it took a couple of hours to really clear my inner ear and the balance issues that i was having. all four police officers and then we slowly got to the point involved in the killing where i was able to stand. of george floyd in minneapolis have now been formally charged. it took about two to three weeks the officer who was kneeling on mr floyd's neck when he died has had his charges elevated to second degree murder. after i got here just to get there. mr floyd's family called the move a significant step. and when i could first stand, i could only stand for 15 to 20 the government's insisted that seconds at a time. a 14—day quarantine on people i was just so exhausted from having arriving in britain from monday is needed to prevent an upsurge in coronavirus cases. the new plans have been heavily been down for so long, criticised by mps on all sides, including senior conservatives who are concerned about damage between the time i was in the coma to the travel industry. police in germany and britain and the time i was too dizzy to get are appealing for information up out of bed. about a german national who has it was probably about five weeks. become the new focus of a long—running investigation and my body was just into the disappearance so deconditioned that i would — of the british girl madeleine mccann my legs would shake and i would lose my breath very easily. in portugal thirteen years ago. now i'm able to walk about the length of a football field. so, that's gotten a lot better. he's currently serving my kidneys have not recovered yet. a prison sentence in germany on an unrelated matter. we're still hopeful, but we're talking about converting me from acute to chronic kidney failure here in a couple of weeks if we don't see better results,

and what that might mean. brendan, i know you'll sympathise with just how hard it is to get back on your feet and get going. but also, we've talked about the mental scars, i know it's difficult sleeping. you get flashbacks, don't you? yeah. and they tend to be getting worse as the weeks go on. i think i've had about 16 hours the chinese government has warned of sleep in two weeks. would not interfere in hong kong. i'm constantly waking up as if i'm suffocating and still in hospital. there is a route to citizenship and then not being able china goes ahead with the new laws. to get my breath back in bed, which makes me panic. but then the other flashbacks are obviously because of how fast it happened. —— beijing has expressed strong dissatisfaction with the uk government after boris johnson promised millions of people in hong kong a route to citizenship if china goes ahead with implementing the new laws. i couldn't — i have flashbacks james robbins reports. of not saying goodbye to my kids and my family and telling them i love them, if that was the case, china is determined to end all that i wasn't going this, protests in hong kong, to be around anymore. led by democracy activists, and at one point my life flashing certain beijing will use new security laws to ensure before my eyes in hospital they are crushed completely, and nobody acknowledging me and possibly tried and jailed on the mainland. now boris johnson is threatening to stimulate a mass exodus from hong kong by relaxing the visa rules for many with british overseas passports. trying to get people's attention.

and i could hear my mum and my brother and my kids talking to me and ijust couldn't, theyjust couldn't hear me prominent young activists in hong kong are delighted, and it's...even now it gets me, believing any threat it chokes me a little bit because — to its future wealth is power. being in hong kong isn't i can sympathise with brett. i was a little bit quicker in my recovery and you know, it's unfortunate for brett, that he's actually suffering about being pro—china or not, a little bit more than me, but i suppose with the game of sport that he's in, he's a tough cookie and i'm sure he'll recover pretty supporting hong kong isn't about anti—/pro—china or not, quickly and fingers it's about right and wrong, crossed that he does. it's about how we can save hong kong as a global brendan, i'm sure financial centre. everyone watching... our hearts go out to china is outraged by britain's you and we appreciate you sharing your experience with us. promise of a new home for hundreds of thousands, i want to give the last word potentially almost 3 million to brett, because brett, people from hong kong. you might be going home tomorrow. that must be so uppermost in your translation: no foreign country is the right to interfere. the groundless remarks by the uk grossly interfere in hong kong's affairs and china's internal affairs. but britain's last governor mind — just getting home again. of hong kong, chris patton, praises boris johnson's toughness.

it's an example which doesn't happen it truly is. all that frequently in politics i miss my family. where doing the right thing, i know that they miss me. recognising our moral and i'm ready to a sort obligations, is also what's in our national interest. thursday is the 31st anniversary of the tiananmen massacre of, restart my life. of democracy campaigners in beijing, marked in hong kong each year until now. the usual planned visual has been banned. china blames coronavirus. activists call that you know, when i woke up an excuse to disguise in the hospital, there were so many the future beijing plans for them. james robbins, bbc news. things that were wrong that i wasn't sure life was ever going to be the same as it was. i'm very excited to get home just after 1:30 in the morning. now on bbc news, and try to do the best we can to get back to where we were and spend some more time together. thank you. brett breslow and brendan sheridan, thank you very much giving us your stories. next, a 24—year—old hospital doctor who's also a national beauty queen. in fact, the first south coronavirus: your stories. asian—born miss england. i've been speaking to bhasha mukherjee in between her nightshift at a hospital in lincolnshire. welcome to coronavirus: none of us prepared for this your stories, a programme about how at medical school, covid—i9 covid is affecting the lives pandemics and things like that.

of people around the world. i'm philippa thomas. and this week we're hearing stories we prepared for the usual heart from the hospital wards. attacks and strokes. later, a junior hospital doctor but it's nice to see that everybody who's also a national beauty queen. but i want to start with the stories of two men who've has each other‘s back at this time survived near—death experiences. we'll first go to philadelphia in the united states, and is prepared to help each other. where brett breslow has been i'm not seeing a lot of one—upmanship or anything like that, because everyone's in the same boat. in a way, it is called the great undergoing weeks of rehabilitation. equaliser for that reason — no—one knows any better than any other person about this disease. this is my last full day at the rehabilitation centre. i'm looking forward to going home and being with my family after, well, about 2.5 months and when you say you have that of being separated from them. feeling that everybody has each other‘s back, i know that when you were first announced, when you first became miss england, we'll hear more about your you experienced something experience, brett, but ijust wanted to explain to our viewers, of a racist backlash, and i wanted before covid—19 hit you, you were probably healthier to ask you about the attitudes then than the rest of us? and perhaps what might be changing. um, i guess i was yes, so i always felt a sense of, a fairly healthy guy. i had a few extra pounds, you know, imposter syndrome but i worked out five or six being miss england in a way. days a week. i like to eat healthy, i felt great, absolutely, fresh vegetables, stay in tune with my body. that i was representing south asians and migrant populations in this country who equally are a part and i would say i was normal health. of this country.

you were a coach as well? yes, i coach youth football, we've been living here for years american football here and years and generations, in the united states, in newjersey, but in a way there's always been a divide where immigrant families and, you know, ethnic minority families, we always keep to ourselves and we don't always in southern newjersey, mix in the way that, i suppose, everybody else enjoy just across the river does and caucasians do. from philadelphia. eighth grade boys about 13 years so i felt when i did win old, and i run up and down the field that there was a lot of backlash, quite a bit. especially on the media and on press, where people kept saying the same comment well, brett, i think the other over and over again, "0h, she's not english, though. member of our conversation has she's not english, though." something in common with you — also a sports coach. i want to introduce brendan sheridan from west yorkshire here in england. brendan, how's today so far? but now i feel a great pride that under those comments, ah, yeah, it's a bright, sunny day, they're still there, bear in mind, so — which helps getting up. but similar days to all the others i have some people saying, since i've come out of icu at pinderfields. you have also spent quite a lot of time in intensive care. "she's a doctor, she is serving and i think like brett, on the front lines." you were pretty healthy going in. you probably know some covid—i9 then hit you very fast, didn't it? of the statistics that some uh, yeah. of the highest risk populations you know, i train 5—6 are the bame populations, times a week, just like but yet they make up

the — like brett. such a large portion one day i got up fine, of the key worker population. just started getting shortness of breath, no symptoms of covid, pretty healthy, keeping myself fit and ten hours later i almost stopped so it makes me feel proud breathing and then and woke up two that we are finally able to show people that we are notjust weeks later out of a coma. here to steal people's jobs but we're actually here to serve the country and be as, you know, equal in the playing field in terms of being a true do you remember coming out of that? british citizen. i feel great that i am holding this title of miss england, do you remember that moment and also serving the country, i'm serving england at a time of need. when you woke up and how it felt? so yeah, i feel great about that. uh, yeah, but it's what keeps me awake at night. just the first time i obviously knew that something was — obviously something was seriously wrong because i woke up you were a first, i think, on the ventilator and the hood on, you know, helping me breathe. the first miss england of south asian background, because i had picked up another so you were going to draw a lot of attention, and when you talk about the way the virus discriminates, appears infection and got pneumonia to discriminate too, that gets attention? while i was in there. i had to be packed in ice yes. covid's not the only one. to bring my temperature down, which obviously froze my body a little bit, so i couldn't really move when i first woke up. there's been many other diseases you know, a bit of panic before covid that have done this, and we just are seeing this more

because covid shows a direct relationship and it shows it very quickly. things like diabetes, things like heart disease, set in when i realised several diseases that are more common in ethnic minorities and bame populations. where i was and what was up with me. brett, do you remember that point when you were taken off the ventilator, came out of the coma we've just ignored it and realised that people because they're chronic illnesses, were looking at you like you were but as we're seeing, actually chronic illnesses are one of the reasons why you might perform some sort of exhibit? poorly with covid—i9. yes. i was in what they call a negative pressure room. i didn't know quite where i was. but for us at the front lines, doctors and medics, this isn't too surprising actually because we do and i remember them sort of telling see this in medicine is quite a lot. viruses and many other me that they were going to pull diseases are just the same — a tube out. i was still sort of midway they treat you based on your genetics and your susceptibility asleep at that point. to a disease is based they walked me through the process, on your genetics. told me to take a deep breath, of course, if you're from a certain ethnicity, they pulled the tube out genetics has a massive role and asked me to open my eyes, and there was a world of people standing in front of me, and sort of this double—paned glass

room where the medical personnel were all geared up in in what diseases you have. protective equipment. some behind one in a vestibule, still getting clothed up, some who were already one of the positive things you told me, dr mukherjee, was as far as the patients are concerned, especially if they're infected with covid—i9, if they're desperately ill or dying, you become their family, in the room with me, they reach out to you and you're not just a doctor to them. yes, it's been a very humbling giving me oxygen to make sure that i could continue to breathe. experience for me on the front lines, um, yeah, it was an interesting experience. just like brendan, i couldn't move very much and i was starting to wonderjust how i got there and what had transpired and how long i had been out. i think both of you were the first patient in the hospital that seeing that when i — because the hospital i work at, you were in to be put boston in lincolnshire, onto a ventilator. predominantly... before i went to work there, brendan, did you have that feeling i'd heard they have quite that hospital staff — obviously trying their hardest — conservative populations there, and the hospital actually has some but they're dealing of the most diverse employees with something new? in terms of there's lots of african um, yeah, i suppose it was traumatic doctors there, lots of indian for everybody, notjust obviously doctors there, pakistani doctors the patients, but the staff as well. there, but seeing that actually covid has actually flipped it because obviously it's a new pandemic and i suppose they're all on its head. winging it a little bit.

but obviously the at this point in time, safety comes first. everybody that's in hospital is alone and at this point of time, a nurse, a doctor, whatever their skin colour, is the only person who is able to take that pain away, but, yeah, i can — is able to hold their hand, i just remember especially in pinderfields icu, is able to stroke their forehead. just how overrun the staff was. and i myself have done this at odd hours of the night, you know, from one at 3am i've been the first person patient to another. when i started to come out to see a patient who's really in a lot of pain and they do want to hold your hand. and realise — but i didn't actually and then i do actually think — look at this, this is humanity at its best. when you're in pain, find out what i'd actually been you forget about all through until i had my memory coming these preconceived notions. back and icu nurses were coming up you just look at the person to the wards to see how i was. obviously i was first as another human to hold and touch and get comfort from. on the ventilator and the youngest, i feel very privileged and humbled i think, in pinderfields to have covid—i9. to be in a position to give people but, you know, pretty close to death twice, that support and comfort. i think. speaking to family members, so, obviously it's traumatic, the ripple effect it has on the staff and obviously the families is huge. bhasha mukherjee, i want to ask so, it's, yeah, a pretty you about what comes next daunting experience, for you and patients. but we're finding out little we seem to be getting past bits after i woke up. and then coming out of that the surge, do things get easier intensive care experience or are there other problems?

for both of you. brett, i know that you feel you're lucky to be in the rehab centre that you're in now, but it isn't the surge was a time where the nhs, a given that you get to go to a rehab centre? i feel, was the most supported. in terms of the government, various charities, they came forward, they acted swiftly, they were right there and even the nhs itself, the trusts and the managerial point of view, they acted responsibly to try to get more staffing and more resources, more incentives for the frontliners, no, it's not. we had to find a facility that was, but now we're past the surge, you know, willing to accept we're actually going a previously positive covid—i9 patient. the folks at this location hadn't taken any prior to me, prior to myself, and were still to be struggling more. considering whether or not they were going to take any covid—i9 recovery folks. i am really grateful that they did. this is an amazing place. it doesn't sound usual for that they've now have an entire floor to happen but that's the case. dedicated to covid—i9 recovery. you told me it took if you think about it, when covid was happening, you about a month to be able to sit up without motion sickness we, in a way, stopped a lot of the usual services and get out of the bed. and you still have of the hospital because we were only problems, don't you? focusing on the really unwell your kidney, is that acute kidney failure that you're and the really emergency cases. struggling with still? so there's a massive backlog actually, um, yeah. i had some motion sickness, of everything that we stopped during the surge. so that every time — it was really hard to start my rehab because every time i would sit up

i would get very dizzy, now also that we're coming past the surge, we're having to return my blood pressure would drop, my heart rate would elevate back to normalcy. and that was about all i could do for the first couple of weeks of rehab. they really were just trying to figure out what those issues were. they discovered that i had a vestibular problem and they performed the vestibular manoeuvre on me and that really 00:11:15,758 --> 2147483051:42:22,594 was the start of being able to do 2147483051:42:22,594 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 some more physical rehab. and some of the incentives, some of the resources and some of the staffing and services have been taken away. so this restoration period is actually going to be more difficult to handle, ifeel, than the actual peak. we are already seeing a reflection of this at my hospital. the stresses are high because the rotors are being changed. the usual doctors are having to work longer hours to compensate for the way things were running beforehand, and now we're seeing more and more patients returning back to work because obviously the government and everybody‘s tired of being in lockdown, and now they're seeing the usual pressures in a&e again. there's certain patients who don't need to be in hospital coming back again. the population as a whole is maybe starting to think that it's over, but it's not over.

the hospitals still have active covid patients and it's still dangerous for you to go into hospital unless you absolutely have to. doctor mukherjee, would would you say is the final thing you would like our viewers to take away from what you're saying today? what should be remembered most, do you think? what i would like people to understand from what i'm telling you is that — that it's time that we start to really introspect, think about the way we've been treating people, not forget what covid taught us. still maintain some of the things that we've learned from it, because if we don't, then we're going to be back to square one.

it's still too soon to break lockdown rules. people are already having parties at home and stuff. please try to hold on and try to make this time part of your life rather than just a small period that we have to do kind of hold tight and get through it. we have to get normalised and adapt to this. that's what i'd like to say — take it in your stride. we are all struggling at this time, so let's do it altogether. bhasha mukherjee, miss england 2019 and a hospital doctor on the front lines. i'm philippa thomas, thank you forjoining me on coronavirus: your stories.

hello there, we are going to end this week on a very different note than we began the week certainly. we have lost our area of high pressure and low pressure starting to take control, it is going to bring windier, wetter, and cooler conditions and thursday looks like being another cool day, cooler than it was on wednesday in fact, and we will have some spells of rain at times too. our area of high pressure is continuing to retreat away westwards, low pressure is beginning to develop to our east and that is going to bring further spells of rain. northerly winds as well which is why it is going to feel on the cool side for the time of year. so, for thursday we start off on a grey note across the south—east with early rain. that should clear away and it'll turn dry for a time but we will have areas of showers or longer spells of rain moving down from the north — scotland, northern ireland — into northern england. it will turn breezy as well.

windy across the far north of the country as temperatures range from 10—17 or 18 degrees in the south. so, much cooler than how we started the week off. through thursday night, it stays rather breezy, variable amounts of cloud, further showers or longer spells of rain at times and those temperatures falling to lows of around 5 to around 10—11 in the south. now, as we head on into friday, we start to see our area of low pressure to the east of us developed further and it starts to push in towards our shores. you can see the isobars squeezing together indicating that the winds will turn stronger through the day on friday. so, it looks like being a blustery one with a bit of sunshine around. but there will also be plenty of showers, some of which will be heavy and thundery particularly across northern, central, and eastern areas. and then later in the day, an area of more persistent heavy rain starts to push into the north of scotland. here, it will really feel cold for the time of year, nine or 10 degrees. further south, 14—17 degrees. but you factor in the wind, it's going to feel more like autumn than it willjune. gusts of 50 miles an hour in the north, 30 miles an hour

in the south, and those winds pick up further friday night into saturday as you can see our area of low pressure, a real squeeze in the isobars across central and northern parts of the country. and don't be surprised, we could see gusts reaching 60 miles an hour in places. those sorts of gusts this time of year could lead to some disruption — remember, trees in full leaf. it stays very blustery on the cool side on saturday with further showers or longer spells of rain. then, it starts to quieten down a little bit as we head on into sunday. those winds begin to ease down, too.

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