this is bbc news: i'm samantha simmonds with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. america's leading virus expert issues a stark warning — cases are going in the wrong direction, as coronvirus infections soar, in some us states. the european union re—opens its borders to visitors from 15 countries it considers to be safe — brazil, russia and the us don't make the list. european aircraft maker airbus plans to cut over 15, thousand jobs — as it tries to deal with the effects of the coronavirus crisis. russia votes for a final day, in a referendum — which could allow president putin to remain in office

until 2036. fans planning a permamant memorial to a footballer almost 100 years after he was denied the chance of representing england becaue he was black. the democratic presidential candidate, joe biden, has mounted a scathing attack on donald trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. mr biden said the president was in retreat with more than 125,000 americans dead and the number of infections surging in many states. it follows a dire warning from america's top expert on infectious diseases, that unless the us manages to bring the pandemic under control, the number of coronavirus cases could more than double to 100,000 a day. here's our north america correspondent, peter bowes. a nation on edge again. the coronavirus outbreak

is worse than ever. the southern and western states of florida, arizona, texas and california account for about half of all new cases. some hospitals are running out of intensive care beds, and experts are warning of a looming catastrophe if the outbreak isn't brought under control. testifying to a senate committee on the effort to reopen schools and businesses, the us government's leading expert on the virus, dr anthony fauci, said he feared the situation could get a lot worse. we can'tjust focus on those areas that are having the surge. it puts the entire country at risk. we're now having a0,000—plus new cases a day. i would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around, and so i am very concerned. stepping up his campaign for the presidency, joe biden has launched a blistering attack on donald trump's handling of the pandemic. your promises and predictions and wishful thinking, pulled out of thin air,

are not only doing the country no good, but making them lose even more faith in their government. america knows this crisis isn't behind us, even if you don't. without responding directly to the former vice—president, mrtrump once again blamed china. with no end in sight to the covid crisis, and a holiday weekend approaching, the worst—affected that states are now renewing some lockdown measures. in texas, the closure of bars has provoked a backlash from some, but weary acceptance from others. it's obviously spreading in bars, so if we've got to shut it down for the betterment of the community, that's what we got to do. right now, we're the first guys to get shut down, the last to open, and they're not hearing us. and, if we've got to scream it as loud as can be, we want to be heard. in california, the beaches have been shut down again, and people urged to stay at home. there will be little to celebrate this independence day.

peter bowes, bbc news, los angeles. let's speak now to michael genovese — he's a professor of political science at the loyola marymount university in los angeles — as well as the author of how trump governs. welcome to you. thank you for being with us. what reaction has there been to this stark warning from dr fauci? the 1100585 warning from dr fauci? the nooses been building up and it's been bad for a few days and people saw it coming. fauci's number that he put on that was shocking but it's a function of badly mishandling this pandemic crisis. there's been an abject failure of leadership. have no national policy on this crisis. the president who started off dismissing it and downplaying it then said maybe you can use disinfectants. it's gotten so bad and he's been so paralysed, is really pulled away and he is hardly even visible on this any

longer. it's an ostrich kind of approach. it's getting worse. what effect is it having on his presidency. the core base that he has, it's rocksolid and starting to free a bit. the possibility that they could be a snowball effect. things go from bad to worse and finally instead of being a taplin president, maybe the snowball effect really accumulates and the fear i think in the trump white house and in the campaign is, is this going to get out of hand? can we not put a stop on this? professor, do stay with us, we will talk to you about oui’ us, we will talk to you about our next story and that is the

european union says it will allow visitors from 15 countries it considers to be safe to start coming from today. not the united states, brazil and russia. china is on the safe list. china is on the safe list, but the eu says, it wants reciprocal arrangements for its citizens, to travel there, before it grants permission. freya cole reports. cheers to the end of the coronavirus lockdown in the czech republic. country of almost 11 million people and antivirus measures early on and it paid off. coronavirus cases in the czech republic remain relatively low which means it's time to get back to business. translation: the society must stop being afraid because it is, we will have an economic depression. and that's what we'll hit the society much harder than the whole covert

19. italy two is opening up in all its glory. this mosaic of colour two hours north of rome is bursting with blooms for tourists to enjoy and from today europe is opening orders today europe is opening orders to 15 countries but it won't include america, brazil and russia, where the virus is still strong. it's because fears of a second wave remain. croatia is in the grip of a new out make which authorities say are linked tonight clubs. translation: we have made special recommendations for clu bs special recommendations for clubs and if the situation improves, there will be no reason to close them that if it happens again, and there are more cases, the option of closing them is on the table. it will be a european summer like no other. a new rulebook which has the potential to change the moment things go bad. freya cole, bbc news.

let's speak again now to michael genovese — what kind of impact is this eu ban on us travellers continue to have? i will say to down the list on problems because we are so list on problems because we are so beset by so many blooms, pandemic, the economy, protest movement over black lives matter so this is just one more punch in the face to america. a neutral standard, we don't make the cut. it's our fault. we've mishandled the crisis so what you can expect is that donald trump will personalise it, you will see a lot of tweets, but he won't do much about it. a lot of people have had to cancel their summer plans. tourism from europe to the united states is a $1 billion

industry. that's dead. it's been more of a shock in a world we've already had three or four big shocks. see don't think resident trump could retaliate against the eu. you might personalise it but you don't think he will lash out?” personalise it but you don't think he will lash out? i think he will lash out verbally, i'm not sure what policy moves you can make because he's got so many things on his plate right 110w many things on his plate right now stop regardless of whether 01’ now stop regardless of whether or not that is true, this situation is pregnant with manners. the alliance that donald trump has been trashing is teetering. could this be the thing that puts an end to the alliance. 0ne thing that puts an end to the alliance. one of the consequences of that, what tragedies would envelop the world the alliance collapses. let's get some of the day's other news. 36 suburbs in australia's second biggest city, melbourne, are to go back into covid—19 lockdown following a surge in cases.

authorities have said those areas have had an unacceptably high number of new infections detected in the past few day. up to 300,000 residents from those virus hotspots are banned from crossing the state border. they face fines of $7,000 or up to six months in prison. here in the uk, people have been told not to travel into or out of the english city of leicester as it returns to a strict lockdown. the restrictions were imposed on monday evening after a spike in coronavirus cases — they will remain in place for at least two weeks. at least 18 people have been killed in an explosion and fire at a medical centre in the iranian capital tehran. officials are blaming a gas leak, linked to oxygen cylinders. several other people were injured. the world's largest aircraft manufacturer, airbus has announced plans to cut 15 thousand jobs

including 1,700 in the uk. the aerospace giant said it doesn't expect air traffic to return to pre—pandemic levels until 2023, calling the current situation the "gravest crisis" the aviation industry has ever faced. andy moore reports. it's a global aerospace giant manufacturing a fleet of aircraft but our bus is being hit by coronavirus like every pa rt hit by coronavirus like every part of the aviation sector. thousands of jobs part of the aviation sector. thousands ofjobs will be lost at plants across europe. in the uk, it is expected about 1700 jobs will go in lincolnshire and bristol, representing around 15% of the british workforce. the airbus ‘s chief executive warns the path to recovery would be slow and agile. we need to act now by adapting our workforce to reflect the new situation in the international aircraft

sector and protect the longer term future of the company. jobs in the aviation sector are highly paid and highly skilled. it's estimated two or three jobs will be lost in supply chain for every single job that goes at our bus. you've been working very hard with our bus and many other companies in the aerospace sector to try and avoid this happening but u nfortu nately, avoid this happening but unfortunately, because of indecision by government to intervene, it's resulted in today's announcement. the government says it will do its best to minimise the impact. we accept that we cannot save everyjob, even though 9 million people have been furloughed through a scheme which is cost £20 million and counting. everyone realises you can't count on that forever. and there is even more grim news in the aviation sector from the airline easyjet. they warned they may have to close

basis at stansted southend newcastle airports. the union unites is at least 1300 people could lose theirjobs. andy moore, bbc news. hong kong's leader, carrie lam, has described the severe new security law imposed by china as the "most important development" since britain handed back the territory. at a ceremony marking the twenty—third anniversary of the handover, ms lam called the law a "turning point" from what she termed chaos to what she called being governed well. western governments have condemned the move as an unprecedented assault on hong kong's liberties and autonomy. translation: the national security law only targets an extremely small minority of people who commit four types of crimes that seriously threaten national security as provided in the law, namely secession, subversion of state power, organisation and carrying out of terrorist activities, and collusion with foreign or external forces to endanger national security. it serves to protect the life and property, basic rights and freedoms of the overwhelming majority of our citizens.

stay with us on bbc news, still to come: plans to errect a permanent memorial to a footballer, almost 100 years after he was denied the chance of playing for england because he was black. china marked its first day of rule in hong kong with a series of spectacular celebrations. a huge firework display was held in the former colony. the chinese president, jiang zemin, said unification was the start of a new era for hong kong. the world's first clone has been produced of an adult mammal. scientists in scotland have produced a sheep called dolly that was cloned in a laboratory using a cell from another sheep. for the first time in 20 years, russian and american spacecraft have docked in orbit at the start of a new era of cooperation in space.

challenger powered past the bishop rock lighthouse at almost 50 knots, shattering a record that had stood for 3h years. and there was no hiding the sheer elation of richard branson and his crew. this is bbc news, the latest headlines: america's leading virus expert issues a stark warning — cases are going in the wrong direction as coronvirus infections soar in some us states. the european union reopens its borders to visitors from 15 countries it considers to be safe — brazil, russia and the us are not on the list. to russia now, where today marks the final day in a week—long vote on changing the constitution. the document contains dozens of proposals

but the headline—grabber is the one which would let vladimir putin run for office again. that could leave him in the kremlin until 2036, should he want to try. his critics say it's just a blatant power grab. sarah rainsford reports. all week, russians have been voting on the biggest package of reforms to their constitution since the 1990s, and it's taking place in venues like this — not the most formal—looking setting for such an important vote. it's also taking place, of course, in the midst of the covid—19 pandemic, so there are extra precautions. 0n the side of the tent here is an explanation of what people are actually voting on, some of the amendments, and the headings look pretty attractive — there's access to quality medicine for all, the defence of russia's territorial integrity, even environmental rights, but it all looks like fairly attractive wrapping for the key amendment here for the kremlin, article 81, this would allow

president putin to run for office for two more terms. he could, in fact, stay in the kremlin until 2036 if he chooses. we've driven even deeper into the countryside now, and the vote here looks even more makeshift. 0pposition figures here have dismissed it as a joke, some have even called it a constitutional coup, but it is taking place across the country at places like this. well, this tent was supposed to be here three more hours, but we've just been told the election officials are taking the ballot box and they're going around the houses instead.

the kremlin seems to have been in a rush with this vote from the very start. that could be because vladimir putin's approval rating, although still high, has begun to slide and this coronavirus crisis isn't going to make anything easier. so if this vote is about extending his time in power, what do people here actually think about that? one of the odd things about this process is that russia's new constitution is already printed and on sale in all the bookshops here. now, in theory, the result of a popular vote could see this entire project scrapped but the fact it's already in print suggests the authorities here

are pretty confident. authorities in ecuador have started using artificial intelligence to track people in the capital city, quito. there has been a rise in new coronavirus cases in parts of the city, which authorities hope to get under control. sylvia lennan—spence has more. it's like a game of trigonometry, measuring the distance between people, and if you're caught too close, authorities will be watching. the high—tech security software is being funded by the inter—american development bank. it's being used first in ecuador, where coronavirus has infected more than 55,000 people. translation: we think roughly 90% of citizens use a facemask but we don't know if they're being used correctly, and we can see out on the street that in many areas, social distancing is not practised. it's just not being done.

lockdown measures have eased across ecuador, but there are new outbreaks in parts of quito. translation: we are very concerned with the increase in infections in some suburbs of the capital. in co—ordination with the authorities, there are to be restrictions in the historic centre. unfortunately, that's where there has been an increase. the world health organization says the virus is yet to peak across south america, and one of the biggest fears is widespread complacency. sylvia lennan—spence, bbc news. plans by israel's leadership to annex parts of the occupied west bank appear to have stalled, with july 1st having been set as the date from which proposals could be put to its cabinet or parliament. the palestinians want the west bank as part of a future state. much of the world denounces annexation as a clear breach of international law. victims of sexual assault and harrassment

by the disgraced hollywood movie producer harvey weinstein have been awarded nearly $19 million to settle two sexual misconduct lawsuits. the new york attorney general said it was part of a class—action case involving several women. weinstein is serving a 23—year prison sentence after he was found guilty of sexual assault and rape. officials in belgium have removed a statue of the country's former king, leopold ii, after protesters began objecting to the way people in the congo were treated when it was a belgian colony. the removal coincided with the 60th anniversary of the country's independence. jack leslie is a football player who should have gone down in history as a hero and pioneer but, sadly, many have never have heard of him. leslie was selected to play for england in 1925 but was taken out of the squad because he was black and, so, to recognise his talents and the injustice he faced, fans of plymouth argyle — his main club — are starting a campaign to have his statue

erected in the city. clive coleman has the story. jack leslie, a phenomenal footballer but was he denied his place in sporting history because of the colour of his skin? jack leslie played for plymouth argyle, then in the third division in the 1920s and believed to be the first black player to captain a leg side. here at plymouth, jack leslie scored 137 goals, at times suffering racial abuse from both crowds and opponents but in 1925, the club manager called him into his office and gave him some thrilling news, jack leslie had been picked to play for england. it was the talk of the town. but when the papers came out some days later, billy walkerfrom papers came out some days later, billy walker from aston villa within the team and jack leslie was named as a travelling reserve. we never travelled. england struggled a o-o travelled. england struggled a 0—0 score in belfast while jack

leslie scored twice in limits victory in bournemouth. what happened to jack has passed into family history. you have the wedding picture there, which isjust the wedding picture there, which is just lovely, the wedding picture there, which isjust lovely, isn't it? they look for two happy, didn't they? certainly did. lovely picture. yes. but in those days, you didn't have the television and someone came down to watch him, they were not watching his football, they we re not watching his football, they were looking at the colour of his skin and because of that, he was denied the chance of playing for his country. plymouth argyle has already on it one of its greatest players in this mural and has renamed its boardroom fifita him but fa ns wa nt its boardroom fifita him but fans want a statue of jack leslie and a campaign is under. we think at a time when some statues are coming down, we wa nt statues are coming down, we want to campaign to put one up, to celebrate jack leslie, his incredible achievements but also to remember that historic injustice where he was denied

as england captain. the last thing on my mind was me being the first black pay—out to play for england. 53 years after the selection of jack leslie in english site, anderson became the first black player to wear an england. it's incredible, the euphoria to get the call from a manager to say that you've been picked for england and then the letdown are being dismissed in a few days because of the colour of his skin, it is appalling, really. i never heard of jack leslie is appalling, really. i never heard ofjack leslie until two weeks ago and it's a crying shame because what he achieved and what he did was should be paramount in every black person 's mind and the statue we are trying to get erected, hopefully, will carry on his legacy. after his playing days jack leslie returned to his trade as a boilermaker before going to west ham where he cleaned boots from players in the england team, hardly fitting from the man who should be remembered beside him and hopefully now will be.

clive coleman, bbc news. one of the symbols of world opera, la scala theatre in milan, has announced it'll reopen, more than three months after it was closed due to the coronavirus emergency. music. four live concerts will be held betweenjuly 06—15, with a full resumption of events in september. there will be reduced artistic formations on stage and a maximum 600 people in the 2,000 capacity hall. spectators at la scala will be asked to observe all health protocols, including wearing masks, until they reach their seat. the concerts will lastjust over one hour and there will be no interval. wonderful news for opera fans,

if they can make it there. don't forget you can get in touch with me and some of the team on twitter — i'm @samanthatvnews i will be back soon with all of the day ‘s business news. hello there. the rest of this week is looking fairly unsettled with pressure always a little bit lower. that'll bring showers through today, and also thursday, and on friday, we'll see another area of low pressure bringing some wet and windy weather to many of us. now, this is the weak area of low pressure i was talking about. across the country today, it's a weather front bringing more persistent rain to start the day across parts of central southern scotland, northern ireland and the far north of england. this tending to break up into showers, which could turn out to be heavy into the afternoon. england and wales may see the sunshine breaking through that cloud — all that'll do is set off some heavy, maybe thundery showers. temperatures reaching the high teens, low 20s in the south, but a chilly feel to things across northern and eastern scotland and northeast england with a northerly wind here,

so, temperatures at best around the mid—teens celsius. looks like the showers will tend to merge together to create longer spells of rain across southern scotland, northern england, the midlands, and northern wales during wednesday night. it'll be milder in the south, further north with some clear spells with single figure values. again, it'll be chilly where we have our northerly wind. 0n into thursday, this weather front continuing to bring further showers particularly towards england and wales, but a brief ridge of high pressure will be trying to nose into scotland and northern ireland. so, here through the day, it should turn drier with light winds and sunshine. so a better day here, but for england and wales, again the threat of heavy, it may be thundery showers developing through the midlands into east wales, and across into the south—east. temperatures reaching again the low 20s in the south with sunshine, a little bit better further north—west, but still chilly near those north—east coasts. as we head on into friday, here it is, the next area of low pressure starts to push in off the atlantic. lots of isobars on the charts, so it'll turn windier initially across the west, then spreading its way eastwards through the day.

the rain will be persistent — northern ireland, especially western scotland, into the cumbrian fells, perhaps north—west wales. but i think central and eastern areas should tend to stay dry with variable amounts of cloud and some sunshine. so here again, 20—21 celsius, mid—to—high teens further north. into the weekend, it remains unsettled with the pressure always lower, so it'll be quite windy at times and there will be rain around, particularly across the north and the west of the country. here, it will be windier and wetter, whereas further south and east you are, especially on sunday, it could be a bit brighter and feel a little bit warmer.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. turbulent times for the aviation industry as plane—maker airbus cuts 15,000 jobs. less likes for facebook as more global brandsjoin the ads boycott — we hearfrom one major boss on why his firm backs the move. as hong kong marks 23 years since its handover, the city adopts a controversial new security law imposed by beijing —we'll assess the impact on business. and times up for tiktok in india — we hear how some of the apps 120 million users in the country are reacting to the ban.

the european aircraft manufacturer airbus has announced plans to cut fifteen thousand jobs worldwide in response to the coronavirus crisis. germany and france will lose around 5,000 each, 1,700 are going in britain, 900 in spain and the rest at other airbus sites worldwide. the covid—19 pandemic has been little short of catastrophic for the airline industry. at one point in april, global air traffic was down by more than 90%. joining me now via webcam is john grant, director at 0ag — a global travel data provider. wa nt to want to think about these job cuts? there are significant. this is the inevitable ripple

down from the pandemic into the suppliers and manufacturers and they are just looking to defer and cancel as many orders as they can at the moment was they stabilise their businesses so we could expect more and boeing are probably going to have to go through a similar exercise as well. our buses previously called for the uk government to offer the kind of support at the aerospace industry promised by the likes of france and germany. would government aid actually help? every little piece of assistance helps in the uk government has been woeful in its response compared to the friendship would 13 billion programme in place and the germans and lufthansa who got 11 billion but there are underlying issues that we need to resolve. commonly between 70 and 65% of the worlds aircraft today are sitting on the ground somewhere in active. many of those will not return before the year ends. they are

starting to. we are seeing airspace open up from today and around the world slowly slowly and it will start to reopen. but how long do you think it will take before the airline industry recovers from this massive loss? well, we're talking about and $81; billion loss this year and the consensus seems to be that we are looking at 20 ——20 22— 2023 before traffic recovers we've wiped out billions of dollars of cash reserves in industry and to recover those is going to ta ke and to recover those is going to take a bubbly four, five, maybe even longer years before we see this pandemic actually wiped out and are raised from the airlines balance sheets. in terms of buying new planes, five years or longer. the some, they may just say we got aircraft that are inactive and we can use those. some airlines looking for aircraft may go to the second—hand market is not surprisingly, there are lots of spare aircraft on the ground

that other airlines do not intend to fly. we had airline failures and collapses. plentiful supply of aircraft parts as well is complete aircraft available around the world. john, thank you for your analysis. you for your analysis. target, mars, aviva and the intercontinental hotels group — have become the latest brands to pause advertising on facebook. theyjoin ford, adidas, hp, coca cola, unilever and starbucks, which have all acted in response to how the social network deals with hate speech. the stop hate for profit campaign claims that facebook is not doing enough to remove hateful content. ahead of the latest developments, the tech firm's uk director steve hatch told the bbc that "there was no profit in content that is hateful". mozilla, the organisation behind the firefox web browser have not advertised on facebook and instagram since the the cambridge analytica scandal in 2018. i'm pleased to say that mitchell baker, ceo of the mozilla corporation joins me now from mountain view, california.

thank you for being with us. you haven't advertised with facebook for more than two yea rs. facebook for more than two years. whyjoin this campaign now? the reason we stopped advertising with facebook two yea rs advertising with facebook two years ago is so related to what's happening now. on the surface, the topics are different. there was a misuse of data and this is clearly hate speech and are wildly different topic but the underlying issues are very similar in that what happens at facebook is unknown to us, the algorithms are secret, the policies are unclear, the execution is secret and it's not actually possible to know what's happening and it's not possible in this case to know where your brand is appearing. whether your advertising dollars in this case mozilla's advertising dollars would go to support a kind of content we don't want be associated with. facebook‘s mark zuckerberg said it will flag all newsworthy

posts from politicians and political groups that break its rules from now on. isn't that enough? what more would you like to see done? i think that's not enough. hate speech and what goes on in facebook is much broader and even controversies much broader and even co ntrove rs i es over much broader and even controversies over political actors speaking. so for example, there is a vast and industry and billions of dollars going into targeting based on an algorithm and it may well be amplifying and exaggerating in magnifying the kinds of hateful content that is on line and their effect. the wall streetjournal did that expose that even facebook internally believed i think it was 64% of people going to these extremist contents may well have been recommended by facebook itself is a that's a much larger part of the problems we would say the place to start is transparency and understanding. what is the algorithm, how does it work,

what are the ads in the targeting terms for those ads? so we can understand what is happening and that will allow us happening and that will allow us to know in much more detail what facebook is doing is the right thing or have a think about other answers. facebook are vigorously defended themselves. in the end, 250 companies and counting have joined this campaign but really, is it going to have any impact? is it mainly symbolic given the and revenue is mainly from smaller companies in facebook? first, we will see but secondly, we think not. one needs leadership for change and one needs to imagine what a different world could be an after cambridge analytica, there weren't that many of us who would stop. now its wildly different group. many larger grounds. i think the ability of larger grounds to look up and say what we are, it's a moment

of leadership so in some cases, they can help imagine what something else would be and it may speak the brands were smaller and may be unable to stop advertising themselves so change not actually linear, real change. this is an important moment. we hope that more brands willjoin in the question of the brand next to this kind of content increasingly should be we hope unacceptable on its own but also that the business. you mentioned leadership. as the boss of a web browser, what would you do to stop people accessing hate speech via mozilla? a couple of things to remember is the browser is a different kind of duct and social media, so not in the content piece. in our content, we have a content product called pocket where we actually try to do the opposite. 0ur

content work is helping people find content that's thoughtful and notaimed find content that's thoughtful and not aimed at outrage. sort of the opposite of click bait. that's our main effort in this area. for example after the black lives matter, if you are a fi refox black lives matter, if you are a firefox user, you will find references to longer term content about what the issues are plus collections, curated by experts on these topics ranging from the history of racism to what does defund the police mean and what a thoughtful essays on that so our effort is on exploring what would look like to try and encourage more thoughtful engagement, more multiple perspectives in the world? thank you very much forjoining us. let's talk about hong kong now — because today marks 23 years since the territory was handed back to china. every year, protesters have

marched in the streets, opposing the handover, but today, that is unlikely. 0vernight, the city formally adopted the controversial new security law imposed by beijing. many multinational firms have offices there — but until now that was because of the city's autonomy. let's cross to our asia business hub and speak to mariko 0i for more on this. what impact is this law having businesses? we only found out the details of the lawjust before midnight local time. and just before that handover anniversary that you mentioned. businesses are still digesting the direct impact, the exact impact of the bill that i think it's fair to say that people have been quite shocked with some of the details on how the law will apply to foreigners for example in the maximum penalty is life in prison. so questions like if you're a stock a nalyst questions like if you're a stock analyst in hong kong and writing about chinese data you

would get into trouble with writing something negatively about them because of this new law. we have not heard much from businesses themselves, at least not openly, but this is why many experts have warned this could be the end of hong kong as a financial hub as we know it. and anecdotally, since this law was proposed, some businesses and personnel have been looking to move to other cities like singapore. let's get some of the day's other news. the uk has signalled it is set to take a tougher line against the chinese telecoms giant huawei as it considers whether to use the company for the uk's 5g network. the country's culture secretary said new us sanctions imposed on huawei were likely to have an impact on the viability of using the firms technology. tokyo disneyland and disneysea reopen today after being shut forfour months. they'll resume activities under strict social distancing measures, including the use of masks and temperature checks. 0perators shut the parks in february when japan experienced a surge in coronavirus infections. theme park operations contributed to almost half of all walt disney

company's profits in 2019. google will no longer automatically back up images and videos from social media platforms in its photo app. previously, the google photos app created a folder to store any media received through apps such as whatsapp, facebook and instagram. google said the changes were to save internet resources as "people are sharing more photos and videos" during the covid—19 pandemic. now you may have heard us reporting earlier this week that india's government has banned 59 chinese—made apps including tiktok and wechat after weeks of escalating tensions between the two countries. the bbc‘s nikhil inamdar has been looking the impact the ban on the world's second largest internet market. the bbc‘s nikhil inamdar has been looking the impact the ban

darshan singh is one of tick—tock‘s indian stars, sharing information with millions of farmers around the country. he has more than 200,000 followers in the government's decision to ban tiktok along with others chinese apps is coming is quite a blow. translation: all the ha rd a blow. translation: all the hard work we have put in over three orfour hard work we have put in over three or four years has hard work we have put in over three orfour years has been lost. the government should give us a substitute for tiktok we can transfer our content. from film stars to smalltown kids with big dreams, tiktok has more than 120 million monthly users in india. 30% of the's entire user base. the governance ban is expected to hit not just tiktokers governance ban is expected to hit notjust tiktokers but governance ban is expected to hit not just tiktokers but a third of indian smartphone users who are on wechat, shareit and club factory, other

chinese apps. china has been shut out of the world's second biggest smartphone market and i could have an impact on experts warn more of restrictions could be on the way to chinese companies wanting to do business in india. this app thenis business in india. this app then is part of a bigger negotiation on 5g and given the fa ct negotiation on 5g and given the fact that india ranks among the top five telephone markets in the world, supplies the service providers for apps and the whole ecosystem, i think that is another liver the government is another liver the government is going to use in due course. the moment, china has mounted a counter—attack given india's reliance on goods and raw materials, whether new delhi would be able to avoid a retaliation is a big question. now it's time for this weeks edition of ceo secrets — snag is a fast—growing scottish company which makes tights. it sells 500,000 pairs a year and half of all it sells goes to customers overseas. snag's ceo, brie read,

says the firm's biggest challenge right now is trying to find ways to export its goods during the coronavirus lockdown. it's like a game of chess. i think people don't realise is that when our travel stop, it meant all of the shipping stock as well. the export markets we re as well. the export markets were hit immediately and for shipping costs to reap the customer was so hard it was impossible for them to pay the carriage costs to get the product to them. we were really surprised to find some countries just shut themselves to exports, like new zealand, they just shut down to exports, like new zealand, theyjust shut down all of to exports, like new zealand, they just shut down all of the shipping to new zealand so we had loads of customers who are

asking us to ship product there was nothing we could do so to try and get sales going again, we had to do things like book ship months instead of airfreight, open up where it was still quite good so germany became overnight massive marketing for us because we could get product through their flight could get product through their flight quickly and shipping costs were still reasonable switch was really strange challenge about midway through starting the business but the same time, it all starts to be really creative and innovative which is good. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: we'll have a look at russia as it votes in a referendum which could lead to president putin remaining in office until 2036. china marked its first day of rule in hong kong with a series of spectacular celebrations.

a huge firework display was held in the former colony. the chinese president, jiang zemin, said unification was the start of a new era for hong kong. the world's first clone has been produced of an adult mammal. scientists in scotland have produced a sheep called dolly that was cloned in a laboratory using a cell from another sheep. for the first time in 20 years, russian and american spacecraft have docked in orbit at the start of a new era of cooperation in space. challenger powered past the bishop rock lighthouse at almost 50 knots, shattering a record that had stood for 3h years. and there was no hiding the sheer elation of richard branson and his crew. this is bbc news, the latest headlines:

america's leading virus expert issues a stark warning cases are going in the wrong direction, as coronvirus infections soar, in some us states. the european union reopens its borders to visitors from 15 countries it considers to be safe — brazil, russia and the us are not on the list. more now on russia where today marks the final day in a week—long vote on changing the constitution. if accepted, it could mean that president putin will hold on to power for another decade, possibly two. 0ur international editor gabriel gatehouse has been reporting on russia since the beginning of putin's reign and he has this report. this is not a referendum. russia is not really a democracy. but this is not a

despot and russia's president is no dictator. 0ver despot and russia's president is no dictator. over the course of 20 years, putin's image has evolved from grey man to strongman. in fact, evolved from grey man to strongman. infact, he evolved from grey man to strongman. in fact, he is neither. the truth is more complicated and more disturbing. i was in russia in 1999 when then president yeltsin picked a unknown former kgb officer to be his heir apparent and back then pretty much everyone is at the same thing about him, they have picked in, they said because he's a nobody, because they can control him, he would never last. how we all were! — just how wrong we were. to understand what vladimir putin is and he russia has become you need to go back to the 1980s, according to the official narrative, in the dying days of the cold water dressed was a

backwater and vladimir putin, the young kgb officer was stuck ina the young kgb officer was stuck in a dead—end job. he has spoken of being bored and drinking too much beer. but it's now a more during that quite the opposite was true. during his time in dresden, the kgb was easy smuggling new technology into the soviet union in defiance of western sanctions, according to catherine belton, he spent two decades investigating their activities. the kgb and the stasi had to cook up all these front companies and fake contracts so they could sidestep the western embargo and get these assets and technology across the wall. many years later, these were skills that would prove useful but in the meantime, the communist bloc was crumbling — crumbling and parts of the kgb we re crumbling and parts of the kgb were actively preparing for the colla pse were actively preparing for the collapse of the soviet union. they were preparing the move to

the market but they also realised they needed to start shifting assets, so they could preserve their intelligence networks even after a collapse of the communist regime. when boris —— boris yeltsin thought of the attack of hardliners, it look like an attack had been broken but even after the collapse of the soviet union, russians thought the promise of western freedoms collapse and disappear in the midst of economic cuts. they president with ailing, sometimes drunk in public. behind the scenes, a handful of oligarchs, he made billions out of the chaos to the transition of the chaos to the transition of the chaos to the transition of the free market, were the ones really running the show. elton's replacement then had to

be somebody young and healthy, a cce pta ble be somebody young and healthy, acceptable to the oligarch and he did not seem to pose a threat to yeltsin's liberals, someone who could be all things to all people, a blank slate. during his first term, he made a good impression on western leaders also. but while putin was busy making friends abroad, at home, he was neutralising anybody who may present a challenge to his authority, starting with the oligarchs who had helped put him into power. the dramatic arrest of the richest man in russia seized at gunpoint by russian special forces, looks like something out of an ian fleming novel.... mikal cara koski would spend ten yea rs mikal cara koski would spend ten years injail mikal cara koski would spend ten years in jail insensibly for tax evasion and while the allies of vladimir putin dismantled his companies and give it up the spoils. it was a turning point. as western investment flowed into russia,

attracted by rising oil prices, russian money went the other way, much of it finding its way into the city of london, attract leave by light touch regulation. from the war in ukraine to attempt to meddle in foreign elections, their methods are straight out of the old kgb playbook, the rules vladimir putin learned in dresden in the 1980s. those who have access to state funds can be called upon to use them in influence operations, the lines of become blurred between individual gain and what the kremlin deems the national interest. there is no doubt about the outcome of this referendum in russia's democratic simulacrum you can vote how you like, but the result is always vladimir putin. 0ver result is always vladimir putin. over the past 20 years, vladimir putin and his former kgb associates have agreed a tacit bargain with the russian

people. you get a strong state, we get rich, you lose some freedoms, but you gain some stability. it is, perhaps, an understandable deal, given all that russia has been through but the trouble with a strong is this: he is stable until suddenly he is not. one of the symbols of world opera, la scala theatre, in milan, has announced it'll reopen more than three months after it was closed due to the coronavirus emergency. music. four live concerts will be held betweenjuly 06—15, with a full resumption of events in september. there will be reduced artistic formations on stage and a maximum 600 people in the 2,000 capacity hall. spectators at la scala will be asked to observe all health

protocols, including wearing masks until they reach their seat. the concerts will lastjust over one—hour and there will be no interval. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @ sallybundockbbc. hello there. the rest of this week is looking fairly unsettled with pressure always a little bit lower. that'll bring showers through today, and also thursday, and on friday, we'll see another area of low pressure bringing some wet and windy weather to many of us. now, this is the weak area of low pressure i was talking about. across the country today, it's a weather front bringing more persistent rain to start the day across parts of central southern scotland, northern ireland and the far north of england. this tending to break up into showers, which could turn out to be heavy into the afternoon. england and wales may see the sunshine breaking through that cloud — all that'll do is set off some heavy, maybe thundery showers. temperatures reaching the high teens, low 20s in the south, but a chilly feel to things across northern and eastern scotland and northeast england with a northerly wind here, so, temperatures at best around the mid—teens celsius.

looks like the showers will tend to merge together to create longer spells of rain across southern scotland, northern england, the midlands, and northern wales during wednesday night. it'll be milder in the south, further north with some clear spells with single figure values. again, it'll be chilly where we have our northerly wind. 0n into thursday, this weather front continuing to bring further showers particularly towards england and wales, but a brief ridge of high pressure will be trying to nose into scotland and northern ireland. so, here through the day, it should turn drier with light winds and sunshine. so a better day here, but for england and wales, again the threat of heavy, it may be thundery showers developing through the midlands into east wales, and across into the south—east. temperatures reaching again the low 20s in the south with sunshine, a little bit better further north—west, but still chilly near those north—east coasts. as we head on into friday, here it is, the next area of low pressure starts to push in off the atlantic. lots of isobars on the charts, so it'll turn windier initially across the west, then spreading its way eastwards through the day. the rain will be persistent — northern ireland, especially

western scotland, into the cumbrian fells, perhaps north—west wales. but i think central and eastern areas should tend to stay dry with variable amounts of cloud and some sunshine. so here again, 20—21 celsius, mid—to—high teens further north. into the weekend, it remains unsettled with the pressure always lower, so it'll be quite windy at times and there will be rain around, particularly across the north and the west of the country. here, it will be windier and wetter, whereas further south and east you are, especially on sunday, it could be a bit brighter and feel a little bit warmer.

good morning. welcome to breakfast, with dan walker and louise minchin. 0ur headlines today: thousands more jobs are to go in the aviation industry. plane—maker airbus is the latest to lay off workers. 1700 jobs will go between this site in north wales and filton near bristol. unions say this is an act of industrial vandalism. the government says not everyjob can be saved. life in lockdown — shops in leicester close their doors as schools prepare to send pupils home. he's done it! 5—year—old tony hudgell completes his charity walk raising more than £1 million.