lots of england sing active storms, lots of lightning, large hail, squally winds. rain across northern england and northern ireland is edging its way northwards into scotland, but drier to the north and east, but the sea haar and fret will keep things quite a grey and cool. showers are obviously congregating a lot near centre of low pressure in the southend west, but will tend to ease a little through the night. another warm night, the low cloud will return, slow to clear tomorrow, otherwise further spells of sunshine and some heavy and thundery showers. hello. this is bbc news with carrie gracie. the headlines: british airways‘ treatment of staff during the coronavirus crisis is a "national disgrace" according to a group of prominent uk politicians — they say ba has used the pandemic to cut

thousands of jobs. virus deaths surge in brazil — it now has the second highest toll in the world. london's top police officer tells those planning to join anti—racism protests today to stay off the streets amid a warning that far—right groups could try to disrupt events. in an interview with the bbc, the dalai lama, the leader of tibetan buddhism says he's been inspired by the compassions shown during the coronavirus crisis. no footguards, no carriage ride and no flypast — how the queen's official birthday will be a socially distanced celebration at windsor castle today. coming up, we'll be live in windsor with highlights of a special military parade to mark the official birthday of her majesty the queen. but first on bbc news, philippa thomas hears from people around the world about their extraordinary experiences during the pandemic and how covid—i9 has

changed their lives. welcome to coronavirus: your stories, a programme about how covid—i9 is changing the lives of people around the world. i'm phillipa thomas. this week we're bringing you stories from the vulnerable communities whose residents are more at risk but less in the public eye, and the efforts being taken to try to stop the devastation that this pandemic can cause. we'll hear what's being done to stop the spread of the virus in one of the most densely populated areas in the world. asia's largest slum, dharavi, mumbai.

first, a story of native american volunteers who have banded together to help some of the tribal nations hit hardest by covid—i9 in some of the remotest areas of the united states, without running water or electricity or internet access. jo overton in utah started by helping to source a0 masks. now she helps co—ordinate the distribution of thousands of pieces of life—saving equipment. she's working across tribal lines, monitoring the rise in covid cases every day. navajo was the very first to get covid back in april, maybe the end of march, and it happened at a large gathering and then people went home and they were in fact did and it infected hundreds of families initially. if you're native american, you're at least ten times more likely to get covid, and you're at least four times more likely to die from it.

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

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

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

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

the nurses and the doctors in the federally—run ihs hospitals do not have enough gloves or protective equipment. i don't understand this. ihs got $1 billion on april the 3rd for covid supplies 7 we've no idea what they did with them because when we talk to them they say we don't have gloves, we don't have face shields. so volunteers like you, jo, working from your own home have had to get involved and it might have started small with a0 masks or so, but tell me something about the situation now, what kind of things you're helping to supply. we have a 2—pronged approach to this. one of the things we do is providing personal protective equipment, or ppe, to healthcare workers, frontline workers and making sure that they are safe, because they're taking care of the people. this is all on reservations. and the other thing that we do

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

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

when you grow up and what will you do to help the people?" so i got a degree in social work because i thought that was one of the ways that i could really help native americans and it means the world to me. my mother is a world changer and i have a deep desire to make my mother proud and there would be nothing more important to me than being just like my mother. she changed the lives of the people on the reservations. how? my mother, she was raising four girls single—y and in her early a0s she decided she would become a lawyer and then she would go home to the reservation and help the people. even though my mother had rheumatoid arthritis and was quite crippled from it, she did, she went to law school and then she moved back to the reservation,

became notjust a lawyer for the people but a judge. the very first attorney general we ever had — native and woman — and she helped change the constitution of our tribe, and she also rewrote the domestic violence code for two different tribes, including ours. my mother was always a voice for the voiceless and protection for the vulnerable. and a lot of what you're doing now is about protecting native elders. i suppose there's a double risk here, isn't there? being native american and if you're elderly. you must feel very vulnerable? absolutely. native americans treasure their elders. they are the holders of the past. they carry the wisdom and they carry the knowledge. and they teach us that one of the most important things is that they are also our future.

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

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

that people trust you, because they think you know what you are speaking about, you are native american? absolutely. because i am, i understand the difficulties that the different entities on the tribe are having and so, when i speak to them, there's already this common ground and, in doing so, it engenders trust and a willingness to tell me things that they perhaps would not tell a white person because they would not feel like they could trust them. you obviously are determined that you and others are going to be communities helping communities, because there is no other way? absolutely. we are moving very, very quickly and we have great hope to protect native elders. all of the money that is donated, besides a very small portion, goes straight to supplies. we are 100% of volunteer. we don't stand around and say, "oh, let's wait for them to do it."

that's ridiculous — we do it. jo 0verton on the challenges and the community spirit she's witnessing among native american tribes dealing with the coronavirus. i'm philippa thomas and you're watching coronavirus: your stories, a programme about how the virus is affecting the lives of people around the world. next, we go to dharavi, in the indian city of mumbai. it's a slum that's home to around a million people in the space ofjust one square mile, so social distancing is pretty much impossible. kiran dighavkar has been overseeing the official response. so, in just 2.5 square kilometre area, you will find i million people in dharavi, and they are all staying in a small houses of ten feet by 15 feet, small houses and usually you will find structures of ground plus one storey or two storey,

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

packets to them. so there is no possibility of practising social distance. for us, the main challenge was that people isolate as much as possible, and into government quarantine. how well has the strategy worked? because, when you look at india as a whole, it has got the third highest number of cases, after the united states and brazil. but in dharavi, how is it going? dharavi is surprisingly, as i told you, the first case the person was detected positive and when we went at his home, by the time we enquired his family about contact tracing, get his contacts and all, the patient died in the hospital. we were completely were aware that the way the community is, it would take no time to spread and it happened like that only.

instead ofjust acting reactively, we decided to act proactively. so what we did is we started screening people in the area. we took a team of doctors and we started visiting door to door with our ppe kits on. we started with the thermal scanner, we started screening people. we started taking oxygen level of patients with the help of an oxymeter. and those who were suspected, we just isolated them in a building to isolate. we started announcing people who were having symptoms of coronavirus to isolate yourself into the quarantine centre and we will provide you everything free of cost. this is really worked and we isolated more than 8,500 people to date. were people happy to do that? if you go into isolation, you cannot work, you cannot earn a living? most of the people are working in essential services.

most of them were health workers, grocery shops, delivery boys, maybe working on a factory farm. maybe there are a few people who were in essential services. initially they were not ready to come but once we offered them medicines as well, i think it was the big boost in the area because once they were somewhat isolated, we were giving them free food, like breakfast, lunch and dinner. along with that we were giving them tablets and any other symptomatic treatment that required doctors, they were facilitated with no cost. so that was a pretty good dealfor them. what about yourself? you're coming into contact with a lot of people who might be affected with covid—i9, are you not worried about yourself and your family?

yes, initially it was quite a tense atmosphere. i used to wear a mask, then face shield. i never wear ppe but i had mask, goggles, not exactly goggles but face shield, because while setting up the quarantine centres, we need to visit and check they were initially quite scary situations and everywhere it was on the news that this is rising in dharavi and it was becoming a cause of concern for my family as well. i want to ask you a final question about having so much responsibility, there must be quite a lot of personal stress involved for you? one of my staff died

who was found positive, while distributing the food packages in the area. and he died and that was a shocking and very bad day for my entire staff, including myself, and that was a really scary situation. that day, we tested 30 engineers and doctors in the area and 21 of them tested positive. that was really a scary situation. interestingly i tell you, though i have not shown any symptoms in the last two or three months, but i never tested myself because i was aware that once i test myself if i was found positive, what would happen to the mission? so i decided that, unless i show any symptoms, i will not test myself. so that was really disappointing when one of my staff died because of covid—i9 and that was really stressful during that time.

april was very bad when there were 100 cases a day. that was during april, the last week. then we started getting on top of the situation. facilities were built up, oxygen beds, hospitals acquired them and there was little sign of hope and now it is completely 0k. other areas of mumbai are showing increasing trend. 0n the pushback on a covid—19 in one of the most densely packed patches in the world. thank you forjoining me this week for coronavirus: your stories.

good morning and welcome to special coverage of a ceremony marking her majesty the queen's official birthday. for the first time in her reign, this is taking place in the grounds of windsor castle, where the queen has been staying since march. so let's cross live to the castle and speak to sarah campbell. yes, indeed. still very much the build—up to the ceremony, it is due to start shortly. as you say, the first time in the queen's rain the ceremony has been carried out in windsor castle. it is only the second time that trooping the colour itself has been cancelled, and that of course it's down to the coronavirus. when you think of trooping the colour, the name for the official birthday

parade, it involves thousands of spectators on the mall, 2000 soldiers and horses on horse guards parade, and that was deemed impossible to happen at this time. so the location was moved from london to windsor castle. windsor castle of course is where the queen and the duke of edinburgh have spent the last 12 weeks of lockdown. and it has very much been designed, this ceremony, with social distance in mind. so normally when you watch a military drill, it will be carried out today by the 1st battalion welsh guards. they are standing shoulder to shoulder and carrying out those hugely precise movements. so that has had to change. special movements have been developed where they can at all times stay a distance of 2.2 metres away from each other. so there are a select few welsh guards who will be carrying out the drill

in front of the queen. she will take her place at a dais in the quadrangle at windsor castle, and this will be her first live appearance since lockdown began. she made two speeches, one right at the beginning of lockdown when she talked about the country and said, we will meet again, a sentiment that resonated with a lot of people, and then on ve day again she made a broadcast, but really this is the first time she will have appeared in front of the cameras. this is the official birthday celebration of the queen's 9ath birthday. it was her husband the duke of edinburgh's 99th birthday on wednesday of this week, so birthday on wednesday of this week, $03 birthday on wednesday of this week, so a double celebration if you like. she will be watching. we might expect the duke of edinburgh who was also in the castle to maybe be looking out of the window somewhere and watching what is going on. but asi and watching what is going on. but as i say, this is a unique event. it

hasn't happened before. it is solely to make sure that everything is in line with socially distant restrictions, and i think now it is time to hand over to huw edwards who will talk you through the ceremony.

so, in the 68th year of her reign, a rare first for her majesty, the longest reigning monarch in british history, she will mark the official birthday not on horse guards parade and at buckingham palace but here at windsor castle. the queen, escorted by lieutenant colonel mike vernon, the controller of the lord chamberlain‘s office, vice admiral tonyjohnson burt, master of the household, and she will also be accompanied by her equerry, major giamatti and cara. so, the ceremony

will begin at 11 o'clock. the field officer will order the royal salute. national anthem plays.