hello i'm ros atkins, welcome to outside source. in the us, a landmark ruling for lgbt rights — the us supreme court rules it's illegal for workers to be fired for their sexuality. protesters march over the police killing of another african—american man, whose death is declared a homicide. his wife speaks out. it is going to be a long time before i heal and this family heals. and we'll have comprehensive

coronavirus updates from all over the world. a big day in europe — as countries across the continent open their borders to visitors for the first time in three months. and in england — the biggest easing of lockdown as businesses on the high street re—open — to huge queues. we'll have updates from pakistan, india and bangladesh which are struggling to keep covid—19 under control. welcome. significant decision earlier by the us supreme court. it's ruled that employers who fire workers for being gay or transgender are breaking the country's civil rights laws. it's a major win for lgbtq workers and their allies. the court ruled 6—3 that federal law, which prohibits discrimination based on sex, should be understood to include sexual orientation. and all this comes even though many thought the supreme court had grown more conservative. that's because of the new appointees made by president trump. this is one of them —

judge neil gorsuch. but it wasjudge gorsuch who wrote the majority opinion. he wrote "an employer who fires an individualfor being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex." we've just had reaction from president trump — he said ‘we will live with the decision,” and that it was a powerful one. his democratic rival for the presidenchoe biden tweeted this earlier: "today's decision is another step in our march toward equality for all. the supreme court has confirmed the simple but profoundly american idea that every human being should be treated with respect. but we're not done." i've been speaking to our north america reporter anthony zurcher about why people were surprised by this ruling sot well you have to view this ruling in the context of what the supreme court had been doing over the past two decades on gay rights issues. back in the early 2000s, it struck down a texas ban on sodomy and

then about 15 years later, it legalised gay marriage across the country, so you see this progression in the supreme court and an expanding of the interpretation of gay rights. but that was a different court and, as you mentioned, they were two new conservative justices appointed to the court, replacing one of them, anthony kennedy, he was the author of those landmark gay rights decisions so there was a lot of concern among the lgbtq folks that this would be a chance for the court to start to pare back this expansive reading, particularly looking atjustice gorsuch as you mentioned, justice kava naugh coming into the court. this ended up not being the case, although kavanaugh did vote with the three justices who voted against this reading. and clearly for people within the lgbtq community, this is the outcome they were hoping for, but has there been a lot of heat around this, is a another side to the argument where there are some people who tried to stop this from happening and what reasons could they give

for trying to stop it? well, i think because this is essentially argument over a reading of a 1964 law, the protections in this 19 624 law that prohibited employment discrimination based on religion, based on race, based on creeds and based on sex. what they were saying, their argument was that these members of congress who passed this law looked at it and said they weren't considering gay rights, they certainly weren't considering transgender rights when they said you couldn't discriminate based on sex and the idea of sex is something that could be changed by an individual over the course of their lives, that wasn't something that these lawmakers had considered and if congress wanted to include gay rights and transgender rights that law, they should go out and pass it explicitly rather than waiting on the courts to interpret it itself. a moment of great importance

for europe's navigation of this pandemic — border controls have been lifted after three months. and of course the hope is that this has come in time to allow the summer holiday season to help kick—start economies. today all these countries — highlighted in red — reopen their borders — either completely or with some restrictions on specific countries. greece for example is allowing tourists from 29 countries, mostly from within the eu. that list does not include the uk, spain or italy. germany is fully opening its borders for travellers from the eu — although there are different advisories for each country. and france is opening its borders too. however, if you're coming from the uk or spain you have to self—isolate for two weeks on arrival. in paris, cafes and restaurants have been allowed to let customers inside from today. hugh schofield is there. i think in france today you really

get a feeling that a stage, a period, is coming to an end. today, for the first time in three months, you can come to a bar, cafe or restaurant, have a coffee outside or inside here in paris. in a week's time, schools are opening across france, not on a voluntary basis as they have been up until now, but compulsory. children will have to attend and that will free up a lot of parents to go back to work. 0n borders from today, that is opening up as well. for three months, france's borders have been tightly controlled but those controls are coming down now which means that the movement of goods and people can begin to resume. is life going to be like it was before? no. now we have masks, we have social distancing, a lot of people are still going to keep working from home, but above all, we have a clearly traumatised economy, 10% contraction in gdp or output, which means a lot of people losing theirjobs, a lot of companies going to the wall.

thousands of hotel staff in austria will regularly be tested for covid—i9 this summer, to try to reassure tourists, particularly those coming from abroad, that the country is safe. the aim is to test 65—thousand hotel workers per week, by the start ofjuly. bethany bell has been to one hotel that has begun covid testing in the danube valley near vienna. another 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—i9. but tests are run by the red cross and paid for by the government. one of the waiters said it is about safety of everyone, staff and guests. that was an easy test. i think this is very important. this is what we have to do

and i think the hotel does everything for the guests to protect our customers. the government hopes to test up to 65,000 hotel workers a week by the beginning ofjuly. when we decided to offer this to the tourism sector because it is very important for austrian economy, for the the whole country, more or less, because it is very important to have also in these very special year as much tourist as possible. hotels that participate in the testing programme will receive a special certificate which they can use for their website and marketing. cafes a nd restau ra nts still have to wait in the uk, most schools too — but shops in england have opened up for the first time since lockdown — all be it with social distancing in place. scotland and wales still have nonessential shops closed.

well for some shops — there was considerable demand — there were even scuffles outside one in central london. sarah corker reports. and the restrictions haven't put people off. thousands waited for primark to open in bradford, birmingham, liverpool and this is bristol. the chain doesn't trade online and there is pent—up demand. 0n london's oxford street, there was a scrum to get into nike town, the the crowd ignoring social distancing rules. and in ashford in kent, a steady stream of customers, but clothes shopping will be different. some of the clothes that you do try on, if you try them on they are then quarantined. some of the fitting rooms are actually closed and brands are extending their returns policy. but some retailers won itjust won't be profitable to trade with social distancing measures in place. the government say this is a phased plan of recovery. let's learn a little more about social distancing works in the shops. here's ben thompson at that same

outlet centre in ashford to the south east of london. shopping will look and feel very different for quite a while to come and let me talk you through what you might find, we are at mcarthur glen in ashford in kent in the south—east of england. at this place, they have limited the number of people who can get in, they have halved the car parking spaces so straightaway, even at the car park looks busy, there aren't as many people here and that is to limit how many people can get in and you might find you have to queue before you even get into the shops. monica is on the door here making sure that there are no more than three, four or five people are at the shop in any one time and when you get in, it might feel different, advice about social distancing, reminders on the floor of where you can go. also, advice to perhaps consider paying with a card or contactless

especially in clothes shops, they don't let you try on the clothes, there say buy, take it home and then if there is a problem, bring it back. they don't want to open changing rooms. you will notice things like a perspex screen right here at the checkout to protect staff and customers and make sure they feel confident about coming back to spend because, look, it is quite an important moment in england getting these nonessential retailers open and that is because the british retail consortium suggesting it is costing just sort of $2 billion every single week to keep these shops closed, so today, yes. 0pening on a limited capacity, lots of work they're doing to keep things clean when people touch and pick things up, they keep it clean and make sure other customers are safe. stay with us on 0ustide source, still to come. beijing tries to contain a coronavirus outbreak linked to a massive market. we'll have the latest from our correspondent in china.

wearing a face covering on public transport became compulsory for the majority of travellers in england today. 0nly children under 11 and those with a legitimate health reason are exempt. here's our transport correspondent tom burridge to explain the new rules. the new rules apply only in england. and this service is heading to swansea. have to cover their faces.