this is bbc news, the headlines: the world health organisation has warned that the death toll from the coronavirus will reach 500,000 by next week — and that there will be 10 million infections. the who has also warned

people in europe not to be complacent, with many parts of the continent facing a resurgence of covid—19 as lockdown restrictions are relaxed. as the uk experiences its hottest day of the year, a major incident has been declared on england's south coast after hundreds of thousands of people headed to beaches. house democrats are preparing to vote on a police reform bill sparked by the national outcry over the deaths of george floyd, rayshard brooks, breonna taylor and other black americans at the hands of police. sir keir starmer has sacked his one—time rival for the labour leadership — rebecca long—bailey — from the shadow cabinet for sharing what he said was anti—semitic content. she retweeted an interview with the actress, maxine peake — in which she said police officers involved in the death of george floyd in the united states learned to kneel on a suspect‘s neck

from the "israeli secret service". a spokesperson for the force denied the claim. the labour leader, sir keir starmer, has been explaining his decision. the sharing of that article was wrong and because the article contained anti—semitic conspiracy theories i have therefore stood her down from the shadow cabinet. i've made it my first priority to tackle anti—semitism and rebuilding trust with thejewish community is a number one priority for me. former shadow chancellor underjeremy corbyn, the labour mp john mcdonnell, defended ms long bailey and tweeted, saying...

joining me now is andrew fisher, a former aide to the previous labour leader, jeremy corbyn. welcome and thank you very much for joining us. firstly, iwanted welcome and thank you very much for joining us. firstly, i wanted to get your reaction to the sacking of rebecca long—bailey. do you agree with what say keir starmer did today? i don't, i think it is with what say keir starmer did today? i don't, ithink it is an overreaction and i think, from what i understand, rebecca long—bailey was prepared to issue a clarification saying that she distanced herself from that one sentence in a very long interview in which this actress had been talking about her concerns for the way the conservative government had handled the coronavirus crisis and of course her acting career. i understand that this actress is a constituent of rebecca long—bailey's, so they know each other. she treated it in good faith and i think you have to start from the basis that your colleagues in parliament are acting in good faith and unless they prove

otherwise... if she had retweeted that article and highlighted that one sentence, it would be a different story, but she didn't. she highlighted the major part of the interview which was headlined about her campaigning, about that one campaigning. soi her campaigning, about that one campaigning. so i think it was wrong, i think it is perfectly a cce pta ble wrong, i think it is perfectly acceptable to say look, i disagree with this, but i was talking about the overall thrust of the interview and separate the two. you can have and separate the two. you can have an overall conversation about this without needing to sack her. sir keir starmer said i made my first priority to tackle anti—semitism and rebuilding trust within the jewish community is a number—one priority for me. his move was praised by many, particularly on social media, given the fact that the labour party had previously been plagued by accusations of anti—semitism in the party and wanting to move forward. given the fact that you are condemning his actions and look at the things that have plagued the labour party beforehand, do you

think this has now opened up old wounds? i don't think it is fair to say that rebecca long—bailey has engaged in anti—semitism. she retweeted an interview with an actor, maxine peake, that was predominantly about her activism and her acting career. i think it is a hell of a stretch to say that is engaging in anti—semitism or condoning it. rebecca long—baileyi think is very far from someone who would do that. now, it has opened up division within the party because i think people do see it on both sides asa think people do see it on both sides as a sort of sectarian act. i have seen people perhaps more on the right at the party who have chaired it as getting rid of one of the left andi it as getting rid of one of the left and i have seen one at the latter criticising it as some kind of purging of the left. i doubt it is either of those things, but i do think it is a misjudgment. i am not condoning keir starmer, buti think it is a misjudgment. i am not condoning keir starmer, but i do criticise his decision and i think it isa criticise his decision and i think it is a misjudgment in this case.

i think it is a distraction as well because we should be talking about a corruption of the tories taking backhanders from property developers in exchange for planning decisions, their handling of the coronavirus crisis, and your headline has pointed out that britain has got 10% of the world's coronavirus gas and we are i% of the population in the world. with that in mind, was it not a mistake for rebecca long—bailey rebecca long—bailey to be distracting people from coronavirus? i think twitter is not the way that politicians speak to the nation on the core issues at the day, it is a more conversational format and that, but was it a mistake to share that article? perhaps. was it a sacking offence? no. we will have to leave it there, but we appreciate your time and thank you very much. a major incident has been declared on the south coast of england

on the hottest day of the year in the uk. as temperatures soared above 30 degrees celsius, thousands of people descended on the beaches in dorset. bournemouth council said it was appalled by the scenes and the irresponsible behaviour of crowds who had ignored public health guidance on coronavirus. they said the local police force was being stretched to the absolute hilt and pleaded with people to stay away, as roads were gridlocked and beaches became full. duncan kennedy is in bournemouth and has this report. as you can see, it is still absolutely heaving here tonight. we have had extraordinary scenes of overcrowding throughout the day. at one point today, the council said there were something like half a million people that have descended on this beach and, despite repeated warnings by the council for people to go home, many simply ignored that message and that is why this afternoon they declared this a major incident. these were the unprecedented scenes on bournemouth beach today. the council says around half a million people turned up to use the

beach. the opportunity for social distancing was almost entirely gone. even though many did try to find a space. this afternoon the council said it could no longer cope and declared a major incident. right now the restaurants are closed, bars are closed, the attractions are closed and you cannot play crazy golf, go in the arcade and you cannot do any of the fabulous things we have got available, so after 4th ofjuly those people would be spread around the various activities. also hotels will be open so car parks are open, so there's other places for people to park. right now there's not enough facilities here and it's kettling everyone to the beach and causing problems. with many facilities closed, the beach was the only space to go. declaring it a major incident enabled agencies to come together and pool their resources amid scenes of chaos and

overcrowding. if people get too close i would probably say, "can you move over a little bit?" it's not good, though, is it? it's probably going to cause a second wave, everyone just doing what they want. the beaches here have witnessed these huge gatherings at other times during the covid—i9 crisis. the weather and the golden sands attract people from as far afield as the midlands. the local mp says you cannot shut the beaches when it gets overcrowded, but government help is now needed. it's very important that the government understands it's got to be flexible as well and it's got to be dynamic in recognising just as if it was a big demonstration in london and police coming to help that if dorset requests extra help from a policing perspective that we are quick there to support them. the council has sent out a message urging people to go home, but the experience of this and other days is that when the weather is this good, few want to give it up, despite the

dangers. well, it's still extremely hot here, round about the 30 degree mark and as you can see still extremely busy. in the very short time we have been here in the last couple of hours, i have to say the humour has been pretty good, pretty level, not too many scenes of drunkenness or anything like that, which you can get when the numbers get high here in bournemouth. ijust want i just want to bring you ijust want to bring you a piece of news that is coming to us from our collea g u es news that is coming to us from our colleagues in bbc scotland from the glass newsroom, where we understand the police have launched a major operation to remove clouds of people from kelvingrove —— crowds of people from kelvingrove —— crowds of people from kelvingrove —— crowds of people from kelvingrove park in glasgow. it is understood lots of people gathered there to enjoy the sunshine and the police said no major incident involved because of the high police presence due to the large number of people in the area. we have also got a response from the first minister of scotland, nicola sturgeon, who thanked the police

helping keep the key people say. she said crowded places with a resurgence of covid—i9 and risk lives. she said she understood people wanted to enjoy the hot weather, but asked people to follow the rules. a major operation in glasgow in kelvingrove park, where police were called in to ensure that the high number of people in the area we re the high number of people in the area were dispersed and no major incident took place. people will soon be able to holiday in much of europe and won't have to go into quarantine when they return to the uk. the government is in the process of finalising a series of travel corridors — and an announcement is due in the coming days. most of western europe is expected to be on an initial list greece, belgium, germany, norway and the netherlands. sweden is unlikely to be on the list because the infection rate there is higher than in the uk. and there are doubts about portugal after a rise in the number of new cases in

and around lisbon. work is also ongoing to see if a travel corridor is possible with australia. eduardo santander is from the european travel commission. hejoins me now from brussels. thank you very much for being with us. thank you very much for being with us. firstly, do you think there will be an appetite for people to want to travel to europe? be an appetite for people to want to travelto europe? i think so, i think there is hope to save the summer season, think there is hope to save the summer season, but we have to be very conscious about these travel corridors, calling them corridors, bubbles, bilateralagreements, corridors, calling them corridors, bubbles, bilateral agreements, it doesn't matter. i think they only work in theory. the big problem we see is there is a lack of confidence there, a lot of frustration and confusion and people don't understand yet where they can go on holiday and therefore they are still not booking their holidays. what do you understand to be the rules around a travel corridor?|j you understand to be the rules around a travel corridor? i think obviously it has to be based,

on three basic principles. first of all, transparency. we have to identify the risk zones and avoid them. the elephant in the room right now in the tourism sector is a second wave of an epidemic, which is disappearing in many places in europe, and if it would appear again it would be the end of the season and many tourism enterprises and businesses. the second principle is coordination. we have been advocating for the very beginning of the covid—i9 crisis that we have to be open borders and re—establish tourism policies in a coordinated way within europe. the third is non—discrimination. at least, within the european union, there is no possibility to just the european union, there is no possibility tojust open the european union, there is no possibility to just open to a few countries and not to open to other ones. i think that creates a competitive disadvantage for some countries and advantages for others and that cannot be permitted. what

countries do you think might be safe for uk tourists to visit? and which ones are no—go in your opinion?|j ones are no—go in your opinion?” think all countries opening, the majority of them will be reopening byjuly the ist, will be safe to travel. having said that, people have to understand this is going to bea have to understand this is going to be a very different, and they have to be cautious and they have to obviously follow guidelines and protocols, if necessary, in airports and hotels and so on. so people have to be conscious that it is not a summer to be conscious that it is not a summer like yet last year or the previous year and we all have to adapt a little bit. yes, to be safe and also do not put endanger the life of 0k, and also do not put endanger the life of ok, i thank you for your time, eduardo santander there. we'll be looking at the impact of the pandemic on travel and the transport industry here on the news channel tomorrow when we'll be answering your questions at 9.30am in the morning.

is it now safe to go abroad or should we be thinking about staycations? we'll be joined by representatives from the tourism industry council and an expert in disease control. tell us what you want to know — you can email using the address yourquestions@bbc.co.uk or you can use the hashtag #bbcyourquestions. glastonbury festival was supposed to be celebrating its 50th anniversary live from worthy farm this year, with performances from artists including sir paul mccartney and taylor swift. those plans have been shelved due to the coronavirus pandemic, but festivalgoers have found alternative ways to celebrate — as our entertainment correspondent colin paterson reports. # revolutionaries wait for my head on...#. glastonbury... the music... the mayhem, the mud. the 50th anniversary was supposed to be getting underway right now. instead, this is the scene

from in front of the pyramid stage — no crowds, just cows. it all started in 1970. dairy farmer michael eavis, inspired by the bath blues festival, decided to put on his own event. only 2,000 people turned up, leaving him in debt. i wouldn't say a disaster, but it hasn't been as good as i'd hoped. 50 years later and once again trouble on the farm, the whole festival cancelled because of covid. the buildup to the 50th and then having to pull it was quite gutting, but, you know, all of our energy is going into next year now, so we're all about 2021, we're all about making that a double celebration. more than 200,000 people would have been on the site this weekend, including mumford & sons. they headlined in 2013 and were going to make an unannounced appearance. it would sort of be all right if it was anything other

than glastonbury, but glastonbury for us, especially as a band, we always set our hearts on it. you know, it's the highlight — it's the best festival in the world. there's just a feeling, i think there's a magic in the air, lots of people talk about it, that pyramid stage, the amphitheatre is just magic and there's a deep, deep magic to it. so will you be back next year? i hope so, i hope so. i mean, i think it will be a turbocharged, glasto to help fill the glastonbury gap, all weekend the bbc are rerunning classic performances. obviously very disappointed to not be there, but the great news is we're still celebrating the 50th anniversary of this festival, because we can, because we have all this amazing access to all these brilliant performances from previous

years. many fans of the festival have decided tojoin in this many fans of the festival have decided to join in this weekend by setting a tent up in their own back garden. colin paterson, bbc news. speaking before the sacking of rebecca long—bailey, sir keir starmer has warned of the danger of mass unemployment as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, saying he fears job losses of up to two or three million. in an interview with the bbc‘s political editor laura kuenssberg, he said he feared unemployment "on a scale we haven't seen for a generation". iam i am concerned that we have been living through a health crisis, but we are also facing a huge economic crisis. and in a sense, we have been shielded from it. but i really fear that, you know, unemployment on a scale that we haven't seen for a generation could happen and we need to ta ke generation could happen and we need to take steps to prevent that. the government, in relation to the health crisis, has been very slow to act, they were slow into lockdown, slow to provide protective equipment, slow on testing, slow to

recognise the problem on care homes. we can't repeat that in relation to the economy and that is why we have said there has got to be back to work economy that focuses on jobs. but they have already on the economy taking unprecedented enormous action. why don't you have confidence that they will continue to do that? we supported the action on furlough, on support for self—employed people. there were gaps in it and there were some problems with the implementation, but we supported it, it was the right thing to do. what we are seeing now to the government is you need to have a budget, a proper budget thisjuly. need to have a budget, a proper budget this july. you need to have a budget, a proper budget thisjuly. you need to bring forward infrastructure projects, and lots of them, and to that regionally because there is regional inequality here, but also keep that flexible. some businesses will be able to get back to work, but others won't. if the net result of the furlough scheme is for the difficult sectors they are furloughed for six months and then face bankruptcy and unemployment that is in no

one's interest. for how long would you like to see the fellow scheme go on? it is costing of billions pounds already. it does cost a lot of money, but there is a cost of not doing it. where sectors can get that obviously it is sensible to taper down their fellow scheme and i don't quarrel with that. but if you take travel, the service or hospitality sectors, it is obvious that they can't get back at the same pace so they need a bit more protection. if they need a bit more protection. if they don't get it, frankly, they will go bust. all the people in those sectors will lose theirjob, so those sectors will lose theirjob, so there is a massive cost of not doing it. what they have done in spain, italy and new zealand is to say there is a flexibility full sun sectors, but they are still going to have problems for a fellow scheme or some sort of other scheme going on for a few months. that makes sense because once the fellow has gone bust and someone has lost theirjob, it is that much harder to get the economy going. but when would you call or would you anticipate that we

might had the fellow scheme going for yea rs might had the fellow scheme going for years and some sectorsno, i don't think it will be four years, but it will be a bit longer. hospitality will be able to come back, but it will only be supported. some sectors can come back, they will be more successful and get back to normal, others will struggle. naked flexible and see that as an investment for the economy coming back properly in the future. —— it flexible. if that doesn't happen and most people can see we are looking ata most people can see we are looking at a significant increase in unemployment. what kind of levels of unemployment. what kind of levels of unemployment do you think? looking at the figures, i fear 2 million plus, possibly 3 million. they are the figures people are talking about. i hope it doesn't happen and as the opposition ourjob is to support any measures the government puts in to make sure that doesn't happen. it is not in the interest of anyone to see job losses, but it

could go to 3 million. we haven't seen could go to 3 million. we haven't seen that for a very long time. we have been shielded from it. i don't think that people appreciate the scale of the economic crisis that could be coming down the track and thatis could be coming down the track and that is why we are calling on the government to act much more quickly, don't make the mistakes you made in relation to the health crisis, or the economic crisis. in regard to the economic crisis. in regard to the fellow scheme, what kind of thing should they be doing?” the fellow scheme, what kind of thing should they be doing? i would like to see a future jobs fund to ensure that where people lose their jobs there is a boot in with any number of months, particularly for young people. iam really number of months, particularly for young people. i am really concerned young people. i am really concerned young people. i am really concerned young people on insecure contracts are likely to use lose theirjobs first. we had a version of this after the 2008 crash that said after after the 2008 crash that said after a few months there is a job they can go back into that is created, so i think we need something like that. so flexible furlough to make sure we can reduce the number of people who lose theirjobs, and then a future jobs fund to ensure that where people lose theirjobs a week back

in. what does that mean in terms of the decisions you would make? if you we re the decisions you would make? if you were in charge, how far would you be willing to expand the state in order to prevent the sort of situation you're talking about?” to prevent the sort of situation you're talking about? i would bring infrastructure projects forward. there are a number of infrastructure projects planned over the five yea rs. projects planned over the five years. bring them forward and start them as soon as possible. i would extend the fellow scheme in the sectors that are needed, for as short a period as possible —— make the fellow scheme. to ensure that we don't have mass employment. then support for those who do lose their jobs as i say so there is a route for them back as soon as possible. i think there are three things the government needs to have any package it is going to put forward. what we really need is a budget injuly.” think people also need to get a sense of if he were prime minister, which is what your aspiration is, where would you draw the lines in terms of the levels of support the government would ask taxpayers to put in to prop up the economy and for how long? i think what the

taxpayer wants is to see the support reduced. we can't go on paying at the rates we are, but reduced in a sensible way that doesn't do damage to the economy. and what is that sensible way? i think we are talking about support package for certain sectors of the economy for a few months after november, probably into the early part of next year. so not a huge financial contribution, a big one, but not huge. the cost of inaction will be far greater than the cost of ash action. do you think it is still important to balance the books? yes, i think it is and when we know what the full cost of the economic damage is as we go into the next election the labour party will have a fully costed manifesto and a very keen and sharp focus, but it is very keen and sharp focus, but it is very important that we get to a position where the economy is thriving, and has got back to the best position it can be ended.” just started your campaign to become leader, it has had a

strange beginning because it coincided with lockdown. do you think people have been paying attention to the labour party again? i think people have noticed what he labour party is saying and doing. we have adopted a position that i call constructive opposition, which is to have the courage to say to the government when we support them and not oppose for opposition's sake. when we went into lockdown i told the prime minister we would support that and support government messages and advice and repeat it. when i have been schemes like the furlough scheme, we have supported it. earlier this week, when the government announced the next phase of unlocked i have made it clear that we think that is the right thing to do. do you think it is really working, that constructive opposition? have you really had an influence on the prime minister, do you think? we think it is the right thing to do, but challenging where we see mistakes of things that aren't going quickly enough, not to

no score a political point, but to get things done. for example, we pushed the government on testing, and on equipment. the purpose of that was to get things ramped up and to make sure the equipment that needed to get to the front line got there. we need strong points on those and i think people notice we we re those and i think people notice we were making that case. some people in your party think maybe you should be bit more confrontational full stop in politics, sometimes you have to cut through a go for the jugular a bit more. i think what the public wa nt to a bit more. i think what the public want to see in his period is politicians acting in a national interest. they want to see an opposition that has the courage to say to the government if you do that, you are doing the right thing and we will support it. people are really anxious on the health front, their own health, their family's health and the health of their friends. we have an economic crisis and what we don't want is politicians arguing because they can. but the rivalry between the opposition and prime minister does matter, the alchemy between the two,

us potential prime minister, hidden asa us potential prime minister, hidden as a sitting prime minister. how do you find it? the problem i have got it is when the panellist doesn't engage with the question at all and doesn't listen to what has got to say and has a preprepared responses. if we could get past that it would bea if we could get past that it would be a better and exercise because it is intended to hold the prime minister to account. a good, strong leader on top of his or her brief would relish planning is to's questions, the chance to tell the nation what you're doing and have confidence about it. so he is not a strong leader? no, he isn't. complaining about criticism or questions, if the questions are being asked save lives because they identify things that are wrong, they should be welcomed. we must must never forget should be welcomed. we must must neverforget 65,000 should be welcomed. we must must never forget 65,000 people should be welcomed. we must must neverforget 65,000 people have should be welcomed. we must must never forget 65,000 people have lost their lives and what i worry about with the prime minister is at the beginning of the pandemic he was very gung ho, he brushed away challenge and pretended problems went there and now we have got 65,000 people who have lost their

lives, one at the worst in the world. as we go into the economic crisis, if he does the same thing, pushing away challenge and pretending problems aren't there, and we can see the pattern of behaviour, we will go into economic crisis in a way which will make it much worse, so they are not a signs of good strong leader. hello there. today, we saw the peak of this short—lived heatwave. and in fact, temperatures reached 33.3 celsius at greater london's heathrow airport, so this is the hottest day of the year so far. but it's all going to go out with a bang. we'll see an increasing chance of heavy showers and thunderstorms over the next 2a hours or so. if you catch one, you'll certainly know about it. it will begin across more western areas this evening and overnight, spreading their way northwards. could see a fewjust running into southern england by around dawn. central and eastern areas should tend to stay dry and it's going to be a very warm and muggy night, uncomfortable for sleeping. so, for friday, perhaps some showers

and thunderstorms across the west, another band moving northwards across england and wales through the day, followed by further thunderstorms into the afternoon. hitand miss. some areas may stay dry, other areas could see some flash flooding, large hail and frequent lightning. another warm day but not as hot as it has been, certainly fresher out, and that's because we've got an area of low pressure moving in for the weekend to bring some wetter and windier weather.

hello, i'm babita sharma. welcome to outside source. there's another stark warning from the world health organization about the coronavirus pandemic. its director general is warning of ten million infections and half a million deaths by next week. the virus thrives on division but is thwarted when we unite. we look at the situation across europe amid warnings that the continent faces a resurgence of covid—19 as lockdown restrictions are relaxed. as the uk experiences its hottest day of the year, a major incident is declared on england's south coast after hundreds of thousands of people head to beaches. and we'll speak to the lawyer of george floyd's family, as us politicians prepare to vote on a sweeping police reform bill.