notice some thunderstorms there towards the north—west — we'll see more of those a little later — but generally, not much happens on that chart through thursday. that's because basically it's a day of blue skies and sunshine, and up go those temperatures. 30 degrees possible in central scotland, mid—20s for northern ireland, this is bbc news — and as i said, possibly 33 welcome if you're watching here in the uk, on pbs somewhere further south. however, when it gets that in america or around the globe. hot, you know what's i'm mike embley. coming — thunderstorms. thursday evening, pretty quiet, our top stories: very muggy, a lot of late sunshine, but then on into imposing new restrictions — the small hours of friday, new york and two other states the thunderstorm start to break clamp down on travellers out, initially towards the west from the us where infection of the uk. rates are surging. takes while for them to ease the heat. thursday into friday, rather uncomfortable, inside the race for a vaccine — spots down no lower than 18 or 19. we are with the team through friday daytime, though, those storms are going to come increasingly widespread. at imperial college, london, using a revolutionary new approach to combat some eastern areas covid—i9. it means that we can make see a lot of sunshine, the equivalent of 2 million very muggy here, whereas doses in the volume of a litre. when the showers start to break out, we feel heat beginning to ease. imagine a litre bottle a west—east split in our of lemonade, that would have 2 temperatures on friday. cooler, fresher with million doses in it. temperatures in the low—20s in the west, possibly three suspects arrested up to 30 in the east. after the killing of black friday and on into the weekend, jogger ahmaud arbery low pressure really does start to take hold are indicted on murder charges. from the atlantic. it moves away the high that's locked in, though hot air, in moscow, a show of military as it moves, it brings power on victory day, in clear atlantic air.

with president putin gone the amber, in comes about to ask the nation the fresher yellow. for a further term in office. ffresher conditions, though, but much more unsettled conditions thanks to that low pressure. you can see spots a 10—degree drop in temperature at the start of the weekend, also going to see quite a few showers i think. hello to you. new york and the neighbouring states of new jersey and connecticut are introducing a 14—day quarantine period for visitors from nine other us states with high rates of coronavirus infection. across the us, there have been more than 2.3 million cases since the start of the pandemic — the highest figures for any nation. in the past 2a hours — more than 36,000 new infections were reported by the national health department — the biggest single, daily figure of the pandemic. three states — california, texas and florida — have reported record highs of coronavirus cases — with all three reporting more than 5,000 new cases apiece.

depite the fresh surge, president trump's administration has annouced plans to cut federal funding for covid—i9 testing sites, in five states — colorado, texas, illinois, pennsylvania and new jersey. 0ur north america editor jon sopel has more. there are now 26 states in america where they have seen more covid cases this week than they did last week. a handful of the biggest states — florida, texas, california, arizona — are seeing massive spikes with thousands of new cases being reported each day. this is bbc news. the headlines: scientists at imperial college in london have begun human trials for a vaccine against a hospital in houston, the coronavirus. they've got 97% occupancy of intensive care beds. they're using an approach that's now, donald trump says this never been tried before. is all because of if it works, a vaccine could be increased testing. his public health experts say cheaper and easier to manufacture it's far more serious in mass quantities. than that. and if you compare the us there are more than a dozen trials underway around the world. to the european union, the difference is really stark. it's something like per 100,000 new york and the neighbouring states of population, six or seven of newjersey and connecticut times worse in america than europe, and that's leading are introducing a 14—day quarantine the eu to consider introducing for visitors from nine other american states a travel ban on passengers with high rates of infection. coming from america into europe, and that would be

a damning verdict on new cases of covid—19 in the us have donald trump's handling of coronavirus. risen to their highest level since april. a grand jury in georgia has indicted three men in the killing it would also be a very of ahmaud arbery, the unarmed black bold move by the eu, man who was shot and killed because it's bound to infuriate the president. in february this is much more thanjust while he was out for a jog. the accused men — one a retired police officer — a simple public health issue. were arrested nearly three months later, after video a little earlier i spoke of the killing went viral. to dr peter hotez, who's dean they face nine counts, of the national school of tropical medicine including murder. at the baylor college of medicine. i asked him how he characterised the current situation facing the us. what we are seeing now is a very steep acceleration in the number of covid—i9 cases across many parts of the southern united states. as you mentioned, florida, california, but also texas, oklahoma, arizona, nevada, and here in texas, things are looking quite dire. we're in houston, the home of the texas medical centre, the world's largest medical centre,

it's a medical city of 100,000 employees, 60 institutions, everything big here in texas, and we are unfortunately seeing this big acceleration, this exponential rise, almost vertical rise with now 1,000 cases a day in houston with projections of 4,000 cases per day by the july 4 weekend, and it's notjust cases, it's numbers mounting in terms of hospitalisations and intensive care admissions. and, finally, we think a lot of that is among the low—income neighbourhoods, so african—americans, hispanic, latinx, minority populations. so, in my opinion, it's a humanitarian tragedy that's starting to unfold and i've been pushing very hard for us to be more aggressive in beginning to dial things back and close things back down. doctor, what is this acceleration, this tragedy in these particular states, as you call it, tell it about how the pandemic has been handled until now? we all know the story about new york.

the virus probably entered in the new york area from europe in the middle of february and went undetected for quite awhile, and that led to probably the worst part of the epidemic so far in new york city and the surrounding states. we then implemented lockdowns in a number of states, including texas, and did quite well with it for a while, but then we lifted those bans prematurely ahead of the time when our epidemiological modellers said it was safe to do so, so we are paying the consequences of that right now. is this spike just because of increased testing, as president trump says? no, absolutely not, because it's paralleled with a spike in hospitalisations and intensive care unit admissions. you mentioned we are about to be overwhelmed in our icus. i think we have a little bit more room because we are now opening up some of our speciality hospitals to adult patients, so our mdms

and cancers centre, opening up to covid patients, and the texas children's hospital to accommodate covid—19 patients, so we still have a bit of wriggle room for that, but who wants to get there? we need to do is halt community transmissions now. there are many vaccines being trialled around the world — all with hopes of ending the pandemic. producing a vaccine is a slow, complicated and secretive process. the bbc‘s medical correspondent fergus walsh has had exclusive access to the first human trials of a vaccine being developed by imperial college in london — they're using an approach that's never been tried before. coronavirus has transformed all our lives, and although restrictions are easing, there's only one certain way out of the pandemic, one way to protect us all from the virus, to return society to normal, and that's a vaccine. never has science responded so fast

to a global health threat. what usually takes years has been done in months. there are now more than 120 coronavirus vaccines in early development. 13 have begun human trials — five in china, three in the united states, two in the uk and one each in australia, germany and russia. we'll need several to work if there's to be enough doses to protect 7 billion people on the planet. after oxford university, now, imperial college london is the latest to begin trials. kathy, who's 39, is one of 300 volunteers who will receive the imperial vaccine. she'll get a second booster dose in four weeks. why did you volunteer? i think it came from not really knowing what i could do to help, and this turned out to be something that i could do, and understanding that it's not likely that things will get back to normal until there is a vaccine, so wanting to be part of that progress as well.

if the safety trial goes well, a further 6,000 volunteers will be immunised in the autumn. trials might also need to happen overseas, in virus hot spots, because that's the only way researchers will know for sure if it offers protection. i wouldn't be working on this trial if i didn't feel cautiously optimistic that we will see great immune responses in our participants, but there's still a long way to go to evaluate this vaccine. this is a really unusual vaccine. the synthetic genetic code it contains should instruct muscle cells to produce the spike protein found on the surface of coronavirus. that should prompt the creation of antibodies, and that army of antibodies should remain on guard in case of future exposure to coronavirus, and if it works, prevent infection. because it's all created artificially, with no need to grow any virus,

the vaccine could be manufactured on a huge and concentrated scale. it means that we can make the equivalent of 2 million doses in the volume of a litre. so, if you imagine a litre bottle of lemonade — that would have 2 million doses in it. so, when you want to start making vaccines for the world if this is successful — and that's still a big if — it makes it so much more tractable because you don't have to build a factory the size of several warehouses. imperial college say they could have enough doses ready to immunise a0 million people in the uk by next summer, but trials must first show the vaccine is safe and effective. fergus walsh, bbc news. earlier doctor larisa la bzin from institute for molecular bioscience at the university of queensland told me the speed the vaccines are being developed is unprecedented.

we have never seen this before and hopefully we won't have to see it again. it is really inspiring to see how quickly we're moving. does it have lessons for the search for other vaccines? the fact that it can be done at this kind of speed. absolutely, and the other exciting thing is that the vaccines being tested against this virus are untested platforms. you just mentioned the imperial college vaccine. that has not successfully been used as a vaccine before. if it works on this virus, it can be used for other vaccines and viruses. we will see a lot of new technology against a lot of other diseases just because of what we will learn out of this epidemic. are there risks and dangers in this kind of speed? absolutely. i think we are all aware of that. the last thing we want

is for the vaccine to make illness worse. the first clinical studies under way at this stage, it is basically to test the safety of getting the vaccine. and some of those trials have started already and are underway. and that is with the imperial couege and that is with the imperial college when that has just started. the phase one study. the next step is to see if the vaccine actually works and whether it protects people getting sick with the disease, whether it prevents people from getting sick with the disease and whether it protects people from getting more sick with the disease. we won't know until the trials have started. how long the protection will last and how the protection actually works. we don't know much about the coronavirus still and we will learn a lot from these vaccine trials. what is your best bet on when a vaccine might actually be available? that's the toughest question. we are hoping within the next

12 months, but again, how long it will take before there's doses of that vaccine is hard to say. it is really promising, some of the vaccines are already in phase two and phase three clinical trials. it means we will see if people have been given a vaccine actually don't get sick. that is the key thing we need to know. let's get some of the day's other coronavirus news: the international monetary fund has said the pandemic is damaging the world economy even more than it previously forecast. the imf now predicts global output this year will shrink by nearly 5% and wipe $12 trillion off global output over two years. china is the only large economy forecast to grow at all this year, byjust1%. the australian airline qantas is to cut 6,000 jobs as a result of the pandemic. it says another 15,000 employees will remain stood down until it resumes international flights.

and its ceo has said its airbus a380 aircraft won't be used for the next three years. only 68 people in france have used the government's new coronavirus contact—tracing app to record an infection — even though it was launched more than three weeks ago. the stopcovid app has alerted just 1a people that they've been in close contact with an infected person. scientists are predicting that the death toll from coronavirus in latin america is expected to soar by october with brazil and mexico being the worst affected. the leaders of both countries have been criticised for not taking the virus seriously enough and pushing for a reopening of their economies before the virus has been tamed. and wednesday's earthquake in southern mexico has hampered treatment of people with covid—19. aru na iyengar reports. this is the moment the earthquake struck a mexico city hospital some 700km away from the epicentre in oaxaca on the pacific coast.

patients and medical staff braced themselves as the earthquake, measuring 7.4 on the richter scale, rocks the building. here in the beach town of huatulco in oaxaca, locals are surveying the damage. 2,000 properties in the area are destroyed. nine people have lost their lives. but it's not the only shock mexicans are having to deal with. the country is already reeling from the coronavirus pandemic. it has suffered more than 211,000 covid—19 deaths, the second most in latin america behind brazil, and reported over 196,000 cases. within these cases, newborn triplets were tested positive for covid—19 at three days old. virus cases like this with multiple births have not previously been seen anywhere in the world. and adding to the shaky picture, the international monetary fund says it expects mexico's gross domestic product to fall by double digits in the coming year. of the virus leaves

them with little hope. translation: in the situation we're in right now, without work, because of the pandemic, and now with the earthquake, i don't know what's going to happen. god willing, everything will get resolved quickly. even before the virus arrived, experts warned that the region's densely packed cities, millions of casual workers and healthca re systems starved of resources could undermine even the best attempts to curb the pandemic. now, an earthquake hasjust added to their woes. aruna iyengar, bbc news. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: in moscow, honouring the heroes of world war ii — a traditional show of military power on victory day.

members of the neo—nazi resistance movement stormed the world trade center armed with pistols and shotguns. we believe that, according to international law, that we have a rightful claim on certain parts of this country as our land. i take pride in the words "ich bin ein berliner." cheering as the uk woke up to the news that it is to exit the european union, leave campaigners began celebrating. in total, 17.4 million people voted for the uk to leave the eu. the medical research council have now advised the government that the great increase in lung cancer is due mainly to smoking tobacco. it was closing time for checkpoint charlie, which, for 29 years, has stood on the border as a mark of

allied determination to defend the city. this is bbc world news, the latest headlines: the governors of new york and two other states impose new restrictions on travellers from the us where infection rates are surging. scientists at imperial college in london have begun human trials of a revolutionary vaccine against the coronavirus. a grand jury in the united states has formally indicted the three men arrested over the death of ahmaud arbery, the young blackjogger killed as he ran through a residential area of brunswick, georgia. local police only made arrests, more than two months after the killing, when video of it went viral at the beginning of may. (tx now a retired police officer greg mcmichael — his son travis, and the man who shot the video, william bryan, have been indicted on counts including murder, aggravated assault and false imprisonment.

tiffany williams roberts is a civil rights attorney for the southern centre for human rights. earlier i asked her what reforms they would like to to see within georgia's criminal justice system. ahmaud arbery was killed on february 23, so this was long before the united states was locked down because of the covid—19 pandemic. so what we know in georgia, which is the state with the most people under correctional control in the entire nation, is that if ahmaud arbery had been white and mcmichaels had been black, the mcmichaels would have been arrested swiftly and charged quickly. and is it your case that georgia has a particularly punitive criminal justice system? absolutely. despite many years of reforms, what we are seeing in georgia is a significant roll back in the criminaljustice reforms and the remnants of chattel slavery and jim crow are alive and well in georgia. we're seeing that in our legislative session right now and we see that with the increase in criminalisation of black people in

georgia especially. because trespass is just a misdemeanour, isn't it? i don't think it even justifies a citizen's arrest. that's absolutely right. even under the current citizen's arrest law, which our organisation is arguing to be repealed, criminal trespass is not a felony in georgia and it would not have justified a citizen's arrest. and we know the video surveillance of that vacant home depicted white through that home, but for some reason mcmichaels found a big problem with ahmaud arbery walking through that home in that same fashion and so we believe that race was the motivation for that. and that's the issue we want to tackle when we deal with movement around this issue. so apart from justice in this particular case, however that resolves itself, you'll be looking for systemic change. what would that involve? sure, absolutely. systemic change, transformational change.

we are asking that georgia's citizen's arrest statute be repealed and to evaluate use of force that is rarely afforded, which the benefits of that law is rarely afforded to black folks. we're also asking that georgia halts enacting laws that criminalise race and repeal laws that criminalise race right now. right now we have a gang bill before the legislature that we think would create more ahmaud arberys because it criminalises black men and brown men especially. so in addition to lobbying for justice for the arbery family in georgia we are hoping we can take some significant steps away from the criminalisation of race and poverty that plague our state at the moment. tiffany williams roberts there. large parts of china are facing a majorflooding emergency in large parts of the country with mass evacuations, landslides and huge damage to crops. thousands of teams have been mobilizsd, especially

in the worst hit areas where houses and other buildings have been submerged underflood water which have — in some cases — now risen to their highest level in eight decades. stephen mcdonell reports from beijing. across vast swathes of southern china, swollen rivers have burst their banks, causing widespread damage and leaving millions of people displaced. summer is the season for flooding in this country, but in 2020, especially heavy driving rains court officials by surprise. in the huge south—western metropolis of congqing, in the huge south—western metropolis of chongqing, home to tens of millions of people, i red flood warning for parts of the city has been issued, meaning residents should leave the most dangerous areas. footage taken their shows at homes and businesses completely submerged as rising waters lead to conditions not seen this bad in decades. nearly half of all china's provinces have been affected, but in six of them, the situation has become especially severe. more than 170 major rivers are flooding as this emergency stretches into its third week. even hubei province,

after all it's been through with the coronavirus, is in the firing line. the weather isn't due to change in a hurry. translation: it's predicted that the rainy season in the middle and lower reaches of the yangtze river will be longer than usual, with very high levels of rain. under this impact, we're expecting the yangtze to be hit by more regionalfloods. landslides have clogged the spillways of overfilling dams. hundreds of reservoirs have had to urgently discharge massive amounts of flood water. chinese rescue teams are accustomed to crises like this, but even they are being stretched to the limit by the scale of the flooding, as well as the unrelenting rain and surging river waters. the damage to millions of people's livelihoods is incalculable, and

there disaster has a way to play out yet. stephen mcdonell, bbc news, beijing. russia has been holding its biggest public holiday, the victory parade that marks the 75th anniversary of the defeat of nazi germany in world war ii. this despite a growing number of coronavirus infections. the parade is usually held on may 9. it was delayed because of the pandemic. 0ur correspondent, steve rosenberg, was in red square. if there was plenty of pomp... ..well, think of the circumstance. russia is marking 75 years since the defeat of nazi germany. military might in abundance. no social distancing, though. the kremlin claims coronavirus is in retreat, but it's not beaten. the city of moscow is recording hundreds of new covid cases every day. and while red square was heaving with hardware, a dozen russian cities cancelled their parades due to the pandemic.

so, why did vladimir putin decide his military show must go on? this parade isn'tjust about the past — it's very much about the present. vladimir putin wants to be seen as the father of the nation, the protector of russia and, crucially, he hopes that all of this will boost his popularity ahead of a referendum on extending his rule. away from the square, muscovites ignored calls by the city's mayor to stay safe by staying home and watching the parade on tv. fearing a spike in infections, politician leonid gozman has called on investigators to open a criminal case against president putin over the parade. we are on the very high level of the pandemic still. so, i think it's dangerous and i think that he and his people understand

that it's dangerous, so i think it's a crime. it's a crime. it's murdering. but this war veteran doesn't agree. translation: virus or no virus, nothing would stop me from being here to celebrate our victory and just like we defeated the nazis, russia will defeat the coronavirus. just the kind of optimism and patriotism vladimir putin would approve of as he looks to extend his rule over russia. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. new york and the neighbouring states of newjersey and connecticut are introducing a 14—day quarantine period for visitors from 9 other us states with high rates of coronavirus infection. across the us, there have been more than 2.3 million cases since the start of the pandemic — the highest figures for any nation.

and you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter — and the bbc news website. thank you for watching. hello. wednesday was officially the hottest day of 2020 so far — 32.6 celsius at london heathrow airport. ithink, though, today may top that further. we're likely to see 33, again, i think somewhere towards the west of london or on into parts of the midlands. make no mistake, it will be hot and humid day across the board. we're pulling our air in across western europe, originally from northern africa, and you can see the amber makes it all the way to the north of the uk for thursday. so, areas that have lagged behind a little with the temperatures, scotland and northern ireland, 00:26:52,409 --> 2147483051:50:10,920 will move into the warmer 2147483051:50:10,920 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 air through the day.