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, following 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. brazil's diagnosed a record number of people with coronavirus, more than 67,000 in the past 2a hours. figures show almost 1,300 deaths were reported in that period. the country has the world's worst outbreak after the us.

queen elizabeth's husband, the duke of edinburgh, has made a rare public appearance, to officially relinquish a military role he's held for almost 70 years. prince philip is 99. he's handed over the title of colonel in chief of the rifles to the duchess of cornwall. 0ur royal correspondent, jonny dymond, reports. fanfare no more parades. for nearly seven decades, he has led the rifles and the regiments that came before it. now, it was time to say farewell. but first, a thank you from the assistant commandant general. all ranks, all riflemen, whether serving or retired, would like to thank you for 67 years of continuous service. fair winds and following seas, he was wished. that made an old sailor smile. the duke has never much liked ceremony, but has always had time for the enlisted men of his regiments. today, a last chat with

those saying goodbye. more than 80 miles away, the baton was passed on — a new colonel—in—chief, the duchess of cornwall. camilla's father fought and was decorated in the desert rats, which became part of the rifles. now, she will be their honorary leader. the duke's retirement from public life was in 2017. then, he said his farewells to the royal marines. hip, hip, hurray! he has had some brushes with ill health since then but was at his granddaughter beatrice‘s wedding last week. today, standing almost as ramrod straight as the men of his regiment, he gave one more goodbye. jonny dymond, bbc news. 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‘. a programme about how covid—19 is changing the lives of people around the world. i'm philippa thomas. this week we'll 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've lost access to jobs and to food because of 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 as a supermarket worker to help fund her family. but we start with the story of a teenager in stockholm, who's been helping to get vital information about virus protection to vulnerable migrant communities. the parents of the 17

warda abdalla brought her from somalia to sweden when she was just a baby, giving her opportunities, she said, she would never have had otherwise. and as covid—19 hit sweden, she tried to do her bit to help those who are vulnerable to misinformation or panic. me alongside the other ambassadors had one critical assignment, and that was to share information about the coronavirus. basically, how to take precautions, how to protect yourself, and how to protect others. so we handed out leaflets in around 2a different languages. so, anything from finnish, to arabic, to russian, to somali. and as ambassadors we had different nationalities and we knew different languages. that also 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 the swedish community as a whole,

were in need of this information. and what was it about these communities that made them so vulnerable, do you think? why were they at risk? i believe that any community can be vulnerable and in a risk without the correct information and the proper procedures. i believe that as a community, there's always going to be loopholes, there's always going to exceptions, and that's why our workers and ambassadors were so important, so that every single person could take advantage of the knowledge that 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. because if i was walking and i met someone trying to help me as a citizen, i would kind of feel safe and a bit more 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 on a democratic project for the youth before the pandemic started. and i do believe that my engagementjust kind of continued from there. but the main reason as to why i wanted to help work was because of my parents and the influence that they have on me. we are a family of help and i always picture 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're trying to adapt in this difficult time. they're trying to adapt to this new language. and on top of that, there's a pandemic going on and they don't know how to get information or understand the information. that is why it's so important to kind of reach out to them. and even though covid—19 is affecting a certain risk group, i believe that no—one is safe, and therefore i chose to spend my easter holiday out protecting those families, because i think of them just like i think of my own.

tell us a bit more about your family. i think you came to sweden when you were a baby, tell us about your family? yes, i came to sweden when i was a baby. my parents bringing me to sweden did obviously come with difficulties. and i'm sure many people can relate. them being old and therefore having a harder time learning the swedish language doesn't come as a surprise. my parents also came to sweden a very 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 our future, and i do believe that the hardship they have gone through, day in and day out, gives me the dedication to truly do everything at heart. that's why i work with the democratic project with the youth, because i want kids to understand democracy,

and my dad being in one of those risk groups, just makes me realise even more how important the job that i was doing was. because if i manage to inform just one person who may not have realised that they had symptoms and keep 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 parents have taught me to never take it for granted. i hear you talking about the importance of understanding. and i'm thinking about members of your community who might not understand or speak english as articulately as you do, or even speak swedish. there's then the potential for getting the wrong kind of information, isn't there? about something scary like a 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 might not understand english or they might not understand the swedish language, that's why it's so important again that the youth workers are out there, giving out the right information to people so people

aren't scared and feeling afraid and not feeling anxiety over covid—19. i'm now thinking about you as youth workers being out there. and we know that 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, like, hard to understand why. but i do believe that whatever decision they made was with good intentions. it is the country that 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 that i'm not the only one that felt panicked, felt anxiety, or just felt the feeling of being afraid, the feeling of fear. did you feel a pull there, a tug, because teenagers want to go out and be with their friends? i think in the early stages i was understanding and i do

think the teenagers all around the world were understanding. we knew what was at risk. people were dying, people saying covid—19 had taken people's grandpas, aunts, mothers, sons. we understood the necessity of staying home because we were protecting the people that we love. and we were taking responsibility. but i do think when you stay home for this long, it's just — something happens. you may not be able to, you know, go out orjust the feeling of being close to other people kind of affects you. it kind of affects your mentality. so age doesn't really matter. i think the maturity that you sit on is what determines if you're understanding. if you're understanding enough to think about others rather than think of yourself. we have just like many 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, they work from home, and they haven't been able to see their colleagues. so i think there's a balance there, therefore 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, i do feel very confident. i am pretty sure we're all going to be just fine. i am 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've been picking up more essential work as adults around them either get or shield from covid—19. gloria lombrano—torres has been working 30 hours a week in a 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. tell us 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. ithought, you know, essential 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? yeah, at times. because you never know who's coming down the line or coming down the register and

could possibly have it. in the end, you did get covid—19, didn't you? how was that? yeah, i did get it. it was not severe for me, but there's the few people that i know that, um, friends of my 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? it just gave more leniency towards my aunt. she has been my provider — my guardian since i was

three years old. so i thinkjust bringing out that stress from her was just a big relieverfor her, since she wasn't working at the time. your aunt's been looking after you since you were three, tell us a little more about that? so my mum was in a coma for 10.5 years and my dad was never really in the picture. so she is — she took me in when, um, i had nobody. and she's been taking care of me since my mum got sick. and she's...she's my all. gloria, ifeel as if you have had to grow up very fast. i know you've 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

i didn't have a mum and dad, and i still have to get my things on my own, like no other kid, like, just that itself is like an obstacle. so if i could overcome one obstacle, i think i could overcome multiple. so you've got through high school graduation, you've made it through high school, gloria, and i think unlike your mum and your aunt, you're a us citizen? what do you want to do next? what opportunities do you want to get to? well, i want to go to college, to montgomery community college for my four years, and then eventually go to temple, for 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 take advantage of my opportunities and get the education that i want. gloria, looking forward to a brighter future. you're watching coronavirus: your stories. a programme about how covid—19 is changing lives around the world. i'm philippa thomas. 0ur 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 similar to our own personal relief operations. after four months we've 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 lockdown has spanned for 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. there's also a need for milk for babies? at our peak i think i was receiving 30—50 messages on facebook messenger from different mothers in the community asking for help because their children couldn't just drink water, couldn't drink coffee, sometimes couldn't drink water with sugar, they 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 of the mothers we were in contact with, so at our peak 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, in fact, for my father for all of his professional career, he has chosen to serve the underserved. he chose to forgo a private practice in order to service the patients in government hospitals. sometimes he hardly charges anything, because he feels as if medicine and health, before anything, is service to the 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. and so clearly when we saw a need in our very hometown, my brothers and i really just had to act. and what do you think gave you and your brothers the stamina to keep going with a project like this? i 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. my brothers, likewise. they are all national athletes. one is still in high school but the others are national athletes for basketball. i think the competitive, the driven and the never say die spirit that was in us through all those years of athletic training

and competing really helped us continue on, despite all the challenges, despite all the trials and again negativity that we may face and that we have been facing over the four months that we have been conducting this 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 messages do you get? honestly, we've been hearing the best of messages, and i 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 packs to, would send messages, would send videos and pictures of their children with the milk or with the food, just thanking us for the support and the food or relief we have given them.

thank you! and honestly when you think about it, what did we really just give them? we gave them five kilos of rice, 1a pieces of canned goods, maybe a box of milk. to a lot of people, that's nothing. that is something that's part of their grocery list. but the way 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 it mightjust be their world because they survive on a day—to—day basis, and so really you think that when you give you're the one on the giving end but really when you give, you are the one on the receiving end because you are touched, you're changed and you're basically allowed to be the type of person we all were supposed to be,

which is basically persons for others, especially for those who need support the most. would you describe for our viewers around the world what your town, what cainta is like? a lot may not know this outside of the philippines but cainta is the catch basin of manila, so when the typhoons come in, and they do so 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 town that we have. in our language we have what we call the bayanihan spirit, which is basically a heroic spirit, but a type of heroism that is rooted not

in self glory and strength, but in your ability to reach and help other people out, and over the course of the lockdown we have seen this bayanihan spirit within 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 have me describe our town, i would give you the figures. we have 322,000 people. for a suburban town, we are small, relative, maybe to 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 has hit quite hard. yes indeed.

0ur cases are still rising and we still have a lot to change, to improve and to refine in terms of our programmes, our policies and the support we give out to our marginalised communities and sectors. resilience really is key but honestly, more than any form of leadership i believe in the power, and again, the resiliency of the filipino people. we have gone through a lot. we have gone through typhoons, through colonialism, through a lot of other factors and we will get through this pandemic because i believe in the power of the filipino people. i believe that through our wit, our resilience and our capabilities, we can find a way to change what we have to change, improve what we have to improve and do what we have to do in order to get through this pandemic even stronger, better, and in greater shape. chantal there ending this week's edition on youth activism in the face

of coronavirus. i'm philippa thomas, thank you forjoining us for coronavirus: your stories. hello there. cloud is thickening up once again from the atlantic. it's set to bring some 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 degrees in london, but the sunniest weather, that was in bournemouth — almost 1a 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 degrees. and we start with some outbreaks of rain mainly across northern ireland, southern scotland, northern england and wales. that's going to be quite heavy for a while. it will gradually turning lighter and more patchy through the day. we get some sunshine more widely across scotland and northern ireland and towards the south—east.

perhaps even into the midlands, it may well stay dry, but there'll be more clouds around, so it won't be quite as warm — still 23 or 2a degrees. we are looking at some showers to come into the south—west of england, still damp into wales, some 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, 19 or 20 degrees. but still some rather sharp showers in the north—east and 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 south—east of england. the weather front bringing that is going to be very weak, and as we move into friday, we are in between two wet weather systems — a transient ridge of high pressure before that weather front increases the cloud and brings some 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. one or two showers further north, perhaps into north—east england and scotland. then we get later on in the day some rain pushing in from

the west across northern ireland. ahead of that, 20 degrees through the central belt of scotland, and we're back up to 25 in the south—east 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 then it's showers following on behind. certainly looks like saturday is going to 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 the west of the uk.

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