morning, welcome to bbc news this monday morning. i'm victoria derbyshire, here are the headlines: £1 billion promised to rebuild crumbling schools in england — and millions more for repairs. but critics say it's a fraction of what's needed. wales reopens all of its schools from today, with staggered sessions for all year groups until the end of term. high street shops in scotland are opening their doors for the first time since the lockdown restrictions came in back in march. the number of people to die with covid—19 worldwide passes 500,000.

a group of armed men have stormed the stock exchange in the city of karachi — killing at least two people. leicester's mayor says current coronavirus restrictions will remain in place there for two weeks, amidst suggestions that a local lockdown might be introduced because of a spike in cases. and it's gone, and may bowl takes it! coming up in the next hour — the two most famous dogs of lockdown mabel and olive and their owner, bbc sports commentator andrew cotter — for his first british tv interview about his and his dogs‘ worldwide fame. and also — this question for you — does it feel like lockdown in england is effectively over? message me on twitter at vicderbyshire or email victoria@bbc.co.uk.

good morning. schools in england are to receive £1 billion of funding over the next ten years in a programme building projects being launched by the prime minister today. he's also announcing a further £560 million towards repairing crumbling school buildings this financial year. unions say the money is welcome, but is only a fraction of what is needed. here's our education editor, bra nwen jeffreys. some school buildings in england are in a shocking state. now, a promise of money for rebuilding. plans for more than £1 billion over ten years — that stretches beyond the next election. the first few should start next year, with 50 projects getting approval this autumn. what we know from the national audit 0ffice three years ago is that £6.7 billion was needed then, three years ago, to restore the school and college estate.

this £1 billion announcement i think is welcome but clearly there's a lot to do to make amends for the last ten years of underinvestment in education. the extra cash for repairs will make a difference first. £560 million more for next year, an increase of about a third on the repairs budget. but still, nowhere near the almost £7 billion needed — the true cost of getting england's school buildings to an acceptable standard. branwen jeffreys, bbc news. 0ur assistant political editor norman smith is at westminster. is this all part of the government trying to reset the agenda?m is this all part of the government trying to reset the agenda? it is. we are now moving into what the government believes there is a new phase once we're past the immediate crisis over covid and they now want to focus on the relaunch, the big building phase of infrastructure, of which schools is a central part. there will be much, much more in

terms of hospitals, prison places, roads, rail, you name it, as part of re—engineering and re—equipping britain to come of the covid crisis. more than that, i think boris johnson sees it as a moment when this country starts to upgrade its infrastructure. so, it's big, rhetorically. the question is can you deliver it practically? that means money and it means can do project management. 0ut means money and it means can do project management. out of that, the initial part is getting people back to work, why there is this huge emphasis on getting schools back in september, with gavin williamson committing this morning all schools will be back in september, primary and secondary, he says this is absolutely going to happen this time. he will be setting out how he's going to achieve that in the commons later this week, but it will involve, it seems, testing in schools and the ability to close individual schools where there is a

resurgence in the virus or even to close individual year groups if particular year groups have an upsurge in the virus. this morning he was sounding pretty bullish about getting all pupils back in september. we want to see every child back into school. we want to see all year groups back into school. we have rapidly approaching 1.5 million children actually going back into school at the end of last week. i imagine those numbers are going to grow this week and grow the following week as more children return to school, parents' confidence about what their children are receiving increases. and schools get comfortable about what they are offering. but we are going to have to make changes as to how it currently operates. we've seen the relaxation of social distancing rules and we are going to see the return of full class sizes, for primary schools and for secondary schools, because we do need to ensure that every child is benefiting from the education that we all so richly value.

so, that sounds like social distancing in schools is pretty much going to come to an end. you heard gavin williamson talk about going back to full class sizes. at the moment, there is a cap of 15, which is part of the problem because it means you need twice as much classroom space. what he is suggesting as you go back to classes of up to 30, doing away with the existing bubble. labour's view is the way to get round this is to just create, build more classes, whether it is through portakabins in playgrounds or requisitioning vacant council buildings, using libraries 01’ council buildings, using libraries or whatever, to create the additional space, so you could still maintain social distancing in schools. this was the labour leader sir keir starmer talking about that this morning. the question is how quickly can we get all children back into school safely? i think we could have done it by now, had there been some leadership on this from the prime minister. it was obvious from the

day that schools were closed what would be needed to get them back open, because most of the problems are practical problems. all the head teachers i've spoken to had said if you have a big score with a lot of space, it's possible to do it. if you have a small school with almost no is based, it's very difficult. had the government put forward, put together a task force or something together a task force or something to bring people together and say what needs to be done? risk assessed every school, if you need temporary classrooms, let's build them. we put up classrooms, let's build them. we put up nightingale hospitals, which was a good thing, we could have put up temporary classrooms or used libraries, community centres, which at the moment are empty. the problems are practical, they could have been solved, it needed leadership from the top from the prime minister and that has been found wanting here. let's have a brief a word about top civil servant leaving theirjob and why it should matter? sir mark said well, the cabinet secretary, the top civil

servant, is going. he has been shuffled towards the door. the viewing government is that they want a cabinet secretary who is focused on delivery. it matters because two reasons, really. they top civil servant sets the tone for how the whitehall machine operates and he is the man responsible for bringing together all the parts of the machine to deliver policy. it's a hugely important post. politically, though, it causes a row because of suspicions that he has been ousted because he is perhaps not on the same page as borisjohnson, he's not been part of the vote leave crowd which borisjohnson been part of the vote leave crowd which boris johnson has been part of the vote leave crowd which borisjohnson has tended to surround himself with. my impression is that team johnson see reform of the civil service is actually integral to their so called levelling up agenda because their ta ke levelling up agenda because their take is you can talk until you are blue in the face about building and hospitals and schools and roads and all this, that and the other. you need someone at the top of the civil service who has the skill set, in

other words it is a project manager, can negotiate new contracts as an administrator, rather than the more classic civil service approach, which tends to be more analytical, presentational, argumentative. they wa nt presentational, argumentative. they want a presentational, argumentative. they wanta can presentational, argumentative. they want a can do, someone with more of the private sector ethos. thank you very much, norman. thank you. norman was talking about schools in england. school bells in wales will be ringing for the first time since lockdown began this morning, as pupils begin to make a phased return to the classroom. but it will be a very different experience for children and teachers, with measures put in place to stop the spread of the coronavirus. 0ur wales correspondent tomos morgan has been to see how the schools, and the children are getting ready to return. after 1a weeks away, today, children in wales will begin returning to the classroom. but it won't be school as they used to know it. i don't think i've been part of education where we've had to dismantle every aspect of education and then rebuild it with a covid—19 element to it. so, from pupils leaving their house

in the morning, making sure they've got a packed lunch because we've got no catering facilities, through transport, where buses have been adapted. the fact we can only get eight learners on a bus at any one time, through to the fact they're going to be taught in one classroom. when i last visited eight—year—old evan in may, he'd been enjoying the past three and half months being home—schooled by dad, jason. but he had missed the interaction with other children at school. if you see your friends, you're like, "oh, mum, dad, can i go play with them?" evan will be going back for two days over the next three weeks, as only a third of pupils will be in class at any one time in wales. and now that school is back on the cards, he's not quite so sure if he'd rather at home. yeah! i don't want to go back to school but... it's kind of like i want to but i don't want to because seeing your friends, playing football. seeing your teacher... but doing homework at home, there's lots of distractions

and stuff but doing it in school... easy — no distractions. it will be a phased return for pupils here in wales, just like across all the devolved nations of the uk. certain year groups at primary level have been back in school for four weeks already in england. scottish schools will reopen at the start of the autumn term on the 11th august, with some continuing home learning, with some northern irish pupils going back in late august. but for all children of any age, school will certainly look, feel and be a completely different learning environment by the next academic year. tomos morgan, bbc news, cardiff. many high street shops in scotland have been opening their doors for the first time in three months this morning. it only applies to those with street access, and shoppers will still be encouraged to maintain social

distancing and cover their faces. the housing market is also reopening and scottish premiership football clubs can resume contact training. northern ireland becomes the first part of the uk to adopt a one metre social distancing guidance, with some restrictions today. the move was agreed by the northern ireland executive last week, ahead of the hospitality sector preparing to reopen fully on friday. also from today, churches can reopen for indoor services, and ministers at stormont are expected to sign off on a proposal to make face coverings mandatory on public transport. pubs and restaurants in leicester may stay closed for two more weeks due to a surge in coronavirus cases. the city's mayor has said said the government has recommended current restrictions are maintained for a furtherfortnight, but have not advised a return to earlier lockdown meausres. 0ur reporter navtej johal is in leicester. tell us more. the situation here in leicester has

been serious enough for the department of health to describe the city as an area of concern but it has stopped of short saying that a localised lockdown here is likely. to give you a bit of background, this all began when the health secretary, matt hancock, mentioned ina daily secretary, matt hancock, mentioned in a daily government briefing that there had been in his words and outbreak in the city. the latest figures show that there have been almost dine hundred people who have tested positive for coronavirus in their two weeks up tojune 23. —— has been almost 900 people. almost a third of the number of cases in the city. in the last few days, we have seen city. in the last few days, we have seen several schools have to temporarily close due to positive cases being reported there. local businesses have been affected as well, including a supermarket and a local big sandwich maker, where there have been positive cases also. and yesterday, we had priti patel, the home secretary, say that a localised lockdown was something that the government was considering for leicester. but this morning,

said peter salisbury, the mayor of leicester, said recommendations he has received overnight from the government suggest that the current restrictions, the current lockdown measures, should be in place for an extra two weeks rather than stricter measures being reimposed, which would mean from july the 4th, as the rest of england sees the likes of hairdressers, pubs and restaurants reopen, they will remain closed under current measures here in the city, which will have a huge impact on those businesses. now, we are expecting still a meeting to take place today, a virtual meeting between the mayor of leicester, public health england and department of health officials which may provide more clarity for people in the city who are desperate to find out what the next measures are going to be, what the next few days and weeks are going to look like and how, if there will be any restrictions on imposed to the people of leicester. thank you very

much. we will watch with intra— what happened there. thank you. i'm asking you in other parts of england, does it feel like they lockdown is over where you live? 0ne viewer says, i have to admit we broke the rules on saturday when visiting my daughter. we went into her home, had a takeaway, chatted and watched tv. this morning i clicked on the bbc news site and so what can we do on the 11th ofjuly? the penny dropped, we were a week early but it never crossed our minds. another says, ithink early but it never crossed our minds. another says, i think we must be the only one still washing all oui’ be the only one still washing all our shopping. we feel silly now after seeing all the people out especially as we live in bournemouth but we will continue to do it. steve says, i'm unhappy at the rate people are ignoring the advice. the virus won't go away and the risk of a second spike will be high. i'm being careful and observing the rules for oui’ careful and observing the rules for our safety and others. i wear a mask when shopping, lots of hand gel and hand washing. and one more for now, it seems to be all over for my neighbours. huge barbecues at the weekend, loads of friends over, no social distancing and all the kids back playing together posted couldn't they really go back to

school? sorry for snitching but it's making me both angry and scared about their actions. so, making me both angry and scared about theiractions. so, does making me both angry and scared about their actions. so, does it is effectively over where you are or not? let me know where ever you are in the country. the headlines on bbc news. £1 billion promised to rebuild crumbling schools in england — and millions more for repairs. but critics say it's a fraction of what's needed. wales reopens all of its schools from today — with staggered sessions for all year groups until the end of term. high street shops in scotland are opening their doors for the first time since the lockdown restrictions came in back in march. police in the pakistani city of karachi say there's been a militant attack on the national stock exchange. officers say a car drew up to the building, which lies in a high security zone that also houses the head offices

of many private banks, before detonating a grenade. four militants then stormed inside, firing indiscriminately. the police chief says all four of the attackers have now been killed and the situation is under control. umer draz from the bbc‘s urdu service gave us an update. the police have just informed they have cleared the building. they conducted the search operation i now have declared their building is clear from the militants. have declared their building is clearfrom the militants. they have declared their building is clear from the militants. they are saying they were four gun men who we re saying they were four gun men who were taken down by the security agencies. and injuries among the security guards who engage the militants when they attacked and a police official has died. there are reports about civilian deaths as well. government officials saying there are two civilians who died in this attack on a number of injured

people who have been moved to the hospitals as well. so, for now, the police and the security agencies are saying the building is clear. the business there is going on as usual. a spokesperson from the karachi stock exchange earlier spoke to the local media and he said that the trading is continuing, it did not stop at the building and there are officers, people in the offices who are working as per their routine at the moment. back to the lockdown — and this saturday is being called "super saturday" by some — the day many pubs are due to reopen in england. what does it mean for police forces though, particularly after they've already had to break up parties and unlicensed music events? last week, one in particular led to officers being injured. the head of the national police chiefs council, martin hewitt, has appealed to everyone to act responsibly. people have been locked down the some time, there clearly is some frustration.

so i think whenever this opens up, people will want to get out there. really, all i say to people is to be responsible. i know all the owners of the facilities, the pubs, will be thinking and will have been thinking really hard about how they open up and there'll be policing operations all over the country to deal with the particular circumstances that we find ourselves in. but it really is about people thinking responsibly, because the virus is still with us and what we clearly don't want to see is situations where we end up having to police levels of disorder and violence. david jamieson is the labour west midlands police and crime commissioner. let's talk to him now. good morning. do you have any concerns about the police's ability to cope this weekend, when we see pubs reopening england might get firstly, i have no problem with the pubs reopening. if that's where the scientific advice as it is safe, let's do that. my is if you chose the worst possible day that you could have done, you would

have chosen next saturday. so it is high summer. there is a long period of frustration being built up and people have been locked down and it isa people have been locked down and it is a saturday night. the combination of the three things puts, i think, a huge pressure on our local police force. of course, the police force will always do whatever they can but the government has, i'm afraid, yet again, made it even more difficult for the police. do you have any concerns about their ability to cope, potentially? potentially, yes. imean, cope, potentially? potentially, yes. i mean, there could be a huge number of people on the streets. look at what we saw in bournemouth recently and in brighton. the city centres of birmingham, wolverhampton, coventry and other towns, a lot of people do go out on a saturday night and that's good. people having a great time. but to have social distancing, to maintain the order with the sort of numbers we are talking about... what would have been better, if the government had chosen to ask us at a

consultation with us, what we would have said is either open a little bit earlier, this week, lets a wednesday or thursday this week or a little bit later on the monday and have a gradual moving into it. but just opening on a saturday night mid—summer is pure madness, in my view. i did have some messages from republicans last week saying they we re republicans last week saying they were worried about the reopening being on a saturday and actually mid week or a monday might have been a bit more helpful. also, of course, i don't know how many premier league matches on saturday as well obviously on the telly. last week in london, as you know, we saw an illegal street party in brixton where 22 officers were injured. there were other illegal street parties in tooting beck, clapham common, notting hill. what do you think is happening there?” think it's this unlocking of the frustrations of people who have...

young people particularly have been locked down for a period of time. they want to get out and have a good time andi they want to get out and have a good time and i understand that but that does not mean that those people can then attack a police officer. that is totally and absolutely wrong. we have had some big raves, as they are called, going to be held just outside of our area. we worked very closely with staffordshire police have managed to stop that before it started. these are unofficial events, where drugs are freely available, there is very little security and there is no thought given to people because that safety. soi given to people because that safety. so i have no problem with properly organised events but these unofficial raves... sometimes may even be being organised by people who are involved in the drugs gangs. those are unacceptable and particularly the damage and harm that has happened to the police and in one case, a young woman, it was alleged she was raped, two people we re alleged she was raped, two people were stabbed and one died of an overdose. that is not having a good time, that is chaos. the

government's latest rules are guidance rather than legislation does that make it harder for officers to police? well, of course it does. but we understand there is guidance but the police will always use good sense. in the west midlands here, people have used good sense as martin hewitt was saying a moment ago. we have relied upon the common sense in my area, the west midlands. people are sensible generally. but what the government have done now, by saturday, by lifting it on saturday, they have piled all the problems until one day. had we been asked, we would have said to them either do it a bit earlier or a bit later and just allow this to come in more slowly. i think many of the publicans more slowly. i think many of the publica ns and those more slowly. i think many of the publicans and those who own pubs and clu bs publicans and those who own pubs and clubs have been saying exactly the same thing as well. so it would appear the government are doing this morph is showing us, forth ofjuly, its independence day in america, you know... you really have to think not of the politics of it, you have to

think of the safety of people in this country and that is the job of the police. we will do the job this country and that is the job of the police. we will do thejob but what i'm saying is it has been made more difficult by the government not listening to the point is that we would have made had we been asked. thank you for talking to us, on the subject of whether you feel like lockdown in england is over... barry says its aim is like lockdown in london is over. very few maintaining social distancing. tables outside restau ra nts social distancing. tables outside restaurants are being occupied, is this legal? hardly anyone on buses is wearing face coverings. i challenged a few on the bus and it appears they will have breathing problems. teenagers seem completely oblivious to any rules. maria says it's been over since dominic cummings gate. that is the truth. we saw the effect immediately. this from someone who lives in scotland. in scotland it seems where i live a lot of people are not following lockdown any more. my family have all been mixing a not social

distancing and their reasoning is, it's only family. it's really concerning, as i've been in isolation since lockdown began. it seems the lessons of the last few months have been forgotten. 0ne seems the lessons of the last few months have been forgotten. one more for now. watching events from last week, bournemouth beach, liverpool fans, of which i am one, got me down. it proves to be an all in this together. is society degenerated so much it would put our short—term pleasure ahead of many people's long term health. if you want to get in touch, you are very welcome. i will feed some of your messages and through the conversation. we are here until 11am. you can contact me on twitter or e—mail me. the government is expected to confirm today that travel corridors, also known as air bridges, will go ahead. it's the beginning of plans to relax restrictions on nonessential overseas travel in the uk. the final list of countries that we'll be able to travel to — without having to quarantine — will be announced this week.

so far, it's thought france and spain will be among those countries whereas others, like portugal and sweden, will not. with me is tim alderslade, chief executive of airlines uk. and also i'm joined byjames dudley—evans, who hasjust booked a family holiday to tenerife. is this correct, james? that's correct, yes. why have you done it when we don't know who will be on the air bridge less? itjust seemed to me like the most likely option. the canary to me like the most likely option. the ca nary islands to me like the most likely option. the canary islands themselves because they are so remote and have had a very low infection rate and also with the way the spanish government has handled it. they have pretty much got the situation under control. their infection rate, as far as control. their infection rate, as farasi control. their infection rate, as faras i am control. their infection rate, as far as i am aware, is lower than ours. it seems the most plausible option and also the flights and holidays are back on sale again. so trying to sneak in that booking before it all got officially confirmed seemed a good way of getting a deal. when did you actually book it? i think it was on thursday afternoon. so literally a

few hours before the announcement and the shortlist being leaked. perfect timing! wright 0k. presumably hearing someone has booked that kind of holiday is the kind of thing that makes you happy? we will wait and see for the list on wednesday. we have heard over the weekend there has been a significant spike in bookings. i think what it shows is that there is a lot of pent—up demand forair shows is that there is a lot of pent—up demand for air travel and for getting away this summer. it's also great news for the aviation industry in the travel industry more generally. it's been the most devastating crisis to hit our industry ever. it is much worse than 9/11 or the financial crisis in 2008 and we are delighted that there is demand, that people want to get away with their families and the government has listened to the concern that we all had about the blanket quarantine policy that came in. so we are expecting a decent numberof in. so we are expecting a decent number of countries to be announced on wednesday. we will have to wait

for the detail. a significant amount of the eu will be covered so i hope james will be fine but this just shows that there is a real demand out there for holidays, which is great for my members and the travel industry more generally, which has been absolutely decimated by this crisis. you are the trade body for uk registered airlines. which countries do you expect to be on the list? well, we don't know. until wednesday, we don't know. it is a lot of speculation was that the media has done its best to try and put it all together. we are expecting a significant amount of eu countries. that is where a lot of the demand is. we sent in a list of country to the government a few weeks ago and there are a lot of southern european, mediterranean destinations where there is a lot of demand for holiday this summer. so we will wait and see. there will be very important countries to the uk not on the list. principally the us, which is quite serious in terms of

our trading which is quite serious in terms of ourtrading and which is quite serious in terms of our trading and business relations. but we will have to wait and see for wednesday and once it's an ounce, we are expecting a sizeable surge in bookings. yeah, do you think then that passenger confidence hasn't particularly been damaged by this crisis? well, i mean i think they have been listening to the official advice. the official advice up until now has been not to travel if you absolutely can avoid it. we are expecting the advice to change on wednesday alongside the announcement on air bridges. i think people will listen to their government. if the government is saying if you have these 30 or 40 countries where it is safe to travel, people will act accordingly. people are pent—up and frustrated and want to go on holiday. i want to go on my family holiday. i want to go on my family holiday this summer and if the government is telling me it is safe to do so, then i think people will act accordingly and go ahead and book. we know in times of financial

crisis, the annual holiday with family is the last thing they want to give up. they will make sacrifices on other things but the holiday is sacred to them. i think thatis holiday is sacred to them. i think that is what we are seeing now. james, if spain doesn't happen to be one of the countries where we don't have an air corridor and you have to quarantine when you come back to the uk will there be an issue for you? not for me. i'm able to work from home at the moment. it will be inconvenient, i will have to do online shopping instead of going out but it won't be a problem for me so much. how much do you feel like you need this holiday? it's my first one of the year after my last one got cancelled in march, so it would be rather nice. things have been rather busy. if i have to delay by a few weeks, then it's not so much of a big deal but i definitely would like it to go ahead. tim, how will it work with social distancing on planes?

the government published alongside the industry health guidance for aviation only a couple of weeks ago, so aviation only a couple of weeks ago, so there will not be social distancing on the plane because it is very difficult from an operational perspective and also very difficult at the airports but there is a number of measures in place that customers will be asked to abide by, in particular face masks and limited service on board. you know, toilets, stocks will be monitored etc, so people should adhere to the guidance and it will be made clear to them by the airline and at the airport. social distancing is very important for our industry because we wouldn't get the volume of people onto the plane to make the service viable. we work quite closely with the government on that guidance and it is pretty comprehensive and we are very confident that passengers using aviation this summer will be experiencing a safe journey. thank you both very much, tim alderslade and james dudley evans. thank you.

and if you're thinking of going away this summer sure you stay with us this morning as we'll be answering some of your questions on where you stand if you want to travel abroad. that's coming up at 11:30am with thejonathan smith from abta, the body which represents travel agents and tour operators and the independent‘s travel editor — simon calder. although we still won't have the list of countries with which we are having air bridges. but i think that is due on wednesday. now it's time for a look at the weather with louise. hello there. a north—south divide with our weather story at the moment. the cloud, the wind and the rain that we saw for sunday, that's continuing across parts of scotland, northern ireland and northern england. but the heavy rain will start to ease and become more showery into the afternoon. cloudy conditions across england and wales. the best of any breaks with some brief glimpses of sunshine to the south of the m4 corridor, but it stays pretty windy with it, particularly in the sharper showers, gusts in excess of 35—40 miles an hour. and temperatures struggling a little. top temperatures of 14—20 degrees. now, as we move through the evening

and overnight, the low pressure drifts its way off into scandinavia. we keep a fair amount of cloud around and a few scattered showers. weather conditions down into the south—west turn damp and misty, murky. so, it will be a relatively mild start to tuesday. hopefully a slightly quieter story. the best of the drier weather across southern england with our week ahead, still some rain in the forecast later in the week. good morning, hello. this is bbc news with victoria derbyshire. the headlines: £1 billion promised to rebuild crumbling schools in england — and millions more for repairs. but critics say it's a fraction of what's needed. wales reopens all of its schools from today — with staggered sessions for all year groups until the end of term. high street shops in scotland are opening their doors for the first time since the lockdown restrictions came in back in march. the number of people to die

with covid—19 worldwide passes 500,000. a group of armed men have stormed the stock exchange in the pakistani city of karachi — killing at least two people. leicester's mayor says current coronavirus restrictions will remain in place there for two weeks — amidst suggestions that a local lockdown might be introduced because of a spike in cases. the victims‘ commissioner says it's likely there's been a spike in children attacking their parents during lockdown. it is known as child parental abuse and dame vera baird has spoken to the commonsjustice committee about it and how it appears to have been exacerbated during lockdown. 0ne organisation — pegs support — which helps parents who experience physical and emotional

abuse from their children are receiving three to four referrals a day as kids are kept off school. many are, anyway. we'll be speaking to its founder michellejohn along with dame vera baird in a moment, but first let's hear from a mum who is being abused by her son during lockdown. we have changed her voice along with all names to protect those involved.

let's talk to michellejohn who runs that parent support group.

also i'm joined by the victoms commissioner, dame vera baird. how typical is that experience we have just heard? we are hearing lots of stories are similar. parents are often blamed and services are not often blamed and services are not often equipped or have the... broadcast interrupted by interference. if you are a victim of domestic abuse and it is your partner abusing you, if you are strong enough you have the option to go to refuge. if it is your child you work with your child all the time and you have nowhere to go. we are seeing high incidence of situations where we are seeing children attacking their pa rents seeing children attacking their parents and siblings. has lockdown exacerbated that? immensely so. covid is not a reason why this behaviour is happening but it is an escalation. since i spoke to one of your team i escalation. since i spoke to one of yourteam i said escalation. since i spoke to one of your team i said we are having 3—4 contacts your team i said we are having 3—4 co nta cts a your team i said we are having 3—4 contacts a day from parents, over the weekend we are into double

figures. we are being contacted co nsta ntly figures. we are being contacted constantly now from services, third—sector organisations, as well as parents themselves that feel as though they are not being listened to. they are unseen and they are unheard. parents are not to blame. they don't not love their children, it is their children's behaviour they want to stop, not that they don't want their child living at home. we need to educate services and support families. we must upskilled our front line workers to recognise that parents are not to blame for this behaviour. we would not be saying to an intimate partner of domestic abuse victims we will send you on a programme to learn how to bea send you on a programme to learn how to be a better partner, so why are pa rents to be a better partner, so why are parents being sent on programmes that are not effective to meet this family's need ? that are not effective to meet this family's need? what are some of the reasons children and teenagers might be hitting their parents? we say there is no reason. we are very clear on that, there can be risk indicators. for example, it could be they have a diagnosis...

broadcast interrupted by interference. within the home, perhaps there are mental health issues. sorry, just froze for a moment but it came back. do on, michelle. sorry. it's going to keep doing that, isn't it? i'm going to bring in dame vera baird fora i'm going to bring in dame vera baird for a moment and we will go back to michelle. are you hearing about an increase in this kind of abuse? i have a phone call every monday with a representative sample of the people running victims' hubs locally, victims' services run by police and crime commissioners in their force areas and i wanted to keep abreast of the trend during covid. so we started to get information from those hubs that they were now starting to get calls from very distressed parents. it was quite shortly after lockdown. to be

honest, i think we mistakenly thought that this was adolescents who are being told you can't go out ona who are being told you can't go out on a friday night, they were staying and turning on their parents. but it persisted and it got more. sol think what michelle has said is absolutely right, this is underlying problem and this is a relatively new cohort of victims about whom i must learn because i'm the victim is commissioner. now i appreciate more fully that it isn't a sort of tantrum of adolescence that is happening, there is persistent abuse of parents by children, and what has probably brought it out is, as i think michelle was saying herself, the intensity of it during lockdown. children not at secondary school. everybody locked up together. and crushing of lockdown, the inability to get away. everything is closed. where do you go for help? that's what i think was showing. it has persisted, so much so, it began in

march when lockdown started and it was the end of april by the time i'd raised it at the justice select committee. so it is a relatively new phenomenon in the sense it is much bigger than people are giving it credit for. presumably there is a massive stigma. there could well be pa rents massive stigma. there could well be parents watching now who wouldn't dream of acknowledging that their own child, their own teenager is either hitting them or emotionally abusing them, because which parent wa nts to abusing them, because which parent wants to admit that? yes, of course. firstly, the child is not going to ta ke firstly, the child is not going to take responsibility for their behaviour, that's very clear. you will feel responsible for it. you will feel responsible for it. you will feel responsible for it. you will feel a massive sense of loss because the loving child you have enjoyed, who has been your friend for many years has suddenly become alienated. you won't really know where to turn, you may well be terrified. some of the violence is immense, you may be having your money stolen from you, your friends won't be able to understand and cope, and what do you do? where do you go? do you go to police, the

social services, do you confess that you have failed as a parent? which must be what it feels like to people. and yet it is very important, i think, people. and yet it is very important, ithink, to people. and yet it is very important, i think, to get some help and some support. but i think michelle has a big point, which is, i'm not sure that the services are very well tied together to cope with this. michelle, let me go back to you. mums and dads wouldn't want to contact the police, would they come if this was happening to them, because they might feel that it could end with their child being removed from them? so, what is your advice if a parent is watching now and experiencing this? by the time pa rents and experiencing this? by the time parents do go to the police they have often been suffering for years and they are at the end of their tether. we are saying to try and educate practitioners to highlight what cpa is within their own teams and also identify those families. the parents who may be experiencing this type of abuse within your home environment, we understand how hard and difficult and traumatic that is

for you. please link in with us, we are happy to talk to you, have a look at identifying your safety strategies. what services need to understand is parents are the experts in these situations, everything is created around the support network for these parents is around the parents, they will be the tools. it is working with the pa rents to tools. it is working with the parents to look at what is going on, identifying those parents and the potentially what are the triggers, the de—escalation techniques that work for that family and build a unique support network and identified that special plan that can help them. if somebody is watching today and they are experiencing this type of abuse, or they feel they may well be. if they get in touch with us. we have team members that can talk through safety planning and risk assessment through them. we are able to work with local authorities and third sector services and can get them involved as well to help them identify a plan to start with, base to work from. do you have a website? yes. www.

pegssupport.com. we are on social media and we have booklets and leaflets that we are sending out to families in the interim that will offer some sort of relief from what we are hearing from parents that they are not alone. pegs has been created to support these parents, we are parent led, we have parent steer members who have lived experience and they have helped us move forward to meet these families' needs. services know that this is going on infamilies, services know that this is going on in families, unfortunately there is no clear pathways, very limited support for these practitioners to be able to effectively support our families that we are trying to support ourselves. we must up skill. we do not get change if we do everything the same. sending families on parenting classes that are not meeting this family's need is just really dangerous. we must be

educating and effectively at a preventative level be speaking to these families when they first speak to us for help and support. thank you very much, shalljohn from pegs support and dame vera baird who is going to do some more work on this. thank you. —— michellejohn. the number of people who've lost their lives as a result of the coronavirus pandemic around the world has now reached more than 500,000. the worst affected country is the united states, followed by brazil. most europen governments believe they have the situation under control, but there are warnings that the easing of restrictions could lead to further outbreaks. and it's feared that countries like russia or india — with a high number of infections — could eventually see a large number of deaths. simonjones has been assessing the global situation. counting the cost of coronavirus. brazil alone has seen more than 57,000 deaths as the global toll reaches 500,000.

applause tears and applause to remember those who have lost their lives in brasilia. the world health organization says the pandemic is still at an intense stage of growth in the americas. in haiti, the poorest nation in the region, international aid agencies are trying to help the sick but many are often only coming to them when they are seriously ill. translation: people here deny the existence of the pandemic. they don't believe it. those who do believe have someone close to them who is infected. facemasks are not worn regularly. we need to have more social distancing too. coronavirus is also taking a serious toll in south asia. india alone has recorded more than 500,000 cases. despite this, hair salons in the western state of maharashtra are reopening as they try to bring

back a degree of normality. but testing capacity still differs significantly between countries. so in other states like bangladesh, many cases may be going undetected. iran, the country worst hit by coronavirus in the middle east, is making the wearing of masks mandatory in enclosed public spaces and large gatherings. in italy, a concert at bergamo cemetery to commemorate the victims of the virus. while there is currently no vaccine and no cure, the warning is this still has a long way to run. simon jones, bbc news. i've been asking you this morning if you feel, or if it feels like lockdown is effectively over where you live. i was particularly thinking about england because of the stuff we saw last week on beaches, unlicensed music events and so on and so forth. this reviewer says it is deeply worrying the

extent to which people around us think lockdown is over. we know severalfamilies think lockdown is over. we know several families happily mixing with each other indoors and across multiple households. this has been happening for weeks. we even know shielded people who are having multiple visitors indoors in their homes. peter morris says it has become too confusing now. it's a bit like in between, yes, it seems lockdown has ended but queueing at shops and banks goes on. this weekend will be interesting. i'm not sure people have the appetite for the hassle of going to a pub or a cinema. alison says, we're still shielding and looks like we will be forever now. everyone else is just doing their thing. christina says, i'm sticking to guidance, i will not return to pubs when they're open and i haven't visited nonessential shops. thank you for those. if you wa nt to shops. thank you for those. if you want to get in touch, it is @ vic derbyshire. olive and mabel are two of the most famous dogs on the internet right now — because their owner bbc sports commentator andrew cotter spent some

of his time during lockdown when there was no sport — commentating on his dogs. have a watch — millions of others have. andrew cotter comentating: so, into the final minute and olive in possession. but this is where mabel is strong, chasing the game, using that intensity. we saw it in the semifinal, staring at a slightly torn cloth rabbit for over seven and a half minutes. and perhaps a few signs of overconfidence from her rival, a bit of showboating. needs to be careful. there's the change from the classic hold. still placed on the outside, though, great technique, and a glance at the youngster who shows little emotion, but her mind will be empty. 20 seconds to go now. 0live closing in on victory and that coveted prize of being told she's a very good dog. 0ne paw to control and a switch. now mabel‘s sensing this might be a chance, still waiting, still believing. and you wonder what 0live is doing here, only has to hold on, going to the upper right, though, high tariff with no opposable thumbs, high risk at this stage. and it's gone!

and mabel takes it! no mercy from the younger dog who takes this victory just as time runs out. a famous win built on patience and sheer belief. for 0live only thoughts of what might have been but only herself to blame. she's given this on away and that will hurt most of all. bad dog. andrew, olive and mabel have become so famous they've now landed a book deal. let's talk to andrew in his first uk tv interview. hello. hello, victoria, how are you? i'm good, thanks. how are you and how is 0live i'm good, thanks. how are you and how is olive and mabel? i'm good, thanks. how are you and how is olive and mabel? i'm fine. just as you handed to me mabel started doing some unfortunate work on her slightly torn cloth rabbit so i will have to take that away from her. and 0live is still recovering from that horrendous defeat. hang on a second. leave it... idon't from that horrendous defeat. hang on a second. leave it... i don't mind if she carries on. i'm just thinking

about the noise of that throughout the whole thing. yes, i'm fine, it has been very strange over the last couple of months. also many people in so many ways but i've made it doubly strange. is this a new career for you, effectively? i don't know where my old career is! i don't know when it is going to come back. you mentioned the sports are coming back. the sports i do, interestingly today would have been the first day of wimbledon and straight from wimbledon to the open championship and straight from there on the monday afternoon the opening to tokyo for three weeks for the pics and all those events went. it was around about that time that i decided to commentate on dogs eating instead. so i think i'll be back commentating maybe a couple of events in september if things go well. more likely 0ctober. so as a freelance broadcaster you've got to think, what am i going to do to feed these dogs? so it's nice that very early on a book deal did come in because it's given me something else to do. sure. we've aback by how

popular these videos were? because millions and millions and tens of millions and millions and tens of millions of people across the globe have now watched them. yes, i was, absolutely. when you put it out you think that might mildly amuse family and friends who are being polite. but i didn't think that the first video would get up to, i think it's about 11 million or 12 million. the second one, which is the one you just saw, that has passed a 20 million now. but it's the sort of depth and breadth of people who have made nice comments about it as well. twitter suddenly became, if only briefly and throughout this whole thing, actually, a nice place. i think it showed a lot about what a lot of people have been going through in the last couple of months, that they wanted something to laugh at because everything else has been pretty grim. it is something so simple as having a laugh at dogs. and most people can relate to dogs, and certainly to

pets as a bit of normality. it was sort of the perfect storm. thinking about my own spaniel gracie who absolutely loved lockdown because most of us have been around the house a lot more. and she is naturally a loving and delicious dog but seems to have loved it more. what about live and mabel, would you say so? no doubt about that, so they are say so? no doubt about that, so they a re pretty say so? no doubt about that, so they are pretty happy souls anyway because they are labradors. i have enjoyed being around them. i would have been going away for seven weeks, which is great, i enjoy the work, i really do, but you miss the dogs. i will not look back on this with any regrets that i wasn't working because dogs‘ lives are not as long as they should be so it is nice to have this time with them. but having said that, the difficulty is then the separation. shush. the difficulty is the separation because they become so familiar... she is

ignoring you. of course they ignore me. she has zero respect for me. you have just described it a little bit, she has zero respect for you. and in terms of for live and mabel, who has the dominant character?” terms of for live and mabel, who has the dominant character? i think it is still 0live. mabel worships her. she tries her luck as she is getting old and she certainly tries to become the head dog. but 0live is the head dog. she doesn't look like the head dog. she doesn't look like the head dog at the moment, she is looking like the very tired dog after just looking like the very tired dog afterjust coming in from a walk. put her in focus so we can see. was she in focus? i don't know how to put her in focus. should ijust tap her. can i ask about the film because it looks like you just saw two dogs arguing over the bone and

you did some ad—libbing over it but i gather it is quite a crafted process. i don't want to give away the trade secrets but yes, there is more to it, the bone one was... they we re more to it, the bone one was... they were all filmed in one take and i was thinking about what to say while ifilmed them was thinking about what to say while i filmed them but you cannot do the commentary immediately as you film it because you are concentrating so hard. 0live turning to the camera at the end of that game with her big sad eyes, you are thinking about that rather than what you might say. you film it and then immediately go away and add a commentary over the top of it. and then you get onto the online zoom meeting and that's a far more complicated affair to put together. that cloth rabbit has taken quite a beating at the moment. it was never going to survive! so the book is coming. you haven't finished it yet. but when you are out and about with mabel and olive, do they get recognised before you now? certainly. why don't you come up

now? certainly. why don't you come up here? get the cloth rabbit. they have been recognised a few times, actually. i've been out for a walk and somebody said, because i've been shouting at them, obviously, 0live and mabel, and people have said, that's not the olive and mabel, is it? and i've said, probably, yes. and people have been looking for a photograph or something. but this is still when we were social distancing soi still when we were social distancing so i said you probably can't have a photo but you can admire them from a distance. it's very interesting, really is fascinating. as i say it has been a very strange thing indeed. there you go, take it. well, listen, good luck, andrew and good luck to 0live listen, good luck, andrew and good luck to olive and mabel, and good luck to olive and mabel, and good luck with the book which is out in 0ctober, luck with the book which is out in october, i think. luck with the book which is out in 0ctober, ithink. and keep doing it because it is giving so much pleasure to so many people and we love it. right, thank you. take care, andrew. andrew carter, mabel and olive. thank you for your m essa g es and olive. thank you for your messages on twitter. this is about

lockdown. i was asking about england in particular by people from all around the uk have responded. you only have to look at the beach scenes and protest marches to realise that for some people lockdown has been over for realise that for some people lockdown has been overfor some weeks. danielle says i'm sticking to the rules because i want to do as much as possible to protect myself, my housemates and patients that i ca re my housemates and patients that i care for. covid—19 is life changing and can be deadly. we all still need to do our bit. rick says i went to the shops a few times this weekend and it feels like people are behaving normally again, barring the measured shops are put in place. the rot set in after the dominic cummings incident, we had done well up cummings incident, we had done well up until then but there was a visible shift in people's behaviour after that. stephanie says using my own common sense, i'm only going to be essential shops and for essential travel. masks unless outside in addition to social distancing. 0nly change for me is cuddles with my granddaughter, our family bubble. change for me is cuddles with my granddaughter, ourfamily bubble. we will bring you the latest news on the hour at 10am when we switch from

bbc over to bbc two, so dojoin us for that. before that, let's bring you a full weather forecast. not quite as warm as it was last week. here is louise lear. hello, a north—south divide is the weather story at the moment, the cloud, wind and rain that we saw for sunday continue across parts of scotland, northern ireland and northern england but the heavy rain will start to ease and become more showery into the afternoon. cloudy conditions across england and wales, the best of any breaks with some brief glances of sunshine to the south of the m4 corridor but it stays pretty windy, particularly in that sharper showers, gusting in excess of 35—40 mph and temperatures struggling a little, top temperatures of 14—20d. as we move through the evening and overnight the low pressure drifts off into scandinavia and we keep a fair amount of cloud around and a few scattered showers. weather conditions in the south—west turn damp and misty, murky.

so, it will be a relatively mild start to tuesday. hopefully a slightly quieter story. the best of the drier weather across southern england with our week ahead, still some rain in the forecast later in the week.

this is bbc news, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. a group of armed men have stormed the stock exchange in the city of karachi — killing at least ten people. england's education secretary says schools will see full classroom sizes when children return in september, as the government promises £1 billion to rebuild crumbling schools. we do need to ensure that every child is benefiting from the education that we all so richly value. in the uk, current lockdown restrictions — which are due to ease in england at the weekend — may stay in place for another fortnight — because of a spike in cases there. further easing of restrictions across the rest of the uk as schools