this is bbc news. i'm james reynolds with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. coronavirus spreads into rural india, putting intense pressure on struggling hospitals. we report on the plight of countryside patients. the body of the late congressmanjohn lewis makes a finaljourney in selma, alabama — crossing the famous bridge where he helped lead a march for voting rights in 1965. from beach to lockdown — british holiday—makers returning from spain must now quarantine for m days because of a spike in cases there. ashley! and farewell to one of hollywood's greats — double oscar winner dame olivia de havilland has died at the age of 104.

hello and welcome. the indian prime minister, narendra modi, says his country has proved the doubters wrong when it comes to handling the coronavirus pandemic. but while things are improving in big cities like mumbai and delhi, rural areas are struggling to cope. the overall trend is worrying. almost 350,000 new cases have been reported across the country over the past week. this graph from johns hopkins university shows the growth in daily cases since the start of the year. many health experts in india are concerned about how steep that curve is becoming. the total number of cases now stands at almost 1.4 million. more than 32,000 people are known to have died. and in the countryside, they don't have enough resources or the right facilities to treat infected patients. 0ur correspondent yogita limaye sent this report. and a warning, some parts of it are distressing.

covid—19 has reached rural india, where hospitals are oftenjust buildings with no staff or equipment. "bring oxygen", a woman pleaded, searching for doctors at a medicalfacility in the eastern state of bihar. herfamily struggled to revive her father—in—law, who was unable to breathe. he died before a doctor could see him. many are asked to take loved ones to the nearest big city, patna, but here, too, conditions are grim. mani bhushan‘s uncle was treated in an icu, where there were dead bodies lying in the beds right next to him for nearly 36 hours. his family claims doctors rarely did the rounds. avdesh singh died a few days after the video was made. translation: the situation in bihar is so pitiful. the government says there are facilities, but you realise when you go to a hospital that only

god can save your life. more than a thousand miles away, the scene is starkly different now in a part of india that was the first to be badly hit by the virus. this is one of many field hospitals built in mumbai to treat covid patients. now that they've opened, people aren't struggling to find beds like they were a month ago. because of facilities like these, even with the highest number of cases in the country, mumbai, for now, is being able to cope with covid—19, as is the national capital, delhi. but given its size and population, india is almost like a small continent and there's been a variety of responses to the pandemic. the eastern state of bengal has decided it will shut down for two days every week. madhya pradesh in central india has reimposed stringent restrictions, while the southern state of karnataka lifted a planned lockdown because of

economic compulsions. india will never reach simultaneously a peak. each area will have its own peak. the higher the density, the higher the peak. as coronavirus spreads rapidly, floods have killed scores in the country. the threat of disease even higher during india's rainy season. yogita limaye, bbc news, mumbai. a short time ago, i spoke to the vice president of india's healthcare federation, dr harsh mahajan. i asked him how worried he was about the rise in rural cases. it is worrying. when the pandemic started in india, it was the bigger cities — delhi, mumbai — which caught the initial wave. and, in fact, injune, it seemed that these health care facilities here would get overwhelmed. but luckily, with the

containment measures that were undertaken, both these cities actually plateaued and now the cases are on a downswing. in fact, in delhi, as of today, about 80% of covid beds in various hospitals are empty. but conversely, at the same time, in this month, slowly — and now more rapidly — cases are increasing in the smaller cities, in the towns which were previously not affected. and that's a matter of grave concern because, especially in the smaller towns, the health care facilities are not as good as they are in the bigger cities. the indian government has not accepted that community transmission has begun. it says there's no clear definition of the term. would it not be more helpful for the authorities to accept that community transmission, as doctors say, has begun and to deploy

resources accordingly? there are areas which are localised, where the government has accepted that, in these localised areas, there could be community transmission. but when you look at the entire country as a whole, that's when they say it is not community transmission. irrespective of whether they agree or not, actually, it is at the local level that the action has to happen. and health itself is a state subject... every state government is responsible for it, and that's where the action is happening. of course every country has a central government which sets overall policy, and we know that kerala and west bengal are the only two states to accept community transmission so far. i wonder if you think that india's rural health care system can actually deal with this crisis? the rural health care system lacks a lot, and this is something which is well—accepted,

it's well—known. and if the pandemic were really to spread in the rural areas, we would have a huge problem on our hands. let's get some of the day's other news. crowds the day's other news. have gathered outside the crowds have gathered outside the us consulate in the chinese city of chengdu after the chinese officials order the closure of the site. china's decision to shut the site was in response to washington's order to beijing to close its consulate in the city of houston. police in france have re—arrested a man in connection with a major fire that damaged a 15th—century cathedral in nantes last weekend. the man, originally from rwanda, worked as a volunteer warden and was responsible for locking up the building the night before. prosecutors are treating

the fire as arson. the russian president has been showing off his country's naval power, announcing that a0 ships are entering service this year. vladimir putin told an annual parade in st petersburg that hypersonic weapons and underwater drones would give the russian navy a unique advantage. the body of late american politicianjohn lewis has made a final crossing over the bridge in selma, alabama, where, more than four decades ago, he led a march to campaign for voting right of african—americans. it was part of a multi—day celebration of the life of the civil rights icon and congressman who died earlier this month at the age of 80. our north america correspondent peter bowes reports. the final crossing and a symbolic moment. draped in the american flag, john lewis's casket was taken by horse—drawn carriage over the edmund pettis bridge in selma. alabama state troopers saluted the civil rights campaigner while members of his family walked behind in silent tribute. a sombre journey back to montgomery, 55 years afterjohn lewis took part in a march led by martin luther king jr to challenge the state governor, george wallace, over voting rights for african—americans.

but the day, later dubbed bloody sunday, ended in violence as the march was declared illegal. lewis suffered a fractured skull when he was hit in the head by a club wielded by a white police officer. his efforts and suffering were not in vain. congress would soon pass the voting rights act of 1965, which prohibited racial discrimination in voting. john lewis went on to a career spanning three decades in the house of representatives. he was known as the conscience of the us congress. john never gave up hope. his optimism is what he inspired in all of us. we're all infused with that optimism. can't you hear him? find a way to get in the way! good trouble! necessary trouble! john lewis made his final public appearance last month, at the height of the protests over racial inequality and police brutality.

it'll be part of his legacy that he never stopped campaigning. john lewis lived to see the generation that i believe will lead this nation to our ideals and our full promise to all. like him, they're protesting peacefully, nonviolently. they love this nation just as much as john did. john lewis's finaljourney is moving onto washington, where he'll lie in state at the us capitol for a two—day public viewing. peter bowes, bbc news. spain's foreign minister has insisted her country is bringing several coronavirus operates under control and it is safer taurus to visit. she was speaking after britain ordered travellers returning from spain quarantine 1a days.

guy hedgecoe reports from madrid. for thousands of british holiday—makers, relaxation suddenly turned to frustration here in barcelona. it's a bit crazy, considering the restrictions in place in spain already are really good, with the masks, with disinfecting everything, with hand wash in the shops. that's better than what we have in london. others think it is the right move. since the number of cases here in spain are rising, i think it's probably a sensible measure, and i was expecting it, to be honest. the decision has major implications for spain. britons make up nearly a quarter of all those who travel to the country. several parts of spain, like barcelona, are grappling with a resurgence of coronavirus, with a number of areas seeing a spike in cases. the spanish government insists that this is not a reason for tourists to stay away, and is calling for popular destinations to be excluded

from being on the quarantine list. in particular, our dialogue efforts at the moment are focused around excluding from the quarantine measures the balearic and the canary islands, for two reasons. number one, these are islands, very safe territories. number two, their epidemiological data is extremely positive, well below epidemiological data in the uk. despite the new restrictions, some in ibiza arejust happy to be on holiday. still going to ride it out. we're going to have a good time and deal with it when we're back. like you say, it's one of them, we need probably two weeks... recovery. but for now, spain is paying a high price for the virus's continued spread. guy hedgecoe, bbc news, madrid. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: we speak to the scientist who diagnosed early coronavirus cases in china who now believes that there was a cover—up.

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this is bbc news. the latest headlines: coronavirus spreads into rural india, putting intense pressure on struggling hospitals. almost 350,000 new cases have been reported across the country in the past week. the body of the late congressman john lewis makes a finaljourney in selma, alabama — crossing the famous bridge where he helped lead a march for voting rights in 1965. the microbiologist who diagnosed early coronavirus cases in china has told the bbc he believes local officials covered up the scale of the initial outbreak. professor kwok yung yuen was part of an investigation team in wuhan injanuary. he says there were gaps in the action taken there and a reluctance to acknowledge the number of cases. carrie gracie reports now on whether china's response to the virus contributed to the global crisis. last december, people started

turning up in hospitals in wuhan with a mystery pneumonia. for three weeks, from the end of december, chinese state media played down the risks. they said there was no reason to suspect the virus was transmitted through humans, and no medical personnel had been infected. on the 12th of january, hong kong doctor kwok—yung yuen diagnosed a family with coronavirus in shenzhen. the eminent microbiologist knew family clusters signalled human transmission. i have the experience of diagnosing cases in shenzhen. and i know how efficiently the virus was spreading. and i know that it is acquired from hospitals. and i know that it can move with people, by flights from one city to thousands of miles away. professor yuen immediately alerted officials in beijing. but china didn't tell its public, or the rest of the world, for a critical week, in which the virus was free to spread inside the country and beyond.

on the 18th of january, professor yuen joined a team of experts in wuhan. he learned the market initially blamed for the outbreak had been disinfected before samples could be taken from all the animals. when we went to the huanan seafood market, of course there is nothing to see. because the market was clean already. so you may say that the crime scene is already disturbed. because the seafood market was cleared, we cannot identify any of the hosts which is giving the virus to humans. professor yuen helped to identify the sars virus 17 years ago. back then, beijing withheld information for four months. the response was faster this time. but he says wuhan officials were slow to admit rising patient numbers and infections among medical staff. i do suspect that they have been doing some cover—up, locally at wuhan.

the local officials who are supposed to immediately relay the information has not allowed this to be done as rapidly as they should. for three weeks, beijing had silenced front line doctors. but onjanuary 20, it cited the evidence from shenzhen and wuhan to acknowledge what many had warned from the start. three days later, wuhan was locked down. china says it has been open, transparent and responsible, and its firm measures bought the world time. but researchers now say if lockdown had happened sooner, the vast majority of infections could have been prevented. let's get more on spain now. how much do we know about the source of the country's new outbreaks?

here's our science editor david shukman, who's been looking at the figures and the differing approaches to border control. a lockdown, strictly enforced, seemed to work well in spain earlier this year, because numbers came down dramatically. but since then, the coronavirus situation has changed. what's happening now is that there are spikes in different parts of the country. in catalonia, for example, home to barcelona and costa brava, there have been more than 8,500 cases in the past fortnight. but other areas are doing much better. the balearic islands, including majorca, have had just 92 cases over the same period. so how does spain compare with italy and other countries that are popular with tourists? well, after a big rise, italy is now down to a few hundred cases every day. there's a similar pattern in france, though its infections are running at about 1,000 a day. by contrast, spain, with the recent rise, is now running at about 2,000 infections every day. so the risks of a resurgence are very real.

so would it help to do more tests for coronavirus at airports as people arrive? in france, there's mandatory testing at airports for anyone arriving from a high—risk country, including the united states and brazil. in germany, there is voluntary testing at airports, though it may become compulsory because there are doubts about people sticking to the 1a days needed for self—isolation. in the netherlands, they are trying a more targeted approach. anyone arriving from a very specific high—risk area, including the city of leicester and several regions of spain, will be asked to self—isolate. so, as the virus keeps circulating, there are bound to be more spikes and changes in the way we respond to them. olivia de havilland, one of the last remaining stars from the golden age of hollywood, has died at the age of 104. during a career spanning several decades, she appeared in films including gone with the wind, the adventures

of robin hood and the heiress, which led to one of her two oscars. our correspondent lizo mzimba looks back at her life. despite its controversial depiction of race and slavery, gone with the wind is seen as a hollywood classic. as the virtuous melanie, opposite vivien leigh as the wayward scarlett, olivia de havilland won an oscar nomination. what a lovely dress, scarlett, darling. india wasn't able to come tonight. will you be an angel? i do need you to help me receive my guests. yet she'd taken the part against the advice of her boss at warner brothers. jack warner himself said to me, "oh, you don't want to be in gone with the wind!" he said, "that's going to be the biggest bust in town!" i said i'm not hungry. so you did. i'd forgotten. her career at warner's had blossomed with a series of adventure films, in many of which she starred opposite errol flynn. but later she won a legal battle against the company which helped break the stranglehold hollywood studios had over their contract stars.

he came back with the same lies. once free of warner brothers, her career flourished. she won two oscars, the second in 1949... he has grown greedier with the years. ..for the heiress. olivia de havilland herself stood back from hollywood in the 1950s, but not before her talent had made an indelible mark. olivia de havilland, who has died at the age of 104. a little earlier, i spoke to the film critic and historian pamela hutchinson. i think it's the role that you finish with there, it's the heiress, the worm that turned role, where it's a classic woman's role where she plays a woman who's slightly undervalued and yet she shows that she's gotten

a resolve at the end. one obituary i have just read says, "her soft exterior concealed a core of steel." i guess we saw that when she took on and broke the us studio system. yeah, actually, as in the roles she played, she did have this quality of being someone people rather underestimated in real life too, and the battle that she had with the studio was particularly ferocious. other actresses and actors had tried to sue warner brothers before, but she was very tenacious. she put all her money, all her effort into it. and despite the terrible abuse that came her way for doing so, she won in the end, even if it did mean sort of sacrificing a couple of years of her own career. and that toughness in contract battles, did that come through on—screen, in other roles as well? well, especially you see this as soon as we come back from after the court battle. she starts unleashing it. i think one of her most famous, popular roles these days is in the noirfilm the dark mirror, where she plays twins, two twins. obviously, she plays both roles, and she plays the evil twin and the good twin, and the really fun thing about her performance is you can't always tell

which is which and which of them would have done the murder that's at the heart of the role. i have not seen that! i need to go and see that now. but could you talk a bit about her role in gone with the wind? because you'd never guess that that person in gone with the wind was such a tough character in real life. it's interesting. when gone with the wind was cast, so many stories about the fact that many, many actresses were in a flurry to audition for scarlett o'hara. this was going to be the role that would really make their career. and olivia de havilland knew her strengths and she knew what would work well with her. she went with the same kind of determination for the role of cousin melanie. she did have to be a bit devious. as you say, the boss of her studio didn't want her to take the role. in fact, afterwards, when he talked about the plotting that she had done, he said that she concealed a brain like a computer behind herfawn—like eyes. he was quite shocked at what she'd done. yeah, but i think the cousin melanie character is actually quite well—beloved, and i think it's the sweetness of that role that endeared her to audiences then, but it's the sort of seriousness of that role that we find the kind of modern

aspect in de havilland's performance, and that's why her popularity has really endured and she's still so beloved. and there was a rather unique relationship with her late sister, joan fontaine, who also won an oscar. joan foster, her younger sister, who did get the oscar before her, their rivalry was quite serious. and it could quite overshadow a lot of talk about her. and it's continued to, until quite recently. the television series feud, where there was certain scenes in that film where olivia de havilland was pictured doing things she said she would never talk about, that she'd never done, including using a particular cruel word about her sister, so that rivalry defined her career for a long time. she didn't sue the makers of the tv programme... at the age of 102, she sued them! she wa nted of 102, she sued them! she wanted to have a second landmark legal phase and change hollywood a second time. she wasn't successful the second

time. pamela hutchinson there. we have all heard a dog can be a man's best friend, but what about a camel? this camel went through the gobi desert to try to return to his former owner. he was sold last year and went seven days to what he believed was sister home in the what he thought was his home. when the original owner saw him, he promised to never sell him again. do not break that promise! were due to our top stories. —— returning. coronavirus spreads into rural india, putting intense pressure on struggling hospitals. but while things are improving in big cities like mumbai and delhi, rural areas are struggling to cope. almost 350,000 new cases have been reported across the country over the past week. don't forget, download the bbc

news app. or if you like, find me on twitter. to stay with us. —— do stay with us. hello. it's been a fairly mixed weekend of weather, and we start with the new working week on an unsettled note. we've got some wet and windy weather around during the day on monday. but after that clears away, the middle of the week does look quite a bit drier and brighter, and then things are set to turn quite a lot hotter, especially in the south, as we head towards the end of the working week. but for the here and now, we have got low pressure that's moving in from the atlantic. it's already brought a lot of rain through the night. we're going to continue to see this area of low pressure on monday pushing its way northwards and eastwards, bringing rain to many parts of the uk. heaviest monday morning across parts of wales, northern england, southern scotland and northern ireland as well. fewer showers down towards the south east of england.

mostly dry for a time here. and for the north west of scotland, too, we've got some dry weather on the cards. that rain will gradually push eastwards to be replaced by some drier, brighter spells coming in from the west. temperatures only about 14—21 degrees, but feeling colder when you add on the strength of the wind. it's going to be a windy day, especially in the south and the west, too. gusts of wind about 30—40 mph, even stronger than that in the south west. so, blustery, wet conditions through much of the day on monday, but that area of low pressure clears away relatively quickly overnight as we head on into tuesday. so, tuesday brings quite a fresh northwesterly wind. it'll be a day of sunny spells and scattered showers. the majority of those showers will be across northern and western parts of the uk. fewer showers in the south and the east. temperatures still not great for the time of year, about 14—20 degrees through the day on tuesday. those showers that we've got on tuesday should die away fairly quickly overnight into wednesday because there's a ridge of high pressure that's moving its way in from the south—west. so, that will quiet the weather down, squeeze those showers away. a largely drier picture through the day on wednesday, with some long spells of sunshine for many parts. through the day, the cloud will tend to build and bubble up,

and there's just the chance of the odds splash of light rain in the west, affecting perhaps northern ireland and western parts of wales, too. in the sunshine, wednesday looks a little bit warmer than tuesday, so highss about 17—22 degrees for most of us. moving through, then, into thursday, and you can see this approaching warm front here. that is going to be introducing a much warmer air mass, particularly in the south. the weather front itself could bring a bit of rain to northern ireland and scotland, but look at those temperatures. we could see 30 celsius in the south by the time we get to friday. bye for now.

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the headlines — coronavirus spreads into rural india, putting intense pressure on countryside hospitals. the indian prime ministers as well things are improving in the late —— big city some of the late —— big city some of the rural areas are struggling to cope. the body of the late congressmanjohn lewis makes a finaljourney in selma, alabama — crossing the famous bridge where he helped lead a march for voting rights in 1965. this was one of the events that mark the life of the civil rights icon who died earlier this month. the british foreign secretary has defended the decision to impose a 14 day quarantine on travellers arriving from spain. he said he had to take swift and decisive action to protect the country after a sudden rise in cases in spain.