the number of people with coronavirus falls in the second half of may, to one in 1000. it comes as the government defends making face coverings compulsory on public transport in england, from next week. 0n on balance, we are convinced it certainly cannot do any harm. we think it will do some good and that is why we think it is a good idea to introduce. my concern and anger is that elliott has taken because this could mean more people having caught the virus in the community because there are sometimes we simply cannot keep social distance. we'll get the latest on that and the fall in infection rates. also this lunchtime: as protests continue in the us, pictures emerge of a pensioner pushed to the ground by police in new york state.

the disappearance of madeleine mccann 13 years ago — more details emerge about the man named as a suspect. the 43—year—old, who's in prison in germany, has been named as christian b. the bbc has a new director general — tim davie promises acclerated change when he takes over in september. and how the chelsea pensioners have kept their spirits up during lockdown — even creating an outdoor pub. and coming up on bbc news: premiership rugby sets a date for games to be played. august 15th will see clubs in action again, but only if it is safe.

good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the latest study of coronavirus infections in england suggests a fall in the number of people with the illness. figures from the office for national statistics indicate one in 1,000 people had the virus in the community in the last two weeks of may — down from one in 400 the week before. it comes amid continued controversy about how quickly to ease the lockdown — with the official death toll nearing 40,000. yesterday, the government announced that it will be obligatory to wear a mask when travelling on public transport in england. lauren moss reports. he virus that has put so many lives on hold. after 11 weeks in lockdown new data suggests it may be slowly relaxing its grip. a survey by the 0ffice relaxing its grip. a survey by the office for national statistics estimates one in 1000 people may now

be infected in england. it shows the changes going on the right direction but there is a warning we should be cautious. what we are finding, if the rate of infection in society is falling, it is about one in 1000 of us, but we are also finding about 70% of those people who are infectious are reporting no symptoms so infectious are reporting no symptoms so it is still important people their distance, wash their hands, because some people might be infectious and not know it. this morningmy commute shows public transport is still relatively quiet but from the 15th ofjune it will be compulsory in england for anyone travelling on public transport to wear a face covering. most people just want to do the right thing and get on top of this disease and here is something small but important we can do to try to help so i think most people will be very keen to follow it. for some this move has been a long time coming. my concern,

andl been a long time coming. my concern, and i would go as far to see anger, is that elliott has taken because this could mean more people having caught the virus in the community because there are some times you cannot keep a social distance and this delay has been good for nobody. people in scotland and northern ireland are advised to cover the nose and my where it is difficult to social distance on the welsh government have said it is personal choice. experts are split over the benefits. it is generally thought they could reduce the risk of someone they could reduce the risk of someone with the infection passing it on by containing the droplets that are coughed or briefed out. anyone who doesn't comply could be fined. it would be the same as if someone was fined. it would be the same as if someone was travelling without a valid ticket for that particular service, so clearly the rail staff will be giving advice and will be helping to implement this with the support of the british transport police. the 15th ofjune is the day

nonessential shops can be open and some secondary pupils will return to school. some health professionals are calling forface school. some health professionals are calling for face coverings to be more widely worn. i am particularly worry about those people who are vulnerable through their work such as bus drivers but also people packing shelves in the supermarket and the bma has been calling for the sense april. reports the test and trace scheme may not be world class until autumn ministers hope the phone app being trialled on the isle of wight to alert those near an infected person will be ready for wider roll—out this month. the official coronavirus death told me past 40,000. as we gradually unlock doors into a new reality, wearing face coverings is just one of the many changes we will all have to make. robert cuffe is our head of statistics.

some improvement in terms of the infection rate. there week on week tiny changes are building into a consistent trend of decline in infections and we can show that. these solid bars are suing is an estimate of how many people in homes in england are infected in a given week, at home, not care homes or hospitals. week over week it is falling. there last three weeks include the stay alert era so even as lockdown easy is we are seeing the number of infections declining. 0ne the number of infections declining. one in the number of infections declining. 0ne in1000 the number of infections declining. one in 1000 people in england. but there is a margin of error so it could be twice as high or a little bit lower. that trend is pretty consistent. we want to know if infections are going up or down and thatis infections are going up or down and that is the evidence. some data looking at a different question, the number of people who have died, not

necessarily directly because of covid, but a large spike in death and only about three quarters of thatis and only about three quarters of that is directly attributable to covid, so what is causing that? the extra deaths which are not related to covid are mainly hitting the elderly, mainly registered as due to alzheimer's or death so filthy, once again emphasising how this is hitting the vulnerable —— deaths of frailty. if you want to find out how many coronavirus cases there have been in your area, go to the bbc news website. enter your postcode or location and you can look up the figures where you are. that's at bbc.co.uk/news brazil has now recorded the third highest number of deaths from coronavirus of any country, after the united states and the uk. the health ministry says more than 34,000 people have died with covid—19. 0ur correspondent,

katy watson, is in sao paulo. proving again so many difficulties in brazil. what is being said about this and the trajectory? now, we have got one person dying every minute here in brazilfrom covid—19. in the last three days we have seen record numbers of deaths and when we look at the infection rate and infection cases it is second only to the us. this part of the world are talking about reopening. this week people started surfing and swimming in the sea and people are wondering about the wisdom of opening up at this time when brazil hasn't even reached the peak. meanwhile the president has said very little. he said on facebook last night the collateral damage of not reopening the economy would be worse than the

number of deaths themselves, so people here are very concerned that ata time people here are very concerned that at a time when the situation, the pandemic, is that it's worse, the federal government is not taking this seriously. more information has been emerging about the man identified by german police as a suspect in the disappearance of three—year—old madeleine mccann. she was last seen in her family's holiday apartment in portugal, in may 2007. the suspect, christian b, lived in and around the praia da luz area in the algarve where the mccanns were staying. 0ur europe correspondent gavin lee is there. what more has been emerging? we have spoken to a seniorjudicial source today who has confirmed that the energy is the energy of a man that thejoint energy is the energy of a man that the joint investigation are looking for. the name christian b is the suspect and the first heard of the detail of the suspect linked to the

disappearance of madeleine mccann from the apartment behind me back in 2007, that first emerged from german police in 2017 after a tip—off in a german bar in which a friend of christian b, apparently they were watching footage of the tenth anniversary of the disappearance of madeleine mccann and coach, a disturbing and suspicious comment was made. we have been told that for the past three years there have been house—to—house inquiries taking place here as well, which i think would give us a sense of why there hasn't been a visual presence here in the last couple of days in portugal, why they haven't been putting out appeals at source, saying they are relying on appeals to holiday—makers in germany in the uk, with the car is the suspect was using and the houses in keighley by chance have photos or images to

painta chance have photos or images to paint a bigger picture, and ultimately they have come to the stage where they have hit an impasse on the reliant on the public to find clear evidence here. thank you. after a day of largely peaceful protests across the united states about the death in police custody of george floyd, pictures have emerged of a 75—year—old man being pushed to the ground by police in new york state. the man suffered serious injuries. the officers involved have been suspended without pay. james robbins has the latest. a week and a half of protests over the killing of george floyd show little sign of letting up. even if heavy rain in washington sent some demonstrators home early, others remained defiant, close to the white house and the target of much of their anger, the president himself. most protests across the country have been peaceful, but in the city of buffalo, new york, a 75—year—old man who approached

police in riot gear was pushed by two officers and fell backwards, hitting his head and then bleeding. the mayor of buffalo said both policemen had been suspended without pay. the state governor andrew cuomo said the incident was wholly unjustified and utterly disgraceful. in minneapolis itself, where george floyd was killed, three police officers widely criticised for allegedly contributing to his death appeared in court. they are charged with aiding and abetting the principal accused in murder and manslaughter. they could face up to 40 years in prison if convicted of helping, not stopping, derek chauvin. the lawyer for one of them said it would be unreasonable to expect him after only a few days on the job to intervene against a long serving officer. you've got a 20 year cop

in the front and my guy's back there with four days, shall we roll him over? and he says, no, we'll wait for the ambulance twice, and then he says, he is suffering from a delirium. i don't know, i don't know what you are supposed to do as a cop. if i was george floyd... stars of the biggest game in the united states, american football, are lining up behind george floyd. they also named other past victims of police killings. it's a gesture likely to infuriate donald trump, who's fallen out with sports stars before over the politics of race. you know, it's the most momentum around this decades old issue that i've ever seen in my lifetime and so i'm hopeful, i can't tell you where we'll be in 50 years, but i'm hopeful that this momentum continues and i believe it will. what happened to floyd happens everyday in this country. the demands for profound change,

which were so obvious at thursday's memorial service for george floyd huge questions over a sharply divided america will dominate the best of this crucial election year. the bbc has appointed a new director general. tim davie, currently the head of bbc studios, the corporation's commercial subsidiary, will take over from tony hall in september. the appointment comes at a crucial time for the organisation. 0ur media editor amol rajan is with me. what are the challanges? he has taken a significant pay cut to have the fight of his life. before that tim davie ran the bbc‘s audio division so he was in charge of radio. respected by senior staff,

a father of three, a big crystal palace fan. he was privately educated before going on to cambridge and he had a career in marketing. it was still a very senior position at pepsi. coming from a commercial background. he had been approached about a number of jobs in recent years including at the premier league which he turned down possibly because this job was coming up, and recent director generals have tended to come from the news division but he comes from a commercial and global outlook which i think tells you what the board thinks are the challenges. it is quite a long list. it is political. in 2022 the bbc celebrates its centenary and tim davie will conduct a negotiation about the future of the licence fee and the licence fee in the future of the bbc is something the government has talked about in recent times and made a number of threats. there are

commercial challenges. what is the funding model to compete with netflix and apple and amazon? how do you get young people paying for the licence fee? you have to make sure the licence fee has something for everyone. impartiality, trust, having the best programming in the world, making sure the bbc reflects the whole of britain, and most legacies are about how to respond to the crisis you could not see like the crisis you could not see like thejimmy the crisis you could not see like the jimmy savile the crisis you could not see like thejimmy savile affair. tim davie is going to need a lot of work so it is going to need a lot of work so it is going to be a toughjob. the time is 1.16pm. our top story this lunchtime. a study to estimate the number of people with coronavirus in england suggests infections in households have fallen, with only one in 1,000 people with the illness in the last two weeks of may. and why visits to the dentist won't be the same when they reopen in england next week.

coming up on bbc news, chelsea women have been officially named as champions. league positions have been decided on average points, which means chelsea, who were second, go above manchester city. dentists are allowed to reopen in england from monday, but patients are being warned not to expect business as usual. a survey of 2000 practices by the british dental association suggests only a third are ready to carry out routine appointments. many dentists expect to limit the services they offer, and to treat no more than a quarter of the number of people they saw pre—lockdown. dan johnson reports. phone rings. answering machine message: the surgery is now closed... empty surgeries and patients left in pain. normal surgery will not be resuming at this time... dentistry felt the lockdown

more than most. despite the government's announcement... and now, there's a real struggle to reopen on monday. unfortunately there won't be any patients here. we're hoping that a week's time we might be able to start seeing some of our own emergencies and do some very basic treatment. normal dental treatment is not going to be happening for an awfully long time. this waiting room is going to be empty for months. and even then, ensuring the virus doesn't spread will have a huge impact. i'd normally see between 50—60 patients on an average day. and what about now? now, erm, when we start treating people and doing proper treatment with the drill, i think the most i will be able to see is five. only one patient will be in the surgery at a time. protective equipment will be repeatedly changed and there will be much more cleaning. so i reckon we're looking at 1.5 hours between each patient.

we've literally just been given the guidance. it's given us less than one working day to get things in place. we've had to do all of this on our own, we've had no help, no guidance. we're not expecting to see routine care patients for 2—3 months. we will be open on monday, but it will only be for urgent cases. across england so many dentists say they just aren't ready. and there's a warning from the british dental association about the future. well, the profitability of practices relies on what we do as treatments. if the treatments are severely restricted many of my colleagues are on the brink of closing and if that happens that's a huge pressure that's going to be placed on the nhs going forward. i have a real worry for patient care. i get to be a dentist today. so, they've been left to treat themselves with only limited emergency care available. ahh. this was linda's attempt

to do her own filling. ahh, it came out. so much need, so little capacity. we are going to come back to a very big mess. it's really disappointing as a professional that those who are in charge of us give us so limited time. and a message, knowing that a message has gone out to the public which is really misleading. i've had patients shouting at me on the phone, because they want to get their treatment finished. i wanted to leave dentistry, ijust thought, why am i bothering? what about the cost of all this? spiralling. ppe generally is up 1,000%. this treatment room is now an equipment store and fresh challenges keep coming. we've obviously got to prioritise people in pain, but there are people out there who have paid for treatment, who are mid—treatment, who need stuff doing, who won't get seen for months and months. and it's not that i don't want to, it's just that i want to see them in a safe manner.

dentistry is nowhere near being back to normal and it's possible it never will be. dan johnson, bbc news. from monday, most people arriving in the uk will have to spend two weeks in isolation, as part of measures to prevent new infections of coronavirus. but the aviation industry is hoping ministers will agree so—called "air bridges" with countries where infections are low, allowing passengers to avoid quarantine. theo leggett is our international business correspondent. how likely it is all of this to happen? that's a really good question. i mean, what's beyond doubt is that the industry really wa nts doubt is that the industry really wants this to happen. airlines have accepted now that quarantine coming in on monday and that it's going to last for at least three weeks but that's really bad news for them, because as they are trying to recover from the acute crisis, from

having to ground their entire fleets, they want passengers to come back. but if people have to endure two weeks of quarantine on their return to the uk they won't want to travel abroad on holiday, for example, so they are pushing really ha rd example, so they are pushing really hard for this to happen. within the government it's not so clear that the support is yet. the department for transport, from what i'm hearing, is relatively keen. at the home office, number ten seems rather more lukewarm. so there is this real push to have these air bridges where people could fly say to portugal, spain, italy, turkey, the places people want to go on holiday and fly back again without having to go into isolation and the airlines want an a nswer isolation and the airlines want an answer on this quickly because they need to prepare their summer schedules, but it's by no means guaranteed that it will happen. if it does though, it opens up the prospect that people could possibly go on holiday abroad this summer. all right, you, theo leggett. the eu's chief negotiator, michel barnier, has said the uk and brussels are still a "long way" from agreeing their

future relationship. speaking after the latest round of talks, mr barnier said a new deal must be agreed by october, but warned it was essential for britain to stick to agreements it made when it left the eu. we cannot and we will not accept this backtracking on the political declaration, and at the same time we will request the full respect of the withdrawal agreement. the uk's chief negotiator, david frost, admitted progress in the talks had been limited, but said the tone was positive. 0ur reality check correspondent chris morris has this assessment of what each side wants to achieve. it's the fourth round of post—brexit trade talks between the uk and the eu and they've been taking place remotely in the shadow of the coronavirus crisis. now, that hasn't really helped matters but it's not been the only reason these talks haven't made much progress. there's even no agreement so far on the structure of what they're trying to negotiate. the eu wants one comprehensive deal, but the uk sees that as an effort to keep it tied more closely than it

wants to european institutions and ways of doing things. the uk argue that there should be a series of separate agreements, but the eu sees that as another example of the uk trying to cherry pick the benefits it wants while avoiding the obligations of eu membership. there are also specific issues on which negotiators seem to have hit a brick wall. there is what's known as the level playing field. that's measures to ensure businesses on one side don't have an unfair advantage over their competitors on the other. now, all trade agreements have these, but the eu wants the uk to stick particularly closely to eu rules on things like workers' rights, environmental regulations and subsidies for business. then there's fisheries. now, the uk would like full access to the eu market to sell its fish there, but in return the eu wants full access for its boats to fish in uk waters. british negotiators say that has to change. and then there's the governance of any future agreement. that's partly about how new agreements would be

enforced and about the role of the european court ofjustice. now, it normally takes years to do a trade deal but this process only has a matter of months left. remember, the uk left the eu on january the 31st and we're now in a transition period when all the rules and regulations and payments stay the same until the end of the year. but if no trade agreement is completed by then the uk won't have any formal deal with its closest neighbours, which account for nearly half its total trade. by law, any extension to the transition period would have to be agreed by the end of this month and the eu says it's willing to talk about an extension. the scottish and welsh governments are also in favour. so is the northern ireland assembly. but the uk government has repeatedly ruled it out. so can any basic deal still be done? well, if there's political will to make concessions on both sides, then, yes, perhaps it can. the prime minister will get directly involved this month, holding talks with the european commission

and council presidents on how the negotiations are going, and high—level political involvement can lead to progress. if it doesn't, businesses on both sides of the channel have just over six months to prepare for an abrupt change in the way they trade at a time when many are already struggling to stay afloat. those economic challenges caused by covid could strengthen the case for compromise, or they could provide cover for those who favour a far more radical break with the eu. chris morris. steve priest — the bassist with the glam rock band, the sweet — has died at the age of 72. he was known for his long red hair and his falsetto singing. the sweet's hits in the 19705 included ballroom blitz, fox on the run, and blockbuster. the royal hospital in chelsea, home of the chelsea pensioners, has been hosting its annual founder's day parade. this year, the celebration has been a more sombre affair

because of the pandemic. ten veterans have died from the virus, and dozens more have been infected. 0ur defence correspondent jonathan beale has been to speak to some of the pensioners who live there. earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust... with an average age of 82, death is part of life for the chelsea pensioners, but with the coronavirus it's hit this community of army veterans especially hard. he was one of life's gentleman... lockdown has prevented them from attending the funerals of friends, but they still remember every life lost with a simple service in the grounds. for the chaplain, it's been particularly busy. my normaljob is to take funerals but we've had 18 in ten weeks — ten through covid, eight other causes. and we've been unable to hold any funerals here in the chapel. people have told me that this has been much worse than anything they ever encountered

during their many years of service. the royal hospital went into lockdown well before the rest of the country, and the 300 pensioners who live here took careful precautions, including military disciplined social distancing, but that didn't stop covid from breaching their defences. monica parrott is one of the 74 pensioners who contracted the virus and recovered. she says she feels blessed. it was awful but what was horrible as well is the fact that you're a bit scared. you do start to think a bit negatively about what's going to be happening to you and, you know, you feel a bit sorry for yourself and having a little cry now and again, a big cry now and again. even in this crisis, they've soldiered on. founder's day is normally their grandest of occasions, with most of the pensioners

on parade, with family and hundreds of guests. this year it's had to be scaled back, with most pensioners watching from the windows. the royal hospital is better resourced than most care homes, with their own dedicated staff and even their own hospital on site, but that hasn't kept them immune from the virus. somehow, despite all our drills, it got in here and i think that's an illustration ofjust how difficult this disease is to deal with and hospitals, care homes all around the country have found that — despite their best efforts, it gets past the defences, and so the key is to have the procedures inside the place that contain it. that's what we've got in place now. # we'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when...#. singing old songs, along with a bit of military dark humour, have kept their spirits up throughout this crisis. they've even turned a lawn

into an aptly named outdoor pub. while elsewhere the lockdown is now easing, they'll still remain confined to base, but the pensioners too are looking forward to better times ahead. the upside is i've been in damn sight worse places than this and i've been in trenches and i've been in sangers up in the hills of south arabia. at least here i get three meals a day and go to my bed at night, and best of all, nobody is shooting at me. have no fear, don't worry about it, we will meet again. # i know we'll meet again some sunny day...#. bravo, bravo. that takes us to the weather prospects, wherever you are in the country. helen willetts has those. not a great deal of sunshine for