the world, has called for meaningful changes in american policing. philonese floyd told a congressional hearing his brother's death did not have to be in vain. democrats have introduced legislation on police reforms in congress. authorities in delhi have warned that coronavirus infections in the indian capital could shoot up to more than 500,000 by the end ofjuly. they say the city will need 80,000 hospital beds by then, delhi's current capacity is justjust 9,000. russian investigators have detained three managers of the norilsk power plant in siberia on suspicion of breaching environmental protection regulations. it follows the spilling of 20,000 tonnes of diesel oil into local rivers and a lake. environmentalists say it's the worst accident of its kind in post—soviet russia. health experts in england are warning that the number

of people on nhs waiting lists could double to 10 million by the end of january. the nhs confederation, which represents all nhs trusts, is concerned about challenges ahead as hospitals try to restart treatments that have been put on hold. health correspondent catherine burns reports. a birthday party in lockdown is never the best, butjock needs an operation because he is deaf. cochlear implant. what does that mean? it means i hear better. his family were hoping he would have the surgery before he turned five. so his operation was cancelled pretty much the day before surgery, and it wasjust before lockdown. the news for us was really, really devastating. every week, every month that goes by, he is getting older and the outcomes will not be as good. the nhs braced itself for coronavirus, partly by cancelling routine surgery. now, a prediction that four million people on waiting lists in england could turn to 10 million

by early next year — assuming there's no serious second wave. the nhs is a big, complicated machine and it quickly changed gears to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. now it's time to get things up and running again, but health bosses are warning it's not going to be as simple as flicking a switch and getting back to business as usual. we need to have a grown up conversation with the public about what the health service, and indeed social care, can do over the months and years ahead, because it will be restricted, and we will be desperately trying to make good some of the damage that has been done over the months of the pandemic. he says that conversation needs to explain that staff who have been working flat out during the pandemic now need to turn to the backlog. hospitals will have to stick to social distancing too, which won't help get back to capacity. irene‘s hip replacement surgery

was supposed to happen today. i'm really depressed today because i was supposed to have my operation and it hasn't happened. and i've got no idea of when they will do the operation. the pain‘s constant, it is there day and night. i am on very, very strong painkillers at the moment. i have regular assessments for a heart transplant, and unfortunately that has been cancelled indefinitely. and i can't help but be concerned about that, because without a heart transplant i won't survive. there's a call for more funding, but also to extend a deal where private hospitals have helped to support the nhs. the government, though, says the health service doesn't need that to carry on. if you look around the world, it is, you know, seen as, you know, the best of the best, in the world, and it will continue do that, as we come out of the covid challenge. meanwhile, there's no word yet on whenjock or many others will get the surgery they need.

catherine burns, bbc news. now on bbc news, philippa thomas hears from people around the world about their extraordinary experiences during the pandemic and how covid—i9 has changed their lives. welcome to coronavirus: your stories, a programme about how covid—i9 is changing the lives of people around the world. i'm phillipa thomas. this week we're bringing you stories from the vulnerable communities whose residents are more at risk but less in the public eye, and the efforts being taken to try to stop the devastation that this pandemic can cause. we'll hear what's being done to stop the spread

of the virus in one of the most densely populated areas in the world — asia's largest slum, daravee, mumbai. first, a story of native american volunteers who have banded together to help some of the tribal nations hit hardest by covid—i9 in some of the remotest areas of the united states without running water or electricity or internet access. jo 0verton in utah started by helping to source a0 masks. now she helps co—ordinate the distribution of thousands of pieces of life—saving equipment. she's working across tribal lines, monitoring the rise in covid cases every day. navajo was the very first to get covid back in april, maybe the end of march, and it happened at a large gathering and then people went home and they were in fact did and it infected hundreds

of families initially. if you're native american, you're at least ten times more likely to get covid, and you're at least four times more likely to die from it. in different areas, there are higher numbers, but that's about the average, and that's on or off the reservation. jo, tell us about some of the particular challenges that are faced in trying to fight covid. i guess you're talking about some areas that don't have running water for a start? exactly. there are some areas, especially on the navajo nation, where between 30 or 40% of the people don't have running water. it also means they have no electricity and no cellphone service because they live in a really remote area, and that might be ok on a regular basis, but with covid it means they can't call for help, it means they cannot wash their hands for 20 seconds each time.

and because the native americans in general traditionally live in multi—generational homes, and on almost all reservation, housing is really scarce, so it means you couldn't move to another home even if you wanted to. quarantining is out of the question — there's no way anybody has an extra bedroom and an extra bathroom for someone and it puts everyone at risk in that immediate synergy. jo, you've told me before when we've been talking about the particularly high rate of infection among native americans. absolutely. and the high death rate too. there's a few underlying issues that are longtime issues, and all covid has done is expose them.

one of them is lack of good healthcare. 0ur healthcare on the reservations, and off, is run by a federal entity called indian health services, also called ihs. they are funded the very least out of all federal medical programmes, and that leaves ihs facilities understaffed, and it means the doctors and nurses don't have proper ppe or anything else. and the other problem is lack of healthy food availability. like, i went to my reservation, which is rosebud, and i went to purchase apples. they were $5 a pound! who can afford healthy food? not the natives. and it leaves them — all of us with high rates of diabetes, autoimmune diseases, cancer, and all of those things play

into the high morbidity of covid with native americans. so, you knew already that there's a situation with underlying health conditions, problems for native american communities, and yet when it comes to something like coronavirus, this isn't somewhere where the federal american government comes in and tells people what to do, and in fact gives them resources, i guess, because it is tribal governments that we're talking about and different tribal governments? well, yeah. the federal government, though, according to the treaties signed in the 1800s, we were told, "put down your guns and we will take care of you", and that included education, healthcare, food and things like that. so, honestly, the federal government is at the very bottom of the reason why the people on rosebud, their life expectancy is 57.

so covid is just deadly. the federal government is not doing theirjob. the nurses and the doctors in the federally—run ihs hospitals do not have enough gloves or protective equipment. i don't understand this. ihs got $1 billion on april the 3rd for covid supplies — we've no idea what they did with them because when we talk to them they say we don't have gloves, we don't have face shields. so volunteers like you, jo, working from your own home have had to get involved and it might have started small with a0 masks or so, but tell me something about the situation now, what kind of things you're helping to supply. we have a 2—pronged approach to this. one of the things we do is provide personal protective equipment, or ppe, to healthcare workers, frontline workers and making sure that they are safe, because they're

taking care of the people. this is all on reservations. and the other thing we do is a community approach we're providing hand sanitiser, masks, sometimes food and hygiene supplies so they can be clean and be able to clean the germs. —— kill the germs. we're protecting the people in every way that we possibly can, and it's grown from such a small amount to, like you said, i was looking for a0 masks and now we can get thousands to people within just days. and also, like, face shields and gloves, hand sanitiser — we just got a very large donation of that and we're excited to share that with all the communities. it becomes life—saving when you don't have water. and why does this matter so much to you personally? i am a memberfrom rosebud,

i native american, however, however, i live in utah, most of my family lives on the reservation but i live here. i was just standing there and in navajo, people were dying. i know lots of navajo, i know lots of people from all the different tribes in utah. all i could say... ijust said, "i cannot stand here and do nothing." and so i did something and it has grown and i have an amazing team of people who are incredibly caring, and we are all working together to save lives. so do you think you were brought up to take action? absolutely, and it is true of every native american child and adult — community before self.

for my youngest child — i remember my mother asking me, "what are you going to be when you grow up and what will you do to help the people?" so i got a degree in social work because i thought that was one of the ways that i could really help native americans and it means the world to me. my mother is a world changer and i have a deep desire to make my mother proud and there would be nothing more important to me than being just like my mother. she changed the lives of the people on the reservations. how? my mother, she was raising four girls singular and in her early a0s she decided she would become a lawyer and then she would go home to the reservation and help the people.

even though my mother had rheumatoid arthritis and was quite crippled from it, she did, she went to law school and then she moved back to the reservation, became notjust a lawyerfor the people but a judge. the very first attorney general we had, native and woman. she helped change the constitution of our tribe, and she also rewrote the domestic violence code for two different tribes, including ours. my mother was always a voice for the voiceless and protection for the vulnerable. and a lot of what you're doing now is about protecting native elders. i suppose there's a double risk here — being native american and if you're elderly — you must feel very vulnerable? absolutely. native americans

treasure their elders. they are the holders of the past. they carry the wisdom and they carry the knowledge. and they teach us that one of the most important things is that they are also ourfuture. without them, we would not know which way we needed to go, and we would be lost. and in that process, we would lose a part of ourselves, so protecting our elders is the most important thing that all native americans feel that we can do. just thinking about your part in this volunteer effort, what do you think you're learning or the group of you are learning that would help you if there is another wave, another surge of the virus? well, we're really aware of the things that work and also some of the things that don't work, and we're hoping, if there is another — well, right now covid is just beginning to rise on reservations across the country, and it means that we are pretty

prepared for their needs, and so it makes it easier to know what they need. we have a warehouse, we have things in the warehouse, and we can get them out quickly so, if covid is rising in a place, we have a rapid, focused response and that is our mission to do that. what will you take a lesson from and say, right, do it differently next time? well, i think one of the most important things that we've learned is about having good contacts so, when i call as the indigenous outreach co—ordinator, i really need to find somebody who is willing to talk and respond to e—mails, and be able to get the supplies out. and in making things happen and making them happen quickly, how much do you think it matters

that people trust you, because they think you know what you are speaking about, you are native american? absolutely. because i am, i understand the difficulties that the different entities on the tribe are having and so, when i speak to them, there is already this common ground and, in doing so, it engenders trust and a willingness to tell me things that they perhaps would not tell a white person because they would not feel like they could trust them. you obviously are determined that you and others are going to be communities helping communities, because there is no other way? absolutely, we are moving very,

very quickly and we have great hope to protect native elders. all of the money that is donated, besides a very small portion, goes straight to supplies. we are 100% of volunteer. we do not stand around and say, oh, let's wait for them to do it. that's ridiculous. we do it. jo 0verton on the challenges and the community spirit she's witnessing among native american tribes dealing with the coronavirus. i'm philippa thomas and you're watching coronavirus: your stories. a programme about how the virus is affecting the lives of people around the world. next, we go to dharavi in the indian city of mumbai. it's a slum that's home to around a million people, in the space ofjust one square mile, so social distancing is pretty much impossible. kiran dighavkar has been overseeing the official response. so, in just 2.5 square kilometre area, you will find i million people in dharavi, and they are all staying

in a small houses of ten feet by 15 feet, small houses and usually you will find structures of ground plus one storey or two storey, in which people are staying in ground storey. and on first and second floor, there are factories, small factories, where these people are working. so how is it possible to socially distance, let alone isolate, when you've got a virus among you? 80% of people depend on community toilets, public toilets and they do not have their own individual toilets. second important part in dharavi, all workers, labourers, migrants, they depend on outside food in dharavi. they do not cook food inside. maybe 30%—a0% of people, do not have kitchens inside their houses. theyjust depend on outside food. when the lockdown was declared, most of them, they are unemployed, and they were working for food and we were providing them with food packets every day. 21,000 people for lunch

and 21,000 people for dinner, we are providing food packets to them. so there is no possibility of practising social distance. for us, the main challenge was that people isolate as much as possible, and to isolate them in hteor own environment. —— into government quarantine/ how well has the strategy worked? because, when you look at india as a whole, it has got the third highest number of cases, after the united states and brazil. but in dharavi, how is it going? dharavi is surprisingly, as i told you, the first case the person was detected positive and when we went at his home, by the time we enquired his family about contact tracing, get his contacts and all,

the patient died in the hospital. we were completely were aware that the way the community is, it would take no time to spread and it happened like that only. instead ofjust acting reactively, we decided to act proactively. so what we did is we started screening people in the area. we took a team of doctors and we started visiting door to door with our ppe kits on. we started with the thermal scanner, we started screening people. we started taking oxygen level of patients with the help of an oxymeter. and those who were suspected, we just isolated them in a building to isolate. we started announcing people who were having symptoms of coronavirus to isolate yourself into the quarantine centre and we will provide you everything free of cost. this is really worked and we isolated more

than 8,500 people to date. when people happy to do that? if you go into isolation, you cannot work, you cannot earn a living? most of the people are working in essential services. most of them were health workers, grocery shops, delivery boys, maybe working on a factory floor. maybe there are a few people who were in essential services. initially they were not ready to come but once we offered them medicines as well, i think it was the big boost in the area because once they were somewhat isolated, we were giving them free food, like breakfast, lunch and dinner. along with that we were giving them tablets and any other symptomatic treatment that required doctors, they were facilitated with no cost. so that was a pretty good dealfor them. what about yourself?

you're coming into contact with a lot of people who might be affected with covid—19, are you not worried about yourself and your family? yes, initially it was quite a tense atmosphere. i used to wear a mask, then face shield. i never wear ppe but i had mask, goggles, not exactly goggles but face shield, because while setting up the quarantine centres, we need to visit and check they were initially quite scary situations and everywhere it was on the news that this is rising in dharavi and it was becoming a cause of concern for my family. i want to ask you a final question about having so much responsibility, there must be quite a lot of personal stress involved for you?

one of my staff died who was found positive, while distributing the food packages in the area. and he died and that was a shocking and very bad day for my entire staff, including myself, and that was a really scary situation. that day, we tested 30 engineers and doctors in the area and 21 of them tested positive. that was really a scary situation. interestingly i tell you, though i have not shown any symptoms in the last two or three months, but i never tested myself because i was aware that once i test myself if i was found positive, what would happen to the mission? so i decided that, unless i show any

symptoms, i will not test myself. so that was really disappointing when one of my staff died because of covid—19 and that was really stressful during that time. it really was very bad when they were 100 cases a day. that was during april, the last week. then we started getting on top of the situation. facilities were built up, oxygen beds, hospitals acquired them and there was little sign of hope and now it is completely 0k. other areas of mumbai are showing increasing trend. 0n the pushback on a covid—19 in one of the most densely packed patches in the world.

thank you forjoining me this week for coronavirus: your stories. well, it doesn't look like the weather is in any hurry to settle down over the next day or two. more rain—bearing clouds on the way. in fact, it has already been raining quite heavily across the south—west of england, western parts of wales, all thanks to this weather front that's been moving across the uk. quite sluggishly really. 0vercast skies across much of the country. for most of us it has just been patchy rain here and there, and the heaviest of the rain has indeed been across parts of cornwall, devon. it is now clearing away from wales. the little bits of pieces further north and actually scotland and northern ireland escaping most of that rain. 10 degrees will be morning temperature. so here are the occasional showers during the middle of the day. a lot of cloud across england and wales, with a few glimmers of brightness. and then we see another spell of rain heading towards eastern parts of the uk, thursday,

late afternoon and evening. and that rain is sort of going to barrel across the uk, across the pennines, into parts of wales but, all the while, scotland and northern ireland escape all of that weather so actually, during thursday, this is where the best weather will be, in northern ireland, and particularly western parts of scotland. low pressure is pretty much stuck end of the week to the south of us, it's stuck around the bay of biscay but, within this area of low pressure, there is actually quite a lot of fairly warm and humid aircircling. that warm and humid air heading our way but, with it, also comes the return of this weather front so that does mean that on friday we are anticipating again a dose of heavy rain, particularly across the south south—west, and into wales as well and, again, the best of the weather will be the further north you are, in fact cracking weather there in the north of scotland but it will be cooler there, around 1a degrees. that weather front will make its journey a little bit further north during saturday and to the south of that, we'll probably see showers breaking up, the possibility of some

thunderstorms as well. this is actually humid air streaming in from the south. those temperatures will be rising. given a bit of sunshine, we could see highs into the mid 20s across the south. 20 degrees or so on saturday in glasgow. but in western scotland, still a lot of sunshine around. and here's sunday — again, the best of the weather i think the further north you are. in the south we still could catch some thunderstorms. bye— bye.

this is bbc news. i'm mike embley with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the brother of george floyd testifies before congress, calling for real change in american policing. my family cry and cry every day and just ask, "why? why?" a virus warning for india's capital. officials say there could be 500,000 coronavirus cases in delhi by the end of next month. and we'll take you to the city of portsmouth, virginia, where protestors tried to destroy a confederate monument.