president trump is sending hundreds of federal law enforcement officers to fight what he calls rising violent crime in american cities. he said he had no choice but to act, in the wake of anti—racism protests. 200 federal agents have already been deployed to kansas city, a similar number will be sent to chicago. china has reacted angrily to the us ordering the closure of its consulate in houston. beijing has threatened to retaliate saying it was a political provocation that would jeopardise relations. the americans said china was using the consulate as a centre for its spying operations in the us. the actress amber heard has claimed her ex—husband johnny depp, threw bottles at her "like grenades," during an alleged row. she's been giving evidence to a court where mr depp‘s bringing a libel claim against the sun newspaper after it called him a wife—beater. now on bbc news, philippa thomas hears from people around

remainer has courted a spoke of over 1000 new infections of covid-19. our welcome to bbc news. i'm mike embley. over 1000 new infections of covid—19. 0ur correspondent nick thorne our top stories: explains this jump in infections. thousands of president trump deploys remaining inns want to return hundreds more federal officers to theirjobs in western to american cities, europe, some also of course expanding his crackdown wa nted europe, some also of course wanted to go on holiday at this on what he calls "spiralling violent crime." time of year and getting the my vision for america's cities could not be more different two test before they can cross from the lawlessness being pushed by the extreme radical left. romania's border. romanian citizens, seen as suspicious by neighbouring countries and other countries in europe for even though the us is recording fear of carrying the virus with more than a thousand them. i have just coronavirus deaths a day, fear of carrying the virus with them. i havejust received fear of carrying the virus with them. i have just received the result from my first pcr test the president also insists schools must get back to normal. tensions between the world's biggest powers on 48 hours ago, and i'm happy to say the —1. i need this test escalate as the us orders china to close its consulate in houston. million of people are ina similarway displaced by torrential monsoon rains in india, nepal and bangladesh. to say the —1. i need this test in a similar way —— i'm happy

to say it's negative. i need this test in a similar way to remaining in is. in terms of the reason for spoken cases, two main ones: the number of tests, 18,000 a day at the moment, the minister of health wa nts to moment, the minister of health wants to increase that cyclicity 27,000. —— increase that to 27,000. testing centres will have to increase to cope with the demand. and small clusters are emerging in a cou nty clusters are emerging in a county near here. one in five testing positive. these are then some of the challenges facing remaining today, this summer, facing remaining today, this summer, as facing remaining today, this summer, as it tries to reduce and handle the effects of this coronavirus pandemic —— challenges facing romania today. nick thorpe for us there. now on bbc news, philippa thomas hears from people around the world about their

extraordinary experiences during the pandemic and how covid—19 has changed their lives. welcome to coronavirus: your stories. the programme about how covid-19 stories. the programme about how covid—19 is changing the lives of people around the world. i'm philippa thomas this week will be hearing stories of youth activism in the face of this crisis. in the philippines, we hear about a family aid programme to feed thousands of neighbours who have lost access to jobs and food because the lockdown. in the us state of pennsylvania, a 17—year—old tells me how she's managed to finish high school while taking on 30 hours a week asa while taking on 30 hours a week as a supermarket worker to help find herfamily. as a supermarket worker to help find her family. we as a supermarket worker to help find herfamily. we start as a supermarket worker to help find her family. we start with the story of a teenager in stockholm, who's been working to gain vital information about virus protection to vulnerable

communities. the parents of the 17 road brought herfrom somalia when she was just a baby, saying she gained opportunities she never would have otherwise. and as covid—19 hit sweden, she did her bit to help those who were vulnerable to misinformation or panic. many alongside other ambassadors have one critical assignment, and that was to share information about the coronavirus. basically, how to ta ke coronavirus. basically, how to take precautions, how to protect yourself, and how to protect yourself, and how to protect others. so we handed out leaflets in around 24 different languages so, anything from the news, to arabic, to somali, and as ambassadors we had different nationalities and we knew different languages. that gave us different languages. that gave usa different languages. that gave us a kind of wider approach. and this was to make sure that the information reached every single citizen in need. and i

believe that we as a community asa believe that we as a community as a whole, we were in need of this information. why was it about these communities that made them so vulnerable, do you think? why were they at risk?|j believe think? why were they at risk?” believe that any community can believe that any community can be vulnerable, and at risk, without the correct information and the proper procedures. i believe that as a community, there is always going to be loopholes, there's always going to exceptions, and that's why oui’ to exceptions, and that's why our workers and ambassadors we re our workers and ambassadors were so important, so every single person could take advantage of the knowledge we we re advantage of the knowledge we were providing and handing out. when i was talking to people face—to—face, i was giving my community some kind of comfort and trust. if i was walking and i let someone trying to help me asa i let someone trying to help me as a citizen, i would feel more safe and calm. why did this matter to you so much personally? were you thinking about your own parents, your own family as well? i was

already working with the county ona already working with the county on a democratic project for the youth before the pandemic started. and i do believe my engagementjust kind of continue from there. but the main reason as to why i wanted to help work because of my pa rents to help work because of my parents and the influence they have on me, we are a family of help. and i always picture myself when i'm working, i a lwa ys myself when i'm working, i always picture my family, a home with parents that are new to the country, who have probably gone through hell and back, and have struggled to find a safe home for their family and they are trying to adapt in this difficult time. they are trying to adapt to this new language. and on top of that, there is a pandemic going on and they don't know how to get information or understand information. that is why it is so important to kind of reach out to them. and even though covid-19 of reach out to them. and even though covid—19 is affecting a certain risk group, i believe they are safe, so i chose to

spend my easter holidays protecting those families because i think of them like protecting my own. you came to sweden when you were a baby, tell us about your family?” came to sweden when i was a baby. my parents brought me to sweden and that did come with difficulties. i'm sure many people can relate. then being old and therefore having a harder time learning to switch language doesn't come as a surprise. my parents also came to sweden a long time ago to provide me a better life. but, yeah, to provide me and my siblings now a better life to kind of ensure our safety and oui’ kind of ensure our safety and our future, kind of ensure our safety and ourfuture, andi kind of ensure our safety and ourfuture, and i do believe the hardship they have gone through, day in and day out, gives me the dedication to do everything at heart. that's why i worked with the democratic project with the youth, because they want kids to understand democracy —— i want kids to

understand democracy, and my dad being in one of those risk groups, makes me realise even more how important the job groups, makes me realise even more how important thejob i was doing was. if i managed to inform just one person who may not have realised that they had symptoms and get that person out of the streets, i may have saved someone from contracting the virus. and ijust believe that life is so precious and my pa rents that life is so precious and my parents have taught me to never ta ke parents have taught me to never take it for granted. i hear you talking about the understandings does make important of understanding. there are members of your community that might not understand or speak english as articulately as you do or even speak swedish. there is the potential for getting the wrong kind of information, isn't there? about the virus? yes, i do believe that the wrong information and wrong facts are going around, especially on social media. people are getting the wrong information in the wrong language because they may not understand english 01’ they may not understand english or they may not understand the swedish language, and that is why it is so important again

that the youth workers are out there giving the right information to people. that people are not scared and afraid and feeling anxiety over covid-19. i'm now thinking about you as youth workers being out there, and we know sweden hasn't had an official lockdown, like many other european countries. what did you think about that? personally, i do think it's kind of hard to understand why. but i do believe whatever decision they made was with good intentions. it is the country i live in and the country i live in and the country i live in and the country i was raised in. what i seem to understand was in the beginning i think i was scared when the first news came out that the pandemic was real and it was on the move. i believe i'm not the only one that felt panicked, felt anxiety, orjust felt the feeling of being afraid, the feeling of fear. did you file pull them out, a target, because teenagers want to go out and be with their

friends? —— did you feel a pull, a tug? we knew people we re pull, a tug? we knew people were dying, covid—19 had taken people's grandpas, mothers, sons, we understood the importance of staying home because we were protecting the people we love. and taking responsibility. but i do think when you stay home for this long, it isjust — when you stay home for this long, it is just — something happens. you may not be able to go out orjust a feeling of being close to other people kind of effect you. it kind of effect your mentality. so age doesn't really matter. i think the maturity that you sit on is what determines if you are understanding, understanding enough to think about others rather than think about yourself. we have teenagers around here in sweden taking online classes, so i haven't seen my classmates for so long.

and adults stay home if they can't, they work from home and they haven't been able to see their colleagues. so there's a balance, being a teenager and being and other is the same thing. we're all having a hard time. how confident you feel about your future? i believe in the swedish government, as i do feel very confident. i'm pretty sure we're going to be just fine. i'm very positive and optimistic about the future. warda abdalla in stockholm, sweden. let's take you now to philadelphia, in the us state of pennsylvania, where i've been talking to one of thousands of teenagers who have been picking up more essential work as adults around them either get or shield from covid—19. gloria has been working 30 hours a week in a supermarket as well as trying to finish high school.” supermarket as well as trying to finish high school. i was working more hours, so the

amount of time that i had to do my homework was, like, minimal. but i could have still done it because it was online school, so it didn't really matter what time of the day i would be able to log in and do my homework. ellis about the juggling you are doing with your work and school? i tried to manage time, but, at the time i fell back on my schoolwork because i was more focused on work than school, i think. and your work was essential, i mean, you were one of the key workers.” thought central workers were like firefighters, but i never really thought i would be in a position where i would call myself an essential worker, you know? were you worried or frightened, working as a cashier, at a time when this

virus is going around? at times. because you never know he was coming down the line or coming down the register and could possibly have it. in the end, you did get covid—19. could possibly have it. in the end, you did get covid-19. how is that? yeah, i did get it. it was not severe for me, but there is the few people that i know that our friends of my family, that have passed away. soiam family, that have passed away. so i am grateful that it didn't hit me as hard. and tell us something about how you doing more hours at work and bringing home more money was able to help your household. there are quite a few people in your house, i think? itjust quite a few people in your house, ithink? itjust gave more leniency towards my aunt. she has been my guardian since i was three years old. so bringing out that stress from her was just

bringing out that stress from her wasjust a big relieverfor her, since she wasn't working at the time. your aunt has been working after you —— looking at you since you were three, tell us more you since you were three, tell us more about that? my mum was ina coma us more about that? my mum was in a coma for 10.5 years and my dad was never really in the picture. so she took me in when i had nobody and she has been taking care of me since my mum got sick. and she is my all. gloria, i feel as if got sick. and she is my all. gloria, ifeel as if you have had to grow up very fast. i know you have now graduated high school. but it must have been quite a source of tension for you, having to deal with what's going on, and being at the front line? yeah, i think

so. but i think all your life experience, like the fact they didn't have a mum and dad, and i still have two get my things on my own, like no other kid, like, just that itself is like an obstacle. so if i could ove rco m e an obstacle. so if i could overcome one obstacle, i think i could overcome multiple. you got through high school graduation, you've made it through high school, gloria, andi through high school, gloria, and i think unlike your mum and your aunt, you are a us citizen? what do you want to do next? what opportunities you wa nt next? what opportunities you want get you? i want to go to college, to montgomery community college my four years, and then eventually go to temple, or a business degree. my aunt, she didn't get the same experience that i did, she never really got an education when she was young.

at the age of five she was put to work, so she never really got that education so i'm going to ta ke got that education so i'm going to take advantage of my opportunities and get the education that i want. gloria, looking forward to a brighter future. you are watching coronavirus: your stories. a programme about how covid—19 is changing lives around the world. i'm philippa thomas. a third personal story this week comes from the philippines where a 24—year—old and her siblings have set up a food aid project because they realised that in their town lockdown meant the loss ofjobs and the loss of access to food for thousands. my family and i, ever since march started a food programme which is basically similarto ourown programme which is basically similar to our own personal relief operations. after four months we have managed to procure and distribute up to

200,000 pieces of food and relief in order to provide for tens of thousands of people. ever since march, many have lost either temporarily or permanently, their main or sometimes only source of income, because the lot down has spent four months long, people have ended up using up all of their savings. people have ended up selling almost all of their items at home, just to be able to get whatever form of income they can. chantal, you are talking about some essential food. is also a need for milk for babies.” some essential food. is also a need for milk for babies. i was receiving 30—50 messages on facebook messengerfrom different mothers in the community asking for help because their children couldn't just drink water, couldn't ring coffee, sometimes couldn't drink water with sugar, they needed milk, so we used our

general donorfund to needed milk, so we used our general donor fund to procure children's milk on a daily basis and to distribute this milk to the different households, so we were distributing milk to about 100 mothers every week. chantal, this is a lot of work and a lot of organisation for you and your brothers. tell me something about you and your family. what made you so determined? my father and my mother are both doctors, but for the majority of their profession, they have chosen to serve the underserved. they chose to open a private practice in order to service the patients in government hospitals. sometimes he hardly charges anything because he feels that medicine and health, before anything is service to other people, and i think

growing up, this is the type of upbringing we've had in a sense really embedded and asked, a call to service, call to use our profession, our capabilities and our resources to see what kind of impact we can have on others, especially the underserved and the marginalised, so clearly when we saw a need in our very hometown, my brothers and i really just had to hometown, my brothers and i reallyjust had to act. and what do you think of you and your brothers the stamina to keep going with a project like this? have been a badminton player for ten years of my life, i'm pretty sure my coaches have challenged me enough to do the heavy lifting on and off the court stopping my brothers, likewise. they are all national athletes, i think

the competitive, the driven and the competitive, the driven and the never say die spirit that was in us through all those yea rs of was in us through all those years of athletic training and competing really helped us continue on, despite all the challenges, despite all the trails and again negativity that we may face and that we have been facing over the four months that we can conduct this food programme. and for eve ryo ne food programme. and for everyone that you have helped during this time of coronavirus pandemic and lockdown, what are you hearing back? what kind of m essa g es you hearing back? what kind of messages do you get? honestly, we've been hearing the best of messages, and i'd say this not with a boastful heart but with a very, very grateful heart. people in the communities, especially those that we have reached, that we have helped give milk to, give relief back to, who have sent messages, would send videos and pictures

of their children with the milk or with the food, just thanking us or with the food, just thanking us for the support and the food or relief we have given. thank you! and honestly when you think about it, what did we really just give think about it, what did we reallyjust give them? we gave them five kilos of rice, 14 pieces of canned goods, may be a box of milk. for a lot of people, that's nothing. that is something that's part of the grocery list. but the way that they thank you, it just shows that for them, what you gave, regardless of how small you think it is, actually means the world. to a lot of mightjust be there world because they survive on a day—to—day basis, and so really you think that when you give you another one on the giving end but really when you give, you are the one on the receiving end because

you are changed and basically allowed to be the type of person we all were supposed to be, which is being for others, especially for those who need support the most. would you describe for our viewers around the world what your town is like? a lot may not know this outside of the philippians but it is the basin of manila, so when the typhoons come in every year we are always heavily affected but this has resulted in us and our people being as resilient, as caring and as say, really supportive as we can, in terms of helping one another. so this is really the kind of spirit that we have, in

our language we have a spirit which is basically a heroic spirit but a type of heroism thatis spirit but a type of heroism that is not in self glory and strength but in your ability to help other people, and over the course of the lockdown we have seen this spirit in our town. thousands and thousands of people donating what they can for our marginalised communities. someone even donated washing machines, so really i think that if you were to describe our town, i would give you the figures. we have 322,000 people. for a suburban town, we are small, relative, maybe two other cities in the country, but we are one of the most resilient, hard—working, and caring people. and i have heard about the resilience in your community, that resilience is really needed now, because i guess in the philippines as a

whole, covid—19 has had quite hard. yes indeed. our cases are still rising and we still have a lot to change to improve in terms of our programmes, policies and the support we give a more marginalised communities and sectors. resilience really is key but honestly, more than any form of leadership by believe in the power, again, the resiliency of the filipino people. we have gone through a lot. we have gone through a lot. we have gone through a lot. we have gone through typhoons, colonialism, a host of other factors and we will get through this pandemic because they believe in the power of the filipino people. i believe that through our wit, resilience and our capabilities, we can find a way to change what we have to change, improve what we have to improve and we do what we have to do in order to get through this pandemic even stronger.

chantal there ending this week's edition on youth activism in the face of coronavirus. i'm thomas, thank you forjoining or coronavirus: your stories. hello there. cloud is thickening up once again from the atlantic. it's set to bring in more rain mainly for the middle third of the uk. some areas stayed cloudy and damp throughout the day on wednesday and, as a result, it was quite cool, as well. we had a temperature of 26 celsius in london, but the sunniest weather was in bournemouth with almost 14 hours of sunshine — probably not as much sunshine though for thursday. it will be quite a cloudy start to the day with temperatures around 12—14 celsius. and we start with some outbreaks of rain mainly across northern ireland, southern scotland, northern england, and wales. that'll be quite heavy for a while, gradually turning lighter and more patchy through the day. we get some sunshine more widely across scotland and northern ireland towards the southeast. perhaps even into the midlands, it may stay dry, but there'll

be more clouds around so it won't be quite as warm — still 23—24 celsius. we are looking at some showers to come into the southwest of england, still damp into wales, more rain across northern england, so quite a cool day here — although the far north of england improving later on. we'll have some sunshine in the afternoon across northern ireland and more widely in scotland, so a warmer day here at 19—20 celsius. but still some rather sharp showers in the northeast up towards the northern isles. those will tend to ease off a bit during the evening, this light and patchy rain by this stage heading down towards the midlands, eventually later on in the night towards the southeast of england. the weather front bringing that will be very weak and, as we move into friday, we are in between two wet weather systems — transient system of high pressure before that weather front increases the cloud and rain in from the atlantic. but many places will have a dry day on friday. could be a fair bit of cloud, particularly across southern parts of england and south wales, the odd shower here with 1—2 showers further north, perhaps into north east england and scotland. then we get later on into the day some rain pushing in from the west

across northern ireland. ahead of that, 20 celsius through the central belt of scotland, and we're back up to 25 celsius in the southeast of england. as we head into the weekend, we're dominated by low—pressure sitting close to the north of the uk. that weather front will tend to move through, taking some heavy rain away and it's showers following on behind. it certainly looks like saturday will be the wetter day, and those showers could be heavy and thundery. a much drier day on sunday for eastern parts of england, with the bulk of the showers in the north and west of the uk. 00:27:44,715 --> 2147483051:50:37,072 next? what opportunities you 2147483051:50:37,072 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 want get you?