how we will be able to protect our friends and family from infection and to protect our nhs and it does

this by identifying anyone who has been in close contact with someone who has tested positive, asking them to isolate for 1h days in order to avoid unknowingly infecting others. the system clearly relies on everyone playing their part. i want to stress again today, we need you to get a test if you have coronavirus symptoms, high temperature, a new, continuous cough, or a loss of taste or smell. there is plenty of capacity and everyone with symptoms is eligible. everyone with the symptoms. please order a test from the nhs website as soon as you develop symptoms. and we need you to isolate yourself if a contact tracer tells you that you have been in contact with someone who has tested positive. nhs test and trace started operating

a week ago and already thousands of people are isolating who would not have been doing so before this service was introduced and they are thereby protecting others and reducing the spread of the virus. so while we are going to all these efforts here in the uk to control the virus, we must also ensure we do not reimport the virus from abroad. so the second action i want to update you on is the introduction of the public health measures at the border. today the home secretary has brought forward the legislation it needed to establish the new regime from monday and i want to explain the reasons for introducing these measures now. when coronavirus started to spread around the world, first from wuhan and then northern italy and other areas, we introduced enhanced monitoring at the border in an attempt to stop the virus from getting

a foothold in the uk. these measures applied at various different times to arrivals from china, japan, iran and italy, and required people with symptoms of travelling from those countries to self—isolate for 1h days. however, once community transmission was widespread within the uk, cases from abroad made up a tiny proportion of the total. at the same time you will remember international travel plummeted as countries around the world went into lockdown. as a result, measures at the border were halted because they made little difference at the time in our fight against the virus. now that we are getting their virus under control in the uk, there is a risk that cases from abroad begin once again to make up a greater proportion of overall cases. we therefore need to take steps now to manage that risk of these imported cases triggering a second peak.

so just as we are asking people already in the uk to isolate for 1h days when contacted by nhs test and trace, we are also asking those arriving from abroad to isolate so they don't unknowingly spread the virus. and there will be some exemptions, for a limited number of people who need to cross the border such as those engaged directly in the fight against coronavirus or who provide essential services. and we will review how the policy is working after three weeks and of course we will explore the possibility of international travel corridors with countries that have low rates of infection but only when the evidence shows that it is safe to do so. the third point i want to make is we need effective international action to reduce the impact of the virus across the globe and this is the moment for humanity to unite in the fight

against the disease. health experts have warned that if coronavirus is left to spread in developing countries, that could lead to future waves of infection coming back and reaching the uk. while our amazing nhs has been there for everyone in this country who needs it, many developing countries have health care systems which are ill—prepared to manage this pandemic. so to ensure that the world's poorest countries have the support they need to slow the spread of the virus, tomorrow i will open the global vaccine summit. hosted by the uk, and it will bring together more than 50 countries and leading figures like bill gates to raise at least $7.1; billion for the vaccine production over the next five years, with the uk support, this vaccine alliance aims

to immunise a further 300 million children in the poorest countries against deadly diseases like polio, typhoid and measles, again, saving millions of lives. this support for routine immunisations will shore up poorer countries' health care system to deal with coronavirus and so help to stop the global spread and, as i say, prevent a second wave of the virus reaching the uk. this virus has shown how connected we are. we are fighting an invisible enemy and no one is safe, frankly, until we are all safe. again, of course it is all contingent upon each of us continuing to do our bit and, as i never tire of telling you, let us not forget the basics. wash your hands regularly, and for 20 seconds. do not gather in groups of more than six outside.

always observe social distancing, keeping two metres apart from anyone outside your household. and i want to stress one final point which may be relevant today, as the weather threatens i think to take a turn for the worse. some of you might be tempted to move the gatherings you have been enjoying outdoors indoors, out of the rain. i really urge you, don't do that. we relaxed the rules on meeting outside for a very specific reason, because the evidence shows the risks of transmission are much lower outdoors, much lower outdoors. and the risks of passing on the virus are significantly higher indoors, which is wide gatherings inside other peoples' homes are still prohibited. breaking these rules now could undermine and reverse all the progress that we have made together. i have no doubt that it

will not happen, i have no doubt it won't happen, i would think the british public will continue to show the same result in fighting their virus as they have throughout this outbreak. we will get through this if we stay alert, controlled the virus and in doing so, save lives. with that, i will hand over to patrick. thank you prime minister. first slide, please. this is the slide of new cases and, as you can see, there is a steady downward detection of new cases through testing. as of today, 1871. it is worth noting that, as i've said before, this is picking up those who are tested and what we estimate from the office for national statistics household survey is that the true number will be higher than this and it could be around 8000 per day. this reinforces the point

that we need to make sure we are picking up more people through testing to get closer to that number. the second thing to say is that because the r stays relatively close to one, that means that this is not coming down fast. and so we have relatively large numbers are still not coming down fast and i will reiterate what i said last thursday, it gives relatively little room for manoeuvre and it means we have to tread very cautiously as we go forward. but new cases are coming down. next slide, please. as we have seen previously, that is reflected in admissions to hospital, also decreasing with the slide for england there. and of course the number of people on mechanical ventilators in beds in hospital coming down across the four nations but, as you will see, some variability with some ups and downs along the way.

but everything moving in the right direction, slowly but with a long tail and, as i said, the number of cases remains relatively high, not coming down fast and the r quite close to one. next slide, please. the number of people in hospitals, also coming down of course. sharper in some places than others in terms of the decline and with a relatively long tail and it will carry on for a little while longer but the cases are coming down. as you would expect... next slide, please. the number of deaths follows that pattern with again, and this is good to see, a decrease coming day on day, but this also has this long tail. it is not coming out as fast as we would like it to. it is likely to carry on for a bit longer. and it is worth reflecting that the people most affected by this have been the elderly,

but also those from black, asian and minority ethnic groups as highlighted in the public health england report and those with other risk factors including other diseases such as diabetes. we need to be vigilant, things are getting better and the numbers are coming down, but we have to stick with the rules of distancing, we all have to do it and when we all do it, we have a chance of getting this down further, which is what we need to do, especially over the summer, before we then reach another period in the winter, entering the winter with the lowest numbers we can possibly get and that would be the best thing to do. thank you very much, patrick. we will go straight to questions from the public and then from the media. first, amy from brighton. spain recorded no new tests over the last two days despite a wide spain recorded no new deaths over the last two days despite a wide range of freedom across the country

over the last three weeks. new cases continue to fall. however, there has been no evidence of a second wave. given this evidence, why is their concern over a second wave in the uk and how closely are the uk government liaising with the spanish government? really excellent question and obviously we are learning everything we can from governments around the world. i think probably i should defer to patrick and chris for comment on epidemiology in spain. it's a great question and fantastic news that numbers are coming down across europe. and they have come down to low levels in spain. it is also the case that if you look at other countries, they are beginning to see outbreaks, as measures are relaxed. that is true, we have seen them reported in south korea, outbreaks reported in parts of germany as measures have relaxed. so what has happened is that the first peak has been suppressed.

and as the measures are released, there was a danger that comes back. there is also a risk that there is a second peak that comes as a wave goes across the world. we are not out of this yet. it is good news that, as measures have been relaxed, people are generally seek numbers continuing to go down and that is obviously what we would hope for here, that as the steps that have been taken cautiously and we are measuring them, we continue to see numbers going down. that's exactly it. an important point, that there could be a second wave across the world. as though the pandemic has its own kinetic force in itself. it's possible it could just be a second pulse of this disease? that is possible. it's quite common, with new epidemics you get more than one wave before they have completed doing their bad work. all the more reason to keep going with the measures we have.

can we go to tony from manchester? tony from manchester asks, myself and my husband are going back to work... all i can say, i do understand how you feel. it must be very frustrating that you are not in the group that are able to send your children back first. everyone knows it is early years, reception, year one and year six. we hope to get more primary school children back. as you know, year ten and 12 will get some contact with their teachers. the best we can do right now for you is to keep supporting you through the furlough scheme and coronavirus job retention scheme, through all the ways we have

been trying to help families. when it comes to specific childcare options and what may be available, i think you really need to look at our coronavirus website and see what we're doing to support specifically with childcare. what we are doing is a huge amount to support families, in terms of their income, their basic inability to go back to work. as i said several times, obviously employers have to be reasonable. if someone can't get childcare, then that is clearly a reason for them not to be able to go back to work. we want to do everything we can to help you with childcare, if we can. anyway, we will try and get more schools back in due course but it is, i'm afraid, all conditional on making progress in fighting that virus. now to questions from journalists. tom burridge from the bbc.

thank you very much, prime minister. should anyone be booking a holiday anywhere in europe right now? what is your assessment, our holidays abroad this summer going to happen? and what you say to someone who has paid the deposit on their holiday now has to decide whether to pay the full amount or cancel? two questions to the scientists, please. can you honestly look the british public in the eye and tell them that if a quarantine like this had have been put in place weeks ago, it would not have helped saved lives? also, did sage recommend introducing these measures right now? right, tom, first of all, i'm not going to give advice on individuals' travel arrangements. you know what the foreign

office guidance is. guidance is everybody at the moment should avoid nonessential travel. everybody should avoid nonessential travel. we have to knock this virus on the head. in terms of the quarantine rules that we are bringing in, the reason for doing that as i said just now, we want to stop the possibility of reinfection from abroad. that is a vital consideration as we get the disease down. the sage advice from the experts in this area is that the measures like this are most effective when the incidents, the number of cases in this country is very low and they are most effective when applied to countries with higher rates. that was the advice that was given from sage and the advice that

would have been true a few weeks ago, when the levels were not very low here and the transmission within the community was the highest source of infection. so the recommendation that came from the science was that this measure of control is most effective at those times. good evening. it has been a different weather story to tell today. a different feel to our weather as well. this was melton mowbray a little earlier on, and you can just about make out the shower droplets along the river here. now some of the rain was fairly light and patchy through the afternoon, but this has been the story with the radar as it continues to drift south and east. so it is bringing a little bit of welcome rain to those parched gardens out there. behind it, a few scattered showers. these were the temperatures though, that was the real difference, the feel of the weather. yesterday, we saw high 20s, today, generally around the mid to high teens if we were lucky. so that rain continues

to track its way south and east overnight tonight, and then a few scattered showers behind, quite a lot of cloud through the night, so temperatures will largely hold up into double figures, but we will start thursday off on a rather grey note. so yes, overcast, still some outbreaks of rain to clear away from essex and kent, but it will do so. as we go through the day, hopefully the cloud should thin and break in places. there will be a few isolated showers round. the winds not quite as blustery as today, but still coming from a northerly direction, so still a difference to the feel of the weather story. highest values of nine degrees in the northern isles, perhaps somewhere in south wales or the south midlands seeing highs of 18. now, as we move out of thursday into friday, we are going to need to keep a close eye on an area of low pressure that will develop off into the north sea, and that could enhance some showers or longer spells of rain eventually by the end of the day into eastern scotland. but ahead of it there will be

showers, and some of these will be quite heavy as well. best of any drier, brighter weather perhaps down into the south—west, but in terms of the feel of things, again, still pretty disappointing — nine to 17 degrees the high. now the winds are likely to strengthen as well, as we move through the latter stages of friday. widely we will see gusts of winds in excess of 40—50mph across the northern half of the uk, and it is worth bearing in mind through friday night, into saturday morning, we are likely to see widespread gales across north—west uk, with wind speeds gusting around 60mph, so that could have an impact. and certainly for the first half of the weekend it is going to be blustery, with sharp showers slowly easing from sunday.

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