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.

meanwhile, in london, thousands of protestors have moved from the us embassy to westminster. this is the scene live in central london. after a night of peaceful protests in washington — president donald trump orders the withdrawal of the national guard saying the city is under "perfect control". the number of people worldwide who have died from coronavirus has passed 400,000. more than a quarter of the deaths have been in the united states 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. 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. thousands of protestors have been demonstrating against racism in cities in the uk following the death of george floyd in the united states. (upsot in bristol there was jubilation in the crowd in bristol there was jubilation in the crowd as demonstrators pulled down a statue of a 17th century slave trader and philanthropist. the statue of edward colston was then dragged through the streets of the city. colston is believed to have transported about 80,000 men, women and children from africa to the americas. the bronze statue, which was erected in the late 1890s, was then thrown into the river avon, from near pero‘s bridge — which was named after a slave who was brought to the city in the 18th century. police are investigating what happened. 0ne demonstrator said the statue represented years of oppression and hatred.

it represents years of hurt and just a lot of motion and hatred that has built up inside of us for years. that coming down today hopefully signifies change, hopefully we have sent a message notjust signifies change, hopefully we have sent a message not just everybody in the uk but also worldwide, we need worldwide difference, it can'tjust come here, edge just worldwide difference, it can'tjust come here, edgejust come worldwide difference, it can'tjust come here, edge just come on america, it needs to come worldwide and we are not going to stop until we get it. we have been fighting long before this day and we will continue to fight, we will continue to bleed, cry, everything, because it means everything to us. we are the same as you. we have always been the same as you. we have always been the same as you. 0ur correspondentjon kay spoke to police in bristol and asked why they didn't intervene to stop the protesters. we know that he has been a historicalfigure we know that he has been a historical figure that has caused the black community quite a lot of angst over the last couple of years,

so angst over the last couple of years, so whilst i am disappointed that people have damage one of us statues ido people have damage one of us statues i do understand why it happened, it is very symbolic. you may wonder why we didn't intervene. do we made a very tactical decision that to stop people from doing that act may cause the disorder and we decided that the safest thing to do in terms of our policing tactics was to allow this to ta ke policing tactics was to allow this to take place. should you have stopped this happening? should you have protected the statue? so our present policing style was from the outside low—key, we were not able to get the statue to protect it, there was clearly a preplanned attempt to bring it down, they had grappling ropes and they have the right tools, so once ropes and they have the right tools, so once it was down we made the decision that the right thing was to allow it to happen book is what we did not want was a... some people will say that this was the wrong strategy, that you should have intervened and challenged this behaviour. i understand why people might think that we should have intervened and challenged but this

was a very difficult policing operation, there is a lot of context that sits around it, and i believe that sits around it, and i believe that we did the right thing. no regrets ? that we did the right thing. no regrets? no regrets. speaking to bristol police there. i've been speaking to 0livette 0tele, professor of the history of slavery at bristol university who told me more about edward colston. what is important here is that his statue was actually erected long after he was dead and it means that we clarified that man for a very long time and for reasons, he was a philanthropist and a slave trader, responsible for the transportation of thousands and thousands of women, men, and children, so this moment is really, truly, significant. and yet the statue, i think it was erected, was it 1895 or 1898? on the plaque,

it said to bristol's most virtuous and wise some of the city. is that the problem? not for what he did backin the problem? not for what he did back in the 17th century, it is because he has been described as virtuous and wise. if this plaque and been changed, could the statue have remained? virtuous for human? since the beginning people have known what he stunted for and they still celebrated him. what is important here is the youngest generation and movement coming together in actually deciding this is the time to remove the statue and bristol has been having that debate for such a long time about, you know, renaming the plight of com pletely know, renaming the plight of completely removing the statue, and what is happening today is really the culmination of so many work on so the culmination of so many work on so many discussions and fights, really, and hearing that the statue entered... is being taken away but not put in a museum, we need to have

that discussion as well. so, would you have preferred the statue had been taken to a museum? we were speaking to historian an hour ago who are saying that the local city council have declined to put the statue in a museum, but that had been refused. is that the case? yes. what is important is that a new dialogue will start right now as things are changing as we see. so this is about... , this is about the process for a man who was killed and murdered in the states, but this is also about bristol taking on a new leader about inequalities in the city because this is notjust about the statue, as important as it is, it is about coming together and fighting for a better, fairer society, and, you know, getting rid of discrimination, racial discrimination in particular, so this is significant, and as you have seen, the people who removed the statue are really from all sorts of backgrounds and you have a lot of

white, young, middle—class men and women who removed that statue, so this means that bristol is at a crossroads as we speak. professor at the history of slavery at bristol university there. thousands of people have been marching again in london. this is the scene live in whitehall. demonstrators have moved to westminster from the us embassy. yesterday 29 people were arrested after clashes with police — and 1a officers were injured. the health secretary matt hancock again asked people not to demonstrate due to the coronavirus. our home affairs correspondent tom symonds has beenjust down the road from number ten.

we are actually down from downing street which is just down the road there, this is parliament square, as you can see here, of people here still, third protest attended by thousands of people, they came from the american embassy on the other side of the river thames just to the south and they are backing out. some are leaving but a lot are still saying and as you say, there is a general feeling that it is right, despite the coronavirus pandemic, to protest. some protesters have put it to me in this way, they feel the bassis to me in this way, they feel the bass is right, despite the coronavirus pandemic, to protest. some protesters have put it to me in this way, they feel the racism in britain is in itself a pandemic and that justifies them britain is in itself a pandemic and thatjustifies them and being here. we are obviously keeping a distance and wearing masks about who to talk to you by now. lots of people here, you are right, i wearing masks, but this is a breach of the law, eve ryo ne this is a breach of the law, everyone has the right to protest but the law specifically prohibits gatherings. so have the police taken a decision not to get involved because the numbers are simply too large? absolutely, the metropolitan police said earlier in the week that the numbers involved were going to be

too big to safely disperse a protest of the size. i actually attended a few of the smaller protests against the lockdown that have happening in central london over the last few weeks and in those cases the police went round individually to members of the crowd and said look, you need to leave, if you're breaching the law, fines were handed out, people we re law, fines were handed out, people were in some cases arrested, but that was because there were so few people in those protests that the police could literally take a one by one approach to moving the man. as you can see, that would not really be possible here. given what happened last night in whitehall just up there the police took the view that it could inside the problem with public order in moving people would have been hard to do. they had ta ken people would have been hard to do. they had taken the decision to let it lie for now. 0ur reporter down it westminster. the home secretary priti patel has been giving her reaction to the protests across the uk over the weekend. when it came to what happened yesterday in london, on whitehall, with the protesters, i'm absolutely sickened and appalled by the level of violence

that was on display. police officers were abused, police officers were injured. and we have a police officer that is seriously injured and in hospital right now, and that is absolutely unacceptable. the fact of the matter is, many of us... and i spoke yesterday, the prime minister's also expressed his views in terms of how appalling the death of george floyd has been. however, we are in the midst of a health pandemic right now, and under the rules that we have put in place, it is illegal for gatherings of six or more people outside in open air to get together, and that is unacceptable. and i ask again — as i did yesterday — for people to not protest, to follow the rules that are in place, because those rules are there and they are designed to protect the nhs and save lives. and quite frankly, the appalling levels of violence that we saw yesterday are unacceptable. i'm pretty certain that the british public would agree with me that what we saw was completely wrong, it is shameful. and quite frankly, that is why these protests should not go ahead,

and people must be mindful and stick with the rules that have been put in place. are you concerned there are certain groups or elements that are infiltrating the protest, trying to incite this violence? well, i think, first of all, there is no excuse for violent behaviour. we live in a open society and we live in a democracy, and, you know, we respect the right to protest, but we do not respect — and it is completely unlawful to participate in acts of disorder, vandalism, violence and assaults, the types of assaults that we saw on our police officers yesterday. i would urge people not to protest. i would ask them to follow the rules that are in place. we have guidelines, we have regulations, we have rules that basically say that it is illegal for gatherings of six or more people to get together, and therefore these protests should not be taking place. it is not in the interest of public health and it is certainly not going to assist the nhs or protect lives or stop the spread of the virus if people continue

in the way in which they are. the statue of edward colston, former slave trader, has been torn down in bristol and they've thrown it, the statue, in the harbour. can you get your reaction to that? well, i think that is utterly disgraceful, and that speaks to the acts of disorder, public disorder, that actually have now become a distraction from the cause in which that people are actually protesting about and trying to empathize and sympathise with. that is a completely unacceptable act, and that speaks to the vandalism — again, as we saw yesterday in london. but sheer vandalism, and disorder, completely is unacceptable. and it's right, actually, the police follow up on that and make sure thatjustice is taken, undertaken with those individuals that are responsible for such disorderly and lawless behaviour.

in the united states, security measures have been lifted after huge protests were held in cities across the country at the killing in police custody of george floyd. new york has ended its nearly week—long curfew and president trump has tweeted that he has just given an order for the national guard to start withdrawing from washington, d.c., now that everything is under what he describes as "perfect control". 0ur north america correspondent aleem maqbool has more. nojustice! no peace! it was the biggest demonstration washington has seen since the killing of george floyd. but with none of the confrontation with security forces that we had seen previously. they sent in the national guard, the national guard here on the streets, they were tear—gassing people, shooting them with rubber bullets, you know, really perpetuating police brutality and violence on the streets of washington dc. we're still getting arrested, we're still getting pulled over, we're still getting discriminated in everything in american life,

so we got to fight, not for now, but for the future. we may be just outside the white house, but the sense we get through speaking to people here is that this has now gone beyond just getting the 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 changing the system, individuals and police departments. i have cried every day since i have been seeing the protest, out of just sheer joy 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.

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. anti—racism rallies have also be taking place across europe against the killing of george floyd in madrid, thousands of people marched carrying anti— racism placards — and in rome an eight minute silence was held. marches are also taking place in copenhagen and brussels. let's get some of the day's other news from around the world. hundreds of anti—government protesters in brazil have staged a demonstration against president jair bolsonaro, whose popularity has been dented by his management of the coronavirus crisis. covid—19 has killed more than 36,000

people in the country. china says it briefed the united states about the coronavirus in early january, when the disease was still largely unknown. the trump administration has repeatedly complained of a cover—up by beijing. in a new document, china says it's acted in a transparent and responsible manner. but it has not mentioned the doctors in wuhan who were warned to keep quiet about their concerns. the former us secretary of state, colin powell, says he'll vote for the democratic candidate, joe biden, in november's presidential election. he's the first major republican to publicly back donald trump's rival. mr trump has dismissed mr powell as as "real stiff" who had entangled the us in disastrous wars in the middle east. the number of people confirmed to have been killed by the coronavirus around the world has now passed 400,000 — that's just five months after china

reported the first known fatality. for the first time no new deaths have been recorded in scotland. 0vernight, 77 people have died in the uk. here, a senior scientist, and a member of the group who advises the uk government on their coronavirus strategy, has said he wishes britain had locked down sooner, and the failure to do so had "cost a lot of lives". britain's health secretary, matt hancock, denied that the timing of the lockdown had led to more deaths, and insisted the government made the ‘right decisions at the right time', ‘guided by the science'. richard galpin reports. the beautiful weather of recent weeks brought thousands to the beaches. social distancing often difficult or simply not followed. so, it's no surprise the so—called r number, the rate at which coronavirus spreads, has now increased, according to some reports. 0ne computer model shows that in most areas of england the rate is thought to be just below the figure of one, except in the south—west, where it's estimated to be right on one, and in the north—west

it's just above one, which means increasing infections. also today, there's been an admission of mistakes made back in march, on a decision when the country should have locked down. we should have gone into lockdown earlier. i think it would have been hard to do it. i think the data that we were dealing with in the early part of march and our kind of situational awareness was really quite poor. i wish we had gone into lockdown earlier. i think that has cost a lot of lives, unfortunately. but this morning, the health secretary flatly denied the lockdown had come too late. we took the right decisions at the right time and there's a broad range on sage, of scientific opinion, and we followed... we were guided by the science, which means guided by the balance of that opinion, as expressed to ministers through the chief medical officer and the chief scientific adviser. that's the right way

for it to have been done. on top of all this, it's become clear there's disquiet in the key cities and towns of north—west england about the handling of the pandemic. that they need much more local information on the spread of the virus and questioning the government's decision on lifting the lockdown. you've been saying that the lockdown was lifted too early in the north—west. do you think that actually having different measures in different parts of the country is the best way or perhaps the only way to go forward now? we're not calling for the north—west to break away and challenge government policy and do our own thing. what we're saying today is we want to get back to a sense of greater national unity. essentially, what we want is a national approach that can be flexed to respond to local needs. so, the first thing is localised information, which basically allows some differential messaging from public health directors, where that's necessary. so, the localised information helps.

and the second thing is greater flexibility. the mayor of greater manchester is also questioning whether it's wise for the government to allow many shops to open onjune 15th. richard galpin, bbc news. it's time now for your questions answered — where we answer viewers' questions about the coronavirus pandemic. today we're focusing on the potential second wave of covid—19 that the world might face. to answer your questions, we'rejoined by dr michael head, who's a senior research fellow in global health at the university of southampton and dr emma hodcroft, molecular epidemiologist, university of basel.

lots of questions coming into us. we have a question here coinciding with those protests about the killing of george floyd. lloyd griffiths from wales is saying that he wonders what the point of government guidelines about self—isolation and social distancing is 1000 in the uk and around the world are demonstrating? i think it is important to point out that racism and its consequences have killed many, many more people in history than the coronavirus in the last few months. that is not to minimise the pandemic, which is of course extremely severe and something we need to be extremely cautious about right now, however i certainly sympathise with people who feel very strongly that there has been a much bigger impact on their lives because of racism rather than the coronavirus. .. lives because of racism rather than the coronavirus... i lives because of racism rather than the coronavirus. .. i think some people might be surprised by your response there as a beam to

meteorologist. yes, racism historically may have killed more people. —— a certain epidemiologist. does that allow supports those mass demonstrations when there is a mass pandemic? i do think it is important to follow your local guidelines and i recognise that at the moment and the photos are unlawful and lots of areas, but just saying the photos are unlawful and lots of areas, butjust saying don't protest will not work, we need to be realistic and that same that won't work, particularly in america where this is such a hot topic of debate, and in those cases i think it is more important to give advice that people can do this as safely as possible so that the consequences of the process as well as a number of covid cases are minimised, telling people to wear masks, do not shout in chants which can increase droplets transmission, to wash their hands a lot and tease stay as far

away from other people as possible. that's patiently have doesn't happen, has it? certainly not in the uk in the last 2a hours. sasha centre is a question, could a second wave be worse than the first? quite possibly, particularly if it came in the winter months when the health services already stretched any and there will be a lot of other respiratory infectious diseases such as blue around so certainly in the uk we do have to plan ahead for that to minimise any impact of that that isa very to minimise any impact of that that is a very great concern yes. do we have any accurate information about any herd in the unity at the moment? it varies around the country. focusing on the uk, i think in london about 20% of people are anticipated to have antibodies against the coronavirus. in other regions of the uk, it is less than that, but we're certainly nowhere near any kind of herd immunity threshold where infections can be

minimised, we are a long from that. sinead contacted us. are there lessons that the uk can learn from other countries and how they have eased their lockdown is?|j other countries and how they have eased their lockdown is? i think it is actually really informative to look at what other countries have done and i think that in particular countries that have implemented a more regional watch, so that places wears case numbers have spiked again have been forced to go back into lockdown of its lease to take more distant measures. this is a nice way of being able to not put the whole country under a strict lockdown again but being able to contain the cases in the places where they need to be contained and watch for those small outbreaks before they become bigger ones. both of us stay with us if you would because we at the moment are being joined by viewers from around the world and in the uk. we are going to opt away for those viewers on bbc world now but continue this discussion with your

questions answered on the bbc news chancel. plenty of information for our world new is on the website, which for them is bbc dot—com forwards news. thank you for waiting during that announcement. let's go on to the next one. we have this e—mail from phil. what impact, michael, wood holidays abroad have on the potential second wave, which isjust what we have been discussing now? shouldn't governments be drilling home no travel at home unless essential? holidays are not essential. i think i would broadly agree with that, it is international travel that sent the virus around the world. depending on how much infection there is in particular countries there may be a potential for safe travel but certainly again focusing on the uk there are still a lot of infections around the uk so i

think we should really advise people not to travel abroad for some if we can possibly help it. emma, do you agree with that, because of course politically governments are having to balance the consequences of this and people's health. so, i agree, i think this is something that we are going to have to tread a bit carefully a nd going to have to tread a bit carefully and i think in the uk specifically, to be very honest, i think that a lot of countries are probably going to be a bit wary of uk travellers going elsewhere and we mightfind uk travellers going elsewhere and we might find that there might be different requirements for uk travellers arriving, for example, then coming from other places, but i think all travellers are going to have to take some precautions about how much travel they want to allow, because opening up too early could ta ke because opening up too early could take countries that have low or no cases right now and potentially in these cases again through travel. —— whole country is going to have to ta ke whole country is going to have to take some precautions. in the next 24 take some precautions. in the next 2a hours, the government is going to increase quarantine but are still talking about safe corridors with other countries that have a low infection rate now and lower numbers

than we have. do you think people will be reluctant to travel to the uk because our figures are will be reluctant to travel to the uk because ourfigures are higher? well, i think people will be the looks on to travel to the uk, particularly if they're going to be quarantined for a couple of weeks when they come here, which obviously restricts holiday— makers, but when they come here, which obviously restricts holiday—makers, but i think we will see a lot less travel into the uk for those regions but potentially for the added reason that there are still more cases of covid—19 in the uk than elsewhere so we will see how they dynamics better over the we will see how they dynamics better overthe summer we will see how they dynamics better over the summer but i think we can expect few international visitors in the next few months. some teachers, carers, etc, be wearing face mass and pp in school? they are in contact with groups of students who can still carry and transmit the virus even if they don't suffer as much from it? is that the case that they can still transmit and carry on if they don't suffer as much, and what should people working in schools be doing? this is a very

good question and i think it is important to know that children can get the coronavirus but as you said, there must less likely to have a severe outcome, so there must less likely to have a severe outcome, so they are much less likely to need hospitalisation or even to have severe symptoms. but we are not sure about delmer that at the moment is their capacity could transmit that disease onward. although obviously hard question obviously school being open is what allows many other parents to go about doing their work in business in business in an everyday life but we still have some concerns about, for example, the transmission ability in crowded rooms with poor ventilation which might apply to some schools. certainly, there is question where perhaps everyone in a school or to be wearing a mask until we know more about what types of ventilation what types of contact might be risky. i think if we are going to have masks, it is bubbly good for everyone to wear them, not just teachers, but we are still doing research on how much this might decrease transmission. —— it is probably good. goodness, there is

still so much uncertainty about what is the best way forward. someone says that france, spain, italy have been to the same situation that we have in the uk i'll beat a couple of weeks in advance of us here. all three countries are opening up in a very different way from what we're doing. how and why is it different now to what we're here? doing. how and why is it different now to what we're here ?|j doing. how and why is it different now to what we're here? i think it reflects the different dynamics of how the infection has been transmitted around each region or country or area. in the uk for example we have had a much bigger problem with infections in care homes and other settings. the dynamics of people's behaviour, the cultural and social tendencies are all different, so that will impact on transmission of cases within that environment but also how you then alleviate any particular lockdown measures so alleviate any particular lockdown measures so i think we can expect to see differences between countries. that was doctors michael hed and emma from the university of meisel. thank you very much for answering

some of those questions that have been sent in from our viewers. hello this is bbc news. the headlines. 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 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. this is the scene live in central london. after a night of peaceful protests in washington — president donald trump orders

the withdrawal of the national guard saying the city is under ‘perfect control‘ the number of people worldwide who have died from coronavirus has passed 400,000. more than a quarter of the deaths have been in the united states no new coronavirus deaths have been reported in scotland in the past 24 hours — for the first time since lockdown began. but the uk death toll has risen by 77. now on bbc news it's time for sport with james. trainer aidan 0'brien claimed the 1,000 guineas for the fourth time in five years as "love" won the second british classic of the year at newmarket. the 4—1 shot, ridden by ryan moore, charged through the centre — well clear of 12—1 chance

"cloak of spirits". unbeaten 11—4 favourite "quadril—ateral" — daughter of the iconic frankel, finished third. everyone has been great, everyone has been very focused. everybody has put a lot of work into it. 0bviously, she is a beautifully bred filly by galileo, so i'm delighted for the lads really and, listen, she is a very special filly. there are three matches in the german bundesliga this sunday — in the first of those, relegation threatened werder bremen were beaten at home by wolfsburg. before kick off, the players took a knee in the centre circle in a tribute to the george floyd and the black lives matter protests. the match was officiated by the first female referee in the bundesliga, bibiana steinhaus. the police chief inspector made her debut in 2017. the game finished 1—0 to wolfsburg, thanks to wout weghorst‘s 82nd—minute header.

in the other matches, on—loan everton defender jonjoe kenny scored for schalke as they drew 1—1 with union berlin after wolfsburg dealt that blow to werder bremen's battle for bundesliga survival. 0ne match is going on now, it's currently 0—0 between augsberg and fc koln (cologne). many sports stars have been participating in the black lives matter protests. the former manchester united defender rio ferdinand and his wife joined thousands of people demonstrating in london. rio's three children also took part. ferdinand explained to his 4.3 million followers: "taking my family to parliament square today to be a part of the protest was very emotional. the importance of supporting such a cause can not be underestimated. educating the next generation is an absolute must." in america, where the protests began, former philadelphia eagles defensive back malcolm jenkins warned that the global protests over

racial injustice and police brutality needed to result in real change. jenkins returned to the city where he played for six years to speak. in 2018, he peacefully protested at his locker, holding a sign that read ‘you aren't listening' after the team were disinvited to a white house reception with donald trump, following their super bowl championship. jenkins was speaking at philadelphia's african—american museum. ican i can feel our country is eyes being opened. even if we had to shake them out of our slumber. i hope that my future grandkids won't have to deal with the same fight that my great grandparents did. i am hopeful because of all of you. as we move forward , because of all of you. as we move forward, we must not make the grave mistake of allowing the world to fall back asleep.

manchester city will begin their appeal against a european football ban at the court of arbitration for sport on monday. uefa have banned the club from european competition for the next two seasons, with failure to comply with financial integrity rules at the heart of the governing body's decision. the hearing in switzerland is scheduled to last for three days, but its outcome could possibly take weeks or even months to be announced. ufc star conor mcgregor has said he's retiring from fighting. the irish mixed martial artist has retired before and then returned to fight again. this time he posted a picture of himself with his mother with a message for her which read: "pick the home of your dreams". and that's all the sport — now on bbc news it's time for click.

hey there, hope you're doing 0k. lara is... errm, yeah, lara looks absolutely fine, you have taken to wearing shades indoors, should i be worried? don't worry, there is a good reason for this which i will explain in a moment. i've been on a mission to find the best wireless sound, so i started off with some true wireless earbuds. first up, these from jabra, which are meant to be great for active use. but i found as soon as i started running they just fall out of my ears. great sound but not so much use when it's on the floor. then i tried these by edifier, a third of the price, and they are lighter so they did out a little bit less, but the battery life was so fantastic that i was almost

forgiving of that as long as they didn't fall down a drain, because obviously that would be a problem. but with all the falling out of my ears maybe i actually have something strange going on with my ears. do you think funny ears is a thing? it is a thing, i have been told i have tiny ear canals so i have a real problem with in—ear headphones. whenever i wear them they keep self ejecting, so it is a thing — trust me. so that's 100% of us with the problem, so i think these are the solution. the bose frames play sound out of small speakers and they've got a microphone in them, so you're all sorted. the only thing is they're not the most flattering sunglasses, but they work well for running. they look absolutely fine. talking about running and sport in general, we have seen the return of some sport now behind closed doors. 0ne spot that is still officially off at the moment is motor racing, although they have found a really interesting way to kind of keep going.

now, 0mar mehtab has been for a drive, but he has also discovered that with new techn comes new opportunities for cheating. with esports more popular than ever we are seeing that the raw emotion, big money and intense competition that make real—life sport so compelling are also at its core. butjust like in any regular sport, cheating is an inevitability. i am questioning if it was really daniel in the car. like many sports, formula e, the all—electric racing series, decided to suspend all of their races after the pandemic yet. but while the season was postponed, drivers were still wearing to go. so formula e decided to continue in spite of the pandemic virtually.

so its real—life professional drivers would enter the gaming world to race against each other in an esports competition, the race at home challenge. all drivers compete from their own homes assuming a gaming simulator called rfactor 2. but this setup take things further than using a normal gaming controller. 0liver rowland is a formula e driver for nissan and has this huge rig in his home. it includes professional steering wheel, pedals and a seat that reacts to the simulation. but could this ever matchup to the feeling of a real racecar? i've been spending probably six, seven hours on the simulator a day, so you get pretty tired. you tend to get worse towards the end of the days. i think the general feeling is the graphics, the tracks, everything's actually very close. of course you don't get the cues or the feeling of the car, so you rely more on visual things, which takes you a bit longer to get

used to, but i think i am actually extremely impressed with what we've been sent. it's notjust professional races who get to take part. 0n the weekend, there is a separate racejust for gamers, and the winner gets to drive around the track in a real live formula e gen2 car. now, if you want to take part in the race on the weekend, you first have to set a really, really good lap time in order to qualify. so i'm going to give it a go. and they've sent me one of these to try it in! it's very easy to lose control, or even have the wheel whack on your knuckles if you lose your grip. it's not moving properly. i broke — how did i break a fake car? but after several tries, i set a pretty decent time, or so i thought — i came dead last — which isn't surprising, as these gamers are the real deal. they spend an hour after hour training and intensely studying the mechanics, not only of a car but the game itself too.

but the race at home challenge didn't generate the positive feeling formula e and its sponsors would have hoped for. and it may be remembered for all the wrong reasons. recently, audi sports real life formula e driver daniel abt was found to have cheated during a race. in fact, he didn't race at all. managing to obscure his face on the video feed, it was actually pro gamer lorenz hoerzing who was behind the wheel. other drivers immediately voiced their suspicions after abt, not true to form, had done well. to be honest, i'm questioning if it was really daniel in the car. formula e launched an investigation, and by cross—referencing ip address, found that abt was not behind the wheel. audi took no time in sacking abt, who was also disqualified in that race by formula e. and the gamer, hoerzing, banned from ever entering a formula e event again.

but why did they do it? so from this it is clear that abt didn't take the esports race as seriously as a real—life one. now, we reached out to formula e who declined to make a statement on abt‘s cheating and how they will address the strategy to prevent it happening again in future. but just think about this for a second — cheating or not, i gamerjust came third in a race with highly—trained professional drivers.

people are kind of starting to understand that there is a big difference between a casual gamer and a professional seem racer. the speed that these guys managed to extract from the cars over a lap just shows how dedicated they are to the sport. that's bound to be some kind of transferable skills that in the real world. so could this be a new way of identifying talent? i guess a typical motorsport person might say, "well, you know, can they do it if you put them in a car?" that's what we're going to put to test this initiative. i think at the end when you have that prize, perhaps we can provide a pathway into a real motorsport career. throughout the pandemic so far, we've been trying to show our carers that we care, with total applause if nothing else, but recently i met up with a friend of the show who's been going a little bit further.

if you were in brighton over the last few weeks, you might have seen this: so i thought, wouldn't it be fun to actually set up some of my lasers on the roof terrace and see what i could hit with my lasers... and that's how megalomania starts! seb lee—delisle is a professional laserist, and just to say before he showed his love for the nhs in this way, he did get permission from police and aviation authorities. and if he looks familiar, well, you might have seen him wowing us at click live 2018. he's also created a dance show where the audience control the lasers using their mobile phones and the dancers improvise moves that follow the beams. and a lot of his work has been putting on laser shows for various

cities during festivals. light festivals into doubt, and that gave seb his next crazy idea. and so i thought, can i make a lights show that would be fine whatever level of restrictions? so i put together this idea called laser light city — i have to stop thinking of summer night city — although i think i've got my theme tune written already. so it's called laser light city, and the idea is i get the biggest lasers i can get hold of, probably at least 30 watts, and install them on iconic landmarks around the city, pointing up into the sky, but the fun part is i'll give the residents in the city the opportunity to operate these lasers through their mobile phones. and you can go to my website and just with your finger, you can move these enormous beams around. that's a light show that can work no

matter what the restrictions are — you can see it from your window, from your garden, from your pathways. and in fact, seb hopes that these kind of light shows will one day replace a form of entertainment that he thinks has had its day. fireworks are sparkly and bright and beautiful, but they're hundreds of years old technology now. they're problematic these days for so many reasons. and i guess the argument to keep them is we haven't really had anything as bright and brilliant and accessible, but now we don't have that argument because we've got lasers, we've got superbright leds. lockdown or no lockdown, the laser light show may be coming to a city near you, although certain bonus lighting effects are not guaranteed. love it!

how much do we all need some fun right now? i do actually agree about fireworks, i feel the same. it's true — fireworks are not everyone's cup of tea, are they? that's it for the shortcut of click for this week. don't forget, the full—length version is waiting for you right now on iplayer. and throughout the week, you can keep up with the team throughout the week on social media on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter — @bbcclick. thank you so much for continuing to watch and we will see you soon. bye— bye.

thousands take part in uk anti—racism protests sparked by the killing of george floyd. in bristol, the statue of a prominent slave trader, who was born in the city, is torn down. in london, a huge crowd gathered around the us embassy — with anger at the killing in minneapolis and calls for change here. i'm here because i believe that black people deserve the same chance as everybody else and although we're in covid, i'm wearing my mask, i'm aware, i have hand sanitiser in my bag. scotland records no new coronavirus deaths, as the uk daily death toll falls to the lowest figure since the lockdown. the madeleine mccann suspect‘s life in portugal — we report from the village where he lived around the time of her disappearance.

well and truly back in the saddle, as racing's second classic of the year is run at newmarket. good evening. tens of thousands of people have taken part in a further day of anti—racism protests in the uk, with the statue of a 17th century slave trader pulled down in bristol. the monument to edward colston, which had stood in the city centre since 1895, was then pushed into the river. the latest demonstrations came 12 days after the killing of george floyd by us police and despite the government advising people not to take part because of the risk of catching or spreading coronavirus. 0ur correspondent chi

chi izundu reports. the statue of edward colston, a 17th century slave trader. erected in bristol city centre since 1895, it had been the subject of a petition to have it removed. but that is where protesters left it. police say they are now investigating the criminal damage of the statue of the man estilgated to criminal damage of the statue of the man eftlmeted to have = and