one study found that 20—25% of people who are infected get a negative result. and then there's the problem of timing. if you become infected welcome to bbc news — i'm mike embley. on holiday — let's call that our top stories: day one — and then fly back a couple of days later — joe biden promises to spend day three — and have a test tens of billions of dollars at the airport on your return, to boost opportunities you may well get a negative for people of colour if he wins the election in november. result because, at that stage, the virus is still president trump's attorney general defends sending federal incubating inside you. officers to confront it may be day six, or even anti—racism protesters in cities around the country. later, before you show any symptoms, and what scientists are worried about is people getting a negative result britain's prime minister, and thinking they're completely defending his decision in the clear, when in to quarantine all travellers reality, they're infected. from spain, warns of a second wave of coronavirus in parts of europe. i think a negative result at the airport does not mean you are necessarily free of the infection. ajigsaw you might not yet be a jigsaw with a million components, scientists try yet again to create a machine shedding the virus. generating huge amounts of power by our nuclear fusion. and if you believe that you're free of infection and you go back to your normal life, very much, the risk is that you can start spreading it to family, friends and work colleagues, and thereby hasten

the spread of the virus generally in your home community. hello to you. joe biden has unveiled plans, if he wins november's election, to address the economic but screening at airports disparities impacting minority is becoming more common. communities in the united states. china found a positive the presidential contender case last week. for the democrats sharply criticised president trump, accusing him of intentionally and one idea is to have stoking the flames of a system of double testing, a week apart, to have a better division and racism. chance of spotting who's infected. in a speech in his home town of wilmington, mr biden heathrow airport wants promised he would spend tens to start a trial. of billions of dollars to help i can understand that the jury people of colour overcome what he called the racial is out at the moment on having wealth gap. a single test on arrival. the us has seen weeks of racial unrest, and the pandemic has not enough work has disproportionately affected been done on that. and it may be that we need black and hispanic communities. to have a test on arrival and maybe a test after five days, or eight days, more than 30 million to get people out and counting are collecting of quarantine early. unemployment cheques. a passenger in south korea. regular testing may well allow more travel and minimise black unemployment is quarantine, but it's not exactly pleasant to have to go through. david shukman, bbc news. at 15%, latino, 14.5%. 40% — 40% of black—owned stay with us on bbc businesses, 440,000 in total, have reported they had news, still to come: a new approach to the

to shut down. treatment of covid i9 — we report from and everything is worsened a hospital in texas. by this crisis of presidential leadership. to change the tone over the last few days, as trump has, doesn't change the facts of the last four years. donald trump faces a real test, and he's failed it. the basic threshold of being president, the duty to care for the entire country, not the us space agency nasa has ordered an investigation after confirmation today just his re—election prospects. that astronauts were cleared to fly while drunk. he's shown that he can't beat the last foot patrol the pandemic and keep you safe. in south armagh, he can't turn the economy once an everyday part of around and get america the soldiers' lot, back to work. drudgery and danger, now no more after almost four decades. and he is horrifyingly, and not surprisingly, intentionally stoking if one is on one's own the flames of division in a private house, and racism in this country. not doing any harm to anyone, i don't really see why all these people should wander in and say, "you are doing something wrong." with the daily death toll from six rare white lion clubs are on the prowl

the virus reaching nearly 1600. at worcestershire park and already they've been met president trump has announced with a roar of approval an initiative to develop from visitors. generic drugs in the they're lovely, yeah, and sweet. united states, aiming to reduce yeah, they were cute. dependence on pharmaceutical products sourced abroad. he's also repeated his belief in hydroxy—chloroquine as a coronavirus treatment, even though there's no evidence it can fight the virus, and regulators have warned it may cause heart problems. twitter banned his eldest son, donald junior from tweeting for 12 hours, because he shared a misleading video about the drug. the fda has revoked its approval for emergency use welcome back. very glad to have of hydroxy—chloroquine. you with us on bbc news. the latest headlines: joe biden has promised to spend tens of billions of dollars many doctors think it's to help boost opportunities extremely good and some for black, latino, and native american businesses people don't. some people — i think it's if wins the election in become very political. november. borisjohnson has warned i happen to believe in it. that there are signs i would take it. of a second wave of coronavirus as you know, i took it in parts of europe and that for a 14—day period. and i'm here. further quarantines for holiday—makers may be right? i'm here. necessary. i happen to think it's — it works in the early stages. hospitals and healthcare workers in several american i think front line medical states are dealing people believe that, too. with a surge in cases. some, many. texas has nowjoined new york, florida and california and so we'll take a look at it. in recording more than 400,000 infections. 0ur correspondent larry madowo has been inside 0ur north america correspondent a covid—i9 unit in houston. peter bowes told me the battle lines for the election campaign are now more clearly drawn,

and joe biden is hardening up his fightback. please, come in. if you look at the welcome to the covid unit. juxtaposition of the president drjoseph varon is chief and his now—regular—again coronavirus press conference, of critical care here. and joe biden really ramping most of the hospital up his campaign and putting has been taken over a lot of flesh on the bones by coronavirus patients. this old ward was converted of what he says he will do if he wins the presidency in november, talking about help into a covid—only icu but, for minority communities, for housing, for small businesses, and attacking as we have just heard, the president, really within a week, they ran out of space and expanded. they now have three covid units. in the strongest terms. ummc is a small community hospital. 80% of the patients they see don't even have health insurance, and the doctors say and then president trump it's all about timing. at his news conference talking about drugs and what he's doing if they came any later, to perhaps reduce america's many of them would not make it. dependency on importing drugs, dr varon is conducting but then also talking a procedure called about coronavirus, hydroxychloroquine, which has been at least as far a tracheostomy. as the officials in this country who control these matters, they have stopped its use for the treatment they're boring a hole in this of coronavirus. man's neck to insert a tube into his windpipe to save his vocal chords. but we have the president again he's been here for two weeks insisting that he believes he's heard from doctors who say and, if they don't do this, it can be beneficial he may never speak again, for covid—19 sufferers. even if he recovers. i've never seen an illness that is so tricky. every day, i get and there was an interesting surprised with corona.

exchange once again every day, there is a new between the president thing, something new comes out. and reporters on that issue the days are long and lonely and some tweets that he for the patients here, retweeted about the wearing with no family of masks. or visits allowed. the patients can only identify and he got to talking who's attending to them about doctor anthony fauci, his leading medical advisor, by the pictures hanging and his public opinion poll ratings. on their necks. we're going to go and see christina. this is one of your nurses? she's one of my nurses. nurse christina matthis was at work here when she too how he seems to be doing better tested positive for covid—i9. than the president himself, and at one point donald trump this is my other family. said it seemed that nobody liked him. so, to not be out there do we have a sense on how this with my family is weird. is likely to play out to be on this side, it's like, from here on? i'm still asking them how the president intends what i can do. to fight this campaign, peter? i think we're going to see he's saturating. certainly more of what we saw 88%, when i walked in... in his news conference. dr varon and the team here try to avoid the use it seems if the president of ventilators. at least believes that — instead, they use an experimental treatment, combining commonly used drugs and he often talks about in a unique cocktail to combat ratings, he believes that the inflammatory damage people want to see him front and centre, as opposed to being shrouded by caused by the virus. his medical advisors. and i think we will see more of him leading the way. we have found from the new experience, the spain he has changed his tune experience, the italy a little bit in the last couple experience, but when you put a tube in somebody‘s throat,

of weeks, acknowledging the chances of them leaving the scale of the problem the hospital lesson is 20%. the chances are my patients and generally the need to wear masks and to avoid getting leaving the hospital are 95%. together in crowds and that kind of thing. we've seen perhaps a more the youngest patient isjust 18. subdued president perhaps the oldest is in her 80s. realising that hill that he's still to climb in terms of this virus. his lungs look amazing, amazing. this is a guy that was not supposed to be around. nearly 60% of the patients as far asjoe biden at the hospital are latino, is concerned, i think are going to see more and the impact on hispanics of the strong attacks. he's emerging from his home across texas is even greater. where he was secluded for many ephraim guevara, a professional weeks, he's giving chauffeur, is almost heading home, but he does not plan to return to work any time soon. these speeches. he tells me coronavirus is real and people who don't take care and i think we will see him repeatedly attacking of themselves will die. the president in strong terms. one other thing to say aboutjoe biden, he confirmed that next week, it could be as early as saturday, he will reveal who his choice the medical team describes is for his vice president, this as a good week. patients are improving here, his running mate but more than 1,000 people die at the election. peter bowes there. of coronavirus every day let's get some of the day's other news. in the us, and cases are rising several thousand protestors in at least 30 states. have marched in south—west larry madowo, myanmar to demand the withdrawal of the military and an end to rights abuses — it's alleged soldiers recently bbc news, houston. killed an unarmed woman. two soldiers have been arrested. the murder has sparked a wave of protests in the us attorney general has

the past two weeks. been defending the deployment drones are being used to fly of federal agents to american cities, saying they are needed coronavirus tests and blood samples around to counter violent rioters. in heated testimony to congress, william barr an israeli hospital. claimed anti—racism protesters they deliver samples from the coronavirus ward — at one end of the dorot hospital in netanya — in portland, oregon, to laboratories at the other end. it's hoped medicines and supplies may soon be delivered by drone from pharmacies to hospitals. are committing "an assault the trade union unite has on the government of the united states". warned british airways it plans the committee, dominated to move towards industrial by democrats, covered a wide range of controversial actions action with immediate effect. from mr barr's department of justice. the two sides have been in dispute about ba's plans to cut thousands ofjobs, julia manchester, political and move remaining staff reporterfrom the hill, onto new contracts. was following the session in congress. well, it was a contentious marathon hearing on capitol ba insists changes are necessary because the pandemic hill between attorney general william barr has left the airline and the house judiciary committee. you saw republicans very industry in crisis. much defending barr against democrats, who really the nominations are out went on an all—out assault for tv‘s top awards against william barr, — the emmys. essentially accusing him of being the president's they were announced this year henchman when it comes to deploying these federal in a live stream virtual event troops to areas where protests in los angeles. have been taking place, such as portland. 0livia colman has one we also saw democrats also nomination for her role accusing william barr as the queen in the crown. of being too easy on a number of president trump's the watchmen leads the way with 26 nominations. associates, such as roger netflix has the most nominations for a network - 160. stone, who have essentially not gottenjail time despite committing crimes. so a very contentious,

borisjohnson has suggested there are signs of a second wave of coronavirus in europe. heated hearing with the 2020 defending the decision to impose a 14—day quarantine on arrivals from spain, the prime minister said it was the government's job to protect the uk. 0ur europe correspondent election very much an undertone. gavin lee sent this on that point, it was kind from barcelona. of odd, wasn't it, to see the top legal officer in the country struggling with a question about the call for the sick whether foreign interference and the anxious at a covid in an american election was a bad thing? testing centre in the absolutely. and this also comes as the us suburbs of barcelona. intelligence communities even five weeks after the state concluded this years ago, of emergency was lifted here, that they had evidence that cases are on the rise again. russia was interfering into the 2016 election, they had evidence they were albert tomas is waiting his turn. his girlfriend tested working to interfere in the 2018 mid—term election, positive this morning. and that they would try i work near to beach, to interfere in the 2020 election. so close to beach, and yeah, so that was definitely very a lot of young people interesting to hear. without masks, drinking. and also, i'd like to point out it's close—to—close, tensions between the us face—to—face. and for me, it's the problem, the young people don't and china are also at understand how this an all—time high right now. covid increase. and there's concern the chinese may interfere as well. so it was definitely an odd young catalans have been blamed comment or an odd response by the regional government from attorney general barr.

for accelerating the spread, showing a lack of solidarity, ignoring the rules to socially distance. julia, mr barr is very associated, of course, one of the nurses here, with a tough line against rossella morales, has worked anti—racism protests, throughout the pandemic the sending in of federal and says the majority of cases agents to cities. now are people under a0. i see the washington post is suggesting that part of the point of sending in agents to confront yeah, there's a lot protesters is to generate of asymptomatics that then become positive. footage of violence that you do the test and the test will be useful in attack ads in the election campaign. becomes positive. there's a bit of a problem, isn't there, in presenting at this time, there's not these scenes and saying this that many acute symptoms that they need to be is what you get if you vote hospitalised. it's more like mild symptoms, forjoe biden, when everybody knows it is happening like headaches, loss of smell, in mr trump's america? loss of taste. the catalan government say the situation has reached a critical point that if, in the next ten days, absolutely. and we have actually seen covid cases haven't reduced, there'll be a second lockdown a number of those ads in swing in this city. states across the country. i'm coming to you here from orlando, florida, and with it, shutting down a very critical swing a vital industry that attracts state in november. and we have seen a number millions of brits of ads essentially saying, each year — tourism. you know, ifjoe biden becomes president, he's going to defund police departments and showing, it's said there are more you an actor portraying people selfies taken in front essentially calling the police and getting of gaudi's sagrada familia a voicemail message. basilica than anywhere else in spain. that's definitely, obviously a bit of an exaggeration there, now, there's barely enough but this is very much

business for the republicans and president trump street sellers. leaning in on this law the flights arriving and order message. from the uk today are not even republicans have been very half—full. successful with this message there must have been going back to former about 20 people, maximum, president richard nixon. on the flight. however, democrats are very my row in front of me, much calling this out. in fact, vice president biden behind me, my row was empty. debbie is on the way back said today that president trump to cardiff, filling out an online covid form ahead is making this an issue of a two—week quarantine. because he is so behind in the polls. she says the decision has caused her a great deal of stress. i wish i hadn't come to spain now. i wanted to come away and i wanted a holiday, but i wouldn't have gone, julia manchester from the hill there. had i known that there would be amber heard has spoken outside the self—isolating the high court in london about the libel case brought on my return. by her former husband johnny depp. she has been giving evidence. johnny depp is suing the publishers of the sun hotels and resorts outside newspaper, and its executive editor, dan wootton, the city say they're working for describing him as a ‘wife hard to reassure tourists that beater‘, which he strongly denies. the sun says its it's as safe as possible, article was true. the hearing ended tuesday, but despite intense diplomatic judgement is expected later. efforts, british officials have amber heard said she would have preferred not to appear shown no sign in court. of changing course. gavin lee, bbc news, barcelona. the latest restrictions on travel to and from spain it has been incredibly painful have triggered calls to relive the break—up for coronavirus tests on people of my relationship, arriving in the uk, as to have my motives, my truth, questioned, and the most

an alternative to quarantine. traumatic and intimate details of my life with johnny shared 0ur science editor in court and broadcast david shukman now, on how the government is trying to the entire world. to manage the risk of people i stand by my testimony importing the disease. and now place my faith in britishjustice. a sudden rise in coronavirus cases in kosovo. all over europe, there are international scientists are converging this week on the south of france to begin local surges of new infections. assembling what some call but whether this amounts the "world's largest puzzle". it's a massive machine designed to a second wave is unclear. to generate huge amounts of power through nuclearfusion. people around the world have in germany, an outbreak been working on this at a farm in bavaria has led science for decades. to a new warning. but now the french, numbers are still relatively and their international low, compared to partners, are claiming it many countries. may be just a few years until they can prove still, the authorities say the science works. they are very concerned. alanna petroff has the details, so, german airports are offering testing for anyone arriving, to see who has the virus, and this may become compulsory. as construction gets under way. it's a big project. the problem, though, the ambition is even bigger. is that the tests are not create clean, green, unlimited always reliable. energy using nuclear fusion. about 1 million components what matters is how well they're carried out. will be used to create this are they done by medical staff? system in the south of france. it's the ultimate science experiment, with a pricetag does the swab used in the test of more than $23 billion. actually reach the virus 00:11:55,070 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 in the throat or nose? 00:00:00,048 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 it could miss an infected area. translation: imagine that this

experiment is conclusive and that industrial applications follow. we will have developed a new form of energy that is nonpolluting, carbon—free, safe, and practically without waste. an energy that will answer the needs of populations in all parts of the world, meet the challenges of climate change, and preserve natural resources. scientists have been inspired by the power of the sun, creating a doughnut—shaped chamber that uses magnets and gas to generate and harness crazy hot temperatures. if it all works, the energy from this chamber will be able to power 200,000 homes. dozens of governments and corporations have been working for decades to make nuclear fusion a reality. the project in france is a global collaboration between 35 countries. critics say these projects are expensive and it could be decades before widespread commercial use. but supporters say that if the science works it can be replicated around the world and light the path forward

for a greenerfuture. alanna petroff, bbc news. a rembrandt self portrait has sold at sotheby‘s for more than $18 million. it's the first face to face sale at the auction house since the pandemic began. the portrait is one of only three left in private hands. three paintings by the street artist banksy, mediterranean sea view, sold for nearly $3 million. proceeds go to a hospital in bethlehem. the triptych is usually seen as a reaction to europe's migrant crisis of the past decade. there is much more on all the news, national and

international, any time on the bbc website also on our twitter feeds. thank you so much for watching. hello. it looks likejuly is planning to leave us with something to remember it by. although if you are a fan of summer heat, this all may be too little too late. but friday, the last day ofjuly, it is going to be a hot one for many of us. and it's quite a transformation this week from what we had at the start of the week with low pressure and strong winds, rain, high pressure building, and although low pressure will bring a bit more rain back to some of us before the week is done, it's the position of these pressure systems here which will allow the wind to turn around to a south southeasterly for friday, drawing up that heat, lifting those temperatures, it's not out of the question the uk could record its highest temperature of the year so far on friday. we will get to all of that as we go through the forecast. clearly we are not there yet. and for wednesday, it will be a little bit warmer out there.

the winds are lighter and many places will be dry, these are starting temperatures. it will be cooler than this in rural spots of some of us in single figures as the day begins and it's still quite windy in the northern isles, parts of northern scotland, but the wind will ease further during the day and we will lose any outbreaks of rain as it become drier into the afternoon. for many places, it will be dry. best of any sunny spells probably in southern scotland and northern england, quite a bit of cloud around, temperatures a little bit higher. and you notice we do have a weather system that will bring some rain towards northern ireland to end the day, some patchy rain affecting parts of wales and northwest england as well. it mayjust ease for a time and notice some heavier rain overnight pushing into northern ireland and on thursday, that is going to spread north across scotland, we're ahead of it with the clear skies and it will be chilly for some of us as thursday begins. here goes the rain on thursday. clears northern ireland, again quite heavy in places, then pushes across scotland. for england and wales, look at this. a lot of sunshine to come. the wind going around to that south southeasterly and the temperatures are heading up. it does get hotter on thursday and that heat is more widespread by the time we get to friday, and in

northern ireland, it will be close to the weather front here. so, not particularly hot. we will see a bit of rain to end the day. we can't rule out a thundery shower into parts of eastern england as well. and notice how the temperatures come right back down again at the start of the weekend. that is because the system bringing some rain in northern ireland to end friday is a cold front which moves east across the uk for the weekend as it turns much cooler again.

this is bbc news. the headlines: joe biden has promised he would spend tens of billions of dollars to boost opportunities for black, latinx and native american businesses if he wins the election in november. the democratic party's contenderfor the presidency sharply criticised donald trump, accusing him of intentionally stoking the flames of division and racism. the us attorney general has been defending the deployment of federal agents to american cities, saying they are needed to counter violent rioters. in testimony to congress, william barr claimed anti—racism protesters in portland, oregon, are committing "an assault on the government of the united states. " britain's prime minister has suggested there are signs of a second wave of coronavirus in europe, as he defended

a 14—day quarantine on travellers from spain. borisjohnson said the government had to take swift action and hinted holiday—makers may face more quarantines. now on bbc news: panorama. and a warning: this programme contains scenes some viewers may find upsetting. tonight, we investigate how china covered up the scale of its coronavirus crisis. why didn't they tell the rest of the world earlier what was happening and how dangerous it was? the doctors and scientists prevented from telling the truth. instead of listening to its own people it has silenced them and we are all paying the price. we hear from those who've investigated the outbreak. i know how efficient the virus was spreading, it can go, er, with people by flights from one city