this is bbc news, i'm karin giannone with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. coronavirus bailout, or just emergency loans? eu leaders meet to try and resolve their divisions over the pandemic recovery fund. coronavirus infections pass the two million mark in brazil, making it the second worst hit country, after the united states. people often say that this virus isn't visible, but the suffering here is so easy to see. netflix shares plunge, despite rising subscriber numbers during the virus lockdown. and, celebrations as real madrid win their first la liga title in three years,

with a game to spare. hello and welcome. leaders of the 27 member states of the eu will gather in brussels for the first time since march later. they'll be attempting to settle a trillion euro budget — and are being asked to agree an additional pandemic recovery fund. there are sharp divides with some countries unwilling to dole out cash without strict conditions. our europe correspondent, kevin connolly reports. let's start the meeting, if we are ready. for months, you're av are ready. for months, you're a's leaders have been stuck the stilted diplomacy of the videoconference. now, at last, they are to meet face—to—face. but that doesn't mean they will see it why. at the very moment

the eu 27 is struggling to agree a 27 euros trillion. one point of agreement, the agreement won't be easy. this is politics. the dutch prime minister is a sort of spokesman for a small group of northern countries, the frugal for, for a small group of northern countries, the frugalfor, who wa nt to countries, the frugalfor, who want to limit the bill and offer help in loans not grants. translation: i could not explain to myself or to others that we would be willing to offer loa ns that we would be willing to offer loans without the condition of far—reaching reforms, to make sure countries come out stronger and to make sure we are able to check if these reforms actually took place. leaders of southern countries like italy and greece remember how life drained from

their streets and economies wa nt their streets and economies want generous help now, not big bills to repay later, and they don't want supervision from their wealthier neighbours, either. translation: we insist on the full amount of funds that the european commission has opposed. we believe that the majority of them should be in the form of grants and not loans and of course to insist that to receive these funds there is no need to add special conditions. brussels insiders will tell you there's always a deal in the end but this time it won't be easy. hungry‘s viktor orban is threatening to veto the whole thing if it includes criticism of his authoritarian style at home. one sign that things aren't back to normal, the building that normally houses hundreds of journalists at summit that normally houses hundreds ofjournalists at summit will be empty. we've been told to stay away. and one thing that

never changes, the rumour that it may yet take another summit to get all this sorted. brazil has now registered a grim new milestone and is struggling to deal with one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the world. more than two million people are now confirmed to have covid—i9 in the country. the number of people who have died from the virus has risen to almost 77,000. brazil is the second worst—affected country in the world, after the united states, which has nearly 3.7 million cases. the brazilian president jair bolsonaro says he has tested positive for a second time, after being re—tested. but, despite that, he's encouraging the country to re—open and return to normality. katy watson reports from sao paulo. in these frightening times, moments of comfort are everything. for two months now, this man

has been in intensive care. he only has one working lung — it's unclear if he'll survive. dr andre asks if he's experiencing pain. all he can do is blink to say "yes". these are intense times for everyone. andre works on shift with his wife, dr fernanda. they live this crisis together 2a/7. even here, brazil's top infectious diseases hospital, coronavirus has floored them. it was the first hospital to fill up in sao paulo and every day they are turning more people away. it's not physical, it's psychological. ‘cause sometimes we fail and we have to deal with the family pain, and theyjust couldn't see those patients, they're not here for them when they're dying. it's the loneliness that they feel, even if they are sedated. i feel safe here,

more than outside. really? it's a comment that says a lot. the president has shunned social distancing and regularly refused to wear masks, despite them being mandatory. the death toll keeps climbing and even now that he has the virus, he's supportive of shops and restaurants reopening. there is little love for jair bolsonaro on this ward. i think he was the worst thing that we can have in this moment. he was — he is, in fact — irresponsible. he is a person without empathy and he said, "it's not my problem." so is my problem? in the midst of grief, politics doesn't matter, but everyone is affected. gravediggers tell me that their work has tripled. no longer do you have hearses bringing in a body, you have vans bringing in five.

people often say that this virus isn't visible, but the suffering here is so easy to see. i meet ada nielsen in latin america's largest cemetery. he's exhuming bodies today. with burials rising, space is at a premium, so those whose loved ones died more than 3.5 years ago are being asked to collect their bones. "the only thing a gravedigger is afraid of is getting covid," he says. he's been in thejob for 25 years. his hours are long, and it's got personal. his uncle was buried here just a few weeks ago. a childhood friend was also lost to covid—i9. ada nielsen says hisjob nowadays is also that of a counsellor, telling families to stay home and stay safe. "if people here understood the point of quarantine, "we wouldn't be so busy," says ada nielsen.

"things would be different." for those who have passed, little chance to rest in peace in these challenging times. katy watson, bbc news, sao paulo. let's get some of the day's other news. america's top infectious disease specialist, dr anthony fauci, has pleaded with young people not to gather in crowds as the number of daily coronavirus infections hits a new record. in an interview with mark zuckerberg, dr fauci said now was not the time to go to bars and have fun. the united nations says up to 265 million people could face starvation by the end of the year, because of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. launching an appeal for more than $10 billion to help low income and fragile countries, the un warned that failure to act now, could undo decades of development. the us supreme court has ruled that a florida law that restricts voting rights for people with past felony convictions, should stand.

it means that hundreds of thousands of people won't be able to vote in state primaries in august, and possibly the november presidential elections. the first face—to—face talks between the leaders of serbia and kosovo for nearly two years have ended, with few signs of progress. kosovo's prime minister avdullah hoti described his meeting in brussels with the serbian president aleksandar vucic as difficult. mr vucic separately agreed, but he said there had been progress on certain issues. netflix added 10 million subscribers over the last three months, significantly more than the same time last year. but its shares fell almost i2% in after—hours trading because of a downbeat assessment for the rest of the year. tim baysinger is senior tv reporter with the wrap. he's in los angeles. welcome to you, what do you make of this? describes up, she

is down? it sometimes the way it works here. wall street is a lwa ys it works here. wall street is always focused on what you can do tomorrow, not what you can do tomorrow, not what you can do yesterday, so when they said that they only expect to get 2.5 million subscribers for the next quarter, that was less than half of what analysts were expecting so naturally that's going to send a lot of investors kind of running. the number of new subscribers, do you think this is because netflix has been performing so well and offering such great content, or simply a symptom of the lockdown? it's probably both. they do offer a lot of content, you have a lot of movie theatres in this country that had been shut down so netflix has kind of taken over summer netflix has kind of taken over summer blockbuster season a little bit, but the lockdown is definitely a factor, a lot of people are stuck at home, they don't have much else to do. how is the competition comparing when you look at how netflix is doing, disney plus, apple tv,

what are their prospect? apple tv, it's hard to tell because they've never put out any numbers so we don't actually know how many people are actually using it. disney plus is the one that is coming really close, amazon prime is obviously coming close as well. disney plus are going to report earnings ina disney plus are going to report earnings in a few weeks. they are earnings in a few weeks. they a re really earnings in a few weeks. they are really looking like they are really looking like they are going to hit their subscriber goal that they set for 2024 at some point this year. and when we have seen how production has been stopped in its tracks by the pandemic, by the lockdown, how are they going to keep moving forward when the new content is surely going to start running dry soon. what are we're going to be watching on these services? at least with netflix, the film a lot of stuff well ahead of time, so they are not actually, in terms of what they are rolling out is going to be too much affected the rest of this year, and next year, there is some effect in that it's going

to be thought of more back—end, it will be much more at the end of next year but they said when 2021 is over they will actually have put more content on the service next year than they well this year. any signs of production or even talk of production or even talk of production resuming over there, when things are so bad with coronavirus cases? it's extremely slow going. they did mention that, they didn't say what they were shooting but they did mention potentially shooting a couple of days in los angeles, but really in terms of netflix, what little production is happening is happening overseas. 0k tim, thank you very much. senior tv reporter at the wrap joining us from la. the vatican has published new guidelines for catholic bishops on how to handle allegations of child sexual abuse by members of the clergy. the 20—page handbook outlines the steps to be taken from the moment an allegation is reported to the conclusion of the case, but stops short of ordering officials to report the crimes to police. sophia tran—thomson has this report.

chanting the catholic church has been plagued by sexual abuse scandals for decades. pope francis has made the fight against paedophilia, sexual abuse, and its cover—up in the church, one of the priorities of his pontificate. he held a summit on the topic last year, passing a landmark measure obliging those who know about sex abuse to report it to their superiors. now, the vatican has released step—by—step guidelines for bishops and other senior church officials on how to deal with clerical, child sex abuse claims. translation: many times we are asked, ‘what should ido? what must i do?‘ so we thought, as requested to us from many different sites, to write a guide, a practical guide so that a bishop or somebody in charge of a religious community who finds himself with this problem, can figure out what to do, how to proceed.

the 20—page manual doesn't include any new laws but aims to clarify the existing rules and strengthen advice on reporting crimes to civil authorities, saying it should be done even if not required by law in the country in question. but critics of the church have long insisted that senior church figures should be ordered, not merely urged, to report crimes. and say priests found guilty should be permanently removed. the most important thing that the pope could do is introduce zero tolerance, zero tolerance for child sex abuse in the priesthood, and zero tolerance of enabling that abuse in the hierarchy. bishops who enable sexual abuse should be permanently removed and clergy who abuse children should be permanently removed from public ministry. for victims of sexual abuse at the hands of the church, the new guidelines won't make up for previous crimes. but for now the vatican says the handbook is version 1.0 and it will be updated as necessary. sophia tran—thomson, bbc news.

stay with us on bbc news, still to come: arise sir tom moore, the 100—year—old former soldier who raised millions for health charities goes to windsor castle to be knighted by the queen. after months of talks and missed deadlines, a deal has been struck to keep greece within the eurozone. the immediate prospect of greece going bust in the worst crisis to hit the eurozone has been averted. emergency services across central europe are stepping up their efforts to contain the worse floods this century. nearly 100 people have been killed. broadway is traditionally called the 'great white way' by americans, but tonight, it's completely blacked out. it's a timely reminder to all americans of the problems that the energy crisis has brought to them. leaders meet in paris

for a summit on pollution, inflation and third world debt. this morning, theyjoined the revolution celebrations for a show of military might on the champs—elysees. wildlife officials in australia have been coping with a penguin problem. fairy penguins have been staggering ashore and collapsing after gorging themselves on a huge shoal of their favourite food, pilchards. some had eaten so much, they could barely stand. this is bbc news, the latest headlines: eu leaders meet for a socially distanced summit to try and resolve their divisions over the multi—billion, pandemic recovery fund. coronavirus infections pass the two million mark in brazil, making it the second—worst hit country, after the united states.

large protests are expected this weekend in the russian far east in support of a local governor, after he was arrested on murder charges and flown to moscow. the city of khabarovsk has witnessed a week of unprecedented demonstrations — their scale has taken the kremlin by surprise. our correspondent steve rosenberg travelled 4,000 miles east of moscow to find out why russians have been taking to the streets. it is the largest display of discontent khabarovsk it is the largest display of discontent kha barovsk has it is the largest display of discontent khabarovsk has seen in modern times. the protest have continued all week. russians taking to the street to show solidarity with the governor they had elected. this is what happened to him. sergei furgal was arrested by police who had flown in from moscow to the popular local governor has

been charged with involvement in multiple murders dating back 15 years. years behind bars now in the capital. in the russian far east, many believe this is about the kremlin trying to sinka about the kremlin trying to sink a potential rival and it is fuelling suspicion of moscow here. khabarovsk is closer to china than it is to the russian capital. moscow is more than 6000 kilometres away. and it is not just the distance 6000 kilometres away. and it is notjust the distance that is big. so is the sense of resentment here towards the kremlin. they are not calling for a revolution. all that protesters like victoria want is for sergei furgal to be given a is for sergei furgal to be givenafair is for sergei furgal to be given a fair trial in khabarovsk. we just try to show moscow that he is our man and he must be here, even if he did it, we don't believe that, but evenif it, we don't believe that, but even if he did it so it must be

here. that the city's mayor told us the protest should stop. translation: i am against the protests because they are illegal to also, today we had 85 new cases of coronavirus in the city you find coronavirus? in large crowds. that feelings are running high. sergei furgal‘s supporters have vowed to continue the demonstrations. unsanctioned protest like this one are normally viewed by those in power here as illegal and are broken up. what is interesting is that so far local police have been keeping their distance, a sign perhaps that the authorities understand the strength of feeling and do not wish to spark more anger. real madrid have won their first liga title in three years. the team beat villarreal 2—1, playing to an empty stadium

in the spanish capital because of the coronavirus pandemic. james ra nsley reports. beeping the sound of victory on the streets of madrid. translation: i feel great, it's been a completely different league, and not normal at all, but it's excellent. in the heart of the city, the cibeles fountain — the traditional meeting spot for real‘s celebration. cheering but with spain in the grips of a pandemic, fans were being discouraged from gathering in large numbers. around 300 police officers stationed at the fountain. translation: it's a bit sad, you know. when i came here last year, it was full and even the players came. now they are not coming and it's a bit sad for the fans. behind closed doors and a 6,000—seat stadium, it was perhaps not the grand crowning victory the club would have imagined.

karim benzema is in excellent form — he got a goal. another penalty as well where sergio ramos tried to do a sort of — that penalty that johan cruyff tried so long ago where sergio ramos tapped it towards benzema. but that had to be retaken as benzema got into the box too early, so hejust put the ball down and took it himself and scored to make it 2—0 to real madrid. villarreal pulled one back but a 2—1 win for real madrid to crown them as la liga champions. fans watched the match in bars and cafes all across the spanish capital. translation: we cannot celebrate as we'd like to but we always keep ourjoy as madrid fans in our hearts. real madrid ending a 3—year wait to take back the spanish title in a homecoming of sorts. james ransley, bbc news. two nasa astronauts have

completed a six—hour spacewalk to grade the international space systems power system. this has enabled the station's laboratory to continue working when out of direct sunlight. scientists have revealed the closest images ever taken of the sun, which show mini solar flares, called "campfires", dotted across its surface. the pictures were captured by the solar orbiter spacecraft, as our science correspondent rebecca morelle reports. our sun seen in remarkable close—up detail. these images taken by solar orbiter reveal something we've never seen before, small solar flares across the whole surface, which scientists have called 'campfires‘. seeing these images for the first time was breathtaking, and when we look at the sun in these images we are able to see explosions happening all throughout the sun's atmosphere and we weren't expecting to see that. and that's the beauty of it, finding new things

for the first time, seeing the sun in a new way, in a way we couldn't have imagined. vehicle's cleared the tower... the spacecraft started its mission in february. built in the uk, it's designed to cope with extreme temperatures as it nears our star. the earth is about 93 million miles from the sun and other missions have taken solar pictures from just above our planet. but on its first pass, solar orbiter got much closer, within 48 million miles. and over the next two years it's heading closer still, within 25 million miles of the sun. this will give us a totally new view. in the next few years we will actually be able to pull up and look down on the sun above the north pole, and then later on at the south pole, and we've never done that before, we've never ta ken pictures of the north and south poles. and it could be dramatically different to what we see around the equator. today's images are just a glimpse of what is to come. the hope is this mission will finally shed light on our star. rebecca morelle, bbc news.

captain tom moore, who raised million of pounds for charity, will travel to windsor castle today to be knighted by the queen. it will be the only royal honour to be awarded since the beginning of the lockdown. sarah campbell reports. # happy birthday to you. it started as a family challenge to walk 100 lengths of the garden to mark a 100th birthday and in the process raise £1000 for nhs to charities dig the uk and much of the world was on lockdown at the time and as the former army captain's story spread it became clear that his understated manner and wise words what needed to hear. the donations kept coming and coming. at the time he celebrated his birthday, the total had topped £30 million. he received an estimated 140,000 cards from around the world. and raf fly past and,

subsequently announced, a knighthood. his response was typically modest. i am still tom moore. i think so thomas sounds very nice but inside i have not changed. nothing has changed inside to today, he and his family will travel here, to the quadrangle inside windsor castle where the queen's birthday parade was held last month. all in vestiges have been on hold during the pandemic, but for captain sir tom, the queen has made an exception. and inspiration to many thousands of people around the world, his will be an exceptional ceremony for an extraordinary man. coming up, we will be live to brussels to assess the chances of 27 eu leaders reaching a deal on the

european pandemic recovery fund. lots more stories on our website. i am on twitter. we will see you in a few minutes. hello again. well, some places stayed cloudy on thursday. there was more sunshine more widely, and it was a warmer day as well. the temperature reached 26 celsius in hampshire during the afternoon. well, the temperatures weren't far behind actually in the north—east of scotland, helped by over eight hours of sunshine. let me set the scene for you, because at the moment, we've still got warm and humid air across the uk. that weather front is bringing some patchy rain and drizzle. to the north of it, it's cooler, fresher air. that will move southwards over the next few days as the band of cloud and patchy rain moves southwards. and that rain is pushing its way down into scotland and northern ireland. england and wales still dry early in the morning. quite warm and humid start to the day. that cloud and mostly light rain will continue to trickle southwards across scotland,

across northern ireland, eventually into northern england and later into north wales. to the north across northern scotland, it'll brighten up. there'll be some sunshine. not quite as warm as it was on thursday, but still 20—21. further south, there's a rain band across england and wales, some sunny spells, turning out to be quite warm. 26 or even 27 in the south—east of england. now, that weather front bringing that cloud and rain will continue to move southwards overnight and into the start of the weekend. it's a painfully slow process, mind you, and we'll see that rain moving away from much of northern england as it heads into wales, through the midlands, perhaps lincolnshire and eventually the south—west of england. the rain does tend to die out in most places. still dry towards the south—east, still quite warm here. temperatures perhaps 24 degrees or so, but further north, we've got that cooler air moving down and temperatures will continue to just drop away a little bit. for the second half of the weekend, we see that weather front continuing down towards the south—east. as it arrives here on saturday night, the rain could turn steadier and heavier. once that rain clears away,

we're all getting into that cooler and fresher air from the north—west. but still some rain to begin with on sunday morning across east anglia and the south—east. once that clears away, we'll have some sunny spells. maybe a few showers around, mostly towards the north—west of scotland. many places will be dry in the afternoon, but the air is cooler and fresher everywhere. we've got temperatures typically 16—20 celsius. that's a little below par for this time of the year, and we'll keep those sort of temperatures for the early part of next week. maybe one or two showers around, but many places, i think, will be dry. we're going to find some spells of sunshine at times. goodbye.

this is bbc news with the latest business headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. a socially—distanced summit. and eu leaders are still far apart over plans for a massive bailout fund, to pull the region out of its deep recession plus, locked down and tuned in — the adventure continues for netflix. but investors don't like the look of the next episode. we start in brussels, where it's summit time. european union leaders are about to meet face—to—face for the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic,

and as usual they will be arguing over money. they need to agree a long term budget for the bloc now the uk has left. but, more pressingly, they also have to settle their differences over a 750 billion euro bailout fund, planned to help pull europe out of its deep recession, much of it go to italy and spain. sweden, denmark, austria and the netherlands, the so—called 'frugal four‘, want more repayable loans linked with economic reforms, and fewer handouts. on thursday the head of the european central bank stressed the urgency of coming to an agreement. my my sense is that a very large number of leaders are perfectly aware of the importance of not wasting time, and of being able to signal to the europeans, signal to the investors, signal to the world that there is a level of consensus, and a

determination to invest together, to recover together and support each other that will be demonstrated by a good agreement, an ambitious agreement, an ambitious agreement, that would come about relatively soon. i see the colleagues at the euro group that it had to be fast, flexible, but large as well and i would certainly stand by those three object gives. jan van hove is chief economist at kbc bank in brussels. welcome to use. how do you rate their chances of reaching a deal on a pandemic recovery fund? good morning. actually, i think this is a very historical european summit because actually we are going to combine two things. you have the multi annual european budget which is always important and on the other hand you have this new fund, next—generation eu instrument, and by combining these two things, the european leaders

hope to find an agreement among all the eu member states because there will be something for everyone in these two instruments. for example, southern europe is very interested in support because of the major impact caused by the pandemic, at the same time central eastern european countries are still worried about their long—term convergence process in about their long—term convergence process in europe so therefore they will probably get something out of this european budget, the traditional european budget, so by combining these two, i think we probably have the most important debates among european political leaders probably in a century. who do you think is going to have to give most ground here?|j you think is going to have to give most ground here? i think you have to look for a compromise how, and traditionally you have different opinions in the european union and this time basically it's not different compared to previous summits. if you look at the reaction of the netherlands or sweden, denmark, the countries that are a bit more in favour of continued austerity, i think it

isa continued austerity, i think it is a very understandable proposal that they are making because ultimately if you just give money away to, for example, southern european countries, you want to have some control over its spending, a kind of economic reforms and structural investments that you are going to make in the future so it is quite understandable that you ask these countries to give up some parts of their economic sovereignty which is of course a very sensitive issue for southern european countries, so you have to find a balance there and i think by combining the two instruments, the pandemic as well as the traditional multi annual european budget at least you have political flexibility to give a little bit to everyone and that is, i think, a very smart move. and what sort of picture are we beginning to get of how this is going to affect the overalljoint eu budget over the next few years. these things can be separate, you have on the one hand the multi annual european budget, about1 trillion euros. this is quite structural. europe

traditionally is investing an agricultural policy, so that is more the long—term focus whereas in the new programme, the next—generation eu programme, actually the idea is to give specific support, not only to mitigate the impact of the pandemic but also to strengthen countries that are affected by the pandemic but also have been affected already by previous crisis periods. for example if you look at italy, italy at this moment is actually experienced through crisis in a row stopper you have the financial crisis, then the european sovereign debt crisis and now you have this covid—19 crisis, and if you look at the italian economy at this moment, it is still 5% poorer than 12 years ago in real terms so actually there is enormous welfare loss and italy over the past 12 years and that is actually something we cannot accept in europe so we need a more structural approach to deal with that and the idea of this next generation you plan

is not to just put a bit more money into the economy as a generalfiscal money into the economy as a general fiscal stimulus, money into the economy as a generalfiscalstimulus, no, to put money into these different european economies that really struggle with structural reforms, structural investments, and i think this isa investments, and i think this is a very important signal but obviously you have to balance that against the interest of the countries that are probably the countries that are probably the net contributors because they say, if you want to have our money, we want to have some control on how it's being spent and that is i think a perfectly understandable situation. thank you very much. we will be watching that story closely, we appreciate your time. let's talk about netflix now, it has been one of the big business winners from lockdowns around the world, reporting what it describes as ‘huge growth‘ in the first half of the year. but the streaming giant has warned investors to get used to much smaller numbers for the rest of the year, as more of us return to work and spend less time indoors. that sent shares tumbling almost 10%, as samira hussain reports from new york.

the covid—19 lockdown has been really good for netflix. in the last three months the company added an additional 10 million new subscribers as people looked at the streaming service for entertainment while being stuck at home. remember in the previous quarter, the company added 15 million new subscribers. but in a letter to shareholders netflix said that the blockbuster growth that the company has seen in the beginning of this year is not going to last. that growth is slowing as more people get used to the social restrictions. and the company is estimating that in the next three months, it‘s only going to add another 2.5 million new subscribers for the third quarter. that is not the only challenge for netflix, there are more competitive that are emerging in the streaming space. disney‘s plus has already launched and in the coming months, or services are going to come on board in the united states. now along with

earnings, we got another piece of news from netflix. the ceo, it seems he now has a partner. the chief content officer for netflix will now become co— ceo of netflix. mihir haria—shah is head of broadcast at the advertising agency total media. welcome to use. as we all get backin welcome to use. as we all get back in the bars and restau ra nts a nd back in the bars and restaurants and go back to work, can netflix hold onto its audiences? good morning. i think they can definitely hold onto their audiences but i think the level of growth that people are questioning from here and beyond stopping the streaming sector is obviously heavily competitive as your correspondent just said, heavily competitive as your correspondentjust said, but what i would say is that netflix have definitely benefited and that has been clear during lockdown. the reason being is that they have such a huge back catalogue of content, and also it has been heavily documented how much

money they are spending on additional content in terms of originals and also sourcing content from other companies. throughout lockdown they have been able to drip content and which has kept subscribers happy. they need to continue doing this long—term and bring back some of the returning favourites, things like stranger things and money heist which always have a lot of viewers. they have an ability to create viral content which has a real fear of missing out stopping the classic one from lockdown was targeting. yes, and how long can that tactic keep them going, when there is such a production drought at the moment? netflix last night we re the moment? netflix last night were quite confident that they we re were quite confident that they were able to continue to meet consumer demand for new content. it is a kind of demand they have created themselves but it feels like at some point there has to be a gap in

content, whether it is just a gap that is an actual gap of new co nte nt gap that is an actual gap of new content or it‘s just as consumers we are used to having you netflix content almost weekly, or at the very least monthly. it‘s whether they will be able to sustain that level of production. as i said, they have been confident that they have been confident that they have been confident that they have been able to still produce in many countries across the world so in 2021, across the whole year they will be able to still put out more originals than they have in 2020. you mentioned netflix has a first mover advantage over its rivals, how worried are they by the presence of disney and the others? i think netflix have to be worried because they are only a streaming service whereas the likes of disney and amazon and apple as businesses, the streaming is just another pa rt the streaming is just another part of their business. i think netflix will be worried but what has actually happened as they have shown incredible resilience. if we look back to this time last year when the

streaming services were announced, a lot of people talking about shift in power the circumstances this year have been very different. netflix has continued to go from strength to strength. disney plus has faced criticism recently, they had amazing subscriber growth when they launched across many territories and much, but actually the reason they faced some criticism is that people really wa nt some criticism is that people really want new content from disney and they have not been able to produce that, whereas netflix has been able to produce new content, but as a say, it is imperative that netflix days the leader of the pack and i believe, we follow consumer behaviour a lot and the streaming service sector is something that i am hugely interested in for obvious reasons. when we look at consumer behaviour, every time you think the market has reached saturation point in terms of the streaming sector, a new study will come out that actually households are willing

to subscribe more so than the previous studies that, so actually there may be room to pay for more subscription services, strongly believe that netflix will be the base of description service for many households across the world. looking at this more widely, as lockdowns are eased in various places, what signs, if any, are there of production returning. netflix talked about it last night that in territories like, i think was south korea and iceland, they have managed to resume production and their actual lack of dependence on hollywood alone, unlike some of the other streaming services put them in a strong place. there‘s obviously been concerns about content in general, whether that be tv content or cinema content that there will bea cinema content that there will be a slowdown, but there‘s so much stuff that was in production or halfway through production or halfway through production or halfway through production orfilming before lockdown, so you imagine as things ease up, the companies, the production studios will

just get straight back on track to produce these. also can be a really good time for independent producers with may be more capabilities to open smaller studios more quickly, soi smaller studios more quickly, so i think there will be a slowdown at some point but i don‘t think it will be a long—term slowdown. don‘t think it will be a long-term slowdown. thank you very much, appreciate your time. tv streaming services are not the only businesses to get a boost from the pandemic lockdown. online shopping has been another clear winner, in china e—commerce firms saw a 30% jump in sales during the worst affected months. karishma vaswani has been taking a look at some of the fast emerging trends there, from social shopping to livestreaming. this manners one half of these famous brothers. they have been selling fruits on taobao, but

during the pandemic, he became a star. translation: because eve ryo ne a star. translation: because everyone got into the habit of buying fruit online, so when the epidemic passed, our live strea m the epidemic passed, our live stream traffic and sales definitely multiplied. china is the world‘s largest market for live streaming sales, with reve nu es live streaming sales, with revenues expected to hit more than $120 billion by the end of this year. it‘s a practice that has its roots in television shopping channels, part commerce, part entertainment. the general trend of e—commerce industry is going towards the direction of social, because people understand the value of fun and interactive off—line shopping experience, and people are trying to bring that online. just as online shopping became more like entertainment, it also became more social, creating communities where people can shop together. it

also became apparent how a day or important logistics was. selling was half the equation. delivering the goods was just as crucial. it is more organised, we can control it, so that also gets endorsement by the government, so that is something that we think helps us something that we think helps usa something that we think helps us a lot and will continue to differentiate us from our competitors. these developments have opened up new avenues of possibilities for his e—commerce career. translation: we wa nt e—commerce career. translation: we want to cultivate more people from our own company to do live streaming with us and create an alliance with some of the top lifestream is of farm produce. this way, we can become more resilient and expand quite friends that helped people and small businesses survive the pandemic are now becoming the way of the future. perhaps in more ways than one. let‘s get some of

the day‘s other news. eu competition regulators are seeking information from 400 companies over the amount of data gathered by voice assistants such as amazon‘s alexa and apple‘s siri, and whether it might give an unfair business advantage. competition commissoner margarethe vestager says it ‘sends an important message to powerful operators that we are watching them‘. eu watchdogs can fine companies up to 10% of their global turnover for breaching eu antitrust rules. the fbi‘s san francisco office says it has launched an investigation after hackers accessed twitter‘s internal systems to hijack high—profile accounts in a cryptocurrency scam. accounts targeted included tech billionaires elon musk, jeff bezos and bill gates, and presidential candidate joe biden. another 1.3 million americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, a similar level to the previous week. weeklyjobless claims have

fallen sharply since late march but have still exceeded one million for 17 consecutive weeks. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: why the us attorney general is accusing hollywood, and us tech firms of undermining the liberal world order. let‘s round up some of the other stories: tony sewell, the boss of an education charity, has been named chairman of a government commission looking into racial inequality in the uk. it comes in the wake of anti—racism protests following the death of george floyd. the commission will examine areas including employment, education and health. the government has agreed to support an investigation by the spending watchdog into their multibillion—pound procurement process for supplies like personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic. labour has written to the national audit office

asking for a review of the government‘s approach, given that they were awarding contracts under emergency procedures without competition. children in scotland will not have to socially distance when primary and secondary schools return, but teachers will, according to new guidance. ministers have set a target for schools to open for the new academic year on the 11th of august. but there won‘t be higher risk activities like assemblies, choirs and gym class for a while. this is bbc news, the latest headlines: eu leaders gather in brussels to try and resolve their divisions over a pandemic recovery fund. coronavirus infections pass the two million mark in brazil, making it the second—worst hit country, after the united states. let‘s turn to the trade tensions between the us and china,

because the united states attorney general, william barr, has laid into top hollywood studios and us technology companies for collaborating with the chinese. mr barr used a speech in michigan to accuse the likes of disney, apple and microsoft of being too focused on access to the chinese market, and even becoming ‘pawns of chinese influence‘. it‘s the latest attack on china from the trump administration ahead of the november presidential election. here‘s some of what he had to say. and every year at the academy awards, americans are lectured about how this country falls short of hollywood‘s ideals of social justice. but hollywood now regularly censors its own movies to appease the chinese communist party. over the years, corporations such as google, microsoft, yahoo and apple have shown themselves all too willing to collaborate with the ccp.

but if disney and other american corporations continue to bow to beijing, they risk undermining both their own future competitiveness and prosperity as well as the classical liberal order that has allowed them to thrive. mariko oi has been looking at the implications of this in singapore. tell us about what he said and what the reaction has been. tell us about what he said and what the reaction has beenlj what the reaction has been.” must say that this is nothing new. it has been a very tricky balancing act for american companies operating in china for many years. some examples he cited, for example he criticised marvel studios for changing the nationality of a tibetan character in the movie doctor strange as well as apple‘s decision to remove an app from the store. but when china counts for more than 15%

of apples total sales and when china‘s box office is close to becoming the world‘s biggest, the companies have been choosing profit. but now the us department ofjustice is suggesting that it may start treating companies that get too close to beijing as foreign agents which would force them to change how they operate because while it is a stretch, criminal prosecution could be one of the options and given tensions between the two countries, especially recently, it is not plausible. but he did note that after china imposed a new national security law on hong kong, companies like facebook, google, twitter and linkedin announced that they would temporarily suspend compliance with government request for user data and he said that if they can stand together they will provide a worthy example for other american companies in resisting the chinese communist party, what he called the corrupt and

dictate oriel rule. this speech was the latest attack on china from the trump administration before the november re—election bid. it is the first night of the bbc proms, the world—famous classical musical festival. although things will be different this year, of course with coronavirus restrictions meaning audiences at home are offered a fantasy season with archived performances and some live performances. the 125th anniversary of the proms, and they never looked or sounded quite like this. no live concerts for the first six weeks, instead, the opening performance tonight on radio three is a special commission recorded during lockdown. 323 bbc musicians in their own homes combined to mark beethoven‘s 250th birthday.

accompanied by two dancers who are ina accompanied by two dancers who are in a beethoven bubble. this man was chosen to create the piece. there is an entire season, an entire prom season that has had to be replaced. so, yeah, it is a wonderful honour but not one that i was expecting to do and, um, i have made the most of it and it is something i have enjoyed hugely and something that i hope ca ptu res a and something that i hope captures a lot of the celebratory spirit of the proms. and the whole piece, including a nod to saturday night fever will be shown on sunday night on bbc four. from then until the august bank holiday weekend, the proms will feature reruns of archived performances. but for the final two weeks, a return to the royal albert hall and live performances from the likes of

this cellist and this violinist. for the orchestral pieces, it is not clear how many musicians will be allowed on stage. so four different programmes have be planned for each concert. and as for the last night of the proms, it is unclear if the public will even be allowed in, singing along to land of hope and glory to do at the moment, the audience can just hope. fabulous. now just for we go, police in florida have locked up police in florida have locked upa police in florida have locked up a kangaroo. they caught him wandering the streets of fort lauderdale. the states wildlife commission will look after the animal while he is injail. earlier a local news video showed police surrounding the kangaroo and bundling it into a squad car. they are still not

sure where the animal came from. what‘s more on our website. i am on twitter. thank you for watching. hello again. well, some places stayed cloudy on thursday. there was more sunshine more widely, and it was a warmer day as well. the temperature reached 26 celsius in hampshire during the afternoon. well, the temperatures weren‘t far behind actually in the north—east of scotland, helped by over eight hours of sunshine. let me set the scene for you, because at the moment, we‘ve still got warm and humid air across the uk. that weather front is bringing some patchy rain and drizzle. to the north of it, it‘s cooler, fresher air. that will move southwards over the next few days as the band of cloud and patchy rain moves southwards. and that rain is pushing its way down into scotland and northern ireland. england and wales still dry early in the morning. quite warm and humid start to the day. that cloud and mostly light rain will continue to trickle southwards across scotland, across northern ireland, eventually into northern england and later into north

wales. to the north across northern scotland, it‘ll brighten up. there‘ll be some sunshine. not quite as warm as it was on thursday, but still 20—21. further south, there‘s a rain band across england and wales, some sunny spells, turning out to be quite warm. 26 or even 27 in the south—east of england. now, that weather front bringing that cloud and rain will continue to move southwards overnight and into the start of the weekend. it‘s a painfully slow process, mind you, and we‘ll see that rain moving away from much of northern england as it heads into wales, through the midlands, perhaps lincolnshire and eventually the south—west of england. the rain does tend to die out in most places. still dry towards the south—east, still quite warm here. temperatures perhaps 24 degrees or so, but further north, we‘ve got that cooler air moving down and temperatures will continue to just drop away a little bit. for the second half of the weekend, we see that weather front continuing down towards the south—east. as it arrives here on saturday night, the rain could turn steadier and heavier. once that rain clears away, we‘re all getting into that cooler and fresher air from the north—west. but still some rain to begin with on sunday morning across east anglia and the south—east.

once that clears away, we‘ll have some sunny spells. maybe a few showers around, mostly towards the north—west of scotland. many places will be dry in the afternoon, but the air is cooler and fresher everywhere. we‘ve got temperatures typically 16—20 celsius. that‘s a little below par for this time of the year, and we‘ll keep those sort of temperatures for the early part of next week. maybe one or two showers around, but many places, i think, will be dry. we‘re going to find some spells of sunshine at times. goodbye.

good morning. welcome to breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. our headlines today: £3 billion of extra funding to help the nhs cope if there‘s a second wave of coronavirus this winter. russia dismisses allegations that it tried to steal uk research into a coronavirus vaccine. good morning. they are open for business, but where are the visitors? some of our biggest tourist attractions are struggling as foreign tourists stay away. what happens next? well, i‘m at the tower of london to find out. captain tom moore will be knighted by the queen today