the thing about the post—dunkirk evacuations, one of the reasons why the story is not told, is because, for a lot of people, they don't think it has the romanticism of the little ships. well, it does, and here is that romantic story. here are those brave civilian seamen taking their small boats into the line of fire. robert hall, bbc news, st helier. time for a look at the weather. here's chris fawkes. over the course of the weekend, we had some big thunderstorms developing, mixed with rainbows, would you believe? with the same area of low pressure we had over the weekend with us for much of this week, we are going to see some further big thunderstorms. in the

last hour, we have started to see them break out. today's heaviest storms will be across parts of wales, the north west midlands, north—west england, south—west scotla nd north—west england, south—west scotland and northern ireland. in the heaviest downpours, we could see around 15—25 millimetres in the space of an hour. that's enough to cause localised surface water flooding. aside from the showers, warm sunshine, but it will stay cloudy, with light and patchy rain in eastern scotland. overnight, the showers fade away, but the becomes more extensive in scotland and north—eastern areas of england. temperatures of 12—13dc for many. tomorrow, a dry start, but it will be mainly in the afternoon that we start to see showers and thunderstorms develop, again, across western areas. south—west england, wales, north—west england and western areas of scotland, the showers will be heavy, thundery, slow—moving and capable of bringing

15-25 slow—moving and capable of bringing 15—25 millimetres of rain in an hour. so we could see the risk of localised surface water flooding. sunny spells elsewhere, and feeling warm where the sun comes through. the winds are light and so the showers will be slow moving. on wednesday, low pressure still on the chart, so another day of sunshine and showers. we start dry but this time the heaviest storms will be across wales, the midlands and southern areas of england, building through the afternoon and into the early pa rt through the afternoon and into the early part of the evening. probably fewer showers for scotland and northern ireland, where it should be drier and perhaps brighter as well. temperatures widely reaching the low 20s. for thursday, this weather front gets pulled in from the near continent, bringing perhaps lengthy outbreaks of rain for a time, but it will be unsettled for england and wales. if not rain, further heavy showers with sunny spells in between. unsettled end to an

u nsettled between. unsettled end to an unsettled week. further north, the weather turning quieter for northern england, northern ireland and scotland, with dry and bright weather at times to end the week. temperatures in the high teens to low 20s. this week, low pressure in charge. a good chance of seeing further thundery downpours in the next few days. a reminder of our top story: long queues as nonessential shops re—open in england as as the government encourages people to go out and spend. that's all from the bbc news at one, so it's goodbye from me. and on bbc one, we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. good afternoon, it's 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news... breaking news in the last hour from scotland... new plans for league reconstruction have failed, meaning hearts, partick thistle and stranraer have been relegated. the proposal to increase the size of the premiership from 12 to 14 clubs would have seen all three avoid the drop.

however, just 16 out of 42 backed the idea, meaning hearts go into the championship, partick thistle into league one and stranraer will play in league two. the championship will also be shortened by nine games to 27 next season, with teams facing each other three times instead of four. meanwhile, kilmarnock have named alex dyer as their permenant manager after he agreed a two—year deal. dyer‘s been in interim charge since december and led the club to 8th in the premiership last season. following continued protests around the world, aston villa boss dean smith says football will unite in support of black lives matter when the premier league returns this week. his side play sheffield united on wednesday evening. players names will be replaced with black lives matters on the back of shirts, whilst all tops will also feature badges supporting the movement and for the nhs. all of our players feel very strongly about it, as they do across

the premier league and the afl. it is great to see that football gets a chance to come together at times like this and show the solidarity as a group. —— efl. our players will have a chat and i am sure will speak to the chef would united cou nterpa rts to the chef would united counterparts about what has been going on. —— sheffield united counterparts. well, smith's counterpart at sheffield united — chris wilder — says football should use its power in supporting the movement, plus the work of the nhs. wednesday will be the start of football matches without crowds in england and the financial impact is being felt by all clubs. premier league teams face a £1 billion reduction in revenue due to the pandemic — 500 million of that relating to a loss of matchday revenue and broadcaster rebates. and despite the championship returning on saturday, the football league faces a £200 million black hole. so does wilder think clubs and the league need to rethink how things are run? it possibly should, and we could. i

don't think it will happen, though. i was asked the question yesterday about spending, i do not think spending will dip about spending, i do not think spending willdip in about spending, i do not think spending will dip in the premier league. i think premier league clu bs, league. i think premier league clubs, first and foremost, we'll look after their own football club. the great north run was meant to be celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, but the event's been cancelled because of the pandemic. more than 55,000 runners were set to take part in september's race from newcastle to south shields, which raises around £25 million for charities, but organisers have been forced to postpone it, with the great manchester run also off. next to tennis, which is in a fight for survival — that's according to the man who, last year, won the doubles at queen's alongside andy murray and the singles — feliciano lopez. the grass court tournament was due to start today, but instead all eyes are on america as officials decide later if the us open will go ahead at the end of august. lopez says players face a "significant" fall in prize money when toui’s resume. . .

we have to understand that tennis is not going to be the same, at least for one, two or three years, i don't know how long, but we need to survive this moment, and we need to be united, and we need to be together now. so, as a player, you have to understand that there is going to be a reduction in the prize money, for sure. britain's number one female skateboarder, 11—year—old sky brown, says she's "lucky to be alive" after a horrific training accident last month. the olympic hopeful, who lives in los angeles, took a 15—foot fall while attempting a trick. doctors said that if she hadn't been wearing a helmet, she could have died. sky says she put the footage of her accident on social media because she wanted people to know things don't always go perfectly... 0n social media, everything is, like, perfect. you know, people think that maybe i am supergirl or something.

but ijust wanted to show that sometimes, you know, you are going to fall. and i wanted to spread a message that it is ok to fall sometimes. you are going to fall. like, beyonce is going to fall sometimes! all your heroes are probably going to fall sometimes, and ijust wanted to show that even if you fall, you've got to get back up. that is 11—year—old sky brown. i'll have more for you in the next hour. between you and me, who does your hair? it is a lot of work, simon. are you impressed ? hair? it is a lot of work, simon. are you impressed? i am waiting for a haircut, to put it mildly. many people will think, hang on a second, he is getting that done properly. people will think, hang on a second, he is getting that done properlym is just because the camera is this far away. 0k, is just because the camera is this far away. ok, i is just because the camera is this far away. 0k, iwill see is just because the camera is this far away. ok, i will see you later on. thank you. more now on our lead story: thousands of nonessential shops

and retail parks in england have reopened this morning — the first time in almost three months. chris turner is chief executive of british business improvement districts. good afternoon to you, chris. hello, simon, good to see you. what are business improvement districts? they are organisations where in 328 towns and cities across the country, all of the businesses come together and pay a levy to pay for increased policing, marketing, security, social media, hanging baskets, a sort of self—help group for towns and cities across the country, and we range from the west end, across all the areas. it is all about social distancing and things like that, how are you adapting? with great care. we havejust that, how are you adapting? with great care. we have just done a larger research project across the country and it is very clear there isa country and it is very clear there is a huge exuberance to come back into the shops, people have been locked down for three months. this has been a terrible time for us with a lot of tragic deaths. we must celebrate the return, shops have

done a huge amount of work over the last long weekend to make sure they have got all of the right petitions in place that the signage as they are, local authorities have been out putting things on pavements to make sure people feel safe and secure and that they keep returning. and just reinventing ourselves and our towns and cities. i do not know if you have seen the pictures this morning from nike in london, but it seems that not everyone is adhering to this. social distancing has gone out of the window here. that is a problem about exuberance on the first day probably, and the fact that the one —— young worry less about it. but i think it will settle down, most of our shops have guards outside marshalling the stores. i think in the next two or three days we will get the hang of it. and people will get the used to the idea of being more sensible and careful on high streets. i know you are doing a lot of research into this, but do you sense that what people wa nt but do you sense that what people want on the high street will change

forever as a result of this pandemic? absolutely. i am not sure what people want from the high street will change but what people wa nt street will change but what people want —— what the high street will provide will change. people want quality, to come in and have a good time. i think a lot of office and administrative workers were less be coming into the town now. certainly a lot of change in the high street, we have to monitor and make sure over the next year or two, i think it will be that long before they get a full sense. but in terms of changes, i think there will be a different perhaps more nurturing and caring community and a higher quality as people come back. shopping on the internet has had a boom time. what about that experience of going to the high street and trying things on, rifling through things and having a look at that, has that gone forever? no, i think people want the experience, what will happen is that we will get used to how were retail will have to

become different. people have to go into shops to try things on, touch materials, shoes, play with them, look at them. as we get more experienced about dealing with this virus, we will work out exactly how we can make that process safer than it is at the moment. i am just wondering if you share the view, i know you don't share this view, but some people have said this is happening to early, we are in the heat of this pandemic. there is certainly a sense of different groups of our society will deal with this differently. the old people like myself will be much more careful and are more worried about the virus. the death rates amongst the virus. the death rates amongst the young is much lower than it is amongst the old. therefore, different groups of people will be dealing with this return any different fashion. i was at primark this morning in my town and there we re this morning in my town and there were queues outside and interestingly, a lot of them where young people but many of them were mothers taking their kids back to get close, shoes after three months off, and they were being extremely sensible with proper queues and a

proper order, and i think that will be the duck —— dominant force over the next few months. people use that word normal, but what will the nude normality be, do you think? broadly, i think there will be a slow reduction of retail on the high street. there will be people living in towns. there will be an increase in office and residential, back in the towns. offices will be smaller and more discreet. i think residencies will be greater in numberandl residencies will be greater in numberand i think residencies will be greater in number and i think the whole retail experience will be smaller, we will not have those mad queues that were used to have, and people will be purchasing any more caring and confident fashion. they will be using online for some things, but they will be using the proper experience type of buying, and restau ra nts a nd bars experience type of buying, and restaurants and bars and coffee bars will become more important and anchors like libraries will become more dominant players on the high street again, as they used to be. we

will leave it there, thank you, chris. absolute pleasure, good to talk to you, simon. 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. our 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. sarah rainsford in moscow. the headlines on bbc news... 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. after two weeks of anti—racism protests, the uk prime minister announces a commission to examine racial inequality. 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 10 and i2 — to be on site at any one time. john tomsett is the head teacher at huntington school in york. hejoins me now. thank you forjoining us on the programme. how is it working there? it has been great this morning, we had year ten in this morning for english, maths and science, you can only have a quarter of the year group atany only have a quarter of the year group at any one time, and we have had 50 of our pupils coming in this morning. they have really appreciated being in front of the

teacher again. one of the things we have been talking about in recent weeks is how children have been missing theirfriends, weeks is how children have been missing their friends, and weeks is how children have been missing theirfriends, and probably the teachers, too. how did that ma nifest the teachers, too. how did that manifest itself this morning? for the first ten minutes or so, they just really wanted to chat and talk and just to catch up with people and catch up with the teachers. i think that thing about relationships and forging those relationships again is really important. one of the things that we have been looking at, and one of the reasons that schools have not been able to reopen is the lack of space, because you will need more room for classes, but also a lack of teachers, how are you coping with that? at the moment the government has said we can only have 25% of year ten year 12 n at any one time, and that allows us to cope with that quite well. we have used some of our bigger spaces so that we can get 15 ina bigger spaces so that we can get 15 in a class, but that means we have a couple of spaces where two classes next to each other have a sliding wall. you can make that into one big

room and that allows for 15 students. you cannot do across the school, and to get more people and we have to continue with the two metre distance in space, you cannot get more people in unless you reduce that to one metre. face-to-face meetings with pupils and teachers is crucial, particularly for those with exams next summer. absolutely. one of the things we're doing, because we know much of their time is still going to be learning remotely online, one thing we did this morning was to ensure that they picked up some tips about how to get better at doing online learning, we can see that continue for some time u nless can see that continue for some time unless the situation from government changes. a huge issue has been access to not only the internet but also devices at many schools, is that something that you are concerned about? yes, we took about 30 or 35 of our laptops that usually

set in the departments, and they are out with children and we have reconfigured them, they are out across the city. we have ordered 2a more for some other students and to replace some of the ones they have been using. so, it is really hard when you find that actually, if you are going to go and do some online streaming, the capacity, the wi—fi capacity and some of the homes is difficult, too. so it is a big issue and it is not easily resolved. now, the minister is under pressure to work with teachers and councils on a national slow recovery plan. do you think ministers get it? the maths is quite easy, isn't it? it is really easy. that you probably need an extra 250... given the regulations that they are, we need another 250,000 teachers. we need three times the number of teachers and our

school. that is an easy start. when you realise that that is a case, to get us all in together, we're not going to be able to do that unless the regulations change. it really important to understand that i was told quite clearly by the local authority that if we opened and they had not cleared our risk assessment for opening, that i would be culpable for corporate manslaughter if anything went wrong. so, the pressure on head teachers is huge. it is easy to suggest that head teachers should open up the skills and be more imaginative and positive about it, but they are under real pressure. we can change when the constraints change. -- open up the schools. i don't want to add to the pressure, but people have said youngsters missing out on education for any extended period of time could be extreme are damaging to their long—term education. could be extreme are damaging to their long-term education. well, teachers are working really hard at

home and there has been some amazing stuff going on where we have set work and actually done lessons where we have recorded over slides and set those up for the students to access. there is still a great deal of work going on, and we have never been closed. we have been open every single day for vulnerable students and the students of essential workers. so, we have actually never closed. this is a wider reopening. just to emphasise that. out of ten, what mark wood you give yourself today? ten out of ten. it is a long time that a head teacher looked me in the eye and said the maths is easy. i will leave it there. john tomsett at huntington school, thank you very much. health officials are warning that latin america is now the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic. 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 2a 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. thousands of hotel staff in austria

will regularly be 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 under way. 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. europe's solar orbiter probe will make its first close encounter with the sun today. it will pass by at a distance ofjust over 77 million kilometres. the probe was launched in february and is on a mission to understand what drives the sun's behaviour. it's safe to say that all of us have probably seen a rainbow. most of us would have also seen lightning before, too. but have a look at this well, these extraordinary pictures are from bbc weather watchers.

storms developed across the uk over the weekend with some frequent lightning and even some flash flooding in shropshire. just imagine the sound it is making. now it's time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes. hello. low pressure over the weekend brought a mixture of sunshine and showers. in some of those heavy downpours, some of our weather watchers captured some spectacular scenes like these, both thunderstorms and rainbows caught at the same time. and with this area of low pressure with us throughout the week ahead, there will be further opportunities to capture scenes like these. this afternoon and this evening, heavy showers across the west of the uk, wales, north—west england and northern ireland, and 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 north sea coasts to end the night. temperatures 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, parts of south—west england, wales, north—west england and running into the western scotland, similaramounts 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 dry day with some sunshine, and where that sunshine comes out it will feel pleasantly warm. for wednesday, low pressure remains on the charts, 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 heaviest showers on wednesday.

further north, for northern ireland and scotland, fewer showers and some dry weather coming through for the middle part of the week. towards the end of the week, we've got a weather front that will try 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, and that will tend to settle the weather down. england and wales, rain or thundery showers for the end of the week. an unsettled end to an unsettled week. further north, for the north of england scotland of england, scotland and northern ireland, the weather should improve, becoming a little bit drier, with some bright or sunny spells coming through. and still warm where we see that sunshine break through the cloud. that's your weather.

this is bbc news. i'm simon mccoy. the headlines at 2... huge queues for shops reopening today — as the government encourages people to go out and spend sensibly — non—essential stores, and shoppers, in england — prepare for a new way of doing business. i can't wait. first time in ages apart from supermarkets i've been to, so looking forward to it. love it, love it. i haven't been in lockdown because i work for the nhs but it's so nice for the shop to finally be open. but there's chaos in some places — as social distancing rules are ignored — in the rush for a post—lockdown bargain. black lives matter! the prime minister

says he's setting up