this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. thousands of people across the uk have demonstrated in soldiary with anti—racism protests in the united states huge protests over the death of george floyd have continued in cities across america — all of them peaceful. in washington, thousands gathered in the biggest demonstrations there in 12 days. the head of the world bank calls the current global economic crisis a "catastrophe" and appeals for debt relief for the poorer nations. brazil says it will no longer publish total numbers of cases and deaths from coronavirus, after their death toll passes 3a,000. the british medical association calls for face masks to be worn in gp surgeries and care homes.

and in a week's time, places of worship in england will be opened for individual prayer. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world — and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. more anti—racism rallies are expected across the uk today, after the police killing of george floyd in the united states. british protests yesterday passed off largely peacefully. but in london, 1a people were arrested after clashes with police and 1a officers were injured. metropolitan police commissioner cressida dick has said she is "deeply saddened and depressed" that the officers were injured in what she called "shocking" assaults by a minority of protesters.

in the united states, there've been some of the largest demonstrations against police violence since george floyd's death in minneapolis nearly two weeks ago. in los angeles a crowd marched from hollywood to beverly hills, at one point kneeling down for five minutes and chanting " peaceful protest" before breaking into applause. in san francisco demonstrators briefly shut the golden gate bridge. and an estimated 30,000 people rallied in chicago to demand police reform. more on the protests in the united states in a moment, but first, let's look at the demo held in london yesterday. this report is from sean dilly. black lives matter! more than 4000 miles from the scene of george floyd's death, during an encounter with white police officers in minneapolis, the cries of injustice could be no clearer than on the streets of britain. black lives matter! in central london, many thousands gathered in support

of black lives matter. it's been our grandfather's fight, it's been our father's fight. we don't want it to be our children's fight, and that's why we want to make sure they're a part of this as well. nojustice, no peace! police say the day passed mostly without event, but as evening approached, the mood started to turn. many had already left when fireworks, bikes and other missiles were launched towards police lines outside downing street. officers in public order riot gear replaced those in less protective uniforms to disperse those who remained. oh, my god, the horse has bolted! a mounted police officer hit her head on a traffic light when her panicked horse bolted. by then riderless, it ran into the crowd and trampled a person. both the protester and the officer received medical treatment. the horse made its own way back to police stables. the justice for george floyd protests went ahead in heavy rain, and despite the government strongly urging people not to break social distancing rules

by gathering in mass crowds. more protests will take place outside the american embassy in london later. sean dilly, bbc news. we've had a statement from cressida dick, commissioner of the metropolitan police service about the protests in the uk and the injured officers. she says, "i am deeply saddened and depressed that a minority of protesters became violent towards officers in central london yesterday evening. this led to 11! officers being injured, in addition to 13 hurt in earlier protests this week. we have made a number of arrests and justice will follow. the number of assaults is shocking and completely unacceptable. " she goes on to say, "there is no place for violence in our city. i would urge protesters to please find another way to make your views heard which does not involve coming out on the streets of london, risking yourself, your families and officers as we continue to face this deadly virus." returning to the protests that took place across the uk yesterday,

the metropolitan police federation chairman ken marsh has expressed concern that the protests were allowed to go ahead amid the coronavirus pandemic i am not happy at all with what is so yesterday. my brave colleagues were put in a position that they should not be put in at all. i can't for the life of me understand why the mayor isn't becrying this, why the home secretary isn't. we are in the middle of a pandemic, unless something has happened i am not aware of. i understand fully why they want to protest, but the circumstances are so different they should not be there and they should not have been allowed. meanwhile in the united states, tens of thousands of people have marched in cities across the country, on the 12th day of protests sparked by the death of george floyd. from washington, our north america correspondent aleem maqbool reports.

no peace! nojustice! no peace! it was the biggest demonstration in washington had seen since the killing of george floyd. but with none of the confrontation with security forces we saw previously. they sent in the national guard, there was the national guard here the streets, they were tear gassing people, shooting them with rubber bullets, you know, really, like, perpetuating police brutality and violence in the streets of washington, dc, and still, people are still out here and showing up. we are not afraid, we are not backing down until we see change. we are still getting arrested, we are still being pulled over, we are still being discriminated in everything in american life, so we have got to fight, not for now, but for the future. well, we may bejust outside the white house, but the sense we get through speaking to people here is that this has now gone beyond just getting a message across to donald trump. what people are telling us is that they have now really given up on him doing the right thing.

instead, the focus has become on changing the system, individuals and police departments. there are huge protests in london, in paris, in berlin, in sydney, in solidarity with african americans, how does that feel to you? i have cried every day since i have been seeing protests, out ofjust purejoy, that finally, finally the voices are being heard. at the same time as the demonstration in washington, there was a memorial service for george floyd in north carolina, close to where he was born. these images associated with this will affect all of our lives for the rest of our lives. not only did we lose a family member, but y'all watched as well. george floyd's body will now continue its finaljourney but the reverberations of his death will be felt long beyond his funeral

in texas on tuesday. aleem maqbool, bbc news, in washington. more than 40,000 people have died from coronavirus in the uk. professorjohn edmunds is a member of sage, the scientific advisory group to the uk government. he was asked this morning on the bbc‘s andrew marr show if he has any regrets regarding the advice at the begining of the pandemic. yes, we should have gone into lockdown earlier. i think it would have been hard to do it, i think the data we were dealing with in the early parts of march and our situation awareness was really quite poon situation awareness was really quite poor. and so i think it would have been very hard to pull the trigger at that point. but i wish we had. i

wish we had gone into lockdown earlier, i think that has cost a lot of lives, unfortunately. it's estimated around 15,000 people gathered in central manchester yesterday as part of the black lives matter protest. another demonstration is due to take place in the city later. some scientists suggest the r number in north west is above one, meaning coronavirus is spreading again. dr sakthi karunanithi is director of public health for lancashire — hejoins me from preston. do you think the r rate is above one in the north—west and how concerned should we be? and what should follow? i think the values are part of a

wide area of indicators to understand how the virus is spreading in our communities. 0n friday, public health england published a set of figures which you if you look at the direction of travel does suggest that the r rate has gone up and it means there is not much room for manoeuvre in terms of lifting measures of lockdown to soon and too quickly. and we must be very concerned about that. however, overall, the infection in the country including our region has come down. to keep it that way, we must continue to follow the advice on social distancing, hand sanitising and especially if you are symptomatic, you must remain at home, you must stay at home. and also if contacted by the test and trace service, you must follow the

advice and stay at home. the only way to get out of the pandemic is to have a really effective test and trace have a really effective test and tra ce syste m have a really effective test and trace system and all of us responsibly following the advice of test and trace and staying at home. if this is a regional variation, if the north—west and south—west are above one, should we think about local lockdowns or a tighter lockdown than there is in the rest of the country to deal with that? would you support that? there is increasingly evidence that there is remarkable regional variation in our country, the north west and many parts of the mouth still had very high levels of incidence of coronavirus and therefore we must really support regions on the level of infection and the rate is transmitting. there is increasingly a case for a more regional support

in managing the pandemic as a nation. what about the black lives matter demonstration. we hear there is another one going to be taken place in manchester today. there has been concern from the health secretary and police that demonstrators are not generally observing social distancing rules. what are your take on that? i understand the anger and frustration that racism still exists. there is a place for peacefully making our views known but we mustn't forget that we are in the middle of a pandemic and the virus is very dangerous, still there is quite a lot of us susceptible to the virus and mass gatherings now should be avoided. we cannot afford to have another wave of the infection and another wave of suffering if the infection is going up. so! suffering if the infection is going up. so i urge people, please,

please, please avoid mass gatherings. please follow the advice on social distancing. thank you very much for being with us. thank you very much for being with us. he is the director of public health function. thanks your time. the head of the world bank has described the global economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic as a ‘catastrophe'. speaking to the bbc, david malpass predicted the economic fallout could last for a decade and would adversely affet the world's poorest. 0ur global trade correspondent darshini david has more. the world bank says that 60 million more people could find themselves with a less than £1.50 per day to live on as a result of the economic crisis prompted by covid—19 on top of the 730 million who already do so. the bank's president david malpass said millions, possibly billions of people had had their livelihoods disrupted. the poor around the world

are in an unequal situation. they are getting hit harder, people in the poorer countries are being not only unemployed, but unable to get any work, even in the informal sector, and that is going to have consequences for a decade. restoring prosperity, he says, would require engineering the right environment to create newjobs, to replace those that may have been lost permanently in sectors like tourism. mr malpass says he is optimistic about a longer term recovery, but he admits the impact on some livelihoods could last a decade. there are calls for the compulsory wearing of face masks at hospitals in england to be extended to gp surgeries and care homes. the british medical associaton says more consistency is needed across all medical settings.

from 15thjune, outpatients and hospital visitors will be required to cover their nose and mouth under new government guidelines. scientists say they've found slightly different versions of the coronavirus in different parts of britain. a team at the quadram institute, in norfolk, has been helping with a national project to map the genome of the virus as it circulates. by spotting these differences, it may be possible to track how the disease is spreading and to curb future outbreaks. 0ur science correspondent richard westcott explains. in a new lab just outside norwich, world—leading research is going on that could help ease the country out of virus lockdown. with one testing station visible from the lab window, if you've come up positive recently, your virus sample could well have ended up here. alex normally studies infections

in people'sjoints, but like many other scientists, he's been drafted in to study the virus. it's very interesting and exciting to come in and work on something that we're getting feedback straight away, we're seeing results in real time. in the early days of the first wave, we were getting 50 samples a day, maybe more in. now it's gone down a lot, positive samples coming to us a day, maybe five or six. so what are they looking for and how will it help? just like humans, the coronavirus is made up of lots of different genes. this machine can map or sequence all of those different genes, spotting tiny differences that can help tell us how it's spreading. 0nce they've sequenced all these different versions of the virus, they can start to build up a picture of what's happening across the country. that's wherejustin comes in. you're running this project across the east, but what are you finding out so far? the best way, richard, is probably to show you on this map.

there are different types of the virus spreading around the country and there are different types spreading around norfolk, for example. as you can see here, they would be dominated by the colour green in this pie chart. compared to, for example, in scotland, where we have the pie charts dominated by red and different colours which represent different types of virus in scotland. knowing about these different versions will help us crack down on future outbreaks. an example might be if you had some cases in a factory, so maybe four or five cases, and you wanted to know if this was the start of an outbreak in this particular factory. so you could sequence these genomes quickly and return the information to public health experts, and if these genomes are the same and they're the same type of virus, then that is evidence pointing towards transmission within the factory. but if they're different, that is evidence to show that it is not transmitting within the factory and the factory would not need to be shut down. this is one of 16 labs mapping the coronavirus across britain, in a project that's far bigger

than anywhere else in the world. it's work that will help control the spread of the virus, and eventually aid scientists in developing a vaccine. richard westcott, bbc news, at the quadram institute in norwich. brazil this past week has overtaken italy in terms of deaths from covid—19, with 311,000 fatalities. on saturday brazil's health ministry said it would now only be reporting cases and deaths in the past 2a hours, not a total figure as most countries do. president bolsonaro said the cumulative data did not reflect the current picture and had it removed from the ministry website. brazil is the worst—hit country in latin america. it's also the world's largest employer of domestic workers, many of whom have been laid off without pay during the pandemic. katy watson reports from sao paulo. there's no bigger contrast

between rich and poor in this, the most unequal country in latin america. coronavirus is spreading fast here in brazil but it's these crowded neighbourhoods that are most affected. there's little opportunity to socially distance and with so many residents having lost theirjobs, no way to make ends meet either. hosangela works just one day a week now, her other employers let her go because they were scared. she's scared too. she needs to keep working to look after her grandson and her seven children, six of whom are now unemployed. it's hard to get enough food, hosangela tells me, there's no way she can provide like she used to. hosangela and more than a thousand other domestic workers are on a waiting list for this crowdfunding campaign called adopt a housekeeper. it gives domestic workers a personal care kit, a food basket and some money each month to keep them going through the crisis. translation: the virus has been

democratic in that it's affecting rich and poor. but the actions, the attitude and the lack of public policy have not been democratic. people were let go and told by their employers to come back after the crisis. but the majority of women are the sole breadwinners, they're single mothers, they pay rent, they don't have savings. while many have been left unpaid, others have had little choice but to carry on because their employers demand it. some of the children of these domestic workers have started a movement to make sure they're paid and remain quarantined. translation: in brazil, we still live in a slavocracy. domestic workers are seen as essential services, which is absurd. they can contract the disease just travelling to work and their families too. some people don't seem to understand that we're in a pandemic and everyone should stay in quarantine for their safety. unregistered workers have been queuing up outside banks to take advantage of small government hand—outs.

but millions are yet to receive the money. and for those lucky enough to even have a contract, most have had theirs suspended. so what happens next? translation: when this pandemic passes, what will happen? it's the domestic workers who will suffer the most. everyone is talking about bolsonaro, but i wonder sometimes is he really crazy? it's become such a political fight. he goes on about wanting to get the economy going again so it can flourish. the crisis has revealed some ugly truths in brazil, notjust a huge reliance on millions of unregistered workers, but also an unwillingness by many to value them. katy watson, bbc news, in sao paulo. turning to the debate of when the uk should have gone into lockdown. the health secretary matt hancock has said he does not agree that the uk should have gone

into lockdown earlier. as we heard earlier, professorjohn edmunds, who attends meetings of the government's sage group, has said lives would have been saved if the uk had acted quicker. 0ur political correspondent helen catt is with me now. what has been said on the andrew marr show? this is professorjohn edmonds, one of these scientists that advises the government and was asked about any of his regrets of the handling of the pandemic and he said he would have liked to see the country go into lockdown earlier. he described the situation in march is a situation as being very poor but it would have been difficult to do at the time given the data, but he believes not doing it earlier cost lives. that was something put to the health secretary, professor edmonds also said it is up to ministers ultimately to weigh up the decisions. it was put to the health secretary who didn't agree with

professor edmonds. no, ithink professor edmonds. no, i think we took the right decisions at the right time and there is a broad range on sage of opinion and we followed, we were guided by the science, which means guided by the science, which means guided by the balance of the opinion is expressed to ministers through the chief medical officer. that is the chief medical officer. that is the right way for it to have been done. and matt hancock said lots of scientists have different views and come to differentjudgments and sage isa come to differentjudgments and sage is a very large group. the reason it is a very large group. the reason it is important but also we are at a point where we understand boris johnson is going to update his cabinet on tuesday about potential changes in lockdown restrictions from mid june. we heard they are going to open up places of worship for individual prayer which is a loosening of restrictions. professor edmonds said he would like to see infection rates are lower than they are before restrictions are eased,

but that is a judgment for the politicians to make. the labour party, which has said that they believed we went into lockdown too late, their shadow foreign secretary was also on the andrew marr programme and she asked if labour supported the easing now. we support the easing, but it has to be safe so we want the government to ta ke be safe so we want the government to take a cautious approach. they should be doing things now which... track and trace system needs to improve. one of the major problems for the test, track and trace at the moment is that local gps, local public health directors don't currently know who is testing positive for covid. so, given that, i'm sorry tojump in, but given that do you think it's safe to unlock at this rate, at the moment or not? well, i think it's right to be followed by the science. i think it's right to do that cautiously. of course, andrew, we haven't seen all of the science

because the government won't release it. but we do want to see lockdown easing. there's a huge impact on people of being on lockdown, on people's mental health, people who live alone, on children, but it's got to be safe and it's got to be cautious. and, at the moment, the government has been far too slow about things like test, track and trace. they are putting too little support in for people who are going to need to self—isolate. we're keen to help with the government to help them get that right. matt hancock said they are going to proceed cautiously and he gave an insight into the idea of local lockdowns. the government has always said if the rates start to rise that it could reimpose lockdown restrictions be it has to about that locally. more clarity on that, saying the government isn't aiming to do that as a big regional level, it would be a much more local area but they don't want to have to do that at all, but they are hoping to ease restrictions cautiously with

safety first. thank you very much indeed. you have been watching bbc news. thank you for watching. it is a day of mixed fortu nes for watching. it is a day of mixed fortunes with the weather out there. still a cool and breezy theme to the weather and there will be showers around. it will not be as wet or windy as yesterday. low pressure not far away, drifting off towards the east. higher pressure moving on from the west. that will quieten the weather down. northerly winds particularly cold and strong winds across northern and eastern scotland. some rain around, in northern england, southern england, eastern wales as well. showers be potentially heavy. you will notice the breeze today, gusts up to 30 mph but are stronger than that down the east coast. it will feel quite

chilly for the likes of aberdeen, down to newcastle as well. further south and west, 19 celsius likely. some heavy showers in the south of england and wales. some rumbles of thunder. they should fade away quickly and then mainly dry with clear spells tonight. a chilly night for the northern half of the uk. monday's weather, fairly quiet due to the high pressure. that stays with us to tuesday. certainly a window of drier, quieter weather for a couple of days on monday and tuesday. some roker showers on the east coast and for wales and the south—west of england some sharp showers. temperatures are a little below par for this showers. temperatures are a little below parfor this time showers. temperatures are a little below par for this time of year. tuesday, a similar date, light winds, sunny spells so it will feel

a little bit warmer on tuesday with temperatures starting to creep up. between around 13 to 19 celsius. we could still do with some rain after a very dry spring. we were seated on the middle of the week. an area of low pressure developing across the uk pushing southwards, lots of isobars around that area of low pressure so quite wet and windy, especially in the south from mid week onwards. things turn drier and warmer as we headed towards next weekend. bye—bye.

this is bbc news, the headlines: thousands of people in cities across the uk have demonstrated

with anti—racism protests in the united states. a small group of protesters became violent towards police officers, injuring 1a of them. the head of the police federation in london said the protests shouldn't have happened amid the pandemic. thousands of people, i understand fully what they want to protest, but the circumstances are so different at the moment they should not be there. huge protests against the death of george floyd have continued taking place across the united states — all of them peaceful. in washington, thousands gathered around the white house in the biggest demonstrations there for 12 days. the coronavirus pandemic is a "devastating blow" for the world economy, according to the world bank. its president david malpass warned that billions of people would have their livelihoods affected by the pandemic. and in a week's time, places of worship in england will be opened for individual prayer. now on bbc news, this is the story of one hospital and one community in the time of covid—19.