other european stores, which are a bit ahead of us here in england? this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. a billion pounds for primary and secondary schools in england , and secondary schools in england to help children who've fallen behind because of the coronavirus crisis. there's nothing betterfor children than being in school, and when they're in school, we want them to have the catch up, so they don't lose out as a consequence of this crisis. uk government borrowing hits a record monthly high of £55 billion in may, as the coronavirus continued to press heavily on the public finances. non—essential shops can re—open in wales from monday — more details on the easing of lockdown will be

announced later today. businesses and government deparments in australia are hit by what its prime minister calls a "sophisticated, state—based cyber attack". facebook removes ads by donald trump's campaign containing a symbol used by nazi germany — the latest setback in a bad week for the us president. and coming up, we return to the northern italian region of lombardy, which became the global epicentre of coronavirus when it saw the first major outbreak in europe. 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. hello, good morning and welcome to bbc news. i'm annita mcveigh and you can in touch with me on twitter about any of our stories @annita—mcveigh. our top story today — primary and secondary schools in england are to get a £1 billion boost to help children catch up on months of lessons that were missed during lockdown. the uk government has pledged that a third of that cash will go towards a special tutoring programme for the most disadvantaged children the rest of the money, £650 million pounds, the rest of the money, £650 million, will be available to schools to spend on one—to—one or group tuition for any pupils they think need it. critics say the plans lack detail and that early years providers and colleges for over—16s have been left out. in other developments, major analysis in the uk reveals that people from south asian backgrounds are the most likely to die from coronavirus after being admitted to hospital. it is the only ethnic group to have a raised risk of death in hospital and is partly due to high levels of diabetes. coronavirus is also having a big

impact on global economies. in the uk, government borrowing hit a record monthly high in may of more than £55 billion. eu leaders are meeting today by video conference in search of a deal worth 750 billion euros for a coronavirus recovery fund. more on that shortly, but first, dan johnson reports on additionalfunding for schoolchildren in england. it goes tenths, hundredths and thousandths. extra maths delivered online to help kids catch up. it is was already happening at this primary school but now many more pupils across england will get this one—on—one support. you don't know whether to put your hand up and say, "i know the answer," because you don't know how everyone is going to react, whereas in the tutoring, because it's one—to—one, you don't have to be, like, scared of saying what the answer is.

even times like this, during the pandemic, you can still learn a lot of stuff and you won't, like, slow down in your education, you canjust keep up. so, it's helping you get better at maths? yeah. is that something you struggled with before? kind of, and you don't have to worry about other people thinking, "why is he asking that question?" there's hundreds of millions for this sort of tutoring, targeted at those falling furthest behind. these sessions are run by a charity that uses volunteer tutors. i don't think it completely can take the place of traditional teaching but we're seeing some really promising starts from our online tutoring that we're offering already, with pupils commenting that it's helping them to re—engage with their learning, that it is replicating what they might get in the classroom and that, crucially, it's giving them that individual support and space where they can ask questions. there's a lot of catching up to do because most children still haven't made it back into school after three months of disruption now —

so what about summer? will that be more time that they spend at home? and then september — what's that going to look like? how do you get more children back into these buildings? will there ever be an assembly again in a hall like this? head teachers now have money and some freedom in spending it to try to answer those questions and to work out how to get every child back up to speed. you have to be realistic and think that they will have bigger gaps in their learning but also, how can we plug those gaps if those children, say for example, can only come back 15 at a time? i think there is a place for tutoring to help and support us. but there is detail to come about exactly who gets this, how often and for how long. this funding is for one year, it does not cover preschool or post—16 education. it has been widely welcomed but with warnings it may not be enough. dan johnson, bbc news,

hackney, in east london. our political correspondent nick eardleyjoins me now. hello nick eardleyjoins me now. again, nick. tell us whi detail hello again, nick. tell us what detail we have at this stage about how this programme will actually work, and what reaction is there so far? good morning, annita. we know that there is £1 billion that the government is putting aside for schools in england. two thirds of thatis schools in england. two thirds of that is a general pot from which head teachers can apply for cash to help kids catch up when the academic year resumes in september. the other third is for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, specifically for help with tutoring to make sure that any learning they've missed out on can because up with as well. it is all part of the government trying to tell parents, look, we've got a plan here to make sure that those children who are missing time in classrooms can pick it up somewhere down the line. but

there are still those are big questions being asked about the broader strategy and about how you're going to get children back into school in england in september, when the school year is supposed to restart. the phrase we keep hearing from government is, is their intention to reopen every school? but there are big questions about exactly what that will look like, exactly what that will look like, exactly how much time children will get in schools. this was the schools minister nick gibb en bbc breakfast this morning. our clear intention is that all schools will open in september, that's what we want to see happening. we have got a phased approach to welcoming back more children, reception, year 1, year 6, from the 1st of june, part—time for year 10 and year 12 from the 15th ofjune. schools have, of course, been open the whole period of the crisis, even from march, for children of critical workers and the most venerable children, and now, about a million children are in our schools. but we want to do so in line with the sage advice,

the scientists' advice, and in a way that's safe for both children and the teachers, and that's why we've had a very phased, cautious approach so far. the phased and cautious approach hasn't always worked tettey but we know that the government initially wa nted know that the government initially wanted children in primary school to all be back for the summer holidays, they have now admitted that that is not going to happen. so there is still political pressure both from conservative mps and from the opposition parties, saying, look, we need to do more to persuade people that schools are safe, to make sure that schools are safe, to make sure that children don't fall even further behind. as we always point out, annita, this isjust england. there are slightly different strategies in scotland, wales and northern ireland. there is one in particular in northern ireland that a number of people in westminster are talking aboutjust now, it is the decision from the northern irish executive to say that in schools, children don't have to follow the

two—metre rule, instead, they will be told to stay one metre apart, giving a lot more scope for getting kids into classrooms and school buildings. there are a lot of tory mps who are knocking on boris johnson's door asking him to do something similar and continuing to say, we need to be more clear about what the strategy is to make sure that everybody gets back into classrooms as soon as possible. nick ea rd ley, classrooms as soon as possible. nick eardley, thank you very much, in westminster. the australian prime minister says a major cyber attack is under way against the country, targeting government, industry and political parties. scott morrison says a sophisticated state—based actor is behind the attack but didn't say which country was responsible. mr morrison told a news conference in canberra that the intrusions had been intensifying in recent months. our sydney correspondent shymaa khalil has more. scott morrison was clear about two things in his statement. one was the scale of the attack, and the fact that it targeted

political, educational, economic and health organisations in australia. and two, that this was done by a state actor with significant abilities. we know it is a sophisticated, state—based cyber actor because of the scale and nature of the targeting, and the trade craft used. those who are engaged in this are not doing this to help us. that's certainly not their intention, and so, you could describe it as malicious. what he wasn't clear about was which country was behind those attacks, and why he chose to make this announcement at this particular moment. the one word he hasn't mentioned in his statement was china, and the one country he was asked about directly was china. he declined to make a comment and he declined to make any public attribution is about who is responsible for this. but we do know that the relationship between canberra and beijing is at an all—time low,

especially when australia sided with the united states asking for an independent inquiry about the origins of the coronavirus which was detected in china late last year. at the time, beijing dismissed those calls and called them politically motivated, but soon after that started imposing tariffs on australian barley and also stopped importing australian beef, and then recently warned its citizens about coming to australia because of racist incidents. and then we saw the prime minister himself ratchet up his rhetoric, saying he is not going to give in to coercion by beijing. unless he comes out and says it explicitly, it's hard to know 100% whether china is behind those attacks, but what we do know is that australia and its very powerful trading partner china are at odds, they are in a tense relationship. and we also know that australia chose this particular moment to say that it's under cyber attack from a very powerful country.

the us supreme court has ruled against president donald trump's bid to end a major programme that protects young immigrants from deportation. it's the second time this week the country's highest court has ruled against the president. it comes in the same week he has faced accusations of incomptetence in a memoir due to be published by his former national security adviserjohn bolton, and another row over his use of social media. david willis reports. protesters chant. it came as a ray of light to the dreamers, and a slap in the face for the president. i'm so happy. the threat of deportation lifted, for now at least. the nation's highest court rejecting the trump administration's attempt to end protections for some 700,000 young, undocumented immigrants. i will immediately terminate president 0bama's illegal executive order on immigration.

the decision, a major blow to a president who made immigration reform a centrepiece of his run for office, branding the supreme court's verdict horrible and politically charged. social media has also proved a battleground for donald trump on occasions, and twitter has once again added a warning label to a presidential tweet, this time one that featured a video criticising the news media. facebook also announced it was removing trump campaign ads that featured a nazi symbol. a trump spokesman maintained the symbol was associated with a left—wing group which the president has blamed for recent anti—racist violence. coming hard on the heels of claims by the former national security advisorjohn bolton that the president is poorly informed and uses the power of office for personal and political gain, this might be a week mr trump would rather forget. further adding to his woes, the news

that one of the administration's highest—ranking african americans, state department official mary elizabeth taylor, has resigned in protest at the president's response to racial tensions here. and the week isn't over yet. david willis, bbc news. facebook‘s head of security has defended the company's decision to take down advertisements by president trump's election campaign that, as we saw in that piece, featured a symbol used by the nazis to label their opponents. the ads were aimed against the left—wing grouping of activists that mr trump describes as violent agitators. facebook say the ads violate its policy against organized hate. we obviously want to be careful to allow someone to put up a symbol to condemn it or to discuss it. but in a situation we don't see either of those, we don't allow it on the platform and we will remove it. that's what we saw in this case with this ad and anywhere that that symbol is used we would take the same action. so we will be consistent

in enforcing where ever either our systems identify those symbols and as you'd expect, when we identify something like this, we make it like this, we bank it within our system so that we can look for other instances of it where it might appear so we can find it and remove it automatically. and also, if there's something we miss, because we certainly aren't perfect, if somebody would bring it to our attention we would take action there as well, if it's the same symbol. cbs news correspondent michael george says facebook‘s action to remove the ad is surprising. this is an unusual move for facebook. even recently, they've said that they won't police the president's comments on facebook, and that includes false statements. they said they're going to let that slide, they won't be the arbiter of what is true and what isn't. but in this case, they did pull down those ads and this comes down to that upside—down red triangle that they used in president trump's ads, which is a symbol that the nazis used to identify political prisoners. now, the trump campaign says that this symbol is actually associated with far—left antifa protesters, but that isn't accurate, and in this case, facebook did

take immediate action. the trump campaign has maintained this is not a nazi symbol but rather an antifa symbol, which again, is not accurate, but the president has indicated lately that he is more willing to seek legislation to allow more government control over social media. so while he hasn't responded directly to this latest development by facebook, he has said that he could pursue action against social media if they continue to block or modify his statements online. the headlines on bbc news... a billion pounds for primary and secondary schools in england to help children who've fallen behind because of the coronavirus crisis. uk government borrowing hits a record monthly high of £55 billion in may as the coronavirus continued to press heavily on the public finances. non—essential shops can re—open in wales from monday.

more details on the easing of lockdown there will be announced later today. uk government borrowing has risen to a record high because of the lockdown. in may, the government borrowed an estimated £55 billion. that's nine times more than the same month last year. debt is now equivalent to 100.9 per cent of gdp — the value of all goods and services produced in the economy. this is the first time that public sector debt in the uk has exceeded economic output since 1963. retail sales in the uk rebounded in may after a record fall in april, according to the latest data. that's despite the continuation of coronavirus—related lockdown measures. the office for national statistics says we bought 12% more in may compared to april,

but that was the month when sales plunged an historic 18% — and sales in may were still well below more normal levels. sales were boosted by a 42% rise at household goods stores, with diy shops and garden centres reopening. to discuss both of those stories, i'm joined by carl emmerson, deputy director at the institute for fiscal studies. hello to you, very good to have you weather's today. let's talk about the borrowing first of all, no great surprise, although the figures are huge, that we are in this situation. it really speaks to a complete change to what we do from here on in in terms of what chancellors might have been planning to do before the pandemic? and i think it is really a plan into parts. in the current financial year, i think to some extent we can be pretty relaxed about extra borrowing because it is really cheap for the government to

borrow. and if, for example, there is extra borrowing that could take place that we were confident would actually boost the recovery, then thatis actually boost the recovery, then that is almost certainly going to be borrowing worth doing. so it is not really a surprise we're borrowing lots of money this year. the government is probable going to borrow more in the whole of this year than it has done at any point since the second world war. what i think we should be worried about is the extent to which we might be borrowing more on an ongoing basis and that is really going to depend on how full a recovery we get from the crisis. the economy will bounce back, but how strongly? spending now which helps the economy recover worth doing, but in three or four yea rs' worth doing, but in three or four years' time, i feel that actually the economy might still be impaired, the economy might still be impaired, the deficit might still be pushed up from what we previously thought, and thatis from what we previously thought, and that is the second part of the plan, do we need to start thinking about tax rises, for example, and how we will manage this elevated debt probably for decades to come? something of a marshal plan has been suggested because it is literally

going to take decades. no one generation would be able to bear the costs, it is being suggested, of repaying this debt?|j costs, it is being suggested, of repaying this debt? i think probably once we are through this crisis, the most likely situation is where there are some tax rises partly to get government borrowing back down, possibly also because we might decide as a result of this crisis that we want to spend more. it would not be that surprising if, for example, we choose to spend more on the health system, on social care, perhaps also on working age benefits. so, some tax rises i think are likely but i also think we will have elevated debt for much longer and we will have to manage that for decades. it is worth remembering that while debt is currently at its highest level since 1963, if you ta ke highest level since 1963, if you take an even longer view, over the last 300 years, actually it is quite common for the uk economy to have one where the government debt is worth more than 100% of gdp, that has happened in about 120 years or so in the last 300 years. and what

impactand so in the last 300 years. and what impact and the retail sector make in dealing with all of this debt, how well can it rebound ? dealing with all of this debt, how well can it rebound? that is one thing we will be looking at as we have these retail sales figures form a. in aprilwe have these retail sales figures form a. in april we saw that they fell by a. in april we saw that they fell by a record 18.1%. —— from the month of may. i was talking to the boss ofjd sports earlier and he was saying it's just really difficult to plan ahead at the moment because there is so much uncertainty? and i think some of the uncertainty is really about, we obviously know that households have changed their spending patterns through april, through may, but what we don't know is how much of that might persist for the longer term. for example people buying things more things online, will that continue? in three 01’ online, will that continue? in three orfour online, will that continue? in three or four years online, will that continue? in three orfour years will we online, will that continue? in three or four years will we still see more people shopping online as a result of this crisis? if that happens it is going to require firms to adjust to that new environment and that is one reason why the current crisis might take some time to play out before the economy can get back to a

kind of more settled level. carl emmerson, from the institute for fiscal studies, thank you very much. breaking news just coming fiscal studies, thank you very much. breaking newsjust coming in, the uk's chief medical 0fficers, breaking newsjust coming in, the uk's chief medical officers, the medical officers for england, wales, scotla nd medical officers for england, wales, scotland and northern ireland, have agreed that the covid—19 threat level should be lowered by one notch, from the existing position of, transmission is high or rising explanation. thejoint of, transmission is high or rising explanation. the joint bio security centre recommended that this covid—19 should move from level four to level three. the four chief medical officer is have said that there has been a steady decrease in cases we have seen in all four nations. but they say it does not mean the pandemic is over, they say the virus is still in general

circulation and localised outbreaks are likely to occur. so, the uk's four chief medical 0fficers are likely to occur. so, the uk's four chief medical officers for england, wales, scotland and northern ireland, have agreed that the covid—19 threat level should be lowered one notch to... epidemic is in general circulation. the previous level was... epidemic is rising exponentially. a really significant development there. of course with concerns about tracking and testing and tracing still very much in circulation as well, questions about how well cases, as they do crop up, can be identified and contacts traced and so on. in the uk, dealing with the the coronavirus pandemic is a devolved issue,

with each of the four nations taking slightly different approaches. in scotland parts of the second phase of easing restrictions comes in scotland, parts of the second phase of easing restrictions comes into effect today. people who live on their own or only with children under 18 can meet people from one other household. they can visit each other‘s homes and go inside and they don't have to stay two metres apart and can also stay overnight. in northern ireland, social distancing rules will be reduced to one metre for children and young adults when they go back to school in late august. and the first minister of wales, mark drakeford, will also be announcing some changes there today. non—essential shops will be allowed to reopen from monday in the latest easing of lockdown measures. but the five—mile limit on nonessentialjourneys will remain. mark drakeford says he hopes to ease restrictions over the next few weeks. 0n the following monday, the 29th, schools will reopen in wales. and on the following monday, the 6th ofjuly, provided the virus remains under control, then our "stay local" restrictions will be lifted, so that people

will be able to travel across wales, to tourist destinations, families and so on. and mark drakeford will be giving more details about the announcements later — and we'll bring you that here on the bbc news channel at around 12.30. people of south asian heritage are more likely to die from coronavirus after being admitted to hospital in the uk, according to a major new study. data from 260 hospitals across england, wales and scotland showed that patients with south asian backgrounds were 20 % more likely to die than white patients. the research, published in the lancet medicaljournal, suggests that high levels of diabetes are partly to blame. and we will be talking very soon to the office for national statistics about its latest research into deaths from covid—19 related to ethnicity as well as disability, and religion. the rugby football union

is reviewing england fans' use of swing low, sweet chariot, saying many do not know about its links with slavery. # swing low, sweet chariot...#. a spokesperson for english rugby's governing body said the organisation needs to do more to "grow awareness". it's thought to have been sung for the first time when the former rugby league star martin 0ffiah was playing at twickenham, because his nickname is chariots. he says the review is a good thing, but it shouldn't be banned. the rate of deaths with coronavirus is about twice as high for black men and 40% higher for black women compared to white men and women, according to analysis by the office for national statistics. the data also revealed that the rate of deaths with coronavirus is twice as high

for people with disabilities. the analysis is based on deaths between 2nd march and 15th may, where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate. joining us to talk about this more is nick stripe, head of health analysis and life events at the 0ns. thank you very much forjoining us. let's begin with ethnic to because we have talking today about that study, that separate study, about deaths of people with a south asian heritage in hospitalfrom coronavirus, thought to be partly due to diabetes in that community, people with that heritage, what does your study say about the link between covid—19 deaths and ethnicity? good morning. so, this is an update of a study that we produced last month. what it has enabled us to do is to include deaths up to the 15th of may. so, our previous analysis was quite early in the pandemic and it was largely looking at people who would have been infected before the

lockdown. so now we're seeing that after the pandemic has spread geographically and also spreading into ca re geographically and also spreading into care homes, so we see similar patterns to last time, but some of the differences between ethnic groups are less pronounced than they we re groups are less pronounced than they were before. so if wejust adjust for age, then previously, we saw people with a black ethnicity were about four times more likely, or higher risk, of death from covid, and that is now moderated back down to about three times more likely for men and 2.3 times more likely for women. and people from a bangladeshi ora women. and people from a bangladeshi or a pakistani ethnic group, they we re or a pakistani ethnic group, they were about three times more likely, and now they are about two times more likely to die from covid. people from an indian background we re people from an indian background were about 2.5 times more likely and they know about 1.7 times more likely. that is just when we adjust for age. what we also know is that the likelihood of dying from covid is affected by two things, firstly,

the probability that your infected in the first place, and secondly, if you are infected, the probability of serious illness and sadly ultimately death. so, we also adjust for socio—economic characteristics, so we can compare like with like, and we can compare like with like, and we use data from the last census to do that. so this doesn't change those differences that we've observed but it helps us to explain them. and it explains a substantial amount but not all of those differences. so that is where we now see the increased risk for people from a black ethnic background of being about two times for males and about1.4times being about two times for males and about 1.4 times for females. the people from a bangladeshi or pakistani background, for males, the increased risk remains at 1.5 times, but all of the difference for females is now explained by those in socio—economic characteristics. females is now explained by those in socio-economic characteristics. and for people... sorry to interrupter you, nick, just to be clearfor our viewers, when you make all of those adjustments that you make for age,

socio—economic background and so on, the group that is likely to suffer most from covid—19, to die as a result of covid—19, is people who are black? that's right, yes. so, that could be because they are more likely to be infected in the first place or it could be because once they are infected, they have more risk of serious complicated and is. you mentioned the other study which has come out earlier today, that is looking at people who were hospitalised and people of a south asian heritage having more likelihood of death if they were hospitalised. but our study would indicate that it is probably more likely that you will be hospitalised if you are from a different ethnic group and we see that the black group and we see that the black group is the highest risk. what we would like to do in a future iteration of our analysis is two things, firstly, extend the time period again to see what impact releasing the lockdown has, whether that will change some of the

patterns. and secondly, bring in wider health data to allow us to look at some of those underlying health conditions or comorbidities for people that have covid and therefore might be at risk of more serious illness. that will be the next stage of our modelling. this data is very interesting because politicians are saying there is enough data out there on the impact of covid—19 on black and ethnic minority populations to press forward with changes, rather than review it further. tell us as well about what she found by people with disabilities and their mortality rates from coronavirus? we did exactly the same thing we have done in ethnicity, adjusting for age and adjusting for social and economic characteristics. 0nce adjusting for social and economic characteristics. once we do that, we see people who have identified at the last census with a disability which limited their daily activities a lot, are more than two times more

likely to die with covid than those who have self reported no disability at the time of the last census. that is probably not surprising but it is likely to be an underestimate because that is nine years ago, that census data. so some of those people identify with no disability then, are likely to have developed disabilities since then. more than two times more likely to die if you have a serious disability, but that is likely to be an underestimate. 0k, thank you very much. hello, this is bbc news with me, annita mcveigh. the headlines: the chief medical officer 5 for england, scotland,

wales and northern ireland say uk covid alert level should be reduced from 4 to a 3. £1 billion for primary and secondary schools in england to help children who've fallen behind because of the coronavirus crisis. uk government borrowing hits a record monthly high of £55 billion in may, as the coronavirus continued to press heavily on the public finances. non—essential shops can re—open in wales from monday — more details on the easing of lockdown will be announced later today. businesses and government deparments in australia are hit by what its prime minister calls a "sophisticated, state—based" cyber attack. facebook removes ads by donald trump's campaign containing a symbol used by nazi germany — the latest setback in a bad week for the us president. let's return now to our main story this morning and the uk government has announced a £1 billion fund to help school children in england catch up on lessons that were missed during lockdown. a third of the money will go towards special tutoring for pupils

from the poorest homes, with additional funding available for others who need additional help. let's get the thoughts now of becky francis, the chief executive of the education endowment foundation, a charity that works to improve the educational attainment of the poorest pupils in english schools. professor, thank you very much and i understand the group you lead is, in turn leading a group of social mobility organisations and academics in planning this tutoring programme. tutoring, you say is the catch—up approach supported by the strongest evidence, so what is that evidence that really makes the difference? thank you so much. yes, there is significant evidence that high quality tuition really does make a difference in terms of catch up and support for young people's learning. basically, the strongest evidence is around high quality and so even

teacher trained tutors providing one—to—one tuition. but actually there is good evidence and is —— that lower qualified graduate providers, for example, can also make a very good difference as long as there is sufficient training, safeguarding and so forth and they will be the key things we will put in place. is there evidence about how long it takes to provide the level of catching up we are talking about, five to six months of being out of school? there is evidence and that depends on the form the tutoring takes. it is really important this catch—up support is directed by schools. they know their people is best, so we are keen to work in collaboration and make sure this is led by teachers and they can identify the need and the gaps that have built up for individual pupils.

and then the tutoring that is particularly relevant and most effective can be provided to support that. i chatted early to the leader of head teachers union and to a head teacher as well, he said that was absolutely key to making a success of this, that there was that communication between schools and tutors about the individual needs of pupils. are you already talking to head teachers or are you not at that stage yet? there is a lot of details to be discussed as this develops at a very rapid pace. we have been in touch with school associations and school leader associations and we are looking forward to doing that as our first are looking forward to doing that as ourfirst priority, once are looking forward to doing that as our first priority, once we have the further details in place about how this will work. i appreciate this is a fast—moving thing that you are working on, but shouldn't you already be talking to those head teachers rather than to umbrella bodies, let's say? yes, as i say, we

have been discussing with our partners, including head teachers in the development and the design of this programme, but in terms of putting it out there nationally, it will be really important to talk to representative organisations and get everybody involved. representative organisations and get everybody involvedlj representative organisations and get everybody involved. i want to ask you about a couple of practical details. where will this tutoring ta ke details. where will this tutoring take place? will it be in a school setting, or partially online, and if thatis setting, or partially online, and if that is the case, what is the guarantee that pupils who haven't been engaging, going to engage with that? also, where will the tutors come from? brilliant questions and first of all it is important we have designed in a multi—strand approach to this that gives flexibility as well as of course, securing the quality bar at all times in the different types of provision. you are absolutely right, we will be

careful to include online provision. we have already launched evaluations of the high online provision at the moment, because there is less about what is effective online. but that will be part of the offer. we are looking to support face—to—face for the very reasons you have already mentioned. ultimately, it is best to be able to do this in close collaboration with schools and for teachers to have oversight. so there will be a range of different approaches from small group, one—to—one, online, face—to—face and so on. ok, professor, from the education endowment foundation, thank you very much. the chief medical officers for england, scotland, wales and northern ireland have recommended that the uk's covid—19 alert level be reduced from four to three, meaning the epidemic is in general circulation but transmission is no longer "high or rising exponentially".

let's get a little more on this with our health correspondent catherine burns. unanimity amongst the chief medical officers which is an interesting point? yes, they have made the point this doesn't mean the pandemic is over, the virus is still out there and in circulation. but we have got to see this for what it is, it is a good moment and positive news. the health secretary has reacted saying, this is a big moment for the country and a real testament to the british people's determination to beat this virus. what does it mean? there is five different alert levels, five being the most serious meaning the virus is in high transmission and it is so bad we are at risk of the nhs being overwhelmed. we haven't been there for a while, we have been at level four. moving down to level three is a big deal. this means the epidemic is in general circulation,

it is not over. we are not at level one where it is not present in the uk, but it is a positive step.|j wish we were at level one, don't we all? we are desperate for that day. what does this mean in terms of getting an announcement like that, fantastic news but there is the caveat at the end, the warning that people need to be careful and i don't want to put a dampener on this, but it is absolutely essential. these are critical points when things are relatively still, finely balanced ? when things are relatively still, finely balanced? absolutely, there has been a tweet from the government saying you must continue to wash your hands and keep the two metre distance. we have still got to stay alert, it is still out there it's just that in terms of the number of infections, they are going down. there was dating yesterday from the 0ffice there was dating yesterday from the office for national statistics saying about 33,000 people in england have had coronavirus over the last two weeks. that is nothing, but four weeks ago it was more like

137,000. so it is a step in the right direction. catherine, thank you very much. "this is europe's moment" — that is how the president of the european commission characterised the challenge facing the eu in emerging from the coronavirus crisis. well eu leaders are taking part in a videoconference in search of a deal over what they're calling the next generation fund, worth 750 billion euros. the commission wants much of that money to be distributed to the worst affected countries in grants — but sweden, denmark, austria and the netherlands say it needs to be paid back. simonjones reports. after months of lockdown, europe is tentatively opening up again. locals on the beach in barcelona are set to be joined soon by international tourists, but the question now is whether the eu can come together to agree a coronavirus recovery plan. it is known as the next generation eu fund. in a sign of the times,

leaders won't come to brussels in person, discussions will be held by video conference. the commission's proposal is to raise 750 billion euros through financial markets in an attempt to revive europe's economy. 500 billion of that will then be distributed as grants, the remainder in loans. the german chancellor warns swift action is needed. translation: pandemic and the economic downturn connected to it are the biggest challenge in europe's history. how europe will master this crisis compared to other regions of the world will decide on the prosperity of europe's citizens and europe's role in the world. but there is opposition in sweden, denmark, austria and the netherlands, the so—called frugal four. they are against the idea of countries being given grants, saying any money should be paid back. the european commission, though, is warning this unprecedented crisis demands an unprecedented response. simon jones, bbc news. here in the uk, the opposition

labour pa rty‘s heavy loss in the last general election, the worst since 1935, was the result of a toxic culture, organisational failures and the leadership ofjeremy corbyn. that's according to a new report by the "labour together" group — which includes different wings of the party. 0ur political correspondent iain watson reports. thank you very much... jeremy corbyn's leadership, brexit and the manifesto that did not seem credible — some of the reasons labour lost in 2019, according to a new report. the labour together group, which includes the party's former leader, ed miliband, and the shadow business minister, lucy powell, have spent nearly six months analysing the reasons for the defeat. some of it will make grim reading for labour supporters. they say that mps and activists have told them that labour's strategy was inadequate and the organisation was muddled and that factionalism, internal arguments and division affected the party's performance. but we haven't got on to the really bad news for labour yet.

the report says that a new leader will not in itself improve the party's fortunes. over the past two decades, traditional voters have been drifting away so, by 2019, it was easier for the conservatives to pick off some seats labour had held since the war and a further 58 constituencies are vulnerable to a small conservative advance. the report declares that labour has an electoral mountain to climb and it contains a stark warning for keir starmer, unless he makes fundamental changes, labour could have further to fall. iain watson, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news... £1 billion for primary and secondary schools in england —— to help children who've fallen behind because of the coronavirus crisis. uk government borrowing hits a record monthly high of £55 billion in may, as the coronavirus continued to press heavily on the public finances. non—essential shops can re—open

in wales from monday — more details on the easing of lockdown will be announced later today. four months ago, the northern italian region of lombardy became the global epicentre of coronavirus as it saw the first major outbreak in europe. as key mistakes were made, the virus engulfed one of the continent's wealthiest corners and sparked cases around the world. 0ur correspondent mark lowen, who has reported on the story from the start, has returned to lombardy, to ask what went wrong. it's four months since lombardy became the wuhan of the west, its sufferings seared into memory. the virus throttled, taking hold in europe and exporting cases around the world. let's get the very latest on the situation in northern italy. 0ur correspondent mark lowen is in... i've reported on the story from the start. now, i'm back to report on those who want answers. in bergamo, 6,000 people died in march alone —

thought to be the highest rate of excess deaths in the world. ines and her husband were married for 53 years — he spent his last months in hospital. we are facing a war now here. as the outbreak erupted and our coverage took us across italy, i spoke to a doctor whose hospital was overwhelmed. stefano, hi, mark from the bbc. very nice to see you again. we were late in finding the virus. we were told that we had to search for a link with china but we were not able to see patients with that kind of symptoms that were coming from china. we lost time in closing the area. so, the lockdown came late. politicians passed the buck over closing italy's second richest city,

under pressure from business groups. delayed lockdown, as other countries have seen, cost dearly. as did the decision to move some of the sick to care homes. half of the 140 patients in this one died. when angela 0livella's mother developed a fever, she wasn't tested — she died a week later. we spoke to one worker who wanted her identity hidden. translation: i had my first symptoms after helping a patient who was positive. the head of the care home wing said i should go home, but the director said no, because my fifa wasn't 37.7

because my fever wasn't 37.7 degrees as the rules said. three to four days went by. while i was infected, i must have infected other people. if they had managed this well, everyone should still be alive. the care home declined an interview but in a statement told us the claims were false and they'd followed health protocols. at the heart of europe, and with italy's largest elderly population, lombardy was an easy target. key errors means it's still the infection hub. this is the legacy of lombardy‘s emergency. the daily presence of the ambulances, the need for complete protection, the full mobilisation of resources to prevent another spike of the virus. the crisis may no longer be at its height but it still lingers on, ready to bounce back. italy was used as a model of how to respond to the virus. now it's a mirror of the mistakes that so many others, too, have made. mark lowen, bbc news lombardy. singapore has begun phase two

of its lockdown easing. shops and restaurants have started to reopen and gatherings of up to five people are allowed in a major easing of one of the world's strictest covid—19 lockdowns. shopping malls, gyms, parks and beaches have reopened, but religious congregations, theatres and large—scale events will not yet be allowed to resume. dale fisher is professor of infectious diseases at the national university of singapore and chair of the world health organisation global outbreak alert and response network. professor, thank you for talking to us. tell us what this phase two of easing lockdown restrictions will mean for people? it was well summarised just then. it is a big easing of most of the restrictions up until now. and it is really now how people work with those new

guidelines as to how well we will do going forward. we often talk about how it is going to be more difficult to get out of lockdown than it was to get out of lockdown than it was to go into it. do you think people area bit to go into it. do you think people are a bit reticent, a bit nervous about going back to something approaching what they used to do?” certainly am. i hope people are. i think we should have that attitude that the worst thing that can happen as any country comes out of lockdown, is to see a surge in cases and then you have to start re—invoking the restrictions and that will be very difficult in many countries, where i am not sure the appetite for a second lockdown would be acceptable. the government has said it wants anyone who can work from home to continue doing so for as long as possible for the foreseeable future, where feasible.

what is in place in singapore, remind us because thinkable has been praised for its initial response to covid—19, so what is in place at this crucial juncture covid—19, so what is in place at this crucialjuncture to track and trace any new cases of covid—19 that p0p up? trace any new cases of covid—19 that pop up? singapore had a very strong public health system actually before the circuit breaker, or lockdown. the peak cases per day in the community was only 70. our country is around 5.7 million. large numbers are because of the outbreak in the dormitories, and that... you are referring to migrant populations coming back? not actually coming back to singapore, but being in singapore. these are large dormitories with fairly dense accommodation. and these were,

u nfortu nately, accommodation. and these were, unfortunately, hit quite hard. fortu nately, unfortunately, hit quite hard. fortunately, not in terms of mortality but certainly in terms of cases. that's why our case numbers are high and in the community we are still looking at around 500 in total. we brought that, with the circuit breaker, we brought it down from around 70 cases a day to single figure digit cases a day. we had many systems in place in terms of the testing and contact tracing and the testing and contact tracing and the quarantine and isolation facilities and all the sorts of things. let's hope it continues on a very positive track. professor, thank you very much. thank you. the former pope benedict has made a very rare public appearance in his first trip outside italy since stepping down from the papacy seven years ago. he is 93 years old now and he has travelled to his native germany, where he met with his ailing elder brother.

tim allman has the story. no popemobile, technically no pope, but a papal visit nonetheless. in a quiet street in southern germany, an old man arrives to comfort his dying brother. but this is no ordinary old man. this is benedict xvi, the former head of the catholic church. in a wheelchair now, looking somewhat frail, but determined to make this trip. translation: i think we can really call this a visit to his sickbed. the pope emeritus receives daily updates on how his brother is and it seems the information was such that he thought, now i have to go to regensburg. benedict was the first pope in six centuries to retire from the papacy. he has lived out his retirement away from the public eye,

but the ill—health of his elder brother, georg ratzinger, has brought him here. translation: it is a sign of love, true love. the most important thing in the world. they spoke to each other on the phone almost every day. translation: i think it is pretty clear the brother will not live much longer. of course, i hope not but i fear he is nearing the end. two men, two priests, two brothers. the vatican says pope benedict will remain here for as long as necessary. tim allman, bbc news. a 12—year—old african american boy whose song about the fears of being a young person of colour went viral has been signed by a major us record label. keedron bryant's song ijust wanna live was posted online one day after the death of george floyd. warner records timed the release to coincide withjuneteenth,

which marks the end of centuries of slavery in the united states. have a listen. # i'm a young black man # doing all that i can # to stand # oh, but when i look around # and i see what's being done to my kind # every day # i'm being hunted as prey # my people don't want no trouble # we've had enough struggle # i just want to live # god, protect me # i just want to live # ijust want to live #. 12—year—old keedron bryant singing ijust wanna live, in a tribute to george floyd.

what a voice, what a song. you are watching bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with matt taylor. hello. there will be sunshine breaking through the clouds fulsome there will be sunshine breaking through the clouds this afternoon, especially in areas such as here in devon where we started the day with rain that we finished yesterday with. that wet weather across some southern parts, including wales is on the shift northwards. damp start to the afternoon through the midlands, north wales. rain breaking out across parts of northern england, northern ireland and southern scotland again later. the far north and central scotland will see something a bit brighter at times after a few showers around this morning. but some broken cloud and just the odd shower across southern counties of england and wales, a bit of an improvement on earlier. will be quite humid when the sun comes out too. but with the showers anywhere from the midlands, north wales northwards we could see some thunderstorms extended into northern ireland and southern

scotland by mid afternoon. brighter spells through central scotland although there will still be a bit more cloud across northern scotland with a few spots of rain or drizzle. much cooler here than it was yesterday. but through this evening and overnight, thunderstorms for a time in southern and western parts of scotland, they will gradually ease and most have actually tonight will become dry, partly clear skies, a few mist and fog patches and reasonably mild for some a muggy night again, temperatures in double figures as we start the weekend. signs of a change though this weekend, big pattern shows low pressure out towards the north—west of us throwing these weather fronts through saturday night into sunday, bringing rain for a time for all. but also introducing less humid air, fresher conditions developing through the weekend as the breeze starts to pick up. let's put some details on that then, here is saturday, sunny day for the vast majority. we will see some showers in wales and the south—west in the morning, drift through the middle and is in the middle part of the day towards the north—east of england and lincolnshire through the afternoon. a few showers across the north and east of scotland but some long

sunny spells for the vast majority and most will stay predominantly dry with temperatures widely into the 20s, so feeling very pleasant in the sunshine. we will finish the day with rain across northern ireland and strong and gusty winds and through saturday night a wet and windy weather spreads across all parts. lingering for the early risers in the north and east of the country but the sunshine comes out, a scattering of showers across scotland and northern ireland and they will be heavy and thundery. blustery day on sunday so it will be fresh with temperature sitting in the teens. after the dip in temperature, as we go into next week, warmth will be pushing up from iberia with temperatures close to 40 degrees on the spain and portugal border. to the south and east of the country, we could hit around 30. more on that later.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm geeta guru—murthy. the uk's covid alert level should be reduced from four to a three according to the chief medical officers for england, scotland, wales and northern ireland. a billion pounds for primary and secondary schools in england to help children who've fallen behind because of the coronavirus crisis. there's nothing betterfor children than being in school, and when they're in school, we want them to have the catch up, so they don't lose out as a consequence of this crisis. uk government borrowing hits a record monthly high of £55 billion in may as the coronavirus continued to press heavily on the public finances. as business come out of lockdown,

the queen sends her best wishes to business communities throughout the uk, commonwealth and the world. businesses and government departments in australia are hit by what its prime minister calls a sophisticated, state—based cyber attack. and coming up, we return to the northern italian region of lombardy, which became the global epicentre of coronavirus when it saw the first major outbreak in europe. 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. in the last hour, the chief medical officers for england, scotland, wales and northern ireland have

announced that the covid—19 alert level should be reduced from four to three. at level four — the epidemic is in general circulation and transmission is high. however at level three, though the epidemic remains in general circulation, transmission is no longer "high or rising exponentially". which means there can be a gradual relaxing of restrictions and social distancing measures. the health secretary matt hancock has reacted saying that the reduction in the covid—19 alert level in the uk is a big moment for the country. it shows the government's plan is working. let's get a little more on this with our health correspondent anna collinson. just specifically, what does this mean? this is a big moment, particularly, as you say, for the government to see this as a sign that what they have been doing in the last few months is coming together and working. as you mentioned, the risk of coronavirus is measured by a five level alert system and it helps the government decide how heavy they should go with

their social distancing measures, how strict should they be. the two things they look at is how fast the virus is spreading which is also known as the r number and the number of confirmed coronavirus cases and soa of confirmed coronavirus cases and so a team of scientists look at those pieces of information and then work out the level of the alert system work out the level of the alert syste m fro m work out the level of the alert system from there. from the middle of may, we have been at level four, which means that at the moment, there is a high level of transmission, but now the joint bio—security centre and all for scientific officers are recommending we moved to level three which means the virus is still in general circulation, we have not beaten it, there is still a riskier, but transmission rates are low enough for social distancing measures to potentially be relaxed. this has been seen as a huge moment for the uk. matt hancock said it shows the government's plan is working and is a real testament of the british people's determination to beat this virus, however, all of this comes with a lot of caution. the four

chief medical officer say this does not mean the pandemic is over. they say the virus is still in general circulation and localised outbreaks are likely to occur, so we have been hearing that a lot and we have been talking about the regional are numbered. the public eye being warned that we have progress, but we must keep sticking to the rules that are presented to as on a daily basis to make sure we do not have to go back to where we have come from. what is the r number at the moment and do we expect that to move significantly downwards or not? the r number is currently 0.7 to 0.9 for the uk as a whole. as we have been hearing, it can vary from region to region, says move forward, we may see spikes in parts of the country, but as we see the number of cases decrease, the relevance of the r number becomes less relevant because it does not become as necessary so we sat looking at other things, for example, the number of confirmed cases and as we have been saying, compared to april, yet readable 1200 confirmed cases. at the peak at the

beginning of april, there were more than 5000, so if you combine the soy developments together, you get a real picture of what is going on. thank you very much. our political correspondent nick eardleyjoins me now. it isa it is a big political moment although, in a way, it feels a little like the politicians have been ahead of where the science might have been because there has already been some release, clearly. that's right, some of the measures in england have been relaxed over the last couple of days. we have hearing about what will be relaxed in the next few days in scotland, wales and northern ireland as well. remember that when boris johnson announced the alert level, the idea was that when we were at level four, things would stay broadly the same in terms of restrictions and that it would be at level three that some of those restrictions were eased. clearly, some of that has already happened, so the question now is what this means for the government and what it might do, perhaps, we do not know for sure because we have not know for sure because we have not heard from ministers yet, but it

might give them some cover to relax some of the restrictions that they have been talking about in recent days. we know that many in the government are urging borisjohnson to relax the two metre rule in england. we know that he has said he wants to do that when he feels it is safe. there was a review going on into that. at the moment, the question is whether this alert level being reduced by the four chief medical officers is really key to the government, whether that gives them a medical reason to make a political decision to ease some more restrictions. the next part of the lockdown is easing is supposed to come next month in england. there are a lot of debates going on throughout the uk on exactly how they should be taken over the next few weeks, whether things can be slightly sped up because some believe that the government is doing slightly better at getting on top of this crisis in terms of the rh than it had been, so weight is all about what this means for the politics

now, whether it gives that medical cover to give more political decisions. there was some expectation that this might have happened a couple of weeks ago. do we know now how much in lockstep the scientists, broadly, and the people in downing street really are now? either any tensions? there has been a lot of speculation. this has come from the four chief medical officer from the four chief medical officer from scotland, wales, northern ireland and england and that is a fairly significant thing and shows that there is unanimity about the level being reduced. in terms of the relationship with politicians, a couple of weeks ago, we were scratching our heads a bit, quite frankly, because boris johnson scratching our heads a bit, quite frankly, because borisjohnson had said that the joint bio—security unit... the alert level would be vital for when restrictions were lifted. as we have just said, the restrictions were lifted before the level came down. we have heard ministers say for weeks now that it

was at level four but it was close to coming down to level three. the fa ct to coming down to level three. the fact it is at level three now will be welcome news to ministers, but quite whether it means something else happening is a question we are not complete the share of the answer to yet and i suspect will be one that ministers will be asked throughout the day. very interesting, thank you, no. primary and secondary schools in england are to get a £1 billion boost to help children catch up on months of lessons that were missed during lockdown. the uk government has pledged that a third of that cash will go towards a special tutoring programme for the most disadvantaged children the rest of the money, £650 million, will be available to schools to spend on one—to—one or group tuition for any pupils they think need it. critics say the plans lack detail and that early years providers and colleges for over 16s have been left out. in other developments, major analysis in the uk reveals that people from south asian backgrounds are the most likely to die from coronavirus after being admitted to hospital.

it is the only ethnic group to have a raised risk of death in hospital and is partly due to high levels of diabetes. coronavirus is also having a big impact on global economies. in the uk, government borrowing hit a record monthly high in may of more than £55 billion — the highest on record. and eu leaders are meeting today over video conference in search of a deal worth 750 billion euros for a coronavirus recovery fund. we'll have more on that shortly, but first dan johnson reports on the additional funding to help children catch—up on school work in england. it goes tenths, hundredths and thousandths. extra maths delivered online to help kids catch up. it was already happening at this primary school but now many more pupils across england will get this one—on—one support. you don't know whether to put your hand up and say, "i know the answer," because you don't know how everyone is going to react,

whereas in the tutoring, because it's one—to—one, you don't have to be, like, scared of saying what the answer is. even times like this, during the pandemic, you can still learn a lot of stuff and you won't, like, slow down in your education, you canjust keep up. so, it's helping you get better at maths? yeah. is that something you struggled with before? kind of, and you don't have to worry about other people thinking, "why is he asking that question?" there's hundreds of millions for this sort of tutoring, targeted at those falling furthest behind. these sessions are run by a charity that uses volunteer tutors. i don't think it completely can take the place of traditional teaching but we're seeing some really promising starts from our online tutoring that we're offering already, with pupils commenting that it's helping them to re—engage with their learning, that it is replicating what they might get in the classroom and that, crucially,

it's giving them that individual support and space where they can ask questions. there's a lot of catching up to do because most children still haven't made it back into school after three months of disruption now — so what about summer? will that be more time that they spend at home? and then september — what's that going to look like? how do you get more children back into these buildings? will there ever be an assembly again in a hall like this? head teachers now have money and some freedom in spending it to try to answer those questions and to work out how to get every child back up to speed. you have to be realistic and think that they will have bigger gaps in their learning but also, how can we plug those gaps if those children, say for example, can only come back 15 at a time? i think there is a place for tutoring to help and support us. but there is detail to come about exactly who gets this, how often and for how long. this funding is for one year, it does not cover preschool

or post—16 education. it has been widely welcomed but with warnings it may not be enough. dan johnson, bbc news, hackney, in east london. the australian prime minister says a major cyber attack is under way against australia targeting government, industry and political parties. scott morrison says a sophisticated state—based actor is behind the attack but didn't say which country was responsible. mr morrison told a news conference in canberra that the intrusions had been intensifying in recent months. this activity is targeting australian organisations across a range of sectors including all levels of government, industry, political organisations, education, health, essential service providers and operators of other critical infrastructure. it is a sophisticated, state—based cyber actor because of the scale and nature of the targeting and the tradecraft used.

nigel phair is the director of the canberra cyber centre at the university of new south wales. hejoins me from canberra. thank you for your time today. who is it thought to be behind these attacks? well, there is certainly a certain amount of actors in the world who have this kind of offensive capability in most —— and most jurisdictions offensive capability in most —— and mostjurisdictions do not use it for evil, so there are only two which are china and russia. and is there enough evidence to point the finger at either one of those even if the government is not going there yet publicly? well, as you can appreciate, we have some extremely good cyber experts at work closely with our partners around the world. they know exact who it is, but for geopolitical reasons, i think we will never see any admission given at all. you are talking china? absolutely. and what exactly is this meaning in terms of what is actually going on right now? how damaging is

this attack? cyber attacks have been going on for a very, very long time among many jurisdictions including australia and the united kingdom. recently we have seen the volume increase, we have seen them being a lot stealthy and the payloads attached to them are a lot more dangerous, so this is calling it out and signalling that, you know, we have had enough and this is very serious for australian businesses and the australian government. there is already a degree of tension, obviously, on this question. just explain to me what the actual damage is of the cyber attacks, how does it affect, for example, government apartments or businesses? the state —based actors are seeking to either degrade government it systems so they do not work to the same performance as they are meant to. they are also trying to look for a government secrets, intellect or property, anything they could use as leveraged down the track. is it possible to increase your technical

defences possible to increase your technical d efe nces to possible to increase your technical defences to stop this or ultimately can hackers, especially if they are state sponsored, always be ahead of you. i do not know if they are a lwa ys you. i do not know if they are always going to be ahead, but they are always going to be extremely good when you get to the top tier of state—sponsored attackers. this is where the colby comes from the prime minister to businesses in australia to get them to really focus and understand what is cyber risk and understanding information assets as a business that they hold. does this have implications for individuals? not so much when we think of individuals from personally identifiable information, but definitely for individuals when you think about their role in an organisation and so individuals are well—versed in how to protect their own private property or even when they walk out of businesses in the afternoon, they will lock the doors and turn the alarm on. we need that same thinking when it comes to the online environment, corporate data. and, of course, australia is part of

the five eyes security with its very close links with the us, the uk. can it hit back, would it hit back? what do you think is happening politically on that front? australia, like all the five eyes nations, has the ability to fight back. we have an offensive capability, but like the rest of the five eyes, we only use that sparingly and when it is appropriate and by international norms, so at some stage, if this escalation continues, we might see some sort of retribution. thank you very much for joining us from canberra. in a message to the british chambers of commerce, the queen has praised the response and generosity of the business community in the uk, the commonwealth and the rest of the world, during what she called a "time of great difficulty". nonessential shops opened across england on monday. joining me now is our royal correspondent, nicholas witchell. just tell us what exactly the queen has said. well, the queen, of

course, and the british royalfamily are keen to be seen to be supporting the general efforts by businesses and facilities in the united kingdom and, indeed, around the commonwealth and, indeed, around the commonwealth and around the world as countries emerge from the lockdown and restore some degree of normality, so a statement, a written statement from windsor castle just issued now, statement, a written statement from windsor castlejust issued now, she says, as many organisations around the country are reopening, i send my warmest best wishes and support to business communities throughout the united kingdom, the commonwealth and across the world and, as you mentioned, she goes onto say that it has been heart—warming to see the degree of civic response and generosity between some many businesses, small and large, to the challenges posed by the supporting nhs or venerable communities and she concludes by saying that wishes all businesses every success in their endeavours in the weeks and months ahead. so, the queen, queen elizabeth, as head of the nation, if you like, expressing the wish, her

wish and the wish of the royal family, that businesses can restore themselves as much is possible and i share in the days and weeks ahead, we will see members of the royal family, not the queen because she is in protective isolation in windsor castle, but younger members of the royalfamily castle, but younger members of the royal family getting out, encouraging businesses as they restored their businesses. without the prince of wales and prince william are couple of weeks ago visiting hospitals and ambience workers and that, i think, is something we will see more of, as i say, in the weeks ahead. does it feel as though buckingham palace has been really more proactive than normal during this crisis in putting out these public messages of support from the queen in particular? well, i think it comes back to what is the function of the monarchy? in a real, national crisis such as this, it is to bea national crisis such as this, it is to be a focus for reassurance, to

offer a supportive voice and that, offer a supportive voice and that, of course, is what the queen has done with that memorable broadcaster backin done with that memorable broadcaster back in april, you know the we will meet again broadcast, and other broadcast that she has made and, indeed, also the many statements that the prince of wales has made from up inbound moral in scotland, notwithstanding the fact that he contracted the virus himself, but as soon as he was recovered, he made state m e nts soon as he was recovered, he made statements by video conferencing and all that sort of thing. again, it is very much the function of the british railfamily very much the function of the british rail family to very much the function of the british railfamily to be very much the function of the british rail family to be seen to be supporting the national effort and the commonwealth effort in times of particular difficulty such as this. 0k, particular difficulty such as this. ok, thank you very much indeed. the us supreme court has ruled against president donald trump's bid to end a major programme that protects young immigrants from deportation. it's the second time this week the country's highest court has ruled against this president. it comes in the same week he has faced accusations of incomptetence

in a memoir due to be published by his former national security adviserjohn bolton and another row over his use of social media. david willis reports. protesters chant. it came as a ray of light to the dreamers, and a slap in the face for the president. i'm so happy. the threat of deportation lifted, for now at least. the nation's highest court rejecting the trump administration's attempt to end protections for some 700,000 young, undocumented immigrants. i will immediately terminate president obama's illegal executive order on immigration. the decision, a major blow to a president who made immigration reform a centrepiece of his run for office, branding the supreme court's verdict horrible and politically charged. social media has also proved a battleground for donald trump on occasions, and twitter has once again

added a warning label to a presidential tweet, this time one that featured a video criticising the news media. facebook also announced it was removing trump campaign ads that featured a nazi symbol. a trump spokesman maintained the symbol was associated with a left—wing group which the president has blamed for recent anti—racist violence. coming hard on the heels of claims by the former national security advisorjohn bolton that the president is poorly informed and uses the power of office for personal and political gain, this might be a week mr trump would rather forget. further adding to his woes, the news that one of the administration's highest—ranking african americans, state department official mary elizabeth taylor, has resigned in protest at the president's response to racial tensions here. and the week isn't over yet. david willis, bbc news. facebook‘s head of security has defended the company's decision

to take down advertisements by president trump's election campaign that — as we saw in that piece — featured a symbol used by the nazis to label their opponents. the ads were aimed against antifa, the left—wing grouping of activists that mr trump describes as violent agitators. facebook say the ads violate its policy against organised hate. we obviously want to be careful to allow someone to put up a symbol to condemn it or to discuss it. but in a situation we don't see either of those, we don't allow it on the platform and we will remove it. that's what we saw in this case with this ad and anywhere that that symbol is used we would take the same action. so we will be consistent in enforcing where ever either our systems identify those symbols and as you'd expect, when we identify something like this, we make it like this, we bank it within our system so that we can look for other instances of it where it might appear so we can find it and remove it automatically. and also, if there's something we miss, because we certainly aren't perfect, if somebody would bring it to our attention we would take action there as well,

if it's the same symbol. cbs news correspondent michael george says facebook‘s action to remove the ad is surprising. this is an unusual move for facebook. even recently, they've said that they won't police the president's comments on facebook, and that includes false statements. they said they're going to let that slide, they won't be the arbiter of what is true and what isn't. but in this case, they did pull down those ads and this comes down to that upside—down red triangle that they used in president trump's ads, which is a symbol that the nazis used to identify political prisoners. now, the trump campaign says that this symbol is actually associated with far—left antifa protesters, but that isn't accurate, and in this case, facebook did take immediate action. the trump campaign has maintained this is not a nazi symbol but rather an antifa symbol, which again, is not accurate, but the president has indicated lately that he is more willing to seek legislation to allow more government control over social media. so while he hasn't responded directly to this latest

development by facebook, he has said that he could pursue action against social media if they continue to block or modify his statements online. the rate of deaths with coronavirus here in the uk is about twice as high for black men and 40% higher for black women compared to white men and women. that's according to analysis by the office for national statistics. the data also revealed that the rate of deaths with coronavirus is twice as high for people with disabilities. the analysis is based on deaths between 2n march and 15th may, where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate. our head of statistics, robert cuffe, is with me now. just in terms of trying to breakdown the significance of all this, can you explain to us what the trends are by religion first of all? there are by religion first of all? there are three groups that the analysis looked at and the more striking finding is probably thatjewish men in that period were twice as likely to die with covid—19 as christian

men. now, with all of these analysis based on death certificates, you cannot really tell whether it is the risk of infection or the danger of infection, which is driving this. you could hypothesise that maybe in jewish communities which can be very concentrated in north london, for example, there was a large amount of infection going around and that may be part of what was driving the elevated risk there. we start, for example, the story earlier today, the report that south asian people are at high risk of dying once they get into hospital, so the danger of infection is higher. you say the danger once infected rather than the risk of getting it. yes, you have to go beyond the headline data we are given today to try to understand what is driving these things. we see in the data as well that sikhs were at slightly less risk along with people who have no risk, lower rate

than christians and for muslims, it was roughly the same, but that is once you account for the well—established effect of ethnicity which has been driving issues. in terms of ethnicity, how does it look? were south asian women, once you account for deprivation, once you account for deprivation, once you account for where people live and household structure, they are not actually at higher risk than white women. i am not saying that there is no problem they are, but it is saying that we understand what is driving the problem there but even when you account for those things, the risk is still higher for black men, still higher for the risk is still higher for black men, still higherfor black the risk is still higher for black men, still higher for black women and still higher for asian men, still higher for black women and still higherfor asian men, roughly between 50% and doubling in each of those groups, so we have seen this data before. it is just confirming again for us what we know that minority ethnic groups are not just at higher risk in the pandemic. between south asian men and women, we have seen that men have been a

bit more at risk of a role in the population and maybe they are more working on the front line, i don't know. that is exactly the kind of thing that we don't quite get in the detail here. what this does is takes data from the 2011 senses, so you have to go back a long way to get information on ethnicity that we can link to get certificates and that is one of the recommendations from the public health england report last week, that we get better data and that we record ethnicity on death certificates we are able to answer these questions are bit better because if you are trying to tease all this apart on the basis of the occupation that someone gave you nine years ago, you are not going to be able to get the full story. absolutely. what other disability figures? as you said, doubling of risk for both disabled men and women with slight differences there. but the definition of disability is very broad, it is based again on the 2011 census and people who said that their daily activities were limited

a lot by health or by disabilities which could be driven by age or that did not last until now, so it is probably a higher number of disabled people now, but it also includes people now, but it also includes people who were very, very sick and we know that covid—19 preys on the vulnerable and so what could be driving this is that kind of well—established fact and just seeing it in a different way. is there anything in these later statistics that have surprised you or is it following trends we have seen already? i think the finding amongstjewish men is a new one and we do not fully understand the reasons behind that quite yet, but a lot of the other things is confirming what we know, that covid—19 preys on the vulnerable. thank you very much. dealing with the coronavirus is a devolved issue with each nation of the uk taking slightly different approaches. in scotland, parts of the second phase of easing restrictions comes into effect today. people who live on their own or only with children under 18 can meet people from one other household.

they can visit each other‘s homes and go inside and they don't have to stay two metres apart and can also stay overnight. in northern ireland, social distancing rules will be reduced to one metre for children and young adults when they go back to school in late august. and the first minister of wales, mark drakeford, will also be announcing some changes there today. non—essential shops will be allowed to reopen from monday in the latest easing of lockdown measures. but the five—mile limit on nonessentialjourneys will remain. mark drakeford says he hopes to ease restrictions over the next few weeks. on the following monday, the 29th, schools will reopen in wales. and on the following monday, the 6th ofjuly, provided the virus remains under control, then our "stay local" restrictions will be lifted, so that people will be able to travel across wales, to tourist destinations, families and so on. and mark drakeford will be giving more details

about the announcements later and we'll bring you that here on the bbc news channel at around 12.30pm. uk government borrowing has risen to a record high because of the lockdown. in may, the government borrowed an estimated £55 billion. that's nine times more than the same month last year. government debt stands at £1.95 trillion, meaning that debt is equivalent to 100.9% of gdp — the value of all goods and services produced in the economy. this is the first time that public sector debt has exceeded economic output since 1963. our economics correspondent, andy verity explained how much of a surprise these figures are. knowing what we know about what the government has had to do since the pandemic struck, it is not a surprise that we have record borrowing. it is not, in a way, a surprise that in may, we modelled nine times what we bottled in may

last year. tax revenues have dropped massively, perhaps what the government wanted to happen, the government wanted to happen, the government effectively instructed this recession when it instructed an economic lockdown, we know it did it to save lives, but the consequence, which it was fully aware of when the shutdown was ordered, is that we are now in the biggest recession in a very long time. that figure about 1963 is interesting because in 1963, although the economy was picking up, there was still this great overhang of wartime debt. forget any talk about the immediate policy goal being, as it has been the chancellor is for the last 15 years, being to get the budget back into surplus. it is not going to happen for years. it is not going to happen for years. it is probably not going to happen for decades. the thing about it is that a lot of what we have been told by the last ten years, that really matters, that should be the central economic policy goal, a lot of economists are saying now, why? interest rates are manageable, they are super low and the institutions that lend governments money, well,

they are keen to have a safe investment like leading tory government. so there is no problem, when the government was out there —— like lending to a government. in fa ct, like lending to a government. in fact, more than the government borrowed and the whole of the post—financial crisis period, over ten months they borrowed less lesson this government has bothered over two months. it can still get the money in and investors are worried about putting their money in shares, they would rather lend it to governments. hello, this is bbc news with geeta guru—murthy. the headlines: the uk's coronavirus alert level has been downgraded from four to three, the countries' chief medical officers have said. a billion pounds for primary and secondary schools in england, to help children who've fallen behind because of the coronavirus crisis. uk government borrowing hits a record monthly high of £55 billion in may, as the coronavirus

continued to press heavily on the public finances. as businesses come out of lockdown, the queen sends her best wishes to business communities throughout the uk, commonwealth and the world. businesses and government departments in australia are hit by what its prime minister calls a sophisticated, state—based cyber attack. here in the uk, the opposition labour pa rty‘s heavy loss in the last general election — the worst since 1935 — was the result of a toxic culture, organisational failures and the leadership ofjeremy corbyn — that's according to a new report by the labour together group, which includes different wings of the party. our political correspondent iain watson reports. thank you very much... jeremy corbyn's leadership, brexit and the manifesto that did not seem credible — some of the reasons labour lost in 2019, according to a new report.

the labour together group, which includes the party's former leader, ed miliband, and the shadow business minister, lucy powell, have spent nearly six months analysing the reasons for the defeat. some of it will make grim reading for labour supporters. they say that mps and activists have told them that ‘labour‘s strategy told them that labour's strategy was inadequate and the organisation was muddled and that factionalism, internal arguments and division affected the party's performance. but we haven't got on to the really bad news for labour yet. the reports says that a new leader will not in itself improve the party's fortunes. over the past two decades, traditional voters have been drifting away so, by 2019, it was easier for the conservatives to pick off some seats labour had held since the war and a further 58 constituencies are vulnerable to small conservative advance. to a small conservative advance. the report declares that labour has an electoral mountain to climb and it contains a stark

warning for keir starmer, warning for keir starmer — unless he makes fundamental changes, labour could have further to fall. iain watson, bbc news. the coronavirus pandemic has raised questions about what the future may look like for all of us. this week a virtual "recovery summit" has been taking place, involving a wide range of expertise from economists to olympians, campaigners to broadcasters — to share ideas on the future of the global economy, leadership and managing change. professor muhammad yunus is a nobel peace laureate and founder of grameen bank of bangladesh, which specialises in lending small amounts of money to the poorest people who are ignored by the conventional banking system. professor, thank you very much for joining us today. we are obviously facing a huge global crisis and, presumably, your worry about the poon presumably, your worry about the poor, everyone is worried about the most poor as it is going to be even harderfor most poor as it is going to be even harder for them. yes, it will be. thank you for inviting me. yes, i

was at the recovery summit and i was raising the issue because coronavirus has stopped the whole economic machine and whether we should restart it. and i was arguing that we should not because it created a lot of problems for us in the past. the mum of the coronavirus came, at that moment the world was not any happy situation and at the world was surrounded with this big problem of global warming and we we re problem of global warming and we were ina problem of global warming and we were in a countin situation that we are almost at the end of a rope that the world would be over. and that is not too long ahead of us. and then we had the problem of wealth concentration, the concentration of all the wealth going in one direction. and the bulk of the people have very little to live on. so that is not a happy situation either. but but lots of people have

been saying that we need to reshape the economy, not go back to where we were, but even going back to where were, but even going back to where we we re were, but even going back to where we were is hard enough. how, in practice, do you actually change all these economies, all these businesses to make them more green and sustainable or redistribute wealth? how do you, what are you practically suggesting? for me, the first thing is to decide we do not wa nt to first thing is to decide we do not want to go back, it is suicidal. why should we go back and in the world with all the problems that we had? this is an opportunity that we have, coronavirus give the opportunity to make a new start. you said it would be difficult to go back, so i got a difficult way of committing suicide. make it a difficult way to find something else which is better where they will be no global warming, it is possible, new ideas, new thinking. get rid of the old ways of doing things, find the new ways of doing things, find the new ways of doing things, find the new ways of doing things, we are doing new things and talking, but many new options are possible. try those kind of things. if we are going to give

bailout packages to revive the old engine, we would rather spend that bailout packages to design the new engine to go different direction. for example, you mentioned about the poor people, why should we just keep the poor people alive rather than give them a chance to have a full life in themselves? there are ways to do that and redesigning the financial system. in the middle of the whole problem, the financial system is itself. the financial system is itself. the financial system as a vehicle to make the wealth concentration possible. if you redesign it in a way that, instead of wealth getting concentrated, wealth would be distributed among people. and the financial system can be reversed. anyway that it can be done, we have shown ways to do that. we talk about how to bring services to the poor people, challenge the whole banking system, saying it should notjust be dependent only on collateral. there are now on collateral banking that is possible. that is what it is all

that, designing meetings. and we see all the migrant workers in india, bangladesh, swan going home. why do people have to leave home? why can they not find their livelihood where they not find their livelihood where they were born? the institution has to build any different way rather than following same pattern. just to take, for example, that practical example that we are seeing in india and elsewhere. people going back to rural places. do you think it is likely that they will stay there and therefore, financing and funding should be given to them to stay there? rather than return to the city is? even if existing jobs are more likely to be in demand in the citiessure. we can make it been getting, that my point. we can make a beginning. we all have to agree that rural areas should not be considered as a labourer producing factories. that they produce labour, they have to go in cities, finds cities to work in. that is not what it will be. the rural economy itself

should be an economy, a parallel economy which will give them opportunities to stay there and so on. again, financial situation become the most important, they can make this happen. rural institutions have new design to work in rural areas, bringing the urban institutions, —— rather than bringing the urban institutions to work in the rural areas. why do they workers have to migrate, why cannot they find the opportunities is there? that is where the food and agriculture is found, why can we not process it where it is created? with it has produced questioning of those are the kinds of things, we have to think of the whole thing any different way, not just an think of the whole thing any different way, notjust an appendix economy of the rural areas trying to serve the urban areas and so on. today with the technology, a lot of things can happen and relocate, we conceptualise and so on. that is what i'm arguing for. professor muhammad yunus, thank you very much a time indeed.

now the last time we saw karen mannering was on a viral video in the early days of the lockdown. she was six months pregnant and lying in a hospital bed with covid—19, making a desperate and breathless plea for all of us to stay inside. we're very pleased to report that karen is now back at home — safe and well — and with a new addition to the household. colin campbell has the details. cradling her newborn son, three months ago karen mannering feared they would both die after she contracted covid—19. she was at the time 26 weeks' pregnant. on sunday night, tyson lee mannering was born, weighing in at 8lb 1oz. the moment i gave birth to him and i heard his cry, i think that was it, the emotions can all kick in then. i actually felt i could cry, grieve, feel sorry for everything we've been through together and put it in perspective — oh, dear — and how lucky we both are to be here. i had pneumonia in both lungs. i'm fighting for me and my baby. karen was rushed

to hospital in march. from her bed, she filmed this video appeal which went viral. it's not worth going out. stop going out, listen to boris. i was a 39—year—old pregnant women that come down bad with it, and ijust wanted everyone to know it's not a joke, take it seriously — people are dying from it. after making a speedy recovery, she was back at the qeqm hospital in margate in may to thank staff who had cared for her. i literally can't thank you enough for the sacrifices you all make. like, i remember... she wasn't expecting to return to give birth untiljuly but was admitted last week to be induced. her baby son eventually delivered by c—section late sunday night and aptly named tyson. mike tyson and tyson fury are the boxers. obviously they've both been good fighters, and this is another good fighter, so i think he deserved the name. is this your cousin?

relatives are being given a sneak—peak of the new arrival. although pregnant women are considered, as a precaution, to be at moderate risk of covid—19, the nhs says there's no no no the nhs says there's no evidence they're more likely to become seriously ill from the virus. we know pregnant women are no more likely to catch coronavirus than any other, so the advice is the same — hand washing, making sure they hydrate and making sure they socially distance. i think i was quite worried about whether he was ever going to be here and how things were really going to turn out, but now he's here, i'm, like, an emotional wreck! a covid survivor in the safety of his mother's arms meeting excited siblings. there is further relief for karen, who's just discovered she's developed antibodies for the virus. she's waiting to find out if her little fighter has too. colin campbell, bbc news, herne bay. now it's sung every time the england rugby union team play at twickenham, but rugby bosses say they're reviewing the use of the song swing low,

sweet chariot. # swing although, sweet chariot —— swing low. the rugby football union say many fans don't know about the song's links with slavery. it's thought to have been sung for the first time when the former rugby league star martin 0ffiah was playing at twickenham, because his nickname is chariots. he says the review is a good thing, but it shouldn't be banned. the song is not really what the issue is here, the issue is about diversity and inclusion. and if this review leads to the rfu putting a positive spin on this song, engaging with ethnic communities, looking at the rooms where decisions are made in the rfu and addressing those issues, that's what is needed, that's what we actually want. the public spending watchdog says the removal of dangerous cladding from high—rise buildings in england in the wake of the grenfell tower fire won't be completed for another two years.

a report by the national audit office says the programme should already have been finished, but that there's still a long way to go. its data showed that only 149 of the 456 buildings identified have had the unsafe aluminium composite material cladding replaced. the report says those buildings still waiting include hotels, student accommodation and publicly owned buildings. the headlines on bbc news: the uk's covid alert level should be reduced from four to a three, according to the chief medical officers for england, scotland, wales and northern ireland. a billion pounds for primary and secondary schools in england, and secondary schools in england to help children who've fallen behind because of the coronavirus crisis. businesses and government deparments in australia are hit by what its prime minister calls a "sophisticated, state—based" cyber attack. south africa has high levels of violent crime,

amongst the worst in the world. more than 2700 women were killed last year. and the government says cases have increased drastically under the coronavirus lockdown. our south africa reporter, pumza fihlani looks at what is being done to tackle this. they are supposed to be under lockdown, but they have taken their mourning to the streets. hundreds sing, "only you, lord, know what will become of me "in this painful world." this woman was eight months pregnant when she was found stabbed, hanging from a tree. her death a reminder of the dangers faced by women here. ijust turned and i felt somebody was hitting me. before the lockdown started, we met a woman who had been attacked the previous day. i was ashamed to go home even, because i didn't ask for it. you didn't ask for it and no—one deserves that so i want to know, he kept asking me... she told us she was worried no—one

would believe her, and worse, nothing would happen to the man who raped her. months after we first visited, we returned to the clinic to find the lockdown has brought new challenges. if you have an increase in the number of gender—based violence, ok, and then we have got a set number of ppe, you know, the chances are that we might run out if the issue keeps going at the rate it is going. and obviously, problems like that are quite dangerous. here in south africa, more than 2,700 women were killed last year. that's about one woman every three hours. before the lockdown, more than a hundred rapes were reported every day. but experts say this is just a fraction of what's really going on. last year, president cyril ramaphosa declared violence against women a national crisis. the government promised more money to fight gender—based violence,

a result of national outrage at the killing of a 19—year—old student. this funding has gone to clinics and social programmes. right now, it is right on the periphery. yes, there is awareness and some kind of response. yes, we now have some kind of budgetary allocation, but we are moving too slowly and the bodiesjust keep dropping. do you know what sexual activity without consent is... ? sexual violence. young people are being taught about sex, violence and consent. advocates say this will play a key role in stopping brutality against women. when we say that sexual activity is by choice, that means that there was...? consent. but some of these services are not available under lockdown and there are concerns that violence against women will go unchecked and lives that could have been saved, lost.

thousands of public hospital workers in tunisia have walked out, calling for improvement in the health system in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. only emergency services were operating in public hospitals across the country as part of the strike. tanya dendrinos reports. taking to the streets in tunis, doctors and nurses who have been on the front line in the battle against coronavirus, now on strike. tunisia has suffered a relatively low level of infection, but these workers are demanding better working conditions and contracts, as well as more resources in their hospitals. translation: during the covid-19 crisis, there were only two or three professions that did not stop working and fulfilled their responsibilities for the country. but as usual, we were the first for battle but the last for recognition. despite the protests, hospitals have remained opened to treat emergency patients,

but the strength of feeling is clear to see. protests too in bolivia, were almost 700 people have died where almost 700 people have died after contracting coronavirus. doctors say there's a shortage of protective masks and gowns, which puts them at greater risk of becoming ill. translation: we have worn out work clothes that we're reusing, that eats away at our integrity and that of the people. and unfortunately, since the beginning, we've had to buy our own personal protective equipment. in russia, there's been a big increase in the number of medical workers killed by covid—19, according to the health—care watchdog. it says almost 500 doctors, nurses and other workers have died, up from just over 100 three weeks ago. and in spain this week, nurses in madrid warned that they would struggle to cope with a potential second wave of coronavirus infections.

governments have said they're doing all they can to deal with an unprecedented situation, making sure medical staff have the support they need. but many front—line workers say they're exhausted and fearful of what's to come. four months ago, the northern italian region of lombardy became the global epicentre of coronavirus as it saw the first major outbreak in europe. as key mistakes were made, the virus engulfed one of the continent's wealthiest corners and sparked cases around the world. our correspondent mark lowen, who has reported on the story from the start, has returned to lombardy, to ask what went wrong. it's four months since lombardy became the wuhan of the west, its sufferings seared into memory. the virus throttled, taking hold in europe and exporting cases around the world. let's get the very latest on the situation in northern italy. our correspondent mark lowen is in... i've reported on the

story from the start. now, i'm back to report on those who want answers. in bergamo, 6,000 people died in march alone — thought to be the highest rate of excess deaths in the world. ines and her husband were married for 53 years — he spent his last months in hospital. we are facing a war now here. as the outbreak erupted and our coverage took us across italy, i spoke to a doctor whose hospital was overwhelmed. stefano, hi, mark from the bbc. very nice to see you again. we were late in finding the virus. we were told that we had to search for a link with china but we were not able to see patients with that kind of symptoms that were coming from china. we lost time in closing the area.

so, the lockdown came late. politicians passed the buck over closing italy's second richest city, closing italy's second—richest city, under pressure from business groups. delayed lockdown, as other countries have seen, cost dearly. as did the decision to move some of the sick to care homes. half of the 140 patients in this one died. when angela olivella's mother developed a fever, she wasn't tested — she died a week later. we spoke to one worker who wanted her identity hidden. translation: i had my first symptoms after helping a patient who was positive. the head of the care home wing

said i should go home, but the director said no, because my fever wasn't 37.7 degrees as the rules said. three to four days went by. while i was infected, i must have infected other people. if they had managed this well, everyone should still be alive. the care home declined an interview, but in a statement told us the claims were false and they'd followed health protocols. at the heart of europe, and with italy's largest elderly population, lombardy was an easy target. key errors mean it's still the infection hub. this is the legacy of lombardy‘s emergency. the daily presence of the ambulances, the need for complete protection, the full mobilisation of resources to prevent another spike of the virus. the crisis may no longer be at its height, but it still lingers on, ready to bounce back. italy was used as a model of how to respond to the virus. now it's a mirror of the mistakes

that so many others, too, have made. mark lowen, bbc news, lombardy. an art detective in the netherlands says he has proof of life photos of a stolen van gogh painting. the 1884 work spring garden, which is worth more than £5 million, went missing after a break—in at a museum near amsterdam in late march. one photo shows the missing masterpiece lying next to a newspaper, and another features a label from the back of the painting. the art detective, arthur brand, has not explained how he received the images. we will be back at the top of the error with all the latest, including this change in the alert level here in the uk with all four chief scientific officer is recommending a move down from four to three. we will examine what that actually means. the daily life here in the

political impact of that two. we also hope to talk to a scientific expert who has looked into the ethnicity data of people dying in the uk and found that there is a bigger risk to south asians, the whole south asian population. you're watching bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with matt taylor. hello. there'll be sunshine breaking through the clouds for some of you this afternoon, especially in areas such as here in devon, where we started the day with rain that we finished yesterday with. that wet weather across some southern parts, including wales, is on the shift northwards. a damp start to the afternoon through the midlands, north wales. rain breaking out across parts of northern england, northern ireland and southern scotland again later. the far north and central scotland will see something a bit brighter at times after a few showers around this morning. but some well—broken cloud and just the odd shower across southern counties of england and wales, a bit of an improvement on earlier. still feeling quite humid when that sun comes out, too. but with the showers anywhere from the midlands and north wales northwards, we could see some thunderstorms, extended into northern ireland and southern scotland by mid afternoon.

a brighter spell through central scotland, although there will still be a bit more cloud across northern scotland with a few spots of rain and drizzle, so much cooler than it was here yesterday. but through this evening and overnight, thunderstorms for a time in southern and western parts of scotland. they will gradually ease and most of tonight will become dry, partly clear skies, a few mist and fog patches, and a reasonably mild and, for some, muggy night again. temperatures in double figures as we start the weekend. signs of a change, though, this weekend. a big pattern shows low pressure out towards the north—west of us, throwing these weather fronts through during saturday night into sunday, bringing rain for a time for all, but also introducing less humid air. fresher conditions developing through the weekend as the breeze starts to pick up. let's put some details on that, then. here's saturday, a sunny day for the vast majority. we will see some showers for wales, the south—west in the morning, drift through the midlands the middle part of the day towards the north—east of england and lincolnshire through the afternoon. a few showers across the north and east of scotland, but some warm, sunny spells for the vast majority, and most will stay predominantly dry, with temperatures widely into the 20s, so feeling very pleasant in the sunshine.

we'll finish the day, though, with rain across northern ireland, strong and gusty winds. and through saturday night, that wet, windy weather spreads across all parts, lingering for the early risers on sunday in the north and east of the country, but then clearing through, sunshine comes out. a scattering of showers, and across scotland and northern ireland, they will be heavy and thundery. quite a blustery day on sunday, so it will feel fresher with temperatures, for most of you, sitting in the teens. but after that brief dip in temperature, as we go into next week, warmth will be pushing up all the way from iberia. temperatures close to 40 degrees on the spain and portugal border. to the south and east of the country, we could hit around 30. we'll have more on that later.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the uk's coronavirus alert level is downgraded from four to three. the health secretary says it's a "big moment". a billion pounds for primary and secondary schools in england to help children who've fallen behind because of the coronavirus crisis. businesses and government deparments in australia are hit by what its prime minister calls a "sophisticated, state—based" cyber attack uk government borrowing hits a record monthly high of £55 billion in may, as the coronavirus continued to press heavily on the public finances. and coming up, we return to the northern italian region of lombardy, which became the global epicentre of coronavirus when it saw the first major outbreak in europe.

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. the uk's chief medical officers for england, scotland, wales and northern ireland have announced that the covid—19 alert level is being downgraded from four to three. at level four, the epidemic is in general circulation and transmission is high. however at level three according to the government's definition, though the epidemic remains in circulation, transmission is no longer "high or rising exponentially". that means there can be a gradual relaxing of restrictions and social distancing measures. the health secretary matt hancock has reacted saying that "the uk moving

to a lower alert level is a big moment for the country, and a real testament to the nation's determination to beat this virus." let's get a little more on this with our health correspondent anna collinson. what does it mean in terms of these definitions? how is it measured? the risk of coronavirus is measured by a five level alert system which tells the government decide how tough their social distancing measures should be and they make their decision based on two types of data. first of all, how fast the virus is spreading which is known as the r number, and also the number of confirmed cases, so since the middle of may, we have been on level four which means there is a high level of transmission, but now the uk's chief medical officers has downgraded that from 43. that means the virus is still in general circulation but transmission rates are low enough which means we can start using social distancing measures. this is seen as a big announcement for the uk. the health secretary says it shows the government's plan is

working, but scientists say it does not mean the pandemic is over and the public are being warned to keep following those guidelines that we have been listening to over the past few months. the r number is still pretty high, isn't it? it has not fallen substantially, so this is more based on numbers in the country today which, again, are still worryingly high, are in today? the r number, which is how many people and infected person is passing the virus onto is currently between 0.7 and 0.9. as we have spoken about a lot, it is when it goes above one it is critical and spreading so we are just below that number. this may seem a bit behind the times because we have already been having lockdown measures eased across the uk. just this week in england, nonessential stop state make shops, zoos and safari is where able to open, but they say this now has scientific backing and it could potentially impact the review of the two metre social distancing rule which is

currently being reviewed and it gives the government confidence to carry on with their planned opening of pubs and restaurants on the 4th of pubs and restaurants on the 4th ofjuly, but even though the others level has changed, we are still in a precarious situation. the chief medical officers are warning about local outbreaks and this morning we have heard about outbreaks in leicester and in yorkshire. while the number of coronavirus cases are low, they now match the levels we we re low, they now match the levels we were out in early march before lockdown was brought in, the pace that they are going down is very slow and while we eased restrictions it is important to remember that with every restriction we ease, the more risk there is of infection spreading, so as you say, we are very much on the cusp and we need to be following those guidelines. thank you. our political correspondent nick eardleyjoins me now. does it feel as other scientists have just caught up to where the politics has already moved, the politicians have pushed ahead

without complete scientific cover? it does feel a bit like that because if you cast your mind back a fortnight or so, the government was under some pressure to explain why it was planning to ease restrictions while the level was still at four. many people had expected that when you started to ease the restrictions in england, it would be because the level was down to three. it was done before that, so i suppose, in some senses, you are right, the other level is now catching up with what the government's plans are. that said, ithink the government's plans are. that said, i think ministers will be pleased with this. they think it is a sign that the plan is working and that it shows the virus is increasingly under control in the country. yes, those warnings we just heard from and are important, but ministers are hopeful that this is a sign that things are getting better. i suppose the question now is does it give the government some cover to make some further decisions? we know that the biggest decision that the prime minister has to make over the next few weeks is whether or not to

reduce the two metre social distancing rule in england. there are many in government who want to ta ke are many in government who want to take it down to one metre. boris johnson has commissions that review, but maybe the fact that this alert level is going down, the fact that the four chief medical officers seem relaxed about that might give boris johnson at bit more impetus, a bit more cover to make that decision. thank you. primary and secondary schools in england are to get a £1 billion — or around $1.25 billion — boost to help children catch up on months of lessons that were missed during lockdown. the uk government has pledged that a third of that cash will go towards a special tutoring programme for the most disadvantaged children. the rest of the money — £650 million, or or around £800 million, — will be available to schools to spend on one—to—one or group tuition for any pupils they think need it. critics say the plans lack detail and that early years providers

and colleges for over 16s have been left out. dan johnson reports. it goes tenths, hundredths and thousandths. extra maths delivered online to help kids catch up. it was already happening at this primary school but now many more pupils across england will get this one—on—one support. you don't know whether to put your hand up and say, "i know the answer," because you don't know how everyone is going to react, whereas in the tutoring, because it's one—to—one, you don't have to be, like, scared of saying what the answer is. even times like this, during the pandemic, you can still learn a lot of stuff and you won't, like, slow down in your education, you canjust keep up. so, it's helping you get better at maths? yeah. is that something you struggled with before? kind of, and you don't have to worry about other people thinking,

"why is he asking that question?" there's hundreds of millions for this sort of tutoring, targeted at those falling furthest behind. these sessions are run by a charity that uses volunteer tutors. i don't think it completely can take the place of traditional teaching but we're seeing some really promising starts from our online tutoring that we're offering already, with pupils commenting that it's helping them to re—engage with their learning, that it is replicating what they might get in the classroom and that, crucially, it's giving them that individual support and space where they can ask questions. there's a lot of catching up to do because most children still haven't made it back into school after three months of disruption now — so what about summer? will that be more time that they spend at home? and then september — what's that going to look like? how do you get more children back into these buildings? will there ever be an assembly again in a hall like this? head teachers now have money and some freedom in spending it to try to answer those questions and to work out how to get every child back up to speed.

you have to be realistic and think that they will have bigger gaps in their learning but also, how can we plug those gaps if those children, say for example, can only come back 15 at a time? i think there is a place for tutoring to help and support us. but there is detail to come about exactly who gets this, how often and for how long. this funding is for one year, it does not cover preschool or post—16 education. it has been widely welcomed but with warnings it may not be enough. dan johnson, bbc news, hackney, in east london. the australian prime minister says a major cyber attack is under way against his country, targeting government, industry and political parties. scott morrison says what he describes as "a sophisticated state—based actor" is behind the attack but didn't say which country was responsible. mr morrison told a news conference in canberra that the intrusions had been intensifying in recent months.

our sydney correspondent shymaa khalil has more. scott morrison was clear about two things in his statement. one was the scale of the attack and the fact that it targeted political, educational, economic and health organisations in australia and, too, that this was done by a state actor with significant abilities. we know it is a sophisticated, state—based cyber actor because of the scale and nature of the targeting and the tradecraft used. those who are engaged in this are not doing this to help us. that's certainly not their intention and so you could describe it as malicious. what he wasn't clear about was which country was behind those attacks and why he chose to make this announcement at this particular moment. the one word he hasn't mentioned in his statement was china and the one country he was asked about directly was china. he declined to make a comment

and he declined to make any public attribution is about who is responsible for this, but we do know that the relationship between canberra and beijing is at an all—time low, especially when australia sided with the united states asking for an independent inquiry about the origins of the coronavirus which was detected in china late last year. at the time, beijing dismissed those calls and called them politically motivated, but soon after that started imposing tariffs on australian barley and also stopped importing australian beef and then recently warned its citizens about coming to australia because of racist incidents and then we saw the prime minister himself then ratchet up his rhetoric, saying he is not going to give in to coercion by beijing. unless he comes out and says it explicitly, it's hard to know 100% whether china is behind these attacks, but what we do know is that australia and its very powerful trading partner china are at odds.

they are in a tense relationship. and we also that australia chose this particular moment to say that it's under cyber attack from a very powerful country. the us supreme court has ruled against president donald trump's bid to end a major programme that protects young immigrants from deportation. it's the second time this week that the country's highest court has ruled against the president. it comes in the same week he has faced accusations of incomptetence in a memoir due to be published by his former national security adviserjohn bolton and another row over his use of social media. david willis reports. protesters chant. it came as a ray of light to the dreamers, and a slap in the face for the president. i'm so happy. the threat of deportation lifted, for now at least. the nation's highest court rejecting the trump administration's attempt to end protections for some 700,000 young, undocumented immigrants.

i will immediately terminate president obama's illegal executive order on immigration. the decision, a major blow to a president who made immigration reform a centrepiece of his run for office, branding the supreme court's verdict horrible and politically charged. social media has also proved a battle ground for donald trump on occasions, and twitter has once again added a warning label to a presidential tweet, this time one that featured a video criticising the news media. facebook also announced it was removing trump campaign ads that featured a nazi symbol. a trump spokesman maintained the symbol was associated with a left—wing group which the president has blamed for recent anti—racist violence. coming hard on the heels of claims by the former national security advisorjohn bolton that the president is poorly informed and uses the power of office for personal and political

gain, this might be a week mr trump would rather forget. further adding to his woes, the news that one of the administration's highest—ranking african americans, state department official mary elizabeth taylor, has resigned in protest at the president's response to racial tensions here. and the week isn't over yet. david willis, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news: the uk's covid alert level is being reduced from four to three according to the chief medical officers for england, scotland, wales and northern ireland. a billion pounds for primary and secondary schools in england to help children who've fallen behind because of the coronavirus crisis. businesses and government deparments in australia are being hit by what the country's prime minister calls a "sophisticated, state—based" cyber attack people of south asian heritage are more likely to die from coronavirus

after being admitted to hospital in the uk, according to a major new study. data from 260 hospitals across england, wales and scotland showed that patients with south asian backgrounds were 20% more likely to die than white patients. the research suggests that high levels of diabetes are partly to blame. professor ewen harrison is from the university of edinburgh and led the study. professor, thank you forjoining us. how big is this difference and how many people did you study? thank you. this is a study which is being considered for publication at the moment, so this is a preprint. it looked at 30,000 patients, four out of ten patients within england, wales and scotland admitted to hospital with coronavirus and we saw a clear 20% increase in the risk of death in those from a south asian

population. what can you put this down to and how big a role does diabetes play? the groups look very different. the south asian group are younger and are less likely to have pre—existing conditions like lung disease, obesity or dementia, but much more likely to be diabetic. in fa ct, much more likely to be diabetic. in fact, of south asian people in hospital with coronavirus, four out of ten of them have diabetes. and how much of this gap between south asians and the rest of the population is explained by diabetes? diabetes explains about one fifth of the increase of risk of death in that group which means 80% of that effect has not been characterised by the study. is there any information that you can share with what's that extra risk is for the 80%? we have heard a lot about everything about other co—morbidity risks, poverty,

the way people live to vitamin d. the big things will be occupation, deprivation and any potential biological differences, so potential differences in genetics explaining how likely someone is to get coronavirus or to become unwell with it. what do we know about that genetic risk and the different genetic risk and the different genetic risks? so, this study has not captured that. there are a number of studies going on at the moment and our own study is capturing blood and other material from patients and looking very carefully at genetic differences, but it may be that occupational risk, we know that those from south asian groups work very hard in front line, particularly in social care and in the health service, and that increases exposure to the virus and

may increase the viral load, the amount of virus that someone is exposed to. so you have not been able to control for the other potential risk factors and then work out whether there is some unexplained extra risk factor? so, we controlled for differences in age, engender to exist certain extent and deprivation and social economic status and individual condition such as diabetes, but there still is unexplained increase in the risk of death in the south asian group. just finally, what about the vitamin d question which i know, again, people are still working on and what does this mean for the way that all of us go to work and the way that people are treated and vaccines if and when they come out? so vitamin d and a number of other questions are being looked at by studies at the moment and our study did not look at that, but there are important

applications, as you suggest, for policy. asians and other ethnic minorities are in occupations which are at greater risks. we do need to think about how we deal with ethnicity and pre—existing conditions such as diabetes as we lockdown and potentially if other preventative treatments such as vaccination are available in the future, how those are used. many thanks indeed for your time today. there's been a significant increase in child sexual abuse and exploitation on the internet and the dark web during the covid—19 lockdowns. the eu's law enforcement agency, europol, has seen a shift from physical abuse to online abuse due to travel restrictions as well as a rise in the number of people sharing abusive material. cathal delaney is from europol‘s european cybercrime centre. thank you forjoining us. can you just tell us what exactly has been found here? so what we have seen in

the report is that we have seen an increase, as you said, in the activity on the internet and on the dark web from offenders who are increasing the amount of material thatis increasing the amount of material that is in circulation, that they are communicating more with one another, that they are exchanging this material between themselves and that they are increasing the exposure of children who were vulnerable during this time to being offended against anti—being exploited and abused. and in terms of what is being done about this, either measures being taken? there are. the police forces throughout europe, law—enforcement agencies have been very active during this period. they have continued with the work they are doing in targeting offenders and also euro poll has been working on producing preventative and educational material, preventative campaign such as the amber alert and using

existing material be already have such as this in all campaign to ensure that the message is getting out there to parents and two children about how they can prevent them from being in difficulties and exploited by adults in these situations. there has been a lot of concern about abuse in general, the fa ct concern about abuse in general, the fact that people are locked in families without access to help if they needed from schools and from other outside agencies and that has been very difficult, i ashamed, in terms of trying to safeguard children across the world. it is difficult. we anticipated from the beginning that this situation would lead to children being in more vulnerable positions, that they were isolated from their peers and from some of the regular people they would go to for support. there are adults in their lives, parents who could be distracted by various different stresses including having to work from home and children

spending more time online for educational purposes and other reasons as well, so there are a number of factors there that were going to feed into those children being more vulnerable to being approached by offenders and possibly groomed so that they would either create material of themselves or that they would then be encouraged to meet with the offender after the lockdown had ended. 0k, thank you very much. four months ago, the northern italian region of lombardy became the global epicentre of coronavirus as it saw the first major outbreak in europe. it's four months since lombardy became the wuhan of the west, its sufferings seared into memory. the virus throttled, taking hold in europe and exporting cases around the world. let's get the very latest on the situation in northern italy. our correspondent mark lowen is i've reported on the story from the start. now, i'm back to report on those who want answers. in bergamo, 6,000 people

died in march alone — thought to be the highest rate of excess deaths in the world. ines and her husband were married for 53 years — he spent his last months in hospital. we are facing a war now here. as the outbreak erupted and our coverage took us across italy, i spoke to a doctor whose hospital was overwhelmed. stefano, hi, mark from the bbc. very nice to see you again. we were late in finding the virus. we were told that we had to search for a link with china but we were not able to see patients with that kind of symptoms that were coming from china. we lost time in closing the area. so, the lockdown came late. politicians passed the buck over closing italy's second richest city,

under pressure from business groups. delayed lockdown, as other countries have seen, cost dearly. as did the decision to move some of the sick to care homes. half of the 140 patients in this one died. when angela olivella's mother developed a fever, she wasn't tested — she died a week later. we spoke to one worker who wanted her identity hidden. translation: i had my first symptoms after helping a patient who was positive. the head of the care home wing said i should go home, but the director said no, because my fever wasn't 37.7 degrees as the rules said. three to four days went by. while i was infected,

i must have infected other people. if they had managed this well, everyone should still be alive. the care home declined an interview but in a statement told us the claims were false and they'd followed health protocols. at the heart of europe, and with italy's largest elderly population, lombardy was an easy target. key errors means it's still the infection hub. this is the legacy of lombardy‘s emergency. the daily presence of the ambulances, the need for complete protection, the full mobilisation of resources to prevent another spike of the virus. the crisis may no longer be at its height but it still lingers on, ready to bounce back. italy was used as a model of how to respond to the virus. now it's a mirror of the mistakes that so many others, too, have made. mark lowen, bbc news lombardy. now it's time for a look

at the weather with matt taylor. we say goodbye to viewers on bbc world news. there will be sunshine breaking through the clouds for some of you this afternoon, especially in areas such as here in devon where we started the day with rain but we finished west today with. wet weather across southern parts including wales is on the shift northwards. a damp start to the afternoon to the midlands and north wales, rain breaking out across parts of northern england, northern ireland and southern scotland again later. the far north of scotland will see brighter spells at times after showers around this morning, but well broken cloud and the shower across southern counties of england and wales. an improvement on earlier, quite pleasant weather sun is out, but showers northwards, we could see thunderstorms extending into northern ireland and southern scotla nd into northern ireland and southern scotland by mid—afternoon, brighter spells to central scotland but a bit more cloud across northern scotland

with a few spots of rain and drizzle, so much cooler than it was here yesterday. this evening and overnight, thunderstorms for a time, southern and western parts of scotland, gradually easing and most of tonight will become dry. clear skies, mist and fog patches, reasonably mild and muggy night again with temperatures in double figures as we start the weekend. i change this weekend with low pressure out towards the west of us bringing weather fronts to saturday night into sunday, rain for all but also introducing leslie midair, pressure conditions through the weekend as the breeze starts to pick up. let's put some details on that, here is saturday, a sunny day for the majority. showers in wales and the majority. showers in wales and the south—west, drifting through the midlands in the middle part of the day towards the north—east of england and lincolnshire through the afternoon, showers across the north and east of scotland, but more sunny spells for the vast majority, predominantly dry and temperatures into the 20s to fill in very pleasant. strong gusty wind and

threw saturday night, that wet, windy weather spreads across all parts. lingering for the early risers on sunday in the north and east of the country but clearing through with the sunshine coming out, a scattering of showers across scotla nd out, a scattering of showers across scotland and northern ireland, heavy and thundery. a blustery day on sunday but feeling fresher with temperatures mostly sitting in the teens. after the brief dip in temperature, as we go into next week, warwick will be pushing up all the way from iberia with temperatures close to 40 degrees on the spain portugal border with the south and east of the country may be hitting 30. more on that later.

hello, this is bbc news with geeta guru—murthy. the headlines: the uk's coronavirus alert level is downgraded from four to three — the health secretary says it's a "big moment". a billion pounds for primary and secondary schools in england to help children who've fallen behind because of the

coronavirus crisis. businesses and government deparments in australia are hit by what its prime minister calls a "sophisticated, state—based" cyber attack. uk government borrowing hits a record monthly high of £55 billion pounds in may, as the coronavirus continued to press heavily on the public finances. let's get more on government borrowing in the uk, which has risen to a record high because of the lockdown. in may, the government borrowed an estimated £55 billion, that's nine times more than the same month last year. and government debt stands at £1.95 trillion — meaning that for the first time since 1963, public sector debt has exceeded economic output. our economics correspondent, andy verity explained how much of a surprise these figures are. knowing what we know about what the government has had to do since the pandemic struck,

it is not a surprise that we have record borrowing. it's, in a way, not a surprise that in may, we borrowed nine times what was borrowed in may last year because tax revenues have dropped massively. that's what the government wanted to happen. the government effectively instructed this recession when it instructed a shutdown, an economic lockdown, we know why it did it — to save lives — but the consequence, which it was fully aware of when the shutdown was ordered, is that we are now in the biggest recession in a very long time. that figure about 1963 is interesting because, of course, in 1963, although the economy was picking up, there was still this great overhang of wartime debt. forget any talk about the immediate policy goal being, as it has been for chancellors for the last 15 years, being to get the budget back into surplus. it is not going to happen for years. it is probably not going to happen for decades. and the thing about it is that a lot of what we have been told for the last ten years, that that really matters, that that should be the central economic policy goal, a lot of economists

are saying now, why? interest rates are manageable, they are super low and also, the institutions that lend governments money, well, they are keen to have a safe investment like lending to a government. so there is no problem, when the government goes out there and borrows £104 billion in two months, more than it ever has in the same timeframe before. in fact, more than the government borrowed in the whole of the post—financial crisis period, over ten months they borrowed less i'm sorry we're going to cut out of that and take you where to wales in a moment. viewers in scotland can watch nicola sturgeon's daily coronavirus update on bbc one in scotland or on the bbc scotland channel. meanwhile let's go now to cardiff where wales' first minister is giving an update on the lifting of coronavirus restrictions there. before i set out to the package of changes to the welsh regulations, changes to the welsh regulations, changes which will come into force from monday, i want to explain where we are with the virus now in wales. the r rate continues to be below

one. and as you can see on the slide, the number of new confirmed cases has fallen steadily since the peak in april. it's been below 100 every day throughout june peak in april. it's been below 100 every day throughoutjune and that's despite more tests being carried out. the number of people admitted to hospital with coronavirus continues to fall. the number of deaths reported every day has been at the lowest point since lockdown began. but as i say, every time we look at statistics, behind every figure, there is a person. behind every person, there is a family. and each one of those deaths is a tragedy for those caught up in it. our contact tracing system is available throughout wales and working well. it gives us confidence that we can identify and respond to any local outbreaks are whenever they occur. and we have some

headroom to making a package of changes to the regulations in wales which will come into force over the next three weeks. the world health organization and the scientific advisory group for emergencies, sage, recommends we make changes to the restrictions and a step—by—step way. and that is what we are doing here in wales. a gradual, orderly, and careful process of lifting restrictions when it is safe to do so. and within the current headroom we have, we can accelerate that process a little, introducing one a significant change on each monday over the next three weeks. on monday the 22nd ofjune, next monday, we will introduce changes to restart our economy. all nonessential retail will be able to reopen, provided they can comply with the physical distance and duty. and i really want

to thank all of those in the sector who i now have worked hard over the last three weeks to prepare for next monday's reopening. and on monday, we will begin to reopen the housing market in males, viewings will be able to take place in vacant properties —— in wales. and sales that have been postponed will be completed. on monday, there will be some other changes too. restrictions ona some other changes too. restrictions on a wide range of outdoor activities will be lifted, enabling outdoor markets and sports courts to open, but not for contact or team sports, as yet. places of worship will be able to reopen for private prayer. childcare facilities will be open on a phased basis to support people to return to work. and at the full package of measures, with more detail than i can provide orderly, is available on our website. on the second week, on the 29th ofjune, pupils will be able to return to

school, so that they can check—in, catch up and prepare for the summer and september. on the third monday of this three—week cycle, on the 6th of this three—week cycle, on the 6th ofjuly, we will lift the requirement to stay local, provided that the evidence at the time continues to support this. this means that we are asking people in wales to stay local, keep will save for two more weeks. the reason we are doing that is simple — coronavirus is not over. every day, people are being infected and we have seen an outbreak linked to food production in anglesey this week is just one example, and very sadly, as i have said, people are still dying every day. two more weeks of staying local will help us all stay on the pa rt local will help us all stay on the

part we have created together. careful and cautious, but still gaining ground and building on what we have all achieved. but we will make one significant change immediately. to make it clear that people can travel beyond their local area where there are compassionate reasons for doing so. guidance will be published to help people to make those decisions. ta ken be published to help people to make those decisions. taken together, all these measures amount to a substantial easing of the restrictions. and mean that many more aspects of daily life in wales are moving into the amber zone of our traffic light system. we will only be able to maintain this, however, and to do more in future if we all go on observing the five golden rules that we have lived with now for many weeks. working from

home whenever possible, avoiding unnecessary travel, meeting only one other household at a time, outdoors, maintaining a social distance, washing our hands often. if all of this happens, if we stick to these rules, we can look beyond the current three—week cycle. three weeks ago, we asked nonessential retail to prepare for reopening. today, the same message can be sent to our tourism and visitor sectors. sectors that are so important to our economy and to our national and international reputation. if cases of the virus continue to come under control, and we can lift the stay local requirement on the 6th of july, people will be able to travel again to tourist attractions throughout wales. attractions, national parks and local authorities

will need to use at the next fortnight to plan to welcome visitors again from the 6th ofjuly ina visitors again from the 6th ofjuly in a safe manner. i know that the wider tourism industry is keen to reopen and to salvage some of this summer's season. owners of self—contained accommodation should therefore use the next three weeks to prepare to reopen. working with their local communities. any accommodation that is entirely self—contained, with its own kitchen and bathroom, which no other guests use fall into this category. that includes hotels and b&bs with ensuite rooms, which provide room service meals and caravan parks where accommodation is entirely self—contained. businesses can take bookings for the week beginning the 13th ofjuly, bookings for the week beginning the 13th of july, but bookings for the week beginning the 13th ofjuly, but this will have to be at their own risk. finally,

hairdressers should use the next three weeks to make preparations to resume services by appointment only with all the necessary safeguards in place. we will use the next three weeks to talk to those other sectors in our economy, talking with them about how we can lift the lockdown safely in their sectors too. when the conditions are right to do so. together, over the last three months, we have made an enormous effort to reduce the spread of coronavirus across wales. we are now making concerted steps tourism something approaching a new normal, while living alongside coronavirus. let me enticing, again, this public health crisis is not yet over. —— end by saying. through all our

efforts, we have succeeded in bringing the fire of coronavirus under control, but that fire is not yet out. we all need to continue to play our part, to protect ourselves, ourfamilies play our part, to protect ourselves, our families and play our part, to protect ourselves, ourfamilies and our play our part, to protect ourselves, our families and our communities. please continue to stay local, and to keep wales say. happy now to take some questions. going first this afternoon to fill 70 evans —— villa stefa n eva ns afternoon to fill 70 evans —— villa stefan evans at bbc wales. please could you answer this question in english and in welsh. on the maintenance of the stay local provision for at least another two weeks, this is not particularly helpful for retailers her out of town. in fact, the ceo of sofa sofa has called it a toothless decision to say that people can start

visiting nonessential retailers if you're also going to keep stay local, given that the covered alert level has been reduced for the uk as a whole, why not get laid of the stay local now? —— alert level. it remains part of our armoury here in wales. we are keen to bring it to an end in two weeks' time, but once we bring it to an end, people in wales will be able to travel whenever they like right across wales. that will mean that communities who have seen very few visitors will have to be prepared to welcome visitors again. to do that safely, without creating a different sort of public health difficulty, we need to give those authorities time to make those preparations. simple things like public toilets will need to be reopened in our visitor economy. car parks will need to be reopened. our national parks need time to prepare. our local authorities any time to prepare. our visitor attractions

will need to reopen in ways where they are confident and the people who desert them are confident that all the measures are in place to safeguard —— who visit them, the health and well—being of the staff and customers. that will take a short period of time, two more weeks also in the meantime, nonessential retail will be able to open and for many, retail will be able to open and for any retail will be able to open and for many, many nonessential retail outlets, there is an ample population within the two mile radius already. our expectation from the sector is that they will build up the sector is that they will build up the reopening of the sector over the next two — three weeks. this is a powerful set of measures and a powerful set of signals. they stay local message remains important here in wales. coronavirus is not over, as we are learning today from outbreaks in north wales. two more weeks, won a last lap, we can do this together and then provided

everything remains as we hope it will, we will be able to make that pa rt will, we will be able to make that part of the coronavirus crisis something behind us. speaks welsh. repeating in welsh this is the welsh first minister mark drakeford this is the welsh first minister mark dra keford obviously this is the welsh first minister mark drakeford obviously explaining in welsh what he has been saying in english that there is going to be a three—week easing of restrictions

there by the 6th ofjuly they are going to be lifting the requirement for local restrictions for people to still stay local, but they are wanting everyone in wales to still stay local for another two weeks whilst leisure facilities, businesses and schools and so on fully prepared. they are actually going to allow schools to open, i think, onjohn the 29th, so he has announced a three—week cycle of gradual opening up —— june at the 29. he is one everyone, of course, still to be careful because he is saying that we have got to live alongside this coronavirus question, but they are moving. it is quite a change. which will be keen now that you are sitting on the gas, as it were, in terms of opening up —— trace and protect. the speed of this and the target has as many as possible process within 24 hours, yet according to the figures

published by public health wales, the performance on that is the worst it has ever been. for population testing units, fewer than half of results are coming back within 24 hours. and there has been a week on week decline every single week since the 26th of april. do you accept that it the 26th of april. do you accept thatitis the 26th of april. do you accept that it is an adequate? we definitely accept that we need to do more and to do better. actually, the system is still managing to process nine out of ten test within 48 hours, despite the fact that many more tests are being done every week. to sustain that performance, when you have got more and more to do, is by itself, i think, commendable and you can be sure that the people who work in our system are working as hard as they can to turn the test results around as fast as they can. we have a series of measures that we want to take now to improve the speed or the turnaround

of test because it is very important as part of the test, trace, protect system. i feel that will be confident to leading to improvement any turnaround times, even while we one extending the number of tests, making more available, doing more to make sure that, if there are local outbreaks of the disease, we are on top of it quickly and we can help people to put that right. thank you, phyllis day. going to adrian masters at itv wales. —— thank you felicity. i would like some clarity on the five marrows also i think you alluded to this in answer to felicity. could you be explicit? —— a five mile role. can you only go to shops within five miles of your home and related to that, can you be fined if you breach any five mile road questioning at the moment, the stay role, the stay local rule is enforceable by fines, but with just

two we e ks enforceable by fines, but with just two weeks ago and with a number of exemptions that you have mentioned, can you still be fined for breaching it? so the five miles is advice and not a rule. the role is to stay local. and people have to interpret that rule in their own circumstances and the very different geographies of wales. that remains a rule, and regulations that people must stay local for the next two weeks. there is an exemption that we are highlighting today that if you need to make a visit, for compassionate reasons, beyond your locality, that thatis reasons, beyond your locality, that that is allowable in wales for the next bye weeks and hopefully, on the 6th ofjuly into panic weeks' time, we will be able to lift this role altogether. —— in two weeks' time. fiennes, of course, do remain in place because they are regulations in wales. —— finds. the fibre

distance is a rule of thumb, it is not in the regulations and guidance of for people to get a sense of what singh local might mean. thank you, and you have given some indication —— staying and you have given some indication — — staying local and you have given some indication —— staying local might mean. you have given some indication to the tourism industry of when it may be open, but not the hospitality industry. it seems there is not much point going to stay in accommodation somewhere if the pubs and restaurant in that area are not open. and people within the sector saying that, as a result of lack of clarity from you on this day, that thousands ofjobs are now hanging by their fingertips. what can you say to them? well, first of all, i do not think, myself at all, that there are not very many good reasons for visiting the tourism economy in wales for all the things that has had to offer beyond hospitality. it

is important to say again to people that there is only so much headroom we have at any one of these three—week reviews. if we do more than we have announced today, the risk that the virus would spread in wales again would be significant. and that is why we have gone to the maximum of our capacity and that does not include being able to say to hospitality that we are yet any position where it can plan to reopen. we will use the three weeks to talk carefully with the hospitality industry to see what prospects there may be beyond this three—week review. but we have used every bit of headroom we have two left has many restrictions as we can to give as many messages as we can to give as many messages as we can to those part of our economy that can to those part of our economy that ca n safely to those part of our economy that can safely be open in the next three weeks and to plan to do that beyond. hospitality is not in that position yet, we will use the time to talk carefully with that industry and when it is safe to do so, but not

before, we will have plans to reopen that part of our economy as well. adrian, thank you. over to mark hutchins at five live. i believe i am right in saying that wales is now the only part of the uk where people living alone cannot bubble up with another household indoors. and yet, they will be able to take their chances with a in a queue in the shopping centre, so when will that change? those are two risks will be very, very different from another. we looked quite carefully to see whether we could make a decision about extended household arrangements as part of this review. as you will have seen, there is a very comprehensive set of decisions and changes that we are introducing as from monday. and we came to the conclusion that about the middle of last week that it simply was not possible to make a decision on extended households in the way that

we wa nted extended households in the way that we wanted to do it in wales. in a way where we have all of the information, all of the advice and to do it in an orderly way. it simply was not possible to do that alongside everything else that i have announced today. but next week, we will be giving to get that advice, our minds will turn to that issue. we do not have to wait for three weeks to make a change. we can make a change at any point in the three cycle if we are in a position to do so. and there are a number of issues which we are going to concentrate on from the start of next week and bubbling, extended households, that will be one of them. so to clarify, what you're saying there is that within three weeks, you could have something of an answerto weeks, you could have something of an answer to bubbling up and a numberof an answer to bubbling up and a number of people have asked me about what you mean by compassionate grounds for travelling more than five miles? can you give us more clarity about that and does that mean you can meet someone indoors, or only outdoors? thank you. just to

be clear, we do not have to wait for three weeks to make a decision. if we are able to make a decision on extended households before three weeks is up, we will make that decision and announce it. on the compassionate point, well, again, as we move into the new world, where there are fewer restrictions, we will have to rely more and more on people making sensible decisions for themselves, but let me give you an example of what we mean and it is a live example from the postbag that i get. if someone writes to me and says, i have a relative that lives beyond my local area. they do not need food because they neighbourhood shops for them, they do not heed medicines because the pharmacy delivers it to them, but they have not seen anybody from their family for nearly three months and that is having a really poor impact on their welfare and well—being. you will now

be able to make a visit to that person. that is a compassionate reason for doing so. we will provide further guidance and people will have to come to judgments of their own. when you make that visit, it should be outside. it should be at a two metre distance. you should observe all of the rules that we have already set out. but for compassionate reasons, if you have someone who is in that position, whose well—being are suffering because of the impact of coronavirus and you need to make a visit to them, you will be able to do that from monday onwards. mark, thank you. i will go to andy davies. just listening to your comments about the hospitality sector there, there are pubs, restaurants, cafe is all over wales desperate to know what it means for them. they said, i think you said just now that discussions are going to take place, but why have those discussions not been

taking place over the last few weeks? and is it not fair to those in other businesses in wales now to give them a clear indicative timetable of best case scenarios, worst scenarios, in order for them to plan financially for the next six months? andy, coronavirus in wales is not over. coronavirus is still there in every part of wales. saying you must give people certainty in an inherently uncertain world, when i do not know and you do not know, and that sector does not know, what coronavirus will be doing in six weeks, let alone six months, that would be a very full certainty indeed. of course, we have had discussions with the sector over recent weeks and our conclusion is that we cannot include them within the package of measures that we have set out for the next three weeks and for the three weeks beyond. we will continue to discuss with them. if,

for example, it is possible to reopen some parts of that industry and the outdoors, it may be possible to do that before we... mark dra keford they‘ re announcing to do that before we... mark drakeford they're announcing that the weak opening up of lockdown in wales. i want to bring some breaking news is out. so simon mcdonald, the permanent secretary at the foreign office, has said that he will stand out in september after five years at thejob. this is at out in september after five years at the job. this is at the out in september after five years at thejob. this is at the request out in september after five years at the job. this is at the request of the job. this is at the request of the prime minister, who want some are new to head up the foreign and commonwealth and develop an office, they have merged, of course, the foreign office and at the department for international development, a controversial development in some quarters. that statement coming out confirming that change. this is bbc news. let's catch up with the weather. matt taylor has the weather and jane hill is here for the bbc news at one ina minute. hello. there'll be sunshine breaking through the clouds for some of you this afternoon, especially in areas such as here in devon,

where we started the day with rain that we finished yesterday with. that wet weather across some southern parts, including wales, is on the shift northwards. a damp start to the afternoon through the midlands, north wales. rain breaking out across parts of northern england, northern ireland and southern scotland again later. the far north and central scotland will see something a bit brighter at times after a few showers around this morning. but some well—broken cloud and just the odd shower across southern counties of england and wales, a bit of an improvement on earlier. still feeling quite humid when that sun comes out, too. but with the showers anywhere from the midlands and north wales northwards, we could see some thunderstorms, extended into northern ireland and southern scotland by mid afternoon. a brighter spell through central scotland, although there will still be a bit more cloud across northern scotland with a few spots of rain and drizzle, so much cooler than it was here yesterday. but through this evening and overnight, thunderstorms for a time in southern and western parts of scotland. they will gradually ease and most of tonight will become dry, partly clear skies, a few mist and fog patches, and a reasonably mild and, for some, muggy night again. temperatures in double figures as we start the weekend. signs of a change, though, this weekend. a big pattern shows low pressure out towards the north—west of us,

throwing these weather fronts through during saturday night into sunday, bringing rain for a time for all, but also introducing less humid air. fresher conditions developing through the weekend as the breeze starts to pick up. let's put some details on that, then. here's saturday, a sunny day for the vast majority. we will see some showers for wales, the south—west in the morning, drift through the midlands the middle part of the day towards the north—east of england and lincolnshire through the afternoon. a few showers across the north and east of scotland, but some warm, sunny spells for the vast majority, and most will stay predominantly dry, with temperatures widely into the 20s, so feeling very pleasant in the sunshine. we'll finish the day, though, with rain across northern ireland, strong and gusty winds. and through saturday night, that wet, windy weather spreads across all parts, lingering for the early risers on sunday in the north and east of the country, but then clearing through, sunshine comes out. a scattering of showers, and across scotland and northern ireland, they will be heavy and thundery. quite a blustery day on sunday, so it will feel fresher with temperatures, for most of you, sitting in the teens. but after that brief dip in temperature, as we go into next week, warmth will be pushing up all the way from iberia. temperatures close to 40 degrees on the spain and portugal border.

to the south and east of the country, we could hit around 30. we'll have more on that later.

£1 billion for schools in england to help pupils who've missed out on months of education during lockdown. some of the money is earmarked for tuition for disadvantaged children. the money will start to be paid in the academic year, starting in september. so, but, schools there will know it's coming and they will be able to budget on that basis, if they want to do things before september. critics say the plans lack detail. we'll get the latest. also this lunchtime... the uk's coronavirus alert level is reduced from 4 to 3. the prime minister says it's a big moment for the country.

government borrowing hits a record high because of the pandemic.