this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. an angry backlash from social care leaders in the uk — over borisjohnson‘s suggestion that "too many" care homes didn't follow procedures during the coronavirus pandemic. it isa it is a chronic failure of government leadership when we have had a litany of mistakes since the beginning of the crisis and we should be getting an apology from the prime minister for that. i think the point the prime minister was making was that nobody at the time knew that what the correct procedures were because we didn't know the extent of the asymptomatic transmission that was taking place. in australia, the city of melbourne is ordered back into coronavirus lockdown and the state border between new south wales and victoria

will close in the next few hours. hundreds of thousands of homeowners in england will get grants of up to £5,000 for energy—saving improvements. at least three pubs in england which reopened their doors on saturday for the first time in months close again, after customers tested positive for coronavirus. a warning from hong kong's chief executive that the new security law imposed by beijing is a red line, and anyone violating it faces severe consequences. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world. stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. i'm annita mcveigh, and you can get in touch with me on twitter about

any of our stories. our top story — care home charities in the uk have accused prime minister boris johnson of insulting those who work in the sector, after he said some homes "didn't follow procedures" during the pandemic. downing street has said the prime minister meant that no one knew what the correct plan of action was at the start of the crisis. the deaths of 20,000 care home residents have been linked directly to coronavirus in england and wales. this is what mrjohnson had to say during a visit to a train factory in east yorkshire. we discovered too many care homes didn't really follow the procedures in the way they could have, but we are learning lessons the whole time. 0ne one of the most important things is to fund them properly, so we are putting another 600 million into covid compliant care homes. but we will also be looking at ways to make sure that the care sector long is properly organised and supported.

speaking to me earlier, mark adams from the charity community integrated care which provides care and support to thousands of people across england and scotland said the pm's comments were "cowardly" and that he was "unbelievably disappointed" by the reaction. you have shown this morning examples of care homes who have been utterly selfless, leaving theirfamilies, putting their own health and lives at risk, to care for our parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters. and that in reality is the social care sector. it's so often the cinderella of the health and social system, it is unregarded, it doesn't get the recognition or reward for what it deserves. and yesterday and last night and this morning, calls and the feedback from not just our own team but from the sector as a whole has just shown absolute dismay and what the prime minister said. for arguably the most important person in the country to be utterly damning about a sector that has worked so hard is frankly awful.

does the prime minister owe all of the people working in the sector an apology? not just an apology for yesterday's comment, but the way in which the whole crisis has been managed from the beginning to the end. for them to talk about asymptomatic people potentially spreading the virus, it is fine if you are testing people. but we didn't actually start doing testing until late in may in social care environments, and even then only once. you can catch the virus at any time. we need testing weekly, and if we could, twice weekly. so itjust doesn't stack up. we are in a situation where we have been failed on ppe, we have been failed on funding, we have been failed on testing, and then we are suddenly having the blame shifted to us. mark adams, chief executive

of community integrated care. we can speak to our assistant political editor norman smith. how big a problem does the government have here, because the clarification from number 10 doesn't cut it for a lot of people. one viewer tweeted to say that this was a victim blaming by the prime minister. i think it is a serious problem for the government, because you just have to think that most of us, many of us, we'll have family in ca re us, many of us, we'll have family in care homes or relatives in care homes, friends in care homes, people who work in care homes, maybe our neighbours, colleagues, there are around 1.5 million care workers. it is actually bigger than the nhs. so a lot of people will have a lot of sympathy with the care home sector, because they will have direct experience of how the care home staff have performed during this crisis, and i suspect many people ta ke crisis, and i suspect many people take the view they have been pretty heroic, actually, dealing with extraordinarily difficult

situations, trying to self—isolate people who maybe have alzheimer's or other neurological conditions, putting themselves at risk when they have inadequate ppe, some of them actually staying in care homes away from theirfamilies actually staying in care homes away from their families for weeks on end. so really extraordinary commitment and courage, it has to be said. and when they take the view, oi’ said. and when they take the view, or the bosses of care homes and care home organisations take the view that the prime minister is basically blaming them for the tragedy that fell upon so many care homes, and let's remember the scale of the tragedy, you are talking about 20,000, just get your head around that figure, 20,000 people who have died in care homes, it is understandable that there is a lot of very raw emotion here which i suspect has been compounded by the clarification, if you like, offered by downing street, but also by the fa ct by downing street, but also by the fact that there has been no attempt so fact that there has been no attempt so far at fact that there has been no attempt so faratan fact that there has been no attempt so far at an apology. this was the

business secretary alok sharma when he was asked if he thought the prime minister should apologise, this was his response. they have done a brilliant job under incredibly difficult circumstances, but i think the point the prime minister was making was that nobody at the time knew what the correct procedures were because we didn't know the extent of that asymptomatic transmission that was taking place. nobody knew that at the time which is why we put in place the guidance and support in terms of getting ppe to care homes, that is why we made sure there is a proper testing regime and why we provided further funding. no one is suggesting that care homes haven't done a greatjob in really difficult circumstances. norman, i know you have touched on this a bit, but to what extent do you think this is a setting up of a position, some might call it blame shifting, ahead of any future inquiry? well, i know a number of ca re bosses inquiry? well, i know a number of care bosses take that view, that because when we do have an inquiry, ca re because when we do have an inquiry, care homes will be at the centre of it because they make up more than

40% of the deaths, and there are a huge question about why patients we re huge question about why patients were discharged from hospital into ca re were discharged from hospital into care homes without being covid tested, why testing was not actually rolled out in care homes until mid—to—late may, so there are very serious questions about the government's approach and the guidance given by the government. but i kind of think in the immediate moment of this backlash, we are seeing the sense of injustice. care homes are angry about mrjohnson‘s remarks, but it seems it has almost lifted the lid on their brooding sense of hurt at the way they feel they have been treated through this crisis, where they have simply not receive the attention, the focus, the priority, certainly that the nhs received and perhaps that they should have received given the vulnerability of residents inside homes. norman, thank you very much.

just in the last few minutes, we have seen pictures of the actor johnny depp arriving at the high court in london, we can show you those now,. he is suing the sun group newspaper, and the executive editor dan wotton, over an article in april 2018 and allegations in that article about his relationship with his then wife amber heard, allegations which he denies. you can see him arriving, there he is, wearing sunglasses and a mask, johnny depp arriving at the high court in london in the last few minutes. five million residents of the australian city of melbourne are returning to lockdown for six weeks because of a spike in covid—19 cases. people will only be allowed to leave their homes for essential purposes like going to work,

school or for grocery shopping. the neighbouring state of new south wales will close its border with victoria shortly, to help prevent the spread of the virus. the numbers of new infections may be small in a global context — with 191 new cases confirmed in the state of victoria in the last 2a hours — but officials are concerned things could get out of control very quickly. here's victoria's premier daniel andrews. i would just appeal to victorians, don't for a moment think you can flout these rules, you will be stopped and asked and if you don't have a lawful excuse, then there are significant penalties that will apply. victoria police are taking this seriously, and they will continue to, that is what we need, we need to make sure with everybody. hopefully it is a very small number if any, but if there are any victorians who do the wrong thing, then the victoria police will be out there to make sure that you are not

making selfish choices that put not only your only health at risk, the health of your family, but indeed the health of every single family at risk. let's speak to ali cupper, australian mp and independent member of the victorian legislative assembly. thank you very much forjoining us. first of all, to put things into context for us, describe where you are context for us, describe where you a re exactly context for us, describe where you are exactly where that is in relation to covid hotspots. so we are up in desert country, in the very top north—west corner of victoria, so we are about an hour away from the south australian border, and literally two minutes, ifi border, and literally two minutes, if i drive in that direction from my office, from the new south wales border, which is the murray river. so we are positioned in a tri—state location. at the moment we have the army fortifying the border between victoria and south australia, which is kind of unsettling when you are

used to being in a central system, a democracy, with freedom of movement, it is kind of a central tenet, you know. and obviously the same thing is happening two minutes away ready for a midnight border lockdown tonight between us and are very close community that we share a lot with. so tell me about the movement of the community where you are on that side of the river into new south wales. presumably the community is normally crossing the border all the time? absolutely. all the time. so 40% of the workforce in mildura live on the new south wales side of the border. we have as a result of the colonial legacies of this country, just over the border in new south wales we have a significant population of disadvantaged aboriginal people, and they need to access services across

they need to access services across the river on my side of the border, in victoria, every single day. now, we are frustrated about this border closure, like i said there is something kind of almost surreal about checkpoints being set up in our vicinity in a country like australia. with that democratic tradition as i mentioned. we are certainly at the forefront of the impact, but we are a six or seven hour drive from the hotspot of melbourne. a six or seven hour drive? but clearly there is a concern about the number of new cases and how quickly they have sprung up, and we had daniel andrews talking about that being down to people being complacent and breaking rules once restrictions were eased. do you understand why there is this abundance of caution, if you like? yes, soi abundance of caution, if you like? yes, so i understand why there is an abundance of caution in melbourne,

andl abundance of caution in melbourne, and i think people should be really cautious about it so i welcome the news today. what needs to happen is essentially a ring fence around melbourne, around where that complacency has happened. but not where you are? no, that's right. there hasn't been a complacency in mildura, nor has there been a complacency in south australia, which we border and rely on for a lot of our services, and they rely oi'i lot of our services, and they rely on us, and nor does it stack up that just across the border in new south wales. so i think one of the things thatis wales. so i think one of the things that is critical in managing a public health emergency like this is making sure that you bring the people along, that government can maintain hearts and minds in this, andl maintain hearts and minds in this, and i think that one of the things thatis and i think that one of the things that is critical there is that you make sure that every action is proportionate, and the idea that when there is a hot spot in a state that you arbitrarily close the state borders i think is going to over

time, erode people's confidence in government decision—making. time, erode people's confidence in government decision-making. so in terms of practicalities, other exemptions because my our people allowed to cross the border or to go over the murray river to work or to go to school orfor over the murray river to work or to go to school or for what might be called essential appointments? yes, but we have onlyjust been notified of that. so i think between the time i was told that i was talking to you and by the sounds of things just now, you got some updates on that? so do tell us more. yes, so it has beena very so do tell us more. yes, so it has been a very fast moving situation, annita. we have been advocating like crazy for the past 36 hours. number one, we wanted to have some generous exemptions applied by new south wales, we wanted to have exemptions for basically unrestricted movement between the border towns at least,

based on postcode. so if you can demonstrate that you live on either side, then you basically get rubber—stamped to do it. that we found out at 12.30 today was going to be put in place, so that was great. and the other thing we found out at 3.15, obviously this is all australian time, that the perimeter fence was going to be metaphorically speaking put around melbourne, but that the regions could continue to operate under the current freedoms that they still have. so you feel a lot happier with this new detail? absolutely, and that also, and i think this is the important thing, that this approach, which is based more on levels of risk and creating zones either within states or across state borders, is a concept that we need to adopt more often and more strategically, because as i said before, one of the key things that

we have got here is at the moment, the hearts and minds of people and a willingness to follow the government, we don't want that to slip. i watch a lot of cnn, and i see what is happening in america, and when people start to lose confidence in the government, then thatis confidence in the government, then that is when they start breaking the rules. we don't want that to happen here, andl rules. we don't want that to happen here, and i think a rules. we don't want that to happen here, and i thinka key thing rules. we don't want that to happen here, and i think a key thing about thatis here, and i think a key thing about that is governments making sure that every action is proportionate to the risk, and that is why the development that has happened in the la st development that has happened in the last few hours, i'm very happy with. 0k, well, it will be really interesting to see how that evolves, and we hope that the number of cases is quickly brought back under control again. ali cupper mp, thank you very much for your time today. thank you so much. here in the uk. several pubs in england have temporarily shut down again after customers tested positive for coronavirus. at least three pubs announced their closures — just days after they were allowed to re—open on saturday.

andy moore has more details. the opening of pubs in england on saturday was a major step in the easing of lockdown. here in soho, there were big crowds on the streets to mark the event. at thousands of pubs up and down the country, there were much more modest celebrations. but now some pubs are having to close their doors again just days after reopening. the lighthouse kitchen and carvery in burnham—on—sea in somerset was one of them, after a male customer tested positive. the pub posted a message on its facebook page saying, this isn't the message we wanted to write so soon, but the lighthouse will be closed due to a customer testing positive to covid—19. we are slowly getting through our list of customers that were in the pub on saturday. all our staff are going to be tested, and we will reopen again when the time is safe to do so. other pubs such as the fox and hounds in batley, west yorkshire, have had to post

similar facebook messages. the pub said it will be deep—cleaned and opened again in soon as possible. the village home pub in alverstoke, gosport, told its customers they didn't need to isolate unless they were contacted by official tracers. they hope to open again on saturday. this is the best thing since sliced bread. any group of people going to a pub in england now have to leave a contact number, so that should make it easier to trace the customers who have been to a pub that needs to be closed down. andy moore, bbc news. hundreds of thousands of households in england are to receive grants of up to £5,000 for energy—saving home improvements like insulation. it's part of a wider £3 billion "green investment" by the government, which aims to create thousands ofjobs across the uk in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. our environment analyst roger harrabin reports. insulating homes gives a triple benefit. it saves on people's bills, it cuts carbon emissions from heating and crucially,

as the uk heads toward recession, it creates thousands ofjobs for tradespeople crawling in attics and measuring draft—proofing. england can't reach its climate targets without a major refit of housing stock, but until now, the treasury has been reluctant to help because it means transferring cash from the public purse to private bricks and mortar. now the jobs factor has swayed its opinion. from september, homeowners will be able to apply for vouchers of up to £5,000 for workers certified by an approved builder. this is going to supportjobs around the country, and it ultimately means lower energy bills every year, supporting jobs and of course that is very good news for the environment as well. from september, homeowners will be able to apply for vouchers of up to £5,000 for workers certified by an approved builder. the treasury says more than half of the £2 billion allocated will go to the poorest households

which will pay nothing. the uk has the most energy—inefficient housing stock in the whole of western europe and one of the worst fuel poverty rates. to make all 30 million uk homes energy efficient will require investment from the government of at least £18 billion. labour approves of the investment but says it doesn't do enough to help people in cold rented homes. it also says the programme must be carried on year after year to keep the jobs and increase the emissions savings. roger harrabin, bbc news. in hong kong, the fallout over the implementation of a sweeping new security law is causing some of the world's largest social media and tech companies significant concern over data privacy. video conferencing app zoom and linkedin say they're pausing the processing of data requents by hong kong police. theyjoin the likes of facebook, google and twitter which say they will not proceed with giving information about their users pending further assessment of the national security law.

and chinese social media company tiktok said it would pull out of the territory altogether. hong kong's chief executive carrie lam has defended the sweeping law imposed on the territory by the communist party leadership in beijing. she said the legislation would be "vigorously implemented", adding it would ensure hong kong was one of the safest cities in the world. she said she hadn't noticed any widespread fear among residents and she's described the law itself as "relatively mild, not strict," but with this warning. the hong kong government will vigorously implement this law, and i for one those radicals not to attempt to violate this law or crossing the red line, because the consequences of breaching this law are very serious. carrie lam. so, let's hear now from hong kong's pro—democracy camp. some of their leaders have indicated

they will have to go overseas to continue their work — others have said they will remain in the territory, even if that means risking arrest. eddie chu is a pro—democracy lawmaker representing the city's new territories west constituency, and he gave me his reaction to carrie lam's defence of the security law. carrie lam is totally wrong. this law affects everyone of us in hong kong. all of a sudden, the laws of freedom of expression, waving that flag or chanting a slogan is a crime that can put you in prison for years, and we will be cut off from the open internet like the people of china. because the authority can now criminalise western social media companies and isp if they fail to ta ke companies and isp if they fail to take down content or disclose users' identity. this will force companies to retreat from hong kong. i think pa rt of to retreat from hong kong. i think part of the democratic movement will either go overseas or underground, and it is only a matter of time that

they will wipe out the hold of democracy and opposition leaders at the table, but we won't die quietly, we will seize every chance to tell the world that we will not surrender to barbaric rule. the election this september is an important opportunity for all of us. hong kong lawmaker paul tse represents the territory's kowloon east constituency. he says he's in favour of the new security law drafted by beijing. he gave his take on the new security measures and of the threats by some businesses of abandoning hong kong over the new law. 0n the face of it, there is something alien to us, and national security legislation that we haven't had for years. but certainly there are other aspects that they try to conform to hong kong's way of life in system, for instance they try to preserve as much as possible the common law system, they are trying to preserve the way that they cut

involvement in trying cases and what have you, but there are other aspects which are foreign to us, a lot of the terminologies are alien to hong kong lawyers. there are a lot of this choice of words which are not well defined in the body of the law itself. so those are areas that i think we have to look very carefully into to make sure that those in authority explain them well enoughin those in authority explain them well enough in advance to the hong kong people. i think basically it is the best of both evils, having experienced what we have in the last year or so, experienced what we have in the last yearorso, and many experienced what we have in the last year or so, and many people in hong kong are tired and worried about the lawlessness in hong kong, and they welcome something which would restore law and order to start with. but at the same time, like i said, this is something alien to us, it is very rapidly implemented without much input on the hong kong side of

things. hopefully it will still preserve most of what we have so far had in hong kong in terms of our common law system, and certainly i think we will. it is a question that when it comes to an event of national security, we have a different set of provisions which are foreign to us, but having had so many foreign corporations stationed in mainland china without the protection, if you like, of the common law system, i would have thought perhaps some would still feel safe enough to work in hong kong, to stay in hong kong in terms of the borders and what have you. but there are certainly other corporations, more sensitive corporations, more sensitive corporations, that they may find the change too much risk at stake so that they might have to consider that. paul tse, and let that they might have to consider that. paultse, and let mejust tell you that coming up in the next few minutes, we will be talking to our

technology correspondent rory cellan—jones about tiktokmy decision to cease or at least pause operations, that new security law causing tiktok and other social media company is a huge amount of concern around the privacy of data. everyone should wear a face covering when they leave home to tackle coronavirus according to one of the uk's top