and you can see a special programme this evening — a tribute to dame vera lynn, that's on bbc one at 7.30. time for a look at the weather. here is helen willetts. some parts of south—east england had about a month's some parts of south—east england had about a months worth of rain overnight and into this morning, so touch and go for the commemoratives fly— past touch and go for the commemoratives fly—past in london later this afternoon. this was west holland park about half an hour ago. the rain has eased, the rain eating further east as well and we are starting to see some sunshine materialise. this is the satellite picture. if i put the radar on you can see the rain is extensive along the m4 corridor and northwards, so it's going to be a slow improvement in conditions. yes, we will see more sunshine coming through across east anglia, into the midlands and the south—east, but that is already encouraging some torrential downpours not far away from the

channel coast. they will develop elsewhere. there is thundering as in the band of rain where it is cooler than recent days but you have a high humidity, lots of miss misty low cloud until fog. few humidity, lots of miss misty low cloud untilfog. few showers humidity, lots of miss misty low cloud until fog. few showers for northern ireland, an abundance for sunshine in highland scotland, potentially 23 or 2a but a little cooler for the north—east coast including shetland because we've got that misty low cloud which again rolls back in overnight. the rain moved north into northern ireland and southern scotland as well, hanging around in southern areas with some mist and fog elsewhere. it's going to be another warm night for most of us under rather grey, cloudy start tomorrow, but the sunshine should come out in eastern areas. however, the rain is with this in the south and west again but it will gradually thing and break up, turning into showers and again as we've seen in recent days torrential downpours but more for northern ireland, northern england and scotland, southern scotland compared with today gains called conditions with the cloud in the east. feeling brighter and warmer despite one or two downpours further

south. it's all change this weekend. we still have low pressure so more rain, welcome rain for the gardens but windy weather is coming in the atla ntic but windy weather is coming in the atlantic so we lose our humidity, so more comfortable nights. it will be windier as well particularly in the north and west. we could have some gales, fairly unusual forjune again. saturday looks as if the rain will hold off for most of us during the day. if you wish hours. a little ridge of high pressure so a quieter, drier day for many and still quite warm, 18—20 but we have the rain coming through to northern ireland and through the evening and overnight through most parts so a good watering for the gardens. behind it still quite a brisk wind bringing in showers mostly to the north and west for sunday. temperatures around where they should be for the time of the year. it will just feel a little cooler for the north—east coast including shetland because we've got that misty low cloud which again rolls backin misty low cloud which again rolls back in overnight. the rain moves north into northern ireland and southern scotland as well, hanging around in southern areas with some mist and fog elsewhere. it's going

to be another warm around in southern areas with some mist and fog elsewhere. it's going to be another warm night for most of us to be another warm night for most of us under rather grey, cloudy start tomorrow, but the sunshine should come out in eastern areas. however, the rain is with this in the south and west again but it will gradually thing and break up, turning into showers and again as we've seen in recent days torrential downpours but more for northern ireland, northern england and scotland, southern scotla nd england and scotland, southern scotland compared with today gains called conditions with the cloud in the east. feeling brighter and warmer despite one or two downpours further south. it's all change e that's all from us. we'll leave you with some iconic images of dame vera lynn, who's died aged 103. # we'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when # but i know we'll meet again some sunny day # keep smiling through, just like you always do # till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away # we'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when # but i know we'll meet again some sunny day. #

good afternoon, it's 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news. the return of the premier league last night certainly had a number of talking points. both matches began with a really powerful show of support for the black lives matter movement. players from aston villa and sheffield united and officials, took a knee for ten seconds at the start of the game. both teams in the late match at the etihad stadium between manchester city and arsenal did the same. the former crystal palace striker clinton morrison was at villa park. everyone in the world is watching that so i think it made a big statement last night and as i said,

for me personally, coming through way of come from and been a young black man and going through a lot of struggles in life it touched me massively. it is time for change and i like it that everyone is pulling in the right direction. you see the likes of raheem sterling who has been a credit to himself and his family he speaks so well for a young man. that is what you want, more people to come out and educate people, that is all it is education. it didn't take long for us to be reminded of the pitfalls of var, the video assistant referee. sheffield united were denied what would have been a winning goal at villa. the mistake was initially hawk—eyes, the company behind goalline technology, despite the villa keeper orjan nyland carrying the ball over the line here, it didn't indicate a goal. hawk—eye apologised saying their cameras were blocked by players and the goal post. the first time in 9,000 operational matches that it had happened. but var has been heavily criticised

for not intervening, despite the video evidence that the ball crossed the line. seven cameras haven't seen it. all the technology that we talked about bringing into football, you know, we have prozone, we have video analysis, we have all sorts of things that analyses oppositions and our team from every angle, wide—angle, every angle. it was an unbelievable belief that that was a goal, by both sets of players coming off at half—time. nothing contentious in the late game, just the obvious superiority of manchester city against arsenal, raheem sterling started the scoring, david luiz was sent off for conceding a penalty that kevin de bruyne scored before phil foden made it 3—0. that result means liverpool can't win the title this weekend in the merseyside derby. a good win for city but the manager says they all missed the fans. we missed the people, it's not the same.

it's nice because it's football and we are focused on what we had to do. so i think all of us, you as well, i think so, we miss the football in the real but we understand it and hopefully we can finish as soon as possible. of course the health, stay safe, is the most important thing come back to play in front of the people. chelsea have reached an agreement to sign the german forward timo wernerfrom rb leipzig, on a five—year deal. subject to passing a medical, the 2a—year—old, will make the move in july after the end of the bundesliga season. that means he won't play any part in the rest of the champions league campaign in august. leipzig are in the quarterfinals he's scored 32 goals for leipzig so far this season. there's been a major backlash against the organisers of the us 0pen tennis championships, after they cut the wheelchair events from this year's schedule. great britain quads player

andy lapthorne won two titles last year at flushing meadows — has posted this on social media "this is yet again another example of terrible leadership in the sport of tennis. i don't get the chance to defend my singles and doubles titles at the @usopen because i'm in a wheelchair. complete disgrace. if this isn't changed i don't know what to say other than discrimination! love tennis absolutely can't stand everything that comes with it. constant battles. still in the dark ages". we hope to hearfrom him, he should be speaking to us later on. that's all the sport for now. lots more premier league news on the bbc spoort website, including the build up to the next round of matches tomorrow, spurs facing manchester united. and the latests tv schedule for live matches up to the middle ofjuly, you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport

good afternoon, you are watching bbc news. i'm jane hill to take you through the next few hours of today's main stories. in the last few minutes we have heard that there has been a u—turn regarding the app for tracing people who maybe infected with covid—i9. there's been a big change in decision. let's get the very latest from our technology correspondent. why is it happening? tell us more. this is an extraordinary u—turn. right from the start this contact tracing app was supposed to be a centralised system whereby the nhs actually collected some data centrally. that was controversial because apple and google had offered countries a different system or the ability to build a different system, where it would be decentralised, much less data collected centrally, much more

privacy focused. the uk said we are not going down that path, we need to do it centrally. that app is obvious to run into problems, we heard yesterday that it might not be available until winter. now we're hearing that there has been a sudden u—turn, the government is to switch to using the apple and google system. i'm told there have been fruitful discussions with apple over recent days. but it is going down a com pletely recent days. but it is going down a completely different path from what they'd said and one which they had originally said would be less useful to the nhs. 50 in essence is it because the current system they feel just isn't working properly, it's just isn't working properly, it's just not providing the data they want? is it that basic? well, let's be clear, this is all untested technology. all around the world people are trying to use these bluetooth contact tracing apps. nobody has really cracked it yet in one of the key problems is making the bluetooth work properly. apple and google were going to make it

work properly. the nhs said and it seemed to have found a workaround where it sort of made it work. but we know there have been issues on the isle of wight trial and in general to the government is really called on the whole idea. this is a kind of admission that we went down the wrong track, we are going to follow others who have switched. germany notably was going down the same track as us, switched to it decentralised apple, google friendly app. they launch there earlier this week. they have been celebrating that they have had quite a few downloads. we looked well behind and now we are switching track. how soon that will mean the app actually comes out is another point. it may still take many months. absolutely. so if you are watching and you are one of those people on the isle of wight that has been using it, do we know what they have been advised to do then at the moment? we don't. they i think can rightly feel a bit aggrieved. they were told they were doing very important work in early

may by downloading it, they were all encouraged to download it a large numbers did download it and then there was silence. they were told that it was going to soon lead to a national roll—out. i was told there was a version two of the app ready to go last week but downing street basically put the brakes on and said hold on a minute. there has been a major rethink at senior level. i'm having it stressed to me that this has not come from the nhs leadership, this has come from quote the government. so i think possibly not only will people on the isle of wight feel aggrieved but people up right at the centre building this app in the nhs may also feel that the orders keep changing. interesting. thank you very much indeed. that's the very latest on the app and it sounds like there are a few more details to emerge on that. sorry, and we will bring those to you if we have any more clarity.

that was our technology correspondent there. now we will turn our attentions to the visit of the french resident. —— president. emmanuel macron is taking part in commemorations 80 years after a speech charles de gaulle made urging the french people to resist the nazi occupation. france's wartime leader warned that any armistice with the nazis would ‘not only be a capitulation, but that it would also reduce the country to slavery". that speech was broadcast from right here at broadcasting house, and later today mr macron willjoin boris johnson in london to mark the anniversary. the bbc‘s head of history, robert seatter explained the significance of de gaulle's speech. so general charles de gaulle arrived here in bbc broadcasting house on the evening of the 18th ofjune 1940 with the express desire of communicating resistance, through the power of radio, to occupied france, to launch the resistance and save france from nazi attack.

it was also an explicit response to petain, who had gone on the radio just before and announced that france would give up the fight against the germans. so he came here and he made his famous broadcast called l'appel, the call, where he rallied the french men and women tojoin him. and he would have used this sort of microphone the axbt marconi, as it's called, which was specially adapted for the human voice and it was perfect for de gaulle, who had this very deep, slow, sonorous tone. and in a way, the radio and the microphone created de gaulle because he had the perfect personality and it became a way of expressing the power of his voice and the power of his vision. so he made over a thousand broadcasts from the bbc, not always in his own voice. he had someone called maurice schumann. but these communications were vital

in terms of keeping a lifeline of news to occupied france and in terms of raising the morale. also, explicitly, they had military manoeuvres, details of military manoeuvres, hidden in coded messages. a poem was then misrepresented so that they knew that there was a cue for attack. so at the end of the war the french government gave us this wonderful tapestry as a thank you for allowing de gaulle and his broadcast and used the bbc airwaves to broadcast their messages. it's designed by an artist called jean lurcat, who reinvented the art of the tapestry in between the two wars. and it stands as a metaphor, a poem called liberte, freedom by paul eluard and it's called le poete, the poet.

and here you have in the centre figure of the poet, who looks very like charles de gaulle with a big nose. and he's passing on the message of freedom to the bird and the fish and anybody else who will carry the coded messages. this is an explicit reference. they used pigeons, the submarines to pass their messages of freedom on. but really, it's an ample metaphor for freedom of speech, as important now as it was then. the bbc‘s head of history. let's get more now on the death dame vera lynn, the british singer known as the "forces‘ sweetheart" at the age of 103. dame vera, who lived in east sussex, entertained troops with morale—boosting visits to the front line during the second world war. throughout her life, dame vera remained an outspoken supporter of military veterans. she never retired and last month became the oldest artist to reach the top a0 in the uk album charts, following the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of ve day. well tributes are being paid to dame vera on twitter.

the uk prime minister has said: the royal british legion has tweeted: and captain tom moore has also expressed his sympathy. he said:

sir andrew gregory, chief executive of ssafa, the armed forces charity, which dame vera was an ambassador for decades, says her message of hope is paticulary relevant today. she was a force for good in every way. i think, just looking at some of the newsreel footage from the difficult days, and i've just been listening to your previous report about general de gaulle, you know, all the challenges that the country faced 80 years ago, it was dame vera then, with her we'll meet again, gave people the confidence that those dark days wouldn't last forever, and i think that's relevant to today. we are struggling enormously with some of the consequences of this pandemic, and dame vera would say, there is light, believe me and trust in yourselves.

and just one of the many, many tributes being paid today to dame vera lynn. we will speak about her and her remarkable life after tpm here. —— after two o'clock here. coach and ferry companies in the uk have announced the extra measures they're taking to ensure passenger safety for when travel restrictions are eased. the uk ferry industry says it is well placed for social distancing measures, with open air public spaces, access to fresh air and outside deck areas. 0ur transport correspondent tom burridge reports. we know we can't rely on the british weather throughout the summer, so what's it going to be like on board a ferry if we travel abroad in a few weeks' time? from the moment you arrive in the port to when you board the boat, you will stay in your car. you are effectively safe — you're in your car, you're in your bubble — but where you do come in contact with either security staff members or you check—in staff members, you will see people wearing ppe, you will see extra sanitizers

in place and you will see posters about 2—metre distancing as well. this demonstrates the key difference between travelling by train, plane or bus, and by ship because, on board, there is a huge amount of space. 0nce out of your vehicle, you are directed to the toilets to wash your hands. when you board the ship and when you walk around, then you should cover your face but if you get into an area like the restaurant and there is more space, well, it is then up to you. and there will be even more space than usual. this boat can carry 1,000 passengers but, this summer, the maximum on—board will be about half of that. for now, it is mainly truckers, and they are used to the rules. the masks weren't really enforced until about last week so now even like dfds, they're enforcing that, we have to wear a mask all the time now. and that's a good thing? yeah, i think it's a good thing, yeah. food is served as you

cross the channel. like everywhere else, you keep your distance from others. but by how much depends on where your boat is registered. these lines are one metre apart because that is the current french guideline for social distancing, because this ship is registered in france and so it follows the rules there. this ferry company, like others, has lost money during the pandemic and they are desperate for clarity from the government on a question on many people's minds. how certain are you that people will be able to go on a summer holiday this year? we are not certain at the moment because the government has not made it clear how certain that is. we are hearing whisperings and people are sort of a little bit confused at the moment — will they be able to book, won't they be able to book? and we'd just like the clarity to come out so that people can book. but despite the uncertainty, the firm is planning a full schedule throughout the summer. so, there will be 27 crossings from dunkirk,

in calais, into dover, and 27 each day the other way. but, for the tourist traffic to pick up, the government will have to change its blanket advice against all but essential travel abroad and relax its travel quarantine. government sources have suggested that could come at the end of this month. then, summer holidays on the other side of the channel might happen. tom burridge, bbc news. let's just take a look at the arrival, i'm just putting my glasses on to make sure that i am looking the right person will stop we have been talking today that emanuel macron is due in london today. we we re macron is due in london today. we were reflecting on the famous speech by de gaulle. that is live

television as we are just proving to their but we are trying to see the foreign secretary dominic raab and his counterpart. we are expecting not just the commemorations his counterpart. we are expecting notjust the commemorations that i just mentioned and we have been reflecting on but we are also expecting government officials to be talking about brexit and about coronavirus. so we were trying to listen in there and see whether we could hear anything in those initial conversations but we will keep an eye on all of that because there will be much more to come on that visit over the course of the afternoon so we might have rather more on that to come. let's turn our attention is the situation in china. a senior chinese health official has warned that beijing's coronavirus outbreak could see "persistent new cases for a period of time". 21 new cases were reported in the chinese capital in the past 2a hours. this is the worst resurgence of the disease in beijing since early february. the bbc‘s robin brant explains the source of the second outbreak.

we do know that the origin appears to be a wholesale food market that supplies the majority of food and vegetables to all of the capital city. a place called xinfadi. almost all the cases that have been reported and investigated so far are associated with people who worked there or people who have met people who have worked there. there was initial talk of evidence of this type of coronavirus being found on a chopping board, used by workers who were dealing with imported salmon. that has now been debunked. but the focus very much in the early stages was that market. it is now broadening out to other districts of beijing, where we are seeing quite severe restrictions being put in place, particularly in the places regarded as being high risk. there are areas of beijing regarded as medium risk as well but people's movements have been restricted in the highest risk areas. everyone in beijing is being urged to stay in the city and not to leave.

some people in the higher risk areas are not allowed to leave. all the schools are closed, there are restrictions on some business and restaurants in those higher risk areas. the latest on the numbers is 21 new cases being reported today in beijing. so those are new cases, that takes the tally nearly to 160. a slight fall on yesterday's numbers. 0ne slight anomaly which appears ominous as well is one case being reported in the city of tianjin, which is quite close to beijing in the sense of how big china is but it is not beijing. one case there, a man in his 20s, a dishwasher, apparently at a hotel tested positive for the virus. he has been there for two weeks. there seems to be no evidence of any links with anyone associated with what's going on in beijing. so that in itself appears even more worrying than this cluster of outbreaks in beijing. robin brant there on the situation

in beijing. the joy of going to the theatre may seem like a distant memory for many of us, and now the producer behind some huge west end shows has confirmed they won't be returning anytime soon. sir cameron mackintosh, whose productions include les miserables, mary poppins and hamilton, says they won't be back until next year. it comes as the pandemic continues to have a crippling impact on the industry, as our arts correspondent, david sillito, reports. # i love him but when the night is over. the lockdown maybe lifting in some areas, but theatres are staying closed. so, too, the pubs and restaurants that depend on them. theatreland is a ghost town and tough decisions are being made. les miserables, mary poppins, hamilton, phantom of the opera — cameron mackintosh is the biggest name in british theatre, and he is considering laying off all his employees. and you can be certain that others will follow.

the issue — thejob retention scheme that's kept these venues afloat is due to end in october, and the theatres will still be closed. what happens between the moment it winds down or disappears and the moment that we can perform with revenue? and that is not possible while social distancing is in place. we don't think that will be possible until spring, next year, very possibly. it will be a while before we see this again live. tamara rojo is part of the creative industries federation, which is today warning that 400,000 jobs in the cultural and creative sector are at risk. and some of the most vulnerable are here, the smaller venues in places like east anglia. if social distancing remains in place and we're not able to, as a collective of venues, regain our full—scale operation, 50% of those venues currently say they will have to close permanently beyond april the 1st.

and at the sharp end are people like anna tolputt. everything has stopped. we can't plan. we are just sitting tight. and there's something about the solidarity of us all being in it together which means that perhaps we're not panicking in quite the way that we should. yeah. theatreland — it's only a part of our creative economy but it's a vital part, and it's going dark. david sillito, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with helen willets. hello. it will remain cool, cloudy and wet for quite a lot of england and wales throughout the rest of the day but where it has brightened up and is brightening up we will see some lively downpours, thunderstorms once again stretching towards northern

ireland but drier for many parts of scotla nd ireland but drier for many parts of scotland but the rain will arrive as we go through the latter part of this evening and overnight. and the misty low cloud will roll back inland and the rain stays with us in the south and the west. all that moisture and cloud around it will be a warm night across the country. quite a claggy start, mist and murk around producing heavy rain in the afternoon with thundery downpours, potentially more prevalent than today across northern england, northern ireland and parts of scotland. it will feel warm in the sunshine in between, cool and misty on the north sea coast but losing the humidity at the weekend. if you

this is bbc news. i'm jane hill. the headlines... # we'll meet again dame vera lynn, the forces' sweetheart, has died at the age of 103. her singing was a glimmer of optimism in the second world war. this little girl from the east town would never have had the opportunity if she hadn't have been singing. if my mother hadn't put me on the stage. the prime minister said dame vera's magical voice uplifted the country in its darkest hours, and many charities