it's kind of hard to occupy them at the best of times, isn't it? so i think she probably would have... she's got a lot on her plate at the minute, but i think, had that not being going on, i think she probably wouldn't have coped very well. but, yeah, i think i've coped with it a little bit better than she would. we'll find out exactly how corrie has coped when these episodes start being shown onjuly 24th. colin paterson, bbc news. the queen has been seen for the first time taking part in a zoom call. she joined princess anne and four carers on a conference call, to mark the start of this year's carers week. her majesty and the princess royal heard about the carers‘ experiences, and the pressures they've faced looking after loved ones during the pandemic. there are seven million unpaid carers in the uk, and during the call, the queen paid tribute to them. it's interesting listening to all your tales and stories

and i'm very impressed by what you have achieved already, so i'm very glad to have been able to join you today. time for a look at the weather. here's helen willetts. hello, i've found a bit of sunshine in scotland, a north—south split in the weather but for all of us a disturbed weather picture. some places have had jun's worth of rain, particularly wales and the south—west. we are increasing the humidity, the reason for all this moisture around. you can see the rain across the far south, it's wet in the channel islands, we got a band of showers between and we've got another area of rain coming off the north sea, but to the north of that some good spells of sunshine. so that is the scenario through the remainder of the afternoon and it's unusually windy as well. the winds quite dusty forjune, 30, a0 miles

an hour in places. despite that the temperatures upon yesterday because of the increasing humidity. there will be some downpours around, we've seen some thunder and lightning. but as we come further north, away from the showers and area of rain, for scotla nd the showers and area of rain, for scotland and northern ireland it's drier than yesterday, 13 perhaps in stornoway but the north—west highlands likely to get into the high teens. we keep the drier weather here overnight but the rain coming into the north—east of england spells further west across northern ireland and the rest of northern england and north wales. thundery showers this evening tend to ease away but temperatures barely fall for many others overnight, 12-1a, fall for many others overnight, 12—ia, increasingly muggy and misty and murky because we've got this humidity. we will have some fog, particularly where we've got the rain and everything is on the move tomorrow, rain heading northwards. this is the first one coming on across the southern half of the uk, turning showery and there will be intense downpours and the other band of rain pushing from northern ireland into scotland, away from the north—west highlands. we keep fine and sunny weather here. there may be

outbreaks outbreaks of sunshine later in the day but the low pressure is with us through the weekend. it drifts further northward so we start to cut off is a really brisk winds but we continue to feed in the moisture and humidity, temperatures are rising with a bit more sunshine on offer on saturday, but there will be some intense downpours. some of the showers on saturday are looking quite angry. large hail thunder and lightning, but between those you can see temperatures into the low to mid 20s, perhaps the areas most likely, wales as you soar there and the midlands, perhaps northern england again on sunday, for the likelihood of those slow moving downpours because we've lost the wind but i wouldn't like to rule them out anywhere and that will still be some murky weather for the north sea. back to you. a reminder of our top story. there has been major disruption to cancer ca re there has been major disruption to cancer care during the coronavirus pandemic, new figures show a big fall in the numbers of patients

being seen. that's all from the bbc news at one. so, it's goodbye from me. and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. hello, you're watching bbc news. the time isi:3apm. and here's your latest sports news. tottenham midfielder dele alli will miss their first match back against manchester united next friday. he's been given a one—match ban by the fa. he was charged with misconduct in february after posting a video on social media about coronavirus in which he made fun of an asian man. he's also been fined £50,000 and must undertake a face—to—face education course. jill scott has signed a new two—year deal at manchester city —

that will also see her take up a coaching role at the club. the 33—year—old — who's been capped ia9 times for england — has scored 2a goals for city sincejoining in february in february 201a from everton. she says she'll still be focussing on playing — but will work alongside new head coach gareth taylor. premier league clubs are meeting today to finalise the return to action next week. the three—month lockdown has cost the division £1 billion in revenue. the finance firm deloitte says that £500 million of that is in rebates to broadcasters and a loss of matchday revenue, which will be permanently lost. the remainder could be recouped next season if the remaining 92 matches are completed. the 20 clubs made a combined record of £5 billion last season spain's top division la liga returns tonight as third—place sevilla take on city rivals real betis. leaders barcelona and real madrid

get going at the weekend. the former arsenal midfielder francis coquelin — whose valencia team took the knee during training to support anti—racism protests — says players and clubs will show their support to those making a stand against inequality it doesn't matter what colour you are. i'm sure everyone has been affected by what's been happening. and as a coloured person i'm obviously hurt, you know? and some people will have stuff under their shirt to obviously show support and show that you have to stand against that. tributes will also be paid to george floyd when professional golf, returns in the usa. rory mcilroy will be in the field at fort worth in texas. he says he wants more diversity in the sport. he believes having more role models from different

backgrounds is crucial — having grown up watching tiger woods. he was my hero growing up and it didn't matter what colour his skin was, what his beliefs were, tiger was, what his beliefs were, tiger was my hero and his been a lot of kids' heroes over the years that have grown up playing golf. we have been very lucky to have him in our game. an agreement in principle is in place for the heavyweight bout that everyone wants to see. a two—fight deal between anthony joshua and tyson fury next year — but it won't take place if either of them lose their respective title defences. joshua will put his three titles on the line against bulgarian kubrat pulev. the wbc champion fury faces a third bout against deontay wilder. win those and the unification fight will be on. joshua's promoter eddie hearn says he's had offers to stage the fights in china,

the middle east, us and uk. if while there was to beat theory, which i can't see happening, but if he was we would turn our focus to deontay wilder because anthony wants to create the legacy of becoming the undisputed heavyweight champion. but let's be honest, the fight we would love to see is tyson fury against agen love to see is tyson fury against ager, two brooks, two great fighters, both have been up—and—down and back from adversity and just a huge moment for sport in general and also british sport. —— tyson fury against anthonyjoshua. —— two british fighters. doubts still remain over the us open taking place at the end of august — the world number one novak djokovic and rafael nadal say they might not travel to new york due to fears over covid—i9. billiejean king won 13 titles at flushing meadows believes it will be safe to play and is confident the grand slam will go ahead. if they do the us open they are most likely to do the other tournaments they have ownership in and that is they have ownership in and that is the cincinnati tournament so they

might do two tournaments at the us open site is what they are thinking. but probably no people. they have been working on this village, as have the atp, the men's association, the wta. you cannot believe the work they have all done to make this happen, hopefully. but the us open, i think it might happen, yeah. test cricket returns next month with england playing the west indies in a three—match series at bio secure venues. the first test is at hampshire's ageas bowl, with the remainder of the series at old trafford. the windies arrived in the country this week and england paceman james anderson has praised them for making the trip. it is brilliant we are closing in on getting some test cricket played. after a decent lay—off. yeah, from my point of view we are grateful the west indies are coming over here. obviously with what is going on in the world, i can imagine it could be a scary decision for a lot of them, for all of them, to make the journey

over. so we are hugely grateful. reminder of that story that the premier league clubs are in a meeting today and rubber—stamped the return to action next wednesday. they have agreed to a range of medical and operational protocols meaning the season will go ahead. it was expected to anyway because they have passed all the protocols so far limiting those allowed in the stadium on match days, split up into zones stadium on match days, split up into zones at the various grounds including the tunnel, pitch side, deep cleaning of corner flags and such like, those details on the bbc sport website. we will have those details in the next hour as well. thank you very much, see you later. hoping billyjean king is right. olly foster with the latest sport. more from him in the next hour. i will take you through developments

around coronavirus and many other stories as well today. but let's start with the story that dominates scotland has recorded an addition five deaths due to coronavirus. but meantime the r number — which shows the rate at which the virus is reproducing — has fallen. this is what the scotland first minister, nicola sturgeon, said a short while ago. as you will recall, the r number shows the rate at which this virus is reproducing. in summary, if r is above one the virus will infect more than one other person and the virus will spread exponentially. if the r number is below one the number of people with the virus will fall. we estimate that the r number in scotland as of friday 5th june was between 0.6 and 0.8. that is a lower estimate than for two weeks ago when we calculated that the number was likely to be between 0.7 and 0.9. under that estimate, we expect that the virus will

continue to decline. in addition, we estimate that last friday a,500 people in scotland had the virus and were infectious. our previous estimate for 29th may had been that 11,500 people were likely to be infectious. that sounds like a very big decline. so it is worth me stressing that we don't actually think that the number of infectious people has more than halved in just one week. what has been happening is that we have been reassessing our estimates for previous weeks based on the latest figures available to us. in short, it is likely that the 11,500 was an overestimate, not that the number has halved in a single week. scotland's first minister there. we will talk more about that later. lots of you have been writing in with your questions about how

the new rules on so called support bubbles work. my colleague geeta guru murphy spoke to dr chris smith, the virologist and broadcaster to get some answers for our viewers. still getting lots of questions coming in to the newsroom on what is going on at the moment. we are joined by the virologist and broadcaster dr chris smith who will answer some of your questions on support social bubbles. i just want to start with this whole two metres distancing row that is still going on. can you just explain exactly what the current rule is and what is the science, the clear, confirmed science behind it? we know that the coronavirus is a respiratory infection, in other words, when you cough, sneeze or even just breathe, you are blowing out particles. those are droplets of water from your airways where the virus grows. and in those droplets will be virus particles and those particles

will travel a certain distance away from you, and if someone is standing within the distance that those particles can reach they could breathe them in and they could catch the infection. so the further you stand from an infected person the lower the likelihood is that you are going to encounter an infectious dose of the virus and pick it up. at two metres, we think, but this is based on data published in the lancet medical journal, we think the risk is about 1.3%. at one metre that risk actually doubles to 2.6%. so it isn't a huge number, it is certainly a lot smaller than the about 13% if you are closer than a metre but it is not zero. we started with a cautious two metres, but many people are saying it is very difficult to run businesses, operate schools, and have some semblance of normality in life with a two metres distance so one metre seems to be

a reasonable compromise between risk and practicality. ok, thanks very much for that. obviously lots of views depending on where you're coming from on that one. i want to move on to of these questions on the new social support bubble advice. a question firstly from moira. "if two people shielding in a separate household who are relatives and one lives alone, for example my mother, can she stay in my house with myself, my husband and my son?" this is a tricky one, this one, and i have full sympathy. the issue is if you are shielding, you are shielding for a reason and the current guidance is that because people who are shielding and being asked to shield are at very high risk relative to the general population, the guidance for them has not currently changed. so people who are shielding should stay shielding, they shouldn't form these support bubbles at this stage. borisjohnson did say yesterday more information will be coming out shortly for people who are shielding but for now the guidance remains in place. you shouldn't change your shielding status. 0k.

let me just ask, lynn says, "i live in a household with my husband and older children, my dad and father—in—law are both widowed and live at home on their own, do we have to choose between them to form a support bubble?" another tricky one and a sorry situation and they have my sympathy. but the answer is, you do have to choose between them because they are separate households and the current guidance is you can form a support bubble between two households, and exclusively those two units, and by household we mean one of those households is a household withjust one person in it, so you would have to choose between the two of them and then just form that exclusive relationship with one of those individuals. or the other way of looking at it is, if they live close to each other, perhaps they could form a support bubble between each other and help each other out, that is another possibility. john asks, "if someone lives in a house of multiple occupancy but has no contact with others in the house, am i classed as a single person, and therefore can i form a bubble

with my girlfriend?" a good example of this would be students who are renting a house together and they have each got a room in that house but they don't actually live as a family. but as far as the interpretation of this would go, that probably constitutes actually a shared household because you are sharing a kitchen, sharing a bathroom, sharing other living spaces, therefore you are effectively a household, you are not a person living alone. if you had a flat that was a self—contained flat in a shared building, that's a bit different, but in this circumstance it does sound like it is a group of people who may not have much contact but they are nevertheless living together and for the purposes of this guidance would be regarded as a household and therefore that is not a household withjust one person in it. so they have to stay distanced. the point about kitchens and bathrooms are obvious places where the virus and anything can spread much more easily, i suppose. theresa wants to know, "can i have my grandson overnight? i am a single grandparent living on the ground floor of my own house. however, i have a lodger who lives on the second floor." again, this is sort of similar to the previous question, isn't it? if you have a lodger who is in their own accommodation

with their own front door and they keep themselves to themselves, there is no day—to—day contact between the two individuals, you could regard that as effectively two separate households. on the other hand, if there are shared facilities, shared living environments, then that's one household from an infectious transmission point of view, and really that doesn't fit within the scope of this law. you might not be able to answer this one, it is an anonymous question. "i currently live with two adult children while my partner of long—standing lives with his two adult children. when will we be able to meet without social distancing ? " well, we don't know at the moment but for now what we are able to do is to go out in groups of up to six people, meet in an open space, so you can still meet as long as you observe social distancing. but at the moment, it is only within your own household that you can actually give people a hug, for example. so for now, that hasn't changed. another very difficult one,

anonymously, that has come in to us, asking what about grieving parents? "my husband and i suffered massively since the death of our six—day—old son. both suffering from ptsd. can we meet with another household for the support we both desperately need for our mental health?" i'm very sorry to hear that story. ptsd means post—traumatic stress disorder and this is where people get very harrowing flashbacks and recollections to what has happened to them. it can be very, very frightening and very disabling. having good support is really, really important. the problem is that these two individuals are wanting to get together with other individuals from other households and this would be households meeting. this doesn't really fulfil the remit of support bubbles at this time. so the only thing they could perhaps explore are online support groups, or get together on an online forum, for example, talk to each other over an electronic communications platform. at the moment there is no scope for people in that

situation, awful as it is, getting together, unfortunately. obviously people can meet outside but that isn't always easier or appropriate. no, not the same, is it? that is very difficult. anna asks, "i'm a single parent working from home and would like to be in a bubble with my parents who are over 70 and live 100 miles away. can they come and use the flat they own near my house? this is how they support me during normal times." anna says she is a single parent looking after a minor, and therefore she is completely within the scope of this guidance, which is that she can form a support bubble with her parents. they are allowed to travel wherever they like and if they come to stay in that house and it is exclusively their house they stay in then there is nothing to stop them doing that and they are providing that important support for her. i think that's absolutely fine, in my view. ok, chris, those are some of the questions we have had on the social bubble question. if i can just come back to the whole

two metre and one metre argument dominating the political front a bit today, can ijust ask about some other stats that we have that the scientists advising the government have said in the past that spending six seconds at a distance of one metre is the same as spending one minute at a distance of two metres? people will not be timing the interactions and don't necessarily stick to the exact distances anyway. what is your own sense about where the government should be heading with this? is wise to wait until the infection rate comes down to relax these rules? viruses don't have stopwatches and tape measures and where these numbers come from is that it is all a numbers game, we know that you need to get what is called an infectious dose to pick up the virus. that infectious dose for this coronavirus is pretty low, perhaps as low as 20 virus particles in order to guarantee that a person is going to get infected. the further you are away from someone, or the more fleeting your contact with them, the lower the likelihood that you are going to

pick up the infection. the judgment we have to make is what will that do if we do shrink that distance to the numbers of cases and can we cope with that increase in numbers of cases? and those are the sorts ofjudgments the government will have to make. many other countries in europe have changed their guidance. our original two metres was a cautious one, well reasoned and cautious and other countries are getting on ok at one metre. i suspect there probably will be a reduction down to one metre because it is more practical, but there is no reason why if we started with one metre and we see movement in the wrong direction we couldn't reverse that, and perhaps do that originally and perhaps do that regionally in parts of the country where we see flare—ups. for alljust experts virologist experts warn 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. chanting being black is not a crime! sparked by the death of george floyd, anti—racism protests have been taking place around the world. chanting black lives matter! while many people have tried to socially distance, on big demonstrations, it can be almost impossible. breathing, shouting, yelling, cheering — this will increase the air flow, it will increase the production of droplets and, therefore, it will increase the infectivity around you. so if you're 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 a virtual protest against prime minister benjamin netanyahu. over 500,000 people tuned in.

so, do you have to be on the streets to protest effectively? i'm watching an online anti—racism protest where activists and mps will be speaking. people from all over the world can take part and of course there's no issues with breaking social distancing rules. i suffer from asthma, quite bad asthma, and so i've been stuck inside for the entire lockdown. i can't go out and protest physically, so what can i do? the most important things that we can do is 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's on our phones and what's on our screens is not real, and in order to create real change, we have to go outside, talk to people and shout, shout, shout. now, the government says that

you shouldn't be protesting and that in fact demonstrators could be contributing to spreading covid. what do you feel about that? racism killsjust as much as coronavirus, and for me to be standing here in a pandemic, risking my health, that shows what the government's doing. why should i have to do that? why should i be there? i should be staying at home, protecting myself. but i feel the need to fight — fight for my rights. in many ways, the pandemic has given people even more reason to protest. but whether its online or on the streets, people have had to adapt so that their voices can still be heard. alice porter, bbc news. much more coming up from 2pm. now it's time for a look at the weather with helen willetts. hello there. an ominous—looking skyline earlier in the day in scarborough. the rain clouds gathering. they have gathered in the north and east. we've got thunderclouds gathering elsewhere and it's turning increasingly humid.

and that's because we've got low pressure sat in the bay of biscay and it will feed in that humid air. so, a risk of further thundery downpours throughout the rest of today. it will feel quite warm between them with some brightness, but we've got quite a lot of rain to come for the north and east. so, for scotland and northern ireland, it is here where we will find the best of the dry, bright and sunny weather throughout the remainder of daylight, but overnight that rain spills its way westwards into northern ireland, to north wales, to the midlands. yes, the thunderstorms ease for a time, but it stays wet for the channel islands and it's humid. as i say, we've got lots of moisture around, so there will be mist and fog quite widely, particularly over the hills in the rain, but at lower levels across parts of the northern isles and the moraycoast. but that clears and actually the north sees the best of the drier weather again tomorrow. but everything is tending to move further northwards tomorrow. so the wet weather that we have

got currently sitting in the channel islands is making its way across southern england through the course of tomorrow, giving us some brighter skies, but thundery downpours in there as well. perhaps some heavy showers ahead of it as well and a brisk and gusty wind. lots of misty low cloud. some good breaks in the cloud potentially in north—west england, but notably again highland scotland, north—western areas seeing some decent spells of sunshine, because for northern ireland and the rest of scotland tomorrow it's looking cloudy with some rain. but temperatures are up and that's because the air is humid. those winds have been a feature throughout the day today. they will be a feature tonight and into tomorrow, but they do start to ease just a little bit in the south later on. that's because the area of low pressure is starting to move its way northwards, so with it the risk of bringing that increasing humidity and low pressure, making the air unstable, so more prone to further heavy showers, but it's those south—easterly winds which will increase the humidity not just by day, but of course by night, some uncomfortable nights for sleeping coming up. and some heavy and torrential downpours. so very hit and miss rain, but when you do catch one of those showers or showery bursts of rain through the weekend it will come down, there will be

some hail and thunder, so some torrential downpours around, on both saturday and sunday with a low pressure close by. but temperatures in between, getting up into the low and mid 20s, a little more like they should be at this time of year.

the first data from the new nhs test and trace programme in england shows two thirds of people who tested positive provided details of who they had been close to. major disruption to cancer care in england during the coronavirus pandemic — figures for april show urgent referrals by gps fell 60% on the same period the year before. 60% is a very significant drop, and that's because partly people are too frightened to come forward to go to their gps. and secondly, the diagnostic service has collapsed. pressure on the government to relax the two—metre distancing rule —