this is bbc news. i'm rajini vaidyanathan with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the us defends its handling of coronavirus. but the country's top infectious disease expert says there are still some serious risks. if we did not extinguish the outbreak, sooner or later, even ones that are doing well i going to be vulnerable to the spread. police shoot dead a knifeman at a city centre hotel in glasgow. six people are wounded in hospital. stranded at sea because of the pandemic, the 80 thousand cruise ship workers still waiting for permission to hit dry land. managerjurgen klopp says he was completely overwhelmed.

iam happy. really i am happy. really happy. iam happy. really happy. relieved. last night i was overwhelmed. but it isa last night i was overwhelmed. but it is a very good moment. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world. in the us, the number of people who have been infected with coronavirus could be far higher than originally thought. the official number of cases across the country currently stands atjust over 2.4 million people — that's about one quarter of all the confirmed cases worldwide. but the centre for disease control says as many as 20 million americans could have been infected, nearly ten times the number of confirmed cases.

that estimate is based on blood samples collected from across the country. it comes as the us is seeing a rise in the number of cases in 16 of its states. speaking at a task force briefing, dr anthony fauci said that the country was facing a ‘serious problem' — and warned that the spike could spread to more states if people didn't observe social distancing. i just want to make a plea with people when they understand the stress that they are under, as we try to tackle not only those states, but the light—coloured part of the country, even though they have done well, they may have gotten hit badly like new york and then came down, or they may not have got hit badly at all. they are vulnerable. if we do not extinguish the outbreak, sooner or later, even ones that are doing well are going to be vulnerable to the spread. our washington correspondent gary o'donoghue told me that vice president mike pence also urged caution at the briefing.

he did not ignore the fact that there is the spikes going on and he and one of the other task force members will be visiting florida, texas and arizona next week which is acknowledgement in itself that there is a problem. he does repeat the line that the president uses that more testing equals more cases and it misses out the fact that the positive rates are rising as well. but he did insert a small word in there, saying generally more testing equals more cases. he understands that rising positive returns means rising number of cases as well. he did urge people to observe the guidelines which something the president doesn't do very much. and the guidelines of course include social distancing and in some cases wearing face masks. he would not actually say when asked whether or not people should wear a mask and he said they should follow their local guidelines

for the state they are in. vice president pence was not wearing a mask in that briefing. briefly, we are seeing particular rises in southern states. could there be a shift in policy as the country starts to open up? interesting that the tises we are seeing down there, we are told that over half of the rises that have happened are under 35—year—olds, and that's coincided with places like florida saying they will ban the sale of alcohol in bars, so obviously there is some connection at least at the state level in terms of what they believe. about the opening up, the congregating of bars and restaurants that may be young people tend to do more and these infection rates. florida, and i think texas is doing something similar, starting to restrict what actually they are opening up does mean. six people have been injured in an attack at a hotel in the scottish city of glasgow, with the suspect shot dead by police. it happened earlier this afternoon at the park inn hotel in the city centre. the six injured men

are aged from 17 to 53, and are being treated in hospital. one of them is a police officer, who is said to be in a critical condition. the hotel has been closed to the public during the coronavirus pandemic, and was being used to house asylum seekers. the scottish first minister nicola sturgeon said it had been a dreadful afternoon for the city. police say the incident is not being treated as terrorism. here's our scotland correspondent alexandra mackenzie. amid confusion and panic, armed police entered the park inn hotel in glasgow city centre. during lockdown it's been home to some of the city's asylum seekers. one, who wanted to remain anonymous, described what he saw. i got worried and came down to check what's going on because i heard screams. two of them got stabbed. a police officer was bleeding. it's kind of scary but the only thing you can do in this kind of situation is stay calm. police scotland said one person

was shot dead by armed police. six other people were taken to hospital, including a police officer, who is in a critical but stable condition. i heard from people from the hotel, a couple of people have been stabbed and everywhere was full of blood, the lifts and corridor. scotland's first minister said the events were truly dreadful. this is a situation that has undoubtedly shaken glasgow today and shaken scotland today. but the police have dealt with it, there is no ongoing threat to the public, the assessment is that it is not a terrorist—related incident. that said, there are six in a critical condition as a result of injuries they have sustained and all our thoughts and good wishes this evening should be with them. earlier, the prime minister and others paid tribute to the emergency services. it is quite clear that the circumstances they were met with were pretty horrific and what they have had to deal with, they've been exceptionally brave.

the motive for the stabbings is being investigated. police scotland have said the incident has been contained and there is no danger to other members of the public. alexandra mackenzie, bbc news, glasgow. let's get more from our bbc scotland reporter connor gillies in glasgow. the tragic reality of what happened here on this street in glasgow city centre earlier on today it is now starting to sink in. one of the biggest police investigations in many years is now under way in this country. early on this evening we had it confirmed from the officers leading this investigation that it is not terror related. now, the details we know are that this happened around one police after he stabbed and attacked six other people. the injured men are aged between 17 and 53, one of those is a police

officer, a 15—year—old. clearly, those family members are being supported of the injured and being treated in cities right across the country or indeed the city. let's now turn to the eyewitness account here, muhammed sultan, thank you forjoining us. what happened here? it was a really shocking thing. i don't want to see it again. it should never happen again. but i was in a restaurant, i heard a lot of noise and screaming, like people trying to ask for help, there was stabbing, saying something was going on, but i didn't understand what to do. i came out of the restaurant, went across the street and saw the people running here and there, loud noises i heard, and a lot of screaming there. did you see the injured? yes i saw the injured person which was on the entrance, on the staircase laying down, one of the persons

was supporting him. he was bleeding. and the other two, i saw one person stabbed and the police were taking him away. but it was a horrendous thing to witness. you must be pretty shaken up by this. yes, i was. and we had to move away from that place. it was all sealed up. but this is not a thing that happens here. i never heard or seen what is happening here today. thank you very much. the centre of this investigation is the park inn hotel behind me. it was housing asylum—seekers during this global pandemic. emergency accommodation and there has been debate around the conditions that asylum—seekers have been living in here in the city. there was a protest last saturday about that very issue. clearly tonight first minister nicola sturgeon the first minister of scotland, has condemned what happened

and says her thoughts are with those who are injured and the same sentiments echoed by the prime minister and in the last 30 minutes or so, we have heard that the police investigation review commissioner, essentially the team of people here in scotland to get involved with any incident involving the police, they have confirmed this is the first time that police scotland has shot dead a suspect on the streets of scotland. an evolving situation and we will bring the latest into the evening. in many ways, they are the forgotten victims of the coronavirus pandemic — the 80,000 cruise ship workers who remain stuck at sea. countries have effectively been able to make their own rules about whether to let them get off — often leaving them stuck in a floating limbo. many of the stranded ships are off the west coast of the us — from where sophie long reports. all right, here we go! cruise to nowhere! with no guests to look after or entertain, for several weeks they did their best to keep things shipshape, and the party alive.

husband and wife team nick and karen love ships. they met on a ship and got married on a ship. no morejob, no more pay and we will be staying here as guests. but after they were laid off and hopes of going home were dashed, even they found things increasingly difficult. there was a plan for ships to start sending people home but that our ship wouldn't be able to join the plans because we are in code red at the moment. karen and nick finally made it home to edinburgh, but their thoughts are with those still on board. the thing that is making it harder for them is the amount of time. we got home after two months and that was on may 14. it's now more than a month later and there are still people stuck without knowing when they are coming home. that's exactly what thousands are still going through. mauritian crew have been stranded onboard the voyager of the seas for more than 100 days. one told me their employer is doing all they can, it is their government that

letting them down. we feel really, really bad. you wouldn't expect our government to treat us like that. we left our country to come to work, we want to make a little bit our life more easy and to give a better life for our family. everybody want to be home with their loved ones, so the hardest part is every time we are having a date to leave and then it is being cancelled, and we don't even know when we are leaving. many confined to small cabins are finding it increasingly difficult to cope. it is really causing an extreme humanitarian crisis because the mental health on board continues to decline. there's been eight suicides at sea in ourgroup, we talk to a lot of crewmembers who are struggling with mental health concerns, depression, anxiety. for years, this brazilian dj loved leading cruise parties. after three months trapped on board, he says he will never set foot on a ship again.

they need to take care of the mental health. they need to have psychologists there. they don't have psychologists there. they don't have psychiatrists there. the party is over. for tens of thousands of crew, the ordeal that followed is not. sophie long, bbc news. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: from the pandemic to the protests that followed the death of george floyd — we hearfrom graca machel formerfirst lady of south africa and mozambique. members of the neo—nazi resistant moved on the world trade centre armed with pistols and shotguns. we believe that according to international law, that we have a rightful claim of certain parts of this

country as our land. i take pride in the words. 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. closing time for checkpoint charlie which for 29 years tested on the border as a mark of allied determination to defend the city. this is news, the latest headlines: the us vice president mike pence has defended his country's handling of coronavirus — but says there's concern that in 16 states cases are rising.

police in scotland have shot dead a knifeman at a city centre hotel in glasgow. six people are wounded and are in hospital. police say they're not treating the incident as terrorism. now — back to the us. where the centre for disease control has said the number of coronavirus infections in the country may exceed 20 million, ten times higher than the existing number of confirmed cases. let's speak now to william hanage, associate professor of epidemiology at harvard's t.h. chan school of public health. very good to have you with us. this is not over for the very good to have you with us. this is not overfor the united very good to have you with us. this is not over for the united states than? certainly not. not at all. we did see the early spring served in the northeast which has now been wrestled to the met by the combined effo rts wrestled to the met by the combined efforts of social distancing and the shutdowns appear. but we are now as reopening has been rolled out across

the south seeing an increase in cases across the sunbelt and elsewhere. so it is really, there is a lot more pandemic road ahead of the. how concerned are you or is this something you had projected anyway? you make these graphs and charts of a epidemiologist with a new look ahead. guess. this was entirely expected. the details are ha rd to entirely expected. the details are hard to predict. —— yes. a month ago, people like me were saying if you do this, at some point you will start seeing cases increasing again. once the case to start to increase you will start to see the death and hospitalization is coming behind them. the new cdc data is very interesting. it suggests that the infection and fertility rate is about one and 200 which is consistent with estimates that we've been saying for places like spain and switzerland. —— infection mortality rate. the implication is that that is the infection rate that includes all the mild cases. so it

means that this is a disease we need to ta ke means that this is a disease we need to take seriously. one thing that was interesting they came out of today proxima coronavirus briefing with doctor anthony foxy and the vice president was that about half of the new cases are actually people under the age of 35. does that surprise you? not in particular. if you look at the anybody test which are dead and places hit hard hit in the first search would primary evidence infection and that age group and they tend to find so convincing more difficult to perfect. —— find social distancing. they have a lower risk to themselves perceived. more likely to become effective. there is good evidence that the major risk of mortality grows as people get older. that age group has a lower risk of severe consequences although there are likely long—term consequences of affectionate when only discovering now. however, once that age group becomes infected in large numbers, it is very difficult to prevent it leaking out from them into the other age groups which are at risk. so we

can expect to see hospitalization and death taking gap in the coming weeks. but as a way to stop this as the country opens up? the country does need to have a working economy. that is a reasonable statement. however we have to accept the nature of that economy will have to change, some things will to be more difficult to get the we need to do it all costs even if we accept that some amount of disease and death is inevitable in the face of a pandemic wa nt to inevitable in the face of a pandemic want to minimise it and preserve health care and that is why it is especially concerning that in some places like houston and parts of arizona it is satellite health care is already being stretched to its capacity. and we know that if you we re capacity. and we know that if you were to stop all new infections in those places, right now, for people who are being affected right now would be starting to be rolling into the icy use in a couple weeks' time. what about predictions for a second wave as people look ahead to later in the year? the wave kind of is

somewhat misleading. when a way precious w it goes away. it doesn't go away because anything you have done. —— when a way precious over you goes away. human actions here, social distancing taking place. what we can see right now, the sunbelt, we can see right now, the sunbelt, we are expecting to see continued pandemic activity like a forest fire, striking off i'll across the country in the world. now what we also expect however is that will become more intense as the seasons change and people start spending more time indoors. because one of the things we know about the virus is that it transmits much more effectively and poorly ventilated indoor spaces. as a result of that, even though we can expect there to be more activity the next two months, we can expect that it will accelerate again as we approach the fall and winter. interesting stuff. thank you for talking to us.

let's look at some of the day's other news the police chief of mexico city says he has survived an assassination attempt by a powerful drugs cartel. omar garcia harfush was shot and injured when gunmen opened fire in a wealthy part of the mexican capital. he has blamed the jalisco new generation gang. two of his bodyguards and a woman who was driving past the scene of the attack were killed. a court in turkey is reported to have jailed 121 people for life, for taking part in the attempt, four year ago, to overthrow president erdogan. more than 200 people had already been sentenced to life in prison at earlier trials. thousands of people have gathered in the burundian capital gitega for the funeral of the former president pierre nkuru nziza, who died suddenly earlier this month. burundi's government said he died from a heart attack, but there is speculation he had coronavirus as his wife had been ill with the disease. let's turn to sport now — and liverpool's first english football championship for 30 years.

these fans were celebrating late into the night. when their clubs only remaining challengers, manchester city, lost to chelsea. it means liverpool are now the reigning english, european, and world club champions. liverpool star player mo salah has been tweeting about the win — he said he wanted "thank all our supporters watching us from all corners of the world. you made this possible for us and i hope we can keep bringing you the joy you deserve. and liverpool's manager jurgen klopp told reporters what the premier league title meant to him. i am happy, really happy. relieved. last night, i was overwhelmed. it is a very good moment in my life and... it is a mix of all. it shows me i'm not 100% sure

about myself but it is a really big achievement and i know that and it was an incredible right to get here but what the boys did in the time since i've been here is exceptional and i'm so happy for them that we could do that. the pandemic as well as the death of george floyd have both revealed undeniable inequalities across the world. in south africa graca machel has seen some of the worst sides of injustice, having lived through the era of apartheid, as did her late husband nelson mandela. a trail—blazing humanitarian in her own right, graca machel has signed an open letter calling the pandemic an opportunity to dismantle barriers to equality. she tolds the bbc‘s mishal husain why. we have been aware that we are societies which are very unequal. we have been aware of how these

inequalities are affecting mostly women, youth and children. but we got used to our normal situation. the pandemic has brought to the surface, in a very dramatic and glaring way, this inequality. we are in a situation where we cannot ignore them and even close our eyes to it. that is why we believe, not only myself, but we the women who have signed this open letter, we believe it has to be an opportunity to address those structural issues which we have been aware of but we did not have the boldness and the focus of addressing them in short, medium and long term,

and this is the opportunity that covid is offering us. in the midst of these extraordinary and extreme few weeks, this unprecedented period, we also had the death of george floyd in the united states and the antiracism protests that happened in so many different parts of the world. you fear that the emphasis on symbols as a distraction or is it do you fear that the emphasis on symbols is a distraction or is it part of having an antiracist stance? it comes as people who are angry, and i think we should move so that we become much more serene and much more rational. it is not the issue of bringing down a statute which is going to resolve the ills of the past. what is important is to look at the history of what is it which brought us to the situation where we are.

and of course you have to say who are the architects of this past. but i believe even that it might be much more positive to keep them for generations to come to show how it started and this is how it should never be again. so i'm not really concerned with bringing down and breaking the statues. think of a child who is five years now, if you don't have a cecil rhodes there, how how are you going to explain how how are you going to explain what had been once the institutionalized to south africa or even the role of those many others who have taken us to a still divided society, in fact to the resentment in which we are. don't forget you can get in touch with me and some

of the team on twitter — i'm @bbcrajiniv. thank you for watching. hello there. the heat and humidity sparking showers and thunderstorms from the midlands northwards. these will continue to push northwards into northern parts of england and scotland as we move into the first part of the night. you can see the rumbling further north as we move through the early hours. then we look to the southwest, the renewed area of showery rain pushing into northern ireland, wales, southwest england into east england. some of this rain could be quite heavy. still pretty warm and muggy and some of the larger towns and cities of england and wales. this weekend, significant changes on the way, we've got low pressure which will bring much cooler, fresher, windier conditions to our shores. also rain and some bit heavy. low pressure moving in for saturday,

we will see showery burst of rain around wales and heavy pushing northwards to the day becoming more confined to central and northern parts of the uk. further south we should start to see some sunshine breaking through that cloud across southern counties through the afternoon. temperatures, high teens, low 20s, celsius a cooler fresher field. north wales midlands northern england into scotland and northern ireland some really heavy showers here. possibly a risk of some localised flooding and places. temperatures again generally the high teens and celsius with a much fresher feel to things. quite blustery as well through saturday afternoon. particularly across england and wales through northern ireland. as we move through the night, it stays pretty windy, lots of showers and long spells of rain spiralling around this area. and across the northwest of the uk. saturday night will be a cooler and fresher night across, a more comfortable night for sleeping. on into sunday, our low pressure is still with us to the northwest of the uk.

more isobars on the charts, deepening slightly and means it's going to be a windier day on sunday. widespread gust, 30, a0 miles an hour, maybe 50 miles per hour on northern england,southern scotland into northern england. gale force wings here, very wet weather for a time throughout sunday. further south, a few showers mainly across the west but temps at 20 degrees. a cooler feel to things with high of 14 to 18 celsius was up next week it remains quite cool and unsettled showers slowly easing through the week. essential services.

this is bbc world news, the headlines. the us vice president says there are 16 states with rises in coronavirus cases and the percentage of positive test results. the us has set a daily record for new cases, 40,000 infections reported on thursday alone. a man has been shot dead by police after a stabbing attack at a hotel in glasgow. six people are being treated in hospital for their injuries, including a police officer. the police chief of mexico city says he has survived an assassination attempt by a powerful drugs cartel. omar garcia har—fush was shot and injured when gunmen opened fire in a wealthy part of the mexican capital.