this is bbc news, i'm james reynolds. our top stories: texas and florida reimpose restrictions after a record number of americans are diagnosed with covid—19 in a day. in yemen, the pandemic hits after years of civil war. the un warns that children are most at risk. how the coronavirus outbreak has led to increased the chief of police in mexico city survives an assassination attempt by a powerful drugs cartel. and how the coronavirus outbreak has led to increased harrassment of asian—americans — we'll get the response of those who've been targetted. hello and welcome if you're

watching in the uk or around the world. the united states has recorded an all—time daily high of 40,000 coronavirus infections, according to figures from the johns hopkins university. two of the country's biggest states, texas and florida, have reimposed some lockdown restrictions. the governor of texas has ordered all bars to close. here's our north america editor, jon sopel. florida seemed to be flourishing — beaches had reopened, bars were buzzing. the republican—controlled state was one of the first to lift the shutters, despite not meeting government guidelines. but now coronavirus cases are absolutely skyrocketing — up over 60% injust21i hours, and the governor is hitting the pause button, urging people to maintain social distancing and wear masks. but it's not going to be an easy sell. i need you to tell me, how do i play saxophone and sing with a mask on? listen to these people in palm beach.

you literally cannot mandate somebody to wear a mask knowing that that mask is killing people. it literally is killing people. and they want to throw god's wonderful breathing system out the door. you're all turning your backs on it. and with the us yesterday recording more cases than at any time in the crisis, the pressure is on the president. i can name kung flu, ican name... applause. ..19 different versions of name. particularly after holding a rally in oklahoma last weekend, which has resulted in dozens of campaign staff and dozens of secret service officers having to quarantine with covid symptoms. it does sound, though, like you're saying, "do as we say, not as we do." you're telling people to listen to local officials, but in tulsa you defied local health officials. well, i want to remind you again that the freedom of speech and the right to peacefully assemble is enshrined in the constitution of the united states. and the vice—president

played down the severity of the current surge in cases. as we see new cases rising, and we are tracking them very carefully, there may be a tendency among the american people to think that we are back to that place that we were two months ago, that we are in a time of great losses and great hardship on the american people. the reality is we're in a much better place. the president insists it's because so many more people are being tested, like here in san francisco, that more cases are being discovered. but it's only part of the story. public health officials, though, are far less sanguine about it. they say, unless urgent action is taken to deal with his current surge, then all the sacrifices of the past three months could have been for naught. far from flattening the curve, america seems to be fattening it. jon sopel, bbc news, washington. we can now speak to craig spencer, who's director

of global health in emergency medicine at columbia university medical centre. he joins us from new york. doctor spencer, as someone who has held the hand of patients dying from covid—19 as you have done, what goes through your mind when you see pictures of people going to bars or beaches or refusing to wear masks? inaudible. i can only apologise doctor spencer and say that it was not your real voice, we had a rather computerised version of your voice, are we going to try one more time, let's try one more time, doctor spencer. sure, absolutely. so what i would say is that in new york city, at that time we saw so many people who are struggling with this virus, so many people who died from this and i held the hands of so many people who

have passed from coronavirus, but it feels like so many people around the country have u nfortu nately not people around the country have unfortunately not learned the lessons that we so painfully learned here in new york city, and it is really discouraging, really disheartening and it is quite sad to know that others are going to have to learn these painful lessons themselves before many people ta ke themselves before many people take this seriously. why are people not taking precautions, is it that younger people feel invincible? i think that is pa rt invincible? i think that is part of that, we let early on that younger people are less likely to die from this which is of course good news, we see that more young people are going out to bars and socialising more and may be less likely to wear masks. we do know that the median age of coronavirus positive tests have decreased, meaning that my infections are being picked up ina infections are being picked up in a younger population. today that was pointed out as an encouraging sign by the vice president, i don't know that thatis president, i don't know that that is necessarily encouraging u nless that is necessarily encouraging unless those young people make sure to isolate themselves, prevent them from spreading this virus to their family, their grandmothers, others that may be around. quite frankly

with this dramatic increase in the number of cases as you pointed out, another record day after another record day, i have a lot of reason to be concerned that we are still on the upswing and we are going to see this pandemic continue to rage here in the us for quite some time. you are in new york but if we suddenly transported you to florida and you stumbled across a group of young people going into an indoor bar, a packed bar, what would you say to them to get them to go away? it is really hard at this messaging has been really difficult, a lot of people feel like they are younger and invincible and the overwhelming likelihood is that if they get infected they may not have symptoms or severe symptoms. but what we do know on what i have been trying to stress is it is not just have been trying to stress is it is notjust about cases and deaths, a lot of people who have this disease and who survive it, even a mild case, and of having these longer term sin -- and of having these longer term sin —— symptoms, chronic fatigue, other things, that are not just use survival you don't, i think some of that nuances being lost especially on younger people who think they might be invincible to

this. hospitals -- are some -- are hospitals in the state able to cope with the surge of new patients? that remains to be seen an patients? that remains to be seen an increase patients? that remains to be seen an increase in hospitalisations in many parts of the country, we have seen icu capacity diminish, which means more of those beds are being taken up. what is needed now is serviced —— severe and decisive action by governors of these states that a hotspots to clampdown and increase the capacity of hospitals, i've icuof providers and all the others that we have done in new york city, a little bit belatedly but it has helped us flatten the curve, my concern isa flatten the curve, my concern is a lot of other governors are not taking this as seriously as it was taken in new york city and newjersey. we are seeing them very hesita ntly implementing the necessary steps to decrease cases, to do what is necessary, to minimise the impact, and that every day

that you wait is just more infections, more deaths, and really my sadness for people in their state. doctor craig spencer via your computerised voice and then your real voice, thank you so much. there's a stark warning that millions of children in yemen could be pushed to the brink of starvation unless international aid is dramatically stepped up. it comes from unicef, the united nations children's organisation. the country faces the world's worst humanitarian crisis. the covid—i9 pandemic is compounding the effect of five years of civil war. houthi rebels backed by iran have been fighting yemen's government, itself backed by a saudi—led coalition — which is supported by the us and the uk. two million of yemen's children are malnourished, and 1.7 million have been forced to flee their homes. only half of the country's health facilities are in operation, which means i child dies every 10 minutes

from a preventable disease. 0ur middle east editorjeremy bowen sent this report, and i must warn you, there are distressing images right from the start. selwa is five, the same age as the war. selwa has cerebral atrophy — brain damage caused by malnutrition she's had since she was two months old. the vicious mixture that is destroying yemen is killing her. a man—made war, man—made hunger, and the coronavirus pandemic‘s grip on a broken country. selwa's parents are among the two million yemenis who have been forced to flee their homes because of the war. herfather, ibrahim, says they can't pay for any more medical treatment. selwa is not the only one.

unicef says malnutrition has caused permanent mental and physical damage to 45% of yemen's under—fives. this is aden — better supplied than most parts of yemen, but still living on the edge. there is food, if you can pay — many cannot. it's 20% more expensive than a fortnight ago, because the currency has crashed. yemen is an easy target for the virus. its citizens‘ immune systems are exhausted, their healthcare system is 50% destroyed by the war. some provinces have two hospital beds for every 10,000 people. this doctor filmed at his better—off hospital in aden.

rich countries could buy thousands more ventilators. the doctor says they have to turn away most of the patients, whose families beg for them to be treated here. this woman had a chance — a bed in hospital run by the charity msf. they couldn't save her. in yemen, 25% of people with confirmed covid—i9 die — five times the global average. it's estimated yemen already has one million cases of covid—i9 — three times more than the uk in a population less than half the size. it feels like the end. it feels like a calamity. they think the world has forgotten them. and it's chaotic and

anarchic and desperate. are they right to think that, that the world's forgotten them? unless action's ta ken straightaway, we are going to see a tragedy of globally catastrophic proportions. making everything worse, separatists are fighting a new war to end south yemen's union with the north. it's on top of saudi arabia's intervention five years ago to fight houthi rebels aligned with iran. in the desert, saudi troops are with the southern separatists, trying to observe a ceasefire that so far does not exist. chanting. the un is cutting its aid operation because donors have promised only half the funding they gave last year. unicef says that, in a single day, a child in yemen will suffer more injustice and hardship than most people face in a lifetime.

when selwa was a baby, her parents had to escape with her from a hospital bombed by the saudis in a raid that killed 19 civilians. now she's five, selwa's family have to try again to save her. they feed her with sugar and water, love and prayer. that's all they have. in this war, and this pandemic, it might not be enough. there's more about yemen on our website, including a breakdown on the causes of the civil war which has been raging since 2015 between a saudi—led coalition of countries fighting iranian—backed houthi rebels. check it out on bbc.com/news. let's get some of the day's other news. after months of deadlock, ireland will have a new government, after the mainstream fianna fail and fine gael parties agreed a coalition deal with the

green party. the irish parliament will meet in dublin on saturday to elect the fianna fail leader micheal martin as taoiseach, or prime minister. the deal excludes the resurgent republican party, sinn fein, from government. pakistan will start criminal proceedings against 28 pilots accused of falsifying their flying credentials. the aviation minister said at least nine had confessed to not having a valid flying licence. the action follows a pakistan international airlines crash that killed 97 people. marine biologists say the continued use of fishing trawlers has led to record numbers of dead dolphins washing up on france's atlantic coast. they're warning that the increase in deaths is so high it's now threatening the survival of the local population. french law requires fishermen to declare all by—catch of marine mammals, but scientists warn this doesn't always happen. for the first time in history, the us house of representatives has voted to declare washington, dc

america's 51st state. the vote, along largely party lines, comes as the idea of making the city a state gathered steam in the wake of the protests against george floyd's death. however, the bill is unlikely to pass in the republican—held senate. this is bbc world news. the headlines: a new daily high reached in mexico. the un says aid to yemen must be dramatically stepped up to help save millions of children from the brink of starvation. mexico city's security chief has been wounded in an attack that killed two of his bodyguards. the dramatic incident took place in a wealthy district of mexico city that has until now, seen little violence. reged ahmad reports. in this grainy cctv footage

broadcast on mexican television, a group of heavily armed men in an open back truck and suv drive up. blocking off the road, it is understood that they were preparing to open fire on the vehicle of mexico city's security chief, garcia harfuch. the footage zooms in on some of them as one holds up what looks like an assault rifle. residents reported heavy gunfire ringing for several residents reported heavy gunfire ringing out for several minutes during the attack. as the security chief's car was sprayed with bullets. translation: a group of men aboard an suv attacked the vehicle, carrying mexico city public security chief, who suffered minor injuries. he is out of danger at the moment and is receiving medical attention at a mexico city hospital. unfortunately, two security members of his team lost their lives. a woman passing by was also killed in the attack which took place in one of mexico city's

wealthy districts. known as a location of ambassadorial residences, this level of violence is unusual for the neighbourhood and has shocked residents. garcia harfuch has been at the jobs and since last october and hours after the attack, apparently from his hospital bed, the security chief tweeted. a gang led by a former police officer, is accused of fuelling record levels of violence in the country as it seeks to eliminate rivals. mexico's president has linked the attack to attempts by authorities to establish order in the city. despite growing drug cartel violence over the decade, the capital has remained relatively calm compared to other parts of the country. officials say a number of arrests have been made and the involvement of the cjng is just one line of inquiry.

fishermen in the indonesian province of aceh have rescued nearly 100 rohingya migrants from a boat stranded off the northern coast. officials had threatened to push them back out to sea. but local villagers decided to take their own action, as simon jones reports. they had been at sea for months. the fate of the exhausted migrants unclear after they fled persecution in myanmar. the authorities in aceh initially said they would not be welcome there but local fishermen had a different idea. they said, if the government would not help them, they would. taking matters into their own hands, they bring in their own hands, they bring in the 94th men, women and children to shore, describing it as that moral duty. translation: we are really concerned about them. they

argument and so are we. the government had no solution for them, that is why we are very concerned about them. the authorities had been reluctant to a cce pt authorities had been reluctant to accept the boat because of the coronavirus pandemic and now the new arrivals have been taken to his former immigration centre where they will undergo testing. they said not all of them survived the journey. translation: when i first got in the boat i felt dizzy and sick because about was going up and down because of the waves. do not know many have died. amnesty international has described the rescue is a moment of optimism and solidarity but the long—term future of these people is far from certain. simon jones, bbc news. as coronavirus cases rise in the south and west of america, cases in new york are dropping rapidly. to keep it that way, the city government is ramping up contact tracing. from new york, laura trevelyan has been looking at how the programme works. this woman calls herself a

disease detective, one of 3000 contact races in new york city. i'm calling because you tested positive... this work is important for her. she watched the virus devastate her neighbourhood. i have seen the amount of business is that have been shut down so it has had a lot of people and a lot have lost loved ones and livelihoods. is that part of what has motivated you to become a contact tracer? it needs to be reduced and people needs to be reduced and people need to know how to prevent it otherwise it will keep going on unchecked. new york's contact tracing operation is only three weeks of some people co—ordinating stop i asked the man in charge. we need to take ca re of man in charge. we need to take care of other new yorkers and i believe that is why we have had an improvement since we started in terms of new yorkers feeling

co mforta ble in terms of new yorkers feeling comfortable and we are at a rate i am proud of which is 86% of people have given us contacts. contact tracy has been used in new york and around the world to track you coronavirus outbreaks budge juggfing coronavirus outbreaks budge juggling an individual ‘s right to privacy and the public good is not easy. in italy, the government is trying a new approach. search, the application... the italian minister in charge of a new app which 4 million people have downloaded. italians with the app getan downloaded. italians with the app get an alert if they have been near an infected person who agreed to share that context. it is important to use this application because the quicker you understand that the person is positive and the better you can track this person and the faster you can identify the cluster of coronavirus in our country.

backin coronavirus in our country. back in new york, americans are aware of sharing the data with the government. —— wary. and will not answer the phone, this is what is coming next... we're going to have people are field operatives or community engagement specialist that will go into our communities and knock on the dot of anybody we we re knock on the dot of anybody we were not able to get through on the phone. the police are also pa rt the phone. the police are also part of the effort, giving out supplies in the hardest hit neighbourhoods. new yorkers fear the reemergence of coronavirus and contact tracing is the key to keep track of its transmission. laura trevelyan, bbc news. asian americans have endured a rise in harassment and hate attacks since the coronavirus pandemic began. they've been scapegoated because the virus came from china. increasingly, asian americans are speaking out against xenophobia and inflammatory political rhetoric. people willjudge by how you look, if you look asian, if you wear a mask,

they'll just pick on you no matter what. in fact, three asians in texas got stabbed. getting a gun will somehow make you will make to feel a little bit secure, knowing that if you are attacked, you have something to defend yourself and ijust did not feel safe as an asian american at the time. when i first came here, i wanted to adapt to american culture, as soon as possible, that is why i chose to go to the football games and go to the home parties. after what i went through in this pandemic, i realized they will always see you as an outsider because you look different. being an american means to me, they fully accept you as who you are, you don't want to be aggressive or insult anyone, we just want to hope we can feel safe here in the states. as cities open up, we are expecting a surge

in anti—asian racism even more. my sister died over that covid. i expect kids to be bullied, when we go back to the office place, we will face jokes. we go out to the streets, we are going to be harassed even more. are you from china? why is that? you haven't heard of the coronavirus? people are targeting the most vulnerable. women, children and elderly. come here! i talk about the chinese virus and i mean it, that's where it came from. i can name kung flu... and there are spikes after politicians use the term chinese virus. they associate asians with masks, with the disease. they think of the disease being chinese. i'm proud to be a chinese man. i'm proud to stand with my black sisters and brothers. as asian americans, we stand

with black lives matter, not as a generic group of people who show up, but as a particular community with a particular racial history. we bled to built the railroads, the american farming economy is built on filipino and japanese labour in the mid—19005. black bodies are brutalised they are objectfied, they're fetishized, asian bodies and voices are erased and they are marginalised and they are ignored. older gen 2, younger millennials, for some, this is the first time that they have protested and marched. there's more of an understanding in this generation that we are ultimately fighting against the same oppressive system. my rap group and i wanted to emphasise the fact that asian americans belong here. we are born here, we are saying that hate has no place in our country.

please do stay with bbc news. hello. we've seen some fairly lively weather developing over the past 2a hours. the recent heat and humidity giving away to some heavy showers and thunderstorms too. and as we head into the weekend now, things are going to be turning increasingly cool and quite windy, with some rain around the times too. all down to the low pressure moving its way in from the west and so, lots of heavy showers rotating around that area of low pressure, still quite humid out there but cooler air moving in from the southwest. plenty of heavy showers through the day on saturday, making their way gradually northwards and eastwards across the uk, it may dry up a bit across southern counties of england in the afternoon at some sunny spots developing their but still some showers to the midlands and wales, showers or northern ireland

and parts of northern england to be quite heavy and potentially thundering later on and for scotland we are expecting torrential downpours at times with some thunderstorms interspersed with some sunshine but temperatures generally in the high teens possibly at the low 20s and you will notice those winds will be picking up, especially in the south we could see those gusts wins about a0 miles proper along the south coast. 0vernight into sunday, no great changes we keep for the showers to the overnight period and it will not be quite us hot and humid as recent nights with temperatures typically about ten to 13 degrees overnight. heading on into sunday, the area of low pressure just to the north of the uk, most of the showery rain on sunday will be in the north and the northwest, particularly for northern ireland, north wales, northern england and scotland too. further south across england, you should stay mostly dry, but wherever you are, you will notice the strength of the wind, gusts from 30 to a0 mph.

stronger than that in the hills in the north. getting to sunday, quite a bit lower than recent days from 1a to 20 degrees and as we move on into next week, we still have the area of low pressure not far away and it will start to feel and move towards the east, but certainly for monday, another day of sunny spells and blustery showers and more of the showers once again on monday across northern and north western parts of the uk. fewer showers reaching further south, but much colder compared to recent days from 1a to 18 degrees on monday. so, we start next week on that showery windy note, where the showers should ease through the weekend. bye— bye.

this is bbc 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 for the second day in a row. the police chief of mexico city says he has survived an assassination attempt by a powerful drugs cartel. 0mar garcia harfuch was shot and injured when gunmen opened fire in a wealthy part of the mexican capital. 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 in glasgow. six people are being treated in hospitalfor their injuries including a police officer. liverpool supporters have been celebrating after the club was crowned premier league champions. it is the first time that club has one english football's top—flight title in 30 years. the club's manager has spoken of hisjoy in 30 years. the club's manager has spoken of his joy and