this is bbc news. the headlines: the chief of police in the american city of atlanta has resigned a day after her officers shot dead a black man. video appears to show that the man, rayshard brooks, had one of the officers‘ tasers in his hand as he tried to flee. more than 100 people have been arrested at a protest in central london where demonstrators, including far—right activists, clashed with police. a crowd surrounded a statue of sir winston churchill, which was boarded up after it was vandalised during the black lives matter demonstration last weekend. french police have clashed with protesters in several cities where thousands of people demonstrated against racism and allegations of police brutality. marchers in paris demanded justice for adama traore, a 24—year—old black man who died four years ago when he was pinned down by police officers in the city.

a leaked draft of a report from public health england has acknowledged that a range of factors, including racism and discrimination, may have exacerbated the risk from covid—19 within some communities. the report stated that historic racism could mean people from ethnic minority backgrounds were less likely to seek care when they needed it. our community affairs correspondent rianna croxford reports. john ho, a london cab driver who came to the uk from hong kong when he was 21. he was described by his family as a loving, sociable man with a heart of gold. he is one of thousands of people from ethnic minority communities to have died with coronavirus, but his daughters say he's more than just a number. he loved his life so much, he was so content and happy. no health issues. he had all these big dreams that he wanted to achieve. yeah. and he was only 55

when he passed away. a government review published last week confirmed that people likejohn, from asian and black backgrounds, were at a higher risk of death from the disease but failed to make any recommendations. this leaked draft written by public health england, previously unseen and still unpublished, contains a series of proposals on how to better protect people from ethnic minority backgrounds. it says that racism, stigma, occupational risk and social inequality may be increasing their risk of becoming seriously ill with the virus. to reduce this greater risk, the leaked document recommends that better data about ethnicity and religion is recorded, including on death certificates, making it law for all ethnic minority staff to have health risk assessments and says all key workers should have adequate personal protective equipment. and for public health messaging to be more culturally sensitive, particularly for people who don't speak english as a first language.

the head of the doctors' union says there are still no easy solutions. those bame healthcare workers, doctors, who are at highest risk, they may be older, they may have diabetes or heart disease or high blood pressure, would be redeployed in roles that did not require them to be providing covid—facing care. at the gym every day... but those still grieving in the present say they feel let down. if we knew that there was a risk because he was from an ethnic minority, then he would have shielded, he would have self—isolated, so he could possibly still be here now. the government hasn't said when exactly it will officially release these recommendations, but the faces of those who have already died of the virus are a reminder the threat hasn't gone away. rianna croxford, bbc news. i will be back at the top of the hour. now on bbc news,

it's the travel show. this week, a tiny glimmer of hope. europe starts to slowly reopen for travellers. but how will they keep us all apart? also coming up, lucy tests the gadgets that claim to keep you safe on your travels. and we're on one of the world's most famous beaches as it reopens fully for the first time since lockdown. we're back on the road this week, a modest two—hour drive east of travel show hq in london in the resort town of margate. for more than 250 years, holiday makers have come here,

rain orshine, to experience the chipped—around—the—edges glitz of the great british seaside. in recent times, there's been a renaissance here, new hotels and restaurants and restored vintage attractions have brought cool, young london types here by the bucketful. but as resorts throughout europe start to reopen, blinking into the summer sunshine, what kind of future will they face? across the world, we are seeing the first signs of tourism adapting to the new scheme of things. there's lots of talk of borders being lifted and special air bridges or corridors being formed between countries with low infection rates. whilst in many cities, galleries, museums and landmark attractions are up and running again. in italy, the first country in europe to enter lockdown, the coliseum, the leaning tower of pisa and the ruins of pompeii have already opened, and in france, people can once again wander the grand halls of the

palace of versailles. hotels in europe are also gradually reopening too. back in april, we spoke to javier in spain, who had just been forced to shut down his family—run chain of hotels in benidorm. now, he's hoping to reopen then again later this month. we are going to sell less capacity than ever, because we have to keep social distance. this will help people to have a more exclusive experience. if we are talking about profits, we will have less profits than last year, sure. sure. here in england, in line with government guidance, many hotels are hoping to reopen in earlyjuly. that includes the cave here in kent. they had only been open for a few months when the virus struck following a £12 million development. it was a huge shock. no—one would ever want to launch a brand—new hotel or any business and then three months, four months later, close it down,

and we literally closed it down overnight. jonathan had already put in place some coronavirus safety measures, offering us a glimpse into what our future hotel stays might look like. first thing, if you could stand in front of the camera, please, and look into the camera so we can take your temperature. authenticated. as you're authenticated, first of all, sanitise your hands and then help yourself to mask and gloves if you'd like. and then from here, if you go to the reception desks, we have got the screens up so our staff are completely protected, as are the guests as well. and you will be saying to guests, if they've got luggage, take their own luggage? yep. we will be not offering that service for the time being just to minimise the contact with the guests. once you've checked in, you have limited access to the hotel's communal areas. you can book a 20—minute slot at the swimming pool and the restaurant delivers to your room. we've taken the tables out

of our fire pit restaurant, including the chairs, and we've set them up in all rooms, every room type. like you are in a restaurant kind of dining. and so, what happens, someone comes in and delivers it? so, your doorbell will ring and outside is a tray for you to bring in yourself. if you'd like drinks, you can order via whatsapp. it will be delivered pretty instantly but without any contact whatsoever. are you confident you will get people here? i believe we will see an upsurge in uk travel. so, domestic tourism? domestic tourism, 100%. we've seen bookings forjuly, our booking occupancy is around 30—a0% at the moment, on the basis that we are able to open. as an independent boutique resort, cave hotel has been able to be relatively nimble, incorporating coronavirus safety measures. but what about the larger chain hotels, with hundreds of rooms and a high turnover of guests? cleaning specialists the safe group have been advising big hotels about how they can keep both their customers and their staff protected. i've taken a look at the large number of the big hotel chains

and there's a lot of different variety of things they are doing, ranging from what they call room seals. so, effectively when someone has cleaned a room, they completely seal it with a notice effectively. some hotels have started to remove items that you might touch such as tissue boxes, removing the magazines. some of them are doing a lot and some of them, interestingly, are doing nothing, so it's a mixed bag. after months cooped up at home, many of us will be desperate to get away for a few nights. but with corporate and international travel still pretty much at a standstill, the future for many hotels, whether they have thorough safety measures or not, remains uncertain. what kind of hotels then do you think will survive and what kinds will fail in this new climate? whether you are the budget end or the top end, the hotels who are proactive in understanding the challenges that are going to come and prepare for them,

i hope will flourish through it. so, once all those perspex screens are installed, travel should be back on the cards, shouldn't it? well, let's find out from the man who has all the answers, our global guru simon calder. 0k, simon, i'm going to put you on the spot a little bit now, because back in march, when we first talked after covid—19 hit, really, you said: archive: we will see injune something like normal travel beginning again, but it will be on a small scale, and even if there is huge amounts of pent—up demand from you and i desperate to travel, it won't be anything like the normal summer that we would be looking forward to at this time. how would you like to revise that or would you like to revise that? i think i would just a little because i underestimated how non—normal it would be.

certainly, there are going to be parts of the mediterranean, north america, asia, where it will at least have a reasonable number of tourists showing up, but it is going to feel very different. we've already seen that the big travel companies have got to come up with new ways of reducing risk when we are flying, and new ways of working particularly in really big hotels, which are used to effectively processing us by the thousands, so there will be a new normal. one thing, though, i absolutely wasn't expecting was the uk's sudden introduction of quarantine for all arrivals from june 8 onwards, which of course has had the, i guess, predictable effect of stifling all inbound tourism to the united kingdom for some unspecified period, together with making it very difficult for any travel firms

to sell outbound travel, because it's great to have a weekend in barcelona or rome, but if you're then going to have to spend two weeks stuck in your flat or your home, that's going to take the edge off it rather. when can i go on holiday? well, it all depends where you are. at the moment, of course, every country and many regions within countries have their own rules, so, for example, if you happen to be in new york and you think you would love to go to florida, you are going to have to self—isolate for two weeks when you get there. but in general, the european union, 27 member countries, are saying, 0k, we're going to reduce the fronteirs between us from june 15 and that is going to be a soft opening, followed on the first ofjuly with a much more general

opening and certainly the traditional mediterranean destinations all the way from turkey, greece, croatia, italy, cyprus and malta of course, france and spain, not forgetting portugal, they look as though, from july i, they will all be back in action and indeed some countries, in particular portugal and croatia, are already saying, "come here, we're ready for you!" but of course the foreign office in the uk is still warning against all but essential travel. what about regions outside europe? for instance, the middle east or asia? what's happening there? we have seen different degrees of lockdown and there's been some really strange things going on. for example, june 4 was when the caribbean island of antigua decided it was opening up, but many other islands are very much closed, and in general, i think we are going to see a pattern where smaller islands with very few cases of covid—i9 are going to be generally quite slow in opening. argentina, which is very much

a southern summer destination, has said no international flights until september i, and it's — of course this terrible tension between countries wanting to do what's best for their population in terms of avoiding infection as much as possible, and the economic reality that so many places are absolutely dependent on tourism. simon, a pleasure to speak to you again. thanks very much. gadgets and tech can make travellers‘ lives a whole lot easier, but in a time of covid—i9, how can they keep us healthy? well, i can tell you there are things on the market right now that let you do just that, like this. even if your travel is just a stroll around your local area. this is the hygiene hook. a pretty simple gadget, really, but something that solves that classic covid—i9 dilemma —

how to open a door without touching it. shortly after it became a bit more obvious about the covid—i9, driving into work i thought, actually, i could just make a hook to open doors. and we got machinery, and i got 3d software, and later we had 15 hooks. for every one they sell, they give another one away to healthcare workers. it's a pretty nifty solution to a problem that a lot of us are facing right now, although you can probably tell from the design that it doesn't necessarily work with all kinds of doorhandles. yes, doorknobs, i'm talking about you. but i think the burning question here is, would i actually use one of these? well, i have been to quite a lot of questionable places in my travels over the years and i could have done with opening a few doors with this, but it is quite chunky so it is not going to be to everyone's taste, but it wouldn't hurt to just chuck it in your bag or suitcase just in case you need it.

now in italy, at sites like florence's duomo cathedral, which normally welcomes about 4 million tourists a year, it has been trialling a new system to help encourage proper social distancing for the smaller number of visitors they will be allowing in. as someone enters, they are given a device to wear round their necks, which alerts them when they are less than two metres from someone else. but even if you're not venturing to any tourist sites anytime soon, tech can help you keep your distance. a new online tool from google for android devices called sodar uses augmented reality to let you know what is and isn't two metres away. so it's superimposing a ring onto my phone screen. well, i can see that my cameraman simon is definitely two metres away. he is outside the ring. it keeps jumping around a little bit so i'm not entirely sure how

accurate this is, erm, but it gives you a good idea, gives you some rough guidelines as to how far you should be keeping your distance to other people and objects. i think it's quite fun! of course, there were gadgets on the market before covid—i9 that were designed to help stop any nasties from getting into your system. and you may have noticed that ultraviolet light is used quite a lot of them. take this water bottle. the larq bottle movement uses uv light in the cap which, it says, will minimise 99.9% of harmful bacteria in 60 seconds. the uv—clean smartphone sanitiser and sanitiser bag also use uv light to zap away 99.9% of bacteria and viruses — although they say it's not yet been tested for its effectiveness against this coronavirus. generally, these gadgets are portable, they're practical and easy to carry around with you when you're out and about. and, at times like these, they can prove hugely reassuring as well. but without seeing any visible signs of cleanliness, it's quite difficult to ascertain if it actually works

and whether they‘ re doing what they say on the packet. well, what we do know is that uv is being used in this pandemic. it has been trialled for disinfecting the new york public transport system, for example, but with strict safety measures in place because certain forms of uv are dangerous. but in scotland, st andrews university and ninewells hospital have been researching the possibility of disinfecting big public spaces with people in it, like airports. so the idea that we've got — and other groups around the world — is to use far—uvc radiation, which is gonna be safe for humans, but we've really got to use a clinical trial to ensure that it's safe, and we've got a clinical trial starting in the next few weeks and if this is successful, the goal is that we can roll this out into large public spaces, such as trains, airports, food production lines, and the ultimate goal is that this‘ll go towards bringing

all of our lives back to normal. now if you're a regular viewer of the show, you may remember that three years ago, i was one of the first members of the public to ride red force, europe's fastest and tallest ever roller—coaster at portaventura in spain. it will come as no surprise that the theme park has been closed since lockdown, and does hope to reopen sometime injuly. although elsewhere, other theme parks are already starting to open their doors with new social distancing regulations in place. disney parks in china are up and running again and flying in the face of tradition — and some might say fun — injapan, people are being asked not to scream while they ride roller—coasters in an effort to stop the potential spread of coronavirus. disney parks in america say they hope to reopen injuly and universal orlando has already opened. 0ne park marking its 100th

anniversary this year is margate's much—loved dreamland. following years of decline, dreamland got a £25 million revamp in 2017 and now, you will find it's spruced—up vintage rides, including the oldest scenic railway in the uk, alongside new event spaces for major artists and festivals throughout the summer. dreamworld had enormous plans to mark its centenary — our hundredth year this year — and it's devastating that we haven't been able to follow through with those. we had huge music festivals planned, all sorts of different types of entertainment. we're gonna push some of it into 2021 — we're 100 untiljuly 2021, so hopefully we can do some of that next year instead.

this is obviously an amusement park and theme park with so many amazing rides, but how can you practise social distancing with these rides? we think that opening rides this summer season is going to be almost impossible. it's just not viable to put people on vintage rides like the ones behind me. we just can't see a way to get people on and off those rides safely with the guidelines as they are. we're watching very closely what parks are doing in different countries. we can take best practice and we can adopt that here in the uk. of course, america is the real home of the big—scale theme park. but, will social distancing — for the time being, at least — take some of the fun and the thrills out of riding the rollers there? i mean, i'm one of those people that as soon as the theme parks reopen, especially the ones near me, i'll be there on day one. the different measures they are using, i think, are so fascinating. the one place i haven't visited since the reopening is universal orlando, and they are probably the strictest that i've seen —

at least here in america — with all of the precautions that they're taking. they have, you know, some fantastic rides and they're social distancing on the actual attraction. and i saw a line that was 80 minutes for a ride that is usually 20, maybe maybe 15, and a ride that normally gets several hours of line is now completely booked throughout the day because they've done electronic, uh, like, reserve your spots. now, many beaches in europe are now gradually beginning to allow people back. but in australia, they've been one step ahead. since early may, they've been trying to get things back to normal, but it's only been in the last week that the authorities have managed to reopen the world—famous bondi beach. bondi is extraordinary. i think you can get 30,000 or 40,000 people on a beach.

it's a, what, a one kilometre stretch and to have so many people in that stretch of sand is quite extraordinary. we, no doubt, saw those images that went all around the world on the 20th of march, 2020, where we should've been practising social distancing. but it's like — it was taking people quite a bit of time to actually understand the implications of not doing that, so it led to us actually closing the beach the very next day. the closing of the beaches, though, was really emblematic ofjust how serious this whole thing was, and that people could die from it, and that was a message that took a little while for people to get through. the actual real challenge with the process, it's not to close the beach — i mean, that was hard —

the real challenge is to keep it closed and maintain that. we got thousands of people down here every single day, regardless of the weather, and they use the water every single day. you know, we had big fences up, we employed a security company to manage those fences, and we had to kind of police the situation, and that was really difficult for us because it's the opposite of the thing we're here to do, you know? we want people to enjoy the water and enjoy the area so we had, like, a real moral issue with that. it was sort of against what we're here for. how are you? good, good, good! i came up with this notion of safe access corridors to the water. people were trying to access the ocean via dangerous rocks — because the ocean actually was not off—limits, it was just the sand — so these corridors allowed people to access the water safely and they were extremely busy. i think we were having a total of about 1,500 people an hour using those corridors, going and coming.

cheering. it was a monday morning and we all came down and opened the gates and just let them out. it was a classic coming down here because just like a line of blokes with their surfboards — guys and chicks — just ready to get out there. and it was just good to see humans, too, like humans like to do, you know? it was really — it was a happy moment for the lifeguards. when the beach shut down, it was when things were pretty, pretty serious and, you know, weren't sure where everything was going to go and then slowly as it opened, but you had to — there were only little walkways to get into the sea so it still felt a bit weird and now that, i don't know, it's all opening up and the rules are relaxing, it's kind of representing what's going on around australia and that we can go out and travel around the state and, yeah, just — just enjoy life and i think people appreciate it,

having — once it's taken away from you, you realise how lucky you are just to have this on your doorstep. the people of bondi beach. a long, long way from the kent coast. coming up next week: ade looks back at some of his adventures in dubai and gets an update on how the lockdown is easing there. in the meantime, keep safe, keep planning your next adventure, and we'll see you soon. hello again. the next few days will bring a real mixture of weather across the uk, just like we saw during the first

half of the weekend. the sunshine in the north—west of wales lifted temperatures to a high of 25.5 degrees here. whereas the low cloud, the fog that affected eastern scotland meant the temperature in edinburgh was only 12 degrees in the afternoon. we also saw quite a few heavy and thundery showers breaking out, but we've still got this area of low pressure sitting close to the south—west. that's where we had more frequent showers earlier on. and there may well be some further thundery showers breaking out on sunday, but large parts of the uk will be dry, warm and humid as well. it will start off grey and misty and murky, though, across much of scotland and the north east of england. that low cloud retreating back to coastal areas, and we'll see some sunny spells developing. that will trigger some showers, particularly into the afternoon across parts of england and wales. it may stay dry in the south—east of england. there won't be as many showers in the south—west. the main focus of the thundery showers breaking out probably across wales and the midlands. further north, some sunshine, but also areas of low cloud lapping onto coasts of north—east england and affecting eastern scotland. so it's likely to be about ten degrees warmer, perhaps, in western scotland than the eastern side of the country. there may be a bit of rain up towards aberdeenshire. those heavy showers, though, continuing through the evening across england and wales,

tending to fade away as the sun goes down. but as we move into the beginning of the week, we've still got this very warm and muggy air and an area of low pressure sitting close to the uk, so that's a recipe for more heavy and thundery showers to break out. again, there'll be a lot of low cloud starting the day across scotland and the north east of england, tending to lift in most areas. but when we get some sunshine coming through, that'll bubble up the showers again, more especially for the western side of the uk. and again, those temperatures will typically be reaching around about the low 20s or so. and as we move into tuesday as well, it's a similar sort of story. perhaps not so much of that low cloud in the north east of the uk, some sunshine, but more showers more widely on tuesday. notjust in the west this time, and again they could be heavy and thundery and they're not going to move very far at all, so some torrential downpours and temperatures into the low 20s. not a great deal changing, really, through wednesday and thursday. more heavy and thundery showers to come. probably a bit drier on friday.

this is bbc news: i'm lewis vaughanjones with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the police chief in the american city of atlanta resigns — a day after an officer shot dead a black man. far right protesters clash with police in central london — saying they're protecting a statue of winston churchill. in paris — clashes as anti—racist protestors demonstrate against police brutality. the canadian prime minister calls for an independent investigation after the violent arrest of an indigenous chief is caught on police camera. and a socially—distanced official birthday parade for queen elizabeth — a scaled—down celebration at windsor castle.