wo police officers have been shot during protests by thousands of people in louisville, kentucky, at the news that no officer will be charged with the killing of the black medical worker breonna taylor, shot by police in her own home in march. there are protests in several other cities. one officer has been indicted, accused of the lesser offence of wanton endangerment. there've been large protests into the night in belarus, against the inauguration of alexander lu kashenko for a sixth term as president. last month's election result is still being angrily disputed. some demonstrators in the capital, minsk, wore fake crowns to mock his swearing—in, which went ahead unannounced. riot police have been out in force. the united states has begun three days of tributes to the supreme courtjustice ruth bader ginsburg, who died on friday aged 87. her casket is lying in repose on the steps of the court in washington as the public pays its respects.

prince harry has urged us citizens to "reject hate speech, misinformation and online negativity" and to make sure they cast their vote in the upcoming us presidential election. he made the remarks alongside his wife, meghan, in a broadcast for time magazine. buckingham palace has highlighted the fact that the duke is no longer a working royal and said his remarks were made in a ‘personal capacity‘. our royal correspondent daniela relph reports. wait, listen. did you hear that? i heard duck sounds. quack, quack, quack. archie's first birthday, and a brief look into harry and meghan‘s life in los angeles outside of the royal family. over the past six months there has been regular calls to their charities, as well as a new home, a multi—million dollar netflix deal and now a direct message to the american people. every four years we are told the same thing — that this is the most important election of our lifetime. but this one is. but british royalty discussing american politics is delicate territory.

this election, i'm not going to be able to vote here in the us, but many of you may not know that i haven't been able to vote in the uk my entire life. as we approach this november, it's vital that we reject hate speech, misinformation and online negativity. some have interpreted harry's words as a direct criticism of president trump and a callto vote forjoe biden. tonight a buckingham palace spokesperson said: getting involved in any kind of party politics anywhere is not something the royal family likes to do. tonight officials are distancing themselves from the comments made. early next year, there'll be a review by senior royals of harry and meghan‘s withdrawal for official duties, and a decision made on whether their future will lie permanently outside the royal family. daniela relph, bbc news, buckingham palace.

it has just it hasjust gone it has just gone 3:30am. now on bbc news — philippa thomas hears from people around the world about their extraordinary experiences during the pandemic and how covid—19 has changed their lives. welcome to coronavirus: your stories, a programme about how covid—19 is changing lives. i'm philippa thomas and this week we take you to england, europe, and africa as we hear personal stories about livelihoods lost to lockdown, part of the global fallout that's affecting millions of people right now. later, the restaurant owner who has had to close his doors. dean and christine newman set up their family restaurant in leicester 35 years ago, and made a success of it. like so many other small businesses, dean says the pandemic,

the lockdown, and recession is a triple blow that is harder to survive. from the world —famous kruger national park in south africa, independent safari operator khimbini hlongwane tells us what happens when the tourists disappear, to the people and to the animals. we start in malta, with airline pilot luke mifsud, whose dream job was axed in june. he tells us he's wanted to fly ever since he was a toddler. my mother says i wanted to become a pilot since i was two and a half. and we were on our way, on a family holiday to tunisia, and it still also the time when the cabin crew used to come up and down the aisle and they used to the children into the cockpit. and i just remember seeing all these buttons and lights and everything and i said, "this is where i want to be." and years later, you qualified.

i guess that means a lot to you and your family. yes, definitely. i mean, i got my first commercialjob with air malta, which is the national airline of the maltese islands, so it was like a nice sense of pride to be able to fly for your national airline. i was lucky enough to have all my family present when we did the first base training in malta, which was six take—off and landings of the plane. it was an experience for me and for my parents and the whole of my family, like nothing else. and when the pandemic came to souther europe, to the mediterranean, luke, how did the airline use your skills to start with? the worst place where the virus was hitting was italy at the time. and the government and the airline took the decision to drastically reduce the number of flights leaving the country, for obvious reasons. but the pilot community and our union in general went above and beyond. so we tried to help them

with rostering flights that were going to these countries, and we ended up repatriating thousands of tourists that were stuck in malta, back home, and lots of brought back maltese back home. we even serviced some destinations we didn't do before. we went to beirut to bring back some nurses that were stuck there. we also did the run flights daily. the run flight, for example, we bring back radioactive isotopes that we need for our hospitals to function. so we were bringing in essential supplies to the country as well during the pandemic. and then what happened to you injune? the company had released a refreshed schedule for the summer period. so we were starting to have a normal summer schedule. the company decided to let go over half of the pilot complement.

what was your experience, luke? tell us about the day you found out you're not to be flying anymore? we were sent an e—mail on a friday night at 11:100 at night, informing us of the decision that the company was making us redundant. i actually found out through the newspapers the next day, because by that time, i was already in bed and the next morning, i opened the newspapers before i opened my email. i hear this happened to you, it happened to a lot of your fellow pilots. coming back to your story, was it a blow for your family as well, because it sounds as if your whole family is in the dream with you? it broke my heart, but after all this happened, my parents actually lent us money. it is not like we planned forthis, me and my wife, we planned for this. we put some savings away for a rainy day because aviation has always been volatile, but we never expected something like this and, luckily, we don't have any big, major commitments, we only have the loan on our home property, we don't have kids at the moment so no school fees,

nothing else. other people, obviously, if you have a certain salary, you base your life on that salary. so you take a particular home loan, maybe car payments, and some of the pilots that were made redundant were the sole breadwinner of the family, so it's put everyone in this sort of limbo. there'll be a lot of people around the world watching you, luke, thinking, "i don't know whether myjob is going to survive, i don't know whether i'm going to get enough pay in." so much vulnerability. the thing is, like me, there are thousands of other pilots looking forjobs now. even if there were positions available, we are stuck in place because we can't even go to any assessment because of the travel restrictions. and now it's up to us to keep our licenses valid. if we don't go into

the simulator at least once a year, everything we have worked so hard to achieve up until nowjust vanishes. so are you talking to other pilots about things like that? you've got to keep going to the simulator, you've got to keep going just in the hope that the industry recovers. i am in contact with the 69 pilots that have been made redundant from my company, plus the ones that are still in employment. it is just trying to form a sort of support group and push each other. now there a group on facebook as well that is trying to put a collective on all the european pilots together, just to share experiences, try to find a partner for the simulators. it's going to be a tough ride. and for you, luke, do you think you will fly again, do you think you will get back into the air as a pilot? the situation as it is here,

in malta, i don't think it is going to come anytime soon. abroad, as i said, there are so many pilots that have been made redundant, it's going to be a cut—throat sort of world because for us to come back, we hear projections that the aviation is going to recover by next year, then it's adjusted to the year after that. now we're hearing 2025. so we still don't know. so how would you sum up the way you feel right now? it's a tough life. it's a challenging life. but, at the same time, it's a fruitful life. i mean, the time i‘ spent in the plane with my colleagues was the best time of my life. luke mifsud in malta, on the life he's lost but hopes to regain. next, we go to south africa where experienced safari guide khimbini hlongwane set up his own company vomba tours four years ago. in the pandemic, khimbini has

lost business, had to lay off staff, and witnessed a rising threat to the animals he wants to help conserve in the world —famous kruger national park. i'd been working in private game reserves for 20 years and i saw, as a guide, i saw people coming from america, seeing good animals and seeing, interacting with the locals that are saving them at the lodges, but they leave without seeing how people, these people that they see live in their real villages. i saw that gap and said, "if i can get these people out, that would grow their experience, but more than that it will providejobs for the locals." people will be able to entertain these clients that i bring in, showcase their culture,

as well as sell the craft that can make money out of that. and this is where it all started, this was the dream. as you set up your company, you were getting clients from all over the world and, guess, that changed your experience to, the things that you learned about. as a local, growing up in a small village, and mostly raised by people that cannot read and write, one of the challenging things when, challenging thing when you go out and, all of a sudden, being a tracker and wanting to move into guiding, the biggest challenges understanding different cultures. you would mostly speak about animals, but there would be times when you speak about an elephant, even talking about a movie on a big screen, which are things that i hadn't

experienced up until i was 28 years old. khimbini, what has the pandemic done to your company, to vomba tours? just like most other people it has completely brought it down on its knees. everything had come to standstill. i know you had a good year last year, so presumably you have resources and, most importantly, people ready to go. we had a really, really good year last year. but that meant that that triggers us to want to grow our resources, buying more things, to be able to...that the company was demanding of us. so with this pandemic, it means we're left with so many things that we need to pay off every month, and we had grown our team to a large number than we would normally have because the business demanded that of us. this is what is making things

very challenging for us. so what kind of investments did you make? we have brought three vehicles that we obviously need to repay every month. we have brought a larger minibus, 22—seater, and this is the one that we got literally a month before the pandemic, before it could even take the first lions. so with the coronavirus pandemic, it's really much more than just you or you and your direct employees that are suffering. we employ about seven people that are permanent. we had to let go five. we employed go five freelance guides that also, obviously, they had nojob. it's even harderfor them because they are freelancers, so they couldn't get money from the government to help them out. but they are also local guys, the guys that take people around the village, show them how we prepare the meals. those are guys that have also lost theirjobs. but there are some that i didn't even know,

one cannot even realise we're benefiting by people coming in, because they were selling the stuff directly to the clients and it was the result of us bringing the clients into the village and, all of a sudden, that's gone. they you those are guys that have also lost theirjobs. but there are some that i didn't even know, one cannot even realise we're benefiting by people coming in, because they were selling the stuff directly to the clients but it was the result of us bringing the clients into the village and, all of a sudden, that's gone. and you're right outside one of the gates to kruger national park. i mean, you're on the doorstep. what about the animals — do you think there's more poaching as well? oh, yeah, forsure. initially, my biggest worry was that the rhino poaching, the commercial poaching, would be the biggest problem. but i've noted as well that with the pandemic, the way in which, the scale in which the size of this problem was, people were hungry,

and one of the reason why people would be very wary of poaching is because the tourism brings money. why take out that lion, why take out that impala, if you can, if it can provide jobs in the long run for you? but, all of a sudden, that was gone, and so the poaching ahead became a problem. luckily it wasn't so much on a commercial level, it was people hunting the odd impala, which are antelope, to feed themselves. khimbini, when we spoke a few weeks ago on this program to some volunteers in cape town, who are doing community work, they said the problem isn't so much the virus, it's the hunger, because people are out of work. certainly. up to about 70% ofjobs come from these neighbouring reserves. all of a sudden, that was gone, and the tourism, as you would be aware, it is the biggest hit but everyone is suffering. so the challenge is, people are starving,

people are really starving. as you come out of your winter, have you got any bookings for this year? is there any light at the end of the tunnel? there is a bit of light, there is a bit of light at the end of the tunnel. we have some enquiries. some of them, most of them are of 2021, but at least you are hopeful, you say, "if i can survive until the end of the year, maybe things will start to change and pick up." one is very hopeful things will turn around. khimbini hlongwane hoping to welcome clients back to kruger national park. you're watching coronavirus: your stories, a program about how covid—i9 is changing lives around the world. i'm philippa thomas and this week, we're hearing differing personal stories about

livelihoods changed by lockdown. for many small business owners, almost most overnight, when the pandemic hit, customers disappeared and takings just dropped. now they have to make heart—wrenching decisions about whether to stagger on or to stop. i've been taking a walk down memory lane with dean newman of newman's restaurant in the english city of leicester. i've always been in catering, and the idea was that i always wanted to work for myself, and this opportunity came and we took it. and tell us about the moment when you first walked up to the building. what did you think? that was unbelievable. it was something that, when you buy a house and you know that that's right for you, and that's

what it was, it was just a matching of two things, and ijust thought, "yeah, i can make this work." and then that's a chance for you to be an independent businessman, and for your family, i suppose, to grow up together with your venture. yes, my children, as they were growing up, worked on saturdays, and when they were little, they used to come and just do things in the office that we had downstairs, and when they weren't at school. and they were part of it. we've got three children, and they've all worked in it, and my grandchildren have as well. dean, is it fair to say that covid shut you down? yes. i couldn't see any way that we could take enough money to survive, when we have

seven members of staff, some of those are part—time, and chris and i, and i couldn't see us taking enough money. i just thought that we'd be down by 30% or 40% in takings, and it wouldn't be a viable to try and operate, we just wouldn't take enough money. and i think sometimes, you have to go with your gut feeling, and be positive in all things, and not negative, and i think to try and continue would have been absolutely ridiculous. we had a situation of a veg man that supplied us. i asked him for some fruit and veg two weeks into the ,pandemic and he came back to me and he said, "i've liquidated my business, dean, i couldn't. .. "you were the only people that paid me this month." and i knew this was serious. and i thought, well, "we have to make redundancies," and ijust didn't want to do that. i...i just couldn't do that. i wanted to do everything

properly, and just walk away, shut the door, and that was it, really. were you able to get the staff together to say goodbye, to kind of mark the leaving of the restaurant? when i knew that what we were going to do, i rang each member of staff and explained that we were calling it a day, and we couldn't see this operating. and they were all in agreement that it wouldn't work and, luckily, iwanted to do this early so it gave the staff an opportunity of finding alternative employment, because i thought that there'd be more businesses, as in my situation, that would not survive, and i wanted to give them the biggest opportunity of finding a job and, luckily,

they've all got jobs, which is absolutely brilliant. you had to work out, from what you are telling me, how to do the right thing. yes. i think you have a responsibility from your background, where you're from. my name's newman, my business was called newman's, i was very proud of my name, and i was very proud to do things in the best possible way for the best results for everybody, and i think we've done that. are you hearing from friends or colleagues in the business in similar situations? as you're saying, and a lot of viewers will know, a lot of restaurants and other hospitality venues are struggling or going out of business.

i've got two friends that have got establishments similar to ours. one is a family—run operation, other is a cafe, and one is a coffee shop. i've been in touch with both. both have not returned their furloughed staff because they're not taking enough money. they‘ re running it. . . how they're operating is they've reduced the opening hours, reduced the days that they work, increase prices, so that you can take enough but, basically, one is running on 38% of what he was doing, and the other one is at a0%. they're very nervous about the situation, and theyjust hope that

they can get over this, and take enough money so they can keep the businesses going. but this week, we're hearing warnings about winter, a second lockdown, and in leicester, where you are, knows about second lockdowns. yeah, i think it's really frightening. i'm just glad i haven't got that pressure anymore, because it is pressure, and it's something that you are not in control of, you have no control over. dean newman, it's newman's restaurant, it's well—known, it's been there for decades, obviously means something in the community. as you say, you're are able to walk away now, but what are you going to miss most? i'm going to miss most the camaraderie, the enjoyment. when you actually cook things, it's a great enjoyment, and it's a great enjoyment that you provide something

that people enjoy and come in and you build a regular trade, and i'll miss the customers, just the fun. we've got lots of regular people, and they rely on us to do a good job for them, and they trust us, and you build trust in a business, and that's how you build regular trade, that's what it's all about. the biggest thing i'll miss, there's so many nice people, and i've had a ball. dean newman, paying tribute to the business he had before the pandemic hit. i'm philippa thomas. thanks forjoining us for this week's coronavirus: your stories. hello there.

another autumnal—feeling day ahead for most of us. even in the sunshine, it'll be a cooler day than we've become used to. we had plenty of showers, though, through the day yesterday. that was whitby in north yorkshire. plenty of sunshine, that said, for parts of northern ireland and scotland. and so, where we've had the clear skies, the starry skies through the night, temperatures will start the day close to freezing in the glens. but across eastern england, we've had a bout of heavy rain and strong winds. those are starting to clear out into the north sea, but hot on their heels another area of low pressure which will cross england through the day. so, again, a spell of heavier rain sweeping its way northwards, gale—force winds picking up following to push in or usher in clusters of heavy showers with hail and thunder in their midst. and this rain could get stuck in some areas. and even to the south of it, given that there'll be stronger winds, gusts up to 60 mph in exposed coastal areas that could cause some local damage, with gusty winds inland as well. only 15, i think, the high,

compared with the 21 that we had yesterday, and some real downpours around. and cold if you're stuck under this rain band in the north east, possibly southern scotland, even parts of northern ireland, although the majority here having dry and sunny weather and so, too, for the north and west of scotland. but only 11—12 degrees, a far cry from what we've become used to in the last week or so. there'll be plenty more showers following as we go through the night, and again it'll turn chilly under the clearer skies further north. but i think friday will feel chillier still for many of us, and that's because of a change in wind direction. we've pulled the low pressure away into the north sea and the low countries, and instead we get this northerly wind. we've got high pressure starting to move in from the west, which quietens shower activity down. it won't be dry altogether. we'll still see some in western areas. almost gale—force winds down the north sea coasts, rain to lincolnshire, east anglia and the south east as well. chillier, distinct wind chill in this part of the world as well. but some sunnier skies prevailing further west eventually, and those will prevail through

the weekend potentially with that area of high pressure continuing. although near the north sea coasts, there's always the chance of brisker winds ushering showers, possibly longer spells of rain at times through saturday and sunday. so detail is going be difficult at this stage, but, as ever, we'll keep you updated and there's more of course on our website. bye— bye.

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