the police have launched an investigation after the statue was then rolled through the streets before being dumped in the harbour. the home secretary calls the actions of those protestors unacceptable. it speaks to the acts of disorder, public disorder, that actually have now become a distraction from the cause which people are actually protesting about and trying to empathise and sympathise with. meanwhile in london, thousands of protestors have moved from the us embassy to westminster. no new coronavirus deaths have been reported in scotland in the past 2a hours for the first time since lockdown began. but, the uk death toll has risen by 77.

a member of the scientific group advising the uk government says he wishes the country had gone into lockdown earlier. and, in a week's time, places of worship in england will be opened for individual prayer. now on bbc news, as the coronavirus continues to claim lives around the world, global questions invites its international audience to put their questions to a panel of experts. hello and welcome to london for this edition of global questions. has the coronavirus effected the way we lead our lives and how can we hold on to the changes we value? the pandemic has forced us to rethink the way we work, travel and socialise, but it is also leaving many people feeling bereaved, isolated and uncertain of the future which could lead to more mental health problems. that is coronavirus crisis,

will the world be a better place? i'm now here inside bbc headquarters in central london and to bring you this programme at we are joined by our panellists and our audience members who will be posing questions through video link as usual. let me tell you who's in the hot seat. stephen manderson, better known as professor green, is a british award—winning rap artist, documentary maker and activist for better mental health care and suicide prevention. jameela jamil is a us—based actress, radio presenter, writer and social activist, and she, like stephen, has a huge social media following and has a new podcast and youtube channel focusing on social issues. that's our panel.

welcome to you and our audience members who join from all over the world. you can join the conversation, remember. let's go to bucharest the capital of romania. what is your question? my question to you, given the current crisis, do you think this is a breaking point for change orjust a bend in the fabric of our society? very profound question to begin. jameela? i would hope it is a breaking point moment for change and that is partially because this is not an isolated incident, this is a pandemic happening all over the world and it is impossible to ignore when suddenly every country is paying attention to the behaviour of other countries, we see inequality which was brushed under the carpet, a disproportionate amount of black and brown deaths, and we are seeing that people are losing theirjobs

and they are not being properly compensated by government and employers. it has turned out to be the ruthless world many suspected it was but people had buried their heads in the sand, but i think this will be a moment for change and i hope i'm not being too optimistic, because it is in everyone's faces and this is the first time we have ever had a global crisis where we also have social media. so there's no way for us to silence the oppressed any longer and i also think our value systems have changed immeasurably. we are entering a moment of eat the rich, and we no longer worship celebrity and all of the different people that beforehand we looked up to, and their wealth, but we now look to the front line workers, to health care, nurses and doctors. these people we are finally celebrating in our society and that in itself is a sign of tremendous progress and us having woken up from capitalist haze which we have all been in it since the last,

not depression, but recession. do you agree? what would you say, stephen manderson? yes, i do, and a lot of people have spoken about the fact that we're all going through this together, and although i agree with the fact that this is the first in my lifetime, for many people, that we have suffered something as a world, but what gets forgotten is that we are suffering very different degrees of this. some people are having much harder times with it. highlighting those differences and those inequalities, it is really telling and showing, the fabric of our society seems to be coming undone somewhat and i feel that as a positive thing in this instance because it is really showing many of the inequalities and injustices that exist. broadly speaking they both seem to think it's going to be

a positive outcome. do you agree? i would like to be as hopeful for my generation, i'm 24, change has always been a promise which has been dangled in front of our noses by successively more radical politicians. it is very difficult for me to believe that change, the kind we need as a species, will come about. we can now go to belgium, what is your question, please? how will it affect social constructs such as body image and mental health? two things there, body image and mental health, and i know this is something you really have worked very actively on, stephen, campaigning, working with various charities, so you pick up the mental health point and we will give the body image to jameela.

as to how it will affect mental health, talking for my own personal experience, i spent a long part of quarantine, 12 weeks, in morocco, which presented different challenges, because i was away from everything that would normally make me comfortable. as well as under a strict lockdown. it had some positives and some negatives. everyone is encountering different problems depending on their situation, whether or not they had children, their situation with work, if they found themselves unemployed or furloughed, and a lot of people are putting too much pressure on themselves. you can't go on instagram without being made to feel you are not doing enough exercise. the dangerous thing is feeling like you have to achieve something more than you normally would during this time, at the most important thing for people to do is to take care of themselves.

that probably includes staying as active as you can but not trying to do more than you normally would. i think this is very much a marathon and not a sprint. people who are working from home don't know when to stop in some instances. the danger is you burn out. the feeling of, that you should be doing more, that you got all this time on your hands and you should be doing more with it is not necessarily a positive thing. ultimately there is only 2a hours in a day. it's so multifaceted. there are quite a few risks as far as mental health is concerned. i don't necessarily think there's a huge positive that can come from this as far as peoples mental health but it does give you time to stop and reflect and find your feet but there is a hell of a lot of anxieties. there is a lot of loneliness, for people who have had to isolate

on their own, frankly. completely. you don't have to be isolating alone to suffer loneliness, and there are people isolating with their families who may not have incredible relationships with their parents or other family members, or partners. this time can really highlight the faults in many relationships. not having the space to leave that situation and to gather any perspective, to clear your head and form an opinion on something, makes it really difficult to escape any kind of negative cycle that you might be encountering. i'm sure you echo what stephen says about mental health, but one particular aspect of your campaigning has been very much body image, so if you could tell our questioner how you think the pandemic will have an effect on social constructs such as body image, jameela? i work within both mental

health and body image and the two are intertwined. i agree with everything stephen said about the fact that this moment, it offers a moment to reflect, but also then you are sitting with all of your demons in your house, sometimes alone, far away from... you have no access to the mental health care you need because of the lockdown, perhaps. when it comes to body image a lot of people feel very out of control, an area where traditionally a lot of people will try to take back control through controlling what they eat, exercising all of the time. there is a huge and unprecedented amount of pressure on in particular women but it extends to all genders. use this time to leave it looking like a victoria's secret model... everything is a fasting app, a dieting app, some sort of toxic non—regulated detox product of these things are all being shoved

at us more than before, and traditionally this is normally around the time where we start to panic about not being beach body ready and now that we can't go to the beach physically they have decided to make us sort out our lockdown body which is so absurd. we are being battered by body image issues more than ever. the one thing i will say is a positive, while these things are being sold to us, i think people are reprioritising where they spend money so they are less likely to spend money on these things and also people are becoming more accustomed to the way they look. when you are able to sit inside and you don't have access to the different things you might use to preen yourself and you don't have the pleasure of going out for a night out, we are seeing on my social media that people are starting to become accustomed to the body in which they live and take their lives less for granted because now you see, our priorities have been shifted.

let's go now to california in the united states and to a student there, angela matterson. what do you want to ask our panellists? police brutality and racial discrimination are injustices felt across the world, and i would like to address what actions the people can do to be more connected to the world in order to create international change and how do we use our social influence to the highest benefit? as a supplement, in the light of what has been going on in the united states, in the aftermath of the brutal killing of george floyd, we have had social media, reaction on that, can there be a future where it is ok to be black and not be instantlyjudged? how can we be anti—racist? jameela, you are in california, how do you...

what is your take on this? we are way too late to get into this point in the conversation and i can't believe this is happening in 2020 but now we are here and now the world seems to be paying attention. again, the slowness of the pandemic means there has been space for this giant conversation and the things people can do, you don't need to be famous. brick by brick activism is incredibly powerful and even everything i've achieved is because of all the people behind me, we have to educate ourselves and eradicate our ignorance and fear which is where a lot of bigotry comes from, if not all of it, and we have to educate each other. we can't leave it for black people and those being discriminated against to have to educate us any further because by now it should be obvious that we have to do that ourselves, and start to understand how privilege and the system of privilege works and how oppression enables our privilege, something we are all talking about, and shame on all of us for not

having spoken about this more until recently. i fully include myself in that because there are so many different things coming out all of us but still this is such a huge issue and we can't drop the ball ever again. how do you use your social influence to the highest benefit, that's what angela is asking? i try to encourage people to think. i've never been a person that takes information on very well when someone is telling me what i should be thinking so i try to encourage people to think and present information people can digest and hopefully understand. i put my hand up, as well, i haven't done enough, and it is one thing to identify inequities and disparities but i think we need to admit them. i'm sick to death of hearing white people take offence to the term white privilege as if it undermines any hardship that they

have gone through. it instantly becomes offensive, which it isn't. it's not saying that as a white person you have never encountered any difficulties in your life, but what it does is highlight the glaringly obvious inequities and disparities that exist for black people. this is highlighted to me and i'm sure for a lot of people. not being racist is not enough. what is your perspective in california, angela? i have been seeing it all across the country, protests, police brutality, at the peaceful protests, and one thing i will say is that if you can't go to a protest you still have social influence and you still have people, friends and family and you can talk to them and try to have these conversations with them. i wish more people would understand the power of social influence, it is real.

is there anything you heard them say that you want to put to them directly? jameela mention covid and how everyone is quarantined right now so maybe people are paying attention, do you think more people who used to say that racism doesn't exist in america and in other countries, do you think they are starting to realise now that there is time to educate, they are in their homes? i've never seen this many white people call out their own privilege and recognise and start to educate themselves. we're seeing the sales of books which explain racial inequality, boost and go up, so i think it is in our faces. it started with covid and then this happened, yet again to another black person in america, and i know police brutality exists all around the world. we are hearing terrible stories in brazil. yes, it is making a huge difference.

let's now go to india. what is your question? my question to the panel, how do social relationships become affected by the pandemic? we have also had another person in india saying, "how will this affect dating and intimacy and relationships? nobody is telling us anything about this. " it depends on what context, how it will affect relationships, if people are isolating together, it is incredibly difficult. i guess a lot of people are suffering during this time, one way or another, and two people going through that in the same household doesn't mean they are not having problems separately and how people deal with things is obviously going to differ.

and isolating apart which is going to present a very obvious problem which is missing each other, and i'm not sure which problem is healthier. as far as how it will affect dating going forward, i mean, how do you ever become intimate with someone you have to remain two metres apart from? it is a strange one and there are a lot of people in places who are feeling a lot of pressure on their relationships at the moment. isn't it a good thing that people can slow down and get to know each other, a bit of social distancing? meet in an outdoor space before jumping into a relationship? yes, you might be right. in an age of immediacy where people want things quicker and everything has to happen, it could have a positive effect, not least because it could stop people...

how do you think this is going to affect social relationships? i would echo stephen, it is putting a lot of relationships under strain, and divorce rates are potentially going to boom next year. i think there are a lot of break—ups which are already happening in the middle of the pandemic, that i'm hearing about, but i also feel, on a more positive note, while it is awkward right now we have to exclusively get to know people through an app, looking at phones isn't always the most emotional connection we can gain. we lose empathy when we are staring into a screen, so it is hard to develop a connection with someone, but at the same time i've despaired of my generation doing so much of its dating and deciding on who they will spend time with via a screen. i think having been taken away from each other this much for so long, it may have interrupted that feeling of where we have just taken other

human beings for granted and have become so cyber focused. i think it's going to build a hunger again of people wanting to connect face—to—face again and actually go out and meet people in bars. people are going to be so sick of screens by the time this is over that it might create a boom of intimacy. let's go to northamptonshire in england. bernadette. your question? will the kindness and respect continue after as it has been during this? what do you think about that? it is interesting. things are going to get worse and i think there's nothing worse than some actress coming on and trying to kumbaya at everyone, because i think we are heading into a full depression and the pandemic is not yet over. i think there's going to be a second wave. i'm no epidemiologist but i know

it's generally something people are expecting. we are going to fall into more and more economic problems and i don't know if that is going to bring out the best or the worst in people and therefore i think we shouldn't take for granted that because at the beginning of the pandemic there seemed to be more unity and people doing favours for one another, we must not take that for granted and we must actively pursue kindness to make sure that when things start to fall apart further, which inevitably they will before things get better, that we are looking out for the desperate importance of kindness and care and community, and of being selfless in this moment, as much as possible, and to give what you can, to utilise your privilege and help others. we mustn't take kindness for granted because there is an instinct for survival in all human beings and we have got to recognise that our survival depends

on us sticking together. what would you say? has it triggered something, stephen, kindness and respect, and will it continue? i hope it will continue but there is something in all of us when we need to survive that we tend to take care of he or she who comes first which is one's own self. people are going to have to try extremely hard to overcome that because the harder things get the more vulnerable someone is in the more help they need and there will always be the less and more vulnerable and those are going to have to find it within themselves to continue that kindness and to go above and beyond to help people who need it the most. i've always said, if you're going to judge a society you should judge it based upon how you treat those who need help the most, and up—to—date it doesn't say much for our society,

to be honest, because the most vulnerable are the people most in need and they are often quite often the last to get it. i hope this will encourage people to think differently about their choices and try to help those who really need help. stephen, do you think it will happen? i will hedge my bets, i'm not one to often sit on the fence but i'm not sure, you know. humanity is a funny thing. why did you ask that question, bernadette? stephen hopes that those who are the most vulnerable continue to get the support and that continues. i'm one of those vulnerable people. i have carers who care for me, so i know how much kindness can mean first—hand and having their respect and having other peoples respect through what they do, it's just, you feel more noticed

and when you are more noticed people are different, and a lot of people feel lonely but people that are vulnerable feel lonely a lot of the time because for me, i'm either in my bed or my wheelchair. to have somebody reach out to you and say, how are you today? you don't get that daily. you don't get people bringing packages to your door and saying, this is for your family because we know what you are going through. we want you to feel like you are loved and everything, but that should happen anyway. do you think that this kind of kindness and respect that you say you have observed happening during the pandemic, do you think it will continue, bernadette? to be honest, with how society is, no. i hope it does because it can

change people's lives and i know that myself. let's do a count amongst our audience here who have been asking questions. put your thumbs up if you think society might be transformed for the better and permanently after the pandemic? thumbs up if you think it will? that looks like a kind of so—so! and so are you, anna, so the jury is out. do you want to say anything else? i was just going to say, related to the last question, i guess what might happen, people become very aware of the distance between the i% and the rest of us so if it brings the rest of us together

that is a large part of the population so maybe i should be more optimistic, and that there is some good that can come. i also agree with what stephen said and also seeing the unity occurring with these protests, and for the first time finally you are seeing people who are not black turn up to movements for black lives in bigger numbers than we have ever seen before so i do think i'm sensing community. thank you very much, jameela jamil in california, and you, stephen, thanks forjoining us, and to our questioners from around the world. and thanks to you at home, i hope we have brought you some insights into the impact of the coronavirus on peoples lives and society in general. we are the programme that brings you the trend lines behind the headlines. until next time, goodbye.

hello. after the warmth and sunshine of last weekend, this weekend has been very different. it has been cool and pretty windy. we have seen rain at times, the winds will ease through the rest of today, still some rain to come in central and eastern parts of england, quite showery in nature. the best of the bright weather at the end of the day to be found across western parts, those are your temperatures for seven o'clock this evening. as we head into the night, any remaining wet weather in the east will continue to fizzle away, the winds will continue to ease and as the cloud breaks up across scotland and north—east england, it is going to turn into a rather cool night. some parts of scotland could see a touch of frost. not as cold for parts of wales or the south—west where we keep more

cloud and the odd shower. so, the start of the week, not completely dry but drier than it has been throughout the weekend, brighter too for many with lighter winds as this area of high pressure across the azores extends its influence towards the british isles, you can see this ridge in the isobars, that shows the pressure is building. that will kill off much of the shower activity but they will still be some across eastern scotland, eastern england, may be the odd one for northern ireland and the chance of a heavy shower or thunderstorm across wales and the south—west of england. otherwise, it is dry with patchy cloud and sunny spells and temperatures typically between 11 and 18 degrees, a bit cooler i think for some of these north sea coasts. tuesday, very similar, sunny spells, increasingly cloudy conditions developing into the afternoon. small chance for a shower just about wherever you are and later in the day, a frontal system approaches north—west scotland and northern ireland with some outbreaks of rain and that front is going to journey south eastwards as we head into the middle part of the week and we are expecting an area of low pressure to develop

somewhere across the british isles. so, for wednesday, we will see showers or longer spells of rain, some of the rain could be on every side, equally some drier and brighter spells. at this stage, not windy but temperatures a little disappointing for the time of year between 12 and 16, maybe 17 degrees. now, the winds are set to strengthen as we head towards the end of the week, the area of low pressure still with us but it drifts further south, and notice, more white lines, more isobars appearing on the chart. so, the breeze will pick up as we head into thursday and friday and there will be some rain at times, particularly in the south.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. thousands of protestors have joined anti—racism demonstrations in cities in the uk. in bristol protestors pulled down a statue of a 17th century slavetrader. the statue was then rolled through the streets before being dumped in the river avon. the home secretary calls the actions of those protestors unacceptable:

to the acts of disorder, public disorder, that actually, have now become a distraction from the cause in which people are actively protesting about and trying to empathise and sympathise with.