this is bbc news — the headlines: all four police officers involved in the killing of george floyd in minneapolis have now been formally charged. the officer who was kneeling on mr floyd's neck when he died has had his charges elevated to second—degree murder. mr floyd's family called the move a significant step. the government's insisted that a 14—day quarantine on people arriving in britain from monday is needed to prevent an upsurge in coronavirus cases. the new plans have been heavily criticised by mps on all sides, including senior conservatives, who are concerned about damage to the travel industry. police in germany and britain are appealing for information about a german national who has become the new focus of a long—running investigation into the disappearance of the british girl madeleine mccann in portugal 13 years ago. he's currently serving a prison sentence in germany.

more now on the madeleine mccann story. she disappeared from a portuguese resort. she was three at the time. the man was a convicted sex offender, living in the algarve and sleeping a campervan at the time. she was three when she went missing from praia da luz. this is the volkswagen campervan that was by the new suspect in the madeleine mccann investigation. with its distinctive colours, police hope it will trigger someone's memory and lead to new evidence about their as yet unnamed suspect. he used the vehicle to live in, and certainly the week preceding he was in there, living, so he would move around the area, using that van as probably his base. the suspect also used this jaguar car at the time. he registered the car into someone else's name

the day after madeleine mccann disappeared. the three—year—old went missing on may the 3rd 2007. she'd been sleeping in her parents' holiday apartment while they were 50 metres away, having a meal with friends. her 17th birthday was last month. on the german version of crimewatch this evening, police there revealed that the suspect has previous convictions for sexually assaulting girls and is thought to have burgled hotels and holiday apartments. he is currently in prison in germany. his phone was used in praia de luz, about an hour before madeleine mccann disappeared. tonight, the metropolitan police are asking for anyone who can help with information about the mobile number he took the call on that night. the vw campervan that he was using that summer

and the old jaguar xjr6 that he registered out of his name the day after madeleine mccann disappeared. in a statement, her parents, kate and gerry mccann, seen here in 2007, said they'd like to thank the police forces involved in britain, germany and portugal. they said they'd never give up hope of finding madeleine alive. the german police said that theirs is a murder investigation, but madeleine mccann‘s parents said that whatever the outcome is, they need to know what happened, as they need to find peace. now on bbc news, coronavirus: your stories. welcome to coronavirus: your stories, a programme about how covid is affecting the lives of people around the world. i'm philippa thomas. and this week we're hearing stories

from the hospital wards. later, a junior hospital doctor who's also a national beauty queen. but i want to start with the stories of two men who've survived near—death experiences. we'll first go to philadelphia in the united states, where brett breslow has been undergoing weeks of rehabilitation. 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 of being separated from them. we'll hear more about your experience, brett, but ijust wanted to explain to our viewers, before covid—19 hit you, you were probably healthier than the rest of us? um, i guess i was a fairly healthy guy. i had a few extra pounds, but i worked out five or six

days a week. i like to eat healthy, fresh vegetables, stay in tune with my body. and i would say i was normal health. you were a coach as well? yes, i coach youth football, american football here in the united states, in newjersey, in southern newjersey, enjoy just across the river from philadelphia. eighth grade boys about 13 years old, and i run up and down the field quite a bit. well, brett, i think the other member of our conversation has 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? ah, yeah, it's a bright, sunny day, so — which helps getting up. but similar days to all the others since i've come out of icu at pinderfields.

you have also spent quite a lot of time in intensive care. and i think like brett, you were pretty healthy going in. covid—i9 then hit you very fast, didn't it? uh, yeah. you know, i train 5—6 times a week, just like the — like brett. one day i got up fine, just started getting shortness of breath, no symptoms of covid, pretty healthy, keeping myself fit and ten hours later i almost stopped breathing and then and woke up two weeks later out of a coma. do you remember coming out of that? do you remember that moment when you woke up and how it felt? 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 on the ventilator and the hood on,

you know, helping me breathe. because i had picked up another infection and got pneumonia while i was in there. i had to be packed in ice to bring my temperature down, which obviously froze my body a little bit, so i couldn't really move when i first woke up. you know, a bit of panic set in when i realised 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 and realised that people were looking at you like you were some sort of exhibit? yes. i was in what they call a negative pressure room. i didn't know quite where i was. and i remember them sort of telling me that they were going to pull a tube out. i was still sort of midway asleep at that point. they walked me through the process, told me to take a deep breath, they pulled the tube out 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 protective equipment. some behind one in a vestibule, still getting clothed up,

some who were already in the room with me, giving me oxygen to make sure that i could continue to breathe. 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 you were in to be put onto a ventilator. brendan, did you have that feeling that hospital staff — obviously trying their hardest — but they're dealing with something new? um, yeah, i suppose it was traumatic for everybody, notjust obviously the patients, but the staff as well. because obviously it's a new pandemic and i suppose they're winging it a little bit.

but obviously the safety comes first. but, yeah, i can — i just remember especially in pinderfields icu, just how overrun the staff was. you know, from one patient to another. when i started to come out and realise — but i didn't actually find out what i'd actually been through until i had my memory coming back and icu nurses were coming up to the wards to see how i was. obviously i was first on the ventilator and the youngest, i think, in pinderfields to have covid—i9. but, you know, pretty close to death twice, 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. so, it's, yeah, a pretty daunting experience, but we're finding out little bits after i woke up. and then coming out of that intensive care experience 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 a given that you get to go to a rehab centre? no, it's not. we had to find a facility that was, you know, willing to accept a previously positive covid—i9 patient. the folks at this location hadn't taken any prior to me, prior to myself, and were still 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. they've now have an entire floor dedicated to covid—i9 recovery. you told me it took you about a month to be able to sit up without motion sickness and get out of the bed. and you still have problems, don't you? your kidney, is that acute kidney failure that you're struggling with still? actually, um, yeah.

i had some motion sickness, so that every time — it was really hard to start my rehab because every time i would sit up i would get very dizzy, my blood pressure would drop, my heart rate would elevate 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 was the start of being able to do some more physical rehab. it took a couple of hours to really clear my inner ear and the balance issues that i was having. and then we slowly got to the point where i was able to stand. it took about two to three weeks after i got here just to get there. and when i could first stand, i could only stand for 15 to 20 seconds at a time. i was just so exhausted from having been down for so long,

between the time i was in the coma and the time i was too dizzy to get up out of bed. it was probably about five weeks. and my body was just so deconditioned that i would — my legs would shake and i would lose my breath very easily. now i'm able to walk about the length of a football field. so, that's gotten a lot better. my kidneys have not recovered yet. 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 of sleep in two weeks. i'm constantly waking up as if i'm suffocating and still in hospital. and then not being able to get my breath back in bed, which makes me panic. but then the other flashbacks are obviously because of how fast it happened. i couldn't — i have flashbacks of not saying goodbye to my kids and my family and telling them i love them, if that was the case, that i wasn't going to be around anymore. and at one point my life flashing before my eyes in hospital and nobody acknowledging me and 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 and it's...even now it gets me, it chokes me a little bit because — 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 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 quickly and fingers crossed that he does. brendan, i'm sure everyone watching... our hearts go out to you and we appreciate you sharing your experience with us. i want to give the last word to brett, because brett, you might be going home tomorrow. that must be so uppermost in your mind — just getting home again. it truly is.

i miss my family. i know that they miss me. and i'm ready to a sort of, restart my life. you know, when i woke up in the hospital, there were so many 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 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 asian—born miss england. i've been speaking to bhasha mukherjee in between her nightshifts at a hospital in lincolnshire. none of us prepared for this at medical school, covid—i9 pandemics and things like that. we prepared for the usual heart attacks and strokes. but it's nice to see that everybody has each other‘s back at this time and is prepared to help each other. 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 equaliser for that reason — no—one knows any better than any other person about this disease. and when you say you have that feeling that everybody has each other‘s back, i know that when you were first announced, when you first became miss england, you experienced something of a racist backlash, and i wanted to ask you about the attitudes then and perhaps what might be changing. yes, so i always felt a sense of, you know, imposter syndrome being miss england in a way. i felt great, absolutely, that i was representing south asians and migrant populations in this country who equally are a part of this country. we've been living here for years and years and generations, 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 mix in the way that, i suppose, everybody else does and caucasians do.

so i felt when i did win that there was a lot of backlash, especially on the media and on press, where people kept saying the same comment over and over again, "0h, she's not english, though. she's not english, though." but now i feel a great pride that under those comments, they're still there, bear in mind, i have some people saying, "she's a doctor, she is serving on the front lines." you probably know some of the statistics that some of the highest risk populations are the bame populations, but yet they make up such a large portion of the key worker population. so it makes me feel proud that we are finally able to show

people that we are notjust 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 british citizen. i feel great that i am holding this title of miss england, and also serving the country, i'm serving england at a time of need. so yeah, i feel great about that. you were a first, i think, the first miss england of south asian background, so you were going to draw a lot of attention, and when you talk about the way the virus discriminates, appears to discriminate too, that gets attention? yes. covid's not the only one. there's been many other diseases 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, several diseases that are more common in ethnic minorities and bame populations. we've just ignored it because they're chronic illnesses, but as we're seeing, actually chronic illnesses are one of the reasons why you might perform poorly with covid—i9. but for us at the front lines, doctors and medics, this isn't too surprising actually because we do see this in medicine is quite a lot. viruses and many other diseases are just the same — they treat you based on your genetics and your susceptibility to a disease is based on your genetics. of course, if you're from a certain ethnicity, genetics has a massive role in what diseases you have. 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, they reach out to you and you're not just a doctor to them.

yes, it's been a very humbling experience for me on the front lines, seeing that when i — because the hospital i work at, boston in lincolnshire, predominantly... before i went to work there, i'd heard they have quite conservative populations there, and the hospital actually has some of the most diverse employees in terms of there's lots of african doctors there, lots of indian doctors there, pakistani doctors there, but seeing that actually covid has actually flipped it all on its head. at this point in time, 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,

is able to hold their hand, is able to stroke their forehead. and i myself have done this at odd hours of the night, at 3am i've been the first person to see a patient who's really in a lot of pain and they do want to hold your hand. and then i do actually think — look at this, this is humanity at its best. when you're in pain, you forget about all these preconceived notions. you just look at the person as another human to hold and touch and get comfort from. i feel very privileged and humbled to be in a position to give people that support and comfort. bhasha mukherjee, i want to ask you about what comes next for you and patients. we seem to be getting past the surge, do things get easier or are there other problems?

the surge was a time where the nhs, 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, but now we're past the surge, we're actually going to be struggling more. it doesn't sound usual for that to happen but that's the case. if you think about it, when covid was happening, we, in a way, stopped a lot of the usual services of the hospital because we were only focusing on the really unwell and the really emergency cases. so there's a massive backlog of everything that we stopped during the surge. now also that we're coming past the surge, we're having to return back to normalcy. 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. 0ur 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.

this is bbc news — welcome if you're watching here in the uk, on pbs in america or around the globe. i'm mike embley. our top stories: all four officers involved in the death of george floyd are formally charged. but the state says it's only one small step towards justice. what i do not believe is that one successful prosecution can rectify the hurt and loss that so many people feel. what lies behind the prevalance of police brutality in the us? we have a special report. the british government announces plans to quarantine visitors for coronavirus — but it's criticised for being unworkable. and 13 years after the british girl madeleine mccann disappeared in portugal — a german prisoner is identified as a new suspect.