this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm maryam moshiri. another statue down: protestors try to destroy a confederate monument in the city of portsmouth, virginia. britain could have halved the number of virus deaths if it had locked down just one week earlier says the government's former scientific advisor. russia says a massive diesel spill in the arctic could take years to clean up. and the authorjk rowling speaks out about being a victim of domestic abuse. in business, a long road to recovery. the federal reserve weighs up the damage to the us economy and says fixing it will take years.

we begin in the us, where there are increasing calls to remove pro—slavery confederate names and symbols in response to the anti—racism movement triggered by the police killing of george floyd but president trump says army bases named after officers who fought for the confederacy during the civil war won't change because they're part of the american heritage. it comes as police in the southern state of virgina are trying to disperse protesters who attacked a confederate war memorial. david willis reports. they are potent symbols of a racist past, erected in honour of those is thought to keep african—americans of those is thought to keep

african—america ns enslaved. now, the statues of confederate generals are being cut down and carried away as a nation incensed by the death of george floyd seeks to turn its back on the past. but the memory of slavery and segregation lives on through army bases, which bear the name of confederate offices, such as braxton bragg. there are ten of them in total and now calls are growing for those bases to be renamed. retired us army general david petraeus who served at fort bragg is amongst those in favour of renaming the bases and within essay published in the atlantic magazine he said, "the irony of training at bases named after daisy took up arms: authorisation for a name change

would have two come from the military and senior officials have said they may favour such a move but all ten bases are in southern and former confederate states, many who supported donald trump in 2016 and the president is radically opposed to the idea. the united states of america trained and deployed oui’ of america trained and deployed our heroes on these hallowed ground and won two world wars, he tweeted, and therefore my administration will not even consider the renaming of these magnificent and fabled military installations. the white house press secretary said changing their names would amount to a demonstration of disrespect for the soldiers who had served at those bases. fort bragg is known for the heroes within it that trained there and deployed from there and it is an insult to savour the men and women who left there, the last thing they before going overseas and in some cases losing their lives, to tell them what they left was

inherently a racist institution because of a name. that is unacceptable because of a name. that is u na cce pta ble to because of a name. that is unacceptable to the president. the symbols of the confederacy are under growing threat. the confederate butterfly, otherwise known as the stars and bars has now been banned by nascar, the organisation that i’u ns nascar, the organisation that runs stockcar racing and the leader of the house of representatives, nancy pelosi, is calling for statues representing confederate leaders to be removed from the capitol building in washington, dc. the landscape is changing here in the wake of george floyd in all manner of waves as america grapples with a grim legacy of its past — — in manner of ways. let's get more on this with our north america correspondent david willis. david, this is such a sensitive subject in america are? a

sensitive subject in deed and it was touched upon back in 2017, following violence in charlottesville, virginia and president trump then said he did not want to see a statue of the confederate general, robert e lee taken down. and while he has reinforced that position now, following calls from various people for military bases, ten of them in total, that were named after confederate generals, places like fort hood, fort bragg and someone like fort hood, fort bragg and someone to be re— named and the president saying that that will happen and were congress to pass legislation along those lines, he would veto that. i tell you what, calls are growing here for any traces of the confederacy to be removed. we had in that report from nascar, the stockcar racing organisation here, nascar is a sport very popular with white conservative. even they are

banning the confederate flag, the stars and bars, as it is known, and the speaker of the house of representatives, nancy pelosi is calling for confederate statues to be removed from the nation ‘s capital. president trump may find himself somewhat of a lone voice on this one. as this happens, david, black lives matter protests are continuing around the us, in particular, let us take viewers live to portland, oregon, where we can see live pictures of a protest happening against police brutality. these are ongoing, aren't they? they are indeed and you know what, president trump call not that long ago for the military to be brought m, for the military to be brought in, the national guard, in fa ct, in, the national guard, in fact, in those states where there was trouble. well, there has not been much in the way of that in recent days. we have seen largely peaceful protests but still quite large ones and

the promise of civil rights leaders here is that those protests will continue through the summer and beyond, if necessary , the summer and beyond, if necessary, if that is what it ta kes necessary, if that is what it takes in order to bring about systemic change in the way policing is conducted in this country. the reverend al sharpton, a leading civil rights leader talked about another march on washington to replicate the doctor martin luther king, back in the 60s. the us has passed another grim milestone, with more than two million cases of covid—19 recorded and, as the country continues to grapple with the pandemic, the head america's central bank, the federal reserve, has said the us economy faces a long road to recovery from the damage caused by the coronavirus. jerome powell also warned that a significant number of americans could remain unemployed even as the economy begins to revive. he said the fed would continue

with measures such as holding down interest rates and quantitative easing, or buying assets, to increase cash flow in the economy. i'll have more on this in about 25 minutes. in the uk, a former scientific advisor to the british government, neil ferguson, has told a parliamentary committee that the number of deaths from coronavirus in the uk could have been halved if the lockdown had been brought in a week earlier. the number of deaths officially recorded in the uk is now over 41,000, second only to the us. it comes as the government announced a further easing of restrictions in england. with me is our news reporter rich preston. this is a big statement to make, isn't it? why not to be taken lightly, from niall ferguson, formerfrom taken lightly, from niall ferguson, former from the scientific organisation group and emergencies to the british government. the lockdown came on march 23, and at the time 100,000 infected every day and professor ferguson was speaking to the uk parliament science and technology committee. this is what he had to say. the

epidemic was doubling every three —— four days before lockdown interventions were introduced. so, had we introduced. so, had we introduced lockdown measures a week earlier, we would have reduced the death toll by at least a half. so, while i think the measures, given what we know about and knew about this virus then, in terms of its composition, where warranted and second—guessing at this point, certainly, had introduce them we would have seen fewer deaths. as we heard, many fewer deaths. as we heard, many fewer deaths. the uncomfortable fact is he said the uk has had over 41,000 deaths, the second highest death toll in the world and when you bury mind a population of only 66 million it isa population of only 66 million it is a grim figure. hindsight isa it is a grim figure. hindsight is a wonderful thing and scientists were saying at the

time the picture was not clear at the time and we were not sure how bad the infection was spreading. and new announced about relaxing rules in england? as you said, these apply to england only, separate rules in scotland, northern ireland and wales, we lockdown the easing of various ways. borisjohnson has said that from this weekend people will be able to form a support bubble if they live in our house, a single parent or in a house, a single parent or in a house on their own and that means a grandparent can stay with their grandchildren and not have to social distance or couples that have been kept apart can spend the night together. 0r apart can spend the night together. or a single parent can link up with their own pa rent can link up with their own parent or a friend. there are 8 million people living alone in the uk. there are more than 3 million single—parent households and the prime minister says this is about tackling loneliness. what about the rest of the world? how do we compare to others in terms of the easing of lockdown? we

allude italy is interesting, one of the first to introduce lockdown. where the virus started to accelerate. it went into lockdown in march seven and mid—may the restriction started to lift on cafes and restau ra nts started to lift on cafes and restaurants serving food on terraces and museums opening, churches opening four as well and regional travel restriction started to lift as well how many people go travelling further afield. germany, smaller shops started opening in april. the national football league started playing again in may and bigger events like festivals, they are banned until august. france, which went into lockdown in the middle of march, restrictions early may and bars and restau ra nts early may and bars and restaurants were opened in some areas with the coronavirus hit harder like paris, it was open air terraces only. permissible, and high schools have started to go back and gatherings are allowed as long as there are no more than ten people. thank you

for the update. let's get some of the day's other news. north korea has said that the united states should not comment on inter—korean affairs if it wants this year's presidential election to go smoothly. it comes after washington said it was disappointed that pyongyang had suspended communication hotlines with seoul. negotiations on ending the north's nuclear weapons programme are deadlocked despite two summits between kim jong—un and donald trump. tokyo's olympic games will be a simplified version of the global sporting event. that's according to the chief executive of the organising committee. 0rganisers say they are working on more than 200 ideas to simplify and reduce costs for the games. the event was supposed to start injuly, but was pushed back to next march. a work by the british graffiti artist banksy, which was cut away by thieves last year from the bataclan music hall in paris, has been found by police in an abandoned farmhouse in abruzzo, central italy. the work was stencilled

on an emergency exit of the venue commemorating the victims of the 2015 islamist terror attack in paris, which had targeted the concert hall. in arctic russia, there are warnings that the operation to clean up more than 20,000 tonnes of spilled diesel could take years. the leak happened at the end of may, prompting russia's president, vladimir putin, to declare a state of emergency. but so far, measures to contain the spread of the fuel have had limited success. aruna ayenga has this report. in two weeks, the lector diesel has drifted more than ten kilometres from the start of the accident. already reaching a nearby lake and turning the river read. it is fears that contaminated water can reach the main river, flowing directly onto the main sea going into the arctic ocean.

rooms have been brought into contain the spread but i felt com pletely contain the spread but i felt completely stop the fuel, already impacting the ecosystem. translation: our workers saw dead donkeys and today i saw a dead donkeys and today i saw a dead mask rack. if a bird lands in the fuel or a muskrat rims in it, it is condemned to death. the storage tank which housed the fuel was part of a metal works facility located the town of norilsk, one of the northernmost towns in the world, 300 kilometres above the arctic circle. president putin criticised the company, a subsidiary of a nickel company for its delay in reporting the accident and criminal proceedings have been launched. three members of the staff of the powerplant three members of the staff of the powerpla nt have three members of the staff of the powerplant have been taken into custody. the nickel company say the measures around justifiably harsh and promised to cover the cost of the cleanup operation, thought to be around $146 million. around

700 people are involved in the cleanup in what environmentalists say is the largest incident of its kind ever to hit the arctic. aruna ayenga, bbc news. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: board at work? how cardboard could be the answer to workplace worries about coronavirus. the day the british liberated the falklands. and by tonight, british troops had begun the task of disarming the enemy. in the heart of the west german capital, this was gorby— mania at its height. the crowd packed to see the man who for them has raised great hopes for an end to the division of europe.

it happened as the queen moved towards horse guards parade for the start of trooping the colour. gunshots the queen looks worried, but recovers quickly. as long as they'll pay to go and see me, i'll get out there and kick ‘em down the hills. what does it feel like to be the first man to go across the channel by your own power? it feels pretty neat. it feels marvellous, really. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: a confederate war memorial in the city of portsmouth in virginia in the us has become the latest to be targeted by black lives matter protesters. a former government scientific advisor has told the parliament the number of british deaths from coronavirus could have been halved if the lockdown had been brought in a week earlier. the author of harry potter, jk rowling, has revealed how

she experienced domestic abuse and sexual assault in an essay defending her comments on transgender issues. it comes after she was accused of transphobia following a series of controversial tweets. in a blog post, the author said incidents in her past had shaped her opinions on the need to protect girls. nick beake's report contains some flashing images. apart from the occasional premiers for herfilms, apart from the occasional premiers for her films, jk rowling prefers to stay out of the limelight. but now, after being accused of transphobia, she said she has to speak up and has revealed deeply personal experiences. in a long essay, she describes herfirst marriage as violent and so she suffered a very serious sexual assault in her 20s. she doesn't identify her attacker.

it isa it is a reference to what she calls the relentless attacks on social media she has received after tweeting about the importance of biological sex. actor daniel radcliffe who made his name in the harry potter films spoke out, saying transgender women are women, and hoping thatjk rowling's comments would not taint the harry potter series for fans. eddie redmayne, who stars in the harry potter spin—offs, fantastic beasts, also disagreed with her. the 0scar—winning actor who portrayed a tra ns— 0scar—winning actor who portrayed a trans— woman in the film the danish girl, says it should not be questioned. this is all part of what has proved to be an often divisive discussion. jk rowling hopes people will see why her own experience compels her to speak out on sex and gender issues. nick beake, bbc news.

in ukraine, efforts are continuing to enable newborn surrogate babies to be picked up by their biological parents. last month, officials said that more than 100 babies had been left stranded in kyiv after coronavirus restrictions prevented parents from travelling from around the world to ukraine. but now, some of the parents have been making it to kyiv to at last claim their babies. jonah fisher reports. it is the final leg on the long journey to parenthood for this couple. they have come all the way from argentina to ukraine to meet their baby son for the very first time. menno was born ten weeks ago to a surrogate mother and he has been staying in a kyiv hotel room with dozens of other babies. all of them left stranded after the coronavirus

closed international borders, stopping their parents from reaching them. translation: this is the closest they have got until now. a long distance video call with manu on his nanny‘s lap. fast forward three weeks, and the mountains did not move, but the mountains did not move, but the restrictions eased, and thanks to a businessman laying ona thanks to a businessman laying on a special flight, the couple are finally ready to see manu.

the couple chose ukraine because it is one of the few places in the world where commercial surrogacy is legal. a baby here costs about $50,000. congratulations. this may sound like a silly question, but has been worth it? but the surrogacy industry in ukraine is largely unregulated and happy endings aren't guaranteed. four—year—old bridget was conceived through the same agency as manu.. nobody is coming to get her. born prematurely and with serious health problems, rigid cosmic american preference —— bridget pollock american pa rents bridget pollock american parents rejected her answer is now ina parents rejected her answer is

now in a orphanage. she has a difficult life. translation: it shouldn't be a case of if i like the child, i ta ke case of if i like the child, i take them. if i don't, i abandon them. it is utterly wrong. i really hope bridget will find a family who will love her and take care of her. to surrogacy is with very difficult results. forced into the spotlight by the coronavirus crisis, ukraine's baby business brings both smiles and sadness. jonah fisher, bbc news, in kyiv. many countries are now trying to ease lockdown conditions, but for some, that's easier said than done. maintaining the necessary social distancing can be difficult in shops, offices and factories. now, a british company has found a novel solution, as the bbc‘s tim allman explains. # am i livin' in a box # am i livin' in a cardboard box...# funny to think that our

economic salvation may lie in recycled cardboard. this company used to make pallets and containers for industry, but then along came covid—19 and, with it, a need to embrace new ideas. as people have started to come back to work, we've switched to making a range of distancing at work products such as free—standing screens, counter screens and desk partitions. the screens provide protection in a work environment, isolating staff from one another. you can also buy quick—to—assemble cardboard desks for those who are working from home. a neighbouring company has already embraced the idea in a big way, although they were keen to add a personal touch. it's pretty extreme to put yourself into cardboard boxes so the reasons for cutting the windows and trimming them in those colours was because i've got a manchester united supporter

sitting at my desk and i support liverpool. well, that could become liverpool again, couldn't it? all of this is relatively cheap, plus it's environmentally friendly and, yes, they really have been thinking outside and, now, inside the box. tim allman, bbc news. a brief military ceremony to mark the queen's official birthday will be staged at windsor castle this saturday in place of trooping the colour, which was cancelled because of coronavirus. the queen will be greeted by a royal salute before a series of military drills — socially distanced of course — are carried out. his name is white king, he's ten days old and he's the first white lion to be born in a spanish zoo. u nfortu nately, fluffy toy cuteness has not saved him from being rejected by his mother. white king was abandoned after the lioness who gave birth to him had a traumatic experience.

zoo workers are taking on the role of caring for him and it's hoped he will be reintroduced to his mother in the future. absolute sweetie. a reminder of our top story: president trump says he will not even consider renaming us military bases that honour confederate generals who fought to preserve slavery in the 19th century civil war. mr trump was responding to growing pressure from the anti—racism movement triggered by the police killing of george floyd. he said facilities such as fort bragg in north carolina and fort hood in texas were part of america's heritage and should not be tampered with. all this comes as a confederate war memorial in the city of portsmouth in virginia is the latest to be targeted by black lives matter protesters.

much more as always on our website. you can reach me on twitter. i'm @bbcmaryam. thank you for watching. goodbye for now. 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's 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's just been patchy rain here and there, and the heaviest of the rain has indeed been across parts of cornwall, devon. it's now clearing away from wales. so little bits of pieces further north and actually scotland and northern ireland escaping most of that rain. 10 degrees will be the 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 escapes 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. now, 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 will be 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 14 degrees. that weather front will make its journey a little bit further north during saturday, and then to the south of that, we'll probably see showers breaking out, 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 with the latest business headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. a long road to recovery — the federal reserve weighs up the damage to the us economy and says fixing it will take years. plus, tech trade wars. why rows over taxing the likes of facebook and amazon could be a new threat to the global economy. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we're covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. first, we start in the us,

where the central bank, the us federal reserve, has been giving its first assessment of the economic damage done by the pandemic. we had confirmation earlier this week that the us has officially fallen into recession, bringing to an end more than a decade of growth. now, fed chiefjerome powell is warning the recovery will be a long road. the fed says the us economy will shrink by 6.5% this year — before starting to grow again next year. by the end of the year it says america's jobless rate will be 9.3%. that will start to come down next year but will take years to recover to pre—pandemic levels. it's left the cost of borrowing unchanged at close to zero and suggested it may stay there to the end of 2022 and it will continue to pump billions of dollars a month into the financial system by buying up debt. we are not thinking about raising rates, we are not even

thinking about thinking about raising rates! what we are thinking about is providing support for the economy and we do think this will take time. i think most forecasters believe that. it would be great if we got a whole bunch more months ofjob creation, notwithstanding that as i mentioned, there are a lot of people unemployed and it seems likely that there will be a significant group at the end of even a strong job growth, still struggling to find jobs and we will be providing strong support for that. joining me now is rich lesser, ceo of boston consulting group. he's on skype from new york. do you agree with that assessment? i would not want to out forecast the fed but generally, yes, we do agree. we have said for several months, when we thought in the phase when we thought in the phase when we thought in the phase when we were trying to flatten the virus, which is what we have been in with strong social

distancing and economic output decline 15—30% and in the fight phase, the phase of reopening the economy, until we get a vaccine or effective treatment, we expect a 5— 15% decline in economic output. 0bviously we expect a 5— 15% decline in economic output. obviously the government is putting a ton of money in the economy to keep things going so the overall forecast range seems pretty reasonable and until we get effective treatments, it will bea effective treatments, it will be a very difficult time until we return to normal economic output. power has been has been for you over the past few months? difficult at the beginning but coming back i think because as companies see the need to adapt to a new reality, they also recognise the need to make big changes. we area the need to make big changes. we are a change agent and we have a deep set of trusted relationships and we are a part of that. i think the way things we re of that. i think the way things were before and we had been growing 15% for the prior six yea rs, growing 15% for the prior six years, and they will not be anything like that, but

certainly we are seeing a return to higher levels of activity than we had seen in the first month, when everyone was shutting things down. job creation will be keen, isn't it, to the us economy and how difficult will that be to us businesses — — key? difficult will that be to us businesses - - key? job creation will be difficult for a while and the main thing is to hang onto the workforce that we have and to do what we can to support our employees to help them through this difficult period but i think to get to the kind of robustjob creation that the us has had for many years, that will be a way is. the fed reserve have spent talking today about projections, the economic recovery beginning in the second half of the year, lasting a few years. what role do you think business has in the us in terms of bringing it back from where it is right now? business has an essential role in this! it is a big source ofjob role in this! it is a big source of job creation role in this! it is a big source ofjob creation and

let's be clear, a huge percentage ofjobs are created by small and medium—sized businesses and what has been striking about this economic crisis in response to the pandemic is how hard it has rippled through the whole economy, from mainstream up, as opposed to the way it often is in the past, from wall street down, and! in the past, from wall street down, and i think that what we really need is to get back to a normal —— normal environment so small and medium—sized businesses can have confidence to hire and grow in addition to larger businesses. ok, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to our. it is a pleasure. countries must agree on an approach for taxing tech giants, or they risk a widespread trade war. that's the warning from the head of the organisation for economic cooperation and development, angel gurria. it comes as an increasing number of governments, including the uk, impose new taxes on the likes of amazon and facebook based on digital sales within their countries. last week, the us launched

an investigation, saying the taxes unfairly target american companies — a process that could lead to retaliation. for more than a year, the 0ecd has been overseeing talks aimed at reaching a global deal, as mr gurria told the bbc. the alternative is that there will be dozens of europeans, but there will also be dozens of other countries in the world that will feel the political imperative to go out with their digital services taxation and they are all over the place, from 2% to 7.5%, going up to 15%, so, the united states has announced already that they will go and apply trade sanctions to each one of the countries that even try it because they consider that this is against us companies. so, you will have another trade war except this time not onlyjust between france and the united states, which almost happened,

and we managed to avoid it, but then you will have it with dozens and dozens of countries. that will only, that is the last thing we need at this time, the time of covid—19. let's go to asia now, where there is some positive economic news from south korea. it has seen exports jump by a fifth in the first 10 days ofjune, possibly signalling a return of global demand. joining me now from singapore is shara njit leyl, who has more on this story. what do we think, yes or no? yeah, i mean, who knows really? despite all the doom and gloom, the latest projections from the fed reserve as well, the 0ecd projecting at more declines globally yesterday, lots of surprising data from south korea. the first ten days of june, a huge uptake in exports and we know that data is reported because it's the first to be reporting a monthly major economies and are reporting trade reliance and a good gauge of what other economies may

experience also. but it does have some big things going for it, south korea, semiconductor and its chip business, one sector very sensitive to the global recovery cycle, the strong demand for them suggests global demand is improving today's data showed overseas sale of chips jumping today's data showed overseas sale of chipsjumping over today's data showed overseas sale of chips jumping over 20% in the first ten days ofjune! exports of mobile devices, smart phones, they surged nearly 6% up from last year and listen to this, exports of medical items were up a whopping 136%! we know that south korea was fast in exporting things like test kits, facemasks and other medical supplies after it had some early success in containing the virus. before june, we saw exports tumbling for months, a third straight month in may, due to the global lockdown measures to contain

the coronavirus pandemic so this suggests the uptick in the first few days of this month is beginning to suggest that perhaps that cycle is beginning to end. fingers crossed. thank you. british firms do not have the resilience to cope with a no—deal brexit after the battering of the coronavirus crisis. that's the warning from the boss of the uk industry body the cbi. carolyn fairbairn has told the bbc one of her members likened a no—deal to "setting the shed on fire" while the house was in flames. the uk has kept its trading terms with the eu during a transition period, which expires at the end of this year. a fourth round of negotiations on their future relationship ended last week with little apparent progress. the warning comes as the 0ecd suggests the uk could be the hardest hit among developed economies by the pandemic. joining me now is sharmila whelan, from aletheia capital.

why do you think the uk is the one going to be hardest hit, according to the 0ecd? one going to be hardest hit, according to the oecd? a couple of reasons. the main one is that the uk economy entered the current health crisis fabled. gdp growth or economic activity had been slowing for four straight quarters and contracted in the first quarter and that was a massive drag from investment spending throughout this period. now you have got the impact of covid—19, which really impacts the uk economy which is very much a service dependent. what you think the impact has been on other because, of course, although england and britain is worst hit, according to the oecd, worst hit, according to the 0ecd, other countries have issues as well? sure, the economic shock is reverberating across the global economy. you

see some bounce back and the strength of the bounceback, the post— covert lockdown bounceback has varied from country to country, depending on how severely they did or did not lockdown and their options to export their way out of it, how much was demand repressed in countries, but what is coming out is also that this is not going to be a rebound just as economies open up because the bottom line is profits have been destroyed and you have seen that very much in the uk. corporate profits have been destroyed for many sectors for the rest of 2020, so what comes in the next wave is riding bankruptcies, rising unemployment, cutbacks as companies try to repair balance sheets and restore profitability. and the cbi

sheets and restore profitability. and the (b! has been talking about the potential impact of a no—deal brexit being devastating. do you agree with that or not? yes, i absolutely agree with that. i think the uk economy, as it stands, is in a poor situation, economically. 0f course countries across the world a re course countries across the world are experiencing the economic shock that has followed the health crisis but to exit the eu with no deal, at this stage, would be a double whammy for businesses. ok, sharmila, thank you. finally, millions of workers around the world are adjusting to the reality of working from home, possibly for the long term. but how do employers combat loneliness and isolation and make sure staff still feel part of a team? 0ne firm of business advisers has been telling us what it's been doing.

teams are critical, because thatis teams are critical, because that is what we do, asset is our people. social connectivity is vital how we operate. perfect! nice work! people in an office—based business and overnight 650 people went to a home—based business individually so the biggest concern was really making sure all of our people still felt connected to each other and maintaining the team spirit. relax the jaw, relax your shoulders... 0ne one of the biggest concerns we had was really for people ‘s

mental health and well—being. everyone mental health and well—being. eve ryo ne a cross mental health and well—being. everyone across the organisation has different personal circumstances and therefore how was i going to impact on them? the engagement levels and the togetherness we managed to maintain i think has been positive. we had not, if we had not increase the level of well—being and social activity and communication, i think we would have found our 650 people being more disconnected and i think we may have lost some of the spirit of the country, which we believe is really our culture, the people just do not work together but they also have fun together but they also have fun together and see each other as humans and interact. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: gone with the wind, and gone from the schedule: the oscar winning film is dropped from hbo because of its depiction of slavery.

the day the british liberated the falklands. and by tonight, british troops had begun the task of disarming the enemy. in the heart of the west german capital, this was gorby— mania at its height. the crowd packed to see the man who for them has raised great hopes for an end to the division of europe. it happened as the queen moved towards horse guards parade for the start of trooping the colour. gunshots the queen looks worried, but recovers quickly. as long as they'll pay to go see me, i'll get out there and kick ‘em down the hills. what does it feel like to be the first man to go across the channel by your own power? it feels pretty neat. it feels marvellous, really.

this is bbc news. the latest headlines: a confederate war memorial in the city of portsmouth in virginia has become the latest to be targeted by black lives matter protesters. activists smashed statues of confederate soldiers with sledge hammers and pulled them down with ropes. a former scientific advisor to the british government has told a parliamentary committee that the number of deaths from coronavirus in the uk could have been halved if the lockdown had been brought in a week earlier. virologists are warning the wave of anti—racism mass protests across the united states and many cities around the world could cause an increase in coronavirus cases. so, could online demonstrations be the future for protesting? alice porter has been finding out. being black is not a crime! sparked by the death of george floyd, antiracism protests have been taking place around the world. while many people have

tried to socially distance, on big demonstrations, it can be almost impossible. shouting, yelling, cheering, this will increase the effort, will increase the effort, will increase the effort, will increase the production of droplets and increase the infectivity around you. if you are surrounded by lots of people doing that, there is more opportunity for the virus to spread. lockdown has forced protesters to find more creative ways to make their points. back in march, brazilians took to their balconies, banging pans to show their discontent with president bolsonaro's handling of the pandemic. and israelis joined bolsonaro's handling of the pandemic. and israelisjoined a virtual pandemic. and israelisjoined a vi rtual protest pandemic. and israelisjoined a virtual protest against prime minister benjamin netanyahu was not over half a million people tuned in. do you have to be on the streets to protest effectively? i am watching an online antiracism protests were activist and mps will be speaking. people from all over the world can take part and of course there is no issues with

breaking social distancing rules. i have been stuck inside for the entire lockdown. i can't go out and protest physically, so what can i do? most important thing is to learn, unpack and educate others around us. but can online protests have the same impact? under lockdown, extinction rebellion and black lives matter have still taken to the streets where they can cause disruption and get more publicity. at the end of the day, what is on our phones and on our screens is not real, and in order to create rolling change we have to go outside, talk to people and shout, shout, shout. the government says you shouldn't be protesting and in fact demonstrators could be contributing to spreading cobit. what do you feel about that? racism feelsjust as much as coronavirus, and for me to be standing here with a pandemic, risking my health,

that shows what the government is doing. why should i hope to do that? i should be staying at home, protecting myself. i should be fighting for my rights. in many ways, the pandemic has given people even more reason to protest. but whether it is online or on the street, people have had to adapt so that their voices can still be heard. alice porter, bbc news. the 0scar—winning film gone with the wind has been removed from the american streaming platform hbo max following the global racism protests. the company said the film, made in 1939, would return with an explanation of its historical context and a denouncement of racist depictions. disney plus also advises its subscribers that some of its older films, among them, 1941 animation dumbo, "may contain outdated cultural depictions." and the cable network paramount has cancelled one of america's longest running reality shows amid the protests. cops was first aired more than three decades ago. gina yashere is a british

comedian and writer currently in los angeles making a sitcom, broadcast prime time on the cbs network. from los angeles, shejoined my colleague mike embley to give her thoughts about the issue, and began by talking about a new ground—breaking show she has written for us television. basically, it's about a family of nigerians who have been in america working, and one of them is a nurse, and basically a white guy goes into hospital, having had a heart attack, and falls in love with her. and it's basically the story of these two cultures coming together and realising that they have a lot more common ground than they initially thought. it's just about — it's a show about love, acceptance, friendship and the fact that immigrants are just people just like everybody else, trying to make a living, trying to live a happy life, trying to give their children the best possible future that they can. that's what the show is about. you created it, i know, wrote it and act in it —

you are well—placed to talk about these matters. several people pointing out, of course, that even at the time some of these movies were made, there were plenty of people unhappy with the depictions in them, many native americans have made this point — theyjust were not being listened to. well, exactly, i can't understand why in 2020 we're still talking about blackface. it's ridiculous. when we complained — nobody was listening to us when we complained about it back then, all the way back the mammy depictions in the gone with the wind type movies, then you've got the black—and—white minstrel show, which is hugely offensive and the way that native americans were depicted in films, the whole cowboys and indians franchise and the white man is always the hero and they're always the savages — we've complained about this for a long time but nobody ever listened, and now it takes a horrendous murder seen on televisions all around the world and online to now suddenly make people realise, "0h, maybe blackface is not good." i mean, come on! it is ridiculous. we should note i guess that hettie mcdaniel, who was the first black

person to win an oscar, won it for gone with the wind. i think it would have been — june 10 would have been her 127th birthday, but we should also note, i think, that at the ceremony she had to sit separately from the rest of the cast. they would not even let her in the room — they would not even let her in the room. she won an oscar and she was not allowed to be in the room. they brought her in through the back door to collect her award and then out again. so she was not even sitting separate, she was in another place completely. people suggesting too — certainly people, i think it is unfair to say — supporters of president trump suggesting blazing saddles is now going to be in the firing line, perhaps missing the point that blazing saddles is a satire on the white—washing of hollywood westerns. well, you know, the trump supporters are always going to be arguing about any kind of change. i have no interest in people who are not willing to actually listen to the conversation and listen to people who are being offended and treated in such a horrible way.

at the end of the day, a lot of these movies were made at a time when black people were discriminated against horribly in hollywood. they were not even allowed to play black people. they got white actors to play black people when there were plenty of black actors to play those parts, and black actors were discriminated against all the time. so the fact that people are complaining now, because, "oh, no, white actors aren't allowed to put on blackface and make us look like fools" — i have no interested in what the trump supporters have got to say on the matter, none. of course, movies, books, works of art, tell us a lot about the time in which they came out. it does not make sense surely to argue they should be simply removed, but we need context, we need to be told more about them and about the times. yeah, but that's not what is happening. and the fact is, there were plenty of movies — birth of a nation was another hugely racist movie that was made, and that was of the time, but that is not a movie that people gladly show

because they know it is offensive, so why are they arguing about these things now? is it only because it featured the kkk? what's the difference? i'm not saying they should censor the whole thing but what i am saying is people should be aware that some of this stuff is not good. the british comedian and writer gina yashere speaking from los angeles to my colleague mike embley. a reminder of our top story: a confederate war memorial in the city of portsmouth in virginia is the latest to be targeted by black lives matter protesters. activists smashed statues of confederate soldiers with sledge hammers and pulled them down with ropes. but president trump has pushed back on the issue. he says he won't even consider renaming us military bases that honour confederate generals who fought to preserve slavery in the 19th century civil war. much more of course another as

always. —— on our website as always. you can reach me on twitter. i'm @bbcmaryam. thank you for your company. goodbye. 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's 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's just been patchy rain here and there, and the heaviest of the rain has indeed been across parts of cornwall, devon. it's now clearing away from wales. so little bits of pieces further north and actually scotland and northern ireland escaping most of that rain. 10 degrees will be the 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 escapes 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. now, 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 will be 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 14 degrees. that weather front will make its journey a little bit further north during saturday, and then to the south of that, we'll probably see showers breaking out, 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.

good morning. welcome to breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. 0ur headlines today: pressure on the government over the two—metre social—distancing rule, as senior conservatives call for a relaxation to help businesses. there is an ease in lockdown in england for people living alone and single parents. from saturday, they're allowed to stay with one other household. anti—racism demonstrators target statues in the us, as president trump rejects calls to remove pro—slavery figures and symbols. here, one council prepares to remove a statue of the founder of the scout movement, robert baden—powell, who's been accused of racism and support for hitler.

british airways staff speak out as thousands face redundancy.