thousands of people are attending a memorialfor george floyd in his home state of texas, with the police officer accused of killing him about to appear in court. democrats in the us congress have knelt in silence in tribute to mr floyd before unveiling proposals for police reform. queen elizabeth's son prince andrew says he has offered to help us officials at least three times in their investigation into the paedophile jeffrey epstein. new uk quarantine rules have come into force, requiring most travellers arriving to self—isolate for 13 days. but the parent company of british airways has described the measures as irrational and is taking legal action. those are the latest headlines. you can find more on the bbc news app on the bbc news website.

lawyers for prince andrew have accused the usjustice department of trying to seek publicity and not telling the truth. earlier the us authorities formally asked queen elizabeth's son, prince andrew, to testify about his links tojeffrey epstein, who killed himself in a new yorkjail. they claim the prince has offered three times to provide evidence about his friendship with the convicted sex offender. the prince stood down from royal duties late last year following an interview with the bbc in which the prince denied having sex with a 17—year—old girl who said she was trafficked by epstein. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell reports. it's more than six months now since andrew withdrew from royal duties. at the time, he undertook to answer questions from any appropriate us us sex offenderjeffrey epstein. and, yet, these months later, andrew has evidently still not agreed how or when he will answer those questions. us investigators are frustrated.

injanuary, one of them stood outside epstein‘s new york home and complained about andrew's continued silence. the southern district of new york and the fbi have contacted prince andrew's attorneys and requested to interview prince andrew and, to date, prince andrew has provided zero cooperation. today, andrew's lawyers issued a statement, complaining about the way in which the americans are going about things. it's all much too public for the prince's liking. the statement said...

andrew was asked in last november's newsnight interview whether he would cooperate with us investigators. at that point, he appeared a little unsure. um, i'm... and i would have to take all the legal advice that there was before i was to do that sort of thing, but, if push came to shove and the... and the legal advice was to do so, then i would be duty bound to do so. seven months later, andrew and his lawyers are still arguing about the process, rather than actually answering questions. nicholas witchell, bbc news. the parole board has rejected an attempt by the justice secretary, robert buckland, to block the release from prison of a convicted rapist. wendell baker, who's 63, had served eight—and—a—half years of his life term for attacking hazel backwell in east london in 1997. he was convicted and imprisoned in 2013. the parole board has now cleared mr baker for release even though he still hasn't admitted

to the crime. the ministry ofjustice says the early release is "irrational" and not in line with the evidence. the uk home secretary has urged people not to go on public protests during the pandemic no matter how important the cause. it comes after 200 protests took place across the uk over the weekend. priti patel praised the actions of the police and the peaceful majority of protestors. but criticised the violent minority, saying their hooliganism was indefensible. let's speak to our political correspondentjessica parker. thank you forjoining us. were you surprised by the strength of the home secretary's language? no, i think it was largely expected that priti patel would take a tough line as the government say that, yes, they acknowledge that people are angry about issues and racial inequality particularly, in the wake of the death of george floyd, but

also condemning what they say were criminal acts and violence by a majority of people against police officers. interestingly, the prime minister, who released a tweet last night on the issue has now issued a statement, talking about this issue. i will bring you briefly what he says. he says, in this country, around the world, george floyd's dying words i can't breathe have awakened an anger and a feeling of injustice, a feeling that people from black and minority ethnic groups who face discrimination in employment and in criminaljustice as well. he says those in government cannot ignore those feelings because in too many cases they are founded ona in too many cases they are founded on a cold reality. that acknowledgement of issues of equality from boris johnson. acknowledgement of issues of equality from borisjohnson. the suggestion in this piece that he has written that the government does need to do something on this issue.

the question is what will they do? but they also take a tough line, as we heard from priti patel earlier, from what he says those who flouted the rules on demonstrations. he said he would not support or indulge those who break the law, attacked the police or desecrate public monuments. he says there is a democracy in this country, if you wa nt to democracy in this country, if you want to change the urban landscape, stand for election or vote for somebody who will, referring to the statue torn down in bristol of edward colston, the 17th century slave trader. interesting to hear more lengthy thoughts from the prime minister. i think they are trying to strike a balance between acknowledging that there are real issues of concern, but also for the minority of people who have shown violence and, as the government put it, criminal acts during the protests over the weekend, condemning that as well. it is a balance the government is continuing

to try and strike. but interesting to try and strike. but interesting to hear from the to try and strike. but interesting to hearfrom the prime minister and acknowledgement of these issues and acknowledgement of these issues and a promise to do something about it. that is implied, but the question is what? a statement from the prime minister to the voice newspaper, which will be available on the website as well. which will be available on the website as well. there have been no new coronavirus deaths reported in scotland for the second day in a row. speaking at the scottish government's daily briefing, first minister nicola sturgeon welcomed the development, but urged people to continue following the lockdown rules. this is such a crucialjuncture in our battle against this virus. we will either keep going, keep it back as we are now, or we will give it the chance to roar back with a vengeance. you must do the former. if we break the chains of transmission even more and drive down the number of new cases to a lower base, the safer it will then be to more meaningfully ease the restrictions and speed up our journey back to some normality. and if we do keep making the progress we have in the last few weeks, i am optimistic that ten days from now at the next formal review

we will be able to move at least in part into the next phase of our route map out of lockdown, with more individual freedoms restored and more businesses able to open up and operate again. but that depends on all of us, it depends on each and every one of us, so please stick with it for now. every day that we do does bring us closer to getting back to a form of normality. but today i want to thank each and every one of you for all of those sacrifices that you have been making. lets return to the easing of lockdown measures in the uk, because dental practices in england have been able to re—open today as long as they have safety measures in place for staff and patients. but the british dental association says few practices have actually opened their doors and those that have are only able to offer a fraction of their usual services. in scotland only private dental practices can open, in northern ireland official advice is for urgent patients to be treated

from today and in wales routine services are set to resume on ist july. dan johnson has more. phone rings. the calls are coming... good morning, together dental. ..from patients who are suffering. is it isita is it a constant pain or does it come and go? the staff are here. is it in the left or right? but most patients still cannot get seen. we only deal with severe emergencies. we would usually see 160 to 260 patients a day in this practice, but we will only be seeing a handful of patients. patients like suzanne turning up at the door had been turned away, to treat themselves at home. i have been suffering toothache for quite a few weeks and i contacted the dentist to get an

appointment for this week, but unfortunately i am not able to, even though they are open. and if you can getan though they are open. and if you can get an appointment, this is what you will see, more protective clothing changed more often and more cleaning which means extra cost and delay. mrs charlie, please. and up the road in chelmsford here is the new open—air waiting room. patients are called in one by one. we were not sure when we phoned up this morning if they would see her because they say it is only emergencies. we were quite surprised. this practice stayed open as one of the few emergency care centres. we have had patients in the early days coming from edinburgh and hole. now hopefully with more practices opening we are going to be able to access their own dentist and we have already seen a drop off. it is nothing like business as usual? no, it is not like a light switch which you can flick on and off, this will bea you can flick on and off, this will be a long process. getting this

emergency system up and running took a long time and left a lot of people frustrated. now dentists are struggling to fully reopen. if patient numbers are never going to get back to their previous capacity, that raises serious questions about the future of some practices. many of my colleagues will struggle financially unless some security is there for them over a longer period of time until we get back to routine treatments in a more general way. we are told more protective equipment is coming, but only a third of england's practices say they can see patients. access was not good before and it is not getting any easier. let's bring you a litte more now on the new quarantine rules for those coming into the uk. from today travellers arriving here in the uk have had to quarantine themselves for two weeks. the government says it's necessary to protect public health, but airlines are warning of dire consequences for the transport and tourism industries and some are suing the government.

more than 600 passengers have already arrived in the uk on ten flights todaty at luton airport in bedfordshire, from where ben schofield reports. passengers on the 1255 arrival from bulgaria walking into something of a political storm. some of them may qualify for exemptions, others telling the government where they will isolate for the next fortnight. we are going into quarantine, we will be quarantined for 13 days. but we will get through it. we have to. i will do the 14 days quarantine here andl i will do the 14 days quarantine here and i did it back in bulgaria. it is really good, it is like we are staying in prison, you cannot understand what happened. the home secretary says the new rules are designed to prevent a second wave of the virus. arrivals into the uk are not allowed to go out for work or have visitors. leaving isolation early could mean a £1000 fine. the

airline industry says it will hit them hard and some mps are also questioning why anyone should isolate if they are arriving from a country with a lower infection rate. moving to quarantine now is too late quite frankly. it is illogical if we have got a higher incidence of coronavirus in our country compared to some of the others. trying to use quarantine as a way to control the virus is if you have a lower level of incidents than somewhere else and you want to reduce the risk of people coming in with the virus. that is not the position at the moment. fair line yachts in aaron dell, last week announcing more than half, 240, of their staff were being made redundant. today's quarantine they say making international sales even tougher. from a business perspective i do not believe this has come at a worse time. it is not good at this particular point in time and it will impact what we were hoping was going to be a summer

sales season. we lost the spring selling season and now we are going to lose the summer as well. it will have a really detrimental impact to the industry, not just have a really detrimental impact to the industry, notjust ourselves, but to the industry as a whole. for some of these passengers confusion over whether they need to isolate or not. the government has to review the regulations within 21 days. the government has to review the regulations within 21 days. a 93—year—old woman has made a full recovery after contracting coronavirus in a care centre. evelyn bilham from hull broke both of her legs at the start of lockdown and caught the virus whilst recovering. phillip norton has been to meet her. at the top through the window. away from a survivor who beat all the odds. 493—year—old evelyn, lockdown has been eventful. my husband arrived and could not see her anywhere. we found her behind the

door and she had tried to walk to the bathroom and her legs collapsed beneath her. the lockdown had only just started in march. evelyn's fall left her with badly broken legs. when she was taken to hospital in hell for surgery. breaking her legs in the first instance we were absolutely distraught because that sort of operation at her age is extremely dangerous. but she survived the surgery, her legs in a cast and cage, staff at this rehabilitation centre got on the road to recovery, but that is when she then tested positive for coronavirus. she became quite chesty and had a cough and a temperature and had a cough and a temperature and we were really worried about her because it is such a big thing for somebody going through what she is going through and to have that on top of it as well, it could have been really awful. she is very family orientated and we have got such a special close bond with grandma, she is the matriarch of this family. we generally thought we we re this family. we generally thought we were going to lose her. for a woman

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