this is bbc news, i'm lewis vaughanjones with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. virus deaths surge in brazil — it now has the second highest toll in the world. fears of a second wave of infections start to rise — as cases increase in china and india. britain's central bank says it's ready to act after figures show the country's economy shrank by a fifth. an easy life for the army's horses — why they won't be on parade for queen elizabeth's official birthday on saturday.

hello and welcome to bbc news. brazil has overtaken the uk to become the country with the second highest number of coronavirus deaths — only the us has recorded more. the total number of deaths in brazil now stands at 41,828. the world health organization says the situation is concerning, with some intensive care units close to reaching capacity. katy watson sent this report from sao paolo. siren. another covid call—out in brazil's biggest city and the epicentre of the pandemic. the traffic‘s lighter these days because of quarantine but this is still a city of 22 million, and the roads are as bad as ever. the team's attending a woman in her 90s with covid—19. 70% of their callouts are now related to the virus. she'd been unconscious and struggling to breathe, so the family made the call. in these uncertain times, people just don't know

if this might be the final goodbye. the patients who make it to hospital are, in a sense, the lucky ones. the team says three times as many people are dying at home compared to life before the pandemic. translation: when the pandemic started, all we were doing was registering deaths at home. people went to sleep and never woke up. they didn't even have a chance. putting on protective gear and the continuous cleaning of their ambulance slows them down, but they're not taking any risks. a colleague many in the force looked up to passed away from covid—i9 in april. they know many won't survive this pandemic. in this poor neighbourhood in eastern sao paulo,

one of the worst—hit areas of the city, the virus is all too visible. antonio and kelly are two of the faces behind the numbers — dad and daughter. they lived together and last week, died together. admitted to hospital the same day, together in intensive care, then passed away within a day of each other. "we think he knew", says marcos, his grandson. "he told us he'd rather die than bury his daughter." while the family mourns antonio and kelly, cities like sao paulo and rio are starting to reopen. this despite the ever—rising death toll. brazil has hit yet another grim milestone. but these deaths are not serving as a wake—up call, far from it. jair bolsonaro continues to downplay the virus, and for a man who's never respected social distancing or isolation, ironically, he's becoming more and more isolated every single day.

francis also feels isolated. he's not hugged his son arturfor more than two months, such is his fear of passing the virus on. this has to make do, for now. as various countries around the world gradually ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions, fears over a potential resurgence in cases have intensified. that's after several countries which had started to allow greater freedom of movement started to see the number of infections rise, prompting authorities to reimpose some restrictions. rich preston has this report. in china, where the coronavirus was first officially reported last december,

authorities have closed down six markets in the capital beijing after new cases were reported for a second day running. the first reported cases in the capital for nearly two months. translation: i am a little worried because this has happened somewhere very close to me. translation: i am slightly worried. but if we carry out proper prevention during this outbreak then things should not be too bad. officials say restaurants which may have received food from the markets will be inspected and plans to reopen schools in beijing have been put on hold. india has seen record daily increases in cases after relaxing lockdown measures this week in an effort to boost the economy. hospitals are struggling to cope. critical care for the very sickest patients is particularly hard to come by. coronavirus cases have doubled in recent weeks and are still surging. south korea, which was widely praised for its relatively successful containment of coronavirus, is indefinitely extending new preventative measures until the daily number of new cases drops

to single digits. when students in the capital seoul began to return to school last month, authorities quickly shut some of them back down after a sudden rise in infections. officials say they are extending strict sanitation guidelines. translation: these guidelines are aimed at cutting the number of infections in seoul while minimising damage to schools and business. and in russia which has the third—highest infection rate in the world, there fears that lockdown restrictions have been lifted too early. restrictions were eased this week, ending six weeks of lockdown. president putin says people can go back to work on tuesday. but with the increased movement of people has come a rise in the number of daily infections. it's five months since the first reported death of a man from a mysterious new disease in central china. since then, coronavirus has spread across the world, killing hundreds of thousands of people and changing

the way society functions. as many hope to see things return to some semblance of normality as soon as possible, this news from china, india and russia may pour cold water over that and prove a stark warning to government everywhere that easing lockdown restrictions cannot be a one—way street. to the us and in seattle, protesters have set up a ‘police—free' area of the city. they're calling it an autonomous zone, across four blocks of the city. president trump has threatened to end the demonstrations with military force. the governor there says the president should stay out of the state's business. there are still growing calls for police reforms across the us in the wake of george floyd's death. jane o'brien has more. woman: black lives matter! the capitol hill autonomous zone, or chaz, as seattle's artsy neighbourhood has been rechristened, has the vibe of a block party, according to the city's mayor. there is a "no cop co—op, offering free food and other

supplies, and shrines to george floyd, whose death in minneapolis at the hands of a white police officer sparked global protests and reenergised the black lives matter movement. but seattle's police chief, in a video to her department, painted a darker picture of general lawlessness. leaving the precinct was not my decision. we fought for days to protect it, i asked you to stand on that line day in and day out, to be pelted with projectiles, to be screamed at, threatened and in some cases hurt. then to have a change of course nearly two weeks in, it seems like an insult to you and our community. president trump has told mayorjenny durkan to "take back the city", tweeting "if you don't, i will." she said his threats were unwelcome and any such action would be illegal. but in an interview with fox news he renewed his criticism. i saw her break down, i saw her leave, i saw her have

absolutely no control, and i saw her make a lot of bad decisions, including "don't do anything that is going to affect anybody." toughness sometimes is the most compassionate. protesters say they have no intention of leaving, and are reportedly limiting access to the area. i would love to see the seattle police department be turned into a youth centre. what happens when no—one's here and theyjust clear the road and it goes back to normal? it defeats the purpose, and they win, they can come back and get into the precinct that they closed down. we want it to stay closed down forever. so we are going to stand out here forever. supporters call the protesters patriots, critics including the president say they are anarchists and terrorists. language that shows just how divided america remains over police reform, and how to achieve it. here in the uk, the devastating economic impact of coronavirus lockdown is becoming clear.

the economy just suffered its biggest ever monthly drop. gdp fell more than 20% in april. it's three times bigger than the drop during the whole of the 2008—2009 financial crisis twelve years ago. but analysts say that april was likely to have been the worst month. our economics editor faisal islam explains. a massive hit to the economy is no surprise when streets are silent, shops are closed, factories idle and tens of billions of sales don't happen because they cannot. but such a slump on this scale in one month isn'tjust a record, it was unimaginable and way beyond any normal scale. marlow zoo is one example of a leisure attraction whose shutdown during this pandemic is seen in these numbers. april had easter this year, so we were expecting about 70,000 guests to come here to marwell to enjoy the zoo and in the end we got nobody at all.

while we were expecting £i.8 million in terms of visitor income for the month, we didn't receive anything at all, so disastrous really, april, for us. in april, the first full month of lockdown, the economy fell by just over 20%, losing a fifth of its total value. it means since the pandemic and lockdown began in march, the uk economy has lost a quarter of its value, that is the cliff on this chart, making the financial crisis in 2008 resemble a small blip. the question — where do things go from here? for a dynamic, creative economy, we depend so much on human contact and we have been very badly hit by this, but we are also amazingly resilient and creative. we will bounce back. there was a report that came out a couple of days ago from the oecd, that group of industrialised nations, and it suggested that the drop in gdp for this year for the uk would actually be worse than for every other industrialised nation.

so we are in a very, very difficult situation as a country. in oxfordshire, an airfield with tens of millions worth of vehicles waiting for the showrooms to sell again. and in turn meaning the car factories will be far from full tilt. so this is what those grim numbers look like in reality. up and down the country, storage areas, airfields, ports, full of unsold cars. in april, a 99.7% fall in car sales. the challenge now, as lockdown just starts to ease, is will it actually return to normal? will these cars actually sell, or is the economy fundamentally damaged? in germany, they funded thousands of euros for new purchases of green cars, and slashed vat as part of a massive second rescue package. here, more support on its way, signalled by the bank of england. we have to be ready and ready to take action, notjust the bank of england but more broadly on what we can do

to offset those longer term damaging effects. for the moment, the government is focusing on a gradual reopening, for example, of the housing market. we are just starting to recover. i do believe it will take until the end of the year to come close, whether we will even get there, but i feel positive that there is enough people who want to move, and if there's enough people who want to move then people will sell and people will buy. and there is much lost ground to make up in gyms too, with the added challenge of whether people will use gyms in a new normal. the fitness sector has proved before that it is particularly resilient in a recession, and i think we will benefit greatly from the tailwind provided by the pandemic, actually. we have never seen a weaker month, the economy far from fighting fit. the question isjust how long the process of rehabilitation will take. stay with us on bbc news, still to come:

ladies and gentlemen, the beatles! a cultural treasure trove goes online. for the first time, episodes of the ed sullivan show will be made available for all to watch. 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 hill. 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: brazil has overtaken the uk to become the country with the second highest number of coronavirus deaths. only the us has recorded a higher toll. the bank of england has said it's ready to take action to help the british economy, after output shrank by a record 20% in april. spurred on by protests against police brutality, us governors, mayors, and city council members are moving to fundamentally change the way their police departments operate. boston is shifting $3 million

from police budgets to public health programmes. and new york's governor andrew cuomo has signed an executive order requiring hundreds of the state's police departments to implement reforms. phillip hamilton is a laywer and a legal analyst who's taken civila and criminal cases against the new york police department. thank you for having me this evening. let's focus on some of these reforms in new york. the first around police officers misconduct records. at the moment they are restricted. the aim here is to increase transparency. what impact will that have? it will have a significant impact. as you noted, as of at least yesterday those records with in respect toa those records with in respect to a lot of corrections officers police officers and the like were essentially secret. they were unable to be accessed by the public at large, by the press, the by

those who would otherwise wish to hold police accountable. it was difficult to get into the records when we spoke about some of the officers who had allegations of misconduct were substantiated, or excessive force that were substantiated, and some of the underlying issues, it was difficult in new york to figure out who the bad officers were on who the good ones were. just on that. what about the argument that these need to be kept restricted, not com pletely need to be kept restricted, not completely private but they need to be restricted to protect from matters of privacy, due process? no different than a lot of the other records which protect city government employees. personal information will never be released, in respect to their phone numbers home address, personal information such as that. but in respect to disciplinary findings and issues they had on the job, thatis issues they had on the job, that is separate from personal

information and that is what the governor has now allow the public to have access to. not the personal information of an individual officer. tell us about the money, this idea of buying finances to reforms. the saying money talks, i think in that respect that is what the governor was aiming for with this new legislation enacted today. police departments in the united states and particularly new york are funded by local government that then subsidised by the larger coffer, the state government. so what the governor was saying in these reforms is that if your local municipality once additional police funding to keep your community safe then that needs to be done with effective police activity, you need to fall in line with pharaoh policing and just policing and things along those lines. outside of that, the

state will hold back funds and that makes it more difficult to police. this is about fairness accountability and better policing moving forward so that we in the states do not have theissues we in the states do not have the issues to what the world has seen over the course of the last two weeks. just briefly in one sentence, how optimistic are you about these changes, that they will the impact you wish to see? i am surprisingly optimistic in terms of this being a very good beginning and a very good start. we appreciate you talking to a, a complicated issue that you have explained clearly. thank you very much. french police officers have held protests over a new government ban on the chokehold method used by officers to restrain suspects. it was announced on monday after black lives matter demonstrators took to the streets alleging french police brutality. more protests are planned for this weekend. reged ahmad reports.

the police in france throwing their handcuffs onto the ground in protest. these officers are angry at comparisons made between the french police force and officers in the us in the wake of the killing of george floyd, when a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes. in paris, police drive convoys down the champs elysees sounding their horns. they're also angry at a french government decision to ban the chokehold. the government says it is a dangerous method of arrest. but police officers say it is not the same move implicated in the death of george floyd. translation: what drives us nuts, sorry for the term, is the police in france is the most monitored police in the world. so when some go overboard, which is very small minority, it shouldn't stigmatize all police officers. those words will be cold comfort to those who alledge brutality at the hands of french police officers. 24—year—old adama traore died in 2016 while being

restrained by police. medical experts were not able to agree on whether the way he was held by officers killed him. but his sister, who has been involved in the recent black lives matter protest, says her brother's case has similarities to the us. translation: unfortunately, the death of george floyd has sent a chill around the world and echoed what happened to my brother. they died in exactly the same way. adama carried the body of three gendarmes on his body. black lives matter protests in france have resonated with many as rights groups say allegations of racism at the hands of french police have remained unaddressed. police officers and unions are strongly denying the charge. and it is not clear where the needle will settle on this debate when it comes to police behaviour. but it does seem that the events of the last few weeks have opened up an old, some might say festering, wound in the country.

queen elizabeth's official birthday celebrations this weekend will look different, because of the coronavirus outbreak. instead of the usual fly—past at buckingham palace, there's going to be a smaller ceremony at windsor castle. our royal correspondent sarah campbell reports pulling the first world war guns into position. in normal times, state and ceremonial occasions are punctuated by the king's troop, but with all such events cancelled since march, most of the regiment‘s horses have been enjoying a quieter life, locked down in leicestershire. the decision has been taken to get them back to the barracks. one of the first to return is ten—year—old equinox. he has just been eating grass and chilling out. he needs to do some exercise. in common with many others, he needs a haircut. we take off the manes off for safety reasons because when they are in

harness it can get entangled. back to work means getting the correct footwear. hundreds of hours of practice would have been put in to make sure no mistakes are made on parade, not least because the commander—in—chief, the queen, will be watching. for new recruits like emma it is disappointing to be missing out this year. she joined the unit just as lockdown began and has stayed on—site throughout. it has been different because we are used to having so many more horses here so i am looking forward when it goes back to normal to experience what it is really like with the shows and parades, so i am itching to do all of that. at the barracks they are champing at the bit to get back on parade. with humans and horses getting ready to resume normal duties as soon as it is safe to do so.

now to a seminal moment in modern american history — the beatles making their first appearance on the ed sullivan show. more than 70 million people tuned in — still one of the biggest television audiences of all time. now thousands of performances from the show are being made available online. tim allman takes a look. george, john, paul and ringo... february 1964. john, paul, george and ringo arrive on american soil. beetle mania had officially crossed the atlantic. one of the main reasons for their trip, an appearance on the ed sullivan show. ladies and gentlemen, the beatles. the fab four when not the only big—name to make their debut on the programme. pop comedians, actors and athletes, all of them had one destination

in mind. i knew that we were doing something special because we had been watching other act on their and if you were on the ed sullivan show, you had made it. the show ran for over 20 yea rs, it. the show ran for over 20 years, from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. a familiar reassuring face in a country that was being transformed. the time may have been a changing but adds formula for success was constant. he said always open with a big reduction number, keep it clean, put something in there for the kids and then close with something that the people are not going to forget and will be talking about on monday morning. now, thousands of hours will be available to watch online for the first time. an extraordinary collection a cultural treasure trove. television history. you can reach me on twitter —

i'm @lvaughanjones. hello. there are some big thunderstorms in the forecast for this weekend. but it is not going to be raining everywhere all the time, in fact, there will be some sunny spells. in any sunshine, it will feel quite warm and pretty humid. but some thundery downpours are likely, all driven by an area of low pressure. you can see this swirl of cloud on the satellite picture. our area of low pressure has been spinning around across the bay of biscay. it's been throwing lumps of cloud and rain in our direction, a process which continues on through saturday. we can follow the different lumps of wet weather. this area of rain moving across northeast england through the morning and then up into scotland. i think it's going to stay quite grey and murky for some of these northern and eastern coasts. northern ireland should brighten up a little bit with some sunshine, but some showers. and then down across england and wales, we will see some

sunny spells developing, but some very heavy downpours and thunderstorms breaking out here. a more persistent area of wet weather likely to push towards the southwest of england as we head through the afternoon. and then you can see these scattered downpours and thunderstorms across parts of the midlands, wales and up into northwest england particularly. but it will be warm temperatures there for liverpool, for example, 23 degrees. the odd shower for northern ireland and some outbreaks of rain continuing across some parts of scotland, although i think northwest scotland will see a decent amount of sunshine. northeast scotland holding onto some of that coastal cloud, mist and murk. so, as we go into saturday night, we continue to push our various lumps of wet weather northwards and westwards across the british isles. there will be some clear spells, equally, some fog patches, i think it's likely to stay very murky for some of those eastern coasts of scotland and england. but a very mild night. temperatures as we start sunday morning between 11—14 degrees. then for sunday, well, really, it is more of the same. a lot of the cloud for these eastern and northern parts. elsewhere, some spells of sunshine, yes, but a scattering of showers, they will be quite hit and miss, but where they do

prop up, they could well be heavy with some hail and thunder thrown in for good measure. and it's another warm day as well with temperatures widely 21—24 degrees. a little bit cooler though where we keep the cloud close to some of those north sea coasts. now, our area of low pressure will still be with us as we head into monday, but it does weaken. it becomes quite flabby. not many white lines on the chart, you'll notice. not many isobars, so not much of a wind, but any showers that do crop up will be heavy and slow moving. and it stays unsettled, showery and rather humid throughout next week.

this is bbc news. the headlines: brazil has now recorded the second—highest number of deaths from covid—19 of any country. president jair bolsonaro has consistently downplayed the severity of the crisis. some densely populated cities have begun lifting restrictions, even though many brazilians fear the worst of the epidemic is yet to come. there are growing fears in several countries of a possible second wave of covid—19 infections. beijing has shut down six wholesale food markets after new cases were reported for a second day running. india, which opened up this week, has seen record daily increases in cases. britain's central bank has said that it is ready to take action to help the country's economy to recover after official figures showed that output shrank by a record 20% in april. the effect of the anti—virus lockdown is already far bigger than that of the 2008 global financial crisis.