this is bbc news, the headlines: the white house has been placed on lockdown after secret

service agents shot a man outside. president trump was escorted from a white house briefing, minutes later he returned, and told reporters a person was taken to hopsital after the shooting. the president said he did not think the white house fence had been breached. anti—establishment protests on the streets of beirut are continuing, even though the entire lebanese government has now stepped down. in an angry televised address, the prime minister, hassan diab blamed last week's catastrophic explosion, and the country's economic and social problems, on a corrupt political establishment. cuba has reported its highest daily number of new covid—19 cases. beaches, bars and restaurants in havana have all now been closed. the government says it's concerned about the impact a surge will have on the island's health service, and the economy, which relies heavily on foreign tourism. there are calls for counselling services that try to change someone‘s sexuality to be banned. the prime minister has called it abhorrent and promised to outlaw what's known

as conversion therapy which is opposed by the nhs and major professional bodies in the uk. but organisations promoting it insist it's ethical. our ireland correspondent emma vardy has been speaking to one man who attended these sessions, but described himself as broken after years trying to change his sexuality. music. perhaps x factor‘s not the place you'd expect to spark debate about a controversial therapy. but the maltese contestant matthew grech made headlines on the show saying he was ex—gay. it is our vision and mission to raise an army of formerly 93v- he's now a director of the charity core issues trust in northern ireland. welcome to x—out—loud. and running a campaign which promotes the view sexuality can be altered. i felt like something was deeply wrong with me and that i needed help. gareth is a qualified medical doctor in manchester. but growing up in northern ireland, he began counselling with core issues and later other groups

over four years. i was about 14—years—old when i first became aware that i was attracted to men and within the community, that i was a part of, it was very difficult for me to talk about that with anyone. i actually opened up to someone at a christian convention. they had known of someone that would be able to offer therapy. what was your mindset going into this type of counselling? ijust knew that i needed to get rid of this part of myself. and, really, iwent in wholeheartedly, 100%. pretty soon after it began, my mental health took a drastic turn for the worst. there's a huge pressure for you to stick with it and to keep trying to try harder, to delve deeper into the problems that might have caused this. eventually, gareth ended the therapy. he's now openly gay and in a relationship, but it took several years,

he says, to move on. i felt really, really broken. there are other people out there who are going through the exact same thing. holding on to ethical values... back in northern ireland, the man at the helm of core issues trust, mike davidson, rejects the term conversion therapy and says they support people, like x factor‘s matthew grech, who want to leave same sex attraction behind. is it fair to try and change someone‘s sexuality when there's clear examples of where this doesn't work? well, it's not us trying to change anybody, people seek us out because they hear of people who are going in a different direction. for somebody whose feelings don't change through this process, isn't there the risk that you leave them mentally much worse off? well, that is a concern and that s part of t‘e advanced informed consent. what we are promoting is an exploration of sexual fluidity. and what we find over a period

of time, when behaviours change, feelings began to change. lgbt campaigners argue the existence of the therapy at all reinforces prejudiced views that it's wrong to be gay. borisjohnson said the government plans to carry out a study into so—called conversion therapy before bringing forward new laws to ban it. what the research would say is that, actually, we cannot change somebody‘s sexuality and all those professions have released statements, to say that practitioners should not be aiming to do that. but it isn't clear how the practice will be defined and where to draw the line. emma vardy, bbc news. now on bbc news: lockdown babies: pregnancy in a pandemic are you sure? this is my

34—week belly. my partner lives overseas. snoring. baby's right here. a quarter of the world's population is now living under some form of lockdown due to coronavirus. more than 3 billion people in almost 70 countries and territories have been asked to stay at home. 0.99... never seen that before. not that we have anywhere to drive to right now. my partner is supposed to be checking in for his flight. which obviously isn't happening.

0k, hold on, hold on. take a second, because the next time you walk out of this building, we're going to have our baby with us. you ready? i've got the really short ones because we're having a summer baby. i expect it to be quite hot. hi, dog. my name is melinda and i am 33 years old. i live in london and my partner lives overseas. i am 38 weeks pregnant with my first baby. he lives in barbados. my dad's bajan, so i go there quite often, so that is how we met. it is a long—distance relationship but we are doing 0k.

we just thought we'd throw a baby into the mixjust to spice it up a bit. this is an exact side—profile of daddy. i was like, "yes, this baby looks like his dad, 100%." my partner was due to fly out in a couple of weeks to be here for the birth. due to the virus, we have had to postpone his flight indefinitely. we speak every day and that helps to keep in contact, but it is difficult. the first week of working from home was really, really difficult. i literally just had the news on constantly. that was when they were making announcements to change the excel centre near me into a hospital and building these morgues and everything. i just felt like it was something out of a horror movie, the world is going to end. i am going to have to start stockpiling food or running in other people's abandoned houses and finding their stockpiled food! it was all a bit crazy. by the time we got to lockdown, i was begging for it

because it was getting really scary. this is the baby's room. it was meant to be completed by now. but the floor isn't done. so it has become a bit of a dumping ground, waiting for this bed to be moved. but we can't due to coronavirus, can't get the flooring done due to coronavirus. you have an image of how it is going to look and now it is this dumping ground of baby stuff. had to cancel my baby shower, just lots of things that you are looking forward... sorry! sorry, i didn't mean to get upset. it is just a really hard time. it just kind of took away the enjoyment of having a baby and all the little things that aren't really a big deal by themselves. but i think once you get over that and, like,

you realise, ok, this is out of my control — these are small things in the grand scheme of my health and my baby's health and so on, you kind of adjust. i have got lots of parcels delivered randomly with lots of different gift. so it was still exciting, it was still fine, i still got spoiled — just in a different way. modern—day social distancing cards meant that all my messages were printed. this book that my mum got me, baby's first year. "this is a page from a newspaper on the day you were born." not entirely sure i want to put that in there, you know? these things were in the news — coronavirus. this will be a really interesting thing for baby to look back on, because we are in a moment of history, aren't we? there is my mum bringing

me some shopping. thank you! the last two weeks is now back into the almost nine months pregnant mode of "i'm glad i'm at home, i just want to sleep." so my mum lives nearby, we have been cooking for each other. all right. see you later. bye now. i get people doing all my shopping for me, so you look at the perks of being able to sit at home and rest, which is really what i should be doing now anyway. what a weird time. basically, this video is because i have been thinking a lot about how one day i am going to try and explain to my kid what was going on in the world a month before they were born, and it is not even going to make sense. i am not even going to know how to explain it.

i thought i will vlog as much as possible so one day i can just turn this video on and show them what things looked like, what andy and i were up to and, sadly, what the world looked like a month before they were born. today, we are going to install our car seat. oh, well, isn't that cute? locked, loaded and ready to go. ready to roll! you feel like a dad yet? yes, this is normally full of people. everywhere you look around and it is quiet. there is somebody over there. unfortunately, andy works in the restaurant business. every restaurant in vancouver has been forced to close. yep. just like many other places in the world right now, which is so crazy when you actually think about

it. and andy was luckily one of the very few that got to work until the very end. but now... it's time. it's time to be unemployed for a little bit. i'm going to practise social distancing now. yeah! today i had to empty out the coolers and clean the place up, and now we are sitting alone in an empty restaurant. hopefully, it will not be much longer until you're back in here. hopefully not long. put them out. .99. not seen that before. not that we have anywhere to drive right now. but i have never filled up gas that cheap. it's been years since

it's been that cheap. years and years.

are there so, how is your first day of unemployment? i'm technically still employed today. today's a sick day. today's a vacation day. sorry, a vacation day. tomorrow is my first day of unemployment. we laugh because we're trying to make light of things after i literally just finished crying because i am so

overwhelmed. cheers for the health care workers. 7 o'clock cheers just went off. this is pretty much all that is happening just now. we wake up... we eat breakfast. we clean up. we eat lunch. we clean up. we make dinner. having my husband home has been kind of like a blessing in disguise — he has been able to calm my nerves, keep me more calm through all of this. this is my 34—week belly. getting ready to leave for what is going to be a very unique midwife appointment. this is the first appointment since all of the coronavirus self—isolation has been going on. so, for the first little bit of our appointment, we are going to be sitting in the car going over how i am feeling. hello? hello. have you gotten any word

from bc women's on what they're doing for family members that want to be close by? do they have anything in plan, or no? no, i would encourage them to not be close by. they are being quite restrictive on visitors. so even if they are close by, it is going to be disappointing. you would be much better off just connecting with them on facetime or something. all right. telephone call is done, now we are going to go into the clinic to check the ba by‘s heartbeat. but the news about the family literally broke my heart. i know. hello. hello, mum. so the appointment was good? heartbeat was good, everything was good. it was between 150 and 155. she said it was

fast because the baby had just kicked and had just started moving around. my belly. looking very big! very big, so this is me at 39 plus one. it's a bit strange waking up every morning thinking this could be the last morning i wake up pregnant. these could be the last kicks and stuff that i feel. so, yeah, quite nerve—racking, but exciting as well. me and the dog, i had a chat with him a couple of months ago. i was like, "i'm very sorry, your life is about to change." he'll have his head here, the baby will be here. and you'll feel, like, boom—boom—boom on his head and he doesn't move at all. hejust sits there. it is like the baby's saying, "get off me." and he is like, "no." dog snores. ba by‘s right here. i'm getting ready to go to the hospital. midwife appointment

today. i don't really know what to expect. i haven't really been out of the area for three weeks since the last appointment, so it is a bit strange going out now. it is the first time i am getting on a bus since we have been boarding through the back doors. today we have passed the highest death toll in europe, so we do now have the highest death toll in europe which is concerning. i live in newham, which has one of the highest death tolls in the country on a borough—level. so, very scary to be going out of my little bubble of protection. there is the nhs nightingale london. i'm waiting to pass, and people are just... the one place you would expect social distancing to be happening, literally i stopped to pass

through a doorway and people just walked past me. this is what i don't like. this is when i start to get anxious. anyway, i'm here. finished at the hospital. i told you, it ramps up every time — so this time they gave us a face mask to wear. so literally every appointment, it has escalated a bit more. but, yeah, everything is ok with baby, heartbeat is fine. got another appointment for next week when we will look at possibly booking an induction. it is so weird. this is the first time since the pandemic that i've actually been in a shop with actual baby clothes! i'm so excited! i have been looking at stuff online, but you don't feel the excitement because you're just clicking on a picture.

being in a shop and seeing them, it was nice. it was just a nice bit of normality and i think because i am at the end as well, it was nice to have a bit of that "i'm having a baby" excitement back. look! that is just the cutest. yeah, i only came in for milk, believe it or not. i came in and showered immediately. took out my hair and got in my pyjamas. hence, me looking like this. if i was a key worker and saw the amount of people out today, i would have been really upset. especially being in the borough that supposedly has the most deaths in london. today, i could see why. everyone lives their lives the way they live it, it is not for me to tell

people how to live. it is just upsetting that, if we carry on the way we are, the longer this goes on, the longer it is before flights resume. the longer it is before my baby meets his or her dad. so, i am going to show you what i bought. there. it says, "cuddles are my favourite thing." even though i will be the only one cuddling them while social distancing. so that is the bigger size. hopefully, if we are able to travel, this will be the age that baby will be when we go to barbados for the first time. so, it could actually be an aeroplane outfit. fingers crossed! speaking in spanish. i have been in labour for over 2a hours now. i know this is going to be it, because i'm being induced

i have been in labour for over 2a hours now. i know this is going to be it, because i'm being induced today. are you ready? not sure how to answer that. there is a contraction. i think this is the time when i'm supposed to turn

the camera off. hold on, hold on. take a second, because the next time you walk out of this building, we are going to have our baby with us. come on, look. ifeel so emotional. take it all in. ready? yeah. it's a girl! oh my god! i'm happy. i want to see her face, can you hold her up? there you go. we're just about to leave the hospital. andy's been making runs back and forth to the car. our families are outside waiting to meet us. it is going to be their first time meeting little indie. 0h! are you 0k? you 0k? excited

to see them? very. very? hi! hello! aww! look at everybody! look at her! hi, mum. we're going home now, indie. are you 0k? yeah, it was just hard not to let anyone get even close. my partner's supposed to be checking in for his flight. which obviously isn't happening.

so, plan b. camera's out. we arejust going to have to film it. tomorrow is a new day, one step closer to me meeting my little person. one step closer to me being a mum. she's a strong lady and i'm very proud of her. so, i am the lucky one. not she's lucky — i am lucky. well, it's been a few weeks since we had our girl, indie. she is doing really well.

hello, we've already seen four consecutive days above 3a celsius and more hot days before things turn pressure later this week. tuesday starts off warm and humid for many of us. off warm and humid for many of us. already some thundery showers across the northern half of the uk, he did miss thunderstorms and heavy showers with hail set to affect some southern areas later on in the david down towards the south—east, temperatures up to about 3k south—east, temperatures up to about 3a or 35 celsius, typically below to mid 20s in scotla nd typically below to mid 20s in scotland and northern ireland as well stop most of the heavy showers and thunderstorms paid overnight into wednesday and we see some mist and fog patches developing with that warm humid airaround. developing with that warm humid air around. anotherfairly uncomfortable night with temperatures in the high teens for many of us. through the day on wednesday, another day

warm sunshine, hot again, particularly in the south—east. heavy showers and thunderstorms particularly for england and wales but fuel for scotland and northern ireland. temperatures for most of us 21— 35 celsius. welcome to bbc news.

i'm mike embley. our top stories: president trump is escorted from a white house briefing after security shoot an armed suspect outside the building. there was an actual shooting, and, uh... somebody‘s and taken to the hospital. protests on the streets of beirut, as the entire lebanese government steps down after last week's explosion. in belarus, clashes continue between police and protesters angry at sunday's disputed presidential poll. and new research suggests so much ice has melted in antarctica since the mid—1990s, it could fill the grand canyon.