and around the world. countries including spain, france and greece without having the motion is carried and we have agreed to nominate deputy michael martin for appointment to the taoiseach. ireland swears in its new prime minister, micheal martin, as the country's two largest parties, fianna fail and fine gael, form a coalition for the first time a man who stabbed six people at a hotel in glasgow yesterday warned others he planned to carry out the attack, the bbc understands.

the us infectious disease chief says the nation has a "serious problem" in its handling of covid—19. india records its highest daily number of new coronavirus cases so far, surging to over half a million. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world — and stay with us for the latest news and analysis the british government is to ease restrictions on travel abroad which were introduced to help to control coronavirus. the advice to avoid all but essential travel is being relaxed from the sixth ofjuly. it's expected british holiday—makers will be able to head to popular destinations like spain,

italy, france and greece without having to spend 14 days in quarantine when they return. details will be announced next week. tom burridge reports. after a long lockdown, some people are desperate for a holiday abroad. we just want to get away from the familiarity of home — you know, being locked up together, as much as i love my family dearly! like others, john is relieved that he and his family won't have to quarantine once they travel back from their holiday in spain. the self—isolation would be a real barrier to going away because of the timing of our holiday. when we get back, we haven't got 14 days before our little ones need to go back to school. you know, they've missed out so much, we can't have them missing out on any more. a series of travel corridors are planned from july 6th. it will mean that people from low—risk countries, categorised as either green or orange, like france,

spain, italy, germany, the netherlands, greece, turkey, norway and finland, will not have to self—isolate after they travel. a final list will be confirmed next week. portugal and sweden are expected to be given a red rating because of concerns about infection rates. anyone travelling in from there and much of the rest of the world will still be subject to the quarantine rules. the republic of ireland has always been exempt. but the uk is behind most european countries. governments abroad are monitoring the prevalence of the virus here, too. the way things are now, we always have to put the risk that the health system has to be on the same track that it system has to be on the same track thatitis system has to be on the same track that it is now and we can certainly be at the restrictions in the next few days or twomac— three weeks.

for airlines, which have been battered by the pandemic, it's a move in the right direction. we really need to move quickly to establish some safe corridors, and we're not talking about throwing it open to the entire world, but where it's safe to operate we fundamentally believe that we are also safe to operate and we need to do that quickly. we will now begin boarding by seat rows... quarantine being set to move from in destinations, travel companies hope that more people will feel confident enough to pick a holiday abroad. tom burridge, bbc news. let's speak now to the travel journalist alison rice. what other news do you expect in the coming days quest to make i think we have heard the birdman, a drop of the ban of nonessential travel abroad. these averages are corridors, travel corridors where the countries agree that they are both lower risk the covid virus and

passengers can go back and forth without having to quarantine at either end. i mean, it is really sad that portugal is probably not going to be on the list as they, like all the other countries, spain, greece, france, are desperate for tourists to come back. i mean, there are some travel companies out there and did i say, some airlines hanging on with their finger say, some airlines hanging on with theirfinger takes say, some airlines hanging on with their finger takes and desperate to kick—start the tourism industry again. —— finger tips. kick—start the tourism industry again. -- finger tips. is it proven to be safe to get on a plane at the moment from what you have seen? and what about keeping hotels, villas, cottages, flat, whatever people might be staying in with the big turn of their people, mattresses, pillowcases, soft furnishings that they can be kept virus free?” pillowcases, soft furnishings that they can be kept virus free? i don't know is the answer. i think nobody knows. and i think it is worth saying, for people who are just desperate for some revenge travel,

they have been in lockdown too long and they want to go abroad and have and they want to go abroad and have a holiday, it will not be like the holiday you had a blood last year. a lot of the restaurants, clubs and that will not have opened and a lot of hotels, the hotel experience will be very different. gone will be the barfor be very different. gone will be the bar for breakfast, instead be very different. gone will be the barfor breakfast, instead hotels are talking about delivering —— boo free breakfast. they are talking about delivering it to your room. how will social distancing happened on the beach, it will be a very different experience. as we all realise, will the experience on the flight realise, will the experience on the flight and realise, will the experience on the flightand in realise, will the experience on the flight and in the airport. young people, we all know that your tomato when you're young, will not care and will just when you're young, will not care and willjust go. —— you are immortal when you're young. a part of the industry that usually spend the most money, the older people who probably had actually saved money have not lost a job —— who have not lost a job or are retired, may be much more cautious and not to be sure about

going abroad and if you are planning to book abroad, go to your bill abroad, visit family, if you have not got travel insurance that you but, probably before march, you may well find that your travel insurance does not cover you should you catch the virus when you're abroad. there are other risks as well, aren't? suppose you go to said european country and follow, you are then having to communicate any language, potentially, that you do not speak and be stranded there for quite a period. given all the risks, do you think that is going to be great demand? the british are famous for a holiday bargain and there have been some astonishing bargains during lockdown. for summer holidays. those customers will take up their offers. everyone else, i think, a lot of people who like me could not go during lockdown and move their holiday to the next year, we'lljust hope that maybe there is a vaccine by the middle of summer next year. i

think nobody actually knows what any response will be and it is worth saying, yes, you will be abroad, yes, you probably will get more sunshine then we might have in the summer in britain, auden england, but will it be the same experience? are you taking a holiday abroad this year then? no. i have moved my geek holiday, which i missed out next yeari holiday, which i missed out next year i was supposed to go to a platter slaver —— geek holiday. i am going to east sussex for a few nights. i was supposed to go to bratislava. i have travelled a lot, so holidays abroad to me are probably so holidays abroad to me are pro ba bly less so holidays abroad to me are probably less crucial than to someone who only manages to get abroad once a year. and let's remember there's a whole chunk of the public who will not have the income that it had back in february,

march when they were thinking of summer holidays. absolutely. and we know that the industry needs as to be stacked so it is a complex question. alison rice, thank you very much indeed. if you have any questions on what this could all mean for your holiday plans — you can send them in to be put to the travel editor of the sun newspaper and a spokesperson from abta later. send them in to yourquestions@bbc.co.uk — and we'll aim to put them to our experts at a quarter past four this afternoon. the us has recorded an all—time daily high of 40,000 coronavirus infections, according to figures from johns hopkins university. the white house coronavirus task force warned young people that their behaviour posed a risk to older people who are more vulnerable. 866,000 people aged between 18 and 44 have coronavirus. that's 200,000 more than the next age range and four times more than those over 75, who are among the most vulnerable.

the leading government advisor dr anthony fauci said the overwhelming majority of people being infected were the young, who are more likely to be socialising, and in crowds. two of the country's biggest states, texas and florida, have reimposed some lockdown restrictions, with the governor of texas ordering all bars to close. 0ur north america correspondent david willis reports. florida's decision to relax restrictions brought sun—worshippers flocking back to the beach. but just a few weeks later, the coronavirus has come surging back with a vengeance. nearly 9,000 new cases were reported in the sunshine state in the space ofjust 2a hours, a record. hospitals in some parts of the country now fear they could be overwhelmed, and it's no longer mainly elderly patients that they are dealing with. we are seeing more younger patients than older patients. the older patients tend to be sicker, so we are seeing more younger patients who are getting

admitted to the hospital, and that's a trend that is new. call it quarantine fatigue. young people in some parts of the country, bored after weeks indoors, are starting to socialise. understandably, no blame there. understandably. but the thing that you really need to realise is that when you do that, you are part of a process. so, if you get infected, you will infect someone else who clearly will infect someone else. we know that happens. closed again. in texas, another hotspot, bars that had onlyjust reopened are shutting their doors once more, and sending back their beer. the staggering spike in daily infections has put the white house on the defensive. the trump administration claims to have flattened the curve, but the vice president conceded that infections are on the rise in 16 states, and he seemed uneasy. as we see new cases rising,

and we're 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're in a time of great losses and great hardship on the american people. the reality is we're in a much better place. medical experts are more cautious, however. they warn that, if the current outbreak isn't contained quickly, it could spread to states that are doing better, rendering the sacrifices of the last few months invalid. david willis, bbc news. india now has half a million cases of the outbreak and the rate of infection appears to be rising. yesterday, more than 18,000 new cases were declared, the highest number so far. the western state of maharashtra

is the worst—affected area. delhi has been hit hard too — with more than 77,000 cases in the city. india imposed a strict lockdown across the country in march but many of the restrictions were eased this month. more than 15,000 people are known to have died as a result of contracting covid—i9. india's prime minister narendra modi praised the results of what he called the "people—driven fight" against coronavirus — and called for people to continue wearing masks and to maintain social distancing. police have broken up several more illegal public gatherings overnight. in liverpool, thousands gathered for a second night to celebrate liverpool football club's premier league title win, despite being being told to stay at home. in london, police were called to break up street parties, including one that moved between several locations including maida vale. lockdown isn't over. we've seen some easing of the restrictions and my big push to people, particularly those who are disregarding the

current regulations is to very much comply with those health regulations. they are there for your own safety as well as that of your family and communities. a new government is being formed in ireland after two parties which have dominated politics for decades, fine gael and fianna fail agreed to enter a coalition with the green party. the leader of fianna fail, michael martin, is set to be formally elected taoiseach by members of the dail. 0ur ireland correspondent chris page reports. after more than 30 years in politics, micheal martin has reached the pinnacle. he's taking over as prime minister as the result of an unprecedented coalition deal. the irish parliament is meeting in socially—distanced format, away from its usual venue, to install the new government. mr martin, who is the leader of fianna fail, was voted into the job by fine gael, which is the party of the outgoing taoiseach, leo varadkar. this is a historic occasion. i believe civil war politics ended a long time ago in our country, but today civil war politics ends

in our parliament. two great parties, fianna fail and fine gael, coming together with another great party, the green party, to offer what this country needs. fianna fail and fine gael have dominated governments in dublin for almost a century, but never before have they gone into coalition with each other. they grew out of the two sides in the irish civil war in the 19205, and the historical rivalry between them has been fierce. broadly speaking, they are both parties of the political centre, though fine gael has tended to be slightly to the right of fianna fail. their combined electoral strength has dropped in the last decade. in another big change, sinn fein, which is in government in northern ireland, will now lead the opposition in dublin for the first time. micheal martin and his ministers will face challenges none of their predecessors had. as well as the economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic, there's also the trade negotiations between the eu and ireland's nearest neighbour, the uk. chris paige, bbc news, dublin.

pregnant women from black, asian and minority ethnic backgrounds are to receive more support, after research highlighted they're at a greater risk from covid—19. the nhs has written to all maternity units in england calling on them to offer tailored support, such as highlighting the benefits of vitamin d supplements. joining me now is mars lord, a doula and birth activist. are you seeing more body amongst people from more diverse backgrounds? who might be pregnant at the moment? —— more worry. backgrounds? who might be pregnant at the moment? -- more worry. black and brown women have been worried for a while because of the maternity mortality rates disparity which has been going on for years, where they are five times more likely to die, so then to see an increased risk with covid is, gear, causing more wedding. what do you think needs to happen to try and safeguard people? —— causing more worry. first of all,

black and brown women need to be listened to and believed. it is not enough tojust listened to and believed. it is not enough to just say, we will add extra things, they need to be listened to, heard and believed when they talk about symptoms that they are experiencing, fears and worries that they have. it is a little more than just we need to put a, b and sea into practice. we need to find out what it is that we think they're mad at risk of and what it is we have decided, we need to do some talking. we need to put in some action points. we keep talking about having more research, but the research has been there for years. so now it is time to start taking some actions. and one of the actions it's going to have to be that uncomfortable glands in the mirror. and are looking at an unconscious bias within the systems. specifically, what do you think needs to happen? what is going wrong thatis needs to happen? what is going wrong that is not being addressed?”

suppose the simplest way to put it as theirs, when we discovered that mothers who smoked tended to have smaller weight babies, birth weight babies, we did a huge campaign, we made sure that health professionals we re made sure that health professionals were educated, we made sure that the families are educated, so that people knew that these where the risks and these were the things that you needed to do or not to. and we put a lot of time behind that. well, we know that black women and brown women are five entity times are more likely to die, we decided that it is probably due to predispositions are one of the issues is predisposition so if we know that these women are more likely to have these predispositions, we need to make sure that they are educated about it, that the staff are educated about it, we need to look at the way our maternity staff are trained because it can they recognise different things on different shades of skin? so what might present any white skin as a red rash is not

going to present as a red rash in a brown skin. we need to look at what we are doing, we need to look at the methods that we are using to diagnose and we need to take the symptom seriously and not the sort of say, well, you are strong, you can do this or, oh, african women always, asian women always... we need to take that out of alexey on our way of speaking and we need to think about the individual —— our lexicon. and that is one of the ways that we can start to come against the disparities and close the gap. thank you for your time. this a police officer that was seriously injured this d in a multiple stabbing in glasgow has been praised for his bravery. constable david whyte's condition has been described as critical but stable. he was one of six men injured in yesterday's knife attack,

in a hotel housing asylum seekers. the suspect was shot dead by armed police. now in the wake of the black lives matter protests across the world, many people are thinking of new ways to try to deal with racism and inequalities in all walks of life, including financially. a rapper who made his name as part of the hip—hop group so solid crew has launched a campaign encouraging people to support and buy from black—owned british businesses. swiss has used social media to promote black pound day, which he hopes will become a monthly event. let's speak to amarachi clarke, who is the founder of lucocoa chocolate, and also i'm joined byjonathan wildman, the founder of black2business, which is an online directory for product and service providers from the black community. thank you to both of you. if i can start with you, do you think you need to encourage black people are only population to support black

businesses in particular question make we need to encourage everybody to buy from black businesses, not just black people. ultimately, we talk about how small businesses are the kind of backbone of the economy and lots of black businesses are within that. it is good that eve ryo ne within that. it is good that everyone needs to support black businesses. have you found it harder, do you think, than a white counterpart would have done in your own business? so i own london's first... chocolate company and that is an industry that is worth over £1.1 billion and when i have been looking for investment and finance, it has always been a little bit more difficult, more hurdles and it is easy when i talk about my experiences, people kind of disregard them and say, well it is a lwa ys disregard them and say, well it is always ha rd to disregard them and say, well it is always hard to find finance, but you have to be part of those conversations and there was a nuanced conversation that you around, you're not the right fit, it

is not at the right fit, your product is not the right fit or is something about you, it is a risky investment. it has been difficult when it comes to the finance front andi when it comes to the finance front and i have had that of any last two yea rs a re and i have had that of any last two years are looking for investment and it has been getting to the point where i had to go it alone and say, i know that this is a concept that can work, it is chocolate, so let's try and get myself and that's what i have done. but it is always difficult to try to get access to finance, especially investment. of course it has, for everyone, no. what do you think of this idea. as at welcome support or potentially a bit divisive? not at all. i think it is incredibly welcome. when it comes to black businesses... there is a wealth of innovative entrepreneurs. and from my point of view, the way that i see it is that who knows black culture better than the black

community. the commercialisation of black culture, blackouts, black talent, why shouldn't the black community benefit? —— black arts. it isa community benefit? —— black arts. it is a billy welcome that they are in the spotlight right now. do you think the problem is with getting finance and support to get up and running for businesses? 0r finance and support to get up and running for businesses? or is it about customers not coming to black businesses? i think it is a twofold, really. it is true that black entrepreneurs have found it harder to get investment. they have found it harder to obtain business loans for all sorts of reasons. i do think that a lot of work needs to be done in that respect. before black businesses were located very locally, you know, so local

communities where the black community was sort of prevalent around the country would support those businesses largely through word—of—mouth, but things have changed now. is different. there is the internet, business is global. you can run a global business from one room. so there needs to be a lot more support for black entrepreneurs out there. we cannot rely on word—of—mouth any more. and it has not been fair, not a level playing field and it is about things —— time things change. i do not know if you can give me an example of where you have found it harder then, you know, someone who is white or from a background to get ahead in your business. has there been any specific incident without naming the kite i won't name names, do not body. i spent two years looking for investment and i am a bean to bar chocolate company and we are challenging the whole concept of chocolate. we are really being innovative and distracting the status quo. investors and business people, they always say that they

wa nt people, they always say that they want some who works hard and who is going to challenge the status quo, what is the new product and i have got one, we talk about and we look at chocoholic when coffee in different regions quite different flavours and when i go there, when the incident is that i sat in front ofa the incident is that i sat in front of a guy and he said, the incident is that i sat in front ofa guy and he said, do the incident is that i sat in front of a guy and he said, do you know what, these are two lads came to me the other day and i literally got their business plan. i got there business off the ground and i became an investor. they literally came to me with nothing and i wrote on the back of a piece of paper and i helped them to the exit strategy. and no, they are doing this and that. and i was sat across the room with a product that i had been working on better years, had customers in hotels, restaurants, coffee chains, and i sat there and said, i have a viable product, it is here and at the time i was working full—time and working during the day, doing deliveries in the morning and doing deliveries and making chocolate in the evening and i am sat there saying, well, i'm sat here with a product for you which is up and running and on the shelf, out in the world, and is doing its thing

and growing in the business has grown, but instead you would rather go with somebody that was a very similarto go with somebody that was a very similar to you go with somebody that was a very similarto you and go with somebody that was a very similar to you and your background then sketch me and you actually but that idea down and turned it into a whole product and company, which is actually... quite big now. so it is hurdle after hurdle. as black people we have a lot of resilience in terms of how... in terms of how we try and get over this. sadly we are out of time. thank you so much for your time. thank you so much for your time today. you're watching bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with susan powell. hello. after a ll after all the heat of recent days, it isa after all the heat of recent days, it is a very different study to take us it is a very different study to take us through the weekend and into next week. a much fresherfeel to us through the weekend and into next week. a much fresher feel to things now. a much more unsettled look, low

pressure is going to swell and plenty showers across the uk overnight and tonight. to the south, i think they will be quite well scattered across the evening, but look out for some heavier ones, particularly towards the west and more persistent rain gutters across northern ireland, scotland and northern england tour at the end of the night. a much fresher night. temperatures down into the low teens. sunday daytime, still a bit of rain to come across the northern half of the uk. perhaps sheltered regions across the north—east of england not faring quite so badly, but some other showers across northern scotland - be northern scotland could be particularly heavy. a windy day across the board. these are our gutter

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the headlines. british tourists are set to be allowed to travel to european countries including spain, france and greece without having to quarantine on their return that the motion is carried and they have agreed to nominate deputy michael martin for appointment by the president to be taoiseach. ireland swears in its new prime minister, micheal martin, as the country's two largest parties, fianna fail and fine gael, form a coalition for the first time. a man who stabbed six people yesterday warned he carried out the attack. as texas and florida reimpose virus restrictions, the us infectious disease chief says the nation has a serious problem in its handling of covid—19. india records its highest daily number of new coronavirus cases so far, surging to over half a million. and now on bbc news, audiences from around the world question their leaders on global issues in this edition