this is bbc news, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm tim willcox. the president of brazil, jair bolsonaro, tests positive for coronavirus — a reminder that the pandemic affects everyone. the virus doesn't really know who we are, whether we're prince or pauper. we are equally vulnerable. and i think what it really highlights is our collective vulnerability to this disease. after the threat, the us gives formal notification that it's leaving the world health organisation. millions in melbourne are ordered back into lockdown for six weeks. police checks at the state border between victoria and new south wales. at the uk's high court, the hollywood actorjohnny depp is suing the sun newspaper

for calling him a "wife beater". hello, and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. he's been tested before and been negative, but now on the fourth procedure, presidentjair bolsonaro has tested positive for coronavirus. the president has spent months of downplaying the virus's severity, and now finds himself taking hydroxychloroquine. it's a stunning development in a country that is second only to the us in both cases and deaths. our south america correspondent katy watson reports. brazil's graveyards, a testament to the country's crisis. every day, more tombs are filled, every burial another number in the country's

shocking statistics. tens of thousands of people are falling ill every day, numbers that jair bolsonaro has often dismissed, but now he is one of them. the president went on television to announce the test results. for once, he was wearing a mask, but leaving very little distance between him and journalists as he shared his experience of the virus. translation: it started on sunday with a certain feeling of unwell that worsened during the day on monday, with malaise, tiredness, a bit of muscle pain and a fever that reached 38 degrees. i did a scan at the armed forces hospital here and my lungs were clear. as he bid farewell, the mask came off. not even covid—19 will make him change his ways. jair bolsonaro is a man who thrives on controversy, meeting supporters and

rubbishing global health guidelines from the very beginning. he fired two health ministers because he disagreed with their medical advice which followed that of the world health organization. today, the health body sent best wishes for a speedy recovery. we are all potentially exposed to this virus. the virus doesn't really know who we are. whether we are prince or pauper, we are equally vulnerable. and i think what it really highlights is our collective vulnerability to this disease. and brazil is more vulnerable than most. the death toll is soaring, but shops, bars and restaurants are reopening. it's what jair bolsonaro has wanted from the very start, the economy back up and running. for so long, jair bolsonaro has tried to brush off this virus. the irony he has now caught it has not been missed in brazil today. translation: i think he's going to get better. he has the best doctors and the best hospitals.

i hope he's well. translation: bolsonaro has spoke about not catching it and he caught it. it's not just a little flu like he was talking about. this was the fourth test jair bolsonaro had taken for covid—i9. he had a scare early on in the crisis, when he paid a visit to donald trump and several members of his presidential team fell ill. the us president took a test shortly afterwards. the two men have much in common, playing down the virus and leading countries that are now suffering the most. brazil, most famous for its beaches, is becoming infamous for these much darker times. katy watson, bbc news, sao paulo. as we've just heard, president bolsanoro has been fairly dismissive of coronavirus in the past. but brazil and south america are now the areas of the world that most worry public health officials. our science editor david shukman reports. a desperate scene in

a graveyard in bolivia. a charity uses a digger to bury the dead because too many people are dying for the authorities to cope. the family of a victim watches on from a safe distance. in peru, there are long queues to get medical help. the country has one of the highest numbers of cases anywhere in the world and it is amongst the least able to handle them. this woman worries that so many are sick they are having to wait outside the hospital. it's very scary, she says. health experts are now becoming seriously alarmed about what's happening in latin america. of the countries with the largest number of cases, four are in latin america — brazil is number two after the united states. and bear in mind that these are going to be massive underestimates of the true scale because in so many regions, there is very little testing going on. there is a similar pattern with the death toll. of the countries with the largest losses three

are in latin america, and all the signs are that things are going in the wrong direction. one reason is overcrowding in the favelas, the slums, where social distancing isn't possible, adding to a worsening global picture. there have now been 11.4 million cases of covid—i9 and more than 535,000 lives have been lost. the outbreak is accelerating and we have clearly not reached the peak of the pandemic. and politics is key. the brazilian president wants growth and freedom, not lockdowns and masks. anotherfactor in an escalating crisis. david shukman, bbc news. the white house has officially moved to withdraw the united states from the world health organisation. it means the us would break ties with the global public health body at the peak

of the coronavirus pandemic. donald trump has frequently criticised the who, accusing it of covering up the coronavirus outbreak with china and failing to hold beijing to account. our correspondent david willis reminded me that even if the withdrawal process is triggered, it wouldn't be completed until after november's election. and the presumptive democratic rival for president, joe biden, has said that he will reverse mr trump's decision, and he will rejoin the world health organization if he's elected. but mr trump, of course, has been highly critical of the organisation. he believes it is biased towards china, and that it didn't issue sufficient warning about the spread of the coronavirus. he was particularly incensed by the who's criticism of his travel ban — the ban he imposed on people coming here from china. and it's been downhill ever since, if you like, as far as the who is concerned.

i mentioned joe biden — there's been criticism from other democrats. and the president of the un foundation, a body which supports un causes, elizabeth cousins, called this decision by mr trump a "short—sighted, unnecessary, and unequivocably dangerous move" coming at a time when the world is, of course, trying to combat a global pandemic. five million residents of the australian city of melbourne are returning to lockdown because of a spike in covid—i9 cases. for the next six weeks, people will only be allowed to leave their homes for essential purposes like going to work, school orfor grocery shopping. in australia, the numbers of new infections may be small in a global context. but the spike of almost 200 cases in 2a hours is the highest—one day figure since the pandemic began. earlier, i spoke to professor catherine bennet, chair in epidemiology at deakin

university. i asked her why the government responded so firmly to the latest spike. we had done an extra ordinary job, really, in suppressing covid within australia. and that led to low numbers of deaths, you know, 105 deaths over that period. so we know suppression can work, and putting all that effort in now is really about trying to return to where we were and achieving the goal, which is really protecting lives, at the end of the day, knowing that we can achieve it. and do we know where this originated, this latest number of cases? so, the concern is that this is a reintroduction of covid into melbourne. the genomic work suggests that most of the virus circulating now responsible for the latest cases has come from a traveller. so it looks like we've had a serious breach of our front—line defences, if you like, with travellers in the quarantined hotels

and infection amongst some of the security guards. and probably, you know, multiple guards positive at the same time, taking this back to the different parts of our community, and to parts where it was really an accelerator, you know, large extended families, or — now we're seeing it in our public housing towers where we have very high concentrated units over 20 floors in a tower, where you can just get quite explosive rates... because the conditions lend themselves to that. but presumably, the testing regime will be incredibly important now. so how many people are you aiming to test during this lockdown? so, over the last week, the tests have really accelerated. again, we're testing 25,000 people a day. and you're right, that is an absolutely key part of that. and it's something different to where we were in march, when we last saw our spike in mainly imported cases.

it gives us a much clearer picture of what's going on in the community. and importantly, we're testing people who don't have symptoms. and that's what you need to do to really understand how this virus is already distributed in a community, but also where are those most risky transmission groups that we need to shut down. just a few seconds — the second lockdown, it is said to be more difficult psychologically for people, and also economically? yeah. look, everyone's fatigued already, and there's a lot of politics around the second wave. and the isolation of victoria from the rest of the country, i think, makes that difficult for people to get their heads around. but we also know we can do it, we're better—resourced with other states chipping in. so we think we can do this. but we need everybody on board to make that happen.

let's get some of the day's other news.. despite the spike of cornavirus cases and the re—introduction of restrictions in florida, plans for the phased re—opening of walt disney world remain intact. theme parks will open from 11 july starting with magic kingdom and animal kingdom, with the remainder to follow days later. disney says enhanced health and safety measures are in place with capacity also limited. plans to reopen disneyland in california remain on hold. the former lead singer of the british rock band kasabian, tom meighan, has been ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work after admitting assaulting his former fiancee. a court heard how vikki agers was left with a head injury and bruising after the prolonged attack. victim support groups say the sentence is too lenient. he's now been sacked by the band. a forest fire in eastern ukraine has killed five people and put another nine in hospital. the ukrainian emergency service

said the blaze had destroyed more than 100 houses in and around a village just north of the rebel—controlled city of lu ha nsk. it took some 360 fire fighters to bring the flames under control. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: we take a look at how one us family is mourning its loss after a death in the family from covid—19 central london has been rocked by a series of terrorist attacks. police say there have been many casualties, and there is growing speculation that al-qaeda was responsible. germany will be the hosts of the 2006 football world cup. they've pipped the favour of south africa by a single vote. in south africa, the possibility of losing hadn't even been contemplated. celebration parties were cancelled. a man entered the palace to the downstairs window and made his way to the queen's

private bedroom, then he asked her for us a cigarette and, on the pretext of arranging for some to be brought, summoned a footman on duty who took the man away. screaming. one child. one teacher. one book, and one pen can change the world. education is the only solution. this is bbc news, the latest headlines... the brazilian president has tested positive for covid—19. jair bolsonaro insisted to journalists he now felt fine. donald trump has formally started the process of withdrawing the united states from the world health organisation. the hollywood actorjohnny depp

has denied that he regularly engaged in destructive and violent behaviour in relation to his former wife, amber heard. the actor is suing the publisher of the sun, news group newspapers, and its executive editor, dan wootton, over an article publshed in 2018 which called him a "wife beater". he strongly denies the allegations, but the publishers say the description of him was entirely accurate as our correspondent david sillito reports. johnny depp arriving in court this morning. he's brought this case to try to clear his name of an allegation that he is a "wife—beater". it was those words that were in a headline in an article in the sun when the journalist dan wootton questioned jk rowling supporting the casting ofjohnny depp in an adaptation of her fantastic beasts book. the allegations of physical abuse were made byjohnny depp‘s former wife, amber heard, who also arrived at court this morning to watch proceedings. the heart of this case is johnny depp‘s reputation.

the accusations that he repeatedly assaulted amber heard, that he seriously injured herand, at times, left her fearing for her life. the sun says there was overwhelming evidence supporting her claims. all of this, johnny depp denies. the court was shown this footage, secretly filmed by amber heard, of an angry johnny depp kicking doors and drinking. he was asked in court, "would you agree you are violent?" he answered, "i was violent...with some cupboards." he said there was no violence towards amber heard, and that it was she who had punched him. in one incident he said she had partially severed his finger after throwing a vodka bottle. libel cases such as this are rare these days and pay—outs are unlikely to compensate for the huge cost. but this is about reputation. i don't think it's going to be about a big libel payment. i think there will be other reasons for doing it, personal reasons for doing it. and reputational reasons.

there's not going to be a huge pay—out, i would think. you came today because you crave something new. something different. the trigger for the original article was the decision to recast him in the fantastic beasts movie. the case has shone a light on the private life of one of hollywood's biggest stars. his drinking, his drug use and his temper. he admits the relationship was volatile but denies assaulting amber heard. lawyers say she stands by her claims and disputes his version of events, and she will, in the days to come, give her account to a case which is scheduled to last three weeks. david sillito, bbc news. the director of the fbi says chinese spying and other covert operations present the greatest long—term threat to the future of the united states.

speaking in washington, christopher wray said the chinese government had orchestrated a campaign to steal us business secrets and undermine the american way of life. here's some more of what christopher wray had to say. the chinese come his party believes it is in a generationalfight to believes it is in a generational fight to surpass oui’ generational fight to surpass our country in economic and technological leadership. china is engaged in a whole state effort to become the world's only superpower by any means necessary. british gymnastics is conducting an independent review following allegations raised by a number of gymnasts about mistreatment. bbc news has heard from athletes who claim the governing body has fostered a "culture of fear" and emotional abuse. some gymnasts allege they have been "weight—shamed" — leading to the development of eating disorders. our sports correspondent natalie pirks has this report. when you really realise how

much it's affected you, from the eating disorders, the chronic pain, waking up, having nightmares every night, never feeling good enough. at the age of 12, nicole pavier was a promising young english gymnast. five years later she retired, battling bulimia. i was always worried about food but the real problems started at 1a. just being terrified that you were going to go over the scales. she says she would also skip meals and take laxatives. come on, move those legs! come on, push! push! claire barbieri is one of the most high—profile coaches in the sport and is currently the lead national technical adviser for scottish gymnastics. she was one of nicole's coaches. the gymnast alleges she was weighed several times a day. it got progressively worse. i remember a session where i was doing a full pirouette on bars and blacked out.

claire barbieri told the bbc... elsewhere, with a different coach, another athlete told us she also suffered an eating disorder because of a culture, she says, british gymnastics allowed to continue. they have created this culture of fear, this culture of negative coaching and emotional abuse of coaching. and those coaches are then passing on to future generations of coaches and this kind of vicious cycle isjust continuing. if this doesn't change, i'm not sure there's a future for british gymnastics. during the course of this investigation, we've heard terrible stories of young children who were too scared to speak out, or who simply won't listen to. we've also seen detailed

evidence from parents from across the country of the abuse their children suffered. it includes being screamed at, being hit with a stick, being banished to a cupboard for hours on end as punishment, and being made to continue to train in extreme pain with broken bones. in response to numerous concerns raised by athletes, british gymnastics has now launched an independent investigation. it says it... it added... for nicole, the effects of how she was coached has had a long—lasting impact. it still plagues my everyday life. i still hate the way i look, i still feel like i'm overweight. these coaches see us as numbers and theyjust don't realise the effect that it's going to have on the rest of your life.

ultimately, gymnastics will always be a sport where adults work with children and one, it seems, were too often the line between tough coaching and abuse is blurred. natalie pirks, bbc news. more than 130,000 people have died in the united states since the coronavirus outbreak began. that means more than 130,000 families have found themselves in a state of mourning, but often with no way to grieve. even with lockdown measures easing, funerals and other mass gatherings are difficult. the bbc‘s jane o'brien met one mother and daughter who recently lost a loved one, to see how they've been coping. the monotony of lockdown is amplified by grief. christine and her daughter, sam, have experienced loss before. christine's husband was killed in a car crash when sam was a baby. but this is different. grieving right now is, it's not

the same as any other time. we're stuck in a moment. like, it doesn't feel like time is moving. after a ten—day illness, christine's mother died from covid — the family unable to share her last moments. we didn't have a normalfuneral. my mother was religious, she was catholic. we had to let people watch from a link, if they wanted to tune into the service. we were allowed to ten people, and we couldn't be near each other. we were all in separate pews. you know, my daughter and i were able to sit together, but i couldn't be with my siblings, i couldn't hug my siblings. at the cemetery, we were separated. that's not normal. nothing is normal in the time of covid. sacred rituals and even the process of grieving have been distorted by social distancing and quarantine. i think under normal conditions, pre—covid, you would have things that

kept you busy. that's gone. i'm not working, she's now out of school. there's nothing really to do, other than be alone with your thoughts most of the day. like, there are times when i find myself up in my room reading, drawing, just watching tv, and ijust start crying. and i think about why i'm crying. this is a different type of quarantine for us. most people are dealing with this the same way, just sitting at home, running to the grocery store every now and then. but it's different because we've had something extra, like, thrown in there with the whole stew, in a way. with so many people experiencing grief and isolation, experts fear a mental health crisis could be on the horizon. it takes time to adjust to the new normal. especially when you don't know what it is, but so many people, in their trauma and their loss, do not know what the new normal looks like until they start living in it. but if we can adapt

that life can be ok, even if it's different, i think we won't be damaged. but if we keep holding on to what used to be, i think it'll be incredibly damaging. we won't be able to move forward. going back to school, if we go back, like, they might be joking about it, they might be saying, "quarantine was stupid" — i suffered a lot, and they may not have. just like with 9/11, it'll be something people talk about for years and decades, and it'll never go away. so ijust feel like this is always going to be what i remember. and it's going to be hard. and before we go — forget rain on your wedding day, what's a girl to do when there's a pandemic on? well, a group of frustrated brides—to—be in italy got they were protesting against italy's ongoing

coronavirus restrictions. here they all our with their parasols looking fabulous. . that's it for us. hello. well, we've got another dose of rain on the way for wednesday. it's more southern parts of the uk that'll get the rain. now, this is the satellite picture. notice it's actually a conveyor belt of cloud, stretching from the north sea across the uk, ireland and out into the atlantic. and out here in the central north atlantic, not that it's of any huge significance, but this is actually an old tropical storm that's just feeding in warmth and moisture into this band of cloud and rain that's kind of gradually slipping across the country from west in an easterly direction. there's also a lot of mild air to the south. in fact, 15 celsius, that's the early morning temperature on wednesday, whereas in the glens of scotland early on wednesday, it could be close to freezing in a few areas.

remember that cloud stretching out into the atlantic. it's kind of spreading across the uk. certainly, some rain around at times for wales, the midlands, southern england, eventually into east anglia and the southeast. but i think much of yorkshire, northern ireland and scotland in for a bright day with just a few showers. and that trend continues into thursday. it's more southern parts of the country that get the cloud and the outbreaks of rain, so i think for some of us, once again, not a pretty picture. it isn't going to be cold. 20 celsius in london. actually fresher in scotland with the sunshine, where temperatures will be between 14—18 celsius. now, on friday, there is a weather front out in the north sea. it's actually a low pressure with its weather front and it will be close enough to drive our weather, so i think showers for the northeast of england, certainly through yorkshire and into east anglia, and a bit of a breeze as well. the winds actually coming out to the north west on friday, so it could feel a little on the chilly side in some northwestern areas.

the best of the weather, i suspect, across western wales and the south as well, as well as the south west, on friday. now, here's the good news. high pressure is expected to build towards the weekend. not particularly hot weather heading our way with this high pressure. i think it's just going to be pleasantly warm with some sunny spells. so, here's the outlook for saturday and sunday. temperatures mostly in the high teens across more northern part of the country, whereas further south, it'll probably get up to around the low or maybe the mid—20s. that's it, goodbye.

this is bbc news.

the headlines... the president of brazil, jair bolsonaro, says he's tested positive for coronavirus. on monday mr bolsonaro said he had a fever and was suffering some pain. he's long played down the danger of the virus, saying it's like a little flu. that it's withdrawing the us from the world health organization. it's due to leave on the 6th ofjuly next year. and melbourne in australia is back in lockdown for six weeks because of a reported spike in covid infections. police are stopping drivers from crossing the border between victoria and new south wales, at the uk's high court, the hollywood actorjohnny depp is suing the sun newspaper, for calling him a "wife beater".