this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm victoria derbyshire. back to the high street — thousands of shops in england re—open after nearly three months of lockdown. i don't mind queueing, i don't mind as long as i can get into a shop to see what's available. even with the safety measures i'm still cautious to go out in public and i definitely think as soon as the normal shops open it will be a huge rush. border controls are being lifted across much of europe from today, easing three months of coronavius restrictions. whose lives matter? black lives matter! after two weeks of anti—racism protests, the uk prime minister announces a commission to examine racial inequality. we have to look at discrimination in the education system, in health, in the criminaljustice system.

we have to look at all ways in which it affects black and minority ethnic groups. face coverings are now compulsory for passengers on public transport in england. china imposes lockdowns in part of beijing — after a new cluster of cases is linked to a market. england and manchester united star marcus rashford writes to mps asking them not to stop free school meal vouchers. the scheme is due to end next month. you know, what families are going through now, i once had to go through that same system and it's very difficult to find a way out.

hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world, stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. hello. it's a day of major change in england as lockdown restrictions continue to ease. long queues were reported outside primark shops in london and birmingham ahead of their opening time at 8:00. after almost three months, all nonessential shops including clothing retaillers and department stores can reopen — if they stick to safety measures. if you're travelling on public transport, you'll have to wear a face covering from today, or risk a potential fine. some secondary pupils in years ten and 12 facing exams next year are heading back to the classroom forface—to—face time with their and the prime minister has commisioned a review and the prime minister has commisioned a review into the metre social distancing rule to see if it can be shortened. let us know if you're going out and about today, if you feel confident, on twitter it#s @vicderbyshire email victoria@bbc.co. uk.

graham satchell takes a look at the changes. for almost three months, high streets have been deserted, town centres empty. but from today in england, things change. all nonessential shops, clothes, books, charities, everything, can reopen. it'll be far from normal. there'll be one way systems, hand sanitisers, perspex screens, social distancing, and of course, queues. i don't mind cueing. i don't mind, as i long as i can get into the shops and see what is available. it will be just nice to feel more normal. even with the safety measures, i'm still cautious to go out in public. and i definitely think, as soon as the normal shops open, there will be a huge rush. and i'm too careful about my own well— being so i probablyjust won't go out. announcer: please remember to use a face covering while travelling on tfl services. travel will also look different from today. face coverings are now compulsory on buses,

trains, trams, ferries, planes, with some exemptions for smaller children and people with some medical conditions. and there will be more flights, easyjet, for example, will resume a small number of passenger journeys from this morning. there are changes in education, some secondary schools in england will open today butjust for years ten and i2. again, there'll be one—way systems, social distancing, and smaller class sizes. and some outdoor attractions like zoos will also open from today. lockdown is being eased and england will look and feel considerably different. it will need more time and patience to work. graham satchell, bbc news. france's president emmanuel macron has announced a number

of coronavirus restrictions are being lifted from today. cafes and restaurants are reopening in the paris region and travel to other european countries will be allowed. freya cole has this. in france, the mood is upbeat. the plan to reopen society to save the economy has been accelerated. translation: we are going to be able to turn the page on the first chapter, in a manner of speaking, of the crisis we have just been through. from monday, the whole country, apart from mayotte and guyane, where the virus is still actively spreading, the whole country will become part of what we now call the green zone which will allow a greater return to work and a reopening of cafes and restaurants in the paris region. it's now been a month since the country started easing lockdown measures and there has been no rise in new coronavirus cases. it means businesses will reopen fully and residents can travel across europe. from next week, nurseries and both primary and secondary schools will welcome back students,

and byjuly ist, international travel will be permitted to and from countries where the virus is under control. president emmanuel macron is particularly keen to support local companies and pivot away from global supply chains, a move which won't come cheap. translation: we will not finance spending by increasing taxes. the only answer is to build an economic model which is sustainable, stronger, and produce more so we don't depend on others. hand sanitiser, face masks and social distancing will all play a big part in discovering the new french way of life. freya cole, bbc news. borisjohnson has announced that a commission will be established to examine all aspects of inequality in the uk. writing in the daily telegraph, after more than two weeks of anti—racism protests, the british prime minister acknowledged that "much more" needed to be done to tackle the issue. by removing historical symbols.

speaking yesterday mrjohnson said that as a leader he could not sit back and ignore what was going on. first of all, we have to acknowledge that when thousands of people march peacefully for black lives matter, we can't ignore that. i, as a leader, i can't ignore the strength of their feeling and we have to look at discrimination in the education system, in health, in the criminaljustice system, we have to look at all ways in which it affects black and minority groups. so we are going to have a big, big effort which we'll be announcing very shortly. a new cross—governmental commission to look at what is going on for black and minority ethnic groups, and to champion their success because i think what has

slightly been lost in all of this is the story of success and people just don't know. you have far more black and minority ethnic people now going to university. you have far more young black kids doing the toughest subjects at gcse and ebacc, and that is a story of success. and what i really want to do as prime minister is change the narrative, so we stop the sense of victimisation and discrimination, we stop the discrimination. we stamp out racism and we start to have a real sense of expectation of success. that is where i want to get too but it won't be easy. the opposition labour party's justice secretary david lammy has been speaking to the today programme — he was asked if he believes there is such a thing as ‘white privilege. there will be people listening who are working class,

who are poor, they may be in northern constituencies. they're not feeling particularly privileged, they are having a tough time in a britain that has suffered from austerity. but when people talk about white privilege, they're not saying your life isn't hard or tough, or challenged because, if you like, the class issues that remain in britain. what they are saying is race is not one of the things i think, in a sense, ifeel like i am being gas lighted if we ask questions like does white privilege or does racism exist? frankly, given all the art that has been made, or the writing that has been delivered whether in reviews all black writing, all the comedy that has been made that has made people laugh. of course, those things still exist in our society. the time now is frankly, for majority culture to do something. for more on this, norman smith is in westminsterfor us.

will is in westminsterfor us. this commission will is in westminster for us. this commission lead to a change? will this commission lead to actual change? we don't really know. the details we have got are pretty scant and it has had an inauspicious launch, this commission because of the fact the prime minister seemed to launch it in an article in the daily telegraph, almost in passing because the bulk of the article was a passionate defence of winston churchill and a defence of statues and making the case against statues being pulled down. also people objecting to some of the language he used, we heard him say a sense of victimisation. it has not had a great start, added to which we are slightly thin on details as well. we know that he wants this commission, which will be called the commission into race and ethnic disparity, to report by christmas. it will be overseen by the equalities minister and it will report to the prime

minister. there will be independent members on the panel, there may be public hearings, there may be action that follows from it. the big, i suppose chink in the whole argument is we have just got a whole load of these reports already and theresa may obviously did her race disparity audit. david lammy, who we heard from then, he produced his own enquiry into the criminaljustice system. we have got baroness mcgregor smith who did an enquiry into workplace discrimination, baroness angelini who did an enquiry into deaths in police custody. we have the windrush enquiry. we have a whole filing cabinet full of reports. i suppose the blunt question is, what is this report going to provide what we don't know already. that is the big? allied to the slightly raggedy way it has been launched. let's talk to the actor and black lives matter

campaigner, imarn ayton. what do you think this report will achieve? i hope that it achieves a huge amount of growth in our society. it is very important for those representing black lives matter and the united kingdom as a whole. i do hope that is what it leads to. do you welcome the announcement of this commission? yes, i was very, very happy, very, very happy. i think it is excellent news. i will refer to the fact we have had many enquiries in the past, we have had grenfell, there has been i'io we have had grenfell, there has been no prosecutions or charges. i do hope there is change and this leads to change. however, we don't have the best track record when it comes to enquiries. what a change needs to

happen? i think every industry needs to be actively rooting out racism. if we all, as a collective, acknowledge we are part of institutional racism and do everything in our power to make sure everything in our power to make sure everything is fair, admit it and consciously make an effort to improve and to grow. sol consciously make an effort to improve and to grow. so i think if every industry could adopt that mentality we could grow as a whole. do you think the announcement of this commission is absolutely a direct result of the black lives matter protest in the last couple of weeks? i do, i do. yesi matter protest in the last couple of weeks? i do, i do. yes i do. so for those who say protests don't achieve anything, that isn't true? not at all, one of the biggest things about protest is to ensure that to ensure the message is clear, we don't want anyone to be silent any more.

silence is what allows institutional racism to thrive. if we can come together as a whole, unite, loud and proud then ultimately ensuring people start with empathy, that is how we move forward as a society. thank you very much, thank you for talking to us. the rules around wearing face coverings in england have changed from today. they're now compulsory on public transport, and if you don't wear one you might not be able to travel, or you could be given a fine. our reporter simon browning is in east london at west ham underground station. good morning. is everybody wearing one? i have been on the public transport system sent 7.30 this

morning and i started myjourney at west ham station. the majority of people are wearing these facemasks because there is a £100 fine if you don't wear them. i was on the concourse at west ham station and they were british transport police officers and on the small amount of travellers that were travelling without a face mask, they were pulled aside gently by the police and basically asked why they were not wearing them and most of those occasions they were given a face mask to carry on with theirjourney. 0n the majority of tubes i have travelled on this money, everybody was wearing face masks. the public transport system is still incredibly quiet. the vast majority of people are still either working from home 01’ are still either working from home orare are still either working from home or are spreading their travelling patterns if they are travelling to the office, over the days the government have asked. so yes, people are wearing face masks but the transport system is still very quiet. thank you very much, cheers,

simon. the airline easyjet‘s first uk flights since it grounded its aircraft at the end of march have taken off. the first flight left gatwick airport headed for glasgow earlier. the company's planes have been grounded for 11 weeks ago due to the coronavirus pandemic. tim muffett is at gatwick for us. it is still really quiet, as you would expect? yes, quite extraordinary on a monday morning to see gatwick airport north terminal is empty. it is the first time the north terminal has opened since the pandemic began. it is really quite something, it has been a tough time for airports and airlines. you have a look around here, pretty much deserted. earlier, as you said, one flight deserted. earlier, as you said, one flight did take off, and easyjet flight flight did take off, and easyjet flight did take off, and easyjet flight did take off to glasgow. that was easyjet‘s first flight since march the 31st. whilst it is a step towards normality, normality is still a long way off. on public

transport in england, you do need to be wearing a face covering. in airports themselves it is slightly different. it is not mandatory but i gatwick all passengers are being urged to wear a face covering whilst they are in the airport. vending machines will be made available for people to purchase loan if they haven't brought one with them. but foran airline haven't brought one with them. but for an airline such as easyjet, this does oppose such enormous challenges. they have said around 30% of their workforce will have to go. earlier i spoke to the chief executive about that and many of the challenges they face. more now on the reopening of thousands of nonessential shops and retail parks in england this morning. our business correspondent, ben thompson is at mcarthurglen retail park in ashford in kent which is opening back up this morning. it looks reasonably busy? this place

only opened up at 10am and that is about 100 stores and about 70% of them are open from this morning. the plan they have been working on since they shut down at the end of march, so they shut down at the end of march, so 12 weeks of closure. so getting somewhere like this up and running is quite a big job. there is signage, barriers to make people queue neatly outside of stores and unlike the high street, may be a little easier to manage those cues because the social distancing going on in the shops, so they might ask you to wait a little bit outside until there is space inside the store for you to go in. of course, a big day for them reopening nonessential retail in england. the british retail consortium suggesting it is costing £1.8 billion a week to keep those retailers closer today is an important day to try to get us back out again shopping once again and spending money. good news for

the economy. let me introduce you to the economy. let me introduce you to the centre manager here. good morning. a lot of work gone into today, give me a sense of what you have had to do? since we close down a couple of months ago, you can see all the markers that have gone, the equipment and also hand sanitising stations. we only have one car park open to limit the capacity of people that can go into the stores. they understand how many can go in, what measures are in place. we have face coverings if people want to use them. it is trying to reassure people that we are back and open for trade. talk me through some of the practicalities because we have seen all the reports of, you won't be able to try stuff on, you cannot go and geta able to try stuff on, you cannot go and get a coffee so it will be a

very different experience? yes, it isa very different experience? yes, it is a different affair but the services are the same, you can have a coffee but you cannot sit down in the restaurants. the restaurants are closed, but you can get a takeaway and walk round. when you go to the store, if you try any clothes on, they are then quarantined. some of they are then quarantined. some of the changing rooms are close. there isa the changing rooms are close. there is a process we have to go to in this period to make sure people are reassured that when it comes shopping they feel safe. we know things like hospitality, you touched on some of the restaurants and coffee shops cannot open properly and it will cost retailers more to put these measures in place. is it worth it for them even with fewer customers and the cost of reopening, commercially, does it still makes sense to do it? absolutely. we need to bring people back and this is the start of it. we need to begin the process of reassuring people to come

back shopping and come back and experience having a coffee and walking round. it is part of the process and it starts today and hopefully it starts to build and people feel safe when they come and shop and they can see the measures in place and that starts people moving forward in terms of buying and spending. the idea of people feeling safe, there was research over the weekend suggesting 43% of customers say they would feel safe coming back. you are hoping that will improve and you will get more people feeling secure coming back and doing what they have always done? absolutely, people may be hesitant to begin with and once they come to experience it and see what the brand is doing and what the centres are doing, i think people will feel safe knowing the amount of effort that has gone into it by the teams on the ground to reassure people to come back and to shop again. good luck, you have your work cut out. that is the view from here in ashford and quite clearly, people queueing outside the stores, people

are eager to get back shopping. may bea are eager to get back shopping. may be a different shopping experience and it might not be what you are used to, but an important day. the rules are different whether you are in scotland, northern ireland and the northern ireland all stores are open and scotland are allowing some nonessential stores to reopen. we getan nonessential stores to reopen. we get an update on thursday and in wales, we had from the economy minister telling us they are hoping they may be able to do the same this time next week. there are differences right across the country, but for now in england, nonessential retailers opening and we will show you in some of these stores later and we will talk through what some of those differences might be, what you can and cannot do and how long it might ta ke to and cannot do and how long it might take to get back to some sort of normality. victoria, back to you. in china, new restrictions are being introduced in parts of the capital beijing, after an outbreak of 36 new infections was reported on saturday, and 79 in total over the last four days.

most of the infections have been linked to xin fa di market, which supplies 80% of beijing's meat and vegetables. more cases have been reported at a second market in the district of haidian. the city had previously seen no new cases in more than 50 days. no outsiders are being allowed into ten communities surrounding the two markets. 0ur correspondent stephen mcdonell is in beijing with more. the numbers, you know, on the face of it, compared with other parts of the world might sound like not that much. in four days, 80 cases but when theyjust pop up from nowhere after more than 50 days with no infections, and then what has made it even worse is they have all been traced back to this absolutely massive wholesale food market. 10,000 people who work there have been tested for the coronavirus. tens of thousands of people have been tested in the areas around that large wholesale market.

schools have closed down in the area, some transport links. if you're not a resident, you can't go into the compounds in that part of the city and there are fears that it could prompt a second wave in the chinese capital. you've just got to think to yourself, tens of thousands of people coming through that market, they're delivering food all over the city. if you wanted to pick the worst place possible to have an outbreak, where it could spread and go to all parts of the city, it would probably be that market. in some ways, we've seen the best and worst of the communist party under xijinping in controlling this because in other parts of the country this has worked. there has been a little outbreak and it is squashed wherever it is, whether a town or a small city. again they are quickly mobilising people to be able to test tens of thousands of workers, or neighbours near that vast market, all very impressive, the speed with which that

has taken place. however, we have also seen the general manager of that market sacked, as well as a local party secretary, other officials. now, again, if you were to think what might you do if you wanted to encourage a culture whereby cover—up is your first response? in this type of thing. well, you would start sacking leaders anywhere where a small outbreak happened. for this reason, there's been some criticism of this handling of the matter because many ordinary people in china are even asking on social media, why is it their fault automatically? a cluster pops up somewhere. you know, it's an invisible disease. why are they necessarily to blame?

if you want there to be early reporting, we shouldn't go targeting there officials in this way. border controls are being lifted across much of europe from today, easing three months of coronavius restrictions. the european union is hoping to kick—start the badly damaged economies across the bloc by allowing travel between today all these countries will reopen their borders, eitherfully or with some restrictions on specific countries seen to be higher risk. for example greece is allowing tourists from 29 eu and some non—eu countries to enter from today — but the list does not include the uk, spain or italy. germany is fully opening its borders for travellers from the eu, although it will have individual travel warnings for each country. france is opening its borders today too — although it will still demand that travellers from the uk and spain self—isolate for two weeks on arrival. in a moment we can talk to lukas sedlacek, an economic

commentator based in prague about the impact on the country's economy and the wider eu travel ban. also we can talk to dimitrios buhalis an expert on the greek tourism industry whojoins me from bournemouth. how is this traffic light system going to work? it is a system created as a reflection of easing of restrictions or indication of possible infection by the european centre for disease prevention and control. the minister of health is taking the data to discern which countries it is safe to travel or not. they have divided europe into three colours and a traffic light system. three colours and a traffic light syste m. m ost three colours and a traffic light system. most countries are going to

be green, meaning that people can travel from the czech republic and people from those countries can travel into the czech republic, as well as taurus. that is most european countries. but then there are amber countries that the uk and belgium and check the vikings can travel to those countries. but for people residing in the uk and belgium, once they want to travel to the czech republic, it can only be for business and study purposes but no taurus. those are the two amber countries and we have read countries, portugal, sweden and some parts of poland. from these places it is impossible to come as tourists into the czech republic and any citizen that wants to visit those

countries as to have a covid—19 negative test once coming back or to self—isolate in quarantine for 1h days. 0k, demetrius, what has to happen in the uk, in spain and italy the people from those countries to be able to go on holiday to greece? i think the importance of tourism is becoming much more evident to everybody around the world. in the greek environment, the prime minister has realised and has restarted tourism in santorini last saturday. what is the situation is the greek government has looked very closely at the data in every country. for example, increase right now the r is 0.5 where

country. for example, increase right now the r is 0.5where is in country. for example, increase right now the r is 0.5 where is in the country. for example, increase right now the r is 0.5where is in the uk it is one. the greek government is looking at what is happening in other countries. greece is opening from today, the two main airports in athens and by the end of the month, they will be opening all the airports, welcoming people from around the world. lucas, i wonder how people and businesses have been reacting to the reopening of the border of the czech republic? businesses are very happy for the opening of borders because we are a very open economy, and export —dependent economy, and we have been hit by the closure of our borders and the lockdown. in april, it was 33.7% of a drop in our industrial production. we are the

second most, the second—highest industry sector in the eu. so it's definitely a big welcome. also, not only from the side of our economy, but also from the perspective of tourism, because 7.7% of our gdp is coming directly from tourism or indirectly from businesses or industries associated with tourism. right now we have only 5% in hotels. so it is totally empty. so all those services, when it comes to hotels, accommodation and restaurants, are pretty much looking forward and hopeful that with the easing of the borders today, there will hopefully bea borders today, there will hopefully be a large influx of tourists, or some considerable numbers that will save the business. greece has done absolutely brilliantly in

controlling the virus compared to many other countries. i wonder if it isa many other countries. i wonder if it is a real cause of frustration that it might be among the economy —— where economies hardest hit because greece depends somewhat on tourism? you are absolutely right. until now greece only had 183 victims of the covid. 0ther greece only had 183 victims of the covid. other countries had more than 30,000. that gives a sense of responsibility and a sense of success for the country. however, because of the geography of the country and because of all the wonderful islands, a lot of people have got to fly to greece rather than to drive. i hear lucas talking about the czech republic. it is quite easy to drive to a lot of destinations in the czech republic. in greece you have to fly to the wonderful islands and the mainland. that may be an issue for people travelling. increasingly, greece will be opening a lot of the

destinations, all of the destinations, all of the destinations, and increasingly we will be welcoming more people from different parts of the world. i think it is critical that tourism this year will be different than before. and i think it's to say to travellers that they should be responsible in the way that they travel in order to have safety for themselves and also safety to everybody else around them. thank you very much, both of you. thank you. in the last hour, a court in russia has found a former us marine guilty of spying and sentenced him to 16 years in prison. paul whelan was arrested in a hotel room in moscow 18 months ago. he was detained with a usb flash drive which security officers say contained state secrets. we can speak to our moscow correspondent, sarah rainsford. fill us in, sarah? well, this was a hearing attended by three western

ambassadors because mr whelan has fourforeign passports. ambassadors because mr whelan has four foreign passports. it ambassadors because mr whelan has fourforeign passports. it has a lwa ys fourforeign passports. it has always been a high—profile case. he isa always been a high—profile case. he is a former us marine. he was charged with receiving russian state secrets, which the court said he had received from an old friend, a russian intelligence agent. still whelan has said all along this was a setup, that he was entrapped by an old friend. he knew nothing of the material found on him old friend. he knew nothing of the materialfound on him when fsb security agents, officers, broke into his hotel room and arrested him some 17 months ago now. in court today, the three paneljudges, they announced he was going to be sentenced to 16 years hard labour in a russian prison. mr whelan didn't even understand the verdict. it was all in russian. it was not translated. but all along he has said he expected to be convicted whilst denouncing the fact that he says this is a set up. it is a case which has put extra pressure on relations between russia and the

west. it began at a time of intense pressure. that relationship is not improved. the us ambassador called this a mockery ofjustice and said it could not not impact on the relationship going forward. thank you, sarah. sarah rainsford in moscow. the uk prime minister borisjohnson will hold talks with eu leaders by video conference today with both sides wanting to inject more dynamism in to stalled trade talks. the deadline for the uk to request an extension to the talks expires at the end of this month. 0ur correspondent gavin lee is in brussels and says the talks are not going well. there's been four weeks of negotiations over a four—month period and it's pretty much come to an impasse. i mean the words of michel barnier, the last round of talks, we can't go on like this, he said. david frost, britain's chief negotiator said progress has been limited. the point of this mini summit, boris johnson meeting the three magi of

the european union, the president of the european union, the president of the european union, the president of the european commission, council and parliament, all in a video conference together. the original reason for this was to say, is there reason for this was to say, is there reason to extend the transition? it has become like a bad pantomime. the uk side saying, oh, no, there is end, the eu side saying, oh, yes, there is. last week there was a meeting between michael gove and eu officials and the agreement was, publicly the eu said, we get the message that britain does not want to extend, therefore we have to accelerate talks. we will hear more detail of that today on this video conference about the path. we are expecting five weeks of talks over a five—week period during the summer back and forth between brussels and london. if they want to get some deal, which they want by october. pa rt deal, which they want by october. part of the issue for the eu side as it may have to be ratified by eu parliament and regional parliaments. the canada deal, for example, it was

held up by one tiny parliament in belgium and they don't want that to be repeated. that happens today. the other thing worth saying is we have come away from the difficulties of fishing rights under state aid, it gets more personal politics. i remember the walk in the world between the taoiseach and boris johnson, the moment a couple of yea rs johnson, the moment a couple of years ago where theresa may said to jean—claude juncker, did you years ago where theresa may said to jean—claudejuncker, did you call me nebulous? these things become more personal. the aim today is to personalise it and move things on. gavin lee. some secondary pupils in england are heading into school today for face—to—face meetings with their teachers for the first time since lockdown. government guidelines only allow a quarter of the chosen year groups years ten and 12 to be on site at any one time. plans for how much contact time the returning pupils will get are likely to vary widely. so how is it going to work? james eldon is the head at manchester academy in moss side. good morning. good morning. how are

you going to deal with easier tens and 12 is coming back, who have really important exams summer? today is about welcoming the students back into school. it has been quite emotional actually just to have children in larger numbers coming back into the school. we never closed but had small groups. for the next couple of weeks it is re—assimilating the children back into routines and just reminding them of some of the curriculum content. 0bviously them of some of the curriculum content. obviously as we build through we will start to bridge some of the gaps caused by the pandemic. when you say emotional, what do you mean? schools are places that should be for children. and obviously in the past few months i've not. we have been open for a key worker and vulnerable children. and all our stu d e nts vulnerable children. and all our students have been getting online lessons. but the vibrancy of having your students back in the building has been great this morning. there's lots of smiles. and we are obviously

having to take small steps because of the restrictions at the moment. but it has given everybody the confidence to get ready for when much larger numbers return and we can't wait for that to happen. yeah. and can you envisage that all your pupils will be back about september? how many pupils have you got? so today we've got, there's a bubble of 50, and we got about 34. we've got good attendance around the students coming back, including some vulnerable children. in total how many students have you got? about 1150. can you see them all back by september? i really hope so. at the moment there are a whole set of para meters moment there are a whole set of parameters which might make that difficult. but a lot of children are missing a lot of education and i think that we are all within the sector working safely and sensibly

to get the students back as quickly as we can. 0ne hopes that is september because it is such a natural point to restart and re—energise education. there will have to be safety done in partnership with everybody. sure. in terms of the vulnerable children, or children from disadvantaged backgrounds, do you think they will fall behind in this period? inevitably there will be some gaps in knowledge. and i think that we are all very aware of that. we have been working very closely with our trust, who have done a fantasticjob to provide laptops for those children, internet dongle is, particularly for the year ten stu d e nts particularly for the year ten students most affected. but we have been offering online lessons for all stu d e nts been offering online lessons for all students since easter, so it isn't the same as being in school, of course. there is a huge amount of work in the sector. my support staff have just been incredible. work in the sector. my support staff havejust been incredible. they've been so ambitious. we've crossed a

bridge didn't even know were going to be in our way. they have worked tirelessly to make that happen. so yes, there is going to be some lag and there is going to be a need to review that. but i think we've moved so far, i don't think it's an impossible bridge to cross. 0k. impossible bridge to cross. ok. good luck. thank you for talking to us. cheers. head of the manchester academy. health officials are warning that latin america is now becoming the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, with some countries reporting record numbers of infections. there are fears the region is ill—equipped to handle the health crisis, with some country leaders still dismissing the severity of the virus. sylvia lennan—spence reports. a new day over copacabana beach. but with the sunrise comes more bad news for brazil. in the last 24 hours coronavirus has claimed the lives of more than 900 people. new cases are on the rise, including the mayor of sao paulo, who will continue to work from home.

translation: after four negative tests, today, unfortunately i tested positive for covid—19, for coronavirus. my doctor's advice, since i have no symptoms, is to stay at home. there are concerns the official numbers in brazil could be much worse and the situation is being severely underplayed by the bolsonaro government. translation: i don't think brazil is prepared to face a pandemic of this sort. not in the part of educating people to face this and being cautious and not in the economic part. latin america has been declared the world's new epicentre of the covid—19 pandemic. brazil is the worst affected, second only to the united states. argentina, chile, colombia and peru have all reported record numbers of infections at the weekend. in mexico city drivers took to their cars to protest against the government's handling of the crisis.

almost 17,000 people have died. colombia is also battling to control the virus — intensive care units struggling to keep up. translation: this is really going to get out of control. there will come a moment when this will collapse and neither doctors nor the government will be able to control it if people don't at least follow the recommendations. it's devastating for families who are losing loved ones. latin america is two to three months behind other countries, but the global pandemic has reached the region and it is taking a heavy toll. to india, where the coronavirus pandemic is overwhelming the health system there, with reports of critically ill people being turned away from hospitals. delhi has so far confirmed 40,000 cases, but officials are warning that there could be hundreds of thousands of infections by the end of the month. railway carriages are being converted to use

as emergency wards, our reporter reged ahmad has the this is the coronavirus intensive care unit in delhi at one of india's top private hospitals. but beds and treatment like this is expensive and hard to come by as the number of covid—19 cases climb. the shortage of beds has become so acute, patients have told stories of going from hospital to hospital in search of treatment. india has been converting train carriages into isolation wards since april, but doctors say a failure to test adequately has been one of the reasons behind the surge in cases. we have to stop the chain of transmission, which is the main thing we have to do. but our government is not very committed to testing. on friday, the supreme court criticised delhi and three other states, saying covid—19 patients were being treated worse than animals. but delhi's chief minister has largely defended his state's

handling of the pandemic. translation: we have been making a note and trying to identify the problems in the system and to rectify them so that more people don't suffer in the coming days. some businesses, markets and places of worship have been allowed to open back up, but the move has been criticised for being too soon and too fast. i think this is not the right time to open up the economy. people's life has much more importance than any other factors. delhi is the third—worst affected state in india, and the chief minister says the number of infections in the city could be more than 500,000 by the end ofjuly. reged ahmad, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news... back to the high street — queues as thousands of shops in england re—open after nearly three months of lockdown. border controls are being lifted across much of europe from today, easing three months of coronavius restrictions.

after two weeks of anti—racism protests, the uk prime minister announces a commission to examine racial inequality. a man accused of urinating by a memorial to the murdered british police officer keith palmer, during demonstrations at the weekend, will appear in court today. this photo was widely shared on social media after protests in london on saturday. andrew banks, who's 28 and from stansted, has been charged with outraging public decency. more than 900 blue plaques on buildings across london are to be reviewed by english heritage, in response to concerns that some honourfigures linked to racism or slavery. the charity says it hopes to recognise those who have been traditionally under—represented in history, including members of the black community. thousands of hotel staff in austria will be regularly tested for covid—19 this summer,

to try to reassure tourists, particularly those coming from abroad, that the country is safe. the aim is to test 65,000 hotel workers per week, by the start ofjuly. bethany bell, reports from the danube valley near vienna, where a pilot scheme is already underway. this family—run hotel in weissenkirchen in the wachau valley has been open since the end of may, but business is slow. just over a year ago, its owner spent two million euros renovating these rooms and other parts of the hotel. they were hoping for a strong season, but instead were hit by the coronavirus lockdown. it was very hard for us with the lockdown because we invested a lot of money in our hotel and restaurant, but we are hopeful that the future will be positive. now the hotel is taking part in a pilot project aimed at trying to reassure tourists, especially those from neighbouring germany.

every week, its staff is tested for covid—19. the tests are run by the red cross and paid for by the government. csaba, one of the waiters, says it's about safety for everyone, staff and guests. it's an easy test, yeah. i think this is very important, yeah, because this is what we have to do, and i think the kirchenwirt hotel does everything we can to protect our customers. the government hopes to test up to 65,000 hotel workers a week by the beginning ofjuly. we decided to offer this to the tourism sector because it's a very important for the austrian economy, the whole country more or less, because it's very important in this very special year, as much tourists as possible. hotels who participate

in the testing programme will receive a special certificate which they can use for their websites and marketing. no—one wants to come on holiday, and be worried. austria is hoping that these tests will help persuade people to come back and save something of the summer season. bethany bell, bbc news, weissenkirchen, in austria. georgia was one of the first states in america to reopen after the coronavirus hit, a decision that caused many to criticise the state's governor brian kemp. many nonessential businesses have since reopened. cody godwin paid a visit to a locally owned jewellery store in canton, georgia to see what business has been like post—lockdown. this jewellery store has been in this location since 1957 and in canton, georgia, even longer. the store is on its third generation of owners and just survived its first pandemic. they were forced to close

for a month and took a huge financial hit. the store reopened in may. we did better this may than average. june is running behind. in the jewellery business, one sale can make your day, your week or month. you never know till it is over. it is running a little behind on average. compared with some parts of the us, canton and its neighbouring towns have not been badly hit. like many parts of georgia, they have been able to reopen its doors quickly without social—distancing rules or other precautions. this firm is accommodating those who asked to come inside. —— you might be hesitant to come inside. we take things out of the door and deliver things. we are trying is always to serve our customers the best way we can. we try to clean regularly. a lot of our crew is a family, we are at each other a lot. businesses here and around the country are eager to reopen, some can't yet, others never will. some local governments

are ready to restart their economies but have to first prove to businesses it is safe to do so. the local government is providing some assistance to small businesses by giving them money back. we talked with some of our business owners to figure out their issues. it seemed like having available cash at hand was the big issue. and so one of the things we felt was that if we can get some of that cash they have paid us back, to them, maybe that is a stimulus. according to him, canton isa stimulus. according to him, canton is a town that is growing and that is a town that is growing and that is what has allowed so many businesses to survive the pandemic. this is just businesses to survive the pandemic. this isjust one businesses to survive the pandemic. this is just one example of what i post pandemic society might look like. it might not be like that for many places across the country. the us entered it a prison injanuary, but the stock market has returned to pre—pandemic highs. the economy will

need small businesses and consumers to come back. cody godwin, bbc news. in kenya, more claims have emerged of the police using heavy handed techniques to enforce the country's covid—19 curfew. this comes after a report by the country's independent policing 0versight authority found at least 15 deaths were "directly linked" to police actions during the night time curfew. africa eye has been investigating the situation in mathare, one of nairobi's biggest slums. eijah kanyi is a localjournalist who witnessed first hand how some residents fear the police more than the virus. a warning, you may find some of this report upsetting. the first night of the government cu rfew the first night of the government curfew is approaching. the police will be enforcing it. they have a history of violence. that night i

see for myself how police are enforcing the curfew. it isn't long before my community's worst fears, true. a family in nairobi is in mourning... the next day i hear the news that a policeman is suspected of shooting a child who was standing on the balcony of his family home during the curfew. in the apartment where he was killed, i met his mother. the authorities say an officer will be prosecuted. but even has his mother was grieving, i was hearing about more cases of police brutality. michael drives a motorbike taxi for a living. he tells me he lost his eye when a

policeman hit him with a baton as he was making his way home shortly before the start of the curfew. we put michael's claims to the police but they declined to comment. 0n the 4th of may, a dead body was found on the streets. an eyewitness says the man was beaten by police during the previous night's curfew. fearing a cover—up, the crowd is set

to ta ke fearing a cover—up, the crowd is set to take the body to the main police station. but as the demonstrators approach, the police respond with tear gas. as you can see today, people try to get publicity and justice for the guy who was killed. the police dismissed any claims of a cover—up. the police dismissed any claims of a cover-up. the investigation is being conducted by the dc si —— dci, an independent body. it is going to be very fair. we have been very friendly. 0ver10,000 cases of police brutality have been reported by ca nyo ns police brutality have been reported by canyons since 2013. only six have led to a conviction. let's bring you this breaking news. it is to do with a fighterjets that has crossed in the north sea. a us

air force f—15 eagle has crashed approximately an hour ago in the north sea and it was from raf lakenheath here north sea and it was from raf la kenheath here in north sea and it was from raf lakenheath here in the uk. more details of course to come. you are watching bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with carol kirkwood. hello again. this is going to be another of those weeks where you keep your umbrella and your sunglasses to hand because the forecast for this week is one of sunshine and some heavy, thundery downpours in the shape of showers. but with the showers, not all of us will catch one. what's happening at the moment is low pressure is dominating our weather. you can see it and could hear, the cloud rotating around it in an anticlockwise direction, dragging it in and a lot of low cloud, mist and fog from the north sea. through the day a lot of that will push back towards the coastline. we might hang onto a bit more of it across scotland and also see quite a few showers develop.

most of those will be in the west, we could see if you in the east and they are likely to be heavy and thundery if you catch one. and the other thing is, with a lack of wind they are also going to be slow—moving. so torrential downpours with temperatures from 15 in lowick, to 23 in london, possibly 24 or 25. as we head onto the evening and overnight many of the showers will tend to fade. we see a repeat performance of all this low cloud, mist and fog coming in across scotland and also northern england. temperatures are very similar to the night that has just gone, and mild night of lows between nine and 13 degrees. we start with this low cloud, mist and fog tomorrow and like today it's going to push back towards the north sea coastline but an area of low pressure pushes a bit further east which means we are likely to see more showers in the east. but you can catch a shower almost anywhere and again there is a risk it could be torrential and also thundery. but mild, 15 to 23 and warm in the south. by the time we moved from tuesday into wednesday, we still very much to have low pressure governing our weather.

we still have a lot of showers and if anything they will become a bit more widespread during the course of wednesday. we still have this low cloud across scotland and northern england and then the showers really develop, particularly in the west and the south but the east isn't immune to some of those either. been quite humid as well, 14 in lowick, to 23 or 24 as we push down towards the london area. you can see the trend, very much similar weather as we go through the week. but on thursday, a weather front across the south will bring in some more rain and as we push further north there will still be a few showers but we will be looking at something dry and also sunnier. temperatures by them, 14 in lowick, 22 in the south.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. back to the high street — thousands of shops in england re—open, with new social distancing measures, after nearly three months of lockdown. some of the clothes you try on will be quarantine, some of the fitting rooms are closed and brands are extending their returns policy so you have longer to brings things back and once you bring those things back and once you bring those things back they are then quarantined again. border controls are being lifted across much of europe from today, easing three months of coronavius restrictions. whose lives matter? black lives matter! after two weeks of anti—racism protests, the uk prime minister

announces a commission to examine racial inequality. we have to look at discrimination in the education system, in health, in the criminaljustice system. we have to look at all ways in which it affects black and minority ethnic groups. china imposes lockdowns in part of beijing after a new cluster of cases is linked to a market. face coverings are now compulsory for passengers on public transport in england. england and manchester united star marcus rashford writes to mps asking them not to stop free school meal vouchers. the scheme is due to end next month. you know, what families are going through now, i once had to go through that same system and it's very difficult to find a way out.

good morning. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world, and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. it's a day of major change in england as lockdown restrictions continue to ease. long queues were reported outside primark shops in london and birmingham ahead of their opening time earlier this morning. after almost three months, all nonessential shops including clothing retailers and department stores can reopen — if they stick to safety measures. if you're travelling on public transport, you'll have to wear a face covering from today, or risk a potential fine. some secondary pupils in years 10 and 12, facing exams next year, are heading back to the classroom forface—to—face time with their teachers. and the british prime minister has commisioned a review into the two—metre social distancing rule

to see if it can be shortened. graham satchell takes a look at the changes. for almost three months, high streets have been deserted, town centres empty. but from today in england, things change. all nonessential shops, clothes, books, charities, everything, can reopen. it'll be far from normal. there'll be one way systems, hand sanitisers, perspex screens, social distancing, and of course, queues. i don't mind queuing. i don't mind, as i long as i can get into the shops and see what is available. it will be just nice to feel more normal. even with the safety measures, i'm still cautious to go out in public. and i definitely think, as soon as the normal shops open, there will be a huge rush. and i'm too careful about my own well—being so i probably just won't go out. announcer: please remember to use a face covering while travelling on tfl services.

travel will also look different from today. face coverings are now compulsory on buses, trains, trams, ferries, planes, with some exemptions for smaller children and people with some medical conditions. and there will be more flights, easyjet, for example, will resume a small number of passenger journeys from this morning. there are changes in education, some secondary schools in england will open today butjust for years 10 and 12. again, there'll be one—way systems, social distancing, and smaller class sizes. and some outdoor attractions like zoos will also open from today. lockdown is being eased and england will look and feel considerably different. it will need more time and patience to work. graham satchell, bbc news. our business correspondent, ben thompson is at mcarthur glen retail park in ashford in kent which is opening back up this morning.

it doesn't look like there are many there are around you, how busy is it? let me show you the queue. good morning. take a look at some of the queues forming, that part of plans because as well as trying to get into the shop you will have to queue to come into the centre and it limited the amount of people who can come here to make sure social distancing measures can be put and keptin distancing measures can be put and kept in place. the shopping experience will look and feel very different. this place opening at 10am, most people was driven in the car but they have half the number of car but they have half the number of car parking spaces to limit that. this queueing is something we should get used to for a while. earlier i spoke to the general manager here and he told me what has changed and what could feel and look very different. it isa different. it is a very different offer in

terms of what you say but the service is still the same, you can come in and have a coffee, at the minute you cannot sit down you can have a and walk around. in the stores, you try on clothes they will be quarantine, some fitting rooms are closed and brands are extending their returns policy and once that stuff is brought back it is quarantined. so there is a process we have to go through to reassure people that they feel safe when they come shopping. that's the view from the boss here. all sorts of numbers on the cost to the economy of nonessential shops been closed, £1.8 billion each week is what we are told it is costing to keep nonessential shops closed. glad to see signs like this, customers back out shopping. two shoppers are with me. first time shopping in about 12 pea ks, with me. first time shopping in about 12 peaks, how nice is it to be back out? we we re back out? we were planning to go out shopping

before so it basically put a stop on all plans but now glad to be back. what are you looking for? have you been putting money aside, not spending during lockdown? we are glad to be out and actually see the product. how different is the experience down here, what have you found unusual or different? it is pretty different because some of the shops have arrows and staff guiding you around, then at the queues and the social distancing aspect. it is quite different from shopping before coronavirus. but it is still good to get out and go shopping. do you find you will maybe change what you spend on how you spend because you cannot necessarily try stuff on can't pick it up, things like that will be very different. of course. i am normally big on trying clothes on so i'm looking at maybe getting shoes or perfume,

things i don't really have to try on. when you are able to see other people out and about, does it change what you are thinking about, what you might buy because a lot of shops have all the springs stuffed in and we are already in summer, more sales to encourage us to buy but will you still be buying? with seasonal items it is more of a maybe if they are on sale for the next season or, if not, you can buy the same stuff on amazon if you are not going to shop in—store so it really depends. we are more looking at less seasonal items. you touched on online shopping, many of us have been doing more online shopping, have your habits changed might they be here to stay, new ways of buying? i guess we expect more from online retailers now, faster delivery times, more products available. especially that we haven't had access to regular shops.

well, enjoy your day, nice to see you out and enjoy your shopping. you can see some of the queues forming here, we are trying to keep our distance. people are backed out, it is getting busier and retailers really welcoming all the people that can finally get out for nonessential retail. this is in england and northern ireland. we may hear more this week about scotland later this week, wales hoping to open this time next week. lots of work at the retailers had to do and they are all trying to make it better for customers and give them the confidence that coming to shop is safe so what of measures in place and we will show you around some of those shops are a little later. thanks very much. let's speak to the ceo of timpsons, james timpson. they have around 2000 shops across the high street in the uk, they do shoe repairs, key cutting amongst other things and the james timpson

ceo joins us. thank you forjoining us. your business has been going for over 150 yea rs us. your business has been going for over 150 years so you've obviously weathered some stones in that time, as shops go back how would you describe the state of the business now “— describe the state of the business now —— weathered some storms. 0ur now —— weathered some storms. our business survived two world wars, spanish flu, numerous financial disasters and this is probably, from a commercial point of view, the hardest yet. we had 20 really good years before now and this is a very difficult one but we will survive. it's very difficult to work out how things will go. we've been hit hard, take a lot of punches but we are still in the ring. we hope that gradually trade will build up. i don't think it will really get going until september, when the schools probably go back. i reckon thinking you have not taking any further money from the government, you've kept things going yourself? we've taken the further money but

topped up all of our colleagues' wages so they are earning 100% of their wages, that cost about £500,000 a week, money well spent, in my opinion. but we have claimed a significant amount of follow money —— significant amount of fellow money but if we did not have that we would not have been able to keep going. lots of reasons we had to close our shops but we needed that support to keep going but i thought it was essential to top pop colleagues' wages so they could cope during lockdown. —— top up colleagues' wages. you said you think it will be a while before you will see what will happen in terms of customers returning, it is not a very nice way to talk about it, but what we —— what would be your best case scenario? lots of business leaders are concerned about a second wave,

potentially, so that would be disastrous. my concern is how long it will take to build confidence to shop and behave normally. we have a big dry cleaning business and people get dry cleaning work when they go to work on parties, weddings, holidays, and we need to get people back into a position where they are behaving as they would do before which is when people will shop as they did before but that will take some time. what might help along the way? there is discussion around our vat cut that the treasury is looking at, would you like to see that happen? that would be one of the things that would make a significant difference. when it happened before in the last recession that helped us keep going. there are lots of other things that can be done, for example, when we recruit new people, national insurance holidays. we recruit with challenging backgrounds, and that would really help stimulate and just

encourage companies to take people on because that will be the biggest problem, what are we going to do when we moved into the growth phase of finding new people? you said these have been the toughest conditions you had to weather, do you feel confident you can get through this without losing staff? well, sadly we had to say goodbye to 180 colleagues when we went into lockdown, these were colleagues who only recently joined us lockdown, these were colleagues who only recentlyjoined us because we we re only recentlyjoined us because we were preparing to open new shops but were preparing to open new shops but we will have to see how things go, how the country and economy reshapes but i don't want to lose any colleagues, my colleagues are fantastic. highly skilled and highly motivated. we just need to see how people return to the high street and how they shop again because we've got to be a business, we need to make money. but i am hopeful, but we just need to see. james timpson, thank you very much.

border controls are being lifted across much of europe from today, easing three months of coronavius restrictions. the european union is hoping to kick—start the badly damaged economies across the bloc by allowing travel between member states ahead of the summer holiday season. today all these countries will reopen their borders, eitherfully or with some restrictions on specific countries seen to be higher risk. for example, greece is allowing tourists from 29 countries — mainly from the eu — to enter from today, but the list does not include the uk, spain or italy. germany is fully opening its borders for travellers from the eu, although it will have individual travel warnings for each country. france is opening its borders today too, although it will still demand that travellers from the uk and spain self—isolate for two weeks on arrival. 0ur europe correspondent gavin lee has the details from brussels. from today you have got

germany, belgium, croatia, switzerland all fully opening the borders, all of those police officials were, quite unfamiliar, at one point, just on the borders, which, in the schengen zone, the 26 countries that share a passport—free zone in europe, suddenly to be there was unusual, but they have been there for three months now. they disappeared as of midnight last night and if you are travelling from anywhere from the eu, including the uk, you are free to travel to those countries. in fact, for british travellers from uk airports, there are eight countries you can travel to, that also includes poland, italy as well. that list doesn't include france because as of midnight last night france opened its borders on several sides but not on the spanish and uk side. restrictions are in place there. you can come over but you will face a two—week mandatory quarantine period. interesting, you touched upon it a second ago, but you've got scandinavian countries, the danes, the norwegians, the finns as well, that have selected who they want

to allow to go into those countries, including each of them, the neighbours, excluding sweden. and citing their what they say is a comparative high covid—19 death rate, plus the more relaxed approach to tackling covid—19 and the swedes have said this is unjustifiable discrimination. and you mentioned spain briefly as well, spanish and portuguese keeping that borderfor another two weeks on lockdown, we are told at the behest of the portuguese, because the situation has increased there, actually, portugal has been seen to be a country that has dealt well with coronavirus but there has been an increasing number of cases in the past few days. it is also worth saying, the advice from the european commission here in brussels is that, as of today, there is no need for restrictions, they can all open internally, quoting the european centre for disease prevention and control, which says because of the social distancing measures in place across europe and most countries now relatively similar to each other, they've evened out, that can start. and in two weeks' time, they are talking about opening up external borders to non—eu

countries gradually. borisjohnson has announced that a commission will be established to examine all aspects of inequality in the uk. writing in the daily telegraph, after more than two weeks of anti—racism protests, the british prime minister acknowledged that "much more" needed to be done to tackle the issue. however, he warned against attempts to "re—write the past" by removing historical symbols. speaking yesterday mrjohnson said that, as a leader, he could not sit back and ignore what was going on. first of all, we have to acknowledge that when thousands of people march peacefully for black lives matter, you know, you can't ignore that. i, as a leader, as someone in government, i can't ignore the strength of their feeling, and we have to look at discrimination in the education system, in health, in the criminal justice system. we have to look at all ways in which it affects black and minority ethnic groups.

so we are going to have a big, big effort which we will be announcing very shortly, a new cross—governmental commission to look at what is going on for black and minority ethnic groups, and to champion their success. because what has slightly been lost in all of this is the story of success, and people just don't know. you have far more black and minority ethnic people now going to university. you've got far more young black kids doing the toughest subjects at gcse and ebacc. and that's a story of success. and what i really want to do, as prime minister, is change the narrative so we stop the sense of victimisation and discrimination, we stop the discrimination. we stamp out racism, and we start to have a real sense of expectation of success. that's where i want to get to, but it won't be easy. let's speak now to the labour

mp florence eshalomi. welcome and thank you forjoining us. what do you think about this across government commission to look at the experiences of bame groups and anyone who experiences inequality? i think the fact we are in the midst ofa i think the fact we are in the midst of a global pandemic and the government's response in dealing with this really important issue that we have seen so many people, not just black people, that we have seen so many people, notjust black people, so many people take to the streets to demand a nswe rs people take to the streets to demand answers and action from our government and for the prime minister, who claims to be a leader, to say this is victimisation from the bame community is frankly quite insulting. for the black and minority ethnic people who know going out for a daily shop, they will be followed around the shop. for the black and minority ethnic people they know their interactions with the police will result in them being stopped and searched. for the people who continue to apply for

jobs but they don't even get called foran jobs but they don't even get called for an interviewjust jobs but they don't even get called for an interview just because jobs but they don't even get called for an interviewjust because they have an african or asian sounding surname, this is an insult. we need the government to act now. the government is launching the review and it will report that the end of the year, is that not quick enough for you? i think what we've seen from the government is we've seen reviews after reviews. the reason people have been passionately matching, and safely, is because they are fed up of the reviews, they are fed up of the hashtags, they are fed up of the inaction. we've had the review, the criminaljustice review commissioned by the former pro—minister david cameron, we had the windrush review, we had the review commissioned again by theresa may, another review is just abbott kicking this really important issue into the long grass -- is important issue into the long grass —— isjust important issue into the long grass —— is just abbott kicking this into the long grass, and we cannot allow that to happen.

you mentioned the word is mentioned by borisjohnson, you mentioned the word is mentioned by boris johnson, one you mentioned the word is mentioned by borisjohnson, one of the words he used, we need to stop the sense of victimisation, how do you respond to that? i'm quite surprised that he chose that word. i'm really proud of the majority of bame up people who have made good strides, some of the children from the schools in my constituency, they get fantastic grades and will go on to great careers. despite all the challenges, they continue to achieve great things. but for the prime minister to speak of these were the important issues where we know within criminal justice, housing, employment, arts, business, a number of major sectors, there is still the structural racial inequality and structural racism that we want the government to act now. you have had a bit of a confrontation, there has been a

confrontation, there has been a confrontation between you and the home secretary priti patel and a language you have written a letter in which you speak about your dismay at the way priti patel used her heritage and experiences of racism to gas late in the very real racism faced by black people across the uk —— gaslight. david lammy said he is not into the fascial debate about who has experienced more racism, that's not the point. what would you say to that? this is not about me as an mp or about the home secretary, it is about the thousands of people have taken to the streets. it is about the constituency contacted me asking me to get answers from the government. it is about the fact we now need to look at how we harness the voice from people who are contacting us to say they want to see concrete action

coming from the government. it is a bit making show for all the people who watched that really tragic vigil of george floyd dying, we are making sure we respond as a government, we do sponsor we don't have to watch scenes like that again in modern—day times. florence eshalomi, thank you very much forjoining us. a man has admitted urinating by a memorial to the murdered british police officer keith palmer, during demonstrations at the weekend. let's go to our correspondent. tell us what happened. this court appearance lasted just over ten minutes, 28—year—old andrew banks appeared in person, he gave himself into custody at an essex police station yesterday and arrived in court this morning, he pleaded guilty at the start of proceedings. then we heard an outline of the prosecution case. they said mr banks

had been out drinking the night before, up all night long, drank around 16 points, then going to be protest along with friends, fellow football supporters, he is a totte n ha m football supporters, he is a tottenham hotspur supporter, apparently. he desperately needed to urinate, there were no public places open, no public toilets, so he went for a minute or so and you're next to the memorial. and of course that event was photographed and widely circulated on social media. the next day his father saw the image i knew it was his son and confronted his son and his son at that stage admitted it was him but did not know what he had done and decided it was best to go to the police. we heard from the court mr banks had no previous convictions. we then heard briefly from the defence. they said on behalf of mr banks he was a thoroughly ashamed of what had happened, he had no idea what he was

doing at the time. they said he was a relatively young man who had alcohol issues for two years and had made several attempts on his life. we heard from the chief magistrate, she said she accepted he did not know what he was doing and he did not intend to urinate next to that memorialfor keith not intend to urinate next to that memorial for keith palmer, not intend to urinate next to that memorialfor keith palmer, who was killed in a terrorist attack on the houses of parliament in 2017. she said it was ironic he had gone to defending monuments around westminster and yet he didn't know he was urinating right next to one of them. she said the incident had caused upset and shocked and revulsion. taking into account, she said, his alcohol issues and mental health issues, she was reducing a sentence of 28 days to 14 days and he should serve at least half of that. andrew banks will leave the

court here to serve that two weeks in jail court here to serve that two weeks injailand he will court here to serve that two weeks in jail and he will serve at least one week of that. thank you very much. france's president emmanuel macron has announced a number of coronavirus restrictions are being lifted from today. cafes and restaurants are reopening in the paris region and travel to other european countries will be allowed. freya cole has the story. in france, the mood is upbeat. the plan to reopen society to save the economy has been accelerated. translation: we are going to be able to turn the page on the first chapter, in a manner of speaking, of the crisis we have just been through. from monday, the whole country, apart from mayotte and guyane, where the virus is still

actively spreading, the whole country will become part of what we now call the green zone which will allow a greater return to work and a reopening of cafes and restaurants in the paris region. it's now been a month since the country started easing lockdown measures and there has been no rise in new coronavirus cases. it means businesses will reopen fully and residents can travel across europe. from next week, nurseries and both primary and secondary schools will welcome back students, and byjuly1st, international travel will be permitted to and from countries where the virus is under control. president emmanuel macron is particularly keen to support local companies and pivot away from global supply chains, a move which won't come cheap. translation: we will not finance spending by increasing taxes. the only answer is to build an economic model which is sustainable, stronger,

and produce more so we don't depend on others. hand sanitiser, face masks and social distancing will all play a big part in discovering the new french way of life. freya cole, bbc news. the rules around wearing face coverings in england have changed from today. they're now compulsory on public transport, and if you don't wear one you might not be able to travel, or you could be given a fine. simon browning as further details. yes, well, i have been out on the public transport system since about 7:30am. i started my journey at west ham station. surprisingly, the majority of people are now wearing these face masks. there is a £100 fine if you don't wear them. i was in the concourse station, the concourse at west ham station, and there were british transport police officers. the small amount of travellers travelling without a face mask,

they were pulled aside gently by the police and basically asked why they were not wearing them and most of those occasions they were given a face mask to carry on theirjourney. 0n the majority of tubes i have travelled on this morning as well everyone was wearing face masks. the public transport system is still incredibly quiet. the vast majority of people are still either working from home or spreading travelling patterns if they are travelling to the office over the days the government have asked. people are wearing face mask but the transport system is still very quiet. nina warhurst has spent the morning at manchester picadilly station. as of today, it's mandatory in england to wear face coverings, notjust if you are on a train, but a plane, ferry or a bus. only in england, so theoretically, if you are crossing the border from wales or scotland, at that moment you would have to put a mask on. most people we have seen in the station today have been wearing a face covering. it doesn't have to be a mask like this, i saw someone with a scarf. i even saw somebody with a sock

they had adapted — hopefully clean! and staff here are on hand to give people face coverings if they don't have their own. they're the changes within the station — you might also notice some on board. if you have ever travelled on one of these shuttle trains between manchester and london, you will know they are usually packed. not since lockdown, and even as footfall picks up, they are limiting the number of tickets sold to about 100 of the 600 capacity, to maintain social distancing. when you come into the buffet car, which everyone knows is the best bit of a train, there are markings on the floor to make sure passengers keep their distance and also a shield to protect staff. all of the trains are sprayed with a powerful disinfectant every four weeks, and some trains will have markings saying where you can and cannot sit. there will be extra staff around to encourage the use of face coverings but ultimately it is down to every passenger to play their part.

in china, new restrictions are being introduced in parts of the capital beijing, after an outbreak of 36 new infections was reported on saturday, and 79 in total over the last four days. most of the infections have been linked to xin fa di market, which supplies 80% of beijing's meat and vegetables. more cases have been reported at a second market — yuquan dongcai market — in the west of the city. the city had previously seen no new cases in more than 50 days. no outsiders are being allowed into ten communities surrounding the two markets. 0ur correspondent stephen mcdonell is in beijing with more. the numbers, you know, on the face of it, compared with other parts of the world, might sound like not that much. in four days, 80 cases but when theyjust pop up from nowhere after more than 50 days with no infections, and then what has made it even worse is they have all been traced back

to this absolutely massive wholesale food market. 10,000 people who work there have been tested for the coronavirus. tens of thousands of people have been tested in the areas around that large wholesale market. schools have closed down in the area, some transport links. if you're not a resident, you can't go into the compounds in that part of the city and there are fears that it could prompt a second wave in the chinese capital. you've just got to think to yourself, tens of thousands of people coming through that market, they're delivering food all over the city. if you wanted to pick the worst place possible to have an outbreak, where it could spread and go to all parts of the city, it would probably be that market. in some ways, we've seen the best and worst of the communist party under xijinping in controlling this because in other parts of the country this has worked.

there has been a little outbreak and it is squashed wherever it is, whether a town or a small city. again they are quickly mobilising people to be able to test tens of thousands of workers, or neighbours near that vast market, all very impressive, the speed with which that has taken place. however, we have also seen the general manager of that market sacked, as well as a local party secretary, other officials. now, again, if you were to think what might you do if you wanted to encourage a culture whereby cover—up is your first response? you know, where you might worry about openness in this type of thing. well, you would start sacking leaders anywhere where a small outbreak happened. for this reason, there's been some criticism of this handling of the matter because many ordinary people in china are even

asking on social media, why is it their fault automatically? a cluster pops up somewhere. you know, it's an invisible disease. why are they necessarily to blame? if you want there to be early reporting, we shouldn't go targeting these officials in this way. a court in russia has found a former us marine guilty of spying and sentenced him to 16 years in prison. paul whelan was arrested in a hotel room in moscow 18 months ago. security officials said he had a usb flash drive which security officers say contained state secrets. mr whelan says the case is a sham, and has called on president trump to intervene. 0ur moscow correspondent sarah rainsford has the latest. well, this was a hearing which was attended by three western ambassadors because mr whelan has fourforeign passports. so, it has always been a very high—profile case. as you mentioned, he is a former us marine. he was charged with receiving russian state secrets,

which the courts said he had received from an old friend, who was a russian intelligence agent. now, mr whelan has said all along that this was a set—up, that he was entrapped by an old friend, and that he knew nothing of the material which was found on him when fsb security agents, officers, broke into his hotel room and arrested him some 17 months ago now. in court today, the judge, a three panel ofjudges, three judges came in and they announced that he was going to be sentenced to 16 years hard labour in a russian prison. now, mr whelan himself did not even understand the verdict, it was all in russian, it wasn't translated for him. but all along he has said that he expected to be convicted, whilst denouncing the fact that he says this is a set—up. it is a case which has put extra pressure on relations between russia and the west. it began at a time of intense pressure, that relationship has not improved, and in fact, the us ambassador here today, called this a mockery ofjustice and said it could not not impact

on the relationship going forward. hello, this is bbc news with joanna gosling. the headlines: back to the high street — thousands of shops in england reopen, with new social—distancing measures, after nearly three months of lockdown. border controls are being lifted across much of europe from today, easing three months of coronavius restrictions. whose lives matter? black lives matter! after two weeks of anti—racism protests, the uk prime minister announces a commission to examine racial inequality. china imposes lockdowns in part of beijing after a new cluster of cases is linked to a market. face coverings are now compulsory for passengers on public transport in england. let's return now to the reopening

of many non essential shops in england today... they are opening provided they can provide social distancing. kathryn stanczyszyn is in birmingham. what is it like there? there is a queue outside of primark in birmingham. from around 6:30am this morning and before nine o'clock there were at least 500 people in this store. there has been socially distance queueing, you can see behind me that you is filtering in and the store was meant to open at eight o'clock this morning. that was brought forward to 7:20am because the demand was just so high. brought forward to 7:20am because the demand wasjust so high. i brought forward to 7:20am because the demand was just so high. i would say around 50% of the people in the queue here are wearing face coverings of some description. the other is not so much, and the people i have been chatting to have just said that they have been very keen to get certain products, but also

that they just wanted to get to get certain products, but also that theyjust wanted to get out to get certain products, but also that they just wanted to get out and about. certain people said they had taken the day off today to be able to come shopping on the high street, which is what they wanted to do for so long. inside, i hear, chatting to people coming out this morning, that it is all very well socially distance inside, there are big queues at some of the towels but it is calm and good and everyone is getting on pretty well. and at birmingham city centre, it is basically, i would say not that different from any monday pre—coronavirus. “— different from any monday pre—coronavirus. —— tills. you have the odd busker out as well. shop with confidence, that is what the prime minister said and people seem to be doing that here. thank you, kathryn stanczyszyn. lets talk more widely know about the impact on the high street. joining me now is simon quin, executive director of the high streets task force.

this is an organisation set up by the government last year to support the government last year to support the high street before covid—19 appeared. thank you very much for joining us. what are your thoughts today on the strength of the high street as the shops go back?|j today on the strength of the high street as the shops go back? i think we are seeing the people return to the high street. i have seen choose on the media outside many premises. this is good news. what we have also found is that in order to get to this point will be can reopen the high street safely, local authorities worked alongside businesses, business improvement districts and partnerships and the wider community to deliver an offer that people want to return to. what we now have to do is to work on those partnerships and that engagement is to plan for the future of our high streets. this is just the beginning of the process. we will not return to what we had before, we must think about the future. and on that, what do you think it will look like? your task

force was set up before this, the high street has been struggling for a long time, this brings a different dimension. yes, it has been struggling for a long time and that is why we established a group of leading experts who understand high streets with access to data intelligence and putting out guidance and other forms of information that can help local authorities and those that want to change the high streets. but when we look forward, we must work more with the communities and those other people who are supporting high streets to understand the changes that must happen. we will have less retail, we think that is a given, but there will be other activities that will happen. we need to think about that and how we get to that process , about that and how we get to that process, where high streets are still relevant and sustainable but are offering much more to the people who they should be serving. cannot only really be delivered by financial incentives for businesses,

to make their bottom line easier to manage? —— can that only really be delivered? because they are already struggling with rents on the high street. and incentives for customers to go to the shops and buy rather than purchasing online, which many have been doing for the past two months? we have certainly seen a growth in online shopping, particularly during the covid crisis. whether all of that will return to the high street, i am not sure. i think what the high street offers something different to online shopping, and if we can safely be managed this opening, we can make them attractive places that people will want to go to. but people interested in going to the high street other than just for shopping i hope we will see shortly with people going to places of entertainment. we are also seeing they need perhaps for more local workspaces, some people choose not

to commute back into cities and two large offices. so, they will be a combination of things that are going on, some of those will need financial incentives, much of it will need investment and this is why it is so important to be working in partnership from the very outset. this is not something that we can look to local authorities to fund. government has been very helpful for businesses through the covid crisis, but both government funding, private funding, community led initiatives are going to be important as we transform high streets. would you expect manyjob transform high streets. would you expect many job losses transform high streets. would you expect manyjob losses to start to be announced as we head to the time when the government's furlough offering start to tail off and it means businesses will be facing having to pick up at the sum of the wage bill without necessarily an increase in income or enough of an increase in income or enough of an increase in income or enough of an increase in income? i think we will learn a lot more about that over the next month or so. there are certainly indications that some

businesses are not as resilient, and this will have an impact. i do not know if we know enough at the moment to know exactly where that will follow. we expect some of the business is not to be open, notjust in retailing, but other areas that have been affected such as hospitality. and there is the need to work together and understand the data that is coming out about this so that we can make more evidence—based decisions going forward. simon quin of the high street task force, thank you very much. thank you. as we've been hearing, the prime minister has ordered a new commission to look at all aspects of inequality following two weeks of anti—racism demonstrations in the uk. let's get some thoughts now from drzubaida haque, interim director of the runnymede trust, the independent race equality think—tank. thank you forjoining us. what do you think of the idea of this review? we are in an extraordinary position, where the prime minister

has just announced this commission on addressing racial inequalities on all aspects of life, when the government had still held back the recommendations on how to save the lives of black and ethnic naughty people who are dying disproportionately in this pandemic. two weeks ago, the government published a review, which we were expecting the answers for, expecting a nswe rs expecting the answers for, expecting a nswers for expecting the answers for, expecting answers for how they could save the lives of black and ethnic naughty people. two weeks ago they publish that review and there was not a single recommendation or plan of action. two weeks later, we have the government now saying that they will confront racism and address racial inequalities in society when we do not have any recommendations on how they are even going to save the lives of black and ethnic minority people. so, do you have much faith then and watch this new review might

achieve? the question is, why are we doing the review, when we have overwhelming evidence, much of which, by the way, was commissioned by this government, the lame review, the angelina review, the windy volumes review, the baroness mcgregor review, all of these reviews of deaths in custody, gets criminaljustice system reviews of deaths in custody, gets criminal justice system and reviews of deaths in custody, gets criminaljustice system and the windrush scandal, which because of the government's on hostile environment policies, black citizens in this country, the citizens from the windrush generation lostjobs, homes, access to the nhs, were detained and deported. so, the government's on policies we are discriminating against black and ethnic minority citizens in this country, and that has continued to happen, we know that us continue to happen, we know that us continue to happen, because they have tried to deport people back to jamaica. people who have grown up in this country have never really been to

jamaica, left jamaica to country have never really been to jamaica, leftjamaica to show —— left jamaica and are still jamaica, leftjamaica to show —— leftjamaica and are still being ported back to jamaica, and this government are not even addressing their policies, they are not addressing over 200 recommendations of reports that they have commissioned themselves on racial inequalities. so, the question is, why are we having yet another review, when all of the evidence is already at the government's disposal? why do you think the government has not actually enforced those recommendations that have come forward through all of those reviews ? forward through all of those reviews? i think that will be the big question on the minds of people. that is one of the reasons why we have the black lives matter protests. the protests are of course about the fact that considerable racial inequalities exist. i am so sorry. racial inequalities exist in this society that racism is still a matter of life and death. that was brought home by the brutal murder of

george floyd, but it is also brought on by the racial inequalities in covid—19, where black and ethnic minority people are disproportionately dying from covid—19. and yet, the government has not done anything to address that. the big question is, why is the government not addressing that, and why are they commissioning yet another review that essentially is going to kick this issue of racism and racial discrimination, which is not only determining the life outcomes of people, but also determining whether they live or die? why are they kicking that ball into the long grass? and i think it seriously brings into question the prime minister's intention to address racism and racial discrimination in this country. dr zubaida haque, thank you. thank you. aus air force f—15c eagle has

crashed in the north sea. the aircraft was from the 48th fighter wing, raf lakenheath. it was on a routine training mission with one pilot on board. the cause of the crash as well as the status of the pilot are unknown at this time. search and rescue teams have been called in to provide support. as soon as additional details become available, we will bring them to you. health officials are warning that latin america is now the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, with some countries reporting record numbers of infections. there are fears the region is ill—equipped to handle the health crisis, with some country leaders still dismissing the severity of the virus. sylvia lennan—spence reports. a new day over copacabana beach. but with the sunrise comes more bad news for brazil. in the last 24 hours coronavirus has claimed the lives of more than 900 people. new cases are on the rise, including the mayor of sao paulo, who will continue to work from home. translation: after four negative tests, today, unfortunately i tested positive for covid—19, for coronavirus. my doctor's advice, since i have no

symptoms, is to stay at home. there are concerns the official numbers in brazil could be much worse and the situation is being severely underplayed by the bolsonaro government. translation: i don't think brazil is prepared to face a pandemic of this sort. not in the part of educating people to face this and being cautious and not in the economic part. latin america has been declared the world's new epicentre of the covid—19 pandemic. brazil is the worst affected, second only to the united states. argentina, chile, colombia and peru have all reported record numbers of infections at the weekend. in mexico city drivers took to their cars to protest against the government's handling of the crisis. almost 17,000 people have died. colombia is also battling to control the virus — intensive care units struggling to keep up. translation: this is really

going to get out of control. there will come a moment when this will collapse and neither doctors nor the government will be able to control it if people don't at least follow the recommendations. it's devastating for families who are losing loved ones. latin america is two to three months behind other countries, but the global pandemic has reached the region and it is taking a heavy toll. sylvia lennan—spence, bbc news. in kenya, more claims have emerged of the police using heavy—handed techniques to enforce the country's covid—19 curfew. this comes after a report by the country's independent policing 0versight authority found at least 15 deaths were "directly linked" to police actions during the night time curfew. bbc africa eye has been investigating the situation in mathare, one of nairobi's biggest slums. eijah kanyi is a localjournalist who witnessed first hand how some residents fear the police more than the virus. a warning, you may find some of this report upsetting.

the first night of the government curfew is approaching. the mathare residents know the police will be enforcing it and that they have a history of violence and brutality. that night i see for myself how police are enforcing the curfew. it isn't long before my community's worst fears, true. community's worst fears come true. a family in nairobi is in mourning... the next day i hear the news that a policeman is suspected of shooting a child who was standing on the balcony of his family home during the curfew. in the apartment where he was killed, i met his mother. the authorities say an officer

will be prosecuted. but even as his mother was grieving, i was hearing about more cases of police brutality. michael drives a motorbike taxi for a living. he tells me he lost his eye when a policeman hit him with a baton as he was making his way home shortly before the start of the curfew. we put michael's claims to the police but they declined to comment. 0n the 4th of may, a dead body was found on the streets. an eyewitness says the man was beaten by police during the previous night's curfew.

fearing a cover—up, the crowd decide to take the body to the main police station. but as the demonstrators approach, the police respond with tear gas. as you can see today, people try to get publicity and justice for the guy who was killed. the police quickly dismissed any claims of a cover—up. 0ver10,000 cases of police brutality have been reported by kenyans since 2013.

only six have led to a conviction. england and manchester united striker marcus rashford has written a passionate and highly personal letter asking the government to rethink its decision to end free school meal vouchers in england during the summer. he's been telling us why the issue is so important to him. well, you know, my mum was a single parent. she's got five kids are living in the same house. the programme i started in at 11 years old, you are supposed to started at 12 years old, which basically gives you new accommodation closer to the training facilities and a new school, and she worked that hard to push it forward because she knew that for me that was the step i needed to take. i needed to be eating the right foods while i was growing and needed to be close to my new team—mates, school friends, things like that, so she made the decision when i was 11 years

old and united allowed it. that was the reason i ended up going at a younger age compared to the others, it was to help my mum with her situation and also get myself out of the situation iwas in. there's always a big element of sacrifice to try and get to the top level and you know, that is the one we had to make initially. my mum, she did the best she could. i remember we used to go to a shop called pound world, and everything was under a pound. we'd schedule out the week, so we'd get seven yoghurts and you can have one yoghurt a day and so on. she did the best she could within the circumstances, but with some families out there like me that have four or five kids, it's literally impossible to take control of the situation. this is all going on at a time when kids should be concentrating on schoolwork and stuff like that, and it's just crazy to think that this is still going on. we're in 2020 now and it'sjust something i don't believe should be happening.

just to add, the department for education says the national voucher scheme will not run during the summer holidays, but thousands of children will receive additional support through their holiday activities and food programme, which offers free meals throughout the summer holidays. you're watching bbc news... now it's time for a look at the weather with carol kirkwood. hello, this is going to be another of those weeks where you keep your umbrella and sunglasses to hand because the forecast for this week is one of sunshine and some heavy, thundery downpours in the shape of showers. but not all of us will catch the showers. low pressure is dominating our weather, you can see it anchored here. the cloud is rotated around it in an anticlockwise direction, dragging on anticlockwise direction, dragging on a lot of low cloud, mist and fog from the north sea. through the day, a lot of that will push back towards

the coastline. we might hang on to more of it across scotland. we are also seeing some showers develop. most will be in the west, we could see some in the east and they are likely to be heavy and thundery if you catch one. the other thing is because of the lack of wind, they will be slow moving. torrential downpours with temperatures from 15 in berwick to 23 in london, possibly 24 or 25. for this evening and overnight, many showers will tend to fade. we will see a repeat performance of the low cloud, mist and fog coming in across scotland and fog coming in across scotland and also in northern england. temperatures, similar to the gnat that has just gone, a temperatures, similar to the gnat that hasjust gone, a mild night with those between nine and 13 degrees. we start with all of this low cloud, mist and fog tomorrow, and like today it is going to push back towards the north sea coastline. an area of low pressure pushes further east, meaning we are likely to see some showers in the east, but you could catch a shower almost anywhere and the risk that it

could be torrential and also thundery. but mild, 15, up to 23, warm in the south. by the time you move from tuesday into wednesday, we have a low pressure governing our weather, we still have a lot of showers and if anything they could become more widespread during the course of wednesday. we still have this low cloud for scotland and northern england. the showers really develop, particularly in the west and the south. the east is not immune to some either. getting quite humid, 14 in lyric to 22 a 24 as we push them towards the london area. —— lerwick. you can see the trend for the rest of the week. on thursday, the weather front across the south will bring in some more rain and as we push further north there will be more showers, but we are looking at something drier and sunnier. temperatures by then at 14 in lyric and 22 in the south. —— lerwick.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. back to the high street — thousands of shops in england re—open, with new social distancing measures, after nearly three months of lockdown. some of the clothes you try, they will be quarantined, some of the fitting rooms are closed and brands are extending their returns policy so you have longer to brings things back, and once you bring those things back they are then quarantined again. border controls are being lifted across much of europe from today, easing three months of coronavius restrictions. whose lives matter? black lives matter! after two weeks of anti—racism protests, the uk prime minister announces a commission to examine racial inequality.

we have to look at discrimination in the education system, in health, in the criminaljustice system. we have to look at all ways in which it affects black and minority ethnic groups. a man is sentenced to 14 days in prison after he admits urinating by a memorial to the murdered british police officer keith palmer, during demonstrations at the weekend. search and rescue teams are looking for a missing a us air force pilot after a fighter jet crashes into the north sea during a training mission. england and manchester united star marcus rashford writes to parliament asking it not to stop free school meal vouchers. the scheme is due to end next month. you know, what families are going through now, i once had to go through that same system and it's very difficult to find a way out.

hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world — and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. good afternoon. it's a day of major change in england, as lockdown restrictions continue to ease. long queues have been reported outside primark shops in london, birmingham and bradford — ahead of their opening this morning. after almost three months, all nonessential shops, including clothing retailers and department stores, can reopen — if they stick to safety measures. if you're travelling on public transport, you'll have to wear a face covering from today, or risk a potential fine. some secondary pupils in years 10 and 12 facing exams next year are heading back to the classroom forface—to—face time with their teachers. and the british prime minister has commisioned a review into the two—metre social distancing rule,

to see if it can be shortened. graham satchell takes a look at the changes. for almost three months, high streets have been deserted, town centres empty. but from today in england, things change. all nonessential shops, clothes, books, charities, everything, can reopen. it'll be far from normal. there'll be one way systems, hand sanitisers, perspex screens, social distancing, and of course, queues. i don't mind queuing. i don't mind, as i long as i can get into the shops and see what is available. it will be just nice to feel more normal. even with the safety measures, i'm still cautious to go out in public. and i definitely think, as soon as the normal shops

open, there will be a huge rush. and i'm too careful about my own well—being so i probably just won't go out. announcer: please remember to use a face covering while travelling on tfl services. travel will also look different from today. face coverings are now compulsory on buses, trains, trams, ferries, planes, with some exemptions for smaller children and people with some medical conditions. and there will be more flights, easyjet, for example, will resume a small number of passenger journeys from this morning. there are changes in education, some secondary schools in england will open today butjust for years 10 and 12. again, there'll be one—way systems, social distancing, and smaller class sizes. and some outdoor attractions like zoos will also open from today. lockdown is being eased and england will look and feel considerably different. it will need more time and patience to work. graham satchell, bbc news. our business correspondent, ben thompson is at mcarthur glen

retail park in ashford in kent, which is opening back up this morning. take a look at some of the queues forming, that part of plans because as well as trying to get into the shop you will have to queue to come into the centre, and they've limited the amount of people who can come here to make sure social distancing measures can be put and kept in place. the shopping experience will look and feel very different. this place opening at 10am, most people will have driven in the car but they have halved the number of car parking spaces to limit that. this queueing is something we should get used to for a while. earlier i spoke to the general manager here and he told me what has changed and what could feel and look very different. it is a very different offer in terms of what you see, but the service is still the same, you can come in and have a coffee, at the minute you cannot sit down, you can have a takeaway

and walk around. in the stores, if you try on clothes they will be quarantined, some fitting rooms are closed and brands are extending their returns policy, and once that stuff is brought back it is quarantined. so there is a process we have to go through to reassure people that they feel safe when they come shopping. that's the view from the boss here. all sorts of numbers on the cost to the economy of nonessential shops being closed. £1.8 billion each week is what we are told it is costing to keep nonessential shops closed. glad to see signs like this, customers back out shopping. remi and steph are with me. first time shopping in about 12 weeks, how nice is it to be back out? we were planning to go out shopping before coronavirus, so it basically put a stop on all plans, but now we're glad to be back. what are you looking for?

have you been putting money aside, not spending during lockdown? with coronovirus there's not really anywhere to spend but amazon. we are glad to be out and actually see the products. how different is the experience down here, what have you found unusual or different? it is pretty different because some of the shops have arrows and stuff guiding you around, then the queues and the social distancing aspect. it is quite different from shopping before coronavirus. but it is still good to get out and go shopping. do you find you will maybe change what you spend, how you spend because you cannot necessarily try stuff on, pick it up, things like that will be very different. of course. i am normally big on trying clothes on, so i'm looking at maybe getting shoes or perfume, things i don't really have to try on. when you are able to see other people out and about, does it change what you are thinking

about, what you might buy, because a lot of shops have all the spring stuff in and we are already in summer, more sales to encourage us to buy, but will you still be buying? with seasonal items it is more of a maybe if they are on sale, for the next season or, if not, you can buy the same stuff on amazon if you are not going to shop in—store, so it really depends. we are more looking at less seasonal items. you touched on online shopping, many of us have been doing more online shopping, have your habits changed and might they be here to stay, new ways of buying? i guess we expect more from online retailers now, faster delivery times, more products available. especially that we haven't had access to regular shops. well, enjoy your day, nice to see you out and enjoy your shopping. you can see some of the queues forming here, we are trying

to keep our distance. people are back out, it is getting busier and retailers really welcoming all the people that can finally get out for nonessential retail. this is in england and northern ireland. we may hear more this week about scotland later this week, wales hoping to open this time next week. lots of work that the retailers had to do and they are all trying to make it better for customers and give them the confidence that coming to shop is safe, so lots of measures in place and we will show you around some of those shops are a little later. ben thompson reporting, some socially distance to queueing there but very different picture to show you now in london where you can see the queue ended upjust being a crowd and they ended up opening the doors an hour early to accommodate the situation that was happening there outside the store, with so

many people trying to get into the story. one man was among the first customers to enter that store, he said the reason he was there to see what deals are available. i brought protective equipment with me and despite it being a little crowded that they did all they could to put measures in place and keep it under control. he said they offered hand sanitiser although i had some myself andi sanitiser although i had some myself and i had a protective mask. he said that there are limited items. nike isa that there are limited items. nike is a global brand, their products are in demand and so people will queue up. some picturesjust in of crowds returning to one of london's top shopping destinations, oxford street, where there have been extensive queues as people desperate to get back in to stores. border controls are being lifted across much of europe from today, easing three months of coronavius restrictions. the european union is hoping to kickstart the badly damaged economies across the bloc

by allowing travel between member states ahead of the summer holiday season. today all these countries will reopen their borders, eitherfully or with some restrictions on specific countries seen to be higher risk. for example, greece is allowing tourists from 29 countries — mainly from the eu — to enter from today — but the list does not include the uk, spain or italy. germany is fully opening its borders for travellers from the eu — although it will have individual travel warnings for each country. france is opening its borders today too, although it will still demand that travellers from the uk and spain self—isolate for two weeks on arrival. let's speak now to ulf sonntag, head of market research and associate director at nit, institute for tourism research in northern europe. thank you forjoining us. there are differences and what is actually on offer, and at the end, do you think it will be too confusing, too difficult, too unpredictable for people to decide to travel from country to country? i think it is important the borders are open and i think we are all eager to reclaim ourfreedom, and i

think in this regard we will see international travel kick—starting i think very soon. but maybe probably first to neighbouring countries, where it is easy to drive with your own car so you don't have to worry about social distancing. then we will see what will happen with our classical package deals towards the mediterranean because there is some reluctance, i think, mediterranean because there is some reluctance, ithink, to mediterranean because there is some reluctance, i think, to go onto an aeroplane, and this will be, we will see in the next few weeks how this goes. would you expect it primarily to be a story of domestic tourism this summer? not really but i think domestic tourism will be... it is like the first phase of the opening and it is possible, in germany we see people are possible, in germany we see people a re really possible, in germany we see people are really eager to travel. as soon as the borders open up we will do whatever is possible, and people just love to travel and probably

they will take the opportunities that are there. what if people don't travel? 0bviously what if people don't travel? obviously there has been three months of very big hits on the tourism industry, the sectors that are very tourism industry, the sectors that are very important to many countries. i think it will be, for the tourism sector, it will be a horrible year. no matter, basically, what business is like, even domestic hotels have lost three months of business and will probably not be able to make up for that. when you look at airlines, look at long—distance destinations and tour operator specialising in long distance, i think they will look at probably 90% drops for some of them. so it will be horrible, the question is for the businesses is how horrible it will be. is there a glimmer of hope, let's see, for this summerand glimmer of hope, let's see, for this summer and also for the next year and the winter.

thank you very much. thank you. a man accused of urinating by a memorial to the murdered british police officer keith palmer, during demonstrations in london at the weekend, has pleaded guilty to a charge of outraging public decency. this photo was taken during the protests on saturday. andrew banks, who's 28 and from stansted, handed himself in to police at the weekend. borisjohnson has announced that a commission will be established to examine all aspects of inequality in the uk. writing in the daily telegraph, after more than two weeks of anti—racism protests, the british prime minister acknowledged that "much more" needed to be done to tackle the issue. however, he warned against attempts to "re—write the past" by removing historical symbols. speaking yesterday, mrjohnson said that, as a leader, he could not sit back and ignore what was going on. first of all, we have to acknowledge that when thousands of people march

peacefully for black lives matter, you know, you can't ignore that. i, as a leader, as someone in government, i can't ignore the strength of their feeling, and we have to look at discrimination in the education system, in health, in the criminal justice system. we have to look at all ways in which it affects black and minority ethnic groups. so we are going to have a big, big effort which we will be announcing very shortly, a new cross—governmental commission to look at what is going on for black and minority ethnic groups, and to champion their success. because what has slightly been lost in all of this is the story of success, and people just don't know. you have far more black and minority ethnic people now going to university. you've got far more young black kids doing the toughest subjects at gcse and ebacc. and that's a story of success. and what i really want to do,

as prime minister, is change the narrative so we stop the sense of victimisation and discrimination, we stop the discrimination. we stamp out racism, and we start to have a real sense of expectation of success. that's where i want to get to, but it won't be easy. norman smith is in westminster for us. norman, many are pointing out there have been several reviews on equality and the recommendations have not been implemented, so that they are saying at the last thing we need now is another review, what does the government say to that? borisjohnson was asked that at prime minister's questions last week by sir keir starmer and his answer was we are implementing the measures contained he cited the lammy report and a windrush report but it is true there has been a stack of paperwork produced over the past five or ten

yea rs, produced over the past five or ten years, the greg smith report into workplace discrimination, the angelini reports into deaths in custody, the theresa may's race audit. the list goes on and on. that is the criticism from opposition politicians and many race campaigners, we don't need more analysis and data, we need action. they want specific measures and the suspicion of many opposition politicians is caught bluntly, this is devised to deflect attention from the black lives matter is protest. there is also a degree of anger about how this has been launched slightly on the hoof, it appears, in an article in the daily telegraph, only mentioned in one sentence in passing. there is no real substantive detail behind it. we know because downing street told us is the commission is due to conclude by december. it will be overseen by

the equalities minister but it will be chaired by someone else. and i suppose at the big question is will anything actually flow from this? number ten say legislation could follow but it is not a given. i suspect we have to wait and see and assess what actually materialises from this or whether it turns out to be just another report in another filing cabinet. thank you, norman. a search is being carried out for the pilot of a us air force fighterjet which has has crashed in the north sea. the f—15c eagle aircraft was from the 48th fighter wing at raf lakenheath. it was on a routine training mission with one pilot on board and crashed shortly after 940 this morning while on a training session. a statement from the base says the cause of the crash as well as the status of the pilot are unknown at this time, and uk search and rescue have

been called to support. hm coastguard says a helicopter from humberside has been sent along with bridlington and scarborough rnli lifeboats, and other vessels nearby are heading to the area. the rules around wearing face coverings in england have changed from today. they're now compulsory on public transport, and if you don't wear one you might not be able to travel, or you could be given a fine. nina warhurst has spent the morning at manchester picadilly station. as of today, it's mandatory in england to wear face coverings, notjust if you are on a train, but a plane, ferry or a bus. only in england, so theoretically, if you are crossing the border from wales or scotland, at that moment you would have to put a mask on. most people we have seen in the station today have been wearing a face covering. it doesn't have to be a mask like this, i saw someone with a scarf. i even saw somebody with a sock they had adapted — hopefully clean! and staff here are on hand to give people face coverings if they don't have their own. they're the changes within the station — you might also notice some on board.

if you have ever travelled on one of these shuttle trains between manchester and london, you will know they are usually packed. not since lockdown, and even as footfall picks up, they are limiting the number of tickets sold to about 100 of the 600 capacity, to maintain social distancing. when you come into the buffet car, which everyone knows is the best bit of a train, there are markings on the floor to make sure passengers keep their distance and also a shield to protect staff. all of the trains are sprayed with a powerful disinfectant every four weeks, and some trains will have markings saying where you can and cannot sit. there will be extra staff around to encourage the use of face coverings but ultimately it is down to every passenger to play their part. the indian government has called leaders of all the main political parties to meet to discuss the coronavirus crisis in delhi. india has reported nearly 12,000 new cases in 24 hours. railway carriages are to be

converted to take patients — and nursing homes will also be requisitioned. reged ahmad reports. this is the coronavirus intensive care unit in delhi at one of india's top private hospitals. but beds and treatment like this is expensive and hard to come by as the number of covid—19 cases climb. the shortage of beds has become so acute, patients have told stories of going from hospital to hospital in search of treatment. india has been converting train carriages into isolation wards since april, but doctors say a failure to test adequately has been one of the reasons behind the surge in cases. we have to stop the chain of transmission, which is the main thing we have to do. but our government is not very committed to testing. not very proactively going for

testing. on friday, the supreme court criticised delhi and three other states, saying covid—19 patients were being treated worse than animals. but delhi's chief minister has largely defended his state's handling of the pandemic. translation: we have been making a note and trying to identify the problems in the system and to rectify them so that more people don't suffer in the coming days. some businesses, markets and places of worship have been allowed to open back up, but the move has been criticised for being too soon and too fast. i think this is not the right time to open up the economy. people's life has much more importance than any other factors. delhi is the third—worst affected state in india, and the chief minister says the number of infections in the city could be more than 500,000 by the end ofjuly. reged ahmad, bbc news. dr harjit singh bhatti is a doctor who works on a covid—19 ward at delhi's manipal hospital. hejoins me now. thank you very much forjoining us.

you spoke of your concerns around testing, tell us what you are seeing in your hospital. there are lots of patients coming to our hospitals who are saying they are not getting beds for the last three orfour are not getting beds for the last three or four days, they have positive reports but lots of difficulty to get beds and once they get admitted there are policies regarding admission, testing, discharge policies, it means it is not properly met. so there is confusion at the point of policy—making and there is lots of patients who are coming and exhausting the existing health care system. so people know they are covid—19, they had a positive test, but they have to effectively move around to trying to find a bed in a hospital

to get treatment? yes, this is the situation. they know they are positive, but after the reports came back positive, they we re the reports came back positive, they were searching for beds in different hospitals. firstly public hospitals and if they don't get beds there then they come to other hospitals. what is the answer to fixing that? we heard a railway carriages are being converted into makeshift wards, but it is obviously not enough. yes, in their apartment health care is such that almost 60 or 70% of indian health care is in the private sector, the public sector has a very limited capacity, so now the government must try to nationalise all the private sector hospitals. the private sector hospitals have only one explanation, they say we cannot bear the cost of management

of covid—19 on ourselves and we have to charge the patients. because obviously covid is an infectious disease, managing the covid is very costly. if the government to control of the administration and cost, they can use the infrastructure of private hospitals for beds, manpower and everything, i think that would be the correct approach at this point of time. as there enough being done to stop this continuing to spread at the rate that it is? actually, the issue is even, the government have underestimated the virus are not taken an active approach to control the spread of infection. this is the point which is very crucial to control any infectious disease because infectious disease because infectious diseases have to go

actively into the community then find out the cases and isolate them so that we can break the chain of transmission. thank you very much. you are watching bbc news. as shoppers return to the high street in england today with the reopening of stores, for some online retailers its business as usual. rob hattrell is the vice president of ebay uk and hejoins me now from essex. thank you very much forjoining us. what has it been like for ebay? as we have shuttered a large parts of the high street more people have shopped online. our aim of the high street more people have shopped online. 0uraim has of the high street more people have shopped online. our aim has been to support the 300,000 small businesses in the uk who trade on ebay and we've done our best to try to help them and more people have been shopping online and i think will continue to do so and they have seen

good growth. could you put a number that growth? it has been very healthy, and all the businesses that have been on the platform have been very pleased. the point i was going to make as it is a little uneven, not all sellers have had a great time, some markets have been struggling more. we've had to work very hard to make sure those businesses continue to strive and survive. which other businesses that are doing well in lockdown? if you think about what happens to us asa if you think about what happens to us as a nation as we got through locked phone, initially it was people selling things that allowed you to set up your home office, operate from home, as time has moved on customers have got more co mforta ble on customers have got more comfortable shopping in different categories, big optics in sales of books, puzzles, things to keep the kids entertained —— big increases in the sales of books. and now in terms

of things that we might wear as well. it has taken time and evolved as the lockdown period has advanced. you said you are doing what you can to support businesses that have not been feeling so well on ebay through this, you are a platform and businesses trade independently although through you, so what are you doing to support them? for one example, the charity sector, they require physical donations coming through, so we are preparing and lodging packages of support to help them. if you take some categories, the party area, businesses selling party wear, we allowed them to effectively suspend your business on ebay can't put that to sleep and bring it back, and we have a financial —— put that to

sleep and we have a package of financial support to give them an injection of velocity and how they can continue to trade. what is your responsibility to those companies who you don't have a direct relationship with what you area direct relationship with what you are a platform for them. we do have a direct relationship because the only way ebay works is one of these small businesses thrived. my sole mission is to make sure those small businesses are successful in many of them have been in that they took advantage right the way through from march, a whole series of measures that we launched, we suspended our fees, series of measures that we launched, we suspended ourfees, we made it free to sell on ebay if you never sold on ebay as a business and a whole series of discounts in order to about those sellers to respond as best they could to access the supply they needed to keep selling to customers in this lockdown period. thank you very much.

hello, this is bbc news with joanna gosling. the headlines: back to the high street — thousands of shops in england reopen, with new social—distancing measures, after nearly three months of lockdown. border controls are being lifted across much of europe from today, easing three months of coronavius restrictions. whose lives matter? black lives matter! after two weeks of anti—racism protests, the uk prime minister announces a commission to examine racial inequality. we have to look at discrimination in the education system, in health, in the criminaljustice system. we have to look at all ways in which it affects black and minority ethnic groups. a man is sentnced to 14 days in prison after he admits urinating by a memorial to the murdered british police officer, keith palmer, during demonstrations at the weekend.

a search and rescue team are looking for a missing us air force pilot after a fighterjet crashes into the north sea during a training mission. england and manchester united striker, marcus rashford, has written a passionate and highly personal letter, asking the government to rethink its decision to end free school meal vouchers in england during the summer. he's been telling us why the issue is so important to him. well, you know, my mum was a single parent. she's got five kids are living in the same house. the programme i started in at 11 years old, you are supposed to started at 12 years old, which basically gives you new accommodation closer to the training facilities and a new school, and she worked that hard to push it forward because she knew that for me that was the step i needed to take.

i needed to be eating the right foods while i was growing and needed to be close to my new team—mates, school friends, things like that, so she made the decision when i was 11 years old and united allowed it. that was the reason i ended up going at a younger age compared to the others, it was to help my mum with her situation and also get myself out of the situation iwas in. there's always a big element of sacrifice to try and get to the top level and you know, that is the one we had to make initially. my mum, she did the best she could. i remember we used to go to a shop called pound world, and everything was under a pound. let's cross to cardiff where the welsh first minister is speaking at the daily press conference. on saturday, public health wales reported three deaths, the lowest number ona reported three deaths, the lowest number on a single day for some time. as ever, as the numbers fall,

it is important that we recognise every single death as a tragedy for the family involved, and a loved one who has been lost. at the end of last week, the office for national statistics published an analysis of deaths across the uk from coronavirus. this showed that when age is taken into account, england has had the highest rate per population of coronavirus deaths, followed by scotland, then wales, the lowest rate being in northern ireland. within wales, when the ons looked at the impact of coronavirus at health board level, the lowest death rates were seen in the harold varner area, powys, which were below the average for wales. the highest rates were seen in cardiff and vale

and the other health board areas. the welsh government has from the outset made inequality a key lens through which we understand the impact of the virus. these figures underline the importance of that perspective. we continue to increase our testing capacity in wales, in line with our test, trace and protect plan. there are more than 12,300 tests available every single day at our testing sites across wales. additional tests are available through the home testing kits and lows are part of the uk wide testing system. we are routinely performing more than 3000 tests each day in wales and in the last 24—hour period, just over 30 of those more than 3000 tests were positive for coronavirus. now, this isa positive for coronavirus. now, this is a very different situation to the

final weeks of march, when we went into lockdown. at that time, cases of coronavirus we are increasing rapidly. we were seeing around 400 confirmed cases every single day and there would have been even more people with the virus in the community. the risk of meeting someone with the disease was also rising, but now it continues to fall. it was because of that picture that we asked people in wales to remain at home, to help us to reduce the spread of the virus to protect the spread of the virus to protect the nhs and to save lives. as we began gradually to ease the lockdown, seven weeks and more ago, a number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in wales was falling, but then there but where about 100 cases each day. since then, the spread of the virus continues to slow down. that is thanks to the actions that everyone in wales is taken. those actions have allowed us

to continue to ease the lockdown restrictions carefully and safely, using the headroom that we have created together. and we will continue to take this cautious approach this week, as we once again review the regulations in light of the latest medical and scientific evidence. as you know from what we have already said, we are looking at the package of measures in three main areas, reopening nonessential retail, where businesses are able to comply with the physical distance on duty. reopening schools on the 29th ofjune to allow all pupils to check in and prepare for the autumn term. and relaxing further restrictions on more outdoor activities. we continue on our gradual path to relaxing the coronavirus restrictions, and as we do so, it is very important to

explain that. this will not mean a return to the pre—pandemic normal. while the virus has receded and fewer people are becoming ill, coronavirus has not gone away. it continues to be present in wales and there is still a risk that we will face a second wave of illness later this year. that is why we will continue to need to take precautions and measures to prevent the spread of the virus as restrictions are lifted. everyone listening will be aware of the warning signs in public places to maintain a two metre distance between people, to wash our hands regularly, and there are restrictions on the number of people who can enter a building at any one time, as well as the plastic barrier is that we are getting used to

seeing, put up, for example, to protect shop assistants at supermarket tills. as we said from the outset as well, we are looking and learning from the experiences of other countries around the world, as they have emerged from lockdown. in many places, where cafes, for example, have reopened, they have opened outside only because the virus does not survive for as long outdoors as it does indoors. and we have also seen the sobering experience from some countries, where restrictions have had to be reintroduced, because lockdown has led to cases of the virus increasing. here, in wales, we will use that evidence from around the world as part of our effort to help ease the restrictions carefully, while keeping wales safe. we will go

on working with businesses, schools, public services and with you, as we find ways to open more and to do more, while always striving to keep us safe. i am happy now to take some questions and to go first to bbc wales. across europe, borders, bars, restau ra nts, wales. across europe, borders, bars, restaurants, shops are reopening. there are pictures of dues today on england's high street, too. what is the welsh government going to do at the welsh government going to do at the end of this week to ensure that the end of this week to ensure that the economy of wales does not fall further behind? first of all the premise of the question is not sensible. we are not falling further behind. it is important to get our fa cts behind. it is important to get our facts right rather than our assertions. what we will do will be to do what we have already said. we

will review at the end of this week whether it is possible to reopen nonessential retail. and i am very grateful to all of the people in the sector who have worked with us over these three weeks, making sure that we are able to provide advice to the sector, so that it can prepare for that moment. andy sector in wales will be well prepared if we are in any position to give the go—ahead on friday from everything that has been donein friday from everything that has been done in creating new arrangements, safe ways in which people can enter and leave stores, social distancing inside them, protection for people who work within them. we are keen, of course, to see the economy reopen here in wales. but to do so in a way that puts that public health first because that is the best way for our economy as well. the stop—start reopening of the economy, upon which

we have to clamp down on things again, because coronavirus is out of control. nothing could be worse for the economy. that is why we are doing things in that careful, sequenced way that we are doing things and wheels. the first minister of wales talking about a gradual easing of the lockdown in wales. not a return to the pre—pandemic normal. he said the virus has receded, but not gone away, and he said there are concerns about a second way. also in the last half nobody‘s first minister of scotla nd half nobody‘s first minister of scotland nicola sturgeon has been giving the scottish government's daily news briefing. let usjoin that now. good afternoon and thank you for joining us today. i will start as a lwa ys joining us today. i will start as always with an update on the key statistics in relation to covid—19. 29 new and positive cases where confront in scotland yesterday. i will say more about the total number of positive cases shortly because

from today, we are incorporating new data into that total. a total of 870 patients are in hospital with confirmed or suspected covid—19, which represents a total decrease of 94 from yesterday, but an increase of three any number of confirmed cases in hospital. a total of 18 people last night were in intensive ca re people last night were in intensive care with confirmed or suspected covid—19, that is also an increase of3 covid—19, that is also an increase of 3 cents yesterday. and i can confirm that since the 5th of march a total of over 3000 patients that tested positive and needed to go to hospital with the virus have now been able to leave hospital. in the past 24 hours, no deaths were registered of any patients confronted through a test as having covid—19. so the total number of deaths in scotland under that measurement therefore remains at 2448. i would stress however, as i

did last monday, that although this is clearly hugely welcome and very encouraging, it is nevertheless common forfewer deaths encouraging, it is nevertheless common for fewer deaths to be reported at weekends and u nfortu nately, reported at weekends and unfortunately, i do expect that we will almost certainly report further covid deaths in the days ahead. and, as always, i would like to emphasise that when we do report these figures these are not just that when we do report these figures these are notjust statistics, they represent individuals whose loss is a source of grief to many. once again, iwant a source of grief to many. once again, i want to send my condolences to everyone who has lost a loved one to everyone who has lost a loved one to this illness. i also want to express my thanks to our health and ca re express my thanks to our health and care workers, and all key workers across the country. the scottish government and people the length and breadth of scotland are very grateful to you for the work that you are doing. i will focus on education in my remarks today, but before i do that, as i indicated a moment ago, i want to highlight new data that we are publishing for the first time today. up until now, we have only been able to publish

testing results that come from nhs scotla nd testing results that come from nhs scotland laboratories. we have been able to report the total number of tests carried out by facilities run by the uk government, for example, the drive—through centres, and mobile testing units, but we have not yet been able to publish the breakdown of positive and negative results. but i should say for the avoidance of doubt, the individual tested have been notified directly of their results. public health scotla nd of their results. public health scotland have been working with the uk government to rectify this issue and from today, we are able to provide daily figures for all tests in scotland. for example, we can see that all those people tested in the 24 hours up to eight o'clock this morning, 29 positive cases were confirmed. of those positive cases, nine were from tests conducted at uk government facilities, and 20 from nhs scotland's facilities. in total, there have been 18,030 confirmed

positive cases in scotland since the beginning of this outbreak. 15,687 of these confirmed cases were tested in nhs scotland laboratories, and a further 2343 were tested through a uk facilities. now, further 2343 were tested through a ukfacilities. now, i know further 2343 were tested through a uk facilities. now, i know that some people compare the figures each day with the previous day's very carefully, and if you have been doing that, you will have expected the nhsa doing that, you will have expected the nhs a lap number i havejust given to be 88 cases higher than it is, and the reason for that is it is not, where the person has been tested more than once, first at a uk facility and then in an nhs scotland facility, we remove them from the nhs figure to avoid double counting of both testing. it is important to stress that including this data from uk facilities does not change the total number of lab—confirmed covid deaths that we have been reporting throughout. now, from thursday onwards, we will be able to provide

a more detailed breakdown of test results by day and region on the scottish government's website and i hope this information will be helpful in giving a full picture of the progress that has been made so faron the progress that has been made so far on testing over these past three months. as i indicated, the main issue i want to talk about today as school education, and i want to address parents and young people very directly to the. i know and i understand that you are deeply anxious, as i am, about the impact of this crisis on schooling. so, i wa nt to of this crisis on schooling. so, i want to be very clear today about some of the principles that we are working on, and the scottish government's expectations as we start to look forward to the new school year. and i hope to leave you in no doubt today about the priority that i and the whole government attaches to making sure that our young people do not lose out on education or have their life chances

damaged as a result of this crisis that we are all living through right now. firstly, iwant that we are all living through right now. firstly, i want to be very clear that it is our expectation that by the time the schools return on the 11th of august, and obviously within necessary safety guidelines, councils will have put in place arrangements that absolutely maximise the time that young people spendin maximise the time that young people spend in a school environment, having face—to—face learning. in this immediate period that we are in at the moment, the scottish government will be scrutinising council plans very closely, and will be conclude that all possible steps have not been taken to maximise face—to—face teaching and learning, we will ask councillors to reconsider and revise their plans. innovation and creativity will be required here, but let me also be clear, where there are genuine issues of resources, the scottish government will work with councils to address those, and the quality of

your children's education will be the absolute priority in those discussions. and then from the 11th of august starting point, our aim will be to return to normal schooling as quickly as we possibly can, recognising of course, that along the way we must build the confidence of parents, young people and teachers that schools are safe. and i want to be particularly clear on this point... while we, of course, have a duty to be open to pa rents course, have a duty to be open to parents that none of us right now have a crystal ball, and that the path that this pandemic will take in the months ahead remains uncertain, it is absolutely not the case that we are planning for blended learning with children learning at home for pa rt with children learning at home for part of the school week, to last a year or anything like that. on the contrary, we do not want blended learning to last a single moment longer than is absolutely necessary, and so we will be working with

councils to return school to normal as quickly as we can. we want young people to be back, having face—to—face teaching for 100% of the school week, as soon as it is feasible. and to that end, our regular three weekly reviews of the coronavirus regulations will now include specific consideration of the evidence and data related to transmission of the virus within schools and amongst young people. and where that suggest that safety restrictions can be lifted or eased without putting teachers or pupils at undue risk, we will do so. as pa rt at undue risk, we will do so. as part of these reviews we will ask international council of education advisers to consider experiences in other countries. we will also be working with councils to ensure ongoing and enhanced support for any time that young people do spend learning at home, and again, let me be clear, it is our firm intention as things stand currently that mixture's exam diet will go ahead.

we will also be considering carefully how we work to address, mitigate and make up over time any impact of this crisis period on young people's learning. ensuring that our children and young have the highest quality education, and that their life chances are not negatively impacted by what we are all living through right now is of absolute critical importance, and i wa nt to absolute critical importance, and i want to give you my personal assurance that it is central to my, and the whole government's thinking as we plan and steer the country through our emergency —— emergence from lockdown. before i hand over to the chief medical officer today, i wa nt to the chief medical officer today, i want to end by emphasising again our key public health guidance, because sticking to it right now remains the most important way of enabling us to make further progress out of lockdown, which i very much hope we will be able to do later this week. you should still remain at home most of the time and meeting fewer people

than normal, and when you do meet people from another household, please remain out of doors and remained two metres apart from them. do not meet with more than one another household at a time, no more than one each day, and please keep toa than one each day, and please keep to a maximum of eight people any group. wash your hands often, take hand sanitiser if you are away from home, where a face covering when in shops and on public transport, avoid touching hard surfaces when you can and clean any that you do touch. all of these basic handwashing, surface cleaning, wearing face coverings will help us all to reduce the risk as we start to return to more normal life. indeed, ifanything, as we start to return to more normal life. indeed, if anything, these measures become more important, not less important, as we move through this pandemic, and i would ask all of you to bear that in mind. just as importantly, if you have the symptoms of covid—19, a fever, a new cough or a loss of or a change in your sense of taste or smell, please

ask for a test immediately, and please follow the advice on self isolation. you can book a test at nhs inform website or phoning the nhs inform website or phoning the nhs 24 website on late hundred to 4816. sticking to these rules, as you can see from the numbers we are reporting each day, has had and is having an impact, but doing the right thing, all of us are suppressing this virus. we are saving lives and we are also creating the firm foundations on which we can take further steps out of lockdown. so, my sincere thanks to all of you once again for continuing to abide by these rules, and by this guidance. i will ask the chief medical officer to see if you once before i hand over to the health secretary, who will say a word, in particular, about the publication of the review today on the queen elizabeth hospital in glasgow. but firstly, the chief medical officer. thank you, today i

wa nt to medical officer. thank you, today i want to speak about two things in particular in my update. i have been talking to colleagues across the health service, particularly in emergency departments and in general practice, and all of them are noticing an increase in people attending. this is a good thing and welcome that people are seeking help when worried about symptoms and signs that they are experiencing. knowing who to turn to is critical and the nhs inform website is full of information that can help. none of information that can help. none of these services are able to operate normally yet, and all will have extra precautions in place to make sure that people with suspected covid—19 disease are not mixing with others who do not have it. these clinical areas will also be ensuring appropriate physical distancing is happening across their sites and spending more time cleaning or refreshing ppe between patients to prevent the risks of covid—19 being spread. inevitably, these additional public health measures mean that things might be more complex and not quite as you are used to. sometimes it will take longer than normal, but

people will continue to be prioritised according to their clinical needs. i asked you for your patience with staff as they work through all of these challenges. my collea g u es through all of these challenges. my colleagues have been working incredibly hard for several months and they will always do their best to help you when you need it. however, i am disturbed by a number of a ccou nts however, i am disturbed by a number of accounts where staff have been on the receiving end of abuse from people. fortunately, this is a small minority of people who display this behaviour, but i want to make it absolutely clear that this is unacceptable in our health service. the second thing i wanted to do today was announce further work that i have passed in a subgroup of the cmo advisory group to undertake from me. professor sir harry burns of the university of strathclyde has agreed to chair this group and it will comprise of public health experts including the scottish directors of public health and analysts who will examine the range of public health threats that could emerge as we approach autumn and winter. although numbers of covid—19 cases have

tha nkfully numbers of covid—19 cases have thankfully showed a decline at the moment, we must watch for its re—emergence. one of the high rest periods of this would be during autumn and winter when other threats such as influenza may also begin to show. this is the time of year when there are also annual changes in incidences of other disease. this supporting group will examine these possibilities and be considered together, providing advice on steps that should be taken to give early warning of these concurrent risks, and actions that should be taken to manage them. i am grateful to all of my colleagues across the health and social care system, research and academia, who continue to work with such determination and dedication to help us meet the challenges of covid—19. it is only by working together like this across the different disciplines, sharing advice, knowledge and innovation, that we will ensure we are any position to achieve our aim of controlling the disease and i wanted to thank them again today for their continued service. thank you, i will

hand over to the health secretary. effective prevention infection and control is vital to the operation of all of our health care settings at all of our health care settings at all times, not simply in the face of the current covid—19 virus. last year, important questions were raised around the safety of the hospitals and the queen elizabeth university hospital campus in glasgow. patients, families and staff, who have been affected by problems at the hospital, deserve answers to their questions. that is why i commissioned an independent review... why i commissioned an independent review. . . that why i commissioned an independent review... that is the latest briefing from scotland. the one o'clock news is coming up shortly with simon mccoy. now time for a weather update. hello. low pressure over the weekend brought a mixture of sunshine and showers. we can see some of those heavy downpours and some of our weather watchers captured some spectacular scenes like these, storms and rainbows both caught at

the same time. and with this area of low pressure with us throughout the week ahead, there will be other opportunities to capture scenes like these. this afternoon on this evening heavy showers across the west of the uk, wales, north—west england and northern ireland, and a downpours, the heaviest capable of bringing 15 to 25 millimetres of rain in the space of one hour. that is enough to cause some localised surface flooding issues. the showers will tend to fade away overnight and many of us will have drier conditions, but it will turn cloudy around some of our northerly coasts to end overnight. temperature is mild at 12 or 13 degrees. the low cloud mild at 12 or 13 degrees. the low clou d ta kes mild at 12 or 13 degrees. the low cloud takes time to burn back to the eastern coasts. otherwise sunny spells for the morning, heavy showers and thunderstorms for tomorrow afternoon and evening. the heavier showers for the west, the parts of south—west england, wales, north—west england and running into the west of scotland, similar amounts of rain, 15 up to 25 millimetres from the biggest storms.

we could see localised surface water flooding issues. aside from the showers, some of us will have a tried able sunshine and where that sunshine comes out it will feel pleasa ntly sunshine comes out it will feel pleasantly warm. for wednesday, low pressure remains in charge, so we have further showers in the forecast. the showers tend to be further south this time, so wales, the midlands, southern counties of england, that is where we will see the heavy showers on wednesday. further north for northern ireland and scotland, showers and some dry weather coming through. that for the middle part of the week. towards the end of the week, the weather front tries to sneak in from europe and this could bring some lengthier outbreaks of rain for some across england and wales. the pressure is higherfurther north, england and wales. the pressure is higher further north, and that will tend to settle the weather down. england and wales, rain or thundery showers for the end of the week. an u nsettled showers for the end of the week. an unsettled end to unsettled week. further north for the north of england scotland and northern ireland, the weather should improve bus in bright or sunny spells coming

through. warm where bcd sunshine break through the cloud. —— will bcd sunshine. —— where we see the sunshine.

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