hello, i'm ros atkins. welcome to tonight's outside source. china adopts a controversial security law giving it new powers over hong kong. those countries which have pointed their fingers at china have their own national security legislation in place. we can think of no valid reason why china alone should be inhibited from enacting

national security legislation. people in the uk are told not to travel into or out of leicester, as the city returns to strict lockdown amid a rise in new infections. it's 100 days since lockdown began in england. we'll be assessing how the uk is doing in handling the coronavirus and what lessons could have been learnt. and facebook launches a campaign to help curb the spread of misleading content after an advertising boycott by more than 100 global brands. first, china has released details of its controversial new security law for hong kong. we knew this was coming — but details of the legislation were only published after it came into effect. we now know that the crimes of secession, terrorism and subversion will be punished with up to life in prison. companies or groups which violate the law will be fined and could have their operations suspended. china is also setting up a national security agency in hong kong. beijing wants to avoid scenes

like this last year, and has called the new laws a "sword hanging over the heads" of those who threatened national security. critics say it will erode hong kong's way of life, including many freedoms. pro—democracy campaigner joshua wong describes it as the "end of hong kong, beginning of reign of terror." hong kong's chief executive, carrie lam doesn't agree. the question of how long we could tolerate such a gaping hole in national security has to be asked and answered. for those foreign governments and politicians raising objections to the legislation, one could only lament the double standards they are adopting. this is all happening in the context of 1997 — this is when hong kong was handed back to china from british control — and began life under a agreement widely known as "one country, two systems". this protects certain freedoms in hong kong that did not exist in mainland china. here's more from the bbc‘s steve mcdonell in beijing. here in the chinese capital behind closed doors,

standing committee delegates have rubber—stamped through this new law without a dissenting voice. for china's leader, xijinping, whatever the promises made at the time of handover, these western notions of free speech, of liberty have essentially poisoned hong kong. he doesn't care that this new law will be seen by some as changing that place forever, because that's what he wants. to drag that rebellious city back into the arms of the motherland — whether its residents like it or not. next, this is howard zhang of bbc chinese, with more detail about the new legislation. in many ways, almost every aspect of hong kong life will change from now on. even nonviolent acts can be considered to breach national security, as well as foreign media and the behaviour of foreign media organisations. well, already hong kong activists have deleted social media profiles and closed down some campaign groups.

here's the reactionjimmy lai — who's one of the most vocal anti—government critics and the founder of hong kong's biggest tabloid newspaper, apple daily. it spells the death knell of hong kong. the most tragic thing is for the youth. i'm 72, i don't have much time left, you know, to face a place without the rule of law. but those young people have to face a future without the protection of the rule of law and freedom. this is the other side of the argument. these are pro—beijing supporters who gathered in front of hong kong's government headquarters to celebrate the new law. let's hear more from those in support. nixie lam is a former district councillor. what happens in hong kong since last year is an uncontrollable waste of terrorism going on, riots, and so—called democracy movement.

—— uncontrollable waves of terrorism. it does not affect anything that's related to — like you cannot have freedom of assembly, or anything like that, you can still go on. you can still apply with the hong kong police, and they can approve and things like that. so it does not stop you from having all those. well, as china knew it would, this has prompted an international outcry. nato, the uk, and japan have all condemned the law — so has the eu. the new legislation does not conform with hong kong's basic law, nor with china's international commitments both in terms of adoption procedure and in substance. so we are very clear on that topic that is, for us, very critical, and we are seriously concerned about it. the united states has also condemned the law and, as it warned it would, has started to revoke hong kong's special trade status. the white house said in a statement... if you want more on this story — we've taken a comprehensive look

at this which you can find if you search "hong kong's new security law" on the bbc news youtube page. here in the the uk, the first localised lockdown has come into force in the city of leicester. the infection rate there is well above other english cities. the city's population is around 300,000 — and the red line here shows the area around the city that are locked down. nonessential shops have shut, and schools will close for most pupils on thursday. 0nly essential travel will be allowed. also, the loosening of restrictions for pubs and restaurants which are coming in to effect in the rest of england this saturday won't be happening in leicester. from leicester, sian lloyd reports. returning to lockdown, and a return to more stringent conditions — after a spike in cases across the city of leicester. nonessential businesses like this one, which had been trading, were told to close today. all the shops have got the ppe ready, we're all prepared, we've got covid—secure checks, we've got hand

sanitisers everywhere. this city's just being picked on. 10% of all new cases of the virus in england recorded over the past week have been here, and that's caused concern. local lockdown means only essential shops can trade, and pubs and restaurants won't reopen here on saturday, unlike in other parts of england. the lockdown zone is wider than the city centre. the red line on this map includes some of the greater leicester suburbs. schools are also affected. parents were taking their children to glenfield primary today, but from thursday schools will be closed to all but vulnerable pupils and those from key worker families. you just think things are going back to normal, and then you get the rug pulled out from underneath you again. i'm shocked that leicester's in this situation and, yeah, i'd rather he be at school. covid—19 is spreading three times faster here than anywhere else. no single cause for the spike has been identified,

and the people of leicester haven't yet been told when their lockdown will end. extra testing centres are being introduced as part of the measures to try to curb the rise in cases, and authorities are focusing on identifying so—called hotspots. we are now getting to that point where we are down to local areas, so that means we can have a really good attempt at trying to make sure that we are tailoring our messages and providing the testing resources needed. for those working at community level, having more information is being welcomed. we know exactly — we can target which postcode area is being affected, so we can say, "right, we need to work around that particular postcode, educate people as much as we can". residents are being told to only travel when necessary, although how that will be enforced is still unclear. the body representing officers, the police federation, has asked the government for clarity. 0n the streets local people

were still taking it all in. i'm just fed up with it now. i didn't expect it to happen again. i've been in this country 50 years and this is the first time i have seen it, and people are still not keeping the distance. i welcome the decision, but i feel that, you know, it should be much more strict. leicester tonight finds itself in the spotlight. people living here are being asked to wait longer for their freedoms. employers forced to shut their doors again are being told they'll be able to re—furlough their staff if they've used the scheme before, but many questions remain, and the measures being imposed are not being ruled out elsewhere, should the need arise in the future. sian lloyd, bbc news, leicester. more than 150 companies

are now taking part in an advertising boycott of facebook because of what they say are false, misleading and abusive claims on the social media site. part of facebook‘s response has been launched a campaign to help curb the spread of misleading content. marianna spring has been assessing the plan. the covid—19 pandemic and recent antiracism protests happening in the real world have resulted in an increase in misleading and abusive claims on facebook. that's part of what has led to more than 150 companies temporarily removing adverts on all social media sites. last yea r, over 98% of facebook‘s global revenue was generated from advertising, and despite the boycott the company still has more than eight million advertisers. now, facebook has announced a new campaign to help users spot false claims and abuse on its site. but it insists recent changes are nothing to do with pressure from advertisers. we certainly don't make policy decisions based on financial considerations, in any respect, and the announcements that we've been

making, making last week, and that you will continue to see, we are where we are, we are listening, and where we need to adapt, we do. the conversation about hate speech and misinformation on the platform has focused on donald trump's comments in the wake of george floyd's death. why is there one rule for public figures like donald trump, and one rule for everyone else? it doesn't matter who you are, whether you're a political figure or anyone on the platform — if what you would be posting or using would cause real—world harm, that content is removed. facebook‘s announcement has failed to satisfy groups which have been monitoring malicious content on the site. the steps seem quite disingenuous for a company that itself is fuelling and promoting bad information at quite a large scale. it's put itself in an enormous position of power over information, and its business model is promoting and amplifying harmful information to make profit. facebook says it's been working

night and day to attack harmful content on its platform, and that it is listening. marianna spring, bbc news. still to come: we take a detailed look at the uk's response to covid—19, from decisions taken over lockdown to testing — and the outbreak in care homes. scotland's first minister nicola sturgeon has warned in her daily briefing that tough and unpopular decisions may still be needed to prevent a resurgence of coronavirus. at a time when the daily statistics are looking so positive, there is a real risk where people will let down their guards. it is a human reaction that all of us may be susceptible to. there is a danger that it will seem as though life is getting back to normal — and i want to stress that life right now can't and shouldn't get completely back to normal because the virus is still there.

i don't want us to be looking back in a month's time or in three months‘ time and thinking that this week's figures, the combination of 100 days of hard sacrifice, or as good as it got in our efforts to suppress the virus. instead, i want us to be looking back in a month's time and then, again in the autumn, and thinking that this week's figures provided us with the best possible foundation for our efforts to almost eliminate the virus. this is 0utside source, live from the bbc newsroom. china has adopted a controversial security law giving it new powers over hong kong. the english city of leicester has returned to strict lockdown measures amid a rise in new infections. let's look at some of stories being covered by the bbc‘s language services.

an explosion at a medical clinic in the iranian capital tehran has left at least 13 people dead and several injured. officials told state tv the blast was caused by a gas leak. details are still coming in. that's from bbc persian service. pakistan international airlines has been temporarily banned from operating in europe after concerns were raised about the qualifications of its pilots. more than 140 staff had been grounded after claims their licences may not be genuine. pakistan's own aviation minister had described those documents as "dubious". that's from bbc urdu. two weeks after a statue of king leopold ii of belgium was removed in antwerp, the current king of belgium has expressed his regrets for what he called the crimes that were committed in its former african colony of congo. millions of africans from areas in what is now the democratic republic of congo were killed, mutilated, or died of disease as they worked on plantations belonging to king leopold. that's from bbc africa. and the european union says it

will allow vistors from 15 countries it considers to be "safe" — to start coming in from wednesday. they include canada, morocco and australia, but not the us, brazil or russia. china is on the safe list, but the eu says it first wants reciprocal arrangements for its citizens to travel there before it grants permission. it is 100 days since boris johnson announced that he was introducing a lockdown. in those 100 days, the uk has been affected by covid—19 far more than most. and we wanted take time for a detailed look at the decisions that were taken around lockdown, around testing, and around care homes for the elderly — where the virus has taken a particularly terrible toll. so throughout this edition of 0utside source, we'll do just that. to start, it's useful to compare the uk with three other western european nations of roughly the same size. here you can see the total deaths in italy, which was the first to be badly hit by the virus, and in france. and then there's germany, which has seen much lowerfigures. and here's the uk. in march, it was about two weeks behind italy.

but it soon caught up — and then overtook italy. asjune ends, the recorded death toll in the uk is almost 114,000. that is higher than the recorded deaths in any other country in europe. now, uk government has consistently resisted these comparisons. this is the foreign secretary dominic raab on 5 may, the day the uk's death toll passed italy's. i don't think we'll get a real verdict on how well countries have done until the pandemic is over, and particularly until we have data on all cause mortality. well the pandemic certainly isn't over, but we are far enough into it that we can now compare recorded deaths from all causes. let's look at the uk, first. this dotted line shows the number of deaths that would usually occur. actual deaths for 2020 are marked in grey — as you can see, initially the uk was below expectations — until covid arrived. the red areas show excess deaths where the person had covid—19. and blue shows the

other excess deaths. but some of these deaths may also have been caused by covid, others could be people who died because of restricted health care because of the pandemic. add red and blue together, and this is a useful guide. based on these calculations — and adjusted for population — the uk has seen more excess deaths than any other country in the g7 group of wealthy nations. that includes italy, france and germany. here's the bbc‘s head of statistics robert cuffe. there are caveats to any international comparison, but probably fewer caveats than there were a couple weeks ago, especially when you use the right data. the thing about looking at the patterns and the total number of deaths is that it's not subject to the same differences between the countries in how they record covid deaths or coronavirus deaths, and how good they are at capturing that. it's a big improvement when you look at that, particularly when you look at the data now and you see that a lot of countries like the uk, italy and many others

are through that first wave of the epidemic. deaths peaked in the middle of spring and they've been coming down ever since, and the total number of deaths we're seeing in those countries is probably in and around what we expect to see at this time of year. so that picture of the total number of deaths pictured is pretty stable now and not likely to change unless anything really radical happens. so once you've got those two things, you are in a position where you can start to look back at the first wave and see who's been hardest hit. and that's a starting point for looking at the differences between those countries and why those differences occur. so why did it happen? well, there are lots of factors that can make a country susceptible to coronavirus. the uk's high death toll may be connected to high levels of obesity, it may be connected to london being an international travel hub. and government decisions may also have contributed. the uk's first death from coronavirus was recorded on 5 march. the government's strategy was to lock down gradually, to flatten the curve of infections, rather than stopping the virus outright. as some countries were locking down,

public events in the uk continued. the cheltenham horse racing festival opened its doors to 250,000 spectators on 10 march. a few days later, the band stereophonics tweeted this picture of a concert in cardiff. they held two on 1a and 15 march. and 35 people had already died from covid in spain when 3,000 atletico madrid fans were allowed to travel to liverpool to watch a champions league game. benjohnson attended and later developed covid symptoms. you just think of those 60,000 people. i'm one of them. i probably wasn't the only one who was asymptomatic and who went to that match. you know, it was obvious that it shouldn't have gone ahead, and i think it's negligent that it went ahead. and it's no fault of the club's. but ijust think it was a poor decision. i'd be amazed if, at some point on that journey from leaving our house,

to getting home via restaurants, three different pubs, a train, 60,000 people queuing for toilets at half—time with 500 people packed like sardines squeezed into three urinals, or whatever, i'd be amazed if i haven't passed it on to some people. i'd be amazed. the uk was moving more slowly than many other countries — and the threat of the virus was in plain sight. it was taking actions — by mid—march, some social distancing measures were introduced — and more measures were promised. and the government maintained throughout it was guided by science. but that science became a controversial subject. not least after chief scientific adviser patrick vallance told the bbc this on 13 march. not to suppress it completely. also because most people, the vast majority of people get a mild illness to build up some degree of herd immunity, as well, so that more people are immune

to this disease and we reduce the transmission, while at the same time protecting those who are most vulnerable from it. herd immunity is an approach which allows a percentage of the population to get a virus and so immunity across the community is achieved. now patrick vallance soon sought to explain that he hadn't mean to suggest that herd immunity was government policy. but by this point, the celebrated science writer ed yong had written this article under the headline — "the uk's coronavirus ‘herd immunity‘ debacle." his point being it may not have been the policy, but the actual plan was being so badly explained, you'd be forgiven for thinking so. for whatever reason, the uk wasn't moving as quickly — but then this report from imperial college appeared to change the calculation. it argued that to not act more drastically was to risk thousands of lives. whether influenced by that report or other advice, the uk did soon escalate its response. lockdown arrived on 23 march. this was the prime minister making the announcement.

from this evening, i must give the british people a very simple instruction — you must stay at home. because the critical thing we must do is stop the disease spreading between households. the date of the lockdown matters so much because so much changed, so quickly. 0n 5 march, the uk had less than 300 cases. by the end of the month, there were 32,000. and some of the scientists who were advising the government at the time now say lockdown should have come sooner. the epidemic was doubling every 3—4 days before lockdown interventions were introduced. so had we introduced lockdown measures a week earlier, we would have reduced the final death toll by at least a half. we should have gone into lockdown earlier. i think it

would've been hard to do it. i think the data we were dealing with in early march with was really quite poor. and to be clear, the decision to not rush into lockdown was taken while other countries were taken more drastic action. none of the live events i outlined a moment ago, cheltenham, stereophonics, liverpool, would have been allowed in france — public gatherings of more than 1,000 people were banned from 8 march. in ireland, st patricks day parades were cancelled. that was 17 march. other countries were going even further italy — where the pandemic was more advanced — went into nationwide lockdown on nine march. here is spain's prime minister making a national address on 16 march. as borisjohnson was telling britons people to avoid unnecessary travel from home, pedro sanchez announced a nationwide "state of alarm" ordering people by law to stay at home. france followed suit one

day later. angela merkel in germany waited though. she ordered a lockdown on 22 march — only one day before the uk. however, while the uk government is guided by science, ultimately lockdown decisions are made by ministers. political correspondent rob watson explains. i think, on the one hand, the good news for the government, if you like — amidst the bad news over its perceived mistakes and handling of the crisis — is that there doesn't seem to be a, sort of, smoking gun where one scientist said to borisjohnson or some other minister, "hey, if you don't do this right away, all hell will break loose." so there isn't a smoking gun in that sense, but i think what you have is a growing sense of amateurishness about the way the british government handled this,

and also a sense that the government very much overpromised and under—delivered. and if you don't mind, i thought i'd pick this out as something quite revealing that mrjohnson said on the 2nd of march. and that is, he said, "this country is very, very well prepared. we've got fantastic testing, amazing surveillance of the spread of disease." so there's that sense all along that the government was overpromising, suggesting it was completely in control — while the evidence suggests it it was not quite that way. will have more on the uk's response of the pandemic in the back of the programme. the uk is the country worst affected in europe. the worst—affected worldwide is the us, with more than 2.5 million cases, and more than 120,000 deaths. the country is seeing a surge of cases, particularly in southern and western states. it's forced at least 16 states to pause or reverse their reopening plans. the us government's senior adviser on infectious diseases has warned senators things

could get much worse. we can'tjust focus on those areas that are having a surge. it puts the entire country at risk. we are now having 40,000+ new cases a day. i would not be surprised if this goes up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around, and so i am very concerned. i'll speak to you again in a couple minutes‘ time. hello again. we've got heavy showers on the way for tomorrow. today, there was a lot of cloud heading our way. one part of the country, though, that did see the cloud thinning and breaking was through the midlands and into lincolnshire, where temperatures got into the low 20s. much cooler though in cumbria — with some thicker cloud, lower cloud, some rain from time to time. there is more rain to come here this evening and overnight. generally, the wetter weather continues across northern and western areas of the uk. there will be a lot of cloud around overnight — so typical temperatures from 12—14 celsius, probably a little bit

warmer in the southeast, and a little bit cooler across northern parts of scotland. here, we are getting a bit more of a northerly breeze beginning to arrive. now, whilst the main area of low pressure that brought the wet and windy weather is over toward scandinavia now, we have still got this tongue — this nose of lower pressure, that's a mechanism for producing some showers. we start the day quite cloudy, some rain moving southwards across scotland, northern ireland, northern england, turning more showery here. some sunshine further south will give us some warmth, but trigger those heavy showers, possibly thundery, and they will drift their way into eastern england in the afternoon. for many, the winds are quite light again, but differences in the wind direction, more of a south—westerly will give us some warmth in the southeast in between those showers. but more of a northerly wind coming down across scotland means it will be unusually chilly here for the time of year. that northerly still around probably into thursday. the winds will be quite light for many of us, but we still have lower pressure across the uk and a weather front too. so it's still looking quite

showery on thursday, particularly across england and wales, could be some heavy, slow moving and perhaps thundery showers too. not as many showers across the bulk of scotland and northern ireland, should be generally drier and brighter here. still not very warm for the time of year, 14—17 celsius. as we head towards the end of the week, we've got another area of low pressure looming large on the pressure chart. ahead of it, we are pushing these weather fronts our way. so it's northern and western areas that we will see most of the rain, i think, on friday. freshening winds as well, the heaviest of the rain coming over the hills of western scotland, perhaps the cumbrian fells and over the hills of wales. but towards the midlands, across lincolnshire down towards the southeast of england, it may well be a dry day, a bit of sunshine from time to time — and again, those temperatures peaking at 21 celsius.

i ros atkins with 0utside source. welcome to all of you, whether you are watching on the bbc news channel or elsewhere on bbc world news. china adopts a controversial security law giving it new powers over hong kong.

people in the uk are told not to travel into or out of leicester, as the city returns to strict lockdown amid a rise in new infections. it's100 days since lockdown began in england. we'll be assessing how the uk is doing in handling the coronavirus and what lessons could have been learnt. and borisjohnson sets out what he calls an ambitious post—coronavirus recovery plan for britain. critics say it's not enough. as i was saying, it's100 days borisjohnson announced that he was introducing a lockdown. since then, the uk has been affected by covid—19 far more than most. in this edition of outside source, we're asking why. we've already looked at when the lockdown came into force, and the role that played. next, we need to look at testing. as countries around the world grappled with expansion of the pandemic, the world health organization was saying this on march 16th. we have a simple message for all countries.

test, test, test. test every suspected case. the who also receommended testing people who had come into contact with those who have the virus. the uk took a different approach. this was march 26th. there comes a point in a pandemic where that is not an appropriate intervention. and that is at the point where we moved into delay, and although we still do some contact testing — for example, in prisons or care homes — that is not an appropriate mechanism as we go forward. the uk has since acknowledged that it abandoned track and trace in the early stages of the pandemic not out of choice but because it simply the testing capacity. some other european countries did. germany, for instance. 400,000 tests a week were being carried out in early march — just when the virus was spreading quickly. and unlike in britain, you didn't have to have coronavirus symptoms to get a test. the uk wasn't the only county that struggled with testing capacity. here is one of president macron‘s key scientific advisors.

like the uk, france spent the first stage of the pandemic desperately in the uk, a huge effort was under way to grow testing capacity. by the end of april, the government was saying this. i can announce that we have met our goal. the number of tests yesterday on the last day of april was 122,3a7. this unprecedented expansion in british testing capability is an incredible achievement. the uk by this point now had significant testing capacity — even if those figures referenced in that clip were increased by counting tests sent out as well as tests taken. now, you may rememberjust now hearing the deputy chief medical 0fficer say that contact tracing was not "an appropriate mechanism" for a pandemic. there's been a shift on that. by the end of may,

matt hancock was saying this. so, from "not appropriate" to "vital". here's the bbc‘s naomi grimley on how that effort has gone so far. borisjohnson promised a world—beating test and trace system, but the reality is very few experts would describe it as such as it stands now. let's take the government app. the government said it wanted to develop its own app, via the digital wing of nhs england. and at the time, many technology experts questioned that and said they should be following the lead of other countries and talking to the tech giants google and apple. well, ministers were very bullish about their own app and it was launched with great fanfare as a trial on the isle of wight off the south coast. as time ticked on, ministers seemed to talk about it less and less. and, in earlyjune, it was described as just the cherry on the cake.

then, in an embarrassing u—turn, the nhs app was actually ditched and ministers announced they would embrace the framework provided by google and apple. we've already been warned that this app won't be appearing until the autumn at least. in the meantime, the government focused on pulling together a huge team of human contact tracers. however, that system was launched with teething problems. in the first full week in england, tracers managed to get details from a third of people who tested positive for the virus — though that figure has risen since. here's the government during the second week of the system. i think that the system has worked well. and to get two—thirds in the first week of operation, it beat my expectations. and then to have the vast majority, 85%, of the contacts that were given self—isolating, that beat my expectations too. and the system gets better and better. and here's naomi grimley

again. we are now told that over 100,000 people in england have been asked to self—isolate by the contact tracers. that's after the service received the details of 20,000 people who tested positive, but one in four people who are asked to self—isolate don't play ball with the system. critics of this system say that we still don't know how fast it's tracing people and many of the government's own scientific advisers worry that the system won't be running at full throttle for several weeks yet. that's despite the fact that england is now emerging from lockdown. let's continue our close look at how the uk's handled the pandemic. the timing of the uk's lockdown was crucial, the uk's test, track and trace capacity was crucial, and so was what happened in the uk's care

homes. more than 16,000 people have died from covid—19 in uk care homes according to official statistics — that's almost a third of all fatalities. in fact, the virus claimed the lives of more than 5% of the uk's care home population. that figure is from the london school of economics, and it's the highest in europe, except for spain. and if we look at england, one decision seems central. for the month from march 17, 25,000 people were discharged to care homes without a coronavirus test — those are official figures. by the end of that period, almost 1,000 homes had reported infections. the care home industry puts it like this. our focus at the start of this pandemic was clearly the nhs, and there was not a recognition in either the planning process that happened in 2016, or indeed in this current pandemic, at the very start of it, that the most vulnerable people were in care homes. some of our problems around transmission, no doubt, are related to ppe, and very sadly, some of the deaths too. this has been a health pandemic, and what we haven't felt in the care sector is that we've had

a health response. the government has been swift to deny those accusations. —— the government has quickly said they prioritise the sector. here's one minister in may. we don't accept the caricature that we took an approach that was wrong. very early on in this epidemic, we had protocols in place for care homes. there was guidance as to how they should approach things. as the situation developed, then more stringent policies were introduced. so — many factors have contributed to the uk having the worst outbreak, per head of the population, than any other country in the g20. and the outbreak is still going on. this shows the number of new deaths per day in the later stages of each country's outbreak — the chart starts at day 60. you can see by this point that france and italy have pushed their curve well down — as has the uk, but it continued to record over 100 deaths a day for longer.

so with all of that in mind, what do people in the uk make of the government's response? here's rob watson again. there's no doubt at the start, indeed as it happens in countries around the world, whenever there is a tremendous crisis, what the people do is they look to those in authority. and mrjohnson and the government had sky—high ratings. that has fallen by 20 percentage points according to yougov. i think one can tie some of that to the incident involving mrjohnson‘s most senior advisor, dominic cummings, when he was seen to have flouted the spirit of the lockdown regulations, and a sense the government was sending out mixed messages as to how it emerged from the lockdown, and of course the fact that the uk has the highest number of deaths in europe. i want to ask you about a couple of developments today, rob. first of all, the city of leicester is now experiencing the first local lockdown in this crisis, and i guess that's a sign

we are shifting to a new stage now? yes, i suppose, on the one hand, it helps the government making its point the people in the uk — "look, don't think you can somehow drop your guard." this is evidence of how people still need to be very mindful of the health risk. 0n the bad side for the government, of course, this was the day where borisjohnson was trying to relaunch his government about having a big, bold approach to a post—covid economic solution, with build, build, build. and this sort of eats into that message and may well make people more nervous about going back to work and doing the things that the government would like them to do. i guess it does eat into that message, but nonetheless would you agree that the announcements today by the prime minister, particularly for a conservative prime minister, were enough to raise the eyebrows? a reasonable amount of money heading the way of various infrastructure projects? yes, raise eyebrows. i suppose one of the things that it does is i guess it raises

the question about certain amounts of ideological confusion for conservatives. i think many will be asking, what is mrjohnson? is he, as likes to portray himself, fdr, mr roosevelt, believing in big interventionist government? or is he someone who believes, as a lot of brexiteers do, that the whole point of leaving the eu was for a more deregulated state? interestingly, mrjohnson appeared to suggest he was in favour of both. we are going to keep on talking about uk politics in a moment, because boris johnson about uk politics in a moment, because borisjohnson has sent out today what he calls an ambitious post coronavirus recovery plan for britain. we will find out all about it. an investigation has found a serial rapist was able to carry out a six an investigation has found a serial rapist was able to carry out a sex attack spree when he was freed from prison after "major failings" by a team of "unstable" and inexperienced probation staff. two months afterjoseph mccann left

prison last spring, he abducted, raped and assaulted victims aged between 11 and 71 in watford, london, greater manchester, lancashire and cheshire. he was given 33 life sentences for the string of attacks. our home affairs correspondent june kelly reports. the end of a manhunt. joseph mccann was finally cornered, hiding up a tree in cheshire. wanted for multiple rapes and kidnappings in the north and south of england in the spring of 2019. when he committed these crimes, he had been wrongly freed from prison a few months before. this latest review sheds more light on the failings in the mccann case. it found that three different probation officers had been responsible for mccann in the run—up to his ill—fated release. it also discovered that prison staff didn't share key information with probation colleagues. earlier this year, one

of mccann‘s victims, who was 71 when she was raped by him, spoke to the bbc. she now said she finds this new review very distressing. in a statement, she told us... the ministry ofjustice says it has apologised to mccann‘s victims. it also says it has improved information sharing and training and is bringing on 800 new probation staff. june kelly, bbc news. this is 0utside source

live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story... china has adopted a controversial security law giving it new powers over hong kong. and here in the uk, the city of leicester has returned to strict lockdown measures amid a rise in new infections. borisjohnson has announced his plans to help the uk economy deal with the impact of coronavirus. he's bringing forward £5 billion worth of infrastructure spending — that's around $6 billion. the prime minister made the announcement in dudley in the west midlands. we will not be responding to this crisis with what people called austerity. we're not going to cheese—pare our way out of trouble — because the world has moved on since 2008. so, £5 billion. the backdrop to this speech is that we now know that the uk economy shrank by more than first thought between january and march. official figures show the economy contracted 2.2%

in the first quarter. that's the joint—largest fall since 1979. but to be clear, what's been announced today is mostly money that's already been allocated being brought forward — it's not about new cash. the opposition has picked up on that. the prime minister promised a new deal, but there's not much that's new and it's not much of a deal. we're facing an economic crisis, the biggest we've seen in a generation, and the recovery needs to match that. what's been announced amounts to less than £100 per person and it's the reannouncement of manifesto pledges and commitments, so it's not enough. let's look in more detail at the plans. they include £1.5 billion for hospital maintenance, hospital building and improving accident and emergency capacity. there's a further £100 million for 29 road network projects, including bridge repairs in the humber region, and £900 million for what are being called "shovel ready" local building projects in england over

the next two years. well, for more on mrjohnson‘s speech, here's vicki young. we have heard a lot of this before from lots of different governments. we know about the productivity problem in this country, we know there are not enough homes for people. all of that, vocational training, for example, the problem of social care, we've heard about for decades. he is promising to sort all of this out. the question is, can he do it? how quickly can he do it? now, the £5 billion today is money already announced being brought forward. they want to try and get things going quickly, and this is the other problem with infrastructure. of course it takes a long time to do it. they're trying to find projects that can be done and that can be started right now, and we do know that there is a lot more that they've promised to come, hundreds of billions of pounds to be spent on infrastructure, but i guess it is about whether that ambition and that optimism can be translated into reality. and we will be back tomorrow. thanks for watching.

bye—bye. hello, i'm sarah mulkerrins at the bbc sport centre. we start with the news just coming in in the last couple of hours — leroy sane isjoining bayern munich. after months of speculation, manchester city have agreed a deal with the german champions. the winger will cost bayern around 49 million euros — just under £115 million. that fee could rise by another 10 million depending on sane's success back in his native germany. hejoined city from schalke in 2016 and has won two premier league titles with the club, but couldn't agree an extension to his contract which had a year to run. no official announcement has been made yet. there's one game in the english premier league today — manchester united are at brighton. and they currently lead 3—0 in the second half — mason greenwood with the first, before bruno scored the next two either side of the break. united will move

into fifth if they win and a potential champions league spot. brighton are six points above bottom three. plenty of action in la liga — all eyes on second placed barcelona, currently playing third placed atletico. it's just a perching it'sjust a perching half—time there. a very fast start to it. an own goal from diego costa put barcelona ahead, before saul niguez levelled things from the spot. barcelona trail real madrid by a point on the table — real have a game in hand. sevilla are just three minutes from a win. in italy, serie a leadersjuventus in action at genoa — goalless at half time there. earlier, second—placed lazio come from behind to win 2—1 at torino

to keep the pressure onjuve. as things stand, lazio arejust two points behind. work to do ifjuve want to get a win there in their game. the premier league's chief executive says the proposed saudi takeover of newcastle united is complicated, but a decision should be made soon. newcastle boss steve bruce asked for there to be clarity for fans at the weekend. the saudi bid, worth £300 million and backed by prince mohammed bin salman, is currently awaiting approval as the premier league continues its owners and directors test to see if they're suitable. richard masters has been speaking to the digital, culture, media and sport committee. it allows us to make decisions that are appropriate. the objective path would lead us to significant difficulty. what clubs want to see if they can... they will be

allowed through and if they are not the right people, they won't. it isn't a subjective test in that respect. louis tomlinson has been blocked from taking over a club but the grizzly prince mohammed both —— mohammad bin salman, who was implicated in the murder ofjamal khashoggi, where mr khashoggi was alerted to the saudi embassy and murdered and chop into a thousand pieces, we could find prince mohammad bin salman passing the proper test, that would be embarrassing for you, shirley. that sounds like you trying to get me to talk about a confidential process i will not do it. again... again, you're asking me to answer something isimply you're asking me to answer something i simply cannot.

the africa cup of nations has been moved from next year to 2022. it's due to take place in cameroon. algeria are the defending champions. the women's version of the tournament has been cancelled. joe root will leave england's training camp tomorrow to return home for the birth of his second child. with the series against the west indies being held in a bio—secure environment, root will have to self—isolate for a week after leaving hospital before re—joining the squad. it means ben stokes will captain the side when the first test begins next wednesday. one thing is, he's a talisman, isn't he? you know, he's conscientious of the people that are around them as well, so i think they will do a greatjob. we know he's got an aggressive nature, it's his first time captaining, i think he will be quite thoughtful about what moves he's making when he's out

there as well, so from my point of view, i'm looking forward to working with him. i'm extending the same courtesies i would to rooty, so he will have a lot of say of what's going on as well, and he will play a big part of giving his opinion on the selections as well. adam peaty should have been heading to the olympics in the next few days to defend his breaststroke gold medal. but with the tokyo games postponed, he's at home, training in his back garden. and he's calling on the english government to reopen swimming pools to help people's mental and physical health. he's also been opening up about his hopes for his baby son and how he wants to improve diversity in his sport. sally nugent‘s been to meet him. adam, lockdown has presented you with some real challenges in terms of training. but you are managing to get around them, are you not? tell me what this is. this is a five by three m tub, it's called in and list pool three m tub, it's called in and list pool. you basically swim against it. it enables me to train pretty much 90% of my normal volume, my normal speed, my normal stroke.

90% of my normal volume, my normal speed, my normalstroke. 0bviously, being outside the water, you're going to have to swim in a river or a lake, but this enables me swimming at the sport is very hard to train for if you've got no access to the water —— and swimming as a sport is. we were out of water for seven weeks, maybe eight weeks, which is a long time. and then we got these in and we are back into the elite training centre now, so it's been an amazing tool. one of the downsides of lockdown, of course, people who would like to go to their local zoning pool for the exercise are not able to do that and we know there is able to do that and we know there is a petition going in right now, part ofa campaign a petition going in right now, part of a campaign to get the swimming pools open again. how important is it and how safety you think it would be for pools to open to the public? i think it would be quite easy for them to open the pools, limit the amount of people in the pool and make sure you get temperature checks, facemasks on entry and exit, i think where there is a will, there

isa i think where there is a will, there is a way, and i think the government really need to put that will together and think, how can we get these pools open? because if they're opening the pubs and people are drinking, the government need to bring the balance and opened the leisure centres, open the gyms, because if you've got too much of that and you haven't got too much of this, you are not going to meet in the middle, your disco nap people going down to the pub every day, where normally, they go to thejim. you are a dad, the debt of the mixed—race boy. how important is it we see a more diverse swimming...” agree. in swimming, it is a white based sport, because culturally, we don't really reach out to those communities to get them involved in sport and in swimming lessons, and really feel, make them feel included ina sense, really feel, make them feel included in a sense, and is one of these sports which has struggled for that

forever since it is kind of been a thing in 0lympics. with my little boy being mixed—race, will be... my girlfriend is half nigerian, so i wa nt to girlfriend is half nigerian, so i want to give him that opportunity that any sport he goes in, he is not could have that tag of, juergen to be this mixed—race runner or mixed—race whatever —— you are going to be. he should be known for his name, he should be known for his achievements. adam peaty there. that is all the sport from us at the moment. you can stay right up to date on the bbc sport website and we'll see you again soon. bye—bye. hello there. this time last week, the temperature was reaching 30 degrees plus, and there was some strong sunshine. the last few days, sunshine has been harder to find and we've seen temperatures peaking at around 20 or 21 degrees in many parts of the country. and through the rest of this week and perhaps into the weekend, temperatures are going to remain near average.

there will be some more wet weather around, as well. the main area of low pressure is centred over scandinavia, but we have this tongue of lower pressure still sitting across the uk, and that's a mechanism for seeing more showers breaking out. we could start the day on wednesday with some longer spells of rain across central and southern scotland and northern ireland. to the south, we'll see some sunshine giving us some warmth, triggering those heavy and perhaps thundery showers, more especially across the eastern side of england, where we'll probably see the highest temperatures, strangely enough. across scotland, whilst it's turning drier and brighter in the north, we've got a northerly breeze, which is also dragging in some colder air, so not particularly warm as we head into wednesday evening. further south, those showers are set to continue for a while longer. and we could see more of them, actually, developing on thursday. the little nose of high pressure is not quite so dominant now. instead, the pressure's a little bit lower, so again we'll find some more showers on thursday, particularly across england and wales, where they'll be quite slow—moving, maybe heavy and thundery, too. it should be a bit drier

and brighter for scotland and northern ireland, but it's still not that warm for this time of the year, temperatures perhaps 15, 16, 17 at best through the central belt of scotland. now, moving into the end of the week, and we've got another area of low pressure approaching. it's going to take a while to reach us. instead, it's throwing ahead these weather fronts towards the uk, and the breeze will be freshening, i think, on friday, as well. thickening cloud, rain coming in from the north—west, heaviest rain over the hills of western scotland, the cumbrian fells, the hills of wales towards the midlands, lincolnshire. in the south—east of england, it may stay dry, actually, on friday during the day. there'll be a little sunshine, temperatures again 20 or 21 degrees. now, into the weekend, and we've got some rain mainly affecting the northern half of the uk on friday night. that tends to head away, and we've just got this fairly weak link back on a weather front, so a lot of cloud coming in, especially across england and wales and northern ireland. a little bit of patchy rain here and there, no great amounts. probably drier and brighter for most of the day in scotland,

particularly in eastern scotland, where we've got 18 degrees in aberdeen. again, the higher temperatures probably towards the south—east, east anglia, 21 or 22 celsius. for the second half of the weekend, we've got the low pressure finally approaching northern parts of the uk. and it's going to be a windier day on sunday, some quite strong winds, especially for the northern half of the uk, where we're more likely to see a bit of rain for a while on that cold front. that'll move down into england and wales. it'll be replaced by some sunshine and some rather blustery showers in the north—west of the uk. but towards the south—east, with some warmer air here, temperatures could reach the mid twenties. now, looking further ahead into next week, this is the azores high, and it's going to start to build towards the uk. how quickly, that's the difficult thing. it may not really arrive until wednesday and probably only affect the southern half of the uk. there's a threat of low pressures coming in from more northern areas and the chance of some rain wednesday into thursday, but for more southern parts

of the uk, at the moment it looks like it should be generally dry. again, temperatures no great shakes, typically the low twenties.

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