the latest headlines from bbc news. police and the us state of wisconsin have charged a 17—year—old with the murder of two people. president trump has said he will send federal officers to restore order. it all began on sunday when police shot and wounded an unarmed like man, jacob blake. on the third day of the rnc, the theme is land of heroes. speakers will include vice president mike pentz, his daughter—in—law la ra mike pentz, his daughter—in—law lara and matt to mexico announced this week she is leaving the white house. —— acta mac. people in louisiana and texas have been warned to leave or face death as hurricane laura brings an un— survivable storm surge.

the pandemic has meant working from home for millions of people is very much become the norm and is the overall restrictions are being eased the government wants more people to return to their places of work. bbc research shows that out of 50 of the largest companies in the uk, not one of them is to have all their staff in the office in their staff in the office in the near future. this is working and commuting in the time of coronavirus. the normal flood of office workers into the city centre is now just a trickle. in the heart of leamington best business district, financial services giant pwc has a brand—new offer is home to 2000 people on paper but just is home to 2000 people on paper butjust 100 dr in today. butjust100 dr in today. managers say that although many will continue to work from home, the office is still important. we have colleagues working at the end of their bed 01’ working at the end of their bed or at the end of the kitchen

table and that is not sustainable more healthy for the long—term and as employers we invest a huge amount in creating the right environment and the rate seating, the right technology to make sure that the workplace is where people can be productive. right next door, newly finished development has seen some te na nts development has seen some tenants continue to sign leases but developers who built it admit that others are not. it is the beginning of the end? it is the i would be interested to see some of those who have headlined out, saying we may never have an office. i would challenge them in 12 or 18 months to save that was the right decision orjust a to what is going on full and here we have it. 20,000 square feet of virgin brand—new office space and the tenant assures me the company does not regret signing a long lease for this building. but does this space feel like a relic from a pre— covid—19 era? there is lots of

evidence that workers want to spend less time in the office. smaller and older office spaces are not as flexible. this pr agency has a team of seven. social distancing here is a challenge. they enjoy working from home so she is ditching the office entirely. i do not wa nt to the office entirely. i do not want to force my team back onto public transport and uncomfortable environments. i don't think it is going to change the dynamic. there are ways that i can invest more in people because we are not spending on bricks and mortar. you are office workers means fewer customers for businesses like naomi's to pick this trade for business —— who picked this site for business trade. we we re site for business trade. we were hoping that september might be better and if not we

will have to look at the business. the urban economy is a delicate ecosystem relying on the lifeboat —— lifeblood of workers into the city centre. for now it is living on scraps. now it is time for coronavirus your stories. philip and thomas are speaking to people about how covid—19 changed their lives. —— philippa thomas. welcome to coronavirus your stories, a programme about help covid—19 changes lives around the world. i am philippa thomas and this week we revisit some of the most powerful stories we have shared with you over the last 1a weeks. we will find out

what happened to the sailing family who self isolated for months on an uninhabited island in the bahamas. hurricane season was in the bahamas. hurricane season was starting and they we re season was starting and they were preparing to leave. we will talk to the leading expert in spain who called the virus while treating covid—19 victims. she is now dealing with new outbreaks. starting with new outbreaks. starting with two covid—19 survivors who each spend weeks on ventilators in intensive care. we brought together brendan sheridan, in west yorkshire and brett breslow, spending his last day ata breslow, spending his last day at a rehabilitation centre in philadelphia to hear some of what they had been through. between the time i was in the coma and the time that i was too busy to get up out of bed it was about five weeks and my body was so deconditioned that my legs would shake and i would lose my breath easily. now i am

able to walk about the length ofa able to walk about the length of a football field, so that is gotten a lot better. my kidneys have not recovered yet. we are still hopeful but we are talking about converting me from acute to chronic kidney failure here in the next few weeks if we do not see better results, and what that might mean. brendan, i know you will sympathise with just how hard it is to get back on your feet and get going but we have also spoken about the mental scars. i know it is difficult sleeping and you get flashbacks? and they tend to get worse as the week has gone. i have a about 16 hours sleep a week. i am consta ntly 16 hours sleep a week. i am constantly waking up as if i am suffocating and still in hospital and then not being able to get my breath back

which makes me panic. the other flashbacks are because of how fa st flashbacks are because of how fast it happened. i have flashbacks of saying not saying goodbye to my family and telling them that i love them, if that was the case that i was not going to be around anymore. we know that rhett and brendan's stories touched many of our viewers and 11 weeks later we brought them together again. iam pleased later we brought them together again. i am pleased to welcome back rendon sheridan and brett was low to the programme full brendan, first, how are you doing? physically 0k brendan, first, how are you doing? physically ok but i still struggle with sleep and the ptsd side of things and flashbacks but other than that just one day at a time. brett, in newjersey, how has it been for you? mostly physically recovered. i still go to physical therapy for the drop foot issue that i still have. it is slow going but it is

coming back. they say, you know, it could be a while and ta ke know, it could be a while and take up to one year potentially to fully recover there but there is hope that we will fully recover. in physical therapy we also continue to work on my conditioning, my lungs and my heart rate recovery. so physically i am 0k. recovery. so physically i am ok. emotionally i am doing great. i don't have any of those ptsd related issues from the experience that brett has mentioned it it brett, when we first spoke to you and interviewed you on the programme it was your last day ina programme it was your last day in a hospital bed. you were in a rehab centre. tell us about your homecoming. it was amazing. my wife was insistent on coming to visit with me in the rehabilitation hospital and i introduced her to all the people who helped me get to where i was that they and she

stuck me in the car and drove me home and it was an amazing ride home. the next day she drove me outside and said we we re drove me outside and said we were going for a walk and there we re were going for a walk and there were 100 cars lined up to greet me and say hello. it was an amazing experience. brendan, you spoke about the fact that you spoke about the fact that you still get flashbacks and that it you still get flashbacks and thatitis you still get flashbacks and that it is hard to sleep. it is very hard. i have been doing my counselling and that has been really good but the ptsd seems to bea really good but the ptsd seems to be a problem for me at the moment and sleep deprivation and things like that but the next bout of therapy will be activating psychotherapy, mdr,

thatis activating psychotherapy, mdr, that is eye movement and desensitisation and reprocessing which is lights and accessing the brain and doing different things and anything to do with trauma which i think has helped with ptsd with soldiers and things like that so any course of therapy will be good to try and shift these sleepless nights and flashbacks. viewers may think it is tough for us to put you through this conversation andi you through this conversation and i wanted to ask you about the impact of having spoken to the impact of having spoken to the bbc, spoken to the public about your illness and how hard it is to recover. physical recovery, obviously helps, looking better, scratching away at the surface however and it

is still an ongoing fight. you have good days and then you have good days and then you have really bad days where you just do not want to get out of bed and you cannot force yourself to wake up and that may be due to sleep deprivation orjust being so down in general after almost, orjust being so down in generalafteralmost, like orjust being so down in general after almost, like i said, coming close to death. the main thing for me was not going to be able to say goodbye to my family, my children and my loved ones and that really gets me when it does that. brett, what do you think about what hearing what brendan has going through all gone through? obviously coronavirus has hit you both differently. obviously coronavirus has hit you both diffe re ntlylj obviously coronavirus has hit you both differently. i would like to respond to brendan and say hey, buddy, they tied me into a therapist the moment i woke up and my wife has a

therapy background as well and there is no shame in that city keep talking. you will be ok and you will get through it to the there are things you can control in this life and then there is everything else and as long as you are controlling the things you can control you will be ok. so keep talking. brett, in terms of your treatment, when wiest first spoke you were talking about kidney dialysis, even the possibility of having to go on the transplant list. what has happened in terms of your treatment? with over 19, so much is experimental. one of the doctors in the rehabilitation facility i was in discovered a setting that was off in my white blood cell count and he came in one day and said you know, it is kind ofa hail and said you know, it is kind of a hail mary, i am and said you know, it is kind ofa hail mary, iam not sure what is going on but you have this one weird inflammation marker and we're going to start

you on an anti—inflammatory court printer zone. and it was with in a day or two you could see the changes in my body, the you're in output, my creator and level started to drop and within three days they told me ino within three days they told me i no longer needed dialysis. from both of you, i am hearing about the long process of recovery and perhaps for brett it is more physical and full brendan more about mental health. i want to ask you what you would like our audience to ta ke you would like our audience to take away from this conversation about the fact that covid—19 does not come and 90, that covid—19 does not come and go, it does linger. brendan. there is not a day that goes by that i don't think about the situation i was in and, not only that, the guilt of making it through when tens of

thousands, hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people across the world have not. probably with fewer symptoms than me and brett. and that is scarring in itself, that little bit of guilt. brett, what do you think people watching need to know about covid—19? people watching need to know about covid-19? the road to recovery is also different, as you here today with rendon and iandi you here today with rendon and i and i think that what people need to really understand is that just because need to really understand is thatjust because somebody has been released from the hospital, does not mean that they are not still working through those issues did you get means they are well enough to be out of hospital but there may be, you know, some lingering effect on those things may be with them for one week or one month or a year. brendan sheridan and brett breslow sharing the experience of their long recovery from covid—19. next, the doctor's story. at the end ofjune we

spoke to ava paul perino in spain. she was treating covid patients in hospital in barcelona when she caught the virus herself. and she told us something about the trauma being experienced by many frontline medics. most of us have some kind of trauma with this. there is a general feeling of frustration and it is difficult to manage the fact that you have to think of yourself, not only your patience. as a doctor you are co nsta ntly, co nsta ntly focused on patients. did you let yourself cry? oh, i did. and i am happyi yourself cry? oh, i did. and i am happy i did because i really needed it. and i am sure that possibly almost all of my collea g u es possibly almost all of my colleagues did because you need to do with. it is a relief. you need it. because the stress is

incredible. you are working, thinking of the disease every day, all the time you are awake. since we spoke to polverino, spain has experienced more than 100 new outbreaks and this time she says, different groups are being affected. i would say in this second wave, younger people are more at risk of getting sick because of their social life mostly. they seem to be ina social life mostly. they seem to be in a kind of lockdown and are starting to relax and enjoy social life. we do see a lot of outbreaks there. but also, as more communities like farms and plantations and holiday camps, you know. and eva, how do you feel because when we first spoke to you, you are not only working non—stop on the front line, you caught covid—19 yourself. you had a difficult time. i had and i still have, i would say, it's not an easy

situation, particularly because we are situation, particularly because we a re really situation, particularly because we are really tired mentally and emotionally tired of this situation. it has been a very long time for us. even one week become such a long time if you perceive it as a very long time when you are so stressed. and we are a bit more prepared as healthcare professionals, i mean, to cope with this infection. lung specialist eva polverino. you're watching coronavirus your stories, a program how covid—19 are changing lives around the world. iam philippa changing lives around the world. i am philippa thomas in this way we are revisiting stories, including the amazing journey that one family made to reach safe harbour. american and swedish couple brian and karo troutman have been sailing the world for years, now with a baby on board. we first saw

them on and on habits in ireland in the bahamas where they had been living for more than 100 days. we are out here in an island that is completely uninhabited. there are no stores, no people, no city. just us and the ocean and a few other boats. and you are managing with a baby who i think is going to be 10 months old this week. how are you surviving as blue yes, she is actually going to be 10 months old in three days but i feel like we are doing quite well, we're feeling very fortunate to be out here. it is a beautiful place and we are normally set up place and we are normally set up on the boat to be self—sufficient for months at a time and so we are able to make our own electricity with sun and wind. we can make your own water with the desalination plant. we can make our own alcohol with the steel we have on board. so we're pretty well set up to be out here and we arejust taking set up to be out here and we are just taking it day by day and month by month. food, we

touch our own food a lot here. ryan is able to go spearfishing. when the lobster season was in full swing, we did that. that stopped about a month ago. having a baby on board, we think about things differently right. it has changed the way that we feel like we want to be, a little bit extra safe and move north fairly soon as we have heard that there might be a ready bad year for hurricane 's. island life obviously work for them but with hurricane season approaching, soon after we spoke, they decided to sail on to the state of maine in the far north—east of usa. to the state of maine in the far north-east of usa. we left the bahamas, when was it? in june, the middle ofjune, for fear of the hurricane is approaching and the storms and the weather that was changing. we were rounding a cape that was pretty well known, it was

known as a part of the atlantic along the virginia coast approaching marilyn. we got hit bya approaching marilyn. we got hit by a big glow coming over us and we saw winds in excess of 35 knots and wherein the gulf stream. it created these gigantic standing waves and the boat was shaking and getting slammed around and the wind was howling. we blew up a sale. she couldn't really come outside because the weather was just too bad. it was like that for about three days. but then, we made it and just as we were actually arriving into sure, we we re actually arriving into sure, we were about 20 miles off the coast of virginia beach and we got called on the radio by somebody actually standing on the beach and they basically said, hey, i've been tracking you guys. tracking you on your satellite tracker. i know you arriving in the us and i would like to offer you a safe harbour or a safe dock to pull

into. he guided us in, help us tie up and gave us a coronavirus survival kit with gloves and masks and sanitiser and then he gave us the keys to his carand a and then he gave us the keys to his car and a 100 dollar bill and said go and get yourself some take—out food because i know you have been out in the middle of nowhere for a long time. and it was probably the most amazing back to the us you could ever think of. super friendly. the kindness of strangers. yeah, absolutely. and we were quite nervous about coming back to the us. we had been isolated in the bahamas for about 120 days at that point and just coming back to civilisation and everything thatis civilisation and everything that is going on in the us was pretty scary. so to get that welcome was very, kind of, very humbling. and tell us something about, i can hear sierra, tell us about, i can hear sierra, tell usa about, i can hear sierra, tell us a little bit about her

transition. i guess first of all you had to hold onto her during some of thatjourney. that sale taught me a lot, also about my limits and what i feel comfortable with. we have been out sailing for 10 years but sailing with her is definitely different and i think her biggest thing is that she gets extremely bored. the bed was leaning over like this, we were at such an angle that she was trying to climb up and would get pushed back, pushed back and she got so frustrated. she was screaming. and you know, having that stress and i still had to feed her, still have to change her diapers had to feed her, still have to change herdiapers and had to feed her, still have to change her diapers and stuff. and i to be comfortable. i think after i—a—day, that was my breaking point at one bit, i was like, brian, i hate this. when he was like, i know.

was like, brian, i hate this. when he was like, i knowlj hated to, but it will be over soon. hated to, but it will be over soon. but we did it and it was fine. and i think the other thing since we last spoke, sierra has turned one and the changes in her are remarkable. she is so much more aware, she is actually walking now. so, you know, she can climb up the stairs and get outside on her own. she is walking/ running from place to place. it was a lot easier to watch her when she couldn't do that, when she could only crawl. and then as you're making your way north to where you are now, you're going past some amazing landmarks. i guess, do you go bypass the statue of liberty? yeah, we actually went right through new york city, right through the centre down the east river and right past the statue of liberty. it was such a surreal experience because it is such a landmark, such an amazing place and it is closed. you never

think about the statue of liberty being closed. we were there in a typical weekday. we sailed the boat right up to it. we took time to pose for a selfie on the foredeck with the statue in the background and there was nobody there. itjust had this eerie kind of vacant feeling. for us, it was actually very, very amazing experience. and what has the adjustment been like coming from an uninhabited island in the bahamas to one of the coronavirus global hotspots? one of the reasons we decided to come up to maine is because it is one of the states with a lesser population density and it doesn't really have that many cases and the people tend to live quite far apart. so it's almost like doing the same thing we were doing in the bahamas, now we just have sweaters on and pine trees and there are bald eagles flying around, which is absolutely incredible. so we are doing a bit of birdwatching and

definitely enjoying the cooler climate and we're not sweating much. and brian, you are american, in terms of wider family, are you able to see your relatives? not really. u nfortu nately, your relatives? not really. unfortunately, my mum and my grandma have both tested positive for covid now. they both got it in the hospital where they live in orlando, florida. they are both isolated and so, you know, none of my family that still lives in florida can see them. and it is a very, very difficult situation because they are older and not healthy to begin with so they are in a high risk. it is terrible to think that your family is sitting there suffering and there is absolutely nothing that can be done about it. that is hard and it is part of the uncertainty isn't it that so many people

are feeling right now. i want to finish this conversation by asking you what you think comes next. you have spent all of these years out there sailing these years out there sailing the world, do you have any idea of the next stage? i have no idea what our plans are. we just going to have to take it week by week, month to month. and eventually it is going to get really cold up here. we are far enough north now that it freezes and we wouldn't be able to live on the boat in those sort of conditions. and so, we will ever have to leave the boat and try to find somewhere else to live we will sail south again and try and find someplace that will let us go was white seafarers, brian, kara and sierra troutman anning this edition with catching up on some of the personal stories of how covid—19 is changing lives around the world. i am

philippa thomas and thank you for watching coronavirus your stories. hello. so, wednesday was a pretty decent day for many parts, but that was wednesday. and now thursday has a different look to it because low pressure is increasingly dominant. after a bright enough start in the east, the cloud piles in from the atlantic. and before too long, i think it will be thick enough for some rain to get in through the north of wales, the north of england, into central and southern scotland, through northern ireland, too, in places. and later in the day, will bring some really quite heavy showers and some longer spells of rain through wales and the south—west of england on a day where we might make 20 in the drier spots in east anglia. i say drier until later in the day when you, too, mayjust pick up on some heavy bursts of rain there. and all the while, the rain just fizzles away across the heart of scotland. now, having brought that area

of low pressure in on thursday, it's still around on friday, and the isobars quite tightly packed on its western flank. so, it's a spell of pretty wet and windy weather. less so perhaps again for the far north of scotland, northern ireland drier, too. but the rain in the north of england quite persistent, the showers in the south really quite heavy, quite a lot of them and they may have a rumble of thunder about them. and again, really disappointing temperatures for the time of year. and surprisingly, as i talk about the weekend, i'm talking about quite a lot of dry weather. it will be on the cool side both by day and by night, and the winds will eventually ease. what winds, you say? well, the low pressure's not a million miles away and the high pressure's trying to build in, so the squeeze comes on, the isobars pack together and they‘ re coming from a cool direction. the wind running along them from north to south, never a warm direction, even at this time of year. and you've got the overhang of cloud to contend with through east anglia and the south east with a wee bit of rain for the first part of the day. and that's the gustiness and the nature of the wind from the north, so you can imagine it's not going to be the warmest of the day despite the fact that many areas will be dry and really quite bright.

but look at that, a max of only 18. that's below par for sure. and having reached those lofty heights, it'll be quite a cool night because the high pressure topples in, the skies begin to clear, the winds fall lighter and we end up with temperatures well down into single figures well across the country. and then sunday is a really decent day if you want to get out and about because there's a lot of dry weather. there won't be much in the way a breeze, so you'll feel every bit of that 16, 17 or 18.

this is bbc news: i'm mike embley. the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. night three of the republic national convention will speak,. a teenager is charged with murder, following the shooting dead of two people during unrest in the state of wisconsin. we have someone on the other side who is come in from outside, apparently because he wanted to, take to the streets. we don't know his motives exactly, we don't know why he shot these people.